I really hate that some Pokemon were limited to some events in a specific country like "You can't fly to Japan to get this limited Pokemon? Well, sucks to be you..."
Not only this but often limited to the regions version aswell. My friend got on a German Pokemon Day on his English Pearl rom on r4 card tho a Shaymin where the OT changed to english "Movie11" then. My japanese versions never worked there.
I agree, but I can see why they do it. Some of these events are meant to encourage people to participate in activities limited by location (Go to a specific place, Buy a movie ticket, Watch a specific tv show). If they shared these events online the people wouldn't really have a reason to do any of those things. Still sucks tho
@@SubjectDelta20 That's more a benefit for collectors or people who wanna sell, I doubt GameFreak truly cares about the collectable part, or at least, it's not that high of a priority.
@@Kozmic_CL I wouldn't have a problem with these kinds of events if they at least were more like, "Travel to the capital city of your own country" and not, "Travel to the other side of the globe on this one specific day"
My mom is a saint for taking me to GameStop and Toys R Us for all these events back in the day. I had almost all of the event Pokemon that you mentioned in the video (except for the Japan exclusive ones) and have since transferred them up to Pokemon Home, so that I could replay some of my old DS carts. This video totally brought back memories though. Thanks! I would totally be game to watch the next video in this series
My mom did the same Thing. But when she got sick my elder sister took over and on her lunch brake go to the mall Gamestop and had to learn or ask help to download it onto my save file. My Mom pass away a few years ago and this video made me cry with this comment too.
@@davidsmith8950 Nah, he could be right. Someone who's that invested into the game should know the value of their item and likely would've wanted more money for it.
I know a lot of people grow out of Pokémon, and a lot of people carry no sympathy for game files, but this is extremely sad and bittersweet to me, to see whole abandoned teams and half-played save files. Everyone gets their own experience in life, but I don't think I would ever be able to part with some of those memories. Ever since I got my DS I've been working on living dexes and keeping all the "original teams" transfered up all the time before I can even think of reseting a save file. Maybe I'm weirdly emotional for this, but there's something sad about people growing out of something that means a lot to me.
this plus the nostalgic music, wish i had had my gold silver and yellow cartridges too, even if the batteries were dead. Those 3 cartridges got me through game boy color up to the ds.
I’m still holding my sapphire cartridge I got at GameStop as a kid for the same reason, my wife tried getting me to sell it a few times lol fair to say I was almost single a few times 😅 I never transferred my og team up but it’s still fun to go in and see the wacky names I gave my ogs 😂😂
It's crazy how attached to pokemon people get, myself included. It really is the backbone of the franchise. Funny thing is that GF didn't really expect people to get so attached to their mons, the og game design made it seem more like a blood sport, whips and all (which is why team rocket grunts in gen 1 have whips, they left it in there for them)
At one point I had and used an action replay on my ds Pokémon games and I’ve been there - at the point of just catching random shinies. My guess is they just enabled a cheat code so that every encounter was shiny. They had a legit event Arceus but had that cheat enabled so it was encountered as shiny.
I'm curious how many of the suspicious wondercards were legitimte. If you used a gamecard savefile editor it's pretty easy to pick out wondercards you want.
I used to be a dirty hacker in highschool and have since released all my hacked Pokemon. However I can tell you that it is totally possible and actually quite easy to use an action replay to change any Pokemon (even from an event) to a shiny.
At some point, you gotta consider a few of these are absolutely Pokemon with deceased owners. Some of the finds on here are probably just not cared about, but things like the first cart could absolutely be an estate sale that changes hands and winds up where you found it. I had a friend who bought Black and White, new game, and the cart was already loaded with legendries and event pokemon. She restarted it but I'd love to know if the trainer ID was anything to do with testing. It was so new at the time I'm not sure if anyone had hacked it and returned it already.
Pretty sure he got the idea from Suzuki Kenzo, a Japanese UA-camr who does stuff like this. Trying to complete a full dex using old games, farming for an event shiny after finding an old save where the owner unlocked the event but never caught the pokemon, etc.
Not sure if someone mentioned it but, for the diamond file with a darkrai, the event was never released for DP, only for platinum, so that darkrai was either cheated or obtained with the crazy void glitch
The void glitch isn't that crazy hard to activate. Lol honestly it's probably easier to glitch for Darkrai and Shaymin in BDSP than it was in DPPHGSS, the craziest glitch would probably moreso be the Cute Charm glitch
The game that had all shinys probably used an action replay or something to force every pokemon in their box to be shiny. I vaguely remember seeing codes for that back in the day.
actually I'm willing to bet it was the cute charm glitch. it only worked on HGSS and DPPT and so long as you had a pokemon with cute charm, you can play through the game with only shinies. I've done it to most of my retail copies and my boxes look just like that. it absolutely could be hacking, but they also could be entirely legit. impossible to know with those specific games.
I can back this up. There were two cheats, actually. One made everything take on the appearance of a shiny, but didn't make them actually shiny while the second made any encounter or egg shiny, which would allow them to be transferred all the way up to current gens if you obtained them in a place they'd normally be.
Last year I bought a Japanese sapphire which has a Jirachi with OT ネガイボシ and ID 30719, meaning it could be from the first ever distribution event in 2003. Everything else about the file looks normal, only Kyogre and Blaziken at lvl 100, 76 hours played, about 50% dex. I imagine these days it would be possible to hack one into emerald and trade it over, but I want to believe it's been sitting there for 20 years at lvl 48.
The biggest mystery to me is what caused the original owners to just trade in/sell their games with these incredibly rare Pokemon. Even if they lost interest in the franchise (which I can understand as someone who was a massive Pokemon fan during gen 1-3) they must have known that what they had was rare and therefore more valuable than the game itself (I'm of course not counting the cases where the Pokemon were very likely gotten through cheats). Also correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it most of these Pokemon should be or have been possible to transfer up to the modern Pokemon HOME app.
Definitely. The whole time when he was going over the soulsilver copy, I couldn't stop envisioning the owner of the copy trading it in, and why, and for such a low price.
