As far as I can remember the reason why obtaining Black luster soldier through that password on your pocket station doesn't work is because every Pocket station has a specific ID and depending on that number some cards are obtainable and some aren't obtainable through that function. Basically some cards are exclusive for some pocket stations depending on their ID. And this makes an about one in 400,000 chance that your pocket station has the correct ID for Black luster soldier to be possible to be obtained on that pocket station. I remember reading this on that forum and I'm sure you can still find that information. I also remember some player and altering the idea of the pocket station through some computer stuff I don't know what it was and he was able to basically change the id and get any card was possible. I guess the reason they made it like this is because they could make these cards very rare so only one in 400,000 players could have Black luster soldier. Of course that is excluding any duplication shenanigans. Don't quote me on this information but I'm quite sure it's something along these lines and it this information can still be found on the forum.
I knew that Pocket Station was a thing because I'd heard speedrunners mention it in their videos, but this is the first time I've seen its features explained. Cheers! I'm really looking forward to the next video in the series.
I love videos like these honestly, deep diving into these long forgotten peripherals, especially when it's for something that most people may not even know exists
It's almost sad that so many games from the sorta 2000s era had a TON of content that's really annoying to access these days, either due to being linked to gimmicky peripherals that are hard to find, or early online downloadable content where you need to rely on a fan-hosted server (looking at you, Dragon Quest 9) Great video, man, keep it up.
Let's be thankful that playstation stopped at the pocket station and didnt do a Nintento to introduce card readers, light sensors, beyblade controllers etc.
That's what really pissed me of of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, I would've liked to play that game with my brother, but we couldn't because we didn't have a GBA and the cable to connect it to the GameCube
Two things: 1. Great explanation, I know of this peripheral since I was a kid seeing it in Spanish magazines from back in the year 2000, and they flat out told people to either import or just forget it altogether due it only working on a Japanese copy/Region PS1. Seeing how it thoroughtly worked for FM it's something pretty cool to see, always wondered how it worked, thank you! 2. Dude, your arms are massive, you can give Chris Redfield a run for his money! Give me your gym routine! Hahaha
1. I can say i never saw it in any Australian magazine, importing anything was simply not worth it 😅 2. Gosh, truthfully, i unlocked an adult body in my mid 20s before that i was genuinely a rapid metabolism stick 😅 My secret? Years and years of beyblade
1998 - 2001 the era of gaming where we got the Sega Dreamcast VMU, Sony Pocket Station and the Nintendo Pokemon Mini. Tiny LCD gaming was at it's peak.
If you're lucky, most of the modern remotes have to be manually switched to IR mode or to a signal that resonates with a code... only my PS2 remote still works 😅
I vaguely knew about the PocketStation as a kid because I read somewhere (maybe a magazine?) about connecting one to Final Fantasy VIII to get extra items and stuff.
I'm pretty sure Final Fantasy VIII tells you about the pocket station in game. It even shows up on the save file menu if I'm right. The translators did their job if no one else did in localizing the thing.
I recently beat the game using the 15 card mod for the first time. I never had a PS1 and only got to play the game at a cousin's place when I was a kid. It's so good that I only now actually played the game, and with a modded version. I would have probably left that game with a bad case of hate if I had to face the Final 6 at an age where the concept of hard grinding in video games like that A/S tech for Megamorph was foreign to me.
8:55 “..or woman” tihihi🤭💅 Anywho number.. Do I still have a PS1? No Do I have a pocketstation? No Did I watch, like and comment to support Jon_Oh’s video? HELL YEAH! I have been watching your yugi series for quite a while now, I even have two of your videos downloaded to watch it when I am offline 😂 shamed to say I have only commented a few times! Looking forward to the future uploads: Especially the fairy/female deck😍 Also, we would love to hear Sara join you again in future videos. It’s been a while 🤍 …It’s 2:00 am here in Iraq. 🔥👁️🔥
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 I thought about that while writing the comment, I still have my PS2, but don’t have any YuGiOh FM Disk😭 Although I have the game on my PC and play it through an Emulator.
