Rare Shiny Pokemon Found In Save Files

[@jajj_draws]

My mom is a saint for taking me to GameStop and Toys R Us for all these events back in the day. I had almost all of the event Pokemon that you mentioned in the video (except for the Japan exclusive ones) and have since transferred them up to Pokemon Home, so that I could replay some of my old DS carts. This video totally brought back memories though. Thanks! I would totally be game to watch the next video in this series

[@Drakesonone]

My mom did the same Thing. But when she got sick my elder sister took over and on her lunch brake go to the mall Gamestop and had to learn or ask help to download it onto my save file. My Mom pass away a few years ago and this video made me cry with this comment too.

[@DavidTheCastle]

@@DrakesononeI’m sorry for your loss.

[@Czarniak4]

I really hate that some Pokemon were limited to some events in a specific country like "You can't fly to Japan to get this limited Pokemon? Well, sucks to be you..."

[@g.koch.]

Not only this but often limited to the regions version aswell. My friend got on a German Pokemon Day on his English Pearl rom on r4 card tho a Shaymin where the OT changed to english "Movie11" then. My japanese versions never worked there.

[@Kozmic_CL]

I agree, but I can see why they do it. Some of these events are meant to encourage people to participate in activities limited by location (Go to a specific place, Buy a movie ticket, Watch a specific tv show). If they shared these events online the people wouldn't really have a reason to do any of those things. Still sucks tho

[@SubjectDelta20]

​@@Kozmic_CLIt's also a great way to make things more collectable. Harder to get = more value

[@NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5]

@@SubjectDelta20 That's more a benefit for collectors or people who wanna sell, I doubt GameFreak truly cares about the collectable part, or at least, it's not that high of a priority.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

​@@Kozmic_CL I wouldn't have a problem with these kinds of events if they at least were more like, "Travel to the capital city of your own country" and not, "Travel to the other side of the globe on this one specific day"

[@jpcsdutra]

I know a lot of people grow out of Pokémon, and a lot of people carry no sympathy for game files, but this is extremely sad and bittersweet to me, to see whole abandoned teams and half-played save files. Everyone gets their own experience in life, but I don't think I would ever be able to part with some of those memories. Ever since I got my DS I've been working on living dexes and keeping all the "original teams" transfered up all the time before I can even think of reseting a save file. Maybe I'm weirdly emotional for this, but there's something sad about people growing out of something that means a lot to me.

[@lifestrash]

this plus the nostalgic music, wish i had had my gold silver and yellow cartridges too, even if the batteries were dead. Those 3 cartridges got me through game boy color up to the ds.

[@icymiles]

no, definitely. I'm the same way. I have to keep everything when it comes to pokemon.

[@esav1092]

I’m still holding my sapphire cartridge I got at GameStop as a kid for the same reason, my wife tried getting me to sell it a few times lol fair to say I was almost single a few times 😅 I never transferred my og team up but it’s still fun to go in and see the wacky names I gave my ogs 😂😂

[@TheGael128]

this

[@jazzercise300]

It's crazy how attached to pokemon people get, myself included. It really is the backbone of the franchise. Funny thing is that GF didn't really expect people to get so attached to their mons, the og game design made it seem more like a blood sport, whips and all (which is why team rocket grunts in gen 1 have whips, they left it in there for them)

[@XxbelligerentxX]

At one point I had and used an action replay on my ds Pokémon games and I’ve been there - at the point of just catching random shinies. My guess is they just enabled a cheat code so that every encounter was shiny. They had a legit event Arceus but had that cheat enabled so it was encountered as shiny.

[@xEricC1001x]

I'm curious how many of the suspicious wondercards were legitimte. If you used a gamecard savefile editor it's pretty easy to pick out wondercards you want.

[@spencercampbell1873]

I used to be a dirty hacker in highschool and have since released all my hacked Pokemon. However I can tell you that it is totally possible and actually quite easy to use an action replay to change any Pokemon (even from an event) to a shiny.