People in Japan couldn't careless unlike Western people. They go on with their lives and sought these things as just a game and not a hobby for collecting sort of thing.
@@crisrocas7924 Do you have a source for that? At least online I've seen evidence that there are a lot of collectors, including ones collecting video games and related media, in Japan. Not surprisingly a lot of them are also part of the Otaku subculture.
I love this video concept! Every Pokémon player and cartridge has its own story, from new players trying out, to shiny fanatics using action replays, to dedicated kids who had the games from the beginning. Would love to see more of these, it’s so nice seeing what old Pokémon players got up to in their games and what can be found!
I’d love to see more of these! It’s really cool to get a tiny glimpse of what the people who played these games were like. Sweet and a little melancholy, too - wondering who they are, and if they still think back on the Pokémon they left behind with fondness, maybe hoping someone else just like you will see and enjoy them someday.
I feel bad you didn't show the caught location/ time page of those "Seemingly hacked Pokemon", as some of your viewers (like me) can read Japanese and therefore could possibly help you find parts that supports if it's legit or not.
I would ask for the pokemon to be temperately traded to me so that I could inspect the .pkm file after extracting my save, all the metadata there would at the very least point to its legality, even if its legitimacy is still in question.
there's something hilarious about opening a person's abandoned save file after who-knows how many years after the player quit, and it being in the middle of a feebas hunt. i felt that.
In ORAS, in the house south of the Devon corporation in Rustboro City, there's an Ace trainer on the 2nd floor who gives you a Float stone. Once you leave and come back, the character's model will be replaced with a Hiker, and he'll remark "... For some reason, I've put on a lot of weight recently."
As someone who used an action replay during the gen 4 era, I can confirm there was a cheat code that just made all of your pokemon at the time permanently shiny.
6:22 They probably traded that event Arceus to an emulator like an R4, used a program like Pokesav which can create/change Pokemon to your hearts content, then traded back to the legit cartridge. That's what I did back in my childhood
my best guess for how they got arceus to be shiny is they just used something like an action replay, and edited that arceus's stats to be shiny, most likely they had a really long code, that went through and made all of their mons shiny, and one of them happened to be that event arceus
Those where my thoughts as well. But I also think it'd be best to examine the amount of play time on that save file, if the Pokémon were from that game by that trainer, dates they were caught or hatched, and stats. I think it may be possible they COULD be legit if that someone either spent a LOT of time shiny hunting (can be verified by play time), traded with others that had shinies, or had multiple copies of the game and did any of the above to make this their shiny collection game (can be verified by OT, stats, journal key item, catch/hatch dates).
@nefariosgliscor Its impossible for that event mon to be shiny. They usually make sure of that, and there are only a couple of examples of them messing that up, the only way to get a shiny one of it is by editing a legit one, or just manually adding one to your save, and if they are willing to cheat in one, I find it unlikely they would get the rest legit
I really hope you do more of these. They are sooo interesting and tell a story behind what happened. Its amazing to see. Keep up the great work. Happy new year ❤
For the shiny Arceus, I believe there was a movie event where you had a chance of getting one with any of the plates, a normal, or shiny without plate.
yeah, but with every other pokemon in that save file edited to be shiny after the fact, its most likely not legit. oh, and the shiny arceus event was for Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire in 2015
Off topic, but I'd like someone to verify this potentially obscure fact if it hasn't been covered already, and I know this is the channel for it. I've put over 500 hours into Legends Arceus just trying to get perfect on each dex entry without fully progressing the story. Anyhow, I only recently noticed one Easter egg. You know how in most older games, especially those that let you keep making the walking animation against a wall or NPC, it makes a "thud" sound for each collision with that obstacle? Well, Legends Arceus has it too, but not in the same context. It's when you take fall damage and it's very subtle. I haven't seen anyone mention this anywhere, but if it's true, I think it's a really nice nod to one of the game mechanics that you would expect has become obsolete with all the walking animations of a 3D game.
I'm not really sure how else to describe this video, but it was very tranquil, it was a super cozy watch, I'd love to see a follow-up or something similar
I love the fact that you are putting so much effort and dedication in your videos👍🏻👍🏻. Keep up the good work! And i am glad that you are still trying to find a lot of undiscovered and obscure things in the old roms too. Keep uploading 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻🔥🙂
there are multiple ways to force a pokemon shiny, there are action replay memory edits that roll a shiny PID for the selected pokemon. Or you can edit the save file in PKHex or other software, and do the same; reroll the PID to force it shiny. For most events this will render the pokemon illegal, but for pokemon that can be shiny events such as the Arceus (if its from the shiny arceus chance event), so long as all other parameters of the pokemon match legality, it will still appear legal (even though its not legit)
Man. Getting hit with all the nostalgia from when I got all these events back in the day. Many are living in home now, but I now feel compelled to go back and make sure nobody’s been left behind
Something i love about used Pokemon games having save files on them, is that I can then try to find a Pokemon or two that are really important to the person who owned it previously, and then if they feel oddly neglected, or if i just want to, i can train them up and essentially adopt them into my team members. I recently noticed that a Golduck, Swellow, and Haunter in a used copy of Diamond has champion ribbons from specifically gen 3 or Sinnoh (depending on which one), and i decided to EV train the Haunter an evolve it, and im planning on at oeast EV training the Swellow since it could spam Guts boosted Facades
Cool video, also if you see a bunch of random shiny pokemon in a gen 4 game, it could be possible that they could have the cute charm glitch activated, i know this wasn't your case but its something to have in mind.
In messing around with Diamond cheats on an emulator, I found a code that makes every Pokémon DISPLAY, probably by changing the required personality value? When the code was turned off, the shinies went back to normal. That might be the Arceus' deal here too.
I don't know if this applies to the Arceus event, but many of those mystery gift pokemon are not set in stone. You can reset for different natures, shiny, IVs... I doubt that's what this person did but I don't think it's impossible.
almost every single event is locked to be shiny or not. there was an arceus event where you had a 1/19 chance, and that chance is determined when you receive the mystery gift card. so to reroll it you would need to delete the save file, get the gift card again, and check to see if it was shiny that time.
