When I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue, there were lots of supposed cheats. The only three that turned out to be true were the duplication cheat using trading, the MissingNo. cheat1, and by extension the multiply-item cheat. One of the most prolific “cheats” was the one to catch Mew. There had to be about a hundred different cheats that were meant to get you one, one of them quite ingeniously getting you behind the SS Anne, but doing little else.
Today, I’ve stumbled across one on Reddit which details a way I have never heard of, but is apparently backed up with evidence. Frankly, it sounds legit. This excites me, but does anyone know if it actually works? If it does, well fuck me. I had to work my ass off negotiating terms with a kid in primary school who was lucky enough to have a Mew. From there, I used the duplication cheat to make a whole heap which I then sold to other kids. It was awesome. However, to know I could have skipped that first step and gotten my own, well that would have helped a lot.
That is an error pokemon you could catch, essentially
Brittany showed me this, and I can’t believe how amazingly brilliant it is. You’d think translations from the Vietnamese Pokemon game would be a little bit more…fluent.
How did the Pokédex produce knowledge about Pokémon, if they hadn’t been documented on it yet? How did it know the specific number of the pokémon in question as well? Shouldn’t shit of been blank and things learnt as you went along? If the information is already in the Pokédex then Professor Oak is just wasting everyone’s time.
If pokémon never die and only faint, why the fuck is there a pokémon graveyard?
How did people discover certain pokémon evolved when in contact with particular stones? Did they spend ages just rubbing their pokémon against shit?
How come no-one has put Team Rocket in jail? In fact, why do you never see a jail in the games?
As a final thought, why won’t people get there was never 150 pokémon; it was always 151. In the game, Mew was coded in and a part of the game. You got him by receiving him in a trade at a “Nintendo Event”, but he still had to be a part of the game or your game wouldn’t understand what the fuck was being traded to it.
Ok, for those who aren’t aware, this is a Pokéwalker:
This little circular device is bundled with the latest Pokémon games HeartGold and SoulSilver, and serves as an interactive pedometer that rewards the player for taking walks. Older players will recognize this device as being extremely similar to the Pocket Pikachu device, which worked in a similar fashion, but without nearly as much as the current incarnation. In the Pocket Pikachu, you earned a currency when you walked, which could be swapped for gifts to make your Pikachu happier. The Pocket Pikachu 2 was able to sync with the original Pokémon Gold and Silver, giving you gifts to use in game.
The Pokéwalker works similarly to this. You select a Pokémon you’ve caught (it’s not confined to just Pikachu) to walk with, and a “route” to go walking along, such as Town Outskirts. From there, your Pokéwalker syncs with the game, and your Pokémon goes into the walker. When you walk you gather watts (one watt per ten steps), and those watts can be used for one of three things.
Poké Radar – Through one of two mini games available, you are able to catch wild Pokémon. The game is split into two parts; a simple searching game where you look in tall grass for a Pokémon, and the second part is where your Pokémon battles it and allows you to throw a Pokéball in an attempt to capture it. The Pokémon encountered depends on the route selected and how many steps you’ve done, and you need to walk a lot to find certain Pokémon that you can’t even find in the normal game. You are able to capture three Pokémon, and you need to sync back with your game if you want to capture more.
Dowsing – Another mini game, in which you find items for use in game. You’re presented with six options, and you’re given two chances to identify which option has the item under it. If your first choice is wrong, you’re given a hint (either “It’s near!” or “It’s far away…”) which gives you an indication of where it is. As with caught Pokémon, you can only find up to three items. However, you can get more through other means (which I’ll discuss shortly.)
Unlocking further routes – Initially only two routes are available to catch Pokémon in. However, any watts you don’t use before you sync back with your game go towards unlocking further routes. When a certain amount of watts are gained, the new route is revealed. Simple.
Of course, these aren’t the only abilities of the device. It is designed to make you go outside and socialize, with the ability to sync with other people’s Pokéwalkers. These meetings make your Pokémon happier (as they’re able to ‘play’ with others, however briefly), and reward you by gifting you with a bonus item for use in game.
