Exploratory edition and also One Meta Is Allowed editionWhy don't we just have generals for each gen? Sometimes we wanna talk about specific or small things about a gen or game, things that don't really deserve an entirely new thread. But they could go in the gen-specific generals. Would also heavily cut down on genwar threads shitting up the catalog, whether they were deliberately originally so, or if they were genuine threads but it attracted some autist fanboy of another gen who then drags the innocent thread into genwar hell with his replies. Comfy gen-specific talk threads for those who wanna chat, even merely reminisce, about them.
>>56967291Hoennbabies are one of the least likely to jerk themselves off in a general. That's what toddies and borts love doing, but nobody else, really.Besides the fact the fanbase has little overlap and intersection. Someone who loves comfy art may not give a shit about competitive and vice versa, and each population here is too small for the meld to work.
I just finished doing 50 Emerald Battle Tower Doubles challenges in a row>retstarted from the same save state every time, so no difference in difficulty level each time>facing top tier opponent mons, no babbymons, no shitmons. 'Group 3' opponents only.W = 7 wins in a row, challenge successfulL = beaten at some point in the series of 7, challenge unsuccessfulI won 44 challenges, lost only 6.Most of the losses are clustered at the beginning, dunno why, no difference in opponent diffuculty, and no adjustment in my tactics. Just luck I suppose. Here they are in sequence.So many of the battles I won were close run things, many of those challenges were thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to being failures. Luck was on my side a few times. Though still I must say most of the breaks of luck were against me. 25% (in my favor) vs 75% for the opponent at best. Is the computer cheating? Or is it just that tough going up against perfect IV EV trained mons run by (sometimes) decent AI?
>>56967291I always thought about this OP but I never knew how much to limit the scope of the general. Any time you limit something you are making the thread more niche and run the risk that it dies on page 10. Even /shw/ keeps dying because of lack of interest. There is also "vp plays" that it's just like 5 people posting their playthroughs. That would be better served with a discord in my opinion but they make it work. Like you said if you have different generations it can lead to genwar but there might not be enough interest otherwise.Personally I love Gen 3 and could talk about it all day but I don't have anything in common with people playing spinoffs or romhacks so that limits my interest. My interests are limited to playing gens 1-7 so I wish there was a "Cartfag General" for anyone who wanted to discuss their progress, shiny hunts, personal challenges, and complain about cart prices.At the end of the day nothing will be possible because there is no moderation on /vp/ so people will spam how much they don't like what you like.I'm stuck playing another game right now but once I finish I can't wait to get back to gen 3 and I'll make a general even if I have to endlessly bump it myself.
>>56967291Kanto > Hoenn
>>56967291How about if anons shared their RSE savefiles here so we can get some record mixing going?Makuhita is a pikaclone btw
>>56967609Forgot to post the full-res version.
>>56967609>>56967645love how much of a big deal Gyarados was in those early days, esp in the animeit was THE scarymon
>>56967636A succession game could be kinoSave file gets uploaded after every badgePosters take a temporary tripcode (to verify that they're currently playing their term) and play until the next badge while sharing screenshots and progress updatesOnly real requirement is to not fuck things up for the next guys
anyone know any good resources to look into redeeming the bonus disk celebi on my wii?if i 100% a jap savefile of colosseum will i just be able to transfer it to a jap copy of a gameboy game or do i have to bypass the region lock on the console somehow?
>>56968325This is why we need a general, so people can get these questions answered. I don't know the answer but hope you find it friend.
>>56969629>Blue and his gym made of LegoMakes me chuckle every time
>>56967305>first post is insulting fans of other regions This is why we can't have regional generals
>>56967529autism
BASED thread
Today, I finished winning all the gold symbols on the Emerald Battle FrontierUsed these pokemon in various combinationsMetagrossKingdraSuicuneRegiceStarmieTyranitar
>>56967305>my off hand comment got reported but this blatant one stays upJust LMAO
>>56971515nicedid you cheat to get perfect ivs and natures or did you do it natty with imperfect mons?interesting team toowater/ice heavy, with 2 big physical enforcers
>>56971515Still need to do this some day. As a kid I only ever managed to get Lucy's
FRLG run. Probably going to swap Vileplume for Jolteon
>>56972815Forgot pic
What the fuck was his problem?
