Pokémon Gen 1/2

[Anonymous No.8589562]

Discuss Pokémon Gen 1/2 (Red,Green,Blue,Yellow,Gold,Silver, Crystal?)
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[Anonymous No.8589601]

i never quite enjoyed Pokemon the same as i did gen 1 & 2, i basically skipped gen 3, 4, and 5, only dabbled with them in emulators and fizzled out, jumped back in at gen 6 and really enjoyed battling my friend at the time, 7th was the last i bought and it's okay, still stuck at the same part from back in 2016

[Anonymous No.8589685]

>>8589601
>caught missingno
Nice

[Anonymous No.8589698]

>>8589562
>>>/vp/

[Anonymous No.8589745]

>>8589685
it's a must for 100% completion!

[Anonymous No.8589746]

>>8589698
i already posted a thread about something there earlier tonight and it got zero replies and archived, there's so much gay shit over there

[Anonymous No.8589781]

>>8589746
/vp/ is usable, catalog is filled with only shit threads about PLA which I don't care about.

[Anonymous No.8589817]

>>8589562

[Anonymous No.8590042]

>>8589562
Sure:
>I liked gen 1 better, even as a kid
>gen 2 is still great though
>yellow is now my current favorite which I beat for the first time many years after its release
>this was Pokemon at its peak in my eyes and its never been able to capture the magic for me the same way since
>I stopped after gen 3 though

[Anonymous No.8590083]

who was best girl

[Anonymous No.8590101]

>>8590083
like in gen 1/2 or in general?

[Anonymous No.8590102]

>>8590083
Ash's mom

[Anonymous No.8590120]

>>8590101
your choice

[Anonymous No.8590138]

>>8590120
alright

[Anonymous No.8590140]

>>8589562
We have an entire fucking board for Pokemon go fuck yourself

>>/vp/

[Anonymous No.8590142]

Satan wants us all

[Anonymous No.8590157]

>>8590140
/vp/ hates old gens and dedicated gen 1-3 threads regularly get hundreds of replies on this board. Mald elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.8590221]

>>8590102
"I'm rootin' for you baby!"

[Anonymous No.8590225]

>>8590142
Yeh, it's true. I do.

[Anonymous No.8590438]

>>8590225
>225
Imposter.

[Anonymous No.8591537]

>>8589562
I live Gen 2 so much bros. I still remember the first time I fought the Elite 4 and Champion. It was in 2018 but still. I was down to my last Pokemon and so was Lance. We were both one hit from death but his Dragonite outsped my Espeon and I lost but I demolished him on my second attempt.

It’s experiences like this which last you man

[Anonymous No.8591625]

>>8591537
Played it in 01 as a kid, played it againin high school when my friends all admitted we still liked pokemon and played through it together. Both cherished memories. Really makes me sad the whole battery thing. All my guys are dead and even when I replaced the battery it only worked for another couple months.

[Anonymous No.8591631]

>>8590140
Gen 1 and gen 2 is retro so go be a fagget somewhere else

[Anonymous No.8591635]

Nintendo should bring these games to their Switch online thing
How cool would that be

[Anonymous No.8591672]

I was thinking to post a thread myself, I recently started playing Crystal, its my first time revisiting classic pokemon games since probably year 2000 when these games were still new.

I'm having an awesome experience with it, I just got to Goldenrod city and there is so much to do here. Still trying to figure out what pokemon are good to catch around here and how to build out my team.

Any tips for crystal? These games are incredibly comfy and well made, they really push the Game Boy to the limit. I encourage everyone to give them a try.

Also, Crystal is one of the coolest carts ever produced.

[Anonymous No.8591709]

>>8589698
I've seen people in /vp/ specifically tell Gen 1/Gen 2 posters to fuck off to /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8591719]

Zoomers will NEVER know what 1999 Pokemania was like.

[Anonymous No.8591832]

>>8591672
I hope you replaced the battery before you decided to start your playthrough. I picked up a cart with a dead battery late last year and needed to get the local game shop to do the replacement since I don't own a soldering iron.

As for tips all I can say is make sure you talk to everyone you can whenever you can at least once. 10 year old me back on silver got very stuck due to not knowing how to water a tree.

[Anonymous No.8592054]

>>8591719
Older zoomers do, the eldest zoomers were born in 1996. Us older zoomers literally grew up using our older siblings Pokemon cartridges

[Anonymous No.8592061]

please god tell me anyone else collected these

[Anonymous No.8592069]

>>8591719
>>8592054
jeez i was born in 1994 and even i feel like i kinda missed pokemania, my kindergarten class was in 1999 and a bit too young to be playing the games and it ended up not really catching on in my class, i was the only one super into it. i'm sure two grades up they were ballin'
i didnt even get into pokemon for real until after the first movie came out and the merch blitz inspired me to get pokemon yellow and let pokemon take over my life

in retrospect one of my favorite weird pokemon things is gold and silver still being a fucking beta with dumb shit like the dog designs being weird. that's not to get into sw97 and all that other shit

[Anonymous No.8592076]

>>8591625
>he didn't move his cherished mons to stadium 2

[Anonymous No.8592202]

>>8592061
No but I had the Lunchables cutouts
>>8592076
I thought since I replaced my Silver battery they'd be good for another 15 years. Still don't know that wasn't the case.

[Anonymous No.8592223]

>>8592202
It should be good for 5 years. I replaced mine 2 years ago and it still saves.

[Anonymous No.8592230]

>>8592061
Those look more like spaghetti-os than Macaroni and Cheese

[Anonymous No.8592235]

>>8592223
I had a new Duracell battery, did one playthrough over a couple months, then checked a year later and it was dead

[Anonymous No.8592236]

>have Gold, Silver and Crystal but none of them can save
>buy some batteries for them then figure out I bought the wrong kind and needed to get pre soldered ones
>buy those but have to get a pack of like 50 of them
>know maintenance guy at my work knows how to use a soldering iron and it should be pretty easy for him after looking at a tutorial right
>give him my games and say if he looks into it I'll give him $20 or something, he says alright
>months fucking pass and it's barely mentioned again
>autism has set in so I can't just ask him for the games back because it would be awkward
>he suddenly quit one day
>start freaking out because I think he still has my games and realize what a moron I've been
>check maintenance room and the games are there
>still need to get their batteries replaced
What now

[Anonymous No.8592238]

You know containment boards are a thing for a fucking reason. I don't really care, but mods ought to be enforcing the rules.

