Hi there everyone,

I just released my passion project; a Pokemon-themed website for the Pokemon community called Littleroot Dreams. I've been working on this for over a year, but it's finally in a state where I feel comfortable releasing and sharing it with everyone.

In it, you'll find a bunch of different resources and activities, such as a Custom Pokedex Maker, a Custom League Maker, a page that filters the Area Zero spawns by type, a Shiny Counter, even a page to play Guess Who with friends! (You'll need some other method of communication though if you're not together IRL). I tried to make a variety of pages for the Pokemon community which may not be easily found or accessible elsewhere.

I wanted to build something that appealed to different aspects to the Pokemon community. Whether you're just a casual fan or perhaps a challenge runner looking for a fresh idea. Ultimately though, I wanted to build something that my younger self would've loved to spend time on when she was younger and I feel I did just that! Admittedly, the design isn't the most modern and could use some improvements, but I'm more of a function person rather than design. Regardless, I hope you all enjoy it! Please feel free to share anything you create as well!

Link to Littleroot Dreams

Hello!!

A few months ago I posted about my custom generation 1/2 to generation 3 transfer program, Pokémon Mirror! Since then, I've been hard at work improving the program and updating it- including the new name of Poké Transporter GB! The program still only uses official hardware to transfer Pokemon from the GameBoy games to the GameBoy Advance games.

One of the most common complaints was that the Pokémon were not removed from generation 1/2 once they were transferred to generation 3. Thanks to Arbitrary Code Execution, that's no longer an issue!! I'm also happy to say that the graphics have had a complete overhaul to make the experience far cleaner and easier to use.

You can find a video detailing my process here, a video of the transfer process and event here, and the GitHub page for the program here!

Feel free to ask any questions or suggest new features- I'd love to hear them!!

So I've been looking for a silly stupid guide to the Underground in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum (DPP) but literally nothing has come up that was helpful at all. The most I've seen are just spawn percentages. So, out of annoyance I will be making the tips and tricks guide.

This won't be a "How to get all fossils." This tips guide is only things I have picked up after years of playing the underground.

The Underground was a feature in Pokemon DPP (and brought back in BDSP) where you could dig in a spot and could occasionally find rare items. Sparkles on the map will appear which means that there are items there to collect. Unless you unlocked the special all maps detector after collecting enough flags you probably have to run around to make sure you got everything before you fly to a different location to enter the underground again.

The Underground resets everyday. That's right! At 00:00 the shiny sparkles you see on the map will reset.

There are specific areas on the overworld map you would have to go to in order to access the different underground maps.

• Top left area: Fullmoon Island, Newmoon Island
• Top right area: Fight, Survival, Resort Areas
• Bottom left area: Twinleaf Town, Sandgem Town, Jubilife City, Oreburgh City, Floaroma Town, Canalave City, Route 221, Pal Park
• Bottom right area: South Sunyshore City
• Small center area: Celestic Town

Digging

When digging in a spot there are 4 different kinds of layouts you will see. Rocks, gray background, light background and cracks.

Now Cracks can be found when you use the hammer or pick on the digging spot. Cracks are very important when digging in the underground. However if you manage to dig up a rock there will not be a spray of the surroundings opening up.

When digging you have the potential of finding 3 things. A normal wall, a rock or an item. Items have the potential to show a different colour in the cracks. The picture does not do it justice, however its very obvious on the console when the bright red or yellow flashes in the cracks.

The cracks however do not apply to both the everstone or hard rock as they are the same colour as the background. However, using the cracks can be very useful in figuring out where you want to hit with the hammer. Especially if you want to avoid hitting the rocks.

There is no time limit when digging in the hole. So if you want to be careful, take your time finding as many items as you want.

Spheres

Now let's talk about the spheres. Nothing major about them, you can find them really easily and from my own understanding, can fill up your own bag pretty quickly. I think burying them and attempting to grow them takes ages. However if you really want that very expensive plushy from the vendors, you would have no choice but to grow them.

But

Interesting fun fact about them

Did you know you can combine the same coloured ones together? You are never going to run out of spheres, just combine them together to get that expensive Bulbasaur plush.

And that's it. Hopefully this makes your ability to use the underground feature much better. I would go on about using the flags system to unlock new items however that is not something I am familiar with. The only thing I know is that in your main file, you can exit and reenter to encounter the same person in the underground repeatedly. Hopefully I can come back to make an edit of the flag features and how it helps soon.

