Sign ups are underway, plus Brock/Misty!

HOW TO JOIN
1 - Start a playthrough (any version is fine).
2 - Follow level caps. Level 20 or lower currently.
3 - Keep the community updated on your progress. Pics now.
4 - Battle other players! We don't have to save it for tourneys. Post your battle results and teams in the thread. Trades are highly encouraged. Coordinate with others.
5 - Upload your saves. For physical carts, try using GBxcart or GB Operator to upload your save files. It's not required, but trading will be off the table.
6 - Share your ingame name, trainer ID, and an image of RBY trainer sprite you want and I can make graphics. Use this link as a reference. https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_gbc/pokemonredblue/sheet/8729/

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE
After the 4th Badge: First Single Elimination Tournament
After the 8th Badge: Second Single Elimination Tournament

HOW WILL THAT WORK?
Parsec allows two players to individually batlle and then post results. I will host a parsec session myself after both players give me their saves.
Battles will be conducted on Pokemon Stadium.
If your opponent doesn't show, after one rescheduling, it's counted as a loss for them, a win for you.
Showdown is the fallback if nothing else is doable.

BATTLE RULES
Level 50 All
Clauses: Sleep Clause, Freeze Clause, No Double Team

WHAT NEXT?
After 1 week, we'll set our sights on Surge. If anyone gets left behind, that's juat how it is. You'll need to catch up - Pokemon isn't too tough, and can be beat in a day or two.
If all players agree to advance to the next badge, we'll so so.

ANYTHING ELSE?
Have fun. Challenges will be posted shortly. Don't be afraid to post pictures. Yell at me if you want any of this to change. Hide the thread if you don't care. Suggest challenges!

If it was me I'd use a gen 2 transfer to give my mons moves they can't normally learn in gen 1

Good luck, OP. Hope everyone is good to you.

Going to emulate on a phone, fuck the police.

>>11864301
Based, I'd give an Alakazam the elemental punches
>>11864501
Also based

>>11864289 (OP)
Sure, I'll give it a go. Level 20 cap for Misty seems low though

>>11864628
Misty's ace is 21, and thats the highest level youll see up to that point

>>11864653
I just feel like I'll have to go out of my way to catch more mons just to use them so my mains don't overlevel, I feel like every time I play gen 1 my starter at the very least gets over lvl 20 by the time I beat Misty without even trying to level it explicitly

For people on original hardware, if you want to rip your save and have an N64 flash cart you can also use the GB64 emulator to rip the files. https://lambertjamesd.github.io/gb64/romwrapper/romwrapper.html
Given that SummerCarts are kinda cheap it's not the worst idea.

>>11864659
I mean its probably okay if you over level a little. Im sure OP can just adjust your level back down. Or maybe the cap can be 25. Or maybe no cap? I remember OP talking in the last thread about caps being a problem anyway

>>11864289 (OP)
Starting on Pokemon Red. Name is Hikaru. Why do you want trainer ID?
I spent 40 minutes trying to find this fat rat. Got Weedle and Caterpie too. Life is good.

>>11864628
20 is really high. you beat the league in the mid 40s, what the hell are you doing with level 20 pokemon at misty?

>>11864694
Trainer ID helps if multiple people name themselves Red, for example.

>>11865162
>you beat the league in the mid 40s
We're talking about gen 1, not gen 2, anon

tossing my hat into the ring, boys and girls.

>>11865193
you beat gen 2's league in the mid 30s.

>>11865162
I don't avoid trainers or encounters. Every time I play my starter reaches its final evolution in rock tunnel, I literally have no idea how someone could have an entire team only in the mid-40s by the time they finish, unless they're explicitly avoiding trainers and random battles, and/or they're continually swapping out all of their mons throughout the game. Unless, of course, you're some kind of speedrunner. I actually enjoying playing video games though

>>11865197
Whenever I play gen 2 I have a team in the 40s by the time I beat Claire. Do you people just go out of your way to avoid trainers and random battles as much as possible, just to beat the game as quickly as possible?

>>11865197
>not using the sgb palette
Disgusting

>>11865205
>Do you people just go out of your way to avoid trainers and random battles as much as possible
yes

>>11865205
mid 30s is with fighting most/all trainers in johto.

>>11865207
i like defining custom palettes.

>>11865208
What's the deal? Do you just not actually enjoy playing video games?

>>11865212
>fighting most/all trainers in johto
I don't believe you
>custom palettes
>all brown
Hmm

>>11865217
you don't have to but that doesn't make it not true
>brown
this one is based on one of the palette selectors you could use on game boy color with original game boy games. it makes me feel nostalgic.

>>11865212
I like your pixel perfect screen and your palette, friend.

>>11865239
I don't

>>11865257
Show me yours!

>>11865259
>>11864694 not me but it's this with the proper SGB border

Evolved my favorite bug Pokemon to its final form. Brock is up next once it learns Confusion. Calling for tonight, hope everyone's playthrough is going well.

>>11865284
Based and soul

>>11865197
brock defeated, with a before and after for the team. until next time, fellas. charmander is probably not long for this world once monster variety opens up.

>>11865284
butterfree is pretty consistently underrated in the first three gens, but especially 1 and 2. you'll go far with that.

>>11865214
>not sucking up exp means you hate the game
You're going to have to explain your logic.

>>11865307
I'm not the one avoiding gameplay

>>11865335
to grind is to avoid gameplay. grinding replaces actual gameplay and strategic engagement with the game with playtime padding to have big enough numbers to disengage with everything.

>>11865340
I don't grind

>>11865351
ok, and people playing the game with less experience accumulated than you aren't "avoiding gameplay", if anything they're actively seeking out more meaningful gameplay by doing so instead of just overleveling.

Neat Idea OP, although I don't care to use Parsec.
People should mention what version they're playing so we can get some balance between Red/Blue and I guess Yellow if anyone cares to play it.

>>11865298
>exp bar
Is this a romhack? I swear Gen 1 didn't have that.

>>11865483
it is blue with an exp bar, was the only rom i had on hand

>>11865162
I guess thats subjective. For me, grinding is going OUT of your way to level up, i.e., repeatedly battling wild pokemons with the explicit goal of leveling up.

The adversary trainers are usually on the routes to your next mandatory goals anyway, why not fight them? Battling is the core aspect of the game after all.

Other than that, its my experience that the larger your team is, the scarcer the experience from trainers become, specially if you try to use all your pokemon equally. Iirc last time I played FireRed I used a team of 5 pokemon trying to keep the levels evenly distributed and only levelling through trainer fights and I still arrived at the E4 with an underleveled team after battling every trainer I found.

So either you dont remember correctly or youre just shitposting to derail the thread.

Btw, this is me going into Mt. Moon. Im not a big fan of early game available Pokemon, so I only caught a Pidgey for Sand Attack and thinking it would give me an easier time against Bug Catchers, because of Gust. But, apparently Gust is a normal type move. Ill see if I catch something new in Mt. Moon though.

I found my red/blue/yellow cartridges recently

I know it's been almost a decade since the save batteries started dying, but as long as the chance to copy my original save is non zero and not that expensive, I want to try it.

What do you I use to dump my cartridge save? Is there anything special I need to do to prevent losing a battery that's barely hanging on by a miracle?

>>11865904
https://github.com/FIX94/gameboy-audio-dumper

What's the rules on Ubers?

>>11865904
I remember finding my RED physical cart, it still had my save file on it lol. I was at the Elite 4 with Zapdos, Charizard, Ponyta and some other 'mons I can't remember

This sounds fun though can I play with RetroArch? And how does trading pokemons work. I dunno what "parsec" is.

>>11865915
>dump gameboy cartridges, both ROMs and Saves, using the audio output
Fucken sick!

>>11865939
I didn't know this was a thing until you asked, I was looking for a USB dumper, but let us know if you have any luck anon. Seems cool af.

>>11865541
>either you don't remember correctly
i can assure you i have not forgotten. (picrel is old screenshot not related to the activity in the thread.)
>Pidgey
sand-attack is quite valuable, but yes in generation 1 wind moves were consistently normal type. wind=flying is an invention of later gens.

>>11865935
parsec is a remote connection thing that allows you to connect to a host computer and control their mouse/keyboard etc, in this case for the purposes of doing "local" multiplayer on the host's pokemon stadium session. you play the actual pokemon game on whatever device or emulator you want, as long as you can get the save data for later.

