The PROBLEM with Pokémon Battle Revolution (and how I fixed it...)

[@imablisy]

Two things, gamers; 1, download the patch and ar code here: github.com/notblisy/PBRFix/releases/tag/Beta And 2, it's come to my attention Plague Von Karma has been banned from Smogon and a few other discords. I was unaware of this and have only had positive interactions with her. I'm going to leave the plug in the video for now but I'll avoid plugs / working with her in the future. All I've heard is rumors of her being toxic, if it's worse than that I'll edit the plug out of the video entirely. Sorry if I let anyone down by not knowing!

[@TheDancingMudkip]

How toxic????

[@imablisy]

@@TheDancingMudkip I don’t know much about it- I liked her content and I’ve only had positive interactions, but we didn’t chat /that/ much. So I have to defer to others

[@arcthesavior]

oh damn i loved kep a lot

[@Seraph.G]

I'm also wondering what she did. I'm always suspicious when I hear of a trans woman being banned from a community she's in, with the only allegation floating around in public being that she's toxic. Not that she couldn't have deserved the ban, but there is a huge problem with trans women being overly scrutinized, so idk.

[@imablisy]

@@Seraph.G I’ve been told from multiple sources at this point who’ve seen my comment that can attest to the fact that she was abusive in various ways. I won’t reveal any further information to protect those who confided in me.

[@gamecubefan7424]

Absolutely amazing! Fantastic job imablisy! If Shaymin-Sky and Origin-Forme Giratina are able to put in along with the Platinum and HGSS trainer models, PBR will be 100% perfect.

[@BBWahoo]

I'm gonna shid brix if all the pokemon from gen 5 are added in the future

[@119mars]

this is so sick. i remember playing PBR as a kid at my friend's place and being so sad when my giratina was still in altered form lol. thank you for making this

[@imablisy]

yeah it sucks!

[@Fu9280]

Or when shaymin came out looking like a green turd

[@swagkirby3449]

There's also Spiky-Eared Pichu from HeartGold/SoulSilver, it shows up as a normal Pichu in PBR

[@flookaraz]

5 dislikes? they mustve been from Duskull, Dusclops, Dusknoir, Phoebe, and Fantina

[@imablisy]

it's 4 on my end haha

[@vanesslifeygo]

lmao

[@ZPigIndustries]

jimothy cool mentioned? this is insane, folks

[@jimothycool]

Whoa.

[@ImTheStrongestHehehe]

​@@jimothycool And today I thought it couldn't get better.

[@mannyzoom10]

Do Pokémon ranch next please 🙏 it sucks only jp ranch got the platinum update

[@shreym03]

There's someone who made a English translation in 2020

[@FederxDev]

link?

[@Azazelea]

PLEASE... I want the update so bad...

[@Forstrei.]

The game is translated but still incompatible with English game carts. I can't get the info now, but if you watch the twitch streamer SirToastyT (famous for his Scizor, Toast), his bot mentions the team working on it while he's live

[@joemoebob]

us three "people" who play pokemon ranch are frothing at the mouth

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

SO sick to see the Platinum forms actually in the game!!!!!!! Awesome work and loved hearing about the journey it took to get everything working. I know that Rotom gets reverted every time you try to trade/battle in the cartridge games, so I have a feeling that reversion is coming from the game itself... I can't imagine that the bootrom sent from the wii is doing that right off the bat since it predated all the Platinum/HGSS changes

[@imablisy]

Glad you enjoyed it absol! I actually wasn't aware the rotom forms did that during trades. I think it /could/ still be the bootrom, but you might be right. Thinking about it, I'd expect rotom to be bad egg'd (something pbr does) or mention there was an illegal Pokemon rather than a reversion. I might try and debug more, but since there's no ds -> dolphin capable emulator it's such a pain to figure out where/when this is happening lol.

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

@@imablisy Yeah I purchased a USB gecko a while back in hopes of trying to debug some stuff with Ranch on console a while back but kind of found motivation in different things and put that on the eternal backburner. That might be the best way to try and figure this out

[@imablisy]

@AbsolBlogsPokemon I’ve been on and off buying one for years. If I continue this it might be the way.