[@elsenorbolainas4818]

En efecto mi estimado

[@Dstrov]

My favorite of those cheats were catching npc trainer's pokemon. I thought that was the coolest.😂

[@eclipses3131]

Well im shiny hunting a shiny Arceus in gen 4 using the void glitch. It’s gonna be 100% legit and safe for my gen 5 save. It’s an extremely rare shiny

[@GuyJohnClark]

At some point, you gotta consider a few of these are absolutely Pokemon with deceased owners. Some of the finds on here are probably just not cared about, but things like the first cart could absolutely be an estate sale that changes hands and winds up where you found it. I had a friend who bought Black and White, new game, and the cart was already loaded with legendries and event pokemon. She restarted it but I'd love to know if the trainer ID was anything to do with testing. It was so new at the time I'm not sure if anyone had hacked it and returned it already.

[@icymiles]

oh wow

[@equinox1223]

No, because you'd just be turning mountains into molehills

[@robinbeck7716]

I'm sorry but the "I guess they never found it" had me rolling

[@MonographicSingleheaded]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MonographicSingleheaded]

Ye that was cold 😂❤

[@Alphajet101]

​@@MonographicSingleheadedWas that a double Kanye reference?

[@AmiiboDoctor]

As someone who collects "vintage" Pokemon on Home this really hit a note

[@OnyxLeigion]

That first one is definitely a situation where someone's parent sold/donated their kids stuff without telling them

[@davidsmith8950]

It's definitely not. It's more likely someone traded it in to get a new game or money.... welcome to the Real world .

[@franchise5527]

@@davidsmith8950 Nah, he could be right. Someone who's that invested into the game should know the value of their item and likely would've wanted more money for it.

[@CoolPorygon]

​@@franchise5527 doing a few events over a couple years isn't "that invested", especially when they live in the country where they occur.

[@hexmaniacruby]

not always as some people sell their games because it might be taking up space in their home

[@kipyt3501]

@@CoolPorygon Its something that will NEVER be available again without hacking

[@driftwood42]

The game that had all shinys probably used an action replay or something to force every pokemon in their box to be shiny. I vaguely remember seeing codes for that back in the day.

[@Moon-Vixen]

actually I'm willing to bet it was the cute charm glitch. it only worked on HGSS and DPPT and so long as you had a pokemon with cute charm, you can play through the game with only shinies. I've done it to most of my retail copies and my boxes look just like that. it absolutely could be hacking, but they also could be entirely legit. impossible to know with those specific games.

[@tails183]

I can back this up. There were two cheats, actually. One made everything take on the appearance of a shiny, but didn't make them actually shiny while the second made any encounter or egg shiny, which would allow them to be transferred all the way up to current gens if you obtained them in a place they'd normally be.

[@Moon-Vixen]

@jormungand72 I'm well aware. if there was a genderless shiny mon among the bunch in that clip, I missed it.

[@Moon-Vixen]

@jormungand72 .....you're right. idk how I missed that lmao I must have been so distracted by how the box looked like mine in my cute charm files that I totally forgot about the legendaries. thanks for the correction!

[@johanmadrid8422]

Not sure if someone mentioned it but, for the diamond file with a darkrai, the event was never released for DP, only for platinum, so that darkrai was either cheated or obtained with the crazy void glitch

[@Dem0nsSaintS]

You can use dns methods and get all the mystery gifts in 2023 for most pokemon games on the ds.

[@matiasrodriguez3986]

or either exchanged from a platinum save file, but not sure if that was even possible

[@GothAtheist]

​@@matiasrodriguez3986You just catch one in Platinum and trade it to DP, totally possible

[@hoaujudaiyubel]

​@@matiasrodriguez3986you can trade event pokemon with local trade but not with online trade or gts

[@equinox1223]

The void glitch isn't that crazy hard to activate. Lol honestly it's probably easier to glitch for Darkrai and Shaymin in BDSP than it was in DPPHGSS, the craziest glitch would probably moreso be the Cute Charm glitch

[@bakababy6904]

i liked this video concept a lot, if you do it again i think there's a lot of potential for storytelling and making this a fun little series go for it

[@Grewyn7]

Came here to say this. Pokemon Archeology would be a sick series name

[@yoshi8799]

Pretty sure he got the idea from Suzuki Kenzo, a Japanese KZbinr who does stuff like this. Trying to complete a full dex using old games, farming for an event shiny after finding an old save where the owner unlocked the event but never caught the pokemon, etc.

[@romanscar156]

​@@yoshi8799 So there are 2 people who take forever to get to the point?

