Ringo

I'm curious... Is there a way to exploit this to get DW Promotional Pokemon?

will the date on your DS trigger which one you get, or is it only based on the date set on the signal from the DS that is sending it at the store? I somehow missed that these were coming out here, I only knew about the upcoming Ash's Pikachu, and was wondering if I would be able to go to a Gamestop with my DS set to a date in the range for Raikou or if I am totally out of luck on the first of these? It would also be nice if it was possible to make one trip in to the store and snag them all at once if this works this way. Anyone know if this will work before I try it out?

Last night my DS Lite suddenly had a strange problem. Both screens turned a bright white. I had been soft-resetting trying to RNG abuse for the first time. I thought at first my game had just frozen. I turned it off, took the game out, reinserted it, and turned it back on. Once again the two screens were bright white. I thought the brightness just got stuck too high, and tried tapping the lower corner of the touch screen. It changed the brightness, and I noticed that the screen seemed "faint", I could tell that what should be on the screen was there, and was acctually more noticeable if I tilted the DS looking at it at an angle. So, basically I can tell that my DS is "working" in that I can start it up, I can start a game up, and all the buttons are working... but the screen is just not functioning correctly. I have never dropped my DS, or mishandled in anyway. Is there a way to adjust contrast as well as brightness? I am convinced this should be an easy, although admitedly probably obscure fix. I have searched all over the internet and all I can find is references so a "white screen of death" co-inciding with use of action replay, which I was not using at the time this occured. Also this sounds different than the white screen of death as I can still see "some" screen details. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Does anyone know how to fix or at least have a guess? I DO have a original DS as well, wich I had bought used with a broken hinge and I only use at home for trading between my pokemon games. I really want my DS Lite working so I have something I can take around with me. Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Ringo

I'm surprised no one came on to point out the obvious mistake I made. You will need to trade one of the starters you did not choose, as well as the Kanto, and Hoenn starters you don't take when given those options later in the game. This adds 6 more trades required to the total I suggested above. That brings the total MINIMUM trades to complete the National Dex in HG / SS to 64, or to 65 if you don't want to wait for the Enigma Crystal event. This also assumes that you are looking for just a complete Dex, and not attempting to trade for one of each form on for example Deoxys. Once again, I appologize if I made any mistakes while compiling this. You could shorten the list on at least the evolve via trade and Hoenn region Poke's by PalPark, but I am guessing you consider this transfer to be the same as a trade. Good luck, and hope I haven't left anything out this time. --Ringo

Your Question got me thinking hard enough to give you the best real answer I can. Well, I am going to assume for the moment you mean HG and SS: The answer will be 58. [This assumes you are patient enough to wait for a release of Enigma Crystal… Otherwise you would need one more trade for Latios/Latias] I will detail how I got that answer, please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think I got them all. Please ecuse my misspellings of Pokemon names. The Pokemon that are unobtainable within the games are the Sinnoh Starters, and Sinnoh Legendaries. As well as all Pokemon that require a location to Evolve. The Hoenn legendary trio of Golems are also unobtainable. Lastly, all event only Pokemon are unobtainable [as usual]. This leaves the following Pokemon which need to be traded: -Tuttwig / Chimchar / Piplup [just level up each for their evolutions] - Uxie / Azelf / Mespirit - Heatran / Regigagas / Cresselia - Manaphy [breed with ditto for a Phione Egg ] - Darkrai / Shaymin / Arceus Evolve by Location: -Magnezone -Probopass -Leafeon -Glaceon Other Sinnoh families unobtainable: -Crainidos -Shieldon -Driffloon -Glameow -Skuntank -Rotom Hoen Golems: - Regice / Regirock / Registeel Event Only: -Mew -Celebi -Jirachi -Deoxys Make sure that you are using your Pokewalker, because of the Pokewalker exclusives, such as theotherwise difficult to obtain Spiritbomb. That makes a total thus far of 30 trades [note I have only given one of each evolution family in this on purpose. To make as few of trades as possible you need to do a little work] Now, onto the Evolve by trade: Kadabra Machoke Haunter Graveler Evolve by Trade with Held Item: Seadra Poliwirl Slowpoke Onix Rhydon Syther Electrabuzz Magmar Porygon Porygon2 Duskull Clamperl [Has two trade evolutions] This adds 17 Trades to the list. With Arceus in the Ruins you will get a choice between: -Giratina -Dialga -Palkia You will the need to trade the other two to your game Lastly Version Exclusives: I am not going to list them all for each version. However, this will add 9 required trades to whichever version you are using. Once again this is one evolution of each you will need to raise levels or breed for a lower evolution on each.

