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Okay Retro Gaming Megathread. I present to you my Nintendo portables collection:  Left to right, starting at the top: First Row - * Game Boy * Game Boy Play It Loud series * Game Boy Pocket (first model with no power light) * Game Boy Pocket (second model with power light) * Game Boy Light * Game Boy Color Second Row - * Game Boy Advance * Game Boy Advance SP * Game Boy Advance SP Mk. II * Game Boy Micro * Nintendo DS * Nintendo DS Lite Third Row - * Nintendo DSi * Nintendo DSi XL * Nintendo 3DS * Nintendo 3DS XL Horribly Photoshopped into the frame because it wouldn't fit in the normal spread: * Virtual Boy Everything is a different model number, excluding the Play It Loud DMG-001. MY COLLECTION IS NEARLY COMPLETE. Once my Pokémon Mini arrives, I'll be all set until Nintendo releases another portable console. nolen fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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nolen posted:Okay Retro Gaming Megathread. Your DS Lite has poop on it. Awesome collection, gotta get some Game & Watches and maybe some of those weird Kellogg's watches in there too! 
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Apr 16, 2013 03:18
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Panic Restaurant posted:Your DS Lite has poop on it. It clearly says "dood". You are just reading it upside down duh. And yeah, I've considered some of the novelty portables but decided to stop at the Pokémon Mini since it's technically a cartridge-based system released by Nintendo.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:22
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I still laugh thinking about folks using the virtual boy as a true portable console. I'd like to see a picture of someone on a bus or in a park with their face stuck in one someday.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:30
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Jitzu_the_Monk posted:I'm not trying to be obnoxious with the sideways photos. For some reason no matter the orientation before upload, photobucket reorients them in portrait mode. Rotating images within photobucket itself doesn't seem to help; neither does changing my user settings. Anyway... Damnit I meant to have this post sitting here in a tab so I could work on it later but I accidentally hit post. I'm working on getting a list of my dupes and trade stuff up, but definitely consider me interested in your Battletoads Double Dragon game. Also while I'm at it I wouldn't mind scoring Turok 3 from Miyamotas RGB. Post of my stuff eventually coming. For content/cocktease...I got my as-is SMS 3D glasses the other day...and they worked perfectly! If I ever get off work and some energy I'll post on that too. Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 03:32
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StellarX posted:I still laugh thinking about folks using the virtual boy as a true portable console. I'd like to see a picture of someone on a bus or in a park with their face stuck in one someday. Keith Apicary was able to play the Virtual Boy while at E3.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:45
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Clearly I picked the wrong day to get these DAT files done.  No matter. Here's a 4-set, including a slightly-fixed N8 DAT, an SD2SNES DAT, an Everdrive 64 DAT and a Mega Everdrive DAT.Set of 4 Everdrive DATs for Clrmamepro The Everdrive 64 only contains NTSC-formatted games because PAL games don't work with my setup, so sorry about that. It does, however, contain NES ROMs since they play through an emulator on the ED64, although don't expect great compatibility. Also, while most DATs only use CRC checksums, I also included MD5 and SHA1 for this set because I think some pirate ROMs online specifically ensured they had matching CRCs, the bastards. The Mega Everdrive has 3 root ROM folders: 32X ROMs (you must play with a 32x), GENROMs (you can play on anything Genesis/Mega Drive), and NO32X (the contents will ONLY work on a Genesis with no 32x attached). NO32X is essentially Sega Master System ROMs, plus a few large ROM hacks like Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy that require special pinouts the 32x cuts off. I recall also deleting the European Streets of Rage ROM as it could tell I wasn't playing on a PAL console. I believe the Everdrive MD will support the bulk of what's in here, I think you'd just have to delete some Korean SMS games and larger ROM hacks like the UMK Trilogy mentioned earlier. I doubt I'll spend much more time on these since they're pretty thorough as-is, but feel free to suggest corrections or extra info, especially with regards to which games required or optionally used special hardware like the SNES Mouse, Multi-taps etc. Also, I touched on this earlier but I don't think the other ROM sets benefit much from what I'm doing, but I might do a TG16 one when I get my Turbo Everdrive Deluxe.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:They're separate from Creative Assembly Brisbane, yeah? I know those guys pulled double duty as Sega Australia, but I don't know anything about Sega Studios Australia at all. Apparently CAB got renamed to Sega Studios Australia, so.. umm..  I wonder what it is about Australian game development that makes the studios so.. volatile. I mean, Probe died ages back (and deserved it), but Team Bondi, SSA.. the only one that hasn't up and imploded yet is probably Halfbrick.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:47
