/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7325295
What good are you?

It's got the best Pokemon sprites to date.

>>7325297
I am a very well respected individual

Yellow is my prefered version, it's not because I watched the cartoon, as I didn't, I was already 17 at this point, it's because it had better sprites. Before people give me shit for being an old man playing pokemon, it's only because I like RPGs, specifically grind heavy ones, even if babby's first RPG has grinding in, I will play it.

>>7325304
This is not true of you, me, or anyone else who posts here

>>7325295
you get all 3 starters from people in the game

>>7325315
Speak for yourself, I'm literal royalty.

>>7325315
Don't project. Just because you get into unsavory things on other boards doesn't mean everyone else does

>>7325317
that can't be

I thought it was in color but I guess not?

>>7325328
You do and it's gated behind if your pokemon love you, the trick is there is a bug, your pikachu that follows you likes you more if you give it an item, thing is the item count doesnt drop if you give it a potion when in full health, so keep curing that mouse until it loves you, then talk to the people giving them away, you'll get all 3 to box immediately

gotta fug em all

>>7325324
>>7325325
T. Degenerate faggots in denial

>>7325348
Get a wash, peasant.

>>7325307
I've played Pokemon Yellow a dozen times and don't remember this. Nice shoop

>>7325370
You're retarded
Peddle your weak fuck bait elsewhere faggot

>>7325295
The only advantage is being able to get the 3 starters, but being stuck with Pikachu is lame.
Red and Blue versions are better.

>>7325295
if you didn't have friends or just wanted a closer anime experience, it was great

>>7325330
It is. It's a GBC-enhanced game but could still work just fine on GB, since it came out around the same time as the system's release (or slightly before in Japan), so that's what it was sold as. It also had a special GBC bundle that came with a yellow GBC with some Pokemon on the shell.

>>7325441
You are not stuck with Pikachu. You can just box it and play the game as a graphically far-superior Pokemon R/B/G that had some bonus Rocket encounters.

>>7325317
Good luck getting a Raichu.

>>7325516
you just trade one over, bless BGB for being the emulator that bothered to emulate link cables.

>>7325516
Why would anyone want a Raichu in 1st gen? Pikachu is a vehicle for obtaining other Pokemon in Yellow, it's not something you use.

>>7325480
those rockets were placed in the most trollish areas possible, anybody going to yellow from r/b for the first time is going to get wiped or close to it, especially the first one at the end of mt moon

>>7325295
you can prepare for trouble and make it double

Forced Pikachu vs Brock and only having shit normal type Pokemon in the first area is peak Pokemon experience.

>>7326231
typing isnt something that matters until after mt moon, you know this, stop being a bitch

>>7326231
>not catching mankey
>not getting a butterfree
topkek

>>7326241
>Mankey
Useless

>Butterfree
>He actually grinded for a 3rd evolution in the first area of the game
And it's still pretty shit.

>>7326231
everything before misty is made for you just to have tackle, scratch and peck, who are you kidding

>>7326253
Not him, but it's barely a grind to get a Butterfree in time to fight Brock.

>>7326275
retard here, what would be the benefit of that? sleep powder?

>>7326253
do you have the retard disease?

>>7326253
>fighting type vs rock gym is useless
ok. you can also catch a nidoran that gets double kick. but idk why you can't just turn on the sprinklers

>>7326363
that would be an admission that pikajerk is a massive CHEATER

>>7326372
its a legitimate strategy

>>7326281
Confusion
Butterfree is op early game

>>7326415
Oh, of course, thanks.

>>7326415
Expanding on this, Brock's pokemon have horrific special, which is why this weak neutral no-STAB move slaughters them anyway.

This is why it's good.
https://youtu.be/aTvXruXuStI?t=26

>>7326231
>Forced Pikachu
Why do people keep repeating this in this thread? You are NOT forced to use Pikachu, you can catch any better Pokemon and use it instead. You probably aren't out of slots unless you're catching them all but you can still BOX IT and play without it. Numerous Pokemon are catchable before Brock that beat the shit out of him.

This game slaughters RGB at sprites, completely. Some of these are the best sprites a given Pokemon will EVER receive, no exaggeration.

