InsaneNutter

Wow haha that's a lot of Pikachu, they must spawn very frequently near you. I managed to get another 5 Pikachu today, my brother hatched a Pichu with a cap too. Then for the first time ever a wild Dragonite spawned in the park when we were there, nice to finally see one in the wild a year and two days I started playing!

Yup that's Cleffa, the only baby Pokemon i need now is Magby i believe. I have egg hatching issues too, I always seem to hatch the same thing, 10k's always seem to be Pineco, 5k's Ponyta and 2k's Goldeen. I dont spend money on the game though so I only have one egg on the go at a time which probably doesn't help. Although to be fair with the new Gym system i've probably got around 250 coins this week, which is 250 more than i've managed in the last few months. The type advantage and having people come back to berry their Pokemon on the gym really helps. Before the gyms here would never change, the level 35+ players would seem to dominate them so i'd either always be at the bottom of my own teams gym and get knocked off, or just not have the desire to take down a level 10 gym from another team. Below are my Pikachu and Raichu event collection, I have at least one of each from the past events so far:

Nice one, was that a 2k egg obtained this event? It took me 6 months to hatch my first Pichu so ill be surprised if I manage to get one! I do however have 3x Cap Pikachu's, i got two in town and one was waiting in the garden when i got home

Do you still own the 3DS? that might well be the best console to play all the games on. 3DS: GEN 1 is officially on the Eshop, the games support trading via WiFi GEN 2 will be on the Eshop September 22nd, these will also support trading via WiFi. Unofficial CIA's exist which support WiFi trading however. (You can import your Pokemon up to GEN 7 if playing the official Eshop releases of GEN 1 and 2) GEN 3 is possible to play on the 3DS with custom built CIA's, you wouldn't be able to trade though unless you dumped your save and used an emulator on the PC to trade, then restored the save to the 3DS after. GEN 4 and 5 can be played on the 3DS with a cheap $10 flashcard, although i'd say spend $20 and get a good flashcard if your going to invest in one. GEN 6 and 7 are obviously 3DS games So as you can see it is possible to play every Pokemon GEN on the 3DS, with full trading / link support with the exception of GEN 3. Windows: TGB Dual for GEN 1-2 (Supports link cable emulation) VBA-M for GEN 3 (Supports link cable emulation) This will also play GB / GBC colour games, however i found the link cable emulation to be quite buggy so i'd recommend TGB Dual. DeSmuME for GEN 4 to 5, this can link to GBA games, however does not support WiFi emulation, meaning you can't trade. melonDS for GEN 4 to 5, this emulator is pretty new and requires quite a powerful PC, however does support WiFi emulation, so in theory trading should be possible. I've not tested this however. Citra for GEN 6 and 7, requires a powerful PC, no WiFi emulation so i'd stick to your 3DS for GEN 6 - 7 I hope that's some help! If you can spare the cash at some point I think it's well worth investing in the physical copies of Pokemon games, i've gradually purchased all the core games over the years. Some we're going pretty cheap, for example I got sealed copies of Black / White and Black / White 2 for £7 each. On the other hand Heart Gold / Soul Silver are going for £50 used here which is crazy.

That's pretty neat, I always love seeing unique uses for Raspberry Pi's and modern solutions for old problems

Am I the only one who never knew after all these years the Pokemon Center threw a little celebration for you on your birthday? I just happened to load the game up and walk in to a Pokemon Center, I then thought the game had crashed as I couldn't move / the screen was really dark, however the game then displayed a little Easter egg: Variations of this seem to be in the games from Pokemon Black / White onwards. I've genuinely learned something new there lol.

Is their a Japanese equivalent of Project Pokemon where a community is researching / archiving events? I don't really know what Japanese communities are out there for Pokemon. If we had someone who is fluent in both English and Japanese, it might well be worth making a bit of noise on Japanese Pokemon community sites. I'd be amazed if someone didn't have a GEN 1 Mew and GEN 2 Celebi somewhere. Given only 20 Tamamushi Magikarp we're distributed, 19 years ago, the odd's of one surviving are massively against us. Never say never though, it's not like tools didn't exist back them to dump saves and roms. Someone with the foresight the carts battery would eventually die might well have dumped their save, that save ever making it online though...

