I’ve bought at least one copy of every game from gen 5 back. Only found one that wasn’t cheated and had good stuff, and it was a 2011 event genesect. I don’t expect to be that lucky again. Probably why I still haven’t seen a shiny yet
@@rickytickybobbywobbin7430 sorry to be that guy but it's not really rare you can still get event genesect legit in 2022 by switching you're dns settings
@@Mtj-cw7vj I do agree that they’re still legit event pokemon, connecting to an internet server doesn’t carry the same value of some kid begging to go to a gamestop, toys-r-us, or wherever else just to get one. At least for me anyway, since I was there once
Something tells me the ruby cartridge was trying to do the regis event and couldn't be bothered to level up the wailmer to a wailord. Also I'm kinda sad you didn't check the PC in that game...
@@thekumosk4188 meh, really? Only had a Pokédex total of 48, not that interesting, but nicknames are always fun to see (though doesn’t look like he nicknamed anything either)
I own a game store and our policy is to swap batteries in every game that has them, as they come in. We also do it for customers for a fee. I guarantee those blues were just a previous seller testing after a swap. What I usually do is set the text speed to fast first thing, mash A, choose default names or just AAAAA and hit start, get to the bedroom and save and shut it off. If anything, I'm just surprised that they both walked to that one square lol, I usually don't even move. Also, a little hard to tell because it was on screen so shortly and moving so much, but I'm pretty sure that Diamond was a fake. I'd have to see it better to tell though.
I remember when I bought Pokemon Pearl off Ebay last year there was a huge save file on it. They completed the game, the Pokedex, everything. All of their Pokemon were from 2007, clearly a childhood cartridge (with over 248 hours), and even had a shiny Ledian in there. I was so awed that somebody would sell their childhood Pokemon game like this with all of their data still on it, I transferred as many Pokemon and items as I could to my Diamond out of respect. LEE, whoever you were, wherever you are, all your Pokemon are safe and sound and I have no plans to get rid of them, especially that special Ledian and that champion team you loved so much.
yeah, reminds me of when diamond and pearl first came out and i had about 1,000 hours of emerald gameplay transferred to it. i was eyeing a trade with my friend who had a game i wanted and they wanted my emerald version. anyway i traded the game after about a whole weekend of transferring data to pearl, even skipped a couple of outback dinners because i was soo dedicated to preserving my childhood to the new cartridge. i had so many pokemon from gen 1 to 4 saved on pearl and almost all legendary pokemon, a shiny salamance, flygon, aggron and had the regis from doing that horrible event, as well as deoxys from the original gamestop special code. so many good times on one cartridge and always locked it away in my leather game case that was inside my game bag at home. except for one day when i left it out becuase i was in a rush going to my schools open house night. i came back and my mom had warned me shed clean up my junk off the floor soon. i just didnt think it would be that night. my pearl cartridge was one of the "junk" pile on the floor she threw away. i went dumpster diving but could never find it. but i got over it and my mom bought me another pearl, then when soul silver and heart gold came out( i started on gen 2) i had to have it since it was a better version of gen 2. i still have it to this day and have way more hours and pokemon on it than i ever did on my old emerald copy. sorry for the ramble lol.
@@animanga9597 That's tragic, I know too many stories of parents throwing away childhood pokemon games. Luckily that never happened to me nor was I ever stupid enough to trade them in either. I still have pokemon from my original Emerald save from 2005 in my Diamond copy. Idk how I would cope with losing such a huge chunk of my childhood memories like that, but at least you still have one of your old gen 4 games. Unfortunately I didn't know what a move deleter was when I was 8 so I couldn't transfer my first Blaziken, Rayquaza, etc. to my Diamond copy cause they had hm's. I do still have my og Kyogre, though, and most of what was in the boxes. I wonder if I'll ever transfer them to the modern games, that would be cool
I bought my black file used, and I didn’t know that when I bought it- but when I opened the game up it had a Continue, and this dude who owned it before me had 100% completed the game, and had SEVERAL LEGENDARIES in his box, as well as a lot of actual Pokémon. It was really cool knowing that this game I was playing had been played by at least one other before me who definitely cherished their game before selling it.
Honestly kinda disappointing to see most was just early in the game. I thought we were gonna see some hard work in the files overall but best guess is a hard worker would keep his game rather than sell it
Or, more than likely, they restarted their save and lost interest fast. You only get one save slot. If you want to play again without the technical know-how, you have to sacrifice your save completely.
@@Lucifronz honestly it feels more like a test drive file where you play long enough to check the status of the game to see if it works. Possibly one game in a bunch and if one works they ship it out and if not then it get checked over
pretty much that that’s basically how I feel I might have a lot of Pokémon games but when I was younger my Parents threw a lot of stuff away especially after my basement room got flooded once but I should have any of my Gen 3 or later games but haven’t been able to find many of my Gen 3 collection
A couple of years ago I bought a used Platinum. The previous owner must have used a game shark, as it had master balls, sacred ash, and a level 100 Arceus. Needless to say I had fun using their save file!
Its possible at that time they used a dns server to cheat in specific pokemon and items. Significantly more common than an action replay. I think some of these servers can still be simulated on roms!
