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      22 days ago

      I don’t know, playing pokemen without the ability to double the speed is painful (at least for walking around).

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        21 days ago

        I never found it bad in Gen 1 and 2 because the maps were a lot smaller than even Gen 3. You move more slowly, but you still get to where you need to go fairly quickly.

        Even the battles feel fast because the animations and text tend to be quicker. Grinding sucks though. And Gen 2 has the slow HP bar glitch.

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        21 days ago

        It is a bit, but the bike and flying and teleporting with some pokemon makes it more bearable

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          22 days ago

          Gen 1 games had the bicycle, but it took a while to unlock. I don’t remember running/biking mechanic in Gold/Silver which is sad because I played Silver just a few months ago.

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            22 days ago

            You get the bike after reaching Vermillion in gen 1,but you had to center the start menu any time you wanted to use it. In gen 2 you got it in Goldenrod. I don’t remember if you had to beat Whitney first or not.

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            21 days ago

            Gen 2 doesn’t have running, but it did indeed have a bike. Goldenrod City (the city with the 3rd gym badge) has a bike shop off the beaten path where the owner lends you a bike to advertise for his shop then calls you after you ride it enough to say you can keep it. The shop is on the east side of the city behind the department store.

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      21 days ago

      The original GBC didn’t have anything of a backlight. Although the earlier Gameboy Light was the first Nintendo handheld to have a backlight, the feature wasn’t standardized until the GBA SP.

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      21 days ago

      It is :) did an amoled screen mod on it and swapped out the red led for an amber one

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    22 days ago

    wow, I’m just learning Evoli (& Pyroli, Mentali, Noctali, Voltali, Nymphali…) aren’t the original names. my mind is blown

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      22 days ago

      Only the French version uses those names. English has Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon. Japanese can be considered the original names, which are (when written in latin letters) Eievui, Showers, Thunders, Booster, Eifie, Blacky, Leafia, Glacia, and Nymphia.

      German, Korean, and Chinese each have different names for them and most other Pokémon too. Other languages like Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese use the same names as English.

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        21 days ago

        FWIW, Eevee is basically Eevee in Japanese (aka., E.V.).

        But ouch…“Blacky” the Pokemon, eh?

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          21 days ago

          It seems they actually changed its official romanization to “Bracky” about 3 years ago, probably to avoid that problem. I listed them from memory and hadn’t realized it changed. Still, that old name was used on Japanese merch and marketing for decades, but not in any main series games since those only use the katakana “ブラッキー”.

          Eevee’s name sounds close enough to being the same in Japanese and English that they even used the same voice clips for both in some anime episodes and Let’s Go Eevee. The official romanization just has a strange spelling.

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    21 days ago

    In my opinion, one too many Eevees. Vaporeon, Jolteon, Umbreon, and Espeon are solid choices, but you don’t need two fire types, and Flareon sucks ass. Not worth wasting your one fire stone on him.