Hi. I am documenting my complete Crystal Pokedex. Welcome to the show.
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How did you do all this? I emulated Pokemon Crystal on the emulator My Old Boy! for Android. If you haven't used it and want to play Gameboy/color games on your Android device, I suggest this one. The only way this was even possible is due to the link cable functionality. You can run 2 instances of My Old Boy at the same time, linked. I spent a lot of time trading with myself, as you might imagine. I had to play through Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold, AND Crystal to catch everything I needed in order to complete the Crystal Dex. Red/Blue have not aged well aesthetically, but there are a couple of visual patches I used for fun. They replace all the graphics with Crystal assets. It really makes R/B look really really good. If you are going to play the originals again, maybe take a look. I took a shot from Celedeon where a accidentally stranded myself after trading away all the useful pokemon in Red. That last shot is the hotel with the invisible pc. It still works even with the updated graphics.
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You played how long? This is just my playtime on Crystal alone. Remember I had to complete Red or Blue (I can't remember which, now) in order to get MewTwo. And I had to play a large chunk of the opposite version to get the exclusives, as well as a bit of yellow to take advantage of *trainer fly. More on that later. I also had to play most of Silver and ALL of Gold because Remoraid is a SOB who can't be caught outside of swarms without a Super Rod. He is exclusive to Gold and you only get the Super Rod post Elite 4. I didn't realize this until I was down to about 15 pokemon to go. So 277 hours is only about 1/3 of how much I played in total. Now, remember that I was playing on an emulator so I did take advantage of save scums, save states, and most importantly: 4X Fast Forward. I played most of the games going 4X as fast. That is probably the biggest boon to playing on an emulator (well that and filters for fun). They reason I have a screenie of Jynx is because I had never really used her before. Jynx OWNS. There are so many things weak to Psychic and Ice typing and both Kanto (especially Kanto) and Jhoto. She became my MVP for this run.
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Here's the two profs after I got my pokedex completed. Oak is genuinely excited, but offers nothing in return for the completing of his dream. What a jerk. To be fair, I dont need any masterballs since I already own every single monster obtainable up to this point in time, save trying to transfer over an "M" or MissingNO. Elm is completely non-interested and is still wondering if my "EGG HAS CHANGED ANY". What an idiot.
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Any shinies? The single shiny that I encountered in my entire run.A Pidgey. I guess the odds are probably pretty good that of all of them it would either be a Pidgey, Rattata, or a Zubat. Actually a shiny Crobat might be kinda cool. But anyways. Yeah this was the only one I saw. I caught the obligitory Red Gayrados. And for fun I made Ho-oh shiny. It actually turned out worse than I thought. Cheaters never prosper.
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Warnings to other players who might want to do this? Be prepared to trade with youself a lot. Also there are a few pokemon that really tried my patience. This patch of grass (above the ledge and cut tree) is the only place in the game where you can catch a Chansey. And its a 1/100 chance too, IIRC. AND, see that girl in green? If you catch one, she will trade you for an Aerodyctal. So you have to (or you can) catch 2. I was counting my encouters as well as trying to hatch eggs at the same time. You know, killing two birds with one stone.
The stone problem. There is a big issue with elemental evolutionary stones in gen 2. They are very limited. I don't have my notes in front of me right now, but I think there was only one set in Silver/Gold, and an added set in Crystal. One set came from very specific trainers who would trade numbers with you. Randomly (yay) they might call you and tell you they have something for you. Only once. The other set comes from Bill's grandpa. He requests to see 5 specific pokemon rewarding you with stones each time you fulfill his wish. Except the first one is an everstone. Yay. Fire, water, leaf, and thunderstones can be purchased in R/B/Y. This is great if you have the means to trade you pokemon back in time AND if they have all legacy moves (high level pokemon need not apply). One issue is Eevees. You have to either play 5 games and get an eevee from each, or breed them. I would then suggest trading 3 of them back in time. And that gets us into the whole egg hatching malarkey.
Egg hatching and friendship evolutions suck. I don't have anything else to add here, both of those things suck. No flame body or anything to help. Just get your bike out and head to kanto.
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Kurt's balls suck, too. I always felt like I under-utilized Kurt and his balls when I was younger but... turns out 4 or something of his balls actually just don't work. The two that do are for low level or easy to catch pokemon as it is. Again I don't have my notes but one of them increases your catch odds with pokemon who evolve when you use a "burn heal" on them (thanks gamefreak).
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@Issac He asked if I caught all the unowns. I did. I almost didn't but I went back and I did. I actually did straight up cheat to do it thought. One of the last rooms you need to solve a puzzle and have a water stone in your bag to finish. I was so done with the stone ass pain that I just gave in and cheated one in with the GameShark. Also:
Why this is only a ~99% legit pokedex collection:
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So here's the first non-legit thing I did. The only way to get a Celebi without have an official code from a Nintendo store is to use a GameShark. At first, I couldn't find a code to trigger the GS Ball event, so I just gen'd a Celebi into the wild and caught it. I felt dirty about that, so I kept searching. Eventually I found a code on GameFAQs that did just that. Triggered the GS Ball event just like it would have back in 2000. I went through the motions and caught an "as legit as I could get" Celebi.
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Also I wanted to start the game with a pseudo legendary: Larvitar. So I genned one in with the GameShark codes. Later on in the run I caught a legit one to kind of even the score out.
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Mew is the only pokemon I needed yellow for. I used a glitch that allows you to gen in a pokemon depending who you fly from. This again is one of the circumstances I found myself in. There is no real way to get a mew unless you cheat one in or do something like this.
