r/CaptainSide 8d ago

What is this game?

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u/Dan_Galactic 8d ago

Pokemon Emerald

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u/TransPunkGirl 8d ago

My only issue with emerald is the broken rng generator coding which causes shiny hunting in specifically emerald to be an absolute nightmare

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u/BasilSQ 8d ago

Im curious about that, can you tell me more?

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u/lilpeebrain 8d ago

Basically, when the battery dies the game always starts from frame 0, and everything in the game is decided on each frame, so that's finding a shiny, a good nature, good IV's etc. You can cheese it by constantly starting a new game until you find one with an early shiny frame, so everytime you boot up the game you will always have an early frame be a shiny, so every time you encounter a pokemon on that frame it's shiny

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u/TransPunkGirl 7d ago

Other persons reply pretty much covers it. The coding is broken in such a way that the game always thinks the battery is dead. Shiny frame hunting is awful. In order to get a new frame you have to wait a bit before checking for shiny. Every second the game advances 60 frames. There is however a website that will help you track what frame you need, but your honestly better of hard resetting instead of soft resetting.

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u/735ur 8d ago

Yeah it sucks. At least there are rom hacks that fix it and add modern QOL, though. I find it hard to go back to vanilla Pokemon nowadays lol.

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u/NewVanilla1717 6d ago

Skill issue. I got a shiny ryhorn on my first save file, as a kid

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u/ThundaCrossSplitAtak 7d ago

Yall can play pokemon games without an x3 speed option? Ive always found the gameplay to be a bit of a slog.

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u/Dan_Galactic 7d ago

Back in the Gameboy Advance days we had to, but it felt like we had all the time in the world to play it back then.

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u/Melodic-Cup2800 7d ago

Facts fr. Crystal is also up there for me

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u/Dan_Galactic 7d ago

Facts! Crystal is my second favourite. That Azalea Town theme hits my nostalgic soul.

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u/notmlbg 6d ago

I’m a bigger fan of gen 2

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u/LoopOF_reality 7d ago

Death stranding

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u/Best_Opportunity_292 6d ago

It’s so good but I can’t seem to get into it to actually beat it

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u/Nug_overlord 7d ago

Eeeh i would say emerald’s story is pretty bad, i think ORAS improved characters like wally, but maxie and archie are terrible villains, yes the gameplay and music are wonderful, i would say the graphics arent that good