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Weirdwolf <weirdwolf<gtcagtacatac>@hotmail wrote:
> John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in news:k8adnSQ6pr5xus7fRVn-
> qQ@rcn.net:
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>>Between these games (and Colosseum), is it possible to get all pokemon?
>>I just read how you can get the GSC starters in Emerald (one of them, at
>>least), and it seems up til now you couldn't do that. I thought the
>>point of FR/LG was to allow access to all the old pokemon, but now I'm
>>wondering if there are some that just aren't in the GBA games.
>>
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> No, at least it depends upon where you live.
> Mew and celebi aren't available to my knowledge so far,(Celebi was
> available in Japan as a bonus disk to coloseum?),
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the 'regular' pokemon,
not the very rare, hard-to-get ones. Mew is available in Emerald through
a promotional ticket, as is Deoxys and Ho-oh. Jirachi is available
through the Colosseum bonus disc.
But mainly I was wondering about the pokemon from GSC, since those games
haven't been remade to the GBA.
and in the U.K. at least
> you can't get deoxys or Lugia as they both require tickets handed out at
> events in the U.S. but unavailable here. As is the ability to get both
> Latios and latias if you only have one of R or S.
> Jirachi is available only to people who have a copy of pokemon channel and
> have completed it, but you need to have gone through the elite four in R/S
> and can only get one per game pack.
> The fact that you can't get the pokemon available to at least some of the
> population over here probably leads to more cheating than any difficulty in
> the game and is very very bloody annoying.
> Ted