Also I can't help but notice: You mentioned that you guys recreated all these distribution roms from the MEW distribution. It's funny because just as Mew being the progenitor of all pokémon, it's distribution rom became the progenitor of all the other distribution roms. Amazing!
I actually attended the Toys'r'us Trade and Battle Day. The employees had no idea how to run the event so they gave me the cartridge and let me distribute the Pokemon to everybody. The save file had some odd things about it like having the acro bike from ruby and Sapphire. Unfortunately I didn't trade all of the events to myself because at the time I didn't think much of them. That being said I do have one of the Jeremy shellder that I've transferred all the way through and to Pokemon HOME.
I live for this kind of stuff. People managing to dig up old, thought-to-be-lost pieces of media to preserve them. Like the team that was bringing back the Fusionfall MMO from Cartoon Network, but then CN told them to stop )':
That's funny the exact same thing happened to me at Toys'r'us, I was just handed a the gameboy and started helping everyone out. I remember looking to see if any were shiny but I was a good little boy and just transferred a single modest mew to myself!
Oh man, that 10th anniversary event was the only special event I was ever able to go to as a kid, that was such a magical feeling. I would love to relive those memories
For me it was the shiny Gamestop Suicune. There weren't Pokémon there, but I saw the Pokémon White movie premiere in theaters and that's it. I missed so much 😭
What you're doing for the pokemon community can be described as nothing less than a miracle. Both of you have clearly gone above and beyond to make things like this happen and you should be given high praises for such feats. Sincerely, thank you.
@@thedarkblackspeedy3140the english carta distribution works on usa o other version of pokemon Emerald Ruby zaphire Fire Red leaf green except Japan version
As a massive pokémon fan who wasn't able to attend these events as a kid, I thank you all. This is something I never thought I would ever get to experience. Congratulations on your success.
WORKS LIKE A CHARM. I loaded up all the rims on my Analogue Pocket and linked it up to my GBA SP running Ruby. Thank you guys so much for your hard work. This is awesome!
could i ask a favor? i would love a 10anniv suicine for my brother since his copy of ruby with his own 10anniv suicune got obliterated 🥺i lack the tools to do this myself.. is there anyway you could transfer a suicune up to bdsp era for me and trade him to me? im not sure what i can give u in return but it would mean the world to me to be able to get this suicine somehow! ive been searching for years!
@@gottacatchthamall ah i see! i had no idea 😔 😔 i had imagined you could just churn them out as much as youd like with this 😅but yeah this definitely lowers my chances of ever getting my brothers poor suicune back 😖
This is simply wonderful! A great way to relive a cherished childhood memory. When I went to the Pokémon 10th anniversary event, coincidentally there wasn’t a line for the celebi distribution. And the lady running the booth gave me extra celibis. I still have all of them. I’m sure it wasn’t particularly meaningful to her, but it was so exciting for me as a child.
You could not have dropped this video at a better time. I'm currently working on a Gen 3 Livingdex and I've had a hard time finding a few Mythicals. Your hard work and the work of the community are appreciated by me and so many others, thank you so much!
Absolutely incredible. I can't even imagine how many people have been waiting for something like this. Thank you to the team for this incredible work!!!
This is like a wish come true. On behalf of my inner child, who always wanted to have attended one of those events and never could, sincerely, thank you.
This is really cool, I love how Gens 3-5 have a good majority of their events archived in some shape or form. I might have to try some of these out on emulator, the video isn't out yet but I hope the Pal Region events can be archived just like NTSC. I await to see the day that Gens 6 & 7 have this luxury, we already have an alternative host for the Nintendo Network called Pretendo Network, but we still need the Pokemon event distribution figured out so those events can be enjoyed in the future. Fun fact, Magearna's QR Code in Gen 7 never expired, so that's one.
it's so cool to see that so many other people care about preserving these things, but you're even cooler for actually doing the work. i have no idea of coding, but you always make your videos so understandable and interesting for people like me! i love your videos.
Such an incredible achievement and gift to the Pokemon community! a massive thank you to you both. It's almost exactly 20 years since the 5th Anniversary Eggs were distributed in Japan too, so really nice this event and all the others are now widely available to old and new players alike for the first time ever.
i was able to get a mystery mew as a kid. it was one of my coolest memories, lining up in a toys r us for the original rarest pokemon. i treasured my mew like a holy grail, still have it
dang i wonder how? all the games i have that are that old if i still have them the save battery is dead, have you been live swapping the battery every 5 or 10 years?
@@nightmarerex2035 The battery is only used for clock based events in gen 3 pokemon games, nothing else. Saves are written to non-volatile memory. Only a handful of GBA games use a battery for storing save files in SRAM instead of flash memory.
I don’t usually comment on videos but your work is really impressive. Within my collection of GBA games from Japan I happen to have a Hadō Regirock. I’m fairly sure it’s legitimate but can’t prove it beyond any reasonable doubt. I can give you more info about it if you want
@@Goppier ciao perché gli eventi come ana Pikachu nel momento che compare il logo Nintendo questo lampeggia per poco è poi si blocca naturalmente usato con Emerald jap e myboy Android
Ive fell in love with this channel. Im a pretty new person in pokemon and only started in 2018. But since then i bought pokemon diamond pokemon x and ultra moon. One thing i hate is how i missed old events but this video gives me hope potentially for even every pokemon ds game
This is honestly a really incredible moment for me. I remember being a kid in the early days of Gen 4, unable to get people to believe that my cool Machamp and Cradily were real event Pokemon because there was no documentation of them online. Then in the early 2010s, there was finally enough information uncovered to prove they were real events, and I felt vindicated. Then a couple years later I was contacted by event preservationists about my PCNY events, and of course I was happy to help them. And now we're here. The event community has come together to not only preserve those event Pokemon still in existence, but make faithful recreations so everyone else can enjoy them too. Aside from being a Pokemon fan, I'm incredibly passionate about media preservation to the point that I once wanted to become an archivist professionally. So being able to see this happen is just really special.
