Here's my problem with event distribution Pokemon. As someone who grew up wanting to catch every Pokemon, imagine my disappointment when I learnt that some Pokemon (mostly Mythical Pokemon) couldn't be obtained any more. Especially the online event Pokemon that will never come back (I think at least). R.I.P the Pokedex.
in gen 4 and 5 you can do the dns exploit. that actually also lets you online trade/battle/use the gts in those games. basically people figured out how to trick the original DS games into thinking it's connected to legit nintendo servers when it's actually private servers hosting mystery gift events and other online features. Sadly for the 3DS games no such exploit has been found yet and you'd have to hack your 3DS to do these kinds of things.
I won that surfing Pikachu from Nintendo Power as a kid! I was so excited to win and when my cartridge got mailed back to me, my dad used something called a 'Mega Memory Card' to "back up my game just in case." He accidentally wiped my save and I was devastated. He used a GameShark to hack one back into my game but it still hurt and the IDs don't match the contest Pikachu.
@themasterbaiter You could also get a Surfing Pikachu through Pokemon Battle Revolution after beating all the arenas on Level 50 mode and get rank 8 on all
That happened to me recently on my blue version. Thankfully, nothing was valuable on there. Returned that piece of sheet immediately. I'm so sorry that happened to you, bro. Thats brutal. Thank god file backups are more of a surefire thing these days.
On 18:18 you CAN rerun these events and many more, as people have been recreating them during the past couple of years. All you need is an NDS/NDSlite + an R4 to backup your gen3 saves, and plenty of software, save files etc. But you can, it's just a little time consuming. I got a japanese copy of fire red like a month ago and have almost completed the national dex.
I’m a 23 year old who is just now getting into Pokémon (for some reason). I’ve played Emerald before, but that was it. I just played through White for the first time, and I was so immensely disappointed how many Pokémon are locked behind events that happened 13 years ago and trades on servers that no longer exist. I have serious issues with single player games requiring online functionality to complete, I just thought it was a relatively new phenomena. Turns out, it was Game Freak and Nintendo that started it all like 2 decades ago. (I know you can still easily complete the game without collecting every Pokémon, but I’m a strict collector/completionist, I play games to completely fill out the arbitrary checklists.)
If life was like a sitcom, you'd meet your boss at that same Toys'R'Us for the same reason because he also called in sick and you would both be trying to dodge each other all day while simultaneously getting that Mew
Note that the Colosseum bonus disc was NOT available in Europe, for Europeans to get Jirachi we had to get Pokémon Channel. Mew & Deoxys was given away in European GameStop (or GAME), and Celebi was never disturbed, so I was stuck at 385/386... and then my copy of Emerald was lost.
18:31 I came here to say I had no idea you were at the funfest meetup until the day after it happened. I knew who you were but didn't know your face. I would have said something to you had I known. But thanks so much for joining us! We pushed really hard for people to come through, and we smashed our goal! We might even have the highest non-Japanese Funfest score, though it's hard to find other attempts out there besides Johnstone's group, so who knows? We're still trying to verify stuff, and even edit a few videos of our own on the experience. Again, thanks a million!!
Yeah... I saw a special German TH-camr who does most perfect safe states of the Pokémon editions. He also mentioned how ridiculous it was in Gen 3 to get every Pokémon. He said it's Generation Dreist (a mix of three drei and audacious dreist)
In pre-2008 times, thats close to 900 dollars JUST to complete the gen 3 Pokedex: $200.00 respectively for a Gamecube and two GBA systems (thats 100 dollars for two separate gba's ) $20.00 for a wireless adaptor (assuming the link cable already came with the gba, and you didnt buy firered and leafgreen or they stopped pairing them together) And then $60.00 (at worst) respectively for 8 games (7 if we're not counting Pokemon Box) That being said, I respect you if you did this, and hope it was worth the pain.
Honestly, it seems stupid factoring in the cost of the consoles, since most people back then already had them. I can't really see someone in 2006 just waking up one morning and going "I think I'm gonna complete the pokedex, but I don't even have a GBA. Better drop a ton of money on a new, current-Gen system just so I can play one game."
Lyramadeawebsite completed the gen 3 living dex. Btw, there's two ways to get Celebi in gen 3. The first is the Japanese exclusive bonus disc from Pokemon XD:Gale of Darkness I think. The second method is the Pomeg Glitch in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
You could make a video about how most people that for example never finished the Pokédex in every other edition, never seen specific sprites like that pidgey sprite and so on lol. Was so confused and it actually looked super cool :3
it baffled my mind when I realized that I can't get the whole pokedex presented to me in pokemon fire red when my friend had leaf green. I was really mad when the future pokemon games just kept this up...
It worked for gen1 but the moment they did came up with event pokemon the pokedex completion went out the window. Atleast now people are starting to get the event data for everything and you can download em all on a gb operator n stuff but we shouldnt have to do all that in the first place
@@royrogers4468 i think by "legit" they mean obtained entirely within the game? like you have to glitch it but you don't have to use a gameshark or any other external tools/materials
@cTc10691 I'm actually about to finish my living dex but I can't because I missed the raid events for the legendary pardox Pokémon. I'm hoping they rerun them at least once before the next main line games come out
so.......i WAS the weird lonely kid that did have all the stuff needed to finish my dex, mythicals aside. through very good budgeting and meticulous plotting with my birthday and christmas gift lists, i had what i needed. two GBAs, RSE, FRLG, colosseum, XD, a gamecube, both link cables, and i even had the bonus disk despite not preordering colosseum. they were just giving them away at walmart according to my mom? but yeah the only thing is that i lived in nowhere USA so i never got events near me and if i did, i was too shy to ask my mom to take me. but yeah us eccentric kids with way too many pokemon games and ambition did exist! hahaha. also yes, i do still have all of those things i listed! i'm hoping that i can give out some jirachis at a local event or at my local pkmn league some time, i think it would be nice, but i don't know that there are many locals that would be into it. many of the people i know started playing pokemon later in life or if they are long time fans, they don't have their old games anymore. maybe someday tho!