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nolen posted:Okay Retro Gaming Megathread. I love how the Virtual Boy looms over the rest like a tyrannosaurus. Sheesh, even the ancient brick Game Boy looks tiny.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:51
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I'll come up with a big trade list in a second because I already have traded a poo poo ton of games with most of you. Can I get your extra Zero Tolerance though Joe Man? I've walked around my house wearing a Virtual Boy strapped to my head before but I wouldn't do it unless I really trusted the people I was with...
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Apr 16, 2013 03:53
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One of the few times I met him he was wearing his Virtual Boy suit designed by the lady that made some of Daft Punk's suits.
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Apr 16, 2013 03:54
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kirbysuperstar posted:Apparently CAB got renamed to Sega Studios Australia, so.. umm.. Oh, crap. I figured it was partly due to the $AUD being so high and partly due to the fact that most of the big studios like Krome or whatever generally worked on licensed/shovelware crap, so when the shovelware market started to wane these studios couldn't afford to stay open. Apparently a lot of the Team Bondi dudes ended up at Animal Logic (George Miller's film studio) and are going to be working on some open-world game about British colonialism in China or something? It sounded like a complete load of wank and another scam from Brendan Macnamara, but what do I know.
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Apr 16, 2013 04:14
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Alright, here's my weird setup question. I have the following cable. It's s-video and male on both ends. One end goes into the TV, the other goes into this thing.  This has a female s-video connection and a female composite connection. This goes onto a standard, run of the mill yellow/white/red composite cable, which then gets plugged into this thing.  That has a Saturn, a Genesis and a dvd player plugged into the various ports. I guess I'm asking two things. First, would there be any improvement in picture quality with a setup that runs the signal first through the cord, then an adapter, then a different type of cord, or is something like the adapter above a thing that that would be used in case you don't have a free composite port? Second, does running it through the splitter impact it in any way? Er, or I suppose I could just fiddle around with it all and see. 
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Apr 16, 2013 04:26
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Quiet Feet posted:Alright, here's my weird setup question. I have the following cable. Why use the S-video at all? Does your TV not have composite? If you're outputting composite from the splitter then there's no advantage by converting to S-Video. Running video through the splitter can affect it. I have a really terrible powered splitter here that noticeably affects the video, but I've got another one that I can't even notice.
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Apr 16, 2013 04:32
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nolen posted:Okay Retro Gaming Megathread. Very nice. I envy people with the red original Game Boy, those things are slick looking. Also, kudos to you for keeping all of your systems in good shape, a lot of mine didn't make it.
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Apr 16, 2013 05:04
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Quiet Feet posted:Alright, here's my weird setup question. I have the following cable. wa27 posted:Why use the S-video at all? Does your TV not have composite? If you're outputting composite from the splitter then there's no advantage by converting to S-Video. The TV definitely has composite. I got the impression from this thread that there was some hierarchy of display technology where s-video was higher up than composite. I know nothing about A/V stuff, but the latter part of your answer is what I was looking for, thanks.
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Apr 16, 2013 05:06
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Lots of Sonic 2s. If anyone knows that they have revision 00 I want it. Hint: it's never the not-for-resale version. 
