I Shouldn't Own This Pokémon Cartridge
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- čas přidán 15. 11. 2023
- Pokémon events from stores like GameStop don't really happen anymore like they used to. They're great memories of the past, but what if someone (me) got their hands on an old piece of Pokémon event history?
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use a gameshark
weird idea as its just radio signals. if you could "mimic" it using something like a flipper device. and if so, imagine all the pokemon
didnt they give out 2 legendary last 2 years at gamestop?
Loool I couldn't see the cartridge nooo focus camera
to this day, i still have my pokemon crystal version in my safe that i had that was washed in the washer machine when i was a kid. it never went into the dryer, but it never seemed to have rested, as far as i can tell. so i never understood what i was supposed to do to recover my cartridge to it's former glory. the sticker looks good too, so i am not sure if i could make it ever work again or anything. i still keep it though as a reminder to never leave anything in the washer when i wish clothes.
The Lechonk was an April Fool's joke. It was a Flying type Tera (so a flying pig).
FINALLY THAT MAKES SENSE
😂
that’ll happen when pigs fly
-Puffy Blowhog-
Yeah, that just makes it a lot better. 😂😂😂
When I got Pokemon Black, I wanted the event Victini, but all I had to do was be in the parking lot close enough to the store to receive the item needed to catch the Victini. I was too embarrassed to go inside the store with my DS cause I was a fully grown adult and figured I'd be the oldest one in there for the event.
That is so goddamn relatable man
it's 90% adults i promise you.
@@foxbuns plus it comes in handy when employees don't know what they're doing.
I can't remember ALL of the details other than this was a Toys 'R' Us thing so I went there to get the event, their system was closer to the left side of the front of the store so went over there just to be in better range of it and then went to go looking for something else then as I was leaving the employee by the system stopped me since someone had asked them how to get the gift and he didn't know how to do that
i remember that event & i dont recall needing to be at a store? i got the victini at a pier i think in game while i was connected to wifi at my house
I don't remember having to go to GameStop during Black and White. I got my shiny Entei, Raikou, and Suicune at home during the time it was being given out. I remember it well because that Adamant, Extremespeed Entei was a beast in pvp.
If your collecting them it’s actually 12 different carts they all are pretty rare but you can still find them. So you got 11 more to go if you want them all
Those can be pretty expensive if you want a better option there does exist rom files that are from those same cartridges. you can load them into a DS flashcard for a lot cheaper sure saves spending thousands of dollars or pounds (depending where you live)
Depends on which one but most go for around 250
Here in Finland we didn't get most of the Pokemon Promo events with legendaries. But when Mew became available for Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow there were some events where you could trade any Pokemon for Mew by using a special kiosk and if you missed those events you could just send your catridge to Nintendo Club so the official company that imported Nintendo consoles to our country could trade a Mew for you (they just took a common low level monster and traded it for Mew). Similar Nintendo Clubs were also in Sweden and in some other Northern European countries.
I remember this from early 2000s. There was big ad on Club Nintendo magazine about it and we mailed our game in, while being scared of it getting lost... But it eventually got mailed back, with mew! :D
I had a cloned version of the gift mew, never knew this was a thing when I grew up but a guy in our school had a mew so we just cloned it
I approve that username. 🦊
Or you could catch mew with the fly glitch
@@yutub561 It is easy AFTER watching guide from internet. Not so easy when Gameboy just released.
This is an important piece of historical information.
Given the popularity of Pokemon and the important cultural value those events had, I think this video should be a valid entry for archiving.
ive been thinking about how we might be living in "undocumented times", example would be this.
seems to be actual things happening in today's world that are directly influenced by video game experience's of the past that are going completely overlooked and forgotten about.
kinda crazy to thinik that exclusive events are being held that influence how other exclusive events are held and so on and so forth
The rom itself should be archived too!
@@Damariobrosit already is. All of them. Since A LONG TIME ago.