>>11865298
misty defeated, again with before and after. unfortunately the stars aligned for pidgey and it managed to be the one to clean up both starfish and suck up all of the exp from this fight, and it wasn't even because of sand-attack either. a shame i really have no intention of using it to the end, only rattata is ride or die here.

with misty done, i'll just hang back and monitor everybody else for a bit now. looking forward to what people come up with.

What fossil did y'all pick?

Also why not do trading and battling via Retroarch netplay?

>>11866392
helix, though i'm not sure if omastar will be something i end up using. might do dewgong or kingler instead.

Just beat up Brock. My star, Cuterfree, bent his brain in two. Barely took a scratch.
...The grind to get there was pretty bad, even on 3x speed. I like to grind in this little area because I always find Mt. Moon a little tricky without too many Pokemon to back me up.

>>11866392
I plan on picking done...and if my interpretation of the OP is correct, the method we use for trading is up to us

>>11865541
>battling is the core aspect
One of three. Battling, hunting/collecting, and exploring.

If you've played the game and know where everything is, this makes replays a totally different experience than the intended. This is why every town/area, I wander in grass or caves water etc for like ten-twenty minutes doing wild battles. It's not organic, but it properly emulates the way you played the first time you played the game when you still were looking for Pokemon locations, items, where to go etc, this results in proper level ups every time

>>11866714
This. All the anons bragging about being underlevelled are effectively just saying that they're not playing the game; avoiding battles, not exploring, not trying to catch mons. Just trying to race to the end instead of enjoying what the game has to offer. Embarrassing

>>11865904
If your saves are still there, transfer your mons to Stadium asap, then replace the cart batteries

>>11865939
>>11865980
It's a good option if you already have a flashcart, otherwise getting a Joey Jr. or GBxCart RW to dump directly from your carts is the best option

>>11866017
>sand-attack is quite valuable
I don't know why accuracy debuffs are so widely considered wasted slots. I always have at least one Flash user on my team by the end, because it's just so valuable.

>>11866812
you mean people who want to be challenged instead of just bruteforcing everything with grinded out numbers?

>>11866824
1 stage of accuracy is even better in gen 1 because it's -33% instead of -25% hit rate

>>11866852
I don't grind, I just actually enjoy playing video games

>>11866824
I definitely agree with you that they're underrated. Double Team is especially awesome in terms of utility, especially in terms of player versus player battles. Sand Attack/Flash might force a switch from your opponent, but your opponent can't do anything about Double Team if they can't hit you. Which is why it's widely banned, even in OP's tourney...
You can really do just about anything you like in NPC battles. Enemy trainers use the attack your Pokemon is weak to over all others - meaning, if your Pokemon is weak to Psychic, and the enemy only knows Barrier, it'll spam Barrier infinitely.

>>11866812
>underlevelled
Mid-40s in Gen 1 isn't underleveled.
Bosses are supposed to be stronger than you, that's how every RPG works.

>>11866863
20 levels lower seems underlevelled to me

>>11866921
42 is probably cutting it close but a firm base 45 is perfectly fine. anything more than 50 is pretty excessive for gen 1's league. likewise with anything past like 38 for gen 2's

bros, how do i make the colors right in retroarch for pokemon blue? I recall there was a setting or something that would make the towns colored to match their names.

>>11866961
i don't use retroarch but whatever setting you have to flip to run the game in "super game boy" mode is what'll give you that

>>11866930
Not a single time that I've played gen 1 or gen 2 have I had levels that low

>>11866991
You should try it. It's fun not being able to click any move and win.

>>11866991
Yeah, I agree. I usually end up with a level 55ish team before the elite 4 in both gen 1 and 2. It's just a residual idiom from playing it so much as a kid
>"Ok, now I gotta grind so I can destroy the elite 4 like swiss cheese!"

>>11867021
It doesn't feel right going out of my way to avoid battling trainers, or to avoid catching mons. I don't like racing through games, certainly not RPGs

>>11867073
mid 30s is where you end up without avoiding trainers in gen 2, and the same goes for below 50 in 1

>>11866017
Sorry bro, didnt want to come across as an asshole. Thats. a nice feat, I dont think Im knowledgeable enough to beat E4 with such a low level team.

Pic related is my team after beating Misty. I captured Bellsprout specifically for this fight because I figured Wartortle, Pidgeotto and Geodude wouldnt make it.

And ye, Bellsprout carried with minimum Sleep Powder + Growth setup for Vine Whip. Does Growth even affect Vine Whip? I never know if grass type attacks are Special or Attack stat related.

I think Ill catch a Spearow next, from what Ive seen Pidgeotto is not going to bring much to the table. Fearow at least learns Drill Peck, a proper Flying move, later on.

After that Ill wait for OP to update the next step in the run.

>>11864289 (OP)
Eh

>>11867104
no offense taken. grass is special, so it will be boosted by growth and growth in this generation has the benefit of essentially being like gen 3's calm mind (boosts both special attack and defense) so it would be great on victreebel... if razor leaf being a guaranteed crit didn't render it unaffected by stat boosting effects. it sadly won't be very useful to you long term as a result, unless you forgo waiting for razor leaf at all.

>>11867086
Sorry, I just don't believe you, unless you otherwise explicitly try to get through routes in the quickest way possible and avoid random encounters, don't try to catch mons, and don't worry about finding items. I never grind in Pokemon and my teams whenever I play through gens 1/2 are 40+/50+ by the time I beat the champion

>>11867104
How I remember Physical / Special types in Gen 1-3 is that special types are the all the eeveelutions + dragon

>>11867125
one of these days i'll have to record them in full so i can put them on youtube since i can't just post a wall of hall of fame collages and ask you to trust that i am, but it's important to remember that catching pokemon doesn't give out experience until later on in the series so that wouldn't make much of a difference.

>>11867134
>catching pokemon doesn't give out experience until later on in the series
I didn't know that and that wouldn't even be what I mean. If you care about completing the pokedex/catching available mons in new routes, then you're going to encounter mons you've already caught, beat them, and get exp. If you always avoid or run from random battles then I see how that would have an impact, but I neither grind nor avoid battles

So many dumb zoomers in this thread jfc

joining in as this looks fun and casual. just picked up a fatass pikachu in viridian forest, which i'll need to take out onix.

>>11867149
i would like if pokemon were a game where wild pokemon battles weren't so easily run from, but it is, so i do. i find that when i do, it tightens the amount of experience there is to work with in a way that i end up at a comfortable level but still face real challenge even when i take out all of the trainers in the region.

>>11867160
...for growl, i assume?

>>11867173
>for growl
>he doesn't know.

>>11867178
i guess not? growl is the only useful move pikachu has for brock isn't it?

>>11867152
I'm glad they're playing kino. Don't be such a fag

>>11867185
https://youtu.be/XI05EmFaOgM?si=7JG5yu7ZayOYc78x&t=188

Hi. OP here.

>>11864668
Correct! I can adjust your level if you go over. I'd prefer that you didn't, because stat EXP will give you a slight advantage even if the levels are normalized. Please try to avoid this as much as possible.
>>11865169
This is correct.
>>11865298
This hack is awesome. Would you be able to share the file?
>>11865931
149 Pokemon allowed. Mew and Mewtwo are banned.
>>11866392
For trading, whatever you and the other anon agree on will work. For the big tournaments, that's also the same. If you and the other anon you're bracketed with just can't agree on what to use, Showdown is the fallback.
I'd like to use Parsec because even though I love Retroarch, many people I talk to absolutely refuse to use it, or learn it. But that's just me. I'm not fighting in the tournament, I just want to be able to let as many people participate as I can.
>>11866243
>>11867104
Nice work anons. I'll post a challenge for the people at Misty here soon. I want there to be something optionak but fun to do while you wait.

>>11867236
unfortunately i've noticed that this rom seems to have messed up several invisible items (the invisible moon stone in mt moon wasn't where it belonged, nor was the ss anne great ball) so i would feel bad passing it out. i only used it because i didn't have any regular gen 1 roms on this pc.

>>>/vp/

>>>/vp/

Retard here, so we can trade via netplay? I thought there was issues with that when I tried many years ago. Does it all work now? It would be great to get an alakhazam for once...

Currently running charmeleon, pidgey and pikachu. sand attack got me the badge this time, thank you based birdman.

>>11866823
I have an old memory card with a bunch of saves.

