The Pokemon D/P Thread

[BerenTebogo]

Link to an emulator that will run this rom? For the emulator retards, such as I.

[Julian]

Link to an emulator that will run this rom? For the emulator retards, such as I.

nosuchthing.com

[Falconblade]

Link to an emulator that will run this rom? For the emulator retards, such as I.

no$gba, needed the newest patch version though

[BerenTebogo]

thanks

[Lbelle]

man I got to sandgem town and then accidentally hit the power button T_T

[Boyiee]

I must revive my Eeveeloution team too!

What did everyone name their rival?

when i saw one of the starting names was Tyson it inspired me to name him Tyrone for whatever reason.

[Vile]

Does anyone else get really annoyed with the way the game refused to squeeze "Attack(!)" on the second line whenever you get an intimdate proc? There is clearly room to the right but instead they used three lines and make you pause for like 4 seconds for it to load >|.

[Lbelle]

I named him Adam because my best friend irl is named Adam lol

[Maguspk]

Can somoene explain the new mechanics of the game for someone that stopped playing after red/blue? I'm so confused by all this stuff you guys are talken about but it sounds fun.

That'd take too much time lol.

You can play decent without knowing any of the technical elements of the game. It's just like SSBM. You can play the game fairly well if you're good without knowing some of the nuances. But with knowledge of the nuances (Wavedashing, L-cancels, Shield-UpSmash, Edge Hogging, etc. for Smash, EVs, double/canceled weaknesses, 4x resistances, Natures, breeding, IVs, EV training, etc. For Pokemon.)

In short, every pokemon has a unique set of IVs, getting duplicate IVd pokemon is rare. The IV is a number that ranged from 0 to 31 and it is a value assigned to each stat of the poke (HP, Atk, Def, SpA, SpD, Spd) at the time you -encounter- it. The Nature of a pokemon is another unique trait of a pokemon although much more controllable (Everstone + Female in Emerald) in breeding. It boosts and reduces 2 stats by 10%. EVs are "effort values" they are a hidden mechanic in the game. Each time your pokemon battles, depending on the pokemon it kills you gain a certain number of EVs of a certain type. For example a Spinarak gets you something like 1 or 2 Spd EVs. The EVs max out at 510 and every 4 of one type raises that stat by one point. One stat can only have up to 255 points, but obviously you stop at 252 because that's the last number divisible by 4.

Basically, the competetive scene consists of breeding your pokemon for IVs and moves (breeding is an entirely different mechanic, but with Emerald it's very predicatable to an extent and easily performed), then once you have the desired IVs and Nature you take the pokemon and EV train it (kill the correct monsters for EV points). This is where Pokerus I mentioned comes in. Pokerus doubles EVs like Macho Brace does, so it gives a potential of x4 EVs or x2 without Macho Brace. After EV training you level it to 100, or as far past 50 as you might need to for the desired moves (usually with Rare Candies because straight training to 100 is just menotonous). Then you have your desired pokemon.

Wow. Sounds a lot more complicated then when I played. I remember back in R/B days it was just "oh, my pokemon is weak to your pokemon, I die in one hit," or visa versa. It sounds like there's a lot more strategy to it now =D.

Ya it's a bit more complicated but EVs and IVs still existed in R/B and the "Shinies" still existed too you just didn't see them. But in Advanced Gen Shinies are just a strain of the poke and don't require a certain number of IVs like in G/S/C and R/B/Y. Also there was no cap on EVs in R/B/Y lol iirc.

You don't need lv100 in d/p, you can autoset all levels to either 50 or 100 when wifi battling.

or as far past 50 as you might need to for the desired moves

I don't see it <.<

You don't need to reach 50 at all

If you want to breed egg moves and you have a male poke with insanely good IV spread for breeding that can breed that isn't the original poke (i.e. can't learn the offspring pokes moves) you end up with a egg that might not have the moves you want just because you always go for IVs first. In which case you level up the baby to 50 or whatever past 50 you need to get your desired moves so that you can have the movesets you want for 50 and 100 battling.

[SilverBreeze]

I named my rival Wedge, I thought it sounded pretty cool.

The female trainer in this game is so cute in a geeky/dork kind of way, I love her.

Shinx is so cute, I wish he'd hurry up and learn Thundershock or something.

[Lbelle]

I named my rival Wedge, I thought it sounded pretty cool.

The female trainer in this game is so cute in a geeky/dork kind of way, I love her.

Shinx is so cute, I wish he'd hurry up and learn Thundershock or something.

I just want to kiss you because I think the SAME THING. I miss you love <3

Also--if you choose the boy trainer is your rival a girl?

[Maguspk]

I named my rival Wedge, I thought it sounded pretty cool.

The female trainer in this game is so cute in a geeky/dork kind of way, I love her.

Shinx is so cute, I wish he'd hurry up and learn Thundershock or something.

Shinx is meant to be a Physical Electric Type, Thundershock isn't effective on him and as a matter of fact I don't even think he learns it. He probably learns the physical electric attacks, Spark and Thunderfang.

Edit: Checked and he learns Spark at 17 lol, that's his first electric based attack. If you let him evolve at 15 he won't learn it until 18. If you keep him in first evo form he'll also learn Thunder Fang at 33 instead of 38 during 2nd evo, and 42 in his final evo (lvl 30).

[SilverBreeze]

That's pretty interesting, I thought she'd be the standard electric pokemon.

I've missed you too Belle *muah!*

[The_OG_Nelta]

when using the no$gba emulator, i download it, loads fine, but what do i do when i try to load up the Rom?
It says "The data could not be read. Please restart the power, then remove and reinsert the DS game card.

[Boyiee]

I named my rival Wedge, I thought it sounded pretty cool.

The female trainer in this game is so cute in a geeky/dork kind of way, I love her.

Shinx is so cute, I wish he'd hurry up and learn Thundershock or something.

I just want to kiss you because I think the SAME THING. I miss you love <3

Also--if you choose the boy trainer is your rival a girl?

the rival is the same person. If you choose girl trainer than lucas is your support character (the boy you coulda chose) if you choose the boy then dawn is your support (the girl). I personally think the boy looks like a homo so I picked the chick and because I could think of a better name for her than the boy. Started over and changed my rivals name too, can't wait to get on wifi with friends now lol, they're in for a suprise.

[SilverBreeze]

Still using Tackle at level 13 is pretty depressing

[Lbelle]

I named my rival Wedge, I thought it sounded pretty cool.

The female trainer in this game is so cute in a geeky/dork kind of way, I love her.

Shinx is so cute, I wish he'd hurry up and learn Thundershock or something.

I just want to kiss you because I think the SAME THING. I miss you love <3

Also--if you choose the boy trainer is your rival a girl?

the rival is the same person. If you choose girl trainer than lucas is your support character (the boy you coulda chose) if you choose the boy then dawn is your support (the girl). I personally think the boy looks like a homo so I picked the chick and because I could think of a better name for her than the boy. Started over and changed my rivals name too, can't wait to get on wifi with friends now lol, they're in for a suprise.

Not really. It's not uncommon for males to play female characters in video games anymore.

[Chips]

Yeah, the male character looks like a fruit.

[Boyiee]

i play female in wow too >.>; she's my hoe.

[Lbelle]

rofl shinx really does suck