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

[Retarded Weeb]

Oh man, thanks so much! I'll give these a try. At what point do the triple battles start? I assume the first few fights are still singles?

As soon as the first trainer on Route 2. The first fights against Cheren and Bianca are singles since you and them could only have one Pokemon obviously, and I think I left N with just a Purrloin for the first fight with him in Accumula Town, but after that it's all triples all the time except in battles that were already doubles. You'll need to immediately start making use of Route 1 shitmons.
Tip: The first Gym Leader no matter who you fight uses all three elemental monkeys, the only difference the one your starter is weak to will be in the center position.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

and if you're doing a nuzlocke, you want every bit of edge you can. There is a reason why every single game has designated EV training spots for experienced players, past a certain point experience doesn't matter as much as grinding out EVs does. You can't skip this grind, only shorten it if you have Pokerus.

...unless you're playing rom hack, you don't need to EV train in a Nuzlocke. The format ain't that hard.

I hate that youtubers have corrupted nuzlocking as a concept.

 

[gwimbly]

As soon as the first trainer on Route 2. The first fights against Cheren and Bianca are singles since you and them could only have one Pokemon obviously, and I think I left N with just a Purrloin for the first fight with him in Accumula Town, but after that it's all triples all the time except in battles that were already doubles. You'll need to immediately start making use Route 1 shitmons.
Tip: The first Gym Leader no matter who you fight uses all three elemental monkeys, the only difference the one your starter is weak to will be in the center position.

Great, I'm looking forward to trying it hopefully soon. Thanks again for sharing it.

I hate that youtubers have corrupted nuzlocking as a concept.

Same here. I feel like we're getting to a point now where just any sort of challenge is a "nuzlocke." They are getting so convoluted and dumb, I can't stand it. I at one point stumbled upon someone's custom nuzlocke idea that involved him rolling a physical dice to see what he could use in a fight. When external things like dice are being involved, I'm immediately checked out.

 

[Pipi420]

Seen this posted in the dead alpha rad thread so here you go.

About how there's like a third of the mon that are traced iirc

Yeah the mon sprites that are clearly just traced from 3D models/promo art look like ass, I'll give you that. However this video is absolute dogshit. Framing it as some le epic hitpiece is insane when it's just a romhack made out of hobbyist interest/passion. Doing le epic slomo zoom ins on a few graphic glitches and typos is so insanely tone deaf. no idea who this coon guy is but he gives me reverse lolcow vibes like what people who are still obsessed with DSP give me, just look at that fucking description.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Yeah the mon sprites that are clearly just traced from 3D models/promo art look like ass, I'll give you that. However this video is absolute dogshit. Framing it as some le epic hitpiece is insane when it's just a romhack made out of hobbyist interest/passion. Doing le epic slomo zoom ins on a few graphic glitches and typos is so insanely tone deaf. no idea who this coon guy is but he gives me reverse lolcow vibes like what people who are still obsessed with DSP give me, just look at that fucking description.

When you pu things that way, that actually make sense. Loads of ROM hacks have traced promotional art and 3D models; they simply wer either earlier hacks or amateur hacks.
The otherwis excellently-made hack made these tracings really stand.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Yeah the mon sprites that are clearly just traced from 3D models/promo art look like ass, I'll give you that. However this video is absolute dogshit. Framing it as some le epic hitpiece is insane when it's just a romhack made out of hobbyist interest/passion. Doing le epic slomo zoom ins on a few graphic glitches and typos is so insanely tone deaf. no idea who this coon guy is but he gives me reverse lolcow vibes like what people who are still obsessed with DSP give me, just look at that fucking description.