On the subject though, we just took in a copy of Pearl last week that had 380 hours of gametime, a dex over 400, all the legendaries, almost all the promo pokes, and from what I could tell it all seemed legitimately obtained. No shinies either, so that lends credence to that someone made a ton of effort on this file rather than cheating. Jacob, if you're out there, know that your hard-earned pokes are now sitting safe and snug in my Pokemon Home lol
Honestly dude, if those were my Mons I’d be glad you kept them instead of deleting them with the save file. Kinda makes me happy you saved Jacobs mons.
i bought a shiny hunters firereds and leafgreens, they had shiny lugia and ho-oh on them. Also shiny charizard and a few others. It is 4 lg and 4 fr cartridges.. I stored them since I already own the games but I think it was a fair deal! Paid around $45 each
Made me smile knowing you put in all the hard work to move all those hard earned mons to home from pearl. I just completed the soulsilver Pokédex after all this time so now I’m in the process of homing them all myself
I work for a second hand media/games company and we constantly have copies of Pokemon games come in and it's always fun having a look at people's save games. Some of the more notable ones have been full game completions with hundreds of hours played and what appear to be legit shiny Pokemon. It's always bittersweet as you know that you're holding hundreds of hours of someone else's enjoyment in your hands. It's nice knowing that someone else will end up enjoying that game though.
Do you guys have a Pokémon platinum what’s completed the whole game cause I found a lot of 2nd copies and I’m still trying find my originals but so far I can’t find anything yet
I like to look through the save files when I get games from eBay. I always back them up on my computer just in case, like a couple months ago when I found a legit event genesect in Black 2 from 2011. Cart dumpers are especially valuable for the gbc games, since every now and then I’ll save my progress and turn the console back on a couple hours later to my cart pretending it’s never been played before
Bro this video is nine months old and I randomly stumbled upon it to find that you have my brothers ruby version I still have the action replay used to get the master balls lol
Watching this reminds me of when I had to sell my copy of Pokemon Yellow. I hope whoever bought it enjoyed what I left for them. I left them a Mew, Pikachu, Vaporeon and other cool Pokemon and plenty of money so whoever got it after me would have a good spot to pick up from. I miss that game and I miss my old GBA SP.
Great stuff! A cpl years ago I was snagging copies of Sun/Moon when I could find em for $10 or less on ebay. I found a few decent save files--nothing crazy but it IS fun to see what other players were up to!
My brother doesn't have it anymore but something weird happened to a pidgey he left in the day care in i think red version. He left it before heading off to get the cut tm from the boat captain and he forgot he left it there and went on to beat the game and caught some other pokemon he wanted to train then he randomly remembered he left a pidgey in the day care and we all thought it was funny and tried to guess what lvl it could be since we were kids and never beat any pokemon game fast and so we chose a lvl and when he got it back it only went up 2 lvls and we were confused about it. He looked at its stats and the way the pidgey coloring looked was off. It seemed like it was a different color we knew about shinies which we called scaled from the red gyrados scale thing from silver version. But we knew shiny didn't exist in the old games and so we told him he should train it so it can evolve into a pidgeotto and we can see how it'll look with its new color. Thats where we saw the insane number of exp it needed to level up. I don't remember how much the level numbers are when you get a 100 lvl pokemon you know how it says its max exp it ever earned to reach that? It was that long BUT with one extra number and we were shocked. He tried but after a few days he was like he'll just keep it. I don't remember if we traded it over to silver to see if it followed its weird condition, but even to this day we laugh about it and how weird it was
I stopped playing after x and y so I guess I'll look back in mine eventually for memories. Funny enough I do see the save files before I delete them and useally they are pretty bad compared to when I play the game myself
15:28 It's a very small chance it actually is my copy that made it out of a Northern Californian GameStop and onto eBay, but the error code is the same as my former cart would throw up after a while of showing nothing but a black screen. I still have no idea what happened there, I apparently just played it so much it broke or something like that. Sorry if you did get it; I was at that age where my parents forced me to sell most of my old belongings for money and GameStop assured me they were going to dispose of it when they saw it didn't work.
huh, wild. Wouldn't be surprised by Gamestop trying to turn around and sell a broken game though. My first copy of Diamond (I didnt have it as a kid) i got there was broken, not AS Broken but it would freeze for no reason and the save would be corrupted. Freaked me out a bit tbh lmao. Any chance you messed around with the tweaking glitch? I wonder if messing that up can have some really adverse effects?
@@RelicCipher GameStop doesn't do quality assurance. If it boots up, they'll sell it. Whether or not it's actually doing anything. They'll sell you GBA/DS bootlegs and not notice or give a shit, because the company doesn't give training to spot them. They couldn't give a shit less if a customer gets a fake as long as they don't figure it out before the refund period is up.
I've always wondered what people would think if they booted up one of my games, particularly my pokemon Y. It's got over 700 hrs played on it, a completed national dex, and a bunch of awesome pokemon. All my shines have been traded to moon but still, that cartridge has a long story.
My bootleg versions of FRLG saved just fine (I even played a Nuzlocke for LeafGreen!) but the same can't be said of the ones for Ruby and SoulSilver I got.
I remember having a Pokemon Y digital game on my old 3DS. But I had pawned it, and forgot that I even had it on the system. Til it was too late. I had lost the pawn and someone already had bought it. I had HELLA GOOD pokemon that I raised. I was sick for days over that.
The music in the background is the tutorial battle music from pokemon TCG 1 for the GBC. I loved that game so much. The sequel too, but you can only play it with a translation patch.
I got a Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and it had a save file of over 300 hours. I’ve always wondered who played it that much. They must have absolutely loved it.
