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Previous Generations

A hub for all previous Main Pokémon Games, from Red & Blue to Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

Section Staff: Nah, Megan, Janp

Guide

1st & 2nd GEN: Bugs/Glitches/Exploits

(2 pages)

pokemon fan person, Apr 1: that’s a lot of glitches

30 15,763

Started by Amy May

Important

Previous Generations Feedback Thread

Momoro, Oct 29: Oh, thanks :) I wouldn't know where to begin the dig for that one either!

17 16,839

Started by Nah

Guide

Previous Generations FAQ

Nah, Feb 2020: Generation VII (Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!) Written by Janp, Nah, --Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon-- A note regarding Moon/Ultra Moon: In these versions, the in-game time is 12 hours different from what your 3DS's...

7 9,508

Started by Nah

4th Gen

Best gen 4 starter in ur opinion?

(2 pages)

Corveone, May 13: Hardest starter choice for me, because it's the region with the best starter trio for me overall. I think they all have great designs and are helpful and reliable throughout the game, and whatever your choice is, you're picking something unique and...

48 22,287

Started by Snowvyle

1st Gen

Genwunners are misunderstood

pokemon fan person, May 13: i think that some genwunners hate the newer generations, while others don’t. not all genwunners will only like gen 1 (and also a little bit of gen 2 and 0.7% of gen 3). some of them like the newer generations, even gen 8.

6 112

Started by yamibakura95

4th Gen

Sinnoh's Fire Problem

Bellsprout, May 13: Idk if I fully understand this question. To fix it all you would have to do is add different fire types to earlier routes. If what you mean is what I did in these games before Platinum then my answer is I used Rapidash when I didn't pick Infernape...

13 1,761

Started by Palamon

1st Gen

Moveset for starters pokemon

asuraflameheart, May 13: That's true, venusaur start from gen 4 receiving more moves. Idk, in my opinion grass starter seems to be given less attention in gen 1 to 3. Nevertheless, thank you so much for your moveset list Janna 😆 noted

2 67

Started by asuraflameheart

3rd Gen

Emerald's Battle Factory be like

yamibakura95, May 13: n85RLDUGyMw

0 35

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

Getting the gold shield in Emerald is waaay harder than i imagined

yamibakura95, May 13: i got around 150 wins in ruby's batle tower which is easier due to having less pokemon for the AI to choose from. In emerald, i peaked at 75 still trying though haha.

2 64

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

Do you consider tool assisted RNG abuse cheating?

Nah, May 13: I suppose I should mention that I deleted the copy of this thread you made yesterday, since you also posted it in Pokemon Gaming Central, and I don't really see the point in having this particular thread in two places at once. This one I'll just...

1 44

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

I have gotten all gold symbols in Emerald's battle frontier except one...

yamibakura95, May 13: Can you guess which one it is?

0 34

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

Salac Heracross in emerald's battle tower=bad idea

yamibakura95, May 13: Having a heracross at 1hp depending on megahorn in a facility with lax icense and brightpowder hax is waaay too risky. I have lost many games to megahorn missing.

0 33

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

For anyone interesting here is how to connect Pokemon Colloseum (Dolphin) with GBA Pokemon games (VBA)

yamibakura95, May 13: This took me over a year to figure out but im content with the results. For anyone having trouble like I did here are the steps i followed to make it work: 1.Open VBA-M and set Link type to Gamecube 2.Keep VBA running and open dolphin 3.On...

0 37

Started by yamibakura95

1st Gen

Greed and Punishment

yamibakura95, May 12: gen 1 dungeons felt os desolate and creepy. no trainers in them, no NPCs, just willd pokemon and a suprise legendary bird.

9 1,769

Started by Megan

3rd Gen

Emerald team suggestions

yamibakura95, May 12: drop anything but pert, haryama and manectric. these three all you really need to get through the league without much trouble. I used breloom over harayma due to being availbale earlier.

6 1,561

Started by PokeNostalgia

2nd Gen

The Level Curve

yamibakura95, May 12: 2nd gen was one of the hardest to get through without spamming healing items due to the fact that there werent many good TMs available. Also, i never understood why Red had so high leveled pokes. I get he is the GOAT trainer and all but there is a...