I might join this. Are Pokemon traded from my past games allowed as long as they're within the level cap? I wanted to try some of the GSC tradeback movesets and low level additions from Yellow.

>>11867932
OP here, yes you can! There are a multitude of different ways to trade.

The very easiest way is uploading both of your save files, and then I can reupload with the traded Pokemon in each respective game.

Second easiest is RetroArch netplay using the gpSP core.
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-17-new-netplay-features/?amp=1

Third easiest is port forwarding and IP netplay over VBA-M.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/wx2v8y/guide_how_to_play_gba_games_online_lan/

>>11868141
It's a difficult topic, and one I'd like to put to a vote. I err on the side of wanting to allow it. I'd like to know what other anons think

>>11868450
>>11868141
as long as tradeback movesets doesn't mean alakazam with elemental punches or any of the nyc pokemon center event moves it shouldn't be a big deal.

>>11868450
If it was doable with 2 Game Boys, 2 PKMN cartridges, and 0 cheat devices, I'd lean towards allowing.

>>11868450
If you do it, I think you shouldnt be able to use pre-prepared Pokemon, you should have to raise them up specifically for this.

>>11868453
I actually just want to play with some Pokemon that are usually available much later in the early parts of the game. I have a fresh lv 14 Marowak from GSC Rock Tunnel I'd like to use against Surge.

>>11868461
I'm okay with this. Go for it.

I dont mind people bringing in Pokemon from elsewhere, imo the more diversity the better.

we dont give a fuck about type advantages here. also...

Is my team low level? My charmeleon is 23, but all I have otherwise are level 16 pikachu and 16 pidgey. I feel like I might be underleveled because the cerulean gym pokemon were closer to 20.

>>11868826
no

>>11868826
>Is my team low level?
You outleveled the boss.

Currently going through Mt. Moon with this team. I'll be doing this alongside the Retroachievements set for Red.

>>11868878
true...i kinda forgot about charmeleon and the level cap. whoops.

>>11868902
>SGB palette and border
Very soulful
>retroachievements
...nevermind

>>11868913
in your defense starmie landing bubblebeam probably one shots charmeleon, no big deal really

>>11868902
I did them a couple years ago and I honestly don't know if I'd attempt them again if I had to. If you're going for the mastery then have fun grinding coins at the game corner for hours on end - the set has achievements for getting every prize.

>>11868450
The only thing I'd not want with trade backs is TM abuse, I think theres a certain charm if we're using our embers and our water guns instead of every low level pokemon using flamethrower and thunderbolts.

>>11864289 (OP)
Don't know what my schedule's gonna look like in a few weeks, but I'll see how long I can participate.

>>11869256
Assuming you can only trade with other players (which seems like an inherent implication), there's a finite number of TMs in circulation. And every player would want to hold onto their heavy hitters like Bubblebeam and Thunderbolt.

>>11869993
>Game
Blue
>Name
GIUSEPI
>ID No.
62495
>Portrait
Burglar

How we feeling about abusing glitches?
Yes, I am planning to put a lv 7 Mew in my party.

>>11869993
Leech Seed just works.

>>11870027
If you have the knowhow to do it, and that's fun for you, I don't see why not. Do keep in mind Mew is banned in the tournament we'll do

I just realized only >>11869996 has provided name, ID, and trainer sprite, so here's mine

Red
HIKARU
37425
Pokemaniac

Anyways...

I thought that Bulbasaur and Pikachu would be my dead ringers, but in a bizarre twist of events, while trying to level up Magikarp by switching it in constantly, I ended up making all my other Pokemon faint, and it turned into a battle of attrition that was won by Geodude lucking out with Starmie being fully paralyzed on its turn, and it sucking the last of Starmie's HP with Leech Seed. And Bulbasaur evolved, too.

>>11870051
Leech Seed DOES just work.

>>11870127
The fuck are you playing on?

>>11870051
And it just keeps working.

>>11870151
Looks like a frontlit SP.

>>11870151
It's a frontlit GBA SP.

>>11870127
Nice battle. Im using Geodude too, for the first time in my case, and Im surprised how useful it is, since I used to dismiss Rock pokemon. However, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to give Rock Throw a 65% accuracy? One of the two Rock moves in the game and they make it so you miss it almost half of the time, what the fuck.

>>11870237
it makes you think about when to go for it instead of just using it as the default attack every turn

>>11864501
>Not using SGB palette
Big Oof.

Started yellow for a playalong. Forgot I can't get weedle in viridian...

>>11871469
as a blue player, I too am weedle-less.

>>11871479
it's still there, just rarer.

>>11871469
if you upload your save to catbox or something i can trade you a fresh one

>>11871512
thx bro, I'm a big game boy fag so I can trade myself one without 'bugging' you.

>>11871480

>>11871572
Isn't the point of us playing to trade every now and then?

>>11871660
no harm in them not if they have the means to on their own, there'll surely be other opportunities to come

>>11871660
I'd rather let anons to whom trading presents some technical or physical hurdle take advantage of anons w/ kind offerings like yours is all. I got out a link cable and did the whole thing in the spirit of the thread

>>11864289 (OP)
I never posted my info but here it is.
IGN: Magik
OT: 07684
Prof. Oak.

Just finished Misty, so I'm done for the week unless someone wants to do a level 20 battle.

I have blue and would like to eventually trade someone for the red exclusives. anyone running red willing to do some trading?

>>11872028
I'm this anon >>11870127 and I'm down.

>>11871479
Do you want one

I forget, but in gen I the only exp sharing item available is Exp. All., right? Im wondering if this would be the best way to level the pokémon equally, once I get the item, of course.

>>11873384
there isn't any specific convenient way besides using them more or less than each other so the levels even out

>>11873384
Yeah, EXP ALL is available, you get it from Oak's Aide for 30 mons in your dex iirc

>>11873495
it's from getting 50.

>>11873561
this, east of Fuchsia

>>11872104
ok cool, I think I only have one blue exclusive right now (sandshrew), but should be getting some more here soon as we move into the next areas.

>>11873561
ah ty for the correction

Considering how non-linear Gen 1 is, why not gate progression by number of badges rather than specific ones? Surge specifically is very skippable.

>>11873592
skipping lt. surge is kind of fake nonlinearity where the only reason to do surge out of order is just to say you can. you basically just have to walk away from content and come back for it after it would thoroughly pose no challenge whatsoever.

>>11873894
>fake nonlinearity
I'm sorry but you're being retarded.

>>11874532
counterargument?

>>11864289 (OP)
This is me by the way. And I would like the Cueball sprite.

>>11874668
Nothing you said warranted a counterargument. It was retarded, and was properly labeled as such.

>>11874753
nonargument?

>>11874701
>monochrome
Yuck

Do not breed the pokemon!

>>11864289 (OP)
Gimme that Super Nerd sprite.

>>11875686
And Misty is toast. At first I was afraid of overleveling but I ended up with four Pokemon just below 20. I'm planning to trade in two more lv 13-15 Pokemon from Yellow and Gold to round out the team, now that the obedience cap rose to 30.

Forgot how much of a pain Brock is a pain in Yellow, but onward I go to Mt. Moon. Mons in the LVL 10-11 range currently

Forgot how much of a pain Brock is in Yellow, but onward I go to Mt. Moon, mons in the LVL 10-11 range

>>11875951
Brock is easy with a Mankey or Butterfree.

>>11875973
I usually go for a Mankey when I play Gen 1, but I couldn't find one in Yellow; looks like they start appearing on Rt. 3 after pewter? Anyway I did go for a Butterfree in the end and it mogged

>>11875981
Route 22 my dude

>>11875985
oh duh, forgot all about that thx anon

I cannot even describe to you all how fucking long this took.

>>11876513
radical, congrats

>>11875951
What's your ingame name, trainer ID, and the sprite you want? Thanks for playing!

>>11876513
It's annoying for sure, but if you're switch training on every battle you can usually get Gyarados around Bill's Cottage.

>>11875951
>>11875981
In yellow brock is very easy because you can catch Nidoran early and they learn double kick at like level 11 or something in Yellow.

>>11876513
The day care is right after Misty's gym, much easier to just put the magikarp in that than switch training.

>>11876745
Doesnt it make your pokemon weaker? At least when comparing it to manually leveling through battles?

>>11876789
It won't gain stat experience but you could always get that later when its much easier to as a gyarados.

