The Parasocial Gen 4 Pokémon Feature That Nobody Unlocked

I missed something BIG last time, it turns out there's more undocumented dialogue within the Battle Hall! Similar to my previous Hall video, I couldn't find any info on this online. Outside of the celebrity fans like Professor Oak, Jasmine, and Whitney, you have a super fan named Winston or Serena. It turns out these super fans have WAY more dialogue than I expected and it's unlocked in a separate way from the celebrity fans.
All footage captured on my Nintendo DS with authentic Pokemon Platinum and SoulSilver cartridges.
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[@SpearMKW]

crazy how this completing this feature requires a freaking Livingdex

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

or coming back regularly as you evolve new pokemon :p

[@mateusrp1994]

@@OatmealTheCrazy The minimum level of entry is 30, you have to actively hold back pokemon from evolving so you can enter with them in the facility.

[@DerToasti]

there is no way anyone has ever legitimately done this challenge. A full living dex plus a 20+ hour super repetitive grind.

[@FissionCube]

in a generation where there are just barely less pokemon than there are slots in the pc too. good luck storing much more than your team in a gen 4 save with a livedex

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

@@mateusrp1994 damn

[@leafarillo]

By Arceus, by Arceus, by Arceus! It's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you! Standing here! Next to me!

[@HelheimMudkip]

I do not need these two following me armed with only torches and a creepy smile!

[@TheDendran]

_Isn't there a trollclip of him getting _*_FocusPunched_*_ from a cliff?_

[@aidanorellano2800]

you sonovabtch...im in

[@annawilliams5079]

Golly you’re the best!

[@feihceht656]

You're my star, star, star... Arceus' Star

[@overratedpancake9034]

Nintendo: Unlocking the Azure Flute would be too tedious and complicated for players. Also Nintendo:

[@ThePe5e]

@@toumabyakuya But both are in the same game lmao

[@chuggaa100]

​@@toumabyakuya retard alert

[@toumabyakuya]

@@ThePe5e However, this was programmed first, meaning that they hadn't thought of cutting the event yet.

[@YujiUedaFan]

@@toumabyakuya Say that to Munchlax and female Combee!

[@Thorozak]

They just made a lame excuse let’s be real, they just changed their mind on what the planned to do

[@EnbyLite]

I just like the idea that since nobody saw these, these characters try to engage in conversation with their idol and just get ignored.

[@scottpilgrimpwns]

Just like real super fans!

[@goncalocarneiro3043]

Or maybe what they said was true. There was no "dazzling trainer" to see and be parasocial about. The Battle Hall "got boring".

[@Rusty_Spy]

Just like me fr

[@cyruscrompton8221]

They screamed into the void and nothing came back

[@yokoelfvganime8112]

Maybe the reason this exists is just "why not?". After all, they already had the variable with the number of different Pokémon you've used to beat it and it was used for nothing, so why not play around it with it.

[@ninja3212]

I think the more prompt question is why they decided to make it so convoluted and tedious to accomplish?

[@Blutzen]

@@ninja3212 I don't think there's anything convoluted about it, you have an NPC that tells you how many pokémon you have records with right there, and as a gamer why not make number go up? As for how tedious it is to accomplish, well, there's an NPC that tells you how many pokémon you have records with right there, and if anybody _did_ take the time to grind out the maximum number, they would be pretty disappointed if nothing happened for it, so... why not?

[@gustavolopes5094]

@@Blutzen yeah I support this logic lol. Not like writing a dozen more dialog lines is that hard.

[@trixxer872]

agreed, after all it literally only takes a few minutes in order to implement all of this into the game

[@epicphantom589]

I’ve realized that Pokémon games weren’t just designed like games. They were whole little worlds. Extra bits of “realism” like this are just there because that’s how things work, not because it’s some game to be won. This is probably also the logic behind things like berry farming and arbitrary stuff like that.