@@sieglinde_ nature, sure, but the events are locked which plate (or silk scarf) they hold, when you obtain the code for the gift. so that the wondercard is predetermined to be a specific held item or the shiny variant. Go ahead and try to redeem a regular movie 15 - silk scarf arceus event and have it roll shiny.
@@sieglinde_ but hey, feel free to prove me wrong, go find an event pokemon that isnt locked to its shiny form. I never said anything about reseting for nature or IVs, but yes, some pokemon also have their nature and IVs locked. Probably the only events you can soft reset for shinies, are the shiny chance eggs such as Manaphy
this video is such a treat, as someone who can't afford the consoles way back then and mainly use emulators to play these, it's so awesome to see the original pokemons people used on their first playthrough thanks for doing this
Wow I feel a bit strange watching these knowing some of my save files on my DS games are still my original files from when I first played. Some of my Pokemon from my Pearl copy are approaching 20 years old :O
getting event pokemon back in 2010 when i first got pokemon games was one of my favorite things, i wish i could go back and play the games for the first time
For Arceus they didnt force the event to be shiny. they simply edited the pokemon to be shiny AFTER receiving it also for the Rare Mew, you can clone pokemon, change dates, trainer names. iDs. secret IDs, its all able to be manipulated even add ribbons if you want
I had an action replay when I was a kid as well and had a lot of fun messing around with, but my favourite by far was catching trainers' pokemon for whatever reason. I wonder if there is any way to tell how many of my pokemon are from trainers.
You had me booting up all my Pokémon games from Japan and my copy of Diamond has the event shaymin that was given out I believe from Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
Very cool! I think about how a lot of game stores delete the save file to make sure the game is working properly and it makes me sad a little to see someone’s beloved Pokémon just erased without further thought(even though they may have been the one to sell it to the store). Super cool to see old event pokemon. I need to get my old gen 5 pokemon transferred up one of these days before it’s too late or they’ll be trapped on the cartridges too
I am reminded of the 4 or 5 Pokemon that i bred and trained for competitive battle back in Heart Gold and White, never ended up doing competitive battling but I still have those Pokemon with me to this day, along with a Draco Meteor Jirachi from a Gen 4 wifi event, and Victini from those games. Those pokemon are like 12-15 years old give or take a year or two.
pkhex and pksm allow you to edit data, pksm allows to export old gen mons to new games without the sub or hacking your console too, but of course people use it to force shiny mons or edit stats, which is why most people exploit the same rngtools and exploit the same seeds and get banned at the tournament xD
To be honest most people who were into pokemon back when BW came out got Victiny and the HGSS events that unlock Zorua/Zoroark, you would have made the same observations if you got my game for example, it's not that rare
You went to Japan, too! That's awesome! I just actually got back from my two week trip to the country, hope you had as great of an experience as I did, Phin! Miss you, bud!
I remember my first shiny so deliberately, i was about 14 years old, playing my just new game of pokemon white, walking the grass to the right of opelucid city, where i randomly encountered a shiny bravary.
The Darkrai and Shaymin on the final copy of Diamond were probably encountered by using the walk through walls code on a cheating device to access to event areas. Both event Pokémon could be accessed this way, and it may also explain why the game does not seem to also have Arceus, since that code can not be used to access the area above Spear Pillar.
The massive number of Masterballs could also be an indicator of a very specific Action Replay method. I recall using one that would allow your next encounter to work like this: -Discard your Masterballs to leave between 1 and 493 of them in your bag. -Depending on which number in the national dex your choice was, that Pokémon would appear. I recall using it specifically in the area you'd find Giratina in Diamond because those were among higher leveled Pokémon in the game besides maybe Stark Mountain. I'd shamefully used that method to catch Arceus, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, and a few other mythicals I'd missed just to complete my very first national dex. Using Action Replay almost physically damaged my card from fitting in the DS normally so that's my just deserts. I've been clean ever since.
6:20 I remember messing around with Action Replay on my Pokémon Diamond, there was a code that allowed you to make all your Pokémon in-game and PC Shiny, if you didn’t save, it would force them back to being not shiny. I couldn’t force myself to get a full shiny dex of Pokémon so I never saved, but that’s most likely what happened to that cartridge tbh. I think the code was either a very short in characters meaning it was easy to execute without a PC or it was a default code put on the Action Replay. Just my 2 cents.
This video remember my Deoxys in a Red Fire cartridge, i got it on an event at the beach in Gijon, Spain, i think the event was called Moviplaya. I remember many kids were there and we spent the queue fighting and trading, massive golden memories
this is so silly but i teared up seeing the shiny roselia. my first full odds, not cheated and not event-based shiny pokemon was a budew, and i carried her with me for years before a cousin of mine wiped the save she was on without asking me. i've missed her ever since, and every time i see a shiny of the roselia line i feel so many emotions about it.
It's cool to piece stuff together but also a little depressing knowing that the original owner doesn't have access to all the work they did anymore. I wonder how many of them were forced to sell their game for whatever reason of if a family member "threw them out", or if they were stolen.
There are plenty of ways to transfer and edit save files to and from cartridges and your PC, from hacked 3DSs to physical devices you plug your older cartridges in.
With that first one, my copy of Pokemon Black had ALL of that stuff. I was so proud. Sadly in 2015 I lost that game, along with my 3DS and every other game I had. Fell right out of my backpack and I didn't even know....
I bought a copy of Pearl off of Ebay. It was bundled with the Shadows of Almia and Action Replay I was looking for, so it was mostly just a bonus. While it was clearly AR'd, it also had a Launch Date save file on it with pretty much every event that was available to North America. Sadly, I kinda need to give it a very indepth cleaning, as most all of my DS-capable systems are unable to read it very easily.
This video felt really good, your story telling was spot on. I'd love to hear about the other games you found (and possibly about future games you'll buy! but yeah im sure it was expensive)
I used to love getting pre owned games to look through pokemon as I wasn’t allowed a GameShark and my wifi wouldn’t work with Nintendo online. Sadly there wasn’t much more than just hacked shinies in most of them, though one of my soul silver copies beat the champion league without beating any gyms. That was a fun playthrough lol. I recently bought a lot of like 6 pokemon games from yahoo auction and it was a bit like the games you found. Most pokemon were transferred but most of the games were very completed as well.
