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8/20/2022: Network Update: Sandy Version has Battles 31-35 uploaded as part of its decisive Battle Fest event! Go read them!!

12/30/2021: Foxfire Battle #33 posted in Foxfire Version. Amber Archive added Lime Version.

12/23/2021: Foxfire Battle #32 posted in Foxfire Version. Amber Archive currently has documentation and title pages for 75 of the nominal 110 network versions. The remaining 35 are mostly somewhat tougher nuts to crack, for various reasons, including but not limited to having more dependencies on other sites' or versions' content. There are a few different partial or complete copies of Red Version in those archives.

12/17/2021: Amber Archive updated. CSS color schemes added for all versions (and some versions that never existed). All versions colored. All versions except Pallet Version from the Amber Version Lost page added. Gold Version added to the Amber Archive. I had to reconstruct Gold's Extras page as it was not in the archive files I have. I also added a few more versions after that that I forgot which ones, but Citrus and Brown were two of them.

12/16/2021: Foxfire Battle #31 posted in Foxfire Version. Cerulean Version added to the Amber Archive.

12/9/2021: Foxfire Battle #30 posted in Foxfire Version. Active progress is being made towards the rebooted Amber Version. Expect additional news soon. EDIT: Additional news. Template for version pages has been created. Flame Version has been uploaded, archived, and added. Additional versions to come.

12/8/2021: Excitement! Wave Version has been added to the Amber Version Survivors online archives link page. Wave Version was unique among PokéBattles, and exceptional among fanfiction then and now, for consisting entirely of audio dramas. It was version 109 out of 110 total versions created. Sadly, only one audio battle remains, but it gives voice to the NARRATOR you know and love.

12/6/2021: Big, unexpected, good news. I've been contacted by the webmaster of Crystal Version and received a large archive of network versions, including many I previously considered to be lost. In the near future, I will be uploading these to Amber Version. As things stand, the newly discovered survivors are listed in their own temporary section of Amber Survivors pending their upload and a significant redesign of the Amber pages.

12/2/2021: Foxfire Battle #29 posted in Foxfire Version. Sandy Version added to Amber Version Survivors. Tournament 3 soon.

11/25/2021: Foxfire Battle #28 posted in Foxfire Version. Happy Thanksgiving!

11/18/2021: Foxfire Battle #27 posted in Foxfire Version.

11/11/2021: Foxfire Battle #26 posted in Foxfire Version. Foxfire Archives page 5 added.

11/4/2021: Foxfire Battle #25 posted in Foxfire Version. Slightly late. Still the right day... Here anyway.

10/31/2021: Foxfire Battle #24: Halloween Special posted in Foxfire Version. It's a Halloween special. Please trick-or-treat responsibly and don't be like RT Group. Happy Halloween!

10/28/2021: Foxfire Battle #23 posted in Foxfire Version. Amber Version frontpage somewhat redone. Gonna have a Halloween special on October 31 - keep your eyes open.

10/21/2021: Foxfire Battle #22 posted in Foxfire Version.

10/14/2021: Foxfire Battle #21 posted in Foxfire Version. I discovered an alternate source of Red Version and linked it in the Amber Version Survivors page.

10/13/2021: Tournament #2 completed in Foxfire Version. Round 2 up. Congratulations to the winner!

10/10/2021: Tournament #2 started in Foxfire Version. Round 1 up. Also compiled Archive #4.

10/7/2021: Foxfire Battle #20 posted in Foxfire Version. Gonna work more on the tourney over the day.

9/30/2021: Foxfire Battle #19 posted in Foxfire Version. We're getting close to the second tournament; keep your eyes open.

9/23/2021: Foxfire Battle #18 posted in Foxfire Version.

9/16/2021: Foxfire Battle #17 posted in Foxfire Version.

9/9/2021: Foxfire Battle #16 posted in Foxfire Version. Archive page 3 added. Various formatting tweaks to the archives. Working on the Timeline in Amber Version but not very deep yet.

9/2/2021: Foxfire Battle #15 posted in Foxfire Version. Fixed some formatting errors in Archive 1 and Archive 2 relating to Location entry colors.

8/26/2021: Foxfire Battle #14 posted in Foxfire Version.

8/19/2021: Foxfire Battle #13 posted in Foxfire Version.

8/12/2021: Foxfire Battle #12 posted in Foxfire Version. Fixed some broken links in Archive 1. Thanks for 4,000 views!

