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This gift was one of the three Kanto Starters, that was randomly distributed to players that purchased a Korean copy of Pokémon Black & White.
     Species   Charmander   Nickname   (default, in )   OT   (recipient)   TID   (recipient)   Distribution   Pokémon Global Link   Location   Entree Forest   Dates   May 11, 2011 
to Sep 03, 2013   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   BW                                                                Lv. 10    Nature   Random   Ability   Solar Power (HA)   Item   None    Moves       Scratch   Growl   Ember   Smokescreen

   (no ribbons) Format Ver.1.0.6-3, Post Updated Date:20190106_0000

Chilseok Jirachi
This Jirachi was distributed via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to commemorate the Chilseok (Tanabata) festival.
Wondercard ID 154 PID Random Games BW B2W2 Type Wi-Fi Dates 08.01.2013-08.31.2013 Nickname 지라치 Gender Genderless Level 50 Nature Random Ability Serene Grace OT 칠석 SID 00000 Location Wi-Fi Gift Ribbon Classic Ribbon Ball Cherish Ball Held Item Moves Wish Healing Wish Swift Return

This gift was one of the three Sinnoh Starters, that was randomly distributed to players.
Players had to have purchased either a Korean TCG: First set or the guidebook: Player's Guidebook to be eligible to receive it.
     Species   Chimchar   Nickname   (default, in )   OT   (recipient)   TID   (recipient)   Distribution   Pokémon Global Link   Location   Entree Forest   Dates   Jun 01, 2011 
to Sep 03, 2013   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   BW                                                                Lv. 10    Nature   Random   Ability   Iron Fist (HA)   Item   None    Moves       Scratch   Leer   Ember   Taunt

   (no ribbons) Format Ver.1.0.6-3, Post Updated Date:20190106_0304

Distribution Title しあわせタマゴ　プレゼント Wondercard ID 8     Games XY Type Serial Code Distribution Date Dec 21 - 26, 2013 Item Lucky Egg Quantity x1 Receiving Text 0x2B Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the delivery girl in any Pokémon Center.  

This gift was traded to players during a Christmas Celebration.

Players will select Gengar or Scizor, and the a Haunter or Scyther (w/ Metal Coat) is traded to the players,
and it will evolve upon receiving it.

This page also includes a simulated card, for the Haunter and Scyther.

The Christmas Lucky Egg code can also be received at this event.

It appears this trade event had a season 2 due to popular demand.

Cilan's Pansage
The Mysterious Eggs were distributed by Nintendo Wi-Fi to commemorate the main character getting an egg in the anime. The three Pokémon are based on the anime characters' Pokémon. Each player could receive one at random. This Pansage always has a Special Attack IV of 31.
Wondercard ID 029 PID Random Games BW Type Wi-Fi Dates 06.01.2011-06.26.2011 Nickname 야나프 Gender Male Level Egg Nature Brave Ability Gluttony OT (Player's) SID (Player's) Location Pokémon Event Ribbon --- Ball Poké Ball Held Item --- Moves Bullet Seed Bite Solar Beam Dig

This page hosts the shadow and purified versions of the Shadow Articuno obtained during the narrative of XD: Gale of Darkness.
More Colosseum and XD Pokémon can be found at this page.

This page hosts the shadow and purified versions of the Shadow Moltres obtained during the narrative of XD: Gale of Darkness.
More Colosseum and XD Pokémon can be found at this page.

This page hosts the shadow and purified versions of the Shadow Salamence obtained during the narrative of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.
More Colosseum and XD Pokémon can be found at this page.

This page hosts the shadow and purified versions of the Shadow Zapdos obtained during the narrative of XD: Gale of Darkness.
More Colosseum and XD Pokémon can be found at this page.

This page hosts the shadow and purified versions of the Shadow Lugia obtained during the narrative of XD: Gale of Darkness.
More Colosseum and XD Pokémon can be found at this page.
 
Some images:

Back in the good old days (insert year here),
A Mew giveaway was arranged by Bergsala, the Nintendo distributor in Denmark,
through the official Nintendo magazine they were running at the time.
They had participants send in their cartridge, and then they put a Mew on the cartridge.

It was done in two rounds; one was a limited giveaway where approx. 30 people were selected in a contest,
and then a general distribution later on with the same method.

@suloku found the information regarding this online, and contact the player (using alias Michael, who wants to stay private),
and managed to get his cartridge to back up the save and contribute the Mew online.

While this Mew is already trained, I've attached a version which I reverted it to an "untrained" state.


Big thanks to @suloku and Michael for this historical Mew find!

THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).
 
Original Thread:

Disclaimer:
THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE SENT TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).

Original Thread:
 

The story behind this preservation effort is a pretty amazing one.

