>No wild Mareep anywhereJust for that this game is utter DOGSHIT and inferior to Gold/Silver.
>still bothering with vanilla Pokemon instead of ROMhacks
>>741928931Weren't Marill and Misdreavus also moved to Mt. Silver and unaccessable until the very end of the game?
>>741928995literally this>willingly play demo>wtf it has missing content?
>>741928931pokemon fans are the biggest spastics on earth
>>741929124No. Neither of those are true.Misdreavus was always locked to mt silver and Marill is always available around the 4th gym in all versions
Pokemon being locked to specific times of day is cool until you actually want to use them in a normal playthrough.
>>741928931>he can't trade
>gen 2
>>741931984nah, it was kino at the timebeing a kid and logging on at the late late time of 6pm to see everything be different was great
>>741932301Isn't this a bit of a pisstake since Qwilfish and Remoraid (and maybe some of the others listed, can't remember) are timed behind the radio announcements?
>>741928931when are they gonna release the cryzel rosechu version
>>741928995Romhacks always add unnecessary rebalances though, all I want is better Pokemon selection and the physical/special split
>>741932654>are timed behind the radio announcements?They're not, remoraid and qwilfish are only catchable with super rods, hidden in late game areas, so the majority of kids never even fucking found them.
>>741932926>alwaysI see you've never heard of the Universal Pokemon Randomizer. It can apply phys/special split and give you access to all version exclusives, and even put the starters in the wild, making every mon obtainable.
>>741929124>didn't these two things I'm completely making up also happen?This is why gen 2 has so much astroturfed hate. People believe what they want to believe.
>>741932990Made me look it up you bum; if you have the relevant trainer's number in your phone, he'll call you when they swarm and you can catch them much more easily (and even with old/good rods)
>>741932301Why was gen 2 so afraid of letting players use the new pokemon? It's almost like the devs were ashamed and trying to hide most of them.
>>741933272I remember getting the pokemon gen 2 handbook from the school book fair and being so excited to find all of the new pokemon. Then I could never find most of them because they were all hidden in the kanto post-game, with 1% encounter rate at night on a Tuesday. What disappointment. No wonder gen 2 nearly killed pokemon.
>>74193327280% of Johto pokemon are in Johto. People literally only think of Houndour, Murkrow, Misdreavus, and Larvitar and then say>OMG!!!111 WHERE DA JOTO POKEMAN??!?!Also people were returning from Gen 1, they were expecting to see familiar pokemon from Kanto instead of just new pokemon.
>people unironically hate Gen 2Why? Not shitty looking enough for you? Are they mad about the fact that a Pokemon game actually improved?
>>741933521>80% of Johto pokemon are in JohtoAnd most of of them are rare and difficult to find without a guide or locked to late game areas only
>people are unironically defending gen 2>when steel and dark types were revealed there was so much hype>but you couldn't even catch any new dark pokemon until post-gamethis is the most stupid, schizo fucktard game design ever
>>741933272GF clearly didn't know how to approach new Pokemon yet. Maybe they were worried the new mons would overshadow the Gen 1 mons, but overcorrected a little bit. No excuse for the gym leaders mostly using Kanto Pokemon, though. They should be a showcase of the new mons
>>741933762>but you couldn't even catch any new dark pokemon until post-gameNot true, you had access to Umbreon and Seasel before the post game. But yeah they really should have made Murkrow and Houndour available in Johto as well.
>>741928931Play rom hacks they mog the old games
>>741933919sneasel was post-game before crystal and considering nobody bought crystal, yeah
>>741933272the new mons were just meant to be extras the original 151 were still the big stars of pokemon
>>741928995this
>>741933521>slugma>blissey>sneasel>houndor>porygon2>murkrow>misdrevus>ttar>on top of version exclusives, legendaries, starters, etc you can't getjohto has the most fucked ass distribution apart from vanilla diamond pearl
>loved Donphan ever since this dude jobbed to Ash in the 1st movie >"oh boy I can't wait to catch and train up a phanpy in Joto!"
>>741933471Heracross.
>>741933691Back when games used to rely on playground rumors and discussing games with your friends. Same reason you got the regis braille in Hoenn, and all kinds of retarded secrets in the Sevii islands in FRLG. It was kino. >>741934356Thanks for confirming 80% of Johto pokemon are in Johto, and the rest are in Kanto to diversify the pool a bit>on top of version exclusives, legendaries, starters, etc you can't getSo just like every Pokemon game?
