past updates

April 24th 2025

Hi! Update time, and twice in a weeks time!

So, those gameboy parts came in and now I have them all put together they look great! Here are a couple pics, the ones on the left are new I already had the Groudon and Kyogre SPs.

I'm honestly super happy with how these turned out! They look great and I'm building up my SP collection for playing the gameboy piano during Safari Week!! ...and maybe I'll actually sit down and play some of my GBA/GB games now since I have a nice GBA to play them on and not just SPs since they cramp my hands after long enough playsessions.

Anyways, future plans!
I want to make a full video about RNG clones and just general guidelines on the RNG mechanics of Gens 3 and 4 since those games are the ones where clones are most likely to be seen and also they're my favorite games and the ones I've actually spent time RNG manipulating in. Plus I already think that quick psa video I pushed out in a night is pretty bad which is to be expected from a video I whipped up in less than 3 hours.

In terms of site updates I want to make the past updates page use something like a dropdown to select which day to view instead of just all in one continuous line down the page. I also will probably just axe the Kingdom Hearts page and merge it with CRT Posting into just a general random photodump and yap about whatever random thing I decide be it a random figure, anime, game etc.

Ok, that's about it for now I'm praying I can get a Switch 2 at some point since I missed the inital pre-orders by about 20 minutes at the major retailers near me, so I hope Nintendo throws me a bone with pre-ordering directly from them but who knows. Edit: Wal-mart came in clutch and I got my pre-order in!

April 19th 2025

Hi, it's time for another update on the random things I've been up to!!

First up, One Piece, a friend and I have been watching to get caught up and we are almost there, we just passed episode 1000 and I have been loving most of it. I'm not the biggest fan of most shonen since from prior experience fights tend to drag on way longer than they should sometimes, and yeah being honest One Piece is no different BUT everything in-between has probably been the most captivated I've been with an anime in a long time.

Just a quick tl;dr rundown of my current thoughts Luffy and Law are my favorite guys of all time, Bon Kurei the truest homie of them all, Water 7 into Enies Lobby is peak, G8 is peak filler, and I hate Doflamingo. (being real I don't even like really care too much about him, Oda did a good job villanizing him he's a terrible person but GOD I DON'T CARE DRESSROSA DRAGGED ON FOR SO DAMN LONG).

Oh, Oden and Yamato are neat too, I genuinely love Oden a lot his backstory was actually really enjoyable to watch.

Alright, moving on I bought 3 Gameboy Advances, 2 SPs and an original GBA, I got them for a decent price off a co-worker and I am going to screen and shell swap them, for one of the SPs I got a repro Rayquaza shell to match my Groudon and Kyogre SPs the other is actually the NES edition SP so I'm leaving it as is and just replacing the screen, for the Advance I got just a clear green aftermarket shell. I also got replacement batteries and got the usb-c rechargable kit for the advance.
The parts won't arrive until sometime next week so pictures have to wait but once it's all done I want to get pictures of all the GBAs lined up.

At the moment that's about it, work has been beating my ass but at least I got a raise recently so I'm happy about that.
I also still don't know what I actually want do with this site aside from what basically amounts to a journal to just dump my thoughts into every once in a while, but I guess thats fine though.

April 6th 2025

Quick update since I've been busy and lazy LMAO!!
I've been doing a bit, I kinda fell off of playing Crystal for the time being and focused entirely on playing Monster Hunter for a solid 2-3 weeks when Wilds released and that took up a ton of time, I also got back into playing Final Fantasy XIV in the past week, not to raid but new patch content came out and I wanted to spend time with friends.
Past that, I went out to visit friends in California this past week, some of which I got to meet in person for the first time!!!! It was really fun, hotpot is always great and the aquarium we went to was really nice!! I'll post the pictures later in a collage probably I don't know, kinda lazy to edit them.

Even further past that, I made a new video! You can find it here!

I had seen a ton of people continuously make a mistake in setting up their multi-hunts when using emulators which caused them to basically be hunting with 1 system 4 times instead of 4 different systems specifically when using 1 controller to controll all emulator instances.

Feb 17th 2025

I finally got around to updating the site it just took 3 months and now I'm doing it on a sunday night before I work again! I love my brain!!
Anyways I've been playing Pokemon Yellow lately and its been pretty fun, working on a living dex for Crystal recently and needed the Gen 1 starters, fossils and legendaries. I wanted to have some fun with this playthrough so I used Stadium 2 to bring in a Fresh Water from another save and just kinda skipped Rocket Hideout lmao.


I also did the Trainer Fly glitch to get Mew since it's the only way to get one and I don't care about legality checks at all for this since it's not like I'm taking them out of Gen1/2 anyways.

Here is the Final Team for this playthrough

jimmothy the Gyarados


jimmothy was the realest one with tradebacks from gen 2 giving access to moves like headbutt and waterfall it was a menace after evolving and honestly swept the game post Erika for me.

BattlerUmi the Bulbasaur


the Cut user himself, yeah I really only grabbed him for dex completion and he became the cut user, he's only named Battler because I was watching Big Yellow talk about the Umineko fighting game and for like 12 seconds I saw him there probably thinking about small bombs or something.

Teto the Pikachu


Teto the og, honestly just kinda there as well, early on Teto was just getting quick attack kills off of Munke the Mankey and thats about it they also helped with switch training jimmothy.

xxBigBurdx the Zapdos


BigBurd did the most out of the 3 birds and that was almost entirely because I used her to catch the other two she swept up whatever jimmothy couldn't but thats about it, I plan to come back to Yellow at some point and shiny hunt all 3 of the Kanto birds from here, also I master balled her.

Gorogoro the Moltres


Unfortunately the least interesting of the party, never used and wasn't a super notable capture took like 2-3 attempts to knock them down to red and catch them. Named Gorogoro after the Gorons from Zelda

Missed! the Articuno


Missed! I think speaks for itself if you understand Gen 1 capture mechanics, if not brief explanation 0 shakes does not exist in Gen 1 if the game rolls to catch and you get what would be 0 shakes you just flat out miss the pokemon and get hit with a "You missed the pokemon!". Took many attempts but after a while got him down in the red and paralyzed and got him with an ultra ball.

As a fun little side note to all this I found out that the Expansion Pak is used for something in Stadium 2 other than Higher-Res Textures it's also used for the GB Tower as well! I demonstrate it in this video first without the expansion pak insterted then with it inserted, you can see that the game has to load constantly when it has to basically do anything, do note both times the inital boot for the game is about 1 minute and 10 seconds.

I made a Spreadsheet to track my Crystal Living Dex progress you can find it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HEfRIT5HF8DmcryHoQjHOeKhP2aALaTdOZOrsvLxACI/edit?usp=sharing
I have every pokemons bulbapedia page linked and the route or area you can find them is highlighted with the games color that I figure was easiest to find them in, I specifically went and looked at every evolution to see if it was obtainable in the wild and decided if its possible to catch it in the wild I have to so if its listed as EVO you have to evolve for it.

Most base forms of pokemon are just listed on the same route as the evolved forms I figure if it was easier to organize that way since I'll be catching whatever comes up during my playthrough then sweep back after I have the HMs and Key Items nessecary for optimal travel.

Feel free to make a copy of this and use it yourself by the way it's why I linked it in the first place!!

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