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@gaditb (importantly one of the ways they bridged it relies on hidden abilities, which would not be introduced until gen v

now, they didn't HAVE to use hidden abilities; when they bridged pokémon let's go (which used basically the same data structure) they just randomized the abilities instead; but the currently implemented transform could not have been applied in gen iii)

@gaditb yes, although i think there is an open question as to whether they were incompatible in design or incompatible due to there being no technology for communicating between a game boy and a GBA

in the latter case the data structure might be considered forwards-compatible but stranded

however, i'm not sure i believe that; i think it was never intended to be bridged even though they later did find a way

you CAN

a) play pokémon in an emulated version of games released prior to the publication of ECMAScript 1.0, and

b) transfer those pokémon into a game released in 2022 and use them like any other mon

the previous pokémon data structure, which IS as old as (standardized) javascript, was later made forwards-compatible (with the virtual console releases of red and blue on the 3DS), but since there is no way to get a pokémon from a game boy game into the current ecosystem i’m saying that the original pokémon data structure as present in the original physical games still doesn't qualify

but you COULD argue it does

this is not as old as javascript, css, or xml, but it is roughly as old as the first JSON and YAML libraries

the pokémon data structure has been forwards-compatible since November 21, 2002, over twenty years

@gaditb hope you like it; they're non-fungible and non-transferable

@gaditb why randomize when you could just present the user with a hundred “yes / no / random” prompts on first run

me explaining to bea what pokémon dream radar is

i've been playing pokémon dream radar which is three dollars on the nintendo eshop and remembering a time when tiny weird three dollar games from major publishers was an acceptable thing

for the price of a little bundle of game currency you used to be able to get a whole-ass game

100% juice?! i thought this was apple cider!

« If there have been demons under the floor for as long as the world has existed... then Din, Nayru, and Farore deliberately chose to make demons. » glad to see this theological debate playing out in Zelda fandom too

gotta say the Sealed Chamber is still one of the coolest pokémon concepts

@SportsGoblin glad they could be the ones to put him in his coffin, they earned it