I Shouldn't Own This Pokémon Cartridge 

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The Lechonk was an April Fool's joke. It was a Flying type Tera (so a flying pig).

When I got Pokemon Black, I wanted the event Victini, but all I had to do was be in the parking lot close enough to the store to receive the item needed to catch the Victini. I was too embarrassed to go inside the store with my DS cause I was a fully grown adult and figured I'd be the oldest one in there for the event.

If your collecting them it’s actually 12 different carts they all are pretty rare but you can still find them. So you got 11 more to go if you want them all

Here in Finland we didn't get most of the Pokemon Promo events with legendaries. But when Mew became available for Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow there were some events where you could trade any Pokemon for Mew by using a special kiosk and if you missed those events you could just send your catridge to Nintendo Club so the official company that imported Nintendo consoles to our country could trade a Mew for you (they just took a common low level monster and traded it for Mew). Similar Nintendo Clubs were also in Sweden and in some other Northern European countries.

I knew a guy back in the day that had a darkrai distribution cart, no idea where he got it. It worked a little differently than this one though, it worked as a normal pokemon game except if the system time was set to the distribution window in which case the distribution would take over. I recall him telling me that it only worked with diamond/pearl because platinum hadn’t yet come out at the time of the event. But I did get a darkrai from it so I guess he was telling the truth to some extent

You should try to go to a game con or something like it and distribute the Celebi to strangers (even if I don't think people still bring their DS to any con)

If I'm remembering right you can either use this Celebi to access the Giovanni event in HG/SS or transfer it up to B/W to get Zorua from Castelia City. I can't remember if you use Celebi or the Legendary Beasts to do it but there was a way of obtaining Snarl in B/W by connecting it with one of the Generation 4 games.

I sincerely hope you have backed up the rom file for archival purposes. Unusual cartridges like this need to be preserved.

It is truly a shame that since I am 16, I wasn't really around for that GBA/DS era. Seeing these videos makes me envious for what ppl literally one generation earlier got to grow up with

I remember getting the event as a kid. Literally one of the hypest and best memories

So you could actually get endless Celebis - the legit way. Noice

My first game, Pokemon Soul Silver, I got when I was around 9-10. I was so excited; especially seeing that it came with the PokeWalker. I was about a few weeks in and left it in my pants and my mom washed it.. suffice to say it is still dead but then around 7 years after that (3-ish years ago), I had a crack at taking it apart, replacing the battery, and I'm working to refix it's screen. I know I left a pokemon in there- and I want to see what it was. One day.

As a pokemon event distribution cartridge I can confirm that this is a video

I work at a daycare, so everyday we get our maps (a small rectangle that you fold to fit in your pocket) and I always put mine in my back pocket. Sometimes I forget to take it out, and one day my mom did the laundry and it shredded the paper which then spread to every piece of clothing in that load, it took an hour to pick all of them out... suffice I say I never forget to throw my map out anymore

Considering how futuristic the gamboy colour was for its time, that Nintendo DS looks like its a million years old compared to the colour.

I remember when I first got an R4 card and found out you could download the roms for these distribution events. I was now able to get them all.

I would be hella curious how the dumped ROM of this cartridge looks like, and if it even works to dump it. Because if so, you could probably do wild things with this. Would love to just boot an event distriburion from my modded 3DS over to other systems. I know that the fan servers are hosting most events already, but it'd be something else if you could just homebrew yourself through events while being completely offline.

my pokewalker ended up facing this fate and never working anymore 😭, nowadays It would be a fortune If It still worked

Oh man, I remember this distribution! I got the Celebi the same day I bought Pokemon Black version (the day it came out in the US). Stood in front of GameStop at the mall before it opened for the day, and talked to some of my gaming buddies from high school. Had my DS Lite on me and my copy of Diamond to receive the Celebi. Good times 😊

One time when I was younger, I Accidentally left my copy of Plants vs. Zombies in my short pockets, but thankfully, it still worked, and the labeled didn't come off either.

That’s really cool. I wonder how many cartridges are around?

