Checking a player's egg for its species?

What's the script to check for the species of an Egg? I tried the following:

"pbHasSpecies?(:SPECIES)" would do the trick, but Eggs are not considered as species when not born.
"$Trainer.party[0].egg?" only returns whether that Pokemon is an Egg or not, but doesn't check species.
"pbHasEgg?(:SPECIES)" simply returns true if the species targetted can breed or be bred.

Im doing a Game Corner Egg Store with coins. I want the player to be able to choose a "Mysterious Egg" among other species. When choosing the Mysterious Egg (which is simply a Caterpie) then I want to check for the Species (so it's not any of the other possible species) so if it IS Caterpie, then I change its species, change moves, make shiny, change steps...

I can already purchase eggs with no problem, but the problem comes in checking the egg bought in order to change it if it's the special one.

Script looks like this:

Then of course check if the party is full etc. That part is working well so no problem with that.

I know I should be looking at the code in the purchase script (pbSet) as it's storing the species into a variable, but when using $game_variables[1]=:CATERPIE the conditional branch is completely ignored (doesn't even go to Else).

Clueless. Hope someone with more knowledge can help me learn.

A simple edit to pbHasSpecies will do the trick

mej71 said:

A simple edit to pbHasSpecies will do the trick

Code:

def pbHasSpecies?(species[COLOR="Red"],ignoreeggs=true[/COLOR])
  if species.is_a?(String) || species.is_a?(Symbol)
    species=getID(PBSpecies,species)
  end
  for pokemon in $Trainer.party
    next if pokemon.isEgg? [COLOR="red"]&& ignoreeggs[/COLOR]
    return true if pokemon.species==species
  end
  return false
end

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It does! Problem is, if the player actually has the Pokémon inside the "mysterious egg", problems arise, but I'm just going an unobtainable Pokémon for the Egg. Thank you.

Edit: Don't tell me it's the "egg?" and "isEgg?" thing lol... Yes it is... Now I have YET another problem.
Edit2: All working! Apparently I really didn't have def lastparty in my scripts... Weird.

lolandbeer said:

Purchase script:

Code:

item=[:BULBASAUR,:CHARMANDER,
      :SQUIRTLE,:MEOWTH,
      :CATERPIE,0][pbGet(1)]
price=[30,30,30,15,20,
       0][pbGet(1)]
lv=[9,8,18,25,26,0][pbGet(1)]
if item && item!=0
  item=getID(PBSpecies,item)
end
pbSet(1,item); pbSet(2,price)
pbSet(3,PBSpecies.getName(item))
pbSet(4,lv)

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You already HAVE the species of the egg. It's stored in Variable 1. Get it with pbGet(1). Compare it to Caterpie with pbGet(1)==PBSpecies::CATERPIE. Note the double equals signs.