[GBA] Old Sea Map Mew event through Mystery Gift injection (Pokémon Emerald)

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Published on December 8, 2021 4:08:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXkmHpnrJC4

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Pokémon Emerald (2004)

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The Old Sea Map event to trigger a wild battle against Mew was exclusively distributed to Japanese copies of Pokémon Emerald. Sadly, despite all other event tickets (the Mystic, Aurora and Eon Tickets) being distributed, the Old Sea Map was not, leaving this rather unique sequence with the only wild Mew in the series unused in the Western versions. Of course, the event itself remains in the game's code, just normally inaccessible outside of using cheats to buy the Old Sea Map or to warp to Faraway Island. For this video, I used a tool that can inject Mystery Gifts into save files of Generation 3 games. While this is mostly used for preservation of official Mystery Gift events, allowing you to acquire event items in good-as-legitimate condition long after these events were last held, the tool also allows for the usage of custom Mystery Gift injections, with the sample provided being an implementation of the Old Sea Map event for western Pokémon Emerald copies. This allows you to pretty much perfectly simulate what this event WOULD have looked like were it ever actually distributed for Western copies.

I suspect that the Mew you can catch through this, very similarly to the Azure Flute/Hall of Origin Arceus from Generation 4, would NOT be Pokémon Bank legal. Consult other methods if you want to get a Mew in Generation 3 that would be compatible with that application. I do believe there is no reason you would not be able to transfer this Mew at least all the way up to Black and White 2, but it'd have to stay there. Basically, you should only really do this event for the fun and novelty of it.

This is very likely going to be the last Pokémon video of mine for the time being.

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