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Silly Question About The PokéDex

Nickalooose

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    This question is going to sound the noobest question you have ever heard...

    But which Dex shows all Pokémon in the list, because the dex I have given the player to hold will do nothing if you encounter a Pokémon not to that dex.

    It's probably well obvious but is the regional one just for say Kanto, Sinnoh, Johto, etc. And the National one shows them all, or am I missing something...

    I'm looking in the Pokemon.txt with regional numbers, and I'm not understading it haha!

    Just reading this to myself I know I sound stupid!:embarrass

    I want to start my game with the "full version" of the PokéDex... How would I go about doing that?
     
    So noone really knows haha! Glad it's not just me then! I understand what you're saying with that, I don't really want to go removing things I don't have to, the official games had an "upgrade" to the PokéDex, I'm pretty sure it's in Essentials!

    Well I know $Trainer.pokedex=true, gives the player a PokéDex, but it's not the full one!

    How do I switch from the regional one, to the national?
     
    The wiki explains a lot about Regional/National Dexes.

    If you just want the National Dex in your game, and no Regional Dexes, then simply delete all the RegionalNumbers= lines in pokemon.txt (or rename the lines to, say, Fred= because it's quicker).

    If you want to include Regional Dexes as well as the National Dex, then you'll need to play around with unlocking them. The first Regional Dex is unlocked by default, while the rest are locked. All unlocked Dexes will be available for the player to choose from. If you want to simply switch from one to another and not let the player have any choice, then you'll need to lock the previously unlocked Dexes (there is no simple method to do this, but it's only a line of code anyway) as well as unlocking the new one.

    Changing the list of Dex names in the Settings only affects the names of the Dexes and the associated region, not their availability.

    Some might say that claiming "no one really knows" after just an hour and a half is a bit premature. I really know (I created most of it), but it happened to be 1:30am for me when you asked.
     
    I'm actually using the pokemon.txt that the regionalnumbers aren't in anyway, so in theory, I don't have to do this right?

    So method 2 is what I'm going to do in a bit.

    Maybe this could be a new thing to add to the new Essentials, a way to upgrade or use the nationaldex without having to do too much.
     
    The Dex unlocking is the way to "upgrade or use the National Dex without having to do too much" (assuming you also have Regional Dexes in your game).

    I've been assuming here that you've tried starting a New Game. I know it's a stupid thing to assume, given that no one ever does it, but I'll assume anyway.

    You haven't actually told us whether you want to have Regional Dexes in your game at all, or whether you just only want the National Dex. I'm just saying.
     
    Oh sorry, yeah, I wanted National dex from the beggining, we've all played HG/SS - D/P/Pt, and how many times do we have to complete the regional dex to get the national dex... So to answer all questions, I want only the national dex, with all Pokémon up to 493 or more... I've also started a new game numourous amounts of times for this! But it makes no difference.
     
    Nickalooose said:
    Oh sorry, yeah, I wanted National dex from the beggining, we've all played HG/SS - D/P/Pt, and how many times do we have to complete the regional dex to get the national dex... So to answer all questions, I want only the national dex, with all Pokémon up to 493 or more... I've also started a new game numourous amounts of times for this! But it makes no difference.
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    The default, untouched Essentials do this, just pick the Pokédex in test map!
     
    Can you tell me how you fixed it? I can't imagine why it wasn't working. All I can think of is the new pokemon.txt wasn't compiled, which is all but impossible.
     
    Well, I tried using the editor for a minute... And that gave me a stupid editor, telling me that my new evolution method which we dissussed a couple days ago, wasn't present... Lies... It was... I then opened up my pokemon.txt and went to that Pokémon... I didn't change anything however, I just closed it... Then I play tested my game once more, the problem still happened... Mind you, my team was MACHOP, LAPRAS, SLOWPOKE, VENONAT, MARILL and CHIKORITA... But, the PokéDex ended at Slowpoke I think or Venonat, whichever is last haha... And using summary on MARILL or CHIKORITA, didn't work... The screen faded out then faded back to PokemonScreen... So, I started to get annoyed and removed my whole team... Saved the game... Added the same team VIA my cheat square... And it's fine... I don't actually know what the problem was, but that's everything I just did... It seems to be the same thing with switches and variables, I have to turn them off or turn them to 0, save the game and turn them on or add a number to them again... Quite a silly problem really! I can't give you any more information as that's everything I just done... Unless the information I just gave rings a bell with you...

    I have a feeling though, maybe because I edited the Pokemon.txt, but didn't change my Pokémon team, that it was still using the older pokemon.txt as opposed to my new edited one... By edited I mean my new Evolution Method... That was it.

    I can't think otherwise.
     
    Nickalooose said:
    I have a feeling though, maybe because I edited the Pokemon.txt, but didn't change my Pokémon team, that it was still using the older pokemon.txt as opposed to my new edited one... By edited I mean my new Evolution Method... That was it.
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    I don't think that is possible. I change my pokemon.txt a lot (Abilities/Evolution Method/Moves) and never had this problem. Probably it is something about your compilation.
     
    I don't know what the problem was, I just explained what cured this... I don't know what did, so I explained everything I did at that time, maybe something I said was the cure... Who knows! I'm glad it fixed itself though it waas drilling me in having a Marill in my team but couldn't check it's stats and things.
     
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