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The met date on redeemed events is the date that you set your Switch on, meaning it can legally be any date that the Switch allows. The wondercard is where the real-time date will be since that is set server-side, but theoretically there is no issues to have the date set as today. It will just look suspicious to others. If you somehow have a Galar Shiny Eternatus with a met date of November 22, 2025 and you suddenly start listing that you have the Shiny Eternatus on the real world date of November 22, 2025, and you've had no indication that you've had it before then, people will ask where you got it from. Remember, injecting wondercards is legal at best and shouldn't be claimed as legitimate when talking to others.

Bulbapedia claims that any events that were distributed to Green (JP) are mainly either Mew or Pikachu. There's a Fearow, Rapidash and Magikarp distribution too. As far as we know, there weren't any official distributions for the Kanto starters or any other Pokemon in Green. The OTs don't depict any special or event OTs either. Bulbasaur = キロロ = Kiroro Victreebel = モンキチ (hard to read) = Monkichi Nidoran = キョロ = Kyoro Charmander = ぽよよん = Poyoyon Metapod = キョロ = Kyoro These look to all be traded Pokemon.

It hasn't been made public yet, I'm trying to use it as trade material and an incentive to get information on Slowpoke and Shellder. I would like all 3 to be made public at the same time.

Where do you see this? There's 183 different Mew and the lowest TID is 27869, highest TID is 59094. Are you talking about something else?

From what I've seen, the only Pokepark Jirachi that are authentic is one set obtained by Rabby250 and is the basis on what the Bulbapedia information was updated with. The issue with it, is that he had already Pal Parked both of his Jirachis to gen 4 before sharing them to certain traders online with trade restrictions. So even from the Bulbapedia information, the held item is not known for it. It's known what PID algorithm they have, BACD_R_A, but the only reason it's not in the event galleries is because it hasn't been preserved in gen 3 and no one has shared an authentic one for the public. The Wish Chansey and Lickitung egg have invalid abilities which I have personally noticed for years and have been marked as valid for years by PP and Digiex, but I don't have an idea on where they came from or who obtained them. I remember asking Sabre about it when he made them public but I wasn't given any usernames for who donated them. We know how they're generated and they're easy to generate, Goppier and UndeadxReality have already created custom distributions to generate these eggs. But for public authentic donations, no one has really donated any. The Hadou Registeel is hacked/modified based on current PID algorithms. It came from the same place and same donation as the Regice which is marked as valid, and it's weird since you would expect the donator to either hack both of them or donate 2 authentic Pokemon, not hack one and donate another authentic one. The Hadou Regis are really something we need more donations for so the PID algorithms and data can be compared.

Yep. The article you linked is my research that a friend helped write and host on his site. We believe for both Absol and Pichu, they have the TID of 31031 and OT of カイチョウ. I've contacted all known winners on Twitter but no one is willing to share theirs or they haven't responded. A few people who have shown their's migrated to higher gens, like that Absol, have a weird language tag so it's very important to dump them for research.

Just in case you're still looking for an answer, yes these are all fakes. An authentic Shellder has surfaced about a year or two ago, it's got some proof and history of legitimacy so we're not looking for that anymore, but your Shellder doesn't match the authentic one. Thanks to Undead and Goppier, stats for Sandshrew and Slowpoke are known as well but not IV or PID information, and yours don't match either. The JEREMYs are all random wild catches in FRLG so they will need to match a wild encounter frame. The locations are known too, but because they're so low leveled there's no way to narrow down the possibilities without someone else sharing it to confirm.

Screenshots are just an example. Happens on Crown Tundra update too.

Porygon2 from a CHS language SwSh game is showing the wrong default nickname. I'm testing with VGC20 Porygon2 and the latest release. Pictures are from previous release but it happens in latest release too. My self-redeemed Porygon2 looks like this: And I have video proof redeeming this Porygon2, which also shows the same nickname in the video: When testing the wondercard, it shows a different nickname: Checked the Encounter Database and they all have the same nickname as the second screenshot. The wondercard page for VGC20 Porygon2 says it should have default nickname, so the first screenshot should be the default nickname.