Crazy timing for this video. I just completed the emerald national dex using only ruby, sapphire, emerald, leaf green, and fire red. The only pokemon i couldnt obtain were mew, ho-oh, lugia, celebi, the two johto starts i didnt choose, jirachi, and deoxys. Out of these, only the johto starters and ho-oh/lugia count toward the national dex, so i had to learn ACE to glitch in the mystery gifts and respawn the johto starter event. Definitely possible to complete the national dex without the gamecube, but its in no way simple
You can get the mystery gift items to travel to all islands, as if it was 2006, TODAY. You can even get jirachi and celebi from the bonus discs. And the best part is that you can do all this almost for free. As long as you have a NDS/NDSlite + an R4, to backup your save files, with some google-ing and your imagination you can do it😁
7:45 "[I] got Emerald version and had Sapphire as well and wanted to get a zangoose, just to learn that zangoose is only in Ruby and not Sapphire or Emerald." You just transported me back ~15 years to when I was trying to fill out my Gen 3 Pokédex as legitimately as I could. In the end a mate with an Action Replay hacked in the stuff I couldn't get, and probably some other stuff like the Johto starters I didn't feel like playing through Emerald two more times for (only Nintendo consoles our household had were the handheld ones so no Gamecube pokémon).
Why go this far for specific events and gaming systems and all when the real problem is on the Switch… 4 games where you can’t « catch » them all, but you can’t either « buy » them all… you can’t even « transfer » them all, yet you can « pay more ». Pay more collect less, welcome on Nintendo Switch- half the content of the game cut off and everything seems « normal » for everyone while they really do no real development efforts that could explain this situation…
I remember when i was like in middle school (so like around 2009), i had Ruby, Fire Red and Colosseum, and somehow with trades from school got all of those exclusives and event pokemon. at the end, i just needed like Azurill in Ruby, but the game stopped working, and still have it stored
I completed my Gen 3 Pokedex recently and MAN was that a whole task - Purified all the shadow mon in Colosseum (Japanese) - Got Ho-oh from Colosseum - Japanese Colosseum Bonus Disc for Celebi - Bought Japanese Ruby to get previously mentioned Celebi and get gen 3 starter pokemon - American Bonus Disc for Jirachi - Playthrough and caught all the Mons in Emerald (USA) - Traded the Deoxys and other mon I had in my old Fire Red copy - Playthrough Leaf Green for the gen 1 starter and other mon that I did not have in Fire Red - Playthrough XD for Lunatone and Lugia - Bought Japanese Emerald which had Old Sea Chart so I could get Mew - And finally I used Pokemon Box to transfer things more easily with the American games (I had to use link cable and two gbas to move the Japanese Pokemon into my English Emerald)
Sounds like quite the experience. I’m doing something similar myself. Currently finishing up XD. I skipped gen 3 back in the day so this was a fun experience
I’ve been working on an all form living Dex for a couple years where ALL Pokémon come from their original games. So Gen 1 from RBY, Gen 2 from GSC, and so on. All regional forms from the original region, etc. it’s been fun and interesting for sure, but some challenges. I can say for Gen 1 & 2 the duplication glitch saved me hundreds of hours of leveling up and breeding. Also learned that Pokemon traded from Gen 2 to 1 (and vice versa) and then transferred in Poke Transporter reflect origin from the game they transferred from- not where they originally came from before being traded. This helped me in finding gender specific pokemon I needed for Gen 1 all forms instead of catching a bunch of whatever I needed and taking a shot in the dark for the gender being what I still needed.
i actually just did this (and transferred from emerald to HG to black2 this morning lol) brutal process, but childhood me is proud! (I did an emerald living dex, not gen 1 or 2 though. I cant justify buying pokemon box yet...)
Currently 1500+ pokemon in my home with a living dex. Thats 20+ years of playing…i was that kid that bought every game. Oldest pokemon i have in my home is my kyogre from my 1st Emerald playthrough 20 years ago.
I was actually just told about LI Retro Gaming Con by one of the workers when I was at Anime NYC recently, he overheard me talking about my gen 3 living dex and mentioned how they run the events down there, definitely gonna have to check it out next year
Another (and much easier) way to do it is to get a r4 card, download gba backup tool onto it, and backup your save on it. BOOM! Infinite [insert name here] distributor.
I remember getting Sapphire and later Emerald, and reading about Jirachi and Deoxys online. I wanted them badly and tried the stupid fake space station event 😂 Anyway this led to one of the best Gamestop scores of my life, where dad took my $40 bucks in and came out with a GBA GameShark and the Pokemon Colosseum bonus disc. He explained we already bought colosseum and got it for free. The novelty never wore off it made playing the games so much more fun past just getting the legendaries.
My guy is upset about losing his copy of Ruby as a kid, yet I'm here the guy who lost his copy of Emerald after I traded my Sapphire for Leaf Green and my Ruby for some other game. I also lost my copies of Silver and Red after the batteries died.
Craziest thing. Whilst the batteries in my gen 2 games died awhile ago, the ones in my copies of the original games are still chugging. It's an incredible miracle. But I finally transferred the pokes on there to gen3 this week. I've tempted fate enough, honestly.
The thing that really piss me off on the games is not having multiple save files. Because you don't need 2 friends, you need 3, unless a friend is up to reset their progress for 1 starter. And that is early in game, the legendary is late and you can't breed those, so you need a copy of the game to store the mon then reset on 2 versions enough time that everyone can have their missing mons. But Nintendo is nice enough to sell you the solution in the form of Pokémon HOME. You still need both versions tho.
Nowadays, on switch, you can have multiple save files by creating new users and transfer the pokemon between accounts using Home (and you can do it without the subscription). It took time, but we reached there.
I did the gen 3 pokerdex or came extremely close, I remember being so happy when the new games came out and my mum got them for me, a young 10 year old at the time , just to find out we moved house and my ruby version with most my Pokémon on was left at the old house and mum wouldn’t go back and get it
All the dummies at game freak Had to do was do shiny distributions🙄 gets people in the stores while not completely restricting certain pokemon. Idc if they locked em behind some giant fetch quest in game either. Anything is better than the nothing we always got.
