Hello! And welcome to Pokémon Aaah!, the internet’s ONLY Pokémon website. [citation needed]
But seriously, you can call me Nick15 
and I started this website back in 1999. Now while the design and content has changed, the one thing that has stayed the same about Pokémon Aaah! is the focus on entertaining Pokémon fans with new and unique content that they wouldn’t find much elsewhere.
In that sense, PA! has always been a sort of “Pokémon Research Center“, digging deep into various off-beat aspects of the Pokémon franchise which no one else seems to cover much of. Some of the unique content that PA! has “research” included:
- popularizing Pokémon TCG fan-made fake cards (creating the pipeline for card making, breaking down the design layout for accurate reproduction, etc)
- cataloging Pokémon TCG errors (every little deviation form the norm was spotted, cataloged, tagged, bagged, pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered)
- releasing Pokémon TCG set spoilers before their actual Japanese release (at least until my contact dried up)
- collecting Pokémon TCG Print Run data (emulating the work done with Magic: the Gathering)
- cracking the Pokédex 3D AR code data (how to parse the code itself, using that data to view other codes beyond what Nintendo officially revealed)
And now with the release of Pokémon Sword/Shield, my current attention is spent on deciphering the Galarian alphabet (aka Galar language), which is already turning out to be a load of fun. And then there’s also updating my “Lost Pokémon” page which had some serious leaks… uh… leaked recently! This in turn helps give me ideas for my new fake card set block about all these lost Pokémon. But what good are Pokémon TCG fake cards if I don’t have pictures to go with it? That’s why I researched Pokémon type color data and used it to build the Colordex, which compiles every color used for each Pokémon type in as many games as I could think of; this gives me a color palette to work with to help me color Pokémon according to their type.
There’s still so much about Pokémon left to discover! But… I guess that makes me a Pokémon Professor then? In that case, you can call me Professor Tree. …y’know, because of other professors with tree names like Oak, Elm, Birch, Morningwood, Juniper, Rowen, etc…
Who knows what research project I’ll work on next? Maybe I’ll start working on that Duotronic Octogramic Neutronic Wave Translatitron device I started a while back.
PA!’s To-Do List:
Get a PA! Twitter account— done; @AaahPokemon- Get a PA! Instagram account — I wonder if I should just stick with @nickfifteen or make one specifically for PA!; or if I can post as PA! while as @nickfifteen?
- Work out a way to include something like a Twitter feed or something that I can place on the front page.
- Consider if more can be added, and/or if the site needs to be redesigned slightly to incorporate these extra bits.
- Also work out other ways to do cross-posting, like if I post on the site (via WordPress) and links to it get posted on Facebook and/or Twitter.
- Get a PA! Etsy account — it’ll be more reasonable to get once I actually have something to sell on it.
- Get a PA! Patreon account — I already have my own Patreon account under “@nickfifteen“, however it’s currently tailored specifically for my “Moose River” webcomic. I will therefore updated it to be more generic so that it can cover ALL of my art projects… like Pokemon Aaah!.
- In essence, turn it from “Moose River‘s Patreon” to “Nickfifteen’s Patreon”.
I wonder if I could maybe mix Moose River with Pokemon Aaah! and maybe make comics where my Moose River characters live in the Pokemon world. Hmmm, now THAT might be worth a try!– decided and planned; it’ll be a webcomic series called “Adventure BattleMon“
- Get my webcomic Adventure BattleMon started and on its way.
Design logo— doneDevelop list of Pokémon BattleMon for the series, using the Pokémon created for Pokémon USA as a base, while adding extra BattleMon as well, including “starters”Done, basically. Need to design names for them.- Work out new terms for the series, such as new names for types, items, mechanics (“evolution”, “starters”, etc), and so forth
- Develop plot and work out main characters
- Start scanning cards for blank creation
- currently underway; only Electric, Fighting, Fire and Psychic blank background need to be made. All other blank elements are already made.
also consider working on Sword/Shield blanks when the time comes— I will post SwSh blanks via a secret plan- Keep cracking away at the blanks for the GS Space World set.
- Get a cracker in order to slip a rozzer into the dropsy and/or snide.
- What’s PA!’s name in other languages?
- Chinese (Simplified) — 宝可梦 啊啊啊啊!
- “Nick15” is 尼克15
- “I got nothing” is 我什么都没拥… er, 都没有.
- Korean — 포켓몬 아야아아!
- 포켓몬 아이구! is acceptable as well, though my Busan accent might throw people off.
- Japanese — ポケモン ギャアアアー!
- Chinese (Simplified) — 宝可梦 啊啊啊啊!
- Now that I know how to make WordPress shortcodes, consider creating shortcodes for…
Galarian text shortcode— Done. I can use <galar>text</galar> psudo-HTML tags to generate Galarian text on the fly. (See ?This is me writing in Galarian . Now if I can get WordPress to not strip them any time I add them…)- The current system of using emoticons is the most efficient this far, but creating a shortcode for it might be even easier to use.
- In particular, I should be able to pass arguments into the short code and it should in turn return Galarian text based on what I passed in.
- Pseudo-code:
- A: [galar text=”$content“]
- B: [galar]$content[/galar]
- either way: for ($i = 0; $i < $content.$strlen; $i++) { echo ‘<img src=”galar-character-‘, $content(i), ‘.png”>’; } /* each character’s file name is the same as it’s associated character */
This way all anyone needs to do is just look at the Galarian character guide ( E =
, N = 
, etc.) and then type a normal string of characters. The shortcode will take care of the rest, versus then having to manually add ” :G” in front of each character.- EDIT: Change this to cover the font, vs using emoticons.
- Shortcodes to common links…
- I’ll make them as they come.
Lots of fun happening in PA!’s future! I can’t wait to see where all this goes!
Like I said above, I made fake cards because I wanted to do something in the Pokémon community that no one else is doing. When I started doing fakes, NO ONE had a system of blanks, symbols, tutorials, etc… except me. And now, everything about making Pokémon fake cards is based on what I started. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to take credit for the work that people did after me… rather, the fact that I was able to stake a claim to a previously unexplored concept—something that either no one else was doing well, if at all—only to set the standards for everyone else that came after me? THAT is what pushes me and my creativity.
