Thread: Simple Questions / Simple Answers (Gen 5)

My question is this-
How Long Does It Take For A DS Game To Die?
The game in question is Pokemon Platinum, and I'm asking because I wish to know how long my Pokemon can stay in there before I have to migrate them. The game was bought in 2009, and is currently in it's box, and rarely touched, if that changes anything.

Originally Posted by Ampiomodio

My question is this-
How Long Does It Take For A DS Game To Die?
The game in question is Pokemon Platinum, and I'm asking because I wish to know how long my Pokemon can stay in there before I have to migrate them. The game was bought in 2009, and is currently in it's box, and rarely touched, if that changes anything.

The amount of time varies, but DS games are far more efficent in their durability. There won't be any hurry to migrate your Pokemon over as it will last years if taken care of

Thanks, man, that's a huge relief.

This has been driving me crazy: What does OU stand for? I've seen it used while someone is describing their Pokemon team, and I keep wanting to say BOOMER SOONER whenever I see it (if you're a Sooner fan, you know what I'm talking about).

Originally Posted by jokool

This has been driving me crazy: What does OU stand for? I've seen it used while someone is describing their Pokemon team, and I keep wanting to say BOOMER SOONER whenever I see it (if you're a Sooner fan, you know what I'm talking about).

OU is short for 'Over Used' which is one of the tiers in competitive Pokemon battling. Pokemon of this tier are,as the name says,used by majority of players. UU stands 'Under Used',RU 'Rarely Used' and NU 'Never Used'.

@jokool however to my understanding the names are poorly made since OU means it is good not overused even though that's what it stands for. Which doesn't make that much sense to me.

Originally Posted by Alphaphlare

@jokool however to my understanding the names are poorly made since OU means it is good not overused even though that's what it stands for. Which doesn't make that much sense to me.

Yeah.... I think I'll stick to saying "Hi. Here's my team" if I need it reviewed.

I've got a question that I'm curious about. I've heard people say that breeding wasn't possible until the gen 2 games. If that's true, how did people get the starter Pokemon they didn't choose in the gen 1 games before gen 2 came out? o.O

Originally Posted by Kelleo

I've got a question that I'm curious about. I've heard people say that breeding wasn't possible until the gen 2 games. If that's true, how did people get the starter Pokemon they didn't choose in the gen 1 games before gen 2 came out? o.O

It's true. Either they traded for other ppl's starters that they didn't want, or they prolly did that one glitch where you start a game, do something with the pc and your starter, restart a new game and the starter from your previous save would be there still. Rinse repeat. Though I never played gen 1 main series so idr really the nitty gritty details of the trick.

Also, this SQSA Thread is for gen 5 only, next time you have a question about gen1-4, go to The Lost Tower's SQSA Thread :)

Oh, I see. My bad then. I forgot to check if this was only for gen 5 questions... xP

Originally Posted by Kelleo

I've got a question that I'm curious about. I've heard people say that breeding wasn't possible until the gen 2 games. If that's true, how did people get the starter Pokemon they didn't choose in the gen 1 games before gen 2 came out? o.O

I have all 3 on red. All I did was get 2 games and restart one of them untill I had the 3.

Originally Posted by Kelleo

I've got a question that I'm curious about. I've heard people say that breeding wasn't possible until the gen 2 games. If that's true, how did people get the starter Pokemon they didn't choose in the gen 1 games before gen 2 came out? o.O

Just get pokemon yellow. Before you are even half way through the game you can get all 3 of the blue/red starters. Better then looking up how to exploit a glitch. Yellow is the much less glitchy version of the previous 2 gen 1 games anyways.

I never said I wanted one of the gen 1 games. I was only curious. I have no need for RBY since I have FR/LG.

In the battle Subway, there's the guy who judges a pokemon's IVs. Sometimes I see him say, "It's best potential lies in X. I see. It's Y is also good. <Rating>"

Does this mean stats X and Y are equal?

Also, RE: All starters in Gen I.

It was fairly common, in those days(at least in my area), to see two or more friends decide to start new files together. Player A would start up as normal, pick, say, bulbasaur, and just catch a bunch of rattata and pidgey. Then Player B would start up, choose squirtle, and trade it to Player A for a rattata as soon as he could get to the pokecenter. Then Player B would restart, getting another squirtle, and trading it over, then twice more for two charmanders, piling up all these extra starters on Player A's file. Finally, Player B would start his "real" file, pick bulbasaur and get the other starters from Player A. It'd take maybe half an hour, then you both have all three starters.

im trying to find out the advantages and the downside of them.... but i dont know../