Gen 3 brings back so many special memories for me. Being my first proper generation I had as a kid. Seeing this and the previous event video it brings a tear to my eye. 😢 Keep up the good work with whatever it is you decide to work on next.
It's heartbreaking that this breakthrough comes right at the end of the 3DS era, with Pokémon Bank and the Poké Transporter officially closed. At the very least, you can bring these lost events all the way up to BW/2, which is still a miracle!
might be misremembering but i believe bank & transporter can still move pokemon from gen 5 to 6 and then to switch games from there at least for the foreseeable future, as long as you already had downloaded it at least.
We need a "Pokémon Undernet" that secretly reworks all those lost events, peripherals, side-stuff like Dream World etc back into existance. Imagine the fun then!
@@MiguelSanchez-ce2qq oh I used it to put the distribution roms onto a bootleg Pokémon Ruby I got a while back that happened to also work as a cheap flashcart
Holding onto all of my childhood Pokemon GBA games has definitely paid off; I finally got to try this out last night since I still own all of the hardware. Everything worked like a charm-thanks for all of your hard work! ❤
This, as well as the recreation of the BW Wi-Fi distributions, is absolutely incredible. It brings me great joy to see it! I saw a spike in Aura Mew being traded and transferred after this was released, as a sidenote. It seems people have been taking full advantage of their access to it!
Just a friendly P.S.A. You are able to transfer then event Pokémon through to Pokémon Bank. It at least worked with the lv70 Deoxys. Have yet to try others. Update: I have gotten every Pokémon in the main folder. Including all from the JAA & POTD. As well at at least one from each PCNY multi boot and they all made it to Pokemon Bank with no issues. Amazing work bois and thank you for this.
This is incredible! I grew up playing the gba gen 3 games and didn’t find out about mystery gifts until well after they were over. Now 20 years later we can experience them again. Thank you!
The choice of background music as you explain binary structures and ISN differences and applications is very tasteful ;). Loving it! Really enjoy those videos! Edit: I have a friend who is an avid Pokemon player. Guess i'll grab my flashcart, GBASP and link cable and roll up there and send him a blast from the past. ^^
Whoa! I can finally get a 10th anniversary Celebi! I went to the event and stood in line, and the kid in front of me got a Celebi and then they said they were closing for the day.
Living Dexers are eating well tonight! I said this before in the mystery gift video, but you guys are amazing. The work you've put into the preservation of these games' events is incredible. Thank you so much!
You'll realize that there's a set of pokémon specifically designed to tackle Battle tower and Battle Frontier in RSE in the distributions. For those who want to skip the training part of the journey, those are a real good shortcut, what's more, there are TWO sets of the same pokémon trio, one set for level 50, one for open level. Amazing!
I read about the mew event in a video game magazine, asked my mom to take me there but she ignored me, I dreamed about the day I would be able to add mew to my collection. This is a dream coming true, people that receive pokemon through mystery gift wifi have no idea what it is to be missing a pokemon before internet time. Thank you so much for what you have done and to be so selfless to make it available for free
This is all so beautiful and impressive. From the great explanation, to the revolutionary historical work, to the background music. Love it all and thank you for this!
This has me excited from a completionist standpoint. You guys are awesome. If you ever find time I'd love to see you archive and turn the eReader stuff into a normal rom that can distribute stuff like the regi dolls and eReader berries, and play the lost pokemon mini games.
Dude. This is Exactly what I was looking for. I have an EZflash as well and have the 4 distributions. I was literally looking for just this. Thank you 🙏 🔥
Seeing your work makes me realize I'm really, really far away from where I probably should be in terms of coding skills. I'm graduating this semester and am only comfortable with full-stack web development. It makes me a bit happy though because I realize there's so much more to learn out there! Sorry for the self-reflection no one asked for, but good work on the distribution roms; I hope to see more of your content.
no need, what they're doing is a very specific close to hardware coding, for which you need assembly. you really only need these skills for work very close to hardware (microchips, sensors, robotics, and so on). being comfortable with full-stack web development is already pretty good, so no need to put yourself down. Indeed, the potential to learn more stuff never ends and I think its commendable to strive to learn - so hats to you :)
As a pokémon fan from a country Nintendo and Gamefreak never cared about (Brazil), you literally gave life back to my firered cartridge, got all these events running!!! Thank you so much!!
Absolutely amazing work! Not just for the Pokemon community, but for Game Preservation as a whole! I know that I've been working on 100%ing Emerald for a while now and I feel much better knowing that Celebi and Deyoxys won't have to be skipped in my Pokedex.
