Recent content by Chαmpion Leaf

Thank you for that thoughtful and altogether helpful review. You've given me a deal to think about, and I appreciate it. I'll offer some specific responses to answer some of your concerns, which are all quite valid. Mary Leaf - I primarily want to refer to characters the way they're best...

CHAPTER ONE - RATS! Route 1 It was almost midday when the pair of young trainers set out towards Viridian City. Having lived in Pallet Town for as long as she could remember, Leaf had little knowledge of the world beyond—though she had of course read of the great Safari Zone in Fuschia...

1. Ah, excellent. I'll have to find the index by hand, I guess? 2. Yeah, I don't know how to make tools... as far as using a hex editor, how would I know which addresses to replace?

What tool would I use to extract sprites? Depends what sprites you're talking about. You'd use unLZ.gba for Pokemon, trainer, and item sprites. I think you can also use it for trainer backsprites in Ruby. You'd use Tile Molester for backsprites in FireRed. You'd use Overworld Editor for...

Salamence is GenIII and ugly. :p As far as ice beam, well, any true dragon considers it an honor to have a massive weakness to ice. :p

Well, the Charizard and Gyarados can be conceivably considered pseudo-dragons (I don't know what the deal with Aerodactyl was, though), and since they were in RBY, I have no problem with them. I almost always have a Charmander and its evolutions on my team whenever possible--the only Pokemon I...

You bet. Like I said, I appreciate the intent behind the comments--I just don't feel they're terribly applicable. Disagreement is not offense: and just as you are free to make suggestions to something I posted on a messageboard, I am similarly free to have an opinion about it. This is not a...

Scales: "Traditional fiction"? Whose tradition? Dating from when? "Writers usually do not use prologues"? Which writers? How typically is "usual"? You're quite welcome to your opinions, but I don't find it helpful to post tips based on vague generalizations that aren't backed up by citation...

Hello, folks. Glad to see fellow dragon fans about. I see there's a questionnaire. How exciting. Let's see: Favorite Dragons? Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of other dragons, though I may deign to acknowledge Kingdra, since GenII is almost old...

I appreciate your comments. However, I'd like to note that the word prologue comes from the Greek προλογος, which was the part of a play that preceded the actual story (hence the compound word)--it's virtually identical in meaning to the Latin praefatio, and praefationes could and often did...

An Unlikely Heroine (PG-13) Personae huius fabulae PKMN TRAINER MARY LEAF (the unlikely heroine) PKMN TRAINER RED ASH (irritatingly juvenile) PKMN TRAINER GARY OAK (the irrepressible hotshot) PROFESSOR SAMUEL OAK (the Pokémon expert) Author’s Note: Brief summary: We’re all told that...

On HG: Ho-Oh (Ultra Ball) Latias (Master Ball) On a rush playthrough of SS: Lugia (wasted Master ball) Zapdos (Dusk Ball) ...and that may actually be it, come to think of it. I've never truly caught a roaming Pokemon in my life (Master balls excepted), and I'm taking my sweet time in Kanto.

Dragon Rage. I love you, Dratini. Of course, I had to use my favorite electric sheep to paralyze the thing first, as Dratini can't survive a single Stomp. My mareep could (or was it flaafy by then?) but the cursèd cow had a lum berry, so I had to swap her out to heal up and lose some other...

Hello folks. I've been hesitant to join up, given the apparent scale of this place (one large messageboard is good enough for me) but I've encouraged to join by someone irritated at having to pass on all my ROM hacking questions. So I suppose that if I'm here for that, I should be here for...