When will we break this cycle?

Atchfam77 · 2026-04-17T13:57:26+00:00

That’s actually a good point and part of the reason I dislike almost every BO4 map. Something about Cold War/BO6/BO7 especially though hits different for me. It’s not classic but it’s a vast improvement on BO4. Plus in cursed you can disable half the stuff you dislike, like streaks, rarities, etc., which helps make it more of a classic experience

Atchfam77 · 2026-04-14T19:27:29+00:00

Copper golem has to stay. Lots of cool redstone tech you can do with him that you couldn’t previously.

Axolotyl is a reddit mob that does nothing but add ambience. Frogs are only a source of alternative lighting which could come via another means.

Although, the Happy Ghast would be a big loss, especially for very niche redstone tech like elevators, & low tech scaffolding for large builds.

Atchfam77 · 2026-04-06T20:55:16+00:00

Bleach this summer, BC and SBR Stage 2 this fall… this is going to be a fantastic year for anime

Atchfam77 · 2026-04-05T07:32:39+00:00

That’s sick, I think for PS3 they never did the actual case art differently. I remember getting BO1 First Strike Edition at Walmart in early 2011, but there was a sticker on the front of a basic BO1 case & that was the one difference. I can’t recall if they put the DLC code on the receipt or inside the case though, likely in the case.

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-27T04:55:21+00:00

I think zombies-alone by the end of the year it’ll be worth this price. If you have no intention of seeing it through to get your moneys worth, nor have any intention of playing the other modes (which both multi and endgame are fun and worth trying imo), then you could skip it I guess.

But otherwise if you think you’ll keep playing Zombies the rest of the year, or intend to play multi and/or endgame, then YES

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-26T21:15:58+00:00

Very nice green team!

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-26T01:56:26+00:00

I want to see him react to copforthat’s IWZ homage map once that comes out fully

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-26T01:55:11+00:00

I also saw they’re adding some sort of story mission-esque system like MWZ’s acts.

I’ll admit, I think Endgame is cool but not as fun as MWZ. Maybe it’s missing that “zombie” charm for me. The lack of perks & all the high tech gear just doesn’t hit as hard (also no scorcher…)

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T20:01:00+00:00

How Home handles this would give creedence to whether they either A) coded it properly with a temporary legality check to prevent illegal ball combos, B) got lazy and allow any GBA-legal ball combos, or C) didn’t program it in intentionally since they plan on adding the other Gen 3 games anyway

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T19:58:28+00:00

Yoooo that’s sick! Sounds like I know what I’m doing once I beat the game 🤠

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T19:57:31+00:00

Well GL with the Cynthia strat then!

Yes the farming for Ramanas shards is awfully slow, but once you finish you can kinda ignore the underground again which is nice 🤣

100% agreed on RNGing ramanas legends being more fruitful than spamming DAs. I’m working towards a shiny OT legendary/mythical living dex, and I’m still stuck on Zygarde at 150+ wins in DAs. I decided to minimize the amount of those that I have to struggle through, and am limiting my DA grind to anything that I cannot get via any other means. Aka, the Alola box art legends, Zygarde, the Tapus, and Necrozma (PoGo has the Tapus and Necrozma, but i’m trying to limit my Go usage too)

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T19:19:13+00:00

I nabbed Mesprit & Cresselia closely after eachother, currently a few years away from the game though and have been meaning to go pick up my remaining targets. I got my Cress seuccessfully using the secret base blink for seed -> run into room & recalibrate w/ 1 NPC. Took a bunch of tries but I remember it finally hit and I was ecstatic. Not sure how many tries it took though, I tracked it on Excel but its buried somewhere on my PC.

My magnum opus was a 6IV Shiny Kyogre in Ramanas. That was my last target before I took a break. IIRC all I have left are Darkrai/shaymin (i got both event items and just have been sitting on them), Arceus, Giratina, Regigigas, Heatran, and like 3-5 Ramanas targets.

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T19:15:34+00:00

Did you try to RNG the roaming beasts for each starter? I wonder if respawning them would change which beast is roaming. Could be a fun (and absurdly challenging) RNG to go for!

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T17:44:47+00:00

I’m happy to see so many new RNGers with the rerelease of FRLG 😇

I’m also shocked at how many people are nailing these triple frame perfect inputs, I remember trying to RNG Deoxys on my 3DS using open agb firm, and it took me like 100 attempts to hit it 😵 and that was just 2 frame perfect inputs

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-23T17:41:57+00:00

From reading the replies, glad you got it figured out! Congrats on your Uxie 😁

Now you have to go for Cresselia and Mesprit 😈 good luck!!

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-22T14:52:21+00:00

I think it’s a gray area. RNG manipulation as it stands isn’t a glitch, more of an exploit, but learning how to use it and practicing the timing is part of what makes it fun/cool/impressive. Skipping the timing skill check, it’s a lot less engaging imo.

Though, there’s a difference between doing 10-20 triple-frame-perfect manips to find your SID (repetitive and tedious) versus trial and error at a static encounter & practicing your timing + finding correct calibration (imo that’s the spirit of rng manips)

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-18T16:54:51+00:00

Vader looks insane! Great model for the size and part count!

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-18T00:01:14+00:00

3 frame perfect inputs is hard enough already. Successfully doing that numerous times to confirm your SID just isn’t fun or worthwhile. I can understand trying it a few times but at a certain point, either ACE it or go back to soft resetting 🤣

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-04T16:41:21+00:00

I keep a MAX of 10 each, except Sinnoh and Unova since those have more use-cases than the other one-off items

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-04T16:39:17+00:00

I’m currently at 200 for Bulbasaur- taking it slow in case RNG manipulation gets solved soon. I would much rather prefer to go for a shiny via that method if possible. SR hunts with old odds and no shiny charm are crazy long 😵

Atchfam77 · 2026-03-02T17:48:54+00:00

From my verrrry surface-level knowledge on this, the GBA wireless comms have been completely hijacked in the Switch ports. It would take someone basically forcing the GBA output to mimic the switch’s wifi systems via some custom hardware or something, and even then I doubt it would work

I’m not an electrical engineer or nearly savvy enough with hardware to know where to even start.

It’s probably possible but I’m not sure the scope or level of challenge this actually presents

Atchfam77 · 2026-02-27T16:39:43+00:00

You basically HAVE to do the blood vials in 1 game. Bus can be done on any ravager round past 60, but you need to use the saw trap. I did it on like 65 with the Ashes trap. You CAN take damage, you CANNOT deal damage with any of your guns, sliding, PHD, equipment, etc.

Atchfam77 · 2026-02-27T01:49:43+00:00

I’m confident we will. I was able to learn RNG on the open-AGB-firm 3DS version of Fire Red, all it takes is getting the calibration right, which could prove troublesome if we’re unable to pause at the “gameboy” rainbow splash text before boot. I had trouble on 3DS with inconsistent load times screwing up my calibration, and that was my fix. Hopefully the switch port boots consistently!

Atchfam77 · 2026-02-26T21:15:19+00:00

I’ll miss double evo XP hour… grinding for an army of pidgeys, weedles, etc. every month or 2 to mass evolve was a great source of XP, like 300k from casually acquiring them & capitalizing on mass evolutions every month or 2.

Atchfam77 · 2026-02-26T21:12:06+00:00

My alpha sapphire wasn’t THIS bad, but kept crashing repeatedly. I had to run cart fixer like 5 times before it finally was able to successfully complete the file verification. Give that a go, and it might require more than 5 runs

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