I ran into a nasty bug: talking to the shopkeeper on Two Island for the first time in a new playthrough caused the game to crash and reset.
No; in fact, I lost two badges worth of progress because I don't save my game nearly as often as I should...
Just made it back to that point, and the shop worked fine this time...
Hi, I just registered to reply on this thread, lol. I've been playing this hack for a few days and just got stuck at pokemon mansion so i downloaded the 1.21 patch and am trying it out, as well as the guide (don't wanna miss any hidden objects haha :P)
Anyways, i just noticed that there are several items in the underground pathway (cerulean - vermilion) and guess what? I can't find ANY of them, either by blind searching or with the Item-finder. Not sure if that's a bug or something, probably like the statues issue in the mansion, so I just wanted to note it here. Just in case, i didn't get any response with the Item Finder in version 1.20 either.
EDIT: Oh, I just wanted to add that I read you could get a porygon2 evolving porygon at level 25, however, the porygon you get at the game center is already at that level and further leveling up won't lead to evolution... Is the evolution working properly, as you should be allowed to delay evolution past the required level, or is it because of how i got it? I hope someone can clarify me that.. :) Great game so far btw, I haven't had so much fun in a while.
Oh, something i found out is that you can take low level pokemon to route 6 and use the VS Seeker with the last 3 trainers to level up quickly. Bug catcher Elijah is specially good since it has a Butterfree lvl 20 with paralysis, poison, and sleep spores and Supersonic.. hence, it will NEVER hurt your low level pokemon directly (you can always heal when needed), and you'll get 684 exp from him, which is very good, the others might need to use the switch out trick, but with exp share you can still get those pokemon 3/4 of the exp.
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Edit2: I just went to battle against BuriedAlive and I got Oak's first battle tutorial which i assume it's not intended to happen, and after switching pokemons the sprite is missing unless you go to the party screen and get back to battle :S
I am aware that is not a glitch free version yet, so should I report these things through PM or something? I checked the official website and there wasn't a contact email or anything. Also I re-visited the Rocket hideout in Celadon city and I got second coins refill there, but that's probably because i'm playing a rom with 1.21 applied now.
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Edit3: Agghh, I thought it was weird the first time i went through it! Following the guide i re-visited the Catacombs in 4-points isle, and the technological maze has NO pokemon, none! I even tried using Sweet Scent with an Oddish and got nothing.
That's great! I just downloaded the new version, and yeah, i know it's a work in progress, but i'm glad to see it slowly getting better and it's good if i can help someway or another, i just try to describe things as clearly as possible.
I used rare candy on porygon to do a quick check and it evolved just fine, so i'm now on my way to the catacombs before training it properly. Btw, I just remembered a glitch in 4-points isle where you could walk over two tiles of water just after you get there, and I saw you fixed it already. I wasn't sure if that was supposed to happen, but i got my mudkip there in my first visit :P
Also you literally COULD get stuck on a rock after catching Groudon if you jump on the upper ledges, but probably you fixed it too already. I found that accidentally though, i don't think anyone would intentionally try to jump there, and you can always use Escape Rope anyways. :P
Anything that works haha :P So, keeping up with my game, i just beat the league and damn it was hard, should have picked up a better team.. Anyways, i got to the guardian's meadow and after capturing a few nice pokemon and Latias, I'm about to face Latios and i noticed something.
If you try to leave walking by the first and second line, you see Latios come to you.. but if you leave by the lower tiles, you hear it, turn around, and you fight it, but you never get to see the sprite. It's kind of weird, and probably not so important, but i wanted to let you know anyways :)
Here again, got a couple of questions for you, haha .. :p I'm on a hunt for the pokemon i missed catching the first time i went through sevii islands and right now i'm on Icefall Cave. According to bulbapedia (Icefall article) I should be able to find a sneasel as well as delibird (since your hack includes pokemon from both version), however, i haven't come across a single Sneasel in all the time i've been in the cave, not even with Sweet Scent, but i did find a fair ammount of Delibirds.
All the other "exclusives" like slowpoke/psyduck are found just well, but no matter how much i fish, i don't find krabby or kingler either (though kingler rate is pretty low, krabby has 80% with the Good rod) so i'm not sure if this is a problem with the hack or not. :S
On a side note, i found celebi and as it was level 7, i thought something that could be cool, but i don't know about hacking so i'm not sure if it would be possible to do: Apply some sort of post-catch event for high level legendary pokemon in which the player gets a message that they're trying to use "Regression", "Rebirth" or some other made-up ability that will made them go back to a low level with an appropriate move set and be prompted to stop them or let them do it; that way one could enjoy an epic and hard battle with high level legendaries and still choose if they want to train them from scratch after capture.
It's just something i thought because for me it IS rather dissapointing to catch a legendary like celebi with a Hypnosis + False Swipe + Ultraball combo, where the only difficulty lays on its catch-rate more than the battle itself. But i understand if my idea is a bit unrealistic or not so doable.
Edit: This would be useful even for Mew, so that it's a bit more challenging but still possible to re-train it from then on.
Great, haha, i'll keep my hunt going as i wait for that fix then. And yeah, i know krabby is not really that hard to find (i already had one) but since it was the same kind of "issue" i thought it would be useful to mention it. I'll try and keep you informed if some other pokemon is missing, though i don't follow any particular order so you might already know about it.
Btw, according to bulbapedia Clamperl evolves into one of two pokemon by trading + holding a certain item... how did you work that out? leveling up while holding that item? I already tried every stone with no results :P
PD: No comments about the rebirth event?
I see, that's great, i'll just have to train a pair of clamperls :P I missed that event with Celebi because i got to catch it the first time i had a battle with it, would have been interesting to see haha
About the delevel it's okay, it was just a thought i had at the moment. It would be cool to see it on a hack though, even if it's just a low priority work "just to see what it would be like" :P
But in fact, if you let your imagination go wild, you can even pìcture a whole new concept for a pokemon hack with that in mind:
Spoiler:Like being "Rebirth" a must in order to progress, catching pokemon in the way with a "Rebirth ball" or something.. Say you find a pokemon blocking the road (like Snorlax) whose hp never gets lower than 1hp*, and is immune to any ball but the Rebirth one, so you can either run or try your hardest to catch it. I guess it would be possible as there are instances where these things happen (false swipe, marowak ghost), but still would have to be a regular capture-rate ball or just be a very strong pokemon (relative to the point in the game), or both, to make things fair.
But anyways, i'm going very offtopic here haha
*Or just make it so if it faints it will still be there at full health or recovering, so you have to come back later. This would work best on a pokemon game with in-game clock, but step count could work just as well or having to visit a pokecenter between fights.
(Spoiler since it is WAY, WAY offtopic, i can't believe my own imagination)