@@ChicagoMel23 Ah yea. i dunno lol my parents wouldn't let me and by the time i was old enough to buy one myself i never found one. i guess i could find one now but the magic is a little passed.
6:21 Most likely every shiny on that cartridge is hacked. Hacks have existed for a long time, but just because they were popularized during gen 6 doesn't mean they didn't exist before then via gameshark and action replay.
I buy my Pokémon games used to try to snag rare Pokémon as well. Usually doesn't work. But one time, I got a mew on an omega ruby cart. I had it for 6 years. Until one day, my son pulled the cart out while it was on and corrupted the save data.
It makes me sad that there are people who attended events, got the pokemon, and then traded it in. I understand trading in games, but I always put my pokemon in pokemon home and put them on the newest software first. Seeing those people left behind kinda stabbed me in the heart. But I’m also a huge pokénerd and I would never leave something like that behind. But good finds for you, though!
I still have ALL 3 of my shiny legendary dogs from when I was a kid. I’m actively using them in Scarlet/Violet. So cool knowing that I still have my Pokémon from well over a decade ago.
You can still get almost all the gen 4 and 5 items if you have an old ds and router (some phone hotspots work) and change your dns settings on your ds to access a private server someone hosts them on. For the pokemon to be "legit" all you have to do is change the date on your ds and it will show up as caught or received one the date you set it to which you can do before talking to the guy by the counter in the pokemart. There are so many events for those games you will have to delete wondercards before you can collect them all.
I recently bought a Japanese copy of Sapphire that clearly had a lot of love put into it. 128 hours, boxes and boxes of all kinds of Pokemon, lots of unhatched eggs. I was honestly a little sad that I had to start a new game for the purpose I bought the cartridge for.
Confession: when I finally had the budget as an adult, and "needed" to get the alternate games, I made sure to find a lovingly used copy at Used game stores. Best way I got old legendaries from when I didn't keep up with events. I haven't gotten Violet yet because I'm biding my time, lol.
Watching this is kind of saddening for me. All of the talk of finding people's old memories and such, and I don't have anything like that for most of my games. The battery for Blue died long ago, so no save data there, Gold and Crystal both went missing, as did LeafGreen. Ruby and Emerald were both stolen, Sapphire I only borrowed from my uncle and never actually owned, idk where my original copy of FireRed is now. Diamond and Pearl were both stolen, Platinum bricked itself, as did SoulSilver. I think I still have HeartGold somewhere, but no real memories of it. Not sure where White is, but by White 2 I stopped finding as much joy in the games. I still play them, and still have fun, but don't really have as much... Amazement and wonder and memories. Until SV, surprisingly, but even that doesn't compare to my memories of Emerald and Diamond prior to them being stolen (separately, sadly).
A few years ago I decided to start collecting all pokemon games and going around hunting for the ones I was missing was always a blast, checking other people's old files has been always so much fun! I had a couple of little gems and others that were unabashedly hacked lol
I looked back at my old shinies when I transferred them to SV and discovered the shiny Shaymin I caught in Platinum (for those about to ask, it was from the Gen 4 DNS exploit) had the Mini Mark.
Its kinda sad most people who sell games on ebay, or even gamestop, will delete and reset files before selling them. so all the potential you'd otherwise find, is just gone.
I really hate that some Pokemon were limited to some events in a specific country like "You can't fly to Japan to get this limited Pokemon? Well, sucks to be you..."
Not only this but often limited to the regions version aswell.
My friend got on a German Pokemon Day on his English Pearl rom on r4 card tho a Shaymin where the OT changed to english "Movie11" then. My japanese versions never worked there.
I agree, but I can see why they do it. Some of these events are meant to encourage people to participate in activities limited by location (Go to a specific place, Buy a movie ticket, Watch a specific tv show). If they shared these events online the people wouldn't really have a reason to do any of those things. Still sucks tho
@@Kozmic_CLIt's also a great way to make things more collectable. Harder to get = more value
@@SubjectDelta20 That's more a benefit for collectors or people who wanna sell, I doubt GameFreak truly cares about the collectable part, or at least, it's not that high of a priority.
@@Kozmic_CL I wouldn't have a problem with these kinds of events if they at least were more like, "Travel to the capital city of your own country" and not, "Travel to the other side of the globe on this one specific day"
I'm sorry but the "I guess they never found it" had me rolling
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ye that was cold 😂❤
@@MonographicSingleheadedWas that a double Kanye reference?
My mom is a saint for taking me to GameStop and Toys R Us for all these events back in the day. I had almost all of the event Pokemon that you mentioned in the video (except for the Japan exclusive ones) and have since transferred them up to Pokemon Home, so that I could replay some of my old DS carts.
This video totally brought back memories though. Thanks! I would totally be game to watch the next video in this series
My mom did the same Thing. But when she got sick my elder sister took over and on her lunch brake go to the mall Gamestop and had to learn or ask help to download it onto my save file. My Mom pass away a few years ago and this video made me cry with this comment too.
@@DrakesononeI’m sorry for your loss.
That first one is definitely a situation where someone's parent sold/donated their kids stuff without telling them
It's definitely not. It's more likely someone traded it in to get a new game or money.... welcome to the Real world .
@@davidsmith8950 Nah, he could be right. Someone who's that invested into the game should know the value of their item and likely would've wanted more money for it.
@@franchise5527 doing a few events over a couple years isn't "that invested", especially when they live in the country where they occur.
not always as some people sell their games because it might be taking up space in their home
@@CoolPorygon Its something that will NEVER be available again without hacking
I know a lot of people grow out of Pokémon, and a lot of people carry no sympathy for game files, but this is extremely sad and bittersweet to me, to see whole abandoned teams and half-played save files. Everyone gets their own experience in life, but I don't think I would ever be able to part with some of those memories.
Ever since I got my DS I've been working on living dexes and keeping all the "original teams" transfered up all the time before I can even think of reseting a save file.
