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One of my favourite games ever tbh.

Same here! I played it so much back in the day that I got my GBC confiscated, something not even Pokémon Blue was able to accomplish. Still need to finish the English translation of the Japan-only sequel. And relevant to this post, there's even a romhack for Neo that I wanna tackle next! Games aside, I still listen to the music regularly, and I've even been transcribing and analyzing some of the pieces. Ichiro Shimakura pulled some absolute wizardry on that soundtrack. If anyone wants to give them a listen, here's the first and here's the second; what's neat about that site is that, by clicking the "Settings" tab you can toggle individual voices (which really demonstrates the trickery Shimakura employed to get such a big sound with only three melodic voices) as well as tweak the stereo width to your liking.

I've only gotten back into playing offline tcg with my niece

Awww, that's lovely!

Tap left for sleep, right for paralyse, upside down for confusion. Poison and burned have status tokens

Thanks for hunting down the info—a mix of tokens and card rotation, then! Well, should I ever find myself in an impromptu face-to-face game of Pokémon TCG, I"ll know what to do.