[@tnuhenaj3752]

in some ways battle revolution is still the peak of pokemon battle visuals to this day. More effort was put into the animations and it felt like it had more soul even if the graphical fidelity might not be on the level of the newer consoles. Its not like the new pokemon games look any good or are pushing the boundaries of the hardware's capability as it stands. Just wish it had a proper story mode. Anyway doing the lords work here this is truly impressive. Since gamefreak or whoever is in charge is adamant not to show gen 4 any love let alone the amount it deserves i am glad fans are taking the initiative. Trying to beat this with the rental teams is literally impossible i swear. And i was too young to take competitive seriously when gen 4 was relevant but its the gen that impresses me the most competitively. Marriland vs untouchable blew my mind when i first watched it even if its far from peak play.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

I am going to forever love whoever patches My Pokémon Ranch to work with Pt and HGSS

[@rush2802chuo]

It's being tried but there's a major roadblock that prevents English games from connecting

[@Sizzyl]

I absolutely love PBR's animations and have played it quite a few times solo just to see them. Really cool seeing a fix like this to the battling system with the few quirks that exist for PvP, but what would be even cooler is if someone could make a mod for singleplayer/PvE to give access to more teams/items since the base game has so few (maybe this exists already? I haven't looked around for PBR mods or even considering they might exist until now). (it would be even cooler to see modern mons/mechanics backported but I fully understand why no one would want to do that insane level of modding/modeling even with how simple you seemed to make it seem here in this video).

[@KopperNeoman]

Aw, you didn't use the Pokédex 3D Pro models? They're based on the same Stadium set. Oh well, this is still Good Shit.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

next time, baby.

[@what-un4yq]

Well the process is available online. Someone could just follow the steps again and swap out the model. Since the assets are around.

[@Red_Amph]

ok time to add a mod to my favorite pokemon game that fixes alot of thing i dident like, ok yea battle previews can be changed, ok now for the forms for my favorite pokemon roto- BLENDER JUMPSCARE AHH

[@imablisy]

glad you liked it haha

[@samhayes-astrion]

Modding Battle Revolution into being a sort of homebrewed patch that features _every_ Pokemon up to date would be an undertaking. But it would be incredible to see.

[@aestellic]

very interesting topic!! if you ever feel like trying to get the transferring rotom forms from ds part to work, id recommend getting in contact with the team that was trying to port the platinum update of My Pokemon Ranch to english a while ago--they know quite a bit about the ds multiboot thingy for dppt!

[@imablisy]

I would love to do it, but this was really a more simple project. I guess I'll work on it more depending on how it's received!

[@ibikun5493]

@@imablisy Its gonna be received positively! People are already creating a shrine after your image.

[@RisingJericho]

So here's a funny thing: Giratina Origin Forme IS in the game, kind of. The stats change to match it, but there's no visible change to it.

[@rjd-kh8et]

0:35 You did NOT just insult Colosseum and XD's story like that.

[@imablisy]

I did and will continue to do so

[@pikachuluver611]

​@@imablisy based

[@TheZett]

@@imablisy Stadium is vastly inferior to ColXD in any way though.

[@imablisy]

@ no it’s more fun 50x. Has rentals, minigames, and challenging cups

[@zekeiwa5837]

​@@imablisyyou literally look like a soijak

[@Zak_Katchem]

I am so excited to get this set up on my Wii-U/Wii

[@zdelrod829]

From testing, it seems like it's for the European version of PBR.

[@fleromor]

The gen 1 meta game in stadium is slightly different because shit like crits and hyper beam are fixed yes, but also a bunch of moves can now be used because they dont desync the battle and make it unplayable

[@haydenz0]

PEAK JUST GOT FIXED! I hope you do more work with improving PBR.

[@onehandstance]

DUDE ROTOM FORMS IN PBR?! OMG U ARE A GOD

[@doctorunicorn5550]

that's super cool! that's also super weird that an official patch was never released but super cool that you made one!

[@moleyface]

"....and edgy cringe fanfiction" Damn you didn't have to come right for my throat when I was just curious about your patch. XD

[@imablisy]

I have to take whatever jabs I can at colo and XD lmao

[@robertlupa8273]

@@imablisy is it just because you think they're overrated and deserve to be taked down a peg or two or do you genuinely hate them

[@imablisy]

@@robertlupa8273 they’re bad games

[@MagentaNimbat]

This is such a great proof of concept that I hope gets developed more. I wonder if PBR would one day be decompiled to allow us to do more with adding forms easier or potentially add new Pokemon from future gens? If that would be possible

[@gracedbypete]

This Is the greatest thing you have ever done for the community. God fucking damn let's go blisy THANK YOU 💕

[@ibikun5493]

Seriously, this is a dream come true!!

[@neutronpcxt372]

Thank you so much blisy! You've done so much for the Pokemon community, and yet this ISO game patch is another step above everything.