>>56971515Working on getting to this for the first time myself (never got Emerald as a kid)Trying to "preserve" the "original" feeling of doing it, so currently grinding out EVs and trying to keep track of them without hacking. Already basically broke on that though. Had to hack in an Eon Ticket cause I forgot I should try for Latios (though given the bugged roaming IVs and how tedious it'd be to reset for that nature, probably for the best). Then had to throw up PKhex to check its EVs after losing track during training. Then hacked in another Earthquake TM for Metagross because I also forgot to make sure to hang on to that while playing the campaign.But in general, trying to keep things "pure." Not hacking in IVs or even EVs or moves (aside from TMs). So far a reminder of how tedious this all is. Latios itself, even with how much the Eon Ticket makes resetting simpler took forever to get a decent set of IVs with the appropriate nature. Makes me wonder how necessary being even only this efficient is necessary for the Frontier.
What other regions could get away with making a thread like this?
>>56973656Frontier mons have perfect IV, their EVs are either 252/252 or 170/170/170, and they have favorable Natures for each setYou'd better have the same if you wanna stand a chance
>>56973728it's a gen thread not region thread, fren
>>56974269Nah, I'd win Guess we'll find out, I'm at least doing appropriate EVs, Natures, and Move Sets
>>56972815I try to save my TMs and Jolteon's level up moves are lousy.
Fellas, post your>GAME>PROGRESS>BADGE COUNT>TEAMPlaying through Pokemon Sapphire on a refurbished GBA. I'm currently at Verdanturf Town after mixing records and trading with my copy of Pokemon Ruby ( and transferring the Eon Ticket I injected months ago as a result ). I'm still at two badges and my team consists of pic rel.I don't really know how to progress from here beyond getting Wattson's badge. I'm torn between catching Skarmory or Trapinch as my Fly Slave.
>>56975800Wagecucking, so I can't take a picture right now.>Sapphire>tackling Abandoned Ship and New Mauville before challenging Winona>5 badges>Manectric >Azumarill>Gardevoir >Swellow>Lairon>TorkoalI'm putting Ice Beam on Azumarill and I want to train Torkoal under the assumption she can kill Skarmory, but also just generally because I've never raised one before. Not sure where to put Tbolt because I forgot you get it for free and I already gave Gard Shock Wave. Not sure if Manectric wants TBolt since Spark has been good and she learns Thunder naturally.
>>56974273Whatever, semansticsfag. What other gen could get away with it?
>>56973728threads for gen 6 or 8 would die instantly because nobody actually likes themgen 1 threads would die too because while they do have a decent fanbase, there’s not a whole lot to talk about4 and 5’s would get shitposted into oblivion7’s would just be softcore porn dumpsgen 2 already has frequent jerkoff threads, which get a lot of flak9 could probably get away with it
Shadow Ball on Absol, yes or no?I don't have anything really planned to take care of Phoebe so far.
sorry lads i dont have a million dollars plus a phd in mathematics to afford one of these games
>>56977181Go for it. Probably one of its best moves on an ingame playthrough.
>>56977229Alright, thanks, will do. It's been such a long time since I've played a pre-split game. I'm so used to having Shadow Ball on Psychic Special Attackers for coverage, but this move will be worthless on Gardevoir.
Might as well ask more questions. For Aggron, would Brick Break and Earthquake be cool? I'll probably keep Iron Tail, not sure what else for the fourth slot.My Hariyama is stronger than Lairon right now (Lairon hasn't become Aggron yet), but I've wasted two slots for HMs (Rock Smash and Strength), I kind of want to keep Vital Throw for now, and I think I want Belly Drum.
Guys, I have my OG Emerald cartridge and still play it from time to time, but:The battery was dry before I had (re)started my latest save file so by having it swapped the time events continued normally. As of a few months ago, something bizzare has started occuring: I don't play the game very often anymore(may go months without playing) so the battery seems to have ran dry again BUT sometimes, after I soft reset some times while playing, the message stop appearing.So what does that mean?
