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4th Gen

Battling Giovanni

Inner Rhymes, May 31: While I was unable to unlock this battle legitimately, I do remember unlocking it in a certain Mod. If anything, this battle actually gave me closure as to where Giovanni was after the Kanto saga.

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Mindy in SnowPoint City

Amore, May 30: Oh yeah, when I just had the one DS and Diamond, this irritated me to no end

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Nintendo Wifi Connection is Possible in 2020

The Roniverse, May 23: Might be a dumb question but sadly the site doesn't have any FAQs :( Does this work for emulators and a laptop connection? I'm pretty interested in trying this out but I don't have a physical DS at the moment.

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Johanna

NikolaP, May 6: I've heard about that, but I'm not sure which categories she competes in - I only ever reached Master Rank in Beauty and Smart, and while I think I did see Fantina and Jasmine, I don't remember Johanna.

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Solaceon Ruins

Ace Trainer Slash, May 3: I think I just explored like the first few rooms, caught an Unown, and never went back there. I might do that sometime in the future, I never fully explored Platinum.

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Canalave City Library

Amore, May 1: Ironically, because of my experiences with things like the magazines referenced in OP, I stumbled upon the readable books by accident about 5 years after the games were released. I definitely enjoyed them, even if the limitation of speech bubbles...

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Certain Pokemon Cannot evolve

Amore, May 1: Like the emphasis on trading meaning there are lots of trade evolutions, this is something that can really get to me. Its less of an issue the past 10 years or so as- I got a DSi because we thought my DSLite was broken (turns out it just the Diamond...

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Gen 4 National dex team

mos5180d, Apr 26: Some great suggestions and strong, interesting Pokemon. Tyranitar is a favourite of mine too :)

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Acid Rain Glitch

Palamon, Apr 14: This is a glitch that happens when there's weather on the field, (except rain) and you use Pursuit on a Pokemon about to switch out & faints. It then causes all weather to happen simultaneously. It only occurs in Platinum and HG/SS, here's a...

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What Pokemon in these games could use a buff?

Captain Typhlosion, Apr 7: I’d say some of the bugs take too long to become viable in a gameplay, and it’s a bummer. Despite jokes about him, I genuinely considered using Kricketune on a team, but even after evolving he was a royal pain to level up. Similar thing happened...

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Platinum Teambuilding

Ninetales, Mar 24: So I ended up succumbing to my love of Buizel. My final decision is to utilize both Floatzel and Leafeon and extend my team to 7 pokemon. For the elite for, I will most likely use Leafeon, but I figured, why only use one of my favourites when I can...

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The Villa

Dragon, Mar 15: Yeah I don't think I ever did anything with that... Or if I remembered something like this hehe.

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Creating Poffins

Ninetales, Mar 5: I love poffins and poffin making! I actually really enjoy the mini game and have mastered it, I’d say. Sometimes when I play Pearl/Diamond/Platinum, all I do is continually make poffins as I find the mini game quite addictive. I absolutely love...

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Favourite Pokétch Apps?

Sumner, Feb 23: The color-changing app is really cool? The step counter is one of the most useful ones as well

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Cynthia stories

Elite Overlord LeSabre™, Feb 11: Cynthia's my favorite Champion, and appropriately, has my favorite Champion battle theme. Her Garchomp and Spiritomb gave me the biggest problems, since Garchomp is fast and hits hard (and has Stone Edge to counter Ice, which caused me problems) ,...

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GB Sounds

Pichu, Feb 4: My favorite feature ever. I really would have loved to see it in ORAS as well.

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My Pokémon Ranch & getting WiiWare in 2020?

ChickenMom, Jan 31: So lately I've become super interested in the idea of playing all of Pokémon's bizarre spin-off games. I'm slowly but surely getting through Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, but that's not what I'm here to talk to 'yall about. So I was going through...

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Maniac Tunnel

Quiji, Jan 29: I only completed that tunnel in Diamond version, but not in my other games because capturing all the Unown letters was too bothersome.

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Charon

Rainbow, Jan 24: I had to look up who that was. I really wonder why they even added him, why not simply expand Cyrus's role for Platinum?

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The Music was Different Between Night & Day

Palamon, Jan 19: In Diamond/Pearl/Platinum the music was different almost everywhere in the region depending on whether it was night or day. Some town's music have a completely different tone during the day than they do at night, but some are very subtle changes in...