>>741934013>>741933919Wanna know what’s worse? Dark and Ice are special moves yet Sneasle has 45 base spA. They have him 95 attack so he could use uhh return?
>>741928995Most Pokemon rom hacks fucking suck so idk what you're on about you stupid retard
>>741934830And they're still better than vanilla
>>741934965Only if you’re severely autistic.
>>741934964you can get evolutionary stones from npc phone calls>b-but i dont wanna wait!!! waaaaaaaa!!!!!not a problem if you were a kid. 2 school days and you got a phone call from npcs asking to meet them. i wish more pokemon games felt lived-in like this.
>>741935194You have to be severely autistic to be playing a child's gameboy game in your 30s or 40s.
>>741935267So you agree.
>>741935336You already agreed that ROMhacks are better, so yes. You have to be severely retarded to be playing vanilla pokemon in 2026.
I'm so glad people have finally woken up to the fact that gen 2 is and has always been irredeemable garbage. It is hands down the worst generation of all time. 70% of gen 2 is just obnoxious Kanto dicksucking and it has no identity of it's own. The only things people remember about gen 2 are the horrifically bad Pokemon distribution, the hilarious joke of a level curve, and KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOThe only decent part of gen 2 is the cute girls.
>>741932926There are many that do exactly that
>>741935556Day and night system completely makes up for it. You are forgetting almost everyone in there world has a gameboy and red/blue. Getting pokemon you wanted with trades was piss easy.
>>741935563UPR can make it for you automatically with a copy of any vanilla ROM.
>wild Mareep everywhereFuck yeah
>>741932926Some of them have customizable playthroughs. Modern Emerald for example allows you to individually toggle physical/special split, kanto/johto pokemon availability, modern type changes, always Max IVs, gym based level cap, stat buffs to weaker mons, and a bunch of other stuff if you want.
>>741928995Are there any romhacks where it's literally just the normal game but with all version exclusive pokemon? Bonus points for also having a way to catch the other 2 starters.
>>741936354Look up Universal Pokemon Randomizer. It can make these rules for you. It can even do phys/special split, change the way xp gains work, etc. There's a whole checklist of shit you can do with it.
>>741936432Thanks, I wish I knew about this before doing my yearly Emerald playthrough a week ago
>>741928931>spikes your cortisolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Pgfp4JYW0
>>741935265you couldnt get evolution stones from npc phone calls until crystal
>>741937102Everybody playing gen 2 back in the day was using Pokemon Stadium to trade stones over anyway.
>>741937163I was 6 years old when I got gold version and I didnt even know what an n64 was
>>741937191Then I'm sure you didn't care about evolution stones either. You were probably jazzed as hell to use Tackle on Pidgey.
>>741937217no i evolved all of the gen 1 pokemon as soon as I got to the department storethen again gen 2 was so shit that i used an extremely overleveled forretress and feraligatr for 90% of the game, so i never bothered to go for stone evos
>>741937312>using Forretress at 6 years old
>>741934781To be fair that's an issue with loads Pokémon in all the pre phys/ special split games, not just gen 2
>>741936825>cortisolI see you haven't hacked 99 masterballs into your save,So sad.
>>741937372yes, i headbutted every tree that existed in goldmost kids during gen 1 knew about stone evos from guides, my cousin taught me how to buy them at the department store
*carries your earlygame*
>>741937496I never realized how fucking strong this nigger was until I actually tried using it. Geodude is an amazing example of a pokemon that is dogshit in NPC hands but godly in player hands.
>>741937417I was always scared to the save glitch as a kid cause it corrupted my save one time
>>741937673most npc pokemon only know shit like tackle and growl instead of STAB water/grass/fighting moves before gen 4 so geodude just rolls over them with impunity, play a gen 2 that actually gives the pokemon good level up movesets and it's not that great
>>741938000*play a gen 2 hack
If you caught em all with a romhack that adds version exclusives/starters to the wild and let's you evolve trade evolution Pokemon just from leveling them you didn't beat the game
>>741935267Guilty as charged
>3 squillion romhacka>Not a single one removes or reduces the loud piercing menu selection bleep
So, what pokemon games/roms should I install? I've got pokemon red, blue, crystal, emerald, soul silver, pearl, platinum, and black 2.
