go to the 2nd room. the stay to the left side and walk. hit the stone blocks by the river in this order: 2,4,3,1. in other words, hit the 2nd block from the left, then the last block on the right, then the 2nd block from the right, then the last block on the left.
find a monster with a ? on top of his head
There is one arena on each planet if you are having trouble finding them search for blue icons on the visual screen of your ds or dsi
You can find all parts if you look around, or do special challenges.
You have to punch the nests a few times and you will find a battery , but you must escape the bugs first.
You can't find a charmander in Spore, but you can try to make one!
Yes spore mods do work. You can find the largest list of spore mods here: http://sporedum.net/spore-modding/spore-mod-index/
You look for it in your programs and find the application SPORE. It will come up.
Buy it and find out.
in the EA store
at spore.com
in u mum
Look for it on the back of your SPORE instructions manual, it's usually near the top.