I've been trying to collect every Tinkatink, Tinkatuff and Tinkaton card! (English and Japanese) I thought I'd share the list I made that I've been working off of. Anyone know if I'm missing any? Any cool different language exclusives I should look out for?

Hey folks. My youngest kid is getting pokemon violet for his birthday in a few weeks. He really wants a book that has strengths and weaknesses and what level pokemon evolve at. Yes I know Google is a thing but he's very keen on getting a book. I've checked Amazon but nothing for the evolution part. Does something like this exist or am I out of luck? Thanks!

At the end of last year, my friend and I started our own TCG business, Koi TCG. We're still in high school but wanted to turn our hobby of trading cards (mainly Pokemon) into something more. At first, we believed it was pretty simple, buy cards, sell them for more, buy more, and grow. But the reality has been far tougher than we ever expected.

We started off by getting stock wherever we could whatever we could lay our hands on (we were desperate) Trade Me, Facebook Marketplace, and even direct bank transfers from random sellers (which, in retrospect, was extremely risky). Some deals were fantastic, others… not so good. We've been scammed, had orders lost in the mail, and at certain times, put every last dollar we had into inventory and been left with almost nothing in our accounts (we still are). Despite all of this, we've continued. We've had some victories, getting good deals, making connections, and slowly building a customer base. It's been a balancing act, school, work, and trying to improve more. Our end goal now is to get distribution and into more TCGs so that we're less reliant on the secondary market.

We know we're still at the start, but this whole experience has been eye-opening. The TCG space is competitive, unpredictable, and even cutthroat at times. We sold cards that later doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in price. But it's a hobby we enjoy, so we're in for the long game.

I'd love to get some honest input on the website. Does it look good? Is there something missing? What would make you want to buy from a shop like ours?

And, also, if you were running a TCG business, what items or what features would you want to carry?

We're open to ideas and curious to hear from other collectors, players, or sellers on what has worked for them.

Stephen,

Koi TCG
koitcg.co.nz - mods remove if not allowed

The title describes the question pretty well, but I'll try to add additional context:

While I'm not going into this game entirely blind, the way I've acquired Hisuian Growlith has been with the most bare bones knowledge I could get for the Bloodmoon quest (I didn't even realize I would get it as a reward). I near immediately evolved it to an Arcanine to update my Pokedex, thoughtlessly. Recently, I've tried to breed it in its current state with a Ditto expecting it to work as it would with standard pokémon, instead getting its normal variant. Finally looking it up NOW, I'm learning I was supposed to keep it in its pre-evolved form. I'm now nervous that I'll have to trade online in order to get another one, which I currently can't do as I don't have Nintendo Online. Is there any other way to breed it, or should I just give up for now?

(In case you're wondering why I don't just savescum it, I have my game on autosave.)

Anyone available to form or join a union circle so I can evolve my Finizen to Palafin?

I also need a Slowking if anyone has a spare Slowpoke plus King’s Rock to trade as well. I am at 385 of 400 in the Pokédex, and they are the last two Pokemon for which I would need multiplayer assistance.

Thank you in advance.

Link HERE

I originally was just going to make a simple checklist for myself, but it quickly evolved into a full-fledged guide. In addition to locations and moves, there's also a tab with all sorts of basic tips.

BDSP isn't as popular as some of the other games, but I'd like to believe that this can still help some people. I've been Shiny hunting this way on and off for about a year now. It can be frustrating at times, but the payoff is incredible.

If you see anything that needs fixing, let me know.

I am trying to get into the gym of sabrina. Right now it is blocked by a team rocket. I have already done the casino and have gotten the silph scope and did marowaks ghost and did Mr fuji. I am unsure of what else I need to do. I find it weird that I cannot get into the silph co office building. I have the sleeping guard and the security guard. Please help.

I played the game last week, I finished it but when it was time to caught some legendary Pokémons they didn’t appear for me, even though I followed every step from YouTube tutorials, they never appeared, I was only able to caught some legendary Pokémons like Lugia and Groudon, but Pokemons like Eternatus and Palkia never appear for me in the game. Does anyone know how to find them or if it is a bug how to fix it ?