And so the huge line outside your door for a Celebi awaits!

i remember this event. i was begging my mom to bring me, she took me one day late, and the workers still gave it to me anyways, but that game file has been lost to time sadly

"Channel 7" is likely the WiFi "channel" it set up the hotspot on. 802.11b/g 2.4GHz Wifi had 15 possible channels, but they all overlapped in a spread of 7 channels, making 1, 7, and 15 the only real "usable" channels when distributing multiple WiFi access points in an area. Channel 7 was pretty much the default selected for WiFi hardware back then.

i love seeing old stuff like this get archived. nice

literally never washed anything in my pockets because i hate things flopping about in them. i kept everything in my bag

This is an important piece of historical information. Given the popularity of Pokemon and the important cultural value those events had, I think this video should be a valid entry for archiving.

I’d love to get my hands on a Shaymin distribution cartridge one day. Shaymin is my favorite mythical Pokémon, so I think it’d just be really cool to have.

Me, someone who collects Pokemon and holds route 1 event Pokemon to levels higher than in-game caught legendaries: Yes. Yes I would like that Lechonk in a cherish ball.

Since the carts are indivisually numbered, My best guess is that if you were a store owner who failed to send the event cart back, unless you can convince Nitendo that it was lost, stolen or damaged, Nintendo would blacklist you from receiving any future event cartridges

If you plan on ever migrating it, you can make the catch date whatever you want when you migrate from gen IV to V. For some reason BW will overwrite the caught date to the current date. I think it also impacts met level, which could be an issue with getting the footprint ribbon

Video idea: transferring 10 celebis to pokemon violet/Scarlet and trading it to ten random people

This is why i never bought legit copies.of pokemon games. I live in a country where there are no physical events, i don't want to pay full price (even more) for a game that i can't fully play 100% because of events locked behind physical events.

You van find dumps of these online and then use them on an R4 cart to distribute them to anybody you want to

I have great memories of my father bringing me to GameStop each week to get the shiny legendary beasts. I still have them

bro can literally control the celebi market

I left my first Pokemon game Pokemon Y in my pants pocket and searched with my whole family for like a whole afternoon before finally figuring it out after putting them on the next day. A couple days in the rice fixed it up (I know that doesn't really work but I was like 6 or 7 chill).

I actually have the same Celebi distro cart along with 6 of the other event cartridges. Fun little fact, the cart for the legendary dog trio distribution also has an unused version of Celebi on it that they decided not to use in favor of the cart in this video.

in school i always preferred using pens to pencils. The one issue with that is that I would always forget the pens in my pants pockets. The amount of exploded ink in the washer/dryer would look like a Jackson Pollock painting

I have a number of these carts and they are super cool. Most work like the Celebi cart shown where you set up the correct date and just get gifted a Pokemon. A couple are unique, in that they give you an item to get to an otherwise inaccessible area (such as a liberty pass in black/white to get Victini). And they are all once per save file, so every time you reset your games to have another playthrough, you can obtain them over and over again.

I personally have never gotten any of the event Pokémon because I never had a ride to the store to get to

I have been a pokemon fan all my life, and seeing that there is still hope to recieve event pokemon never available again.. It's practically a dream come true

I can see it now. KevdogPlays passing on a random celebi to a kid who got his DS and Pokemon Platinum from his dad. Kinda like episode 1 from Yugioh GX where Jaiden was late for school and runs into Yugi and got his exclusive Winged Kuriboh. And they say it only happens in animes.

3:50 I remember I once forgot a Tamagotchi in my pocket. I did not work anymore after being washed and the screen’s background was bent in little colourful waves.