>>11876745
I'd rather train it myself, no real reason other than me wanting to be able to say I did it

>>11875896
>trading with yourself
>gen 2
This feels like it goes against the spirit of this playthrough, when the point is to collaborate with other players. It's one step away from allowing Stadium gifts.

>>11876886
Yeah, the title is called RBY playthrough, not RBY + Gen 2 tradebacks playthrough. It's not appreciating what RBY has to offer

>>11876964
Not only that, but not limiting trades to other members of the playthrough means there's no limit to the number of otherwise limited resources (like TMs and static encounters) in circulation.
This not only removes any incentive to trade with other players, but also opens up the potential to steamroll the eventual tournament with a disproportionally stacked team compared to people who didn't receive outside help.

>>11864289 (OP)
Shepard
15950

>>11877304
...

I plan on catching nothing else from now in Virdian till reaching Cerulean City

>>11877410
nice harem

>>11877027
I vote we ban all inside trading. ONLY in-thread trading.

First time with this starter, along with the new strategy to do something besides chad juggernaut due to level cap. Butterfree gets top spot for saving my ass against Brock.
>>11870127
I wanted PokeManiac too, hope that's cool
>>11870051
Leech seed definitely just works

Is it too late for me to join in? It's my days off so I could easily catch up. Also is playing the virtual console releases allowed? My console is hacked so I oughta be able to get the save data

>>11877546
Not too late, you've got like one or two more days until the first week is up and we do you like Gary, get to it

>>11877548
Alright, I'm in! Gonna marathon to catch up. Can't wait to try hard in the safari zone lol

>>11877596
Off to a good start, fellas. Reddit has faced his first of many defeats.

>>11877632
Had to get in a little gaming on my sweet contemporary snes set up on the way outta town, but now my adventure begins! (I was, of course, playing Goof Troop).

>>11877636
>Goof Troop
Excellent taste, Anon

>>11877708
Thank you, based fellow goof troop enjoyer.

I have now conquered the greatest the Pewter City has to offer, and will now go obtain myself a clearly, as I don't think I've ever used one! I remember running a wigglytuff once, but I've hear clefable is way better. I'm also gonna probably get an Evans for wrap shenanigans, and Stat experience train it to be fast over the course of the game. I'm trying to make an odd squad this run of mons I never go for. Onward to Mt moon and beyond!

>>11873592
>>11874532
deleted a big spiel detailing sensible examples of what makes something fake or real nonlinearity to not wall of text you. i will instead answer the question at hand.

for the sake of whatever mini competition OP has going, however, the obvious reason why you "cannot" skip gyms is obviously so that players with "four badges" are on the same page. an obtuse player could feasibly have full access to the entire world via surf with three badges if they're especially determined to do so, but when OP says "four badges" they mean around the level of having beaten Erika.

>>11877738
good luck brah, I just started on RED right now gonna get some coffee and then start catchan' pokemans.

My journey begins with RAT

The team right now

>>11876886
>>11876964
>>11877027
I wanted to use this opportunity to use late game Pokemon on lower levels during the early game. I was specifically thinking of Marowak and Magnemite, levels 14-16, taken from Gold. The rest of my team is all from the same fresh Blue file. I've already played RBY without any trading so many times, and there's only so much you can do early on with just one copy of the game. But you're making a fair point about collaborating with others. I'll hold off the tradeback for now and see how the thread develops.
Anyways, here's how the team looks at the moment. I looked through my old save files and it seems I partially recreated one of my past teams by accident, whoops! I'll christen them all when I get to Lavender Town.

>>11877847
As a follow up I'll share my experience so far and why it took me so long to beat Misty. First of all I just could not find Spearow, it must have taken around 25 encounters. But I finally got one on level 5, perfect for Viridian Forest. After beating the last trainer there, Spearow was at level 9 so I went back for the missable rival fight on Route 22.
Brock was a pushover but then I was worried that I'm going to be too overleveled for Misty, and I needed another team member to spread the experience. I try to avoid grinding in Pokemon, so I skipped most of the trainers to save them for later and went straight to Route 24 to catch a Bellsprout. I had to buy a lot of Potions and be careful not to let any of my team faint, as I couldn't use the Pokemon Center in Cerulean. Then I caught an Abra to teleport before the point of no return and fight all the trainers I skipped using my new Bellsprout and Clefairy. I'm probably not going to use the Abra in fights though.

That took a while ... Spammed Growl and Sand-Attack but all my offensive moves were "Not very effective ... " Still quite easy though. Let's keep going

Gonna play catch-up today as well.
I'm thinking of doing something really silly and obtain my entire team via trainer fly.

Just started on the first cave ... Yeez, the encounter rate is crazy. You take two steps and there's a pokemon.

>>11878048
kek is it your first time? mt moon is a little annoying but later on in the game you can buy repels to avoid encounters like that.

>>11878146
Nah not my first time I played this game back when it came out.

>>11877847
>>11877872
I think you should play however you want and just share your experience with the thread, that's what I'm doing. I'm not interested in the tourney, I'm just playing and having fun as a social thing.

>>11877945
Decided to go for it and as an extra challenge to catch one before Brock with the death-warp which took way too long to set up because of the fucking 5% encounter rate for Weedle in Blue.

Anyway, gimme dat psychic sprite.
Name GLATCH
Where the fuck do I find the trainer ID in gen 1?

>>11878361
>Where the fuck do I find the trainer ID in gen 1?
Pokemon stat page, with OT data.
>entire team via trainer fly
Wew. At least you'll have an easier time when you reach Pewter City and purchasable Escape Ropes.

>>11878379
Ah, right. I was checking the trainer card like in later games.
ID is 62376.

Takin a lil' break just after visiting Bill, here's my current team ... Crush is a Geodude and Sting is a Nidoran. I've found very limited use for Nidoran as of yet but Geodude is absolutely carrying in most fights. I still don't have a good move against Rock-Types, lol. I felt like I had to catch Oddish to counter Misty, Maybe I'll even catch a second one.

>>11877498
Thanks I think Brock thought so too

I feel bad that you exist just so I can get rid of you

I forgot about J & J being in Yellow somehow, they werent too bad but it was closer than I would have wanted.

Not long after reaching Cerulean City the 3 Rei's evolved and Rei II & III will be evolving right before Misty, I want to get poison sting on one of them before hand.

I also took a kids Charmander because he sucks. I probably wont be grabbing the other starters as I wouldnt really use them.

>>11878846
I dread that JJ battle since I'm typically near death at the end of mt moon. Just entered it in this playthrough so we'll see how it goes

>>11879005
Thankfully the game is pretty generous with potions, hope youve got some before you reach them

Heck yeah, My Level 14 Pikachu got KO'd by Starmie (I think it was Water Beam or something?) but Oddish bros pulled through (caught 2 Oddish before Misty just to be on the safe side). On we go ...

I refought Misty 3 times because she crit me 4 times the first try and 5 times the second. Guess Im done for now.

>>11879014
just made it through, all good!

Omg I very nearly got wiped out by the male trainer just north of Vermilion City. His Raticate took out my Charmeleon with a critical Hyper Fang, then he Hyper Fang critical'd my Geodude twice in a row, and then his Quick attack crit! 4 criticals in a row. Also my Geodude missed Rock Throw twice in a row (that move does seem to have a high miss chance though). Geodude just barely survived to take out Raticate with the 3rd Rock Throw, crazy bad RNG.

graphic design is my passion

Alright I got hold of a Farfetch'd and the Bike, signing off for now, will continue tomorrow. I like how you get some actual choice of paths after Vermilion, the game has been pretty linear up until now.

Hey everyone, OP here. The first week is almost coming to an end. I'm very happy with how everything has progressed, and I hope everyone is having fun.

Here's a little graphic representing everyone in the thread so far. I think I have everyone's game correct, and I don't think I've missed anyone, but please let me know if anything here is wrong.

Tomorrow we move on to Surge and Erika! So much of the game opens up from that point, and the level cap rises all the way to 50.

After the second week concludes, I'll hold a signup for the tournament and figure out the logistics with everyone who will participate regarding how it will work, seed, and play out. Ideally, I'd love to have a recording of each battle.

The first week is almost coming to an end. I'm very happy with how everything has progressed, and I hope everyone is having fun.

Here's a little graphic representing everyone in the thread so far. I think I have everyone's game correct, and I don't think I've missed anyone, but please let me know if anything here is wrong.