I kinda liked the way Gen 3 spread the Pokémon across Hoenn, Kanto and Orre. It felt like 3 different countries with different ecosystems and species, which made more sense than Slugma, Murkrow and Houndour inexplicably appearing in Kanto in Gen 2
17:10 One of the volunteers at the Poke Lab told me they were using a translation patch for the Japanese Bonus Disc. So I don't think an official English version of this exists. Also, the Celebis are region-free as far as I'm aware, since you can obtain the Japanese Bonus Disc Celebi on any English copy of Ruby/Sapphire.
@@Mrperson0 A GameCube and a GBA game of different regions cannot communicate with each other. However, the Colosseum and XD are region-free for whatever reason, so playing a Japanese version on a US GameCube can connect to a US GBA game.
@@CodenameHockhead Have you actually tried this out? Bulbapedia states that you can only link it to a Japanese GBA game, and when I tried it out on my JP Bonus Disc, I can only link to a JP game, can't link to US Ruby at all.
@@silent_reaper999 I’d really recommend checking out his channel but there are some things you need before hand to do Flash cart (ez flash deluxe is good), 2 gba’s, link cable or 2 wireless gba connectors (depending on what events you wanna do), and the game you want to send the event to
Hey, I was also at LIRetro and didn't realize you were there at the time until I went through photos! Awesome to see everyone and I'm so happy with my funfest medals!
My friend got me that event Deoxys in Europe, but sometime later that very same safe file got corrupted. It has been the only time ever my Pokemon save file was lost, and it took my favorite legendary with it...
I am currently going through my generation 3 Living Dex (already did 1 and 2 thanks to 3DS Virtual Console), and, MY GOD, this is tidious. Also note that I am doing it without Game Cube games, as I don't have one, and these games are way too expensive. The saving grace for me is the existence of ACE (arbitrary code execution) in Emerald, allowing me to still activate the limited time events (Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh and Deoxys), and getting Jirachi and Celebi, in order to make it possible. But outside of these specific Pokemon, you technically can complete a gen 3 living dex without any of the GC stuff.
@@slayer100141 Yeah, I agree. For Lugia, Ho-Oh, Jirachi and Celebi, for instance, there is no way I spend like 600€ to buy GC + the two games (it also makes many other mons easier to get, like legendary dogs and Johto starters, but these ones are the only two that would make GC games mandatory). So I just used the ACE to access the event place that allows you to catch them. IMO, it's like ok cheating, in a way. It doesn't make the process way easier, it's just about saving money, and accessing places of the game you wouldn't be able to go to otherwise. Also, it's pretty fun to learn and see how the process of ACE works (tho it's still very tidious XD).
I just noticed you used the dutch cover art of Ruby, with the text “English screentext . Engelse schermtekst”, the last part being dutch, explaining the game never got translated to dutch and was always released in english here
I remember my brother being too embarrassed to go into a store for an event Pokémon (probably Toys R Us) so he and some friends drove their car behind the store right up against the back of the building and were able to connect and get the Pokémon lmao
Funny that this video came out now. Im on the gen 3 living dex quest right now. Got almost everything. Got all my old games at home, still got a lot of pokemon left that i didnt transfer to gen 4. Bought a cardridge that distributes gen 3 events, so i got deoxys and mew yesterday. All thats missing is a japanese gamecube and a japanese copy of sapphire, because i found someone selling japanese colosseum and the celebi disk for surprisingly cheap and it says in the description, that they all still work. So im waiting and hoping haha
I mean you can game shark the tickets and because the events are programmed into he game you just need to irl event to unlock tickets or to trade with a game that had them to mix data I believe. They would still be legit you just access the code in a sane manner
I bought Ruby after saving $30 with $2 a week allowance... after beating Sapphire for the same reason. My OG Sapphire save has every Pokemon except Celebi. Even had a shiny Magikarp, now a red Gyrados in Gen 3 that I refuse to transfer up. Thanks for talking about Colosseum! Still have my copy that came with my Gamecube ❤
I do remember how long it take me to complete the Pokemon dex on my fire red pokemon until I realized you couldn't because of those stupid events that were to get new,celebi,deoxys
I find it frustrating to catch em all now because it isn't as simple as using two different devices anymore lol like I have a switch OLED and a switch lite, but I have to have a different account on each in order to trade back and forth.
I have the Japanese version of the Colosseum bonus disk, and yes, you need the Japanese version of Ruby/Sapphire. Also, you had to have beaten the game in both and purified all the shadow pokemon, then you would get 49 (I think) tickets that you could consume to transfer a Celebii.
I don't remember the exact date, but during Gen 3, I went to a comic book convention in Chicago, and there was a Pokémon booth there where they traded me the event ticket to catch Lugia and Ho-oh in my copy of FireRed. I didn't know in advance that this was gonna happen, either. It was just good fortune that I just _happened_ to have my GBA and copy of FireRed in my bag at the time, mainly to pass the time while waiting in long lines at the convention.
To all the people that will probably say "noooooo you can't just rerun old events like that!" or "nooooo you can't use a non-official piece of hardware to translate a foreign game like that!" sorry the passage of time bothers you? It's cool that people are able to use the old tech to run the events like they did back in the day and if you disagree you're part of the problem
It should be where Mythical Pokémon are a password or QR code like in Yokai Watch. Then they can be kept long term. Maybe you have to beat the game to unlock the feature to get them. I don’t k ow.
See I’m an annoying perfectionist and when I think of things like Event Pokémon being unattainable, I just think of the fetus dream scene from Courage the cowardly dog. I’m not perfect :(
Because I didn't have a link cable or go to the events, I just used a Action Replay to get all the pokemon and items. It was quicker that way especially with the ticket items like eon ticket and to catch legendary pokemon.
