Cyber Poké Ball

If you were looking for the picnic item, see Cyber Ball.

Pokémon Cyber Poké Ball
Cyber Superball Poké Ball in original packaging
Basic info
Platform:	Self-contained
Category:	Utility
Players:	2 player
Connectivity:	Physical
Developer:	Bandai
Publisher:	Bandai
Part of:	Generation III miscellaneous
Ratings
CERO:	N/A
ESRB:	N/A
ACB:	N/A
OFLC:	N/A
PEGI:	N/A
GRAC:	N/A
GSRR:	N/A
Release dates
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Websites
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The back of the packaging

The Pokémon Cyber Poké Ball is a toy handheld Pokémon game designed and manufactured by Bandai. A player can connect it to another Super Ball of version 1 or 2. This game can also be connected to the Cyber Pokédex.

Playing the game

Buttons

There are 6 buttons on this device: One main button and a ring around it, with the left and right side of this ring acting as two separate buttons. This button arrangement is replicated on the backside of the device. Henceforth, the buttons will be referred to as the main, left and right buttons.

Navigating the device

Depending on the current menu, the use of each button may differ. When viewing the party, the left and right buttons are used only for navigation, but in any menu that has arrows to either side of the main image, the left button is a sort of "cycle through the options" button, and the right button is a back button. The main button is almost always used as a select button. There are some variations on this format, but for the most part, the left button is a "cycle" button and the right button is a back button.

How to start

After putting a battery into the device and opening the lid of the device, a Poké Ball will be presented. I the Poké Ball is selected with the main button, one of four starter Pokémon can be selected: Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander and Pikachu.

Closed lid menu

This menu sits on a default screen of a square shaped Poké Ball. To access the options in this menu, press the main button. The options include Adventure and Pokédex.

Adventure

The adventure options loads into a map of a town with two buildings and several other locations that can be cycled through by using the left button and selected by pressing the main button. While cycling through the locations, random encounters may appear, such as a Pokémon, a trainer or a member of Team Rocket. Trainers are battled the same as a Pokémon would be.

Pokémon Centre (Settings)

The black roofed building in the bottom left of the area is the Pokémon centre. If the main button is pressed while in the Pokémon centre the parties Pokémon are healed. If the left button is pressed, some options can be cycled through, such as depositing and withdrawing Pokémon from the PC (the PC icon), change location (the two houses with arrows), change language (exclamation mark) and sound settings (the speaker).

Start exploring

If a location other than the Pokémon centre and the white roofed building is selected, you enter an explorable first-person area. Here, the left and right buttons are used to turn around left and right, and the main button is used to stop turning and move forward while not moving. The left and right buttons can also be pressed multiple times to turn faster.

Encounter Pokémon while exploring

While turning, a radar may appear on the screen with a dot in the centre of it. This indicates which direction to go to encounter a Pokémon. Depending on how close the Pokémon is, multiple layers of rings appear around the circle, with no rings being far, one ring being a medium distance and two rings being close. When pressing the main button while there are two rings surrounding the dot, you will enter a Pokémon battle. The best way to encounter a Pokémon is to scan an area by turning until you find the most amount of rings around the dot, then pressing the main button to walk forward in that direction. That process should be repeated until a Pokémon is found. When a Pokémon is encountered, the device should be shaken until the Poké Ball on the display opens. When that happens, the device's lid should be opened. At this point, there are a couple of options available: attack and catch. After the first round of attacks, there are two more options that are available: switch and flee.

Attack

Selecting the attack option (a man holding a Poké Ball) opens up a menu with two rapidly changing symbols, with the left being the player's move and the right being the opposing Pokémon's move. These moves are selected one at a time, with whoever is currently selecting their move shown by the top and bottom of their side of the screen moving up and down (this order changes when facing different Pokémon). Selecting the sad face makes the player's Pokémon miss and any other option will make the player's Pokémon attack. Most of the time when attacking, the player's Pokémon will simply carry out the attack, but other times the player is required to press either the left or right button up to several times (this is displayed on the screen as arrows) to perform the attack. After an attack has been performed, the attacked Pokémon's health bar is shown at the bottom of the screen.

Catch

To attempt to catch a Pokémon, the lid of the device should be closed while on the battle menu and the device rapidly shaken. The Pokémon will either be caught, or escape the ball and run away.

Switch

Here, another Pokémon can be selected from the current party. If the Pokémon is selected, the lid of the device should be closed and shaken to send out the Pokémon, then the lid should be re-opened.

Flee

The battle can be escaped from by selecting this option

Pokédex

Pokémon that have been caught and seen can be viewed here. Three Pokémon entries are shown at a time, with the names of Pokémon that haven't yet been encountered replaced by dashes, only the name of the Pokémon's name and number if it has been seen, and a Poké Ball next to the name of the Pokémon if it has been caught. Pressing the left button will cycle the current three Pokémon being displayed, the right button will exit this menu, and the main button will move into cursor mode. While in cursor mode, the left button will cycle the currently selected Pokémon, the right button will exit cursor mode and the main button will select the Pokémon being hovered over. If a Pokémon is selected, the main button can be pressed to cycle through information about the Pokémon, such as it's type and weight.

Open lid menu

This menu acts as a sort of status menu, where Pokémon stats can be used, use items and connect to other players.

Pokémon

Pokémon that are in the party can be viewed by pressing the right and left buttons on the device. When pressing the main button, there are 3 options to choose from: Bag, Status and Connect.

Bag

Here, obtained items can be cycled through and selected to use them on the current Pokémon.

Status

Here the first page displays the Pokémon's type and level, and using the left button the Pokémon's moves can be cycled through, where more arrows in the bottom left means a stronger move.

Connect

This option leads to another set of options, trade and battle.

Trade

Here, Pokémon can be traded with another player by selecting a Pokémon and then connecting the side pins on the device with another person.

Battle

Here, other players can be battled.

Images

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  An orange Cyber Poké Ball

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  A green Cyber Poké Ball

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  A lime green Cyber Poké Ball

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  A blue Cyber Poké Ball

Trivia

• Despite being based on a Poké Ball, it does not come in red, the color of standard Poké Balls.
• Unlike other games, this game only allows the player to have three Pokémon in their party.
• Starter Pokémon on this device start at level 3 in this game, as opposed to level 5 in the mainline games.

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