[@compatriot852]

Stuff like this is what made the DS era of Pokemon so special. There was so much content put in that stuff like this could be completely missed

[@faih1741]

I actually discovered a small bit of this dialog when I was a kid! I was absolutely obsessed with the Battle Frontier and would spend hours messing around in it. 9y/o brains just hit different back in 2009 lol

[@prairie_court]

Eyyyyyy same

[@GeriChip]

0 Etchy videos: It’s about KZbin…it hasn’t excited me lately… 1 Etchy Video: I watched your video. It made me nostalgic and exited about the things I have yet to experience in Pokémon games. 3 Etchy videos: What cool Pokémon stuff am I gonna learn from Etchy next? I don’t lose sleep thinking about it, but I do look forward to it! 5 Etchy videos: It’s fantastic! The amount of research and time that goes into these videos…it must take extraordinary effort.

[@Etch]

Lool

[@klop4228]

I've just realised I've watched all five. I thought I was just seeing the specific ones that interested me, but then I realised that was all of them haha

[@raze2012_]

0 Etchy videos: just browsing front page 1 Etchy video: like 3 Etchy videos: subscribe 5 Etchy videos: hears ping at 3AM and rushes to computer

[@doughboywhine]

475 Etchy videos:

[@KittyKatty999]

​@@doughboywhine Cue super obsessive person who worships the ground Etchy walks on

[@homeruncjyt]

It's crazy how things can take 15 years to be documented and found. Thanks so much for finding out new things in the gen 4 games and also releasing it out to the world

[@PhillyCh3zSt3ak]

I think out of everything, THIS is the wildest part out of this entire recorded bit of insanity. You'd think this would have been discovered and documented after a couple of years of the games' release.

[@ViviSectia]

He keeps mentioning it's undocumented but just trying to search this on google brings up old gamefaqs threads from around when these games came out with people mentioning the fans and how to change their dialogue. There's also posts about this specific video with people mentioning it's in the players guide for these games.

[@inconemay1441]

Almost like it's fake or something, waiting for eager watchers to add it to wikis and then have them be blamed when they're proven wrong

[@haar.]

This feature is so cool, I wish Parasocial People were real

[@ColdComrade]

They are real lol. Streamers have a lot of them these days.

[@Hanbei]

I love you for making this funny comment. Are we friends now?

[@VHCosta]

​@@ColdComradeno shit

[@HamazuraGOD]

​@@ColdComrade Nice observation, genius

[@HamazuraGOD]

You should meet the McElroy Fandom!

[@theknightwithabadpictotall7639]

Black 2 and White 2: A celebrity slowly gets closer to the (future) champion of Unova, starting with an act of kindness HeartGold, SoulSilver and Platinum: Parasocial NPC gets obsessed with the champion who just wanted to battle with different Pokémon

[@epicphantom589]

*Heart Gold, Soul Silver, and Platinum

[@theknightwithabadpictotall7639]

​@@epicphantom589 Fuck how did I mess that up Fixing it now

[@nuraby_9228]

Whos is the celeb? Elesia?

[@epicphantom589]

@@nuraby_9228 There’s this girl Yancy you can meet through a semi-obscure Xtranciever sidequest. Or if you’re a girl it’s a guy names Curtis.

[@chiragjsunil1104]

​@@nuraby_9228Yancy / Curtis from the dropped item in Nimbasa city.

[@mrlnsbrl]

Gamefreak: Our Target Audience are Children Also Gamefreak: Lets integrate that tedious niche feature no one will ever register probably hahah

[@partlypinkie1751]

But the Azure Flute was too hard to comprehend guys, don’t forget

[@verkhvo]

I mean if anyone is going to 100% it would probably be a child with a lot of free time on their hands

[@inclinerd]

Tbf, there are a lot of children who would replay the same part of the game over and over bc they had nothing else to do

[@toumabyakuya]

@@partlypinkie1751 They just changed their minds.

[@Kryptnyt]

@@verkhvo School bus gaming!

[@97MiloProductions]

you know the fact they had "milestones" like this is cool but also completely deranged to expect players would subject to doing this for fun

[@arlynbooker]

A blonde trainer named Serena that's obsessed with the main character... What did they mean by this?

