Another cool game from my childhood, I didn't play it as much as others but every minute was enjoyable. i think they should make sequel for the Wii ;o

The game's random at parts, problem is that when it gets random it is when you didn't want it to do so. ie. Sometimes you think you screwed up and then you pass fine, and others the opposite happens.

Stuff about this game

• If you aren't looking forward you go slower.
• You don't need the pokemon centered for the photo to count, when you don't have them centered Oak takes less time to judge the photo, but you get fewer points. Also sometimes Oak won't accept the photo despite the pokemon is right next to the center... gee
• Some sections seem to lag, I look to the floor just in case, I still don't play the whole courses ala Goldeneye.
• The menus have stupid input disable times and sometimes they even lag on top, many times I get screwed by this.
• You may open a new course or get an item after a course run, but not both, in case you earned both you have to enter a course, take a picture and get it judged to "recalculate your quest variables".
• You may exit a course by using the pause option Quit Course, which is faster than getting to the level's exit, Oak will still judge your pictures.
• If a pokemon gets in the way your vehicle stops. It won't start straight after the pokemon is no longer on the way, it will instead wait even more time.

• Unlockables:

  When I went to gamefaqs to check about the unlockables requirements, every faq had different data..., only one has correct data IIRC.

  • To enter the first level you have to start a new game :P
  • To enter Tunnel, snap 6 species.
  • To get apples, you need 24,000 points.
  • To enter Volcano, you need to use Tunnel's alternate exit, which needs apples.
  • To enter River, snap 22 species.
  • To get pester balls, you need 72,500 points.
  • To enter Cave, use River's alternate exit, which needs pester ball.
  • To enter Valley, snap 40 species. If you run every other level once, you'll only meet 42 species, so you may only drop two.
  • To start collecting Signs, use Valleys alternate exit.
  • You may submit Dugtrio's sign to Oak on the same course run you activate the quest.
  • To get the dash engine, use valley's alternate exit.
  • To get the poke flute, you need 130,000 points, I think you also need one sign.
  • Tunnel and River need the poke flute to get their signs.
  • Beach and Volcano need a re-run with pester ball to get all their species.
  • Tunnel, River and Cave need a re-run with poke flute to get all their species.
  • To enter Rainbow Cloud, get all Signs.
  • To activate the score challenge, beat the game.
  • To finish the game get Mew on your report (so... doesn't have to be centered).
  • To get the special ending, snap all 63 species.

Loading/Menu: Start/A for the menu, then mash B to go through Oak's speech, he keeps asking if you want him to repeat what he just has said.

Level Intro: Press A slowly and you'll skip it without throwing apples, in River you don't want to throw an apple.

Being any% the goal is to get a picture of Mew, for this you need to open Valley, and that one needs 40 species. The two species I drop are Charizard and Jynx because each is at the end of their levels and cost many seconds. That means I have to take a pic of everyone else.

Beach - The first goal is to get apples to be able to run Tunnel and open Volcano, but I will have to enter Tunnel without apples anyway because Oak won't give them to me until my second course run anyway... So I leave Pikachu for Tunnel since "Pikachu on a ball" gives more points. At the beginning you have to complete the tutorial portion, three pictures and later press A during the message, there is another message, but I skip it by moving the stick up and down. Here Lapras can screw everything if it doesn't show up when you need it to, to get a good picture you have to take picture of the two Lapras on the way (there is a third but is not needed). The second Lapras didn't show up until later, dammit, still I go to Eevee in time. I take any picture of Kangaskhan because it doesn't matter... you still fail that picture. And then the Lapras that counts was there already, good, it likes to make you wait. Btw, for the other pokemons I need centered pics because of the score goal. A good score is 17k+.

pre-Tunnel - I enter Tunnel, get Pikachu on a ball and electrode to match 24k and leave for my apples. I usually get very low 24k, sometimes 25k. I took an extra picture to make the two that count be together, just imagine where their positions would be if I had left with just 4 pics.

Tunnel - Since I already have an ok Electrode picture I don't take another because later selecting and judging it wastes time and the score gain is not big enough. I get a centered picture of everyone else and open Volcano. Score here should be 50k+, 52k is good and allows an offcenter pic on the next course if the others are very good. I start throwing apples, you can see more or less the path the vehicle takes, then there are two "invisible" routes I take the one that goes more to the right so I can get better Electabuzz and Kakuna photos. To do this I have to look, out of zoom, to the right. I did this too when getting Pikachu, to be closer to it. Later I also choose a detour, I take the left side to get better pictures of Haunter, Digglet and Dugtrio. I took two of Dugtrio because I thought I had done bad with the first and again I need the points.

Volcano - Goal here is to get to 72,500. Rapidash is easy to get good scores, but Vulpix is completely annoying, specially when it hops in front of your car making you stop, that's why I don't bother guiding them to the best picture spot, and just get them out of the way. I still took two because I thought the first had gone bad.

The initial charmander is usually far but I get him since I am already turning for Charmeleon anyway. It has high chance of being a failed picture though.

pre-River - With the score goal for pesters already obtained you just need a picture, I take many pics of Poliwag because Oak sometimes won't accept the pics, the score will always be a bad one though so I don't bother getting it centered.

River - I go normally although I screw up while getting Slowbro because I guide Slowpoke away from the evolution spot... Shellder is usually a bad picture but I still try... Anyway, later Cloyster is a random pokemon, three pokemon appear, they can be Shellder or Cloyster, luckily I got a Cloyster and also it was the second one which matches my timing after turning from Porygon. Usual score after this is 98k.

Cave - Everything goes good until somehting that can be improved..., I miss my first pass against Weepinbel and have to wait until it comes again. It's very hard to hit it from that far though (at least to me). Usual score here is 110k.

Valley - I got here with an ok score, only missing 13k, and had to think quickly which pokemon I was going to snap. Dragonite plus Gyarados can make 8k, but they slow you down while snapping them, on the other hand they take less time judging (less photos), also, when you think you got a good picture Oak disagrees so I always submit more pics than "needed", in this case for example, I didn't get the 8k from Gyarados+Dragronite.

Signs - Cave, River and Volcano are straight forward. On Tunnel, I managed to slip through Electrode and Electabuzz :D, and I forgot to hit Pikachu with an apple on Beach. The controller was greasy, I lost grip of the R button on River.

Rainbow Cloud - Perfect battle, yay! The first stage Mew moves side to side at different speeds, it really screws you up when it changes gear, this time all were fast Mews though. During its second stage the hardest is when it goes all the way to a side, which it did here once, but I still got it. I actually wanted to get an off center picture, but didn't manage to move the controller slightly up, whatever.