Tomorrow we move on to Surge and Erika! So much of the game opens up from that point, and the level cap rises all the way to 50. Feel free to explore as much as you want.

After the second week concludes, I'll post a signup for first tournament and figure out the logistics with everyone on how it will seed, and play out. Ideally, I'd love to have a recording of each battle, but we'll see what works best for everyone.

>>11879494
I'm 40231 >>11877545
If we're not doing duplicate trainer sprites I'll accept being denied PokeManiac since regular trainer is still pretty cool, but since the GBC tint was too subtle I'll state for the record I'm playing Blue.
Now where are those bonus challenges you promised?

>>11879494
Oof here, that looks great! Looking forward to progress more in the game tomorrow, already got many ideas, hehe.

>>11879539
Oh shoot, I didn't mean to deny your PokeManiac. My bad! No, we're definitely doing duplicates. Both of those are now fixed!

About the challenges, I'm having a tough time thinking of a way to reward players that doesn't feel unfair to the people who can't upload their saves for little rewards. Is the challenge itself enough incentive to do them, or is a reward required?

>>11879543
Thanks! Although I do hope to fill the gaps eg. trainer sprites eventually.

>>11879565
Sovl

>>11879565
Thanks boss
Personally I wasn't expecting a reward for challenges, I just wanted to hear what kind of challenge was in store. Maybe a tally on the graphic or something for bragging rights, that's the sort of meaningless prize I'd waste hours on.

>>11879565
>singup

>>11879642
Second this, something on the players graphic would be cool

>>11879662
Dammit, I thought I fixed that. Oh well. I'll leave it like that because it's kinda funny.

>>11879642
Sounds like a plan to me. I'll cook something up for tomorrow's post that'll be worth bragging about. I really like the idea of a tally of some kind on the graphic, I'll workshop something cool up!

>>11879565
DSanon here, my bad about not including all the info. I am playing on blue version and my trainer id is 43327. I would like my avatar to be this pic of my sweet in game snes crt set up, if all possible. Extra grainy for sovl purposes. I'm having a lot of fun playing through my first pokemon game again!

>>11880131
Also I just beat misty, was barely able to stay within the level cap but I managed. My clefairy was lvl 20, my ivysaur was also 20, and my newly acquired Sandshrew(HowardMoon) was at 19 at the start of the battle.

Open question regarding gen 1 mechanics: if I teach a sandslash swords dance and boost it, if the move slash then crits(as it usually does) does it ignore my boosted atk? Doing some build crafting ova hea

>>11880131
You want it? It's yours, my friend.
It's grainy like you wanted! sI took one extra liberty with your panel, hope that's okay with you. I'm stoked that you're enjoying this!

>>11880137
Critical hits ignore all stat stage modifiers and the halved Attack from burn. This includes beneficial stat modifiers as well, making it possible for a critical hit to deal less damage than a non-critical hit if the attacker has at least doubled their Attack/Special or the target's Defense/Special is at least halved.

>>11880159
Looks great! Thank you, fren. What did you put on the screen, I can't quite make it out
>>11880167
Damn, so running slash and swords dance is kinda redundant.. I have noticed that slash doesn't crit everytime though, I guess because sandshrew isn't very fast. Swords dance + earthquake still oughta be pretty good.

>>11880187
It's super crunchy Goof Troop!

>>11879565
It's me :)

>>11880197
Holy shit bro, you're awesome for doing that, op. Hell yeah! So the cut off for the tournament is after badge 4, right? Just wanna make sure I've got all the rules straight.

It's also pointless to have both Razor Leaf and Growth on Venusaur, unless you really want to boost that Sp.Def.

>>11879565
>>11865197
lawton here, i edited the ID number into the original image (though i understand not looking for it since it's not there normally), and i am playing blue. sorry for not specifying.

Anyone have a Water pokemon for trade? Except Magikarp of course kek

>caught a Voltorb for Misty
>it doesn't learn any electric attacks in gen 1
So anyway, I set up another trainer escape to get an Ivysaur in Mt. Moon and clapped my Rival. Almost caught up now.

>>11879565
Small correction, I'm on Blue.

>>11880549
Maybe there's some Electric TM you can feed him with ...

>>11880551
Not before Misty though, well except Thunder Wave.

>>11880546
I don't think there are any other Water options yet.

>>11880342
No prob friend.
Yup, after badge 4, signups for the tournament will start. We'll take maybe a day or two to gauge interest and figure out logistics, and seed and hold the actual tournament. This'll also give any anons a chance to start a new game or catch up before we continue on to Sabrina and Koga.
>>11880517
Shoot, you're right! I'll make sure to add that. No need to apologize, my friend.
>>11880549
Roger that, corrected. Thank you!

Also, here are some challenges I've cooked up for everyone that'll last for anyone playing from Misty to Erika. You get a nice little badge on the sheet depending on how many challenges you beat. I'll make new ones once we pass Erika. Maybe there can be special badges too, like one you get for trading, or battling in the tournament.

If there's a challenge that no one likes on here, or if someone has a better one, just yell at me and I can cook something up. Thank you all for waiting on these.

Also, not to double post, but we officially go to Surge and Erika starting NOWWWWW!

>>11880546
I could part with my Wartortle for a decent enough offer.

>>11880558
>>11880562
Any level cap for this week?

Alright it's time to board the cruise ship ... Decided to bring a Mankey because why not.
Also how do I figure out my trainer ID?

>>11880636
Pokemon stat page.

>>11880639
Thx Anon

>>11880632
The obedience level goes to 50, but I'm thinking of capping it at 40 to try to prevent too much over-leveling, and allow starters to reach their final evolution. Any objections?

New party member, what do you think?

>>11880658
You picking the Psychic trainer sprite makes so much sense with how much you are bending the game to your will. I dig it

>>11880668
I'm holding myself back on catching overpowered Mons with it though. At this point I could have had stuff like Nidoking, Exeggutor or Slowbro. Mew is the one exception, because, you know, it's what this glitch is known for.
Them all being level 7 is gonna force me to grind some though.

>>11880657
40 seems really high for badge 4, but I'm one of those weirdos who considers mid-40s end game.

Almost got smoked by Rival encounter on the boat wasn't prepared at all, still it's funny how after all these years I had this gnawing feeling that it would happen right there. Also traded my Nidoran for Nidorino, I like how the traded mon's get boosted EXP.

*Nidorino for Nidorina, I meant to say, of course. And I taught Body Slam to Geodude, not sure if that was smart but it seems to work.

>>11880657
40 does seem high for this point in the game, we'd pretty much have to use just our current teams against every trainer that's become available to reach that threshold. And then there would be little opportunities to train any new additions to the team and we'd have to resort to grinding. I think a cap at level 35 and an exception for starters/Pidgeot at 36 would be a good idea, and then the next week increase the cap to 50.

Worst trade deal in the history of Vermilion. Perhaps ever.

>>11880782
Shut up, Dux (and later Ch'ding) is based

>>11880748
I like taking gym leaders pokemon levels for reference. In Red/Blue the maximum level pokemon that Erika has are her level 29 Victrebell and Vileplume. In Yellow this changes to level 32 Gloom and level 32 Weepinbell. So yea, level 35 seems good enough.

Dux solo'd his Kadabra at level 13, so maybe it's not so bad.

>>11880748
36 it is! I waffled on making it 36 for a second - should have went with my gut on this one!

>>11880558
>major battle without damage
>major battle with one pokemon
>major battle using only one move
Done.
Would've been exactly 6 turns too if Raichu didn't take two hits (the move was Dig).

What is he planning?

I'm way underleveled for the cerulean rival battle

>>11880875
:)

dumb fuckin ghost

>>11881013
lol rip bozo

A smart person would've taken advantage of the early Flute and immediately added two level 30 Snorlaxes to their team.
I instead used the Frenchman.

I guess this also qualifies for the "major battle with only one pokemon/damaging move" challenges, since Marcel's only attacking move is Psychic. But I'm assuming you can only earn each challenge once.

These freaks

>>11881163
Among the bad gen 1 decisions the levels of wild Dugtrios are certainly among the most fucked up ones.

>>11881178
If they could use Bind it would easily be the worst

lol yeah I made up my mind not to catch a Dugtrio. They're lvl 30 when most of my 'mons are barely scratching lvl 20. I'm sure I can find some other pokemon to teach Dig to.