If you are talking about updating the database with the correct ability, then yeah. Personally I don't believe the PID is wrong either. After researching the distribution for both Pikacafe tournaments and the attendees messages in September/October 2008, I believe the ability for Tangrowth was forced to be Leaf Guard. Forced as in regardless of the PID, similar to my conclusions for my research of the GTS 2009 events. Now the PID is something I don't have proof for, I don't have any Tangrowth that come from a reputable source, I only have circumstancial evidence. The Tangrowth I have traded for in 2009 and 2010 have a specific PID that's also shown on the faked PGT file above, the faked Korean wondercards that were recently mentioned on a different thread have the same PID, and I have not seen a different PID for a legal Tangrowth. A lot of the participants for the Tangrowth event come from Korean communities where cloning is very frowned upon, if not banned, so I don't believe they would be willing to share their self-obtained Tangrowths for research. In the tweet I posted, Orochi posted information on the Tangrowth he still has, and Orochi is on the PP Discord server, but he is a well-known uncloned trader who doesn't hack his games.

The PGT you are talking about is faked, it's based on assumed information. The PCD and PGT has never been contributed, I believe it was never even dumped by the receivers. The attendees I linked in the sources above have documented the Tangrowth very well and shown pictures of the Tangrowth's ability while at the event venue. I've contacted both Orochi and Necrophobia and they don't have the wondercard available, so I don't think it will be possible to receive the official PCD or PGT, but there is no need for the PCD or PGT to verify the ability because it was advertised at the event.

Yes, the Tangrowth's ability is correctly Leaf Guard. I have found multiple sources from people who originally went to the event that showed the ability of the Tangrowth. 1. Orochi is confirmed to be a participant in the event. He made it to the semi-finals and lost to the winner. 2. This person goes by Necrophobia, who was a +1 to a participant in the event, her brother named Zero (제로) shown in Group C above. She catalogued the distribution in good detail. https://blog.naver.com/hha512/70035591794 3. Xaewon (재원) in Group A traveled from outside of Busan to Seoul and documented his trip for the tournament well: https://blog.naver.com/xaewon/55995585 https://blog.naver.com/xaewon/56089988 https://blog.naver.com/xaewon/57219017 4. Flowerpot was a +1 to a participant to another semifinalist, Dream (드림) and has also stated the ability was fixed to Leaf Guard. https://bbs.ruliweb.com/family/515/board/300389/read/698622 5. https://m.blog.naver.com/chltjsrb503/150040922827 Back in 2009, I have never heard of a Chlorophyll Tangrowth. Chlorophyll is only assumed because the PID says it should be Chlorophyll. But there are 0 sources that say Chlorophyll. Edited with the sources saved on my computer. If you need more sources let me know, I was the one who updated Bulbapedia's listing of Tangrowth to the information I found.

This blog has been discussed before: We determined that even though there are a few legal-looking wondercards, some of them are definitely fake such as Regigigas' wondercard ID number. The Pikacafe wondercards match all the research I have found for them (Wondercard titles, descriptions, Tangrowth's ability), but the 3 Pikacafe wondercards listed in there are fake as well. Edit: Adding on to this, personally for specifically the Pikacafe wondercards, I would not trust them unless they came from a select group of people. The Electivire, Magmortar and Tangrowth were only given to 32 people at the location (16 tournament entrants plus their +1 they brought along to the event). I have a list of names of most of the people who attended, 17/32 names that attended Electivire/Magmortar, and 20/32 names that attended Tangrowth. Unless a wondercard has been sourced back to one of them, I would consider the Pikacafe wondercards to be faked even if most of its information lines up to my research. I'm unsure how many of those people were deep in trading circles, some may have traded out their Tangrowths back then but Korean wondercards in gen 4 needed to be backed up using a flashcart. Nowadays, it's very likely none of those 32 people kept their wondercards in the 3 viewable cards in the card album, and a lot of the Korean trading scene nowadays doesn't approve of hacking, much less cloning. So you would need to find someone in this group who attended and was deep enough in a trading scene to know how to extract their wondercard back then and hope that they have it kept somewhere. I have asked 2 people about their Tangrowths, and neither of them have kept their wondercard.

