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@DestroyMagnet

Bulbapedia has all Gen 2 PCNY campaigns documented, which if I recall correctly was taken from the old official PCNY website which would post about the events weekly.

There is a lot we do not have: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Gotta_Catch_'Em_All_event_Pokémon#Distribution_weeks

For Gen 3, Bulbapedia does not have all PCNY campaigns documented, only those which we have had pk3 samples surface of. The documentation is weak and pieced together as information turns up, as I don't think the offical PCNY website recorded any from this generation.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_PCNY_event_Pokémon_distributions_in_Generation_III

5 hours ago, MetaleroSmith said:

ohh, entiendo, entonces esos pokemon en el sav que publicaste son, en teoria, nuevos, porque recien han sido repartidos a traves de la maquina, no son pokemon rescatados de antiguos cartuchos sino son reparticiones actuales con una maquina usada hace como 20 años, muchas gracias, esto es una gran noticia. Sin embargo, estos pokemon no son de reparticiones oficiales, cierto? es decir, que no son pokemon rescatados de las reparticiones que se hicieron en aquellos años, sino que son nuevos, uhmm, quiza por esa razón perderia algo de legitimidad pues mas valdría los pokemon repartidos oficialmente en su momento, que los repartidos actualmente de manera no oficial, aunque se tenga la maquina original. esta reparticion no la hizo Nintendo ni Gamefreak ni The Pokemon Company, sino una comunidad de fans. igualmente es genial poder obtener estos pokemon, aunque no sea de manera oficial.

Yeah, that varies from person to person depending on personal perspective.  If you only acknowledge legitimacy as events that come from the original distribution period, then it's understandable if these are not for everyone.

Personally, for me the only reason it matters in this case is the incrementing TIDs, as these are all low number and consecutive, which we will inevitably have lots of now. Those from the original period would surface online with random TIDs and show their place in history, even though we know of instances the machines were reset during some campaigns during the original period. So I do understand it in that aspect. If it weren't for the unique TIDs, it would not matter at all to me, just as distributing with the 10ANNIV software outside of the original distribution period. It doesn't make a difference to me, and I don't agree with terms like "replica". The software is official and untouched, we didn't rebuild it to distribute pokemon with identical results.

Though yeah, that's a decision for each person to make for themselves. If it were easy to obtain more original period PCNYs, then it'd be different. However they are very hard to find and sold at artificial asinine prices, so at that point it is ludicrous and I could care less if we are distributing them again in modern day with the original hardware.

6 minutes ago, DestroyMagnet said:

I vaguely recall hearing that some PCNY pokemon ended up getting lost because someone's girlfriend accidently deleted some data off of one of the original memory cards. Were you folk able to recover them? Is this PCNY collection complete, or will it always be missing a few Pokemon?

One of the Slot A memory cards we obtained had a date range (3 Jan 2003 - 30 Jan 2003) written on the label that corresponds with the following four Gen 2 campaigns:

When data is deleted from a memory card, it still remains hidden in the raw data until it is overwritten by new  save data. That is the ONLY reason @Gridelin was able to recover Evolution Stone, Monster Week 1, and the Gen 2 campaigns from one of the other Slot A memory cards. Unfortunately for the memory card the original owner's ex gf overwrote, the save data for Phantasy Star was large enough to completely wipe over the raw remnant data of whatever was on that particular memory card, presumably what was on the label. So that is lost forever, unless the same memory card used at one of the other three kiosks turns up. That is why we have two memory cards that contain Campaigns 3, 4, 5, and 6 consecutively, and two memory cards that contain Campaign 1. They were from different kiosk stations (PCNYa/b/c/d). The rest of the campaigns were remnant deleted data from these cards.
With the PCNY campaigns we do have, yes we have all the pokemon within those campaigns. Though we are still missing many of the other campaigns that were not on these memory cards.

10 hours ago, MetaleroSmith said:

si vi esta foto, pero he visto el sav que has subido y hay muchos pokemon de eventos, hasta los huevos, lo cual seria raro porque han pasado mas de 20 años y seria casi imposible tenerlos aun en forma de huevo, ¿como obtuviste estos pokemon de evento? podrias explicarmelo de una manera mas facil? lei tu post pero no entendi bien. 

The main post answers all of your questions, but if English is not your native language I can understand if there is confusion. I will try to clarify. These pokemon are legitimate, not hacks made in PKHeX. The photo was provided for that reason to provide proof. That photo is of one of the original machines used to distribute at the Pokemon Center New York. The machine recently showed up, and now ProjectPokemon owns it and is able to distribute these old pokemon with it. Let me know if you still need any clarification.

