Re: any tips for playing pokemon

Re: any tips for playing pokemon Couldn't we now play pokemon games with Retroarch and OCR? Unless Retroarch doesn't support ds/ gameboy roms?Grryf URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/489404/#p489404 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon @55 Yeah, I've tried going fullscreen. At least for generations 2 and 3, it doesn't help with OCR at all. I don't think I've tried with later games. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/489373/#p489373 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon If you're talking about on the actual hardware, that is incorrect. You absolutely need to use the touchscreen. Believe me I've tried buttons in both those cases. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488910/#p488910 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Think in both instances you can use buttons. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488900/#p488900 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Ok I'll try NVision, just to compare it with Seeing A I. Thank you for the tips, I didn't know you could check your inventory by checking the save files. The thing is, when you play with an emulator, how do you manage to aim with the mouse when you have

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Also can confirm, OCR with the newer games works fairly well right from the get go. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488828/#p488828 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon @53Really? I use it all the time. Have you made sure that the emulator is full screen? To make it even more accurate, you could make either the top or bottom screen full screen, depending on what you're trying to read. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi,@51NVision is an app on the iphone, and to be honest, i find it working way better then seeing ai, but it is all about personal preference One major downside is, that NVision after 14 days requires a paid subscription or a one time payment of 100 euro's

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I've tried OCR on the computer itself with an emmulator many times, it almost never reads anything back to me, and when it does it's mangled beyond recognition. Seeing AI works a little better, but is still pretty inefficient. In the end it's faster for me

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I've tried OCR on the computer itself with an emmulator many times, it almost never reads anything back to me, and when it does it's mangled beyond recognition. Seeing AI works a little better, but is still pretty inefficient. In the end it's faster for me

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon If you play oon a DS, I would use Seeing AI. If you are playing on an emulator, I would use OCR. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488464/#p488464 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Thank you for the answers. Maybe it's obvious, but since I haven't a 3DS yet I don't know what NVision is or how you use it... Could you explain this a little more please? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488459/#p488459 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi,@48I am using NVision with hard copies on the nintendo 3ds Sometimes when i can't make any sense out of the information NVsision gives me, then i call in help from sighted people around me, but mostly i am able to get things done with NVision.Greetz mike

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hmm I played them on original hardware with my brother to read the screen, but you could just as well use seeing ai these days. The bag is accessible. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488451/#p488451 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hello all,I red all this topic, and it gives me the will to return to pokemon games like never! The last I played a lot of time was emerald, and yes it was nearly completely accessible. But since, I didn't play very much, not enough time and also, I

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon @ross:Oh interesting re the HGSS music thing, for some reason I thought it was something you could only get online. I'll stand corrected on that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484388/#p484388 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi,After defeating the third gym yesterday evening, i decided to call it a day for then, but now i am facing a tidious challenge, finding the npc who gives rock smash no matter, will find him soon enough.@Stirlock,Thanks for sharing that archive with us

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Honestly, if you could create some sort of walkthrough for the first sun and moon trial that would be awesome. It's literally what killed the game for me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484357/#p484357 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon @CJ89Yeah I don't really like what they did in HGSS with the music either. I know you used to be able to get remade version of the old chiptunes from within the game, but don't think that's a thing you can do anymore because that service was shut down

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon It does indeed, but I guess we'll have to stick with it for now. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484285/#p484285 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon It appears that the exp. share in sword and shield is forced on you now, and that you can't turn it off. I dislike this. I don't mind if it's there, or if it can be earned and turned on at will later in the game, but having it on by default and unable

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Well, to be honest, the let's go games wheren't ment to attract the hardcore Pokémon players, but where designed to grab all the Pokémon Go players and make them buy a Nintendo Switch, and it worked great that way. The difficulty isn't that high

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Well, to be honest, the let's go games wheren't ment to attract the hardcore Pokémon players, but where designed to grab all the Pokémon Go players and make them buy a Nintendo Switch, and it worked great that way. The difficulty isn't that high

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Sword and Shield don't generally continue that silly naming trend. And hey, Gigasinge looks pretty good in comparison to Baddy Bad. Jesus.Emerald and Platinum could be legitimately hard in places. Same with Black and White 2, especially. There were some