A few months ago, a Japanese Youtuber talked about the Stamp Pichu and Stamp Absol distribution: This caused a lot of people in the comments section to reminisce about the distribution, and a few people in the comments say they had either gotten an Absol or a Pichu, and most of them didn't have it anymore or couldn't find it. One person in the comments took a look at his own cartridge and tried to find a Pichu that matched what the video talked about because he remembers winning the distribution, but he couldn't find it. Instead he found a Pichu with an OT of カイチョウ. Kaichou, as in the Daisuki Club President. After this video was posted, a few other people went to Twitter to post about a Pichu they had won directly from the distribution, and how the OT was カイチョウ and the TID is 31031. I believe these Pichu are authentic and real, coming from the official Stamp Pichu distribution. Technically I'm unsure of the second tweet's legitimacy because of their further tweets, but they posted their OT and ID before many others. Through my own research in the past year for Stamp Pichu and Absol, the Pichu in those tweets closely match what I have found to be real. There has never been a source for the OT スタンプ and the TID 30821. From what I can tell, it was posted on a Japanese event wiki first and was sourced from there. August 21, 2003 is not a day that has any specific meaning to both Stamp Absol and Stamp Pichu. The Stamp Absol application period was between August 2 to September 1, 2003, so you could say August 21 is in the middle of that, but there's no specific meaning to Absol. During my research, I had theorized a few possible TIDs for both Absol and Pichu. I'm still uncertain about Absol's true TID, but one TID I theorized for Pichu was 31101 (November 1, 2003) to signify the first day of the application period for Pichu. The application period for Pichu was between November 1 and November 28, 2003. The TID 31031 (October 31, 2003) is the day before that, so my theorized TID is very close. Another misconception about the Stamp Pichu is that there were 300 total Pichus given out, not 50. It is true that the magazine it was offered in shows 50 Pichus given out: (Source: 4th Grade December 2003 issue of Shogakukan School Year Magazine) But whoever originally looked at this image didn't realize that the Pichu distribution was offered in 6 grades of magazines. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade of the Shogakukan School Year Magazine. And in each grade they offered 50 Pichus each. You can see the total number of 300 offered here: https://web.archive.org/web/20040606033512/http://www.netkun.com/pokesta/11.html Even in the video the Japanese Youtuber made, they also said 50 Pichu were distributed because of the Japanese Pokemon Wiki site not having been updated in 15 years. In a followup video they made, they said they were contacted by 20 supposed winners of the Pichu and couldn't trust or believe them because he thought only 50 Pichu in total were distributed. I am under the impression that when people buy used Japanese gen 3 games and back up the save files that no one would have paid any attention to a random Pichu with an OT of カイチョウ because that has never been known as an event OT. What I would like to request, is if you have bought Japanese gen 3 games and have backed up save files to find events, please look for a Pichu with an OT of カイチョウ and an ID of 31031! If you have one, feel free to post it in this topic or message me. The Stamp distribution has been a focus of my research in May, and it seemed that no one else was really looking for source material, so I was able to find a lot of source material for this distribution.