11 12,162

Started by Palamon

2nd Gen

Kris and Lyra

yamibakura95, May 12: Kris looks more low inhib

8 3,452

Started by VisionofMilotic

1st Gen

Rumors You Fell For

(2 pages)

yamibakura95, May 12: There was a weird rumor about a secret area named "Diagonal Line" where you could catch a mythical bird pokemon (something like Hooh but not lmao).

44 24,426

Started by Palamon

3rd Gen

I didnt really like Red and Blue's redesigns for FRLG

yamibakura95, May 12: The originals had a certain attitude about them. I liked how the characters were following the 90s fashions, the jeans, the sneakers, the shirts, it was so iconic and i always ascociated the games with that style. But for the remakes they...

0 48

Started by yamibakura95

3rd Gen

Steven's gift

yamibakura95, May 12: I RNGed an adamant beldum (it was the second pokemon i rnged first was latios) with 27/3/26/15/25/30 which i evolved into metagross and used it in my battle frontier endeavor. I got 6 golds with him, swampert and latios.

10 358

Started by VisionofMilotic

3rd Gen

There were a few things about Emerald that i didnt like compared to the original RS

yamibakura95, May 12: 1.The character redesigns. I liked the originals more. Both brendan and may had the pokeball symbol on their headbands and Brendan's felt like a natural progress from GSC cooltrainer design. May was also consistent with the anime version. I didnt...

0 52

Started by yamibakura95

5th Gen

Abyssal Ruins

Palamon, May 10: Yes, I have many times. I wish there was more to do there than just find ancient text and items, though. They could have easily put wild Pokemon down there. :| I also didn't like how you had limited time down there. Dive was pretty much useless in...

4 178

Started by Janp

6th Gen

Are Pokémon X/Y characters chibi?

Megan, May 10: For me there have always been different chibi "styles". Some focusing more on a bigger head and a smaller body, others trying to balance things a little bit better, etc. I think I've heard that actual chibi style tries to imitate the anatomy of a...

5 160

Started by _confused_piplup_

6th Gen

ORAS

Megan, May 10: Overall I enjoyed the remakes. I have a lot of nostalgia for the originals and as such trying to surpass them is too difficult of a task to accomplish anyway. The games did include a lot of stuff to make the games different enough, soaring, the...

12 392

Started by VisionofMilotic

1st Gen

Fighting Dojo! Hitmonchan vs. Hitmonlee!

Pokedream.su, May 10: Hitmonlee was actually part of my original yellow team as a kid. I remember psyducking up and putting a dumb move over Hi-Jump Kick and regretting my choice.

21 14,734

Started by Dragon

7th Gen

Jörmungandr

Flowerchild, May 9: Man I wish they leaned into these themes more. Norse mythology is so cool and I didn't know those legendaries were based on it, but you wouldn't know playing X and Y because none of the rest of the game has anything to do with that. How cool would...

9 939

Started by Megan

3rd Gen

is this a glitch?

Palamon, May 5: Are you sure you didn't have an everstone on your Torchic or it didn't faint, or anything? In earlier generations, I do know if a Pokemon faints and it hits its evolution level, it won't evolve.

5 144

Started by pokemon fan person

2nd Gen

Pokemon nicknames gliched

Raicheot, May 3: Whilst transporting pokemon from crystal to the poke bank, I went into move my squad pokemon from box 4 to box one to transport and their nicknames had changed to another pokemons name for example my Poliwrath changed to Ledyba and Feraligatr...

0 93

Started by Raicheot

Article

Nirvana in Nihilism – Why Cyrus is Right

_confused_piplup_, Apr 28: I have always been fascinated my Cyrus and in general by gen4 games, so I have played them several times and I have read his dialogues multiple times. I feel that Cyrus is quite an interesting character and especially his psychology is interesting....

9 1,421

Started by bobandbill

Shiny Odds were 1 in 8,092

Megan, Apr 28: I actually can't say much about the increased shiny chances, because even though I've played gen 6+ a lot, most shinies I've encountered so far were back in the older games when the chance was still lower. It's cool that you can get them easier...

1 164

Started by Palamon

6th Gen

I don't know where this question goes. o_o;

Megan, Apr 23: Bad eggs have been around for about the same time breeding exists. In the earlier games there was usually a Pokemon slot dedicated to the "egg" so as to make it possible to the player to carry eggs from breeding around. This specific egg was never...

