The translation project has now been released! You can watch it on my channel using the link below: th-cam.com/video/N9yE29Iy1J8/w-d-xo.html Old announcement: Hello everyone! We're currently working on a video to make translations for all of the events we made and some custom events as well! We still need some help for the last few translations, so if you're fluent in either German, French, Italian, Spanish or Japanese, then consider helping us translate the events! You can join the translation team by joining our new discord server! discord.gg/BF6FveS3mH Edit: We've now finished the translations for the events and are currently working on a video for it. Stay tuned!
I am wondering if this is possible for the japanese version as I am replaying leafgreen and emerald in japanese on original cartridges.🤔 The other question is if, when I can get it to work, the Pokémon will be transferable to Pokemon bank.
Hey Goppier have a question for you. Can this be done with just use of a r4 SDHC card and a ds lite? GameBoyMan has tutorials about the mystic and aurora ticket, and he (as well as I) were able to transfer event data with just a ds lite. Is his event data and yours too different to be compatible?
@@hisaceinthehole3426 It is probably possible to put the script and wondercard in that tool and transfer it using a DS, but I know too little about it at the moment to help more on it unfortunately
Wish Chansey is actually a big deal. Wish Blissey is one of the strongest support Pokemon in Gen 8 OU for example, but it's almost impossible to use on an actual cartridge game because of it's scarcity of being available for three weeks only. Guess this means we have a... more justified way of getting it now. We're using ROMs yes, but at least you're still hatching it like you would've in 2004. Better then nothing.
As someone who never got to experience any of these events, this makes me so excited. I would love to put together a local event in my area to get people together to relive these or experience these for the first time
As a software engineer, this bottom up explanation of taking the machine code to assembly and translating text and pixel data is so awesome!!! Incredible presentation and as always an incredible video giving me a hit of nostalgia mixed with what I love to do everyday
Mmmh i'm maybe a bit dumb but i didn't understood how the rom can distribute event pokemon to a gba cartridge ? Did you understood how to do spanish inquisition ?
@@papyrusskeleton2331 Not entirely, but I believe (with my limited coding knowledge) that the event ROM sends a signal to the ROM stored on the GBA cartridge, which changes a certain variable. The cartridge then detects that the variable has changed, and executes code along the lines of: If VARIABLE=true SpawnNPCtoDistributePokemon or When SignalRecieved SpawnNPCtoDistributePokemon
Clicked on this video out of pure curiosity and interest and finally, after literally, what, 18 years of wondering, I FINALLY know how Altering Cave was supposed to work? I can't believe it, I spent SOOO long as a kid just thinking "it's so mysterious and kinda hidden away but there are just Zubats... What am I missing, what am I doing wrong, what is the mystery behind this cave?!" Well, now I know, they just never really finished it 😂 Great video bud
Altering cave adds so much Dex entries, breeding options and team building options to FRLG. Except I really wish it had ALL the johto pokémon missing from Gen3. Being stuck in Emerald Safari Zone kinda sucks. And in Emerald, Altering Cave is simply OBSOLETE... Poor choice really.
I just have to comment again and say that I downloaded the ROM, and you and Undead Reality have made one of my childhood wishes come true. I’m 24 now and have wanted to do these since I was 10. Thank you so much again!
Yeah how did you do this? I see the download links in he description, but I'm not sure what I need to do to get it to work? Do i have one GBA with a wireless connector the flash cart loading the distribution rom, and the other GBA with a wireless adapter with my regular FRLG/Emerald game?
@@HardcoreElimination I know that to get access to the gen 3 aurora ticket & mystic ticket, if you get a r4 SDhC flash card {30 bucks on amazon] and have a nintendo ds lite, I was able to transfer the event data from the flash cart directly to my Advanced carts yesterday without need of another device. I don't know why Goppier doesn't bring it up. Maybe he's not aware of this method, or maybe his distribution method does require use of a game boy advanced cable. Either way, I'm going to try it out because as amazing *_GameBoyMan_* is, he doesn't have ALL the events available in his event data like Goppier tends to.
This is truly amazing. Having previously purchased an Eon Ticket, I remember being ecstatic when my brother and I discovered the Aurora Ticket ROM back in 2017, hoping there would be more. With that, we successfully hunted shiny Deoxys in LeafGreen. We did use some of Digiex/Project Pokémon's other ROMs to get the remaining event items (we just distributed the Aurora Ticket to Emerald last week in July 2022), but it's nice to see we can get the Wish Eggs and the Altering Cave Pokémon, too. Good work!
Very cool work! I dream that one day we might find the DS cartridge or downloadable software for the Old Sea Chart but for now this should hopefully be a very useful tool for people who want to be able to access it without needing to hack it in or use ACE. Thank you for all the hard work on sharing this with us! I’m always happy to see educational content that goes along with people sharing their passions!
As someone who ragequit the pomeg glitch over 2 years until finally getting it to enable events on italian emerald, I'm thrilled to see such a project offer people a much simpler and genuine event unlocking experience. Great job, guys!
As someone without a driver's license during Gen 3, the Wonder Cards were like a pantheon of evil gods I simultaneously prayed to and cursed every night growing up. In time there came IR-GTS and acceptable ways to obtain legal event Pokemon, but what I wanted even more was to see the steps between the Emerald experience I knew and the game state available to people attending the events. Wonderful to see this done so thoroughly!
I used to talk with some of the people on the forum, specifically deoxys. Probably misspelled that, I haven’t even looked back at it for more than a year now. While there was progress being made. It’s was starting to look like certain event carts were completely lost to time. Very glad to see this being done, this is probably the closest we will ever get to a “authentic” distribution, great job!
you guys are like heros to me, no joke ahaha i have OCD. i wasnt diagnosed until i was in my mid 20s, but looking back it was obvious ive had it since childhood. one of the most obvious ways it manifested was in how particular i was with how i played games; especially pokemon. my brain likes to take completionism to a whole new, unachievable level. and one of the things that drove me up the wall was being unable to obtain event pokemon "correctly." i HATE just hacking stuff in. i want The Genuine Experience™️. since ive been diagnosed and thus am able to have the condition properly treated w medication, etc, the obsessiveness has eased up a little, but being unable to "legitimately" obtain things in games is still distressing. you guys making this sort of thing possible is like a dream come true, ahaha. this is the sorta thing ive wanted to do in my games since i was a kid, and i cant thank you enough for working so hard to make things like this finally possible. anyway. a bit of a long, personal ramble, but... truly, thank you! and whenever you start selling those gen 2 to gen 3 trade adapters, im absolutely snagging one and telling all my friends about it too!