I knew a guy back in the day that had a darkrai distribution cart, no idea where he got it. It worked a little differently than this one though, it worked as a normal pokemon game except if the system time was set to the distribution window in which case the distribution would take over. I recall him telling me that it only worked with diamond/pearl because platinum hadn’t yet come out at the time of the event. But I did get a darkrai from it so I guess he was telling the truth to some extent
You should try to go to a game con or something like it and distribute the Celebi to strangers (even if I don't think people still bring their DS to any con)
I think a good amount of people do surprisingly! I might go to PAX East next year but idk yet. I’ve been to PAX West before and Pokémon GO Fest so maybe at a future event like that
I would just leave it sharing and keep it on me at all times. Not many would know, but those who happens to come across this would be very surprised. Only thing is, that if receiving device also has to have same date, it just would never result to anything.
I'd def go to cons and distribute for those who never got a chance to get and want to get a legitimate celebi
I did just this at PAX West 2023. It's not as easy as just walking around while it distributes, though, as other people have to have their compatible game open to the main menu and be constantly checking for event distributions while it's happening, which would be pointless to try. They can't just check their game at a later time.
I ended up walking around during a Streetpass panel and offering it to people who had a Gen 4 cart (for shiny trio) on them, and we had to do it all together to make sure it worked and everyone got one of each. Gave away to maybe 5 or so very happy people, which made me happy, too.
Can't wait to do it again next year.
If I'm remembering right you can either use this Celebi to access the Giovanni event in HG/SS or transfer it up to B/W to get Zorua from Castelia City. I can't remember if you use Celebi or the Legendary Beasts to do it but there was a way of obtaining Snarl in B/W by connecting it with one of the Generation 4 games.
Yeah that giovanni event is so cool, he should do one showing it off like that
The Shiny Beasts did the Zoroark event in B/W
@@haydenbennett3547Celebi is for Zorua
Neither. There's some special function in Gen5 to transfer the Celebi and the Legendary Beasts without PokéPorter and there was supposed to be another event giving you an useless Base Item in HGSS, the Safe Capsule or something like that. You can't open the Safe Capsule in HGSS, it needs to be transferred with this option into Gen5 (I believe only BW1 work though), then a Clown opens the thing.
@@d4rksonic474 a useless capsule for a useless move; Snarl.
It is truly a shame that since I am 16, I wasn't really around for that GBA/DS era. Seeing these videos makes me envious for what ppl literally one generation earlier got to grow up with
it was kinda like this with xy through usum where you could get legendaries, though it was with codes that you could pick up instead
Truly unfortunate. The diamond/pearl era was easily one of the most fun times as a kid. As a young adult the X/Y era is where my friends and I put in about 5k+ hours each. I’ll miss those days but Pokémon isn’t even close to and never will be as fun as it used to be. Sumo and swsh were extremely boring. SV I will say has the best story by far but these new games just can’t hook me long enough to play a post game like they used to.
@@rp7921 I bought it the day it came out and only played half of it. I didn’t like the unreal grind of having to catch almost every Pokémon and make them use moves or do certain things just to level up for the story.
Don't feel to bad man never lived close enough to get these but got to see them honestly play some on some emulators with the event it helps
@@rp7921legends arceus is technically my first pokemon game even tho im 18. Game is great even tho i barely know much about pokemon
So you could actually get endless Celebis - the legit way. Noice
With enough gen 4 games, yeah!
or pokemon bank
@@KevdogPlays
@@KevdogPlays Enough is 2 because one can just box it in another game and then delete the saved data I'm pretty sure.
@@lpfan4491You had to play far enough into the game to unlock mystery gift ever rest though. You also needed to know what to tell the NPC to unlock it. It was not just handed to you like it is today.
@@lpfan4491 Yep, that's right
I remember getting the event as a kid. Literally one of the hypest and best memories
Bro I never got to I was too young to know they were a thing and by the time I was like 12 it was already 2019. I'm 16 now, so pretty young for a Pokemon fan and unfortunately I never got to live in those times...
@@itsLantikI’m 16 too and was never interested in Pokémon as a child, and I regret it so bad 😭
I sincerely hope you have backed up the rom file for archival purposes. Unusual cartridges like this need to be preserved.