Incredible video! I love the fact that you are taking all of this time to preserve something that is so close to a lot of our hearts! Quick question though, would you be able to make a tutorial video on how to get all these wonderful mons on our saves? That would be super super helpful! And again, thank you so much!
as someone who's always loved the older games, and who wants to eventually create a collection of old GBA games for myself, I sincerely, deeply thank you for recreating these events, some of which are older than I am. дякую мій друг
This is incredible what you accomplished, now it will be saved forever. Especially the gen 3 ones. They're so old and it's not as easy to get informations on them, so they were the most important ones to save.
This is awesome! I'd like to help contribute with the JEREMY Pokémon. I have all 15 (Yes, there were only 12 different Pokémon, but Tauros, Machoke, & Haunter had both IDNo). I am however still working on getting them migrated to HOME. Please let me know how I can help.
I am so hyped. Have you seen the project someone else did for transferring gen 2 pokemon to gen 3 by using a homebrewed setup for the gbasp? That was super interesting. If so, what were your thoughts about this?
Absolutely amazing work! I love that you've made these special event pokemon available again. I remember getting the special Mew from Toys 'r' Us back in the day, to help fill out my collection. And it's great to see that new players can... kinda at least... be able to do the same.
This is incredible! The work you have put in is insane to be able to make this happen. Im totally going to be using this. On another note....i fear i may sound entitled by even asking but....WHERE IS THE UPDATE ON THE HARDWARE?!?!? I am frothing at the mouth waiting for an update on the board for moving gen 2 to gen 3 and im dying to get my grubby little mitts on one. 😅
This is nothing short of incredible, the amount of things that had to go and did go right for this happen; from the recovery of these physical roms to the skillset threshold and successful organization of this team to pull this off, you guys are legends, i can only imagine telling my past self that in the future he would have access to all of these without game sharks. Thank you so much for this.
Don't remind me... I'm still angry about it. But I'm more angry about her position in relationship not being "overwritten for a better one" the same way she did.
@Hydrocannon as a game preservest and played since the gen 1 days this just makes my blood boil not everyday you get to own history of a beloved franchise but that is just ugh 😑
i love this i hope he dose the eon ticket,old sea map,mystic ticket and aurora ticket for the japanese versions unless someone know where i can get them?
Wow that's cool! Congratulations on all this magnificent work, you were incredible. I would really like to be able to create distribution ROMs with my own events and Pokémon, but I don't know anything about programming, but it would be fun. Once again, congratulations on the video
Fun fact that almost nobody knows. The Space Center Deoxys distribution could also distribute the 10th Anniversary Celebi. Being nosy and watching the screen while they were giving me deoxys paid off big time for me 17 years ago, as well as everyone else in line behind me.
You have made me ridiculously happy. Emerald was my first Pokemon game, and I didn’t know anything about Pokemon events back then. Only later did I learn that event Pokemon were a thing and of course it was too late. I’ve always wanted to do a Living Dex in Gen III - I own all the GBA games and Colo and XD. But of course I would always be short the handful of mythicals. And I don’t believe in cheating as a way to get them. So the fact that I can basically legitimately get these event mons now is so cool!! Also, you’ve convinced me to buy a Japanese copy of Emerald (something I’ve wanted to do for awhile) just so I can get the Japanese event Pokemon too. Thank you so much for your hard work!
@yoshiwoollyworld I can’t really elaborate. It just doesn’t feel right to me. I don’t begrudge anyone that does cheat for a Living Dex, though. To each their own and all that
I think you guys should look into the Slot-2 Distributions done. Apparently there's a lot that can be uncovered. It may take more time to get working. But I think it'd be an interesting idea.
You just did a service to shiny hunters everywhere-- being able to shiny hunt a legitimate Wishmaker Jirachi is something no sane person would want to do; but most shiny hunters like myself failed their sanity checks long ago lol. But in all seriousness; recreating past events is so cool, and is a huge step in archiving games for posterity. Thank you for the hard work!!!
This is AWESOME! I attended the 10th anniversary event as a kid, transferred the top 10 and Celebi up to Pokemon Black which at one point I reset and lost all these event exclusives. My GBA flash cart is waiting for me when I get home!
@@evanreid7400 If you got the money, I'd suggest EzFlash Omega Definitive Edition. It also has a feature to activate "slot 2 features" on DS games that have those bonuses.
This is such a cool project! I never got to attend any of these events, but I DID have a friend who owned the Colosseum bonus disc and let me get the Wishmaker Jirachi from it. I still have the Jirachi, though unfortunately it's no longer holding the berry, lol.
I was only able to attend the Jirachi and shiny Raikou events for HGSS and BW respectively. I was too young or didn’t know about the others. Thankfully, I was able to buy a distribution cart for the Deoxys and 10th Anniversary events for all the GBA games. It’s still so cool how the distribution events happened in the days before the internet!
It's people like you that make the Pokemon community so fantastic! These events will now be preserved forvever thanks to you! I just wanted to point out one small bug though. I tried distributing PCNY Pokemon to my ruby save file, and the event works like a charm; but after i receive the Pokemon, the pokedex is not getting properly updated. It says that Jirachi was caught, instead of cradily. I am working on an emulator, so i don't know whether that's causing the problem. Any help will be appreciated:) Once again thank you so much for preserving these lesser known gen 3 events!
@@MaxRavenclawI used mGBA on windows too. Make sure that you open the distribution rom in the first instance. Another thing, I noticed that mgba needs two different save files in the directory of the roms..one is the .sav file and the other is the .sa1/.sa2 file. Make sure you have both of those. If the problem persists, then just use vba link- it's way smoother.
