An e-Reader trip (Pokemon) - Today: Minigames and other animations

[Micael Alighieri]

I'm starting a video series about e-Reader Dot Codes. Some of the events shown in the video or told in the video description may not be 100% real. Although you can verify every minigame shown in this video or in the next ones, please ONLY watch this video as a source of entertainment.

Two months ago, looking for weird things in Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green, I remembered a device which lets you to unlock additional properties in the games, such as new trainers, free berries and also legendary Pokemon encounters. As a retrolover and as a lover of unusual things in retrogames, so I've started looking for the manner to use the e-Reader and test it. Typing, entering, exiting, over and over again and finally, an hour later, I found some kind of a Russian website. I didn't understand much, I'm ever surprised that I got far enough to get to the download section. Anyways, I saw a quite big amount of images and I proceeded to download the files. But I could never imagine what I would end up finding...

There seems to be three kind of files, rom files, emulators and a lot of mixed files. I can't say much about the games or whatever they are, as I have only tested the ones for the GBA (only a few of them, for now they're just short cinematics). The emulators looks like the icing on the cake, I think that they're hacked versions of existing emulators, however, some of them are protected by a password which I do not know or they crash when I try to open them. At least, the GBA emulator seems to work properly, so I'm able to try it.

Today, I'm showing you a bit about one of the Pokemon Dot Codes available for the e-Reader, a discontinued device for the GBA. This time, the minigame or animation shown is called "Metronome". The game is quite simple: a Pokemon appears in the screen (Cleffairy) and uses Metronome. During the attack, it can happen one of three different things. It looks like a gamble, as two of the situations leads you to a bad ending and only one to the desired result.

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[Micael Alighieri]

Some of the events shown in the video or told in the video description may not be 100% real. Although you can verify every minigame shown in this video or in the next ones, please ONLY watch this video as a source of entertainment.

Today I've tried some Pokemon Dot Codes, some of them are animations and others are minigames. The games mechanisms are quite simple, however, I explain the hardest ones in the video. As I remember, the list includes: Diving Corsola, Fire Hoops, Flower Power, Flying Journey, 'Go, Poliwrath!', 'Gotcha!', Here Comes Gloom, Hold Down Hoppip, Kingler's Day, Lifesaver, Magby & Magmar, 'Make a Dash!', Sweet Scent and Time Travel. All of them are a bit entertaining and almost all the animations have two alternative timelines.

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