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When I was younger I tried to do a nuzlocke, but I didn’t/don’t have the mindset for it. One of my pokemon fainted and I couldn’t bear to release it, so I just stopped
That reminds me of an alternative method to get through rock tunnel. No one in my friendgroup really knew where to get HM05, so instead we would draw with a marker a spot on the player character. Yes, on the actual Game Boy screen. Surprisingly it was quite helpful navigating through the cave, where you could at least tell where your character actually was located. Looking back, it was quite silly, but that was one of the quirks where you didn’t really have internet access and had to figure things out on your own.
I enjoyed doing random WiFi battles during the 3DS era, but I limited myself to only using uncompetitive Pokémon and coming up with ways to make them win.
The best feeling was stumbling on someone rocking an entire team of Legendaries (Mega Ray etc), and trouncing them with a team of Onix, Fearow & Plusle.
Didn’t always work, but when they took the bait and everything lined up, it made for some fantastic battle videos!
Wait, can you explain? Your character is centered in the middle of the screen at all times. I kind of see where it could be helpful, but havent tried that haha
My strategy was to just tilt the screen up towards a light to help circumvent flash.
I love jank. (I thought you meant table gaming.) But the same is true in VG, I s’pose. Trying to make something work, that really has no business being a successful strategy…
I am not sure how if it’s that noticable on camera, but that’s how I did it back then. As you stated the character is always centered, so it’s not really that useful, at least nowadays. Even though it seems a bit silly, it carried me through rock tunnel. I think everyone can tell similar storys about nonsensical stuff they did as a child, trying to figure out how the games work.
Ohh i understand what youre saying. I could see where youd be able to navigate a bit easier. It simplifies it to think about where you are especially when we were younger.
When I was a kid, in Pokemon Blue I taught my Blastoise Fissure, because I thought it was cool that it was a one hit ko. It rarely ever worked and usually just wasted a turn!
When I was a kid I beat red version just using charmander/charmelon/charizard for battle. In one of my first trainer battles charmander was about to faint so I clicked ‘run’. Professor Oak chimed in ‘you can’t do that here’ (or something along those lines). After that, I thought you could never run from a battle so I literally fought every single wild Pokemon that spawned.
I also didn’t use any items the entire game because I didn’t care to learn what they did. I’m also in the #noflash gang.
Something I do to make it a little more challenging is I complete my living dex with only catching Pokémon in a Pokéball. It’s nothing major, but it’s cool seeing a completed Pokédex in uniform balls.
I remember, doing this, but I had a GB Pocket, so I could turn the saturation way down to make it easier to see. I also drew a map so that I knew what ladders I’d been to.
Can’t help it!