>>7326231
>he doesn't know that nidoran can learn double kick

>>7326253
Mankey learns Low Kick at Level 9, that move alone is more than enough to take care of Brock.

>>7326231
>not enjoying Quick-attacking Onix to death

>>7325295
The pokemons in yellow have better learnset than in r/b, but today I prefer rb classic sprites and the nostalgic red palette, back in the day I played yellow borrowed from a friend and remember the sprites were amazing, really close to the anime, but I prefered red as a whole. Im currently doing a playthrough of the spanish version of yellow with my gbc to train in the language, its a pitty the spanish yellow doesnt work with american poke stadium. From Brazil with love.

>>7326626
Kinda noisy desu. Ironic too that the Pikachu sprite is probably the most soulless out of all of them.

>>7325474
The trick is it’s not as colorized as say gold and silver all.
Really all it does is emulate how the super game boy colorizes red and blue with a few more flourishes like on the title screen

>>7326654
this, nidoran was always a staple of my team

>>7327438
I never did teams, I actually believed the games tagline of gotta catch 'em all, which meant using them until they evolved to their final state and immediately boxing them once they hit that and moving to the next one that needs the levels to evolve, every beedrill ive had in my life has never gone past level 10

Like other people said, main benefit is getting all three starters. Surfing game is a novelty but in reality basically nobody went all the way through Stadium to get Surfing Pikachu, and Stadium has better minigames anyway.
There are some bugfixes and a few minor quality of life improvements (can enter Safari Zone if out of money, etc) but I usually prefer playing Red for the original graphics and aesthetics. It's not like GSC where Crystal is plainly superior to Gold and Silver (Battle Tower, better item placement, actually better graphics, better phone system, girl option) aside from a few desirable missing Pokemon like Mareep.

>>7325295
Let me tell you you what good it is.

>Rival has Evee and potentially one out of all its evolutions
>meaning the movesets of Evee and its evo were changed accordingly

>in GCS, breed 3 lvl 1 Evees
>using the time machine, trade them to Yellow at the very start of the game

>you now have 3 Evees as starters and their new movesets thanks to the rival make it perfect for that

I did that and it was great

>>7327731
Outside of the different movesets, Yellow really isn't that interesting

>out of all the changed fights, only one or two are better than in BR
>the colours in Yellow are worse than the colours in BR when using the SGB, especially outside of combat
>some of the pokémon graphics are better than in BR, some are worse

Fearow is a great example

>Green
Perfection

>BR
garbbled mess, can't tell head from wing

>Yellow
They knew BR was a mess so they made it look very clean and readable instead, but as a result the angle and pose are boring as fuck

>>7325516
i distinctly remember evolving pikachu in yellow, then feeling sad because he didn't follow you around anymore.
but apparently that's not actually possible in game so maybe i'm delusional

>>7326231
0 knowledge pleb nigger

>>7325295
It is to emulate being the Gary Stu Ash Caughtem, in which you have all the popular Pokemon and are best friends with Pikachu

>>7325324
proofs or get fucked

>>7327445
This is the only way to play the game with any difficulty. As a child I used to just use one overleveled Pokemon and going back is like a completely new, more enjoyable game.

>>7328292
You could have traded it, evolved it and traded it back?

>>7328292
you're delusional, its hard coded not to work, you have to trade

>>7325295
tie in with the shitty anime series to sell more consoles. Kids really, really liked Pikachu and ate up anything with his picture on it

>>7325295
yellow missingno is low tier compared to original missingno

>>7329169
agreed

>>7329169
yellow had 3TrainerPoke though, which did some funny stuff to pikachu's sprite if you caught it

The idea was lazy and cash-in focused but every change was just added stuff. Like you got a Pikachu that you could discard immediately if you didn't like it, could collect every one of the starters in one playthrough if you unboxed Pikachu and gave it potions, and the improved sprites absolutely slaughter GRB's.

If you have no interest in any of that, it doesn't have to affect you at all and it still is just the 1st gen game with more trainers to battle and expanded learnsets. There's no actual downside.