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I never got far enough as a kid to use the train, so this was cool. Anyways, thanks for reading
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How did you do all this? I emulated Pokemon Crystal on the emulator My Old Boy! for Android. If you haven't used it and want to play Gameboy/color games on your Android device, I suggest this one. The only way this was even possible is due to the link cable functionality. You can run 2 instances of My Old Boy at the same time, linked. I spent a lot of time trading with myself, as you might imagine. I had to play through Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold, AND Crystal to catch everything I needed in order to complete the Crystal Dex. Red/Blue have not aged well aesthetically, but there are a couple of visual patches I used for fun. They replace all the graphics with Crystal assets. It really makes R/B look really really good. If you are going to play the originals again, maybe take a look. I took a shot from Celedeon where a accidentally stranded myself after trading away all the useful pokemon in Red. That last shot is the hotel with the invisible pc. It still works even with the updated graphics.
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You played how long? This is just my playtime on Crystal alone. Remember I had to complete Red or Blue (I can't remember which, now) in order to get MewTwo. And I had to play a large chunk of the opposite version to get the exclusives, as well as a bit of yellow to take advantage of *trainer fly. More on that later. I also had to play most of Silver and ALL of Gold because Remoraid is a SOB who can't be caught outside of swarms without a Super Rod. He is exclusive to Gold and you only get the Super Rod post Elite 4. I didn't realize this until I was down to about 15 pokemon to go. So 277 hours is only about 1/3 of how much I played in total. Now, remember that I was playing on an emulator so I did take advantage of save scums, save states, and most importantly: 4X Fast Forward. I played most of the games going 4X as fast. That is probably the biggest boon to playing on an emulator (well that and filters for fun). They reason I have a screenie of Jynx is because I had never really used her before. Jynx OWNS. There are so many things weak to Psychic and Ice typing and both Kanto (especially Kanto) and Jhoto. She became my MVP for this run.
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Here's the two profs after I got my pokedex completed. Oak is genuinely excited, but offers nothing in return for the completing of his dream. What a jerk. To be fair, I dont need any masterballs since I already own every single monster obtainable up to this point in time, save trying to transfer over an "M" or MissingNO. Elm is completely non-interested and is still wondering if my "EGG HAS CHANGED ANY". What an idiot.
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Any shinies? The single shiny that I encountered in my entire run.A Pidgey. I guess the odds are probably pretty good that of all of them it would either be a Pidgey, Rattata, or a Zubat. Actually a shiny Crobat might be kinda cool. But anyways. Yeah this was the only one I saw. I caught the obligitory Red Gayrados. And for fun I made Ho-oh shiny. It actually turned out worse than I thought. Cheaters never prosper.
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Warnings to other players who might want to do this? Be prepared to trade with youself a lot. Also there are a few pokemon that really tried my patience. This patch of grass (above the ledge and cut tree) is the only place in the game where you can catch a Chansey. And its a 1/100 chance too, IIRC. AND, see that girl in green? If you catch one, she will trade you for an Aerodyctal. So you have to (or you can) catch 2. I was counting my encouters as well as trying to hatch eggs at the same time. You know, killing two birds with one stone.
The stone problem. There is a big issue with elemental evolutionary stones in gen 2. They are very limited. I don't have my notes in front of me right now, but I think there was only one set in Silver/Gold, and an added set in Crystal. One set came from very specific trainers who would trade numbers with you. Randomly (yay) they might call you and tell you they have something for you. Only once. The other set comes from Bill's grandpa. He requests to see 5 specific pokemon rewarding you with stones each time you fulfill his wish. Except the first one is an everstone. Yay. Fire, water, leaf, and thunderstones can be purchased in R/B/Y. This is great if you have the means to trade you pokemon back in time AND if they have all legacy moves (high level pokemon need not apply). One issue is Eevees. You have to either play 5 games and get an eevee from each, or breed them. I would then suggest trading 3 of them back in time. And that gets us into the whole egg hatching malarkey.
Egg hatching and friendship evolutions suck. I don't have anything else to add here, both of those things suck. No flame body or anything to help. Just get your bike out and head to kanto.
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Kurt's balls suck, too. I always felt like I under-utilized Kurt and his balls when I was younger but... turns out 4 or something of his balls actually just don't work. The two that do are for low level or easy to catch pokemon as it is. Again I don't have my notes but one of them increases your catch odds with pokemon who evolve when you use a "burn heal" on them (thanks gamefreak).
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@Issac He asked if I caught all the unowns. I did. I almost didn't but I went back and I did. I actually did straight up cheat to do it thought. One of the last rooms you need to solve a puzzle and have a water stone in your bag to finish. I was so done with the stone ass pain that I just gave in and cheated one in with the GameShark. Also:
Why this is only a ~99% legit pokedex collection:
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So here's the first non-legit thing I did. The only way to get a Celebi without have an official code from a Nintendo store is to use a GameShark. At first, I couldn't find a code to trigger the GS Ball event, so I just gen'd a Celebi into the wild and caught it. I felt dirty about that, so I kept searching. Eventually I found a code on GameFAQs that did just that. Triggered the GS Ball event just like it would have back in 2000. I went through the motions and caught an "as legit as I could get" Celebi.
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Also I wanted to start the game with a pseudo legendary: Larvitar. So I genned one in with the GameShark codes. Later on in the run I caught a legit one to kind of even the score out.
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Mew is the only pokemon I needed yellow for. I used a glitch that allows you to gen in a pokemon depending who you fly from. This again is one of the circumstances I found myself in. There is no real way to get a mew unless you cheat one in or do something like this.
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I never got far enough as a kid to use the train, so this was cool. Anyways, thanks for reading
