Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Nick Gars said:
Bit of a PSA for Scarlet/Violet.

There seems to be some data corruption issue with either the GO connectivity or DLC which can result in a lost save file. If you have used the Go connectivity or downloaded the pre-order DLC, I would recommend not playing your main profile until it has been patched. According to Reddit (yeah, I know), while it's only occured for a small number of people, it seems more common than it should be (around 1% of user have experienced it from their data set). Utterly embarrassing GF. Nintendo eventually gave in to save backups for Animal Crossing because of shit like this, get with the fucking times GF. Worrying about "cloning" or "exploits" is a bullshit excuse when it's already so easy to hack the Switch, it's quite rediculous for me to be actually considering jailbreaking my Switch just to have the means to backup my save file.

Oh but if it's a duplication bug, you assholes are on that shit fast. Utterly clownish.




In other news, Smogon is already having talks regarding banning Walking Wake from OU. I saw that shit coming the second I caught one and saw what it can do. It's a real mystery why I don't play Showdown, I gotta say.
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Small update regarding Save Corruption.
It is still unknown what the cause is, but the creator of the original Reddit thread and some others effected by this have been contacted by Nintendo representatives to let them know it's an issue actively being looked into.

Again, not much of an update, but if Nintendo is actively doing some form of damage control in GF's place, there's a pretty good chance heads are spinning and asses are getting chewed as we speak.
 
I'm looking for something to play and I'm curious as to what this thread enjoys. So,

What's your favourite fangame or romhack? You can list runner-ups too.
 
PipTheAlchemist said:
But this pig is different this time, because it's name is a le heckin' epic maymay
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We've been over this. lechonk is most likely is play on the word "lechon", a spanish term for a suckling pig, than it being some meme reference.

Also,
whatever I feel like said:
Maybe GF should keep bloat/duplication in mind next time before making yet another fucking pig/boar line. And yes, I've brought this up before.
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Why are you still going on about this? We have way more rodent Pokemon (if we're only counting the mice pokemon, there's like 11-13) in the Pokedex than we do pigs/boars (5 pig pokemon to be exact). Are you sure you don't just hate pigs and boars?
 
I_Lurk_Here said:
I'm looking for something to play and I'm curious as to what this thread enjoys. So,

What's your favourite fangame or romhack? You can list runner-ups too.
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Fangames are shit, ROM Hacks are GOAT

Here's a few you should absolutely give the time of day:

>Fool's Gold
Complete reimagining of the first 251 and more that's best played blind. Reawakened my love for the series and reminded me of why I found the mainline games fun in the first place. Shitload of content that, while some of it is a little cringeworthy, is mostly very very fun and worth it. Retains replay value through secret codes you can find throughout the game and input on repeated playthroughs for a different experience including a Hard mode that unlocks once you beat the league. Download it and play without looking anything up, you won't regret it.

>Fire Red: Rocket Edition
Hilarious story with fun gameplay and a good take on a fan-favorite concept. Due for a 2.0-style reimagining that'll do a lot of stuff as far as I'm aware but all I know personally is that it'll let you play as a girl. Author got blasted over an optional, very slightly edgy joke near the endgame and had to rework that so I think the hack can't be downloaded from Pokecommunity anymore, but otherwise it's well worth your time to seek out and very fun. Surprisingly replayable.

>Bushido
The only fangame on this list and the only one you should bother with. It's a Game Jam entry so it's pretty small, but I found it very tight and well-made for what it is. Kind of wish it got a full version but I don't think that's happening any time soon. Regardless, still worth the 5-10 hours you'll probably get out of the main story, and that's without touching some of the side stuff.

>Unbound
The default "best ROM hack ever" for a reason. Kind of bloated- has every gimmick ever and a vast majority of the entire national dex in its regional dex- but it has a lot of very welcome features, a surprisingly decent selection for your team despite the aforementioned regional dex bloat, character customization, different difficulties, a new region, a fuck ton of content (including, supposedly, a whole Battle Frontier) that I haven't gotten to yet, raids, etc etc. If you can deal with a questionable story and some typical ROM Hack traits like more edge than usual and some competitive BS here and there, it's well worth your time.

