/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7167520]

If I start buying many carts of Pokemon blue and red, is there a chance I might end up with a legit Mew from back in the day in one of them?

[Anonymous No.7167526]

>>7167520
That would make you certifiably retarded. A chance? Yes. Likely? Hell no. Extremely extremely rare. Luck would not be on your side. They're just fucking pixels, man.

[Anonymous No.7167531]

Turn up your contrast and it's highly unlikely at this point. Gen 1 save batteries and Gen 2 save batteries are going kaput left and right so the odds of you finding one that still has a legit event Mew on it are next to none. Finding a Mew in general on a used copy isn't too terribly difficult though thanks to Mew Glitch. If you do see a Mew on a Gen 1 cart chances are it's been manipulated into the game via the glitch.

[Anonymous No.7167837]

>>7167520
what a trash shader, gameboys didn't look anything like that

[Anonymous No.7167841]

>>7167520
How exactly were you planning on differentiating between a "legit" mew and a game genie mew?

[Anonymous No.7167934]

>>7167841
OT number and name.

[Anonymous No.7167952]

>>7167934
uh huh, and what makes you think those can't be changed

[Anonymous No.7168482]

"Legit" mews are a novelty, it's so easy to hack a virtually identical one in that it doesn't matter at all.

Now the certificates, those are nifty, if you could find one.

[Anonymous No.7168550]

>>7168482
>virtually identical

you can use a $3 dollar piece of hardware to dump a save file from your PC onto a cartridge, at that point it's trivial to make it *literal identical* to a legit mew

[Anonymous No.7168554]

>>7167934
can easily be modified

[Anonymous No.7168772]

>hacking a mew
>not just doing the missingno-tier exploit to get one in the overworld as Jesus intended

[Anonymous No.7169764]

>>7167952
>>7168554
what are the chances some random kid who sold his old GB cart added a meticulously crafted hack Mew to make it most genuine "as a prank". Slim chances. If you happen to find a Mew on some random old cart that has a specific Mew OT, then you most likely stumbled upon a cart that received a real Mew from one of the events in 1999/2000. Either that, or clones of originals, which is still neat.

[Anonymous No.7169770]

i'm pretty sure there's a Mew hiding under the truck

[Anonymous No.7169775]

>>7169770
it's rumoured that Mew was in the very first patch of the japanese Red and Green (the same one that had the original lavander town music). Good luck finding one of those carts from 1996 though

[Anonymous No.7169792]

>>7169775
>rumoured
Sounds like bullshit to me. Where would they even put it.

[Anonymous No.7169827]

>>7167520

i sold my copy of Red a few years ago to a local retro vidya store (along with a stack of other games) and it had a mew on the save file

so yeah there's a slim chance, if you're ever in Western Canada i suppose

[Anonymous No.7169881]

>>7167520
Almost all of them are dead.

[Anonymous No.7170174]

>>7169764
this is beyond retarded

do you realize the amount of work and cost of hardware it would be to actually transfer the mew if you found one?

you would need:
>overpriced original cart
>GB memory backup unit
>overpriced flashcart
>gameboy
>3ds with custom firmware
>pokemon bank
>pokemon home
>a copy of sh/sw


jesus christ just do the glitch in an emulator and save yourself the trouble
or buy a clone of a legit mew that came from the pokeball plus

or even easier use powersave and get the event mew

mythicals are the single most annoying thing about the entire franchise

[Anonymous No.7170213]

>>7167520
Lower than you can imagine since most of them have had their internal memory battery shit out.

[Anonymous No.7170218]

>>7168482
Looks like some cheap shit from a kinkos.

[Anonymous No.7170394]

>>7167531
Gen 1 save batteries still have a good chance of having some juice left in them because there wasn't a clock to strain them. My Yellow cart still works.

[Anonymous No.7170398]

>op actually believes that game save backup hardware is some kind of rare sorcery

[Anonymous No.7170552]

>>7169827
if Ontario I'm gonna start buying copies

[Anonymous No.7170569]

>>7170394
So does my Blue cart. Doesn't mean my Red and Yellow aren't dead alongside it. Most Gen 1 games will have had their original save batteries die at this point. They're old, it happens.

