Soul Silver
Hanging around Violet City I added Bellsprout from Route 31, Zubat and Dunsparce from Dark Cave, Gastly from Sprout Tower, Onix from the in-game trade and Slugma from Primo to my collection. Luckily for me the Dunsparce didn't take too long to find and none of the Pokemon were hard to catch. Since it takes a while for Zubat to gain enough happiness to evlove to Crobat, I've decided to add him to my team for now.
With my Pokedex up-to-date, I moved onto the Violet city gym and swept Falkner's team with Crocodilly. Afterwards, Prof Elm called me with a request to stop by at the mart and speak to his Aide. Mister Speccy-four-eyes gave me an egg that soon hatched into Togepi. I rushed it back to Prof Elm and he gave me an Everstone for showing off the rare baby Pokemon. The Everstone was given to Crocodilly since he is much cuter as a Totodile than a Croconaw/Feraligatr.
Pressing on to Route 32, I stopped by at the Ruin of Alph to pick up an Unown. This little ****-smear cost me SIX POKEBALLS but finally was caught before Ekans, Mareep, Hoppip and Magikarp were all added to the collection. Although Hoppip is fairly weak, I taught it the nearby Bullet Seed TM and added it to the squad to evolve it all the way to Jumpluff.
Crocodilly lvl 16
Pidgey lvl 17
Zubat lvl 9
Hoppip lvl 6
Togepi lvl 1
Badges: 1
Pokedex: 30 seen, 23 obtained
Platinum
Similarly to my Soul Silver playthrough, I've decided to take a completionist's approach to Platinum and set off with the selection of Chimchar (without soft reseting for a shiny this time!). The playthrough so far hasn't raised anything particularly interesting – everything has been fairly easy to catch and no trainers have given me any problems.
I've played up to and completed the Valley Windworks milestone. Each Pokemon on every available route has been caught so far:
Bidoof, Starly, Kricketot, Shinx, Abra, Magikarp, Budew, Wurmple, Zubat, Geodude, Onix, Machop, Psyduck, Pachirisu, Buizel and Shellos.
There have been four evolutions to give me Monferno, Staravia, Kricketune and Luxio and I've started to gather Pokemon from honey trees with Combee and Burmy being my first captures.
Monferno lvl 18
Luxio lvl 18
Staravia lvl 15
Zubat lvl 9
Badges: 1
Pokedex: 31 seen, 24 obtained