What's creepy is the history of the world. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is Rome that is the beast. We know the book of Revelation was circulating in the 1st century AD so we can conclude that 1) God is real and can tell the future of make it happen 2) The governments, leaders, nations etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish this roadmap set in place by the Israelites or 3) Both of the above. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and know the truth. Call on the name of Jesus, pray for Him to intervene in your life and look for the motion of His hand. Listen, as God speaks in many ways. Revelation 3:20 - "Here I am; I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will eat with them and they with me"
You should detach from the world and focus on God. This world is only temporary. You can play Pokemon after the resurrection. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is Rome that is the beast. We know the book of Revelation was circulating in the 1st century AD so we can conclude that 1) God is real and can tell the future of make it happen 2) The governments, leaders, nations etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish this roadmap set in place by the Israelites or 3) Both of the above. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and know the truth. Call on the name of Jesus, pray for Him to intervene in your life and look for the motion of His hand. Listen, as God speaks in many ways. Revelation 3:20 - "Here I am; I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will eat with them and they with me"
My first pokemon game was fire red and then I went back and played Blue and Gold. Of these Gold was my favorite early game for the longest time. From gen 1 to as late as Gen 5 I didnt really completely understand how types worked and I would build my team on the first 3 routes and though I tried to keep up on training my team, I always gave up on training everyone and used my top 3 strongest pokemon with me always defaulting to my starter. Needless to say I often found myself stonewalled at a gym leader or the elite 4 and rather than training my team to try to overcome the obstacle I started a new game and hoped my luck would be better in the new run. My first pokemon game I ever beat was Omega Ruby when I was 19. I always wondered how many new pokemon players just gave up at a gym leader or the elite 4 and how many powered through and beat it...
Dude!!!? I swear that’s my old Ruby!!! I used to use TOM when I played when I was younger I used to use all caps because that’s how the games would name the Pokémon I remember selling it to get emerald
every time i see a video exploring a soulsilver save file i check to see if its the copy someone stole from me in high school... it never is, but maybe one day i'll find it. i miss you spiky eared pichu
You do not really need it, in every Pokémon Center there is a map anyways, and with the limited bag space in gen 1, even if you get it, is very likely put away in the PC anyways.
"Didn't waste the master ball on groudon" Me: I think they just couldn't find it. In ruby and sapphire the master ball is in the evil team leaders office in the hideout. In emerald it's in the aqua hideout. I don't think many people know about this so I just wanted to say it (Edit: lol the ruby is hacked)
On November 21, 2021; Me And My Asian Fiancée (Maya) Are Finally Getting Married, We’re Getting Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Pokémon Shining Pearl For Our Wedding Presents.
Not what I was expecting but still a fun video. I came across this while looking at people downloading save files onto a PC and looking at the contents that way. Got there from someone showing how to fix the clock in gen 3 games after the battery has died and been replaced, without starting a new save file.
Recently purchased a ton of the old games I used to have. Y, OR, SM, Emerald, FR. All had some progress. Y has a legit Shiny Xerneas, OR has two shiny Pokémon as well. Was really stoked to see the treasures in the games😁
They're so lucky to have lights on their Gameboy. My Gameboy doesn't have it... I remember my mother buy one that has external lights to plugging it in my Gameboy but I prefer not to plugging it because the battery is so expensive for me as a kid and it drains so fast.
I've bought lots of these from people, and the copy of Platinum I got from a 10 or 11 year old girl was by far the most advanced. She had everything, some shinies, a few dozen eggs. I bought a lime green DS with it and it was in immaculate condition.
Somewhere out there is my copy of pokemon moon with almost every legendary and mythical both in their regular and shiny forms. No clue what convinced me to sell it.
How unlucky only one game was actually played. Although you should of checked that save's box and day care it would be interesting seeing something other than baby saves
interesting with Skarmory since it could be found in Route 113 which is the route that has the ash in it that takes you to Fallarbor Town of course I don’t know the rarity for it there that’s assuming that they traded for the Kyogre and didn’t cheat to get it yes Level 2 Zubat is only possible in SoulSilver via the Dark Cave and it’s via the Route 31 area so that would be legit if that’s what you see interesting info
I've had to sadly sell most of my pokemon collection over the years just to survive. I hope whomever got my games after me enjoyed their pick of prime pokemon to snag before restarting the adventure.❤
I ended up collecting all the games In was missing for pokemon over the last year and a half and found a a few interesting saves: Omega ruby with a few lvl 100 shinies (probably hacked) Black 2 with over 100 hours in game and a lot of pokemon caught Ruby with a random shiny Shroomish.
i bought a second copy of emerald awhile back and the previous owner had HUNDREDS of freshly hatched torchics and a single shiny torchic. i coulnt believe someone went through all that trouble only to get rid of it after
There’s a copy of Yellow out there saved as Josh about halfway through the game that has a NidoKing in the line up that I played when I was younger. It wasn’t mine, I borrowed the game for a while and by now it’s probably been sold.
The reason the ds game probably is failing is because of the way Nintendo decided to store the game files, instead of saving it on similar chips like on gba games, they decided to store them on another type of chip that stores a very small amount of electricity to keep the data semi active. But over time of the games not being played that little bit of stored power fades and data just vanishes.
You wouldve loved exploring my Omega Ruby cart. I did a 100% completion, with 300 HOURS sunk into the game, and had started shiny hunting. Definitely was fun, wish I had kept it.
idk why but this vid makes me want tell everyone about my first playthrough of a pokemon game ever! my first game was pokemon y for the 3ds and this my team going into the champion fight and beating her. Greninja Charizard Vileplume Krookodile Heliolisk Reuniclus
I buy a lot of used Pokemon games for shiny hunting purposes myself. Typically, the saves end up being uninteresting, however I have had two JP gen 4 games (one Heart Gold, the other Soul Silver) in which each had one legit-looking shiny Pokemon, those being Magikarp and Tentacool. Then I had another ENG Diamond where the trainer had nothing but Ditto, and we are talking so many Ditto, all from different regions with unique IDs. It was a completed game too, with over 600 hours and a completed Dex.
My 3ds and my copy of Pokemon diamond have the exact same issue in that it won't register that the game is in there most of the time. I think it's just age
I remember getting Pokémon oras and I got the game finished, their pokedex was complete and I transfer all their Pokémon to home. I also have their shiny mew.
