Firemander

One of the complaints that I personally have with this game is that the in-battle graphics are still pretty shoddy- at least, compared to what they COULD be doing with it. I mean, at the very least, they could give each monster a short /attack/ animation or a fainting animation (pie in the sky, I know); more realistically, they could improve the battle-entrance animations. The basics of the core battle system couldn't take up THAT much processing power, if they've been doing it since the old GB days.For example, look up Super Robot Wars J sometime for the GBA. While it certainly has less characters/units than Pokemon, each unit has at least three to five (or more) unique attack animations- Domon in the God Gundam has who-knows-HOW-many, and even someone like Sousuke in the Arbalest, with most of his attacks being 'shoot you dead', has a lot. That doesn't even include pilot cut-in portraits.

Because the one that I bought was used, and actually at a fairly good price.Also, Mario Kart and the Mario platformers, backward compatability with GBA games, no region-encoded lockdown, and the eventual promise of a certain monster catching game sealed the deal.

See, I dunno a damned thing about how converting the game works.. I'd like to, but I don't.All I imagine is that they just have to edit it to have english words o__oUnless there's a chance that the Japanese version isn't exactly complete...I guess I'd have to see how the coding and such work to really understand.

I don't know how the coding works myself; I'm just making a guess here. Remember, Ruby/Sapphire's fonts were just all sorts of ugly until they managed to replace them in Emerald, so I imagine it's not quite that simple to do.

I hooked myself a black GBA SP. Before that, when I borrowed a GBA from my friend (who... never actually came to get it back, come to think of it), it was purple.

Tails. I have fond memories of abducting my teammate in Sonic 2 and trying to throw the both of us off cliffs, or the poor fox getting too tired and falling to his demise- only to pop back up next to Sonic in a matter of seconds.Good times.