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Do you make your name ALL CAPS or not?

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Sorry if asked before, I couldn't find anything on the search.

I just got Diamond and Pearl, and I don't know if making my name all caps or with first letter capitalized is right.

In the old pokemon games, it was obvious that all caps was the way but now I don't know.

If I make it Steve it will look right in conversations between characters in the game, right?

But it will look wrong in the menus and on the computers, because it goes "BAG Steve OPTIONS" and "ROWAN'S PC Steve's PC".

But if I make it all caps, isn't every other character in the game going to say STEVE to me when their name is something like Devon?

Also, does Platinum have a difference with this naming thing, like is there a difference between it and DP?

Thanks for your help guys.
 
I never really was into the whole ALL CAPS naming deal. Even in games that used it the most (which is... everything before DP). Always did my nicknames and trainer name in lowercase.

In case (haw) you're wondering, the default trainer names are in lowercase if you didn't enter in anything. I'm 99% positive of this.

I can't help you out with Platinum there though because I don't have an English copy. XD; I don't think it changes, though.
 
I've been entering my player name and my Pokemon's names in lowercase ever since I got Diamond and Pearl two years ago. It just looked a lot better when people were talking to my character and calling him "Kouki", because they were "Cynthia" and "Dawn" and "Cyrus". Hell, when I went back to replay my old Gen III Pokemon games, I reverted to lowercase there as well despite it looking "wrong".

Go with lowercase, it'll do your brain good 90% of the time.
 
Now I'm not OCD or anything, but I tried lower case once, and I just can't stand the inconsistency in the menu. When I name a pokemon, I do that in all uppercase too because the default pokemon names are in all upper case.
 
I capitalize my names correctly, rather than the all-caps Pokémon species are given. "Hello, MELODY, your WOLFGANG is a fine looking Pokémon" is pretty ridiculous if you imagine it being said out loud.
 
Well, I normally do write in all caps, because anything else that is named in the earlier gens is in all caps. I find it looks weird when you got all caps professor and proper grammar trainer.
 
In Generation I, for some reason, I did the names properly-cased.

In Generations II and III, however, I switched to all-caps to match the other names in the games.

For IV, I reverted to the properly-cased names, again to match those in the games. Except for the Pokémon names. I still do those all-caps. Sometimes I don't even name them, I just give them model numbers. :XD2:
 
My little rule for deciding whether to use ALL CAPS...

If the names are in ALL CAPS, then my character's name as well as any and all Pokémon nicknames will also be in ALL CAPS.

If not, then I only capitalize the first letter.
 
I do min in lower case, and post-DP everything except Pokemon names are lower case.
So, lower-case is the way to go.
 
Like many others said, I used to do all caps in the older games just to match, but now in D/P/Pt I use proper caps.
 
For trainer names, I did all caps for the past games, but normal from DP onward.

Most Pokémon names are still in all-caps... Save a few.
 
I used normal caps for my trainer and only used all caps for my starter Pokemon by accident.
 
I do it in all caps to be honest, to keep my attention in the conversations in the game. XD
Lot easier for me to focus on: "Hey ASH!"
Rather than: "Hey Ash!" XD
 
All-caps in Gen I-III, when Gen IV started I did standard capitalization.

Had to rename most of those I transferred forward, too. But I like the CamelCase NovaPsycho and EverPsycho over NOVAPSYCHO and EVERPSYCHO.
 
Same with me. I thought ALL CAPS WAS GREAT, BUT WHEN I STARTED GEN IV, i started in small caps.
 
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