[@polarknight5376]

Either someone at GF has a type, or someone at GF has a girlfriend/wife that's just like that. It's pretty common for game developers to put characters based on their SOs in games. I'm gonna go with the SO theory, I could definitely see a GF dev getting with a parasocial American or European pokémon fan and putting her in the game. More likely it's just a coincidence. Further research on what Serena's and Serena's Japanese names are may help or hinder this theory.

[@jakariashafin8685]

There are characters with the same names as protagonist but obviously difrent people in game

[@serenlink3888]

@@polarknight5376 well I know Kalos Serena's Japanese name is Serena

[@polarknight5376]

@@serenlink3888 Cool. Anyone willing to play through HeartGold or SoulSilver in Japanese to figure out her Japanese name?

​@@jakariashafin8685gen IV Battle Tower also has an NPC named Cyrus. A jogger, I think.

[@Xahnel]

I don't understand why people think Serena's dialogue is creepy. It's cute, she's clearly normally a shy reserved type, and she's getting hyped and enthused and loud, and embarrassed at the same time that someone can make her act in such a way. Come on, my socially anxious people, there's gotta be something or someone in your life that makes you absolutely gush, and then cringe once you realize you've been blabbing at high speeds for several minutes straight. Just because she says "I love you" doesn't mean she has romantic inclinations and she's a stalker. You never see her outside of the arena, so clearly that love is in context of how you perform at this sport/show she enjoys so much. It's all obviously meant to be a massive show offy exhibition anyways.

[@oatmeal3013]

socially anxious person here, i didn't really read her that way. i read her as a stereotypical fangirl getting blushy over the protag. some of the boy's dialogue feels more creepy, though. while none of it was quite as bad as i was anticipating, it's still weird. especially the staying up at night thing. being parasocial is being this overbearing towards a celebrity and thinking you mean something to them, thinking that a relationship is there where none exists, and being heavily emotionally moved by them due to this. there is something [not some*one*, thankfully] i feel this way about in my life, and it's not really normal at all. i don't want to call it unhealthy, because i have some degree of reality-checking control over it, but it's not something i'm happy about at times.

[@coolman5242]

@@oatmeal3013 Yeah the girl sounded more of an inspired fan than a obsessed one, since the protag's success was motivation to become a trainer herself. I wish they gave the same vibe to her male counterpart.

[@aarong8099]

@@oatmeal3013I feel the thing is they tried to give the guy similar enthusiasm as the girl but they wrote the girls dialogue first and didn’t really pay attention to how it actually sounded from the other gender It’s not the worst in the world, but eh

[@blueyandicy]

What? Why can't the same thing be said for Winston's dialogue?! He's literally a little boy wtf

[@t-mofisher8922]

“I brag about you to my friends” is… a little much lol

[@SylLikesBoys]

Saving a lot of data :) Please don't turn off the power :) Almost done :) Saved! Oh you just won? Hold on, we gotta save again :)

[@hitkid2456]

lmfao that kills me

[@primrosevale1995]

Serena/Winston: “Why don't you answer my... chats in your chat box? I'm- I have the sub badge, 12 months. You never acknowledged me, not even once. And I came here to have fun with you! I'm your biggest fan! I've been with you since day one! I got first badge, I was your first subscriber! And you don't pay attention to me! I was with you through your Magikarp run, I was with you through your Kakuna run, I cheered for every run with Happiny, I was there when you completed it all with Prinplup, and yet you won't acknowledge me! You still, just leave me in the dust every single day! Professor Oak: “Jesus Christ, parasocial! You need to log off! Jesus Christ! Why on earth would you do that?" Jasmine: “Yeah, man, this is kind of really unhealthy. Set your boundaries, dude.” Whitney: “I-I-I-I-I-I-I'm Whitn-e-e-e-e-ey! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!”

[@generallyunimportant]

that dub is probably the best obe lmao

[@JPeterson-ho7oi]

The Knuckles quote 😭😂

[@monocasualzari]

The dust?!

