Pokemon Excitement! Diamond and Pearl.

Stratadrake · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:

[quote]my silver version doesnt save anymore =`[[/quote]
Maybe the battery died? That happened to my Gold version. A lot of good pokémon died with it. (I was able to do some "surgery" and replace it with a new battery, but I did not like having to solder a live battery to the cartridge board.)
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Edward_Elric_1308 · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

I said the Gameshark thing because sometimes the codes you put in [b]can[/b] corrupt your game. That happened to me before.

kittyshootingstar · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

Personally, I don't use cheat devices. They make weird things happen to games. I prefer to do things the old fashioned way. But that doesn't mean I don't occasionally use safe in-game glitches. *coughemeraldduplicationcough* I got a level 5 pokemon to level 100 in an afternoon once, and without any cheat device.

DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

the glitch in emerald is fantastic 8D

ALSO

I got mah first shiny... : 3 a Krabby

GreenNinja · Still very bored Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 306

Mine was a Noctowl. Which is a strange coincidence since my first shiny in Silver was a Hoothoot. Same gender too I think. It's too bad it was several levels lower. Sad

The Pokeradar is supposed to show you grass where "shinys" are hiding, but I didn't use it that time. Fat lot of good that does.

Benk · Elder In Training Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3733

Might someone explain this shinyness?
I read something about it on wikipedia but it wasn't very explanatory..

GreenNinja · Still very bored Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 306

Since gold/silver you could run into a different colored pokemon accompanied by some sparkly stuff upon appearing. The chances of seeing one are VERY low. Exception being the red gyarados in gold/silver. I don't know if they're stronger or if their stats go up higher or whatever, but it's worth a catch just because it's a rare find.

DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

Stats aren't any higher then normal. They're exactly the same except for the fact that they're a different color (like my Krabby is yellow/gold instead of the usual red), and they sparkle when they pop out of the pokeball (hence the name shiny). You have about a one in a 8,212 chance of seeing one in the wild.

Unearth · Member Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 92

I always caught a shiny gyrados =]

kittyshootingstar · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

Hmph. Lucky. The only shiny I ever got (or saw) was the red gyarados. My friend saw a purple butterfree once (or beautifly, can't remember, but it was a bug). She thought it would give her more exp, so she knocked it out! T_T

Edward_Elric_1308 · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

The thing with Shiny Pokemon battles is that you can't run from them.

But, lol, I used a cheat device to get many shiny Pokemon in Silver/Gold. I got a Shiny Mew and a Shiny Mewtwo. =3

Shiny Pokemon are a nice addition to your collection. They're colored differently than other Pokemon.

Stratadrake · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject:

"Shiny" pokémon are the games's version of albinism, little more. Though, reportedly in the 2nd generation, the "Shiny" gene was encoded in the pokémon's "Attack" stat (probably for backwards compatibility, i.e. so they don't lose the shiny gene if traded to RBY then back again), effectively placing them within the top 30% of their breed.

It also had the side effect of making some RBY pokémon become shiny when traded to GSC.

I hear the odds of breeding a Shiny in captivity are higher than finding one in the wild -- [i]especially[/i] if one or more of the parents is a shiny themselves.

And even Dittos can be shiny.
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DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

[quote="Stratadrake"]

I hear the odds of breeding a Shiny in captivity are higher than finding one in the wild -- [i]especially[/i] if one or more of the parents is a shiny themselves.
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Only true in Gen2 games. In gen3 and 4 the odds of breeding a shiny pokemon is the exact same as seeing on in the wild, regardless of the parents' shiny status.

kittyshootingstar · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

Wish I had at least one shiny pokemon besides the gyrados... Oh well.

Edward_Elric_1308 · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:19 am Post subject:

Everyone does, but they're so rare you rarely see them. I think one time I might have seen a shiny Ursaring around Silver Cave.

Stratadrake · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject:

Still playing Emerald... catching a few of the rarer types, still trying to build up a team that can survive Victory Road.

I also noticed that, you know all the NPC trainers who stand in place amidst tall grass? They're actually on to something. In the Safari Zone, if you stand amidst tall grass and quickly [i]tap[/i] the D-pad in various directions, you can generate wild Pokémon encounters without taking a single step, effectively giving you unlimited time to scout out Safari pokémon.

. . . Suddenly, those Scythers and Chanceys don't seem [i]quite[/i] as hard to catch anymore.
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DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

I never thought about that before, but that does make a lot of sense. Really helpful tip you have there. I'll have to try it out myself >.>

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

[quote="Stratadrake"]I also noticed that, you know all the NPC trainers who stand in place amidst tall grass? They're actually on to something. In the Safari Zone, if you stand amidst tall grass and quickly [i]tap[/i] the D-pad in various directions, you can generate wild Pokémon encounters without taking a single step, effectively giving you unlimited time to scout out Safari pokémon.
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lol, I've known that since the original RBY. o_o;

Stratadrake · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

I finally made it through Victory Road. So where's the "City" part of Ever Grande, anyway? One Pokécenter, one dungeon, and the Pokémon League.

. . . Oh well, at least the latter is a valid Fly point. Victory Road was such a grind... and having a Trapinch as my lead (for exp. points) didn't help any, I was running into wild pokémon [i]everywhere[/i].

I probably could've finished running through Victory Road last week, except I was expecting May to show up for a challenge, so I turned back to heal up.

At any rate, my Sceptile and Absol completely ruled the first two of the Elite Four. But now I need something anti-Ice....
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Benk · Elder In Training Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3733

Bah, you don't need strategy.

I took out the entire team with a 52 groudon and a 61 Blaziken. Aside from surf and fly (Which I would just sacrifice my lower level pokemon to) I took them out easy. You just need five or six revives. And lots of potions.