InsaneNutter

I've checked all the Pokemon listed, the only one I have is the Community Day Pikachu with Surf. I suspect that will be the most common one people have.

1 hour ago, phact said:

so it will probably be best to just update as needed until pokemon comes out (to maintain online play), then hb when ready

I don't personally see any downside in doing so at this point. Anyone who owns a Switch today has a Switch which is hackable indefinitely.

I suspect I will update sooner or later, i'm just keeping my options open for now as the games I own don't really have any online functionality.

I suspect you will have to update sooner or later to use any online functionality or game updates which come at a later date. However if you don't want to update your Lets Go Pokemon game or go online i don't see why you would need to update.

The Switch and the Switch Homebrew scene is in its infancy compared to the 3DS. The 3DS has only the other day got it's first firmware update since last September, where as the Switch is getting firmware updates frequently.

@phact Your Switch will always be exploitable regardless of firmware version.

The only advantage of staying on a lower firmware (4.1.0 or lower) is it *might* become easier to exploit the Switch in the future, for example not requiring a PC, Phone or USB dongle to enter RCM mode.

However if you update you could keep your Switch's sysnand clean for online play, then have an emunand which is kept totally offline for hacks and homebrew at a later date. Emunands are not possible yet, however will be when the Atmosphere CFW is released.

At the moment i'm on firmware 4.1.0 and staying there to keep my options open, all currently released games work on 4.1.0 too.

43 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

However if it's by GPS, spoofers, well, spoof, in order to perform trades.
 

Fair points about Bluetooth. I cannot imagine a trade via Bluetooth in different rooms XD

True, if your spoofing then I guess you don't really need to trade to catch out of region Pokemon anyway.

I've nothing against spoofing, however i've played legit since the game launched. If I start spoofing now it will ruin my enjoyment and any sense of achievement when out playing in the future.

I've seen a couple of people in the Facebook group for my town are planning to go the Safari Zone event in Dortmund, Germany at the end of this month. I believe out of region Pokemon are supposed to spawn there, so might end up been traded around locally in due course. I suspect the more rare regional Pokemon might slowly spread locally from that.

3 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

Valid points, they didn't mention whether Gifting required the same restrictions as trading.
If it doesn't, I'll just keep sending gifts. Gotta hatch em Alolans!

I'm wondering if the trading is dependent on the servers noting our GPS locations, or it is simply reliant on Bluetooth transmissions.
(how far can a bluetooth signal go anyway)

If I had to guess i'd say it was based on GPS location, everyone already has to be using GPS and have a data connection to be on the game, so it would be pointless to complicate things with Bluetooth if you ask me, especially as it's not always the most reliable type of connection ever.

In my experience of owning a device with Bluetooth 4 you can link to a device in the same room as yours, as soon as you go in to a different room the signal is lost. Bluetooth 5 can in theory do 400m, however I suspect in real world usage you'd have to be in the middle of a field with a clear line of sight to get anywhere near that sort of distance.

58 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

Furthermore, trades limited to within 100m of distance, and the one special trade a day limit is kinda.. restrictive.

Indeed, unless you have a local friend who's travelled to the location of the regional you want you don't have much chance of obtaining something unique via trade. Its not like I could trade regionals with you or anyone else on here.

If a friends traveling its probably easier just to let them log on to your account and catch one for you.

That's how I got a Corsola, my friend went on holiday to Lanzerotti, borrowed my account for the afternoon and caught me one. If you trust the other person that seems a lot easier than trading.

It would still be interesting to add you and others on here for the gifting feature though, might be nice to get a random in game post card from places in the world I've never been.

@theSLAYER My thoughts exactly, so even trading regional Pokemon with a friend is not going to be easy. If you become "best friends" with someone in game you seem to get a discount on stardust when trading, as to how much that is on 1million though...

I think to get best friend status with someone you need to do raids with them on 4x different days.

I think it's going to be difficult to fill in your Pokedex gaps with trading, however the rewards could make it a benefit to trade Pokemon with bad IV's to someone you know locally to get better IV's and possible more rare candy from it.

Niantic have announced brand-new ways to interact with your friends in Pokémon GO! The Friends feature will start rolling out to Trainers later this week, allowing you to connect with your real-life friends and keep track of their adventures in Pokémon GO. You’ll be able to send them items, earn bonuses and even trade Pokémon!

In order to add a friend in Pokémon GO, you must first ask them to share their Trainer Code with you. To invite a Trainer to become your friend, simply enter their Trainer Code and then send them a request. If they accept, you’ll become friends, and you’ll see them in your Friends List.

You can read the full announcement, complete with screenshots here: Make Way for Friends, Trading, and Gifting in Pokémon GO!

Needless to say i'm pretty excited to see trading added, however due to the star dust requirements for trading Pokemon you don't already have, this shouldn't be seen as an easy way to mass finish the Pokedex. It could however be a nice way to obtain regional or raid only Pokemon you might have missed if you have a local friend with those Pokemon.