I should have probably taken a video of the Japanese copy of HeartGold I bought. The person was probably around Kanto and they had a bunch of Sinnoh Pokemon from their Diamond/Pearl game. It came with a pokewalker that had a mm Magmortar sticker on it. I believe that was his favorite Pokemon since he had a bunch of magby in the PC as well as a high level Magmortar. Pokemon of note that I traded to my copy of Soul Silver include Infernape, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Latios (all with their specific held items), and some typical Sinnoh team Pokemon like Staraptor. I don't believe they cheated as there was nothing out of the ordinary.
That fake game reminded me of 2 fake games my dad got me from China while he was there, completely clueless about how they'd be fake since he is pretty clueless about Pokemon in general. Shining Gold and Shattered Crystal. Haven't even looked at them for years because I know it would be pointless.
watching the ruby part of this video gave me legit flashbacks. I remember naming my character tom even though thats not my name on my brothers ruby bc i had sapphire. i wasnt shy to a gameshark either back then. wonder if mine ended up in this video many many years later LOL!
Bought a copy of SS and Platinum off ebay, SS had 105 hours with a legit completion of both regions. Platinum had 300 hours with multiple shiny Pokemon and plenty of hacked in ones. Deleted the SS save, kinda felt bad but dude completed what he wanted to do.
I remember going to block buster and seeing pokemon diamond and just wanting the game so badly and now that I think about it I’m sure it wouldn’t even be able to save
I always hope I'll luck out and get that rare used game that has a full Dex and all the legendaries and mythicals. Instead, my most recent used Pokémon purchase was a copy of Y that had clearly been amateurly hacked. They had a shiny Pikachu in a Master Ball but nothing else out of the ordinary... but when I started a new file, the game would crash every time I encountered my first wild Pokémon 😑 I ended up going back and exchanging it for Pokémon Sun. Which also didn't have anything worth keeping on the original save file, but at least it works.
I always watch videos like this to see if any of my missing games are being sold, I highly doubt it, those games probably got thrown out, but still, I wish I could see my Pokémon again. I lost Pearl, Soul Silver, Black, White 2, and I think I have the rest of my games. Also my sisters’ games, like Heart Gold, White, and Platinum. Even tho she doesn’t play Pokémon at all since HG, I’d love to see my sister’s legit shiny pidgeot she caught immediately named Goldy. Mostly I just miss my team members. Like Pearl, my first game, my first starter Empoleon, my Haunter that I didn’t know how to evolve, my naughty mischievous male Clefable named Ty that liked spicy food and clutched the raichu/gyarados double battle for me as a Cleffa… I also put TONS of love into my Black game, there were some hacked mons I got from trade tho lol……..
Finding a copy with an actual save file that has completed the game with tons of Pokémon is a rare goldmine sometimes
I’ve bought at least one copy of every game from gen 5 back. Only found one that wasn’t cheated and had good stuff, and it was a 2011 event genesect. I don’t expect to be that lucky again. Probably why I still haven’t seen a shiny yet
@@rickytickybobbywobbin7430 sorry to be that guy but it's not really rare you can still get event genesect legit in 2022 by switching you're dns settings
@@Mtj-cw7vj I do agree that they’re still legit event pokemon, connecting to an internet server doesn’t carry the same value of some kid begging to go to a gamestop, toys-r-us, or wherever else just to get one. At least for me anyway, since I was there once
@@Mtj-cw7vj plus I can’t find a wifi network anywhere that has the type of security a DS can connect to
@@rickytickybobbywobbin7430 hotspot with your phone can allow u to change the wifi settings for it to connect
Something tells me the ruby cartridge was trying to do the regis event and couldn't be bothered to level up the wailmer to a wailord. Also I'm kinda sad you didn't check the PC in that game...
I need a video made of the Ruby PC inventory
Same
yep a wailord in the front and a relicanth in the back of your party, oh and prepare to decipher brail also.
@@thekumosk4188 meh, really? Only had a Pokédex total of 48, not that interesting, but nicknames are always fun to see (though doesn’t look like he nicknamed anything either)
What a freak, who didn’t have a wailord.
I own a game store and our policy is to swap batteries in every game that has them, as they come in. We also do it for customers for a fee. I guarantee those blues were just a previous seller testing after a swap. What I usually do is set the text speed to fast first thing, mash A, choose default names or just AAAAA and hit start, get to the bedroom and save and shut it off. If anything, I'm just surprised that they both walked to that one square lol, I usually don't even move. Also, a little hard to tell because it was on screen so shortly and moving so much, but I'm pretty sure that Diamond was a fake. I'd have to see it better to tell though.
Do you guys allow people to check the Pokémon games files before buying it or nah ? I feel I know the answer but doesn’t hurt to ask
I remember when I bought Pokemon Pearl off Ebay last year there was a huge save file on it. They completed the game, the Pokedex, everything. All of their Pokemon were from 2007, clearly a childhood cartridge (with over 248 hours), and even had a shiny Ledian in there. I was so awed that somebody would sell their childhood Pokemon game like this with all of their data still on it, I transferred as many Pokemon and items as I could to my Diamond out of respect. LEE, whoever you were, wherever you are, all your Pokemon are safe and sound and I have no plans to get rid of them, especially that special Ledian and that champion team you loved so much.
yeah, reminds me of when diamond and pearl first came out and i had about 1,000 hours of emerald gameplay transferred to it. i was eyeing a trade with my friend who had a game i wanted and they wanted my emerald version. anyway i traded the game after about a whole weekend of transferring data to pearl, even skipped a couple of outback dinners because i was soo dedicated to preserving my childhood to the new cartridge. i had so many pokemon from gen 1 to 4 saved on pearl and almost all legendary pokemon, a shiny salamance, flygon, aggron and had the regis from doing that horrible event, as well as deoxys from the original gamestop special code. so many good times on one cartridge and always locked it away in my leather game case that was inside my game bag at home. except for one day when i left it out becuase i was in a rush going to my schools open house night. i came back and my mom had warned me shed clean up my junk off the floor soon. i just didnt think it would be that night. my pearl cartridge was one of the "junk" pile on the floor she threw away. i went dumpster diving but could never find it. but i got over it and my mom bought me another pearl, then when soul silver and heart gold came out( i started on gen 2) i had to have it since it was a better version of gen 2. i still have it to this day and have way more hours and pokemon on it than i ever did on my old emerald copy. sorry for the ramble lol.
