Poll of the Day > Cheating in Pokemon games, nay or yay?

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Justice

I would never cheat on my pokemon with some smelly digimon
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feels dirty tbh
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single player only. I don't cheat in most video games anymore grand theft auto is the only series I can think of I still cheat on the norm (but I literally play that game for the mindless fun of it) but as long as you aren't hindering anyone else I don't give a rat's ass how someone enjoys their game.
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Rare candy glitch felt sooo damn good
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I can understand people wanting to generate mostly perfect IV/nature/ability pokemon to round out their teams, since the games have no rental system that lets you do this... but it's kinda the same as just printing out your own YuGiOh/Magic the Gathering cards. They're perfectly game legal, but you removed the rarity balance.
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FrozenBananas posted...

Rare candy glitch felt sooo damn good

you talking about that glitch to get 99 of any items back in red/blue? only downside IIRC is that you don't get nearly the amount of stat increases as you would threw leveling up normally. still though not much could stop my team of 6 max level mewtwos.
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i do on my GBA pokemon games. no other way to get alot of stuff. even then i set myself limits and usually just build my team at the start of the game at level 2-5 in the first patch of tall grass.
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I only ever played the original Red & Blue, but fuck Nintendo if they thought everyone was going to buy two games or whatever and play through the full game twice to get all the pokemon exclusive to Red or Blue all onto the same save file.
My friends and I used the glitch to copy traded pokemon instead of actually trading them, and I'm proud of it!
I think that was actually the first hack/glitch/exploit I've even used, and it's not something I do often. But yeah...nah. Not happening.

Anything goes. If someone is able to cheat in a game, then everyone else can. If the developers don't like it, then they just need to patch those exploits so that no one can use them.

streamofthesky posted...

I only ever played the original Red & Blue, but fuck Nintendo if they thought everyone was going to buy two games or whatever and play through the full game twice to get all the pokemon exclusive to Red or Blue all onto the same save file.
My friends and I used the glitch to copy traded pokemon instead of actually trading them, and I'm proud of it!
I think that was actually the first hack/glitch/exploit I've even used, and it's not something I do often. But yeah...nah. Not happening.

well nintendo actually thought correctly loads of people do buy both. as a kid I got lucky had a brother who also played the games. so it made good christmas presents he'd get one i'd get the other. we only played up to gold/silver though. funny come to think of it, it was slightly unfair I ended up getting both yellow and crystal (that was the third game in the gold/silver right?) and he didn't. but I was nice enough to let him play through it after I did.
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I would have more of a problem with it if getting competitively viable pokemon wasn't such a huge chore, constantly resetting for legendaries, ev training, iv breeding, move breeding and all that shit, if you spend forever making a team and it doesn't work out or you want to make another one its another week of grind and tedium, even if you want to reuse some of the pokes the evs are prolly different. just to be on even playing field with other players is just waaaay too much, its like the only "competitive" video game where you have to bring your own shit as opposed to everyone being on an even enough level at the start of every match

without cheating or simulators like pokemon showdown I figure a lot of cool teams and ideas we have today would just go undiscovered due to the amount of effort required to try something new for it not to always work out.
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The only cheat I'd consider using would be to change my starter, especially since the starters for gens 2, 4, 5, and 6 kinda suck.

streamofthesky posted...

I only ever played the original Red & Blue, but fuck Nintendo if they thought everyone was going to buy two games or whatever and play through the full game twice to get all the pokemon exclusive to Red or Blue all onto the same save file.
My friends and I used the glitch to copy traded pokemon instead of actually trading them, and I'm proud of it!
I think that was actually the first hack/glitch/exploit I've even used, and it's not something I do often. But yeah...nah. Not happening.

...no, they assumed that half would get one game, half the other, and then trade for what each other needed. It worked out fine gen 1.
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The one Pokemon game I've played was a demo for Sun. It seemed really easy. lol @ the thought of cheating.
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Bump

I use PKHexing because who the fuck has time to sit around, hatching eggs to get a perfect IV, egg moves, and Nature, then EV train, and raise them up to level 50? And then you play a handful of games and get destroyed online, bringing you back to square one. And don't even get me started on legendary pokemon.

I use it as a time saver, and I don't see why anyone would have a problem with that.
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Also, I feel like maybe 2 people so far realize this is talking about PKhexing, and not something as lame as infinite rare candies and shit. We are talking about hacking pokemon so that you don't have to spend countless hours making a competitive team.
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Yay in single player, nay if you're going online
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Mead posted...

