Shiny Watchog Based On Replaying Pokemon X/Y And Finding One

Shiny Watchog based on replaying Pokemon X/Y and finding one

fyi for those in Phoenix Arizona: stay away from Target because the Phoenix Police still won't arrest this dude despite it being illegal to declare intention of violence like this 🙃

Rhythm Gaming in 2022 Masterpost

Guitar Hero:

Clone Hero (Freeware Clone): https://clonehero.net/

Clone Hero Setlists (includes all Guitar Hero and Rock Band games): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13B823ukxdVMocowo1s5XnT3tzciOfruhUVePENKc01o/htmlview#gid=0

Anime Hero (Weeb Songs for Clone Hero):  https://www.animehero.net/

Guitar Hero III PC Installation Tutorial (includes ISO & GH3+ Mod):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUn5NIW01g

Guitar Hero III: Warriors of Rock Mod (Requires GH3 PC):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPnZEVXg9w

All GH Setlists for GH3 PC:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstnDt44ZzJ_FZvhHqtMW8tgkzWo063tu

Rock Band 3, 4, Blitz, Green Day & Misc DLC on GH3:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstnDt44ZzJ_jYJlmc_hybWhM3ijSPFvJ

Guitar Hero World Tour: Definitive Edition Mod (Requires GHWT PC): https://ghwt.de/

Guitar Hero II Deluxe Modded ISO (Requires modded PS2, PS2 Slim with FreeDVDBoot, or Emulator):  https://gh2-deluxe.neocities.org/

Guitar Controller Buying Guide by Acai:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-18udYQgHQ

Rock Band:

Rock Band 2 Deluxe (Requires Rock Band 2, & modded Xbox 360/PS3 or RPCS3 Emulator):  https://rb2-deluxe.neocities.org/

Rock Band 3 Custom Songs Database:  https://db.c3universe.com/songs

The Beatles Rock Band on Rock Band 3:  https://rhythmgamingworld.com/forums/topic/updated-112014-the-beatles-rock-band-for-rb3/

Tools:

Onyx (Convert songs from one format to another, both RB & GH supported): https://github.com/mtolly/onyxite-customs/releases

C3 Con Tools (for installing custom songs on Xbox 360 & converting to Clone Hero/Phase Shift): https://rhythmgamingworld.com/forums/topic/c3-con-tools-v401-8142020-weve-only-just-begun/

Guitar Hero Explorer (for making custom song ISOs for PS2): https://github.com/PikminGuts92/GHEX

GH3 Control Panel (for inserting custom songs into GH3/GHA):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cd4Ad4P4NieERNTVgybklyc2s/view?resourcekey=0-j0w_skBS_pIeDoODd5dCYA

Moonscraper (for charting Clone Hero songs):  https://github.com/FireFox2000000/Moonscraper-Chart-Editor/releases

Other Free Rhythm Games:

Osu! (Freeware Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents Clone):  https://osu.ppy.sh/home

Osu! Beatmaps: https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets

StepMania (Freeware DDR Clone):  https://www.stepmania.com/download/

Trotmania (MLP Songs for StepMania):  https://trotmania.ponyvillefm.com/pages/4/download

DDR Song Packs for StepMania: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/simfiles.php?category=simfiles

Friday Night Funkin’ (Online Version Weeks 1-7):  https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/770371

Friday Night Funkin’ (Offline Version Weeks 1-6):  https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin

UltraStar Karaoke (Freeware SingStar Clone): https://usdx.eu/

My Little Karaoke (MLP Songs for UltraStar):  https://www.mylittlekaraoke.com/

I... lowkey love Cyllene and find her hilarious lmao

Back in the summer of 2006, exciting things were on the horizon for Nintendo fans. Nintendo’s new console, the Wii, was just a few months away, and with it would come The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the more immediate horizon, however, was the Japanese release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

Munchlax and Bonsly had appeared in the anime and the side game Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and rumor had it that for the first time the starters would deviate from the Grass/Fire/Water formula. There were a few minor leaks, such as Lickitung and Magmar getting evolutions, which a few people drew their own interpretations of. These images being used in hoaxes such as fake leaks ultimately lead to what those who were there call The Summer of Fakemon.

It felt like new fake leaks were appearing every day. It was pretty easy to recognize most as being fake, but for some it was hard to be sure, while others were completely convincing. At that point, I’d been drawing and editing sprites for a Sailor Moon web comic for about two years, so I was mostly interested in the pixel art aspect of all the fakes. Granted, I wasn’t very GOOD with pixel art, but I still enjoyed it. When I threw my hat into the hoaxing ring, it was with something that I thought would fall into the “obviously fake” category.

It was picked up by several major Pokemon fan sites, particularly Spanish-language ones for some reason, and got around enough that Serebii added it to their Fake Pokemon page. I think the reason a lot of people believed it was real might have been because it was just too ugly. If someone were trying to pass off a fakemon as real, they would make it cute or cool, not ugly and weird, right?

My fondest memory of people reacting to it was one person, who seemed to believe that it was real, referring to it as “Cthulhu’s dog”.

I didn’t bother making it look convincing, since I didn’t think anyone would buy it and it was going to be in a small distorted image anyway. As you can see, it’s crudely cobbled together… but what exactly are we looking at here? As luck would have it, I never delete my working files.

The head is actually that of a Beautifly, with a single smoothed-out Articuno wing mirrored to serve as both ears (…or whatever those things are), which also seems to be where I got the blue color palette.

The body is an Espeon’s. You can actually see those lines, left over from the legs, in the final design.

The fins are the leg-wing-things of a Crobat, recolored but otherwise unedited.

Needless to say, when I started I just thought that Beautifly’s head would look interesting, and had no clear idea what direction I was going with the design.

Next up was a Gorebyss tail, and this is where things went a little… experimental. I knew that I didn’t want that purple fan on the end, but I really didn’t know what the end of the tail SHOULD look like.

I ultimately settled on the tail in the bottom-right, which is actually the feathers from the top of a Swablu’s head. I considered leaving it like that, but felt like it was still a little too simple. I decided to add part of a Magikarp tail, to make it more similar to the Kingdra design in the top-right.

From there, for whatever reason, I had the idea to shape the tail into a fishing net, hence the creature’s name, Tsurigu (Japanese for fishing tackle). I honestly have no idea if anyone but me ever saw the tail as a fishing net.

Finally, the adornments! I used the rear part of Lanturn’s antenna, editing it just enough so that the ball portion looked like it was in the foreground. I removed the bottom (earlobe?) parts of the modified Articuno wings, and drew on some gold rings just to add a few points of visual interest.

There you have it! Eleven years later, the full truth of Tsurigu’s creation. It’s hard to say how far it spread or how many people saw it, considering it’s been so long and most of the sites that posted it have disappeared. Over the years I’ve seen the design used in a few different ways, including things like reinterpretations and a creature made in Spore that I can no longer find.

My favorite is actually one from just last year, by DeviantArt user Urbinator17.

It was never that well-known, and at this point has been almost entirely forgotten, but the terrible amalgamation once called Cthulhu’s dog is a highlight of The Summer of Fakemon, and one of my favorite memories of 2006.

Feeling down? Here’s a Sunflora to cheer you on!