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Apr 16, 2013 05:23
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:For reference, here is what a magic eraser does (doesnt) do to N64 carts. No idea if they are made of the same plastic as any other systems carts From personal experience I know that magic eraser is not something you want to use on any of these plastics (including N64). It's really hard to tell from those pictures. It should be a last resort after you've tried rubbing alcohol and Goo Gone. To remind anyone who isn't familiar: magic eraser is a strong (and somewhat abrasive) cleaner that can get rid of marker and all that gunk. The problem is, if you rub it onto these plastics, it will basically rub off the texture and give it a 'smooth' look that you can't get rid of. It can also ruin the labels. It might seem minor, especially if you're not cleaning a large area or it comes out easily, but it's pretty much guaranteed to cause that. Quiet Feet posted:The TV definitely has composite. I got the impression from this thread that there was some hierarchy of display technology where s-video was higher up than composite. I know nothing about A/V stuff, but the latter part of your answer is what I was looking for, thanks. Basically, converting any signal to another kind (like composite to s-video, or reverse) will only make the signal worse. Just making a 1:1 connection with a composite switch won't change it. The only exception to this is with LCD TVs that make a composite signal look like trash.
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Apr 16, 2013 05:24
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Heran Bago posted:Lots of Sonic 2s. If anyone knows that they have revision 00 I want it. Hint: it's never the not-for-resale version. Are there any other differences? I think my Sonic 2 might be that, not sure though as it's in storage. Not that I'm looking to get rid of it, either, I'm just a curious little wanker.
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Apr 16, 2013 05:33
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univbee posted:Clearly I picked the wrong day to get these DAT files done. I don't think anybody else has said this yet, but thanks. I have an SD2SNES and nearly all the Everdrive units except the N8 (waiting for my deluxe edition to ship), the Super Everdrive (no point with the SD2SNES), and an Everdrive MD (gave mine to shymog after getting a Mega Everdrive), so whatever you want to come up with for organizing ROMs would be awesome. I've just done basic title-sorting, so doing sorts by country and such is awesome.
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DeathBySpoon posted:I'm interested in UMK3. I'd be willing to paypal you something for it if nothing in my trades catches your attention. DeathBySpoon, I don't see that you have PMs. E-mail me at psdarkforce@gmail.com. Maybe we can work out something for that Children of Mana if nobody else has claimed it?
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Quiet Feet posted:The TV definitely has composite. I got the impression from this thread that there was some hierarchy of display technology where s-video was higher up than composite. I know nothing about A/V stuff, but the latter part of your answer is what I was looking for, thanks. What you have to remember is, crap in, crap out. Yes, S-Video will be better quality, but converting composite to svideo won't look any better. The source of the video has to be svideo already to see the improved picture quality.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Are there any other differences? I think my Sonic 2 might be that, not sure though as it's in storage. Not that I'm looking to get rid of it, either, I'm just a curious little wanker. There are a good many differences. The thing is they're mostly bug fixes and minor music tweaks that you would never notice. Revision 00 isn't actually rare since it's the first run of the game, it's just hard to identify because you have to dump it or level select and play/debug to one of those pictured points to find out. There's a spelling mistake in the credits too I guess. http://sost.emulationzone.org/sonic_2/versions/revisions/rev00.htm http://www.hacking-cult.org/?r/4/86
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Apr 16, 2013 06:37
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It costs less money to buy "Robot Block" (Stack Up) CIB, "Robot Gyro" (Gyromite) CIB, and Famicom Robot CIB then it does to buy "Stack Up" CIB for NES.