@@animanga9597 That's tragic, I know too many stories of parents throwing away childhood pokemon games. Luckily that never happened to me nor was I ever stupid enough to trade them in either. I still have pokemon from my original Emerald save from 2005 in my Diamond copy. Idk how I would cope with losing such a huge chunk of my childhood memories like that, but at least you still have one of your old gen 4 games. Unfortunately I didn't know what a move deleter was when I was 8 so I couldn't transfer my first Blaziken, Rayquaza, etc. to my Diamond copy cause they had hm's. I do still have my og Kyogre, though, and most of what was in the boxes. I wonder if I'll ever transfer them to the modern games, that would be cool
@@Mr_Ozone i admire your passion for the old school. what gen did you start on?
@@animanga9597 I started on gen 3 with Emerald and LeafGreen, I was around 5 years old when they came out. Still have 'em with my old Gameboy SP
@@Mr_Ozone I started on silver but my fondest memories were with Gen 3 emerald.
I bought my black file used, and I didn’t know that when I bought it- but when I opened the game up it had a Continue, and this dude who owned it before me had 100% completed the game, and had SEVERAL LEGENDARIES in his box, as well as a lot of actual Pokémon. It was really cool knowing that this game I was playing had been played by at least one other before me who definitely cherished their game before selling it.
do you remember the name of the trainer
I would just delete it and move on 😭
@@LavaHawk289 i would’ve just grabbed their Pokémon and saved them before restarting. Why would you just delete it?
@@ma.2089 there is a chance that it is a hacked copy and I don't like using hacked teams even in a normal playthrough.
That was the same for my copy of Black 2... though more like 90% completed
Honestly kinda disappointing to see most was just early in the game. I thought we were gonna see some hard work in the files overall but best guess is a hard worker would keep his game rather than sell it
Or, more than likely, they restarted their save and lost interest fast. You only get one save slot. If you want to play again without the technical know-how, you have to sacrifice your save completely.
@@Lucifronz honestly it feels more like a test drive file where you play long enough to check the status of the game to see if it works. Possibly one game in a bunch and if one works they ship it out and if not then it get checked over
pretty much that
that’s basically how I feel
I might have a lot of Pokémon games but when I was younger my Parents threw a lot of stuff away especially after my basement room got flooded once but I should have any of my Gen 3 or later games but haven’t been able to find many of my Gen 3 collection
@@MattZRJSRoxy lucky I don't live in a flood area. I just leave all my games in one box of in thier original box to keep them safe.
@@ivanbluecool dont need to live in a flood area to get floods lol
A couple of years ago I bought a used Platinum. The previous owner must have used a game shark, as it had master balls, sacred ash, and a level 100 Arceus. Needless to say I had fun using their save file!
Its possible at that time they used a dns server to cheat in specific pokemon and items. Significantly more common than an action replay. I think some of these servers can still be simulated on roms!
I once got White from the library and they had a lot of DNS stuff. If the user is Hiro or Shiro it’s a giveaway it’s that exploit. It was kinda fun.
On the subject though, we just took in a copy of Pearl last week that had 380 hours of gametime, a dex over 400, all the legendaries, almost all the promo pokes, and from what I could tell it all seemed legitimately obtained. No shinies either, so that lends credence to that someone made a ton of effort on this file rather than cheating. Jacob, if you're out there, know that your hard-earned pokes are now sitting safe and snug in my Pokemon Home lol
Honestly dude, if those were my Mons I’d be glad you kept them instead of deleting them with the save file. Kinda makes me happy you saved Jacobs mons.
@@LoafofSourdough it's a lot of care and effort that would be a shame to go to waste. I check every cart now just to see.
i bought a shiny hunters firereds and leafgreens, they had shiny lugia and ho-oh on them. Also shiny charizard and a few others. It is 4 lg and 4 fr cartridges.. I stored them since I already own the games but I think it was a fair deal! Paid around $45 each
Made me smile knowing you put in all the hard work to move all those hard earned mons to home from pearl. I just completed the soulsilver Pokédex after all this time so now I’m in the process of homing them all myself
@@jackforde4883 I'm nearing the end of my run on crystal and the dreaded problem returns: can't transfer them off without hacking a 3ds -_-
I work for a second hand media/games company and we constantly have copies of Pokemon games come in and it's always fun having a look at people's save games. Some of the more notable ones have been full game completions with hundreds of hours played and what appear to be legit shiny Pokemon. It's always bittersweet as you know that you're holding hundreds of hours of someone else's enjoyment in your hands. It's nice knowing that someone else will end up enjoying that game though.
Do you guys have a Pokémon platinum what’s completed the whole game cause I found a lot of 2nd copies and I’m still trying find my originals but so far I can’t find anything yet
16:50 That Onyx is most likely the in-game trade Onyx, since that one is also called Rocky.