yess that's what i loved about the gen 3 gen 4 events, it was an item or a ticket that let you visit a new unexplored area. now all you get is the actual pokemon itself through mystery gift, you don't go and catch it yourself anymore :(
It would be cool if the events were more fleshed out, but needing to take your physical device to a specific place at a specific time sucked and it sucked even more as a 7 year old who needed driven everywhere. Not to go full boomer, but kids these days will never know the heartbreak of not being able to convince your mum to drive you to Toys R Us to hopefully be one of the first 1,500 people to get a ticket, of which only 200 were winners. And if you won, you’d have to convince your mum that the ticket itself wasn’t the actual prize and they’d have to take you back to TRU a week and a half later so you could physically trade for a Mew. I’m definitely not just a tiny bit salty about being denied that chance even after nearly 23 years.
@@NanoscopicSize Walking Wake / Iron Leaves raids seem more of a tease for the DLC like Galarian Slowpoke I'm sure they'll be available as wild Pokemon in Indigo Disk
This is probably to coolest things I have seen in a long time! I will never understand how any of the really works but I’m excited to see the full outcome of all of this
You can make infinite Jirachis with the Colosseum bonus disc. (I still have mine). Celebi on the other hand, needs something like this; I don't think there's any legit way of getting one prior to Gen IV.
@@KaoruMzk True. Though I think that it'd be pretty cool if they could put it as a mystery gift. Just like you could get Celebi from the Japanese Colosseum Bonus disc; but to make it more convenient and kinda cool they could just make it a mystery gift on the Rom they are using.
Maybe you could look at the EON Ticket e-reader data to see how the Ruby/Sapphire data worked and try to explore what was available there? I know they didn't have much events as compared to FrLgE. But the e-reader had the trainer cards and berries not found anywhere else.
Just ordered all the necessary items for this, thank you so much for making this and fantastic job! I’ve been wanting to do these events since I was a young kid!
Great video! Love that you're helping with game preservation. As a kid I always missed out on events, so I'm super excited that they'll be available physically instead of me having to use them on emulator. Love the channel, keep up the great work!
Legends, I‘ve been lurking on Digiex and Project Pokémon for a while and the work they are doing to preserve and provide Retro Events is wonderful. I‘m subbed but I checked your Channel yesterday after ages and no updates. 5 hours later, a new video is online. As you mentioned, I‘m hyped for multiboot as well as german language compatibility. Also I hope, you were able to resolve remaining issues with the GEN2-GEN3 trading and will release the hardware soon. Great Work!!! :)
Still working on the remaining issues for gen2 to gen3. I've been spending a lot of time towards this and the multiboots, so unfortunately I haven't spend much time on it lately
Awesome work Goppier! Just had to subscribe after that! I guess we all wished since we were kids to be able to have legit access to those events!! It would be awesome if you could also do a tutorial video on how to make use of that ROM, how to upload to a cart so we can try to do it ourselves at home. I’m definitely looking into it so I can try getting those Pokémons on my old games! 😄
I'll try to write something more detailed on the github page. The easiest way is to make use of an existing flash card like the Everdrive or the EZ flash. These make use of an SD card, so you only have to place them on there and you're good to go!
This is really cool, and technically impressive. It's good that more people will get to experience these in a near authentic manner... but releasing these files has its own set of greater consequences. It's well documented that there are bad actors out there buying GBA dev carts, flashing event ROMs onto them, and passing them off as real to scam people on eBay. Having these modified roms in a manner where they cannot be easily identified as repos is a dream come true for these scammers. Another consequence is the flood of fakes could make tracking down and preserving real versions of the remaining event cartridges impossible.
We took measures ourselves as well to try and prevent these from being used in such manner. Like for example the watermark we added on the startup screen. Besides that a lot of these events were also not released in such a way (Eon, wish, altering cave) or not released outside of Japan (old sea map). The only ones that could be preserved are mystic ticket or an Aurora Ticket for emerald specifically. Even if they would take away the watermark for example, there still many many ways to see if the roms are legit or not. In the end we took it all into consideration. And we decided that a few bad apples should not prevent the joy of playing these events by unlocking them like this. From all the reactions I've seen, a lot of people are extremely happy that they can finally play these events
This project is awesome and thank you for your hard work to unlock these events. Since you mentioned to make them usable in other languages in the future, i truly hope that one day you will add Italian ROMs too.
Never have I subbed to a channel before in my 20 years of youtube usage. You are my first, you are my one and only. I can finally get my living dex underway. I especially like the altering cave. While I do have a legit Colosseum game, being able to enjoy my legit LeafGreen cartridge with all it's functions available is a REAL treat! A heartfelt thank you to you and to all who made this possible!
This is so awesome the events can now be experienced as intended! I HATE mystery gifts events for this, locking away content already in the game, what company does that -_-
Amazing work Goppier & UndeadxReality, I really love the attention to detail put in to these distributions which has made them as authentic as possible! I'm looking forward to see what's coming in the future.
I cannot thank you enough for making this a reality! For some time now I was shocked nobody has made something along these lines for the old events. Even after nearly 20 years these games are still getting support for new content lol
this is so cool! and i'm excited to see what comes next for multiboot distributions -- i remember going to the pokemon 10th anniversary tour and getting a bunch of exclusive pokemon that way, though from what i remember reading the rom for the pokemon distributed in the usa hasn't been found, just the european ones. it would be interesting to see if you can replicate the states' version of the event even if an original cartridge hasn't been found.
That 10th anniversary event was the first and only Pokemon event I ever went to back in the pre-wifi event days. It was so magical. I remember all the posters they had for you to choose which Pokemon you wanted, the long lines, the Pokemon decorations all over the malls. I'm hit with so much nostalgia
Weren't things like the Eon ticket available through record mixing with another cart that had it? Edit: Well then, after looking on Bulbapedia and Serebii, looks like the Eon Ticket was the ONLY event item that could be sent this way. And even then you can't send it along to another player if you obtained yours via record mixing.
You were able to get the Eon Ticket using the e-Reader in Ruby and Sapphire and you could use record mixing to get it in Emerald! But it was never released specifically for Emerald as far as I know.