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Pokemon games have been way too easy since gen 6, what with getting the Experience Share very early and it levelling your entire party. The level curve doesn't scale appropriately, so you very quickly outlevel everything. Granted Pokemon games were never

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I was pretty thoroughly unimpressed with what I heard of the Let's Go games. They felt pretty hollow, not very difficult, and really, did we need further reasons for Pikachu and Eevee, especially the former, to get more screentime? It gets to a point where

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Nope it isn't, as I said multiple times earlier, all generations up to 5 are fine and most of them are entirely playable without sight. Things got worse from Gen 6 onwards though, with Let's go Pikachu & evee being the worst due to no random encoun

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon It's not true for gen 6 and up either. Lol, it's not a big deal. Not in the slightest. Maybe if you're trying to move diagonally, which you really shouldn't ever be doing IMO. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484177/#p484177 -- Audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon This may be true in gen 6 upward, but it is not true in gens 1 through 5. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484174/#p484174 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon You're technically right. Thing is that the one wall sound counts for corners as well. Imagine you're standing in a corner and bump into the wall to the right. Now you want to try and move upwards and to the right again. Instead of getting another wall

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I've seen a few people talking about wall sounds only playing once when you bump. Why, exactly, is that an issue? You bump, you hear the sound once, you know there's a wall there. You don't need to keep hearing the sound to know there's still a wall

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon THere are more where that came from, including the HGSS ice path, some of the tougher gym puzzles in black and white, a particular puzzle in x and y, and some others. Here is the contents of a drop box folder containing all of the directions and some

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Wow, that is one detailed guide. I had no idea it existed. I don't own Platinum, but this makes me wish I did. lol URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484147/#p484147 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Regarding emerald contests:I found the berry mixing to be rather inaccessible, BUT there is a solution to that. At certain events in the game, you can unlock the berry master to be available for an entire day as far as I remember, and you can let him mix

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon The distortion world is inaccessible without a guide. Luckily a step by step guide exists. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zlu7h0grfkwkr … s.txt?dl=1 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484142/#p484142 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Platinum has the Distortion World, also. How accessible is that? Because if it's accessible, I'd say Platinum is the definitive fourth-gen experience.With Emerald, you will either need help or a better walkthrough than I ever found to beat Winona's gym

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon OK, so I need to clear up something. X and Y are completely, 100% doable. The sliding along walls thing you mentioned? That's not a thing until sun and moon. X and Y does have psudo angular movement using the thumbstick for skating, but you can still use

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Platinum is totally fine and you can do it after getting through Ruby. Just be aware about the additional obstacles when facing X and Y. It won't be the same than the earlier games. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484122/#p484122 -- Audiogames

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Contests in ruby sapphire and emerald are like contests in breed memorial, except every move has a category like cool, tough or beauty or smart or cute. They also have different effects on the crowd. I remember devoting an entire morning to trying to figure

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi all,Thanks for all the replies, it seems i have a lot of catching up to do before i even will try my hand at sword or shield.For what i could gather in the replies, is platinum a good game to continue with after i did beat ruby. As well as black & w

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Few things here:1. Ruby/Sapphire I was able to beat without any actual sighted help. No, I couldn't fish, but I didn't care. I couldn't do contests either, but the core game was entirely beatable. Also, Ruby/Sapphire do not, as far as I remember, have

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon @ross:Well, I didn't say that Generation 6+ games aren't playable, I just don't recommend to try. They are beatable, yes, but thanks to nitpicky details like Wall sounds playing only once when walking against them, even though the step sounds continue

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Well, I didn't say that Generation 6+ games aren't playable, I just don't recommend to try. They are beatable, yes, but thanks to nitpicky details like Wall sounds playing only once when walking against them, even though the step sounds continue to play due

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Well, I didn't say that Generation 6+ games aren't playable, I just don't recommend to try. They are beatable, yes, but thanks to nitpicky details like Wall sounds playing only once when walking against them, even though the step sounds continue to play due

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I also beat at least one game of every generation and the respective remakes up to the release of white 2. Then I started mudding and life got in the way, so I'm a little sad to say that I fell out of touch with pokemon series progression half way through

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Does anyone have any idea why Pokemon games have inherently been fairly accessible outside of the whole, reading text thing? It's one of the only game series I can think of that has paid as much attention to it's sounds in the way that it has. For example