[Anonymous No.8592245]

>>8592238
/vp/ only discusses modern Pokémon, they tell people to go here if you post gen 1 and 2 stuff. All retro games of any genre/topic are permitted here. There's no rules being broken. Where were you when the last Pokémon thread here got 300 replies just two weeks ago?

[Anonymous No.8592253]

>>8592235
Did you solder it, or just use tape? Did you check the battery with a multimeter?

[Anonymous No.8592259]

>>8592236
It's babby's first soldering job, just look at a couple of videos/tutorials and teach yourself how to do it
>have to get a pack of like 50 of them
Here you can get anywhere from 1 to 20 of either CR2032 or CR1616 with tabs attached, and I live in Aus so you have no excuse

[Anonymous No.8592262]

>>8592236
Also I coincidentally dumped all my stuff on my Gold save onto my Pokemon Stadium 2 cartridge shortly before the battery died because my roommate wanted to try playing it again. He lost interest after a while then ended up moving out while owing me money so fuck him but all my shit was saved and I had played for a pretty long while on that file getting shit ready for Stadium 2 use

[Anonymous No.8592315]

>>8592245
Tell those trannies to kill themselves and post it there.
>Where were you when the last Pokémon thread here got 300 replies just two weeks ago?
I don't fucking know, this isn't my homeboard.

[Anonymous No.8592326]

>>8592238
>>8592315
This is like saying that every /vr/ thread should just be posted on /v/ or /vg/ instead, since they're for video games and threads in /vr/ are about video games too.
Just filter pokemon on /vr/ if these threads trigger you so much

[Anonymous No.8592369]

>>8592326
/vp/ is a containment board, the catalog is filled with fap threads for fucks sake. There is plenty of space for this there.

As I said I don't really care, it's just questionable how the mods are currently doing things. They recently banned a show from /co/ because it's not currently airing and have said threads regarding it need to be posted on /tv/. Seriously.

[Anonymous No.8592386]

>>8592369
>talking about retro pokemon isn't against the rules
>makes argument for why it's better to talk about retro pokemon on /vr/
>noooo stop talking about pokemon!!! reeeeee
Just ignore/filter/hide thesis you don't like and move on

[Anonymous No.8592389]

>>8589562
I like Pokemon and all, but the Masuda snap shows how fucking lazy Game Freak has become. Black and Whit1 or B&W 2 was the climax point, after that the mainline games started to go downhill. The Pokemon fanbase is the RPG equivalent of COD, WoW post-Pandaria, and Battlefield in terms of being content with mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.8592393]

>>8592369
>As I said I don't really care
If this were true you wouldn't have posted in this thread at all
>>8592389
Gen 5 was shit and also not retro

[Anonymous No.8592430]

>>8592253
Soldered. It was indeed babbys first job. Didn't care to test it, the damage had been done.

[Anonymous No.8592445]

>>8592386
>>8592393
I was just saying as I dislike how the rules are being enforced.

[Anonymous No.8592510]

>>8592389
That's why we're talking about Gen 1 and 2 here.

>>8592238
These are retro games, this content is more at home here than on /vp/ where the discussion is far less focused on the games, especially not the old ones.

[Anonymous No.8592517]

>>8592445
There are no rules being broken. Whether some mod on another board not even related to the /v/ boards has a grudge against your cartoon is an irrelevant argument.

[Anonymous No.8592525]

Gen 2 sprites were the best Pokémon ever had.

[Anonymous No.8592552]

>>8592445
It's always a good idea to test your batteries to see if there voltage is what it's meant to be, and if your solder job has been done correctly
>>8592525
This and based

[Anonymous No.8592585]

>>8589601
There's just something about the first time you play pokemon, each capture is a great victory in itself. But when you replay it or play the next gens, you're speeding through the shitmons to get to the middle-end of the game.
It's compounded when the internet became more accessible and it was impossible to not be spoiled.

[Anonymous No.8592598]

>>8589746
You gotta respect the boards culture. Did your OP contain porn of a pokemon or an underage cartoon girl?

[Anonymous No.8592645]

[Anonymous No.8592970]

>/vr/ spaz autism about what's allowed to be posted on /vr/ while no rules are being broken and the thread isn't off topic
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz fuck off you retarded cunt(s). You're the only reason half of the thread is off topic.

On topic. I actually started playing Crystal again recently but I got kinda burned out when I figured out how shallow the moveset of original gen2 is and how much HGSS actually improved upon it. I'll probably go back to Crystal eventually but I wasn't too invested in my playthrough since I just started basically.

[Anonymous No.8593007]

>>8592238
Jesus Christ hide your power level autist.
You sound worse than the jannies.

[Anonymous No.8593032]

I'm replaying Blue right now for the first time in like 25 years, and I don't remember grinding as much as I have in the lead-up to facing my rival right before the first gym.

[Anonymous No.8593091]

>>8592970
>how shallow the moveset of original gen2 is
Zoomie detected. No, every mon having 100 BP physical and special moves of different types is not good. Use your brain, be creative, make a team of pokemon you like

[Anonymous No.8593113]

>>8593091
No I meant the enemy npc movesets. I watched a video of a guy that played ditto through the whole game and all of the enemy pokemon trainers have shit tier moves and is easy mode outside of a few very select battles. This was all upgraded in HGSS so they have much more varied moves.

The moves your pokemon themselves learn on level up and through TMs are totally fine, however. But this just makes you feel like you aren't really playing the definitive version, even if it's chock-full of soul.

[Anonymous No.8593118]

>>8593007
He is worse than the jannies. He's a backseat janny rulefag (raging about things that aren't even against the rules). The lowest of the low. He's doing it for free and he doesn't even get to powertrip like a janny does.

[The guy who says based No.8593119]

>>8592645
BASED!

[Anonymous No.8593140]

>>8589562
My childhood copy of Red still has a working battery, otherwise I'm going to replace the batteries in my depleted B/Y/S/C carts and replay them, hopefully culminating in transferring my teams to the copies of Stadium 1 and 2 that I have in the post. Playing Ultra Moon as a non-retro Pokemon title and it's shockingly difficult due to the movesets being far more varied for trainers and the leveling seeming so slow while the AI trainers are constantly using higher leveled teams.

