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I totally agree, that would be really cool. I'd love to be able to play a physical copy of this game.

However, don't be fooled - despite the aesthetics of this game matching that era of gaming, under the hood there is absolutely no similarity. They are completely different engines - making a GBA version would constitute remaking the game entirely from scratch.

I'm glad you're having so much fun with it!! The (very small) art team & I are working hard on the next update - I'm really excited for everyone to get their hands on it!!
Expect even more ways to min-max the hell out of your team.

I'm shedding a tear, the pillow comment is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me <3
Seriously, thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you're having so much fun with my passion project, and I hope that you keep stumbling across unusual team members that you wouldn't have considered in a more conventional game. Teambuilding is my favorite aspect of the franchise, and I hope that it continues to be new and refreshing as the game grows.

Gastly & Abra are evolving next update. It is happening, it is real. They are way underpowered at the end of current content, and I don't want that to be that case any longer. The reason I've held off is because evolving is tied to scenes - so when you evolve the two, you'll unlock more scenes for every character. I've had to be strategic about letting the special mons evolve for that reason. But even Drowzee and Misdreavus - who aren't evolving this next update - will be getting some nice quality of life things to help them keep up in current content.

Sorry to hear that! I appreciate your feedback on what my game should be. I hope you find a game that is better suited to your tastes!

By copying the Game.rgssad file over, you've effectively replaced the game's "brain" with the one from the last update. Nothing is gonna work.

Your save files transfer automatically - all you need to do is download the new version and launch Game.exe. You can delete the old folder as well. I do not recommend extracting the new version to the old folder. Just extract it somewhere else & let the game do the work. 

Save data is stored in your PC's Roaming folder.  

No shame here! 

A) Diglett's Tunnel

B) The cave where the Gym Leader is before challenging the first gym. You were close - just explore Pewter a bit!

I'm not gonna lie, you have legitimately the three best counters in the entire game for that fight. Lycanroc alone can one-shot both phases with Stone Edge. Shiftry is immune to Blizzard if you have Wind Rider. Misdreavus Lunatone is the most devastating setup sweeper in the game.

The dog alone is more than enough for this fight - when you say "maxed out", what do you mean? 

Not without doubling the scope of the game, unfortunately. I don't see this ever happening in the future.

This one actually is intended hahahaha. I want people to listen to that explanation, dammit, because y'all need to know about EVs if you don't already.

Great shout

I think that no matter what comes next there will be a step down in power from Deoxys. My job is to make each of the special mons interesting in their own ways!! Watchog wasn't necessarily on my radar before just now, but it certainly isn't off the table just because Deo made it in already.

TerastallizationAbsolutely! I try to be available to respond to folks where I can. I've never enjoyed communities where it feels like a huge deal if the creator speaks - I'm just the dude who happened to make this game. 

Fakemon: Its super easy to miss, but we do already have a fakemon in the game right now! Castform has a sandstorm variant now. It isn't exactly a super original idea, but I know, but it felt like a no-brainer. Exclusive forms, evolutions, etc are absolutely on the table - but my goal is to use them sparingly. I think the fakemon rabbit hole goes deep haha. 

As far as an additional form for Mistress goes - my lips are sealed. I do have all sorts of things planned, but I don't want to show my hand too early. 

Plot: I've been sprinkling bits of the plot here and there. The story of this game is being told through many smaller plots. I think if you squint, you might see some loose threads dangling, just begging for me to pull them. For example:

1. The Indigo League is in complete disarray at the moment.

2. Giovanni has just been outed as the Leader of Team Rocket.

3. Lillie/Lusamine...

4. Ariana has something powerful up her sleeve.

5. Something funky is going on with the player character. 

6. Nihilego is in Kanto.

7. The Sada subplot.

8. Courtney just called in backup.

9. Everything surrounding Giratina - there's a lot I can flesh out there.

10. Cynthia, at one point, was a Herald.

etc, etc. 

I enjoy being able to pull on threads an a nonlinear fashion. As the game progresses, you'll gradually become more intertwined with these stories, and more of the story at large will come into play. I've had things planned for this game for years now that I'm chomping at the bit to get to. One thing I will say, though, is that none of the special (control/possess) mons are required for the main plot. You can skip every single one of them.

Plates: I don't have a ton planned for the Arceus plates, which is why they're all available en masse in the Azure Town Mine.  I do think messing with types is a cool idea on paper, but I wonder if Terastallization fits that same niche. Without a visual indicator of types, I fear that a mechanic like that could become extremely frustrating to players if I use it on enemy teams.

Using moves on the opposing trainer: This is a cool idea that has been floated around many times for a unique Control type battle effect. I'm definitely not opposed to the idea of Control types having something special during a battle, but I don't think I've settled on something that I am satisfied with yet. I am giving them a unique way to interact with teambuilding, though, in the same vein as Remnants from the possession mechanic.

Custom Moves: I'm absolutely not afraid of custom moves. Aqua Smack is already in the game to give a physical, no-secondary-effects water type attack to mons who need it. 