I love this. I was going to make a save file with every event Pokémon from gen 3 but this is so much better. I'm gonna play third gen with friends to complete the Pokédex, but I wanted as weel to get as many events as possible to make true my childhood dreams. If you need help for similar projects in the future I will do whatever is in my power. I do have some experience in coding so this is so entertaining. At the moment I'm completing my journey in first gen and pretty soon I will start with crystal and stadium 2.
I am working on my living Dex in Emerald right now, and this sounds like this is the perfect solution to help me get the unobtainable mons I missed from Events! Thank you! When the time comes, I will give this a try.
@@Goppier I did! Thank you! I had a GB operator and backed up my save to my computer and then emulated the distribution rom and linked it to my Emerald file in mGBA. Worked great! Thanks for your hard work!
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Also I can't help but notice: You mentioned that you guys recreated all these distribution roms from the MEW distribution. It's funny because just as Mew being the progenitor of all pokémon, it's distribution rom became the progenitor of all the other distribution roms. Amazing!
I'd like to think that this was the point ;)
151 thumbs up on your comment, it’s too perfect for me to add 1.
@@c0mpu73rguy Too late, the count will go up (probably to 386) Maybe the other 5 are the famed gen1 pokégods like pikablu? Who knows?
Been a long time since I’ve heard “pikablu”, thanks for that 🎉
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I actually attended the Toys'r'us Trade and Battle Day. The employees had no idea how to run the event so they gave me the cartridge and let me distribute the Pokemon to everybody. The save file had some odd things about it like having the acro bike from ruby and Sapphire. Unfortunately I didn't trade all of the events to myself because at the time I didn't think much of them. That being said I do have one of the Jeremy shellder that I've transferred all the way through and to Pokemon HOME.
It would be amazing if you could help us preserve that Shellder! Cam you contact me on discord? Goppier#9849
I live for this kind of stuff. People managing to dig up old, thought-to-be-lost pieces of media to preserve them.
Like the team that was bringing back the Fusionfall MMO from Cartoon Network, but then CN told them to stop )':
@@Goppierdid you get an update?
Did you manage to send the shelder to the team?
That's funny the exact same thing happened to me at Toys'r'us, I was just handed a the gameboy and started helping everyone out. I remember looking to see if any were shiny but I was a good little boy and just transferred a single modest mew to myself!
Oh man, that 10th anniversary event was the only special event I was ever able to go to as a kid, that was such a magical feeling. I would love to relive those memories
For me it was the shiny Gamestop Suicune. There weren't Pokémon there, but I saw the Pokémon White movie premiere in theaters and that's it. I missed so much 😭
Same, I remember we waited in line for about 4 hours for them. Couple weeks later my little sister had erased my save data...
me too! I got a ho-oh that I still keep to this day, easily my rarest pokemon I guess.
@@Johan-ct3xg ouch
same, still have the latias, latios and charizard i got from it
What you're doing for the pokemon community can be described as nothing less than a miracle. Both of you have clearly gone above and beyond to make things like this happen and you should be given high praises for such feats. Sincerely, thank you.
How does it work ? I need a EUR or USA gen 3 games and then connection cable and something else ?
Could you help me out ?
@@thedarkblackspeedy3140the english carta distribution works on usa o other version of pokemon Emerald Ruby zaphire Fire Red leaf green except Japan version
Exactly, I really don’t understand how Nintendo itself has no desire whatsoever to recreate those moments
As a massive pokémon fan who wasn't able to attend these events as a kid, I thank you all. This is something I never thought I would ever get to experience. Congratulations on your success.
WORKS LIKE A CHARM. I loaded up all the rims on my Analogue Pocket and linked it up to my GBA SP running Ruby. Thank you guys so much for your hard work. This is awesome!
could i ask a favor? i would love a 10anniv suicine for my brother since his copy of ruby with his own 10anniv suicune got obliterated 🥺i lack the tools to do this myself.. is there anyway you could transfer a suicune up to bdsp era for me and trade him to me? im not sure what i can give u in return but it would mean the world to me to be able to get this suicine somehow! ive been searching for years!
@@taebeebee think he gets one, so very slim chances someone will just give you something that sentimental
@@gottacatchthamall ah i see! i had no idea 😔 😔 i had imagined you could just churn them out as much as youd like with this 😅but yeah this definitely lowers my chances of ever getting my brothers poor suicune back 😖
@@taebeebee maybe you can, now im confused too, sorry 😂😂 lets see if anyone will correct for us 😅
@@gottacatchthamall oh! i sure hope so!! even if someone could clone one in a copy of emerald id be thrilled! 🥺
This is simply wonderful! A great way to relive a cherished childhood memory. When I went to the Pokémon 10th anniversary event, coincidentally there wasn’t a line for the celebi distribution. And the lady running the booth gave me extra celibis. I still have all of them. I’m sure it wasn’t particularly meaningful to her, but it was so exciting for me as a child.
Thank you so much for putting this together! This is an invaluable contribution to the Pokémon community, keep up the good work!
This is huge support right here!
You gave him $150
@@NatetheNintendofan No, it's a different currency, NHL instead of USD.