For anyone who blocked all the hostnames posted previously, to use Pokebank with Pokemon Moon (and i presume Sun) you need to unblock: npdl.cdn.nintendowifi.net eou.cdn.nintendowifi.net cp3s.cdn.nintendowifi.net You can use Pokebank with GEN 6 games with all the hostnames in my previous post blocked, you can also use the GTS on GEN 7 games with all the above hostnames blocked. Pokebank seems to require the above hostnames unblocking for Moon and Sun though. Figured out by unblocking the additional hostname until I was able to connect, then re blocking them until I narrowed it down to the above three.

You are correct, it leaked on the 19th or 20th depending where in the world you were. Only a couple of days before the release in most places around the world, however we didn't get the game in Europe until the 28th, so it was quite early for us! I remember not having a hacked 3DS back then and wanting a hackable one lol, the GBATemp thread is here.

As much as it's a long wait i'm just glad it will finally be possible. It's been almost 14 years since we got Ruby / Sapphire in the UK, to find out it's not possible to transfer Pokemon from GEN 1 / 2. I can wait another few months to transfer Pokemon which have been stuck in GEN 2 for 14+ years!

I thought i'd share a story of some really old Pokemon I found this weekend. These we're on a 17 year old floppy disk, dating back to 07/05/2000 by the looks of it. Back then Pokemon Gold / Silver had only been released in Japan and would not be released in Europe until almost a year later, however i didn't know any of that back then. I remember one weekend my friend who's Granddad lived a few houses down the street came around to visit. He said someone at his school said he had a new Pokemon game called Gold and Silver which was only out in Japan and could play it on his PC with something called an Emulator. To us this seemed amazing as we had no idea more Pokemon games than Red and Blue even existed, keep in mind at this point Pokemon Yellow hadn't even been released in Europe yet. Emulators and roms didn't really mean anything to either of us, however I did have limited access to the internet. For some context back then the internet was just becoming affordable, 1p a minute dial-up internet was something Freeserve started to offer here in the UK, which finally persuaded my parents to let us get the internet. I was however limited to 1 hour a week on the internet so we didn't get a really expensive phone bill. As it happened I'd not used my internet allowance for the weekend yet, so I remember we connected to the internet and searched on Yahoo. We found a Geocities site which had the NO$GMB emulator and a vary basic translation of Pokemon Gold, i seem to remember this had the menu's, items and Pokemon names along with the story to around the 3rd gym translated to English. Needless to say we were amazed and slowly downloaded it. What was even more cool at the time was the NO$GMB emulator could emulate the game twice, meaning we could both play using different keys on the keyboard and trade Pokemon with each other. I remember my friend took a copy on a floppy disk home with him so he could play on his PC too. We would then go to eachothers house with our save games on a floppy disk to play Pokemon together and trade. With Windows 98 been as stable as it was back then the younger me was smart enough to backup my save games on floppy disks, as i'd already lost everything more than once due to multiple PC crashes. This floppy with all my save games is something i recently came across, despite not been touched for 17+ years going by the dates of the files on it I was able to copy everything off it. On this disk was a zip with various saves from the NO$GMB emulator, including the save from the somewhat translated Pokemon Gold we used to play. So I now have my very first: Typhlosion at level 58 Feraligatr at level 56 Meganium at 54 I also appear to have in my party: Togepi at level 5, i believe I had the egg in my party for almost the entire game for it to eventually hatch Marill at level 15 Pidgey at level 5 The zip file with my emulator saves: Save game data in PKHex: It appears i'd played for 20 and a half hours back then and managed to get the first 10 gym badges. With the recent announcement of Pokemon Gold and Silver for the 3DS VC I will certainly have to transfer my first GEN 2 Pokemon up to GEN 7! I'd totally forgotten about this until I found the old floppy.