[@1Saynex]

the things you guys do and get up to is amazing. insane work

[@deadlyyoshi4126]

Thank you so much for doing this PBR is my childhood Pokémon game

[@StickyTrap]

NOOOO NOW MY HYPNOSIS YANMEGA IS NOW UNVIABLE ;-;

[@imablisy]

good LMFAO

[@Abdul54cp]

Just land it

[@Hotdog718]

You'll have to use compound eyes yanma now

[@SteadyyRed]

I haven’t played pokemon since og Diamond and Pearl when I was like 13 and have just begun playing Violet. I’ve learned a lot from your videos, but there’s clearly still a ton for me to learn!

[@ksanchez8095]

Interesting video! Great to see you explore things outside of the usual handheld stuff. I totally get how you felt with the rotom blender stuff. I TRIED to patch scarlet with more visible shiny forms to help me hunt things like cleffa, tauros-p, tandemaus. I eventually got it working but holly hell my brain almost fried. BTW, Is there a chance that the Gecko code can be put into th epatch itself insteda of being a code you put in for the emulator to load?

[@asuramaru8180]

I’ve wanted a PBR2 for so many years. Was hoping maybe it would come out with BDSP. But pretty much all hope for it is lost at this point

[@Nighterac]

Funny you mention BDSP because Yisuno is making PBR in BDSP

[@raddaradda8682]

Truly one of my favorite games as a kid. I remember trading all different mons onto one cartridge and copying the data to my copy for wifi battles against my friends. I still have the copy of Pearl in my DS case 😊

[@OPEK.]

I remember watching the SiD video in emerald a long time ago and thinking “Pokémon has not been good for this man’s physical health but Damm is he smart”. 4 years later I’m looking at a completely different guy. You look so healthy it’s kind of crazy man. Also glad to see the team building videos paid off.

[@imablisy]

@@OPEK. I literally just shaved and cut my hair nothing has changed. Think about why you perceive people certain way.

[@poké-ODIN]

Beautiful work as usual blissey!

[@imablisy]

thanks bud

[@droomish1]

when are we hitting the gateway colosseum!!! this is AMAZING

[@imablisy]

DM me I'm so down for a nocaps x droomish round 2

[@AlexsGoogleAccount]

I've watched you for the last few years and holy heck, I never know what you're going to work on next. What a fantastic job.

[@lastmexicano]

Orre Colosseum is sooo hard to beat in XD. You have to get lucky sometimes and the bosses have tough teams. Really fun!

[@valencia6372]

you released this right when my circle of friends started a pokemon league with this game lol

[@TECH097]

Oh before i forget this was a badass effort! No doubt going to leave the door open for even grander things!

[@jimothycool]

Outstanding work. Would love to give this a go

[@TECH097]

Bruh SPIRITOMB stinks, it's such a badass concept ruined by execution, a cursed spirit of pure evil unleashed upon our world... amounting to a spoopy face goingb"BOOGEDYBOOGEDYBOO~!"

[@Simon-xk7qv]

I read platinum patch i click, it's as simple as that

[@Xiaolin-Loonatic]

I think we need a Battle Revolution 2, focusing on Gen 5 mechanics, all from Black, White, Black 2 and White 2.

[@yvendous]

This is so cool seeing your process on a rom hack you made

[@ezzy_bela]

:0 I'm so grateful! Was always wondering if this would happen some day, will be excitedly trying out.

[@JeezyYeezyy]

Extremely Interesting! always looking forward to your uploads :)

[@hibbs1712]

I am a hard-line PBR enjoyer. I will be watching this video with critical eyes, as I already think PBR is perfect.

[@imablisy]

You need help then lol

[@hibbs1712]

@@imablisy after watching your video, I really appreciate what you tried to do with the game!! Staying faithful to Gen4 was a huge draw for me and I loved to see Rotom working!! Maybe one day I'll be able to install a mod like this on my Wii! Thanks Blissey, and sorry for coming off hard in that earlier comment

[@TIIMoonlightIIT]

Fantastic work man, was just talking about how cool it would be to have this.

[@MakotoTsuguri]

Blisy, you cooked a gourmet meal or what?! This is exquisitely unexpected on my feed. I still haven't gotten over your RSE DLCs.

[@Heigabri]

That’s insane man, keep up the good work, been waiting for something like this

[@imablisy]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Fu9280]

Battle rev was and still is amazing like, nothing was cooler than 15 yrs ago seeing yer childhood pokes on the big screen

[@mushroomdude123]

Could you please add Giritina and Shaymin as well? I love Ubers but it’s not the same without Giritina.

