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Pokemon is a franchise that we all know and love, and my childhood was no exception. As a massive fan of the first generation of pokemon games (one of my proudest achievements to this day is catching all 150 gen 1 pokemon), I was super excited when the second generation was released 20 years ago, and was able to source one of the first english cartridges from Singapore.

It turns out that the reason why I was able to get a hold of pokemon before it's official English release date is that it was a Japanese copy that had been extremely badly translated. I was too young to realize that this was the case and instead plowed through a game that started off making little sense and only got worse the longer I played, eventually giving up when it stopped being able to save my game.

I was recently able to get my hands on a ROM of the game, so what better thing is there to do with it than do a LP of it?

I'll uploading the pictures to imgur, and posting the links here. Because of imgur gallery limits, each update will probably contain a couple imgur albums. I'll try to include all the unique text in the game, as a lot of the novelty comes from the poor translation.

If you have requests for a particular pokemon in the team, let me know and I'll add it to the roster (subject to availability). I'll also be keeping a few backup saves, so I can backtrack a bit.

I'll be taking name requests as well for each of the pokemon, so if you know that a pokemon is coming up getting the name request in advance helps. The names are limited to five upper-case characters, so any longer name requests will have to be shortened.

-The only way to gain new property is to gain it via conquest of CCS properties
-Although one can set up business fronts, these provide only a fixed secrecy boost

-When setting up a business front, one of multiple different types of business are selectable. Examples of possible businesses would be apartments, tailoring, finance, art gallery
-Liberals can be assigned to work at business fronts
-A Liberal working at a business front improves the secrecy of the front, generates money, and may provide a liberal influence.
-For the sake of balance, business fronts that require more initial and continuous investment may provide bigger benefits.
-The player can choose to embezzle money from the business. This can give the player lots of money, but is illegal and can generate heat. The heat increases with the amount of money, but decreases with the proportion of total business wealth.
-The player can choose to pay dividends. This is a legal way of getting money from the business, but it is inefficient.
-The player can hire outside workers to work at the businesses. Outside workers decrease the secrecy of the site, but are completely reliable.

The "start a business front" option is removed from the site investment screen. The options on the site investment screen now depend on how the site was acquired, listed below.

From the main menu, a new option is added to acquire a new property. The following options are available:
-Find abandoned property. Only available for outskirts, industrial and similar districts. Gain a LCS property with no business. It is free, but has extremely low secrecy.
-Rent private property. Gains a LCS property with no business. It has a monthly cost. It has good secrecy. Its investment options are very limited, but for a large amount of money one can choose to 'buy property', which adds the full range of investment options and improves secrecy.
-Buy private property. Gains a LCS property with no business. It costs a lot upfront, but is subsequently free. It has very good secrecy. It has the full range of investment options. It costs a lot to buy a new property, but even more to rent one and then subsequently buy it.
-Start a Liberal [business], renting. Gains an LCS property with the selected business. It has a minimum startup cost. The play chooses how much to be paid out of LCS funds and how much to be paid for out of other investor's funds. At least 10% must be paid by LCS. More than the startup cost can be paid, and the extra becomes the business's starting treasury. The LCS gains a controlling share of the business equal to how much of the startup cost they paid. Each month the business must pay a certain amount in rent.
-Start a Liberal [business], purchasing. As above, but with a much higher activation cost, and with no monthly fee. More investment options are available. A renting business can purchase its property for a lot.

Each district has the following attributes:
-Max effective workers. The maximum number of workers that can commute to and from each business in that district.
-Rent. The amount of rent that has to be paid per month to rent a property in that area.
-Purchase cost. The amount that it costs to purchase a property in that area.
-Abandoned buildings. Whether or not this area has abandoned buildings.
-Secrecy boost. The amount of secrecy this area provides.

Each business category has the following attributes:
-Max effective workers. The maximum number of workers that will have an effect.
-Monthly costs. The amount that a business loses each month to overhead.
-Min worker product. The minimum amount of money the business will make each day per effective worker.
-Max worker product. The maximum amount of money the business will make each day per effective worker.
-Worker wage. The amount the business pays to each worker each day.
-Worker secrecy boost. How much secrecy the business will provide per effective worker.
-Min secrecy boost. How much secrecy the business will provide with no workers.
-Worker liberal effect. How much background effect the business provides per effective worker.
-Min liberal effect. How much background effect the business provides with no workers.
-Possible investments. Which investments are possible fort the business.
-Embezzlement sensitivity. How sensitive it is to investments.
-Severance pay. How much it costs to fire someone.
-Skills trained. What skills are trained by working at the business.

Each investment for the business provides modifiers to the above.

Each location has the properties above, with values equal to the base defined by the business type plus the bonuses from the investments and the district.. It also has the following properties:
-LCS ownership. This is the amount of the business that the LCS has ownership of.
-Funds. This is how much cash the business has.
-Total worth. This is the amount of cash plus the value of all the investments.
-Outside workers. This is the number of regular workers who work there.

When inspecting a site with a business, the regular upgrades are not available. Instead a set of upgrades is available depending on the business type. There are also the following options available:
-Purchase property. Only available if currently renting.
-Dividend. Choose an amount to pay out, at most the cash level. The business loses that much cash, the LCS gains that much multiplied by their ownership.
-Embezzle. Choose an amount to pay out, at most the cash level. The business loses that much cash, the LCS gains that much. The chance of being caught is (E/SQRT(E*W))*((M+O)/M)*S, where E is the embezzled money, W is the total worth, M is the maximum effective workers, O is the number of outside workers, and S is the embezzlement sensitivity.
-Hire/Fire daily workers. Firing them causes the business to lose severance pay.
-Liquidate. Pays a dividend equal to the current worth and destroys the business.
-Invest. Choose an amount. That amount is transferred from the LCS to the business, and the LCS's ownership increases by a corresponding amount.

A new option is added to the activate liberals screen - work at business. Only available if they are stationed at a business.

At the end of each day, the business loses money for each outside worker there. It transfers money to the LCS for each activated Liberal there, who then get trained in the relevant skills. For each worker up to the maximum effective number, the business gaines money, secrecy and has a background effect as dictated by that building's properties.

At the end of each month, rent is paid and monthly costs are paid. If a business has its total worth negative, it is destroyed.

Under the above model, a highly skilled LCS member produces the same output as an untrained one.