>Emerald R.O.G.U.E, especially CLASSIC.
The most questionable entry on this list because it's essentially Pokémon Emerald as a roguelike and whether that appeals to you is up in the air. Dev's also a tranny so if you don't want to support that then ignore. Otherwise, there're two versions to choose from: Classic and Deluxe. I far prefer Classic due to retaining the gen 3 sprites, having WAY less bloat in terms of both mechanics and items, and generally being a lot more cohesive, but I know many people prefer Deluxe for being so expansive (it's got every gimmick, every mon, every item, etc as far as I know). Either one is good (though I found Classic far more fun for replays), and you have a home base in both that expands with each playthrough. Not as consistently quality as everything else on this list, but worth a shot if you're bored and like Roguelikes.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
We have way more rodent Pokemon (if we're only counting the mice pokemon, there's like 11-13) in the Pokedex than we do pigs/boars (5 pig pokemon to be exact)
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Rodents are a group of animals, which include rats, squirrels, chipmunks, lemmings, beavers, etc. While pigs only include pigs. The former having way more variety than the latter
 
PipTheAlchemist said:
Rodents are a group of animals, which include rats, squirrels, chipmunks, lemmings, beavers, etc. While pigs only include pigs. The former having way more variety than the latter
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Sure, but how do you explain all of the mouse Pokemon? The pika-clones especially:
  • Pichu line
  • Rattata line
  • Sandshrew line
  • Cyndaquil
  • Tandemaus
  • Marill line
  • Pawmi line
  • Dedenne
  • Plusle and Minin
Granted everything past Pawmi is more vague about what type of rodent they are, but my point still stands. There are way more of those than there are pigs and boars.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Sure, but how do you explain all of the mouse Pokemon? The pika-clones especially:
  • Pichu line
  • Rattata line
  • Sandshrew line
  • Cyndaquil
  • Tandemaus
  • Marill line
  • Pawmi line
  • Dedenne
  • Plusle and Minin
Granted everything past Pawmi is more vague about what type of rodent they are, but my point still stands. There are way more of those than there are pigs and boars.
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>sandshrew
>cyndaquil
>azumarill
>mice
Please tell me this is a joke
Please
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
Sure, but how do you explain all of the mouse Pokemon? The pika-clones especially:
  • Pichu line
  • Rattata line
  • Sandshrew line
  • Cyndaquil
  • Tandemaus
  • Marill line
  • Pawmi line
  • Dedenne
  • Plusle and Minin
Granted everything past Pawmi is more vague about what type of rodent they are, but my point still stands. There are way more of those than there are pigs and boars.
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Sandshrew/Sandslash are based more off non-rodent mammals such as armadillos and pangolins
Cyndaquil is clearly based off a hedgehog, and eventuallyu evolves into a honey badger
Dedenne is based off the French tooth fairy, which is a tooth rat
 
Anonitolia said:
>sandshrew
>cyndaquil
>azumarill
>mouse
Please tell me this is a joke
Please
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Sandshrew Pokedex catagory.PNG
Marill dex catagory.PNG
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
We've been over this. lechonk is most likely is play on the word "lechon", a spanish term for a suckling pig, than it being some meme reference.

Also,

Why are you still going on about this? We have way more rodent Pokemon (if we're only counting the mice pokemon, there's like 11-13) in the Pokedex than we do pigs/boars (5 pig pokemon to be exact). Are you sure you don't just hate pigs and boars?
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The electric mouse pikachu ripoffs shouldn't have been made either, but they are purposeful cash-ins, not careless unoriginalness.
 
I_Lurk_Here said:
I'm looking for something to play and I'm curious as to what this thread enjoys. So,

What's your favourite fangame or romhack? You can list runner-ups too.
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Drayano hacks are pretty solid, if you're looking for something mostly vanilla but with better Pokemon variety and buffs to some of said weaker Pokemon
As for hacks featuring new and original regions, I'd recommend Vega Minus and Unbound
 
Anonitolia said:
this is like saying Cacturne is just a scarecrow and can't be a cactus because its classification is "The Scarecrow Pokemon"
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These are monsters, man. Sure we know what they're based on by just looking at them (most of the time anyway), but that's not exactly what they are. Cacturne, for example, a fusion between a scarecrow and a cactus.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
These are monsters, man. Sure we know what they're based on by just looking at them (most of the time anyway), but that's not exactly what they are. Cacturne, for example, a fusion between a scarecrow and a cactus.
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Then why are you arguing that a pangolin-shrew and a hedgehog are a mouse based on their real-world-animal classifications?
 
