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This is a post from another forum, and he brings up some good points.
I don't know if anyone's said this but I think it needs to be said: Nintendo screwed the pooch with this thing.There is nothing that shows that it's significantly superior to either the 360 or the PS3. Given Nintendo's history of playing it safe with hardware, it's a safe assumption that it isn't. And if that's true, what incentive does the hardcore have to picking this up beyond Nintendo's first party offerings? Most people who consider themselves serious gamers already have a decent PC, or a 360, or a PS3, or some combination of those. That leaves the casual market. Are they really going to want to buy another console? Most people just played WiiSports and that's it. That's not taking into consideration the price, which is still unknown. Conservative estimates would put it easily at $350-$400 especially with that big ass controller.
Another thing about the hardcore, unless Nintendo starts paying for special content, the install base at launch is not going to be enough for most developers to justify adding special content to make use of the controller on third party games.
And finally, Nintendo is releasing this next year, a year that most people expect announcements from at least Microsoft regarding new consoles. As soon as those new consoles are released, the Wii U is going to be severely outclassed, which puts it right back where the Wii is: ignored by most third parties except for shovelware.
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With the 3DS being priced at $250, I can't see the Wii U being less than $350. That would be a $150 price difference to the base model Xbox 360, which seems unreasonable considering they have similar specs except for the controller.
The Wii sold well because it targeted casual gamers and kids and was quite a bit cheaper than the PS3 and Xbox 360 at the time. I just can't see the Wii U selling well in the states with the price differential.
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What are your thoughts about Nintendo's new console?
I feel it has potential, but the Wii to me felt very gimmicky. I'm hoping the Wii U will have more online gaming support. I'm wondering about the price, the XBOX 360 and PS3 have both dropped in price this past year, and I'm wondering how Nintendo will compete with the $199 XBOX 360 price point.
You can find more info here.
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Version History
v1.0 Guide published.
v1.1 Updated Gen II section, changed image host.
Tour Pamphlet
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This is great work! Do you mind if I use these images in my Gen I & II event guide?
Tournament Rewardshttp://img812.imageshack.us/img812/7397/scannen0101.jpg
Getting Celebi from the "Mew Machine" atleast that is what they called it back in the day and the back of the Celebi Tour struck.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5523/scannen0012q.jpg
This Celebi Event was at Six Flags / Walibi Belgium
Also as a bonus here are my cartridges with the "Mew Inside" sticker on the back.
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An android pkmn file manager with a legal checker would be a great idea, being able to email and check pkmn files from my phone would be great. Even a port of pokegen would be great for android. Or better yet a port of the gts severs.
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My family and I went the the mall tour in Arcadia. It was really crowded, but because the tour was split into several different stations, it wasn't too bad. The prices at the Pokemon Center were pretty insane. $10 for a small plushie, $20 for a youth t-shirt. All in all we had fun, I picked up an adult XL Reshiram t-shirt, and Pikachu and Zorua plushies.
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I would say so, Nintendo created the event with the intent to distribute it. The reason it was leaked was because Nintendo already shipped the distrubtion cards to Gamestop.
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Yes, each mew is unique. The game save has the same OT/ID for each cart, but unique Mews in the PC boxes. This would mean that the game save was cloned, but that a program was used to generate unique Mews in each cart.
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The attachments are Korean Ash's Pikachu and German Winter Shiny Raikou, enjoy it.
Awesome! Great work.
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Great job Koolayde, worked great!
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Good work guys.
If you need a third row, send me a pm.
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My family and I will be attending the event in Arcadia next weekend.
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I'm using Opera right now. I have used Firefox and Chrome in the past, but I'm happy using Opera.
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Since they are all unique, they have to follow a certain method of creation, namely the Common GBA Restricted method of PID creation (BACD).
What'd be cool to know is the order of the PIDs (since we can reverse the PIDIV to get the seed that created them) so that we can see if an order of creation did exist. Maybe Nintendo had a hidden dev mode rom that can inject pkms, and then they cloned the save onto carts that aren't dev roms.
PIDIVs for a whole box or even just 6 in a row would rock.
Bond697 asked me to look into this as well. I should have screenshots up either tonight or tomorrow night depening on when I get home.
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Welcome back old friend, it's been a long time.
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Great job! If anyone would upload a BW save file with the pokemon-gl skins, it would be a big help.
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Pokémon Generation II Event Guide **Not Completed**
Written by Twig
USA
Nintendo Power Celebi Giveaway July, 2001
Six Flags Pokemon Fun Fest Summer, 2001
Celebi is at Pokémon Fun FestExperience the Pokémon excitement at Pokémon Fun Fest coming to Six Flags Theme Parks across the country. Complete schedule and details shown below.