What would you do if Poochyena was real>>56968325Might not be the exact answer you're looking for and more obtuse than a direct method, but I used Dolphin emulator + VBA link to get Celebi and Jirachi on my livedex run because I didn't have a proper GBA-GC Link Cable working, but did have a DS Flashcart to dump my Gen 3 saves.Your situation's a bit different, but there is a Wii homebrew application that allows you to dump GBA saves with the link cable, so if you use that, you should be able to get your save up on emulator and then get Jirachi/Celebi that way.https://github.com/FIX94/gba-link-cable-dumper/releases
>>56977718Your battery is doing its very best to hang on.
(not legit earned, i used save states. i just wanted to see what would happen when i passed 9999 be wins. answer is nothing.)
>>56977924pet it
>>56977267lol yeah. I remember as a kid thinking that contact = physical and non-contact = special, so I would run shadow ball on gardevoir and crabhammer on crawdaunt assuming those were some of the best moves for them. It’s not like I was a zoomer reverting to a pre-split meta or anything either; Gen 4 literally didn’t exist yet at the time I had played RSE.
Just caught a female Feebas with Modest nature. Let's fucking go, lads!Is Milotic even good?
>>56978827It's certainly popular for Battle Frontier, though those usually use more defense oriented stats.
>nature autismngmi
>>56971195sovl
>>56978899This was the first time in 25 years of playing these games that I looked for specific Nature lel
I like that someone made custom e-reader events for vanilla rse that work on console
>want to get a ground type for Mauville Gym>lol it's in the desert blocked by the rocks that you need the gym badge to break to get to>fine, I want to get a ground type for Lavaridge>lol you can't get into the desert at all unless you get the goggles they only give you after beating Lavaridge Gym>fine, lets get to Lavaridge>fuck you, go around the entire North East chunk of the map because we say so firstThe most aggravating thing about replaying RSE
why wont you fucking shine already fuck>9xx soft resets inmodern shiny rates have weakened me..
>>56980442rng manip?
>>56971515I kneel. I tried to do that too but the RNG bullshit was too much for meI love the concept of the battle pyramid in theory but in practice they just HAD to make the first floor gimmick paralysis aka the most obnoxious status condition in the game
>>56972727I did it natty. All had good natures. Most of the Pokemon had 1-2 perfect IVs (e.g. my Metagross had 31 in Attack and Speed), otherwise I just used EV training.>water/ice heavy, with 2 big physical enforcersYeah I found Metagross/Starmie/Regice to be a particularly good combo. Water types are just strong in general. Swampert, Starmie, Gyarados, Suicune, Kingdra, even the likes of Ludicolo and Lanturn are good.Forgot to add my moves and EVs:Metagross: Meteor Mash, Shadow Ball, Earthquake, Brick Break. EVs: 252 Attack, 128 HP, 128 Speed.Kingdra: Surf, Ice Beam, Rain Dance, Rest. EVs: 252 Special Attack, 120 HP, 136 Speed.Suicune: Hydro Pump, Ice Beam, Calm Mind, Rest. EVs: 252 Special Attack, 28 HP, 228 Speed.Regice: Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, Amnesia, Rest. EVs: 252 HP, 128 Special Attack, 128 Special Defence.Starmie: Hydro Pump, Ice Beam, Psychic, Thunderbolt. EVs: 252 Special Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP.Tyranitar: Earthquake, Rock Slide, Crunch, Brick Break. EVs: 252 HP, 252 Attack, 4 Speed.Also got another Pokemon I used for fun.Scizor: Swords Dance, Slash, Fury Cutter, Steel Wing. EVs: 108 HP, 252 Attack, 148 Speed.>>56972766I love Lucy.>>56973656Good luck.
>>56981157nope anon, full odds.this playthrough is mainly to get shiny deoxys and some of the other event legends, but i figure why not do a shiny starter playthrough. im trying to do at least 500 SR a day
>>56980442I believe in you.
Wow, gay as fuck. If I'd been playing a nuzlocke then Cooltrainer Jennifer's Milotic would have wiped me out. The fact that I was able to use a Revive on Gardevoir is the only thing that saved me having to pull out Torkoal so she could faint as well. Relentless fucking snek.
>>56967291>Why don't we just have generals for each gen?That would unironically stop all gen warring
>>56977547I won´t really recommend giving Earthquake to Aggron unless you know how to perform the glitch to clone items in the Battle Tower of Emerald. Aggron´s attack stat is not that amazing, so giving it non Stab attacks won´t deal as much damage as you think.