[Anonymous No.8593184]

>>8593113
Almost all trainer mons use the default levelup moveset iirc

[Anonymous No.8593191]

Man the art from these gens is fucking kino.

[Anonymous No.8593213]

>>8592645
What a Karen, a real ballsy and worthy trainer picks the strong and not so strong, balances everything and never feeds rare candies to force evolutions. It was never about favorites.

[Anonymous No.8593263]

Gen 4 was the best

[Anonymous No.8593323]

>>8592525
See this /vr/? THIS WAS POKEMON. It never was the same when they moved from this artstyle using these kinds of colors and these more simple creature designs. I don't think a single one in this pic is anywhere near designed like you see out of the modern games with harsh lines, spikes, tubes, and these oddly shaped limbs on them. All in this pic have simple colors. No overdesigned crap here.

[Anonymous No.8593367]

>>8593263
it was the last good one at least

[Anonymous No.8593405]

>>8592069
I was born in 1993 and got hooked on Pokemon because of the cartoon. It used to come on some local syndicate channel (UPN?) in 1998 and then it got picked up by Kids WB shortly after.
Started first grade in 1999 and everyone was obsessed with Pokemon. Yellow came out around that time.
The height of the mania was probably around the time that the Pokemon movie came out in 2000.
By the time that Gold/Silver came out and all the girls ditched their Backstreet Boys merchandise for NSYNC, there was still a lot of kids that loved Pokemon but not as many.
I still feel like I missed out because the older (middle school) kids were the only ones who had enough pull to go to the conventions where you could get Mew.

[Anonymous No.8593443]

>>8593263
>>8593367
Nah. Gen 4 was dull, so slow on the real hardware and ultimately forgettable. Gen 5 was amazing, B/W/2 were love letters to the players and fans of the series. I doubt they will be topped by any newer titles in the franchise. Gen 1 and 2 were amazing, Gen 2 being absolutely mind blowing to teen me, and still holds up today.

[Anonymous No.8593512]

>>8593443
You're an utter retard. Shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.8593523]

>>8593443
>B/W/2 were love letters to the players and fans of the series
I love gens 1 and 2 but loathed gen 5
BW replaced all of the mons we had come to know and love with shitty bootleg-looking facsimiles of past mons, not to mention the absolutely disgusting sprite distortions in battle

[Anonymous No.8593531]

>>8592236
Just do it yourself man. Soldering is really easy and soldering these batteries in cartridges is some of the easiest soldering I have done, there is a ton of room to work with.

[Anonymous No.8593537]

>>8593512
He's right and ur gay lol. Gen 4 was the last straw for any chance of Game Freak making an impressive game again. They could have done 3D battles on DS and vastly expanded the online functionality and communication features, but instead, they just shat out the most low effort crap with a couple of touchscreen gimmicks for mongs like you to mindlessly lap up. Only real good thing about Gen 4 was some of the music.

[Anonymous No.8593547]

>>8593443
Diamond and Pearl were really slow, but Platinum fixed it for the most part. I always turned off animations because I had seen them hundreds of times and it's still fairly slow overall. I replayed gen 5 somewhat recently and it's actually crazy how fast those battles go. With animations off they end in half of the time compared to the gens previously. Also not retro.

[Anonymous No.8593570]

>>8593537
And yet gen 5 didn't do any of those things either
Anyway, not retro and fuck off

[Anonymous No.8593632]

>>8593523
Ok, but did you hate Chandelure and Kilnklang?

[Anonymous No.8593680]

>>8593570
>>8592393
>>8593547
>Not Retro

[Anonymous No.8593686]

>>8593680
>stain

[Anonymous No.8593690]

>>8593686
>Sure

[Anonymous No.8593770]

>>8592061
Yes I fucking did. Holy shit I had totally forgotten about that.

[Anonymous No.8593803]

Has there ever been a pokemon with as much potential as this guy that got completely shafted until it was too late?
>No bug moves gen1
>Only bug move it learns gen2 is fury cutter with a base power of 10
>Learns no bug moves gen3
>Finally gets one bug move gen4 but its been power creeped too hard so its not worth it anymore

Only other pokemon I can think of is Flareon

[Anonymous No.8593805]

>>8593803
>durr every pokemon needs 100 BP stab moves for its higher attack stat

[Anonymous No.8593807]

I really feel like Gen 3 was just such a step down from Gen 2 and that slowly fucked the series going foward. People talk about "too much water" but I think it was just the lack of care in bringing over features from the second game like the day/night system that felt like improvements to the formula. Also, what really made things screwy is that there was no way to transfer gen 1/2 mons into gen 3, so they expected everyone to go out and buy FR/LG if they wanted that. Need I mention that FR/LG make it needlessly harder to "catch em all"?

[Anonymous No.8593810]

>>8593807
>Need I mention that FR/LG make it needlessly harder to "catch em all"?
how so?

[Anonymous No.8593828]

>>8593810
I could've sworn I saw a video that went over how to catch everything in gen 3 and it sounded really convoluted compared to the original gen1 games. Something about only being able to trade if you beat the Elite 4 and other little things like that.

[Anonymous No.8593854]

>>8593807
>I really feel like Gen 3 was just such a step down from Gen 2
I agree. I've said it before, I'll say it again: Gen 2 was the peak. Pokemon at it's best.

[Anonymous No.8593875]

>>8593805
Okay so what does it need then? Be specific and don't be vague

[Anonymous No.8593884]

>>8593854
I remember as a kid definitely being unimpressed by two major things: a lack of a day/night and weekday system and a lack of a second region. i genuinely believed we were heading back to a simplified version of johto after beating the champion

[Anonymous No.8593905]

>>8593810
>>8593828
Here's a guide I made for myself on getting National Dex in Gen 3 with physical games
Necessary components:
>LeafGreen
>Emerald
>Colosseum
>XD
>Ruby or Sapphire as well as either FireRed or Leafgreen (both entirely for trading headache reasons)
>a way to trade between Gen 3 games, a way to play GBA cartridges, a GameCube or Wii with controller ports, a GameCube memory card, a GameCube/Game Boy Advance link cable, a GameCube controller
>a fuck ton of your time

https://pastebin.com/ERhYJKVn

[Anonymous No.8593915]

Gen 3 is pure soul. I will die on this hill. Chimecho was my bro.

