For people saying "Isn't this just cheating?" Yes and No. If you count the use of an external device like this as cheating then, yes its cheating but its not that simple. All the R4 cart is doing is ACTING like a distribution cart. Its not injecting any new code or something crazy like that. This is why I don't see it as cheating because this is the closest thing you can get to getting the events for real without the carts themselves. Its also why you NEED Mystery Gift/Event to get these events to work. If this was just STRAIGHT UP cheating you could just hack them into your inventory. I wanted to clarify that cause I saw people asking about that. If you don't want to do this method that's fine but the Pokemon themselves ARE legitimate and can be transferred to HOME as I showed in the video. In fact Faraway Island is the only way to shiny hunt Mew. If you want to learn ACE and get there with glitches that's fine too. I just wanted to show how I got these events to work cause I had people asking me about it.
I would contest that the R4 is acting like a distribution cart, as gba distribution cartridges are indeed gba cartridges rather than nds cartriges, and the distribution happens over a cable or gba wireless adapter between two gba systems or perhaps a gc and gba. In this case the r4 is being used to run homebrew software which edits the save file on the gba cartridge in order to enable the mystery gift event. This is why you are not using the mystery gift function you see in the file select menu of the game.
I remember as a kid begging some family member to buy me an action replay so I could get Mew, Deoxys, Celebi, Jirachi, Ho-Oh and Lugia on my GBA games. As a Portuguese kid I don't think I even had a chance to get them through events... I still wanted the experience of getting the tickets to the islands and catching them myself at their true level. I never wanted to get a lame glitch to catch them in the grass... Just wanted to catch 'em all. Screw all the gatekeepers who call this cheating.
Holy shit this actually works I'm amazed. I've been wanting to do these events for years now thank you so much. If anyone has problems, I clicked on the first nds link and first downloaded the source code zip file. I extracted the file into its own folder and then downloaded the nds event tool file on that same page and placed it inside the folder with the other files. Then I put that entire folder into the sd card and it worked exactly as shown on the video
also I could only do one event at a time. For sapphire I got the ticket from my dad at the gym and for leaf green I got it from the second floor in the pokemon center.
I hope you finally managed to activate all sorts of events. You see, now you can find online both wonder card injectors and gba files that transfer event cards and pokemon. Plus dolphin is there to get you jirachi from colosseum bonus disc or pkmn channel, and celebi from the japanese colloseum bonus disk. As a child from Greece I never got the chance to get ANY event material on my pokemon games, so this was a HUGE deal for me :P
I got this to work, but it doesn't look like you can get Jirachi this way. The only items are the aurora ticket, mystic ticket, and old sea map, which to my knowledge get you deoxys, lugia and ho-oh, and mew respectively. Were you able to get Jirachi?
you forgot one step: there is no executable .nds-file in this github repository. instead, it requires you to download two additional commandline tools to make that file, which turns this from a matter of a few minutes to 30-45 minutes and potentially a lot of headscratching depending on individual skill and random brokenness of one's Windows installation (mine did not find the cmd.exe using the open cmd here command, but I know ways around that). BUT it did work as shown after doing that
That is weird cause when I downloaded it off of that exact link, the nds file was in there. If it was moved around I can make note of it but it shouldn't have been that much more work to do. Either way I have fixed the video description with the right files and this either was a mistake on my part, or the NDS file was moved around since last I downloaded it. I swear I checked the files just incase something like this happened but I must of made that mistake and I am sorry for that.
With French Fire Red it SHOULD work, at least that's what was said on the Githuib page but I'm not sure how to help there. With Ruby the Eon Ticket should show up and work. The only thing I can think of is make sure you have Mystery Gift or Event. If its Ruby or Sapphire MAKE SURE you have both Beaten the 5th gym to unlock Mystery Events and beaten the game so you can get the Eon Ticket. That's most likely what could be happening for you with Ruby/Sapphire at least. FireRed might also have the same issue of not having a beat game save but I don't fully know.
got the items, no problem. thanks for the video homie. quick question, do you know if you can ''inject'' all the gifts in one go ? or is it better (like I did) to inject one, claim one... rinse and repeat ?