[@jrc4346]

u are the GOAT of Pokemon Community

[@gabrielazolini6069]

Welp, just another day of Blisy improving gaming experiences out of sheer love for the games. Great job!

[@BrendanT-n2w]

Wow, this is awesome! I'll have to check out the community's patches, becaude my biggest issue with the game was not being able to play the various Colosseum modes in multiplayer for a party game experience.

[@papasalvo]

8:30 Sup I'm mildly familiar with blender and I think I can tell you what happened here. Your models origin point seems to be at the world origin instead of being higher up on the model itself. Now normally that shouldn't be an issue because the game would be programmed to set your character model on the plane based on the origin point. But you clearly state that you scaled down the original model. Your instructions probably didn't tell you to set the scale by pressing Ctrl+A (this is often overlooked by people experienced with blender cause it is second nature when you are scaling things so they forget to tell the rest of us) and that ALWAYS leads to some wonky stuff happening.

[@imablisy]

No, it literally was just the plugin being broken lol. All I did was switch to blender 2.8 and change nothing else w/ the setup and way I import or export.

[@CV-ct2lw]

Wow this is awesome! Are you planning on attempting more PBR mods? Perhaps adding Platinum + HG/SS player characters?

[@Nighterac]

I'd love if FRLG characters were available too like the initial trailer

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

5:29 This is actually very eye-opening. In the games of Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Yo-Kai Watch 3 which both have online competitive as a feature, they do that same thing. Monsters even at level 1 will automatically get boosted to level 60 for online play with no need to level grind. So not only does this prove Pokemon HAS done this and CAN do this, they just choose to NOT bring back that feature. What a joke.

[@armlesskirby]

This is awesome! Hopefully you or someone else adds shaymin sky and giratina origin for the ubers players

[@vince5260]

This is super cool! Nice work blisy!

[@imablisy]

Glad you liked it!

[@G1itch35]

this is so cool, great work!

[@imablisy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AmasterWhatifs]

This is cool and all but I feel like you should have included all the forms not just rotom's forms as even if you can't use them in competitive it would be cool to have in general to make the definitive pokemon battle revaluation

[@sirmoony5633]

Hi there! Nice CRT TV in the background! No wonder why Pokemon Stadium looks best on a CRT! ^_^

[@PixelatedVoid]

holy shit! i used to have this game when i was 10, can't wait to try your patch now that i'm older and better at the game!

[@muma-kitty1639]

oh man, this is one of those things ive dreamed about and totally wouldve done myself if i knew anything about game development

[@BooiestOfBabas]

My brother in christ, with your know how you could finally add Pokémon not from Gen 1-3 to Colosseum and XD. Please im begging you to look into this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@gregorymirabella1423]

hopefully one day shaymin s and giratina o will be patched in as well, and they'll all use models that more closely fit the art style. this is a great start though and is one step closer to my childish hope that one day this game can have a campaign similar to the gamecube games.

[@Humanbean1100]

if you are trying to "fix" things in older games, do you think you would ever be interested/possible in trying to do something with the dream radar function? make it work magically how it used to

[@imablisy]

people smarter than me are already doing it

[@LukasNotLucasYT]

This is amazing, love to see it!!!

[@HeiwaHero]

Very impressive work, good job :)

[@rafa2117s]

Theres no way you done this, amazing!!!!!

[@what-un4yq]

This is absolutely insane. The fact that you can make custom pokémon and import models for them. It means you can hypothetically do anything. I did see someone added the Gen 5 starters. Imagine the future battle revolution with every pokémon and amazing custom animations. Brings a tear to my eye.

[@imablisy]

You can add many new gen Pokemon, plenty of people have done it.

[@what-un4yq]

@@imablisy yeah but now that you've made a video on it more people are going to be aware of it. I'd say it won't be long now till we get a build that's similar to yours. With at least a full Gen 5 mons available. Similar to what's already happened with bdsp. Except this seems like a whole lot simpler on paper. The only thing that might require a breakthrough is new moves. And I'm not even going to talk about the elephant in the room. That is fairy type. Though when written out they seem like small potatoes.

[@machetesquid1412]

Thank you for all of the work you do

[@y8knsnsnzmzz]

I love your vids so much. Thank you for all your passion ❤

[@_bedbo]

Wow I’ve never seen your face before. You look exactly like the Mega64 guy

[@imablisy]

@@_bedbo my Face is in almost every non tutorial vid

[@_bedbo]

@@imablisy your beautiful

[@kncle]

I wanted this for literal years

[@jokessss5965]

If this is a big project to update pbr, Could you also look into enabling the lucas and dawn on trainer cards? You can do it by hex editing the trainer card in the save but it would be awesome to see it added to the in game trainer card customization. Great work anyways!