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Got around to taking some pics, so here is some retro room porn for you guys: The setup.  Storage bins for controllers and such.  NES & SNES  N64!  Sega Genesis Shrine, Xbox, PS2  AV Famicom, PSOne, Wii, Gamecube, Dreamcast  Game/Accessory shelf  Game/DVD shelf w/ 20 lb cat accessory  Power Rack  Nightmare behind the power racks   System Selectors  Disc games/Gameboy binders in storage under TV I also did a video a few weeks ago that's pretty much just a tour of the room and a little explanation of how everything is set up: http://youtu.be/QtFgDtJF3Go
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I love nice, clean, subtle setups like that  . I'm also super jealous of the Nintendo portable collection going on at the top of the page  .I just brought in the television that I had in my guest room because I was tired of going to the basement to play Zelda and Megaman.   Also I didn't realise that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was an RPG of sorts; I really like it!
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Apr 16, 2013 07:53
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Tusen Takk posted:Also I didn't realise that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was an RPG of sorts; I really like it! Youll love it! You should also play the original Paper Mario and all of the Mario & Luigi games.
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Apr 16, 2013 08:30
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Gutcruncher posted:Youll love it! You should also play the original Paper Mario and all of the Mario & Luigi games. I agree except for the part where you should play all of the M&L games. Do yourself a big favor and skip Partners in Time.
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superh posted:I'm wondering if the thread has any good non-western action RPGs (or just plain quirky games) that they could recommend? I've had a lot of fun with Faxanadu, so stuff in that vein. I've got Maze of Galious on the way, but I'm not sure what else to look for! There's a lot of good-to-great action RPG's on the Famicom that didn't come out in the US. Check out the Dragon Buster series from Namco, the first one is a side-scroller like Faxanadu, the second one is top-down like Zelda, but feels more like a rogue-like without the grinding, it's just the way the dungeons were designed. Konami released a really good one called Getsu Fuuma-Den, it plays a lot like Zelda II or the first Ninja Turtles game on the NES, but I'd argue it's better than both of them, with a dark, shinto based depiction of Hell, an undead protagonist, and lots of Japanese demon enemies and some that looked like they just walked out of Castlevania. Konami released other really good Action RPG's / Adventure games on the Famicom like Dragon Scroll, King Kong 2 (you're Kong fighting slimes to save Mrs. Kong wut) and Ai Senshi Nicol aka Love Warrior Nicol, a Famicom Disk System game, but if you're planning on picking up an FDS eventually, I HIGHLY recommend picking it up. It's like the overhead sections of Blaster Master done RIGHT. I'm sure I'll come up with more once I get a chance to go through my Famicom collection, but for now this should be good.
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StellarX posted:
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Ambitious Spider posted:here are my doubles: How much would you take for the MGS discs?
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The first thing I noticed was the hidden cat in the television. The second thing I noticed was the portable games in binders. Like mentioned, I'm curious as to how many pages of GB games you can really fit in a binder, and second off, I heard somewhere that there can be a danger of static damaging the games when you store them in card binder pages so I'm curious if you've looked into that.
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What are you using to prop up the SNES controller like that? It's fantabulous! Mercury Crusader posted:Orange cats seem to be all the rage! ayup  Viewable in background: SNES and Wavebird controllers. Also semi-game related is orange cat's resemblance to Ulillillia  Not orange but his sister taking over my "gaming space" during brief bathroom break: 
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Tumor Baby posted:There's a lot of good-to-great action RPG's on the Famicom that didn't come out in the US. Check out the Dragon Buster series from Namco, the first one is a side-scroller like Faxanadu, the second one is top-down like Zelda, but feels more like a rogue-like without the grinding, it's just the way the dungeons were designed. These look great, thanks for the suggestions. I would probably never have checked out King Kong 2 without your suggestion, it looks wild.