>>7329224
>fat Pikachu after being punched in the face

>>7325295

its the best one lol

>>7329250
>more trainers

Huh. Where is there more trainers? Last time I played I found less, for instance at the top of the pokémon tower in Lavendertown you only fight Jessie&James instead of many Rockets.

also there are other changes which are questionnable, for instance the wild encounters selection in the pokémon mansion in cinnabar is shit in Yellow

>>7329281
That's true, I forgot they replaced the Lavender Tower trainers, my bad. Other places the rockets were just added. So I guess if you really like the previous Lavender Tower rockets you could have a reason to want to play GRB. Good catch.

>>7329265
No that'd be FireRed / LeafGreen.

>>7325295
Use the pokemon randomizer to actually play the game.

>>7326917
>soul
your opinion = discarded

It's a nice change to have all 3 starters and Pikachu following you. The Pokemon sprites are better (read: more accurate). It's worth a try if you want to replay Red or Blue but want a slight change.

>>7331098
>accurate
the game came out before the anime dummy

the most "accurate" are red / blue in that sense, and also team rocket isn't accurate

>>7325386
This guy >>7325370
is right. Pikachu wasn't in Yellow, just on the box senpai.

>>7331183
First airing of the cartoon: 1 April 1997
Release date of Yellow: 12 September 1998
You are embarrassing yourself.

>>7331285
what motivates you to talk piss, nobody is going to believe your bullshit

>>7325312
I think Pokémon is more popular with the older crowd

>>7329290
They weren't added, but merely replaced the last Grunt of the area before the goal. The one you meet in Mt. Moon before the fossils, the two outside Giovanni's office in the hideout, and the one outside the Silph CEO's office are all replaced by Jessie and James in Yellow.

>>7331303
that's not what i was saying though, bot

my point is, yellow retcons anime-isms into blue / red, there was no team rocket in pokemon before the anime came out, which was AFTER red / blue

>>7331446
And those anime-isms were disregarded in all later mainline games, barring Pikachu and the Kanto starters being Red's permanent team.

However, I think Gen7 when they just said fuck it and did things like having Jessie and James pop up in spin-offs and giving Giovanni Mewtwo when the two were never connected in the games before.

>>7325295
The new sprites were nice at the time. But today it's kind of refreshing to look at the wonky designs in RB.

>>7331485
>all
not all
>mainline
;^) define that plz

>>7331308
Inevitably, somebody always takes the bait, and even though you knew it was bait, I still rustled you into a response.

>>7331516
>be retarded
>get called a retard
>haha i win

>>7331520
And with each response, I win harder.

>>7331536
congratulations, you got called a retard, well done

>>7331183
>the game came out before the anime dummy
No the fuck it didn't lol

>>7331536
It makes me sad thinking about what your life must be like if this is how you spend your free time

>>7331563
It makes me sad thinking about what your life must be like if this is how you spend your free time

>>7331446
>there was no team rocket in pokemon before the anime came out
lad...

The only acceptable excuse for not liking the Red and Blue sprites is saying you like the Red and Green sprites better

>>7325295

Charizard can Fly and Diglett can learn cut, making him a good HM slave. Scyther gets Wing Attack which is good.

>>7331830
huh i could have sworn they weren't

mandala affect?

>>7332238
No, you're just retarded.

>>7331580
Well done anon, they will always seethe and try to counter saying that they aren't actually mad.

>>7325330
From what I remember, R/B are default Red and Blue pallettes while in Yellow the pallette changes depending which city you're in and Pokemon sprites have assigned colours insted of following the pallette

>>7332238
Team rocket the organization is in Red/Blue/Green. If you're referring to James/Jesse/Meowth they're only in Yellow.

>>7332238
Fellas, you need to distinguish between "Team Rocket Grund with a whip" and "Team Rocket consisting of Jesse James and a fucking talking cat", you're confusing the zoomers

>>7325295
Pikacu follows you around

>>7325295
Remind me, was Missingno in it or did they bugfix that poor bastard out?

>>7337087
they tried to fix it and made another, this one is in Veridian forest, it's nowhere near as powerful or useful, also not as iconic

>>7325516
uh it's easy
just use the mew glitch and catch one.