Be sure to bring your Pokémon game pak to participate in head-to-head competitions as well as random play action in our game play area. PLUS - If you bring Pokémon Gold, Silver or Crystal version, you can get the rare Pokémon Celebi added to your game pak!
You'll also have a chance to play the Pokémon Trading Card Game and to check out the infamous Pikachu & Lugia cars. While at the event, make sure to join in on the activities to win cool prizes. Don't forget to bring your camera and have your picture taken with Pikachu!
Pokemon.com Celebi Giveaway June, 2001
You can't capture the mysterious Time Travel Pokémon in the wild -- but you could win it directly from Nintendo in our exclusive online sweepstakes!Gotta catch 'em all! Station (PCNY) September 17th, 2002 - January 2nd, 2003
Belgium Celebi Giveaway Date Unknown
Mew LV5
Moveset: pound/megapunch
OT: BENELUX
ID Serial number(?) Examples known: 26191/25794/25908
Disptribution place known : Cora Chatelineau
Celebi
Lv5
Leech seed/confusion/recover/heal bell
Wavre, Walibi. Celebi tour truck.
3 different machines giving different OT
OT: FRANCO
ID (serial number) Examples known: 03735/ 03690
OT: JENS
ID (serial number) Examples known: 02026 / 02024 / 02023 /22031 / 22032
OT: NICO
ID (serial number) Examples known: 23180 / 23181 / 43253 / 43404 / 43408 / 43409 / 43410 /43411
OT: CTOUR
ID (Serial number) Examples known: 22881/22882/22883/22884/22885/22886/22887/22888/22889/22890/
22891/22892/22893/22894/22895/22896/22897/22898/22899/22900.
Unlike the 3 others, CTOUR wasn't freely distributed at the event.
The event included a tournament, being qualified to second tour granted you a cadridge with 20 distributable CTOUR Celebi.
Japan
The Pokémon Mobile System GB (Japanese: ポケモンモバイルシステムＧＢ) is a system in the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal through which the player can link up with others by connecting to a mobile phone. It was never implemented outside of Japan, likely due to the fact that cell phones were not as advanced or popular in other regions at the time.A visit to the Pokémon Communication Center in the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal, here in an English version hacked to restore the facility and the unused English script.
In the Japanese version of Crystal, Goldenrod's Pokémon Center is replaced by a larger building called the Pokémon Communication Center, which includes the machine to use this feature. Another feature of the facility is the Pokémon News Machine, which compiles news from the save files of players across Japan. Reading the news would sent out a player's own save file data, allowing other Trainers to read about the player's adventure.
The system had a special mobile event which allowed players to obtain the GS Ball. This item, given by a nurse in the Pokémon Communication Center in Goldenrod City, may be taken to Kurt in Azalea Town to investigate. After a day passes, taking the GS Ball to the shrine in Ilex Forest summons a level 30 Celebi to battle. Many Pokémon fans worldwide have used a GameShark to receive the GS Ball instead, due to the removal of this system in their region.
The Battle Tower near Olivine City also takes use of the Pokémon Mobile System in the Japanese version.
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Pokémon Generation I Event Guide
Written by Twig
This is a guide for Pokémon Generation I events. Generation I consists of the Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow Game Boy Pokémon games. Generation I and II Pokémon are not able to be traded or imported to Generation III, IV, and V Pokémon games. I personally attended two of the Toysrus Mew giveaways as well the 2000 Pokémon Stadium Tour Mew giveaway. If you are going to cite any information in this guide, I ask that you give credit to me as the author of the guide.
Special thanks to the following members for helping to contribute sections: Poryhack, Gold Ursaring, Requiem, Nirron, SnorlaxMonster, and Lady Ariel.
CoroCoro Mew Giveaway 1996-1997
The Japanese magazine CoroCoro announced a contest for a Mew. CoroCoro gave away only 20 Mews, and received more than 78,000 contest entries.
Nintendo Power Surfng Pikachu Giveaway October, 1999
In October of 1999, Nintendo Power annouced a giveaway for a surfing Pikachu. The Pikachu knew surf and could learn other water type moves. Only 1,000 Pikachus were distributed nationwide. The surfing Pikachu could be used to play the Pikachu surfing minigame in Pokémon yellow.
Spaceworld Mew Giveaway November, 1999
Mew was distributed at the Spaceworld convention center in Tokyo to contest winners. Contestents who sent in entry cards were mailed confirmation letters to be taken to one of twenty Mew distribution stations at the convention. The contest winners handed their game paks to a Nintendo employee who plugged the cartridge into the Mew distribution machine. "Onscreen, a visual would appear of Mew heading through a cable into its new home" (Nintendo Power, 1999). The machine includes a Super Nintendo controller, and what looks to be a Super Nintendo with a modified Super Game Boy 2 adapter.