I like to look through the save files when I get games from eBay. I always back them up on my computer just in case, like a couple months ago when I found a legit event genesect in Black 2 from 2011. Cart dumpers are especially valuable for the gbc games, since every now and then I’ll save my progress and turn the console back on a couple hours later to my cart pretending it’s never been played before
I love how you get so enthusiastic about 22 minutes playtime, 1 pokémon and a town map
Bro this video is nine months old and I randomly stumbled upon it to find that you have my brothers ruby version I still have the action replay used to get the master balls lol
I love the Pokémon trading card game music. Brings back memories
Watching this reminds me of when I had to sell my copy of Pokemon Yellow. I hope whoever bought it enjoyed what I left for them. I left them a Mew, Pikachu, Vaporeon and other cool Pokemon and plenty of money so whoever got it after me would have a good spot to pick up from. I miss that game and I miss my old GBA SP.
Wow you left a pikachu on pokemon yellow? Thanks!!
It was a surfing Pikachu; I got Surf on it using a friend's copy of Stadium and Transfer Pak.
Damn you’re a nice person but why did u have to sell it rip
It's complicated but, I needed the money bad.
Great stuff! A cpl years ago I was snagging copies of Sun/Moon when I could find em for $10 or less on ebay. I found a few decent save files--nothing crazy but it IS fun to see what other players were up to!
My brother doesn't have it anymore but something weird happened to a pidgey he left in the day care in i think red version. He left it before heading off to get the cut tm from the boat captain and he forgot he left it there and went on to beat the game and caught some other pokemon he wanted to train then he randomly remembered he left a pidgey in the day care and we all thought it was funny and tried to guess what lvl it could be since we were kids and never beat any pokemon game fast and so we chose a lvl and when he got it back it only went up 2 lvls and we were confused about it. He looked at its stats and the way the pidgey coloring looked was off. It seemed like it was a different color we knew about shinies which we called scaled from the red gyrados scale thing from silver version. But we knew shiny didn't exist in the old games and so we told him he should train it so it can evolve into a pidgeotto and we can see how it'll look with its new color. Thats where we saw the insane number of exp it needed to level up. I don't remember how much the level numbers are when you get a 100 lvl pokemon you know how it says its max exp it ever earned to reach that? It was that long BUT with one extra number and we were shocked. He tried but after a few days he was like he'll just keep it. I don't remember if we traded it over to silver to see if it followed its weird condition, but even to this day we laugh about it and how weird it was
I stopped playing after x and y so I guess I'll look back in mine eventually for memories. Funny enough I do see the save files before I delete them and useally they are pretty bad compared to when I play the game myself
Something so somber about old save files. It's like a lost world
bro if you don't clean that 3ds i'm going to throw up
15:28 It's a very small chance it actually is my copy that made it out of a Northern Californian GameStop and onto eBay, but the error code is the same as my former cart would throw up after a while of showing nothing but a black screen. I still have no idea what happened there, I apparently just played it so much it broke or something like that. Sorry if you did get it; I was at that age where my parents forced me to sell most of my old belongings for money and GameStop assured me they were going to dispose of it when they saw it didn't work.
huh, wild. Wouldn't be surprised by Gamestop trying to turn around and sell a broken game though. My first copy of Diamond (I didnt have it as a kid) i got there was broken, not AS Broken but it would freeze for no reason and the save would be corrupted. Freaked me out a bit tbh lmao.
Any chance you messed around with the tweaking glitch? I wonder if messing that up can have some really adverse effects?
@@RelicCipher Ahh, I definitely did. Details are hazy but yeah that would most likely be why.
@@RelicCipher GameStop doesn't do quality assurance. If it boots up, they'll sell it. Whether or not it's actually doing anything.
They'll sell you GBA/DS bootlegs and not notice or give a shit, because the company doesn't give training to spot them. They couldn't give a shit less if a customer gets a fake as long as they don't figure it out before the refund period is up.
good chance the contacts on the cartridge could be dirty, he should attempt to clean it with some 91% isopropyl alcohol and a qtip
Sad they made you sell stuff
I've always wondered what people would think if they booted up one of my games, particularly my pokemon Y. It's got over 700 hrs played on it, a completed national dex, and a bunch of awesome pokemon. All my shines have been traded to moon but still, that cartridge has a long story.
The Onix in the SoulSilver one is most likely the one you get in a trade.
My bootleg versions of FRLG saved just fine (I even played a Nuzlocke for LeafGreen!) but the same can't be said of the ones for Ruby and SoulSilver I got.
My bootleg FRLG didn’t let me finish pokemon league without crashing and erasing everything
I remember having a Pokemon Y digital game on my old 3DS. But I had pawned it, and forgot that I even had it on the system. Til it was too late. I had lost the pawn and someone already had bought it. I had HELLA GOOD pokemon that I raised. I was sick for days over that.
The music in the background is the tutorial battle music from pokemon TCG 1 for the GBC. I loved that game so much. The sequel too, but you can only play it with a translation patch.
I got a Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and it had a save file of over 300 hours. I’ve always wondered who played it that much. They must have absolutely loved it.
Probably me then.
JK people can pry my copy of FFTA from my cold dead hands.
You know whats really creepy is the gameboy camera save files
What's creepy is the history of the world. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is Rome that is the beast. We know the book of Revelation was circulating in the 1st century AD so we can conclude that 1) God is real and can tell the future of make it happen 2) The governments, leaders, nations etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish this roadmap set in place by the Israelites or 3) Both of the above. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and know the truth.
Call on the name of Jesus, pray for Him to intervene in your life and look for the motion of His hand. Listen, as God speaks in many ways. Revelation 3:20 - "Here I am; I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will eat with them and they with me"
nice to hear the OSTs from the trading card version here
I REALLY should get into the pokemon series..
true
You should detach from the world and focus on God. This world is only temporary. You can play Pokemon after the resurrection. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is Rome that is the beast. We know the book of Revelation was circulating in the 1st century AD so we can conclude that 1) God is real and can tell the future of make it happen 2) The governments, leaders, nations etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish this roadmap set in place by the Israelites or 3) Both of the above. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and know the truth.