This is legitimately the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! These games have been with me all my life, so seeing new developments about them to this day is just crazy to me! Now I wonder if the Pokemon Colosseum Jirachi event can ever be solved like this if it hasn’t been already.
Amazing work as always. It's incredible to know we'll be able to play these events on real hardware whenever we want thanks to both of your hard work. And with Project Pokémon also receiving the PCNY distribution hardware and discs for Generation II events and the potential that brings, it might not be very long before we have near-complete access to all events on the non-Wi-Fi-enabled games.
You're doing magnificent work making the Gen 3 games completely playable without features being inaccessible to modern players. Would you be able to make something like this for the Gen 4 games? Or is Gen 4 hacking still too young for that.
You just continue putting in so much work and making huge strides in the Pokemon community. Looking forward to literally any content you make in the future, especially the Gen 2 and 3 trading.
Something I’m having trouble understanding - is each event all their own ROM, or are you able to combine them all? If the former, does that mean you need all 6 ROMs?
Damn, now THIS is a dream come true! Back in the day, I knew someone with the Aurora ticket.... but he was so stingy and didnt want to lend it to others and it was stolen. Serves him right lol. Still, this is a damn good rom! Im gonna download it and give it a shot!
Theres a small problem I find with the Mew event, this event was only released on Japan by official means, this sadly means that any Mew caught on the 3rd Gen games (specifically Emerald) HAD to be Japanese, otherwise aplications like the Pokemon Bank or Pokemon Home would not allow the player to transfer them to newer games
It's true that the Mew in the English games will not be legit (Pokémon Bank and Home will probably still allow it though), because it was never released outside of Japan. I personally don't mind this, because I just really wanted to finally play these events in GEN3!
Actually English Faraway Island Mew is transferable if I remember correctly! However this is purely for gen 3 enthusiast to enjoy the event, stay tuned as we're planning on making Japanese and multi language versions of the mystery gift events!
There are rumours that the Old Sea Chart was also released in Taiwan (which would have needed international language support). Additionally there has never been any documentation that proves the wireless distro in Japan didn’t support other languages (although it’s unlikely)
What about the roulette event from 2005. I remember there was an event where you could take your game to space center houston for a 10th anniversary event where you spun a wheel and then the attendant would send that pokemon to your cart
thank you so much for this and the mystery gift pokemon distributions!! getting an ez flash and an analogue have been wonderful for this! i believe i attended a couple events in person, but my childhood games are long gone, so it's wonderful to be able to do these again! i also appreciate these kinds of things from the perspective of an aspiring game dev. thank you!!
hi there! this is super cool and i'm really appreciative of all your hard work. watching this video was very insightful and it was fun to watch because of how well organized it is! i wanted to let you know that when trying to boot your custom ROMs on actual hardware (GBA SP using a Everdrive GBA flashcart), they just hang after the game boy advance logo appears alongside the nintendo logo. it simply freezes on that screen and nothing happens. i have tested numerous of them and all of them seem to have this issue. i know that it's not just an issue with my flashcart or my wireless adapter since i've used the original aurora ticket distribution ROM successfully with no issues (i even tested it again after yours freeze). is it an issue on my end, like needing to set a specific save type or turning RTC on/off, or could it be a bug in the original code that prevents it from working on original hardware or on my flashcart? i can confirm that they seem to open properly in emulator. thank you in advance and apologies for the trouble!!
@@undeadxreality still hangs unfortunately, with both RTC on and off. for good measure, i just cycled through every other save option (EEPROM, SRAM, flash 64 and flash 128, as well as having no save at all) and none of them worked or changed anything unfortunately :(
@@pikavees Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with everdrive :/ I'm curious if you download a fresh file and try again. If not do you have a version of everdrive that you have to patch roms before you load them to your device?
@@undeadxreality nah, i've been able to load roms without patching from the get-go every time without issue, including romhacks of pokemon games/non-official roms. these are the only ones i've ever had this issue with. no luck with redownloading them either unfortunately
@@pikavees That’s a bummer :/ I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll be on the lookout for any fixes or any similar instances and we’ll try to figure it out together!
I've really enjoyed your videos. Thanks for your hard work on this content! Side note, I'm now replaying Danganronpa thanks to the music in your videos :P great stuff
So what other game kinds could benefit from the above shown kinds of tweaks, & what will you call your custom tech pieces (including your pcb)? Also, do you have a Discord, per chance?
I'm not sure what other games had similar distributions like this, but at least we'll be focusing more in other types of distributions for the gen3 pokemon games like the multiboots mentioned in the video! I don't have a discord specifically for the channel yet, maybe in the future!
It's "possible" however it would require a complete overhaul of the transfer protocol. Who knows maybe we'll see a version like that in the future! We appreciate the kind words
This was seriously exciting to see. And I'm hearing a very familiar accent as well, which honestly creates a pretty funny image in my head. Simply sitting behind a desk, with a Frikandelbroodje on the side, researching code. I don't know why it's funny to me, but it is. Prachtwerk, serieus!
Just watching one video ia enough to make me subcribe to your channel. There's something about your content that attract people that love pokemon. Good job!
Every project you take up is always super impressive, I've been loving your videos and all the awesome services you've been doing for the Pokemon community.
Amazing to see members of the community be able to unlock the events on original hardware. Most people playing these games will never be able to access that content. Great job guys!
I love the fact I discovered your channel. Thank you so much for the excellent content, and easy-to-understand explanations. You're like RGME but for pokemon specifically.
Great Video! I am a big Pokemon Fan since I was child but unfortunately I never got the mystery gifts back in the days. I am now studying electrical engineering with respect to embedded systems where I work a lot with machine code, assembly etc. which makes this video so cool for me. I would love to see these kind of things in my native language german and may start trying it by myself if I have time someday.
Wow man this amazing Whenever I think about those events it makes me almost wanna cry because I was too young to go. I knew about the aurora ticket one but it’s crazy you got it to work. Big thanks!
Good work! I've been working to the same project but totally embedded in a microcontroller to make possible obtaining mystery gift with only one GBA available :)
I'm so glad you made this! I've been looking to complete living dexes in all gen 3 games, and I wanted to be as legal as possible, using the least amount of glitches. Thanks to the Eon Ticket and Colosseum I was able to get most mons, but Deoxys and Mew were the ones that escaped my grasp until now. Thank you! This is honestly as legal as it'll get, special for peole like me that didn't live anywhere near where events happened.