[Anonymous No.8593925]

>>8593905
This guide also doesn't mention it but it assumes you do everything possible in the GameCube games, including doing the 100 battle thing in Colosseum to get the only Ho-oh in all of Gen 3. You literally can't get Ho-oh anywhere else in Gen 3, it and Lugia are paywalled behind Retard Basedority games

[Anonymous No.8593950]

>>8593443
>were love letters
Go back

[Anonymous No.8594007]

>>8593803
Heracross was supposed to be its evo, but that got scrapped and Pinsir got neglected

[Anonymous No.8594015]

>>8590083
The one with the biggest titties

[Anonymous No.8594021]

>>8594015
May then?

[Anonymous No.8594031]

>>8594021
I may.

[Anonymous No.8594065]

>>8593828
>I could've sworn I saw a video
stopped reading here.

[Anonymous No.8594083]

>>8594065
I've seen those videos, the Catch 'Em All series, they're fine

[Anonymous No.8594110]

>>8594031
Join the queue.

[Anonymous No.8594265]

[Anonymous No.8594362]

pokemon truly peaked in so many ways in gen 2
i think the actual gameplay got better with the physical special split and bigger movesets and other qol fixes but you could stop at gen 2 and it would be perfectly valid. nothing ever hit like this again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjouKSkSeM
it was the last true sequel pokemon had, everything else was a soft reboot, gen 2 truly followed up upon gen 1 in every single aspect and they honestly tried to do as much as possible and to make it as complete and deep as they could and had the entire kanto shit and shinies just because they knew people would keep playing for dozens of hours and they wanted you to get your money's worth
game freak nowadays are some of the shittiest most soulless devs, they're practically as bad as EA

[Anonymous No.8594459]

>>8593807
Ruby and Sapphire were big downgrades from Crystal.

[Anonymous No.8594536]

[Anonymous No.8594543]

>>8594536
>random Gen 2 screenshot just to fuck with me
>"pokemon red.png" and has screenshots from Yellow

[Anonymous No.8594627]

>>8591672
Don't play with a full 6 pokemon team or you'll end up horribly underleveled for the E4. Just go with a 4 team pokemon and a couple of HM Slaves or just use legendaries.

[Anonymous No.8594656]

Last year changed my cart's battery and did a glitch to finally make a childhood dream come true. I'll use the same glitch to get Gold exclusives and the Kanto starters and see if I have enough patience to complete the dex.

[Anonymous No.8594718]

>>8594656
How do you do the glitch? im interested as long as it can be done with original hardware.

[Anonymous No.8594721]

[Anonymous No.8594731]

>>8594721
Promo images like these reminds me how I SO BADLY wanted Pokemon to be real as a kid

[Anonymous No.8594732]

How does Gen I hold up when compared to Gen II overall?

[Anonymous No.8594739]

>>8594731
dude you have no idea how much time i spent thinking about living in the pokemon world i seriously wanted to go to bed and wake up one day on the ss anne and never return

[Anonymous No.8594760]

>>8594718
>im interested as long as it can be done with original hardware
Are you seeing my photo even?

[Anonymous No.8594783]

>>8594760
prove you aren't using a flash cart

[Anonymous No.8594784]

test

[Anonymous No.8594786]

[Anonymous No.8594804]

>>8594783
I don't have to prove shit for a random on the internet.

I followed this using the arbitrary code execution for obtaining specific pokemon changing box names and using the coin case in Silver.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Coin_Case_glitches#Arbitrary_code_execution

Make sure you have an egg in the slot of the pokemon you want changed for the Celebi to get registered in your pokedex.

[Anonymous No.8594815]

>you will never go to Pokemon Center NYC

[Anonymous No.8594824]

>>8594815
The pokemon corner in Nintendo NY is pretty good. I'd rather other series like Zelda get some space than nothing but Pokemon.

[Anonymous No.8594841]

>>8594824
I haven't been since it's been Nintendo NY, been there in 2003, 2006 and 2008
In 2008 Nintendo World still had their GameCube kiosks set up on the second floor (on the opposite side of that picture >>8594815 )

[Anonymous No.8594990]

>>8594841
Now its used for mascot meet and greets and theres a big amiibo display which kind of sucks. The lifesize props around the walls are cute though.

[Anonymous No.8595002]

>>8594841
>In 2008 Nintendo World still had their GameCube kiosks set up on the second floor
Actually I'm thinking of 2006 I think, 2008 had a Wario Land Shake It display/kiosk there instead
That was the first time I ever played Wind Waker

[Anonymous No.8595003]

>>8589562
Peak Pokemon with Gen 2. Heracross is so cool. I remember hunting for it everyday afterschool headbutting those dumb trees

[Anonymous No.8595007]

>>8592236
Its literally the easiest soldering job imaginable. I just repaired my big bro's old pokemon games the other day as well as my copy of Donkey Kong Land and Zelda II despite having no soldering experience before then and everything went smooth. Just get a simple iron, some solder, desoldering wick, rubbing alcohol, some swabs, and flux. Follow a tutorial on YouTube and you'll be set.

[Anonymous No.8595024]

>>8589562
as a completionist I first thought about catching all pokemons with their max IV/EV (if you don't know what it is, not all pokemon are equal, some have higher stats). then level them all to 100.
then I realised it would be harder than expected. I don't think that's possible. thoughts?

[Anonymous No.8595026]

>>8593263
I never cared for DP too much, but HG/SS probably remain my favorite Pokemon games ever. They had all the familiarity of gen 2 with nice upgrades. I loved the physical/special attack split, that was something I wanted since the actual gen 2, it was really great to see pokemon like Gengar and Sneasel being able to properly utilize their types offensively. The lack of the split always makes it a bit tough for me to go back to gens 1-3 even though they're the most nostalgic.

[Anonymous No.8595028]

>>8595024
that's way too retarded, just get a living dex instead like regular completionist autists

[Anonymous No.8595061]

Stadium 2 is absolutely required for these games. It is unreal how much better it makes the whole thing.
I also love that you can mystery gift with the npc.
If you have an everdrive there is a romhack that opens up the Dev menu for some shenanigans. Personally I just gave myself tms and adjusted the clock back a couple hours so I'm not in perpetual night mode.

[Anonymous No.8595081]

>waking up early to play Gold
>game would have the "morning" colors
>ultra comfy
>wait until nighttime to play with the night colors
>maximum comfy

[Anonymous No.8595086]

Did anyone ever do a debind and scan of the Guide/lorebook that had the info about Pokemon Eggs being made of dirt and built around the baby pokemon? I know we got decent scans finally for the '96 guidebook with the other weird lore like the shrinking.