@@NatetheNintendofan They gave him around 6 USD
@@acsm9436 150 Hockey teams? :O
You could not have dropped this video at a better time. I'm currently working on a Gen 3 Livingdex and I've had a hard time finding a few Mythicals. Your hard work and the work of the community are appreciated by me and so many others, thank you so much!
Did you bought an ez flash cart to put on the code on?
Absolutely incredible. I can't even imagine how many people have been waiting for something like this. Thank you to the team for this incredible work!!!
It's been done before, years ago, he just shining a light on the not-so popular distributions.
This is like a wish come true. On behalf of my inner child, who always wanted to have attended one of those events and never could, sincerely, thank you.
This man is a gem, an absolute angel, a gift to all pokefans--
This is really cool, I love how Gens 3-5 have a good majority of their events archived in some shape or form. I might have to try some of these out on emulator, the video isn't out yet but I hope the Pal Region events can be archived just like NTSC. I await to see the day that Gens 6 & 7 have this luxury, we already have an alternative host for the Nintendo Network called Pretendo Network, but we still need the Pokemon event distribution figured out so those events can be enjoyed in the future. Fun fact, Magearna's QR Code in Gen 7 never expired, so that's one.
What is Pretendo?
@@KingLarbear Allows you to play Wii U games like Mario Kart 8 or Splatoon 1 online again.
PKSM on a homebrew 3DS can inject all the Gen 6 & Gen 7 events/mystery gifts into a save file
@@flaregamer64 oh
Pksm I think it’s called allows you to get the wonder card and the events for Gen 6
This is game preservation at it's absolute finest. Thank you for all the work you guys put into this. Not all heros where capes.
it's so cool to see that so many other people care about preserving these things, but you're even cooler for actually doing the work. i have no idea of coding, but you always make your videos so understandable and interesting for people like me! i love your videos.
Such an incredible achievement and gift to the Pokemon community! a massive thank you to you both.
It's almost exactly 20 years since the 5th Anniversary Eggs were distributed in Japan too, so really nice this event and all the others are now widely available to old and new players alike for the first time ever.
i was able to get a mystery mew as a kid. it was one of my coolest memories, lining up in a toys r us for the original rarest pokemon. i treasured my mew like a holy grail, still have it
dang i wonder how? all the games i have that are that old if i still have them the save battery is dead, have you been live swapping the battery every 5 or 10 years?
@@nightmarerex2035 The battery is only used for clock based events in gen 3 pokemon games, nothing else. Saves are written to non-volatile memory. Only a handful of GBA games use a battery for storing save files in SRAM instead of flash memory.
I traded my first shiny (Dunsparce) for a Mystery Mew in 2006. I didn't even know what shinies were despite being 18 years old lmao
I don’t usually comment on videos but your work is really impressive. Within my collection of GBA games from Japan I happen to have a Hadō Regirock. I’m fairly sure it’s legitimate but can’t prove it beyond any reasonable doubt. I can give you more info about it if you want
I would love more information about it! Can you contact me on discord about it? Goppier#9849
@@Goppier ciao perché gli eventi come ana Pikachu nel momento che compare il logo Nintendo questo lampeggia per poco è poi si blocca naturalmente usato con Emerald jap e myboy Android
The best 3 languages:
- English
- Japanese
- Gamecube
Your dedication is outstanding, I hope you find the remaining samples you're looking for!
Ive fell in love with this channel. Im a pretty new person in pokemon and only started in 2018. But since then i bought pokemon diamond pokemon x and ultra moon. One thing i hate is how i missed old events but this video gives me hope potentially for even every pokemon ds game
Good news! The cloned wifi servers for the ds that fans made lets you get all the gen 4 and 5 events!
This is honestly a really incredible moment for me. I remember being a kid in the early days of Gen 4, unable to get people to believe that my cool Machamp and Cradily were real event Pokemon because there was no documentation of them online. Then in the early 2010s, there was finally enough information uncovered to prove they were real events, and I felt vindicated. Then a couple years later I was contacted by event preservationists about my PCNY events, and of course I was happy to help them. And now we're here. The event community has come together to not only preserve those event Pokemon still in existence, but make faithful recreations so everyone else can enjoy them too. Aside from being a Pokemon fan, I'm incredibly passionate about media preservation to the point that I once wanted to become an archivist professionally. So being able to see this happen is just really special.
Gen 3 brings back so many special memories for me. Being my first proper generation I had as a kid. Seeing this and the previous event video it brings a tear to my eye. 😢 Keep up the good work with whatever it is you decide to work on next.
It's heartbreaking that this breakthrough comes right at the end of the 3DS era, with Pokémon Bank and the Poké Transporter officially closed. At the very least, you can bring these lost events all the way up to BW/2, which is still a miracle!
might be misremembering but i believe bank & transporter can still move pokemon from gen 5 to 6 and then to switch games from there at least for the foreseeable future, as long as you already had downloaded it at least.
We need a "Pokémon Undernet" that secretly reworks all those lost events, peripherals, side-stuff like Dream World etc back into existance. Imagine the fun then!
You can still use those apps if you ever downloaded them before they shut it down
Pokemon Bank/transporter arent closed
@@baldibaldimore12 You can also just jailbreak your 3DS and install these apps in 5 minutes. Don't live life on Nintendo's short leash!
Excited, already used all of the other roms with my GB Operator. Pretty awesome going to Birth Island on real hardware!
How did you do it? Input the pokemon directly into the saved file?