Only 20 of them were ever distributed from what I remember, sadly the chances of finding a Tamamushi Magikarp 19 years later are almost 0 i imagine. It's possible one of those 20 people might have dumped their save before the battery in the cart died, however the chances of them having uploaded that save and it even making it's way to English Pokemon communities are so small. We really need someone who's active in both English and JPN speaking Pokemon Communities to look in to events like this. We'd probably have more chance of getting a JPN Mew, which as of now if anyone has i've never seen it shared, excluding the recent Virtual Console Mew of course.

Yup same here. I can see a preview of a message someone sent me, however clicking on it gives the same error as above. Google Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) on Windows 10 if it's of any help.

I finally got around to checking if I was banned or not, I appear to have got lucky so far *touch wood* If its of help to anyone i've posted as much info as i can provide below: What I did / didn't do on my 3DS: All I really do on my 3DS is play Pokemon, it was always at the back of my mind to be careful not use use Homebrew or apps like SaveDataFiler with WiFi enabled, although I know I have done that by accident once or twice in the past. If I had used Homebrew or something like SaveDataFiler offline I would always load a game before going online so the Homebrew app wasn't my most recently played title. The majority of content installed on my console is from legit CIA's, I had never used FreeShop. Instead of dumping my own gamecarts and converting them to CIA's I simply installed the legit CIA's created from pre-installed games found on certain consoles. Any legit CIA's I've installed I also own a game cartridge of, which I have used to play online at some point. Their is a difference between legit CIA's and user created CIA's. If you were to remove CFW installed legit CIA's would still work as normal, where as user created CIA's, or installed content from FreeShop would not. I've had Homebrew CIA's installed and an out of region Pokemon Green that i dumped from my JPN 2DS console, I was never online when playing out of region games, although have been online and loaded homebrew apps by accident (not recently though). I also imported Pokemon from my JPN Pokemon Green though Pokebank on a PAL console, which obviously is not possible to do on a non hacked 3DS. Sending of info via SpotPass and automatic downloads had been disabled since I got the 3DS. What did i do with CFW on my 3DS? All I use my 3DS for is Pokemon, I used CFW to backup my Pokemon saves, inject my Pokemon saves from an actual GameBoy in to the VC re-releases of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, along with injecting wondercards in to GEN 6 games. In addition I have used Homebrew apps / emulators installed as CIA files and form the Homebrew launcher. What have I done before going online again? As per theSlayers original post I have cleaned up and locked down my 3DS up as much as possible. The only thing i didn't do was "Use GodMode9 to clear my Activity Log" its been mentioned on other forums the local activity log is not sent to Nintendo and Nintendo is actually keeping their own logs about what you are doing online. My router is now blocking all the Nintendo hosts I previously posted except conntest.nintendowifi.net, which breaks online functionality when blocked. (That's actually a good way to verify your blocked hostnames rules are working or not) Everything on my 3DS homescreen is now legit. Anything that wasn't is deleted with the tickets cleaned up and the icon / home menu caches cleared. If i need to use the Homebrew launcher I plan to inject it in to the health and safety app when offline, use it, then return the health and safety app back to stock before going online again. I have pre-created files ready on my SD card to inject and remove from the Health and Safety app on the go. I've also deleted the Luma payload from my NAND as i figured Nintendo is more likely to look for something that could have only got there with hacks, rather than the SD card which is very easy to copy files to / from. End result: My 3DS boots to the Sysnand via the Luma 7.0.5 CFW (I will update to boot9strap in the future to use newer Luma versions) however the Sysnand doesn't have anything on that is not legit. If I get banned now it's likely i'm already flagged or Nintendo can actually detect CFW. I don't really plan on going online unless I really need to though. I'm currently working on finishing my GEN 7 living Pokedex of which I have most the Pokemon I need, it's just a case of breeding / leveling them up now.

