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Did you actually want me to be engaging you in some kind of a discussion? I got the impression you were just ranting in the hope of making guestbook viewers see the light and hate me or something. You didn't even address me; it was just a declaration referring to me in the third person with a name that isn't my name and talking about how fascist I am.
But fine, I'll humour you for now.
Most of your 'accusations' honestly aren't worth replying to, because they're so vague as to be meaningless. You keep talking about how dictatorial I am; I genuinely don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about, because as I pointed out, I barely even do anything on the forums. I've given exactly two infractions this year, one of them to ban a member who PMed me to ask to be banned. (I also reversed one infraction that I thought was unfair.) You also imply people are banned "for their views" all the time, but don't give any examples, and again I have no idea what you're talking about. You say the forums are especially uptight about members' behaviour, citing the fact the rules contain rules against things like flaming and mini-modding that are banned on most forums (and they don't have a rule against "bad English", only a guideline saying posts should be decently readable). You say I don't allow people to make mistakes (??), when mine is, I think, the only forum I know of where ban evasion is not actually a bannable offense, exactly because I think people should be able to get a second chance even if they screw up once. You insist my forums have an unusual amount of members being nervous about breaking the rules. You act as if forums having drama is a highly unusual thing. You seem to think I'm some kind of an evil mastermind. All of this just makes me scratch my head; I don't have the vaguest inkling of how you even got to these conclusions. How on earth am I supposed to respond to something that, as far as I can see, has simply been pulled out of thin air?
Other comments you make are just ludicrously outdated, such as the one about Furret and your general obsession with Nidokingu. For the record, I admined him at his insistence, because I was fifteen and stupid and bought his blather about how because we were in a relationship he should get an equal share in the site and forums, and I didn't de-admin him at all because he left the forums on his own - not that that actually makes the complaint valid, because forums aren't democracies and forum admins aren't in positions of power that warrant a democratic process behind them. There is no reason members should have a say in whether a mod becomes an admin; I can see the argument for wanting to have a say in who becomes a mod, maybe, since that could affect them, but an admin doesn't have any more power over members than a mod does, so why should they care? The added power an admin has is the power to vandalize the forums as a whole; the owner of the forums obviously has by far the biggest stake in ensuring admins are trustworthy.
Even then, like I said, forums aren't democracies - I don't think I've ever been to a forum where moddings weren't a matter of the admins (or current mods) just picking out regulars who seem to act responsibly, with no member input. Ultimately forums are a privately owned platform, and a private owner would rather mod people they view as responsible and capable, rather than whoever is most popular among the members. (Not that I've been personally involved with the last couple of moddings beyond just okaying the people that were nominated and voted on by the other mods.) I just run my forums the way forums are generally run, and I have no idea why you're trying to lynch me for it.
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nevermind I immediately found the answer my question, pure skill issue in reading
Interested in how things change between pokemon with the same catch rate - under the same optimal conditions (1HP + sleep + ultra ball), Mewtwo has a rate of 4.366%, but Palkia's is 50.284%? Does Palkia have a higher catch rate at the Spear Pillar for story purposes? or am I missing something with the calculation?
Ahaha, I'm a fan of Pikasprey's softlock picking videos!
It doesn't have to do with "too much" junk data, unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean - the junk data the Mew trick relies on is always the same amount of data stored in the same locations. The problem here is that when Pikasprey battles a second trainer on the route that's already set to the "Start trainer battle" meta-map script, the game attempts to increment the current meta-map script ID again, which puts the script ID out of sync with what it's expected to be (both because it increments when you initiate the battle and because this sets the last text box ID you looked at to a trainer's pre-battle dialogue, which then triggers a battle with that trainer again after you black out), and the route ends up on an invalid script ID that does not point to a real meta-map script but instead to some other location in memory. When whatever data is in the location that points to gets executed as if it were a meta-map script, it can have any number of glitchy effects; on this particular route, it seems, it'll overwrite the memory locations holding the third item in your inventory and the amount of the second item in your inventory to the same set values (the item ID of the Dragon Rage TM and 7, respectively).
There's a YouTuber who specializes in turning Gen 1-3 save files into extremely elaborate horror-movie-level softlocks, and within the past day, they managed to combine Oversights #1-3 from this writeup, along with a lesser-known effect from 1 and 2 on the sea route that leads from Fuschia to Cinnabar. That allows the player to overwrite any items, including key items, with TM23 Dragon Rage, as long as the item to be overwritten is the third item in the bag.
