Pokemon Where do the professors get the starters?
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RE: Where does the professors get the starters?
I always thought they found them in an area in the wild that nobody else knows about. Or that Professors have a special lab where they breed Starter Pokemon.
I always thought they found them in an area in the wild that nobody else knows about. Or that Professors have a special lab where they breed Starter Pokemon.
RE: Where does the professors get the starters?
If you remember from the Anime (in the Hoenn region episodes), there are supposedly 'secret' breeders of the starters commissioned by the pokemon league to raise them. The episode that featured this is where Brock get's his Mudkip, one that had not been chosen before and was "too big now" for it to be offered to beginning trainers. I know the anime is not canon, but this seems like the most likely explanation in general.
If you remember from the Anime (in the Hoenn region episodes), there are supposedly 'secret' breeders of the starters commissioned by the pokemon league to raise them. The episode that featured this is where Brock get's his Mudkip, one that had not been chosen before and was "too big now" for it to be offered to beginning trainers. I know the anime is not canon, but this seems like the most likely explanation in general.
...do you know what it meant to be extinct?Tsukeo said:
Considering they've been seen thriving in the wild before (take Ash's Totodile and Snivy, for instance), chances are they're just captured and bred, then shipped to the professors or something.
They're from side-games, duh!
There was a picture a loooooooooooooooooooong time ago of a Red and Blue walkthrough guide thing. The picture had a blurb that said after beating the E4, you would get a key to go into the grass outside Pallet Town. The grass held lots of rare Pokemon, including the starters.
Obviously, it's not true. But, it can be assumed that at one point we were supposed to get to the grass, somehow, but this area was cut near the end of the game's development.
Obviously, it's not true. But, it can be assumed that at one point we were supposed to get to the grass, somehow, but this area was cut near the end of the game's development.
Tsukeo said:I may have forgotten the meaning of extinct.
The games don't help either, declaring the pokemon resurrected from fossils to be extinct while you (and several NPC) can have them in your team verry much 'alive' (well, as alive as in-game entities can be
. We all know they're just 1s and 0s on some computer chip)
It was a guide published in the UK.Tsukeo said:
Re: RE: Where do the professors get the starters?
But on the most basic level, It's the 'on' and 'off' of the transistors... So it is binary, just read in hexadecimal?
Blob55 said:iSharingan said:(well, as alive as in-game entities can be
Actually, Pokémon is in hexadecimal, not binary.
But on the most basic level, It's the 'on' and 'off' of the transistors... So it is binary, just read in hexadecimal?
You're almost there mastermagpie. Hexadecimal is the shorthand of binary. A, for example, represents 10 which is more compact than 1010, it's binary equivalent. By using 2 characters and the values 0-9 and A-F to represent 0-15 it becomes possible to denote 256 values with just two characters, defining a full byte (8 bits) of data quickly and efficiently. Electronic games like Pokemon are all executed on a binary level. Hexadecimal and programing languages just make the programs human-readable (term used loosely) before they are translated to binary (aka Machine Code) for execution. I know what I'm talking about.mastermagpie said:
Blob55 said:
That's like saying I'm made of molecules, not atoms.
I've always thought that maybe Starter Pokemon don't even exist in the wild - they've been selectively bred over many different generations to be entirely domesticated, and whatever they were bred from is either no longer around, or no longer resembles them. Would explain why you can't find them in the wild, and they're always conveniently a Grass/Fire/Water trio.
Human society has made them move from the wild into another habitat. The professor finds them in that "habitat". Is that or the professors mutated them so they are impossible to find in the wild.
I actually like the extinct-in-the-wild theory. Somehow it just... makes sense, you know? Or maybe it doesn't - starters tend to be pretty awesome stat-wise, at least before you attend your first multiplayer tournament...
Maybe it's like Mirage Island in the Hoenn games, and they can only get there at certain times. And from what I understood about Oak, is that he caught them on his Pokemon journey and has either had them forever or bred the originals.
