Deoxyz

5 hours ago, jojo12100 said:

According to him it can be the way to legit have the Azure Flute in Pokemon Diamant and Pearl

For the record, the video is stating it was a "semi-legit" way, since it was actually made by Nintendo or GameFreak, just not ever officially used. Perhaps worded wrong, but that's what it meant. Of course it's not actually legit.

3 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

I was discussing this with @Ammako earlier,
and I was saying this method doesn't count as a legit way to obtain it.

Heck, not even under a legal way to obtain it,
simply because it was being test on slot-1, when the functionality is slot-2.
 

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Lol, the timing of the video and the translation,
I feel like it was pretty much quoting my horrible translation in the post.

The video was quoting your translation, which seems to be the most accurate and comprehensible. Google Translate or anything else results in nonsense as you'd expect.

What's wrong with the timing?

Edited, since @Ammako said the video was posted then removed in another thread.

Just search for a decchi.bin video

The seller said he was scammed by the person who sold it to him, who told him it was a rare unused prototype.

He removed the listing once he found out it was only a fake made by someone. Nothing to see here unfortunately.

@Kaphotics

Thanks a bunch, that fixed it

@theSLAYER

No.

It's possible that I used an AR at one point on it, but I can't remember with that specific cartridge. I guess that'd be the only thing that could've caused it though.

10 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

upload your save for @Kaphotics to see.

Alright, save attached. I had assumed the problem wasn't on my part.

The cart and savefile are over a decade old, so I'm positive it's not a bootleg either if for some reason that would cause the issue.

PKHeX is detecting my Pokemon Ruby savefile as an Emerald savefile, whether it's directly from the cartridge or had been used in an emulator. It doesn't seem to do this with any other game, but I don't think it's a problem with my save.

@Soniktts

Wow, you actually happen to have all 10 European carts, just what we've needed to finish off a complete compilation of all DS distro roms on another website. I'm not sure if you're even willing to dump and share some of these roms, but it would seriously be greatly appreciated if you would. We can't actually upload or link roms on this site, which is why we're compiling these on another site, but we can discuss it in detail via private message if you're interested.

If you have any European carts, then we could probably use the rom dumps. I've been in contact with someone who has all 16 US DS distro carts, and I've instructed him on methods to dump the roms, so I hope to have them by next week.

However we can't upload roms here, or even link to them, but I've been helping build the most extensive distro rom compilation over on another site that is ok with roms. I can discuss it more in private if you're interested or have anything you want to contribute.

1 minute ago, HaxAras said:

I can't even remember which 10th anniversary Pokemon that rom gives out. Would any of them even be useful for the Battle Tower in Emerald? Maybe some of the other facilities. 

I think any of the non-banned pokemon, besides maybe Pikachu, would be good for the Battle Frontier

6 minutes ago, HaxAras said:

Are bottle caps a permanent increase to stats? I have those Colosseum E-reader mons and a 5IV shiny Feebas. It would be cool to make Feebas perfect and those Colo mons not suck. 

 

What about gen 3, 4, 5 and 6 though? Couldn't the 10th anniversary Pokemon be used as Battle Tower mons?

From what I understand, Bottle Caps don't change the actual IV values, it's just kind of like a cloak that makes them act as if they were maxed out. So for example, a maxed stat of 31 would still be 24, just not act as 24.

I can't really tell if transferring to PokeBank is going to reset this or not.

I was curious if the source rom of the unreleased Meteor Jirachi is known, or was that something else that was made to be kept secret?

That pokemon has been a bit of a curiosity of mine lately, since I always found unreleased events to be interesting.

5 minutes ago, ozderya said:

To be honest, I don't care about to get them shiny. I care about nature and IVs

You'd probably just have to keep receiving the same pokemon over and over until it gives you a spread you're fine with. Basically like SRing for good IVs for legendarys in games before they were guaranteed 3 31s. But if you don't plan to keep it in Gen 3, then like Invader Tak said, you don't necessarily need worry about IVs.

9 hours ago, pMD said:

Was the Aurora Ticket distribution rom ever released to the public?