Apparently I was using version 0.3, so I was having issues with the EON Ticket in Japanese Emerald. Updating now, thanks for helping me realize I've been using an outdated version for a long time Edit: so apparently it's not a version thing. I have both Mystery Gift and Mystery Event, and getting the Old Sea Map worked. But using the EON Ticket in NDS Event Tool causes nothing to change, and I've tried multiple times, including talking to Norman every time. Nothing. Is there anything else I'm missing or is it not working? Because that'd suck Also yes I'm in the post game Edit 2: so my English Ruby copy could get the Eon Ticket, so I was like "How about I mix records?" Just learned that non-japanese RS can only mix with other non-Japaneae RS. But Emerald is able to do it with other Emerald copies regardless of if its a Japanese or non-Japanese copy. So the only other path I could think of (since Norman isnt working with me in my Emerald save) to getting to Latios with the ability to actually have IVs has been destroyed unfortunately
By the way I have a Microsoft computer called an HP Pavilion. Is there a certain USB port or Micro SD card that I can use that’ll work on the computer so that I can do this as well on Pokémon Ruby and Fire Red?
This is a good option but i think its easier using ACE u just have to name PC's boxes u don't have to buy anything and also works with every version but if u want to get a shiny mew legitimate without doing anything I can give u mine its a Japanese Shiny mew with perfect ivs
Ive been doing a Complete Gen 3 Dex for the last month and I really want to do this but I always fear it will somehow destroy my save or make the game unplayable I do not want to sell a kidney to replace my Emerald
I have done this in emerald and i have aurora mystic tickets and old sea map exaclty as as shown in your video at 3:15 but I cant get hold of eon ticket for some reason. maybe there are some other files for me to download or i just need to insert ruby /sapphire in order to unlock eon ticket? Thanks in advance.
The Eon Ticket was never an event in Emerald so sadly you can not get it this way. The only way to get it is to do this with a Ruby or Sapphire save and then mix records with the Emerald save to transfer it over. That or you can glizter pop your save file to get it in Emerald. The later is VERY risky and CAN harm your save file.
This is awesome, I'm gonna try it this evening! I bet this also works on PC using an emulator and a cartridge reader/flasher, right? I'll try both ways. I have a backups of my original Emerald file anyway, so LET'S GO! 😁
For emulators you can either put in a code (I don’t know the code) or just download the event roms somewhere then just make the games being played multiplayer, it should work after that
@@ThatWolfWizard Well, I find it more fun to do it the legitimate way (or close enough to it), than to just put in a code and get it like that. plus I'm just curios if it can be done without a DS and R4 card. I mean, I could cheat any Pokémon I want into my save files, but I get bored of cheated mons as soon as I obtain them. For instance I loved to play around with the all wild Pokémon are shiny cheat on my action replay DS as a kid just to see what all the shinies look like, but as soon as I've seen them once, I didn't even care to catch most of them.
I mean I said that in the video. This is just due to how the games were programed sadly. Ruby and Sapphire do not have data for any of the other events within them. It's also why I recommend you use Emerald to get all of them. Sadly this doesn't give it Southern island but you can go there in Emerald at least.
Officially, these are the events that you CAN get on each game. In Ruby and Sapphire, only the souther island is coded into the game, thus you can only get the EON ticket. The only thing that is not legit/official is the oldseamap for emerald (even the software says it). The key item was given ONLY in Japan, thus injecting the item into a non-Japanese game will get you to faraway island (as it is coded into the game), but your Mew will NOT be legit according to nintendo. THOUGH there IS a way to get a legit Mew. You can "dump" a Japanese emerald game onto your pc, use you non-Japanese save file and with an emulator create a Japanese save. Then with "WC3tool" inject the item to the Japanese save file, get Mew and then trade it to you non-Japanese copy of emerald. You will still need the R4 and a game and save dumping software in order to digitalize your games and save files and then reapply them on your physical cartridge, and it sounds like a real waste of time. But if you are really dedicated you can make it work ;)
hey man, i did evetything but when it comes to going onto the R4 i have ARM7, ARM9 and LANg files with nothing in them and no NDS tool app is there a news version or am i missing something?
I made a note about this mistake in the description of the video. Go in there to get the NDS link. After this video was made they changed were to get it which was my mistake.