4 416

Started by RedBalloon

Did you ever connect with anyone before WiFi was a thing?

colours, Apr 21: other than an irl friend of mine that i would visit occasionally, no. :c had some good memories with him, though!

16 1,227

Started by Sheep

Article

How several Pokémon changed during Pokémon Gold and Silver development

Maserati777, Apr 21: Completely agree with you on the black cats. The design is so good. Better then Purrloin and Purrloin goes to Jaguar route with evolution. Kind of glad the Ditto evolution was cut. But sad the baby Meowth was cut.

4 8,967

Started by bobandbill

6th Gen

Male Versions of Cosplay Pikachu

Palamon, Apr 17: I mean, maybe cosplay Pikachu is Spiky Ear Pichu, but evolved. She can't breed, or evolve. Well, Spiky eared Pichu can't either, and this is just a theory, but you only get one ever anyway, so that could be a very unlikely possibility. Although,...

14 6,625

Started by LegendChu

4th Gen

Question about my SoulSilver cartridge

Liquid Halo, Apr 14: It appears to be counterfeit to a painful degree due to the misalignment of the title and Lugia's image let alone that Lugia's image isn't supposed to be there. It's late here and I'm feeling too lazy to go through the process of photographing...

5 694

Started by Catoastd

1st Gen

the 1/256 glitch

Liquid Halo, Apr 14: If this ever affected me I was never aware as: 1. I'd never heard of it until now and 2. I didn't understand the mechanics back when I played Gen 1 nor did I care to. I just wanted to catch Pokemon like my best friend.

9 4,969

Started by Palamon

1st Gen

There weren't that many music tracks

LordWayback, Apr 12: Looking at a direct rip it isn’t 100% storage issues on the cartridge it probably doesn’t have to do with storage (they compressed a 1,028~KB raw rom onto a 8MB cartridge (as of GBC)) so it must have to do with limitations of how expensive music is...

10 1,038

Started by Palamon

1st Gen

Need help to build team for Stadium

BrainWave, Apr 9: Scaling the levels down isn't the thing until Diamond and Pearl's Battle Tower. That said, I've checked what I'm up against and have found that I'm simply outpowered by the later rounds, so I'll just keep my Nidoking and find better mons. This is...

2 533

Started by BrainWave

Guide

The Sinnoh Bible

Megan, Apr 1: I was wondering why I had such a hard time with Platinum. I thought it was that my team was severely underleveled and underpowered due to it consisting in huge portions mostly of defensive Pokemon lacking offensive presence as well as making things...

3 1,255

Started by bobandbill

5th Gen

Looking for friends

Saad4206969, Mar 30: Hey, guys. I've recently been playing Pokemon Black 2 on my DS Lite after managing to buy a copy of it, and I'd love some friends to trade/battle/hang out with via Kaeru WFC. I'll leave my friend code here, as well as my facebook account in case...

0 226

Started by Saad4206969

2nd Gen

The Red Gyarados

Percy, Mar 28: That shiny Gyarados was really interesting. Would've loved having it on my team because I always pick Cyndaquil as my starter in Johto (and Johto was lacking good water types imo). But, idk, it never felt right to use Gyarados. I think I remember...

10 457

Started by Palamon

Playing the older games

(2 pages)

FeralLungs, Mar 28: Visually its hard for me to go back to the older games like red and blue because I don't like how the over world looks, but I still love the battle sprites for the trainers and pokemon. When it comes to gen 3 and anything after I probably won't...

26 8,136

Started by Caite-chan

1st Gen

Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Who is the BEST Kanto starter?

(2 pages)

pokemon fan person, Mar 27: i like all of them, but if i have to choose it would be bulbasaur

25 13,007

Started by Imported Cheese

4th Gen

The Villa

CeruleanSky, Mar 27: you're not the only one - i did as well! it surprises me that i did that in hindsight, i can't imagine playing for instance sword and shield anywhere near as much as i played platinum

3 1,001

Started by Setsuna

1st Gen

Gen 1 Positives

ElBurrito, Mar 24: Though the graphics are significantly outdated, they still have a certain charm to them that later gamers, especially gens 6 and up just don't have. The lack of hand holding and hours of forced tutorials is also nice. I recently started another...