[@thetreyceratops]

Whitney making up a little tune to dunk on Serena/Winston is great

[@Aeronizor]

Wake up babe new parasocial copypasta just dropped

[@ia_Dreamer_Superstar]

I have put about 5k estimated hours give or take in to gen 4 ( main series games). I still didn’t know about 90+ % of the things mentioned in the videos. Just goes to show how much content was packed into these games.

[@andrei4617]

Sad how a ds game can be filled with more content and heart than a modern switch pokemon game

[@jpcsdutra]

I mean, it's like 10 lines of dialogue and one obscure mechanic in a place that 90% of the player base didn't bother with because there was a chasm of difficulty and a lack of reason to be invested. It isn't exactly "packed with content", but given what it is, yes, it is rather impressive how much Gen 3, 4 and 5 had in terms of content that very, very few people have any kind of knowledge about.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@andrei4617 Oh, you meant a game that has nowhere close to the same amount of content a Switch game has (data-wise)? Yeah, I also ponder why. Is not like they had space limitations or anything, right?

[@andrei4617]

@@toumabyakuya done with that excuse… this has been the fourth generation of 3d games being mainline and fans have been excusing how poor the games have been optimized to the hardware. Lets not mention how much money this franchise generates, shit is unacceptable

[@toumabyakuya]

@@andrei4617 *"this has been the fourth generation of 3d games"* 4th Generation? It has only been the second. "3DS" 3D and "Switch" 3D are totally different and require different skills to pull. *"and fans have been excusing how poor the games have been optimized to the hardware."* They aren't that poorly optimized, stop exaggerating. *"Lets not mention how much money this franchise generates,"* Money doesn't solve everything.

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

10:40 "we might never know for sure" well we got the SVN dump so we can actually verify if anyone tried to add more

[@superilikeeggsyo]

"Why did they put this feature in the game" Because it's funny, probably.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

I remember getting the message "What Pokemon are you going to be using this time?" Or whatever one you mentioned but not thinking much else about it 😂

[@SweaterPuppys]

growing up my brother and I would grind the battle frontier every day after school so I knew about the fan interactions but I never knew you were supposed to use basically the entire pokedex to see all their dialogue

[@Lightforspirit]

What on earth…how many features have remained secrets after all these years?!

[@minirop]

Now that the games' source code leaked, start searching. /s

[@FazhKael]

As it turns out, they're right. You are "the first trainer ever who's done that"

[@KarpfeDiem]

The pokemon nerd in me loves you. The completionist in me on the other hand...

[@JaybugJabbers]

The superfans are honestly adorable, it's a shame it's locked behind such a niche and grindy part of the game.

[@christianboustani8284]

Man, I wish I could have a parasocial super fan to make me feel important

[@EventideBlackFox]

I listen to your playlist every day, Christian. I think about you all the time. Sometimes I get so lost in thinking about you I lose sleep...oh well! I guess that means I'll be all sleepy while listening today. /j i am not stalking

[@christianboustani8284]

That felt weird, nevermind!

[@EventideBlackFox]

@@christianboustani8284 have a nice day sir!

[@SlothfulTurtle]

Taught our boy a lesson real quick. lol

[@EventideBlackFox]

@@SlothfulTurtle I'm normal i swear

[@carrionysus5893]

i like to believe this is gen 6 Serena before becoming a trainer lol

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

At first I thought "Oh, it's Yancy and Kurtis and the way you kinda start a relationship with them, finding all the Xtransceiver spots was so cryptic" Then I remembered they were in gen 5.

[@octopusoup]

Obscure interactions like these made older Pokemon entries feel alive with the way the world around the player changes and responds to the player's actions. Except maybe not require the player to use the entire Pokedex roster to unlock dialogue. Other than that I think this was an exceptional idea that could've used some tuning down.

[@PURPLE_G0J0]

They brought back the feature in Gen 8 with the people in the gym lobbies changing dialogue throughout the game

[@ZekeTheThunderWolf]

imagine going in with a level 30 happiny like... "Is something wrong? Are they okay? Does this count as high octane battles when the trainer Garchomp fighting ice types and winning happened not too long ago?"