>>7338743
that doesnt work in yeller

>>7338762
yes it does.

>>7338779
is the setup the same? every time i tried it, it failed

Yellow also added new multiplayer battle modes (Pika Cup, Petite Cup, Poke Cup) like the Pokemon Stadium modes. Probably irrelevant to people playing now since you're unlikely to battle over link cables, but it was a nice addition.

>>7338762
>>7338743
you can catch a Mew in Yellow, pic related

>>7338841
but is the glitch setup the same, the one I use for r/b doesnt work

>>7338798
yes u just teleport away with an abra or whatever u want, kill a pokemon of your choice and go to the bridge :)

>>7339153
yeah that is what I do, go fight the slowpoke trainer then teleport away from the grass trainer near the bridge, I must be fucking up my muscle memory and blaming it on yellow

>>7326231
Idiot anime poster

>>7326382
My turtle will attack THE MOON

>>7327451
Counter point on Crystal, Ho-oh was a massive pain in the ass to get since hunting the legendary dogs was one of the least fun things you could possibly do.

>>7339171
uh you also need to TP away from the trainer next to the water outside cerulean first.

But i'm sure there's a good'ol unregistered hypercam video tutorial on youtube to show you how it's done.

>>7339264
you don't need to do that in r/b, you can get mew as soon as you get an abra, I always did it before fighting misty or even going to see bill

>>7339271
no the glitch is the same.

I always preferred Yellow as a kid, but replaying it in the past year felt kind of shitty because autism forces me to stack my team with Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Kadabra, Pikachu + one other and it feels very limiting. The adventure of wandering around catching Pokemon feels diminished in Yellow. I kinda prefer Red/Blue now just because it forces you to use other Pokemon.

>>7339289
>Kadabra
only one you in that team you need, you could make those others HM slaves, your grown up abra will walk over everything on his own

>>7326231
>Forced pikachu
it's not, you can box it at any time, and it also stops following you.
>only having shit normal type Pokemon
Nidoran and Mankey both learn fighting moves, nerd. Also butterfree learns confusion which is a special attack, and onix/geodudes stats are mainly defense. Just saying

>>7339294
as soon as you teach psychic to a kadabra or better an alakazam, the games credits just should start playing to save you time, you don't have to look at the screen anymore, it just becomes PP management between OHKO's

>>7339289
Do yourself a favour and allow yourself to trade with yourself using emulators.

That, or play the Jap Blue version. There is a romhack recreation of it.
You can get NPC traded Golem, Gengar; and catch wild Jynx in that version. I had a blast when I made a playthrough of that. I had no idea Jynx was even a wild pokémon in any gen1 version. That mon really opens up the "psy type" possibilities, and psy/ice is super based. Ice Punch is no ice beam but honestly it's enough against most things, especially when they x4 weakness like some of the dragons.

>>7325301
This. I only played it because the sprites looked better

>>7339345
BGB is the best emulator for self trading, for those about to ask

>>7339345
I always thought Jinx was dumb, but the psy/ice combo is actually pretty cool

>>7340078
jynx is dumb, so is mr mime, all the human ones are digimon, even the gen 1 lot, I will never change my mind on this

>>7330784

>>7339289
>I kinda prefer Red/Blue now just because it forces you to use other Pokemon.
I can see why you would say this. I always feel compelled to use Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur when I play Yellow as well. The autistic urge to use them is too strong to overcome.

>>7339289
Except for Venusaur, starters in Gen I actually aren't that good compared to others of their types. There's no reason to feel compelled to use them.

>>7340214
Reddit called, they want their dead meme back

Also, why are you posting photos of yourself in a 4chan thread?

>>7342379
>thinking fedora=atheist/materialist is a reddit meme
It's only a reddit meme when used against someone for being edgy or politically incorrect, not for acting like a soulless stooge of Big Capital

>>7338878
The nugget bridge one definitely works on red. I did it around Christmas.

>>7325295
changing some of the game to be more like the show? filling in the movesets for pokemon that needed it? adding stuff like being able to catch gyarados and dragonair? being able to get all the starters in one playthrough? better sprites? (some are worse) inventing the friendship concept? surely a bunch of other shit.