Maybe I'm weirdly emotional for this, but there's something sad about people growing out of something that means a lot to me.
this plus the nostalgic music, wish i had had my gold silver and yellow cartridges too, even if the batteries were dead. Those 3 cartridges got me through game boy color up to the ds.
no, definitely. I'm the same way. I have to keep everything when it comes to pokemon.
I’m still holding my sapphire cartridge I got at GameStop as a kid for the same reason, my wife tried getting me to sell it a few times lol fair to say I was almost single a few times 😅 I never transferred my og team up but it’s still fun to go in and see the wacky names I gave my ogs 😂😂
this
It's crazy how attached to pokemon people get, myself included. It really is the backbone of the franchise. Funny thing is that GF didn't really expect people to get so attached to their mons, the og game design made it seem more like a blood sport, whips and all (which is why team rocket grunts in gen 1 have whips, they left it in there for them)
At one point I had and used an action replay on my ds Pokémon games and I’ve been there - at the point of just catching random shinies. My guess is they just enabled a cheat code so that every encounter was shiny. They had a legit event Arceus but had that cheat enabled so it was encountered as shiny.
I'm curious how many of the suspicious wondercards were legitimte. If you used a gamecard savefile editor it's pretty easy to pick out wondercards you want.
I used to be a dirty hacker in highschool and have since released all my hacked Pokemon. However I can tell you that it is totally possible and actually quite easy to use an action replay to change any Pokemon (even from an event) to a shiny.
En efecto mi estimado
My favorite of those cheats were catching npc trainer's pokemon. I thought that was the coolest.😂
Well im shiny hunting a shiny Arceus in gen 4 using the void glitch. It’s gonna be 100% legit and safe for my gen 5 save. It’s an extremely rare shiny
At some point, you gotta consider a few of these are absolutely Pokemon with deceased owners. Some of the finds on here are probably just not cared about, but things like the first cart could absolutely be an estate sale that changes hands and winds up where you found it.
I had a friend who bought Black and White, new game, and the cart was already loaded with legendries and event pokemon. She restarted it but I'd love to know if the trainer ID was anything to do with testing. It was so new at the time I'm not sure if anyone had hacked it and returned it already.
oh wow
No, because you'd just be turning mountains into molehills
As someone who collects "vintage" Pokemon on Home this really hit a note
i liked this video concept a lot, if you do it again i think there's a lot of potential for storytelling and making this a fun little series go for it
Came here to say this. Pokemon Archeology would be a sick series name
Pretty sure he got the idea from Suzuki Kenzo, a Japanese UA-camr who does stuff like this. Trying to complete a full dex using old games, farming for an event shiny after finding an old save where the owner unlocked the event but never caught the pokemon, etc.
@@yoshi8799 So there are 2 people who take forever to get to the point?
Not sure if someone mentioned it but, for the diamond file with a darkrai, the event was never released for DP, only for platinum, so that darkrai was either cheated or obtained with the crazy void glitch
You can use dns methods and get all the mystery gifts in 2023 for most pokemon games on the ds.
or either exchanged from a platinum save file, but not sure if that was even possible
@@matiasrodriguez3986You just catch one in Platinum and trade it to DP, totally possible
@@matiasrodriguez3986you can trade event pokemon with local trade but not with online trade or gts
The void glitch isn't that crazy hard to activate. Lol honestly it's probably easier to glitch for Darkrai and Shaymin in BDSP than it was in DPPHGSS, the craziest glitch would probably moreso be the Cute Charm glitch
The game that had all shinys probably used an action replay or something to force every pokemon in their box to be shiny. I vaguely remember seeing codes for that back in the day.
actually I'm willing to bet it was the cute charm glitch. it only worked on HGSS and DPPT and so long as you had a pokemon with cute charm, you can play through the game with only shinies. I've done it to most of my retail copies and my boxes look just like that. it absolutely could be hacking, but they also could be entirely legit. impossible to know with those specific games.
I can back this up. There were two cheats, actually. One made everything take on the appearance of a shiny, but didn't make them actually shiny while the second made any encounter or egg shiny, which would allow them to be transferred all the way up to current gens if you obtained them in a place they'd normally be.
@@Moon-Vixen cute charm does not work on genderless pokemon
@@jormungand72 I'm well aware. if there was a genderless shiny mon among the bunch in that clip, I missed it.
@@Moon-Vixen the legendaries, including an event arceus when the first shiny arceus was available was XY ORAS
Last year I bought a Japanese sapphire which has a Jirachi with OT ネガイボシ and ID 30719, meaning it could be from the first ever distribution event in 2003. Everything else about the file looks normal, only Kyogre and Blaziken at lvl 100, 76 hours played, about 50% dex. I imagine these days it would be possible to hack one into emerald and trade it over, but I want to believe it's been sitting there for 20 years at lvl 48.
The biggest mystery to me is what caused the original owners to just trade in/sell their games with these incredibly rare Pokemon. Even if they lost interest in the franchise (which I can understand as someone who was a massive Pokemon fan during gen 1-3) they must have known that what they had was rare and therefore more valuable than the game itself (I'm of course not counting the cases where the Pokemon were very likely gotten through cheats). Also correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it most of these Pokemon should be or have been possible to transfer up to the modern Pokemon HOME app.
Definitely. The whole time when he was going over the soulsilver copy, I couldn't stop envisioning the owner of the copy trading it in, and why, and for such a low price.
Maybe they lost it and whoever found it didn’t care about Pokémon so they sold the game. Or maybe they died.
People in Japan couldn't careless unlike Western people. They go on with their lives and sought these things as just a game and not a hobby for collecting sort of thing.
@@crisrocas7924 Do you have a source for that? At least online I've seen evidence that there are a lot of collectors, including ones collecting video games and related media, in Japan. Not surprisingly a lot of them are also part of the Otaku subculture.
For me, I had bills to pay. I sold my entirely BW/BW2 with boxes, inserts, and guides.
It ..still breaks my heart.
I love this video concept! Every Pokémon player and cartridge has its own story, from new players trying out, to shiny fanatics using action replays, to dedicated kids who had the games from the beginning. Would love to see more of these, it’s so nice seeing what old Pokémon players got up to in their games and what can be found!
