we're using NetBattle Supremacy (gayest name ever), a client with a fantastic GUI, at-your-fingertips information about everything in the goddamn game, and pretty pictures. please for the love of god just opt to turn the sound/music off.

even if you don't know what the hell you're doing you should play anyway.

1. install the fucker

2. it'll ask you to set up some default options, do that. you can change them later if you accidentally allowed either sound or music.

3. you have to build a team using the main menu's XTeam Builder before you can connect to a server; a row of six psyducks constitutes a full team, so don't overwork yourself if you don't want to.

4. after you're done pimping out your psyducks and giving yourself a name, hit OStart Battling (now that it's available to click), hit the Advanced... button in the bottom left

5. leave shit alone, except the text entry field: replace it with "brugenhagen.com" BUT IT'S PASSWORDED SO GET AHOLD OF ME ON AIM FIRST OR NO DICE, we don't want any chilean negroes on the server

6. now connect, you'll see what's essentially an IRC window with faggots lined up on the left. type shit so we know who you are and how we can help you BE A POKEMON MASTER

if you don't know what IRC is, don't know what ventrilo (vent) is, and don't like it when someone belches in the microphone, this is not for you.

+COOL INFO FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW SHIT ALREADY (by that i mean mason):+

1. the game forces legal movesets and EVs, but you can have maximum IVs (all 31s), nobody cares.

2. it supports double battles (awesome), "Challenge Cup" battles that give everyone random pokemon with random moves (gay), and custom rules including one that disables double team completely (gay)

3. yes it has all the sprites from every game, you can technically even download a Pokemon Stadium graphics pack, and it supports shiny pokemon (alternate palette colors)

4. yes, there evidently IS a built-in voicechat protocol in the game, but we don't use it. ventrilo is better.

WUT R TEH CHEETZ?

jigglypuff

what

JYNX uses HYPER BEAM!

i'm not even joking about this, i will ruin you all to hell

one of you HAS to play pokemons

I used to back in the day, but that was back in the day.

I will sit in IRC and collect cards, but not actually play. That was my pokemon experience.

I still have Pokemon Sapphire and Blue.
Somewhere.

A wild MISSINGNO. appears!

missingno. was actually one of THE most badass motherfuckers out there. he had the highest base ATK stat of all pokemon, and if you did it right, he could learn any moves. he also had a 0 DEF stat, still the lowest out of all pokemon and in fact the lowest base stat number ever, meaning he would always die in a single hit from physical attacks. BUT GOD HELP YOU IF HE MADE CONTACT.

we might set up an online battle server, more on this if we do it.

ArticUNO
ZapDOS
MolTRES

Viridian City Gym is shaped like a Clefairy

Ekans is Snake backwards
Arbok is Kobra backwards

Ash KETCHUM -> Ash Catch 'Em -> Gotta Catch 'Em All

Lt. SURGE = Electric = Electric Surge
Misty = Water = Mist
Brock = Rock = bRock
Sabrina = Psychic = Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Brick shit initiated.

Fu-

that's actually entirely false and anyone who believes it should be ashamed :\

the japanese red/green games have several error code messages that infrequently appear during normal gameplay, one of which is KETSUBAN (literally "Missing Number") which was translated to the american red/blue releases as MISSINGNO. it's the error message returned when the game tries to draw from an entry in the random encounter table that contains no data. this happens when you manage to clear or fuck up the random encounter data block in a town, then initiate a random encounter before the game updates that memory block with the random encounter data for the map.

since that data isn't updated when entering a town (since, normally, towns have no random encounters), warping to a specific town map with a programming oversight allowing for random battles will start spawning missingno. as the game registers a missing entry in the random encounter table.

also a kangaskhan whose mother dies is a kangaskhan with a dead mother. in the first game, a dead marowak's ghost is even explained to be the deceased mother of a cubone.

nice sprite mashup though. if you look at it just right, it's a duck with an exit wound in the back of its head.

addendum: gee, for a sprite that's allegedly for the red/blue games, it sure has a lot of colors which wouldn't display on a gameboy! that and it's just an assortment of sprite-bits pieced together from similar-looking pokemon (totodile, charmander, etc.)

also we set up a server for playing pokemans over the internet. refer to first post in thread, which is now updated with links and instructions and shit.