[Anonymous No.8595101]

>>8595086
I kept an eye on threads related to that for like a month last year and don't think the whole thing was ever uploaded/translated, but maybe it happened after I stopped paying attention.

[Anonymous No.8595108]

>>8594731
>Promo images like these reminds me how I SO BADLY wanted Pokemon to be real as a kid
>>8594739
>i seriously wanted to go to bed and wake up one day on the ss anne and never return
Hell, I still want to isekai to the Pokemon world even as a grown man.

[Anonymous No.8595112]

>>8594083
>I've seen those videos
stopped reading here.

[Anonymous No.8595116]

>>8595108
when you're older it's so much easier to tell when the worldbuilding is ass

[Anonymous No.8595120]

>>8595101
How expensive is the guide at this point? I definitely paid more than I should have on the R/G guide but if the GSC one is cheap I think I could spring for it, work finally got a little better about actually paying me.

[Anonymous No.8595124]

>>8594536
gen 1 sprites really were awful

[Anonymous No.8595141]

>>8595124
you mean based, zoomer

[Anonymous No.8595151]

>>8589601
You have the same experience as me

I played red and yellow as a kid, dabbled in silver, then didn’t play another game until x&y

[Anonymous No.8595186]

>>8589601
You jumped back in at the worst time. Gen 6 was where the series fell off a cliff.

[Anonymous No.8595220]

>>8595028
well, the harder the more satisfying, but if it's impossible then there is no point to try
I can imagine some people trying to get all shineys from gen2
which is absolutely impossible before dying

[Anonymous No.8595261]

>>8595220
Stadium 2 can be used to find shiny eggs and has a 3x mode.
Retarded but possible I guess.

[Anonymous No.8595273]

>>8595220
living shiny dex in gen 2 sounds like a weirdly comfy but extremely long task
>>8595261
this, speedup would be essential

[Anonymous No.8595286]

>>8595273
Yeah someone noticed the shiny eggs have a specific color or pattern in the 3d view.

[Anonymous No.8595309]

>>8590083
Misty and Jessie

[Anonymous No.8595471]

>>8595101
Fuck it, I think this was the one so I ordered it. I'll try to get this one scanned and uploaded here faster than I got the R/G guide done.

[Anonymous No.8595589]

I really wish I could find scans of this pokemon guides I liked back in the day. It had lots of somewhat inaccurate information but was presented in an interesting way. They had things like rankings of various pokemon by attack, speed, or defense. Lots of the information was wrong because they didn't know what IVs or EVs were. I scoured the internet for every single different pokemon guide book I could find but I couldn't find that one. I wish I remembered the publisher

[Anonymous No.8595617]

yeaaah bitches

[Anonymous No.8595621]

>>8595617
the transfer pak was a bitch to get working.

[Anonymous No.8595942]

Thoughts on polished crystal? I hear they fixed the level curve. My one gripe is they removed some mons in favor of some later gen ones

[Anonymous No.8596008]

>>8594731
>>8594739
I wished that all the time too buds.

[Anonymous No.8596072]

>>8590138
Based

[Anonymous No.8596125]

>>8595617
>>8595621
Clean your contacts

[Anonymous No.8596157]

>>8589562
Pokemon silver/gold was probably the most hyped I was for a game in my life. I wish I still had the magazines I read back then that previewed some of the new pokemon and features. I miss being a kid.

[Anonymous No.8596218]

>>8595261
ok, now what about perfect IV/EV pokemons (all of them) and all male since male are better in this version, on the definitive crystal version which is the 3ds which has exclusive content, and where you can't use legally stadium 2

[Anonymous No.8596229]

>>8596218
I wonder what would happen if you injected a crystal save into the virtual console version that had Pokémon center Pokémon on it and stadium pokemon on it.

[Anonymous No.8596246]

>>8595141
they were awful when I was nine and they're awful now. GSC was the peak.

[Anonymous No.8596250]

>>8595621
I don't think you can transfer onto paper, Anon.

[Anonymous No.8596275]

Gen 2 was the comfiest Gen overall for the entire franchise
>games are amazing and full of soul
>soulful Gen 2 Pokemon
>Johto anime is still Brock and Misty and is mostly filler so it all basically feels like a comfy purgatory where we never have to truly move on from the Kanto saga, much like the real Gen 2 games
>Stadium 2 is the best companion game to any Gen ever
>Pokemon Puzzle Challenge is turbobased
>TCG went through both based Neo and ultra based e-Card sets and the cards are getting pretty rare nowadays
>Pokemon 3 is the best of the original trilogy in the dub and prominently features Ash's mom and even 4ever is comfy and wistful

[Anonymous No.8596318]

>>8593807
I agree 100%, anon
Gen 3 cut so much of what was introduced in Gen 2, and the lack of compatibility with previous games was the icing on the shit cake
>>8593828
The way you go about unlocking Hoenn-Kanto trading is bizarre
>>8594718
Obtaining Celebi on cart has been possible for ages
>>8595061
I've always been Stadium 1/2 as integral companions to the handheld titles. They're all components of one experience, in my mind
>>8596229
Nothing different
>>8595621
What the fuck, anon
>>8595942
Zoomer trash, as far as I'm concerned, there's do "definitive" gen 2 romhack; the closest we've got, perfect crystal, is still quite flawed

[Anonymous No.8596328]

>>8596318
>I've always been
seen*

[Anonymous No.8596350]

>>8596125
>>8596318
>>8596250
not a problem with contacts. that hunk of junk is so old it's become loose and needs a piece of folded paper stuck between to keep the transfer pak in position to make contact.

[Anonymous No.8596692]

>>8594265
>A pokemon that is four legs two legs then three legs.
And if they do that I guess they have to make a sheep that spends 80 levels until it evolves into a lion for just one level. And then after can optionally evolve into a ghost type.

[Anonymous No.8596714]

>>8595108
>Imagine how much raping you would do.
>Officer Jenny turns up, oh now the fun really begins.

[Anonymous No.8596723]

>>8594804
Does it's type and learnable moves change to Celebi's?

[Anonymous No.8596736]

>>8596714
>goes to Pokeprison
What about going to the Pokemon world gives you more ability to rape than you already have?