Good point. I do have both, but haven't gotten to Pal Park in either yet. In HG I am leveling up my team for the eigth gym. In SS I have only gone as far as Goldenrod City so that I can use the GTS. After I defeat the Elite Four in HG I plan to get that far on SS. Then I'll resume HG. I personally am not ready to dump all my Pokemon off my Gen III games because I still like playing them, and still doing some breeding on Emerald so I'm not ready to transfer my collection of Dittos with one or more perfect IV's. Was just showing an example of how to do this with less trading [if in fact the poster doesn't count PalPark as trading]. So far the only PalPark Pokemon I had done was the set of Legendary Beasts I had from Colloseum, as well as a level 5 of each starter. I also transfered the birds and Mewtwo from LG, and the Reg Trio from Emerald. I'm curious had the original poster also intended one of each form for Deoxy's, Giratina, and Shaymin????

This also begs the question, are you trying to fill the pokedex, or are you trying to keep one of every pokemon in your pokeboxes??? [i.e. have a Pichu, Pikachu, and Raichu on hand all at once]. Back in the Gen III I completed my Kanto dex on both my Fire Red and Leaf Green by trading the version exclusives, and then trading the evolve via trading. It didn't take very much to accomplish. Basically I traded the same evolve through trade on each game at once so they each got the final evolution of each family without having to trade back. I remember it taking very few trades to do [once again this was only the Kanto Dex]. I did the same with my Hoenn dex, but only onto my copy of Emerald. Between the Sevii Islands of FR/LG, the GameCube Games, and Emeralds extended Safarii Zone I had at least one of each evolution family of the Johto region, but never bothered to take the time to trade them all onto one game. I mention all of this, because I wonder, do you cnsider PalPark the same as trading? If you have a large enough Gen III collection you could easily transfer six a day off each cart through PalPark. [i have all games, plus a second copy of Ruby meaning I COULD transfer 36 Pokemon a day through the PalPark]. Using this method you would only need to trade the Gen IV version exclusives, and the Gen IV evolve via Trade. I personally like trading because the traded Pokemon gain experience faster. Why would you want to not trade, or trade as few as possible? I used to use my Emerald game as my "breeding game" then transfer the baby Pokemon I planned on keeping to either Sapphire or Ruby to level up faster. I love the GTS because although I don't usually get great stats, I usually get what I want and usually from a foreign country. I am more concerned with filling the globe with as many points right now.

I'm personally not giving up until I get a Surf and a FLy on both of my games. My SoulSilver I have managed to get a Fly so far. On my HeartGold I have gotten the three "!" several times, and always either knocked it out or had it flee when I threw the pokeball.. :-( It is very frustrating trying to catch those two. I have found that my normal day I manage to walk about 8,500 steps. I then walk another 2,000 steps after work to get my total for the day over 10,000. I've been trying almost every day since the event came out. I think in this case there is a certain thrill of the hunt. I can't wait until I get that Surfing Pikachu for my HeartGold. I do have a Surfing from PBR on my Pearl, but I want the Pokewalker one by finding one on my own.

I seem to still be having some troubles that keep leading to the blue screen. I am running Mac OS X. Python version 2.6 With LordLandon's advice on my first issue I checked what else was running. I turned off printer sharing, web sharing, etc. I used an AR DSi to dump my save file to micro SD. I coverted it from .DUC to SAV and extracted my party Pokemon. For some reason it appears to connect and still goes to the blue screen that says "press A to return to title screen." When I attempted to use a box Pokemon the screen flickered blue and black and static. I have tried Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum all three do the same thing. I am wondering is there an updated version of sendpkm? Or is there anything else on my own network or computer I can try? Are thee any settings on my router I can change? I keep looking through my control panels, and the router settings and don't see anything that would make sense to change in either place. Any advice would be appreciated. Also, has anyone tried this on Heartgold/Soulsilver yet??? I have made it to Goldenrod City on both of my saves and would have already tried it if not for the issues I am still having on D/P/PT Thanks in advance to any kind sould who can help solve this for me. --Ringo PS-- Thanks again to LordLangdon for your service to the Pokemon community and for the help solving the first issue I had.

I think it is amazing that you studied all this. I seem to need help running this though, and if you mind advising [i hope it's a simple error on my part]. I am on a PPC Mac running OSX 10.4. I tried running the script from the terminal with the "sudo" command. Here is the message I recieved: Encoding! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/Ringo/Desktop/sendpkm/sendpkm.py", line 46, in <module> initServ() File "/Users/ringo/Desktop/sendpkm/pokehaxlib.py", line 92, in initServ serv.bind(("0.0.0.0",80)) File "<string>", line 1, in bind socket.error: [Errno 48] Address already in use *************** If it's not too much trouble please advise what I can do. Thanks in advance. --Ringo