Call on the name of Jesus, pray for Him to intervene in your life and look for the motion of His hand. Listen, as God speaks in many ways. Revelation 3:20 - "Here I am; I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will eat with them and they with me"
im just watching this channel again, last time i watched it was years ago when you always made splatoon videos
When I was young my dad bought me leafgreen and when I loaded it up it still had a save and it started right in front of zapdos
My first pokemon game was fire red and then I went back and played Blue and Gold. Of these Gold was my favorite early game for the longest time. From gen 1 to as late as Gen 5 I didnt really completely understand how types worked and I would build my team on the first 3 routes and though I tried to keep up on training my team, I always gave up on training everyone and used my top 3 strongest pokemon with me always defaulting to my starter. Needless to say I often found myself stonewalled at a gym leader or the elite 4 and rather than training my team to try to overcome the obstacle I started a new game and hoped my luck would be better in the new run. My first pokemon game I ever beat was Omega Ruby when I was 19. I always wondered how many new pokemon players just gave up at a gym leader or the elite 4 and how many powered through and beat it...
most unbelievably underwhelming one of these i’ve seen
Dude!!!? I swear that’s my old Ruby!!! I used to use TOM when I played when I was younger
I used to use all caps because that’s how the games would name the Pokémon
I remember selling it to get emerald
“Dozens” that’s such a big understatement I can’t even explain how big of an understatement it is
every time i see a video exploring a soulsilver save file i check to see if its the copy someone stole from me in high school... it never is, but maybe one day i'll find it. i miss you spiky eared pichu
God damn man, the amount of beautiful gameboy Pokémon games you have is amazing.
I put this video while playing trough my own Blue Version. 6:21 “they get the got the Town Map! A lot of people miss that.” well, back to pallet town
You do not really need it, in every Pokémon Center there is a map anyways, and with the limited bag space in gen 1, even if you get it, is very likely put away in the PC anyways.
@@Naluh I actually didn't used it. I have played through Kanto so many times I know my way around.
"Didn't waste the master ball on groudon"
Me: I think they just couldn't find it. In ruby and sapphire the master ball is in the evil team leaders office in the hideout. In emerald it's in the aqua hideout. I don't think many people know about this so I just wanted to say it
(Edit: lol the ruby is hacked)
On November 21, 2021; Me And My Asian Fiancée (Maya) Are Finally Getting Married, We’re Getting Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Pokémon Shining Pearl For Our Wedding Presents.
Not what I was expecting but still a fun video. I came across this while looking at people downloading save files onto a PC and looking at the contents that way. Got there from someone
showing how to fix the clock in gen 3 games after the battery has died and been replaced, without starting a new save file.
It’s always fun getting preowned Pokémon games it’s always fun to know what Pokémon might be on it
Recently purchased a ton of the old games I used to have. Y, OR, SM, Emerald, FR. All had some progress. Y has a legit Shiny Xerneas, OR has two shiny Pokémon as well. Was really stoked to see the treasures in the games😁
I had Pokémon crystal when I was young I loved it
Same got it again
@@mikehance6086 I jus emulate them now the old ones way too expensive
Just got a copy of Platinum that had the set of shiny dogs from the gamestop event that allow you to get Zoroark legitimately in Gen 5.
.... The Gameboy color Pokemon Trading Card game music sent me waaaaaaaaay back.... I had completely forgotten about it
Haven't watched him since the pokemon red for the 3ds
I bought a pokemon diamond with a whole bunch of legends.
The guy migrated pokemon from gen 3
They're so lucky to have lights on their Gameboy. My Gameboy doesn't have it... I remember my mother buy one that has external lights to plugging it in my Gameboy but I prefer not to plugging it because the battery is so expensive for me as a kid and it drains so fast.
Don’t forget that people with those early saves could have restarted the game out of boredom.
My first 3ds was actually the Red X and Y one
I also bought a fake copy of emerald. Reading “the game can be played” after turning the game on kinda ruined the rest of my day
The ruby version around 13 min, the relicanth and wailmer was probably to get the regis
I've bought lots of these from people, and the copy of Platinum I got from a 10 or 11 year old girl was by far the most advanced. She had everything, some shinies, a few dozen eggs. I bought a lime green DS with it and it was in immaculate condition.
"Just started the game there" *Has 7 badges*
Somewhere out there is my copy of pokemon moon with almost every legendary and mythical both in their regular and shiny forms. No clue what convinced me to sell it.
I have it
How unlucky only one game was actually played. Although you should of checked that save's box and day care it would be interesting seeing something other than baby saves
interesting with Skarmory since it could be found in Route 113 which is the route that has the ash in it that takes you to Fallarbor Town of course I don’t know the rarity for it there
that’s assuming that they traded for the Kyogre and didn’t cheat to get it
yes Level 2 Zubat is only possible in SoulSilver via the Dark Cave and it’s via the Route 31 area so that would be legit if that’s what you see
interesting info
Too bad that save files are now saved on the console, we’ll never be able to do this with the switch
I've had to sadly sell most of my pokemon collection over the years just to survive. I hope whomever got my games after me enjoyed their pick of prime pokemon to snag before restarting the adventure.❤
That music is from the Pokemon trading card game.
Dumps nearly a grand on the table
My brain: that's a beautiful sound lol
That blue X 3ds is still my favourite of the DS family!!
Closest I got to a save file being worth exploring was on a copy of Pearl. Dude's name was 'Bitch' and he had next to no playtime (:
I just love the music! Great way to honor the Pokémon Trading Card game!!
I ended up collecting all the games In was missing for pokemon over the last year and a half and found a a few interesting saves:
Omega ruby with a few lvl 100 shinies (probably hacked)
Black 2 with over 100 hours in game and a lot of pokemon caught
Ruby with a random shiny Shroomish.