[@The_D_ray]

Serena and Winston walked, so Yancy and Curtis could run.

[@vbarreiro]

“You’re the first of a kind for me as Trainers go” I mean you literally are.

[@toumabyakuya]

I think this might have been the predecessor to the Lost Xtransceiver sidequest. Both involve having to do tedious stuff to increase a counter so a character gets closer to ours and both end in a sort of relationship.

[@Dukstless]

The Yancy/Curtis one isn't too horrible with a guide though, and has actual tangible reward of Pokemon that in G5 are mostly hard to get, most of which weren't made available with Hidden Abilities at the time

[@toumabyakuya]

@@Dukstless Eh, the precisse locations were the calls could be triggered weren't precissely intuitive. And I have always said that if a puzzle requires a guide to be completed, then said puzzle was badly planned.

[@txtzx]

​@@toumabyakuyaTbf some of the places are places that you'd visit anyway, like the tile in route 7 or the one in mistralton. Other ones are just dumb like the one in route 14. Also the rewards are pretty nice so I'd say it's worth the effort. Also what Yancy / Curtis lost is a Xtransciever and not a C-Gear

[@toumabyakuya]

@@txtzx Still, my problem remains. Puzzles shouldn't depend on outside sources to be beaten.

[@wessltov]

​@@toumabyakuya I would agree with your point about how puzzles shouldn't need a guide, except...if it didn't make sense, who would be able to write the guide? I think puzzles having to be intuitive is better, but still a bit subjective

[@jackiej6233]

Compared to the other one, Winston feels more like a supportive hype man than anything else. Serena reel that love in a bit though...

[@th3graveofwrath354]

Go through all that just to get 1 obsessed, stalker... _Thanks, Game Freak. I feel so acconplished._

[@hv433]

I would wager a guess to being just a determined group being assigned to design the facility. It would explain why it seems super overengineered and why none of the other battle facilities have such a feature.

[@GekTC]

Now I am curious of what the Japanese text is for all of them.

[@hybriddemon7649]

Interesting how Winston doesn't seem to have a catchphrase, like the "Um... excuse me?" thing. And has an overall different personality from Serena. I wonder if the reason for that is to distinguish between fanboy and fangirl cultures?

[@BrownOrion-z1f]

Pretty major since considering they are the only npcs to retroactively acknowledge your progress in real time, not even the champion, and prof do this after the credits, which really stunts the immersion. When this becomes the norm for Pokemon games, the names of these two should be included to honor them. Bc this is a reall REALLY under appreciated feature.

[@oddishthoughts]

3:19 Me! Dying!

[@SanJo2MD]

R.I.P you

[@jacobmorris6357]

"Oh that's gore of my comfort character..."

[@ExtremeBirdTypography]

If the requirements were scaled down, like capping at 100 different pokemon, this would've been a rare but pretty cool achievement. I guess it wouldn't be as special as battling with every eligible pokemon in the game, but it would actually have a chance of being seen by a few dedicated fans.

[@haar.]

1:02 important timestamp

[@GarlicConnoisseur]

B U T

[@tasyanrasikin5301]

No B U U T !

[@caseyjarmes]

You continue to be the GOAT for Gen four content

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

And here I though Yancy in BW2 was the most parasocial thing pokemon did.

[@ireysword]

I find it absolutely facinating that there are still features and stuff with rewards to be found in the old games. You'd think the fanbase had enough time and crazy people (affectionate) for everything to be discovered at this point. But nope. I think this feature exists not for every player but the like 5-10% who enjoy this sort of grind. In the end there's always been different kinds of pokemon players: those who only want to get through the story, the dex completionists, the shiny hunters, the post game lovers, the side quest hunters, the online battlers etc. This is I think simply one feature that might not klick with everyone, but that's the great thing about pokemon: almost everyone can find something in these games to enjoy. I can never get through white2 because I like the pokestars studios so much I get stuck everytime doing every movie.