[Anonymous No.8596740]

>>8595026
It should be a mix. percentage of special and physical.

[Anonymous No.8596762]

could not stand the real time mechanics of crystal so I went back to yellow hacked with crystal's updated sprites.

[Anonymous No.8596773]

>>8596762
>could not stand the real time mechanics of crystal
Why?

[Anonymous No.8596779]

>>8595026
>it was really great to see pokemon like Gengar and Sneasel being able to properly utilize their types offensively
This was more because the categories of Dark and Ghost should've been reversed in Gen 2

[Anonymous No.8596798]

>>8596157
I still have this.

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?173555-Pokeguide-Mega-Pack

here are the pdfs
https://www.docdroid.net/h24r/nintendo-magazine-1999-pokemon-master-guide-pdf

http://www.docdroid.net/h24r/nintend...guide.pdf.html


you probably used this one.

https://www.docdroid.net/h27c/nintendo-power-2001-pokemon-crystal-pdf

https://archive.org/details/NintendoPower2001PokemonCrystal

[Anonymous No.8596887]

>>8596736
Abilities as a trainer make me invincible.

[Anonymous No.8596975]

>>8596275
This. And don't forget the incredible Trading Card Games that come out for GBC at this time too.

[Anonymous No.8597181]

>>8589698
I've been banned from this board for posting this exact thing

[Anonymous No.8597206]

>>8597181
Good

[Anonymous No.8597546]

>>8592598
kek

[Anonymous No.8597860]

>>8592259
Based fellow ausbro.

[Anonymous No.8598097]

>>8593213
>never uses rare candies
Give me one good reason to not use them?

[Anonymous No.8598109]

>>8592238
You know backseat modding is against the rules, right?
You know bitching about the mods is against the rules, right?
You should delete your post.
>>8593032
It's not really a grind you stayed in Viridian forest enough to catch that Pikachu.
>>8593443
How could it be a love letter when GameFreak hates its fans?

[Anonymous No.8598113]

>>8592236
First, consider why your autism lead you to your current situation.

[Anonymous No.8598116]

>>8593803
Is there anyone who unironically expects bug mons to be good? They're literally the fodder for players at the beginning of the game.

[Anonymous No.8598120]

>>8595112
Not big on reading huh? Product of a single mom?

[Anonymous No.8598129]

>>8597181
Good, bitches get what they deserve.
>>8594536
>pokemon red
>Pikachu is following the MC.

[Anonymous No.8598141]

>>8594815
Are you incarcerated? Don't let your dreams just be dreams.

[Anonymous No.8598146]

>>8598097
Pretty sure it makes them have worse stats.

[Anonymous No.8598149]

>>8596887
>abilities as a trainer
>starting out with no mons as a 30 year old creeper
Yeah somehow I don't see you Catching 'Em All.

[Anonymous No.8598152]

>>8598146
Lmao does you uncle work for Nintendo?
>>8589601
Is there any tutorials that go through using transfer paks with the handheld games and stadium?

[Anonymous No.8598157]

>>8598146
it does not
you don't get the tiny stat enhancers (dvs) you'd get from earning the xp in battles instead but you can still get those afterwards even if your poke is already at max level
there literally is no reason not to use rare candies

[Anonymous No.8598214]

>>8598157
You mean EVs, retard

[Anonymous No.8598217]

>>8598152
>tutorials
You put the cart in the transfer pak which you put into your N64 controller

[Anonymous No.8598229]

>>8598214
actually they're called stat exp in gen 1 and 2

[Anonymous No.8598256]

>>8598217
Derp, my bad. I forgot to mention that I want to do this with emulators.

[Anonymous No.8598270]

>>8594784
did it work?!

[Anonymous No.8598278]

>>8598113
>First, consider why your autism lead you to your current situation.
Autism doesn't have a why, it just is

[Anonymous No.8598291]

>>8596773
because I'm a wagie who played nights mostly. I hated the nighttime color palette.

[Anonymous No.8598293]

>>8598157
>but you can still get those afterwards even if your poke is already at max level
I would rather kill myself than fight the E4 100 times after rare candying

[Anonymous No.8598309]

>>8598293
I don't think you need to even fight strong mons.

[Anonymous No.8598332]

>>8598293
a lvl 1 pokemon (fun fact there ain't none of those in rby) gives as many stat exp as a lv 100 one
and in any case the stat exp you don't get when rare candying once won't even be worth a single stat point in most cases
unless you literally use 20 rare candies on a single pokemon (fun fact there aint that many in rby) you won't even feel the difference

[Anonymous No.8598342]

>>8598152
Lol, I did indeed remember that "worse stats" thing from the playground as a kid and never verified that.

[Anonymous No.8598367]

>>8598342
That was just cope from kids who couldn't into missingno glitch. It is true if you just take a 100 mon you got fron GameShark and then multiplayer battled, it might not be as strong as natural mons but that's easily remedied.

[Anonymous No.8598380]

>>8596798
Not him but thanks for the links anon. Absolute SOVL in each of those guides.

[Anonymous No.8598470]

>>8595186
*Gen 5

[Anonymous No.8598473]

>>8598470
*gen 4

[Anonymous No.8598478]

>>8598332
It's the base stats that determine stat experience, right? So it probably makes more sense to battle fully evolved Pokémon than a bunch of oddishes. In a perfect scenario, 100 mew will max your stars, but you're not gonna find 100 mew. Fighting anything weaker will need like 150-200 battles. E4 maxes out after about 80 battles or so. More realistically, just playing the game normally will max out stat exp.

[Anonymous No.8598495]

>>8598478
>More realistically, just playing the game normally will max out stat exp.
exactly i mean that is the entire point, you can just play the game and use rare candies and not worry about "worse stats"

[Anonymous No.8598552]

I only like the Stadium games and pokegirls

[Anonymous No.8598568]

>>8596723
Yes but if you do it with an egg. It'll hatch as a Celebi but will have the attacks of whatever the egg was initially, but since it hatched from an egg, it'll hatch at a low level and eventually learn Celebi attacks.

