Pokémon GSC's Mystery Gift

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Pokémon GSC's Mystery Gift Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:20:24 2015 No.2366796 [Reply] [Original]

/vp/ sucks so I'll ask here: how was Mystery Gift like in GSC? I never used it because I don't have a GBC, just a GB, so I don't know.

Bulbapedia has info but it may not be 100% accurate: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mystery_Gift#Generation_II

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:29:16 2015 No.2366816 File: 138 KB, 625x458, 4[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I remember the novelty of doing it without having to have any physical connection of the GameBoys was way cooler than anything I ever got from it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:32:03 2015 No.2366817 >>2366816 I wonder why Nintendo didn't readd the IR port on the GBA.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:33:07 2015 No.2366823 >>2366817 Because Gamefreak has a habit of removing cool shit between Pokemon generations. Gen 3 lost a ton of great stuff from Gen 2.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:38:50 2015 No.2366830

>>2366817
Probably because the thing didn't seem to be used for much at all. I don't remember using it for anything other than Pokemon and many games just have their own shit added on directly into the cart, like an IR sensor for Robopon. (Also features a battery to keep a clock running to alarm you about in game events.)
I'm sure other games used it, but there wasn't really justifiable reasons to keep it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:01:24 2015 No.2366858

>>2366823
Yeah but RSE and FRLG not having cross-generational trading was more due to hardware and software limitations than anything. The time system and daytime cycles could've been readded properly, though (FRLG doesn't even have the time system like RGBY).

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:38:51 2015 No.2367037 File: 76 KB, 800x800, $_3 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll let you know in a week once the one I ordered arrives

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:48:22 2015 No.2367057 >>2367037 I'm jelly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 23:18:40 2015 No.2367107 >>2367057 thanks, it's my birthday present to myself. only downside is its coming from Thailand..

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 23:37:18 2015 No.2367148

Mission Impossible had a fun IR feature. It could copy IR signals like one used in a typical remote control. You could basically use your GBC to control your TV if you wanted. The range of signal was pretty decent too.

Back in school we all used to mystery gift each other every lunchtime. I got a few plants, posters, carpets and even the Surfing Pikachu doll. Always wanted one of the non-Snorlax big dolls. One guy I know did get the big Lapras doll. Another fun thing was that you could fight the last person you mystery gifted with at the training hall in Viridian City.

With G/S/C you could only MG with up to five people a day. Then there was the TCG which had a shittier equivalent of MG called Card Pop. There was no refresh either, so you could only ever Card Pop with someone once.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 01:27:14 2015 No.2367328 File: 1.12 MB, 2592x1936, pokemonpikachu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2366816 Pretty much this. I don't remember ever getting anything spectacular but the whole wireless link was cool. Also posting my Pocket Pikachus

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 02:48:19 2015 No.2367397 >>2366796 I believe everything is correct in that link except the limit, IIRC, the limit was 1 mystery gift per day.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 03:18:11 2015 No.2367425

>>2367148
>Card Pop

Fuck that shit, you had to use GameShark to ever hope of getting the Card Pop-only Mew and Venusaur cards. And of course there was a deck builder machine that had a deck for them, and of course it needed two of each.

I only ever card popped with two people, my brother and this random kid in a hotel that I met on vacation.

On that note though, I'd love for a new TCG game on the 3DS. They could just put Card Pop into Streetpass. Unfortunately they never will do this because they have the crappy freemium PC game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 07:13:04 2015 No.2367640 >>2367397 Are you sure? >Mystery Gift can be used a maximum of five times a day, receiving no more than one gift from each player.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 11:03:14 2015 No.2367858 Now that I think of it, are there any emulators that support mystery gift or the IR port at all? I think there was talk of TGB dual supporting it six or seven years ago, but I definitely never got it to work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 11:11:21 2015 No.2367872 File: 1.25 MB, 1366x768, Brindge 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >This whole time I believed you could get Mew from Mystery Gift >Mfw I realized this has been a lie my whole life and I just realized it

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 11:35:37 2015 No.2367914 >>2367872 You could get Mew-themed mail (Mirage Mail, まぼろしメール) from an event in Japanese Crystal's Mobile System GB.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 11:39:22 2015 No.2367920 File: 2 KB, 160x144, Mirage_Mail.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2367914 http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mail#Generation_II http://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Mirage_Mail.png

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 11:53:04 2015 No.2367941 >>2366858 RGBY didn't have a time system. You're thinking GSC.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:06:24 2015 No.2368140 >>2367941 Reread the post.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:11:18 2015 No.2368154

I did it with friends, I think you could only do it once per day, and you'd mostly receive stuff to decor your own room in the game. I remember getting a N64 once.

Then my Gold cartidge's battery died (happened to almost everyone else at some point, I'm sure), so it's all gone.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 15:09:37 2015 No.2368256 >>2368154 Wait, so it's really only once per day? >>2367640

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 15:13:17 2015 No.2368267 it might have been five people a day, most of us are not japanese and live close enough to five different niggas to go and mystery gift with each other.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 17:02:15 2015 No.2368523 >>2368256 Once per individual per day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 17:12:05 2015 No.2368550 >>2368256 Ahhh, i missed the fine text. Once per individual makes sense, i could never do it with more than one game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:59:58 2015 No.2369892 >>2367037 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 05:45:26 2015 No.2371584 >>2367037 bump

Anonymous Tue Apr 28 15:48:40 2015 No.2372239
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Pocket Pikachu 2 can be very useful if you have Crystal. If you send 0 watts over MG you get Eon Mail, which can be traded for Revive as many times as you want, giving you unlimited funds.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 18:38:38 2015 No.2372490 >>2372239 Crystal but not Gold and Silver?