I spammed leer, he spammed withdraw, we both gained nothing

>>11881178
He's a godsend for that town if you chose Squirtle as your OG

>>11880558
>Win a major Trainer battle with only one Pokemon without using items
>Use the very first Pokemon you caught to defeat a major Trainer battle
>Win a major Trainer battle while only using one damaging move the entire fight

Beat Misty and caught a bunch of Pokemon to get Flash. Shellder will replace Wartortle.
Might have resorted to savestates for that Chansey, not gonna use it anyway.

Enough progress for today.

I was finally able to trade my Clefairy for Mr Mime and Rei finally joins her clones in reaching her final stage.

All ground type team for one of the challenge goals to fight surge, I will also be going for no damage and gym battle in 6 turns or less as he is probably going to be the easiest to do so against.

Alright, Surge was way easier than I thought. My 17 Mankey was even able to solo his Pikachu, despite getting paralyzed. Crush is definitely my fav, teaching him Body Slam was great. I'll probably replace Gloom at some point in the future but for now he's incredibly valuable against water-types, carried me against the Sailors on the ship.

Goddamn, Bubblebeam goes hard in gen 1. The speed nerf procs like crazy and it seems to do a ton of damage.

I forgot they gave Surge one fucking Pokemon in Yellow
>>11880558
>Win a major Trainer battle by building a team made of only one type of pokemon
>Defeat a Gym Battle in 6 turns or less
>Win a major Trainer battle without taking any damage
>>11881475
Proof of all Ground Party

S.S. Anne done

>>11880558
Forgot to screenshot the Raticate but
>Win a major Trainer battle with only one Pokemon without using items
>Win a major Trainer battle while only using one damaging move the entire fight

Oh wow, this little guy just gained 3 levels in one trainer battle. I'm starting to like him a lot. He's also our Flash user at the moment.

Time to get started on this week catching up on levels with this dude to replace my Pidgeotto.

>>11881458
Is this Yellow? It seems to have a much better Pokemon than R/B. At least when it comes to fishing, all you can catch by the time youre in Vermillion are Magikarps.
>>11881749
Is Mr. Mime any good? Never used it.

got somewhat lucky and beat misty, forgot I had a barely alive Nidorino on deck. With level cap lifted I'll probably grind some before rival / nugget bridge

Is it okay if I play on a Japanese copy?

>>11882127
As long as it's the vanilla game and not a romhack, I don't see the problem.

>>11881859
>>11881749
Mr.mime is OP in gen 1. You could probably sweep most of the game with him alone and most of the elite 4 too. Since he has no evolution his stats don't hold up well in very late game, but early to mid-late game he's a beast. I was surprised a few years ago when I decided to use him.

>>11882127
Idk if Japanese pokemon can transfer over to the English pokemon stadium

>>11882209
No, don't do that. They save data differently than the US versions.

>>11882127
Japanese and English games are completely incompatible until gen 3.

Hope jp anon didn’t start his game yet

So this is the team after Surge. When I got to Vermillion I was seriously considering replacing Geodude with a Digglet. But, I decided against it, judging the only upside of using Digglet would be the speed. So, I gave in and taught Geodude Dig, which is ridiculous for the Vermillion gym. Geodude evolved into Graveler and one-shot everything in there, lmao.

Other stuff that happened
>Spearow evolved to Fearow
>Bellsprout evolved to Weepinbell
>caught a Meowth, a Sandshrew and a Drowzee. Sandshrew is my CUT slave, Meowth I caught just to increase the number of caught Pokemon, and I actually want to use Drowzee in the team.

Next step is to equalize everyones level around 25 by the time I reach Lavender. Also need to figure out who to teach FLASH to. Is FLASH even useful in battle?

Now that I have access to the rods and most of the map, I've decided to pivot into theme.
Should be able to complete my vision next week when we get Surf.

>>11881859
>Is this Yellow?
No, I'm using glitches >>11877945

>>11882342
yes. it's sand-attack but slightly less accurate, but learnable by more than just a couple birds and sandshrew.

>gen 1 doesn't have a move deleter
Not gonna lie, revisiting these games after not having played them for a long time and with more knowledge about mechanics I'm starting to kinda hate gen 1. Doubt I'll ever touch them again after this playthrough.

>>11882861
mfw i have to think about my actions

>>11882879
That's just one example. The utter mess that is critical attacks is another, or psychic type weaknesses, or movesets of like three quarters of the Pokemon being utter dogshit.
The more I play the more I notice these annoyances that later games adressed.

Carried by Mr. Mime again, he took out Kangaskhan in 2 hits. Off to the ghost tower I go ... Also I lost every single coin gambling.

>>11882885
Adding to your list of annoyances:
>Wrap is a bullshit move that will simply not let you do anything for an infinite number of rounds
>limited inventory space and every type of item is thrown in the same place

Are any of the Yellow Version players willing to part with their Cubone? I never used it and it's one of the Pokemon that had a slight moveset makeover. I'm playing Blue.

>>11883128
I like the inventory management in gen 1 tbhfam
>>11883136
I don't have one yet but I'll keep in mind

>>11870614
I'd rather play it how it actually looked on a GameBoy model

>>11883191
yeah i would go as far as to say generation 1 is the only pokemon game with a good inventory system. at best a key items pocket for strictly non-functioning tokens (keys, ss ticket) could be all right, but by gen 3 the inventory is forever raped beyond repair by the berry pocket..every generation after 1 completely trivializes item management and it's a damn shame.

>>11882885
these three things all either don't matter (psychic, movesets) or are strict improvements on later generations (crits). there are entire pokemon who got fucked by them ruining how crits work in gen 2 and never recovered.

>>11883207
m8 crits can literally do less damage than normal attacks that's how broken they are

>>11883136
If I get one I can trade you

>>11883136
Any name you want in particular?

>>11883281
I'm thinking "Ozzy", thanks. Would you want a Meowth in return?

>>11883303
Yeah

I really should put stuff in the pc

>>11883237
they don't. crits will always do more significantly more damage than your unmodified attacking stats (it's nearly but not exactly double). of the few things that are actually meaningfully "broken" this isn't really one of them, it's just a mechanic functioning differently in this generation.

>Tangela knows Bind and not Wrap
>Weepinbell hits two critical "not very effectives"
>Gloom has like 10 pp in total
Erika is a weirdo. Since I beat her before going to the tower I will go now and stop after finishing it

>>11882861
Hi, OP here. I know it's inconvenient, but I can modify yours moves if you've made a mistake if you upload a save.

>>11883510
>unmodified
exactly, and with stat modifiers it's quite possible for a crit to do significantly less damage than a normal attack.

Just finished Lt. Surge. Here's my current team.

>100 lbs Jellyfish
How big is this thing?

>>11883606
Why is Charmander not evolved?

>>11883691
I was waiting to see if the level cap was going to be level 40, so I could use flamethrower which it learns at level 38 as Charmander but past level 40 as Charmeleon / Charizard.

>>11883695
Oh, I see. Never knew Pokemon would learn moves at different levels depending on their evolution stage.

This is me after Rock Tunnel. I would like to call it the definitive team, but I like many of the pokemon that become accessible post-Fuchsia, so I cant guarantee there wont be any changes.

For now I think its sufficiently well rounded.
>Graveler Rock/Ground
>Fearow Flying
>Drowzee Psychic
>Weepinbell Grass/Poison
>Voltorb Electric
>Wartortle Water

And they all got STAB moves. I think Im only missing a fighting type move to handle Normal types more easily.

Also are there no items on the floor in the Rock Tunnel? I went through the whole thing without seeing a single item.

>TRAINER TIPS: Use SELECT to switch items in the item window!

Wow that's actually super useful. All these years and I never knew.
Also I just got the "Itemfinder" ... Just great. Now I'm going to have to obsessively spam it on every screen.

>>11883695
That's really clever Anon. I've nowhere near that level of Pokemon knowledge.

>>11883716
Cool team Anon. What are "STAB moves"?

My current team. Raze is a Haunter I caught in the ghost tower, I like his moveset, Confuse Ray seems to work against most enemy types. Cubone is just a lil' badass, I like him. I still haven't got a Water type ... Going to need that for Surf later on.

>>11883591
yes, crits ignoring stat modifiers goes both ways retard

>>11883761
Krabby is my fav.

>>11883793
so >>11883237 is correct

>>11883876
no, it's working exactly as intended, not "broken" or a "glitch". people should do some actual research or maybe think for themselves instead of downloading their opinions from shitty infographics calling anything that isn't like a later gen a "glitch" or "broken" for reddit updoots.