Re: any tips for playing pokemon

Re: any tips for playing pokemon Does anyone have any idea why Pokemon games have inherently been fairly accessible outside of the whole, reading text thing? It's one of the only game series I can think of that has paid as much attention to it's sounds in the way that it has. For example

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I can't bring myself to agree with Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald being the most accessible, because of one word: Fishing. Thankfully they fixed that minigame in later games to have a sound. I think Platinum and HG/SS are the gold standard. Well Diamond and Pearl

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon And yeah, I've played every game from gen one up until sun and moon as well. Black and white 1 are great. X and Y are pretty fun except for the sections with lunious city, which we have some walkthroughs for so it's fine. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Black and white 2 have a gym puzzle that as far as I know is unpassable by a blind person. It can't even be written out as a guide due to the way it works. Stick with black and white 1. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484013/#p484013

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon There's a bit of misinformation going around here, so I'll clear a bit of that up.Jade has mentioned that Ruby/gen 3 is the most accessible, and I'm inclined to strongly disagree with that. They are very accessible, yes, but I would probably make Black

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon thanks for that.  I was thinking black/white two due to the fact you can battle all leaders from previous gens after the game. Will definitely have a shot at these. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483981/#p483981 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Emerald is great, as well as Platinum. Black and White 2 are no definitives though, but tell a different story later in time. In fact, Platinum was the latest combined edition in the Pokémon series until now, with Black and White 2 being the first which

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I'd love to give emerald a go, as isn't it supposed to be the deinative gen 3 experience with the battle tower and such?  also considering platinum and black/white 2 for the same reason.  Though any suggestions on which ones are the best experiences would

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon HG/SS bugged me a little bit because of its music. Some of the music retreads are good. Some of them (trainer battle theme, for instance) have way, way too many grace notes, it just feels overstuffed.Also, there are bits of the original gold and silver

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Heart gold and soul silver has some pretty decent audio  feedback when it comes to moving around on the ds games As for keeping track of levels, I used the learned moves and evolutions as indicators. Otherwise once a pokemon learned its last nove I just

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Simple. I did it from memory, and I used the internet. For instance, if Claydol tried to learn Explosion, I looked up what level that was at, and reacted accordingly. Or if I knew that Absol was going to get Swords Dance at level 37 (I'm wrong, certainly, I

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi,@hijacker,Thanks for your words of causion But i have omega ruby laying around somewhere but i thought continuesly bumping was still the case, however less good to hear then with the original gba ruby. But i agree regarding in lets go pikachu, i quite

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Hi,@hijacker,Thanks for your words of causion But i have omega ruby laying around somewhere but i thought continuesly bumping was still the case, however less good to hear then with the original gba ruby. But i agree regarding in lets go pikachu, i quite

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon X and y as well as ORAS are playable. They don't have continuess wall sounds, but the movement is still like in the old pokemon games. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483830/#p483830 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I heard people had success soloing the 3ds games. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483817/#p483817 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon battle tower or that kind of things are very playable on sword i am now rank 4 in battle tower. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483774/#p483774 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Just keep your fingers away from Sword and Shield. The sound design got worse regarding accessibility. You don't have continuous wall sounds anymore, the movement control is 3D instead of tile-based, means you slide on walls and stuff, it causes headaches

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon I've been trying to find it, but I used to have an insanely cool reference for Pokemon cries. The super neat thing about Gen 3 and onward is that any pokemon local to your location would make cries as you walk around. I never beat it as a kid, but I'm

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Learn the pokemon cries, and the sound of each move. That will save you a lot of reading. My brother's friend used to laugh his head off because I could tell a pokemon soly by its cry but that's not too hard to do once you play for a while.Pay attention

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Re: any tips for playing pokemon Ruby is actually really, really accessible as far as pokemon games go. No, you won't be able to figure everything out, but most things can be found by following walls and/or reading guides from Gamefaqs. In particular, there's a walkthrough hosted

any tips for playing pokemon

any tips for playing pokemon Hi all,Perhaps i already have asked this kind of question before. But do some of you have any tips for playing pokémon? I know that patience is an inportant factor, combined with a walkthrough of gamefaqs.com and perhaps an ocr app on te iphone are good assets