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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.

Saori Bidoof and Ari Bidoof are available in trade circulation, I think some of them might be posted somewhere on this site in gen 4 pkm format. They're fairly common, I have them but I'm more of a trader and researcher rather than posting things for free.

During my research, I can tell you that most Norii Bidoof and Ori Bidoof you'll find are fake. The Norii Bidoof was lost in time to the gen 4 traders, I've been trying to contact them myself since some were friends I used to know, but I haven't gotten any response. Ori Bidoof, I know of only 1 person who has it but they don't trade their pkm files anymore.

Which ones are you looking for? Pretty sure the Magikarps are available for free somewhere on this site. A lot of the Ralts, Shinx, Bidoof are also available in trading circles, there are some OTs that are restricted and NFT. Don't spend any time looking for Psyduck or Heracross.

My own Shiny CHANNEL Jirachis are being marked as illegal now too. I used this guide in 2018:

I redeemed 5 different Shiny Jirachi using this method in ENG, SPA, ITA, FRA and GER languages. I've traded a few over the years but I still have ENG, ITA and FRA and those 3 are being marked as illegal. Just checked a backup of my GER too and it's also marked as illegal. I took video proof of some of them during the redemption process. It's very possible that something that I did or something in this guide isn't valid anymore but it was marked as legal before a recent update.

Good and Suicune in the same sentence is inherently invalid because it's a roamer. Remember about the roaming IV glitch, the HP value can be anything from 0-31 but the Atk can only be between 0-7. The rest are forced to 0 IV because of the glitch. Because of that, you won't get a good roamer. If you want good IVs on Suicune, you will need to find one using Colosseum's PID method.

9 hours ago, Burgee2803 said:

dratini knowing Leer from dragons den in crystal virtual console. the leer is flagging as not a possible move, dratini attached

0147 - DRATINI - 089E.pk2 73 B · 1 download

Did you catch this in-game or did you modify this? Dratini can only be caught between level 10 to 14 in Crystal, yours has a met level of 15. HGSS changed the spawn to have a met level of 15.

12 minutes ago, LizardMilk said:

From what I can remember they were both collected at a Toys R Us in Paramus, NJ

Hey nice! That was my local Toys R Us as well until I moved out of the area in March last year, I lived in Bergenfield. That's the one that used to be on Route 4, I've been there for a few Pokemon distributions myself in gen 4. Unfortunately I didn't play the gen 1 mainline games myself, I was a spinoff kid until gen 3. But this is still very cool! Are you able to back up the save files to at least preserve them before the battery dies? I'm not sure if you would need to upload them, but at least having them preserved for yourself before the battery dies is great. I don't have any gen 1 save file dumpers myself but if I still lived in Bergenfield I would have helped you get the hardware and dump the save files.

Are you using the latest version of PKHeX? Charcadet shows up as legal for me.

24 minutes ago, TridentInsurgence said:

It seems fine...

This is related to the second part of my post. Steelix can only legally be obtained on JP region 3DS, but also only with the OT オメガ. It was not released in the English OT or Korean OT because the Japanese demo doesn't allow you to select a language.

Look at your OT/Misc tab, make sure the region that you set on your 3DS is correct. Keep in mind countries don't exist in other continents, Albania is not a region of Japan for example. Also keep in mind there are some events that can only be redeemed on certain regions of 3DS systems.

Yep, the transfer pretty much recreates official hardware transfer. Since you can trade the Pokemon to any game and any language (minus Korean in gen 4), the language of the carts don't matter in gen 4 or 5. The 3DS region information is set by the region of the 3DS that transfers the Pokemon from gen 5 into Bank. The only minimal thing that PKHeX transfer misses is nickname trash bytes from gen 5, but since you're transferring a Japanese Pokemon from a Japanese game that's not needed anyway.

Use TWL Save Tool to back up your gen 4 and 5 game save files. As far as I know, Checkpoint only works with the 3DS games, but personally I don't even use Checkpoint. I still use JKSM from back in 2017, never upgraded since it still works for me lol.