[Anonymous No.8598598]

>we all play pokemon gen 2 at recess and lunch
>mystery gift every day
>sometimes battle if someone brings a link cable
>have a battle with a friend
>sends out his lv100 meganium
>nothing unusual about that
>do you like flamethrower bitch
>knock his meganium out after a few turns
>his next pokemon is...lv100 tentacruel
>wait, you didn't have that yesterday
>oh yeah I caught it and trained it up myself
>sure you did you lying @#$&
>tentacruel falls surprisingly easily
>not sure what to expect next
>lv100 kabutops
>lv100 weezing
>lv100 raichu
>lv100 victreebel
>I caught these and trained them myself
>yeah no you were at alex's house yesterday
>he has a link cable and blue version
>how stupid do you think I am
>he was mad af when his brittle rare-candied shitmons couldn't take out anything beyond my typhlosion

[Anonymous No.8598613]

>>8598495
If you're just playing the game, it doesn't matter. My point is that realistically the only Pokémon you would naturally raise to max stats are your 6 party members. But if you wanted to play on Stadium, where the max stats actually matter more, the grinding is so much more obnoxious. It's not enough to just rare candy, and you're likely gonna use more than just your GB party to get through round 2, you're gonna need to catch, train, and then rare candy

[Anonymous No.8598653]

>>8598613
you're correct but the original discussion was obviously about whether you should avoid using rare candies in normal play or not

[Anonymous No.8598657]

>>8592061
macaroni and cheese peaked with those cartons. I actually cut out and collected those coins on the back, I wonder if I have them somewhere

>>8592525
pokemon art started at a peak with the original watercolor and design styles. I actually like gen 3 a lot but by that time the general art style already started slipping

>>8596275
100%, nothing will ever beat gen 2. Gen 2 Pokemon was a whole unified experience with everything tying in together. Nowadays they're churning out too much quantity without the quality (no modern pokemon stadium equivalent, etc)

>>8596798
thanks so much anon, downloading all these now. I still have the yellow and ruby guides from my childhood, as well as the gen 1 and gen 3 pokedex books. can't wait to see the rest of the stuff that I didn't have.

speaking of this, does anybody have a download for scans of the beckett pokemon collector magazine issues? I somehow got a copy of pic related as a kid and read it like a thousand times. would love to see the other ones (ditto for old beckett yugioh scans actually..)

[Anonymous No.8598659]

>>8598653
Oh yeah. Sorry lol. Yeah that's stupid.

[Anonymous No.8598661]

>>8598657
of course I forgot pic related lol

[Anonymous No.8598759]

>>8598661
i had this one as a kid, it was also a yugioh magazine

[Anonymous No.8598896]

>>8598120
>Not big on reading
Weird criticism from a guy who gets his game info from YouTube.

[Anonymous No.8598906]

>>8598896
>nooo you cant watch video about thing, you have to go to bulbapedo and read what some autist wrote about it!!! i know you get the exact same info but noooooooo

[Anonymous No.8598916]

>>8591719
1990 here. I remember being about 9 y/o and going to the local mall with my dad, and the entire "plaza" area in the center of the mall was filled with kids playing Game Boy and trading Pokemon Cards. We went to some store that's no longer in that mall and my dad bought me my first pack of TCG cards.

[Anonymous No.8598919]

>>8598661
I had that issue. Convinced my folks to check a few stores until we finally found it at Meijer. Read it probably a hundred times or more. The Halloween craft tips were pretty cool. Still might have it packed away, I should take a look once I work up the effort to move boxes again.

[Anonymous No.8598985]

>>8598598
Same thing happened to me except I had a GameShark and six level 255 mewtwos.

[Anonymous No.8598995]

>>8598896
Come on youcan do better.

[Anonymous No.8599035]

>>8593091
You have to admit that looking back it is funny that Sandslash gets stuff like Fury Swipes in its 40s. Poor thing can't even learn Dig through level up
>>8598116
Heracross and Scyther/Scizor were pretty kino, but to be fair later generations got better at making it so Bug-types weren't complete shitmons

[Anonymous No.8599064]

>>8596798
dios mio, I had this one as a kid

[Anonymous No.8599076]

>>8598906
>>8598995
what's the matter, can't think of a rebuttal without watching a video about them?

[Anonymous No.8599091]

>>8599076
>haha you've watched a video at some point in your life got ya
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.8599096]

>>8599064
and another.

[Anonymous No.8599098]

>>8599064
Is this a British chart?

[Anonymous No.8599104]

>>8599096
Fuckers need some fact checkers. It's not like pokemon was THAT complicated.

[Anonymous No.8599108]

>>8599091
Pretty long-winded way of saying "no", but alright.

[Anonymous No.8599120]

>>8599098
Yes, from a British publication called Nintendo Official Magazine.

[Anonymous No.8599192]

>>8599096
This little piece of wisdom cost me quite a lot of time and pokeballs: why bother lowering their HP if there's a perfect trapping technique?

[Anonymous No.8599204]

>>8599192
lol

[Anonymous No.8599213]

>>8599192
This one isn't really right or wrong.

[Anonymous No.8599261]

>>8599192
When playground rumors make it into actual magazines.

>>8599213
I mean, the final sentence is clearly wrong because Moltres and Zapdos have the same catch rate and it can take a lot more than that lol. I would agree that it's the hardest one to catch though because STAB Drill Peck is a nightmare. All of the birds are trivial though if you have a few levels on them.

[Anonymous No.8599284]

Is Heart Gold/Soul Silver retro?

Are there any good rom hacks that combine the two games so the exclusives are just in one?

Also are there any good ones that allow you to get, what usually are, trade only evolutions?

[Anonymous No.8599345]

>>8598256
Get a raphnet usb-n64 adapter, and an oam n64 controller and transfer pak

[Anonymous No.8599351]

>>8599284
No
Yes
Yes

[Anonymous No.8599352]

>>8599345
>oam
oem*

[Anonymous No.8599394]

>>8599213
Sabrina: the ghost gym leader.

[Anonymous No.8599409]

>>8599394
I thought he was supposed to be a professor of pokemon.

[Anonymous No.8599417]

>>8599409
Lmao, never heard that one before, prof.

[Anonymous No.8599447]

This thread is goated, just like Gen 2. Great sprite work, amazing soft ending to the franchise (Red battle), great music and use of GBC features.

I played my Red and Silver carts forever. When I got my DS in 2004 I thought it was broken because they wouldn't work on it. I just stayed playing these games even though I had both Gen 3 games.