You know it’s funny, because the OCG wasn’t even officially released yet during this time. And Forbidden Memories was definitely made during a time Konami was experimenting with the game.
Thank you Jon_Oh for this complete tutorial of the PocketStation. It'll help everyone that wants to do it legitimately. You win *victory music imitation* a Winged-Beast run comment (I tried it and, equip-wise, those birds are all over the place early game)
@@Jon_Oh Heishin 1 does have some 2k early birds before tackling the night owls of the magi late game (and Bird Keeper Chin Guy and Sentient bird perch Atenza are holding the rest of the big guys, including the best chicken of the game, Crimson Sunbird as a card)
So this is what Seto and Heishin were doing while you were in the future. Constantly grinding cards with each other with little LCD screens. Nightmare must have been doing it with himself all that time he was locked away in some other realm. Of course he had two of them. He has two memory cards. That's why you fight him twice.
Are you sure about what you said at 4:42? I think it counts the number of times you've obtained a card with the remote communication method. It doesn't check if you have it in your library. I cannot confirm that though, for not having a pocketstation, but I read the save data structure and it suggests that.
I'll have to do a re-check on that as my data is maxed out on it. Unless its a limitation on Australian remote signals being patchy at best to work with this thing
Listen Jon and listening closely. you have a very nice speaking voice and it is a great voice to fall asleep too, so I require a YuGiOh Forbidden Memories facts video to fall asleep too...please.
I will consider it as a "Plan B" video when run editing spans over 1 month. As for lore... well i think i'd likely end up jumping between the Manga and this game as they follow a similar timeline in the ancient egypt arcs. The Character runs will definitely have more trivia on the plot
Nice Tutorial, Honestly never knew this existed until watching your vids... I think you said you were looking for the catch phrase for Dark hole in one of your previous videos... I think you said one that was rather catchy " Dark hole for hole"? I think it was, not 100% sure. Here is a suggestion if you haven't settled on one yet.. "Dark hole for the Troll".
As a 24 year old veteran of games that played FBM when I was a kid and also an avid player of the tcg, I find the dedication of understanding and engineering ways to trivialize FBM so fascinating and heartwarming. Very interesting info and very good video.
Aww thank you! Theres probably tons of playstation gimmicks out there worth exploring. PSP peripherals definitely had some little oddities like a TV tuner
Man I remember wanting a Pocketstation for Digimon World 2 since it had a feature for it! Alas younger me will never be able to get it... Speaking of how much did you get those Pocket Stations for? They remind me so much of the old Digivices! Also the card names you were reading when you booted up the Pocket Station was Meteor Black Dragon and Blue Eyes White Dragon!
@@Jon_Oh man $100 huh? Younger would have been locked in a closet for asking my parents that! Ah shame for DW2... apparently the Pocketstation only works on the Japanese version just like Yu-Gi-Oh!
If i will ever get a PocketStation in my life i have a tutorial to watch again and again. Everytime Jon-Oh says ANYWHO, lightning will strike in a random spot on earth errrmmm i mean Duel Ground.
@@Jon_Oh Yeah, most of the times mystery gift gave berries, but it was an interesting way to get different trainers in that battle house in veridian city (including glitch trainers)
Hey jonoh im wondering if you know about the disk swap method with a moded ps1 that reads japanese and north american games you can switchs disks american to japanese version before you win the duel and can win all of the unobtainable cards in the game using this method im currently up to 704 cards in the library thought this might be a cool concept for a video
I never had the ability to get that to work (likely due to me being PAL region), i heard that is a valid strat to get cards. SImply lack the current resources to make a video on it :(
Hey man! I have a strange idea for a video and am curious if you would be interested. You would have to beat the game with the same rules you use, but you cannot attack the opponents field. You have to have effective attacks or have the opponent suicide themselves. Decent idea?
