Two friends of mine and myself started playing the first generation of Pokemon games.
I'm Yellow, and they are playing Blue and Red.
We are playing on emulators and we are becoming serious Pokemon Masters.
We came across a big problem though. When we wanted to do our first battles and trades with each other, we found out the emulator we used supported link battles for Gameboy Advance games and not original Gameboy games.
So, we were about to feel like promelons until I did a bit of research and found a solution to our problem.
When we want to battle it the fuck up or trade some Pokemans
we close our Gameboy Emulators
and open up an N64 Emulator
and play Pokemon Stadium.
And, yeah, it works.
Sorta, anyway. You'll notice my cartridge on this screen is Blue, rather than Yellow. For some reason, I have serious issues using a Yellow game in Stadium. Like, permanently corrupting all my boxes problems.
I just use my Pokemon Yellow save file with a Blue rom in the 64 emulator, and it works fine. No problems yet.
We are playing this pretty seriously.
Here's a picture of my junk box.
Yeah, I'm literally catching like ten of each Pokemon I want to train and using the one with the best stats. I also catch them at the lowest level possible.
I have boxes full of just junk like this.
Anyway, here's my team. It's pretty boring, not going to lie.
Yeah, I have a Mew. Caught it "legitimately". No Gamesharking.
Honestly, it doesn't even matter if we aren't Gamesharking, because we are exploiting things like the Missingno glitch and Mew glitch anyway. Mew is the only Pokemon I have that was obtained this way.
Really, this is about who is better at these games by any means necessary.
My team sucks, but these guys are fucking beefed. These are top quality Pokemon. They aren't perfect in genes, but they are up there.
I haven't used many TMs yet, so these guys mostly have standard moves. The only TMs I used were Ice Beam on Blastoise and Toxic on Venusaur. That Venusaur is ridiculous because of Toxic and Leech Seed. I really don't intend on modifying it any further.
Need to get rid of Rage and Leer on Charizard, but Slash and Flamethrower will probably stay. Not too interested in Fire blast, but we'll see.
I'll probably replace Raichu's Slam with something better. That's not my starter, I traded for another Pikachu. My starter Pikachu Pikablows.
Alakazam's Disable will be replaced. Not sure what I'll replace it with though. Maybe Thunder Wave or Substitute.
I'll probably replace Blastoise's water gun with Surf or Hydro Pump. Either would be fine.
As far as Mew goes, no clue. I'm thinking I'll keep Transform because it's proven itself useful plenty of times (getting out of speed penalties due to Paralysis). Metronome is going to be fucking gone and so is Mega Dumb.
The team is killer based on it's high stats at the moment. It demolishes average level 50s in stats. Blastoise is probably my worst on this team.
Ideally, I'd like to get a good Parasect perhaps. It's a great Mewtwo killer.
I have a Porygon, but I haven't been very impressed with him. His stats kinda blow and his gimmick sucks.
I still have a lot of progress before I have a team I'm satisfied with. However, my team is on average winning most of the time. Until Joe got a fucking Mewtwo.
Yeah, we do have a rule on legendaries. Only one a party. We do consider Mew a legendary. Really, the only reason I had him in my team was to counter Joe's Mew. But, now he has a Mewtwo and I have to think smarter.
Anyway, does anyone know of anyway to play battle or trade over the Internet in any way? There isn't really a lot of support for Gameboy Linkage out there.