Recent content by Imperator161

FireRed Water Monotype Update #4: It’s been several months since I last updated, and I haven’t played too much, but I have made a bit of progress since my last update. My team is headed for Fuschia City and gym badge #5. Horsea (now Seadra) has also joined the ranks, and is well on its way to...

FR Water Monotype Challenge Update #3: My team and I finished our trek through Rock Tunnel shortly after my last update. It turned out we had stopped about 100 steps from the exit. From there, we made our way from Lavender to Celadon, where we added another member to our group. I found an...

FR Water Monotype Challenge Update #2: After leaving the SS Anne, my team and I set off to tackle the Vermilion City Gym and earn our third badge. Type-wise, this was probably our most difficult matchup, but things went relatively smoothly. The gym puzzle wasn’t super efficient (I’m pretty sure...

Update #1 for my FireRed water monotype run: I picked Squirtle as my starter, and headed north out of Pallet Town. After defeating Brock, I bought a Magikarp from a somewhat disreputable-looking salesman outside of Mt. Moon. After many, many battles, said Magikarp finally evolved into Gyarados...

It’s been years since I last completed a challenge (I know I did some monotype runs years ago, but I can’t remember how many of them I posted about, and it was definitely multiple thread iterations back). I’ve decided to dive back into things with a water monotype run on a copy of FireRed I...

Gen 1: Red - August 1999: This was my first game. After my mom bought me the TCG starter set to try to help me fit in better and have a better time at a lousy summer camp, I started watching the anime over vacation (got the first six episodes on tapes from Blockbuster), and then decided to get...

You still lose screenshots/videos, though, as well as certain data, as far as I’m aware (Super Mario Maker 2 courses that aren’t updated, for example, according to one discussion I saw). If I were to play the game and have this issue occur, and I’ve backed up my microSD card to my computer...

My copy showed up (physical), but now I’m afraid to start it without a fix for the SD-wiping glitch (exFAT issue?). I know the issue seems to be rarer in physical copies, but there have been some reports in physical as well as digital, and I don’t want to wipe out my screenshots, demos that...

I think I’ll use a mix of old and new. Outside of the starters, I’ve tried to avoid learning about too many of the unannounced new Pokémon from the leaks (I’ve seen images of some, seen names for others, and know nothing about some of them), so I figure I’ll try different Pokémon as I go along...

Yep, I did it. I took a very methodical and completionistic approach to LG, so I certainly wasn't going to miss out on any Pokemon. I don't recall it being terribly annoying, but it's also been a while since I last did it, so I may have forgotten. I'm currently looking into getting a copy of FR...

I was excited to discover the EV training aspects of Pokepelago. Most of my gaming time comes from playing for a little while before bed (maybe 30 minutes or so), with the occasional longer session on weekends or the occasional weekday. The passive nature of it worked really well with my...

I'm not sure whether you gave the codes away already, and whether they expire at midnight tonight, or if they already expired, but if you still have any left, I'd like one.

I would go with the version with your favorite legendary, as that's going to be harder to trade for than the version exclusives (as it can't breed, and people generally won't want to give theirs up). You already have an account on a Pokemon forum (this one), so you should be able to get people...

SwSh (which I pronounce “swish”) rolls off the tongue easily, so it’s caught on fairly well for me. I had more trouble getting used to SuMo (though there are reasons why avoiding an S/M acronym, my first inclination for those, was good idea). SwSh also works in that elements of the games are...

I like the nature-affecting candies. This will help make random shinies more useful, and will be nice for making in-game teams competition-worthy, which I guess is the rationale. I don’t have a great sense of how hard they’ll be to obtain (I guess you can get them with BP, but I’ve become so...