There are no Hadou Regis in the save file provided. The Mew looks valid, since it's the more common Mew variant for Japanese gen 3 games most of them wouldn't really be hacked anyway. Looking through the rest of the save, other than the Eon Ticket there isn't really anything else special on it. Seems like someone's save file from when they were a kid and they don't want the game anymore.

There are only 9 possible PIDs for Shiny WISHMKR Jirachi, you can't gen a random PID unless it matches one of those 9. You might as well grab one from this file or RNG a valid frame from your game.

That is an old hack from back in the gen 4 years. It's something I've seen myself when trading back then as well, I received this Mew on October 15, 2009. In my personal hack list I have that Mew listed as having invalid trash bytes. I looked at this Mew again to see if it even matches one of the 426 valid Mews, it does not. The IVs are 9/24/7/29/21/19.

The date is just the day it was Pal Parked from gen 3 into gen 4. The seller's daughter could not have directly obtained it in that game as it needed to be transferred from a gen 3 game, maybe they're thinking about a different Mew like FAL2010.

Jolly MYSTRY Mew is listed as 19/426 with its PID being 7F3126EF. Sassy MYSTRY Mew is listed as 44/426 with its PID being 1863B652. Both of them are legal.

The OT on your Celebi has extra hex values after the null terminator. It's shown that the OT Extra was originally edited from a 7 letter OT ending in the letter "i". Can you remove the extra hex and try to see if that works?

1 hour ago, Kaphotics said:

Should have the nickname flag set, and the nickname different from the species name based on whatever the nickname should be for your language.

Can confirm this happens from the game without modification. A friend sent me a video showing his redeem a few days ago. Unsure if there is a nickname flag but the name in French saves is its species name, Pijako, and not the name it's supposed to be (Pijouk I believe).

It seems that to counteract your TID/SID combination and your TSV value, the PID is incremented to force nonshiny Pokemon on things like gifts and Pokemon that were normally received as shiny. Have you tried sending a shiny from PoGo to Home in that account?

The 0000 SID was generated back when the SID was only possible to be 0000/0001, your Home account must be old right? I'm not an expert on Home TID generation, but I believe this must be something that should be researched.

Great, thanks for the information. I am familiar with most things in that post. Unfortunately superhyong isn't a person I'm aware of or had on my list, but it's possible that is the person who was the contact for my friend or was where that contact obtained the wondercard files. These AR codes seem to be generated through Pokesav, if they are real someone may have backed up their game save file and loaded it up in Pokesav to export an AR code for people to use. It's one of the ways people used to trade Korean Pokemon back then, since Korean games couldn't connect with any other language games they needed to back up a save file to transfer Pokemon using pkm/pcd files.

Fenzo666 was the owner of PKMDB.com, back during the gen 4 years I was told PKMDB was the predecessor to this site (Project Pokemon). Pokemon Mystery Gift Editor is what I used today to look at these wondercard descriptions (I also used it back in 2010), but it seems a few of the Korean characters are improperly read. MGE was used to reload wondercards on your save file for the purpose of redeeming multiple Pokemon from the same wondercard. I have had the ID 27 Milotic wondercard since a few weeks after the event took place (as well as 15, 19, 20, and 24 from research material I was given). I assume Milotic is one of the more common Korean wondercards but that number also matches up with this donation.

Leaf Guard is definitely the correct ability, I fixed that information on Bulbapedia a few months ago. Xaewon was the perfect source since his documentation was great. The reason why PKHeX currently lists the ability error is because the wondercard isn't in the database yet so it looks at the PID of Tangrowth and shows that it should have Chlorophyll.

Even if these wondercards come from Action Replay codes that were made in 2010, I do believe that at least the Pikacafe trio are real since certain information couldn't have been faked. The wondercard titles and descriptions weren't publicly known knowledge until I found them recently, and other than the 2 typos I made for Tangrowth's description, they match perfectly, even seeing how Electivire and Magmortar's description matches Tangrowth's template. My expertise for these Pikacafes is about the distribution details and the spread in the trade community, so I might not be the best source to talk about the wondercards, but hopefully someone else can confirm or deny if these are real as well. Still, I love this find!