Does it work on emulators? I tried to launch it with melonds but the rom just doesn't show up on the list with the other roms, It shows up in drastic but unfortunately drastic doesn't have 2nd slot capability
When i select the event items it says "mistery gifts are not enabled in this cartridge". Any idea whats wrong? I tried with green leaf and emerald (originals)
This worked, thank you so much! Be sure to check description everyone, some things changed since the video. @ThatWolfWizard is there a way to get the jirachi event with this?
No. To get that you have to have at least an iso of the Pokemon Colosseum bonus disc. I know how to get it on real hardware if you have the iso but that's it
For context, I know it will cause I tried it on my JPN copy and that's what happened. I lost my save data and acted like I had no save data. Why it happens, I think its cause this Tool doesnt have the exact data that works with Japanese carts. And cause its trying to give it to the game and it messes something up with the game and erases the data by mistake. I dont know the EXACT reasons cause Im no expert but that's my guess at least.
It is legitimate enough to get into HOME (as I show at 3:31) and its to the point that people will get this Mew via glitching their way to Faraway Island. So I'd say so. It's to the point that people shiny hunt this exact Mew cause its the only Mew that can be caught as a shiny.
@@ThatWolfWizard This will make things much easier for me then. I thought I had to buy a Japanese cart just for one pokemon. Thanks for letting me know!
Is there any way to get the EON Ticket working on Emerald, though? It's not on the Mystery Gift tools for Emerald, and from what I gather it needs to be Record Mixed in from Ruby or Sapphire, but the ticket that gets added via this tool doesn't seem to transfer via mixing, I've never gotten it to work. Event triggers fine in R/S, just doesn't seem to send to Emerald. Any advice?
Sadly since it ISNT an event in Emerald you HAVE to mix records to get it in. The only other way is to set up and use the Pomeg berry glitch but that has the chance of ruining your save file if you fail it sadly. So if you try just be careful. Sorry I can't help out anymore.
The DS homebrew is just a limited save editor. If you want you can use other homebrew to dump your save from your cartridge, edit it with a PC software as you wish such as adding an eon ticket, then load it back to your cartridge. Alternatively you could use an e-reader to do it the official way.
I see it more that its acting like a distribution cart but idk. The Pokemon are leight and aren't cheated and the cart just lets you get the events as intended for the most part.
The pokemon you get ARE legit (apart from Mew, as oldseamap was distributed only in Japan). What is not legit is the time you get them. The software just unlocks material on your game that was previously locked. It doesn't add anything that should not be there. At the end of the day it's a matter of perspective. As funny as it sounds, it's a philosophical debate :P
For people saying "Isn't this just cheating?" Yes and No.
If you count the use of an external device like this as cheating then, yes its cheating but its not that simple.
All the R4 cart is doing is ACTING like a distribution cart. Its not injecting any new code or something crazy like that. This is why I don't see it as cheating because this is the closest thing you can get to getting the events for real without the carts themselves. Its also why you NEED Mystery Gift/Event to get these events to work. If this was just STRAIGHT UP cheating you could just hack them into your inventory. I wanted to clarify that cause I saw people asking about that.
If you don't want to do this method that's fine but the Pokemon themselves ARE legitimate and can be transferred to HOME as I showed in the video. In fact Faraway Island is the only way to shiny hunt Mew. If you want to learn ACE and get there with glitches that's fine too. I just wanted to show how I got these events to work cause I had people asking me about it.
I would contest that the R4 is acting like a distribution cart, as gba distribution cartridges are indeed gba cartridges rather than nds cartriges, and the distribution happens over a cable or gba wireless adapter between two gba systems or perhaps a gc and gba. In this case the r4 is being used to run homebrew software which edits the save file on the gba cartridge in order to enable the mystery gift event. This is why you are not using the mystery gift function you see in the file select menu of the game.
I view it as a weird successor to the E-Reader
I remember as a kid begging some family member to buy me an action replay so I could get Mew, Deoxys, Celebi, Jirachi, Ho-Oh and Lugia on my GBA games.
As a Portuguese kid I don't think I even had a chance to get them through events...
I still wanted the experience of getting the tickets to the islands and catching them myself at their true level.