No direct attacks (monster only)? Or no attacking in general? (ie spam the self-ko trick). It can be done, it will be so slow to pull off though... i'll keep that idea in mind when i feel sadiatic enough to try it (genuinely think i might)
@@Jon_Oh Do you remember how in the first season of yugioh they couldn’t attack the field directly? They could only attack other monsters in attack mode! It would be difficult in the early parts of the run because the opponents monsters are so weak. You would basically have to bait them into attacking you. You could destroy cards in defense mode, but you would only be able to decrease their life points from attacking monsters in attack mode. I’ve also had this idea where someone does a play through of the game where they are not allowed to throw or waste cards. Almost as though you have to play the game the way the AI plays. You can only use multiple cards in a hand if it fuses. Tell me what you think!
Hey @Jon_Oh you know you say shadi is a pushover of duelist and yeah i agree, well ive just had him fuse into a bloody pumpking which i didnt even think he was capable of
I think i spliced in a clip, if i didnt, the Sea Serpent video should have that in its intro. Its quite literally renaming the file, the data is actually the same
oh boy, sure would love to get a ps2 and 2 pockets, but I am happy that there mods that put those cards in the drop table but I still want to.get at least one pocket station
@@Jon_Oh 5 months later and right now I have 2 PocketStations, a japanese copy of the game AND the guide... -A thing that is happening is the Communication Fusion not "working", as in "I sent all the cards to get Zera the Mant and it just transfered the 4 card to the 2nd PocketStation". BEUD and Gate Guardian, the very first and second transfers worked, tho. Maybe there is something related to a "cooldown" for fusions? For now it's fine but, as I wish to have at least one copy of each card this can be a hinderance.- -Also, I simply cannot even -*-try-*- to make Magician of Black Chaos because the program does not let me select the ritual card (721), now that's weird.- ~ EDIT: Never mind this part. Communication fusion is different from the rituals. SOME rituals are also comm. fusions, but it seems not all of them are enabled. Well, back to praying to RNGesus for getting them via IR...
Another question, are all JP versions of YFM region locked? Ive been playing the EN version on my PS2 and would like to know if i need to get something different to make this work.
Yes they are, both the save data and actual game a region specific. Hence why i had to rename the Japanese save to a US/PAL save in order to use it (using a modded ps2)
@Jon_Oh just asking but would you be willing to send me your memory card with your save of YFM so I could trade them to my memory card? If so, we could negotiate some form of payment for your time
Such a cool device that boosted quite a few games, aaaaaand not released outside of japan. Yugioh obviously impacted, but so was Legend of Dragoon. Game has an item slot total of 32 initially, and a pocket station exclusive minigame wpuld have doubled that...
I'm almost sure there is a way obtaining blackluster ritual whithout this device. I had the european pal version of the game, in spanish, and i had it, and i swear to god that i didnt made a single cheat back im the day! Somebody has info about this?
I open all cards 722 in usa copy and now I have orginal one game japan version and there some different in japan like some cards censored and some guard Simon Muran plz any discover dark magic ritual ?
It will be interesting because all the strong dragons come from later duelists with S Ranks. Challenge will be to actually win them with sub 1600 monsters
Been aware of that channel since the insect video came out. Just leaving things as they are, i think its best we do our own thing so the comment sections stay positive on both ends
Thanks for the vid jon. And a big fat no thanks to japan. I was considering on buying one, but now i see theres no point. Hell, even for the japanese, it seems like such a pain in the ass to use. To the point where i feel like it wouldnt even be worth it. Im so glad japan has finally put this practice to bed. Sad that it took until after diamond & pearl to happen.
Not all that difficult. The game doesn't let you duel or trade if you have the same player name. You need 3 memory cards to duplicate and all you're really doing is continuously copying Card 1 to Card 3 and trading everything across to Card 2 then back to Card 1
I remember I was so angry at the fact that the enemies had access to cards I didn't and all the cards were in the game already, shielded by some useless cash grab peripheral, so I did what any woman worth their salt would do, finished the game just to show it could be done, then used gameshark to unlock everything... I mean, if the enemies of the game and konami wouldn't play fair, why should I?
@Dewani makes you smarter than I am. I couldn't even figure out how to use the cheating thing I had. Was a disc in a package that was too small for my computer's disc drive.