Very nice, great job updating the ROM to enable distribution of all events. The only event I could ever attend as a child was a Mew distribution, but they just gave you Mew directly, and not the old sea map unfortunately. I would really like to „complete“ my old save states, Gen3 is still my favorite 20 years later… Hence support for other languages would be awesome (*cough* german *cough*). I would assume that just some checks need to be adapted, but nothing is ever straightforward with Pokemon games, so, who knows. Anyway, thanks for the hard work! :-)
I'm currently playing through Emerald and one of the things I've been looking forward to is trying out the Distribution cart with my flashcart. Thank you very much for your hard work preserving these events!
From trading Pokémon from gen 2 to 3 and then to making tickets work again, you have certainly impressed is all! We hope you keep making great videos and make new things a reality!
My man, I started playing my fire red, leaf green and emerald again during the pandemic. This is awesome to watch. I was so sad that I couldn’t get all the Pokémon and events because they happened so long ago.
The mad man, you guys are awesome! thank you for your service is something I am unwilling to say to anyone but to you gents, Thank you for your service!
Wow this is great!!! I don't have to deal with that berry glitch that could mess up my game if I don't do it correctly. Now I only need the wireless adapters so I can get the tickets. You are amazing guys!!!!
The preservation of these are such fascinating and admirable! Nintendo is infamous for letting thing's rot in the past but people doing their darndest to preserve and learn! Keep doing what they Nintendon't!
Dang man, great work as always. It’s always great to have more options to revive old event distributions. I wish I was half as smart as you two, then I might be able to figure out how to restore my corrupted emerald save data.
Your videos and efforts are amazing. I'm a sucker and a nostalgic gen 3 pokèmon fan and seeing how all this is possible to do is so cool. If kid me could see all of this, I would've gone crazy! Great job!
God I love your channel! Ever since the first upload, I knew this channel would be something special. Each video is better than the last. I just wish there were more videos! lmao
The translation project has now been released! You can watch it on my channel using the link below:
th-cam.com/video/N9yE29Iy1J8/w-d-xo.html
Old announcement:
Hello everyone! We're currently working on a video to make translations for all of the events we made and some custom events as well! We still need some help for the last few translations, so if you're fluent in either German, French, Italian, Spanish or Japanese, then consider helping us translate the events!
You can join the translation team by joining our new discord server!
discord.gg/BF6FveS3mH
Edit:
We've now finished the translations for the events and are currently working on a video for it. Stay tuned!
I am italian but have not used discord, i may begin if you still need italian people!
Still need GER?
I am wondering if this is possible for the japanese version as I am replaying leafgreen and emerald in japanese on original cartridges.🤔
The other question is if, when I can get it to work, the Pokémon will be transferable to Pokemon bank.
Hey Goppier have a question for you. Can this be done with just use of a r4 SDHC card and a ds lite? GameBoyMan has tutorials about the mystic and aurora ticket, and he (as well as I) were able to transfer event data with just a ds lite.
Is his event data and yours too different to be compatible?
@@hisaceinthehole3426 It is probably possible to put the script and wondercard in that tool and transfer it using a DS, but I know too little about it at the moment to help more on it unfortunately
Wish Chansey is actually a big deal. Wish Blissey is one of the strongest support Pokemon in Gen 8 OU for example, but it's almost impossible to use on an actual cartridge game because of it's scarcity of being available for three weeks only. Guess this means we have a... more justified way of getting it now. We're using ROMs yes, but at least you're still hatching it like you would've in 2004. Better then nothing.
the PIDs of these eggs/pokemon might have to be correct though, i’m not sure if the games legality check those
@@elmerandrewcrowley2822 if you've transferred it all the way to gen 8, it's likely passed the "real" test
@@imphie that's what I mean, would it be able to pas the test in order to get there?
@@elmerandrewcrowley2822 only one way to find out
@@elmerandrewcrowley2822 good thing pkhex can gen it exactly how its meant to be
As someone who never got to experience any of these events, this makes me so excited.
I would love to put together a local event in my area to get people together to relive these or experience these for the first time
I’m here for it.
I'm down for it too. My first Pokémon game was a lost copy of emerald I found. Didn't know events existed till 2009
DIY Pokémon events
@@VTJJ22 I didn't know about them till way after the games life, I was just a stupid kid lol
One of those mask parties would be the best place for unofficial reruns of Pokemon events.
As a software engineer, this bottom up explanation of taking the machine code to assembly and translating text and pixel data is so awesome!!! Incredible presentation and as always an incredible video giving me a hit of nostalgia mixed with what I love to do everyday
You are literally the saviors of a huge layer of Pokemon community. People like you need to put up monuments.
This deserves so much more recognition. You could very easily become one of the greatest Pokemon mod creators/ROM hackers the world has ever seen.
Mmmh i'm maybe a bit dumb but i didn't understood how the rom can distribute event pokemon to a gba cartridge ? Did you understood how to do spanish inquisition ?
@@papyrusskeleton2331 Not entirely, but I believe (with my limited coding knowledge) that the event ROM sends a signal to the ROM stored on the GBA cartridge, which changes a certain variable. The cartridge then detects that the variable has changed, and executes code along the lines of:
If VARIABLE=true
SpawnNPCtoDistributePokemon
or
When SignalRecieved
SpawnNPCtoDistributePokemon
@@SceptyMakesMusicalMistakes ooooh okk thank you ! I'm a beginner in coding so the video wqs quite hard to follow haha
No, we need to protect him, Nintendo would send out armed Mercenaries if they ever found out about him and his work
ahahahza no thats trash, like your life. Uninstall it, or your ape mother will gaggle my cucumber till you cries
Clicked on this video out of pure curiosity and interest and finally, after literally, what, 18 years of wondering, I FINALLY know how Altering Cave was supposed to work?
I can't believe it, I spent SOOO long as a kid just thinking "it's so mysterious and kinda hidden away but there are just Zubats... What am I missing, what am I doing wrong, what is the mystery behind this cave?!"
Well, now I know, they just never really finished it 😂
Great video bud
Altering cave adds so much Dex entries, breeding options and team building options to FRLG. Except I really wish it had ALL the johto pokémon missing from Gen3. Being stuck in Emerald Safari Zone kinda sucks. And in Emerald, Altering Cave is simply OBSOLETE... Poor choice really.