Pomeg glitch that deoxy's in emerald,Its still the same event you just use glitches to get to the event island.. think you can also do this for other events in emerald and even catch pokemon like venusaur There's alot of video's online on how to do this c:
I remember when I was in 5th and 6th grade (2008-2009) I decided to try and get as many pokemon as possible on my (EU) Fire Red game save. I still have that save, and I did get everything that Fire Red, Leaf Green, Sapphire, Emerald and Colosseum could offer, except for the Colosseum Ho-Oh. I had already sold my Ruby and XD copies, so I was out of luck with those, and I had no way of getting Mew, Celebi, Deoxys or Jirachii, but other than that I managed to get a complete living dex, every evo stage + all Unknown onto my Fire Red copy. A couple of years ago I bought copies of Ruby and XD again, and I also bought an American colosseum bonus disc (though I don't have any NTSC Colosseum or an NTSC console), but I never got very far into getting the ones I missed. I also got a Japanese colosseum (already had a NTSC-J console because buying that console + a GBA player + a NTSC-J Player disc was somehow cheaper than just the PAL Player disc), and a japanese copy of Sapphire. The plan was to get a bonus disc Celebi, even if I could only have it on the japanese Sapphire version, and I did order a Celebi bonus disc off E-Bay, but it never arrived. I did get my money back, but decided to not order a new one right away, and by the next time I looked they had doubled in price, so I still don't have one, and I'm not sure I'm motivated enough to get one if I can't transfer it to my EU game anyway.
so wild to me that in 2024 there is pretty much no way of starting from scratch and legitimately completing the pokedex. They should really start combining old gens into remakes and release them to the switch so people can do it again
By complicating the games and not allowing you to complete the dex they basically underminded Norman J Grossfeld. The man who coined the catchphrase "Gotta Catch 'em All!"
Actually, gen 6 (and sort of 7) had the 15th anniversary mythical distribution. It wasn’t as in depth as it was in the older gens, but you still had to go to a gamestop (that’s where I went, at least) once a month to get a different mythical pokemon.
Well u mentioning ur missing Ruby game makes me sad. I lost both my Emerald and Firered while moving which had my first 2 full odd shinys (Spheal and Spearow)
In conclusion, catching them all has always been a cluster and we should at least be a little grateful methods have somewhat improved over the decades lol
TL:DR. Just with the GBA games and no events you can get every Pokemon except the 4 mythicals and Ho-Oh and Lugia. However, the Johtomons are all post-game exclusive to FRLG and Emerald, and the Beasts and Johto Starters are both nightmares to get on your own (Beasts are 1 per game post game FRLG, Starters are 1 per game post game complete the regional dex in Emerald). Colosseum and XD both feature a way to get the Johto Starters (albeit in Colosseum it's relatively easy, 1 early game 2 post game, while in XD it's the final part of the game and requires 100% and a 100 battle MT Battle run for one, then another 100 battle Mt Battle run for the others), Ho-Oh is a 100% Mt Battle bonus in Colosseum, and Lugia is a late game mon in XD. They also just make a bunch of regular Johto mons easier to get, plus the Legendary Birds, plus Eeveelutions. You can get Jirachi with the Western Bonus disc and Celebi with the Japanese one. Deoxys and Mew are only legit if you find a verifiably legit one on an old cartridge which...good luck with that.
Here's my problem with event distribution Pokemon. As someone who grew up wanting to catch every Pokemon, imagine my disappointment when I learnt that some Pokemon (mostly Mythical Pokemon) couldn't be obtained any more. Especially the online event Pokemon that will never come back (I think at least). R.I.P the Pokedex.
On the contrary, they're still accessible with very little know how.
@@lexruptor That's what I want to know, I just dont know where to look I guess.
in gen 4 and 5 you can do the dns exploit. that actually also lets you online trade/battle/use the gts in those games. basically people figured out how to trick the original DS games into thinking it's connected to legit nintendo servers when it's actually private servers hosting mystery gift events and other online features. Sadly for the 3DS games no such exploit has been found yet and you'd have to hack your 3DS to do these kinds of things.
In gens 4-5, there's a trick (DNS exploit) that allows you to connect to fan-operated servers where you can get some event Pokémon. Hope this helps
Celebi can be gotten via Arbitrary Code Execution in gen 2 and Glitzer Popping/Pomeg Berry Glitch in gen 3
I won that surfing Pikachu from Nintendo Power as a kid! I was so excited to win and when my cartridge got mailed back to me, my dad used something called a 'Mega Memory Card' to "back up my game just in case." He accidentally wiped my save and I was devastated. He used a GameShark to hack one back into my game but it still hurt and the IDs don't match the contest Pikachu.
Lol that's messed up
@themasterbaiter You could also get a Surfing Pikachu through Pokemon Battle Revolution after beating all the arenas on Level 50 mode and get rank 8 on all
That happened to me recently on my blue version. Thankfully, nothing was valuable on there. Returned that piece of sheet immediately. I'm so sorry that happened to you, bro. Thats brutal.
Thank god file backups are more of a surefire thing these days.
That's a shame. I've used a Mega Memory Card countless times to back up my saves for things like battery swaps.
On 18:18 you CAN rerun these events and many more, as people have been recreating them during the past couple of years. All you need is an NDS/NDSlite + an R4 to backup your gen3 saves, and plenty of software, save files etc. But you can, it's just a little time consuming. I got a japanese copy of fire red like a month ago and have almost completed the national dex.
I’m a 23 year old who is just now getting into Pokémon (for some reason). I’ve played Emerald before, but that was it. I just played through White for the first time, and I was so immensely disappointed how many Pokémon are locked behind events that happened 13 years ago and trades on servers that no longer exist. I have serious issues with single player games requiring online functionality to complete, I just thought it was a relatively new phenomena. Turns out, it was Game Freak and Nintendo that started it all like 2 decades ago.
(I know you can still easily complete the game without collecting every Pokémon, but I’m a strict collector/completionist, I play games to completely fill out the arbitrary checklists.)
Check out Smith Plays Pokémon and then download his remasters: Yellow Legacy & Crystal Legacy. Emerald Legacy still in development but coming soon
12:42 I remember fake calling in sick for work just so I could go to a Toys'R'Us and get that Mew 😅
If life was like a sitcom, you'd meet your boss at that same Toys'R'Us for the same reason because he also called in sick and you would both be trying to dodge each other all day while simultaneously getting that Mew
I can just hear the Seinfeld theme for some reason lol
@@MelancholyJoker19 the finger snaps, popping, and the bass lol
Note that the Colosseum bonus disc was NOT available in Europe, for Europeans to get Jirachi we had to get Pokémon Channel.
Mew & Deoxys was given away in European GameStop (or GAME), and Celebi was never disturbed, so I was stuck at 385/386... and then my copy of Emerald was lost.
