Event Mew - Millennium Dome, London, UK, September 2000

[arthurashman]

Hi all,

I went to the Pokémon adventure event at the Millennium Dome in September 2000 and was transferred a Mew there. 

With some level of certainty, the Mew I still have on my Pokemon Yellow cartridge is the same Mew. I have restarted the game a few times over the years, and each time would trade the Mew on to my brother's Pokemon Red cartridge, and trade it back so I could keep hold of it. 

Having recently fetched my cartridge from my childhood bedroom, I was delighted to find that it was still working, and the battery was somehow still hanging on in there. Consulting with AI, I was encouraged to buy a GBxCart RW and back my file up.

It did however tell me stats that it would expect a Mew obtained at this event to have. Namely a OT with a simple short name, and IVs 5 HP, 10 Attack, 1 Defense, 12 Speed, 5 Special

My OT is ASH, and my IVs are 2 HP, 12 Attack, 10 Defense, 7 Speed, 4 Special
PKHeX also says:
"Not legal
Encounter: Invalid: Unable to match an encounter from origin game.
Fateful: Invalid: Fateful Encounter with no matching Encounter. Has the Mystery Gift data been contributed?"

Now, again, I am 99% sure this Mew is the real deal - does any of what I'm describing seem within the realms of possible? Or are the known event Mews from that tour all so consistent that it means something is off here?

Thanks for your help! Very new to all this. 

Arthur

[ICanSnake]

For many, if not all gen 1 events, you can't really rely on the auromated PKHeX analysis since they're not programmed to be validated by the program. Comparing with Bulbapedia would be better to match the known event details to your own. Unfortunately the Millennium Dome Mew has an OT that's not publicly known.

AI is also generally not recommended to be taken as fact, but in this case they're right. All Mews in gen 1 were distributed by a special Mew machine and the DVs for all Mews are the same. ASH as an OT doesn't have any special meaning as a distributed event, usually the OTs would be location-based. And I haven't done it myself, but I'm sure there were easy ways in the hen 1 games to generate a Mew, I think with your OT and ID details?

I would doubt the Mew is real.

[arthurashman]

Aha! Thank you so much for your help.

I got very disappointed, but thinking there is no way that was possible - given I never knew the Mew glitch, and was pretty certain on my chain of custody of my Millennium Dome Mew - I checked my brother's Red cart, which is miraculously also still alive, and bingo my Mew is there. I guessed that the only way I had a glitch Mew was if I accidentally traded the wrong one back to my Yellow cart.

Thank you!

OT is UK too.

[ICanSnake]

9 minutes ago, arthurashman said:

Aha! Thank you so much for your help.

I got very disappointed, but thinking there is no way that was possible - given I never knew the Mew glitch, and was pretty certain on my chain of custody of my Millennium Dome Mew - I checked my brother's Red cart, which is miraculously also still alive, and bingo my Mew is there. I guessed that the only way I had a glitch Mew was if I accidentally traded the wrong one back to my Yellow cart.

Thank you!

OT is UK too.

Now that looks to be the correct Mew Funny how all of the UK-based Mew distributions have the OT UK. I definitely recommend backing up that Mew. The Mews distributed at the Pokemon Championship 2000 and the Bluewater Shopping Center have been preserved, and even though it's a similar event there's technically not one preserved from Millennium Dome. Or even if you don't want to share it, it's great to have it backed up so you don't lose it in the future.