[Gen 2] Celebi Tour Celebi

[Dr.Matt]

On 8/18/2025 at 9:34 PM, Inuyasha said:

Another important detail is that these Celebis all had different IVs, something important that my friend confirmed.

 

This is HUGE!! How can we confirm this?
If it's true, then it's possible that there were a legit shiny Celebi from this event, or some other interesting spreads or perfect FFFF. I'd like to know how the machines worked to generate all the IVs.

[Yabe_uke]

On 9/1/2025 at 2:43 AM, Dr.Matt said:

This is HUGE!! How can we confirm this?
If it's true, then it's possible that there were a legit shiny Celebi from this event, or some other interesting spreads or perfect FFFF. I'd like to know how the machines worked to generate all the IVs.

Yes, they were all random. To confirm, here is another Celebi I managed to save from the event at La Maquinista, Barcelona. My friend received it, cloned it via the good'ol box swap method, traded it to another friend, and around 2010 the battery was still alive and we copied it to a Stadium 2 cart as we knew those don't rely on save batteries, thus the extension. As stated by others, they went by consecutive IDs and on the certificate picture you can see the previous ID number imprinted, they probably had the papers on a pile and just kept writing on top. This one is 42489 and you can (kind of) read 42488 on top of it. I hope this is useful to everyone, and I also hope pkHex team updates their legality checks, as this Celebis do show problems as the data is particular: they were meant to be distributed to Gold and silver carts only, as Crystal or Stadium 2 were not released when the event took place. But The games were already finished, and the Celebi does have the tag for location and lvl encounter, set as "Event". The reason for that is that Crystal was around the corner and on those Celebi tours they let people try Stadium 2 before release, and whoever won got a Gold/Silver cart with 20 Celebi copies to dsitribute to friends, if they managed to distribute them and return the cart to Nintendo within 15 days, they would get a free copy of Crystal, thus why the Celebi is already "Crystal-formatted". Finding one of those dstribution carts intact is impossible I guess, but if anyone has any more copies of NICO, FRANCO, CTOUR or JENS Celebis please share them. The more evidence we have the better.

0251 - CELEBI - D33B.sk2

Edited September 6, 2025 by Yabe_uke

[Cellsplitter]

I was going through my Pokemon Stadium 2 save file in PKHeX and I noticed my legit Celebi from back in the day was flagged as invalid.

Invalid: Unable to match an encounter from origin game.
Invalid: Met Time of Day value is not within the expected range.
Invalid: Fateful Encounter with no matching Encounter. Has the Mystery Gift data been contributed?
Valid Move 1: C-Default move.
Valid Move 2: C-Default move.
Valid Move 3: C-Default move.
Valid Move 4: C-Default move.

Valid: Nickname does not match another species name.
Valid: Current level is not below met level.

Encounter Type: Invalid (Celebi)
Version: GSC
PID Type: None

Encounter Type: Invalid (Celebi)
Version: GSC
Level: 5

I uploaded the pk2 file around 3 years ago in this thread after I had dumped my gb saves.

Is there a database perhaps where this 'mon could be saved in for posterity?

0251 - CELEBI - 5D41.sk2

[Quantum Break]

Hello all,

first of all, I wanted to let you know that you cannot comprehend how much this contribution means to me (and hopefully to other silent readers/downloaders) aswell. A few years ago when I found out that there are ways to get legit event pokemon from gen 1-5 I went on a journey to complete pokedexes in said games. Celebi is special to me though, because I have fond memories of me when I was a child standing in front of the Ilex forest shrine, not being able to do anything only to find out I'll never have the Pokemon associated with it.

Although I started with Red, Pokemon Silver was the very first Pokemon Edition that was gifted to me and I even lost it for many years, which was terrible, only to find it again by accident on a wardrobe for whatever reason. I was so happy and played through it for the first time.

The second generation on Gameboy with its legendary music, the 16 badges, the very first real story elements (three beasts, Ho-oh, Lugia) a Pokemon Game had...It was magical. 


I have a question: Is the Lvl 5 Celebi really an untouched one or is a "reset" one (reset via pokehex or other)? I didnt quite understand from the original post which Celebi exactly you retrieved from Pokemon Stadium 2, so I am curious to know, if it's like really legit legit oder made legit

In other words, was he able to transfer an untouched Celebi to Pokemon Stadium before his Mega Memory Card glitched? If so, @Dr.Matt, I cannot thank you enough for your foresight.
Or is the lvl 5 one a reset from the clone in his Pokemon Stadium?