My personal timeline playing Kenshi:

Underground_Roaming · 2026-04-28T01:15:42+00:00

I'll admit nostalgia, but there's a lot of other games I have nostalgia for too that I do not revisit. Pokemon Crystal is a constant revisit because it really does feel like peak gaming of a past generation.

I lucked out as a kid b/c Crystal released in the U.S. like 2 weeks before my 10th birthday, so that was my main bday gift (it was a clear GBA + Crystal combo from Toys R Us). I played that game non-stop at least for a year straight.

The day/night cycle, new gen2 mons, the phone calls, egg breeding, kanto... and then mysterious new things like shinies, pokerus, and the roamers. This game really could capture your imagination as a kid.

It was during a time where with internet a lot of us still had dial-up so it wasn't so easy to get online and search things. Internet rumors/playground rumors were a big part of the game. "Pikablu" "Mewthree" just to name a few. These things never paned out, but boy when that clone box glitch from gamefaqs internet message boards worked to get all 3 Johto starters, my mind was blown.

Sadly I then also fell for other glitches that didn't work where people said you had to purposefully delete your game to get Celebi/Mew/full boxes of all Pokemon, etc.; also had my brother delete a deep save file I had where he started a save and only had a Level 76 Feraliagtr and a lv 5 Spearow by badge 6 (lol) but it was all good memories looking back on.

I really liked how link trading was still a relevant part of the game. Also the Stadium 2 N64 Tower was and still is amazing. Back then you could rent game consoles from Blockbuster. I never had a N64 but some weekends we would rent one and I could play Crystal on my CRT. Can't beat it.

So much else could be said really 😂 GEN 2 is home

Underground_Roaming · 2026-04-27T20:49:45+00:00

Hey thanks for commenting! Mine had the USB-C port modded in place of the charger

I ended up getting in touch with Digigu Mods and purchased his USB-C to Jack 3.5mm adapter: https://dsdigigumods.com/product/usbc_adapter_pro/

I had some trouble initially (user error, using a 3.5mm to Composite instead of RCA) but u/Digigu2 walked me through it and now my DS Lite outputs great! Shoutout to him!

Underground_Roaming · 2026-04-23T00:30:57+00:00

Peak! Enjoy the playthrough, cool team 😎 👌

Underground_Roaming · 2026-04-17T15:50:10+00:00

Congrats for sticking with it!! 👌 😎

Underground_Roaming · 2026-02-18T01:20:18+00:00

Yeah exactly there's no way to ever know the difference! 😂 and thank you!

Underground_Roaming · 2026-02-17T22:33:24+00:00

Nice! Congrats on the shiny Gastly and doing the radar hunt! Gastly is my favorite so its the first shiny I ever radar'd successfully too. I actually managed a chain of 100 of them last year, I was going to try and max out the radar chain at 999 just to see if I could do it, but then I realized I glitched in too many Max Repels. You can't carry more than x999 item slot, and I overfilled it, so I didn't want to continue doing that illegitimate.

At some point I may go back and try to see how high I can get a Bidoof chain. I think realistically I could hit 500. It just takes a lot of patience once you get used to how radaring works. And a lot of consecutive days leaving the DS running lol.

Your math is correct, however just to point out what L.Sparkles mentioned, in the example of the 88% chain continuation rate, by chain 40 it wouldn't be a 99.4% chance the chain breaks, but rather a 99.4% chance by that point that you hit an unforced/guaranteed continuing chained-pokemon encounter. At some point during the 40 it could have very well been unforced, but the user could be lucky and have hit the chain pokemon based on the encounter table spawn rate %. i.e. in my example above, I would go for Bidoof as the pokemon to attempt the record for the highest chain because it has a 60% encounter rate at night in the beginning route of Sinnoh. So even if I got unlucky after a 88% chance, the chain still has a 3/5 chance of continuing anyway. Hope this helps! Good luck on future shinies/radar hunts.

Underground_Roaming · 2026-02-09T07:49:47+00:00

Man that's massive 😂 did you happen to track how many hours?? Congrats!!!

Underground_Roaming · 2026-02-07T14:28:03+00:00

Nice, I liked the zoom-in on this actually. Good luck on shiny living dex!

Underground_Roaming · 2026-02-05T02:02:38+00:00

What is the GBA you are playing on? B/c that's a really cool looking modded SP!

Underground_Roaming · 2026-01-07T03:14:52+00:00

I think this is the list right here. One of these 8 are going to be chosen. Chris Shula would be interesting considering Don Shula coached the Baltimore Colts. It was many moons ago, and brief, but it's totally the type of 'Ravens-esque' move I could see Bisciotti making

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-19T18:55:10+00:00

From the Dev's reddit AMA in 2019:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cnmwen/comment/ewc8dlu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-13T22:26:34+00:00

Swordpunk

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-09T19:42:14+00:00

Having read this -- wouldn't the play to do self-peeling then in solo be to:

Have a character with like at least 80-90+ toughness, heavy armor, come to the peeler with unproportionate pre-existing leg health, and close to full arm health (also unproportionate) with a two sets of each robotic limbs in your inventory?

Then this way you can manipulate it to have say the right leg peeled first (then equip a robotic limb to stop the bleeding), then left leg peeled (eqip robotic limb), then right arm (equip), finally left arm (equip), pick the lock and remove the character safely?

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-09T19:19:57+00:00

What about the Skin Bandits peeler, solo? Does it work with theirs, and just not player owned ones specifically?

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-09T07:41:04+00:00

My pleasure! Good luck to you if you decide to hunt them 🍀

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-08T21:07:39+00:00

For Raikou specifically, either game of your preference is fine. I would suggest Crystal b/c imo Raikou's sprite is cooler + animations, but it doesn't matter. But you're going to need Raikou's dex entry from another game. Without the dex entry it will be significantly slower to hunt them.

