[Bug] NPC Ethan/Lyra's (HGSS) Pokemon is random for unknown reason.
HappyFaceSpider opened this issue · 8 comments
Describe the bug
In HGSS the 'Best Friend' character (i.e. Ethan if player is girl and Lyra if player is boy) should have a Marill. However after I used the Randomizer Ethan/Lyra's pokemon got randomized too (Umbreon in one attempt, Grotle in another). However the only setting i picked in the Randomizer was "Change Impossible Evolutions", so I don't think any NPC's pokemon should've been randomised. Is it a bug or did I simply do something wrong? Or is this normal? I'm worried that it means other NPC's pokemon also got randomised.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Load Pokemon SoulSilver ROM into Randomizer
- Check "Change Impossible Evolutions"
- Save new ROM
- Launch new ROM
Expected behavior
I expected Ethan/Lyra to still have Marill and only trade evolutions of some pokemon to be changed.
Screenshots
I'm attaching log from the Randomizer.
Pokemon - SoulSilver MYMOD.nds.log
System (please complete the following information):
- Operating System: Windows 11 (but I tried it also on Archlinux and same thing happened)
- Java Version: Version 8 Update 411 64-bit
- Randomizer Version: v4.6.0.
Additional context
So, this is my first time using the randomizer, so it's possible I simply f*cked something up.
I encountered this same issue - similarly, I only checked "Change Impossible Evolutions".
Just wanted to add that I encountered the same issue with the same settings. I tried to adjust the settings a second time but got the same thing: first time was Blastoise, second was Girafarig. Did you notice any other problems with the playthrough or should I just run it as is?
this isn't a bug, the randomizer deliberately always randomizes ethan/lyra's pokemon to indicate that the rom has gone through the randomizer program
In other games like FRLG it's the pokemon the professor throws out in the intro of the game that always gets randomized for this purpose, i'm not sure why they decided to use ethan/lyra's pokemon here for HGSS instead of the pokemon oak throws out in the intro but it's a deliberate choice rather than a bug
Is it possible to remove this particular randomizing? Imo it would be better to have prof. Oak show us a different Pokemon, because it is kinda weird to see Lyra or Ethan walking around with a Milotic or a Slaking at the start and other encounters
Would like to second the request to remove this. Seems like an odd choice to force Ethan's / Lyra's Pokémon being randomised on people.
I've finally found people who've encountered the same thing! I'd also like to voice support for changing this. It could have easily been done to the Marill that Oak shows in the intro. An odd choice, I agree.
Yeah I agree this is an odd choice, but that might be cause I lack a reason for this behavior. Granted I only use this program for non-randomizer related patches. Mainly to patch out the impossible evolutions. If this isn't the right patcher to use for that then I'd like to know where I can get a patch and patcher for dealing with the trading evolutions. Only workaround I've found is to use an older version of this randomizer program
Yeah I agree this is an odd choice, but that might be cause I lack a reason for this behavior. Granted I only use this program for non-randomizer related patches. Mainly to patch out the impossible evolutions. If this isn't the right patcher to use for that then I'd like to know where I can get a patch and patcher for dealing with the trading evolutions. Only workaround I've found is to use an older version of this randomizer program
I ended up using the DSPRE, which has a fairly intuitive evolution editor built in now. Making all the evolution changes manually is a bit tedious, but it only has to be done once