If you have a coin case, a certain Pokémon, and know what to put into the PC Box titles for a desired effect, it's like having an Action Replay built right into the game! You can edit your inventory, or even change the species or stats of your Pokémon! And because gender and whether your Pokémon is shiny or not is linked to stats, you can also make your Pokémon shiny! Fun Fact: If you transfer a box of thirty cloned Ho-ohs into Pokémon Bank from the Virtual Console versions of Gold and Silver, it will recognize them all as different Pokémon and assign them different ID numbers and stat assignments, making all of them perfectly legal to use.Īs I said, most people are familiar with cloning and duplication, but there's also what's become known as the "coin case bug." Basically, you can utilize the names of your PC Boxes in the game to inject arbitrary code. They're really the same glitch, only difference being whether the Pokémon you're cloning is holding an item. Most people used the item duplication and Pokémon cloning glitch. Good news! There's no more "old man glitch!" Now you can duplicate Pokémon and items with ease instead, turn the first Pokémon in your party into any Pokémon, with any stats you want, you can even make it shiny if you want! More Glitches and Bugs, and the Problem With Stats The fact that a mafia leader even knew his duty was to give the ten year old his badge in Red and Blue versions but the sister of the leader of the whole Pokémon League couldn't smacks of either corruption, incompetence, or lazy writing, and for reasons I'll address later, it seems like the latter. They do actually improve it to make sense somewhat in Crystal, where you go deeper into the cavern and have to answer a test of knowledge. This item is practically by the entrance. You have to retrieve an item from a cavern.
The so-called challenge Claire asks you to complete to prove yourself isn't difficult, at least in Gold and Silver. That kind of seems a bit corrupt if you ask me.
In fact, you know how you can tell this region is empty? If you battle every trainer in the game and postgame, and do a bit above average levels of wild battle grinding, you're still going to be about ten levels below Red's lowest Pokémon, assuming a full team and balanced rotation.Ĭlaire-the League Champion/Commissioner's sister-can just decide that your win was a fluke and doesn't count. There's a handful of Pokémon that are only available in the post-game and honestly, that's something I expect anyways, at least when the post-game takes place in an area previously unavailable. There's the mini-quests to get the power plant running, getting the badges, the rainbow or silver feather and the final battle against Red on Mount Silver.
Okay, I know that actually sounds good, but what it means is that for much of your adventures in Kanto there really isn't all that much to do. Pokémon has never really been known for its quality post-games but I found that the Gen 2 games had about the same amount of content as any other game, but spread it across the entire Kanto region. Now this is going to be a matter of opinion, but travelling a whole region should have more content. Gold and Silver had one of the most expansive and satisfying post-games in the franchise-save possibly Crystal which added a Battle Frontier-but had one thing wrong: it felt rather empty.
Thank God this Crystal version where there's at least a Battle Frontier.