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Some Pokemon out of access due to non availability of RTC on some devices.

Open abhy-kumar opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Title. Some consoles and emulators do not feature a RTC chip which causes the players on them to be locked out of day/night pokemon. Is it possible to have a time toggle (like checking the clock in your room to reset it, etc.) to make these pokemon available to these players too?

abhy-kumar avatar Dec 27 '20 13:12 abhy-kumar

Might consider making a "fake RTC" version available for download as a separate ROM, so people are aware they're explicitly opting into having to set the clock every time the game starts. I feel if I make it an option in the base game, people would abuse it or use it instead of just fixing their emulator. Not sure how I'm going to tackle this.

Sierraffinity avatar Dec 28 '20 00:12 Sierraffinity

An alternative to real RTC could be advancing time with VBlank ticks.

huderlem avatar Dec 28 '20 00:12 huderlem

Might consider making a "fake RTC" version available for download as a separate ROM, so people are aware they're explicitly opting into having to set the clock every time the game starts. I feel if I make it an option in the base game, people would abuse it or use it instead of just fixing their emulator. Not sure how I'm going to tackle this.

I do think this is the best approach for the reasons you mentioned.

abhy-kumar avatar Dec 28 '20 01:12 abhy-kumar

An alternative to real RTC could be advancing time with VBlank ticks.

Yeah, that would be what I do, my concern is more about how to present the option to players.

Sierraffinity avatar Dec 28 '20 01:12 Sierraffinity