Nintendo Power Mew Giveaway November, 1999
In November of 1999, Nintendo Power announced a Mew giveaway. Only 1,000 Mews were distributed nationwide.
Toysrus Mew Contest September 26, 1999
QuoteFor those of you who have caught 'em all but are still desperate to add to that collection, November 26th is your day. That's the day Mew, Pokémon #151, comes to Toys "R" Us all across the country.As many Pokémaniacs know, Mew is the most rare Pokémon of them all. There is no possible way to catch him or trade for him in either Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow cartridges. The only way to snag this critter, up until now, was to be a Nintendo Power contest winner snag him at a special Pokémon event.
Finally, Mew is available to the masses. However, Pokémon trainers will have to be on their toes if they want to catch Mew. Here's how to be a part of this event:
- Have your Gameboy and a Pokémon Gameboy cartridge ready on November26th.
- Be the one of the first 1,500 customers at any Toys "R" Us store, and you will receive a special 'Peel & Win' sticker card.
- Peel off the Mew sticker.
- If the words "Caught Me!" appear under the sticker, you have won Mew, and a Toys "R" Us employee will upload a Mew Pokémon into your own Pokémon cartridge (be it Red, Blue, or Yellow).
Two hundred Mews will be given away at each Toys "R" Us location, so you have about a one-in-seven chance of snagging one.
See your local Toys "R" Us for more details and legal mumbo-jumbo, and while you're at it, scope out your city for an underpopulated Toys "R" Us store for the best chance to catch Mew. This will be a tough hunt, but a Master Trainers should be up to the challenge. Good luck!
This is the Toysrus Mew Contest 'Peel & Win' sticker card.
Below are pictures of the gameboy distribution cart sent to Toysrus for the event.
2000 Pokémon Stadium Tour Mew Giveaway July 10 - September 12, 1999
QuoteAttention Pokémon Trainers! Once again, the time has come to prove yourself in Pokémon battle. This time, the action takes place in the 3D battle arenas found in Pokémon Stadium for Nintendo 64. Are your Pokémon strong enough to compete against the best Pokémon Trainers in the country? The Nintendo Pokémon 2000 Stadium Tour is your chance to find out!The Stadium Tour hosts Pokémon Battles in three skill groups: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Trainers are allowed to use either Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, or Pokémon Yellow.
Using the new Transfer Pak, competitors will be able to watch their best Pokémon from their favorite Game Boy game battle in full 3D on Nintendo 64.
If you and your Pokémon perform well, you'll have the opportunity to earn Official Pokémon Trainer Badges! Pokémon Masters from Nintendo will be on-hand to challenge the very best Pokémon Trainers to a Pokémon Master Trainer Challenge on mammoth big screen televsions.
Even if you don't like to throw your Pokémon into battle, you'll have plenty to do at the Pokémon 2000 Stadium Tour. Trainers from Nintendo will be hard at work distributing Mew, and you can enter the Pokémon Arcade to play Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Pinball and Pokémon Trading Card Game, a new Game Boy version of the popular trading card game.
Pikachu is gonna show up, and so should you!
Nintendo employees handed out certificates of authenticity with the downloaded Mews. Each Mew's unique ID number was written onto the certificate of authenticity.
If anyone has any information or corrections for the guide, please post below.
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Your welcome, happy to contribute to the community.
If anyone has a specific request for a certain nature or moveset let me know.
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UPDATED
I have attached 6 MYSTRY Mews that were Pal Parked in Pearl. MYSTRY Mew Move Tutor was taught Gen III move tutor attacks before being Pal Parked.
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I thought we already have this mew, I have it and i got it from the forums
This event has been released for a while, but each mew on the distribution cart is unique. The mews I will be releasing will have not been released before.
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I'm not distrubting the save files at this time. I will be releasing some of the mews imported through pal park to the community later on this week.
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I'll upload better pictures in the morning. A few important details to note. I have 3 of the distribution carts, and there are no shiny mews on any of the carts. The distribution carts all have the same trainer name and have all 8 gym badges, but unique mews in the PC boxes. The first few boxes have pokemon that were traded for mews during the event.
Hello old friend. So there aren't any stickers or anything to distinguish this from a retail FR?Hey Poryhack, it's been a while. There are no stickers or any indication on the outside that is not a retail cart. I ripped the save files and sent you a pm regarding them.
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I think they are valid points. Developers would have to include support for the touchpad that would be exclusive for the Wii U, adding to this developers would have to port their games to a system that will initially not have nearly as large customer base as the PS3 and 360 do. I hope the Wii U will do well so I can replace my 360 with it, but I have my doubts this works out.