I just have to comment again and say that I downloaded the ROM, and you and Undead Reality have made one of my childhood wishes come true. I’m 24 now and have wanted to do these since I was 10. Thank you so much again!
I am a total Noob. Is there something I can purchase to add the ROM to in order to distribute these events to my games?
Yeah how did you do this? I see the download links in he description, but I'm not sure what I need to do to get it to work?
Do i have one GBA with a wireless connector the flash cart loading the distribution rom, and the other GBA with a wireless adapter with my regular FRLG/Emerald game?
@@HardcoreElimination I know that to get access to the gen 3 aurora ticket & mystic ticket, if you get a r4 SDhC flash card {30 bucks on amazon] and have a nintendo ds lite, I was able to transfer the event data from the flash cart directly to my Advanced carts yesterday without need of another device.
I don't know why Goppier doesn't bring it up. Maybe he's not aware of this method, or maybe his distribution method does require use of a game boy advanced cable. Either way, I'm going to try it out because as amazing *_GameBoyMan_* is, he doesn't have ALL the events available in his event data like Goppier tends to.
@@HardcoreEliminationyep
I bet you could make custom mystery gift events. I’d like to see some!
You really don't. Last time fans had this power... Lets just say a gengar offended some people.
@order-sol's last brain cell IIRC someone hacked into a mystery gift machine, and gave out a gengar with a racist name
Pokémon Event: Meet me behind Target at 2am and I’ll shoot you a mew for a 100 bucks.
@@Greenphx sounds based to me
@@Greenphx don’t forget the racist move set too 😅
This is truly amazing. Having previously purchased an Eon Ticket, I remember being ecstatic when my brother and I discovered the Aurora Ticket ROM back in 2017, hoping there would be more. With that, we successfully hunted shiny Deoxys in LeafGreen. We did use some of Digiex/Project Pokémon's other ROMs to get the remaining event items (we just distributed the Aurora Ticket to Emerald last week in July 2022), but it's nice to see we can get the Wish Eggs and the Altering Cave Pokémon, too. Good work!
How/where do you guys do distributions? I'd love to learn more!
You guys are geniuses to have made sense of all that code. Thanks for giving some love to gen 3!
Very cool work! I dream that one day we might find the DS cartridge or downloadable software for the Old Sea Chart but for now this should hopefully be a very useful tool for people who want to be able to access it without needing to hack it in or use ACE. Thank you for all the hard work on sharing this with us!
I’m always happy to see educational content that goes along with people sharing their passions!
As someone who ragequit the pomeg glitch over 2 years until finally getting it to enable events on italian emerald, I'm thrilled to see such a project offer people a much simpler and genuine event unlocking experience. Great job, guys!
i did the pomeg glitch, but it didn't get me much.
other than a reason to not care about emerald anymore
As someone without a driver's license during Gen 3, the Wonder Cards were like a pantheon of evil gods I simultaneously prayed to and cursed every night growing up. In time there came IR-GTS and acceptable ways to obtain legal event Pokemon, but what I wanted even more was to see the steps between the Emerald experience I knew and the game state available to people attending the events. Wonderful to see this done so thoroughly!
We all fell for the BS videos telling us to up down start b heal pokemon etc 😒
Brilliant stuff-this has satisfied the curiosity I've had around these events since I was a kid! Thank you for all the hard work you put into this :D
I used to talk with some of the people on the forum, specifically deoxys. Probably misspelled that, I haven’t even looked back at it for more than a year now. While there was progress being made. It’s was starting to look like certain event carts were completely lost to time. Very glad to see this being done, this is probably the closest we will ever get to a “authentic” distribution, great job!
Fire bro!! Thanks for having me on haha
you guys are like heros to me, no joke ahaha
i have OCD. i wasnt diagnosed until i was in my mid 20s, but looking back it was obvious ive had it since childhood. one of the most obvious ways it manifested was in how particular i was with how i played games; especially pokemon.
my brain likes to take completionism to a whole new, unachievable level. and one of the things that drove me up the wall was being unable to obtain event pokemon "correctly." i HATE just hacking stuff in. i want The Genuine Experience™️.
since ive been diagnosed and thus am able to have the condition properly treated w medication, etc, the obsessiveness has eased up a little, but being unable to "legitimately" obtain things in games is still distressing.
you guys making this sort of thing possible is like a dream come true, ahaha. this is the sorta thing ive wanted to do in my games since i was a kid, and i cant thank you enough for working so hard to make things like this finally possible.
anyway. a bit of a long, personal ramble, but... truly, thank you!
and whenever you start selling those gen 2 to gen 3 trade adapters, im absolutely snagging one and telling all my friends about it too!
If you're interested, you can also get the events "legit" in Gen 4 and 5 using a fan server which distributs event items.
@@Infindox a server? Do you have any additional information?
I'm the same way honestly 😅
@@majoraikana5893 i got you! Wiimmfi is the name you're looking for, apparently.
@@majoraikana5893There's a discord server too
I am so hyped that you plan to get to other languages eventually. That would be the cherry on top
Once again, I am seriously impressed on how much work you guys did to make this happen.
I wish newer events were like these old ones. But wow, you made a lot of amazing stuff in this and your past videos
yess that's what i loved about the gen 3 gen 4 events, it was an item or a ticket that let you visit a new unexplored area. now all you get is the actual pokemon itself through mystery gift, you don't go and catch it yourself anymore :(
It would be cool if the events were more fleshed out, but needing to take your physical device to a specific place at a specific time sucked and it sucked even more as a 7 year old who needed driven everywhere.
Not to go full boomer, but kids these days will never know the heartbreak of not being able to convince your mum to drive you to Toys R Us to hopefully be one of the first 1,500 people to get a ticket, of which only 200 were winners. And if you won, you’d have to convince your mum that the ticket itself wasn’t the actual prize and they’d have to take you back to TRU a week and a half later so you could physically trade for a Mew.
I’m definitely not just a tiny bit salty about being denied that chance even after nearly 23 years.
Legends Arceus at least does have some Quests for Mythicals rather than just handing them out for you which is nice
Hope they keep that for Gen 9 too
@@anonanonymous9670 well they appear in raids now in gen 9....