[Anonymous No.7170621]

Literally 1 second on google

https://digiex.net/threads/pokemon-gen1-yoshira-mew-red-distribution-cart-save-download.15327/

[Anonymous No.7170631]

>>7170621
yah but see the problem is that the one I want was distributed 20 years ago

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.7170632]

Man, fuck a Mew. The real Holy Grail of gen 1 Pokemon is Terry.

[Anonymous No.7170637]

>>7170631
It's from 1999, read the thing.

[Anonymous No.7170657]

>>7170637
but I want the plastic that was 20 years ago as well

[Anonymous No.7170665]

>>7170632
Imagine being so desperate for attention you keep changing your obnoxious namefag persona to avoid everyone’s filters.

Just accept the filter like a man.

[Anonymous No.7170670]

>>7170394
my yellow cart stopped working in like 2013, it still plays but cant save game anymore. only good if i wanna try a speedrun type game

[Anonymous No.7170796]

>>7170665
Imagine being this autistic, man, shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.7170832]

>>7170670
You can replace the battery you know, just need to buy a new one and solder it in place of the old one

[Anonymous No.7170856]

>>7170796
Thanks for turning off your trip. Second best thing to you taking your own life, but small victories and all that.

[Anonymous No.7172478]

>>7170213
Actually gen 1 carts are mostly going fairly strong still. Gen 2 are the ones that are all dead because of the constantly running RTC.

[Anonymous No.7172494]

>>7167520
Had a legit one in my blue cart but I checked a couple years ago during the whole Pokemon Go fad and the battery had died.

[Anonymous No.7172520]

>>7169770
Someone made a romhack where Mew actually is under the truck, and invented a "virus" that causes the hack to spread to other copies of the game. So if you trade with a copy of the game infected by the virus then Mew will be under the truck in your game too.

[Anonymous No.7172556]

The batteries that die are the ones on Gold and Silver due to the internal clock. You can change it if you can get a gamebit screwdriver to open the cart.
The Red and Blue batteries, some might be dead, but most aren't. Anyway I recommend transferring all your pokemon to Pokemon Stadium.

[Anonymous No.7172571]

>>7172556
Well I guess my family has shit luck because my blue, my sister's red and my brother's yellow are all dead.

[Anonymous No.7172575]

>>7167526
Also consider dead batteries

[Anonymous No.7172594]

>>7172571
I guess weather or humidity can affect in those things. My Blue cart is still alive after all these years, as is my Link's Awakening cart.

[Anonymous No.7172789]

>>7172594
That would make sense since our childhood home was basically an episode of Hoarders.

[Anonymous No.7173002]

>>7167520
Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't legit Mews only done in Japan? The NA and EU verisons probably weren't compatible either. Your best bet is buying Pocket Monsters Red/Green

[Anonymous No.7173015]

>>7173002
>Correct me if I'm wrong
You're wrong. There were legit Mews outside Japan. See >>7168482

[Anonymous No.7173030]

>>7173002
I got mine from going to some pop up thing at Eaton Centre as a kid. Not sure if they did that in Europe but if they went to Canada they for sure did the US as well.

[Anonymous No.7173037]

Real event Mews are pretty common but I never see any Celebis. Did Celebi get a certificate too?

[Anonymous No.7173063]

>>7173037
Who cares? Why would you play after gen 1?

[Anonymous No.7173067]

>>7170632
Terry?

[Anonymous No.7173068]

>>7173037
You could get Celebis from NYPC.

[Anonymous No.7173069]

>>7173067
Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury was rumoured to be a secret pokemon in Red and Blue.
Don't ask, it's a 90s thing you wouldn't understand.

[Anonymous No.7173071]

>>7173067
Terry is the Nidorina you could get in an in-game trade.

[Anonymous No.7173186]

>>7169827
You regret selling it dont you

[Anonymous No.7173309]

>>7167520
i gamesharked one on there back in the day. there is some convoluted speedrun glitch to get one now

[Anonymous No.7173448]

So this is the power of Pokemon autism.

[Anonymous No.7173553]

>>7173448
>So this is the power of
love this /v/ meme. PS4 right?