It seems to be the result of the game being forced to create so much junk data that there isn't enough room to simply recycle it into one-time encounter data. When that happens, the game's next option is to dump that overflow over your item bag's memory, which results in item #2 getting multiplied by 7, and item #3 getting replaced with a bit of code that's then interpreted as TM23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9DoruByBE
At first, when I watched it, I assumed that the softlock would rely on Oversight #4 in your analysis to remove the required items for challenging the Cinnabar and Saffron Gyms from the map, but nope, this softlock relies on actually pocketing the items and creating so much overflow data that the game's backup option is to fill the wild-encounter data (which is then removed when the encounter is sprung on the player), and into and over your item bag data and the sea route's data (which is far more permanent).
It's honestly amazing how these glitches are still being found 30 years after the games' initial releases, and I keep coming back to this writeup as a result, because you did an amazing job of showing both the coding side of it, the programmers' oversights and thinking, how this trick was discovered, and how it was initially dismissed, and it gives a very complete picture of the trick. Please keep up the awesome work! :)
YESHH one of my fav pokemonss Mismagius
Texts that are slightly odd to read when you're a Giratina Cultist who considers cutting Giratina's name into your thigh. (For the record, that's more just general mental illness than something related to the pokey mans - Giratina is simply a muse for my own menhera, but those types of Christians operate more on fear than logic.)
I am glad this website is still active. I used to spend hours reading this website when I was younger. I was particularly fond of the marquee of doom! I took inspiration and made my own webpage back in 2008 (it was called pokemon-nonsense) but that page is long gone. I am now 31. Just wanted to leave a comment!
Thanks, glad it's helpful!
The site has been here since 2002; this particular guide is from 2010. I'm guessing you were looking at the last modified date on the page? I did a general backend overhaul last year that unfortunately resulted in everything being shown as last modified on that date, so a recent modified date does not necessarily mean the actual content is recent.
Replaying heart gold for the first time since I was like 8 (genuinely have no clue how I managed to beat it back then lmaooo). I'm only on the fourth gym rn but this is still pretty helpful!
Anyway I mainly just wanted to say that this website is so cool!! The guides are rlly detailed and the ability to change the background colours is awesome! :-D
Thank u for making this, I was half expecting this site to be from like the early 2010s so I'm shocked to see it was made so recently :-0
Hi ur sites rly cute and nice and i like the catch rate calculator lol
I’ve been trying to catch a 1 hp azelf for 2 hours how have I not caught it yet I hate this game (/j)
Most everyone does. I'd say more people speak English here than Icelandic, actually, since at any given time there are a lot of recent immigrants who haven't had a reason or chance to learn Icelandic.
I'm probably not the best person to ask about hotels in Reykjavík either! I just live here; I have never had to book a hotel in my own city.
For things to do in the city, I tend to take friends up in the clock tower of Hallgrímskirkja, see if they want to try to go whale- or puffin-watching, and might also suggest things like the whale museum (which has a bunch of full-scale models of whales that give you a much better sense of the size of these creatures). Also, Brauð & co. makes excellent cinnamon rolls.
Do many people in Iceland speak English?
What's the best hotels that are good while being good value for money and not too expensive in Reykjavik? And what are the best things to do on holiday in the city?
but you know who WILL probably try to cover it in the next couple months………………..
I enjoyed the Medal Rally during my own playthrough; never played all that much Pokéstar Studios. I'm afraid those aren't a high priority for me as content goes - I don't really think I'd have anything to say or contribute about these features that wouldn't just be looking up information that's already been dug up by others and repeating it, which generally isn't a type of content I go for.
Hi, what did you think of the Medals and Pokestar Studios in Black and White 2?
Personally, I liked Pokestar Studios much better than the Nimbasa Musical.
I'd love to see a guide for the Medals, Hidden Grottos, and/or Pokestar Studios if you'd like, but I know real life takes priority and you have a baby/toddler Caterpie now.
I GOT PYROAR AND IT’S ONE OF MY FAV POKÉMONS HEH
Very fun read! I didn't know about half of them
I'm the last person to oppose to dirty jokes but I feel quite innocently about the intention behind the "hook" line? Personally I feel it was intended just as a cute metaphor for upid's arrow!
Speaking about such things… no mention of the Young Couple's Onix and Cloyster…?!
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