Discussion of the Serebii.net Black & White Discovery Thread

[A.J.]

I wonder if the Kanto-esque Champion music is used in the game at all.

I think I may have to use my AR to change the music when I'm fighting the champion. That music's too good to only use one time (World Championships)!

 

[R_N]

Or heaven forbid, you import

Heck yeah playing a game you can't understand.

 

[Cobalt_Latios]

It's not at all like "Get ready to battle the most powerful trainer in the region". It's more like "Get up and dance!"

At least the E4 theme makes up for it. And besides, the Champion theme reminds of the way Miror B.'s theme was: it wasn't an epic battle, just... really, really, fun. And put it this way: you battle N anyways. His battle theme is pretty amazing.

Holy crap, you guys aren't going to believe what I found:
animation sprites

Yes, it's only Tsutajaa... but this is great.

I may try and get the animation to work...

C_L

 

[Chris-kun]

I think it'd be an interesting concept if they worked for a simultaneous release. It's not impossible, Japan may get the game later than they're used to, but so long as Nintendo doesn't start to announce thing till about the same wait period, it won't feel any different.

 

[Chimchar15]

Or heaven forbid, you import

Yes let me play a game I can't for the life of me understand. Anyways I really wish they would pull an R/S and only make us wait 4 months instead. At least we'd be able t play be January. Ah a man can dream. Seriously very impressed gamefreak, the Pokemon, plot, music, plot, character development, and did I mean the plot?

 

[Gearhead31]

How do you get to 8th gym? I just went to Ancient Temple. Saw The Plasma Leader talk a bit then he leaves. Plasma grunts are blocking me from entering gate into next town. What do i do

 

[Cobalt_Latios]

Yes let me play a game I can't for the life of me understand. Anyways I really wish they would pull an R/S and only make us wait 4 months instead. At least we'd be able t play be January. Ah a man can dream. Seriously very impressed gamefreak, the Pokemon, plot, music, plot, character development, and did I mean the plot?

Yes, we heard you the first time; Pokemon actually has a somewhat compelling plot for once.

Took only 14 years for it to happen.

C_L

 

[Matt Laka]

Holy crap, you guys aren't going to believe what I found:
animation sprites

Yes, it's only Tsutajaa... but this is great.

I may try and get the animation to work...

C_L

Wow, they have the Trainer sprites too! Thank you!

 

[BCVM22]

Anyways I really wish they would pull an R/S and only make us wait 4 months instead.

You seem to have missed the fact that the nipped two months were on the front end, not the back end; we still got the game in March, the Japanese release just happened to be in November. Don't think of it as a shortened wait so much as it was a slightly later Japanese release, and certainly don't take it as any sort of reasonable expectation, given that six months has since been more than established as the standard.

How do you get to 8th gym?

By noticing that there's a help thread now and asking there.

http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=467057

 

[Isis-sama]

Yes let me play a game I can't for the life of me understand. Anyways I really wish they would pull an R/S and only make us wait 4 months instead. At least we'd be able t play be January. Ah a man can dream. Seriously very impressed gamefreak, the Pokemon, plot, music, plot, character development, and did I mean the plot?

The irony of it is, playing it in Japanese wouldn't be that hard. Yeah, you couldn't understand any of the story, but you can get the gist of it on fansites like this. You could still catch pokemon and battle, so what if you can't understand the names of pokemon and attacks? The problem would be paying for it. In order to play a Japanese game you need a Japanese console and that's expensive, especially if you only plan to use it for one game. Then if you plan to buy the American version too it costs even more. Much more than I would be willing to spend even if I wanted to import.

 

[Chimchar15]

You seem to have missed the fact that the nipped two months were on the front end, not the back end; we still got the game in March, the Japanese release just happened to be in November. Don't think of it as a shortened wait so much as it was a slightly later Japanese release, and certainly don't take it as any sort of reasonable expectation, given that six months has since been more than established as the standard.



By noticing that there's a help thread now and asking there.

http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=467057

Yeah I know that but I was just wishing. I guess I'll just occupy myself with Mortal Kombat 9 and Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs until then.

 

[Chris-kun]

The irony of it is, playing it in Japanese wouldn't be that hard. Yeah, you couldn't understand any of the story, but you can get the gist of it on fansites like this. You could still catch pokemon and battle, so what if you can't understand the names of pokemon and attacks? The problem would be paying for it. In order to play a Japanese game you need a Japanese console and that's expensive, especially if you only plan to use it for one game. Then if you plan to buy the American version too it costs even more. Much more than I would be willing to spend even if I wanted to import.

If you have a DS phat or DS Lite you don't need a Japanese console to play the game.

 

[Isis-sama]

Ah, really? I only have the original DS since I don't have a lot of money and it still works. That's new, though. Usually you can't play titles from Japan on an American console . . . wonder what made them change it?

 

[warnerbroman]

Blame Nintendo of America's loalization team.

Curse them for doing a thorough job. Curse them!

speaking of which is there a "game-room" in this game for the team to "edit"?

Also, no new pokeballs?

 

[Chris-kun]

Ah, really? I only have the original DS since I don't have a lot of money and it still works. That's new, though. Usually you can't play titles from Japan on an American console . . . wonder what made them change it?

The DS has always been region free. The DSi added region coding back in with DSi exclusive features (that B&W have) HGSS didn't have DSi features, so it was playable on all DS consoles over here.

 

[Cobalt_Latios]

Ah, really? I only have the original DS since I don't have a lot of money and it still works. That's new, though. Usually you can't play titles from Japan on an American console . . . wonder what made them change it?

It's called being "region-free". DS Lite is like that. They changed it with the DSi.

C_L

 

[Chimchar15]

Blame Nintendo of America's loalization team.

Curse them for doing a thorough job. Curse them!

I know I know. I'm just pumped for this gen. They actually do a fantastic job and I commend them for it. They have gotten better over the years and it shows like when they stopped renaming the badges. I really like the original badge names.

 

[R_N]

speaking of which is there a "game-room" in this game for the team to "edit"?

Game room...oh you mean game corner?
Hm.

I don't know? Did they just cut that out all the way?

 

[Manafi's Dream]

Off-topic: Hey everybody! I'm back

On-topic: http://pokebeach.com/#no-black-white-images-for-you
WPM may be taking this too far, but it's hilarious

I'm super siked about Hihidaruma's Encourage ability. At first, I was upset about it, but when I found its movepool, I was so excited! Only six months!

 

[warnerbroman]

Game room...oh you mean game corner?
Hm.

I don't know? Did they just cut that out all the way?

I don't know but since it base on an American city I think there may not be one or it in a Las Vegas themed city.