EDIT: Dammit, this belongs in Indigo Plateau, doesn't it...
I've occasionally seen threads pertaining to the "long-dead" RBY metagame, including a couple of RMTs and even one thread which TVBoyCanti showed me where an RBY server had actually been made and played on (though not over Shoddy)
When I recently got my N64 emulator to go online with the Kaillera client (an online gaming client that multiple N64 emulators support) I noticed that Pokemon Stadium should work with it. I don't know if the tranfer pak works online or not, but the game itself definitely does.
Couldn't Smogon set up a Kaillera server and host its own RBY and GSC throwback metagames over Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Stadium 2? Would interest be high enough for this? Or does emulation like that go against Smogon's love of the games or something I wouldn't know? (It couldn't be much worse than Shoddy Battle's emulations anyway.)
If for some reason this is against Smogon's moral code or better interests, I'd be willing to just shut up about it. But I think a lot of Smogon's players would be interested in playing Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 with other equally dedicated Pokemon players, and re-entering the oldest metagame for the first time for more than a decade after its conception.
I've occasionally seen threads pertaining to the "long-dead" RBY metagame, including a couple of RMTs and even one thread which TVBoyCanti showed me where an RBY server had actually been made and played on (though not over Shoddy)
When I recently got my N64 emulator to go online with the Kaillera client (an online gaming client that multiple N64 emulators support) I noticed that Pokemon Stadium should work with it. I don't know if the tranfer pak works online or not, but the game itself definitely does.
Couldn't Smogon set up a Kaillera server and host its own RBY and GSC throwback metagames over Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Stadium 2? Would interest be high enough for this? Or does emulation like that go against Smogon's love of the games or something I wouldn't know? (It couldn't be much worse than Shoddy Battle's emulations anyway.)
If for some reason this is against Smogon's moral code or better interests, I'd be willing to just shut up about it. But I think a lot of Smogon's players would be interested in playing Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 with other equally dedicated Pokemon players, and re-entering the oldest metagame for the first time for more than a decade after its conception.