Anonitolia said:
Then why are you arguing that a pangolin-shrew and a hedgehog are a mouse based on their real-world-animal classifications?
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Okay, the arguement went off the rails for a bit there, but the point is: the number rodents (especially mice) pokemon far outweigh the number of pig and boar Pokemon in the game. Especically for the pika-clones, because despite the rodent family being diverse, the theme is still "electric-type rodent" or "normal-type baby's first pokemon".

Look at the pig and boar Pokemon: we got the fire/fighting Emboar, Ice/ground Pig/Mammoth hybrid Mammoswine, the psychic pig Grumpig and the normal type Oinkologne. The only thematic redundancy so far is Emboar seeing as Primape already existed, but at least he was fire-type Starter.
 
Also, dexit isn't my only gripe, as mentioned before it's the laziness of the animations, and even more, it's the abandoning of gimmicks at random. I will fucking die mad that megas didn't make it past let's go pikachu and eevee, which proves they're retarded in saying it's too difficult to implement because they did it even in that game. Yeah, sure. Only the OG pokemon were in it but it still had the functionality at all.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Okay, the arguement went off the rails for a bit there, but the point is: the number rodents (especially mice) pokemon far outweigh the number of pig and boar Pokemon in the game. Especically for the pika-clones, because despite the rodent family being diverse, the theme is still "electric-type rodent" or "normal-type baby's first pokemon".

Look at the pig and boar Pokemon: we got the fire/fighting Emboar, Ice/ground Pig/Mammoth hybrid Mammoswine, the psychic pig Grumpig and the normal type Oinkologne. The only thematic redundancy so far is Emboar seeing as Primape already existed, but at least he was fire-type Starter.
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Tepig, Swinub and Lechonk look too similar to ne, they fill the same roll and are the same animal, a waste.

edit: Also I gate Lechonk's name not because of le epic maymay but because its going to make no sense after this generation (same as Greninja, who should have just kept its Japanese name.)
 
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I_Lurk_Here said:
I'm looking for something to play and I'm curious as to what this thread enjoys. So,

What's your favourite fangame or romhack? You can list runner-ups too.
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oh man you just awoke some autism

It's more roguelite than conventional pokemon adventure, but Emerald Rogue is incredible as a tightly designed pick-up-and-play pokemon experience that doesn't get bogged down by things I've come to greatly resent in most other rom hacks. Using a pokeball and running from battle are just as simple as pressing a button, you aren't asked if you're really REALLY sure you want to heal your pokemon (unless you're being charged for it), the game's battle engine speeds up for all non-major encounters, there's hard level caps which the game lets you hit instantly so there's no hours upon hours of running back and forth in a patch of grass mashing the a button, and there's no stupid cringey fanfiction being shoved in your face and interrupting the gameplay. Abilities, natures, movesets, even IVs and EVs are all convenient to get the way you want them, and the game (at least the non-autistic challenges) isn't designed around minmaxing that shit. It just lets you easily switch your machop to +atk -satk instead of the opposite and lets paras actually have access decent bug move before, like, level 32. It rocks.

What's really amazing about it though is just how modular and customizable it is. Any pokemon you catch during a run permanently becomes an option for a starter, including legendaries and any shinies you catch, which are now 1/100. It has, if I'm remembering right, all the pokemon in it up to gen 8, as well as z-moves, mega evolution, all that shit, in a gba rom less than 33 MB. You know, things that are too much to expect from any developer, let alone Game Freak, which is why they have to make up lies for cutting pokemon like making new models for old pokemon only for them to be the exact same models as on 3DS. Gamefreak isn't lazy at all. Anyway, I said modular earlier and that's because if you're like me and would rather not use things like megas or think about gen 8 in general, you can just turn that shit off while making every battle a double battle like the Orre games, if you want. I wanted to hate it at first too, because the tranny that made it inserts a character to explain game mechanics, but then promptly fucks off to the config lab building for the rest of the game where they might be the only characters that doesn't change a setting when spoken to. It's probably the most tasteful self insert I've seen in a rom hack, which is fun and polished enough that I simply cannot pretend to be annoyed by it. Easily one of the best things I played last year.
 
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