3 hours ago, futuresushi said:

So what's campaign 2 then?

EDIT: Are these a different set of distributions than the ones that had the weird moves on em (like Zap Cannon Squirtle for Gen 2 or Wish Chansey for Gen 3)?

I think @Sabresite was either saying or just assuming that Campaign 2 is the Pokemon Box Promo, but he can clarify.

Yes, all Gen 2 PCNY egg distributions have special moves. Not the legendaries. These particular Gen 3 pokemon here don't have special moves, and most others don't, but there were Wish Egg distributions for Gen 3 at PCNY. The Wish Eggs were a distributed from a GBA devcart by sending a wondercard via link cable, like the Aurora Ticket. We may hopefully see that software surface sometime.

I figured I should also make this note before anyone asks, about why the Johto Legend campaign has TID 00061. Well my save corrupted when I distributed TID 00050, so I had to restore my last backup from after TID 00049. It took me too much time to start over at that point over one little hiccup, so I went up to TID 00061 so 60 pokemon from the campaign were still provided.

What we can learn from this is to reference what @Gold Ursaring said here, and assume it is arguably indeed true about the machine itself, and not kids pulling carts out at the wrong time causing the corruption.

The Gold savefile and pk2s are finally uploaded!

10 hours ago, Lludu said:

But Home would still consider it illegal and therefore its not a safe assumption to put it in?

I don't have any familiarity with Home, ithough f if it's anything like Pokebank when it first went online I assume the hack checks are a ludicrous mess. Bad hacks may easily go through, legit stuff may be a no go.

Regardless, these are 100% legitimate pokemon events, so in theory they should go through with now problem. Does not matter what PKHeX says.

11 hours ago, Lludu said:

Is there anyway to not have them Flagged as Illegal?  Or is it still possible to take these pokemon and put them into Bank/Home without worry?

PKHeX does not have most older events properly documented, so you will often see older events marked as illegal even though they are not.

@theSLAYER I mentioned in the second paragraph that Gen 2 will be ideally uploaded in a few days, as it is still being filled up with pokemon. My limited free time, and the need to zero out the Gen 2 software's unique "one-pokemon-per-campaign" date flag in the save's hex between each distribution, all makes it take a bit of time. The reason I uploaded the Gen 3 saves now instead of waiting until I also had the Gen 2 save is because this link is needed before Saturday morning to go along with some further public documentation. Ideally I'll have the Gen 2 save uploaded by or on Saturday, but no guarantee.

@TheSchilling Are you referring to the campaign data from the actual distribution machine's memory cards? All of the machine's software and data are totally unusable unless you have the original machine in your possession, so there's no point in anyone uploading them until we have an emulation or public hardware solution available. Which if you refer to my explanation in the main post, it will likely take quite some time. Don't worry, the data is in possession of enough people to where it won't end up being lost. It will eventually be public one way or another, I will make sure of that.

I'm so glad it's confirmed they didn't bother to shiny-lock it. It makes Crystal well worth of a VC re-release, and not as much of a cash grab. I'm not too big on transferring, I prefer keeping pokemon in their origin generation. Though I'll definitely transfer a second shiny Celebi to my current-Gen shiny mythical/legend collection.

I hope the other unobtainable shiny mythicals become available soon. At least we can expect the Alola legends won't be shiny-locked when we get them in Gen VIII.

4 hours ago, RoyitoDePiña said:

Hello, you could make a video showing the process or you could show it in a more detailed way, I speak Spanish and I have a hard time understanding the steps to follow

I can try to make a video this weekend, since @HaxAras is gone and no longer involved in the pokemon community.

OT: "MT. Tensei"... Is that a reference to the movie or something?

Sure.

The more I thought about it, I definitely remember someone mentioning it back then that there were two variants. I guess it slipped most people's mind that it existed.

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@theSLAYER I somehow must've missed seeing the wc6 was also uploaded on this page.

Though the PKHeX legality issue is still there, so I suppose I'll need to make a bug report. @Kaphotics

Wasn't there two wondercard variants of this event, one that doesn't force 3 IVs of 31?

Why I'm bringing it up is because I noticed PKHeX marks my Diancie as illegal due to not having 3 31 IVs, yet I know it's legit because I received the wondercard myself from the GameStop code in 2014. Viewing the original wondercard data in my X it shows it indeed does not force 3 31 IVs, but this one shows that it does.

Just to note, "decchi.bin" is found in all known Gen IV distribution roms.