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Rangi42 / redstarbluestar

An upgrade to Pokémon Red/Blue. Ports graphics and features from the Space World 1997 Gold/Silver prototype.
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Fix Caterpie male gender rate #17

Closed JulianoFdeS closed 11 months ago

JulianoFdeS commented 11 months ago

Hi, before start, let me say how I do play Pokémon games, usually, I like to catch every Pokémon in an area before going to other area, while I do this, I like to fight every wild Pokémon to grind.

My problem is in Viridian Forest, I want to catch a MALE caterpie, and I can't find a male at all. It takes around 10-20 minutes to find one, and for some reason, it's ALWAYS female. I have almost 5 hours of playtime, my charmander, nidoran m, rattata, pikachu and beedril are all level 15 because I keep defeating every wild mon that isn't a male caterpie and I feel I'm losing my time playing it. I found like 10 female caterpie, than I lost my patience, I turned ON fast-forwarding and I decided to run battles just to test if I can find a male caterpie faster and NO, it takes 2-5 minutes to find another caterpie and again - female only.

I never had this problem to catch one Pokémon of one specific gender. Even in FRLG that some genders are 75% more common for a few species takes less time to me to find.

I'm really frustrated, and why it's more common pikachu than caterpie? Isn't supposed to be the opposite? I find around 4 pikachu for each caterpie encounter, this doesn't make any sense to me.

I really want to replay this hack (I played it when it gots first release, 2018 IIRC) but this gender rate must be fixed.

Rangi42 commented 11 months ago

Looks like you just haven't been lucky yet. This was the 10th encounter (after some female Caterpie, and Metapod of both genders): image