Before we go on, standard disclaimer:
THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).
However, that doesn't mean we can't enjoy playing these Pokemon in our games.
Now, it's time to for a trip down memory lane, fellow players.
In 1999 and 2000, @Tripred was able to obtain 14 Official Event Mews,
from the US Mall Tours for Pokemon Trading Card Game (1999) and Pokemon Stadium / Pokemon Movie (2000).

These are all legitimate Mews from Pokemon Mall events that happened in 1999 for the launch of the Pokemon TCG,
and then in 2000 for the Pokemon First Movie and Pokemon Stadium launch.

You would insert your Gen1 cartridge into a machine, while promo staff would fill out a paper "Certificate of Authenticity" for your personal Mew.
The Trainer names are LUIGE or LINKW.
The Trainer ID is generated sequentially from the Mew distribution machine.
The first Mew from a machine is 00001, the second 00002, 00003, so on.

The LUIGE Mews came from a Pokemon TCG event in 1999, where Tripred made friends with a Nintendo rep named Jeremy Hepworth.
He traded these two, numbers 00012 and 00014 to us.

The story as Tripred remember it was that the machines were scheduled to go on tour but had technical difficulties.
He had snagged these two (and the certificates of authenticity) during some testing runs.
The LINKW Mews came from a Summer 2000 Mall Event in Arlington, TX promoting Pokemon Stadium and the 2000 movie.
They had four of the machines running simultaneously for a huge line of people. Once the lines died off as Tripred went through the machines and got 12 of them.
@suloku wanted to know if Tripred remembered anything about the Mews, like trainer ID or stats.
He is documenting as much as he can about all of the different events and their Pokemon.
Luckily, what Tripred had for him is much, much better.

Back in the late 90's I worked for a KB ToyWorks store. 
Tripred's weekend duties included playing Pokemon TCG with kids, and promoting Pokemon in all ways.
Supported by Wizards of the Coast with tons of materials, it was a blast.
During that gig, Tripred ended up buying a save backup cart for his Game Boy, and started cloning these event Mews for the kids.

So when Suloko asked, I dug up all my Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow carts and the save backup carts, and started pulling the Mews together. I
Tripred found six of them on a Blue save, and found another six sitting in Pokemon Stadium 1.
And the last two were in a box on Stadium 2. He was able to shuffle all of the Mews to one Stadium Cart, and through much trickery, get them onto a fresh Pokemon Yellow save.

Using a Retron 5, copied the save from the Pokemon Yellow cart onto my SD card.
(Tripred will post a youtube video with instructions on backing up cart saves using Retron 5 as a follow up, really neat way to preserve your retro saves)
Now Tripred gifts these Mews to Suloku, and to all of you.
Tripred hopes these Mews provide useful information, thank you for reading, and please let me know what kind of information or data you pull from the save!
Big thanks to tripred and suloku!

Read the original preservation article here,
and original thread:

Original Description:
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.
More can be read on the original thread.

Disclaimer:
THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE SENT TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).

Credits:
@Gridelin, @suloku and /u/Th4tGuyUKn0
 
Original Thread:
 

Original Description:
The Club Nintendo Mew distribution ran in Norway from October 15th 2000, to November 20th 2000 and required you to be a Club Nintendo member to receive a Mew.
More can be read on the original thread.

Disclaimer:
THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE SENT TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).

Credits:
Digiex Member Golden Toilette
Original Thread:
 

This gift was distributed to players who won a lucky draw, and could redeem it when they attended the SpaceWorld 1997.
Big thanks to @Deoxyz and u/salinbreezy for helping us preserve this rare Mew!

Original Thread
 

This gift was distributed to players who won a lucky draw, and could redeem it when they attended the SpaceWorld 1999.
Big thanks to @Afepoke for helping us preserve this rare Mew, as well as his other Japanese Gen I files!
 
Original Thread
 

Back in the end of year 1999,
Toys "R" Us in the United States and Canada ran a lucky draw campaign,
via a peel sticker, that gave players a 1/5 chance of getting the Mew.
The first 1,500 winners (per country) that went for the redemption will be able to receive Mew on their copy of Pokemon Red, Blue or Yellow.
Around the same time frame, magazine Nintendo Power also did a giveaway to the first 1,000 applicants.
Various other information regarding this can be found here.

OT: YOSHIRA or YOSHIRB
TID: Random (00000 to 65535)
Lvl: 5
THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).

Original Thread:

Back in December 1999, players are able to obtain a YOSHIRA Mew by trade at Toys R Us stores in the United States, if they were within the first 1500 customers and also caught the Mew on their special "Peel & Win" sticker.

While the DVs are all identical (and not all 15), it can be seen that the Trainer IDs seem to be generated in ascending order.

Huge thanks to @Deoxyz for following up on this and getting it!

THIS POKEMON WILL NOT BE LEGAL WITH ANY VIRTUAL CONSOLE RELEASE
(AND BY EXTENSION, CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED TO GEN 7 AND ONWARD).

Check out the save that was dumped, and the full story here:
 

This event was distributed to players via serial code, to commemorate the TCG Expansion: Burning Shadows.
 