Don’t worry 🙌
no all media needs to be preserved period even baby by Justin Bieber u better have it backed up u hypocrite
@@jasonanderson5034what 💀💀💀
@@jasonanderson5034💀
My first game, Pokemon Soul Silver, I got when I was around 9-10. I was so excited; especially seeing that it came with the PokeWalker. I was about a few weeks in and left it in my pants and my mom washed it.. suffice to say it is still dead but then around 7 years after that (3-ish years ago), I had a crack at taking it apart, replacing the battery, and I'm working to refix it's screen. I know I left a pokemon in there- and I want to see what it was. One day.
I can't remember what it was, but there's a button combination that forces the game to return the Pokémon without the pokewalker. You don't get any rewards, ofc, but it saves my raikou when my pokewalker got run over by a car...
@@electrospaghetti8388 Oh wow- I definitely need to look into this.
@@TonyseilDo you still have your OG Soul Silver save? I think that is required to make sure forcing your mon back works.
@@lightyagami3492 I do yes!
@@lightyagami3492 Yeah you would have to have the original save for the force return to work. It saves the pokemon to the cart in a normally inaccessible way for battle and when returned from the walker it gets updated. thats how you can force it back into your party without the bonuses
As a pokemon event distribution cartridge I can confirm that this is a video
Oh man, I remember this distribution! I got the Celebi the same day I bought Pokemon Black version (the day it came out in the US). Stood in front of GameStop at the mall before it opened for the day, and talked to some of my gaming buddies from high school. Had my DS Lite on me and my copy of Diamond to receive the Celebi. Good times 😊
I love hearing stuff like this, ty for commenting!!
I work at a daycare, so everyday we get our maps (a small rectangle that you fold to fit in your pocket) and I always put mine in my back pocket. Sometimes I forget to take it out, and one day my mom did the laundry and it shredded the paper which then spread to every piece of clothing in that load, it took an hour to pick all of them out... suffice I say I never forget to throw my map out anymore
I remember when I first got an R4 card and found out you could download the roms for these distribution events. I was now able to get them all.
I would be hella curious how the dumped ROM of this cartridge looks like, and if it even works to dump it. Because if so, you could probably do wild things with this.
Would love to just boot an event distriburion from my modded 3DS over to other systems.
I know that the fan servers are hosting most events already, but it'd be something else if you could just homebrew yourself through events while being completely offline.
There are ROMs of some distribution cartridges out there. It should work if you just put them onto your modded 3ds
All of the distribution roms have been available for years on the web. Just do a quick google search.
i think roms for all of the nds events are available and they do work correctly ive used them, i found a mega link before that had them all
People have done that already, look up the controversial gengar giveaway. Lol
@@tumbles8350😂😂😂 Oh god not that "event" to
my pokewalker ended up facing this fate and never working anymore 😭, nowadays It would be a fortune If It still worked
nice video, I always enjoy seeing these distribution carts
same thing happened to my copy of Black when I was a kid, left it in the pocket of my shorts before my mom threw them in the wash, came out fine but the sticker's been yellowed and slightly faded ever since due to the water damage.
I have a number of these carts and they are super cool. Most work like the Celebi cart shown where you set up the correct date and just get gifted a Pokemon. A couple are unique, in that they give you an item to get to an otherwise inaccessible area (such as a liberty pass in black/white to get Victini). And they are all once per save file, so every time you reset your games to have another playthrough, you can obtain them over and over again.
Also, most distribution carts have serial numbers, and some people like to hunt for different numbers.
I actually have the same Celebi distro cart along with 6 of the other event cartridges. Fun little fact, the cart for the legendary dog trio distribution also has an unused version of Celebi on it that they decided not to use in favor of the cart in this video.