Anonymous Tue Apr 28 19:21:22 2015 No.2372569

>>2372490
Crystal is a GBC exclusive, and therefore it could expect the infrared port needed for Pocket Pikachu 2. GS was also compatible with the Game Boy and Super Game Boy, except for their Korean release because the extra RAM was needed to process the way Hangul/Chosungul works (it's indeed an alphabet, but letters are organized into syllable blocks which used to be a bitch for computers to handle if I recall correctly.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 20:10:54 2015 No.2372653 >>2372569 I distinctly remember the Pocket Pikachu being compatible with Gold/Silver, which also supports Mystery Gift (assuming you're playing it on a GBC). so, the trick probably works in G/S too

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 01:19:50 2015 No.2373180 >>2372569 >>2372653 Gold and Silver definitely support Mystery Gift but you can't unlock it on a Game Boy or Super Game Boy. Bulbapedia explains this in more detail a bit. There's also a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/KZ6Y3PMLBqg

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 15:00:49 2015 No.2373992 >>2367037 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 15:29:59 2015 No.2374036 >>2366830 Mission Impossible for GBC includes a universal remote and "secret message sender" that uses the IR port.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:05:49 2015 No.2374424 File: 568 B, 40x31, pokemon pikachu 2 sleep faceup 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just remembered I digitized some of the sprites back then, by hand. Took days and lots of squinting

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:07:00 2015 No.2374427 File: 568 B, 40x31, pokemon pikachu 2 sleep faceup 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2374424

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:08:13 2015 No.2374430 >>2366816 Is that what the black strip was for? Never remember owning a game that utilized it (not that I had much). My first thought was some sort of Autobot/Decepticon logo heat pad thing that never worked :<

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:08:27 2015 No.2374431 File: 622 B, 40x31, pokemon pikachu 2 playing snes 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2374427

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:10:57 2015 No.2374435 File: 627 B, 40x31, pokemon pikachu 2 playing snes 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2374431 there's more but dont feel like posting now. If anyone wants just ask

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:47:19 2015 No.2374490 >>2374036 >universal remote Does this mean what I think it means? Are you serious?

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:45:58 2015 No.2374580

I can't believe none of you fools mentioned that the last person you do Mystery Gift with has their trainer and team loaded into the Battle Club (or something to that effect) where you face 'CAL' every day. My friends and I did that shit all the time as a loophole for us not having link cables. You could do it between GS and Crystal even with the female trainer, but she'd don the male sprite in GS.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:27:52 2015 No.2374675 >>2374580 I did not mention that because I could only mystery gift with myself and made teams of high level chanseys to grind on, I felt really lonely while doing that

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 01:53:57 2015 No.2374938 >>2374424 >>2374427 >>2374431 >>2374435 Hey man, these are cool. Good work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 02:16:51 2015 No.2374954 File: 76 KB, 500x437, gameboycarts_robopon_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2374490 Robopon had a similar feature, albeit built into the game card. There is also a Tamagochi game with the same type of cartridge.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 03:47:17 2015 No.2376987 >>2374675 That sucks, Anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 06:34:02 2015 No.2377116 >>2366830 It seems to have come back into vogue though, and now the 3DS has an ir port again. Not sure what it does though.

Anonymous Fri May 1 08:56:14 2015 No.2377189

>>2374954
Robopon's was the opposite - you'd use anything that sends IR signals (i.e. remote controls) and point it at the sensor and it'd unlock chests in game, up stats, etc.
Mission Impossible actually let you use the game/gameboy as a remote control by storing the data from the signal and being able to send it back out again.

Anonymous Fri May 1 14:10:36 2015 No.2377542
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just arrived today, got here a lot faster than I anticipated. It's in moonspeak so I don't understand the prompts, but it's great so far from what I can figure out. I can't find my Game Boy Color right now but when I do, I'll let you guys know what happens--I have GSC and I'll use it on each to see if there's any differences between the gifts they receive (I have my doubts).
going to use this as my new pedometer instead of my N3DS, also going to be able to use it while running which is a plus.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:03:38 2015 No.2377874 >>2377542 Where did you order it from?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 18:48:22 2015 No.2378031 >>2377874 ebay, I had lost an auction for the bundle of Pokemon Pikachu 1 and 2 and settled for this one after

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 19:13:44 2015 No.2378067 >>2378031 Oh, alright, thanks. How much did you pay for it?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 19:22:20 2015 No.2378081 >>2378067 $30 shipped (shipping was $10)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 20:29:45 2015 No.2378183 just found this and it's kinda relevant I guess http://hackaday.com/2014/05/03/game-boy-vs-electronic-shelf-labels/ this guy used a modified GBC to change price displays using IR

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 05:11:01 2015 No.2378737 File: 276 KB, 1000x750, _P1040028s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2377542

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:58:23 2015 No.2380783 >>2377542 Have you found your GBC?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 04:48:36 2015 No.2380826 >>2380783 no ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 20:21:20 2015 No.2381947 >>2380826 Well, fuck.

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