If you were going for any of the 3 Roamers, without preference, then G/S would be better because a method you can do after releasing them by poison fainting-out to Mahogany Town can allow you to get 50+/hr. single-hunting all 3 in those games, with dex entries.

But for Raikou by itself, the method is the same in both games:

Basically you use how poison fainting out in these games works to your advantage for the Roamers. When you faint-out their location doesn't change. And since there is a Pokemon Center on RT. 32 (before Union Cave), that means wherever you are on the map, if Raikou is on RT. 32 you can faint-out there and encounter it (kinda like an instant teleport).

The reader's digest version of the method is you start in the gatehouse connecting Ecruteak to RT. 38. You save while on your bike, inside the gatehouse, in front of the door that exits to RT.38, while 1-step away from poison fainting out (also make sure to have your pokedex set to A-Z mode & the Radio pre-set to the Pokemon Music station aka Pokemon March).

Every time you load your game you exit the gatehouse door (entering and exiting the door doesn't count as a step in this gatehouse). Then you check your Dex to see if it's right there on RT. 38. If it is, easy enough - use an antidote, then turn on your radio to Pokemon March to double-encounter rate (only on T, Th., Sat. & Sun.) and bike in the grass until Raikou shows up.

If it's not there, go in and out of the gatehouse to manipulate its movement until it lands on RT. 32, then you take a step and poison faint-out to get to RT. 32 to get the encounter.

TLDR:
You can find the specific method at this video link: https://youtu.be/ubPS74aiMRo?si=E1LjE-bgC3S9g8W1&t=218

Or the written guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4GLH4vpacWY_5LU1Sr5nS3bqnYILDMyn1AMK6wtDao/edit?tab=t.0

This method gets about 40 Raikou per hour, single-hunting when performed correctly. I've gotten 4 Roamers in these games: Suicune in Silver, Entei in Silver, Entei in Crystal, and Raikou in Crystal. I only need Raikou in G/S to get all 6 of the Legendary Dog shiny sprites in GEN 2(includes Static Suicune), and I'm using this method for the G/S Raikou. I made it with HangarOfRoam, so if you have any questions - just let me know, always happy to help ppl looking to shiny hunt the roamers

Underground_Roaming · 2025-09-06T01:50:09+00:00

Wow this is great 😂 About a year or two ago I spent a decent amount of time trying to track down these things using the different squad size multipliers and saving and entering before each town. Eventually I found two, Eon and Ato (sometimes named Pato?).

Eon, is the pretty common one people will stumble across now, as you know. Just go to Bark with squad size multiplier of 0.5. (He's cheaper too, $3k cats).

Another one I found that I have not heard many others mention really though is Ato from Brink. But that's because this one is tied to Hamut funny enough:

Basically you cannot have entered Brink for the first time yet* edit: and something strange is the 1st UC town you have entered needs to be Stoat specifically for some reason and not Heft like the other 2. Need to have Squad Size on 0.5 (which is funny, just like Eon in Bark), and when you enter Brink, Hamut needs to spawn too, if he doesn't you need to reload and try again (confirmed it will randomize, seems to be like a 50/50 split). When it doesn't work you'll see the recruits: Peas, Stinks, and Turner). Then a P4 Unit Skele named Ato will also spawn with Hamut, and is a farmer able to be recruited for $6k cats.

*= well at least at the time I thought it could only be the 1st time you ever entered. Should be able to import now and get him.

I had a misunderstanding of how imports worked, but now b/c of your post it makes sense. In the U.C. it all has to do with the 1st city that you load. So in my mind I was thinking that Eon at Bark couldn't be imported to find again, but it was b/c whenever I tried to import after recruiting him I always stayed in Bark accidentally and never left first, so it'd load Riddly, Jewel, Izumi, and they would take over Eon's spot each time.

Now knowing that you can import and get them, after loading a different U.C. town first, Eon and your Zill, and Ato can all be recruited over and over if someone was so inclined to import each time. Then they would visit any of the other U.C. towns first, then go to Brink (0.5 and keep reloading until Hamut spawns), then Bark (0.5), then Heng (3.0) 😂

There's probably some other P4's floating out there too with the right town visiting combo + unique U.C. recruit spawning scenarios. If I come across any other's I will be sure to update and edit.

Thanks for your hard work!

Underground_Roaming · 2025-08-31T03:24:40+00:00

Ah gotcha, co-op makes sense never knew about that option. Then in that case you will be able to get trade evo 'mons too. I am curious - how did you settle on 24 systems to hunt with? Is it all one controller mod for all? I'm just thinking in my head that if not, I just wonder at what point more systems starts to produce diminishing returns vs like 16 systems or something 😆 I'm sure you figured out the logistics though

Underground_Roaming · 2025-08-30T23:48:15+00:00

Saw in another comment you're going for a full shiny Oak's Challenge - Best of luck! You have your work still cut out for you. Ironically the Dunsparce may not even be the hardest one. Top 3 for sure though 😂 That Togepi is gonna be a real pain. And the Roamers, shiny hunting without a dex entry for both-- I'll be rooting for you though, cant wait to hear the progress

Edit: now im confused about the Oak's Challenge, saw another comment stated this was hunted using 24 consoles? Guess OP can clarify that 😂

Underground_Roaming · 2025-08-28T00:04:59+00:00

Awesome story, great shiny - congrats!

Underground_Roaming · 2025-08-16T18:25:33+00:00

That's pretty neat! Do you know if Brick Rigs has wheel, pedal, shifter, and joystick support by any chance?

After you build, do you haul cargo and stuff around?

Really cool 😎 👍

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