12 1,825

Started by Pokedream.su

4th Gen

Biggest grass patch?

Setsuna, Mar 24: I'd place a decent wager on the large grass patch on the west end of Route 222 being the largest in Sinnoh. Right where the Valor Lakefront connects to Route 222 is a massive patch of grass. There's a pretty large one outside Mt. Coronet on its...

4 1,388

Started by SawkTheWarrior

5th Gen

N, Ghetsis, or Colress?

Fairy, Mar 24: I always thought Colress was cool. Unique design but weak battle.

12 606

Started by Dragon

1st Gen

Making a list of imprinted stamped numbers on original carts - Please Help!!

Dogberry, Mar 23: Hello! Came from your YouTube comments to post this! Region: US Imprinted Number: 11 ESRB: Black Game: Yellow Cant upload pics from phone but I’m staring right at it. :) hope this helps!

7 2,066

Started by frabulator

Virtual Console or Physical Cartridge?

SawkTheWarrior, Mar 23: I hate VC. it feels so insecure, knowing that your console could break and your 80$ game would be lost forever. However, Carts and pretty resilient *laughs in GB carts* and will last for a long time and can be transfered between consoles.

19 3,093

Started by Palamon

7th Gen

Are sun and moon the easiest pokemon games?

BiggusWeeabus, Mar 16: Nope, the Gen 6 games are.

14 5,313

Started by PageEmperor

Best HM moves

Roni, Mar 15: *comes into thread to answer Surf and Waterfall* *sees that literally everyone has that as their answer too* uhhh well i guess not as many mentioned Fly and Strength yet so i'll go with those as well? Dive's pretty underrated tbh considering...

9 1,477

Started by VisionofMilotic

4th Gen

Ribbon Syndicate

Setsuna, Mar 14: I actually remember entering it without even knowing I had more than 10 ribbons on whichever Pokemon it was. It just happened while I was playing around with how contests worked and maybe because I just really liked Julia in Sunyshore... My...

5 9,250

Started by Fritz

6th Gen

One mega only

HitmonSal, Mar 12: Mega Lucario Then mega salamence as a close second xD

23 5,066

Started by VisionofMilotic

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Previous Generations Feedback Thread

Previous Generations FAQ

Best gen 4 starter in ur opinion?

Genwunners are misunderstood

Sinnoh's Fire Problem

Moveset for starters pokemon

Emerald's Battle Factory be like

Getting the gold shield in Emerald is waaay harder than i imagined

Do you consider tool assisted RNG abuse cheating?

I have gotten all gold symbols in Emerald's battle frontier except one...

Salac Heracross in emerald's battle tower=bad idea

For anyone interesting here is how to connect Pokemon Colloseum (Dolphin) with GBA Pokemon games (VBA)

Greed and Punishment

Emerald team suggestions

The Level Curve

Kris and Lyra

Rumors You Fell For

I didnt really like Red and Blue's redesigns for FRLG

Steven's gift

There were a few things about Emerald that i didnt like compared to the original RS

Abyssal Ruins

Are Pokémon X/Y characters chibi?

ORAS

Fighting Dojo! Hitmonchan vs. Hitmonlee!

Jörmungandr

is this a glitch?

Pokemon nicknames gliched

Nirvana in Nihilism – Why Cyrus is Right

Shiny Odds were 1 in 8,092

I don't know where this question goes. o_o;

Did you ever connect with anyone before WiFi was a thing?

How several Pokémon changed during Pokémon Gold and Silver development

Male Versions of Cosplay Pikachu

Question about my SoulSilver cartridge

the 1/256 glitch

There weren't that many music tracks

Need help to build team for Stadium

The Sinnoh Bible

Looking for friends

The Red Gyarados

Playing the older games

Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Who is the BEST Kanto starter?

The Villa

Gen 1 Positives

Biggest grass patch?

N, Ghetsis, or Colress?

Making a list of imprinted stamped numbers on original carts - Please Help!!

Virtual Console or Physical Cartridge?

Are sun and moon the easiest pokemon games?

Best HM moves

Ribbon Syndicate

One mega only