@@MiguelSanchez-ce2qq no, you need to put the Rom onto a flash cart and then link two Gameboys together
@@Victini0510 what's with the GB operator then?
@@MiguelSanchez-ce2qq oh I used it to put the distribution roms onto a bootleg Pokémon Ruby I got a while back that happened to also work as a cheap flashcart
Holding onto all of my childhood Pokemon GBA games has definitely paid off; I finally got to try this out last night since I still own all of the hardware. Everything worked like a charm-thanks for all of your hard work! ❤
Insanely good work on both the implementations and the video. Can't wait for more of your explanations!
This, as well as the recreation of the BW Wi-Fi distributions, is absolutely incredible. It brings me great joy to see it!
I saw a spike in Aura Mew being traded and transferred after this was released, as a sidenote. It seems people have been taking full advantage of their access to it!
Just a friendly P.S.A. You are able to transfer then event Pokémon through to Pokémon Bank. It at least worked with the lv70 Deoxys. Have yet to try others.
Update: I have gotten every Pokémon in the main folder. Including all from the JAA & POTD. As well at at least one from each PCNY multi boot and they all made it to Pokemon Bank with no issues. Amazing work bois and thank you for this.
Can confirm it works as well
This is incredible! I grew up playing the gba gen 3 games and didn’t find out about mystery gifts until well after they were over. Now 20 years later we can experience them again. Thank you!
The choice of background music as you explain binary structures and ISN differences and applications is very tasteful ;). Loving it! Really enjoy those videos!
Edit: I have a friend who is an avid Pokemon player. Guess i'll grab my flashcart, GBASP and link cable and roll up there and send him a blast from the past. ^^
Whoa! I can finally get a 10th anniversary Celebi! I went to the event and stood in line, and the kid in front of me got a Celebi and then they said they were closing for the day.
I can only imagine the heart sink and immediate terror that set in. Poor guy!
Living Dexers are eating well tonight! I said this before in the mystery gift video, but you guys are amazing. The work you've put into the preservation of these games' events is incredible. Thank you so much!
You'll realize that there's a set of pokémon specifically designed to tackle Battle tower and Battle Frontier in RSE in the distributions. For those who want to skip the training part of the journey, those are a real good shortcut, what's more, there are TWO sets of the same pokémon trio, one set for level 50, one for open level. Amazing!
Seeing old Pokémon events revived (Specially gen 3) fills me with inmense joy. Well done!
My dude going all in with the danganronpa music 🔥that aside, this was a very cool thing to do
Thank you so much for your hard work! You provide an invaluable service ensuring these events live on.
This videos are always so great, love how the community keeps unveiling and preserving pokemons
I read about the mew event in a video game magazine, asked my mom to take me there but she ignored me, I dreamed about the day I would be able to add mew to my collection.
This is a dream coming true, people that receive pokemon through mystery gift wifi have no idea what it is to be missing a pokemon before internet time.
Thank you so much for what you have done and to be so selfless to make it available for free
This is all so beautiful and impressive. From the great explanation, to the revolutionary historical work, to the background music. Love it all and thank you for this!
Thank you so much for doing this! I can finally fulfil my childhood dreams and recreate these events I missed out on
This has me excited from a completionist standpoint. You guys are awesome. If you ever find time I'd love to see you archive and turn the eReader stuff into a normal rom that can distribute stuff like the regi dolls and eReader berries, and play the lost pokemon mini games.
The Regi dolls would be amazing!
We definitely plan to do those eventually as well!
The fact that you check every single comment on your video is truly incredible feat itself! Congrats on the amazing work you guys!
this is incredible!! amazing work you two this is gonna mean so much to so many people
You just completed a part of my childhood, thank everybody who helped with this and I’m so stoked to play through again
this is incredible, younger me could only DREAM this was possible
Dude. This is Exactly what I was looking for. I have an EZflash as well and have the 4 distributions. I was literally looking for just this. Thank you 🙏 🔥
when trying to distribute it says make sure to have english cart, but my cart is english any suggestions?
always excited to see a new video from you! :) so happy that these events are once again obtainable, a lot of good work from you and undeadxreality!!
Seeing your work makes me realize I'm really, really far away from where I probably should be in terms of coding skills. I'm graduating this semester and am only comfortable with full-stack web development. It makes me a bit happy though because I realize there's so much more to learn out there! Sorry for the self-reflection no one asked for, but good work on the distribution roms; I hope to see more of your content.
no need, what they're doing is a very specific close to hardware coding, for which you need assembly. you really only need these skills for work very close to hardware (microchips, sensors, robotics, and so on). being comfortable with full-stack web development is already pretty good, so no need to put yourself down.
Indeed, the potential to learn more stuff never ends and I think its commendable to strive to learn - so hats to you :)
very fitting that mew, the ancestor of all pokémon, was the base of your programming HAHA
As a pokémon fan from a country Nintendo and Gamefreak never cared about (Brazil), you literally gave life back to my firered cartridge, got all these events running!!! Thank you so much!!
Incredible work finalle is GEN 3 distribution complete and finished!
Now! We need to get a distribution method for gen 6!
For Gen 6 personally, would love the never released Eternal Flower event!
Absolutely amazing work! Not just for the Pokemon community, but for Game Preservation as a whole! I know that I've been working on 100%ing Emerald for a while now and I feel much better knowing that Celebi and Deyoxys won't have to be skipped in my Pokedex.