[@daratine]

what's the song at 9:36? i like it but can't find it

[@gamecubefan7424]

Waterfall Colosseum

[@keegansimyh]

Am I hallucinating or were Rotom forms not available in link battles either?

[@imablisy]

@@keegansimyh they are available in link

[@vanesslifeygo]

Ah I remember when I kept watching PBR videos and never saw the gameplay from the overworked in it and I thought no one uploaded it. Then I played it at my friend's house and had the shocking realization that it didn't have the effort that Colosseum and XD did rofl

[@KidRunnerH]

Mind releasing that Colo patch you did for Jefe to the public? Oh, nvm… Tysm.

[@imablisy]

It’s already public

[@KidRunnerH]

@@imablisy oh cool, thank you so much

[@Fu9280]

Which one is that

[@bubs4581]

thanks for fulfilling my childhood dreams!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@imablisy]

Mine too…

[@b2j135]

Hey I decide to try this out for myself. I believe I did everything right but when I tried to use fan rotom in a battle, I got an error saying "Rules that must be followed to enter battle. Illegal Pokemon are not permitted." Also there is no icon for the mon. Can you assist me with this? I'm assuming I may have missed a step or two somewhere.

[@ErFuyl]

Will you add Giratina-Origin/Shaymin-Sky in future as well? Also if you port it for the NTSC version i'll be glad.

[@RetroNerdyGamer]

Is there a way to make this into a Riivolution patch so I can use my actual game disc? I don't know why my Wii U doesn't let me use rips of my Wii games on it through vWii so at the moment that'd be my best way to play this. Really cool though and honestly while I had fun with it already, especially with my copy of Platinum, seeing a game improved is always great!

[@rjd-kh8et]

4:18 I thought the Rotom forms only took off in competitive once they got their unique type combos in Gen 5.

[@imablisy]

Rotom is the best spin blocker in gen 4, as well as an excellent check to scizor and gyarados. Some of the best mons in the format. Idk about vgc, but they're probably good there too. This also has the effect of making several forms viable because all that changes is 1 move. Heat and Wash are the best, but everything except air has usability.

[@makogp747]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU THANK YOU IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A LEAK TO LEAK THE WII BUILD it never happened instead we got typhlosion memes THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!! May i ask though, how did you manage to get an emulator for the wii and ds connectivity? unless this was real hardware

[@Wheelz_]

Are Giratina-Origin and Shaymin-Sky planned? I know they’re not used in standard play but it’d be great to have true parity with Platinum

[@TogEKiss-ze8dl]

great video! i want to ask, will the patch be avaliable in other languages of the game?

[@imablisy]

PAL supports every language but jpn

[@milk-in-the-box]

always so cool to see stuff like this :)

[@LandonEmma]

You forgot to add “with” between problem and Pokemon.

[@imablisy]

@@LandonEmma you forgot no one likes you

[@joj5150]

​@@imablisyWOAH

[@LandonEmma]

@@imablisy What was your point in saying that?

[@imablisy]

@@LandonEmma What was your point in saying that

[@_elynas]

@@imablisybro woke up and decided to spread hate and malice for no reason

[@MrMorflight]

This is absolutely amazing Oo

[@Fu9280]

God blisey thats amazing how could you do it and gf couldnt?? Looks wicked on par 👌

[@zyxyz2056]

minor nitpick ik, but is there a reason you didn't make box/party sprites for the shiny rotom forms? (unless they are in there and just not covered in the video, idk)

[@imablisy]

Didn't include shiny forms for anything but wash for a technical reason-- they'll get them another time. I wasn't too concerned w/ this since no one is gonna be using their own form.

[@AkatsukiClash]

Wow... beautiful video. But I have to say is not " Gleescor ", its " Gly-scor " 😭

[@L334M0N]

Blisy/jefe announcer dlc pack soon(tm)?

[@imablisy]

nah I LOVE this announcer

[@zyro7756]

We’re one step closer to putting future generation Pokémon into colosseum and XD mods

[@sephirotten2413]

Team preview is actually a good thing ngl, never want it gone from revolution.

[@imablisy]

@@sephirotten2413 ur cringe

[@sephirotten2413]

@@imablisy i take that as a compliment thank you.

[@gavig5972]

Great video 🙌🙌