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Midnight Raider posted:The first thing I noticed was the hidden cat in the television. The second thing I noticed was the portable games in binders. Like mentioned, I'm curious as to how many pages of GB games you can really fit in a binder, and second off, I heard somewhere that there can be a danger of static damaging the games when you store them in card binder pages so I'm curious if you've looked into that. I actually only have one page of games right now, so I'm not sure how many total I'd be able to fit. They are standard 9 slot trading card pages though. As far as the static thing, I got the idea from a few folks here and I've seen a few retro sites recommend them as a great storage solution and I've never heard of or had any problems with it damaging games. I don't think I'd do it with something like TG16 cards, though. Thanks for making me paranoid now.  Miyamotos RGB NES posted:What are you using to prop up the SNES controller like that? It's fantabulous! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003I8Z12I/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, a little foam tape, and one of the silly stickers SAG gives you with your cart: "I love the SD2SNES, it's so bad."  I actually got the stand for some other reason but noticed it held the controller perfectly. StellarX fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 12:15
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kirbysuperstar posted:I wonder what it is about Australian game development that makes the studios so.. volatile. I mean, Probe died ages back (and deserved it), but Team Bondi, SSA.. the only one that hasn't up and imploded yet is probably Halfbrick. PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I figured it was partly due to the $AUD being so high and partly due to the fact that most of the big studios like Krome or whatever generally worked on licensed/shovelware crap, so when the shovelware market started to wane these studios couldn't afford to stay open. The industry here seems mostly devoted to mobile and indie nowadays...
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Wasper posted:How much would you take for the MGS discs? No interesting trades? If not, I checked ebay and they tend to be in the 8-10 plus shipping range for a disc only copy, so does ten shipped work for you?
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JumpinJackFlash posted:It costs less money to buy "Robot Block" (Stack Up) CIB, "Robot Gyro" (Gyromite) CIB, and Famicom Robot CIB then it does to buy "Stack Up" CIB for NES. Japanese stuff is usually significantly cheaper than US versions. Especially anything popular or collectable. Tumor Baby posted:There's a lot of good-to-great action RPG's on the Famicom that didn't come out in the US. Starting at about 1988 it seems like half the games released in Japan were action-adventure like though usually they didn't get into actual RPG territory. The Dragon Buster series, for example, are definitely not RPG's. Tumor Baby posted:King Kong 2 (you're Kong fighting slimes to save Mrs. Kong wut) It's based on the film King Kong Lives which was titled King Kong 2 in Japan. I'm trying to slowly collect all of the Konami Famicom/NES games just because they did some interesting things with the system.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:If you want to do it yourself, it's not very difficult; I can give you good instructions. Only requires a solder remover ($15 at Radio Shack) and a soldering iron (you can get a cheap one for this type of job for like $15 at Radio Shack) and that's about it.  As a soldering novice I really, really recommend against getting a cheapie single setting iron. Replacing batteries with a substandard 'craft' iron made things way more difficult than they had to be... temperature control is a great thing to have when dealing with removal since the types of solder used in cartridges can vary. One copy of Super Mario world was much easier to work with than the other. The solder just did not want to melt at the temperature my single setting iron used. The tip also kinda eroded and ate itself which isn't its fault, really, I'd just never heard of the tips oxidizing and the advantages of tip tinning .It's $60 but this thing has been working out much better. I replaced four batteries yesterday without much of a fuss. I really wish I would've gotten this sooner. The four batteries in question were for Pocket Monsters Gold, Crystal, Ruby and Sapphire. I got those, Firered, Leafgreeen and a couple of other games for $60 shipped. The presence of  weird labels that had been applied over then mostly removed from Ruby and Sapphire's actual labels probably scared some people off. All of the details visible through Ruby's case looked legit so why not give them a try? They're all legit. I've been trading stuff back and forth between the NA and JP games with no issues. Although names in the Japanese games are indeed limited to displaying five characters they still save the full names from critters traded outside its region. Wesker would show as Weske in the JP games but any connected NA game (for trade or battle) would display its name being Wesker. I haven't tried meddling with R/S Box yet. I'm curious if only the OT can deposit/remove specific Pokémon or if it's more liberal than Colosseum. God, is that game fussy. I have some old guys in there that I can't do a thing with as their OT's game was erased.
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