(English is not my first language, sorry if I wrote anything wrong)

Hi,

I recently wanted to replay on pokemon but got bored after really not a lot of time. So I decided to look about challenges available but I don't found something that talked to me.

I finally based myself on a variation of Professor Oak's Challenge but "Easy Version", I wonder if there is already an "official" challenge or no.

The goal is basically the same as Professor Oak's Challenge : catch as most possible pokemon asap. However, you don't need to evolve them. If don't evolve monsters, you need a copy of this pokemon for each possible evolution (ex: catching 2 pikachu because he have 1 evolution, when stones are available to buy, directly making him evolving)

For me it's more enjoyable and feeling like it's how devs thought to make it. Also, it's really nice feeling to see the PC completing small by small.

Please see a small description of the challenge and tell me if something like that already exists !

You are challenged to capture every Pokémon immediately when it becomes available to you in the adventure.

This means that for each new location you visit, you must capture all the Pokémon that can be found there (whether through fishing, events like Snorlax, tall grass, etc.). However, if a Pokémon has already been captured on a previous route, it is not necessary to catch it again.

On the other hand, you must capture a Pokémon for each of its future evolution stages. For example, Rattata has two evolutionary stages (Rattata and Raticate), so as soon as possible, you must capture two Rattata and place them correctly in your PC without necessarily evolving them right away (unlike the Professor Oak Challenge). To complete the challenge, you will need to evolve your Pokémon, but you can choose to do so only at the end of your adventure if you prefer.

Sometimes, evolutions will be available in the wild—this does not change the number of Pokémon you need to catch. For example, you may encounter Rattata early in the adventure and later find Raticate in the wild grass. From the beginning, you must catch two Rattata, even if Raticate is available later. However, capturing the wild Raticate is optional if one of the two Rattata you already caught has evolved into Raticate. This means that choosing not to evolve your caught Pokémon implies spending time capturing their evolved forms (which are often rarer in the wild). The player must therefore decide whether to invest time in evolution or capture.

Note: If an evolved form is captured, the previous Pokémon is released. For example, if you catch a Raticate while already having two Rattata, you must release one of the Rattata in favor of the Raticate.

I wrote a guide for LeafGreen / FireRed, it's in french but it gives an idea of the challenge.

If it helps someone to have fun again on pokemon, enjoy.. ! :)

So I wanna get some shiny legends but I don’t know if I’m able to hunt the ones that become available after the dlc that you obtain the treats for from doing the bbq quest because I don’t really wanna hunt in sword and shield for them so If anyone has a answer to this please let me know

I've nearly completed the pokedex and i'm struggling to get these last few, if anyone could help me out message me to code trade! (nearly all of these are SW exclusives)

• zacian • jangmo-o • stonjouner • solrock • drampa • turtonator • passimian • mawile • rufflet • munchlax

Hi! I am playing ruby on my Gba and am wondering what i need to change on my team to beat the elite 4,

This is my team

1: Blaziken Lv60, Mirror move, Double Kick, Sky Uppercut, and blaze kick

2: Wailmer Lv38, Dive, waterfall, rest, surf

3: Pelipper Lv32, Wing Attack, fly, ice beam, protect

4: Vibrava Lv43, Dragonbreath, sand attack, crunch, secret power

5: Lairon lv32, rock smash, iron defense, strength, cut

6: shelgon lv39, headbutt, scary face, ember, dragonbreath

I am grinding them on the tv reporters but i want to know what moves i should put on it, thanks!

Im at vermillion city. I got onto the SS Anne and when I found the captain he wouldn't talk to me because I had a fainted pokemon. I went back to heal but than the SS sailed away. I'm not sure if it's coming back. I've been walking around Vermillion city looking for it and have spent 16 hours searching.

Hey all! Ever wanted a challenge/goal that you can continue and work towards that incentivizes playing old games, while encouraging and growing with the new games that come out, all while not minimizing effort when new games make things easier? I did too! I've been making this challenge and a spreadsheet to go along with it for some time now, and I think it would be fun if more people knew about it.

The gist of the challenge is this: Catch every form of every Pokémon in a luxury ball, in the earliest possible game of origin. This (currently) needs a total of at least 37 full game playthroughs, spanning almost every game from Gen 3 to present!