Even though it's legit on the GB games Pokebank would likely not see it as legit, similar to the GEN 1 Event Mew's we have managed to preserve. I imagine their will be a Celebi direct trade event similar to the VC Mew at some point. Nintendo might possibly release Crystal in the future and have a WiFi event to obtain the GS Ball, or maybe even emulate the Mobile Center over WiFi, that would be pretty cool actually.

Pokémon Gold and Silver will launch on Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console this September, Nintendo announced. The re-releases will be available on the Nintendo eShop on Sept. 22. Pokémon Gold and Silver were originally released for the Game Boy Color in the United States 17 years ago. The updated version of the game will be compatible with Pokémon Bank, Unfortunately, the game will not be available for the Nintendo Switch. This does now mean it's finally possible to import Pokemon from all previous generations in to GEN 7. Source: Polygon

d0k3 over at GBATemp published a list of hostnames the 3DS uses, the two hostnames your 4chan guy posted are on that list, along with a lot more. Check and hosts updates: nus.c.shop.nintendowifi.net nus.cdn.c.shop.nintendowifi.net Connection test: conntest.nintendowifi.net eShop specific: ecs.c.shop.nintendowifi.net cp3s-auth.c.shop.nintendowifi.net Additional: cas.c.shop.nintendowifi.net ccs.c.shop.nintendowifi.net ccs.cdn.c.shop.nintendowifi.net ias.c.shop.nintendowifi.net pls.c.shop.nintendowifi.net npul.c.app.nintendowifi.net cp3s.cdn.nintendowifi.net eou.cdn.nintendowifi.net npdl.cdn.nintendowifi.net Apparently if you block all the above the following won't work: Updating the 3DS FW eShop, as that won't start unless it could check for an update first System Data Transfer, for the same reasons Anything that requires access to the update servers. What works: Browsing the internet Playing online Basically, everything that is not in the 'doesn't work' list will work Theirs certainly no proof either way blocking any of the above will stop the 3DS sending data that will get you banned back to Nintendo, however for people that are going online you could certainly let the 3DS talk to a lot less servers and still have online play functionality by the looks of it.

Do you have the other 6 hostnames (links)? If you have a good router / firewall you can block devices on your network from connecting to: pls.c.shop.nintendowifi.net npul.c.app.nintendowifi.net In theory if you block all the hostnames the 3DS uses to call home you can be connected to WiFi knowing the 3DS can't send data back to Nintendo. I block updates for the Wii U this way, my router looks for any traffic coming from my Wii U's local IP address, then if it's going to any of the hostname's ive added to the WiiUServers hostname alias, it will block the connection. The end result is I can play Mario Kart online, knowing Nintendo can't update the Wii U in the background, patching the exploits used for homebrew. Even if that did work we don't truly know all the hosts Nintendo might use to gather data, even if we we're confident we did blocking them could well break online functionality anyway.

I must be honest at first i did think Nintendo would ban, however as the years have gone on Nintendo have never bothered. I have always been careful though disabling WiFi before running homebrew or user created CIA's. Even then i fully expect the activity log was sent to Nintendo the next time the 3DS went online. It's been 3 and a half years since Gateway first released Emunand support for their flash card, since then we've had free custom firmware for well over two years now, along with more hacks and exploits than I can count. The 3DS scene has had a good run either way. If i happen to get banned ill keep my original 3DS XL for homebrew, hacks and messing about, then save up and purchase the "New 2DS XL" when its released in July, keeping that totally legit.

That's exactly why i've not turned my WiFi on to check, if i'm banned nothing will change that. However if i'm not and progress is made figuring out what exactly is flagging a 3DS for a ban, I can then potentially do something about it before going online again. At that point ill either find out i'm banned or got lucky. This might well end up been like the Xbox 360, by that i mean if you have a console hacked to run unsigned code it has to stay offline. Jtag / RGH hacked Xbox 360's got banned before they even finished connecting to Xbox Live. If you wanted the best of both worlds with the Xbox 360 you had two consoles, one legit and one hacked. Owners of Nintendo consoles have had it great for well over the last decade, the DS, Wii and Wii U to present are a free for all as far as hacks and homebrew go, you can do what you want with no consequences. The 3DS has been a free for all until now, I dont think anyone actually expected Nintendo to care at this point, however it appears they do.