 Species   Salazzle   Nickname   (default, save lang)   OT   Clovis   TID   080817   Distribution   Serial Code   Location   a lovely place   Dates   Aug 14 to Dec 04, 2017   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   US & EU 3DS: SM    Lv. 50                                                                  Nature   Random   Ability   Corrosion (1)   Item   Focus Sash   Bundled Item   None 
Classic   Moves   (ITALIC means Relearnable)   Fake Out   Toxic   Sludge Bomb   Flamethrower   WC ID 607: 「Salazzle is ready for battle」's receiving text 0x2C Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the deliveryman in any Pokémon Center. Salazzle is ready for battle This venomous Poison- and Fire-type
Pokémon Salazzle has its signature
Corrosion Ability, which enables it to
make even usually resistant Steel- and
Poison-type Pokémon badly poisoned
using its potent Toxic move!

This event was distributed to players via serial code, to commemorate the TCG Expansion: Burning Shadows.
 
 Species   Salazzle   Nickname   (default, save lang)   OT   Clovis   TID   080817   Distribution   Serial Code   Location   a lovely place   Dates   Aug 14 to Dec 04, 2017   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   US & EU 3DS: SM    Lv. 50      Nature   Random   Ability   Corrosion (1)   Item   Focus Sash   Bundled Item   None 
Classic   Moves   (ITALIC means Relearnable)   Fake Out   Toxic   Sludge Bomb   Flamethrower   WC ID 607: 「Malamandre se prépare au combat !」's receiving text  0x2C Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the deliveryman in any Pokémon Center. Malamandre se prépare au combat ! Ce Pokémon de type Poison et Feu possède
Corrosion, un talent unique qui lui permet
d’empoisonner même les Pokémon Acier et
Poison avec des capacités comme Toxik !

This event was distributed to players via serial code, to commemorate the TCG Expansion: Burning Shadows.
 
 Species   Salazzle   Nickname   (default, save lang)   OT   Clovis   TID   080817   Distribution   Serial Code   Location   a lovely place   Dates   Aug 14 to Dec 04, 2017   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   EU 3DS: SM    Lv. 50      Nature   Random   Ability   Corrosion (1)   Item   Focus Sash   Bundled Item   None 
Classic   Moves   (ITALIC means Relearnable)   Fake Out   Toxic   Sludge Bomb   Flamethrower   WC ID 607: 「Amfira ist kampfbereit!」's receiving text  0x2C Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the deliveryman in any Pokémon Center. Amfira ist kampfbereit! Dieses Amfira, das den Typen Gift und Feuer
angehört, verfügt über die Fähigkeit Korrosion.
Dadurch kann es mithilfe seiner starken Attacke
Toxin auch Pokémon vom Typ Stahl oder Gift,
die sonst gegen diese Attacke gefeit sind,
schwer vergiften!

This event was distributed to players via serial code, to commemorate the TCG Expansion: Burning Shadows.
 
 Species   Salazzle   Nickname   (default, save lang)   OT   Clovis   TID   080817   Distribution   Serial Code   Location   a lovely place   Dates   Aug 14 to Dec 04, 2017   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   EU 3DS: SM    Lv. 50      Nature   Random   Ability   Corrosion (1)   Item   Focus Sash   Bundled Item   None 
Classic   Moves   (ITALIC means Relearnable)   Fake Out   Toxic   Sludge Bomb   Flamethrower   WC ID 607: 「Salazzle si prepara alla lotta!」's receiving text  0x2C Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the deliveryman in any Pokémon Center. Salazzle si prepara alla lotta! Questo Pokémon venefico di tipo Veleno e Fuoco
ha l’abilità esclusiva Corrosione, che gli permette
di iperavvelenare anche Pokémon di tipo Acciaio
o Veleno, normalmente immuni a questa
condizione, grazie all’insidiosa mossa Tossina!

This event was distributed to players via serial code, to commemorate the TCG Expansion: Burning Shadows.
 
 Species   Salazzle   Nickname   (default, save lang)   OT   Clovis   TID   080817   Distribution   Serial Code   Location   a lovely place   Dates   Aug 14 to Dec 04, 2017   PID   Cannot Be Shiny   Games   US & EU 3DS: SM    Lv. 50      Nature   Random   Ability   Corrosion (1)   Item   Focus Sash   Bundled Item   None 
Classic   Moves   (ITALIC means Relearnable)   Fake Out   Toxic   Sludge Bomb   Flamethrower   WC ID 607: 「Salazzle está listo para combatir」's receiving text  0x2C Thank you for playing Pokémon! Please pick up your gift from the deliveryman in any Pokémon Center. Salazzle está listo para combatir Salazzle, de tipo Veneno y Fuego, cuenta con su
habilidad característica Corrosión, que le permite
envenenar gravemente con su movimiento Tóxico
incluso a Pokémon de tipo Acero o Veneno.