Recent content by Zowayix

Does the early-purchase bonus mean that Gardevoirite is going to be an event-exclusive item? :row:

Ever since the cancellation of E3, mid-year presentations have been in August.

Sword/Shield used a 400-pixel HP bar rounding to the nearest 400th (proof), while BDSP used a 256-pixel HP bar rounding to the nearest 256th (proof). I'd be very surprised if SV used 48ths (but I don't know SV's exact number).

I even wonder if VGC 2026 might have it. ZA is late 2025, which means the next main series game after that won't be until late 2026. This means that either VGC 2026 features Champions, or TPC is stuck with four years in a row of Scarlet/Violet VGC. We've never had four VGCs in a row use the same...

I don't think people are angry about a lawsuit over plagiarism - I think people are angry because nintendo chose to do a patent lawsuit specifically. Patenting game mechanics sets all sorts of terrible precedents.

Some more thoughts/allegations I've seen bouncing around: JP patent law is apparently different from US patent law in such a way that it covers things that wouldn't be called "patents" in the US system, such as trademarks. There's some misinformation floating around that the patent allegedly...

For context, this is the first main series game ever approved in China. I wonder if there's a trivial explanation where only a certain number of games are allowed to be approved per [time period] or something. Obviously I have no evidence of this.

I was hoping for "anything main series other than just ILCA BW1", so I'm celebrating. For those who wanted a gap year you've also got that.

Completely off-topic but this suddenly reminded me of that June 2021 Direct with Smash in it. For context, people were wildly speculating F-Zero, someone posted "I predict nintendo will execute Captain Falcon live on stage"...and then the Direct opened with Kazuya throwing Captain Falcon off a...

Just got off work and watched the Presents for the first time - here are some initial thoughts (sorry if duplicate of what's been mentioned already): I don't see the point of the TCG app if you can't even play a game in it that matches the TCG's rules. First gap year since 2015 is very...

https://gonintendo.com/contents/32491-tomorrow-s-pokemon-presents-is-about-13-minutes-long Called it. The Japanese premiere link has been uploaded, revealing a presentation length of 12 minutes 52 seconds through a metadata leak. I wonder if Youtube will patch this bug because it's on...

Johto's last game was 2018 if you count Virtual Console Pokemon Crystal :toast: Both Gen 8 and Gen 9 allowed transfer-only mons at the same time, July 1 of the first year. But Gen 8 was hit by covid, delaying Worlds by two more years. I recall the prevailing argument in 2018 being the...

@Tuoko on the Bulbagarden Discord says that Smeargle is no longer allowed to use Transform. Bye bye dupe glitch :(

Unfortunately, event-exclusive Pokemon have been allowed in VGC for ages, with the earliest examples being Dark Void Smeargle, level 50 Dragonite (predating level scaling), and HGSS Giratina-O.

For some reason, I remember people talking about something in the game that generated a wondercard and therefore a gift Pokemon, which might have been interpreted as the "PkHex feature". Did I misremember and make this up? Or was there any truth to this at all? (unused datamine, something that...