Surge was no sweat. Got a Mew in Cerulean, may use as HM machine; haven't decided yet. This is the first time I've managed to post a Trainer ID.

the balls on this youngster running a solo sandshrew with fissure

>>11882861
Yet another zoomer filtered by gen 1

>>11883205
SGB is a Gameboy model, poorboy

>>11883761
If a move's type matching that of the pokemon uses it, it will be 50% stronger. This is called the Same Type Attack Bonus.

>>11883931
>crits doing less damage than non-crits is intentional
uh huh

>>11884874
Moron

>>11884874
It's a balance decision, and one that works very well.
Speedy monsters who specialize in crits are frail, but can deal high damage from turn 1 and can switch in to hit through defense buffs. While slower monsters tend to be sturdy and can last long enough to set up attack buffs, which will eventually outclass crits in raw damage output.

Even with Focus Energy being bugged as it is, crits working the way they do allows certain monsters to shine.

>>11884964
>Even with Focus Energy being bugged as it is
uh, that's intentional actually

>>11884967
>falseflagging
Cowardly redditor behavior.

>>11884974
No, it's actually intentional. It's supposed to be used on a fast Pokemon that used a bunch of attack/enemy defense modifiers. Lowering the crit chance prevents the now less damaging crits from fucking you over.

>>11884982
That's not true, Stadium even addresses that.
You can argue that accounting for the quirk has its uses, and that's certainly true, but it's one of the few things you can definitively say was not intentional.

>>11885059
>Stadium even addresses that
And gen 2 adresses crits ignoring stat modifiers.

>>11885063
Gen 2 completely changed how crits work altogether

>>11885064
Stadium completely changed how Focus Energy works altogether

Wow that's nice I was just wondering how to get Cubone to evolve, lol.

>>11885085
Different anon, focus energy is clearly bugged, no reasonable person would dispute that

4th Badge done, that wasn't so tough. I brought out my Marowak and Graveler mostly for fun, felt like I was abusing them though since they went down in 1 hit to her Vileplume using Mega Drain. Against my Gloom though she just kept spamming Poison Powder while I used Cut to whittle her down.
What was the level cap again? My highest 'mons are level 30 right now, can I keep levelling? I sort of want to visit the Safari Zone today.

>>11884982
redditor or not at least you stopped pretending to use my non-capitalization

>>11885063
Gen 2 was a different game, and its battle system is completely incompatible with Gen 1.

>>11885085
No, it moved a decimal point. The calculation is the same, but a value was fixed.
This was only possible in Stadium because battles were handled entirely BY Stadium. Had the problem been fixed in Yellow, it would cause desync when linked with Red or Blue.

>>11885115
Level cap this week is 36.

>>11885298
>Level cap this week is 36.
Thanks, that sounds reasonable. I just made my first visit to the Safari Zone, today's mission is to try and get something good out of there ...

>>11884213
>SGB is a Gameboy model
>a SNES peripheral adapter cartridge is a GameBoy model
america-level retardation on display

>>11885401
The Super Game Boy actually consists of the same hardware as the original handheld; inside the cartridge is a separate CPU that processes the games while the Super NES only provided means for user-input, output of graphics to the screen, and the additional coloring.

>>11885413
That's pretty cool, I didn't know that. I like that thing where a console will also play the corresponding hand-held games ... Peripherals are nice but even cooler if it plays them without any add-ons.

>>11885427
If you liked that little tidbit, you'll love this. Super Game Boy 2. Badass little piece was released only in Japan. It had a link port, a red power LED indicator, and it runs at the exact speed of the Game Boy. The original model runs 2.4% faster than a Game Boy. Eight new default borders, too. You can use a code to get the originals back, though.

I still really want one. A bit tough to come by now.

I said goodbye to the SS Anne...right bitch of a mini dungeon, honestly. Does anyone clear it without retreating to a Pokemon Center at least once? I always forget who's waiting with what there.

After that, I taught Brownie Dig, which coincidentally is at its most powerful in Gen 1! 100 base damage. Thunder, for comparison, has 120. I got screwed out of the no damage, but...

>Defeat a Gym Battle in 6 turns or less.
>Win a majpr Trainer battle with only one Pokemon without using items.
>Win a major Trainer battle while only using one damaging move the entire fight.

Not bad for just one fight, I think!

>>11885440
That's pretty cool. You know what I like about this one is that you plug it into the top of the console ... I think that's neat, compared to the Gamecube adapter ... You know how that one is like a base, that you have to "sit" the whole Gamecube onto ... I guess it works perfectly fine, but to me that's just not as pretty as plugging an adapter on top. I have a similar feeling for Sonic & Knuckles on the Genesis, I thought that was really clever how you plug the older games on top of the cartridge.

>>11885401
spoken with such confidence
you're dumb as fuck man

>>11885440
I've been doing my playthrough partially using my FXPak Pro which also fully emulated the SGB2. Save file can be easily transferred. Very comfy.

>>11885613
Nice! This is everything I've played this file on. First 4 are obvious, last two are CRT with Pokemon Stadium, and then GB Operator on my PC CRT.

>>11885669
based, I've used a GB Light, Super GB, and Chromatic thus far.

>>11885672
How is the Chromatic, anyway? Been thinking of picking one up, looks like a pretty slick piece of hardware, and I do really like having "one of everything", so to speak...

>>11885678
I really like it. If you're a gameboy-fag, the screen is basically god-tier. I had an Analogue Pocket previously, and never actually liked playing it, so I sold it. The Chromatic does a lot "less" overall, but it feels way more like a GB. Also there's an extra "GB Light" palette for monochrome games and I think that's a nice touch.

>>11885697
I'm all about Game Boy faggotry. I'm not going to lie, when I saw sunlight readable backlight screen, I thought it was marketing speak, but even through the camera lens, that looks pretty great. Nice color choice, btw.

>>11885706
Thx! They aren't lying about the screen, it's the exact right resolution and ludicrously bright, that pic is on brightness "2". Sapphire glass models are still available at Gamestop online in the gray "exclusive" color last I checked, and are $100 cheaper than the new sapphire units for what its worth.

The one I had as a kid was Gameboy Pocket, it was transparent like the second one from the left here >>11885669
I remember having to play with no sound, just to preserve batteries ... And by the way the screen was nowhere near as clear as these ones, the screen was sooo dim you had to squint to see what was going on.

>>11885737
Now remember that the Pocket was already miles better than the original, especially when it comes to ghosting.

>>11885738
I did not have an OG Gameboy, but I did get to try one back then ... This was probably in late 1999. I remember playing Duck Tales and a Mario game. I sort of liked it though, even if the screen was terrible, I liked the bulky feel of it.

Well that was an unwelcome surprise ... I was totally struggling to catch anything with these worthless Safari balls, and then this guy shows up ... I toss 1 bait and catch him with the 2nd ball.

Well that was a welcome surprise ... I was totally struggling to catch anything with these worthless Safari balls, and then this guy shows up ... I toss 1 bait and catch him with the 2nd ball.
>forgot to add the picture

I'd definitely be willing to trade this guy if anyone has a good offer ...

so is it week 2 now?

>>11886752
Correct!

>>11886810
is there a post about what the new caps are? i assume up to badge 4 but what about level cap?

And this is the team after Erika. Vult the Fearow basically cleared the whole gym with Peck. And I used Illu the Drowzee to soften her Victrebell a bit. I havent gone to Lavender Tower yet, is it included for this week?

>>11886891
I imagine so since you can do the tower before erika

>>11886821
36

>>11866243
surge defeated. pidgey has once again shown up to hog the spotlight, and despite my initial intentions to retire it, i might keep it around for the long haul. or maybe not. meanwhile, bellsprout demonstrates why wrap was better designed in this gen than any subsequent ones. setting up the damage over time effect and then advancing the turn count with wrap is core to this pokemon's DNA. shame they had to ruin it after this game.

>>11865217
did it again during the downtime btw. fought basically every trainer and recorded it start to finish. i can toss it up on youtube at some point

>>11887108
>picrel
This is just grotesque, sorry. Great mon choices though

>>11887125
game boy color directional palettes are fun, i'm really glad i found the option to force gen 2 to run in DMG mode in bgb so i could see it through this lens too. would you believe corsola can't learn either icy wind or blizzard? sure caught me off guard and in the latter case forced me to reload a save after wasting 110,000P on coins.