[@CurmudgeonMedia]

There is a genuine, honest, authentic love this guy has for shiny hunting that comes from such a pure place

[@yannisconstantinides7767]

Last year I bought a Japanese sapphire which has a Jirachi with OT ネガイボシ and ID 30719, meaning it could be from the first ever distribution event in 2003. Everything else about the file looks normal, only Kyogre and Blaziken at lvl 100, 76 hours played, about 50% dex. I imagine these days it would be possible to hack one into emerald and trade it over, but I want to believe it's been sitting there for 20 years at lvl 48.

[@GalaxyHanArt]

I love this video concept! Every Pokémon player and cartridge has its own story, from new players trying out, to shiny fanatics using action replays, to dedicated kids who had the games from the beginning. Would love to see more of these, it’s so nice seeing what old Pokémon players got up to in their games and what can be found!

[@electricindigoball1244]

The biggest mystery to me is what caused the original owners to just trade in/sell their games with these incredibly rare Pokemon. Even if they lost interest in the franchise (which I can understand as someone who was a massive Pokemon fan during gen 1-3) they must have known that what they had was rare and therefore more valuable than the game itself (I'm of course not counting the cases where the Pokemon were very likely gotten through cheats). Also correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it most of these Pokemon should be or have been possible to transfer up to the modern Pokemon HOME app.

[@icymiles]

Definitely. The whole time when he was going over the soulsilver copy, I couldn't stop envisioning the owner of the copy trading it in, and why, and for such a low price.

[@flowerfaerie8931]

Maybe they lost it and whoever found it didn’t care about Pokémon so they sold the game. Or maybe they died.

[@crisrocas7924]

People in Japan couldn't careless unlike Western people. They go on with their lives and sought these things as just a game and not a hobby for collecting sort of thing.

[@electricindigoball1244]

@@crisrocas7924 Do you have a source for that? At least online I've seen evidence that there are a lot of collectors, including ones collecting video games and related media, in Japan. Not surprisingly a lot of them are also part of the Otaku subculture.

[@ferretsuuu]

For me, I had bills to pay. I sold my entirely BW/BW2 with boxes, inserts, and guides. It ..still breaks my heart.

[@yan7821]

I loved this way more then expected. This somehow felt me with some weird sort of nostalgia and i enjoyed every single second of it a ton!

[@moonsprig]

I’d love to see more of these! It’s really cool to get a tiny glimpse of what the people who played these games were like. Sweet and a little melancholy, too - wondering who they are, and if they still think back on the Pokémon they left behind with fondness, maybe hoping someone else just like you will see and enjoy them someday.

[@WhiffyPlush]

I love how cozy this video feels, such a relaxing watch

[@greym3288]

there's something hilarious about opening a person's abandoned save file after who-knows how many years after the player quit, and it being in the middle of a feebas hunt. i felt that.

[@Mugiwara2k]

Would love to see more like this. Buying an used Pokémon game is always like looking into the past of someone else’s history with the franchise.

[@UnusedCanyon]

this reminded me to check the soulsilver and diamond cartridges that i bought while i was in japan… thank you!!!

[@hhjan594]

I feel bad you didn't show the caught location/ time page of those "Seemingly hacked Pokemon", as some of your viewers (like me) can read Japanese and therefore could possibly help you find parts that supports if it's legit or not.

[@mothberries5021]

please continue this, i just absolutely LOVE seeing old files explored!!

[@philipspigelmeyer959]

I really hope you do more of these. They are sooo interesting and tell a story behind what happened. Its amazing to see. Keep up the great work. Happy new year ❤

[@BlueLoveYT]

6:22 They probably traded that event Arceus to an emulator like an R4, used a program like Pokesav which can create/change Pokemon to your hearts content, then traded back to the legit cartridge. That's what I did back in my childhood

[@TheKingler14]

As someone who used an action replay during the gen 4 era, I can confirm there was a cheat code that just made all of your pokemon at the time permanently shiny.

[@aporue5893]

*click* nice.

