About one or two years ago I decided to see what the fuss was about and, on a whim, bought Pokemon LeafGreen. That game consumed my soul for months on end. I even got my girlfriend to buy FireRed, thereby ensuring that the only person who could save me... could not. We were caught.

Now I'm looking at Pokemon Pearl and whimpering to myself in a corner. Of course I want it, but part of me knows it's not safe.

Reply

got mine preordered. Pokemon Pearl will be in my DS come sunday morning. my roommate is already tired of hearing me talk about it lol.

Reply

I got Diamond preordered, this is really the highlight of my first year of college!

Reply

As an FYI, all the browsers I've got (in my case, Opera 9.2, Firefox 2.0.0.3, and IE7, all in WinXP) put out garbage where the accented e is supposed to be in the title. You may want to get that fixed (and it fixes itself if you manually switch the encoding to UTF-8 over here).
Back on topic, I haven't played a PKMN game since Blue on the GBC, so I bought LeafGreen last week to get back in the mood, and I've got Diamond pre-ordered via Amazon, and bought a Turtle Beach Earforce D2 headset for the occasion

Reply

anybody know if there will be pokemon trading over nintendo wifi, or is it only over local wifi?

Reply

I was planning to have my brother and I trade each other on DP but he's looking into STF before college and won't focus on games. My sister is also discouraging me from games too. I might get both versions and trade whenever I have access to my brother's DS.

Reply

Not gonna be getting either game. I burned myself out on Pokemon years ago.

Reply

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is available. You can trade and battle over it as well as putting out an option. Like saying you have a butterfree and looking for raticate etc. You can also simply uplink GBA pokemon through the second slot.

Reply

I thought that Battles would require a friend code but that trading would be free

Although, if battles are online, may i ask what the point of Pokemon Battle Revolution will be?

Reply

Putting out that option or wanted poster or auction or something doesn't need friend codes. I believe there is random battles available I'm not sure. VOIP before during and after battle requires friend codes.

Reply

El Wiki is a bit vague on if battles require FCs (link below for analysis pleasures), but trading is indeed either local or online. The online trading consists of putting up "Lv20 BULBASAUR FOR TRADE, WILL TAKE Lv20 CHARMANDER OR BETTER", and other people responding, and you don't have to be present to finish the trade. I'm assuming you'll be able to make more traditional trades with people on your friend list. I'm curious why you can't trade for items or outright sell them.
VoIP most definitley req's friend codes. And the secret underground lairs sound intresting (never played Ru/Sa), sorta giving the game an AC-like twist.
And here's the link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokemon_Diamond

Reply

@9 Mr Khan:
The point is so you can do those same battles in 3-D on a huge television, just like Pokemon Stadium before it. I don't really give a Ratatta's hind on if they're 3D, but I guess some people do

Reply

Alas, I havent played a Pokemon game since the Red/Blue and Yellow games of the original GB. Those were the days.

However, these two new ones have my girlfriend in a whirl. She can't stop talking about it. Therefor I decided to preorder a Pearl for her and a Diamond for myself so we have something we can play together.

Needless to say she doesn't like my FPS games to much, heh.

Reply

I have both Pearl and Diamond on pre-order, but may only be able to pick up one copy when they ship. I wanted both stylus though.

Reply

you know i have been wondering, since i know that you will be able to battle with people over wi-fi will you be able to do tag battles? like two on two? does anyone know the answer to this?

Reply

As I sit here playing with my Dialga stylus...

I will be standing outside Target on Sunday morning. I've been occupying the time by futzing around with my sapphire version that's been sitting in my GBM on my night stand for honest-to-god a year and a half. I've been making all necessary preparation with that: Breeding my Swampart to make and army of Mupkips (you know what I'm talking about...anonymous), Having all the pokemon I'm gonna transfer hold one of my gamesharked master balls....you know, taking care of the essentials

I actually found my silver the other day, but the backup battery died and my save got erased. My blue version I'm pretty sure got destroyed several years ago, and I have no idea where my yellow version is. I am in need of a fresh start with diamond.

Reply

I've got Diamond on preorder. Unfortunately, you can only battle one person at a time. If you want a little more info about Diamond and Pearl, try checking Serebii ( http://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/wifi.shtml ). They usually have the best info about Pokemon games.

Reply

Preordered both. One is for a co-worker. At work we have 6 copies preordered with the youngest gamer being 28.

Reply

Of course I'm getting it! I'm not so sure about the differences between diamond and pearl, though. I ordered Diamond because the gu y at Gamestop said "order the one you think looks cooler."
Anyone know?

Reply

so i herd jay lieks mudkips olol

I've got both games on pre-order. Going out tomorrow to see if either store I went to (Toys 'R Us and EBGames) are breaking the street date. Otherwise, I will disappear for the weekend.

And I'm also working on a move list (what each one does, not a Pokedex... the Pokedex for these games is 368 pages from Prima, for chrissake). Look for it around the release date.

Reply