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Something very strange is happening when I set up two trainers to spot the player at the same time and go into a double battle. I read completely through the trainers page in the Wiki and its double battle section, and followed its instructions exactly. The end result is that some combinations of trainers will fight together and some will not. NOTE: this has nothing to do with number of Pokemon. All combinations I tried have fewer than 6 together.
At one point, I have two trainers spot the player. One is LADY Misdreeveus, defined thus:
LADY
Misdreeveus
3,SUPERPOTION
MAGBY,28,PERSIMBERRY,BELLYDRUM,MACHPUNCH,FIREBLAST,IRONTAIL,,,,,,,,Lavvyboo
ELEKID,28,PERSIMBERRY,SHOCKWAVE,THUNDER,KARATECHOP,THUNDERPUNCH,,,,,,,,Zappypoo
MISDREAVUS,26,,,,,,,,,,,,,Drearygoo
And the other us TEAMMAGMA_Female Lum, defined thus:
TEAMMAGMA_Female
Lum
1
VULPIX,30,LUMBERRY,SECRETPOWER,DIG,FLAMETHROWER,SUNNYDAY,,,,,,20,200,Daji
At that point, the double battle is entered without error. But then when I replaced Lum with this trainer:
TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt
Arturia
1
PONYTA,30,LUMBERRY,SOLARBEAM,BOUNCE,HIDDENPOWER,SUNNYDAY,,,,,,20,200,Haizum
It broke and gave me this error:
When I changed Arturia from TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt to TEAMMAGMA_Female, it still gave the error. Then when I changed Arturia's name to Art, it worked. That made me think that their trainer definitions combined maybe had too many characters, but when I tried two CAMPER Andrews, it failed. Again, NONE OF THESE TRAINER COMBINATIONS HAVE MORE THAN SIX POKEMON.
As a side note, I ran the program the next day without changing a single thing and Arturia and LADY Misdreeveus worked. But other combinations still did not.
Now, whenever I try to pair Lum with Arturia, it gives me the same error message as before. Every instance of trainer event is identical except for the Trainer Type and Name entries. I changed these entries in the comments as well as in the pbTrainerBattle call. I made everything else, including what they say and their sprites, identical for the sake of troubleshooting, and pinned it down to the trainer type and name.
I've been troubleshooting this for hours and have tried dozens of the most obvious things to no avail. At one point, I started with two LADY Misdreeveuses noticing the player at once, and that worked fine. Then I went through and changed one detail about one trainer event, testing each time I changed one thing. I made that trainer into an exact replica of the TEAMMAGMA_Female Lum event gradually, and everything still worked at each stage. Then I started changing the second trainer, and the error first showed up when I changed her Trainer type from LADY to TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt and her name from Misdreeveus to Arturia. The only conclusion I can reach is that at least one trainer in all double battles must always be LADY Misdreeveus. I'm extremely confused.
Note that every one of the trainer events I'm using works perfectly on its own as a single battle, and none give me errors about the trainer definitions or syntax or anything.
At one point, I have two trainers spot the player. One is LADY Misdreeveus, defined thus:
LADY
Misdreeveus
3,SUPERPOTION
MAGBY,28,PERSIMBERRY,BELLYDRUM,MACHPUNCH,FIREBLAST,IRONTAIL,,,,,,,,Lavvyboo
ELEKID,28,PERSIMBERRY,SHOCKWAVE,THUNDER,KARATECHOP,THUNDERPUNCH,,,,,,,,Zappypoo
MISDREAVUS,26,,,,,,,,,,,,,Drearygoo
And the other us TEAMMAGMA_Female Lum, defined thus:
TEAMMAGMA_Female
Lum
1
VULPIX,30,LUMBERRY,SECRETPOWER,DIG,FLAMETHROWER,SUNNYDAY,,,,,,20,200,Daji
At that point, the double battle is entered without error. But then when I replaced Lum with this trainer:
TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt
Arturia
1
PONYTA,30,LUMBERRY,SOLARBEAM,BOUNCE,HIDDENPOWER,SUNNYDAY,,,,,,20,200,Haizum
It broke and gave me this error:
When I changed Arturia from TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt to TEAMMAGMA_Female, it still gave the error. Then when I changed Arturia's name to Art, it worked. That made me think that their trainer definitions combined maybe had too many characters, but when I tried two CAMPER Andrews, it failed. Again, NONE OF THESE TRAINER COMBINATIONS HAVE MORE THAN SIX POKEMON.
As a side note, I ran the program the next day without changing a single thing and Arturia and LADY Misdreeveus worked. But other combinations still did not.
Now, whenever I try to pair Lum with Arturia, it gives me the same error message as before. Every instance of trainer event is identical except for the Trainer Type and Name entries. I changed these entries in the comments as well as in the pbTrainerBattle call. I made everything else, including what they say and their sprites, identical for the sake of troubleshooting, and pinned it down to the trainer type and name.
I've been troubleshooting this for hours and have tried dozens of the most obvious things to no avail. At one point, I started with two LADY Misdreeveuses noticing the player at once, and that worked fine. Then I went through and changed one detail about one trainer event, testing each time I changed one thing. I made that trainer into an exact replica of the TEAMMAGMA_Female Lum event gradually, and everything still worked at each stage. Then I started changing the second trainer, and the error first showed up when I changed her Trainer type from LADY to TEAMMAGMA_FemaleAlt and her name from Misdreeveus to Arturia. The only conclusion I can reach is that at least one trainer in all double battles must always be LADY Misdreeveus. I'm extremely confused.
Note that every one of the trainer events I'm using works perfectly on its own as a single battle, and none give me errors about the trainer definitions or syntax or anything.
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