Weekend Bonus Stage (May 2026)

Welcome to Bonus Stage! This is where you'll find the links to as well as show notes for the ROM hacks and audiobooks featured in each episode during the month. If you have any comments, feedback, recommendations or suggestions for future episodes please leave all that in the comments section for this post and not the comments sections of the other platforms where the episodes will be posted, because it would really suck if you left your stuff there and *Poof* that platform is either gone, turned to crap or my account there is deleted haha (I'm trying not to jinx THIS site 😅). I hope you enjoy this series, thanks for watching and listening.

If you want to support me for the content (Pokémon ROM hack walkthroughs, DJ sets, manga/comic audio series, etc) you can do so from here https://mrtkallen.blogspot.com/2023/09/support.html

Weekend Bonus Stage archive: https://archive.org/details/weekend-bonus-stage

Previous posts:
Weekend Bonus Stage (March 2026) [has links for Episodes 1 to 6]
Weekend Bonus Stage (April 2026) [has links for Episodes 7 to 10]

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Gamplay footage: Pokémon Adventure Red Chapter Beta 15+ (Expansion Pass Update)
Source: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-adventure-red-chapter-new-beta-expansion.298920/
Discord: https://discord.gg/FTs7BTrJnx

Audiobook: The Circle (2013) by Dave Eggers, narrated by Dion Graham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers

https://daveeggers.net/
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Circle-Audiobook/B00FFDMOUG
https://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers-audiobook/dp/B00FGD5JZM
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-circle-unabridged/id1417788029

Gamplay footage: Pokémon Team Rocket Edition (Dragonsden English Version) [12 June 2025 update]
Source: https://teamrocketedition.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/5EZ8RgJwu6

Audiobook: All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomi_Prins
http://www.nomiprins.com/

https://www.audible.com/pd/All-the-Presidents-Bankers-Audiobook/B00KO0CQ1C
https://us.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Bankers-audiobook/dp/B00KO150L4
https://www.audioeditions.com/all-the-presidents-bankers

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Episode 11 (Saturday 2 May 2026) 
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DiQOg956kxxd/
https://archive.org/download/weekend-bonus-stage/Weekend%20Bonus%20Stage%2011.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJ8R7rRzPw
https://rumble.com/v79agt8-weekend-bonus-stage-11-saturday-2-may-2026.html

- In Pokémon Adventure Red Chapter, the episode covers Chapters 19 (Articuno), 20 (Volcano Badge) and Bonus Chapter 17 (Icy Snorlax). The evolution method for Magmar -> Magmortar is included too. 

- Book 1 of The Circle continues and the following parts are featured:

- At seven
- In the morning
- And finally on Friday morning
- At four thirty
- Mae turned
- Do you think
- Mae, I have to ask
- In the morning

**Tracklist (YouTube version)**
01 Pewter, Saffron & Viridian City [Pokémon HeartGold⁄SoulSilver]
02 Cinnabar Island [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
03 Route 120 [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
04 Remote Island [Pokémon Clover]
05 Grim Woods [Pokémon Unbound]
06 Encounter Ace Trainer [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
07 Battle Team Magma/Aqua [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
08 Wiseman's Cave [Pokémon Vega]
09 Sealed Chamber [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
10 Encounter Team Rocket [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
11 Team Galactic Headquarters [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
12 Victory Road [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
13 Mt. Chimney & Sky Pillar [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
14 Deep Within Team Galactic HQ!! [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
15 Dawn Theme [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
16 Rival Theme [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
17 Crashed UFO [Pokémon Clover]
18 Route 119 [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
19 Viridian Forest [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
20 Team Rocket Hideout [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
21 Encounter! Elite Four [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
22 Obsidian Fieldlands 2 [Pokémon Legends: Arceus]

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Episode 12 (Sunday 3 May 2026)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dLYMEgXIYCJx/
https://archive.org/download/weekend-bonus-stage/Weekend%20Bonus%20Stage%2012.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmFAvgbORQ

https://rumble.com/v79c3q0-weekend-bonus-stage-12-sunday-3-may-2026.html

- In Pokémon Team Rocket Edition, the "real" Viridian City Gym challenge concludes and the road to the Indigo Plateau begins. I'll admit, I had a little "help" for the second round because it would've taken AGES to level up through training in the two areas that offer the highest amounts of EXP at this point in the game: Route 14 (where you can encounter Level 36 Chansey that give out just over 1600 points if your Pokémon's holding a Lucky Egg) and the lowest level of the Seafoam Islands (where you can encounter wild Slowbro, Dewgong and Gyarados in their 30's that give out between 1200 and 1500 points). There are no Trainer rematches (although there is a Key Item programed in which serves as this game's version of the Vs. Seeker but it doesn't work). After playing ahead and getting beyond the Champion Battle, I found out that it's only after going through the Badge Checks (you have to battle each of these guards) and after battling Andra near the Victory Road entrance that you'll get a call from Giovanni about the special training room next to his office being open now. That's where you can do your proper training for each stat or just for EXP (by battling a Grunt who has a full team of Level 50 Chansey that each give over 4000 points if your Pokémon is holding a Lucky Egg. The Chansey just know Heal Pulse). Plan B would've been to just feed Rare Candies to my Pokémon until they're way ahead in levels but I like training the old fashioned way and just wished that the special training room had been opened BEFORE the Gym mission and not AFTER fighting our Rival one more time outside Victory Road.

- Chapter 6 (The Early 1930s - Tenuous Times, Tax-Evading Titans) of All the Presidents' Bankers is covered.

**Tracklist (YouTube version)**
01 Pokémon - Double Trouble (Team Rocket)
02 Deep Within Team Galactic HQ!! [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
03 Team Galactic Headquarters [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
04 Team Magma & Aqua Leader Battle [Pokémon Ruby⁄Sapphire⁄Emerald]
05 Gym Leader Battle [Pokémon Diamond⁄Pearl⁄Platinum]
06 Pewter, Saffron & Viridian City [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
07 Team Rocket Hideout [Pokémon FireRed⁄LeafGreen]
08 Memes Inc. [Pokémon Clover]
09 Chargestone Cave [Pokémon Black⁄White]
10 Battle Dome [Pokémon Emerald]
11 Outcast Island [Pokémon Clover]
12 Route 27-28 [Pokémon Clover]
13 Frontier Brain Battle [Pokémon Emerald]

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