If you plan on ever migrating it, you can make the catch date whatever you want when you migrate from gen IV to V. For some reason BW will overwrite the caught date to the current date. I think it also impacts met level, which could be an issue with getting the footprint ribbon
Is there any way possible for you to be able to give those pokemon out for any through wi if ir something before the 3ds losses its connection to the internet? For the gen 4 games
I’d love to get my hands on a Shaymin distribution cartridge one day. Shaymin is my favorite mythical Pokémon, so I think it’d just be really cool to have.
I got the Shaymin event from an Action Replay, and shiny hunted it in Platnium. Shaymin is my favourite as well!
One time when I was younger, I Accidentally left my copy of Plants vs. Zombies in my short pockets, but thankfully, it still worked, and the labeled didn't come off either.
And so the huge line outside your door for a Celebi awaits!
😂😂😂😂
I left my first Pokemon game Pokemon Y in my pants pocket and searched with my whole family for like a whole afternoon before finally figuring it out after putting them on the next day. A couple days in the rice fixed it up (I know that doesn't really work but I was like 6 or 7 chill).
3:50 I remember I once forgot a Tamagotchi in my pocket. I did not work anymore after being washed and the screen’s background was bent in little colourful waves.
Man I remember a few of their events. One of my favorites, partly cause its the only one I got to get. But they gave out some cards for sun/moon x/y or om/as. I got mew and genesects cards during their respective events. Granted I didn't have a lot of friends to pvp with, and no internet, but these two combined with yveltel and I was dominating single player events.
i remember this event. i was begging my mom to bring me, she took me one day late, and the workers still gave it to me anyways, but that game file has been lost to time sadly
I have been a pokemon fan all my life, and seeing that there is still hope to recieve event pokemon never available again.. It's practically a dream come true
That’s really cool. I wonder how many cartridges are around?
At least 1327 carts perhaps?
@@zegroselia2504that's oddly specific
@@DanN-nv7kg i mean in my defense I was commenting on this before I watched the video fully.
Also genuinely what does R/Woosh mean/meant to say? Like is that a Reddit thing or?
@@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan it's a reddit thing, it's "The sound of the joke flying above your head" or something like that.
Reddit would be mad at you for capitalizing the r
also why are you commenting before waching the video
ALSO also it was in the first minute@@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan
this gave me the idea to go find ROMs of distribution carts, was able to find a handful of them. now to do the footwork to get some of the pokemon from off the ROMs :)
I remember getting Pokémon red and then a few months later going to Watford shopping centre to download mew from the kiosk. One of my biggest childhood mistakes was not keeping that cart.
Me, someone who collects Pokemon and holds route 1 event Pokemon to levels higher than in-game caught legendaries: Yes. Yes I would like that Lechonk in a cherish ball.
Oh this is really interesting! Thanks for sharing this with us!
literally never washed anything in my pockets because i hate things flopping about in them. i kept everything in my bag
Man I would love to have one of these event pokemon, unfortunately for me during the times that any of the events would happen, I was either unaware or I physically could not do anything to get them, I remember wanting Darkrai so bad so I could complete as much of Sinnoh as I possibly could
Considering how futuristic the gamboy colour was for its time, that Nintendo DS looks like its a million years old compared to the colour.
Video idea: transferring 10 celebis to pokemon violet/Scarlet and trading it to ten random people
"Channel 7" is likely the WiFi "channel" it set up the hotspot on. 802.11b/g 2.4GHz Wifi had 15 possible channels, but they all overlapped in a spread of 7 channels, making 1, 7, and 15 the only real "usable" channels when distributing multiple WiFi access points in an area. Channel 7 was pretty much the default selected for WiFi hardware back then.
Yep, it's only thing it can be really.
Yes, literally me too with the beat carts! Left in pockets, the car, I’ve written on a few bare games with sharpie at the loss of their labels. (Pokémon White 2 on that list)
I have great memories of my father bringing me to GameStop each week to get the shiny legendary beasts. I still have them
Awww I remember going to gamstop in Lynchburg Va as a kid 😭😭😭 I got the event Pokémon it was a good moment in life as a kid
Rom dumps of the distribution events are out there. If you have an R4 cartridge or a modded 3DS you can change your console's date and distribute the pokemon to whatever game it's compatible with.