The reason why it autoboots is because it also came with a special DS with only one screen, it lacked a bottom screen, someone not too long ago cracked the event software, letting you do any event pokemon with any stats and all that, its quite facinating how it was made, and just how many of the carts still are out there, most of them from failed buisnesses liquidating thier assets, including the cart, usualy misteaking the ds for being broken, or sending the ds back but not the actual cart, it supossidly being enough to give a false positive of it being returned

I had a Pokemon Yellow game that ended up in the washing machine. My mom apologized multiple times. I wasn't too broken up about it though, my friend had stolen two of my best Pokemon from my game (I had traded them over to him to help him defeat the Elite Four) and he ended up resetting his game so he wouldn't have to give them back, so I was used to losing Pokemon by that point. Which was a short time actually. I was eight when I had the game, nine when I traded those Pokemon over (I think, because I remember that it was after I got Pokemon Gold), and another friend gave me her Yellow Version when my first one got stolen by a neighborhood kid, which was the one that ended up in the wash about a few months to a year later.

nice video, I always enjoy seeing these distribution carts same thing happened to my copy of Black when I was a kid, left it in the pocket of my shorts before my mom threw them in the wash, came out fine but the sticker's been yellowed and slightly faded ever since due to the water damage.

I realy miss these games, esp that they where not in 3D. I liked em as they where....

Since you asked.. story time. Or.. anecdote time? When I was 18, I had gotten home from work and left my wallet in my pocket when I washed my clothes. The next day, I dried my clothes in the morning and didn't realize my wallet was in my pants until after they dried. I found that all the money in my wallet had condensed to this hard wad of barely recognizeable cash. I had $200 in my wallet and it was gone forever.

i always assumed those events would just be run by hardware the stores had, but using a DS with a special cartridge actually makes a lot more sense and is pretty clever by nintendo. that way, they don't need to rely on stores having any particular hardware or the hardware in some stores not working correctly, ruining the event there. and they don't need to figure out how to communicate with the recipient DSs, as the store DS is already equipped for that, which only leaves the development of the cartridge, which would be rather trivial in the grand scheme of things.

Bro finna get kidnapped by Niantic

You low-key just told me Santa isn't real all over again😢. You mean Shiny entei, raikou and suicune didn't take turns visiting gamestop, hiding in the wires, waiting for you to call them with mystery gift?

Just cause you asked, I had my favorite "main" pokemon game, where I'd use it to collect all the pokemon, but then because I took it everywhere with me, eventually I forgot to take it out of my pockets, the game would get washed, and eventually the data became corrupted. Not much I could do, But I suppose it moved on to Pokemon Soul Silver being my new Main game that I'd transfer all my pokemon to.

Nintendo will come barging into your door like the FBI wanting their cartridge back 😅

Given the scarlet and violet games are about time travel doing this now feels incredibly fitting.

Looks like Pokemon Dev Kit.

You have infinite celebi which means you could have infinite profit in the form of poke transfer and the GTS, you could get nearly any pokemon you want out of this.

Rom dumps of the distribution events are out there. If you have an R4 cartridge or a modded 3DS you can change your console's date and distribute the pokemon to whatever game it's compatible with.

I genuinely wanna know what Nintendo does with these old cartridges. Its awesome that some of these slipped away from them and into the hands of the public 10 years later

I washed my old iPod shuffle so many times, but damn that this is so durable and I still got it to this day. Works like a charm still

I accidentally washed Pokemon white and black 2 yesterday 😂. But still working fine and Sticker still fully on.

used to play emerald on a silver gameboy all the time, I lost it for a week and couldn't remember where I left it. After playing in the yard, I saw it next to a tree id sit under. I figured it wouldn't work and took the game out to see how it was. Water poured out of the gameboy and wouldn't turn on, but the emerald still works to this day.

I wish I had my old games 😭 blue,silver were my go to. After that my teen thought I didn't need them anymore. Now I'm 30 and living my childhood again I guess...

