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Digital Solitude

Hi all,

This is called a succession game, where all players will be sharing save files for Pokemon Emerald.

How it works is, everyone will start the game and play up to earning their first gym badge. After this, you will save the game and upload your save file and download the next players. You will then play with their save file until you earn the second gym badge, and so on so forth.

Not sure what rule to have in place so feel free to suggest any below.

Rules
-All pokemon must be nicknamed
-You must beat your gym within two weeks


I think if we have two week maximum turnarounds everyone should have time to beat their gym and upload the file.

Files can be uploaded to google drive, one drive, Dropbox or even just emailed.

I recommend emulating the game ROM using a GBA Emulator on Windows, OSX (Mac), Linux, Android and most versions of iOS (iPhone). I don't think I can aid people in finding Emulators or ROMS but google can.

I'll do up a document to let players know who they will be passing on their file to.

So, comment below to sign up, November 1st Start Date

tl;dr We're gonna trade save files for pokemon emerald. Starting Nov 1st, sign up here.

Baggly

Sweet jesus id love to and am posting to keep up with the thread, but i dont think i can dedicate the time to it for the next month or so.....

Digital Solitude

Starting November 1st and you'll have 2 weeks to do each gym, will probably only have to dedicate 2-3hrs or so a week?

Baggly

Yeah sure go on

y0ssar1an22

is the game free? havent played since blue many years ago now, and is it similar to blue?

Jayop

What the good christ is this??

Aye sure why not if it doesn't take a ball of time and can be done while I'm making important long phonecalls.

Digital Solitude

Not free, there are ways though, I can't direct anyone to them however.

I'll be playing on my phone using an emulator.

The basic gameplay is very similar to blue (still is, 21 years later)

Digital Solitude

Jayop wrote: »

What the good christ is this??

Aye sure why not if it doesn't take a ball of time and can be done while I'm making important long phonecalls.

I reckon it'll only take 2-3 hours a week to reach the next gym. There's 8 in total, and the champion so it'll run for several weeks.

Can be played off laptop or phone, games are very simple

Jayop

I have no clue but stick me down.

Digital Solitude

Just to stress, you will have to find your own way to get the game ROM

Jayop

Can't be too hard.

y0ssar1an22

sher go on

Digital Solitude

So far
1. Digi
2. Pter
3. Jayop
4. Yoss

What's an emulator or a ROM.
And can the game be played passively or does it need 100% of ur attention all time while playing.

Baggly

Deleted User wrote:

What's an emulator or a ROM. And can the game be played passively or does it need 100% of ur attention all time while playing.

An emulator is a program that simulates a console. In this case a game boy.

A rom is a version of a game you play on that emulator.

Baggly

And you can pick up play put down pick up again at your lesiure afaik

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What's an emulator or a ROM.
And can the game be played passively or does it need 100% of ur attention all time while playing.

Passively, its turn based strategy, I normally play while watching TV

Jayop

Ya know, I just looked into it and it's not my bag at all. Sorry.

Cool cheers lads I might be interested so I'll give a better look tomorrow sound

This is genius. Haven't played pokemon since blue/red. Sure I'll give it a bash. There will be some interesting nicknames.

Banjo

On the one hand I'd love to. On the other... I know for the first few gyms I rattle through them but then I get bogged down in grinding up my team and sub team and 2nd team and reserves etc. etc. - and that's when I have control over my team from day one. Taking over someone elses shambles will kill me

Couple of questions :
If we're not all using the same ROM, will that cause issues importing saves? But since we can't talk about ROMs, we can't sync up our efforts?

How do we manage this - is there a forum thread for the game while it's running, is it all PMs, etc etc?

Is it bad form to release other peoples' treasured Pokémon on receiving their save, then taunt them about it online?

Shouldn't this also be a Nuzlocke run (last Save standing) or is that too limiting since people could end up not making it to the 2nd week?

But yeah - sign me up.

Baggly

Discord?

Digital Solitude

Banjo wrote: »

On the one hand I'd love to. On the other... I know for the first few gyms I rattle through them but then I get bogged down in grinding up my team and sub team and 2nd team and reserves etc. etc. - and that's when I have control over my team from day one. Taking over someone elses shambles will kill me

Couple of questions :
If we're not all using the same ROM, will that cause issues importing saves? But since we can't talk about ROMs, we can't sync up our efforts?