Celebi is also available via Bonus Disc in Japan. So technically still available.
Ouch.
18:31 I came here to say I had no idea you were at the funfest meetup until the day after it happened. I knew who you were but didn't know your face. I would have said something to you had I known.
But thanks so much for joining us! We pushed really hard for people to come through, and we smashed our goal! We might even have the highest non-Japanese Funfest score, though it's hard to find other attempts out there besides Johnstone's group, so who knows? We're still trying to verify stuff, and even edit a few videos of our own on the experience.
Again, thanks a million!!
This is why I loved the Game Shark back in the day
and this is why i love ACE glitches today
I own gameshark and action replay. 😅
GameShark ftw 🙌🏾
I was so stoked when I finally could get a Deoxys after missing all the events 😭
Yeah... I saw a special German TH-camr who does most perfect safe states of the Pokémon editions. He also mentioned how ridiculous it was in Gen 3 to get every Pokémon. He said it's Generation Dreist (a mix of three drei and audacious dreist)
Oh and one day he will do the most perfect safe state on Scarlet or Violet and (hopefully Kieran's) Hydrapple will have my name! QwQ
In pre-2008 times, thats close to 900 dollars JUST to complete the gen 3 Pokedex:
$200.00 respectively for a Gamecube and two GBA systems (thats 100 dollars for two separate gba's )
$20.00 for a wireless adaptor (assuming the link cable already came with the gba, and you didnt buy firered and leafgreen or they stopped pairing them together)
And then $60.00 (at worst) respectively for 8 games (7 if we're not counting Pokemon Box)
That being said, I respect you if you did this, and hope it was worth the pain.
Honestly, it seems stupid factoring in the cost of the consoles, since most people back then already had them. I can't really see someone in 2006 just waking up one morning and going "I think I'm gonna complete the pokedex, but I don't even have a GBA. Better drop a ton of money on a new, current-Gen system just so I can play one game."
Lyramadeawebsite completed the gen 3 living dex. Btw, there's two ways to get Celebi in gen 3. The first is the Japanese exclusive bonus disc from Pokemon XD:Gale of Darkness I think. The second method is the Pomeg Glitch in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
@@Kali_Krause It's JP Colosseum + JP Colosseum Bonus Disc, and the other method you mentioned gives you an illegal Celebi.
This is probably why they dropped the "gotta catch em all" slogan in Gen 3 onwards. 😆
It's was an English only slogan anyway and was made up because collectables was a big thing for American kids in the 90's.
It was in Ads in around 2013-2019
"Gotta catch 'em all" is the most successful marketing campaign in history, still effective 20+ years after they dropped it
(Pomeg glitch hiding that fact that you can access the event locations in emerald)
You could make a video about how most people that for example never finished the Pokédex in every other edition, never seen specific sprites like that pidgey sprite and so on lol. Was so confused and it actually looked super cool :3
it baffled my mind when I realized that I can't get the whole pokedex presented to me in pokemon fire red when my friend had leaf green.
I was really mad when the future pokemon games just kept this up...
It worked for gen1 but the moment they did came up with event pokemon the pokedex completion went out the window. Atleast now people are starting to get the event data for everything and you can download em all on a gb operator n stuff but we shouldnt have to do all that in the first place
@@LRSNRCNG309it didn't work for gen 1. Mew was always unobtainable outside events
At least you can get the Old Sea Map using the Pomeg Berry glitch in Japanese Emerald and catch a legit Mew
@@pedro-hw1wl Please explain to me how any part of that process can be considered 'legit'
@@royrogers4468 i think by "legit" they mean obtained entirely within the game? like you have to glitch it but you don't have to use a gameshark or any other external tools/materials
I made a living Dex in Home, all 1006 Pokémon IN ORDER, some of the regional Pokémon are placing the originals but I've got those ones too.
Why only 1006 of them?
@cTc10691 I'm actually about to finish my living dex but I can't because I missed the raid events for the legendary pardox Pokémon. I'm hoping they rerun them at least once before the next main line games come out
Is that Drake Bell in the Pokémon commercial?
Yes that was drake bell
16:51 hello fellow Long Islander!!! So sad I didn't get to go to this. Lol
so.......i WAS the weird lonely kid that did have all the stuff needed to finish my dex, mythicals aside. through very good budgeting and meticulous plotting with my birthday and christmas gift lists, i had what i needed. two GBAs, RSE, FRLG, colosseum, XD, a gamecube, both link cables, and i even had the bonus disk despite not preordering colosseum. they were just giving them away at walmart according to my mom? but yeah the only thing is that i lived in nowhere USA so i never got events near me and if i did, i was too shy to ask my mom to take me. but yeah us eccentric kids with way too many pokemon games and ambition did exist! hahaha.
also yes, i do still have all of those things i listed! i'm hoping that i can give out some jirachis at a local event or at my local pkmn league some time, i think it would be nice, but i don't know that there are many locals that would be into it. many of the people i know started playing pokemon later in life or if they are long time fans, they don't have their old games anymore. maybe someday tho!
Crazy timing for this video. I just completed the emerald national dex using only ruby, sapphire, emerald, leaf green, and fire red. The only pokemon i couldnt obtain were mew, ho-oh, lugia, celebi, the two johto starts i didnt choose, jirachi, and deoxys. Out of these, only the johto starters and ho-oh/lugia count toward the national dex, so i had to learn ACE to glitch in the mystery gifts and respawn the johto starter event. Definitely possible to complete the national dex without the gamecube, but its in no way simple
Not to mention that even with these glitches, i still couldnt get celebi or jirachi without using ACE to spawn custom mass outbreaks
Get another Emerald to finish your pokedex ;) Ho-oh/lugia don't count btw, I got my national dex without Lugia.
Bro the ACE glitch never worked for me, my game would always freeze when I hatched the game when I put the crazy codes in the PC boxes
You can get the mystery gift items to travel to all islands, as if it was 2006, TODAY. You can even get jirachi and celebi from the bonus discs. And the best part is that you can do all this almost for free. As long as you have a NDS/NDSlite + an R4, to backup your save files, with some google-ing and your imagination you can do it😁
@@stixoimatizontas how much is an r4?
