Hi.
Sounds interesting.
I have always been confused when it comes to the pokemon world. I have no experiences with pokemon at all. Do I have to know anything about the world before I give it a try? Is there any storyline, story based missions or quests to complete?
Sounds really awesome that a game you were playing when being sighted now is accessible with screenreaders! I really understand why you're excited!

Familiarity with battle mechanics will probably be of great help for the game. I'll probably give this a whirl as I'm currently out of things to play.

hi

@slj

what the game makes interesting for me is the huge world. i can't see how it looks like ... but it is a great world and on every map you can encounter other pokemon. like on route 1 ... you can encounter a ekans (a poiseness pokemon) and on route 4 you can encounter bronzor and no ekans anymore for example. i have the feeling if i am walking through the pokemonworld myself and i am encountering the pokemon. i also get the feeling i am playing a pokemon game of the old style. not on gameboy, but that also can depent that i have played this game before.

also what get me hooked is taht it is very accessible and it is a link with who i was in another part of my life.
but that's dramatic and that isn't the goal of this message.

what i find interesting in this game is the huge world and the fact that all pokemon of the gameboy and ds games are available. there are at least 6000 players online at one time. that's more fun than a pokemon gamewere just 15 to 25 players are online at a time.

i have to admit that my knowledge of pokemon hasn't increased anymore. the last pokemon i saw were the pokemon of the hoenn region. and after that there came at least 2 new regions available. so the newest pokemon i can't recognize.
but thet's just the fun of exploring and trying

i don't like exploring, but this is a game were i do want to explore and getting that pokemon feeling no other game like tpmrpg can give me. because on pokemoncrater you've to think before you attack, because the types i mansioned before.
when a psychic pokemon does a psychic attack to a dark pokemon it will be not effective and it will deal very less points of damage. that's exact when a fire pokemon does fire attacks to a water type.

probably lot of rubbish, but hopefully you can see my point.

greetz mike

At SLJ: What you need to know about Pokémon...

In a horrible, post-apocalyptic future, children roam through the wilderness, unsupervised by adults.  Their only protection from the vicious monsters that lurk in the tall grass?  Monsters that they themselves have captured and, through sheer assertion of will and dominance, have trained to do their bidding.  One can even make a living by pitting these captive creatures against one another in ferocious battles - battles so brutal, in fact, that hardly any town is without a hospital specifically for treating the creatures' wounds...yet in this dark, unhappy world, you'd be hard-pressed to find a hospital for humans.  Bicycles seem to be the major form of transportation besides walking; we can assume that most electricity and combustion-driven machinery was lost in whatever cataclysmic event led the world to this strange state.  There is no recognizable form of government; the most prominent figures in each city seem to be those who have demonstrated that their captive monsters are the most capable fighters.  By defeating these gym leaders, the wandering, unattended children can win great wealth and prestige, which they likely fetter away on more items to train their beasts, rather than investing it in a college education, or sending it home to mom in Pallet Town.

Seriously, though, that's kind of what it's like, if you really think about it.  Don't let me scare you off, though.  Pokémon isn't notorious for being story-driven.  Basically, collect and train a team of Pokémon that you can win battles with, and more importantly, that you think are cool.  It's great fun.  I may have to check this game out sometime.

Lol, thanks Joseph, Bladestorm and Grryf. Nice descriptions.

I suppose I could've added this in the post before this,but jaws is beeing moody today,so bare with the double posts,fokes.
The reason I can't play those games is because I don't have a what do you call those? gameboy advance or some such device,I would get it,but to buy  a device only for a couple of games,doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I have tryed emulators though, and I don't think those are playable at all. Of course I'd be happy to be proven wrong in this case.
I have heard that pokemons have different crys in those games, wonder if I would find something like that on youtube....
Grryfindore.

So I was finally able to access that site,through its IP. the ip works just fine,but the url http://www.pokemonbattlearena.net just gives the usual internet explorer cannot display the webpage. bla bla bla.
Well as I have been playing,I have noticed that a few of the attacks don't work as they are  supposed to. I.E confusion does confuse the enemy,but withdraw doesn't seem to harden us or protuct our pokes from the enemy attacks. I guess because there isn't any defence stat or such implemented. I have no idea if it will be in the future,though.
I ment the emulators. the games as you pointed out can be played,but the emulators I have tryed were farely ahem,shitty sounding to put it lightly.
I used a gameboy emulator for the pc,and some roms of the pokemon games. downloaded for a friend actually,but we gave them a go on my pc just as a test,and I didn't notice any pokemon crys.suppose I had a different rom? But if those are playable,I would indeed like to give them a spin. I am not a pationt guy,but I shall be if its pokemon on the line.
Just makeing sure that we both are talking about the same thing here.=d.
Grryf.

hi

@grryf

it is true that you can't use the potions ... not yet i hope. they don't appear at the item part of the battle screen but they do appear in your inventory and you can't use them still. that's very anoying.
i also wasted 1.500 on them and that also was anoying due to the money i had at the start of my game. but now i have near 60k

@bladestorm

i think i'll try if i also can beat half of the game. can you please tell us more? along with handy tips and the websites you used to get through the game?

i have a Nintendo ds along with pokemon ruby, but on that game i don't want to start over, because i have three pokemon lvl 100 and two of the three regi's. the thirth one i gave to my brother ages ago.
when i play i beat the league and i try to catch pokemon and train them a bit. is quite fun.

hope to hear from you soon.

greetz mike