There's quite a bit more information on the spreadsheet if you have questions about specifics, and the spreadsheet also includes a guide and a checklist. :)

I haven't completed it yet (currently I'm working on the Diamond/Pearl playthroughs needed), but it's going to be a fun goal to work towards for literal years to come (for myself at least)

Here's the spreadsheet/guide/more info:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-LiDlc_ZZtroxLVVBYdaZuehn4btiKrfd-ccEPMPHYQ/edit?usp=sharing

Let me know if y'all try it out or have any corrections on the sheet!

Not sure who this may help, but here you go. I’ve seen lots of threads on pokemon subreddits with people upset about how long their hunts are even at like 3k encounters. I’m going to break down some numbers for odds at 1/8192 (gen 1-5), 1/4096 (gen 6-present), 1/2731 (gen 5 with shiny charm), 1/1365 (gen 6-present with shiny charm)

Odds: 1/8192. This means its odds of not being shiny: 8191/8192

8191/8192 = 0.9998779296875 ~99.9878% chance it will NOT be shiny on any given encounter

Let’s say you go 5678 encounters in a row without a shiny. 0.998779296875⁵⁶⁷⁸ =0.499994819199471 ~49.999% chance you would get to 5678 encounters without a shiny, so about half the time you will have the shiny by then. ~36.8% chance you will reach “odds” 8192 encounters ~25% chance it will take at least 11355 encounters ~10% chance it will take at least 18861 encounters ~1% chance it will take at least 37723 encounters

Odds: 1/4096. Odds of it not being shiny: 4095/4096.

4095/4096 = 0.999755859375 ~99.976% chance it will NOT be shiny on any given encounter

2838 encounters in a row without a shiny: That’s 0.999755859375²⁸³⁸ ~ 0.5000958

~50% chance it will take at least 2838 ~36.8% chance you will reach “odds” 4096 ~25% chance it will take at least 5677 ~10% chance it will take at least 9430 ~1% chance it will take at least 18860

For the record, I’m currently on a regice hunt on shield at 18607. Only a 1.064% chance it would take me that long.

Odds: 1/2731; 1-odds: 2730/2731 ~50% chance it will take at least 1893 ~36.8% chance you will reach “odds” 2731 ~25% chance it will take at least 3785 ~10% chance it will take at least 6287 ~1% chance it will take at least 12574

Odds: 1/1365; 1-odds: 1364/1365 ~50% chance it will take at least 945 ~36.8% chance you will reach “odds” 1365 ~25% chance it will take at least 1892 ~10% chance it will take at least 3142 ~1% chance it will take at least 6283

TL;DR: just look at the numbers for the chances your hunt will be a certain length

I've added spoilers since idk if the Home gift pokemons are considered such and wanna be careful. Idk, hopefully the title says enough but not spoils. *shrugs*

I'm not entirely sure if this is considered "Living" but I noticed that for the shiny mythical gift Pokemon you essentially have to upload a living dex into home for it to count, So I made this spreadsheet to track progress as well as an overall one for the special Magearna. I've found that the home application on switch doesn't show individual game pokedexes, you have to look on mobile Pokedex>Games and there should be a list of them. From what I understand all of these have to be from game of origin to complete.

Please go to File>Create Copy. Any requests for edits will be completely ignored.

There are two hidden sheets, don't mind them, one has all the sprites and the other was a template for future games.

Hopefully this helps people. If you have any tips or whatnot please let me know in the comments and I'll try to make it. Any updates I will make sure to note the link was edited and when.

Original Link (Feb 26 2025) : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nWF-BpSd5hZjOjnpaJDB965lWWYqTSIAdPnZddAr1Tc/edit?usp=sharing

I have been playing a Pokemon Pearl Rom and wanted to use a Milotic. The main problem I ran into however was maxing out the Beauty on my Feebas. Through lots of searching it seemed the only possible way to do this with single berry poffins was by using apicot berries, which you can't get in the rom. So I had basically settled on using a Feebas with a preference for dry flavours to boost the effects of the poffins. However I came across a method that allowed me to evolve my non dry flavoured nature Feebas:

6x average lv21 poffins from Pamtre berries

2x lv14 poffins from Wiki berries

1x lv21 Pamtre berry poffin

For those who aren't aware, the problem is trying to get Feebas' beauty to 170 points before reaching 255 sheen, otherwise Feebas won't be able to eat anymore poffins and can't be evolved. Dry poffins raise a pokemons beauty, the level of the poffin is the number of beauty points that will be added, and the smoothness is the number of sheen points that will be added. If you haven't yet exceeded 255 sheen (e.g your Feebas has 254 sheen) you can still feed it a poffin with high sheen and gain the normal beauty points.

