AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Mostly my "this is definitely hacked" tells are from Diamond and Pearl, when Action Replay was a big thing and super easy with preinstalled D/P cheats.

but yeah that Raikou is definitely not legit. 99% of the time I would say anything shiny you get through wonder trade is not legit, but I can't really fault people for putting them up there because put yourself in the mind of a child who just threw up a Zigzagoon or something and gets a Ho-oh back. You'd be overjoyed.

But it's a pain for people who want to play the game/metagame legit. :I

But when you say "basically every ribbon", do you mean "all the contest ribbons"? Because that is pretty doable, and it IS possible to max contest stats, I believe. It's a lot of work, though, and there is no way in hell most people would wonder trade it away.

But if the list of ribbons is absurd, then it's most likely hacked in SOME way. It isn't too big of a deal, really. Trackless Forest is where you are supposed to get it. If they did hack, then it was probably just a "everything is shiny" hack. Or they didn't hack and are just a generous person and I'm a pessimistic loser. It could go either way.

It has a bunch of ribbons which I'm fairly certain are only obtainable from earlier games. Not so far-fetched if it was transferred all the way from one of the original gen 3 games, but it can't have been.
The ribbons it has that aren't obtainable within the gen 6 games are the Sinnoh Champion Ribbon and another Champion Ribbon with no region attached to it. It can't be for Johto, because I played the hell out of HeartGold and don't recognise that ribbon.
The other ribbons it has are possible, but only through a crapton of time and effort.

After checking Serebii, it doesn't have every ribbon, but it does have a lot of them. The Champion Ribbon I didn't recognise can only be received in the original R/S/E and FR/LG, and since it was caught in Trackless Forest it can't have been transferred.

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I wish Nintendo had better filtering and stuff like that for the online trade systems.

Like GTS people asking for a Level 1 Suicune or something.
If it can't happen legitimately at any point in any game in the franchise, it shouldn't even be allowed. I mean, there aren't that many legendary Pokemon to pop in a couple restrictions for each of them. And event ones already can't be put on the GTS.

Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow incoming on 3DS eShop February 27th!

Only changes they've made to the games being confirmed is wireless trading/fighting. Dunno if they'll patch glitches or fix the ghost weakness.

Getting Yellow, definitely.

fucking yes <3

Yellow for sure. I loved fighting Team Rocket (as in anime Team Rocket) as a kid, gonna be all over that.

Eh, I'm content with FireRed and LeafGreen
The trading is wireless but not online so it may spark more trade meet-ups like The Good Old DaysTM but I'm not particularly interested in going back down that road
Plus, the old GB games have aged pretty poorly. Now that we have Running Shoes in the games, not having them makes the game s l o w a s h e l l, and the lack of variety in types and moves that the new games have is going to be annoying.
But that's just little old pessimist me, feel free to get nostalgic you crazy kids

I like the Pokemon Picross game they announced, the free-to-start model they've been pushing for all the spinoffs is a little unsettling but it seems that much like the other games the microtransactions aren't very invasive, so I'm going to play it. I've never played a Picross game before so this is the perfect way to try it out.

I used to have FireRed, but it was stolen along with my blue classic DS.

I've still got my original Red, Blue, Yellow, Firered and Leafgreen.
But if I download Yellow, I can play it easily with a backlit screen.

I just want to feed my nostalgia. :p

Plus

I still have my Red, Blue and Yellow Cartridges, so I'm not sure if I should double dip for these games.
Gold, Silver and Crystal, however. (Technically, I still have these cartridges too, but their internal batteries are dead.)

If they do GSC, I want mystery gift functionality

Oh man, after this they need to bring out G/S/C as well. If I can get them I'll grab Yellow and Gold and relive my childhood, since I had both Gold and Silver once, but lost both of them and both of my GBCs. I still have my first ever game, which was my Yellow cartridge... but I have nothing to play it on. By now the internal battery might be dead, so all my progress would be gone...

With the wireless connectivity added, it'd actually make it possible for me to complete the original Pokedex though. I was never able to do that since I never owned a Link Cable.

Man, link cables. I think I still have my GBC one somewhere. I have a weird fancy one that connects a GBA to another GBA or a GCN. I used to grind levels on Mt. Battle. <3 the good old days

I'm either getting Blue or Red, since I have Yellow as a cartridge.

I have Red, Blue, and Yellow cartridges. >.> In Yellow, though, you get all 3 starters. IIRC, though, Pikachu is a little bitch and doesn't want to evolve. :I