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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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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.

Google translate cracks me up sometimes.

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. 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.

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.

Use PKHeX

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?

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.

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.

I'm 99% positive that these don't create save files. Send me a PM approx early-mid February :^)

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.

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.

I was originally going to upload it on emuparadise, but when I made an account, it was all clustercrap and I couldn't figure it out. Is there a main place where all/many distribution roms are available? When I looked for DS distro roms a year or two ago, it was a scavenger hunt with a few roms here and there in obscure places. Just like with the Mew save, hopefully we can make it become fairly well known, so people will be aware it is public and can be cautious. At the same time, if we see an increase in 10ANNIV carts on eBay, it'll eventually suffer like the Mystery Mew carts have done. Though it seems like it would be just as much of a risk as flashing new roms onto DS carts.

I'm fairly certain the VBA emulator has link cable emulation support. Though I mainly uploaded it for historical preservation, and for public knowledge, especially after I saw the demand for it from our researchers. A GBA everdrive will get the job done for those who want to use it if VBA doesn't work. Anyway, i put up two more links if the first one gives anyone trouble. Note, I'm sorry if anyone didn't want this public, but I've been thinking hard about it for a while. I did pay a large amount of money for it so I understand that, but I honestly don't believe GBA distribution roms will make it that much easier to make counterfeits with than with DS distribution roms. It's 2016 and all pokemon distribution related data should be publicly available. We already started with posting our Mew saves regardless the obvious potential repercussions, so why stop now?

The ROM. I doubled up on the links to keep it more indirectly connected from the site due to the legality of roms in general. I don't want to put the site in any potential trouble. If it makes you unsure about it being malicious, I can upload it elsewhere, but I've uploaded files before so I hope that would help the credibility. Edit: Oh, well if it's being blocked regardless, I can put another link up.

Considering the Mystery Mew distribution only lasted for three hours from 12 - 3 on September 30 of 2006, it's probably safe to assume there exists a cartridge out there that had barely any traded away. The problem is that we don't know if any of those never made it back to Nintendo, or if any Nintendo employees happened to hold onto one of those. Perhaps a Nintendo employee may even have a cartridge that was never actually sent out to a ToysRUs store. It's possible. Besides, I thought the original seed was found and we were able to regenerate the original supposed 420 Mews and had uploaded the data to PokeCheck years back. So I don't think it'd be hard to reconstruct the "original" savefile. Of course, a non-tampered savefile would always be the most ideal to have, but I'd say it's wishful thinking that we'd ever obtain one.

Ah, well I'm glad someone had the guts to finally make it public. I know I really really wanted to release my Mew save many months back for historical preservation, but even after we discussed it a bit in this thread, I still wasn't sure what the right thing to do was. I guess I was just being overly cautious, considering every side of the situation, but now that the save out there's no reason to hold back I suppose. My main concern was that a public save wouldn't get enough public awareness, and the hopeful result of devaluation against scammers wouldn't happen. Though it already seems that the value has been vastly lowered by alleged eBay scammers in the recent months, so the time seems much better now than it was months ago to do this. I know all the save files appear to be identical so this may be pointless, but in the case some of you researchers want to examine multiple Mystery Mew savefiles, I'll upload mine. Mystery Mew Savefiles