Global Link, Black and White, Movies, and more![permalink]
Posted by Jigglypuff on 5 Oct 2010 at 11:54am PDT Updated on 5 Oct 2010 at 9:11pm PDT
Time to catch up on news and other developments.
First off, Black and White are still going strong in Japan, having nearly 3.4 million copies since their release. The games are, by all accounts, a huge success.
Next up, a 14th Pokemon movie has been announced. It's the first of what will likely be many done in the new Best Wishes! series. You can see the official trailer here.
The last bit of major news is that the once-broken Global Link is now up and running again, but only for users of Black and White, and only for an hour a day per unique game. This is to help with the massive server load that originally brought the website down when it launched.
As for us, Frost has been exceptionally busy. He's filled in translations (which may change with official translations pending) for Abilities, as well as descriptions of what they actually do. I've also restyled the Dream World abilities to stand out a little more, and sort differently for readability. See for yourself.
Now that some testing has been performed on existing and new attacks in Black and White, some information in the TechDex has been updated. One important change is that Selfdestruct and Explosion no longer halve the target's Defense when used, meaning that the moves are essentially half as powerful as in previous games. Tail Glow also boosts Special Attack by THREE stages now, which is good news for Manaphy and Volbeat.
Our biggest development, however, is that in addition to our video guides to Black and White, Frost has also begun writing up an in-depth Walkthrough for the games.
I agree with "mudkip eez awsome," the walkthrough is pretty awesome right now. I'm glad y'all are doing it too, since most people are having to wait until spring to actually PLAY the games. It'll give us more to look forward to. ;) Keep up the good work!
@Frost it said tat its the 14th movie up there and the 11th is the rise of darkrai 12th is gritina and the sky warrior and the 13th one is the arceus one
The 10th movie stars Darkrai. The 11th movie stars Shaymin. The 12th movie stars Arceus. The 13th movie stars Zoroark and is coming to the US sometime this winter. The 14th movie is coming to Japan next summer, which is what Jiggz just reported.
no its: 1: mewtwo strikes back 2: pokemon the movie 2000 3: pokemon 4ever 4: mewtwo returns 5: the one with celebi being capture by the dark ball 6: the one with latias and latios 7: Jirachi wish maker 8: Destiny Deoxys 9: Lacario and the mystery of mew 10: pokemon ranger and the temple of the sea
11: the rise od darkrai 12: gritina and the sky warrior 13: arceus and the jewel of life 14: phantom champion ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I stopped watching the movies around latias's and latios's movie. Well @mudkip eez awsome the walkthrough is great but i'm gonna end up reading it, and im trying to not read it so this game is an utter surprise, so i must resist!!
Sheesh, took me three tries to properly log in. ><
Anywho, can owners of HeartGold and SoulSilver still trade with friends over Wi-Fi? I would think that the Wi-Fi and Global Link are two separate things, but I know next to nothing about technology.
Thank you Frost for working on the walkthrough because I don't feel like waiting for surprises in spring. As for tail glow, Volbeat might be making a name for himself now. :) Haven't realy cared for him since Gen. III
well, since Volbeat is the only pokemon able to baton pass the move tail glow (other than smeargle) he can now baton pass a whole six stage sp attack boost after only two turns of preparation. This could be very potent in lower tier battles where it doesn't get one-shotted by nearly everything.
mudkip eez awsome(12 Oct 2010 at 11:43am PDT)Reply
you have a point but it as its SELF sux. like without the tail glow. it does seam more useful now i can admit that. but i still dont like it...-_- i can use manaphy as a tail glower... any one want a victreebel over gts?
ya but it still pretty much is horrible... the rest of its moves and its stats are not that good. a little lower than decent for stats but i guess an ok move set......
oh, yeah. I'll agree that his stats are still terrible, and he can't really use the sp attack boosts for himself, I just think more people might use him for baton passing in UU now.
but that would be like 4 whoile turns before that (baton passing) if u want the max and volbeat will definetly be dead by then even to a weedle. Because he sucks!!!!! So does illumise!!!!! weedle is better then them.
I mean yeah, Volbeat doesnt have the best stats in the world, but seriously, 3 STAGES. Come on, that accounts for something, even for someone crappy... (like Magikarp.)
mudkip eez awsome(13 Oct 2010 at 11:49am PDT)Reply
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i'd honestly be more impressed if you had managed to spell "suck" right.
like everyone else, i'm impressed with the amount of content this site manages to get up all the time. kudos to all the admins and people who made it possible!!