I never wanted to get a lame glitch to catch them in the grass...
Just wanted to catch 'em all.
Screw all the gatekeepers who call this cheating.
This is so amazing, i recently had the idea to use my R4 to dump my GBA roms but this is so much more useful
Holy shit this actually works I'm amazed. I've been wanting to do these events for years now thank you so much. If anyone has problems, I clicked on the first nds link and first downloaded the source code zip file. I extracted the file into its own folder and then downloaded the nds event tool file on that same page and placed it inside the folder with the other files. Then I put that entire folder into the sd card and it worked exactly as shown on the video
also I could only do one event at a time. For sapphire I got the ticket from my dad at the gym and for leaf green I got it from the second floor in the pokemon center.
Just ordered the r4 cant wait to give this a shot.
Was literally just thinking about this having watched Jirachi, Wish Maker again last night after like 20 years
I hope you finally managed to activate all sorts of events. You see, now you can find online both wonder card injectors and gba files that transfer event cards and pokemon. Plus dolphin is there to get you jirachi from colosseum bonus disc or pkmn channel, and celebi from the japanese colloseum bonus disk. As a child from Greece I never got the chance to get ANY event material on my pokemon games, so this was a HUGE deal for me :P
I got this to work, but it doesn't look like you can get Jirachi this way. The only items are the aurora ticket, mystic ticket, and old sea map, which to my knowledge get you deoxys, lugia and ho-oh, and mew respectively. Were you able to get Jirachi?
you forgot one step: there is no executable .nds-file in this github repository. instead, it requires you to download two additional commandline tools to make that file, which turns this from a matter of a few minutes to 30-45 minutes and potentially a lot of headscratching depending on individual skill and random brokenness of one's Windows installation (mine did not find the cmd.exe using the open cmd here command, but I know ways around that). BUT it did work as shown after doing that
That is weird cause when I downloaded it off of that exact link, the nds file was in there. If it was moved around I can make note of it but it shouldn't have been that much more work to do. Either way I have fixed the video description with the right files and this either was a mistake on my part, or the NDS file was moved around since last I downloaded it. I swear I checked the files just incase something like this happened but I must of made that mistake and I am sorry for that.
Most intuitive Github moment
Doesn’t Work for me… I tried on a French Fire red version and English Ruby and Nothing… it says done but Nothing changed
With French Fire Red it SHOULD work, at least that's what was said on the Githuib page but I'm not sure how to help there. With Ruby the Eon Ticket should show up and work. The only thing I can think of is make sure you have Mystery Gift or Event. If its Ruby or Sapphire MAKE SURE you have both Beaten the 5th gym to unlock Mystery Events and beaten the game so you can get the Eon Ticket. That's most likely what could be happening for you with Ruby/Sapphire at least. FireRed might also have the same issue of not having a beat game save but I don't fully know.
got the items, no problem. thanks for the video homie.
quick question, do you know if you can ''inject'' all the gifts in one go ? or is it better (like I did) to inject one, claim one... rinse and repeat ?
You can only inject 1 gift at a time sadly. That's more or less a limitation of how they were programed.
Apparently I was using version 0.3, so I was having issues with the EON Ticket in Japanese Emerald. Updating now, thanks for helping me realize I've been using an outdated version for a long time
Edit: so apparently it's not a version thing. I have both Mystery Gift and Mystery Event, and getting the Old Sea Map worked. But using the EON Ticket in NDS Event Tool causes nothing to change, and I've tried multiple times, including talking to Norman every time. Nothing. Is there anything else I'm missing or is it not working? Because that'd suck
Also yes I'm in the post game
Edit 2: so my English Ruby copy could get the Eon Ticket, so I was like "How about I mix records?"
Just learned that non-japanese RS can only mix with other non-Japaneae RS. But Emerald is able to do it with other Emerald copies regardless of if its a Japanese or non-Japanese copy. So the only other path I could think of (since Norman isnt working with me in my Emerald save) to getting to Latios with the ability to actually have IVs has been destroyed unfortunately
So you were able to get the old sea map event in your japanese version doing this?