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Some Pokemon had Foreign Pokedex Entries

Palamon, Jan 19: The Fourth Generation introduced different language Pokedex entries. However, only 14 Pokemon are programmed to have them in gen Diamond/Pearl specifically. These Pokemon are: Ekans, Pikachu, Psyduck, Ponyta, Staryu, Magikarp, Wobbuffet, Heracross,...

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Scratch-off Cards.

Palamon, Jan 14: In the Battle Frontier, you can buy scratchcards for 1bp each. You can do up to three Scratch-off cards at a time. In order to win a prize, you have to match three of the same icons, or a ditto. If you manage to match three of the same Pokemon (or...

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Snowpoint Temple

colours, Dec 28: didn't really bother with it much, because i never really cared much for Regigigas. it was a nice addition for what it's worth, though.

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Alleged Generation 4 Beta Sprites uncovered

Percy, Dec 23: oh yeah! saw these at twitter. looked like the designers wanted to emphasize gender differences which could've been cool tbh but how they did it seem a bit eh. it's just making a certain part of the pokemon longer or shorter (which, admittedly, is...

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VS Seeker

colours, Dec 21: criminally underrated that for whatever reason wasn't brought back to modern games. it really bummed me out that some of the more recent (haven't started on SwSh yet so idk about those games) games don't have you rematching regular trainers. ._....

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Foreign Building

Smileycorp, Dec 20: I always got the impression it was a chapel to Dialga and Palkia. There's a mural of Mt Corronet on the back window, so I see this as the only real explaination. It probably has no music to emulate the muffled echoes found within a large church.

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Berry Pots

Nah, Dec 19: I don’t remember using it much (but I don’t bother with berries much in regular playthroughs in general), but it was certainly better than having to fly around to take care of your berries

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Important Trainer Sprites were Animated

TheZipBon, Dec 15: The Barry Dance.

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Turnback Cave

Palamon, Dec 3: Tunrback Cave is an area in the Sinnoh region that has a sort of puzzle to it. It will also always be foggy in this area. If you are able to find Giratina's room, you can challenge it, of course. However, in Platinum, inside Turnback Cave is a...

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Happiny Egg

Palamon, Nov 30: In Diamond and Pearl only, a Hiker in Hearthome City will give you a Happiny egg. This egg is one of the three in game event eggs you can get in the D/P/PT games. Did you obtain the Happiny egg and use this specific Happiny in battle? I always...

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Resort Area

Palamon, Nov 28: In Pokemon Platinum, the Resort Area contains a lake where you can fish for Magikarp. But, there is something special about this particular spot. You can fish for Magikarp that can appear at level 1 all the way to level 100. You need to use a Super...

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Looking for a Sudowodo on Heartgold/SoulSilver!

Nah, Nov 17: Welcome to PC! Normally I'd just move this thread on over to our Trade Corner, as that's where all trade stuff goes, but given the fact that WiFi service has been shut down for games older than Gen 6 for years now, it's difficult for people you...

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Mix Battles

Palamon, Nov 13: A Mix battle is a battle where you borrow the person you're battling againt's Pokemon, and fight w/them against it. It was only a battle style present in the gen iv battle club, it is, however, available in the PWT, as well. Did you ever do Mix...

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Heatran

colours, Nov 9: i've personally never really cared much for it. it's just not my kind of legendary to bother catching, so i didn't.

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Level curve of heartgold/soulsilver

Unbayleefable, Nov 9: You know, when I first played gen II on release I don't think I noticed the level curve being so steep. Maybe I just had a higher capacity for grinding mindlessly as a kid. I definitely remember losing to the Elite Four/Lance a lot though - I think...

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The Underground

Zeiro, Nov 5: I loved the UG and I'm really looking forward to it whenever the Sinnoh remakes roll around. I never did much for the UG "Secret bases" or whatever they were called, but I'd love them to expand on it so I can play them again.

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Drifloon

Quiji, Nov 1: I captured the wild Fuwante/Drifloon a couple of times in D/P/Pt, but only for collection purposes, and not because I wanted to use one on my teams. I'm not a fan of the species, so I had no interest in adding one to my team.

