Is Ilex Forest based on a cave?

[Shiny Staraptor]

It seems to have the data structure of a cave... you can use escape rope & dig there,
and the wild pokemon don't need grass to appear...

Thoughts? :-/

 

[Mr. Slowpoke]

Maybe it was programmed to act like a cave, but if my memory serves me correctly one would be able to use an escape-rope in Viridian Forest too.

 

[Marik]

It was programmed as a cave. The creators removed all data for forests in Gen. II to save space. That's also why there's no Virdian Forest in the originals.

 

[MrC]

In HG and SS, you can easily tell by the cave floor the Pokemon are standing on in a battle. So yes, it's a cave.

 

[Cyber Jet]

Lolz its a cave with tree growing in side it and has no celling but it was to save data.

 

[NeoKING]

It was programmed as a cave. The creators removed all data for forests in Gen. II to save space. That's also why there's no Virdian Forest in the originals.

... There is a Viridian Forest in the originals. Isn't the forest behind Pewter City the Viridian Forest? I'm confused.

 

[Ivysaur]

... There is a Viridian Forest in the originals. Isn't the forest behind Pewter City the Viridian Forest? I'm confused.

Not in the second generation games.

 

[NeoKING]

Not in the second generation games.

Oh okay, thanks for clearing that up. So the Ilex Forest is a cave? That's interesting.

 

[Ivysaur]

So the Ilex Forest is a cave? That's interesting.

Yeah, it is. Being the Pokemon-nerd I am, I'm surprised I never heard about this.

That was some great deduction, cmd84.

 

[Shiny Staraptor]

Thanks.

 

[Stuntology]

And I'd assume that it is in the originals as well?