@@nfry5813 thought you said Eon Ticket, YES I GOT THE OLD SEA MAP SORRY FOR INCORRECT PREVIOUS COMMENT I JUST DELETED
By the way I have a Microsoft computer called an HP Pavilion. Is there a certain USB port or Micro SD card that I can use that’ll work on the computer so that I can do this as well on Pokémon Ruby and Fire Red?
This is a good option but i think its easier using ACE u just have to name PC's boxes u don't have to buy anything and also works with every version but if u want to get a shiny mew legitimate without doing anything I can give u mine its a Japanese Shiny mew with perfect ivs
Ive been doing a Complete Gen 3 Dex for the last month and I really want to do this but I always fear it will somehow destroy my save or make the game unplayable
I do not want to sell a kidney to replace my Emerald
i got them through the execution code method :)
I have done this in emerald and i have aurora mystic tickets and old sea map exaclty as as shown in your video at 3:15 but I cant get hold of eon ticket for some reason. maybe there are some other files for me to download or i just need to insert ruby /sapphire in order to unlock eon ticket? Thanks in advance.
The Eon Ticket was never an event in Emerald so sadly you can not get it this way. The only way to get it is to do this with a Ruby or Sapphire save and then mix records with the Emerald save to transfer it over. That or you can glizter pop your save file to get it in Emerald. The later is VERY risky and CAN harm your save file.
This is awesome, I'm gonna try it this evening!
I bet this also works on PC using an emulator and a cartridge reader/flasher, right?
I'll try both ways. I have a backups of my original Emerald file anyway, so LET'S GO! 😁
I'm not sure about emulators but with an emulator you can easily put a code to get them unlocked. So I don't see the point but you can try.
For emulators you can either put in a code (I don’t know the code) or just download the event roms somewhere then just make the games being played multiplayer, it should work after that
@@ThatWolfWizard Well, I find it more fun to do it the legitimate way (or close enough to it), than to just put in a code and get it like that. plus I'm just curios if it can be done without a DS and R4 card.
I mean, I could cheat any Pokémon I want into my save files, but I get bored of cheated mons as soon as I obtain them. For instance I loved to play around with the all wild Pokémon are shiny cheat on my action replay DS as a kid just to see what all the shinies look like, but as soon as I've seen them once, I didn't even care to catch most of them.
Worked for me 😢😂😢😂😢😂
When i press the nds in the file it stays on a white sxreen what happened?
I got it thanks
I still can’t get it to work after your update in the description, could you help me?
I can try. What's the problem?
@@ThatWolfWizard well the tool just isn’t showing up, only folders. Also can this be used to get the eon ticket in emerald?
@@austinwood2470 IDK how to help you with the folders and sadly no, it wont give you the Eon Ticket for Emerald
@@ThatWolfWizard damn, do you know any that will?
It seems Ruby and Sapphire only have the Eon Ticket, which is kind of disappointing. And only Emerald has the Old Sea Map, which is fine.
I mean I said that in the video. This is just due to how the games were programed sadly. Ruby and Sapphire do not have data for any of the other events within them. It's also why I recommend you use Emerald to get all of them. Sadly this doesn't give it Southern island but you can go there in Emerald at least.
Officially, these are the events that you CAN get on each game. In Ruby and Sapphire, only the souther island is coded into the game, thus you can only get the EON ticket. The only thing that is not legit/official is the oldseamap for emerald (even the software says it). The key item was given ONLY in Japan, thus injecting the item into a non-Japanese game will get you to faraway island (as it is coded into the game), but your Mew will NOT be legit according to nintendo. THOUGH there IS a way to get a legit Mew. You can "dump" a Japanese emerald game onto your pc, use you non-Japanese save file and with an emulator create a Japanese save. Then with "WC3tool" inject the item to the Japanese save file, get Mew and then trade it to you non-Japanese copy of emerald. You will still need the R4 and a game and save dumping software in order to digitalize your games and save files and then reapply them on your physical cartridge, and it sounds like a real waste of time. But if you are really dedicated you can make it work ;)
Amazing escamotage but i cannot find the eon ticket event for Emerald
Sadly you can't use this to get the Eon Ticket in Emerald since it was never given out like an event like this. Sorry about that
@@ThatWolfWizard No problem i will just use it on Ruby lol
I do this but nothing shows up in game
hey man, i did evetything but when it comes to going onto the R4 i have ARM7, ARM9 and LANg files with nothing in them and no NDS tool app is there a news version or am i missing something?