>>7330762
bloated 3rd gen trash with soulless graphics

>>7338878
>>7343181
This type of encounter glitch wasn't even discovered until long after postmortem for gen
1, yellow didn't address it.

>>7325307
what mod is that

>>7339371
>BGB is the best emulator for self trading, for those about to ask
not sameboy?

>>7344992
I had desyncing issues when trading with sameboy and it ended up corrupting a save, but i had a backup save anyway, also if you are self trading, never ever hit that speedup button, that will just wreck shit

>>7344992
you can also selftrade with a program called pkhex, which isnt an emulator it just opens your saves so you can transfer them over, like a trade, but its kinda wonky, its also used to hack pokemons stats and inject new ones

>>7345007
>>7345016
ok thanks.

>>7342379
this meme existed on 4chan before reddit was even a thing

in other words you're showing your newfaggotry and where you really come from

>>7329169
Some of the yellow glitches are still pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQq6_xa8-U
PI
KA
CHU

>>7339189
Actually that's a good point. That said these days the optimal strat for catching the hamsters is well known, pic related, and it's only two of them. I wouldn't say it overrides Crystal's other benefits.

>>7340620
Blastoise is a perfectly good water type, it's just Charizard that sucks. Fire isn't even that useful in gen 1 to begin with.

>>7345965
they gave him metal claw in the gba remake, so he didnt suck so hard starting out, all thos ekids picking the fire lizard in gen1 because he looked cool and playing with fire is cool, were actually picking harder mode

>>7345984
Wasn't Bulbasaur the hard mode one?

>>7346002
no, bulbasaur is the easiest, type advantage against the 2 starting gyms and all of mount moon

>>7345965
Blastoise is the most outclassed of all of them. Charizard's competition just looks like Arcanine. Blastoise is facing fucking Starmie AND Gyarados in its team position. They are some of the best Pokemon of the entire generation. Additional mention goes to Vaporeon, Slowbro and Omastar which all have significant edges over Blastoise of their own, but less overwhelmingly so.
Venusaur has a challenging competitor in Exeggutor and then outclasses every other Grass type because they are subsets of its stats with the same typing as it.

>>7346015
yeah but exeggutor is fucking butt ugly and retarded looking, so only autistic competitive fags would even consider using it.

i am a gen 2 man personally, but grew up with gen 1, lost interest by gen 3. gen 1 has some really ugly designs for some reason. not all of them but just a few.

>>7346004
vine whip is total shit after misty though, many kids kept that move as it got them through mount moon with ease and misty, thinking it was powerful when it was just type advantaged, in reality that move is crap

>>7340214
as stupid as this photo is it actually is sort of nice to look at, someone obviously took the time to pose the guy and everything.

>>7340078
>>7340084
>not jacking off to jynx before the internet

>>7333074
They're in Let's Go though Meowth doesn't talk.

>>7346048

>>7346048
were you really jerking it to jynx in a game full of hot trainer girls?

>>7346051
>>7346053
i cant be the only one

>>7346053
Real Story: back when Gen I rumors were everywhere I accidentally saw amateur art of your character fucking Misty in the grass and thought this was the secret ending prize you get when your Pokedex was cumpleted.

>>7339179
>anime
That's pretty clearly a video game.
Anime website by the way.

>>7346015
>Venusaur has a challenging competitor in Exeggutor and then outclasses every other Grass type because they are subsets of its stats with the same typing as it.
Victrebel has wrap which gives it a niche

This thread just confused me more about which is supposed to be the best version

>>7346015
Slowbro > Gyarados by a lot (Amnesia + Psychic typing + Rest with bulk is a big part of that), but otherwise you're right about Blastoise. For competitive battling, Blastoise is the worst starter in Gen 1.

Yellow didn't really age well as a third (well technically fourth) version besides some of the spritework. I'm more interested in what the Pink Version leak could have been. I think it's a given that it would have been the trade companion of Yellow, but what do you think was the idea there? Would it have been more manga-inspired to contrast with Yellow's anime-isms? Do you think Pink's mascot would have been Clefairy or Jigglypuff?

>>7346539
Wonder if it couldn't have been loosely based off of the Pocket Monsters manga?