[@blackbuffalo62]

Bro giga impacted a kricketot 20 levels down with regigigas 💀💀💀

[@Braiba]

Spare a thought for the QA engineer responsible for testing this feature who probably had to go through this grind multiple times *shudder*

[@SnakebitSTI]

If someone did QA it, clearly their desperate pleas to make the requirements halfway sane were ignored.

[@Geffro]

My guess is that they didn't QA it very carefully. It was just a small fun thing to add, at most they probably programmatically set winstreaks with Pokémon instead of actually winning

[@FissionCube]

if they tested it they probably used debug features to change their total... at least i hope so

[@FantasticGaming-pw8st]

I kinda feel bad for liking how obsessed they are. Would be nice to have a fan like that.

[@KyrialArthian]

Kinda reminds me of the fan in the gyms in Sword/Shield. She starts rooting for you after you get your first badge, and becomes a bigger fan the more you get. Also, she starts out with a Blipbug next to her, and a few gyms in, it's evolved to a Dottler, then by the end, it's an Orbeetle. I always thought that was a cute little feature.

[@theworstdetective5578]

Just like last time, this video is going to be a big help in my current soulsilver playthrough. I'm definitely looking forward to any new videos you post.

[@Endymion0021]

encouraging a living dex of trained and battle ready pokemon, is actualy a neat or novel Idea, I probably ever entered with 10-20 mons max into the Hall, but doing all in the dex, aside even getting all on a singular cartridge, very doubtful anybody seen the 51+ unique species ever.

[@franciscoorejarena7849]

You've become one of my favorote channels. Love these vids!

[@itsmeKrush]

Hurray, hurray, Etchy! Go, Pokemon, go!

[@latioshunter]

Gosh, this makes me want to pour another two hundred, nay, thousand hours into gen 4 again.

[@jonaw.2153]

Wait, HGSS has a Battle Frontier? And here I was thinking I'd seen everything the game had to offer...

[@kellamyoshikage286]

Now I'm curious about what their lines are in other languages, Pokemon's naturally had a fair bit of localization and I wouldn't be surprised if these lines are localized too. I don't know how to read text from DS roms, though...

[@StepBaum]

Appreciate the find and grind!

[@Frank_Erz]

You turned off battle animations when you weren't recording, right? ...right?

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

"I managed to run into a Surskit" Don't say it don't say it--

[@Etch]

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[@wheedler]

This was WAY less dialogue than I expected from the description.

[@caznovia]

I'm parasocial for YOU, Etchy

[@theangelpenguin7936]

Now, i have more reasons to go back to some of these games. I've been looking for more "side content" in these games thank you

[@caswellweird]

they added this feature, because if gamefreak devs don't get to add at least one overly convoluted mechanic that less than 10% of people will engage with, the wizard's spell that lets that company endure TPC's unrealistic release cycle will fizzle.

[@scaleonkhan183]

Thank you, reminds me of the “romantic” dialogue in Black and White on the Ferris wheel!

[@PGerman.]

I was duped, maybe even bamboozled by the thumbnail. No yuri...

[@Etch]

my bad

[@robowitch8183]

[serena voice] Um... excuse me.

[@DahliaInPurple]

I love how many little post game things that almost no one would interact with the old gens had. It makes them feel so warm and alive.

[@OsirusIrdia]

I need to 100% HGSS and Pt now lmao I love these small details the developers put in!

[@Annominus]

You're doing the great work! Keep it up

[@Incrementium]

8:42 Idk if anyone noticed but the dialog numbers are linked close to the total dex number for each region. With 100 being what I assume is just a lower entry threshold, and with the third one kept closer to 100 to keep it even as more pokemon were added gen 3 (135 vs 100). Probably to account for the limited number of high difficulty Pokemon like Wobbuffet and Happiny.

[@JohnDoe-kf3rd]

why is no one mentioning the fact that winston literally says he "check[s] you out" in the 31 dialogue

[@harukaze7388]

oh huh, I got the 51 milestone for this just by playing it. I thought it was a fun facility but I wasn't very good at it so I just kept trying with different pokemon.

