Is the Safari Zone like the games or anime?
Good question. The Safari Zone can be either like the Anime or the games depending on what the player wishes. Some rangers are good with Games, some are good with anime, some are good with both.
Are the battles set up like battles in PDFRPG?
why yes, they are, but one Pokemon is wild and you must decide what moves it shall preform by using the Random Number Generator. The first roll will determine what Pokemon comes out. Only Pokemon that may come out in that area can pop out. So say the Desert has 15 Pokemon. Roll 1-15. Say you land on 12, eh? Look at the list of Pokemon in the area and look for the 12th Pokemon. Let's say it is Sandile. A Sandile appears, but you still haven't rolled for the Gender.
Put the maximum number back to 100. Look at the Pokemon's Bulbapidia page and look for what percent of the Pokemon's spices is female and what percent is male. If it is full male of full female such as Nidoran M or F, you don't need to roll, rather tell the person that it is full female or male. If it is 50/50, any number BELLOW 50 is male, while anything higher is female. High numbers=female Low numbers=male.
Say the Pokemon has 30 attacks, both Level Up moves and breed moves. Let's say out of that you got 15 as your random number. The wild Pokemon uses it's 15th move.
Are there any options that don't have Wild Pokemon hiding in them?
Really, only about 1/2 of the options have wild Pokemon. If there are two options(Not including go back to front desk), one of them has a Wild Pokemon hidden. However, if there is an odd number of options (Not including going back), like five, for instance, two would have a 100% chance, and one would have a 50% chance to have a wild Pokemon, for 2.5 is half of five.
Is there any way to get a Shiny Pokemon here?
There sure is! The normal chance of finding a Wild Pokemon in the Safari Zone is 5/100. The only ways to raise this percent is if you are a Moderator or Official, it will raise to 10/100. If you have a Pokemon with Super Luck as an ability, the percent is the same as an Official's or Moderator's. If you are a Moderator with a Pokemon with the Super Luck ability, your chances are 15/100. At the moment there are no other ways to raise this.
How do you get items here?
Well, there are really items anywhere there isn't a Pokemon, so there is a 50% chance that you will come upon a few items or, possibly, money and the rest of the options have Pokemon. If the number of options is odd, one of the options has a 50% chance for it to be a Pokemon and a 50% chance for it to be an item or money.