[@A39pro]

I find these videos so interesting the fact you can find these types of things is very fascinating

[@nefariosgliscor]

Off topic, but I'd like someone to verify this potentially obscure fact if it hasn't been covered already, and I know this is the channel for it. I've put over 500 hours into Legends Arceus just trying to get perfect on each dex entry without fully progressing the story. Anyhow, I only recently noticed one Easter egg. You know how in most older games, especially those that let you keep making the walking animation against a wall or NPC, it makes a "thud" sound for each collision with that obstacle? Well, Legends Arceus has it too, but not in the same context. It's when you take fall damage and it's very subtle. I haven't seen anyone mention this anywhere, but if it's true, I think it's a really nice nod to one of the game mechanics that you would expect has become obsolete with all the walking animations of a 3D game.

[@Winningthewormoff]

I'm not really sure how else to describe this video, but it was very tranquil, it was a super cozy watch, I'd love to see a follow-up or something similar

[@OtakuishWeeb]

I love the fact that you are putting so much effort and dedication in your videos👍🏻👍🏻. Keep up the good work! And i am glad that you are still trying to find a lot of undiscovered and obscure things in the old roms too. Keep uploading 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻🔥🙂

[@shinkenneth]

For the shiny Arceus, I believe there was a movie event where you had a chance of getting one with any of the plates, a normal, or shiny without plate.

[@mrdressup]

Not that event though

[@conza1989]

In ORAS, in the house south of the Devon corporation in Rustboro City, there's an Ace trainer on the 2nd floor who gives you a Float stone. Once you leave and come back, the character's model will be replaced with a Hiker, and he'll remark "... For some reason, I've put on a lot of weight recently."

[@supitaly]

my best guess for how they got arceus to be shiny is they just used something like an action replay, and edited that arceus's stats to be shiny, most likely they had a really long code, that went through and made all of their mons shiny, and one of them happened to be that event arceus

[@nefariosgliscor]

Those where my thoughts as well. But I also think it'd be best to examine the amount of play time on that save file, if the Pokémon were from that game by that trainer, dates they were caught or hatched, and stats. I think it may be possible they COULD be legit if that someone either spent a LOT of time shiny hunting (can be verified by play time), traded with others that had shinies, or had multiple copies of the game and did any of the above to make this their shiny collection game (can be verified by OT, stats, journal key item, catch/hatch dates).

[@supitaly]

@nefariosgliscor Its impossible for that event mon to be shiny. They usually make sure of that, and there are only a couple of examples of them messing that up, the only way to get a shiny one of it is by editing a legit one, or just manually adding one to your save, and if they are willing to cheat in one, I find it unlikely they would get the rest legit

[@pyriel6870]

I absolutely love thos kind of video in general. Going thru something really old and linked to a specific time in our childhood, discovering the rare things another person acquired in their life and knowing what a treasures it may or may not possess. Figuring out if it's legit or not, a glimpse thru another's memories and the nostalgia that brings. Would 100% watch more videos of this style a few times to see if I can catch something you might have missed at a glance. Awesome lol

[@piercemanter9477]

You’re exactly the video I want 2 in the morning, keep up the amazing work!

[@ZarBluestar]

Man. Getting hit with all the nostalgia from when I got all these events back in the day. Many are living in home now, but I now feel compelled to go back and make sure nobody’s been left behind

[@francisco7021]

Cool video, also if you see a bunch of random shiny pokemon in a gen 4 game, it could be possible that they could have the cute charm glitch activated, i know this wasn't your case but its something to have in mind.

[@peaceka]

this video is such a treat, as someone who can't afford the consoles way back then and mainly use emulators to play these, it's so awesome to see the original pokemons people used on their first playthrough thanks for doing this

[@larsvinterqvist3342]

I would love a sequel to this video; also like how even their deer bow to passersby!

[@iamredjustice5984]

Definitely more videos of this! I love looking for stories in old pokemon games I buy. Do some generation III games next!

[@BottleRocket11]

You went to Japan, too! That's awesome! I just actually got back from my two week trip to the country, hope you had as great of an experience as I did, Phin! Miss you, bud!

[@Matteo_depetris]

Man I love this dude

[@tlst94]

Why would players sell their games with rarities that they've obtained?