Yes, a large majority of these are fakes. The Yunosuke Ralts doesn't even have the correct TID. The only legal ones in this archive are: 02226 ルイルイ♥ Magikarp (the held mail is faked) 03126 ノリィ♪ Magikarp (the held mail is faked) 07076 ナナ Magikarp (the held mail is faked) 01256 ウッツー Magikarp (the held mail is faked) 08311 だいすき Kyocera Starly 42356 シン Shin Shinx (the held mail is faked) Most of the GTS events are actually not too impossible to find. Psyduck and Heracross, yes, you will never find them. But Magikarp, Bidoof, Shinx and Ralts are not too difficult. The held mail for the above Magikarp can be found in Ahiru's Wonderland gen 4 archives (including the missing Ryuuta Magikarp whose met date was modified in the archive you posted). There are only a few OTs of each that are very difficult to find. You are right that they're mainly found in trading circles, and I will add that they're found in event trader collections that have not traded in well over 15 years. There is actually plenty of information still online that documents legitimate information about these GTS events. One of my main research focus are the GTS events, and I helped a friend write articles about each of the gen 4 GTS events. You can read it here: https://pokemonhistorian.com/daisukigts/ Since I have contacts with many event collectors who traded in 2009 (because I traded for events in 2009 myself), I was able to get a lot of information that was lost to time. I was able to confirm that two people I know received a GTS event and showed the strap they received as proof. A lot of the GTS events traded during the first few months after the event finished I have found to be legitimate, but they were quickly lost to time due to NFT restrictions and people not wanting to trade them. I was able to contact a lot of them and for my own collection and research, I was able to receive all of them and confirm legitimacy for all except the Norii Bidoof and Ori Bidoof. The hardest ones to find were Maatan Shinx and Yunosuke Ralts because they were the ones hidden in old traders collections. But because I'm using my collection as research for our articles, I'm not able to give them out for free, and since I'm also an event trader, I would be needing something in return.

Sorry but I won't modify my Pokemon or changing anything in my save file to change it from stock captures to an edit. I just tested capturing a Froslass, placing in Home and retrieving it, it doesn't give it a Handling Trainer anymore so it could have been an early Home issue. I think it should be flagged fishy instead of invalid, there is no evidence to show that the modification is on my part.

Happens across everything I caught in Sword, all I did was transfer them into Home once in 2020 and transfer them back into Sword. There's no OT sharing, Handling Trainer is my Home account with a different TID. This is an incorrect flag. f

Getting this message in my Sword save for all Pokemon in my own OT I've deposited once into Home and brought back into Sword. I think it's caused because the OT Name and OTG in my Home account is the same as my Sword save, except obviously different TIDs because the Home TID isn't taken into account when transferring. Shows up in Development build and I didn't see a report about it, maybe I missed it.

The Genesect's nickname is in a non-Japanese language, it is not legal.

You can't. You can only be 100% certain that something is legitimate if you obtained it yourself, but you can make educated guesses and be less confident on legitimacy for someone else's Pokemon, even if it's someone you trust. You can ask for proof to show how they obtained it (a picture of their wondercard in the game with their username, or a video showing the process of redeeming) since you can't fake the card album on the Switch. Depending on what genned means to you, this doesn't prove that something wasn't cloned. Many traders trade cloned proofed events. If you are wanting uncloned, the best option would be to ask for the trading history of that specific Pokemon.

The Hadou Mew is legal. The Careful Negaiboshi Jirachi is interesting. It's legal, I have the gen 4 pkm file version of this Jirachi which means it's at the very least cloned, and my copy of this Jirachi was transferred from Pal Park on August 10, 2010. It could be possible that yours was recreated in gen 3. Same goes with the Jolly Negaiboshi Jirachi. My gen 4 copies of that Jolly one were transferred from Pal Park on August 27, 2007 and March 5, 2008. The rest are not legal.

The OTs reference people who worked at the Daisuki Club during that time. The mail that was attached to them had special phrases (5 Pokemon names in each piece of mail) you could enter on the Daisuki Club website to enter a drawing for a special limited edition DS Lite, and all players who entered authentic and unique phrases received a special DS GTS strap. I can only assume they were distributed by an in-house cartridge, if there was a wondercard for it no one has been able to find it. Inherently they're nothing too special, they're just prizes for sets of giveaways the Daisuki Club did in 2009.