Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I remember trying to get my living Dex sent over to gen 4 via the pal park. It was before heartgold and soul silver, so 6 pokemon a day. I’d do things like get middle stage Pokémon ready to evolve by getting them one level away, or holding the stone they need, etc, then as soon as I got them in Platinum, I could evolve them immediately and go get an egg. Called it “compressing” them, because the pal park was such a bottleneck, it was easier to rebreed them. Level 31 bulbasaur, for instance, send it, get it to 32 for a venusaur, get two eggs, hatch them, get one of those bulbasaur to evolve into ivysaur, so then I could store the proper living Dex trio in gen 4. Good times.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had no idea the Pal Park was so limiting. Damn. I’ve just been using PKHex/PKSm to move them over since I don’t have any legit copies I can use
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It became unlimited in HG/SS, which made it easier, but also more annoying for me when I had Platinum as my hub, because it meant I needed to catch a bunch of junk to trade over to my SS if I grabbed a Pokémon from the GBA games.
Such is life.
Although there are emulators that support loading the GBA games on DS, so if you want that pal park experience you can have it properly even on emulator.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Damn, i’m not a big HS/SS fan so of course that’s the game without the limit lmao. I just finished my dex and moved everything over today using pkhex, if i had known it wasn’t limited on HS/SS though i might have looked more into it