@@NanoscopicSize Walking Wake / Iron Leaves raids seem more of a tease for the DLC like Galarian Slowpoke
I'm sure they'll be available as wild Pokemon in Indigo Disk
This is probably to coolest things I have seen in a long time! I will never understand how any of the really works but I’m excited to see the full outcome of all of this
This was AWESOME😁
The only thing I would add is a way to get (probably through mystery gift)
Jirachi and Celebi
Keep up the great work
You can make infinite Jirachis with the Colosseum bonus disc. (I still have mine).
Celebi on the other hand, needs something like this; I don't think there's any legit way of getting one prior to Gen IV.
@@KaoruMzk True. Though I think that it'd be pretty cool if they could put it as a mystery gift. Just like you could get Celebi from the Japanese Colosseum Bonus disc; but to make it more convenient and kinda cool they could just make it a mystery gift on the Rom they are using.
Stay tuned! Jirachi and Celebi were primarily distributed through multiboot.
@@undeadxreality I don't even know what that is but I'm excited
@@Felipera_ effectively means you'd be able to get pokemon from distribution events like a Toys r Us Mew for example.
Maybe you could look at the EON Ticket e-reader data to see how the Ruby/Sapphire data worked and try to explore what was available there? I know they didn't have much events as compared to FrLgE. But the e-reader had the trainer cards and berries not found anywhere else.
That is also been on the list to eventually research! But first I want to finish the multiboots mentioned in as a teaser in the video
That ticket is worth nowadays a lot of money if you have it still sealed.
@@Goppier my dreams are coming true
@@HandheldGamer1991 I bought one for a pretty penny years ago...and sold it for an even prettier penny when I was done with it!
im a blissy :| has done videos on the e-reader and making custom events for it
Just ordered all the necessary items for this, thank you so much for making this and fantastic job! I’ve been wanting to do these events since I was a young kid!
Great video! Love that you're helping with game preservation. As a kid I always missed out on events, so I'm super excited that they'll be available physically instead of me having to use them on emulator. Love the channel, keep up the great work!
Legends, I‘ve been lurking on Digiex and Project Pokémon for a while and the work they are doing to preserve and provide Retro Events is wonderful.
I‘m subbed but I checked your Channel yesterday after ages and no updates. 5 hours later, a new video is online.
As you mentioned, I‘m hyped for multiboot as well as german language compatibility. Also I hope, you were able to resolve remaining issues with the GEN2-GEN3 trading and will release the hardware soon.
Great Work!!! :)
Still working on the remaining issues for gen2 to gen3. I've been spending a lot of time towards this and the multiboots, so unfortunately I haven't spend much time on it lately
@@Goppier Can’t wait, but good things take time.
Hope you know about the positive impact of your work on the community, totally underrated channel.
Awesome work Goppier! Just had to subscribe after that! I guess we all wished since we were kids to be able to have legit access to those events!!
It would be awesome if you could also do a tutorial video on how to make use of that ROM, how to upload to a cart so we can try to do it ourselves at home. I’m definitely looking into it so I can try getting those Pokémons on my old games! 😄
I'll try to write something more detailed on the github page. The easiest way is to make use of an existing flash card like the Everdrive or the EZ flash. These make use of an SD card, so you only have to place them on there and you're good to go!
Just used your ROMs today for my emerald playthrough. Thanks for preserving these! Never had them back in the day but I’m glad they are out there now.
How do you use them?
This is really cool, and technically impressive. It's good that more people will get to experience these in a near authentic manner... but releasing these files has its own set of greater consequences.
It's well documented that there are bad actors out there buying GBA dev carts, flashing event ROMs onto them, and passing them off as real to scam people on eBay. Having these modified roms in a manner where they cannot be easily identified as repos is a dream come true for these scammers. Another consequence is the flood of fakes could make tracking down and preserving real versions of the remaining event cartridges impossible.
We took measures ourselves as well to try and prevent these from being used in such manner. Like for example the watermark we added on the startup screen.
Besides that a lot of these events were also not released in such a way (Eon, wish, altering cave) or not released outside of Japan (old sea map). The only ones that could be preserved are mystic ticket or an Aurora Ticket for emerald specifically. Even if they would take away the watermark for example, there still many many ways to see if the roms are legit or not.
In the end we took it all into consideration. And we decided that a few bad apples should not prevent the joy of playing these events by unlocking them like this. From all the reactions I've seen, a lot of people are extremely happy that they can finally play these events
This project is awesome and thank you for your hard work to unlock these events. Since you mentioned to make them usable in other languages in the future, i truly hope that one day you will add Italian ROMs too.
Never have I subbed to a channel before in my 20 years of youtube usage. You are my first, you are my one and only. I can finally get my living dex underway. I especially like the altering cave. While I do have a legit Colosseum game, being able to enjoy my legit LeafGreen cartridge with all it's functions available is a REAL treat! A heartfelt thank you to you and to all who made this possible!
I’m still astonished that you only have 15k subscribers, the work you’re doing is absolutely incredible!
This is so awesome the events can now be experienced as intended! I HATE mystery gifts events for this, locking away content already in the game, what company does that -_-
Fr it's like a quick time event that you will fail
Damn, this channel definitely deserves more subs and views! Great work, can't wait to see the next video!
Goppier, this is again amazingly done. You never miss!!
Amazing work Goppier & UndeadxReality, I really love the attention to detail put in to these distributions which has made them as authentic as possible! I'm looking forward to see what's coming in the future.
Thank you InsaneNutter!
I cannot thank you enough for making this a reality! For some time now I was shocked nobody has made something along these lines for the old events. Even after nearly 20 years these games are still getting support for new content lol
this is so cool! and i'm excited to see what comes next for multiboot distributions -- i remember going to the pokemon 10th anniversary tour and getting a bunch of exclusive pokemon that way, though from what i remember reading the rom for the pokemon distributed in the usa hasn't been found, just the european ones. it would be interesting to see if you can replicate the states' version of the event even if an original cartridge hasn't been found.
Stay tuned!!
That 10th anniversary event was the first and only Pokemon event I ever went to back in the pre-wifi event days. It was so magical. I remember all the posters they had for you to choose which Pokemon you wanted, the long lines, the Pokemon decorations all over the malls. I'm hit with so much nostalgia
So much cool stuff happening on this channel. Can't wait to see what else you can do.
