News

June 14, 2009:

A guide to building a server from the sources is now available here

April 24, 2009:

Shoddy Battle is now affiliated with Smogon University, the largest competitive pokemon community, and our forum is now located there.

September 19, 2008:

Shoddy Battle has been updated with the changes from Pokemon Platinum! Read this page for more information.

August 7, 2008:

The July statistics are now available. The stats page has been overhauled and a new trend grapher has been added!

Downloads

To download the game, simply click the following link and choose to Open the file.

Download

After the program finishes downloading, you will be presented with a warning dialogue. This dialogue is simply asking for permission to run the program as a normal application program, as opposed to a typical Java applet running in a sandbox. It it not asking for anything above the privileges of your user account. In particular, it is not asking to run as an administrator. (Shoddy Battle does not require that you are an administrator.) If you are fine with running the program, choose Run.

Alternatively, if the download link does not work, and you are using Windows, choose Run from the Start menu and enter the following before clicking OK:

javaws http://shoddybattle.com/client/shoddybattle.php

If you are not using Windows, enter the same at a command terminal and then press enter.

Refer to this page to download or browse the source code of Shoddy Battle.

Server

If your computer has high uptime, or if you would just like to experiment, you are of course free to download and run a server.