The difficulty in accessing all the Pokémon in Pokemon games is why I got an action replay back in the gen3 and gen4 era games
7:45 "[I] got Emerald version and had Sapphire as well and wanted to get a zangoose, just to learn that zangoose is only in Ruby and not Sapphire or Emerald."
You just transported me back ~15 years to when I was trying to fill out my Gen 3 Pokédex as legitimately as I could. In the end a mate with an Action Replay hacked in the stuff I couldn't get, and probably some other stuff like the Johto starters I didn't feel like playing through Emerald two more times for (only Nintendo consoles our household had were the handheld ones so no Gamecube pokémon).
I am still proud that my cousin , my brother and I managed to obtain all 386 pokemon in gen 3 without any cheats!
13:35 To be fair, the Mew _does not_ say 'obtained at level 27' it says *arrived at level 27*
yeah I misspoke, but it’s not hacked it’s from the actual toys r us event
Thankfully nowadays it's not too hard to get a ds flashcart or GBA flashcart to reproduce the Gen 3 events
Thank GOD for that too!
Why go this far for specific events and gaming systems and all when the real problem is on the Switch…
4 games where you can’t « catch » them all, but you can’t either « buy » them all… you can’t even « transfer » them all, yet you can « pay more ».
Pay more collect less, welcome on Nintendo Switch- half the content of the game cut off and everything seems « normal » for everyone while they really do no real development efforts that could explain this situation…
THIS, WHY MAKE THE SLOGAN TO CATCH THEM ALL AND PUNISH US FOR IT??
Event distribution will always be the worst thing about these games
I remember when i was like in middle school (so like around 2009), i had Ruby, Fire Red and Colosseum, and somehow with trades from school got all of those exclusives and event pokemon. at the end, i just needed like Azurill in Ruby, but the game stopped working, and still have it stored
10:05 You could also get a surfing pikachu from N64's Pokemon Stadium and there was a fun surfing minigame in Pokemon Yellow if you had it
I completed my Gen 3 Pokedex recently and MAN was that a whole task
- Purified all the shadow mon in Colosseum (Japanese)
- Got Ho-oh from Colosseum
- Japanese Colosseum Bonus Disc for Celebi
- Bought Japanese Ruby to get previously mentioned Celebi and get gen 3 starter pokemon
- American Bonus Disc for Jirachi
- Playthrough and caught all the Mons in Emerald (USA)
- Traded the Deoxys and other mon I had in my old Fire Red copy
- Playthrough Leaf Green for the gen 1 starter and other mon that I did not have in Fire Red
- Playthrough XD for Lunatone and Lugia
- Bought Japanese Emerald which had Old Sea Chart so I could get Mew
- And finally I used Pokemon Box to transfer things more easily with the American games (I had to use link cable and two gbas to move the Japanese Pokemon into my English Emerald)
Sounds like quite the experience. I’m doing something similar myself. Currently finishing up XD. I skipped gen 3 back in the day so this was a fun experience
7:00 "Pokémon Sapphire"
*places a copy of Pokémon Pinball
I’ve been working on an all form living Dex for a couple years where ALL Pokémon come from their original games. So Gen 1 from RBY, Gen 2 from GSC, and so on. All regional forms from the original region, etc. it’s been fun and interesting for sure, but some challenges. I can say for Gen 1 & 2 the duplication glitch saved me hundreds of hours of leveling up and breeding. Also learned that Pokemon traded from Gen 2 to 1 (and vice versa) and then transferred in Poke Transporter reflect origin from the game they transferred from- not where they originally came from before being traded. This helped me in finding gender specific pokemon I needed for Gen 1 all forms instead of catching a bunch of whatever I needed and taking a shot in the dark for the gender being what I still needed.
Gen 3 was crazy.
i actually just did this (and transferred from emerald to HG to black2 this morning lol) brutal process, but childhood me is proud! (I did an emerald living dex, not gen 1 or 2 though. I cant justify buying pokemon box yet...)
Currently 1500+ pokemon in my home with a living dex. Thats 20+ years of playing…i was that kid that bought every game. Oldest pokemon i have in my home is my kyogre from my 1st Emerald playthrough 20 years ago.
I was actually just told about LI Retro Gaming Con by one of the workers when I was at Anime NYC recently, he overheard me talking about my gen 3 living dex and mentioned how they run the events down there, definitely gonna have to check it out next year
You should’ve sent mew to Pokémon Emerald so you can duplicate it. Then you could have a mew for any Pokémon game you want.
Another (and much easier) way to do it is to get a r4 card, download gba backup tool onto it, and backup your save on it.
BOOM! Infinite [insert name here] distributor.
You can also backup your save using gb backup tool and an r4 card and you have infinite distribution
I got a legit gen 1 (virtual console) Mew at an in-person event the night before Sun and Moon came out!
I remember getting Sapphire and later Emerald, and reading about Jirachi and Deoxys online. I wanted them badly and tried the stupid fake space station event 😂
Anyway this led to one of the best Gamestop scores of my life, where dad took my $40 bucks in and came out with a GBA GameShark and the Pokemon Colosseum bonus disc. He explained we already bought colosseum and got it for free. The novelty never wore off it made playing the games so much more fun past just getting the legendaries.
I got a celebi at the 10th anniversary event. I’ll never forget!
My guy is upset about losing his copy of Ruby as a kid, yet I'm here the guy who lost his copy of Emerald after I traded my Sapphire for Leaf Green and my Ruby for some other game. I also lost my copies of Silver and Red after the batteries died.
Craziest thing. Whilst the batteries in my gen 2 games died awhile ago, the ones in my copies of the original games are still chugging. It's an incredible miracle. But I finally transferred the pokes on there to gen3 this week. I've tempted fate enough, honestly.
This is why I don’t mind cheating or the DNS trick to get events
The thing that really piss me off on the games is not having multiple save files. Because you don't need 2 friends, you need 3, unless a friend is up to reset their progress for 1 starter. And that is early in game, the legendary is late and you can't breed those, so you need a copy of the game to store the mon then reset on 2 versions enough time that everyone can have their missing mons.
But Nintendo is nice enough to sell you the solution in the form of Pokémon HOME. You still need both versions tho.