Interesting... I have looked through the wondercards and I think they may be real but I'm not an expert on card legality. The Tangrowth's wondercard description translates correctly and fixes 2 characters I made a mistake on in the Bulbapedia page. Electivire and Magmortar's descriptions also copy Tangrowth's, which would make sense since their titles are copied from each other (and based on the Japanese Saikyou distribution). The Regigigas card is odd though, it uses a wondercard ID of 10, but mine has ID 12.

Do you mind telling me where you found this, or who was hosting this? I have been trying to follow a lead where a friend had a Korean trading partner in 2010 and they shared every Korean wondercard including the missing Pikacafes and redeemed many on their games. But my friend can't log in to that email account anymore and he has no idea who he traded with. I am wondering if the person you found is on a list I made of people who I suspect who could have had the wondercard.

Which gen 4 Korean wondercards do you have? The most important ones missing are the Pikacafe trio (Electivire, Magmortar, Tangrowth) as well as the four early ones (Manaphy, Rayquaza, Deoxys, Darkrai). I have done research on the Pikacafes last month and added the wondercard titles and descriptions to Bulbapedia, but since only a handful of people had the Pikacafe wondercards in the first place I'm not sure if you would have it.

PCD and PGT should both be donated yes, but if you had to choose one the PCD is more important.

You are viewing these in different generations. The last screenshot shows a Scarlet/Violet save, Mew has not been released in Scarlet/Violet.

What is the error that you get when you press Ctrl + Right Click on the Basculin and press Legality? PKHeX slightly modifies little bits of info to legalize it.

3 hours ago, ranqt said:

Hello, I got a "SPRING 2014" Magmar event from Wonder Trade in Omega Ruby. I was almost sure it was illegal but surprisingly it wasn't when I checked it with PKHeX.

I'm not sure what's happening here, if I'm missing something or if it's some weird case like the shiny Tapu Bulu that changes OT when received because of wrong character (the ' ).
I did some test with different languages straight from PKHeX and as you can see in the attached picture there are -according to my knowledge and logic- 4 anomalies, circled in yellow.

First row is Base + Evolution with Ribbon, second row Base + Evolution without Ribbon. Circled the legal/illegal anomalies

The first anomaly, reading clockwise, is what I received basically: a Cherish Ball event Magmar without Classic Ribbon, flagged as legal. Then there is the same exact event, changed spieces to Magmortar to simulate the evolution and it got flagged as illegal because "Invalid Ribbon: Classic Ribbon", as if once traded the Pokémon would lose the ribbon. I even did a test by myself and checked if that was the case and no, after trading the Magmar evolved and still had the Ribbon.

The last two are very similar to the SPRING2014: legal with no Ribbon. It's weird because somehow, this German Magmortar is legal without Ribbon, while the English (and the other languages tried) are always illegal without Ribbon, as it should be (again, according to my knowledge and logic)

Since I couldn't understand where the problem was, I took another Event very similar (Electabuzz) and repeated the same tests. The results were showing no anomalies.

I thought it might be interesting to share.


Thanks and keep up the good work!
 

For the first ENG Magmortar without the ribbon, if this is what you're talking about I can't replicate it. I am testing with an ENG SPRING 2014 Magmar without a ribbon that comes with wondercard proof and two /r/pokemontrades usernames in the proof. If you are testing with the same Magmar, you shouldn't be putting on and taking off the ribbons from the same Pokemon. Magmar has two different wondercards, one that comes with the ribbon and one that comes without the ribbon. If the Magmar on the bottom row is the original, it should be the one you'll use to evolve it into Magmortar without the ribbon, because it seems mixed up.

For the GER Magmortar with a ribbon, I am testing with a GER Magmar with a ribbon that I got directly from the OT and I'm getting the same error as you. Changing species to Magmortar simply gives the error.

For reference, the only languages that are legal without the ribbon are ENG, GER, JP and KOR. JP and KOR use the English wondercard and OT. The Electabuzz have no issues because the only wondercard that has been donated and is the one in PKHeX's database is one that comes with a ribbon. I don't believe Electabuzz had a wondercard that came without a ribbon, it's only an oddity for Magmar.