The thing is there are some pokemon that were in the code but for some odd reason either they were never released to the public outside of Japan or had event release that either no one heard about or few people went to it. Acouple come to mind like Mew for Pokemon Blue and red. I heard there was an event for that but could never find any accurate evidence pointing to it in USA. Same with Celibi for gold and Silver. So as long as there is a way to get them with out breaking an arm or a leg I am all for it.
Toys R US did a release for Mew in Blue And Red. I remember being there for that. But your point still stands. Limited distro should either not be allowed to be battled or it shouldn't be limited distro.
From IGN:
For those of you who have caught 'em all but are still desperate to add to that collection, November 26th is your day. That's the day Mew, Pokémon #151, comes to Toys "R" Us all across the country.
As many Pokémaniacs know, Mew is the most rare Pokémon of them all. There is no possible way to catch him or trade for him in either Pokémon Red, Blue, or Yellow cartridges. The only way to snag this critter, up until now, was to be a Nintendo Power contest winner snag him at a special Pokémon event.
Finally, Mew is available to the masses. However, Pokémon trainers will have to be on their toes if they want to catch Mew. Here's how to be a part of this event:
- Have your Gameboy and a Pokémon Gameboy cartridge ready on November26th.
- Be the one of the first 1,500 customers at any Toys "R" Us store, and you will receive a special 'Peel & Win' sticker card.
- Peel off the Mew sticker.
- If the words "Caught Me!" appear under the sticker, you have won Mew, and a Toys "R" Us employee will upload a Mew Pokémon into your own Pokémon cartridge (be it Red, Blue, or Yellow).
Two hundred Mews will be given away at each Toys "R" Us location, so you have about a one-in-seven chance of snagging one.
See your local Toys "R" Us for more details and legal mumbo-jumbo, and while you're at it, scope out your city for an underpopulated Toys "R" Us store for the best chance to catch Mew. This will be a tough hunt, but a Master Trainers should be up to the challenge. Good luck!
I don't recall anyone being turned away, by the way. LOL!
No its not out of the window, think about it a litle more. It wouldnt be possible without exploiting the machine software. And if that was the case then Nintendo has no obligation to accept the pokemon as legal right
Two identical pokemon with exactly the same values and coming from the same machine at the same time could NEVER happen naturally. And thats why nintendo could block that pokemon and if then wanted ban that player.
No... I can change the time and date stamp of my game (you can't possibly be referring to this as exploiting the machine software, right?
). And nintendo has never decided that was illegal (nor should they). The simply fact that I rolled my time and date stamp back and forth (for whatever reason) shouldn't render my pokemon illegal. And, in fact, Nintendo themselves have labeled this as "time traveling" in games such as ACNL, so they actually condone it.
I think you are thinking of this in terms of an EULA. And breeding a freaking pokemon can;t have an EULA. It can;t have fine print. I shouldn't have to read the do's and fonts of lending my game, lending my ds, changing my date and time stamp all in the name of making sure I don't accidentally breed/catch or otherwise find a pokemon identical to mine and someone else's. That's just silly.
I am saying that my stance is that if there is even a small chance for an identical pokemon to LEGITIMATELY be generated, Nintendo and Gamefreak have not created a good enough system where they should be banning monsters or players because they are "most likely illegal". Changing the system (getting rid of it all together) would pretty much defeat almost all of the demand for this overnight.
Well, since nothing is being done against it, cheating became a must.
Like I mentioned in my post which mentioned RF Online, during the period where nothing has been done, only 2 paths were available to the players, duplicate(clone) or at least obtain a duplicated item to survive pvps with people who cheated, or quit playing. I quit it because I dislike having everyone having almost exactly having the same items, like you're wearing a uniform.
Pvp wasn't the same because the items I earned legitimately doesn't mean anything to those who duplicated items. had no choice but to use rmt and buy better items. Though eventually I also quit because I couldn't take in the corruption.
I came back only after the purge but it was too late, game was already dying and being milked.
I doubt many would quit playing pokemon and would rather gladly join in the cheating.
I posit that if "everyone" is "cheating", then it's not cheating at all. Rather, the game has been adopted as something else by it's fan base than what its creators intended. I know we touched on this somewhat before. I honestly don't see a problem with that. I'd love for game freak to just sell me a battle game where all you do is build monsters from scratch (like a character creation screen) and battle them. And I bet it would sell incredibly well too. Since they don't do that, people have taken it into their own hands to do that themselves.