It seems like if you do a raid with a trainer that's your "best friend" you can get 4x extra balls, which will be handy for hard to capture legendaries.

@Michael J. Caboose I don't see why not, everything to make that possible already exists. It's possible to backup and restore save games on the Switch and datamine games. Theirs already save editors for certain games out there and it's even possible to bring your Wii U save of Zelda: Breath of the Wild over to the Switch.

Why inject fakes though? similar to the Gen 3 events where we have been preserving legit event Pokemon, the same can be done for Pokemon from Go. Myself, @theSLAYER and a couple of others are already interested in putting together a living Pokedex of legit Pokemon from Go.

In later generations i'm missing a few myself too. Suicune and Entei from Gen 2 and Groudon from Gen 3. Hopefully by the time we can transfer these to future games everyone will have them thanks to research tasks though. I suspect you should be able to level theses up a lot easier on the Lets Go games too.

For regional exclusives i'm sure people on here would happily trade them with each other. I'm hoping someone form the US can trade me a unique Tauros as that's the only regional Gen 1 we've had no event for in the UK yet, it's also the last Gen 1 I need.

Either way anyone here interested in Pokemon stuff on the Switch should buy one sooner, rather than later. Every Switch out in the wild today is hackable and always will be regardless of the firmware version it's on. However Nintendo will release an updated hardware revision which patches the RCM exploit, theirs already references to this in later firmware updates, so it's just a matter of time.

2 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

That's good to hear! A few of the Legendary birds (and Japan/Asia exclusives) I'll probably transfer from my main,
and everything else can come from you and Jase (he's playing another alt account for us right now)

[I'm at 111 Kanto Pokemon on the Alt, so a bulk will come from that living dex]

Tho I'm wondering how the OT trainer system would work.
The demonstration showed we're using a standard ball from our inventory,
so I'm wondering if the ball information and move information gets updated, as tho we are catching a wild Pokemon. (so OT is us)

Having a look though my game it appears I have transferred some Pokemon I had multiples of at some point.

Potentially rare Pokemon I only have 1x of:

• Hitmonchan
• Hitmonlee
• Electabuzz
• Lapras
• Mew (Can't transfer it anyway apparently)

Potentially rare Pokemon I have multiples of:

• Farfetch'd (21x) (Regional)
• Kangaskhan (5x) (Regional)
• Mr Mime (7x) (UK Regional, I so can catch very frequently)
• Gyarados (2x) (Got enough candy for 3x more, waiting for that shiny karp!)
• Porygon (7x)
• Snorlax (5x)
• Articuno (3x)
• Zapdos (4x)
• Moltres (5x)
• Dragonite (8x)
• Mewtwo (4x)

Pokemon I don't have:

• Tauros (Regional)

Theirs also a few like Ekans / Arbok I only have 1x of, however that's easy enough to sort out. Between a few of us on here I can't really see any Pokemon been an issue to be honest.

In regards to the OT I hope it keeps your Pokemon Go trainer name, I suspect the ball information might change too, however i'd be ok with that.

I'm curious if the location data of where the Pokemon was caught in the real world will remain too. I do think that will be nice been able to see that on the Switch games.

1 hour ago, jojo12100 said:

According to Serebii.net PGO Mew cannot be transfered to Let's Go, should I have to add anything ? (disgusted)

That's annoying as it would have been nice to have a completed Gen 1 Pokemon Go living dex on the Switch.

Serebii also mentions "It's also noted that the Mew gift may not be able to be redeemed after a certain period of time. This period of time is unclear"

8 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

I created a second account to obtain Mew. XD
BTW I've been meaning to ask you regarding that.

Gonna need help for Go region exclusives.
I'm aiming to collect all 151 in Go, to be transferred over.

I'm looking to do that too so happy to help and collaborate on that.

I've got every Gen 1 Pokemon except Tauros, I've also got multiples of everything except Mew so can happily transfer most of them.

The Switch is already hacked with save game backup and restoration possible. So my plan is to obtain the Mew and dump a copy of my save right after. Given time i'm sure PKHeX will be updated to support the games, meaning we can preserve this event and make it available the same as others.

In regards to Let's Go been a success, personally I don't think it will be anything but that. Even if more core players don't like it theirs enough Pokemon Go players out there who will be interested in it im sure.

The Let's Go games and Pokeball accessories are already the best selling item in there respective Amazon categories:

Everyone I know with a Switch is already planning on buying Let's Go.

You can transfer a Mew from Pokemon Go too, so if you've played that enough to obtain Mew then you have options.

However from what I gather anything transferred from Pokemon Go can't go back which makes me reluctant to do that.

1 hour ago, theSLAYER said:

In any case, it's a move to push sales.

This just made me consider getting one. I originally wouldn't have gotten one.

 

That's really made me consider it now too, I do play a lot of Pokemon Go so it will have its uses too. It's just a lot of money for something that would be fun to have, but hardly essential.

Nintendo know how to market things to me! 

I'm neutral, selling genned / cloned Pokemon is not something i'd personally ever do. However the people who are selling stuff are offering a service, if people are willing to pay for that service then that's their choice. All the information is out there for someone to do it themselves, anyone paying is paying for someone else's time because they don't want to lean how to do it themselves.