Imagine having every single gift pokemon cartridge

Man I would love to have one of these event pokemon, unfortunately for me during the times that any of the events would happen, I was either unaware or I physically could not do anything to get them, I remember wanting Darkrai so bad so I could complete as much of Sinnoh as I possibly could

i accidentally left a screw in my pocket. it didn’t do anything to our washer thankfully

Old EB Games slave here. I was in charge of pokemon distribution for Miramichi, NB, Canada. We didn't have to return the cartridges like the USA Gamestops did. We just had to take a picture of it in the garbage and email it to our Nintendo rep. There was no lack of pokemon fans at our local community college so our "garbage" was always recycled by the teacher of the Game Design course. I wouldn't be surprised if EB Games is the reason so many where resold. I loved giving out pokemon. It was like being a cooler version of Santa. Definitely was the best part of the job

Cousin sent one of his cards through the wash by accident. It lost the sticker but surprisingly still worked. Thankfully havent had that happen here.

the cart that gave celebi, one lets you fight giovanni when you get the celebi in SS/HG or get zorua. but also has the legendary doggos (shiny too but their IVs suck) if you use the right dates. i would search serebii 2011 events to find the dates. edit: should have shown that giovanni fight

There are more of those cartridges that are available in Mercari but the prices are vile lol

Didn't someone figure out how these worked and use them to distribute a racist gengar?

“Forgot to take it out of his pants”…. 😂

(stops at 0.26) THAT WAS A THING?! HOW THE HELL DID EVERYONE FIND OUT?!?!? I NEVER KNEW!!!!

I once had a Pokewalker go into the washing machine. Nope, it doesn't work anymore.

You should set it up so when people walk to your house with a Pokemon gen 4 (or gen 2 cart) they get a celebi

You forgot to take it out of your pants? Little premature if ya ask me. 😂

I’m not entirely sure but I think the whole channel 7 thing on the bottom screen is not meant to be there There was a distribution ds made for these kind of things only featuring one screen and no buttons basically a ds made as cheap as possible for distribution events that would have these cartridges screwed into these ds

My pokemon blue has survived the washing machine as well. God bless! It was glitchy as hell for a day before being back to normal. Was honestly a very cool experience!

I actually washed a Gameboy cartridge in my pants, heck, I've washed a lot of things in my pants by mistake. Some still work, some stopped working.

Mostly I've just washed cash. When I was still in school I ended up washing a lot of ballpoint pens which causes them to explode so all my pants from that era had blue polka dots on the pocket liners.

I accidently left my injustice card collection in my pants and I don't know if they work

I still have a sticker on the back of my Pokémon Yellow cartridge that says 'Mew Inside' when I went to get the Mew promo years back here in Belgium.

Listen. If everyones allowed to say Delibird incorrectly, then I'm allowed to say Bibarel incorrectly.

Fun nintendo facts A nintendo employee is 100 meters from your location and closing Hand over the card Or start running

I've always wondered how they did this

I have constantly washed my Earbuds in the washing machine 😭

"unfortuantely thats not a thing anymore." pkhex: hello there.

Strange, the only thing that accidentally got washed were pants or (dress-)shirts containing paper handkerchiefs...made a right mess, but other than that it was at best some coins or even paper money, but no game cartridges or other important items!

I accidently had my pokewalker washed through the clothes washer. Luckily, the pokewalker survived after putting in rice to dry. Fully functioning today.

I didn't know these were so exspensive but the asking price on ebay rn is about 250 to 450 depending on what cartrige it is

Is there any way possible for you to be able to give those pokemon out for any through wi if ir something before the 3ds losses its connection to the internet? For the gen 4 games

be careful to not encounter nintendo ninjas at your home trying to get the cartdridge back!

"Blurs Pokemon in thumbnail" "Forgets to blur the name"

i used to run a rom of this on a flash cart to get event pokemon to people back in the day lol

Yes, literally me too with the beat carts! Left in pockets, the car, I’ve written on a few bare games with sharpie at the loss of their labels. (Pokémon White 2 on that list)

I put a 200 dollar watch in my pocket and it went back in there like ten more times until finally stopping. And then 2 years later it started working

My first realtime playing pokemon (understanding what to do) was on diamond i left it in my swim shorts and i went for a swim the second i jumped in i remembered and my hearth broke as a child, lucky my uncle felt really bad and hooked me up with a r4 card with all the pokemon games till that point, soon i started platinum and for me that changed pokemon for ever

I constantly leave earphones in my pocket and they get washed

I love how your camera just refuses to focus 0:44