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

Something i love about used Pokemon games having save files on them, is that I can then try to find a Pokemon or two that are really important to the person who owned it previously, and then if they feel oddly neglected, or if i just want to, i can train them up and essentially adopt them into my team members. I recently noticed that a Golduck, Swellow, and Haunter in a used copy of Diamond has champion ribbons from specifically gen 3 or Sinnoh (depending on which one), and i decided to EV train the Haunter an evolve it, and im planning on at oeast EV training the Swellow since it could spam Guts boosted Facades

[@kleislikes1589]

This video felt really good, your story telling was spot on. I'd love to hear about the other games you found (and possibly about future games you'll buy! but yeah im sure it was expensive)

[@sieglinde_]

I don't know if this applies to the Arceus event, but many of those mystery gift pokemon are not set in stone. You can reset for different natures, shiny, IVs... I doubt that's what this person did but I don't think it's impossible.

[@sieglinde_]

That's not true. I've done those mystery gifts and have reset plenty of times just to hunt for a nature. I'd say most are unlocked to be whatever.

[@AidanRatnage]

3:23, I could've sworn snarl was dark, not normal.

[@xReclusive]

He meant its a move that is easily accessible now

[@Frogmanxyz]

6:20 I remember messing around with Action Replay on my Pokémon Diamond, there was a code that allowed you to make all your Pokémon in-game and PC Shiny, if you didn’t save, it would force them back to being not shiny. I couldn’t force myself to get a full shiny dex of Pokémon so I never saved, but that’s most likely what happened to that cartridge tbh. I think the code was either a very short in characters meaning it was easy to execute without a PC or it was a default code put on the Action Replay. Just my 2 cents.

[@theredeft5319]

Very cool! I think about how a lot of game stores delete the save file to make sure the game is working properly and it makes me sad a little to see someone’s beloved Pokémon just erased without further thought(even though they may have been the one to sell it to the store). Super cool to see old event pokemon. I need to get my old gen 5 pokemon transferred up one of these days before it’s too late or they’ll be trapped on the cartridges too

[@Spirit_Yoshino]

This is something I actually really love to do. Just looking for and buying old used Pokemon games and seeing what gems lie within.

[@Olympicmetor787]

0:00 What’s the song playing in this video

[@apocopus]

I used to love getting pre owned games to look through pokemon as I wasn’t allowed a GameShark and my wifi wouldn’t work with Nintendo online. Sadly there wasn’t much more than just hacked shinies in most of them, though one of my soul silver copies beat the champion league without beating any gyms. That was a fun playthrough lol. I recently bought a lot of like 6 pokemon games from yahoo auction and it was a bit like the games you found. Most pokemon were transferred but most of the games were very completed as well.

[@ChicagoMel23]

You mean Action Replay. Why wouldnt you be allowed one?

[@apocopus]

@@ChicagoMel23 Ah yea. i dunno lol my parents wouldn't let me and by the time i was old enough to buy one myself i never found one. i guess i could find one now but the magic is a little passed.

[@aryanghadage3282]

Dude I loved this video, and hope that there's more to be coming in future

[@stephenbannister965]

Would love to see more videos and see what other special things you find in games!! Loved this!

[@WhinyPotato]

this reminded me of all the work i put into my SS game. Gonna find it and make sure i pull everyone into home before April

[@accordinglyx]

This was a really cool one, awesome concept, hope to see a part 2!

[@3_LollipopOfTheMoldiKind]

I would LOVE to see more of this! :D Also IS THAT A MIFFY BAG AT THE END!?

[@A7XBEAST21]

Pokemon white for roughly 10 dollars is crazy

[@lespaular]

Holy shit I absolutely loved the music in this video and watching this in 360p gave it an extreme early 2000s vibe to everything. TAKE MY SUB

[@diancie.]

I would watch this for hours, definitely keep it coming!

[@pokemondude222]

It’s crazy most of these event pokemon you’ve mentioned I’ve already done when the games came out and I miss those events. Hopefully someday we’ll get to relive old mystery gifts

[@zoroark522]

I had an action replay when I was a kid as well and had a lot of fun messing around with, but my favourite by far was catching trainers' pokemon for whatever reason. I wonder if there is any way to tell how many of my pokemon are from trainers.

[@VerumTheSuccessor]

6:15 they most likely used a save editor like pkhex and a homebrewed 3ds/dsi, i have one and a lot of experience on this matter

[@omni_4l]

Please do this more! I would love to see more of these cool save files and what pokemon they have trapped inside.