I think it's less to do with it being a lazy romhack and more that it was commissioned by a youtuber, ie someone paid for this slop

 

[Pipi420]

I think it's less to do with it being a lazy romhack and more that it was commissioned by a youtuber, ie someone paid for this slop

Yeah there is definitely a conversation to be had there, that video was just ass.
So much of the work was already done, it's not like they were making a whole new game. Even the attacks and abilities are all pre-existing Pokemon stuff. To pay a professional team for this who then goes on to trace 30~ of the 151 new sprites is just insane. That's one of the few things they actually had to create themselves, and they took one of the laziest routes possible with it. What the fuck was he even paying for at that point?

 

[30+GameOvers]

What the fuck was he even paying for at that point?

Clout for all the meme videos and posts that will be made, social media updoots for being le mariomon guy ect.

 

[Acrid Alchemist]

Does anyone have any favorite fan made regional/type shifted/Delta Pokemon?

Here are some of my favorites

If you were going to design one of your own what would you go with?

I'm totally not asking because I'm trying to build up a library of images to use as tokens for Pokemon tabletop

 

[Danann]

Thoughts on Pokéngine?

The game is just a fucking country club because "hurr you can't play unless you're a 'beta tester'"...

 

[Celebrate Nite]

>Ice/Steel
So it's a worse Alolan Sandslash, given it's speed is complete shit, a Fighting and/or Fire attack will destroy it in one hit,

I want Magcargo to be BETTER, not WORSE.

 

[Acrid Alchemist]

>Ice/Steel
So it's a worse Alolan Sandslash, given it's speed is complete shit, a Fighting and/or Fire attack will destroy it in one hit,

I want Magcargo to be BETTER, not WORSE.

Yeah I love me some Magcargo and wish it was better. I'll almost always ignore what the artist wanted for types though. Like for this Magcargo I'd probably just make it mono Ice, then again I would have made Alolan Sandshrew/Sandslash mono Ice because they have like 0 Steel in their design at all.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Started breeding Pokemon I will use in my new Heartgold romhack playthru. Things are going to get slow, as Gen 4 doesn't have the quality of life changes Gen 3 romhacks brought like infinite use TMs or lower amount of BPs required for Tutor Moves in Battle Frontier. Moreover, with no Pokebank equivalent in Gen 4, like Trigger's PC was for Gen 3, I will have to manually transfer Pokemon 6 at a time between two DS consoles, with an added step of transfering Romhack Pokemon to a legit GBA cart if I am using the PokePark. This might take a while, but at the same time it gives me an excuse to go back and try and get more medals in Gen 4 Battle Frontier.
For those interested, I'm planning to play this one, unless something else comes up and I have to choose another romhack:

https://vimm.net/romhacking/hacks/6799

I wanted to play on Challenge mode, but no EVs is a dealbreaker for me. Wish I could just have harder teams and 6 Pokemon gym trainers.

Does anyone have any favorite fan made regional/type shifted/Delta Pokemon?

Here are some of my favorites

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If you were going to design one of your own what would you go with?

I'm totally not asking because I'm trying to build up a library of images to use as tokens for Pokemon tabletop

I despise all fakemon. There is already so much official Pokemon, I would rather just have all of them under one roof as a sandbox and see how much I can experiment with them. Gen 3 has a surprising amount of strategies and teams, and that Gen has "only" 386 Pokemon. Most Pokemon added forward ended up either being useless or just being better Pokemon from former years, totally invalidating the former's existence. More variety is not always better.

 

[gwimbly]

Moreover, with no Pokebank equivalent in Gen 4

Depending on your setup, you can try pkmn-chest. I have it installed on my modded 3DS, it works quite well. The downside is that it can't directly access cartridges, so you need to rip the save with TWL or something, access it via pkmn-chest, then restore the save. It apparently works with a lot of different setups though.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Pkmn-chest

 

[30+GameOvers]

Depending on your setup, you can try pkmn-chest. I have it installed on my modded 3DS, it works quite well. The downside is that it can't directly access cartridges, so you need to rip the save with TWL or something, access it via pkmn-chest, then restore the save. It apparently works with a lot of different setups though.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Pkmn-chest

I will keep it in mind, honestly trading back and forth physically with two DS consoles isn't that bad but at least there might be an alternative.

