Making Pokemon that don't show up in the Pokedex

[sleepysealion]

Hi again, I'm sorry for making so many threads - but there doesn't seem to be any threads here I can find that's just for asking really simple one-off questions that isn't locked.

So, I was thinking about some stuff for a game - and basically, I'm making a yellow-version esque game and I kind of decided I would like to have the starter (who can't evolve) but at the same time - I would like to have breeding in the game, so it would be possible to get more than one of him.

Since the game is a yellow version thing - I only want the dependent to appear when you have the original in your party, and I don't feel like that's possible unless I had the starter be it's own "species" that the game could look for - but at the same time, I don't want to have two pokedex entries for him to show up.

I think the closest thing I can think up of, is that I probably will not use every pokemon (which is why I haven't downloaded gen 7 resources and just plopped the Popplio I'm testing over Squirlte) so maybe I could just have his personal entry hidden in the national dex and make that something the player can't access?

I'd also like to give him his own unique front sprite, and I'm unsure how you can get the pokedex to count it as a "form" and have it count as being seen. But I'd be okay if that wasn't possible to do.

Again, sorry for asking and I'm hoping this isn't too confusing to read.

 

[komaoto]

so maybe I could just have his personal entry hidden in the national dex and make that something the player can't access?

You can use a regional dex for this. Pok?mons won't appear in pok?dex that the player don't own.
Example: if the player have only Kanto Dex, any pok?mon from recent generations won't appear.


Don't know the answer for the other question =/

 

[Ego13]

komaoto is right.
You could make the starter Popplio be a seperate species in a seperate "region" and therefore only appear in this new regions Pokedex, but never actually giving the player that dex. This way you can make sure that the Popplio can't evolve, has a unique sprite and won't show up twice in the dex. To mark the regular Popplio as seen, use this line of code in one of your first events.

 $Trainer.seen[POPPLIO]=true

For adding new regions and dexes see this page

 

[sleepysealion]

Hey thanks you guys! It works great. Though instead of making the regional dex hidden, I got this weird idea in my head to make it into Rotom's personal pokedex where he makes comments on pokemon like your starter who are "unique" like him.

And honestly, I think that works out a bit better though since I actually do plan on having Popplio "evolve" so his stats get boosted and he's usable through the entire game - and I can have rotom commenting on how much he's grown over the journey.

And naturally how great Rotom himself is.

 

[Ego13]

Hey thanks you guys! It works great. Though instead of making the regional dex hidden, I got this weird idea in my head to make it into Rotom's personal pokedex where he makes comments on pokemon like your starter who are "unique" like him.

And honestly, I think that works out a bit better though since I actually do plan on having Popplio "evolve" so his stats get boosted and he's usable through the entire game - and I can have rotom commenting on how much he's grown over the journey.

And naturally how great Rotom himself is.
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Great idea! That even gives purpose to the whole thing