Nowadays, on switch, you can have multiple save files by creating new users and transfer the pokemon between accounts using Home (and you can do it without the subscription). It took time, but we reached there.
@@Minezum It is more of a plus of the switch itself, but at least it's possible.
They knew what they were doing
I did the gen 3 pokerdex or came extremely close, I remember being so happy when the new games came out and my mum got them for me, a young 10 year old at the time , just to find out we moved house and my ruby version with most my Pokémon on was left at the old house and mum wouldn’t go back and get it
Remoraid and quagsire are in colosseum
Missed opportunity for the Timmy Turners dad meme
You can do some difficult glitches to complete the Pokédex with less games
All the dummies at game freak
Had to do was do shiny distributions🙄 gets people in the stores while not completely restricting certain pokemon. Idc if they locked em behind some giant fetch quest in game either. Anything is better than the nothing we always got.
I kinda liked the way Gen 3 spread the Pokémon across Hoenn, Kanto and Orre. It felt like 3 different countries with different ecosystems and species, which made more sense than Slugma, Murkrow and Houndour inexplicably appearing in Kanto in Gen 2
17:10 One of the volunteers at the Poke Lab told me they were using a translation patch for the Japanese Bonus Disc. So I don't think an official English version of this exists. Also, the Celebis are region-free as far as I'm aware, since you can obtain the Japanese Bonus Disc Celebi on any English copy of Ruby/Sapphire.
Is that really the case? I don't think JP Pokemon Colosseum can communicate with international GBA games due to the GameCube having region locking.
@@Mrperson0 A GameCube and a GBA game of different regions cannot communicate with each other. However, the Colosseum and XD are region-free for whatever reason, so playing a Japanese version on a US GameCube can connect to a US GBA game.
@@CodenameHockhead Have you actually tried this out? Bulbapedia states that you can only link it to a Japanese GBA game, and when I tried it out on my JP Bonus Disc, I can only link to a JP game, can't link to US Ruby at all.
Goppier has also recreated these events to use whenever you want
Really?how
@@silent_reaper999 I’d really recommend checking out his channel but there are some things you need before hand to do
Flash cart (ez flash deluxe is good), 2 gba’s, link cable or 2 wireless gba connectors (depending on what events you wanna do), and the game you want to send the event to
@@silent_reaper999watch his video. It’s a good watch 😊
8:42 THENICLY
Hey, I was also at LIRetro and didn't realize you were there at the time until I went through photos! Awesome to see everyone and I'm so happy with my funfest medals!
I hope that copy you threw was a repro
it was a fake copy that I got so I could throw it
@@PaPaSea your the best :)
Funny you post this as I just completed my fully legit generation 3 living dex on my FireRed copy yesterday
My friend got me that event Deoxys in Europe, but sometime later that very same safe file got corrupted. It has been the only time ever my Pokemon save file was lost, and it took my favorite legendary with it...
I am currently going through my generation 3 Living Dex (already did 1 and 2 thanks to 3DS Virtual Console), and, MY GOD, this is tidious. Also note that I am doing it without Game Cube games, as I don't have one, and these games are way too expensive. The saving grace for me is the existence of ACE (arbitrary code execution) in Emerald, allowing me to still activate the limited time events (Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh and Deoxys), and getting Jirachi and Celebi, in order to make it possible.
But outside of these specific Pokemon, you technically can complete a gen 3 living dex without any of the GC stuff.
@@slayer100141 Yeah, I agree. For Lugia, Ho-Oh, Jirachi and Celebi, for instance, there is no way I spend like 600€ to buy GC + the two games (it also makes many other mons easier to get, like legendary dogs and Johto starters, but these ones are the only two that would make GC games mandatory). So I just used the ACE to access the event place that allows you to catch them. IMO, it's like ok cheating, in a way. It doesn't make the process way easier, it's just about saving money, and accessing places of the game you wouldn't be able to go to otherwise. Also, it's pretty fun to learn and see how the process of ACE works (tho it's still very tidious XD).
I just made lunch this is a perfect time to watch a PaPaSea video
I left my copy of sapphire in a caravan when me and my family went on holiday I realised halfway home and my asshole of a dad refused to go back 😢😢
Idek why they made it this hard to collect pokemon for. Just let us fulfill our destiny! Damn
I just noticed you used the dutch cover art of Ruby, with the text “English screentext . Engelse schermtekst”, the last part being dutch, explaining the game never got translated to dutch and was always released in english here
it's possible some guy made a video, he had to spend like $1.5k
imagine the disappointment here in the province on the Philippines, no events, and like there's no one to trade with.
I remember my brother being too embarrassed to go into a store for an event Pokémon (probably Toys R Us) so he and some friends drove their car behind the store right up against the back of the building and were able to connect and get the Pokémon lmao
Funny that this video came out now. Im on the gen 3 living dex quest right now.
Got almost everything. Got all my old games at home, still got a lot of pokemon left that i didnt transfer to gen 4. Bought a cardridge that distributes gen 3 events, so i got deoxys and mew yesterday.
All thats missing is a japanese gamecube and a japanese copy of sapphire, because i found someone selling japanese colosseum and the celebi disk for surprisingly cheap and it says in the description, that they all still work. So im waiting and hoping haha
I had the ToysRUs Mew as a kid.......... I taught it all HM moves, and Gen1 didn't have a move deleter 😭
glad you were able to complete your deck finally abolish mythicals
I used glitches and caught them all at ruby after trading every Pokemon I could from the other versions.
I mean you can game shark the tickets and because the events are programmed into he game you just need to irl event to unlock tickets or to trade with a game that had them to mix data I believe. They would still be legit you just access the code in a sane manner
Aren't those events just run from special game cartridges you connect to? So if you get the rom run on real hardware...
I bought Ruby after saving $30 with $2 a week allowance... after beating Sapphire for the same reason. My OG Sapphire save has every Pokemon except Celebi. Even had a shiny Magikarp, now a red Gyrados in Gen 3 that I refuse to transfer up.