I would never cheat on my pokemon with some smelly digimon

not even Zephyrmon or angewomon?
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Just about every time I did a play through of red or blue I did the dupe cheat so Im all for it. Anything like making a Pokmon level 1000 or some shit vs the 100 cap is bogus though.
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J_Dawg983 posted...

Just about every time I did a play through of red or blue I did the dupe cheat so Im all for it. Anything like making a Pokmon level 1000 or some shit vs the 100 cap is bogus though.

I remember a glitch in red and blue where I could get a level 255 pokemon. but it was worthless to me as it was only use able for one battle or multiplayer battles as any exp it gained made it loop over and become level 1. though I guess it would be cool to have a level one evolved pokemon. I believe which one you got was based on poke ID and character name or something like that. I always got a rapidash and my brother I think got dewgong.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

The one Pokemon game I've played was a demo for Sun. It seemed really easy. lol @ the thought of cheating.

They're talking about cheating for multiplayer to get perfect pokemon so they have an edge over others online.
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TallTamryu posted...

WarGreymon77 posted...

The one Pokemon game I've played was a demo for Sun. It seemed really easy. lol @ the thought of cheating.

They're talking about cheating for multiplayer to get perfect pokemon so they have an edge over others online.

not an edge actually, just to be on level with people online
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Yeah to be equal with other cheaters.
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TheSlinja posted...

not an edge actually

lol
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TallTamryu posted...

Yeah to be equal with other cheaters.

are you saying only cheaters are naking perfect pokemon?
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Single player you can do what you want. In competitive play stick to the limits of what could be achieved legit and I'm fine with it.
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Lokarin posted...

you removed the rarity balance.

Rarity is inherently unbalancing. Luck shouldn't be a factor in competition.
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As long as it's within the normal limits. Raising a Pokemon does not take skill. Only time. It's boring, tedious, and repetitive. I have a full time job. I don't have time for that shit.
They really need to revamp the series but people buy the same shit every year en masse with its marginal changes.
Idk why I'm even here I don't play them anymore. Just disappointed with how they let it stagnate.
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In the older ones, only to help catch them all. In newer ones, I'd consider something similar just to speed up the time it'd take to get a team or three together (if I still played).
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SilverClock posted...

They really need to revamp the series but people buy the same shit every year en masse with its marginal changes.
Idk why I'm even here I don't play them anymore. Just disappointed with how they let it stagnate.

They've revamped it a lot in the last 2 gens. You can EV/IV a lot easier but in exchange they've made grinding to 100 about as awkward as gen 2.
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IceDragon77 posted...

I use PKHexing because who the fuck has time to sit around, hatching eggs to get a perfect IV, egg moves, and Nature, then EV train, and raise them up to level 50? And then you play a handful of games and get destroyed online, bringing you back to square one. And don't even get me started on legendary pokemon.

I use it as a time saver, and I don't see why anyone would have a problem with that.

IceDragon77 posted...

Also, I feel like maybe 2 people so far realize this is talking about PKhexing, and not something as lame as infinite rare candies and shit. We are talking about hacking pokemon so that you don't have to spend countless hours making a competitive team.

I take offense.

SilverClock posted...

As long as it's within the normal limits. Raising a Pokemon does not take skill. Only time. It's boring, tedious, and repetitive. I have a full time job. I don't have time for that shit.

lolwut? It doesn't take that much time. And I used to level while commuting.

SilverClock posted...

They really need to revamp the series but people buy the same shit every year en masse with its marginal changes.
Idk why I'm even here I don't play them anymore. Just disappointed with how they let it stagnate.

lolwut? Clearly you haven't played a newer game. The last one changed so much that people wanted the old formula back.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Lokarin posted...

you removed the rarity balance.

Rarity is inherently unbalancing. Luck shouldn't be a factor in competition.

funny most nintendo games i've played based with multiplayer in mind seem to have luck as a big aspect. mario kart being a major offender. never played mario party but I understand that one too. and even smash to a degree if you play with items on.

though in pokemon the rarity thing I think is better for the single player. perhaps they should make the rarity for a lot mons significantly drop after you beat the SP portion.
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Mead posted...

I would never cheat on my pokemon with some smelly digimon

if i could mod the pokemon into digimon you couldn't fucking stop me

funnily enough, i like digimon far more than pokemon

but i know far more about pokemon than digimon
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HellHole_ posted...

but i know far more about pokemon than digimon

well to be fair knowledge in pokemon is fairly consistent whereas in digimon nothing ever sticks, not even digivolution lines
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I'm fine with it, even for competitive, where veryone uses perfect Pokmon anyway. I've used pokegen/pkhex myself because I find it much more enjoyable than breeding and ev training.