If you're interested it's at the same sources as the 10ANNIV :^)

8 hours ago, zeropain said:

This happens to me as well. When i load the 10ANNIV distribution rom and pick the Pokemon i want to send, the first window will freeze, but when i open the Pokemon game in my second VBA Link window, the first window will work as it should be and the ''Waiting...'' message appears immediately.

The second VBA Link window will freeze for me when the ''Transferring...'' message from the first window of VBA Link disappears (meaning you come to the selection screen). Then i close the first window and the second one will have no problems and it works like it should be (the ''You are receiving the Pokemon now. Please do not turn off the power.'' message appears right after i close the first window).

I dont know if there is a solution to all these ''problems'', but its working more or less (at least for me).

I figured out that much. If you open the windows and roms in a proper sequence, it'll start to connect to transfer everytime. But no matter what, even if I close the first window after it says "Transferring", the second window remains permanently frozen. I have no idea how I got it to work that one time.

Edit: It looks that like after it goes back to the pokemon selection screen in the first window, if you select a pokemon again, it'll unfreeze the second window and will finish the transfer of your original selection successfully. Works every time. It's a little weird from the way it's supposed to work, but it does transfer in the end.

2 minutes ago, Invader TAK said:

I can see the uses. Look at the people who managed to get emulators working with Colosseum's e-Reader functionality.

That, and for those who actually play on emulators and/or don't have a GBA flashcart

6 minutes ago, Invader TAK said:

With all the BS you guys have had getting this thing to work with emulators, I'll stick to actual hardware.

Luckily I can and prefer to use actual hardware as well

It would just be nice if we knew a method where the 10ANNIV worked with an emulator just as well as everything else.

@zeropain

I just tried VBALink 1.8, and almost every case when trying to link with the 10ANNIV, the first window just starts lagging so badly that it's unusable.

However I do sometimes eventually get it to work without the lag and start multiboot mode, and right when it says it's transferring, it freezes the second window completely. I eventually got it to work once, but not again.

So in theory it should always work perfectly fine if it doesn't lag or freeze. It never lagged when I was trying to figure it out on 1.7, but there it just straight out doesn't emulate a multiboot link.

The Aurora Ticket works with 1.8 just as it did with 1.7, Mystery Gifts work fine. Your guide has all the steps right, it just seems that there is always a problem with the multiboot emulation. That's me though, you said it worked for you so idk.

3 hours ago, ajxpk said:

ポケモンをうけとっています。
でんけんを切らないでください。

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ポケモンがやってきました！
たいせつにしてね。
でんけんを切って、 ケーブルなぬいて
ください。

Google translate cracks me up sometimes.

9 hours ago, pMD said:

By the way, it didn't take much long and scammers have already started to look for unsuspicious victims online.

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The two roms were both released less than a week ago, so it's hard to have more than just a small amount of people aware at this point. Of course there will always be a few people taking advantage of those unaware, as with anything, and especially right now while they have a good chance of doing so. But that's why it is our job to try to make this info better known, and not just sit around and bitch about scammers(not saying that's what you're doing). Just making a point that when we see stuff like this, we need to say something.

Luckily, as you said, that particular person asked around a bit and then decided not to purchase the roms. And like everyone is saying, people should research before buying this kind of stuff, but right now any info about the public GBA roms is only in this thread, on Digiex, a couple obscure YouTube videos, and perhaps a few other places, and only for less than a week. With time, everything should end up alright for the most part. Besides, we're just assuming that offer to buy the roms were of these two, and that it was made with the knowledge they are in public access. It probably is the case, but we don't actually know that.

1 hour ago, HaxAras said:

InvaderTak seems really interested in getting these distro devices to distribute different Pokemon. Would it be possible to get one to distribute Pokemon to different regions? Like Japanese 10th anniv Pokemon. That would be pretty cool for personal use.

While making fake distro roms for fun and stuff seems harmless, the reason I'm against this is some may try to re-create roms seemingly identical to those that aren't public. If someone were to try to pass them off as real, or if a legit version would actually leak, in either case it may be hard or nearly impossibly to differentiate them. With the DS roms, the carts are a lot more common, so you could just get another cart dump. In the end I suppose this could all be solved if the rom's sources, for GBA or DS, are verified and are proven to come from the carts, though that can potentially be faked as well.