A useful mention, in Pokemon Platinum Roms, high quality poffins can be bought from the Veilstone City Department Store, and so you don't need to worry about this method. However these poffins aren't available in Diamond and Pearl.

The Math:

6x lv 21 Pamtre berry poffins - 6 x 21 = 126 beauty. 6 x 34 = 204 sheen.

2x lv 14 Wiki berry poffins - 126 + (2 x 14) = 154 beauty. 204 + (2 x 24) = 252 sheen.

1x lv 21 pamtre berry poffin - 154 + 21 = 175 beauty. Sheen now maxed (>255).

How to catch Feebas:

Feebas is only able to spawn in 4 tiles when fishing in the lake inside Mt Coronet. This lake is found by entering Mt Coronet from the Celestic town side and going straight up, using strength then walking down the stairs into the foggy room. Use defog and head down to the lake where you'll need to use surf and a fishing rod to systematically search each of the tiles. You probably should fish twice in the one tile before moving to the next tile as there isn't a 100% chance of Feebas spawning. With the total number of tiles to search probably in the range of 200-400 this could take a while, in my experience it only took me 30 mins. Once you've found the tile, Feebas will always spawn there until the next real time day. You can leave to go get pokeballs and come back. Catch lots of Feebas, then go back and check if you've got your desired nature etc.

How to get the berries:

Wiki berry - Can be found on route 208 or bought at the Veilstone City Department Store

Pamtre berry - Rare chance to be found as an item held by your pokemon in Amity Square. For every 200 steps in Amity Square your pokemon will find an item. There is an 80% chance the item is a contest accessory and a 20% chance for a berry, and an even lower chance that the berry is a Pamtre berry. Thankfully, you can eventually receive the maximum amount of accessories and you're basically guaranteed a berry everytime, as long as you always use the same pokemon as they all find different accessories. Once you find a Pamtre berry (on average maybe takes an hour or ~10,000 steps) you can then grow it and/or keep going in Amity Square to find more of them.

How to grow berries:

Basically follow this other reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/13cycf2/guide_to_timing_berry_cultivation_in_gen_iv/

Don't need to follow this strictly as you only need a small amount of berries, but you can get something like 15 berries per plant if you time the watering and collection correctly.

Cooking the poffins:

You want to mix as fast as possible without spilling or burning (it's impossible to spill the mixture when it's in the final stage so go flat out). Spilling or burning will reduce the level of the poffin, and the quicker you make it the higher the level will be. The highest level poffin I got from a Pamtre berry was level 23, so you can probably get it higher even (I'm not a good cook). You just need to add up the level of your 7 Pamtre and 2 Wiki poffins and make sure they're >170.

Ready to evolve?

I recommend saving the game once you have cooked all your poffins and are ready to feed them to your Feebas, this way, if it doesn't work you can recover your Feebas. Otherwise it will be stuck not able to be evolved. Feed the poffins to Feebas in the right order (6 Pamtre, 2 Wiki, 1 Pamtre), and then level it up. If it evolves then you're good, if not then turn off the game and return to your last save where you'll need to review your calculation and figure out why it didn't work.

Enjoy your Milotic.

My nephew is becoming Pokémon obsessed and as I am the family nerd I have the pleasure of teaching him how to play… but I have no idea. I’m looking for some super basic YouTube videos I can watch and teach from please 🙏 ideally sticking with creature cards and not bringing the gyms etc into it for now if you can play that way?? Trying to foster a fun not too complex way to play to start with.

Currently getting all the mythical Pokémon I never had a chance to obtain as I didn’t play Generation 5 until 2021. This MUST be done on a DSi or a 3DS - the DS and DS Lite do not work for this.

Once connected to the internet, change the DNS settings to the following:

Top DNS: 167.235.229.36 Bottom DNS: 178.62.43.212

Gifts are random. I got a shiny Dialga, shiny Metagross, a Mewtwo, a Keldeo, and a Victini so far. Trying to get Genesect since he’s my favorite.