>>8599394
Venomoth is presenting

[Anonymous No.8599449]

>>8599345
That's good for physical cartridge to emulator but i mean emulator pokemon to emulator stadium

[Anonymous No.8599464]

>>8589562
soul

[Anonymous No.8599476]

>>8599449
Use PJ64, it has the transfer pak available in the controller options. You use the rom and save file of the Pokémon game you want. So you'll have to play through RBY or GSC on another emulator, since the tower doesn't work, but every other transfer pak feature will work

[Anonymous No.8599483]

>>8599476
Good stuff. Thanks, I've heard it was possible but wasn't sure wjat emulator i should be using.

[Anonymous No.8599486]

>>8589562
Pokemon has it's own board. You should not be making this content here.

[Anonymous No.8599490]

>>8599284
HG/SS is technically allowed since remakes of retro games are allowed on this board. I don't think I've ever seen people talk about it here though.

[Anonymous No.8599519]

>>8599483
That method is also a good way to trade Pokémon between roms btw. Mons like Alakazam and Gengar can be gotten legitimately without gamesharking or using some soulless romhack

[Anonymous No.8599520]

>>8599409
ffs lol

[Anonymous No.8599532]

>>8599394
>try to focus on electric attacks against psychic types who have inherently high special

[Anonymous No.8599537]

>>8599464
Ah yes, just how I remember these games.

[Anonymous No.8599549]

>>8599447
The Red battle in GS was truly epic. Still remember everything about when I attempted it for the first time (both irl and in game) which doesn't happen often for me, I tend to forgot about specific events in games very easily. It might actually be my most memorable videogame memory of all time.

[Anonymous No.8599702]

>>8599549
No big speech, no warm up trainers, just ... and right to the battle for the true champion.

[Anonymous No.8599727]

>>8599702
...

[Anonymous No.8599731]

>>8592645
That's why I steam rolled her with a miltank.

[Anonymous No.8599824]

>>8599351
Do you mind naming them?

[Anonymous No.8599827]

Take me back.

[Anonymous No.8599831]

>>8599827
I'm afraid I can't anon. You'll never go home.

[Anonymous No.8599850]

>>8599827
Gen vi made them look old and tired.
Gsc sprites are timeless.

[Anonymous No.8599861]

>>8599827
The 3D ones look inflated. Was this to make them look more like their plushies?

[Anonymous No.8600228]

>>8591672 here, showed up to the coastal Olivine City today. Traded my Krabby to Tim for a goofy ass Voltorb named Volty and then visited the docks for a little fishing with the sailor bros there. Now working on climbing and battling through the lighthouse.

Still shuffling around pokemon as I go, I've got Bayleef, Slowpoke, Onyx and Eevee right now.

If you have not tried playing this game with stereo mode turned on with headphones give it a try, its fantastic. Gamefreak really put a lot of love in mixing the audio for stereo, it really enhances the experience. Fantastic music all throughout the game, I'm really enjoying my playthrough of Crystal.

[Anonymous No.8600303]

>>8599824
Not retro. Ask vp

[Anonymous No.8600307]

>>8599490
The VC releases of RBYGSC are allowed, HGSS are not

[Anonymous No.8600317]

>>8599192
Even Nintendo Power fed this "hint" to its readers. I was young and dumb enough to believe it. I still hold buttons out of habit when I throw Poke Balls even though I know it doesn't do anything.

[Anonymous No.8600362]

Playing LG on Retroarch now. Technically Gen3, but probably counts here too. The downside of replaying it this way is I can only get like 100 Pokemon tops.

[Anonymous No.8600434]

>>8599076
seething

[Anonymous No.8600446]

>>8598149
Catch 'em all and fuck 'em.

[Anonymous No.8600465]

>>8600317
I cross my fingers out of habit

[Anonymous No.8600474]

>>8599064
Yeah, I thought you lot might like those guides. I had them too. I attended the Pokemon roadshow and battled the editors of the Nintendo official magazine. Dave McComb lost to an 10 year old me. He was probably 40 lol. My Mewtwo always came off better in Mewtwo fights. I had no idea why. Only ever got beaten there by Tim and his paralysis Alakazam, and it was close. I wrote an Email to Dave at his new work place recently. Regaled him of the fight and told him how things were now. No answer :/ Well, at least it was a good memory.

[Anonymous No.8600475]

>>8599192
I never fell for this shit as a kid, I always thought it was too dumb for gamefreak to just have a random button combination that makes pokeballs work every time.

[Anonymous No.8600484]

>>8600475
Given how notoriously glitchy the original games were, I don't think the possibility was completely bogus. I mean, it could have been a debug function they forgot to take out.

[Anonymous No.8600524]

>>8600303
What? Kamala Harris?

[Anonymous No.8600579]

>>8589601
>skipped 3,4 and 5
you missed out on pokemon's peak and decided to go back during the beginning of it's downfall. You're a fuckin idiot.

[Anonymous No.8600583]

>>8598152
you casual retard, you lose it's EVs which will then make the stats shittier

[Anonymous No.8600607]

>>8600362
Play the Throwback romhack instead then

[Anonymous No.8600613]

>>8600583
Imagine being so confident yet so wrong

[Anonymous No.8600647]

>>8600434
so watch a relaxing video to calm yourself down

[Anonymous No.8600658]

>>8600583
yikes

[Anonymous No.8601181]

>>8600583
firstly they're not EVs in gen1/2, they're DVs, and secondly you can get them even if your level cap is maxed

[Anonymous No.8601249]

>>8601181
they're stat exp in gen1, dvs are in all gens

[Anonymous No.8601302]

>>8599213
Of the Legendary Birds, the one I had the hardest time catching was Articuno because all the Pokemon that learn False Swipe are weak to Ice. Yeah, I know, Gen 3, but still...

[Anonymous No.8601631]

>>8600583
>you casual retard
I was a pokemon master before you were drunkenly conceived, you little zoomer bitch.

[Anonymous No.8601741]

>>8599192
I still press down + B, it just feels so wrong not to, like an itch going unscratched

[Anonymous No.8601878]

>>8600303
who fucking cares jesus christ

[Anonymous No.8602041]

>>8592236
i won't lie anon, i used a bit of electrical tape and it worked perfectly, i would still recommend soldering though, seems like a more reliable solution

[Anonymous No.8602293]

>>8601181
DVs are the gen 1&2 equivalent of IVs you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.8603007]

[Anonymous No.8603959]

>>8600647
obsessed