I Added A Randomizer to FireRed on Nintendo Switch

New video! AND box names for how to recreate this randomizer on your switch out now yahoo!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yFG...

Ayyy, only 28 eggs in at 1/64 odds- not bad!! Gonna transfer this guy up for my M-A Champions team!

Ah! I figured I wasn’t the only one who thought about doing it haha- do you happen to have a link? I’d love to keep an eye on it! 😄

The urge to make a Python tool for converting images into Bluetooth controller inputs for Tomodachi Life’s drawing tool is *so* strong but the image drawing optimization algorithms sound horrible to have to figure out

(and I already have like 3 projects already whoops)

BUT IT WOULD BE SO COOL

Huge huge huge shoutout to @nataliethenerd.com for her GameBoy board scan wiki- being able to follow traces for a side project I’m working on has been AMAZING

wiki.nataliethenerd.com

Happy 25 years to the console that, even though I didn’t grow up with it, has ended up being the one with the most impact on my life!! Still arguably the greatest handheld of all time

Does it roll a random Pokémon each encounter or does it randomize the encounter tables? Either way- this is super impressive! Can’t wait to hear how it works under the hood 😄

Klang gang what happened 😔

It seems to just be an extra frame perfect input, yeah. You have to get the right frame on the “last time” screen and then the right frame on the Pokémon generation

So that was a bust lol- based on some other research though, it seems the RNG is incremented a second time each frame. It just means you have to be on the correct even/odd frame when exiting the "last time on your adventure" screen.

The more you know!!

Time to bust out mGBA and check lol

I wonder how that works internally, is the game running at 120 fps and just updating the screen every 60? Or does the game usually run at 30 fps?

I’m realizing how little I know about the gen 3 engine off the top of my head lol

I really need to do more research on Gen 3 RNG, but I wonder if the double speed RNG frames will make certain frames unreachable. Does the game run the frames twice as fast, or does it just skip every other frame?

The previously announced language support and alternate conversion methods are still the focus of v2.0.0, but there are so many other improvements that have been made thanks to the hard work of just under a dozen people. We’re looking forward to sharing it all with you sometime in the near future!

I’m a day late, but I hope everyone had a great Pokémon day! The future of the series seems bright, especially with that 2027 release date!!

I’m so excited to share all the progress the team (yes, team!) has been making on Poké Transporter GB- we’re just not *quite* ready yet. (1/2)

Took a small detour from FRLG on Switch today to see if I could implement a complete randomizer on cart via ACE. Success!

I intend to complete the National Dex entirely using this method on a single cartridge on stream Soon™

Unfortunately you would need to replace the battery in order for it to hold a save again, but you would be able to bring back your previous save if it was backed up already!

just in case. I'd suggest backing up your save when using PTGB regardless, just in case something happens with the program. While it is designed to be as stable as possible, but bugs do sneak their way in sometimes. I'd hate to be the reason why someone loses a special Pokemon from their childhood 😅

You're absolutely not bothering me, I'm always happy to answer questions!! 😄

The language update is going very well! I have a handful of translators working on the text while I update the back end. If you're worried about your battery, I'd suggest getting a Joey Jr and backing up your save file-

My favorite part is when they talk about the “batch releases distributed globally circa Q4 2015” for a program that started development in 2023 and didn’t have its first full release until 2024 💀

SO UPDATE

Apparently there is now a Wiki(?) page about Poke Transporter GB on AliExpress and it’s… something!

I was going to make a thread going through everything that’s wrong about it but genuinely I don’t think I can. To part of the video it becomes!!

www.aliexpress.com/p/wiki/artic...

It’s under the MIT license- I guess bootleg is the wrong term… sorry about that! 😅

Seems to work fine! I’m not sure how high quality the board itself is, but I’ll definitely open it up if I make a video about it

Interestingly it *is* v1.2.0, despite the listings going up before I released it in October. I appreciate them keeping up with that at least! 😅

After you told me was when I got curious about what the quality was!! 😂

That’s a good idea!! I also can show off what I had in mind for how to load the program while developing it (which was mainly the Wii homebrew method)!

I have *super* mixed feelings on it and I’d love to talk more about it, but I don’t want to seem like I’m endorsing a bootleg product, especially since it’s my own code lol. Legally, they’re not in the wrong since it’s an open source project, but like- idk. It’s weird lol

So I may or may not have gotten curious and bought that version of PTGB that’s on AliExpress 😬. I won’t lie, it’s very surreal seeing something I made on a cartridge that I didn’t make myself.

Should I make a video talking about it? Or would that bring more attention to a bootleg of my own program?

Klang 😔