Haked Pokemon: Kinda fun!
Jan. 27th, 2011 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI had expected using cheats to make the game a whole lot less fun, but at the moment it's actually kinda better.
I used the one that makes all wild pokemon turn into (whatever one you want) and made myself a dozen master balls. So my team currently is:
Charizard (level 8), Dragonite (5), Mew (8), Gyarados (7), Jolteon (8), and Houndoom (7).
They don't have extra moves or HP or anything, only their looks are different. So, for example, Gyarados knows only Thrash, nothing else. Mew knows only Pound. (I actually have a MewTwo in the computer, I thought its moves might be better, but Mew is pretty darned cute so I might stick with him.)
The downside to this hack is one I experienced before: Once you use it, you seem to not be able to go back to random wild pokemon encounters. Turns out that's kinda not so bad. I leave one type for a while, then switch it to something else. I started with only encountering Magikarp, but that quickly got boring (since it only knows Splash), so I switched it to Clefable and then to Pidgeot. (All the trainers you encounter still have their expected pokemon, so you still need to deal with type issues.)
I'm highly tempted to give myself TMs of the moves I want the pokemon to have (and the held items too), but that'd make it too easy I think, I'll just let them grow into them.
Edit: I might be wrong about there being no difference in my team except for how they look. Mew soloed Brock's Onix and got three and a half levels of exp. That can't be right!
I used the one that makes all wild pokemon turn into (whatever one you want) and made myself a dozen master balls. So my team currently is:
Charizard (level 8), Dragonite (5), Mew (8), Gyarados (7), Jolteon (8), and Houndoom (7).
They don't have extra moves or HP or anything, only their looks are different. So, for example, Gyarados knows only Thrash, nothing else. Mew knows only Pound. (I actually have a MewTwo in the computer, I thought its moves might be better, but Mew is pretty darned cute so I might stick with him.)
The downside to this hack is one I experienced before: Once you use it, you seem to not be able to go back to random wild pokemon encounters. Turns out that's kinda not so bad. I leave one type for a while, then switch it to something else. I started with only encountering Magikarp, but that quickly got boring (since it only knows Splash), so I switched it to Clefable and then to Pidgeot. (All the trainers you encounter still have their expected pokemon, so you still need to deal with type issues.)
I'm highly tempted to give myself TMs of the moves I want the pokemon to have (and the held items too), but that'd make it too easy I think, I'll just let them grow into them.
Edit: I might be wrong about there being no difference in my team except for how they look. Mew soloed Brock's Onix and got three and a half levels of exp. That can't be right!