Incredible video! I love the fact that you are taking all of this time to preserve something that is so close to a lot of our hearts! Quick question though, would you be able to make a tutorial video on how to get all these wonderful mons on our saves? That would be super super helpful! And again, thank you so much!
I probably won't make a video about it, but if you want to use it on original hardware, then there are instructions on the github page
@@Goppier I must have missed that somehow lol, thank you so much!
as someone who's always loved the older games, and who wants to eventually create a collection of old GBA games for myself, I sincerely, deeply thank you for recreating these events, some of which are older than I am. дякую мій друг
I never donate money, but you deserve this, and I hope others join in, because I can't wait for your gen 2 to gen 3 device to come
Thank you! The device will be next big project again, so hopefully there will be an update soon again
@@Goppier I haven't been this excited in years
two bucks what a cheapskate
Amazing, amazing, amazing. Kudos to you all. I could never have the determination to do anything like this and just amazed.
This is incredible what you accomplished, now it will be saved forever. Especially the gen 3 ones. They're so old and it's not as easy to get informations on them, so they were the most important ones to save.
Thank you so much for your efforts towards preserving these!!
I would love to see you tackle the e-reader battle cards and Berry cards, I think you would be able to do it easly after this
We plan to do e reader stuff in the future as well!
it's super cool to see techno wizarding being used for preservation, all the hard work is appreciated!!
I knew it! Danganronpa in the background 🥰
the 10th anniversary celebi rom has never been dumped so this is legendary. glad i found it.
This is awesome! I'd like to help contribute with the JEREMY Pokémon. I have all 15 (Yes, there were only 12 different Pokémon, but Tauros, Machoke, & Haunter had both IDNo). I am however still working on getting them migrated to HOME. Please let me know how I can help.
That would be awesome if you could help! Is it possible for you to contact me on discord? Goppier#9849
If possible could you keep them in 3ds format?
@@undeadxrealitythey're all still currently in GBA format
That's amazing! We would love to analyse and preserve them like that in the gba format!
@@GoppierSounds great! I contact you on discord sometime later today!
hey, just coming back to this to say thank you.
gen3 was a huge part of my childhood which I regularly revisit.
I am so hyped. Have you seen the project someone else did for transferring gen 2 pokemon to gen 3 by using a homebrewed setup for the gbasp? That was super interesting. If so, what were your thoughts about this?
It was him
I am curious about his device. I'm so happy
@@xSATOKU was it? i am pretty sure that was not him, because it was a completely different approach and not something with a custom pcb.
I have seen it and it is cool that people are making their own versions!
@@Goppier just know that you are an awesome people. A true hero
Absolutely amazing work! I love that you've made these special event pokemon available again. I remember getting the special Mew from Toys 'r' Us back in the day, to help fill out my collection. And it's great to see that new players can... kinda at least... be able to do the same.
This is incredible! The work you have put in is insane to be able to make this happen. Im totally going to be using this. On another note....i fear i may sound entitled by even asking but....WHERE IS THE UPDATE ON THE HARDWARE?!?!? I am frothing at the mouth waiting for an update on the board for moving gen 2 to gen 3 and im dying to get my grubby little mitts on one. 😅
Now that these projects are done I will focus again on the device and make an update about it soon
@@Goppier Absolute LEGEND!
This is nothing short of incredible, the amount of things that had to go and did go right for this happen; from the recovery of these physical roms to the skillset threshold and successful organization of this team to pull this off, you guys are legends, i can only imagine telling my past self that in the future he would have access to all of these without game sharks. Thank you so much for this.
Except for the NYC thing the guys gf accidently deleted a entire gamecube memory card containing vital pokemon data now forever lost
Don't remind me... I'm still angry about it. But I'm more angry about her position in relationship not being "overwritten for a better one" the same way she did.
@Hydrocannon as a game preservest and played since the gen 1 days this just makes my blood boil not everyday you get to own history of a beloved franchise but that is just ugh 😑
Thank you for making this available for generations of users to come! I am returning to Pokémon after many years (I’m 41) and this is helpful!
Any plans to make repro carts of this? Would love to get a full Pokedex on ANY Gen 3 Pokemon game!
The roms can be downloaded from the description!
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Thank you for all your work!
i love this i hope he dose the eon ticket,old sea map,mystic ticket and aurora ticket for the japanese versions unless someone know where i can get them?
We'll do that as well at some point as well as localizations for the other languages!
Wow that's cool! Congratulations on all this magnificent work, you were incredible.
I would really like to be able to create distribution ROMs with my own events and Pokémon, but I don't know anything about programming, but it would be fun.
Once again, congratulations on the video
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I just want to add that the collage on the thumbnail with pichu popping out the egg is adorable af :D
I still have hope with the gen 2 to gen 3 device, it's still in the making right?
It is yeah, he said he's gonna post another update soon
@@justaperson4656 I'm so happy that I'm actually crying
@@KingLarbear I know!! This man has saved my g1 mew
@@justaperson4656 I'll take that like as a yes from him
I absolutely cannot wait to do this myself i never got to go to any events as a kid.
Amazing work as always, also it was cool to see Blissy and Lappy in the special thanks, I know them from the RNG community.
I loved pokemon as a kid, and now im an embedded systems engineer. Seeing this kind of content makes past me and present very excited!
This is history of videogames and technology being preserved and celebrated!
