Why do you need the boulder badge to use flash in RBY? was that part of some older build? you can't get flash until you beat Misty and do the SS Anne and get cut. And the only place you "need" flash is for rock tunnel which is between Cerulean City and Lavender Town. You also can't leave Pewter City without beating Brock (and you can't leave Cerulean without beating Misty). Was there an earlier build where you needed flash to go through Mt. Moon? Mt. Moon is between Pewter and Cerulean City and Flash is on Route 2, between Viridian City and Pewter
You're probably right, and they added the literal hand-hold NPC there as a failsafe.
It's fine because it gives you direction>oh this thing lets me use a tool that I don't have yet? I wonder how I get it.But yeah, you're probably right. They might have intended Mt Moon to be dark. But maybe it was too hard back in the day.
RGB had a lot of shit that was changed late in development and they didn't have time to accommodate for all the changes, so you're almost certainly right about Mt Moon.
Lore is that you got flash in the pokemon museum.
>>735022569that probably makes the most sense since you get it from Oak's aid and there isn't much in the museum other than the fossil and the fossil displays
Why did you post this on /v/ instead of /vp/ ?fuck OFF
>>735022073Oh you are unironically autistic
>>735023024it's a vidya game, retardo >>735023287it's weird that they did that when mt moon and the handhold NPC are right there
>>735023024it's a video game on the video game board :)
>>735023337Its in the way you are describing everything, but cut can be accessed by clicking on the obstacle in your path. flash, however, has to be accessed from the pokemon screen. So they likely figured it would cause confusion for kids to try and use flash
>>735023848I think you are thinking of gen 2+. In gen 1 you needed to go into the menu to use cut. gen 2 introduced the context cut, strength, surf and waterfall
>>735024228lmao you are right well then I have no idea why they set things up like that
>>735024494they might have just figured cut was an easier way to teach the HM mechanic in general since it's a hard barrier and retards might have tried to do mt moon blind
>>735022073>You also can't leave Pewter City without beating Brock Well actually, if you hit the start button and save just as the NPC talks to you and drags you to brock you can reload the save and the NPC won't trigger and you can walk to cerulean
>>735024815>they added flash to the boulder badge because they knew 6 year olds would use a sequence breaking glitch
>>735024694That is the most likely answer I'll admit I definitely wandered around in the dark cuz i thought it would be fun to try and figure it out without flash
As a child, I loved the pokemon badges. I would make my own out of cardboard.They're still cool as fuck to this very day.Gen 1 badges > all others, even though I'm a Gen2fag at heart.
>>735022458RGB is Pokemon how it should be. Gold and Silver were decent but still a downgrade. Everything after Gen 2 was slop
>>735025553Such a weird mechanic. Is there something in Japanese culture that's analogous?
>>735025880NTA but it was supposed to be whips. that's why a bunch of the sprites have or had whips
>>735025880As a long-time week, I can't think of anything.They look cool, and they're very important, and I just love shiny things.
>>735022323Remember that the target hardware was original Gameboy. With the darkness on, you couldn't see shit, and you can't trust toddlers to understand to understand written instructions. I sure didn't.
>>735026310Rock Tunnel is literally in the same game for toddlers and it's pitch black if you don't used the move being discussed ITT, you massive retard.
>>735028749NTA, rock tunnel is after you get cut so you would know how to use an HM by then. Mt. Moon is before cut so retards might not realize you needed to use flash. the trees are a hard barrier that forces you to get and learn the HM mechanic