Anomalies (Super Shinies): I don't have it in me to make 1025+ unique shinies. As awesome as that would be, that would be a massive time sink that would take away so many resources and time from development of other parts of this game for a feature that really doesn't have a huge impact on gameplay or nsfw aspects. That being said, though, I do have a very small-scale version of this feature planned. Definitely stay tuned on that starting with the next major Gym.

Partner Mechanic: This is something that I'm intending to solve with the Innate system and/or by direct buffs to the mon in question. There are a handful of adjusted statlines already present in this game, and the Innates are already tailored to give a second life to just about everyone. One of the reasons this game pushes capturing a lot of mons as hard as it does is so that the player can interact with all of the very diverse sets present in this game. You might find new team members or solutions in very unexpected mons!

Thank you so, so much for the kind words!! I'm glad you're enjoying this project so much. 

Truthfully, there are fights in this game that you aren't necessarily meant to beat on your first shot at them. You were very right to call attention to Froslass & Deoxys in that regard. My goal is to push people really early on to assemble a diverse team, with plenty of options for different scenarios. That way, I can throw even harder challenges at the player later on - you'll already have the toolkit to handle it! I hate grinding in fangames though. So it is very important to me that I do everything in my power to eliminate the tedious parts of grinding (EXP, EVs, IVs) so that y'all can focus on building a team and playing with the in-battle possession mechanic, which is my personal favorite non-NSFW part of this game (highly, highly recommend possessing a wild Lunatone with Misdreavus - thank me later).

I have heard the "idite only draws big tits" allegations! The truth to them is a little interesting, I think. 

When I first transitioned from doing in-battle sprites to the big portraits, my work was shoddy at best. And one thing in particular that I wasn't amazing at when I started out was making characters appear undoubtedly as adults.  That bugged me a lot, because I have a strong personal stance on the matter. But I found that by giving the characters larger breasts, it helped a ton in that regard, even if it was kind of a band-aid solution to the issue I was facing. With several more years under my belt, though, I'm a lot more confident in my ability to draw diverse body types that still look and feel adult (which is what I fully intend). 

Anywho that was a lot of words to say that the next gym leader has small tits. 

Non-ghost/psychic types are totally fair game to become possess/control types. In the original build of the game (pre-0.1.5.8) there was no control nor possess type. Instead, Psychic & Ghost were used in that role. But that didn't fit my goals for two reasons:

1. I felt like I couldn't add any regular psychic or ghost types to the wild, because I worried it would be confusing to the player as far as knowing which ghost/psychic type was "special." 

2. I wanted the freedom to convert other fitting Pokemon into these types (like Nihilego, a Rock/Poison type). 

Daisy is floating around somewhere out there. I hope she's alright - she went to pick berries in Viridian Forest, but by the time we get there she's already gone...

Couple things!! 

1 - Ghost =/= Possess Type. They are two different types. However, they do share the exact same type chart - weaknesses and immunity to Normal attacks included. You probably got hit with a mon that has the Scrappy ability or Innate. I recommend making a habit of checking Innates in battle using the info key. 

2 - Because they are two different types, Possess types do not naturally gain STAB on Ghost moves. However, this is offset by the Distorted Innate, which effectively gives them the STAB back on Ghost moves.

Thank you so much for the kind words!!

There will definitely be fights where I disable possession, but I do think that part of the fun power fantasy aspect of this game is having that option available to use against strong trainers. Don't always count on that being the case, though :)

1. She does, but only for Leaf, Lorelei, and Courtney. The alien is similar. Long story short, I had my hard drive corrupt about a month before I had already promised to release the update. The Discord server will vouch that I spent many, many sleepless nights scrambling to remake the assets, but I couldn't hit them all. The art team, which is now FOUR WHOLE PEOPLE (the 0.2 update had 2) is working hard to restore those missing scenes, as well as flesh out ones that already exist. 
2. Roxanne's scene is story related! Check back after the alien quest :)
3. This update's content can be done in nearly any order, but the big 3 are Froslass, the Gym (which leads into the alien quest), and Courtney in the optional challenge area.

Haha thank you! I try to pick bangers whenever I can.

Her theme is the Rainbow Rocket Theme from the Gen 7 games!

I'm glad you're enjoying the game! While I do not have a date nor an estimate for the next update, I am actively working on it! It will be released when it is ready.

Luckily, it shouldn't take much to get them battle ready!! If you haven't found the Viridian City Market yet, I highly recommend heading back there with a Control type - I think that will be extremely helpful.

Don't worry about it!! That was one hell of a bug, bad enough to warrant an entire emergency patch to address retroactively. I'm glad you got it working!!!

I don't recognize this error off the top of my head - my recommendation would be to delete the game download & try again!!

Remember that you have a PC link in your pokegear! Back-to-back isn't terrible if you've been capturing more than 6 Pokemon, which is what I'm really trying to push.

There was a weird bug where starting a save on a previous version (before 0.2.11c), starting the Drowzee plot, and then advancing the story either on the old version or the updated version wouldn't properly set the flags. There is a debug event that triggers if you talk to the reporter lady who used to stop you in Pewter City again on v0.2.11c! That should fix you up.

