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Full Documents Related to the Distribution, the full copy of Pokemon Power Volume 6 is attached to this post: In the Fall of 1998 Nintendo Power held a contest to “Win Mew for your Pokémon collection!” 151 winners of this contest would be given the chance to mail their cartridge into the Nintendo Power Headquarters and receive it back with a brand-new mew on their game save. Contest winners were notified by mail by 2/28/1999 that they had won the contest, making this the earliest known Mew distribution in the west. Recently while browsing reddit, I ran across a post from Th4tGuyUKn0 showcasing his Original Red cartridge that was one of the lucky recipients of this contest. After scrolling through the thread, Th4tGuyUKn0 stated that the battery on the game had not yet dried out; upon reading this I immediately messaged him explaining Project Pokémon and asked him if he would be interested in dumping his game save. Luckily, he was all for it! The only problem was he could not remember which of his five Pokémon cartridges he left the mew on, and did not want to risk draining the more than two decades old cartridge battery by checking. Th4tGuyUKn0 graciously decided to send me all of his cartridges so that I could backup the saves and hopefully find the mew. With the amazing research done by @suloku on these save files, we are confident that we have found the Mew in question. In the Pokemon Blue game save we discovered a Mew with the TID 51273 (the same Mew ID# printed on the back of the cartridge) and the OT ‘MARIO’. Suloku has concluded that this Mew is definitely legit. It shares the exact same DVs as the YOSHIBA Mew, matches Mew machine distributions data-wise, and has the same OT Nintendo character naming convention that several forum posts from 2000~ reference. While this does raise questions about what distribution the supposed ‘NINTEN’ Mews are a part of, this Nintendo Power Mew is most certainly legit. Suloku was also able to find the Mew in the red save file as a deleted Pokémon (moved or deleted pokémon can be found in box savedata if it was not overwritten by another pokémon being stored in the same slot). Attached is the the .pk1 of the 1998 Nintendo Power 'MARIO' Mew. Thanks very much again to Th4tGuyUKn0 for sending and trusting us with these cartridges and Suloku for all of the great research, none of this would have been possible without them. Happy holidays and enjoy! 151 - MEW - C23C.pk1 Pokemon Power vol 6.pdf

Only “old” switches can be hacked (switch production past a point cannot be hacked, I think the hackables are known as pre-Mariko units). There's a page that can be used to check whether the serial number on your device is in the range. I think it’s in gbatemp edit: check this for serial codes: https://gbatemp.net/threads/switch-informations-by-serial-number-read-the-first-post-before-asking-questions.481215/ I used this (for the most part) for switch hacking: https://switchguide.xyz/

Thanks, fixed in latest commit https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX/commit/77a4691a58cc45f63c904eecf8a6d31a46231d4c

Shadow Loudred picture finally The file is only half-coded but I got it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loudred.xdpkm Need help to decrypt it, the Torkoal on the right is almost fine but the Carvanha on the left has the same problem (because they are shadow I guess). Chartor.xdpkm Carvanha.xdpkm Mysdibule.xdpkm Absol.xdpkm Draby.xdpkm Duskull.xdpkm Tarinor.xdpkm Chenipotte.xdpkm Spoink.xdpkm Nirondelle.xdpkm Trapinch.xdpkm Gulpin.xdpkm Makuhita.xdpkm Snorunt.xdpkm Dynavolt.xdpkm Shroomish.xdpkm Feebas.xdpkm So the 2 shadow have their moves missing: Shadow Blist and Shadow Hold + 2* 01 76. Don't know what's hiding behind the hex index I have stops at 01 75. Plus I can't know what normal moves are hiding Shadow Blist and Shadow Hold because Dolphin is a *** for RAM-editing and editing your save won't work unfortunately. Need help for that @StarsMmd too.

Are you placing it in a gen 7 save file through PKHeX? Please don't. Since the Mew is a .pk1, it can only be traded through gen 1 and gen 2 games, no Virtual Console releases either. Gen 3 was designed differently and didn't have backwards trading compatibility, so there's physically no way to get a gen 1 Pokemon into a gen 7 game. Placing it in gen 7 will make it illegal.

Happy to help! For once, holding onto that old stuff paid off. I hope it brings a lot of people joy. I know I was excited when I won the contest way back when! It's crazy to think that Pokemon is still such a big part of people's lives all these years later. A huge thanks to Suloku and Gridelin for reaching out. Otherwise this would still be sitting in a drawer.

I'm in the process of uploading the GP1 files here. edit: In the mean time, the whole pack of the here: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/3306-go-park-living-dex/