I loved this way more then expected. This somehow felt me with some weird sort of nostalgia and i enjoyed every single second of it a ton!
I’d love to see more of these! It’s really cool to get a tiny glimpse of what the people who played these games were like. Sweet and a little melancholy, too - wondering who they are, and if they still think back on the Pokémon they left behind with fondness, maybe hoping someone else just like you will see and enjoy them someday.
I feel bad you didn't show the caught location/ time page of those "Seemingly hacked Pokemon", as some of your viewers (like me) can read Japanese and therefore could possibly help you find parts that supports if it's legit or not.
I would ask for the pokemon to be temperately traded to me so that I could inspect the .pkm file after extracting my save, all the metadata there would at the very least point to its legality, even if its legitimacy is still in question.
there's something hilarious about opening a person's abandoned save file after who-knows how many years after the player quit, and it being in the middle of a feebas hunt. i felt that.
In ORAS, in the house south of the Devon corporation in Rustboro City, there's an Ace trainer on the 2nd floor who gives you a Float stone. Once you leave and come back, the character's model will be replaced with a Hiker, and he'll remark "... For some reason, I've put on a lot of weight recently."
I love how cozy this video feels, such a relaxing watch
this reminded me to check the soulsilver and diamond cartridges that i bought while i was in japan… thank you!!!
As someone who used an action replay during the gen 4 era, I can confirm there was a cheat code that just made all of your pokemon at the time permanently shiny.
*click* nice.
please continue this, i just absolutely LOVE seeing old files explored!!
Would love to see more like this. Buying an used Pokémon game is always like looking into the past of someone else’s history with the franchise.
6:22 They probably traded that event Arceus to an emulator like an R4, used a program like Pokesav which can create/change Pokemon to your hearts content, then traded back to the legit cartridge. That's what I did back in my childhood
There is a genuine, honest, authentic love this guy has for shiny hunting that comes from such a pure place
my best guess for how they got arceus to be shiny is they just used something like an action replay, and edited that arceus's stats to be shiny, most likely they had a really long code, that went through and made all of their mons shiny, and one of them happened to be that event arceus
Those where my thoughts as well. But I also think it'd be best to examine the amount of play time on that save file, if the Pokémon were from that game by that trainer, dates they were caught or hatched, and stats. I think it may be possible they COULD be legit if that someone either spent a LOT of time shiny hunting (can be verified by play time), traded with others that had shinies, or had multiple copies of the game and did any of the above to make this their shiny collection game (can be verified by OT, stats, journal key item, catch/hatch dates).
@nefariosgliscor Its impossible for that event mon to be shiny. They usually make sure of that, and there are only a couple of examples of them messing that up, the only way to get a shiny one of it is by editing a legit one, or just manually adding one to your save, and if they are willing to cheat in one, I find it unlikely they would get the rest legit
I really hope you do more of these. They are sooo interesting and tell a story behind what happened. Its amazing to see. Keep up the great work. Happy new year ❤
For the shiny Arceus, I believe there was a movie event where you had a chance of getting one with any of the plates, a normal, or shiny without plate.
yeah, but with every other pokemon in that save file edited to be shiny after the fact, its most likely not legit.
oh, and the shiny arceus event was for Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire in 2015
Not that event though
I find these videos so interesting the fact you can find these types of things is very fascinating
Off topic, but I'd like someone to verify this potentially obscure fact if it hasn't been covered already, and I know this is the channel for it.
I've put over 500 hours into Legends Arceus just trying to get perfect on each dex entry without fully progressing the story. Anyhow, I only recently noticed one Easter egg. You know how in most older games, especially those that let you keep making the walking animation against a wall or NPC, it makes a "thud" sound for each collision with that obstacle? Well, Legends Arceus has it too, but not in the same context. It's when you take fall damage and it's very subtle. I haven't seen anyone mention this anywhere, but if it's true, I think it's a really nice nod to one of the game mechanics that you would expect has become obsolete with all the walking animations of a 3D game.
this reminded me of all the work i put into my SS game. Gonna find it and make sure i pull everyone into home before April
The rarest pokemon i have is a shony giratina, distributed in Berlin back in 2013. It's safely stored in Pokemon home
I'm not really sure how else to describe this video, but it was very tranquil, it was a super cozy watch, I'd love to see a follow-up or something similar
I love the fact that you are putting so much effort and dedication in your videos👍🏻👍🏻. Keep up the good work! And i am glad that you are still trying to find a lot of undiscovered and obscure things in the old roms too. Keep uploading 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻🔥🙂
I would love a sequel to this video; also like how even their deer bow to passersby!
there are multiple ways to force a pokemon shiny, there are action replay memory edits that roll a shiny PID for the selected pokemon. Or you can edit the save file in PKHex or other software, and do the same; reroll the PID to force it shiny.
For most events this will render the pokemon illegal, but for pokemon that can be shiny events such as the Arceus (if its from the shiny arceus chance event), so long as all other parameters of the pokemon match legality, it will still appear legal (even though its not legit)
I believe an Action Replay can automatically alter the shiny status of any Pokemon by messing with stuff like the PID!
But it can be tracked by PKHex
Man. Getting hit with all the nostalgia from when I got all these events back in the day.
Many are living in home now, but I now feel compelled to go back and make sure nobody’s been left behind
Something i love about used Pokemon games having save files on them, is that I can then try to find a Pokemon or two that are really important to the person who owned it previously, and then if they feel oddly neglected, or if i just want to, i can train them up and essentially adopt them into my team members.
I recently noticed that a Golduck, Swellow, and Haunter in a used copy of Diamond has champion ribbons from specifically gen 3 or Sinnoh (depending on which one), and i decided to EV train the Haunter an evolve it, and im planning on at oeast EV training the Swellow since it could spam Guts boosted Facades
Cool video, also if you see a bunch of random shiny pokemon in a gen 4 game, it could be possible that they could have the cute charm glitch activated, i know this wasn't your case but its something to have in mind.
cute charm also does not work on genderless pokemon, much less events.
In messing around with Diamond cheats on an emulator, I found a code that makes every Pokémon DISPLAY, probably by changing the required personality value?
