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Does anyone here have any experience with video game porting and cross-platform gameplay?
I got a game from home last Christmas, but only one copy of the hardware. I'm getting sick of grinding and playing against the AI and my Ambipom's been hoping to try the versus mode for ages, so I'd like to make it work on the Pokégear too. Game software isn't my specialty, though.
If someone can make it work, I'll happily share the game files. And grinding tips to get the most overpowered units. The rank 10 suits are SO worth dealing with those cheating boss levels.
Please contact me if you can help. Thanks in advance!

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If you weren't there last December, we got gifts from home for a holiday. Mine happened to be a video game from home, along with the portable console to play.
Wait, do you even know what a video game is?

[There's a long pause before a single word reply comes through:]

no

[This is going to be a uphill battle for this poor man.]

[They're off an excellent start, for sure.]

Okay, so.
You know how the Pokégear has programs that allow you to talk to people or check the map on the screen, right?
And you know there are board or card games out there where you try to get points or pretend you're a character, right?
A video game is what happens when someone creates a program to play one of those games on the Pokégear's screen, or on a similar device.

[He can't see it, but she's nodding, though it's still taking a little while for all this information that's beyond her to really soak in. Sasha gets the gist, though, what little of it she does.]

And games like that make you grind? What are you grinding? Wheat? Seeds?

In this context, 'grinding' means repeating an action to gain resources or strength in the game.
Kinda like fighting Caterpies for two days so your Pokémon gains a level, but even more repetitive and less likely to piss off a Butterfree.

oh like the training we did back home for the military!

[Finally, she totally gets it on the first explanation. Thank you, kind sir!]

only back there, the person who got angry was our instructor if we didn't do it right or tried to cheat.

[So basically, he was the boss level they never really could clear.]

Exactly like training in the military!
Except in the game, if you want to get another weapon, you can just beat up enemies until you have enough materials to build it, instead of having to request one, getting that request approved, waiting for it to be delivered, being reminded by your instructor or superior to never ever misplace it...
It takes about the same time for both methods, though.

were you in the military too? it sounds like you know about it because that's exactly how it is! one gear and if we broke it we got yelled at because it cost a lot to replace the blades to begin with but if you broke the whole thing that cost even more so they made sure you knew exactly how much trouble you were in.

if only we got better weapons when we beat up titans...

A long time ago. It was expected that our weapons would get damaged, because they doubled as vehicles and tended to be struck directly, but boy did they glare at you if you dared to be more damaged than they'd planned in their budget.
Are those titans living creatures, or mechanical? salvaging parts and scrap metal helps, salvaging skin and bones not so much.

what kind of weapons did you have?

they aren't human or animals so more like monsters? they look like people but they're too big to be people and they aren't smart at all and they eat humans. if you get close enough to them they smell bad.

Mobile suits. Building-sized robots piloted by humans that easily cost more than a small town's yearly budget, so you can imagine the repair costs.
Yeah, okay, it definitely sounds like there's nothing you can salvage from THAT. Where did those monsters come from, some mad scientist's lab?

[And he's lost her again. Sorry, Ash. It's okay if talking to her is exhausting.]

What's a robot?

No one knows. They just showed up about a hundred years ago and just started ruining everything. Eating everybody, destroying villages, just... it's bad. They're bad. They smell bad, there's only one way to kill them, and when they die, they just evaporate, bones and all.

[It's not exhausting, not exactly, but... How the hell does he explain robots?]

In this context, a robot is like a suit of armor crossed with a vehicle. Made of metal and all sorts of components to make it work, and there's a cokpit in the head where a human pilot can sit and make it move and use weapons by pressing buttons and pulling levers. Not everyone can make them work well enough to fight, though.
So they're monsters that destroy and kill indiscriminately, are nearly impossible to kill, and disappear like magic when you DO kill one? How the hell do you fight against that, if you don't have mobile suit technology?

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