Should be okay if we all use (E) Region ROMs

How do we manage this - is there a forum thread for the game while it's running, is it all PMs, etc etc?

There will be a thread, hopefully with some chat too

Is it bad form to release other peoples' treasured Pokémon on receiving their save, then taunt them about it online?

The taunting bit, definitely

Shouldn't this also be a Nuzlocke run (last Save standing) or is that too limiting since people could end up not making it to the 2nd week?

Too limiting, I think we'd end up with relatively similar teams too, I know it'll be very samey for the first 4 but after that it should open up. Nuzlocke is a bit hardcore whereas this would be open to noobs.

But yeah - sign me up.[/quote]

Great to have you Banjo

The capacity to screw over people is incredibly high in this. Surely we need some ground rules.

Banjo

Isn't finding yourself facing the 8th Gym with 14 days left on the clock and nothing but a level 5 Sentret called "FUPrtyJngl" the entire point of this challenge?

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The capacity to screw over people is incredibly high in this. Surely we need some ground rules.

You need to beat a gym to pass the save on, which I was hoping would fix it to some amount. Sure you can have a team of Sentrets, but can you beat a gym with them?

And if people are taking the piss they can simply be cut.

Digital Solitude

Digital Solitude wrote: »

You need to beat a gym to pass the save on, which I was hoping would fix it to some amount. Sure you can have a team of Sentrets, but can you beat a gym with them?

And if people are taking the piss they can simply be cut.

Ah I get you. So you pass it on immediately after the gym. So that team is still intact. I was thinking someone could release all their pokemon right after the gym.

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ah I get you. So you pass it on immediately after the gym. So that team is still intact. I was thinking someone could release all their pokemon right after the gym.

I would consider that kick-worthy alright

If you get proper dicked you can just use the save you had uploaded anyways, have two people on the same save

Banjo

Hopefully the hippy-dippy ideal of do unto others so you don't end up with a team of Magikarp will prevail.
Will we be picking our Starter or assigned into Grass / Fire / Water groups so we don't all go with Mudkip?

Will we know who's getting our save?

Banjo

Banjo wrote: »

Hopefully the hippy-dippy ideal of do unto others so you don't end up with a team of Magikarp will prevail.
Will we be picking our Starter or assigned into Grass / Fire / Water groups so we don't all go with Mudkip?

Will we know who's getting our save?

But as long as the team can beat the gym, this shouldn't happen right? I don't think we need any other rules

y0ssar1an22

Deleted User wrote: »

But as long as the team can beat the gym, this shouldn't happen right? I don't think we need any other rules

thats what i'm thinking. try to beat the gym with the worst possible team to screw over the next person!! :P

but that'll probably take some of the enjoyment away so i think people will try to assemble a good team.

y0ssar1an22

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

thats what i'm thinking. try to beat the gym with the worst possible team to screw over the next person!! :P

but that'll probably take some of the enjoyment away so i think people will try to assemble a good team.

Could look ahead and see what the next gym's theme is e.g. Fire pokemon and construct a team of water mons

Digital Solitude

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

thats what i'm thinking. try to beat the gym with the worst possible team to screw over the next person!! :P

but that'll probably take some of the enjoyment away so i think people will try to assemble a good team.

You can also just take 15 minutes on the wiki followed by a quick hunt if you do get ****mons

I don't want to assign people starters but hopefully all three will be picked.

I am certainly planning to get some unconventional pokemon for whatever teams I'm part of.

I'm lost is this a collaborative operation or a **** each other over operation

Digital Solitude

Its more sabotage than ****ing each other over

Nah hopefully co-op but I'm expecting a few wild teams

y0ssar1an22

Digital Solitude wrote: »

You can also just take 15 minutes on the wiki followed by a quick hunt if you do get ****mons

I don't want to assign people starters but hopefully all three will be picked.

I am certainly planning to get some unconventional pokemon for whatever teams I'm part of.

havent done any research yet, but right now i would pick water cos i always picked squirtle :P

Banjo

Not long to go now!

Water is the easiest start, Grass is the middle path, Fire has a tougher time in the gyms but gets his time to shine against the e4. It doesn't really matter who you pick though, any one of them will see you right.