[@YukeWeiss]

Wow I feel a bit strange watching these knowing some of my save files on my DS games are still my original files from when I first played. Some of my Pokemon from my Pearl copy are approaching 20 years old :O

[@OreoDood]

Who needs sleep when BlueBoyPhin uploads? Certainly not I

[@mr_vision66]

I believe an Action Replay can automatically alter the shiny status of any Pokemon by messing with stuff like the PID!

[@enoyna1001]

But it can be tracked by PKHex

[@friedpancakes266]

The rarest pokemon i have is a shony giratina, distributed in Berlin back in 2013. It's safely stored in Pokemon home

[@GameGodZERO]

I really wish I could do this but god the mark up prices are insane DX

[@crickett3536]

Confession: when I finally had the budget as an adult, and "needed" to get the alternate games, I made sure to find a lovingly used copy at Used game stores. Best way I got old legendaries from when I didn't keep up with events. I haven't gotten Violet yet because I'm biding my time, lol.

[@TaIathar]

6:21 Most likely every shiny on that cartridge is hacked. Hacks have existed for a long time, but just because they were popularized during gen 6 doesn't mean they didn't exist before then via gameshark and action replay.

[@Naixatloz]

I recently bought a Japanese copy of Sapphire that clearly had a lot of love put into it. 128 hours, boxes and boxes of all kinds of Pokemon, lots of unhatched eggs. I was honestly a little sad that I had to start a new game for the purpose I bought the cartridge for.

[@LostInTimeAndDarkness]

I love the concept tbh! In fact, in a thrift shop, i remember having bought a Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and it contained a fully trained strategic team! I didn't have any interest in strategy, so I gave it to my fiance. He loved the team so much that he transferred it to the most recent games and he still plays it competitively ! (And also, Porygon-Z is now one of his favourite Pokemon thanks to this event!) Yeah, some previously owned games can be full of surprises and stories, it feels like treasure hunting!

[@eggwalker]

3:20 There are some inaccuracies in what you said about gen 5 Snarl. It is true that no pokemon can learn Snarl through regular means in Black and White, however there are (at least) 2 ways through irregular means: 1. Teach it in B2W2 as it's an obtainable tm there 2. Snarl tm in BW gotten from the lock capsule event (requires cheats) Great video!

[@MegaIorex]

You can also breed it and have smeargle sketch it

[@jajj_draws]

Also I’d like to mention that you are the only Poketuber I watch, because you are the only one I’ve seen who’s voice I can stand to listen to 😂 (and your content is stellar) Has anyone else noticed that being a Pokemon KZbinr often goes hand in hand with having a grating voice?

[@MagicalFishy]

I still have ALL 3 of my shiny legendary dogs from when I was a kid. I’m actively using them in Scarlet/Violet. So cool knowing that I still have my Pokémon from well over a decade ago.

[@Sheerspeechcraft]

The classic aspect ratio is a nice touch-perfect for retro Pokemon games.

[@lucasprobably]

this was a magical idea, i'd be so down for another video like this! maybe one with US/EUR cartridges?

[@WeirdDragonTwins]

A few years ago I decided to start collecting all pokemon games and going around hunting for the ones I was missing was always a blast, checking other people's old files has been always so much fun! I had a couple of little gems and others that were unabashedly hacked lol

[@yat282]

The Darkrai and Shaymin on the final copy of Diamond were probably encountered by using the walk through walls code on a cheating device to access to event areas. Both event Pokémon could be accessed this way, and it may also explain why the game does not seem to also have Arceus, since that code can not be used to access the area above Spear Pillar.

[@nefariosgliscor]

The massive number of Masterballs could also be an indicator of a very specific Action Replay method. I recall using one that would allow your next encounter to work like this: -Discard your Masterballs to leave between 1 and 493 of them in your bag. -Depending on which number in the national dex your choice was, that Pokémon would appear. I recall using it specifically in the area you'd find Giratina in Diamond because those were among higher leveled Pokémon in the game besides maybe Stark Mountain. I'd shamefully used that method to catch Arceus, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, and a few other mythicals I'd missed just to complete my very first national dex. Using Action Replay almost physically damaged my card from fitting in the DS normally so that's my just deserts. I've been clean ever since.

[@amoura39]

I would love to see more. It's a bit sad to explore these lost memories but ... I think it's beautiful in a way.

