This. I swear to god it's impossible to find any information relating to the original DP any more unless you specifically know where you're looking. Everything has been so comprehensively buried by BDSP stuff and so much of it is crappy clickbait.
While I don't have a definitive answer, there is something I've seen with Raids which leads me believing Forms are locked.
Answers I'm finding are no if you knock it out, though can be found again if you just ran away.
By "respawn" I meant knock it out. Roamers that are fainted in later games will reappear if the Elite Four are beaten again, but wasn't sure if that applied in Emerald.
According to this answer, in Gen IV to respawn a roamer you need to redo what triggered them roaming in the first place. I'd imagine it would probably work the same way in Gen III if it was a thing, but unless you can rewatch the news report of the Eon Pokemon being spotted you can't respawn them in any of the Gen III games.
Short answer: Yes.
Excellent. Thank you!
I will see about testing it myself this run.
In GSC at least it is the former case where obtaining Shuckie on that day sets a flag that is reset the next day, among other events like the Time Capsule going online, and is checked after you already have Shuckie.
I was about to come in and say I figured that out too after looking at the repo. Thanks.
Holy crap, that was a total guess, I didn't think it actually was based on real-world time. So could you obtain it at 11.59 one day and return it two minutes later? How weird.
I have the European eShop version, can confirm it allows for language selection on startup, between English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.
My understanding is the rematch teams go in a specific order and you can't "skip ahead". So you have to fight Roxanne like 4 times or whatever going through her slowly evolving and leveling up team before you get to the final version.
IIRC what specifically triggers the changes is badge progression - that's definitely the case in ORAS but I'm not sure if the system is exactly the same in RSE. I think I remember reading that you need the Balance Badge to make trainers start requesting rematches at all, but not sure where; Bulbapedia is surprisingly vague about it.
From what I've seen it also appears that, unlike in ORAS where the final rematch teams require entering the Hall of Fame to unlock, in RSE you can get the final rematch teams without defeating the Elite Four.
Pretty much.
case TRAINER_BATTLE_REMATCH:
TrainerBattleLoadArgs(sOrdinaryBattleParams, data);
SetMapVarsToTrainer();
gTrainerBattleOpponent_A = GetRematchTrainerId(gTrainerBattleOpponent_A);
return EventScript_TryDoRematchBattle;static u16 GetRematchTrainerIdFromTable(const struct RematchTrainer *table, u16 firstBattleTrainerId)
{
const struct RematchTrainer *trainerEntry;
s32 i;
s32 tableId = FirstBattleTrainerIdToRematchTableId(table, firstBattleTrainerId);
if (tableId == -1)
return FALSE;
trainerEntry = &table[tableId];
for (i = 1; i < REMATCHES_COUNT; i++)
{
if (trainerEntry->trainerIds[i] == 0) // previous entry was this trainer's last one
return trainerEntry->trainerIds[i - 1];
if (!HasTrainerBeenFought(trainerEntry->trainerIds[i])) // check if defeat flag is not set
return trainerEntry->trainerIds[i];
}
return trainerEntry->trainerIds[REMATCHES_COUNT - 1]; // already beaten at max stage
}