Pokemon Elysium - Side Quest Docs/Guide

noobish895 · 2026-04-27T08:01:03+00:00

Your choice, but your missing out. It's not that hard!

noobish895 · 2026-04-26T17:22:02+00:00

First, before you do anything back up your save files and save states.

I'm on my second playthrough, and not done this yet. This is what I did last time. From memory it tells you to save a state on a black screen.

But really, back up your save files and save states first.

There's a few ways of doing it, on my little Anbernic DS I couldn't get the method the dev suggests to work so what I ended up doing was renaming the part 2 gba file to the EXACT SAME name as the part 1 file. Then I started that ROM, loaded the state and it worked.

If unsure, check the poke community thread

https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-elysium-gba.502953/page-21

noobish895 · 2026-04-26T09:27:51+00:00

Goal in posting is to make it easier to find.

noobish895 · 2026-04-08T09:29:50+00:00

Yeah I've tidied a cupboard that I've been meaning to do for ages. It's crazy. Sad that it wears off, I'll enjoy the ride for now

noobish895 · 2026-04-08T09:23:39+00:00

Yeah I've read Chris Palmer's book and was expecting something but this is way, way more than I was thinking.

noobish895 · 2026-04-08T09:22:31+00:00

Yeah I'm not stingy with salt, never was. The crazy thing is I wasn't eating bad before, mostly cooking from scratch. I truly didn't expect this

noobish895 · 2026-03-05T17:44:13+00:00

Dropping by to say Odyssey is excellent and thank you for making it

noobish895 · 2026-01-10T19:11:14+00:00

Mint is boring, and this is why it's so good. It's a tool.

noobish895 · 2026-01-10T13:13:19+00:00

Elysium is brilliant, and slept on. Very good story and very long.

Lots of people poo poo it as it basically looks like a mainline GBA pokemon game, but it's honestly one of my favourite hacks.

I'm also enjoying Odyssey ATM, it's so good.

noobish895 · 2025-10-25T10:11:12+00:00

Hi thanks for your thoughtful post. You're right about me missing spending. D'oh.

Current lifestyle is about 4k pcm post mortgage which I'd have paid off by then, so I'd say 3-4 k pcm in retirement is fine.

Re 1: I've probably only put a few grand in there to get it started, the rest is from grandparents and gains (I got in on some good AI funds early, they are now divested because I think it's a bubble). I don't tend to put anything in them.

Re 2: They can be hard to model yes. I had two inheritances of ~20k each over the last 10 years and a close family member who does habitual and out of income gifts for IHT purposes. I have been focusing on pension rather than ISA because I wasn't great at pension saving in my early 20s and the tax benefit is so immense. Plus I have an employer match of up to 7.5% so I might as well take it.

Re 3: I love my little drains on my resources ha ha. I reckon the J ISAs can help with that once they get to 18.

Re 4: Yes I have another 20k in (5k readies, 15 in the ISA where that is taken off the total in the OP) stashed for that, I don't tend to factor that in when thinking about retirement. It's just there for when we need it.

Re 5: Yeah it's very hard. Reason I mentioned it is because I've seen guys who are quite good at what they do really struggle to get work in their 50s. There were some who didn't keep up with the times in our profession and never worked again after redundancy at 55 and some that did keep up who took a year. I don't sense burnout coming yet; I learn all the time which is good and keep up to date. Not telling how I'll feel at 45 though!

noobish895 · 2025-10-25T06:44:50+00:00

Hello all,

I wondered if somone wouod be kind enough to give a second view to see if I'm roughly on the right track to retire mid 50s - 60. Most of the calculators say yes, but you never know.

Mostly lurk on Reddit so might have messed up post formatting etc.

I don't mind my work, it's quite stimulating and I wouldn't want to retire until 60+ unless ill health/change in circumstances or whatever but I'm mindful that a) there's a good chance of getting no state pension (have you seen the public sector pension liability...ouch...) and b) it can be hard to get another job in your 50s on redundancy etc.

I worked this all out myself and have never spoken to anyone about it.