I still have a sticker on the back of my Pokémon Yellow cartridge that says 'Mew Inside' when I went to get the Mew promo years back here in Belgium.
so cool to know this! And nice owning in your collection!
I washed my old iPod shuffle so many times, but damn that this is so durable and I still got it to this day. Works like a charm still
nice vid the berd nickname had me laughing
Weird this popped up as I have been researching the internet for all NDS Event Roms. Have a flash cart with almost every single one of these events on it. It's awesome seeing the authentic cart though.
I think my personal favorite event mons are the PCNY (Pokemon Center New York) Gen 2 ones. I showed off the screenshots of the Shiny Raikou in a FB group and had to explain that it was as legit as you can get, being a copy of the original save, traded over via emulator. Only thing is some of them can't pass the compatibility checks in newer games (otherwise unlearnable moves and the like) R/S/E seems to work but I haven't tried gen four and beyond
Love your videos keep up the good work
i think itd be interesting to pop the distribution version's files open and see just how they work, but they are probably encrypted or smth
This was so cool to learn how the distribution worked!!
I remember, I was visiting Japan and the Pokemon Center in Osaka was distrubuting Keldeo to B2W2 games. I waited in line, asked them IN JAPANESE about it... And was told that it only worked for Japanese games. So I couldn't receive yhe Keldeo on my American Black 2 game.
I can relate to leaving stuff in my pockets, I used to leave Pokémon cards in there all the time.
My pokemon blue has survived the washing machine as well. God bless!
It was glitchy as hell for a day before being back to normal.
Was honestly a very cool experience!
This is why i never bought legit copies.of pokemon games. I live in a country where there are no physical events, i don't want to pay full price (even more) for a game that i can't fully play 100% because of events locked behind physical events.
My first realtime playing pokemon (understanding what to do) was on diamond i left it in my swim shorts and i went for a swim the second i jumped in i remembered and my hearth broke as a child, lucky my uncle felt really bad and hooked me up with a r4 card with all the pokemon games till that point, soon i started platinum and for me that changed pokemon for ever
Shoutout unc 🙌
That's a really cool cartridge definitely hang on to that
i love seeing old stuff like this get archived. nice
i always assumed those events would just be run by hardware the stores had, but using a DS with a special cartridge actually makes a lot more sense and is pretty clever by nintendo. that way, they don't need to rely on stores having any particular hardware or the hardware in some stores not working correctly, ruining the event there. and they don't need to figure out how to communicate with the recipient DSs, as the store DS is already equipped for that, which only leaves the development of the cartridge, which would be rather trivial in the grand scheme of things.
i used to run a rom of this on a flash cart to get event pokemon to people back in the day lol
yeah, my first ds game was mystery dungeon blue rescue team. some kid on the bus said he found it in the snow and gave it to me. i played it up to the legendary dogs, then it went through the washer. still have it, not sure if it's salvageable...
I personally have never gotten any of the event Pokémon because I never had a ride to the store to get to
great video question how much is it to buy one and how rare are they
Its so sad when you leave pokemon cards in your pocket and they get ruined
Had a ton of fun hosting a mini distribution event with the shiny trio cart I have at PAX West 2023. Can't wait to do it again in 2024.
Nice! i have Ash's Pikachu, Celebi and Deoxys distribution carts. Pretty expensive too
I have this cart too aswell as the legendary dog cart it’s so cool using them Im always brought back to being a 11 year old at GameStop’s
How many other of these cards do you think are out there ? I would love dyoxes or darkrai
i have a donkey kong land cart that says not for resale, as well as a link to the past cart for gba that says the same, got both from the same guy, didn't realize anything was off about them till i was older.
bro can literally control the celebi market
used to play emerald on a silver gameboy all the time, I lost it for a week and couldn't remember where I left it. After playing in the yard, I saw it next to a tree id sit under. I figured it wouldn't work and took the game out to see how it was. Water poured out of the gameboy and wouldn't turn on, but the emerald still works to this day.