When the code was turned off, the shinies went back to normal. That might be the Arceus' deal here too.
You’re exactly the video I want 2 in the morning, keep up the amazing work!
The classic aspect ratio is a nice touch-perfect for retro Pokemon games.
I don't know if this applies to the Arceus event, but many of those mystery gift pokemon are not set in stone. You can reset for different natures, shiny, IVs... I doubt that's what this person did but I don't think it's impossible.
almost every single event is locked to be shiny or not. there was an arceus event where you had a 1/19 chance, and that chance is determined when you receive the mystery gift card. so to reroll it you would need to delete the save file, get the gift card again, and check to see if it was shiny that time.
That's not true. I've done those mystery gifts and have reset plenty of times just to hunt for a nature. I'd say most are unlocked to be whatever.
@@sieglinde_ nature, sure, but the events are locked which plate (or silk scarf) they hold, when you obtain the code for the gift. so that the wondercard is predetermined to be a specific held item or the shiny variant.
Go ahead and try to redeem a regular movie 15 - silk scarf arceus event and have it roll shiny.
@@sieglinde_ but hey, feel free to prove me wrong, go find an event pokemon that isnt locked to its shiny form. I never said anything about reseting for nature or IVs, but yes, some pokemon also have their nature and IVs locked.
Probably the only events you can soft reset for shinies, are the shiny chance eggs such as Manaphy
This is something I actually really love to do. Just looking for and buying old used Pokemon games and seeing what gems lie within.
Definitely more videos of this! I love looking for stories in old pokemon games I buy. Do some generation III games next!
im sorta worried about this guy, he hasnt posted in over 2 months and he doesnt sound too happy in this one, i hope hes alright
this video is such a treat, as someone who can't afford the consoles way back then and mainly use emulators to play these, it's so awesome to see the original pokemons people used on their first playthrough
thanks for doing this
3:23, I could've sworn snarl was dark, not normal.
He meant its a move that is easily accessible now
Wow I feel a bit strange watching these knowing some of my save files on my DS games are still my original files from when I first played. Some of my Pokemon from my Pearl copy are approaching 20 years old :O
Why would players sell their games with rarities that they've obtained?
getting event pokemon back in 2010 when i first got pokemon games was one of my favorite things, i wish i could go back and play the games for the first time
For Arceus
they didnt force the event to be shiny. they simply edited the pokemon to be shiny AFTER receiving it
also for the Rare Mew, you can clone pokemon, change dates, trainer names. iDs. secret IDs, its all able to be manipulated
even add ribbons if you want
My Ultra Moon cart has every special event pokemon I could get in the UK. Every pokemon I've ever caught since Ruby and Sapphire
I had an action replay when I was a kid as well and had a lot of fun messing around with, but my favourite by far was catching trainers' pokemon for whatever reason. I wonder if there is any way to tell how many of my pokemon are from trainers.
You had me booting up all my Pokémon games from Japan and my copy of Diamond has the event shaymin that was given out I believe from Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
Pokemon white for roughly 10 dollars is crazy
“and they hacked in like… a thousand master balls” shit has me rolling😭
Very cool! I think about how a lot of game stores delete the save file to make sure the game is working properly and it makes me sad a little to see someone’s beloved Pokémon just erased without further thought(even though they may have been the one to sell it to the store). Super cool to see old event pokemon. I need to get my old gen 5 pokemon transferred up one of these days before it’s too late or they’ll be trapped on the cartridges too
I am reminded of the 4 or 5 Pokemon that i bred and trained for competitive battle back in Heart Gold and White, never ended up doing competitive battling but I still have those Pokemon with me to this day, along with a Draco Meteor Jirachi from a Gen 4 wifi event, and Victini from those games. Those pokemon are like 12-15 years old give or take a year or two.
I always get this happy/sad feeling when I buy a used Pokemon game. This was someone’s memories, and I felt so much guilt resetting my Soul Silver.
pkhex and pksm allow you to edit data, pksm allows to export old gen mons to new games without the sub or hacking your console too, but of course people use it to force shiny mons or edit stats, which is why most people exploit the same rngtools and exploit the same seeds and get banned at the tournament xD
To be honest most people who were into pokemon back when BW came out got Victiny and the HGSS events that unlock Zorua/Zoroark, you would have made the same observations if you got my game for example, it's not that rare
You went to Japan, too! That's awesome! I just actually got back from my two week trip to the country, hope you had as great of an experience as I did, Phin! Miss you, bud!
I remember my first shiny so deliberately, i was about 14 years old, playing my just new game of pokemon white, walking the grass to the right of opelucid city, where i randomly encountered a shiny bravary.
Who needs sleep when BlueBoyPhin uploads? Certainly not I
The Darkrai and Shaymin on the final copy of Diamond were probably encountered by using the walk through walls code on a cheating device to access to event areas. Both event Pokémon could be accessed this way, and it may also explain why the game does not seem to also have Arceus, since that code can not be used to access the area above Spear Pillar.
The massive number of Masterballs could also be an indicator of a very specific Action Replay method. I recall using one that would allow your next encounter to work like this:
-Discard your Masterballs to leave between 1 and 493 of them in your bag.
-Depending on which number in the national dex your choice was, that Pokémon would appear.
I recall using it specifically in the area you'd find Giratina in Diamond because those were among higher leveled Pokémon in the game besides maybe Stark Mountain. I'd shamefully used that method to catch Arceus, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, and a few other mythicals I'd missed just to complete my very first national dex. Using Action Replay almost physically damaged my card from fitting in the DS normally so that's my just deserts. I've been clean ever since.
6:20 I remember messing around with Action Replay on my Pokémon Diamond, there was a code that allowed you to make all your Pokémon in-game and PC Shiny, if you didn’t save, it would force them back to being not shiny. I couldn’t force myself to get a full shiny dex of Pokémon so I never saved, but that’s most likely what happened to that cartridge tbh. I think the code was either a very short in characters meaning it was easy to execute without a PC or it was a default code put on the Action Replay. Just my 2 cents.