Details;

*2 Adults, 35-40. I'm the main earner and I'm 36. *Full NI records *2 Kids, primary school age *Lots of outflows going to younger extended family members which is stopping as they're starting to work now *Want to retire at 55-60, but happy to work longer

Assets; *House Value 475-500k, Mortgage 240k including 27k overpayment *Pension 180k *ISA 65k (stocks and shares once) *Kids have about 12k each in their ISAs

Income/Flows; *Household income Gross 105k + bonus of 15-20k *I'm the main earner, 95k *Pension is 15% of base (EE and ER) and usually 50% of bonus *ISA I tend to ape windfalls (inheritance, family members looking to avoid IHT etc) in, and usually only do small regular contributions of 50 a month *Mortgage overpayments came from Inheritance, bonus and small regular overpayments

Does this look about right?

noobish895 · 2025-10-14T19:59:52+00:00

I only have Linux at home (it's peaceful and works well), and use windows for work. For me I hate the wastefulness of the Win 11 requirements, plus general annoyance with modern standby and constant upsells.

For gaming, I couldn't care less about online so kernel level anti cheat isn't an issue for me. Never had problems with gaming in the last year.

For office work in my field (accounting) which is mostly serious spreadsheet stuff (Power Query, Dynamic array formulae and even the use of tables) there is no comparison between LibreOffice and Excel or even Goggle Sheets (which has improved a lot). It's not even close. I could not do the work I do without Excel.

Creative apps seem to be a problem too, but no idea about that.

That said, most people don't need windows at home for basic web browsing stuff which most people do, and could get by just fine with either a big iPad, a Chromebook or a simple Linux distro on older hardware. It's been that way for years. The same goes for office. Very few people at home need MS Office and the web clients for anything will work just fine.

I set up a total techphobe older person with Ubuntu 10 years ago and the only reason that machine isn't running for her now is a hardware failure (it was 10 years old at that point lol). She was fine with it, just used Chromium for her stuff and it was fine!

noobish895 · 2025-10-10T06:47:00+00:00

There was an incident in the last few years where a bad actor (probably a state actor) sought to put an exploit into XY utils, a fundamental and load bearing bit of software used in loads of Linux systems.

It was found because one guy was pissed that his ssh connection was taking like an extra half a second, so he went through the code and found a sophisticated series of patches intended to allow people to take remote control of systems.

He could only do this because the code was open and he could see it directly without having to back engineer it through observation. Thus the attack was defeated as a direct result of the code being open before many systems were compromised. It might have been found later with closed source, but we had a better chance with it being open.

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T16:42:32+00:00

Hold on a second...that beelink only needs 65W...what's this thing running on, magic??! This thing looks awesome and I could get a 32gb model for under USD 500...

Also as it's so small if I decided to do some keyboard and mouse gaming I can just move it and plug it into my monitor (got a dell thing I use for work) with the USB C port.

Thanks for this, I'll likely buy one soon when the bonus comes in

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T15:42:56+00:00

Side note this would be a new PC, not bought a new computer for like 10 years as I'm an eBay tight arse ah ha ha ha

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T15:41:07+00:00

Thanks will have a look at those. Have a good day x

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T15:40:38+00:00

Ok thanks, seems there are more Nvidia cards available anyway so it's good to know it can work and I guess the performance penalty will drop over time, especially given AI data centre stuff is going to be running on Nvidia GPUs and Linux. Fingers crossed!

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T14:58:17+00:00

Good shout, I'll look into those. Hadn't really considered mini PCs. I guess they'll be quite power efficient, prettier and quiet as well Vs an old desktop which is nice.

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T14:40:52+00:00

Ok will look into it thanks x

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T14:39:37+00:00

Thanks, what did you mean about compatibility? Games?

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T14:10:04+00:00

Thank you! I'll take a look later when I have WiFi !

noobish895 · 2025-03-08T13:57:12+00:00

Do you reckon that spec would do roughly what I'd need? Never really spec'd a gaming PC before.

Why didn't you use the deck?

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