Don't forget, this is Gen III so Physical and Special Attacks go back to the old method, where the all attacks of a specific element are either physical or special (as opposed to specific moves being special or physical independent of the type, as in Gen IV onwards) :

Physical :
Normal; Fighting; Flying; Ground; Rock; Bug; Ghost; Poison; Steel

Special :
Water; Grass; Fire; Ice; Electric; Psychic; Dragon; Dark

So, for example, Gyarados may look like an absolute beast but his widdly Sp Attk score means his Water damage is heavily penalised on attacks that you think are physical like Waterfall.

If you're stuck for names, there's always the Server Naming Scheme tool :
https://namingschemes.com/
Hit random page for a list of related names that will give your team some coherency and hope you don't end up with a list of Fiat models. 127 uses Metal Sound! 127 Loses a door!

Don't forget, if you play the high roller roulette table in Mauville and just keep betting 3 coins on a single slot, statistically you should earn about 3 coins for every 10 goes. That adds up pretty fast if you're playing at an accelerated speed. Well worth it to get some hard hitting Special Attack TMs early on.

And remember - TMs are one use only! You're not in Unova any more, Toto!

Could probably get more players if we posted in pokemon and games forum if needed?

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Could probably get more players if we posted in pokemon and games forum if needed?

Posted in both, will bump later. WW is currently happening so is sapping most of my boards posting

Baggly

If, of course, you are playing.

Digital Solitude

Hi guys,

Just bumping this, game starts tomorrow, not too late to sign up in the next few days.

Thanks,
Digi

y0ssar1an22

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Hi guys,

Just bumping this, game starts tomorrow, not too late to sign up in the next few days.

Thanks,
Digi

thank you mr. digi. i am ready for battle!!

Banjo

Chikoritita, you and I know
How the gym battles come and they go and the scars they're leaving
Petal dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
(Because you live in a ball on my belt)

I've gone a version called "Pokemon - Emerald Version (U).gba". That okay?

Lol just beat the first gym there! Fairly easy when I happened to pick the exact counter of the first gym by chance. Don't forget to use the fast forward button to speed everything up.

Digital Solitude

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've gone a version called "Pokemon - Emerald Version (U).gba". That okay?

It should be okay yeah, if there's any compatibilities you may have to restart with an (E) version but that's sound.

I'll be setting up a new thread with a wee questionnaire after work tonight

Baggly

Will try to jump in this evening!

Banjo

Done!
I think I've left whomever gets the save in a pretty decent place, but I'm a bit ashamed of the faints in the gym battle. In my defense, I was trying to spread the XP around and ensure my starter got a go regardless of his unsuitability. Don't judge me for the ridiculous amounts of faints in my overpowered team!

Would there be any benefit to us uploading a test save file (create a player name and save, for example) somewhere so we can confirm that our version of the game will work with everyone else's saves and vice versa?

Oh, one other thing - are the saves meant to be anonymous?

Digital Solitude

Banjo wrote: »

Done!
I think I've left whomever gets the save in a pretty decent place, but I'm a bit ashamed of the faints in the gym battle. In my defense, I was trying to spread the XP around and ensure my starter got a go regardless of his unsuitability. Don't judge me for the ridiculous amounts of faints in my overpowered team!

Would there be any benefit to us uploading a test save file (create a player name and save, for example) somewhere so we can confirm that our version of the game will work with everyone else's saves and vice versa?

Oh, one other thing - are the saves meant to be anonymous?

I will test different regions later when I get to my PC.

Nope not anonymous, there will be a public record of where each save goes, hope that's not a problem.

Running a 6-stack already Banjo?

Banjo

No problem, I was just wondering if I'd come to regret calling the trainer Banjo

Yes, I'm running a full set of 6 plus 3 subs by Gym 1. Neglected to catch a 2nd Ralts to trade for a Seedot but think I covered off most other bases. I fully intended to scrape by with just a Torchic but I couldn't help myself, I had to catch em all!

Digital Solitude

Banjo wrote: »

No problem, I was just wondering if I'd come to regret calling the trainer Banjo

Yes, I'm running a full set of 6 plus 3 subs by Gym 1. Neglected to catch a 2nd Ralts to trade for a Seedot but think I covered off most other bases. I fully intended to scrape by with just a Torchic but I couldn't help myself, I had to catch em all!

A catch them all challenge in a different gen might be fun down the line!