This video remember my Deoxys in a Red Fire cartridge, i got it on an event at the beach in Gijon, Spain, i think the event was called Moviplaya. I remember many kids were there and we spent the queue fighting and trading, massive golden memories
this is so silly but i teared up seeing the shiny roselia. my first full odds, not cheated and not event-based shiny pokemon was a budew, and i carried her with me for years before a cousin of mine wiped the save she was on without asking me. i've missed her ever since, and every time i see a shiny of the roselia line i feel so many emotions about it.
I have never felt so old as when event pokemon I was there to receive are talked about as if some ancient, long-lost forbidden treasure
It's cool to piece stuff together but also a little depressing knowing that the original owner doesn't have access to all the work they did anymore. I wonder how many of them were forced to sell their game for whatever reason of if a family member "threw them out", or if they were stolen.
There are plenty of ways to transfer and edit save files to and from cartridges and your PC, from hacked 3DSs to physical devices you plug your older cartridges in.
I once found a Colosseum Ho-Oh on an old Emerald cartridge, pretty wild
With that first one, my copy of Pokemon Black had ALL of that stuff. I was so proud. Sadly in 2015 I lost that game, along with my 3DS and every other game I had. Fell right out of my backpack and I didn't even know....
7:39 why did this make me go awww
I bought a copy of Pearl off of Ebay. It was bundled with the Shadows of Almia and Action Replay I was looking for, so it was mostly just a bonus. While it was clearly AR'd, it also had a Launch Date save file on it with pretty much every event that was available to North America. Sadly, I kinda need to give it a very indepth cleaning, as most all of my DS-capable systems are unable to read it very easily.
Damn this is a crazy coincidence. I also flew to Akihabara and went to some used game stores just earlier this week and bought some old Pokemon games.
Dude I loved this video, and hope that there's more to be coming in future
This video felt really good, your story telling was spot on. I'd love to hear about the other games you found (and possibly about future games you'll buy! but yeah im sure it was expensive)
I used to love getting pre owned games to look through pokemon as I wasn’t allowed a GameShark and my wifi wouldn’t work with Nintendo online. Sadly there wasn’t much more than just hacked shinies in most of them, though one of my soul silver copies beat the champion league without beating any gyms. That was a fun playthrough lol.
I recently bought a lot of like 6 pokemon games from yahoo auction and it was a bit like the games you found. Most pokemon were transferred but most of the games were very completed as well.
You mean Action Replay. Why wouldnt you be allowed one?
@@ChicagoMel23 Ah yea. i dunno lol my parents wouldn't let me and by the time i was old enough to buy one myself i never found one. i guess i could find one now but the magic is a little passed.
6:21 Most likely every shiny on that cartridge is hacked. Hacks have existed for a long time, but just because they were popularized during gen 6 doesn't mean they didn't exist before then via gameshark and action replay.
Please do this more! I would love to see more of these cool save files and what pokemon they have trapped inside.
I buy my Pokémon games used to try to snag rare Pokémon as well. Usually doesn't work. But one time, I got a mew on an omega ruby cart. I had it for 6 years. Until one day, my son pulled the cart out while it was on and corrupted the save data.
Would love to see more videos and see what other special things you find in games!! Loved this!
It makes me sad that there are people who attended events, got the pokemon, and then traded it in. I understand trading in games, but I always put my pokemon in pokemon home and put them on the newest software first. Seeing those people left behind kinda stabbed me in the heart. But I’m also a huge pokénerd and I would never leave something like that behind. But good finds for you, though!
A buyee version won't be bad and it's a whole video as a ad for them better if they sponsor it themselves
I still have ALL 3 of my shiny legendary dogs from when I was a kid. I’m actively using them in Scarlet/Violet. So cool knowing that I still have my Pokémon from well over a decade ago.
You can still get almost all the gen 4 and 5 items if you have an old ds and router (some phone hotspots work) and change your dns settings on your ds to access a private server someone hosts them on. For the pokemon to be "legit" all you have to do is change the date on your ds and it will show up as caught or received one the date you set it to which you can do before talking to the guy by the counter in the pokemart. There are so many events for those games you will have to delete wondercards before you can collect them all.
I recently bought a Japanese copy of Sapphire that clearly had a lot of love put into it. 128 hours, boxes and boxes of all kinds of Pokemon, lots of unhatched eggs. I was honestly a little sad that I had to start a new game for the purpose I bought the cartridge for.
Confession: when I finally had the budget as an adult, and "needed" to get the alternate games, I made sure to find a lovingly used copy at Used game stores. Best way I got old legendaries from when I didn't keep up with events. I haven't gotten Violet yet because I'm biding my time, lol.
Watching this is kind of saddening for me. All of the talk of finding people's old memories and such, and I don't have anything like that for most of my games. The battery for Blue died long ago, so no save data there, Gold and Crystal both went missing, as did LeafGreen. Ruby and Emerald were both stolen, Sapphire I only borrowed from my uncle and never actually owned, idk where my original copy of FireRed is now. Diamond and Pearl were both stolen, Platinum bricked itself, as did SoulSilver. I think I still have HeartGold somewhere, but no real memories of it. Not sure where White is, but by White 2 I stopped finding as much joy in the games. I still play them, and still have fun, but don't really have as much... Amazement and wonder and memories. Until SV, surprisingly, but even that doesn't compare to my memories of Emerald and Diamond prior to them being stolen (separately, sadly).
Action replay shiny hunting was a blast
A few years ago I decided to start collecting all pokemon games and going around hunting for the ones I was missing was always a blast, checking other people's old files has been always so much fun! I had a couple of little gems and others that were unabashedly hacked lol
I looked back at my old shinies when I transferred them to SV and discovered the shiny Shaymin I caught in Platinum (for those about to ask, it was from the Gen 4 DNS exploit) had the Mini Mark.
The full shiny save one has to be tampered with somehow
I like this title better than the original one!
Its kinda sad most people who sell games on ebay, or even gamestop, will delete and reset files before selling them. so all the potential you'd otherwise find, is just gone.
Holy shit I absolutely loved the music in this video and watching this in 360p gave it an extreme early 2000s vibe to everything.
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