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Rotom

Kurapika, Oct 31: I was like 15 back then, I knew it wasn't legendary. But I do remember I wanted its other forms, but I didn't know how to unlock them. I also remember I had doubts about Spiritomb being legendary, which isn't the case for it either.

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You can get a Hoenn and Kanto starter

Red1530, Oct 30: I got Bulbasaur and Torchic.

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Darkrai

Nah, Oct 29: I think that was the one I got as well. It's funny how back then I was willing to nag my parents to go to some store to get a Pokemon, and nowadays every time I see a Pokemon distribution that involves going to a store I'm like "gdi game freak...

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Gym Leader's Phone Numbers

Quiji, Oct 29: I thought that the rematch system in HG/SS was terrible. Having to collect the phone numbers was tedious since many of them had to be obtained at specific times, and then having to call each Gym Leader at a different time was also frustrating,...

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Which Pokemon Followed Behind You?

Glitch, Oct 27: As much I love Bulbasaur, its overworld sprite hasn't aged well so I usually have Typhlosion, Scizor or Lugia up front.

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Platinum: Wayward Cave Map w/ Hidden Items?

Nah, Oct 26: If you look at this page here you'll get a visible map of both parts of Wayward Cave with the visible items shown in the images, and rough locations for the hidden ones: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wayward_Cave Maybe not exactly what...

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Spiky Eared Pichu

Quiji, Oct 18: I tend to like Pokemon that cause in-game events to occur, but I always found the Pikachu-colored Pichu's HG/SS event that gave us the Spiky-ear Pichu to be one of the more needless events in the Gen IV games. I never used my Spiky-ear Pichu in...

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Best gen 4 starter in ur opinion?

Quiji, Oct 16: I like Pochama/Piplup the most since it looks cute in its base stage, and evolves into one of my favorite Gen IV Pokemon. I really dislike Pottaishi/Prinplup, though. It's so bizarre and hideous to look at.

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Barry or Silver?

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Bahamut, Oct 15: Silver. I think he's cooler and I prefer "mean" rivals.

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Shaymin

Phyrrhic, Oct 11: I liked all three of the location legendary events in gen 4, however it felt like Shaymin was the least interesting. The area was frankly boring, and the battle didn't have the legendary theme!

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The Always Run Button

Red1530, Oct 6: I use that feature all the time. It removed the annoyance of holding the B button all the time.

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Defog and Rock Climb

jayvee, Oct 5: I'm currently nuzlocking platinum and I forgot defog was an HM. The fact that fog lowered your pokemon's accuracy in battle was frustrating as well. It's like you had no choice but to have to use defog. However, I'm glad they turned into a useful...

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Pokemon News Press

Quiji, Oct 5: I remember completing the task a few times when I first played Diamond and Pearl, although I never bothered to do it in Platinum version. I liked that we could get certain kinds of Balls from the newspaper editor, but overall it wasn't something...

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Battling Giovanni

Mindy in SnowPoint City

Nintendo Wifi Connection is Possible in 2020

Johanna

Solaceon Ruins

Canalave City Library

Certain Pokemon Cannot evolve

Gen 4 National dex team

Acid Rain Glitch

What Pokemon in these games could use a buff?

Platinum Teambuilding

The Villa

Creating Poffins

Favourite Pokétch Apps?

Cynthia stories

GB Sounds

My Pokémon Ranch & getting WiiWare in 2020?

Maniac Tunnel

Charon

The Music was Different Between Night & Day

Some Pokemon had Foreign Pokedex Entries

Scratch-off Cards.

Snowpoint Temple

Alleged Generation 4 Beta Sprites uncovered

VS Seeker

Foreign Building

Berry Pots

Important Trainer Sprites were Animated

Turnback Cave

Happiny Egg

Resort Area

Looking for a Sudowodo on Heartgold/SoulSilver!

Mix Battles

Heatran

Level curve of heartgold/soulsilver

The Underground

Drifloon

Rotom

You can get a Hoenn and Kanto starter

Darkrai

Gym Leader's Phone Numbers

Which Pokemon Followed Behind You?

Platinum: Wayward Cave Map w/ Hidden Items?

Spiky Eared Pichu

Best gen 4 starter in ur opinion?

Barry or Silver?

Shaymin

The Always Run Button

Defog and Rock Climb

Pokemon News Press