It shouldn't be the end of event collecting, people would have to play on a totally legit 3DS, then place the game cart in a hacked 3DS to dump the save / extract the events. The legit 3DS would be non the wiser. Sadly it's likely a lot of people who do contribute events are banned, plus it could well make it harder if people are region spoofing to obtain certain events. Then to top it all of people would need two 3DS's to contribute an event. I guess it's too soon to say for sure though, that's one way how i see it could work though.

I guess it's a mixture of things, for me what appeals is the finding and capturing of Pokemon in the real world, knowing anyone around you could also be playing. I do like how a community has developed around the game too. Their's a Facebook group for people playing in our town, with loads of people of all age groups playing, from teenagers to parents in their 40's playing with kids. People will share locations of rare Pokemon that have spawned, progress and swap tips and tricks. Many have never played the traditional GB / DS Pokemon games, so it's nice to see the game appeal to new people. When the game first came out their was a Pikachu nest at a local land mark. I think the majority of people were there for Pokemon Go. I was there with a couple of friends and we got talking to a guy who was probably around our age, he was there with his Dad who must have been in his 60's, both playing Pokemon Go which i thought was nice, just shows the game appealed to people of all ages! I love how people go crazy when a rare Pokemon appears too, I was at a family BBQ last summer and walked down to the local park with some cousins, a wild Blastoise happened to appear and people went nuts, almost everyone in that park must have gathered in the corner where the Blastoise spawned, 20-30 people were there trying to catch it, two people even pulled up in a car, said they had been looking everywhere for the Blastoice, caught it and drive off. Those are two of my favorite memories from the game, you could say Pokemon Go is what I imagine most of us who were kids / teenagers when Red and Blue got released in the late 90's would have loved to have done back then, yet never imagined we would be doing years later. I don't think a location based augmented reality game would catch on as much as it did if it wasn't Pokemon related, Pokemon was the perfect franchise to launch a game based on this relatively new genre. As much as i think the game is probably the most unique / fun game in a very long time I will admit the game has become a bit stale now. I think this because only common Pokemon ever seem to spawn, theirs loads of GEN 2 Pokemon i've never even seen or hatched, yet it seems to be the same few common Pokemon I have 100's of candy for spawning or hatching all the time. The lack of features for the first few months was fine, however i do think having no trading or breeding is a bit of an issue when the game has almost been out a year. The gym system is also becoming increasing flawed, in that it favors people who are dedicating a lot more time to the game than others who can't. The end result is my highest CP Pokemon (2800ish) is not even equal to the lowest CP Pokemon on the gyms in my local area. Regardless of it's flaws i do still enjoy the game, i'm just not going out of my way to play it like i used to. It certainly makes my commute to work and back more interesting each day. I hope the events like the water, grass and rock become more common as the game is certainly more fun when different Pokemon are spawning.

Maybe ill finally find another Onix in the wild?! i caught one the week the game launched and have never seen another since! That never mattered until GEN 2 though lol.

I see the event has already been posted, however if its of any use EU codes for the Lycanroc event can be obtained on this Nintendo Distributor Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NintendoHellas/app/116243208944154/ (use a PC, not a mobile device) Simply enter your name / email in the Facebook app, you then get emailed a pin, enter this pin on the Facebook page and you will get a code to redeem on Sun / Moon

He did say that he would look in to trying to convert the saves last time he was on GBATemp, however hasn't been online since. Keep in mind we want the main files, however not to extract the Vivillons. The idea is anyone can inject the save and get some Scatterbug eggs, the end result is you have a unique Vivillon with the patterns(s) you desire.