Oh it was my idea!! I hope you're able to overcome the challenge!

Totally get it! This game isn't for everybody, and I try to be as transparent as possible about it. The difficulty in this game comes from understanding the tools you have at your disposal, but that isn't everyone's cup of tea. Thanks for trying the game out!

Just open Game.exe

That's a surprise tool that will help us later

A hiker in the northwest corner in Pewter City sells Rock Bait, and a Skier in Azure Town sells Ice Bait! $40k each, and you can use them on the Raid Den in the Distortion World to guarantee a Raid against a mon of that type.

Balancing, and also because the effective statline is much higher than what you see.

I do not speak one word of Chinese, so please bear with the Google Translate on my end!! I'm sorry in advance if it says anything crazy.

我一句中文都不会说，所以请多包涵我这边使用 Google 翻译！！如果它说了什么奇怪的话，我先提前道歉。

Thank you so, so much for the kind words.  I'm very happy that you've had this much fun with the game! The next update is already in full swing, so I hope you'll enjoy what is to come just as much. 

非常非常感谢你的暖心话语。能让你在这款游戏中获得这么多乐趣，我真的很开心！下一个更新已经在全力制作中了，所以希望你也会同样喜欢接下来即将推出的内容。

Gastly is a unique case. Her, and the other ghosts you meet on your journey, aren't necessarily meant to be overly powerful in battle. Instead, her role focuses mainly on the possession mechanic, which allows you to directly steal the opposing Pokémon provided you meet some basic conditions. If you haven't explored this mechanic yet, I highly recommend it!! Personally, I think it is the most fun aspect of this game, especially since each ghost can permanently alter their hosts after defeating five opponents inside of them.

鬼斯是一个比较特殊的例子。她，以及你在旅途中遇到的其他幽灵，并不一定是为了在战斗中过于强大而设计的。相反，她的主要作用是围绕“附身”机制展开的。只要满足一些基本条件，这个机制就能让你直接夺取对方的宝可梦。

如果你还没有深入体验过这个机制，我非常推荐你试试看！！就我个人而言，我觉得这是这款游戏里最有趣的部分，尤其是每只幽灵在附身宿主并击败五个对手后，都可以永久改变它们的宿主。

Again, thank you so much for the kind words and feedback! It really does mean the world to me to see people have fun with this little project of mine.

再次非常感谢你的暖心话语和反馈！看到大家能从我这个小小的项目中获得乐趣，对我来说真的意义重大。

1. The Raid mons are generated when you save before entering the den. Loading that save will not reset the roll, but healing at a pokemon center will.

2. Yeah, nothing is shiny locked!

3. Could go several ways with this one, and I honestly can't list them all... But my money is on Nidoking, Lycanroc, and Galarian Darmanitan.

Haha - Totally fair! Desolate Land sun definitely makes that fight tricky!

Here ya go!

The current update ends with Mt. Moon - Route 4 and onward are not accessible!

Walk into the Inner Sanctum in the Distortion World - that's why you get sent there. Drowzee will be waiting for you once you enter, no matter if you go immediately after defeating it in Viridian Forest or you wait 5 years! She'll be in the Inner Sanctum when you arrive.

In my experience watching & listening to people play through this game, I've noticed that the difficulty comes almost entirely from understanding the systems, not necessarily the fights themselves. You have a lot of things that you can exploit, you just have to figure out what they are. Between the possession mechanic & Remnants, access to dirt cheap EV & EXP training items, access to every competitive item in existence (from either the moment you enter Viridian or after Gym 1 depending on your starter), and frankly access to much stronger Pokemon at this point in the game than your opponents do... Your fights are largely won or lost before you even click battle.

The Azure Gym gauntlet can be tricky, for sure! You need to beat 4 Pokemon in a row, and then you get an optional full party heal. Then, you've gotta take down 8 straight. That can be tough if you're unprepared for Ice types! However, you could set it up so that you only need to fight 2 Pokemon before the party heal, and then 6 after... 

The Elgyem -> Deoxys sequence is the hardest non-side challenge in the game. The Elgyem more than likely will take out at least one of your party members. If you're planning one team for both fights, it may feel like you don't have enough team slots. But if only you had remote access to your PC that you could use in between fights...

Again, I think the difficulty & frustration largely comes from not taking advantage of the most powerful tools the game gives you, both during and (more importantly, imo) before fights. I wish you the best of luck with the challenges you're struggling with, and I'm glad you're enjoying the game so far!!!

Suriam321 is correct - you can reset EVs from the Summary screen - specifically the Stats page. 

Wouldn't recommend walking through walls in this game. There are triggers all over where you're walking for various things - my two cents is that you'd screw yourself over with it.

Saves will transfer up automatically! Nothing you need to do. I don't recommend placing new downloads into the old folder - extract it somewhere else (and then you can just delete the old folder entirely).

The Lillie scene specifically re-triggered for everybody since I added a new switch specifically for it. Some folks were able to perform a specific sequence of events that would lock you out of the first cutscene (which would then lock you out of the Drowzee quest entirely). TL:DR is that you seeing the cutscene again broke absolutely nothing - you're fine!

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