>>56978827Milotic is an amazing Pokémon. It´s even popular among the competitive Gen 3 OU scene as a defensive wall that can be rather helpful for many teams, offensive or stall oriented. The only difference between a moveset that a competitive Milotic use the most and a casual playthrought Milotic is that you don´t really need Toxic on it, but Surf and Recover are mandatory. You won´t also need Refresh in a casual playthrougt compared to competitive, so you can give it something like Ice Beam or Blizzard for coverage if you want. You can also give it Attract which is a fine move all things considered. I personally like to use Milotic with Mirror Coat which can get via egg move thanks to Corsola.
>>56979874just get geodude from granite cave and swap it out for something else laterit's pretty decent even into the midgame
>>56981267I think there are worse things, anon. There is a floor where you encounter a bunch of Wobbuffet that won´t let you escape due to their ability. In this scenario you have reduced options, yeah, you can escape them with a Fluffy Tail, but you are on a clock because you only have a limited number of those, if you are not able to get to the blue floor tile quickly, you´ll waste them. If you don´t have remaining tails, you are obligated to defeat those Wobbuffet which won´t fall with one hit and have Counter and Mirror Coat.
>>56982767It wouldn't as evident from this thread people come in and start gen-warring, even some got removed. The only thing that would stop gen-warring is moderation, i.e. never ever.
>>56983630Autism prevented me from doing that initially, though eventually I did just grab one to get me through Lavaridge. Mostly just annoyed how contrived it was to get to the desert on top of how many cool Pokemon are there (Baltoy, the fossils, Trapinch, Cacnea)
>just found out you can loop the reporters to grind>trying to fight lv39 Magneton with no fighting or fire types I'm not sure I thought this through.
>>56984517no ground?
>>56984561Wait, does Magneton not have Levitate in these games?Actually, I don't have any Ground types either. Well, to clarify, I have Hariyama and Torkoal as Fighting and Fire, but I'm not planning on grinding them at this time. I'm trying to get ready for Wallace, since I somehow skated through Tate and Liza with an Absol 9 levels lower than their Solrock and Lunatone. I'm trying to evolve a Lairon, but I don't think he can learn Brick Break until he evolves and becomes bipedal. And I haven't gotten that TM yet anyway.
blurry bumpabout 1377 SR in now. hoping to be at 2000 before the nights over.
>>56984745>magenton line>levitate>everI can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book.
Man, the temptation to just cheat in rare candies and nuggets, or flat out just manipulate the level and money values, is high with these games. We're getting to the point where the games want a bit more of the player in terms of leveling pokemon correctly but still haven't caught up to facilitating this in a more straight forward way beyond just "re-run the Elite Four forever." It's funny to see the half steps on stuff like "okay Synchronize will make encountered Pokemon match the Synchronizer's nature, but only half the time and it only works on true random encounters, not even the roaming or stationary legends." Or "Everstone works half the time but only on a female Pokemon or Ditto."Nowadays it's "sure, fuck it, they work on everything all the time. Wanna change IVs? Fucking go ahead man."
>>56986936>cheatsunironically why not? im planning om cheating in the eon ticket and all the other event bs into FR and Sapphire to soft reset those legends. i wouldnt even consider infinite TMs cheating desu thats one of the few things some later gens got right.
>>56985879Huh. I used mite/ton/zone for my entire Moon run like eight years ago. No idea how I forgot that.Well anyway I'm trying to get a Trapinch to learn Dig before it evolves, so that works.
>>56986936I'm not even grinding IV/EV stuff, and I'm already feeling annoyed with how slow it is for grinding in the main story compared to Switch games. There's a fucking 10-level jump between Winona and T&L with pretty much only Water types to kill between them.
>>56986936You can legit dupe in Emerald.
>>56987929only in the battle tower
bump
>>56967291firered is the best pokemon gameI dont like how they handled the sevii isles, though, and I dont like how they put gen 2+ pokemanz herebut gen 1 with some "modern" features and graphics/colors, ooh mamaitd be neat if it could have fairy type too
>>56987062Oh I've already done that. Hacking in event items and the like, even TMs, hardly feels that bad. After all, you can't get the former otherwise and the latter is just whatever. But I do still have this like, stupid line about just directly fiddling with numbers, even if, practically, that doesn't matter as long as its still within the bounds of what you can do if given enough time.