[@diduoup7407]

I really liked the battle scene as a kid! I remember getting to the first bossfight and losing because I only did the easy type matchups (infernape losing to tentacruel), I kinda want to see my old scores now but that'll wait tomorow

[@diduoup7407]

71 victory with 5 different pokemon (49 of wich are infernape's)

[@chooch2362]

So there’s this one streamer… and I’m parasocial with him…

[@haar.]

😳

[@Fehzor]

Um... You won't mind if I cheer for you from now on, will you? Please, may I?

[@isbakernation]

jeez. thats a lot of hours of work! thanks for your hard work.

[@Foolishpleazure]

cool stuff,thank you for going through all that HELL for us,so we could see the results.liked,and subbed :)

[@WizardSoon]

Winston is the tierno before we witness tierno's dance moves.

[@phineas81707]

~~So how long until there's a patch to make Winston show up for Lucas/Ethan and Serena for Dawn/Lyra?~~

[@gulusgammamon]

6:46 "I lost about four times before getting lucky" no that's chansey

[@WinterPains]

God, I had a ton of fun in this place. Got a good streak, only to lose it to Shedinja (firsf time ecountering it)

[@meisterl0]

Here's a like and comment for your hard work, I was surprisingly entertained.

[@crazymartin526]

Nintendo: No we cannot add azure flute, it's too complicated and confusing. Also Nintendo: Add 9 npc dialogues that noone will ever see in their life. Who cares if it is nearly impossible to obtain

[@danvsclips8326]

Can you answer two things nobody has been able to give me a solid answer on? 1. I've heard scattered reports that Secret Key in Japanese is able to be shared via record mixing like the Gen 3 Eon Ticket. Is that true? 2. Ok if it's true does it work between English games with an English secret key like Gen 3's Eon Ticket? 3. If it doesn't what happens if a Japanese and English game record mix? (In Gen 3 this lets you get the Regi Dolls) Slightly unrelated, but one Serebi site from 2006 says you can get the Altering Cave things in Japanese FRLG by using the E-Reader cards in a certain way, no other sources claiming or debunking this.

[@danvsclips8326]

I'm mostly curious because if it does work it means even hyper puritianical groups like r/pokemontrading or my own self concious that don't consider spoofed flags or AltWFC stuff legit would consider this a legitimate way to get the Secret Key in Platinum if you can prove the original is legit.

[@timelink3315]

Personally I really enjoyed the Battle Hall. I love all of the strategizing and moveset tinkering needed to try to see if your pokemon can be the best and run the gauntlet!

[@bootlegmozart]

damn. that was a mystery that didn't really need solving, but i'll be damned if it didn't get solved. Major props for your dedication. 10/10

[@HybridHero]

Sheeeeesh I know where that thumbnail is coming from 😏

[@MrEvilPiggy]

I remember doing this long time ago. Took me forever to complete it trying to 100% everything.

[@yoisakikanade_]

OH are their names winston and serena cause you Win and they Serenade you

[@clownymoosebean]

Kinda reminds me of the ungodly amount of optional/miss-able dialogue in Earthbound.

[@Nate-7z]

I love how he just has a save file with a living dex

[@ChrisBeYT]

the old pokemon games have so much details and love put into them. Its crazy

[@garchompelago]

I never knew these. I got all the colored/Gold prints of all facilities in Platinum aside from Factory but I never noticed that NPC getting parasocial. 😅

[@BC-sn8im]

Video game historian doing the Lords work

[@Drkaff1]

The Serena kinda looks like the early Serena designs from the leak that happened. So I guess this is my new head cannon for why she is so into contests.

[@RetroPokemonTCG]

Lets go another great vid from the GOAT!

[@cookiesyruplover]

I love how this video gives clear instructions on how to achieve this despite knowing it's insanely mind numbing as a grind. But I also can't help but watch, 15 years undocumented until now! That's amazing! You are a true dedicated pokemon fan! You wouldn't mind if I subscribed, right?

[@dowoqr]

the fact that the battle frontier and all the platinum stuff were missing from the "remakes" is criminal