To me this is a stunning device, as it creates a great incentive to get players of the game more active (I know it’s worked for me), and works as a great piece of DRM1. Since several Pokémon are only able to be captured through the Pokéwalker, it’s more difficult for players to finish the game (although I guess they could cheat). It’s a decent idea to get people to be more social and active.
I need to touch on what finally inspired me to type this up after a couple of months of playing with the post in my head. Today, I followed a link to a gaming blog written by a 17 year old with a need to point out that anyone who disagrees with him is obviously a Nintendo Fan Boy2. He has only written two posts on it, but both have made me disappointed. The one that fuelled this post though, was the one titled I have to walk to level up? Hell No!!!!!3. In this, he misses the purpose of the Pokéwalker entirely, and displays his displeasure of the idea. He then goes to list various stupid ways he attempted to cheat the system. He was apparently so determined that he taped it to his fingers, with the apparent idea that it will work when he hammers the buttons on his Xbox 360/when he masturbates4. The idea of cheating such systems isn’t new of course, and searching for “Pokéwalker cheats” on YouTube will reveal several contraptions and ideas to get watts and unlock routes without doing any actual walking. I’m not against finding problems and experimenting with them, but when someone does it simply because they feel that walking is something that they shouldn’t ever have to, I can’t help but wonder what sort of person isn’t willing to go for a 10 minute walk.
This guy for one.
DRM = Digital rights management
I assume this is his way of calling someone a “faggot”.
Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so curious. Or bored. And that people didn’t post links on Twitter. Because no matter what the description accompanying it, I’m bound to click on it. Especially when someone like Stilgherrian decided to link to Pokémon merchandise.
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Bringing whole new definition to Pokémon Red, is the Pokémon reusable menstrual pad. Why anyone would think of making this (why Stilgherrian is looking at such things in the first place) is beyond me, but the idea as disturbing as it is, is really amusing. I’m sure there’s a rather oddly enthused collector who bought a whole box of them somewhere.
Also, as a guy I have no real understanding of it, but I find the idea it’s reusable, almost as bad as the fact that it’s marketed as a Pokémon product. Don’t you?
What is your first though when you saw that screenshot? Being a nerd who played all the game boy Pokémon games, this is like being told that Firefly will finally be renewed for a second season…although that’s another nerd thing. The above screenshot is of Pokémon: Den Of Ages, an online multiplayer port of the popular Pokémon game series that has been around for ten years. Developed by a man who goes by the name of Silver, there’s nothing much to say other than the game is fucking fun. The start of the game puts you in a town as it always does, but rather than have to go through all painful storylines and the like, you go into the laboratory, pick a Pokémon, then go and start playing. The game is constantly under construction, but enough works for the game to be enjoyable. You can chat, catch Pokémon, and battle any players you encounter in the wild; which for me is all I’d really need in a Pokémon MMO. The game, being under development all the time, means new features are being added all the time. There are still a few minor bugs, but nothing that really affect gameplay or disrupts the experience.
If you like Pokémon, you need to join in and start playing the game (which you just lost). The main website for Pokémon: Den Of Ages, complete with a download (of awesomeness) for the game, can be found at http://pdoa.mmogamez.com/.
The title of course indicates that a week goes for nine days, but that’s just how I roll baby; BENDING THE FRAIL FABRIC OF TIME AND SPACE.
When I used to get bored, I’d either traverse the various threads in 4chan, or use Stumble Upon to find something interesting. But while those have gotten old for me, I find myself using Digg more and more now. I used to be a bit weary of the layout, it looked confusing to my tiny fragile brain; but now I’ve embraced it, and am frequently looking at the various articles that are ‘dugg’. These are just a few of the articles I found on the site that I just had to read.
When I was a kid playing Pokemon Blue, there were lots of supposed cheats. The only three that turned out to be true were the duplication cheat using trading, the MissingNo. cheat1, and by extension the multiply-item cheat. 
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