Fun fact that almost nobody knows. The Space Center Deoxys distribution could also distribute the 10th Anniversary Celebi. Being nosy and watching the screen while they were giving me deoxys paid off big time for me 17 years ago, as well as everyone else in line behind me.
You have made me ridiculously happy. Emerald was my first Pokemon game, and I didn’t know anything about Pokemon events back then. Only later did I learn that event Pokemon were a thing and of course it was too late.
I’ve always wanted to do a Living Dex in Gen III - I own all the GBA games and Colo and XD. But of course I would always be short the handful of mythicals. And I don’t believe in cheating as a way to get them. So the fact that I can basically legitimately get these event mons now is so cool!!
Also, you’ve convinced me to buy a Japanese copy of Emerald (something I’ve wanted to do for awhile) just so I can get the Japanese event Pokemon too.
Thank you so much for your hard work!
@yoshiwoollyworld I can’t really elaborate. It just doesn’t feel right to me. I don’t begrudge anyone that does cheat for a Living Dex, though. To each their own and all that
I think you guys should look into the Slot-2 Distributions done. Apparently there's a lot that can be uncovered. It may take more time to get working. But I think it'd be an interesting idea.
You just did a service to shiny hunters everywhere-- being able to shiny hunt a legitimate Wishmaker Jirachi is something no sane person would want to do; but most shiny hunters like myself failed their sanity checks long ago lol.
But in all seriousness; recreating past events is so cool, and is a huge step in archiving games for posterity. Thank you for the hard work!!!
This is AWESOME! I attended the 10th anniversary event as a kid, transferred the top 10 and Celebi up to Pokemon Black which at one point I reset and lost all these event exclusives. My GBA flash cart is waiting for me when I get home!
Literally ordered a GBA Flash Cart for this, what an amazing work ! Thanks for this guys !
Order two (or three if you can) Wireless adapters too, Gotta get those event items and FRLG minigame trainer card star.
Which flash card would you recommend I purchase? I'm kinda confused on the process lol
@@evanreid7400 If you got the money, I'd suggest EzFlash Omega Definitive Edition. It also has a feature to activate "slot 2 features" on DS games that have those bonuses.
So then you would download all the files onto an SD card and that's it? Or would it only allow one at a time?
@@evanreid7400 Yes, but slot 2 feature requires you to put the roms one at a time using "write to NOR" feature.
This is such a cool project! I never got to attend any of these events, but I DID have a friend who owned the Colosseum bonus disc and let me get the Wishmaker Jirachi from it. I still have the Jirachi, though unfortunately it's no longer holding the berry, lol.
I was only able to attend the Jirachi and shiny Raikou events for HGSS and BW respectively. I was too young or didn’t know about the others. Thankfully, I was able to buy a distribution cart for the Deoxys and 10th Anniversary events for all the GBA games. It’s still so cool how the distribution events happened in the days before the internet!
I tested this with my Analogue Pocket, and it worked wonderful! Thank you for doing This! I Can finally finish the Gen 3 Dex IN Gen 3!
It's people like you that make the Pokemon community so fantastic! These events will now be preserved forvever thanks to you!
I just wanted to point out one small bug though. I tried distributing PCNY Pokemon to my ruby save file, and the event works like a charm; but after i receive the Pokemon, the pokedex is not getting properly updated. It says that Jirachi was caught, instead of cradily. I am working on an emulator, so i don't know whether that's causing the problem. Any help will be appreciated:) Once again thank you so much for preserving these lesser known gen 3 events!
We're currently testing the update for it and should be released by next weekend!
@@GoppierWoohoo! You are an absolute legend!!
What emulator did you use? I'm trying to get it to work on mGBA on Windows and I'm having trouble.
@@MaxRavenclawI used mGBA on windows too. Make sure that you open the distribution rom in the first instance. Another thing, I noticed that mgba needs two different save files in the directory of the roms..one is the .sav file and the other is the .sa1/.sa2 file. Make sure you have both of those. If the problem persists, then just use vba link- it's way smoother.
You are now one of my heroes in the software world, absolutely amazing work. You should be very very proud of this achievement 👏
Bro my face lit up when I saw this video in my feed! THANKS SO MUCH THIS IS SO COOL!
Preserving history I think is the most important aspect of the internet.
You are doing the world a great service.
Thank you so much!
I love this. I was going to make a save file with every event Pokémon from gen 3 but this is so much better.
I'm gonna play third gen with friends to complete the Pokédex, but I wanted as weel to get as many events as possible to make true my childhood dreams. If you need help for similar projects in the future I will do whatever is in my power. I do have some experience in coding so this is so entertaining. At the moment I'm completing my journey in first gen and pretty soon I will start with crystal and stadium 2.
I am working on my living Dex in Emerald right now, and this sounds like this is the perfect solution to help me get the unobtainable mons I missed from Events! Thank you! When the time comes, I will give this a try.
Hopefully you can complete the dex now with these events!
@@Goppier I did! Thank you! I had a GB operator and backed up my save to my computer and then emulated the distribution rom and linked it to my Emerald file in mGBA. Worked great! Thanks for your hard work!
Really putting the entry of mew being the ancestor of all pokemon into effect
I was at a hackathon yesterday, so I missed the premier. Glad to finally watch the video today.
Really amazing work! Can't wait to see what you can do with the event item distributions as well!
The event item are already remade by us and can be found in the mystery gift video!