...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, ΞΞ.
finally, the accidental gotta see (almost) 'em all run comes to an end
thanks to
doing my first ever multiworld randomizer (it is, of course, archipelago august)
and severely fucked up on the generator side which might make it difficult to finish, but weβll see
additional info/context under jump:
after making a big list with strategies, the answer to problem 1 turned out to be nidorina... which since i sorted most of the evolutions by level, was a nice surprise
(annoyingly, the trainer immediately after where you're meant to get cut had one, so i could have saved a lot of hassle in trying to find this information).
this leads us back to problem 2, i got the badge needed for surf after doing the cut checks, meaning the lack of ability to get charmander is a blocker
so hopefully someone can teach me how to fish
(and also it's the right way of doing so)
have made a list of all outstanding checks and what's locking them
...i wonder if the final playtime will be higher in pokemon or in the sudoku i'm doing for hints while waiting
from hints, confirmation that the only thing blocking me from beating the game at this point is finding a charmander
either i need the super rod (a long way into dark souls 3)
or potentially, i need fly - cinnabar might have been given as the free fly point in the randomizer options, and if it was then i can try reviving the fossils.
the HM for Fly is somewhere within Inscryption, but i haven't found the mon that can use it anyway
so this morning was another evolution spree grind trying to find what that mon is so not stuck when the inscryption player finds the HM
(the only things left to see at this point are gloom, arcanine, onix, weezing, rhydon, chansey, scyther, tauros, aerodactyl, dragonite, and the legendaries. however, oddish is in seafoam and growlithe is in victory road, so those are out)
got the fly HM
evolved everything there was still access to
i am now at the "checking the ROM via hex editor" stage of making absolutely sure that i'm blocked.
(cheating? maybe, but at least it stops me putting in more time for something i now know to be impossible)
04 27 34 2B 41 32 14 14 80 41 55 5C 5C 5C 5D 0A 2D 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
1E 46 3E 43 38 37 03 03 80 75 66 8B 54 C8 55 2D 21 0A 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
7E 41 5F 39 5D 55 14 14 80 A7 66 61 61 BF 62 34 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
94 3D 54 41 46 46 1A 1A 80 90 66 97 52 D9 53 23 2B 56 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
these are the data structures for charmander, nidorina, magmar, and dragonair, indicated by the first value. the important columns are the series of 00s at the end with a number there - that's TM and HM compatibility.
04 in that second to last column indicates that nidorina can learn cut (00000100)
10 in that second column indicates that charmander can learn surf (00010000)
and there's nothing with 08 (00001000), which i believe should be fly
so yeah if charmander isn't a super rod encounter, i don't know where it is.
i can see a L38 one in an encounter table somewhere but i have no idea which encounter table that is, it doesn't seem to correspond to the vanilla locations exactly (going by the disassembly's ROM map
(but it is fairly close to where the vanilla super rod tables would be)
so yeah, at least i got reminded about hex editing from this, it's been a long time since i last had to do it
thanks to bulbapedia on the pokemon structure
the dark souls player's save corrupted and they had to release all items
which means
doing my first ever multiworld randomizer (it is, of course, archipelago august)
and severely fucked up on the generator side which might make it difficult to finish, but weβll see
additional info/context under jump:
after making a big list with strategies, the answer to problem 1 turned out to be nidorina... which since i sorted most of the evolutions by level, was a nice surprise
(annoyingly, the trainer immediately after where you're meant to get cut had one, so i could have saved a lot of hassle in trying to find this information).
this leads us back to problem 2, i got the badge needed for surf after doing the cut checks, meaning the lack of ability to get charmander is a blocker
so hopefully someone can teach me how to fish
(and also it's the right way of doing so)
have made a list of all outstanding checks and what's locking them
...i wonder if the final playtime will be higher in pokemon or in the sudoku i'm doing for hints while waiting
from hints, confirmation that the only thing blocking me from beating the game at this point is finding a charmander
either i need the super rod (a long way into dark souls 3)
or potentially, i need fly - cinnabar might have been given as the free fly point in the randomizer options, and if it was then i can try reviving the fossils.
the HM for Fly is somewhere within Inscryption, but i haven't found the mon that can use it anyway
so this morning was another evolution spree grind trying to find what that mon is so not stuck when the inscryption player finds the HM
(the only things left to see at this point are gloom, arcanine, onix, weezing, rhydon, chansey, scyther, tauros, aerodactyl, dragonite, and the legendaries. however, oddish is in seafoam and growlithe is in victory road, so those are out)
got the fly HM
evolved everything there was still access to
i am now at the "checking the ROM via hex editor" stage of making absolutely sure that i'm blocked.
(cheating? maybe, but at least it stops me putting in more time for something i now know to be impossible)
04 27 34 2B 41 32 14 14 80 41 55 5C 5C 5C 5D 0A 2D 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
1E 46 3E 43 38 37 03 03 80 75 66 8B 54 C8 55 2D 21 0A 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
7E 41 5F 39 5D 55 14 14 80 A7 66 61 61 BF 62 34 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00
94 3D 54 41 46 46 1A 1A 80 90 66 97 52 D9 53 23 2B 56 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
these are the data structures for charmander, nidorina, magmar, and dragonair, indicated by the first value. the important columns are the series of 00s at the end with a number there - that's TM and HM compatibility.
04 in that second to last column indicates that nidorina can learn cut (00000100)
10 in that second column indicates that charmander can learn surf (00010000)
and there's nothing with 08 (00001000), which i believe should be fly
so yeah if charmander isn't a super rod encounter, i don't know where it is.
i can see a L38 one in an encounter table somewhere but i have no idea which encounter table that is, it doesn't seem to correspond to the vanilla locations exactly (going by the disassembly's ROM map
(but it is fairly close to where the vanilla super rod tables would be)
so yeah, at least i got reminded about hex editing from this, it's been a long time since i last had to do it
thanks to bulbapedia on the pokemon structure
finally got apple photos to recognize one of my vrchat screenshots as containing an Animal
(a lot of them contain Animals, was just getting apple photos to recognize it)