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Twibs in #Pokegoons started a Nuzlocke run in Gen3, and I've been wanting to start one of my own for a while. I asked the channel which game I should play (excluding Gen4/5 because they're not wholly emulator-compatable). Twibs said Yellow, and wanting something interesting, I dug up a traditional Chinese copy.
I apologize in advance for what will probably be terrible chinese transcription! The post will also contain a smattering of hanzi.
Nuzlocke Rules For This Run
• If a Pokémon faints, you must release it as soon as possible.
• If all your Pokémon faint, you must start over.
• You must nickname every Pokémon you catch. (impossible!)
• You may only attempt to capture the first Pokémon you encounter in each area, route, cave, city, etc. If you don't catch it, tough shit.
Right off the bat, I notice you can't pick nonstandard names for yourself/rival, so I'm Linzai (or Linzi?) -- 霖仔 -- and my rival is Abing (阿兵).
I get the Potion (一服) from my PC, head downstairs, talk to mom, scroll through text I can't read, and head outside and into the tall grass!
Oak runs up to me and catches a Pikachu, then drags me back to the lab. Gary -- I mean, Abing -- snatches what would have been my Eevee and Oak gives me that random Pikachu. If I attempt to nickname it, the game flails around for a second before kicking me away from the menu and naming it "PkMn".
The chinese name for Pikachu appears to be 皮瓊. (I may have it wrong; it's hard for me to be sure of hanzi details in 8bit.) I'll call it Pichiong. (I like Yale romanization better)
Fight time.
After a while, I start to notice something.
Is that...
Yes. Yes it is.
Some fields loaded into memory are overwriting Pichiong's name as they hit the textbox.
I defeat Abing with my magical name-changing Pikachu.
Pichiong's stats. Check out that attack-name formatting. :V
I don't get the Town Map from Abing's sister. I'll be juggling enough items that I won't remember the names of, no need to add one I don't use to the mix.
Then I head off to Viridian City.
Encountering a Pidgey with no PokéBalls means I won't be catching anything on Route 1, but I can go kick the grumpy old man.
And get this Potion.
Oh yeah, I get Oak's Parcel and head back to deliver that, too.
Abing and I get Pokédexes. I will be completely ignoring mine. 8D
I go grab some Pokéballs as soon as I figure out which item is Pokéballs. (精靈球 -- Spirit Balls, apparently.) I also get Antidotes (解毒劑) because poison is serious business in the early generations.
Line alignment is pretty terrible in shop menus. And I think I can do ram hacking by scrolling up when the cursor is already at the top. I'm too nervous to experiment. (What I mean is insanity like this. In-depth explanation)
My inventory. 3 Potions, 4 Antidotes, 10 PokéBalls. I'm stopping here for now (gotta work on my NaNoWriMo project, so close to completion!!).
Will there be a Part 2?! I felt a sudden desire to do this in LP-style, so I wrote this post... We'll see if I can remember :o Maybe this will be my next project once I complete this NaNo! (*crosses fingers*)
(Part 2)
Twibs in #Pokegoons started a Nuzlocke run in Gen3, and I've been wanting to start one of my own for a while. I asked the channel which game I should play (excluding Gen4/5 because they're not wholly emulator-compatable). Twibs said Yellow, and wanting something interesting, I dug up a traditional Chinese copy.
I apologize in advance for what will probably be terrible chinese transcription! The post will also contain a smattering of hanzi.
Nuzlocke Rules For This Run
• If a Pokémon faints, you must release it as soon as possible.
• If all your Pokémon faint, you must start over.
• You may only attempt to capture the first Pokémon you encounter in each area, route, cave, city, etc. If you don't catch it, tough shit.
Right off the bat, I notice you can't pick nonstandard names for yourself/rival, so I'm Linzai (or Linzi?) -- 霖仔 -- and my rival is Abing (阿兵).
I get the Potion (一服) from my PC, head downstairs, talk to mom, scroll through text I can't read, and head outside and into the tall grass!
Oak runs up to me and catches a Pikachu, then drags me back to the lab. Gary -- I mean, Abing -- snatches what would have been my Eevee and Oak gives me that random Pikachu. If I attempt to nickname it, the game flails around for a second before kicking me away from the menu and naming it "PkMn".
The chinese name for Pikachu appears to be 皮瓊. (I may have it wrong; it's hard for me to be sure of hanzi details in 8bit.) I'll call it Pichiong. (I like Yale romanization better)
Fight time.
After a while, I start to notice something.
Is that...
Yes. Yes it is.
Some fields loaded into memory are overwriting Pichiong's name as they hit the textbox.
I defeat Abing with my magical name-changing Pikachu.
Pichiong's stats. Check out that attack-name formatting. :V
I don't get the Town Map from Abing's sister. I'll be juggling enough items that I won't remember the names of, no need to add one I don't use to the mix.
Then I head off to Viridian City.
Encountering a Pidgey with no PokéBalls means I won't be catching anything on Route 1, but I can go kick the grumpy old man.
And get this Potion.
Oh yeah, I get Oak's Parcel and head back to deliver that, too.
Abing and I get Pokédexes. I will be completely ignoring mine. 8D
I go grab some Pokéballs as soon as I figure out which item is Pokéballs. (精靈球 -- Spirit Balls, apparently.) I also get Antidotes (解毒劑) because poison is serious business in the early generations.
Line alignment is pretty terrible in shop menus. And I think I can do ram hacking by scrolling up when the cursor is already at the top. I'm too nervous to experiment. (What I mean is insanity like this. In-depth explanation)
My inventory. 3 Potions, 4 Antidotes, 10 PokéBalls. I'm stopping here for now (gotta work on my NaNoWriMo project, so close to completion!!).
Will there be a Part 2?! I felt a sudden desire to do this in LP-style, so I wrote this post... We'll see if I can remember :o Maybe this will be my next project once I complete this NaNo! (*crosses fingers*)
(Part 2)