Seriously Unserious

Name: Jason Age: 40 Birthday: June 15 Location: Vancouver Height:5'10 Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Blue Live With: Family Pets?: Nope Relationships?: Friends, colleagues Crushes lately?: I wish! Dream Job: Entrepreneur Currently Playing: Aurorra 4X, Rejuvnation, Stardew Valley Favourite Food: Spaghetti Favourite Drink: Apple Juice Favourite Color: I like a lot of colours, hard to pick just one. Favourite kind of Music: Rock (I like most kinds) Favourite Band: REM Favourite Album: Party Like It's Prom Night - Halfway to Hollywood (LP) Favourite Game: Civilization V Favourite Genre of Game: RPG, Turn Based Strategy Favourite Hobbies: Playing Video Games, Reading Favourite Movies: Lord of the Rings trilogy Favourite Shows: Bar Rescue, Dog Whisperer (His show helped me so much in overcoming a massive fear of dogs)

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Wow! Jan, you're about to outdo yourself again! It looks like what's coming up is well worth waiting before I upgrade to the next version. The only thing that sucks is having to start over yet again. Oh well, at least I'll have updated maps and storylines to explore so that's ok.

Welcome to the city Fern. We won't hold your sharing a name with that douche brother of a gym leader against you. Not at all! I used to be a shy lurker of forums in the past. No longer though, and it's led to some great times and meeting some great people, and in my short time on this forum, I've already seen tons of great people and a very welcoming community. I'm sure you're gonna like it here and want to post more often now that you've broken the ice.

It's great to see this game keep on progressing! I love the story you're telling, Jan, it's definitely of a quality comparable to some commercial games I've played. The difficulty can be hellish at times, but then again, the satisfaction of finally beating that cheating jerk NPC and getting that "in your face, you cheating jerk" feeling is that much greater at the end of it all. The big saving grace is you didn't choose to do an Undertale approach and have the game remember all those 10 failed attempts and hold them against you or anything! That would have been too trippy! That said, I do love Toby Fox's work there.

Thanks for all the warm welcomes everyone! I took a look at a few of those and they're really cute! I felt my hart melting like crazy at some of the cute cat pics!

Hi all, I've been around Indie game forums for close to 10 years now, going by the name Seriously Unserious on almost all of them. I've been away from gaming forums for the most part for the last couple of years while starting a journey to build my own job and business, but now I'm getting to the point where I finally have some leisure time to get back to some of my favorite hobbies, like playing video games and participating in online communities like this one. Those who've gotten to know me either in other online communities, or in RL, know me as that guy who's quick to step in and help out when I see someone in need of a helping hand. At the same time, I'm also ready to drop a joke without warning too! Sometimes I even manage to combine the 2. So, seeing as I love helping people so much, love computers, and love business, that was what I decided make that my job. Helping people promote their business online. I love games and love the creativity and community spirit that comes from indie game developers. Anyone who has an indie game project and is in need of a forum or website for your project, don't hesitate to connect with me, as I'd be happy to donate as much of my time as I can to helping you get set up for success. This community is awesome, and all the members are each awesome in their own unique ways!

Hey thanks both of you! At least this narrows down the area I have to search for that roggenrolla quite a bit. I was hoping I'd seen the last of that jungle but I guess not...

In the Kakori Village Help Quests, I can't progress with the Find Lost Roggenrolla quest. The text says there's supposed to be someone I'm need to talk to inside the pokemon centre, but when I go there, nobody in there has anything to do with this quest. There is a guy trapped behind a barrier of furniture that I can't talk to who my be related to this quest. So either the inaccessible guy is who I should talk to, the person I need to talk to failed to spawn when I accepted the quest, or I'm being giving wrong instructions in the text as to where I'm supposed to go. At first I thought this might have been a bug, and uploaded my save file, and someone else was able to progress on this, so there's obviously something I'm missing, but I haven't got the faintest clue what that might be. I got as far as accepting the quest and got the advice that there's someone related to this quest I'm supposed to talk to either inside or near the Kakori Village pokemon center. If anyone has any ideas of what I need to do next I'd appreciate some hints or direction. I've done everything I can think of and talked to everyone I can find (except that guy I can't reach of course who apparently isn't needed for this quest).

OK, thanks for clearing those up. I guess there isn't much Jan can do about that unless he has access to coding essentials and wants to tackle that bug. OK, strange, I haven't been able to find the next trigger for it, I guess if it exists somewhere in the game, then I'll have to take it up in the quests help thread. Thanks for letting me know. Very interesting... Something must have been corrupted on my computer then - I just loaded it now and it loaded fine. Must have been having a Micro$oft moment or something then. LOL.

I reported these in the V7 thread but don't see any sign that they've been fixed or even looked into. I'd appreciate an update on these bugs: I also encountered a bug that I don't think is related to what version I'm using (which is still v7-1) but when I loaded my saved game, I got 2 glitched item slots that I can't get rid of. I tried loading from about 5 or 6 of the backup saves and got the same error in all of them, so this isn't just affecting one save file. It appears to be an issue with something else in the core code of the game, possibly memory handling or something. This issue was definitely not there last time I played this game and saved it, the item menus were all behaving normally, so it seems to have happened sometime between when I last played and this session. I'm attaching my save file just in case there's some clues as to the cause of this problem in there. Game.rxdata

Fangames definitely fall into a very big grey area. Technically fan art on copyright material falls under "fair use" in most countries, and if I remember correctly, international copyright agreements. However, the direct use of copyright materials, such as the art, maps, sound, etc. would fall under legitimate grounds for a copyright violation. If the developers used all original art, music, code, and so on, even if it's all cannon, Nintento would have less chance of getting a legitimate copyright infringement claim as all parts of the game could then fall under "fan art" fully. In other words, if all the pokemon designs in Reborn/Rejuvination, all the cries, sound effects, tile sets and any other asset were all replaced with fan art versions, then Jan and Ame could make a counter claim that the games are fully fan art and have a chance of making it stick as they would not be directly ripping off any copyrighted material in that case. That's still not a guarantee, but it's still better then with direct use of copyright protected material.

Yeah, that other sidequest the other guy's help referenced was a totally different one. I had gotten as far as finding the 2 gems but had no idea what to do with them, I didn't see any in game text to explain that. Thanks for your help, I'm back into making progress now.

The gemstones are located in Amethyst Cave, not Grotto. Iirc you need Rock Climb, there's a very short rock-climbing wall in the second(?) floor - there were some Xen Grunts around when you first entered. Basically you just go to explore the part of the cave that was blocked by Galvantula web. Prepare for a couple of battles. They might be tough, but nothing unmanageable. Looks Like I'm still stuck on this one. Turns out the gems were part of a different side quest which I'm done now. The one I'm really stuck with is the finding the grave of a Xen Grunt's mother. I think what caused some of the confusion is that both side quests run through the same territory in the cave. Any help on this quest I'm still stock on would be much appreciated. You're very welcome! Glad I could help.

I found 2 bugs: 1- I just encountered and caught a female nidorino in Valor Mtn. Nidorinos should always be male. 2- In the Kakori Village Help Quests, I can't progress with the Find Lost Roggenrolla quest. The text says there's supposed to be someone I'm need to talk to inside the pokemon centre, but when I go there, nobody in there has anything to do with this quest. There is a guy trapped behind a barrier of furnature that I can't talk to who my be related to this quest. So either the inaccessible guy is who I should talk to, the person I need to talk to failed to spawn when I accepted the quest, or I'm being giving wrong instructions in the text as to where I'm supposed to go.