8/5/2021: Foxfire Battle #11 posted in Foxfire Version.

8/4/2021: Tournament 1 Round 2 has concluded! The tournament is finished, with the winner receiving the Pyromania Badge due to the first arena being severely fire damaged. Archived battles 6-10.

8/1/2021: Tournament 1 Round 1 has concluded! Vote on the winners for Round 2 below it.

7/30/2021: I may or may not have screwed up posting the tournament schedule. It has been rectified. The Tournament 1 Preliminaries have concluded and Round 1 has begun. Pirate and Twitter are throwing down while Vulpix and Lake Monster battle it out. Vote!

7/29/2021: Added Battle 10. Beginning the First Foxfire Tournament.

7/25/2021: Added some links on the main page sidebar - my email, the community Discord, and an RSS feed. The RSS feed is the same any NeoCities site has.

7/24/2021: Announcing the First Foxfire Tournament to be held from 7/29 to 8/4.

7/22/2021: Battle #9 posted in Foxfire Version. Some drama and a cliffhanger. Heads up - next week there will be a tournament in Foxfire Version, starting after the battle.

7/15/2021: Battle #8 posted in Foxfire Version. Added some navigational links to the archives.

7/8/2021: Battle #7 posted in Foxfire Version. Updated the old news links to battles #1-#5.

7/7/2021: Reorganized the Survivors page and added a PokéBattles Timeline page in Amber Version. The timeline is not even remotely complete yet.

7/1/2021 (2): Battle #6 posted in Foxfire Version. The plot thickens. A little bit.

7/1/2021: Finished the colors in the Lost page in Amber Version. That page of forgotten memories is now complete. All that remains to be added is my memories of particular pages, and with any luck, locating more lost sites and removing pages from that tragically long list.

6/29/2021: Increased line spacing slightly for the sake of accessibility. Changed the description a bit. Added more colors to the Lost page in Amber Version.

6/26/2021: Made the Foxfire Archives and put Battles 1-5 there. Also did some overall formatting work on all pages of the site. Links to the same page you're currently on are now bolded.

6/24/2021: Battle #5 posted in Foxfire Version and below.

6/20/2021: Started adding colors to the Lost on Amber Version and redid the description of that page as well.

6/18/2021: Added more information to the Lost and Survivors pages on Amber Version after finding a repository of some PokéBattles community members.

6/17/2021: Battle #4 posted in Foxfire Version and below. Added a community Discord server. Made some improvements to the Lost page over on Amber Version for better organization.

6/12/2021: Added more information to Amber Version's Survivors page including another recovered Version (Indigo Version). Documented the two official iterations of the main Pokebattles.com website.

6/10/2021: Battle #3 posted in Foxfire Version and below. Added my comments to all battles.

6/08/2021: Added favicon.

6/07/2021 (3): Added strawpoll vote pages to rate both the existing battles in Foxfire Version.

6/07/2021 (2): Documented Storm Version on the Amber Version Survivors page. This was a complete surprise as I found it completely by accident while browsing old archives in Red / Blue Version.

6/07/2021: Documented all the old MIDI music I could find from official and fan versions onto the Amber Music page. See the MIDI Music page on Foxfire Version for more information on MIDI files and how to play them in your browser. Also redid the front page of Amber Version to be more accurate.

6/05/2021: Documented all of the rest of the fan versions currently on the Amber Version Survivors page. A few of them had to be moved to the Lost page, but notably, Amethyst and Illumina Versions were added to the Survivors, the latter thanks to OoCities being searchable.

6/04/2021 (2): Documented five more fan versions (Crystal through Emerald) on the Amber Version Survivors page.

6/04/2021: Partially documented both official versions and documented seven more fan versions on the Amber Version Survivors page. Added a news archive for older news posts. Added contact email to the front page.

6/03/2021 (2): Added more organization to Amber Version and documented five more versions on the new Survivors page. Three of them are still live on the internet, to my profound surprise.

6/03/2021: Battle 2 posted in Foxfire Version. This is more like what things will be normally. Crossposted the newest battle on the front page.

5/29/2021 (2): Added some more information to Amber Version along with the first fan-site analyses.

5/29/2021: More work done on site format. Phantom Version now has guidelines for submissions. Edit: Also edited the intro text to explain the name a little better.

5/27/2021: Battle 1 posted in Foxfire Version. We are go.