Thanks for talking about Colosseum! Still have my copy that came with my Gamecube ❤
I bet if you hammer away enough you’d be able to catch em all
I do remember how long it take me to complete the Pokemon dex on my fire red pokemon until I realized you couldn't because of those stupid events that were to get new,celebi,deoxys
I find it frustrating to catch em all now because it isn't as simple as using two different devices anymore lol like I have a switch OLED and a switch lite, but I have to have a different account on each in order to trade back and forth.
I have the Japanese version of the Colosseum bonus disk, and yes, you need the Japanese version of Ruby/Sapphire. Also, you had to have beaten the game in both and purified all the shadow pokemon, then you would get 49 (I think) tickets that you could consume to transfer a Celebii.
I don't remember the exact date, but during Gen 3, I went to a comic book convention in Chicago, and there was a Pokémon booth there where they traded me the event ticket to catch Lugia and Ho-oh in my copy of FireRed. I didn't know in advance that this was gonna happen, either. It was just good fortune that I just _happened_ to have my GBA and copy of FireRed in my bag at the time, mainly to pass the time while waiting in long lines at the convention.
To all the people that will probably say "noooooo you can't just rerun old events like that!" or "nooooo you can't use a non-official piece of hardware to translate a foreign game like that!" sorry the passage of time bothers you? It's cool that people are able to use the old tech to run the events like they did back in the day and if you disagree you're part of the problem
Long Island mentioned. Instant sub
It should be where Mythical Pokémon are a password or QR code like in Yokai Watch. Then they can be kept long term. Maybe you have to beat the game to unlock the feature to get them. I don’t k ow.
See I’m an annoying perfectionist and when I think of things like Event Pokémon being unattainable, I just think of the fetus dream scene from Courage the cowardly dog. I’m not perfect :(
I mentioned this in a previous video, but link cables were not this rare, elusive item back then like you keep claiming them to be.
i got both versions and and 2 gameboys because,... no friends...
Not to mention some of these mons are hard to get not just catch. Once your committed to the Pokédex your on hella side quests. My thoughts.
Because I didn't have a link cable or go to the events, I just used a Action Replay to get all the pokemon and items. It was quicker that way especially with the ticket items like eon ticket and to catch legendary pokemon.
Wait ur telling my they were doing the distribution there and i WASNT AWARE!?!?(!?!
Meanwhile, I'm sitting comfortably on my living dex in Pokémon Home.
My Emerald Pokédex is only missing Mew and Deoxys. I hate that they are completely unobtainable legitimately.
Another problem in Ruby and Sapphire is that Ditto isn't available, meaning you need to get a female starter in order to breed it.
That is so true. Not having ditto in the gen 3 games made an already tough experience, SO brutal!
Pomeg glitch that deoxy's in emerald,Its still the same event you just use glitches to get to the event island.. think you can also do this for other events in emerald and even catch pokemon like venusaur
There's alot of video's online on how to do this c:
I remember when I was in 5th and 6th grade (2008-2009) I decided to try and get as many pokemon as possible on my (EU) Fire Red game save. I still have that save, and I did get everything that Fire Red, Leaf Green, Sapphire, Emerald and Colosseum could offer, except for the Colosseum Ho-Oh. I had already sold my Ruby and XD copies, so I was out of luck with those, and I had no way of getting Mew, Celebi, Deoxys or Jirachii, but other than that I managed to get a complete living dex, every evo stage + all Unknown onto my Fire Red copy.
A couple of years ago I bought copies of Ruby and XD again, and I also bought an American colosseum bonus disc (though I don't have any NTSC Colosseum or an NTSC console), but I never got very far into getting the ones I missed. I also got a Japanese colosseum (already had a NTSC-J console because buying that console + a GBA player + a NTSC-J Player disc was somehow cheaper than just the PAL Player disc), and a japanese copy of Sapphire. The plan was to get a bonus disc Celebi, even if I could only have it on the japanese Sapphire version, and I did order a Celebi bonus disc off E-Bay, but it never arrived. I did get my money back, but decided to not order a new one right away, and by the next time I looked they had doubled in price, so I still don't have one, and I'm not sure I'm motivated enough to get one if I can't transfer it to my EU game anyway.
so wild to me that in 2024 there is pretty much no way of starting from scratch and legitimately completing the pokedex. They should really start combining old gens into remakes and release them to the switch so people can do it again
By complicating the games and not allowing you to complete the dex they basically underminded Norman J Grossfeld. The man who coined the catchphrase "Gotta Catch 'em All!"
Actually, gen 6 (and sort of 7) had the 15th anniversary mythical distribution. It wasn’t as in depth as it was in the older gens, but you still had to go to a gamestop (that’s where I went, at least) once a month to get a different mythical pokemon.
i saw Aggron for a split second, my day is undescribably better now (Aggron is my boy)
I didn't have friends as a kid, but I had siblings who had to have other versions of games so we didn't steal each others game.
Dude i was at the LI expo too. I got platinum finally but paid 200 hehehe. I got a lot of games i wanted!
Well u mentioning ur missing Ruby game makes me sad. I lost both my Emerald and Firered while moving which had my first 2 full odd shinys (Spheal and Spearow)
Just inject the events into your cartridge. Easy.
In conclusion, catching them all has always been a cluster and we should at least be a little grateful methods have somewhat improved over the decades lol
TL:DR. Just with the GBA games and no events you can get every Pokemon except the 4 mythicals and Ho-Oh and Lugia. However, the Johtomons are all post-game exclusive to FRLG and Emerald, and the Beasts and Johto Starters are both nightmares to get on your own (Beasts are 1 per game post game FRLG, Starters are 1 per game post game complete the regional dex in Emerald).
Colosseum and XD both feature a way to get the Johto Starters (albeit in Colosseum it's relatively easy, 1 early game 2 post game, while in XD it's the final part of the game and requires 100% and a 100 battle MT Battle run for one, then another 100 battle Mt Battle run for the others), Ho-Oh is a 100% Mt Battle bonus in Colosseum, and Lugia is a late game mon in XD. They also just make a bunch of regular Johto mons easier to get, plus the Legendary Birds, plus Eeveelutions.
You can get Jirachi with the Western Bonus disc and Celebi with the Japanese one. Deoxys and Mew are only legit if you find a verifiably legit one on an old cartridge which...good luck with that.
Or, you could just use a Game Shark / Action Replay to force the game into spawning it in the wild