Question: Should altering cave encounters be removed from FRLG/Emerald

[notblisy]

In Emerald and FRLG, the API currently reports these Pokemon as available to capture in Altering Cave:

• Aipom
• Houndour
• Mareep
• Pineco
• Shuckle
• Smeargle
• Stantler
• Teddiursa
• Zubat

However, only Zubat is ever in this location in both games.

This is because in the games code, there was a planned event distribution that would change which Pokemon can appear. See Pret: PokeFirered

It is functional, being that I could change the value to get these Pokemon to spawn, but only with glitches or hacks to change the value in VAR_ALTERING_CAVE_WILD_SET.

I would think presenting this data as true doesn't make sense considering the events were never available, so all except zubat should be removed. Thoughts?

[jemarq04]

I agree with this change, as I'm unsure why the other encounters were present to begin with since they're not available through normal gameplay.

[notblisy]

Considering encounters are linear and other things such as conditions rely on the number, it'd probably be best to overwrite them with new, different encounters to take over those slots?

[jemarq04]

Likely they can just be removed without any issue, we have plenty of gaps in other files when that has happened.

[notblisy]

Ah okay, I just didn't want to change the numbers. Sounds good!

[Machine-Maker]

I agree that they should be removed. Threw me for a loop when I was using the API today and found that FR/LG had encounters for pokemon there.