I played up until 3rd gen so I never knew this was a thing even. Interesting stuff!
I can see it now. KevdogPlays passing on a random celebi to a kid who got his DS and Pokemon Platinum from his dad. Kinda like episode 1 from Yugioh GX where Jaiden was late for school and runs into Yugi and got his exclusive Winged Kuriboh. And they say it only happens in animes.
i have not seen that green mailman in a LOONG time, oh thats nostalgic
in school i always preferred using pens to pencils. The one issue with that is that I would always forget the pens in my pants pockets. The amount of exploded ink in the washer/dryer would look like a Jackson Pollock painting
the cart that gave celebi, one lets you fight giovanni when you get the celebi in SS/HG or get zorua. but also has the legendary doggos (shiny too but their IVs suck) if you use the right dates. i would search serebii 2011 events to find the dates. edit: should have shown that giovanni fight
Yeah, got a super clean copy of leaf green too. Probably added to the battery issues.
I have one of these for the legendary dogs, very cool. I think I got another one but I dont remember what it was for
There are roms for these distribution cartridges. You can distribute event items/Pokemon with flash carts or a modded ds. 😎
I have 5 of them, and apparently one of the is quite rare. The card for Black & White, 1&2. Dialga, Palkia, Giratina card with the Y90P-EUR version number...With serialnumber 0285.
I wish I had my old games 😭 blue,silver were my go to. After that my teen thought I didn't need them anymore. Now I'm 30 and living my childhood again I guess...
So crazy story
I live in Brazil and some years ago i got a pokemon pearl cartridge online
but there was actually an save there with 4 EVENT POKEMON
there was a lot more but i don't know if they are or not official
but the four pokemon was.and one of them was THIS CELEBI and the 3 shiny legendary beasts
idk why i am telling this here but i found that pretty cool
also this is the first time that i'm seeing anything on line about those pokemon
now I wanna see if you can set the receiving DS to the current date with the sender on the date for the event and see if it says received in 2024 instead
Right on man! That's a win.
I had a Pokemon Yellow game that ended up in the washing machine. My mom apologized multiple times.
I wasn't too broken up about it though, my friend had stolen two of my best Pokemon from my game (I had traded them over to him to help him defeat the Elite Four) and he ended up resetting his game so he wouldn't have to give them back, so I was used to losing Pokemon by that point. Which was a short time actually. I was eight when I had the game, nine when I traded those Pokemon over (I think, because I remember that it was after I got Pokemon Gold), and another friend gave me her Yellow Version when my first one got stolen by a neighborhood kid, which was the one that ended up in the wash about a few months to a year later.
Nintendo will come barging into your door like the FBI wanting their cartridge back 😅
I once had a Pokewalker go into the washing machine.
Nope, it doesn't work anymore.
i had a pokemon yellow GBA cartridge that i could not shut off after going thru the wash because it wouldn't save anymore, never made it past a few gym leaders before the batteries died or the charging cord came unplugged
"unfortuantely thats not a thing anymore." pkhex: hello there.
Since the carts are indivisually numbered, My best guess is that if you were a store owner who failed to send the event cart back, unless you can convince Nitendo that it was lost, stolen or damaged, Nintendo would blacklist you from receiving any future event cartridges
Also, if you have the know how, you can hack the event cart to hand out whatever pokemon you want with whatever stats and movesets you please
Just cause you asked, I had my favorite "main" pokemon game, where I'd use it to collect all the pokemon, but then because I took it everywhere with me, eventually I forgot to take it out of my pockets, the game would get washed, and eventually the data became corrupted. Not much I could do, But I suppose it moved on to Pokemon Soul Silver being my new Main game that I'd transfer all my pokemon to.
definitely relate to the pant washing story xD though for me it was he earphones
I realy miss these games, esp that they where not in 3D. I liked em as they where....
I relate with your story. I had a pokemon card that washed blank.
Cousin sent one of his cards through the wash by accident. It lost the sticker but surprisingly still worked. Thankfully havent had that happen here.
Bro you killing me when you said the cartridge washed up😂😂