I've been talking with theSlayer about this though, and from what I understand making a rom hack of these is far from a simple task. We can also just make a tool that generates the pokemon the same way as the carts do, and not make an actual rom hack.

My proposal is if a tool to edit these distro roms comes to fruition, the fake roms need to have some kind of visible flag, such as custom text saying its a rom hack or something of that idea. That, and I do not think the rom editing tools should be public, ever. Regardless, that's just my opinion, but I propose and prefer the option of a custom tool with identical generation methods used in the distro carts.

9 minutes ago, HaxAras said:

That doesn't work either. I tried to open a Fire Red save and when I load up the folder that my saves/Pokemon are in: It's empty. No saves and no Pokemon files. I have no means of backing up gen 4, 5 or 6 saves so PKHeX is worthless to me.

I can at least use R4's for gen 4-5. Barely.

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Mine freezes constantly for no reason.The admin of the website that sold it to me said to get a new SD card. It's only 6 months old, I bought it for the R4 when my other SD cards didn't work. What? Am I supposed to buy a new R4 every 3 months? Yeah, it's kinda un-related but that's been pissing me off.

 

Make sure you have the current version of PKHeX and not one that's really outdated. Also, make sure the dropdown menu next to the file name when you're selecting your save says "All Files" or "All File Types" etc. If you're still having trouble I can try and help you troubleshoot via PM, because it works for me.

Just now, HaxAras said:

What format are these in? The files say .pk3. But I was trying to inject them into a single Fire Red save and I can't do it. I tried A-save, I tried the Colosseum and XD: Editor and I even tried Pokegen and none of them work. 

Use PKHeX

5 minutes ago, Sabresite said:

Almost everything listed here PP.org has copies of already and have disassembled and documented.

Are these kept private due to the legal nature of roms, or just that the staff and/or cartridge owners just personally want to keep them rare and valuable?

2 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

at the very least, the glossy sticker look like it'll tear or something when tempered with..

I can confirm that the labels are thin and delicate. Mine is half ripped and clearly shows that it rips much easier than the standard GBA label. It's similar to one of those really cheap water bottle labels that tear when you rip them off.

17 minutes ago, pMD said:

@Deoxyz, do those "legal reasons" involve legal agreements and contracts between an italian source and "former Nintendo employees"?

I'm not gonna talk about it much in the thread here, but send me a PM if there's anything you know about that that I should know.

10 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

by the way, did it come with a save file? emulators aren't creating one for it.

I'm 99% positive that these don't create save files.

11 minutes ago, Invader TAK said:

I'd love to have that Aurora Ticket ROM.

Send me a PM approx early-mid February :^)

2 minutes ago, pMD said:

Flashing GBA roms into dev/prototype cartridges is as easy as one, two, three... especially when we are talking about collectors and people who know what to do. The easier the access to rare roms, the higher the chances of someone taking advantage of them in order to make money if the scene release of the rom does not get much exposure.

Also, you don't even need to have any tool in order to flash roms into dev/prototype carts. You could just spend ~$20 to get a cheap prototype cartridge and after you get the link protocol, you can have it implemented into a custom or a commercial gba flashcard which could be used for flashing the roms. There was a whole market for the protocol many years ago but it got shut down, possibly by Nintendo.

I think I've made my point of view clear before. There is no need for me to repeat myself.

 

I don't have much knowledge of these dev carts, but assuming the labels vary or aren't even on some these carts, wouldn't it be easier to spot a fake GBA distro cart if they don't have the DIP switch label on the cart? With a bit of public images, assuming the labels vary, that could clear up any legitimacy confusion someone could have about potential counterfeits.

1 minute ago, theSLAYER said:

This doesn't distribute to non-english (including german)?

I remembered it supposed to be european territories,but I guess I remembered it wrongly

The guy I purchased it from has all the European language carts for 10ANNIV, plus the English Aurora Ticket(I'll have it soon), and a bit of others he couldn't talk about due to legal reasons.

I don't think he has any duplicates of the other languages, and I doubt he'd give me the roms.