>>56989092>I dont like how they handled the sevii isles, though, and I dont like how they put gen 2+ pokemanz hereWhy? I would like to know your thoughts since I personally enjoyed every bit of Sevii Islands. I loved how strange they felt.
>>56989199I dont mind an *optional* hawaiin sub-region to explore, but throwing in non gen 1 pokemon, having arbitrarily high pokemon levels (like 4 year old girl trainers with lvl 50 pikachus, cmon), and the frankly weird quest all put me offputting moltres in a volcano there was a great idea however
>>56989199it's been ~20 years since i played LGbut i remember not liking the seviisi appreciated that they gave us new post game contentbut the islands were very same-ish, i couldnt really keep track of which were whch in my headthey all just blended in with each other, i had to consult gamefaqs every time i wanted to go to one of the islandstotally different to how i remembered normal game locations as i played them in all 3 gens up until that pointbecause they were all disconnected islands, it was hard to make a mental map of it all
>>56967291I wonder if the Emerald ROM I downloaded has skewed odds compared to the normal game. The second Abra I caught was carrying Twistedspoon and the first Skitty I caught had a Leppa Berry. Aren't the odds of that happening very low?
>>569902585% each, so you got lucky :D
>>56990165You sound kinda retarded.
I have been playing sapphire on my 3ds but for some reason it doesn't let me pick up daily berries from npcs Emerald worksPlaying the same rom on mgba also works fine
>>56991505>Playing the same rom on mgba also works fineThe same Sapphire rom? Weird. Do the other daily events work besides the berry gifts? A problem I had was my 3DS got reset mid run and defaulted back to 2011, so it took me awhile to notice that the clock was no longer advancing, due to mGBA using the 3DS's clock to advance the RTC. I accidentally recreated the battery reset clock problem on the actual carts.It took until I checked the RTC in PKHex for me to figure out what the problem was.
>>56990970excellent rebuttalyou totally blew him (lmao) the fuck out
>>56991622I don't know, but I can grow berries
>>56992747Then it's something else weird, I guess. I've noticed sometimes I can't get a daily berry when I expect it, so perhaps I'm just losing track of what it considers days, since it only tracks time passed and not an actual turn over from today to tomorrow.
>>56994192It could be a bug with open agbbut I'm lazy to tell them about it
>>56994192I figured out what it wasThe rtc values were messed up somehowI unset flag 81 to change the clock, saved after changing itOpened the save in pkhex then reset rtc thereChanged elapsed time to 1 day so daily events work now
>>56995004Yeah, figured something got fucked in the RTC options. Which is funny, because when I went looking for my problem, there was nothing on it. Everything was about break downs in the emulator, or about the physical cartridges and their batteries, and so on. No one ever went "make sure to check the save's actual RTC flags and counter."
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>>56975800>Emerald (cart)>just got to foretree>Marshtomp, Vigoroth, Breloom, ManectricWhat mons should I add?
>>56997664a Ghost
Just bought Japanese copies of FR and LG. I can't read the language too well, but I figure I know where to go and what to do, and can figure out which moves will be learned from Serebii and stuff. Pretty excited, since I haven't played these games in nearly twenty years.
What are the best ROM hacks for gen 3 that makes the games harder and more varied?
>>56998730Emerald Kaizo
Showdown confirmed to not simulate gen 3 accurately: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y9ZJKi3SjwCheck commentsReturn to cartridge when?
>>56999474Does it have the Frontier?
>>56999825the dugtrio sand stream thing?
>>56999825Wow.But we all should already know we aren't playing real Pokemon when we're playing Gen 3 OU>can't use Swagger>can't use Shadow Tag>can't use Soundproof>can't use Sand Veil>can't Baton Pass freely>cant sleep multiple mons>can't freeze multiple mons>can't use Brightpowder>can't use Double Team-like moves>can't use OHKO moves>can't see the names of the mons involved in Beat UpGen 3 OU =/= Competitive Generation III