I made a note about this mistake in the description of the video. Go in there to get the NDS link. After this video was made they changed were to get it which was my mistake.
do you have to set up the r4 card first or just download the event tool as soon as u get the card ? sry if dumb question.
Some r4 cards might need set up but for the most part it's a drag and drop process.
Wont work I only get a white screen with a a red box and in the red box is a question mark and the word menu below it
Does it work on emulators?
I tried to launch it with melonds but the rom just doesn't show up on the list with the other roms,
It shows up in drastic but unfortunately drastic doesn't have 2nd slot capability
@@SumitSStark I'm not sure but if you are on emulator you can just use cheats to get these which is way easier.
@@ThatWolfWizard yeah but i dont want to just cheat and use a method with some semblance of the original experience
When i select the event items it says "mistery gifts are not enabled in this cartridge". Any idea whats wrong? I tried with green leaf and emerald (originals)
Have you unlocked Mystery Gift in your game?
@@ThatWolfWizard My man, i have to tell u that u re completly right. Thank u and sry, im just a little... u know... not clever
This worked, thank you so much! Be sure to check description everyone, some things changed since the video. @ThatWolfWizard is there a way to get the jirachi event with this?
No. To get that you have to have at least an iso of the Pokemon Colosseum bonus disc. I know how to get it on real hardware if you have the iso but that's it
Does it work with an edge flashcard?
Unsure
can you do this on a 3ds with a room of pokémon emerald?
No because it's looking for the cart in the 2nd slot. It won't be able to find the rom.
How will the save data be corrupted on jpn cartridge and why
For context, I know it will cause I tried it on my JPN copy and that's what happened. I lost my save data and acted like I had no save data. Why it happens, I think its cause this Tool doesnt have the exact data that works with Japanese carts. And cause its trying to give it to the game and it messes something up with the game and erases the data by mistake. I dont know the EXACT reasons cause Im no expert but that's my guess at least.
@@ThatWolfWizard That's right, the weird thing is that you can swap saves from jpn to non-jpn games.
Even the mew is legit? I thought the only legit old sea map mew had to come from the japanese cartridge.
It is legitimate enough to get into HOME (as I show at 3:31) and its to the point that people will get this Mew via glitching their way to Faraway Island. So I'd say so. It's to the point that people shiny hunt this exact Mew cause its the only Mew that can be caught as a shiny.
@@ThatWolfWizard This will make things much easier for me then. I thought I had to buy a Japanese cart just for one pokemon. Thanks for letting me know!
Is there any way to get the EON Ticket working on Emerald, though? It's not on the Mystery Gift tools for Emerald, and from what I gather it needs to be Record Mixed in from Ruby or Sapphire, but the ticket that gets added via this tool doesn't seem to transfer via mixing, I've never gotten it to work. Event triggers fine in R/S, just doesn't seem to send to Emerald. Any advice?
Sadly since it ISNT an event in Emerald you HAVE to mix records to get it in. The only other way is to set up and use the Pomeg berry glitch but that has the chance of ruining your save file if you fail it sadly. So if you try just be careful. Sorry I can't help out anymore.
The DS homebrew is just a limited save editor. If you want you can use other homebrew to dump your save from your cartridge, edit it with a PC software as you wish such as adding an eon ticket, then load it back to your cartridge. Alternatively you could use an e-reader to do it the official way.
Pretty sure the nds mystery tool would be considered a cheating device
1. It’s a third party
2. Literally needs a device to plug an as card into it
I see it more that its acting like a distribution cart but idk. The Pokemon are leight and aren't cheated and the cart just lets you get the events as intended for the most part.
The pokemon you get ARE legit (apart from Mew, as oldseamap was distributed only in Japan). What is not legit is the time you get them. The software just unlocks material on your game that was previously locked. It doesn't add anything that should not be there. At the end of the day it's a matter of perspective. As funny as it sounds, it's a philosophical debate :P
Can it be repo?
Not 100% sure but it can be if the repo has the same save type as the original games