Personally I don't believe in genning Pokemon, I think that spoils the game. Especially as GTS / Wondertrades are full of hacked / genned Pokemon, if your doing that you should be respectful of other players and keep it offline or to private trades. Don't do it in public or use these Pokemon in public battles.

If your playing offline I believe your free to play the game how you enjoy it the most. Some people might be against injecting / sharing / preserving event Pokemon. Personally i'm all for that, so it's really what you find acceptable when playing the game. People enjoy the games for different reasons.

I generally don't watch a lot of gaming related content on YouTube, however one channel i'm subscribed to is Trainer Tips which is interesting if your in to Pokemon Go.

I find the video's interesting where Trainer Tips goes to different places around the world to play with locals in that area. In particular I like the video where he goes to Singapore to play with Brandon Tan, it's an eye opener just how hardcore some of the players over there are.

10 minutes ago, YoshiMoshi said:

For some reason I can't get it to run in old boy, can u help?

You need to use the fixed header version of the rom and it should work on emulators / real hardware

3 hours ago, Wanderer1391 said:

Where did the beta versions of G/S come from you may ask? Someone posted this anonymously

 

Is that confirmed? I remember reading that on 4chan this Tuesday when people were wondering if the screenshots were real. I guess it probably is as everything else in that that thread has turned out to be true.

The map which is certainly very interesting to look at:

On November 15th 1997 a playable demo of Pokémon Gold and Silver debuted at Space World '97. This demo was never to be seen again until today. On May 31st 2018 an anonymous person dumped a ROM of the elusive demos, twenty years and six months since it was last playable by the public.

Pokemon Gold and Silver we're originally supposed to be released in 1998, however didn't arrive until November 21 1999 in Japan. With that in mind the final versions of Pokemon Gold and Silver is two years more developed then the Space World 97 Demos, making this an extraordinary find, even more so that it's made it's way to the public.

Their is a Google Spreadsheet with Info on a WIP translation from people who've had this for a while it seems. I can't post that though as it also links to the rom.

On the debug roms you can press select at the title screen to view the main debug menu.

Pressing Down + B + A at the title screen will allow you to adjust the time.

It's more like an alternative timeline (if you will) in the same universe. After the core game in 2019, a similar game to this might be released in 2020, however set in Johto. Nintendo seems to want to release a Pokemon game each year, so at least this would give some variation between the games if so.

8 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

 

@InsaneNutter actually they've mentioned a few times this is a core series game.

Ah interesting I hadn't seen that mentioned. It's certainly the most unique core series game then, which to me is not a bad thing personally.

With that in mind i'd suspect eventually any Pokemon obtained in this / Go could be traded up to Gen 8. I was thinking to myself these games and Go might well be kept separate.

@YoshiMoshi keep in mind this isn't a core Pokemon game, that will come next year.

This is a spin off designed to appeal to the audience who enjoy Pokemon Go, I suspect many of these people might never have played past Pokemon adventures on Nintendo's consoles (based on speaking to people i've met when out playing Pokemon Go). This would be a good introduction to the Pokemon franchise on the Switch, with the view of getting a different type of player in to Gen 8 when released.

For me personally I see this more as Pokemon Go with a single player story you can play at home, allowing Kanto to be explored with totally different game mechanics compared to the traditional core franchise. The co-op feature looks really interesting to me too as historically Pokemon has been a very much a solo experience beyond trading / battling.

I suspect you will be able to trade with Pokemon Go and that's it. Pokemon will likely only have two moves and similar mechanics to Pokemon Go (CP for example).

Pokemon Let's go Eevee and Let's go Pikachu have been officially announced for the Nintendo Switch, complete with Pokemon Go integration. These games are a remake of the original GameBoy games, in particular Pokemon Yellow, however played in the style of Pokemon Go.

Instead of running through grass and encountering wild Pokemon that you take on in one-on-one challenges, gamers will swipe at Pokemon with the joycons to catch them, similar to how Pokemon are caught in Pokemon Go with a touch screen.

What's also interesting is Let's go Eevee and Let's go Pikachu look to have a co-op mode, where two people can explore Kanto on one Switch console.

More can be seen in the trailer below:

It's worth keeping in mind this is not a core Pokemon game. This is a spin off designed to appeal to the audience who enjoy Pokemon Go, however might never have played past Pokemon adventures on Nintendo's consoles.

As someone who's still enjoying Pokemon Go I must admit i'm rather excited for Let's go Eevee and Let's go Pikachu, the game will offer us a different way of exploring the best looking version of Kanto yet. In addition I like that Pokemon will be able to be transferred between the Switch and Pokemon Go, hopefully allowing Pokemon from Go to be preserved when the Pokemon Go servers will no doubt close down one day.

Pokemon Let's go Eevee and Let's go Pikachu will be released on November 16th 2018.

I was pretty impressed with this community day, I managed to catch 9x Shiny Mareep