Forgot to check the Pokemon boxes, that kyriuge could have been on the cart still
i bought a second copy of emerald awhile back and the previous owner had HUNDREDS of freshly hatched torchics and a single shiny torchic. i coulnt believe someone went through all that trouble only to get rid of it after
There’s a copy of Yellow out there saved as Josh about halfway through the game that has a NidoKing in the line up that I played when I was younger. It wasn’t mine, I borrowed the game for a while and by now it’s probably been sold.
The reason the ds game probably is failing is because of the way Nintendo decided to store the game files, instead of saving it on similar chips like on gba games, they decided to store them on another type of chip that stores a very small amount of electricity to keep the data semi active. But over time of the games not being played that little bit of stored power fades and data just vanishes.
You wouldve loved exploring my Omega Ruby cart. I did a 100% completion, with 300 HOURS sunk into the game, and had started shiny hunting. Definitely was fun, wish I had kept it.
Why would you upload this?
Cause it’s fun to see
" oh that was uhh exsesive " * casually shows a nintendo 3DS XL pokemon game *
idk why but this vid makes me want tell everyone about my first playthrough of a pokemon game ever! my first game was pokemon y for the 3ds and this my team going into the champion fight and beating her.
Greninja
Charizard
Vileplume
Krookodile
Heliolisk
Reuniclus
I buy a lot of used Pokemon games for shiny hunting purposes myself. Typically, the saves end up being uninteresting, however I have had two JP gen 4 games (one Heart Gold, the other Soul Silver) in which each had one legit-looking shiny Pokemon, those being Magikarp and Tentacool. Then I had another ENG Diamond where the trainer had nothing but Ditto, and we are talking so many Ditto, all from different regions with unique IDs. It was a completed game too, with over 600 hours and a completed Dex.
That diamond copy was a fake copy. I have owned like 2 fake copies of black 2 it always did the same thing.
Blowing on a DS game will usually get it to show on the home screen, in my experience.
My Yellow cartridge still holds save file very well after all those years im impressed
My 3ds and my copy of Pokemon diamond have the exact same issue in that it won't register that the game is in there most of the time. I think it's just age
I have all my pokemon games in a safe with the keys hidden away. I can't afford for them to be destroyed
I remember getting Pokémon oras and I got the game finished, their pokedex was complete and I transfer all their Pokémon to home. I also have their shiny mew.
The ones named blue were probably just the seller testing if the save function was still working
I should have probably taken a video of the Japanese copy of HeartGold I bought. The person was probably around Kanto and they had a bunch of Sinnoh Pokemon from their Diamond/Pearl game. It came with a pokewalker that had a mm Magmortar sticker on it. I believe that was his favorite Pokemon since he had a bunch of magby in the PC as well as a high level Magmortar. Pokemon of note that I traded to my copy of Soul Silver include Infernape, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Latios (all with their specific held items), and some typical Sinnoh team Pokemon like Staraptor. I don't believe they cheated as there was nothing out of the ordinary.
That fake game reminded me of 2 fake games my dad got me from China while he was there, completely clueless about how they'd be fake since he is pretty clueless about Pokemon in general.
Shining Gold and Shattered Crystal.
Haven't even looked at them for years because I know it would be pointless.
For the Diamond, you may need to lightly sand/scratch down the contacts or polish it with a qtip+IPA
watching the ruby part of this video gave me legit flashbacks. I remember naming my character tom even though thats not my name on my brothers ruby bc i had sapphire. i wasnt shy to a gameshark either back then. wonder if mine ended up in this video many many years later LOL!
Bought a copy of SS and Platinum off ebay, SS had 105 hours with a legit completion of both regions. Platinum had 300 hours with multiple shiny Pokemon and plenty of hacked in ones. Deleted the SS save, kinda felt bad but dude completed what he wanted to do.
I remember going to block buster and seeing pokemon diamond and just wanting the game so badly and now that I think about it I’m sure it wouldn’t even be able to save
that sceptile's good,I'd move that to emerald,another ruby or sapphire etc.
I always hope I'll luck out and get that rare used game that has a full Dex and all the legendaries and mythicals. Instead, my most recent used Pokémon purchase was a copy of Y that had clearly been amateurly hacked. They had a shiny Pikachu in a Master Ball but nothing else out of the ordinary... but when I started a new file, the game would crash every time I encountered my first wild Pokémon 😑
I ended up going back and exchanging it for Pokémon Sun. Which also didn't have anything worth keeping on the original save file, but at least it works.
Wow, the display quality seems awesome.
love how you use the pokemon trading card game soundtrack :+1
Ags101 brings me back at least 13 years+
I have Pokemon White, Black 2, and Heartgold which to me is pretty rare. (I played it on the Nintendo DSI)
You should take one of the started games and mane videos playing... finish Cindy's story!
I always watch videos like this to see if any of my missing games are being sold, I highly doubt it, those games probably got thrown out, but still, I wish I could see my Pokémon again.
I lost Pearl, Soul Silver, Black, White 2, and I think I have the rest of my games.
Also my sisters’ games, like Heart Gold, White, and Platinum. Even tho she doesn’t play Pokémon at all since HG, I’d love to see my sister’s legit shiny pidgeot she caught immediately named Goldy.
Mostly I just miss my team members. Like Pearl, my first game, my first starter Empoleon, my Haunter that I didn’t know how to evolve, my naughty mischievous male Clefable named Ty that liked spicy food and clutched the raichu/gyarados double battle for me as a Cleffa… I also put TONS of love into my Black game, there were some hacked mons I got from trade tho lol……..
I feel like whoever played the pokemon fire red was playing while looking at a walkthrough.
the ost from pokemon trading card game is fire
They probably replaced the batteries and made sure it saved. Bummer but makes sense lol it’s always exciting to see what Pokémon people had.