Weren't things like the Eon ticket available through record mixing with another cart that had it?
Edit: Well then, after looking on Bulbapedia and Serebii, looks like the Eon Ticket was the ONLY event item that could be sent this way. And even then you can't send it along to another player if you obtained yours via record mixing.
You were able to get the Eon Ticket using the e-Reader in Ruby and Sapphire and you could use record mixing to get it in Emerald! But it was never released specifically for Emerald as far as I know.
@@Goppier Ah that's right, I completely glossed over the e-reader part! Makes sense why it was made more widely available with record mixing then.
@Goppier I believe the Japanese Emerald also had Mystery Event support.
@@Goppier Localized Emerald removed all e-reader function, since the device was already dead by 2004
@@Goppier Yep, and the e-Reader card was given to people who got Nintendo Power in the states. I'm not sure about which issue it was, though.
This is legitimately the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! These games have been with me all my life, so seeing new developments about them to this day is just crazy to me! Now I wonder if the Pokemon Colosseum Jirachi event can ever be solved like this if it hasn’t been already.
Dude i love you.
I would love to see german events.
Amazing work as always. It's incredible to know we'll be able to play these events on real hardware whenever we want thanks to both of your hard work. And with Project Pokémon also receiving the PCNY distribution hardware and discs for Generation II events and the potential that brings, it might not be very long before we have near-complete access to all events on the non-Wi-Fi-enabled games.
You're doing magnificent work making the Gen 3 games completely playable without features being inaccessible to modern players. Would you be able to make something like this for the Gen 4 games? Or is Gen 4 hacking still too young for that.
It should be possible for gen4 as well if there are distribution roms available for that
it's possible to get the majority of gen 4 & 5 events already using DNS servers! distribution cartridge events are a little trickier though
Gen 4 and 5 is already possible through the fan servers set up for that
Most of gen 4s events are available through wiimfii/dns exploit. All of the physical distribution catridges for gen 4 have already been dumped online
You just continue putting in so much work and making huge strides in the Pokemon community. Looking forward to literally any content you make in the future, especially the Gen 2 and 3 trading.
Something I’m having trouble understanding - is each event all their own ROM, or are you able to combine them all? If the former, does that mean you need all 6 ROMs?
You need all 6 roms, they’re individually labeled but they all work the same.
Damn, now THIS is a dream come true!
Back in the day, I knew someone with the Aurora ticket.... but he was so stingy and didnt want to lend it to others and it was stolen.
Serves him right lol.
Still, this is a damn good rom! Im gonna download it and give it a shot!
Theres a small problem I find with the Mew event, this event was only released on Japan by official means, this sadly means that any Mew caught on the 3rd Gen games (specifically Emerald) HAD to be Japanese, otherwise aplications like the Pokemon Bank or Pokemon Home would not allow the player to transfer them to newer games
It's true that the Mew in the English games will not be legit (Pokémon Bank and Home will probably still allow it though), because it was never released outside of Japan. I personally don't mind this, because I just really wanted to finally play these events in GEN3!
Actually English Faraway Island Mew is transferable if I remember correctly! However this is purely for gen 3 enthusiast to enjoy the event, stay tuned as we're planning on making Japanese and multi language versions of the mystery gift events!
Can confirm, using the Pomeg Glitch to get Mew does allow it to go to current gens
There are rumours that the Old Sea Chart was also released in Taiwan (which would have needed international language support). Additionally there has never been any documentation that proves the wireless distro in Japan didn’t support other languages (although it’s unlikely)
What about the roulette event from 2005. I remember there was an event where you could take your game to space center houston for a 10th anniversary event where you spun a wheel and then the attendant would send that pokemon to your cart
Using digimon music for hacking pokemon is so funny
thank you so much for this and the mystery gift pokemon distributions!! getting an ez flash and an analogue have been wonderful for this! i believe i attended a couple events in person, but my childhood games are long gone, so it's wonderful to be able to do these again! i also appreciate these kinds of things from the perspective of an aspiring game dev. thank you!!
hi there! this is super cool and i'm really appreciative of all your hard work. watching this video was very insightful and it was fun to watch because of how well organized it is! i wanted to let you know that when trying to boot your custom ROMs on actual hardware (GBA SP using a Everdrive GBA flashcart), they just hang after the game boy advance logo appears alongside the nintendo logo. it simply freezes on that screen and nothing happens. i have tested numerous of them and all of them seem to have this issue. i know that it's not just an issue with my flashcart or my wireless adapter since i've used the original aurora ticket distribution ROM successfully with no issues (i even tested it again after yours freeze). is it an issue on my end, like needing to set a specific save type or turning RTC on/off, or could it be a bug in the original code that prevents it from working on original hardware or on my flashcart? i can confirm that they seem to open properly in emulator. thank you in advance and apologies for the trouble!!
Hmmmm try flash 128 to see if that changes anything
@@undeadxreality still hangs unfortunately, with both RTC on and off. for good measure, i just cycled through every other save option (EEPROM, SRAM, flash 64 and flash 128, as well as having no save at all) and none of them worked or changed anything unfortunately :(
@@pikavees Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with everdrive :/ I'm curious if you download a fresh file and try again. If not do you have a version of everdrive that you have to patch roms before you load them to your device?
@@undeadxreality nah, i've been able to load roms without patching from the get-go every time without issue, including romhacks of pokemon games/non-official roms. these are the only ones i've ever had this issue with. no luck with redownloading them either unfortunately
@@pikavees That’s a bummer :/ I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll be on the lookout for any fixes or any similar instances and we’ll try to figure it out together!
I've really enjoyed your videos. Thanks for your hard work on this content! Side note, I'm now replaying Danganronpa thanks to the music in your videos :P great stuff
So what other game kinds could benefit from the above shown kinds of tweaks, & what will you call your custom tech pieces (including your pcb)? Also, do you have a Discord, per chance?
I'm not sure what other games had similar distributions like this, but at least we'll be focusing more in other types of distributions for the gen3 pokemon games like the multiboots mentioned in the video! I don't have a discord specifically for the channel yet, maybe in the future!
@@Goppier I see, though I wasn't speaking of a channel, but a Discord account.
