The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[Paulbot]

Big questions this week... Black or White? Fire pig or Grass snake or Sea otter?

And do I buy Black and White when I've still not cleared the Johto area in HeartGold??

[swoop]

I'm getting both and I'll be starting white with oshawott and black with snivy, I'm not a big fan of tepig.

Have you not cleared heartgold because you've been busy or because you've lost interest?

[Paulbot]

Have you not cleared heartgold because you've been busy or because you've lost interest?

I can't beat the Dragon-trainer gym leader and I lost interest in the hours it would take for me to level up my strongest Pokemon to be powerful enough to win that badge. Gold/Silver doesn't have any good level up areas like Diamond/Pearl did (with the helper characters who'd heal your pokemon after each battle in certain areas) so I find it boring and a waste of time fighting a few battles then having to go to get healed, repeat x 50 to level up maybe 3 times

[jazzcomp]

Anyone know how to fix the black swirl of death for Dreamcast?

[1AZRAEL1]

Anyone know how to fix the black swirl of death for Dreamcast?

Do you have a region changer on your Dreamcast?

I did a little bit of research on that, and found this

And another forum I found this quote "If one leaves the 12v wire connected permanently the flash chip fries after a while and there's no repair besides an replacement of the flash chip itself."

[jazzcomp]

Do you have a region changer on your Dreamcast?

I did a little bit of research on that, and found this

And another forum I found this quote "If one leaves the 12v wire connected permanently the flash chip fries after a while and there's no repair besides an replacement of the flash chip itself."

Yep, there's a mod chip or some hardware modification i think on it and the region changer CD was the one I used. But because the game wouldn't load, I turned off the power and start up the system again and that's when i got the black swirl of death.

I think the problem still hasn't been fixed.

[i_amtrunks]

Paulbot, that grass south of Mahogany town (? the town with the Dragon Gym) is an alright place to train, just have a Pokemon with fly on it to fly you back.

Training in HG/SS is a pain, have you switched out your starter, because I found that it is usually at good levels for the game as long as you have it in your team fairly constantly. If you have D/P/Plat, why not trade over and train them on that game?
One Ice Pokemon should be enough to help you get through that gym.

As for B/W, not sure which I'll get and I dont really like any of the starters, I normally go grass, but Snivy is weak and boring, the grass has such a tiny movepool and is slow as anything, and the water stater is just very average in everything.

[Golden Phoenix]

Big questions this week... Black or White? Fire pig or Grass snake or Sea otter?

And do I buy Black and White when I've still not cleared the Johto area in HeartGold??

I'm getting Black because there is Black City with extra trainers, where as White has White Forest that has extra Pokemon to capture.
It really depends on what you want. More trainers or more available pokemon to capture.

Finish HeartGold and then buy and start Black/White. They might sell out for this month, but you can still get Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/HeartGold/SoulSilver at pretty much any store. They are stocked up, and Diamond and Pearl were released years ago.
I would guess Black and White will end up the same.

I can't beat the Dragon-trainer gym leader and I lost interest in the hours it would take for me to level up my strongest Pokemon to be powerful enough to win that badge. Gold/Silver doesn't have any good level up areas like Diamond/Pearl did (with the helper characters who'd heal your pokemon after each battle in certain areas) so I find it boring and a waste of time fighting a few battles then having to go to get healed, repeat x 50 to level up maybe 3 times

Just keep having a crack at the Elite 4. If you don't beat them the first time, then you still get the experience points from them and can try again.

Also, don't be afraid to use hyper potions, revives and full heals.
I bought 50 of each the first time I went through and came out of them with about 3 of them.
The Elite 4 will abuse full restores and so should you.

[Paulbot]

I'm getting Black because there is Black City with extra trainers, where as White has White Forest that has extra Pokemon to capture.
It really depends on what you want. More trainers or more available pokemon to capture.

Given my level up issues in HeartGold I think Black will be the way to go. JB HiFi have "a trade in two DS games and get Black or White free" deal so I was going to do that, but I probably wont play it in a while.

I'd like to Finish HeartGold first, but I'm currently in Zelda land, replaying Phantom Hourglass at the moment and I recently purchased Spirit Tracks which I want to play next.