>>7346545
It's such a weird manga. There are weird unnamed bootleg pokemon, mewtwo appears out of nowhere, and clefairy just gets his dick out sometimes.

>>7346539
I have a feeling it was Clefairy hence why Pikachu has a unique reaction when seeing the one in the Fan Club for the first time, they were prob supposed to switch places and it was a cute nudge to the other version. By the time Jigglypuff was used in Smash Clefairy was deemed a fad and Yellow was already out for at least a year so I don't think Jigglypuf was a reference to Pink, rather is was just a quick way to reuse assets from Kirby. Pink was likely canceled because they soon realized Pikachu was way more popular and recognizable outside of Japan it wasn't even close, not enough worldwide sales of Pink would've justified production. A manga (specifically Special/Adventures) counterpart to Yellow would've been kino but alas that's the realm of romhacks.

>>7325307
EW WTF

If you play red and blue on gbc, everything's red or blue. Having the correct colors on yellow version makes it better. It was such a cool feeling getting to cerulean for the first time and seeing the color change drastically.

>>7346768
Why didn't you play on Super Gameboy or Pokemon Stadium like you were supposed to.

I never played pokeymans and I started with Yellow this week on my gameboy color. I'm hoping this is all contrarian autism and theres nothing wrong with it because I'm not starting over

>>7346902
There's nothing "wrong" with it, it and R/B are the same game with minor differences. It's a preference thing. Yellow was primarily designed to be more appealing to newcomers at the time who were introduced to Pokemon through the anime, so they could RP as Ash complete with all the most popular Pokemon and Pikachu digital pet emulation. Other than that, it's all preference.

I really wish they did some kind of buff to Pikachu in yellow like what they ended up doing to Pikachu and Eevee in LGPE. You kind of want to keep it on your team because of all the unique content it triggers but god damn is it just a dead weight.

>>7347113
> all the unique content


There really isn't that much. Just two cutscenes iirc.

>>7346902
Yellow is fine for newcomers but a lot of the fun with any Pokemon playthrough is how much your starter choice affects the game. You no longer get that satisfaction with Yellow, especially since the game just hands you the R/G/B starters. Doesn't help that your Pikachi is a subpar starter that can't even normally evolve - if you can give Pikachu Surf via Stadium then you've got something interesting there (plus you unlock a neat minigame) but you probably won't manage until you have an endgame team. I do like the emotions/affection and following thing but it was done better in other games.

>>7346837
>like you were supposed to
Most people didn't have those. I know it might be hard to wrap your head around though.

>>7347195
Then change to B&W mode, I'm tired of seeing Generation I with the ugly wrong colors everwhere.

>>7347209
That is what I do. But I would just rather play on my gbc, with color, so yellow is the way to go.

>>7347195
Strange, every kid I knew with Pokemon Red & Blue also had a SNES and Super Game Boy (some of us didn't even have Game Boys) so I thought it was very common back in the day.

>>7346539
>>7346618
I'm having a hard time even conceptualizing what the pokemon availability differences could be to create an equal result. Yellow was missing Weedle, Ekans, Koffing and Meowth as some basically throwaway Pokemon, and then missing ALL of Electabuzz, Magmar and Jynx. How do you counterbalance that last part? Have Pink miss Mr Mime, maybe Scyther and Pinsir? Pink would be getting the short end though, because Jynx, Elec and Magmar rule compared to those and are more diverse types to fit on a team.

>>7347113
It's too bad they did all that light ball held item and variant Pikachu stuff with it in games where the Pokemon could never be that good instead of in Yellow.

>>7347215
Yellow definitely has its merits with following the anime closer and wgat not, though there is something about the originals that yellow lost in the transition. An atmosphere and paradigm shift thats just not there.

>>7346132
>thinking Misty can wax your pokeflute while you slap your pokeballs against her in an E-rated game.
Dang son i know gen I was rife with gullible ones but they really had you hard huh but srsly who thought line of text was a good idea, at least drop Mew or sumtin

>>7350068
To be fair the ESRB system was really a formality until E10+ was created, you'd be surprised what can be snuck away in older E/K-A games.