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As one of those veterans (or 5 year olds, depending on who you ask), Dexit is possibly the most promising thing I've heard about these so far. I buy the "high quality animations" argument, even if it's nothing else.
my money's on this tbh
Still with the animation they DO have they can easily work in all the pokemon…
Wait a second…
This is all a farce for adding the rest later in payed DLC!
Still with the animation they DO have they can easily work in all the pokemon…
Wait a second…
This is all a farce for adding the rest later in payed DLC!
The examples in that video certainly aren't anything special, and I agree that Orre and Stadium's were a joy to see. Having that for over 800 creatures, though? It'd be hard to imagine not compromising on quality.
Still with the animation they DO have they can easily work in all the pokemon…
Wait a second…
This is all a farce for adding the rest later in payed DLC!
This was actually due to system architecture. For example, Gen 1 has 151 pokemon, right, Well, an 8-bit number can hold any value from 0 to 255, so there are 256 possible values. Values outside of the valid range(s) loaded strange, not-Pokemon data because the table used to turn the 8-bit ID into pointers for things like base data, sprites, types, etc. doesn't have 256 entries, and since the game never checked that it was, in fact, checking INSIDE the table and not past it, unrelated data was loaded
Well I have a few friends who aren't on here who would agree with the point I'm about to make.
I've heard that they're cutting tons of Pokémon due to space issues.
But you know why I think that's BS?
Simple. In previous generations, there have been unused slots for "invalid" Pokémon past the Pokédex's ending number.
Going by this logic, it's safe to say that they would again have those, so what's stopping them from just replacing some of those for the new Pokémon, and keeping all the old ones too?
this was what I was trying to explain, just… badly. The Switch is a 64-bit system, so most likely they'll be using a 64-bit unsigned integer for Pokemon IDs. (Y'know, as memory/speed optimization is dead in gaming nowadays.)
Sometimes the 65536 (2^16) etc. subject is about technical limits rather than space, and time. There are also workarounds to the limits. In theory they could add 65536 Pokémon, but if you were to create models for all of them it would take up lots and lots of data and possibly by previous standards; years. In Red/Blue/Yellow, the glitch Pokémon past 190 are not "unused slots", but more of an extrapolated 'what if'; if the Pokémon loaded was more in line with the technical limit and these Pokémon take their data and pointers from other existing areas of the ROM.
this was what I was trying to explain, just… badly. The Switch is a 64-bit system, so most likely they'll be using a 64-bit unsigned integer for Pokemon IDs. (Y'know, as memory/speed optimization is dead in gaming nowadays.)
Sometimes the 65536 (2^16) etc. subject is about technical limits rather than space, and time. There are also workarounds to the limits. In theory they could add 65536 Pokémon, but if you were to create models for all of them it would take up lots and lots of data and possibly by previous standards; years. In Red/Blue/Yellow, the glitch Pokémon past 190 are not "unused slots", but more of an extrapolated 'what if'; if the Pokémon loaded was more in line with the technical limit and these Pokémon take their data and pointers from other existing areas of the ROM.