Love the content! And yes, I did pause the video to read the wonder card 🤣
Do you think it would be possible to make it work with a link cable in the future, or is that out of the question? Either way, incredible work
It's "possible" however it would require a complete overhaul of the transfer protocol. Who knows maybe we'll see a version like that in the future! We appreciate the kind words
True. Its kinda hard seeing wireless adapters in my country especially getting 2. Hope theres a workaround for this
@@undeadxreality You would also have to emulate the wireless adaptor itself I imagine for the game cart side.
@@TheAkashicTraveller Exactly, we have a few ideas but it’s not gonna be anytime soon unfortunately.
I am blown away by every single one of your videos wow
Does this Method HAS to use Wireless Communicator? Can we use Wired Connections?
Unfortunately I believe you have to use Wireless Adapters, I was pretty bummed when I found out as well
@@undeadxreality Dang. Guess I'll use NDS Tool.
This was seriously exciting to see.
And I'm hearing a very familiar accent as well, which honestly creates a pretty funny image in my head.
Simply sitting behind a desk, with a Frikandelbroodje on the side, researching code. I don't know why it's funny to me, but it is.
Prachtwerk, serieus!
I learned something new! Thank you to you both as well as to the community that have researched the code and developed software!
Just watching one video ia enough to make me subcribe to your channel. There's something about your content that attract people that love pokemon. Good job!
This is really cool! Modifing a distribution cart looks hard. Some of the coding stuff went over my head but it's still fun to watch
This is incredible! I can't wait to try and do this. I love the idea of being able to obtain all these events "legitimately"
Ever since I learned about these roms I hoped someday someone would do this. You’re Amazing!!!!
This types of event was the most mysterious, exciting and fun I've ever felt when I was a child.
Every project you take up is always super impressive, I've been loving your videos and all the awesome services you've been doing for the Pokemon community.
Amazing to see members of the community be able to unlock the events on original hardware. Most people playing these games will never be able to access that content. Great job guys!
I love the fact I discovered your channel. Thank you so much for the excellent content, and easy-to-understand explanations. You're like RGME but for pokemon specifically.
Great Video! I am a big Pokemon Fan since I was child but unfortunately I never got the mystery gifts back in the days. I am now studying electrical engineering with respect to embedded systems where I work a lot with machine code, assembly etc. which makes this video so cool for me. I would love to see these kind of things in my native language german and may start trying it by myself if I have time someday.
Your videos have been so strong out the gate. Keep up the good work!
Wow man this amazing
Whenever I think about those events it makes me almost wanna cry because I was too young to go.
I knew about the aurora ticket one but it’s crazy you got it to work.
Big thanks!
Good work! I've been working to the same project but totally embedded in a microcontroller to make possible obtaining mystery gift with only one GBA available :)
Sounds cool! I've also had the idea to add that feature to the device I made sometime!
@@Goppier if you want, we can also collaborate ;)
Open source developers should help each others :)
Love the work you do, It is so cool! please keep up the good work!
Damn, this is incredible. Excellent work, thank you for what you're doing. One of these days, maybe I'll get these onto my main gen 3 saves...
the danganronpa music is 11/10 i gotta say it really does add to the whole experience. i'm not even joking
Always manages to impress, good work!
I'm so glad you made this! I've been looking to complete living dexes in all gen 3 games, and I wanted to be as legal as possible, using the least amount of glitches. Thanks to the Eon Ticket and Colosseum I was able to get most mons, but Deoxys and Mew were the ones that escaped my grasp until now. Thank you! This is honestly as legal as it'll get, special for peole like me that didn't live anywhere near where events happened.
Thank you so much for making these, I love that there are people out there preserving these events how they originally were.
Woah. This is next level stuff. Excellent work you two!
Very nice, great job updating the ROM to enable distribution of all events. The only event I could ever attend as a child was a Mew distribution, but they just gave you Mew directly, and not the old sea map unfortunately.
I would really like to „complete“ my old save states, Gen3 is still my favorite 20 years later… Hence support for other languages would be awesome (*cough* german *cough*). I would assume that just some checks need to be adapted, but nothing is ever straightforward with Pokemon games, so, who knows.
Anyway, thanks for the hard work! :-)
You, sir are one of MVP of my life. All I can do to thank you is just like, comment, share and watch every ads on this vid. Wish you all bests
I'm currently playing through Emerald and one of the things I've been looking forward to is trying out the Distribution cart with my flashcart. Thank you very much for your hard work preserving these events!
From trading Pokémon from gen 2 to 3 and then to making tickets work again, you have certainly impressed is all! We hope you keep making great videos and make new things a reality!
My man, I started playing my fire red, leaf green and emerald again during the pandemic. This is awesome to watch. I was so sad that I couldn’t get all the Pokémon and events because they happened so long ago.
The mad man, you guys are awesome! thank you for your service is something I am unwilling to say to anyone but to you gents, Thank you for your service!
Wow this is great!!! I don't have to deal with that berry glitch that could mess up my game if I don't do it correctly. Now I only need the wireless adapters so I can get the tickets. You are amazing guys!!!!
This is so ridiculously cool! I can’t wait to see the next vid :)
Both of your knowledge, understanding and experience with code is what makes it exciting.
The preservation of these are such fascinating and admirable! Nintendo is infamous for letting thing's rot in the past but people doing their darndest to preserve and learn! Keep doing what they Nintendon't!
Awesome stuff. Just when I was worried we might not get a new video. Thanks for the awesome stuff
Decent explanation of machine code and how it can be converted to assembly. I studied this in uni and wrote hdl code for an assembler myself once.
Dang man, great work as always. It’s always great to have more options to revive old event distributions.
I wish I was half as smart as you two, then I might be able to figure out how to restore my corrupted emerald save data.
This is a certified Subscribe moment.
IDK why I hadn't before, I've seen all your other stuff and loved it.
Preserving Pokemon 1 step at a time. Thanks for this great news
Thank you so much for all your hard work. This is a solid contribution to gaming history.
Such a cool video it’s incredible how you were able to do this all from an aurora ticket
I love the danganronpa soundtrack as BGM. It really feels like a mystery investigation.
Your videos and efforts are amazing. I'm a sucker and a nostalgic gen 3 pokèmon fan and seeing how all this is possible to do is so cool. If kid me could see all of this, I would've gone crazy!
Great job!
FINALLY a video, quality content as always
God I love your channel! Ever since the first upload, I knew this channel would be something special. Each video is better than the last. I just wish there were more videos! lmao