I'm thinking of using DSRPE to change the trainers for Heartgold Rebalanced so that there is 6 Pokemon per Gym Leader. I don't like how I was robbed from that with the Challenger edition, only for the romhack to disable EVs for some reason. If I remember, you can re-battle all Gym Leaders in the post game and they have full 6 Pokemon teams at that point. It would only be a matter of taking these Pokemon, and making sure they're lower leveled and have pre-evolved forms if needed. I never used the program before but it seems like it shouldn't be too hard.

Another interesting feature I found is a whole new rebalanced moveset for Pokemon. What intrigued me are moves like Spore on Wigglytuff, which make no sense, but then again that line can learn pretty much every other move in the game already. Similarly to GC romhacks I might be able to let these Pokemon learn moves that wouldn't normally be obtainable, but I will have to figure out what the new movesets are first.
There is a link to the discord server where apparently that info is stored. If you want to play this romhack, be my guest and see if there is anything there

https://discord.gg/Sz7KJgxE3j

I don't use discord and I don't plan to, but if you do retrieve some sort of readme or whatever, feel free to post it here. The author is a nigger and he didn't bother writing a readme, he really wants you to go to his discord instead.
I'm pretty sure there is utilities out there that just let me see the movesets by reading data straight from the rom, so I will figure it out eventually one way or another.

 

[Abella]

The Lillie’s premium tournament box thing continues the tradition of waifu taxing and ancillary items.

 

[Shaneequa]

u guys wish u were as cool as me

 

[Grayback]

Does anyone have any favorite fan made regional/type shifted/Delta Pokemon?

I usually hate fan-made regional variants, because they almost always come across as being so lazy. But those three are actually pretty cool.
I especially like the sea turtle Torkoal.

u guys wish u were as cool as me

He was 100% fucking Lillie's mom in the games, right?

 

[30+GameOvers]

>Have a few Pokemon I want to breed for my upcoming HeartGold playthru
>Fire up my old Diamond save which I started in 2015
>Need a female Shinx, might as well go get one from Fuego Ironworks
>Go there, there is still berry bushes
>Go to the meadow, there is still items
>I never visited this place during my original playthru, or when I was breeding/trading Pokemon in '18 or '21
Not quite what I was expecting for my 10th anniversary of that playthru, but hey, at least I truly finished the game now. I might take up the offer on that PokeChest thing since my Diamond game is nearly filled to the brim with Pokemon, I have total free spots in PC I can count on two hands. Alternatively, maybe I can somehow link my NDS with Dolphin and use the actual Gen 4 Pokebank, Pokemon Ranch. Never did look into if emulation is possible between the two.
I'm using this utility to check for Pokemon's EVs, that includes checking info of my eggs

https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/648-ppse-ds/

The app has a catchy chiptune, shame I can't find any info on what it is so I can download it.
Edit: Tried looking on youtube, of course the search is so fucked that you cannot find anything that isn't riding the algorithm wave anymore. You type in "PPSE Pokemon" then the search just ignores the PPSE part and gives you the most generic, awful front page slop imaginable.
That said, have a soyboy I found just now

Of course it's a TCG opening video lmfao
Also, I found it after several more searches, so linking it here since nobody here will probably ever will with how awful youtube search is now

Crappy quality but that's all there is. Considering that I am being suggested holohoax and John Oliver videos on this obscure 14 year video, the search is probably so rigged that you literally cannot find anything you like just by searching for it the first few times, unless it's something super mainstream or easy to find. I've had problems looking for obscure videos like this one recently when I know that wasn't the case earlier.

 

[Abella]

One of the things that bugs me a little is how collectors always seem to get upset over the release of products like the arena battle decks instead of more ways of bundling packs and selling them. They seem to have difficulty grasping that it’s a trading card game.