>>11885440
it always trips me up that super game boy 2 wasn't an upgrade enabling GBC functionality or anything like that. while the link port is useful it feels like such a minor revision otherwise.

>>11887139
I wouldn't expect a tropical-themed mon to learn ice moves, honestly

>>11887108
Max?

>>11887108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDIUUOI1OJM
finally found my way to the fourth gym, and with that koga is defeated. did a little thinking on the team and i'm considering some more changes going forward now that more options are available.

as with before, with four badges under my belt i'll hang back until everybody else gets where they need to be.

>>11887339
ether

>>11880558
this performance only nets me one challenge completion (#6). regardless, may i ask that my associated sprite be switched to the "TAMER" trainer class from here on out in your roster?

testing if i can post

maybe I'll keep this guy lol

Is the first tournament going to be level 36 level cap as well?

>>11887375
Incredible that you beat Koga with that team anon. Iirc Koga is one of the hardest gym battles because of how bulky his pokemon are, not to mention the constant poison threat, Muk spamming Minimize, and Weezing with Explosion.

>>11887973
>Iirc Koga is one of the hardest gym battles
I've never heard anyone say that.

>>11887973
minimize muk was responsible for the first attempt failing, so it's definitely koga's strongest pokemon. unfortunately explosion weezing is very unsuited to a boss fight like this, since it (even in the video this happened) often results in the last pokemon 1-for-1ing you in a 4v6 battle and losing as a result. the gym trainers meanwhile use mostly high level psychic type pokemon. given the prevalence of hypno among the gym trainers, i feel like koga's 43 weezing could have been better as a 43 hypno. or gengar if you're really, really hung up on his team being all poison-types. the team is probably more dangerous in yellow where his team is lv44-50 venonat/venomoth and all pack the move psychic.

Damn I really want to use this guy in my team, but just look at those awful stats ... Bottom of the barrel stats, sadly.

>>11888187
parasect is at its strongest here, in some part because spore is at its best in this generation, where waking up consumes a turn. if you ever "predict" an enemy pokemon waking up by pre-clicking spore you guarantee a safe re-sleep. leech life (yes even at its current power of 20), dig, and spore is seriously all you need to succeed.

>>11888292
Interesting. Yea I noticed that a Pokemon "waking up" consumes a turn, I've been using Sleep Powder on my Gloom because it's insanely strong. Wasn't aware Parasect could learn Dig.
But look at that Speed though, 21 is so bad.

>>11887680
Tournament is level 50 all. Level cap is so all participants have equal footing in terms of moves and learnset

I'm slowly going insane trying to catch Scyther in the Safari Zone

>>11888309
So a level 36 cap but the Pokémon will be set to 50 by stadium?

>>11888872
Stadium doesn't have a way to do that, the tournament organizer would be setting them to 50 manually

>>11888667
if you have the cash you can buy it in the game corner instead. it's what i did for pinsir in blue.

>>11888292
Spore would be a great move to have if the upcoming tourney didn't have the sleep clause.
Unless you don't plan on participating, in which case yeah it's insane.

>>11880558
>>11877545 Back to juggernaut for now. Hit em with the snooze n confuse on the Anne, getting a little lucky helped too
>vs rival no damage
>vs rival one pokemon no items
>vs rival with first CAUGHT pokemon (but evolved)
>vs rival with one damaging move
I'll probably try to grab the 6 turns and single type team challenges when I get to the electric gym.

>>11889271
are these on a gameboy?

>>11889275
It's Blue on GBC

>>11888667
I have one I'm willing to trade for a Pinsir or a Tauros.

Hi, it's OP. Just want to take a second to thank everyone who is participating. I'm really enjoying seeing everyone's progress and perspectives when they post. I've been feeling a bit down but this thread has given me something to look forward to. Okay, I'm done being sappy, thanks for reading.

>>11889271
Your projector is dying.

>>11889275
>>11889319
Here's a pic on my original GB for the fans
>>11889320
What's that supposed to mean huh?

>>11889340
>What's that supposed to mean huh?
Your photos make it look like you're playing on a rundown projector.

>>11889370
Oh yeah? well uhhh...
That's cuz I taught Gary a lesson
yeah

>>11887375

>>11889340
Turn your contrast dial up you lunatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw

This Voltorb is getting nicknamed Guile in honor once I get to Lavender. Sonic Boom is busted at low levels.

>>11880558
>Win a major Trainer battle with only one Pokemon without using items
>Use the very first Pokemon you caught to defeat a major Trainer battle
>Win a major Trainer battle while only using one damaging move the entire fight

Does it count if we do the same challenge on multiple battles?

>>11889370
kek

>>11889316
Sure I'll trade you my Tauros for it ... No idea how to trade though ... I'm playing on mGBA with RetroArch.

>>11889612
One way could be uploading your save file and then I'll reupload it once I've traded my Pokemon to you

>>11889657
Alright let me see if I can find where the save file is stored ...

>>11889660
Sounds good. Do you want it to have a nickname?

>>11889671
No nickname required , try and see if this works:

https://limewire.com/d/eQRZ7#YySzK0XQ84

I dunno why the URL needs to be that long lol ... I was looking at free file hosting services and this popped up. Also apparently there's a difference between .srm and .sav or .save files, this is .srm, I'm not sure which file type is the legit one.

I just found this in case it's necessary to convert save files:

https://savefileconverter.com/#/mister

Savefile conversion isn't necessary, I got it on my system and I'm trading now! Question, do you want your trade evolution mons to be evolved?

>>11889703
>do you want your trade evolution mons to be evolved?
If that's possible then sure, why not, go for it.

>>11889705
Here you are, thanks for waiting! Got the trade evos done plus the main trade. Had to remember how to make webms.

https://limewire.com/d/nq8K9#h4XJMQrXXy

>>11889758
Thx king, you're the king ... Much appreciated.
Heading out right now so I'll download the save file and check it out later when I get back home.

I really dig the SGB palette used inside caves.

I don't know why, I seriously can't explain it, but I never go back for Flash. I always trek the caves in the darkness. Makes things far more interesting in my opinion.

>>11889898
But this does look great.

>>11889935
Please scale your screenshots properly anon

>>11889943
I was hoping someone would notice! Mwahaha

>>11889935
>I never go back for Flash
That's hardcore. I couldn't navigate Rock Tunnel without Flash. Speaking of Flash, here's the newest member of my team. I'm planning to have him learn Surf as soon as I get it, but for now I'm just grinding to have him catch up with the LVL of the rest of the crew.

>>11889409
got his ass with that one

I caught this little guy. But Ive never used fire pokemons in my teams, it always felt their effectiveness were covered by other types. What do you think, can Ninetales work?

>>11890518
Probably has a good SPEED stat when you raise him. I don't know any powerful Fire-based TM's though. Extremely high cuteness that's for sure. I always get him mixed up with Evee.

>>11890518
No idea if fire is redundant or even if Ninetales is good for a fire type, I just really like them.
>>11890590
Fire Blast

I'm renewing my request to the Yellow version players, did any of you catch a spare Cubone?

>>11890518
based dot matrix game

>>11890518
It can learn flamethrower as a vulpix at level 35, which it could use in the level 36 tournament, making it the strongest fire attack available for the tournament.

>>11890518
Ninetales is very fast, which makes Fire Spin the best Fire move in the game by a wide margin.
You have to remember, this is Gen 1. Trapping moves are good.

>>11891024
>>11891297
A Ninetails with firespin, flamethrower, confuse ray/dig and body slam.

>Flash evaded an attack

He's the fastest Slowpoke in the land.

Everyone except me already done with Erika?

>>11893298
I've defeated Erika, got my team to around LVL 35, just taking a break right now while waiting for the next bracket to begin.

>>11893298
I haven't progressed past Misty yet, I'll catch up tomorrow.

>>11893298
Oof here. Ive done Erika and Lavender Tower, now waiting for OP to allow the next part. Hoping to completely overhaul my team with Seafom Islands, Fuchsia and Safari Zone pokemon.

>>11893298
I did Koga as my 4th gym so I won't be battling Erika until next week.

>>11893298
I kinda missed the third gym and wandered around until I ended up at the slots. Not quite sure where I'm supposed to finish this week story-wise. I forgot this game had actual interesting immersive world design.

>>11892297
impossible!