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pokemon
Last night a Mr. Caust got me a Ditto Pokemon for my game with perfect stats. Why? So I can breed it and breed it and breed it to make Pokemon with stats I want, so I can train them. Why? To give myself a chance of beating Craig in a battle.
I’m so sorry Ditto, or Mcslutty if I were to refer to you by your new name, but you’re about to be whored out and made to have sex with random Pokemon for my gain.
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It’s my birthday in a little over a week, and Pokemon.com have given me –like they do everyone– a Togekiss. I love getting “promotional” pokemon, so it’s neat getting this one as well. Question is what to name him…
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Today was the second monthly Adelaide Pokemon Nerds VGC Meet Up. The meet was held at Shin Tokyo in the same space as the trading card meet, which actually had people turn up to it unlike the previous event. Naturally, there was trading and battling, and the usual nostalgic talk about the older games. I had a battle with Craig and got my ass handed to me yet again, and Mel was nice enough to trade me not only a Zorua but a Charmander and Bulbasaur! She’s a legend for that, but Craig sucks balls. Sweaty balls.
Britt and I also invested in Pokemon cards, because why not. We bought a learner pack that splits a deck into two 30 card decks to learn the game, as well as three booster packs each. Because we’d registered for the TCG meet as well, Shin Tokyo gave us each a free booster pack on top of that. Being I haven’t played the game since primary school, I’m looking to relearn the rules and maybe play it if someone else is willing.
I wouldn’t have minded a bigger turnout, but it was pretty damn fun either way.
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I decided to make a trip down to Marion today, to check out the Gametraders store they have there. The journey involved fumbling around at the train station trying to work out which of the four platforms my train would be on, and then nervously walking down Morphett Road wondering if I was heading in the right direction.
Eventually I got there, and after wandering around, I found the shop. Inside was a marvellous place, full of games and merchandise spanning decades of consoles. I was astounded by the prices, which were higher than even Cash Converters (Which are renowned for buying cheap and selling expensive). Super Nintendo games –which are up to twenty years old– were selling for forty dollars. I understand that you’re charging for demand, but seriously that is a lot.
I eventually got to the Gameboy section, and saw exactly what I was hoping to see; Pokemon Blue, Yellow, and some GBA SP’s. Naturally, I bought them all. I even got the old Pokemon Pinball to give a spin.
This is part nostalgia, part loving the Pokemon games, and part regret. When I was a kid I worked hard on Pokemon Blue to get all 151 Pokemon. I was really proud of the achievement, actually getting one hundred percent completion in the game. But then I lost the game. I had no idea where it went, and I regret being so irresponsible with it. I consider getting this copy a chance at redemption.
I loaded up the games and found save files from the previous owners. The Blue save file was typical stuff, eight badges and some levelled legendaries. Yellow was much more amazing; same stuff, but the previous owner had a mew. Mew is a Pokemon you cannot get in the original games (Without glitching the game). It was only available through Nintendo Promotional Events, which of course were limited to back when the games were released. The fact that I now possess one makes me giggly; it’s my favourite Pokemon.
Dear diary, it was the best day ever, the end.
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One thing I’ve learned about which has made me appreciate Pokemon more, is the more complicated things hidden away in the game. I’m talking about things like “Individual Values” and “EV training”.
Much like redstone in Minecraft, these things can be ignored completely and the game is still fun. Nothing is really lost. However, if you choose to learn about them, and utilize them, they unlock a whole new level of gameplay.
In this case, I’ve been looking at EV training. Effort Values define how a pokemon’s stats increase. Certain pokemon, when defeated, give EVs for one particular stat. For example, defeating a Patrat gives the pokemon involved one attack EV. It gets more complicated from there, with maximums, items and the like, but that’s the basics.
For my first attempt, I decided to train the promotional Lucario I got from the Dream World. I’ve been keeping track of the EVs earned and stat increases as he levels up, though apparently I don’t get any real effect from maxing out EVs for any particular stat (In this case Attack and Speed) until he hits level 100.
Hopefully all this looking into it and maxing out stats is worth it. I guess I’ll find out in approximately 70 levels…
If you’re interested, here’s my spreadsheet for Lucario. I accidentally went over the limit for speed EVs, so while it says ~300 EVs, only 255 get registered. For more information on Effort Values, you can read the guide on Serebii.net.
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Clearly you’ll need to click to enlarge it so you can read it. I’m considering doing this because it sounds hilarious.
Also, sorry about all the Pokemon posts. Got it on the brain.
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As of yesterday, a promotion for the newest Pokemon movie was started for the games. Depending on whether you have Pokemon Black or White, you’d unlock the legendary Zekrom or Reshiram respectively. Both are at level 100 and both have some rather epic moves.
My favourite part though, is when the Pokemon is unlocked, there’s additional content if you put the Pokemon in the Dream World. If you play the minigames in the movie promotional area with either promotional Pokemon in the Dream World, you unlock a new C-Gear skin, which looks awesome. Fuck yeah.
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She be creative. She be doing this thing with beads to make art stuff. She be got my girlfriend into it. She be made this Ash and Pikachu.
I be apologize for grammar.
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Lately there’s been an awful lot of submissions on Reddit as the internal battery in many Pokemon Silver, Gold and Crystal cartridges die and they can no longer save. Most people are simply replacing them, but it has made me think about the last few Pokemon games on Nintendo DS, and how they’re saved.
Games are still saved internally (but without the need for batteries. Thank god for flash memory.), but I’m not sure if that should be how it’s done. DS handhelds have an SD card for downloads, photos and such. Surely they could utilize this to save games on the device instead of the cartridge.
I like the idea because it would mean you wouldn’t lose your save if you lost the cartridge.
As a further thought, with The Pokemon Company making the first ever direct sequel of a Pokemon game (Black 2 and White 2) I’d be interested to see what they do in respect to continuation. While the game will almost definitely include N and probably Team Plasma will feature in them, there’s no confirmation as to whether the playable characters will be the same.
With that in mind, I wouldn’t mind the idea of being able to reference the old save from Black and White and have the Pokemon I own be carried over, as well as all my other details. That sort of continuation Bioware-style would be pretty neat, but impossible while they choose to put the save files on cartridges.
Just some thoughts.
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