1. Yes i would like it very so. But lets not forget. In sinnoh the story of jhoto takes place the same time as the events of jhoto. How so in sinnoh should be steel old and in jhoto new? Exactly why i say follow up is a sure one. Heck i would love it if dawn/lucas/damion all travel to jhoto kanto cause jasmine invited them. And with snazzy jhoto clothes.
... it doesn't mean it will happen though. It's something to consider, yes, but rather small in comparison to other pieces of 'evidence'. And inviting protagonist/characters from Sinnoh to Johto? Meh, but I do not really see a point...
2/. Well besides the lower screen obligatorilly going to the pokegear i wouldnt say much would be new. Except the fact that the bottom screen could have a color screen pokegear. I then would spin 100 timesd in hapiness. Um rthe gyms would get major updates for sure. Bugsy could have a potential epic team if corrected a bit. So could jasmine and morty and well everyone. Kanto i say will stay out and they would add some new but currently no new pokemon in it region. It would count as a region but not a 5th gen region. Say a second 4th gen region.
As in, updates gym leader teams after becoming the Champion? Perhaps. .. but if there's no Kanto - where will the Pokemon league be? And what would the point be of a new region instead? Don't really see the point of that... and Nintendo are far more liekly in keeping a new region onder covers for a separate game.
I hope hope hope hope HOPE that there will b a gs remake. *off topic*I hav a question. can dsi games be played on the ds? because if they can't and GSDS is on the dsi, that would suck!!!! because I really really really want 2 play the jhoto, but only hav a ds lite. so then it would suck cuz I couldn't play GSC or the remake...*cries* that would be sooooo sad. I would have 2 actually convince my mom 2 buy me the dsi...and it took forever to just get the ds.*end off topic* I hope the gs remake has kanto. and it has viridian, safari, etc. Even though I've never played gsc I got the impression the kanto part was kind of bad...
...don't quote me, but I wouldn't think so, IF it included DSi functions by and large... :/ but there could be functions that will only work on a DSi, but not the others, with the game itself working?
But if it's called a DSi game, I would say no.
But I wouldn't worry - looking at it from a marketable (and Nintendo's) POV - they would be far more likely to sell a game that can be played by all DS users, rather then one kind of DS, as that would in the end get them more $$$. Not many would want to by a DSi for the sake of one game, no matter how popular. Plus I really don't see any point to have it DSi exclusive - the camera function with a Pokemon game (not Snap) doesn't seem to mix feasibly, IMO.
Good chance it has safari, unless they opt not to use it... Interesting tidbits - the Safari zone IS in the game, with programming and the maps and all - but they removed the door to it. It was because, most likely, due to the 'Glitch city' glitch in RBY - one in which if you left the Safari zone after saving within it, then the time (steps) would still keep counting despite you being outside of Safari zone, resulting in it telling that your time is up once the steps are completed. This ended up taking you to 'Glitch city' - world of jumbled pieces of buildinsg and whatnot... (
More here, if interested). Anyway, they clearly wanted to do away with the glitch, so they simply closed the Safari zone. In following games - they fixed it by removing the save function during the challenge.
At least there was the bug catching contest... leading to another tidbit - there are mentions that the Warden had left the Safari zone for another place... and a sign in the Bug Catching Competition has a mesaage, followed by 'The Warden'. But one will see what will be the case for the two in the remake, if it happens.
And Kanto part being bland - well, it was slightly in GSC, in that a few routes/caves were downsized greatly. One hopes they aren't downsized in a remake.