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Lots of queries here! Doing my best to answer everything:
- Yes, I plan to continue the movie reviews. I've got some other things I'm focusing on at the moment but will probably get to that after. (I'd been redoing the reviews, rewriting the text and adding screenshots - I've still yet to do that for the specials, but after that I'd move on to movie 13 onwards.)
- Unfortunately I doubt I'll do the Eevee in PMD experiment, given it's something very specific reported by one person in a side game. If you have suspicions about Eevee, I think it makes more sense for you to try it out yourself!
- It was probably pretty over-the-top of me to insist OK is unacceptable on that page; English style guides generally don't seem to think so, or even prefer OK because it's the older spelling. I do personally think it's super ugly and jarring to read in serious text. It has just become a word, and I find it supremely awkward to treat it like an abbreviation when in fact everyone who says it regards it simply as a word, and it's decidedly unclear even to etymologists what it's even supposed to stand for, let alone to the people who use it. But seeing as I obviously don't dictate the English language, I should probably remove that particular gripe.
- Bulbapedia and Serebii can both be wrong, so it's hard to say exactly in the general case. To be sure I will generally either try to see if I can find this data directly from dataminers somewhere or try to test it myself on an actual game. However, if I can't do that, provisionally it's good to look into where the information seems to be coming from and what's likely to be more up-to-date. For this case in particular, I notice that Serebii's Pokédex doesn't seem to treat SOS rate as a property of each form, but of the species - so if red and blue Basculin have different SOS call rates as Bulbapedia suggests, it makes sense Serebii would be missing that info. Furthermore, I looked on the history page for the Bulbapedia page on SOS battles - you can often find who added the information and whether they cite a source for it - and they point to a GameFAQs thread where multiple people confirm blue-striped Basculin doesn't seem to ever call for help. So, without getting into testing it myself, it seems likely that Bulbapedia is correct here.
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It only affects the amount you can bet, but since your gains are a multiplier on your bet, and the roulette has a positive expected value (i.e. the more you play, even if you play at random, the more you win), you'll earn more coins faster by playing on service day!
So service day only affects the amount you can bet but not the odds? Just triggered it in my game and was wondering if it was worth playing!
I'm having to do this again because I thought the end was a trick and waited it out. Woops lol.
Spoiler alert: There's at least one death.
Testing out the new sprite feature! :D
G/S/C definitely made evolution stones scarce, yeah - you can get one of each from Bill's grandfather in postgame Kanto, but that's about it. Crystal added the ability for certain PokéGear trainers to find evolution stones and call to give them to you, but that's also rare (it's a separate event from when they want a rematch, though, I believe, not a post-rematch thing). I expect the devs wanted you to go for Espeon/Umbreon.
w00t w00t! I wonder what Pokémon sprite I'll get.
Definitely didn't spend minutes clicking the "don't know it" button for a 1/1025 chance of getting Nosepass :3 Heehee!
Very good updates and fixes! :D I'm so glad to hear the Mew trick article is doing so well, too.
This would be the designated place to try out getting a cute little icon on my comment, then!
I got Minun.
I just wanted to get a pkmn sprite :3
This is mostly just to test the commenting feature, but it's fantastic that you're still so committed to the website after all these years! Keep up the fantastic work :)
This website is super useful!
It's helped me loads with completing the pokedex!
Aww - thanks anyway, though! Made the pronoun change yesterday and I gave it an extra read today to make sure I didn't miss any, but let me know if you spot anything.
Thank you so much again for commenting - I really hoped you would one day get to read my little tribute to what an important and fascinating little part you played in Pokémon fandom history, and I'm so glad to know you did. It absolutely made my week. Hope you're having a good Easter!
I can't remember if I came up with the alternate route… I'd started teaching myself to program around then so I was definitely coming at it from a debugging/experimenting angle, so it's plausible I found the Lavender town way? Sorry I can't remember! I couldn't find the thread on wayback and they revamped the forum in 2009 so it doesn't go back before that.
And yes that'd be nice, thank you! (I've also submitted a minor update to my FAQ to use an email I didn't lose the password to, and a feminine pseudonym)
@TheScythe: Ahaha, amazing! I'm so thrilled this managed to reach you and you took the time to comment - I made an attempt to e-mail the address in your GameFAQs guide while researching this and everything, but figured it was a long shot and had accepted you'd probably have just moved on by now. I'm impressed you were only twelve at the time; I was vaguely figuring your 2003 self for a teenager. I don't suppose you recall at all whether the version you saw on the forum suggested going through Lavender Town or if you came up with trying that? And would the forum and that thread still be up and/or accessible on the Wayback Machine, by any chance?
I will go update your pronouns in the article right away (unless you'd prefer otherwise - just let me know if so)!
Love the write up, what a blast from the past! And omg cracking up at Happy's equivalent exchange comment, I never knew the trick disappeared stuff too!
I don't really use the username any more, but TheScythe is me – I was only 12 at the time, and still just gullible (and curious?) enough to try another fake sounding glitch that someone linked to on the forum for TPPC (an online Pokemon game I played way too much of). I think the forum required a login so I couldn't link to the thread, so I linked to their source. I don't remember much other than I knew I had to share it more widely.
Also I came out as trans a few years ago, I use she/her now :D
Hey! I may have stumbled on something that I didn’t see anywhere on Bulbapedia or on Smogon’s in-game guides for the Johto games, and I immediately thought of this page.
There’s actually no legitimate way to get a Vaporeon, Jolteon, or Flareon before beating the Elite Four for the first time in GSCHGSS unless you do a trade and receive a Pokémon holding one of the relevant evolutionary stones. The Fire, Water, and Thunder Stones can’t be obtained from the Pokéathlon Dome until you get the National Dex, the Bug-Catching contest has the same restriction, they’re not found on the ground anywhere, and although certain Pokégear rematch trainers are supposed to hand them out, the one trainer I’ve tried rematching about five times so far (Fisherman Tully, who is supposed to hand out Water Stones post-match) has not said or given anything out after any of those matches.
I never noticed this because I’ve always used Espeon in playthroughs for its fantastic coverage against the Elite Four (Bite/Psybeam in the originals, Psybeam and Shadow Ball in the remakes), but the more I read, the more I’m convinced that Umbreon and Espeon are actually your only evolution options before beating the E4.
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