[@venabre]

I have never felt so old as when event pokemon I was there to receive are talked about as if some ancient, long-lost forbidden treasure

[@MrAvenger729]

This video was super interesting please show off the rest of your games! Will you be selling/giving away any of the old games? i think it would be a fun idea

[@BlueBoyPhin]

This was also my plan! But I was late getting the video out, so I didn’t get to tack that on. I wanted to give these out

[@JulianBliss]

Damn this is a crazy coincidence. I also flew to Akihabara and went to some used game stores just earlier this week and bought some old Pokemon games.

[@apackalu2718]

6:13 I am not proud to admit it but I used to cheat in shiny legendaries. I use to use an action replay which is not the same as the GameShark that was probably used for that shiny arceus but I imagine it had similar functions. With the action replay, it literally had a function where it turned an entire box in your pc shiny. I imagine something like that was used but for gameshark.

[@TheDarkmasteryoda]

You had me booting up all my Pokémon games from Japan and my copy of Diamond has the event shaymin that was given out I believe from Giratina and the Sky Warrior.

[@mrsalmon3791]

I really lucked out when I picked up my copy of Platinum, it was just the previous owner's team, but also a shiny Caterpie, which was a nice find. My White 2 didn’t have anything super rare, but the Pokémon were all caught in 2012, meaning that no one had played it in years. These are some great ones too, loved the video

[@mrsalmon3791]

@jormungand72 this was done with the poke radar, I could tell since he had a big Catepie chain on his poketch, which is impressive since you needed FireRed inserted for them to appear in the wild like that

[@dawnsbuneary]

I remember getting a copy of Sapphire from my parents for Christmas that had a full completed national dex AND a whole bunch of items, including Safari Balls outside the Safari Zone. I was blown away at the Safari Balls because I didn't even know it was possible to get those in the bag. All these years later, I learned that the game was hacked.

[@telephonewyre]

this is such a cool video format id love to see more

[@misssniperella]

I am reminded of the 4 or 5 Pokemon that i bred and trained for competitive battle back in Heart Gold and White, never ended up doing competitive battling but I still have those Pokemon with me to this day, along with a Draco Meteor Jirachi from a Gen 4 wifi event, and Victini from those games. Those pokemon are like 12-15 years old give or take a year or two.

[@philthestampede]

There are plenty of ways to transfer and edit save files to and from cartridges and your PC, from hacked 3DSs to physical devices you plug your older cartridges in.

[@NachoCheeseDorito-Kun]

I bought a copy of Pearl off of Ebay. It was bundled with the Shadows of Almia and Action Replay I was looking for, so it was mostly just a bonus. While it was clearly AR'd, it also had a Launch Date save file on it with pretty much every event that was available to North America. Sadly, I kinda need to give it a very indepth cleaning, as most all of my DS-capable systems are unable to read it very easily.

[@derekjohnson6603]

getting event pokemon back in 2010 when i first got pokemon games was one of my favorite things, i wish i could go back and play the games for the first time

[@Newsteevie]

In messing around with Diamond cheats on an emulator, I found a code that makes every Pokémon DISPLAY, probably by changing the required personality value? When the code was turned off, the shinies went back to normal. That might be the Arceus' deal here too.

[@zonesproductions]

My Ultra Moon cart has every special event pokemon I could get in the UK. Every pokemon I've ever caught since Ruby and Sapphire

[@maxim819]

felt very nostalgic. just a weeek or two ago I went through my old game and the memories rushed in of my VGC shiny milotic I got from one of the videogame tournaments

[@verylostdoommarauder]

I have always wanted to do this but I’ve never had the money. Closest thing to this is doing the DNS exploit to get all of the gen 5 WiFi events (It technically works with Gen 4 but you would basically need to be a wifi engineer to get it working, since DS WiFi is fully incapable of interfacing with a modern router).

[@Hiperchili7]

This video remember my Deoxys in a Red Fire cartridge, i got it on an event at the beach in Gijon, Spain, i think the event was called Moviplaya. I remember many kids were there and we spent the queue fighting and trading, massive golden memories

[@icymiles]

This video inspired me to embark on a mission to see how many forgotten pokemon I can rescue from the gen 6 gts :)

[@gettinwast3d]

“and they hacked in like… a thousand master balls” shit has me rolling😭