Turns out, if you trade over a pkmn from HGSS to DPPt then back to HGSS, the met location will go from "far away place" to its original johto/kanto met location! It seems this information is nowhere on the internet because I don't think anyone cares about this type of stuff, but that's still awesome to know! I just did the experience today and I couldn't believe it was real, I was expecting that the met location will be stuck as "a far away place" forever but it didn't!!
The shiny kingdra that I found in a old hacked soulsilver savefile was transfered back to his orignal game, and the met location was revealed: Seafoam Island, which means there's still a possibility that it might be legit! :D
That's as far as I can go for it unfortunately, I can't send it to pkmn home due to the DS online service shutting down, so I'll probably never know if this guy is the real deal but that's fine.
Long story short
8 years ago I bought a SoulSilver savefile that was hacked to the brim, in this file there was a shiny Seadra, that I traded over to my diamond savefile in order to evolve him in Kingdra, it stayed there ever since
Past forward 2024 I'm trying to figure out if this Kingdra is legit by checking the met location but the met location now says "met at a far away place", because that's what happen when you trade a pokemon from johto to sinnoh and vice versa.
I can't remember for the life of me if the original met location was Seafoam Islands or Whirl Islands, I just know it was "something islands" for sure, and it has its importance: if this Kingdra was met in the Whirl Islands, it cannot exist and was hacked just like 70% of the rest of the pkmn in that file, period; if it was met at the Seafoam Islands, there's a possibility it is legit because the level it was encounterd (33) match with a encounter slot in that area (the only way to encounter a horsea at level 33 in the entire game is at this location; seadra at level 33 are never possible in this game).
Theorically, if I trade the Kingdra back to Johto, would the met location go back to it's original name or will it stay "a far away place"?? I could pull my games and my consoles right now and do the trade right now but i'll rather ask then go through the whole process and be desappointed lmaoo
i think i already know the answer, the location won't change back very probably, but i'm still gonna ask if there's anyone who ever traded a pkmn from johto to sinnoh then back to johto and cared enough about the met location.
please save me from this nightmare i've spent way too many hours trying to figure out if the shinies from this godforsaken savefile are legit or not, they probably aren't but i won't rest until i have the proof of that!!
team seafoam let's gooooooo!!
I'm going on a big 8 hours long car trip tomorrow but I'm so SO hyped to start working on the sketch of my mass attack once I'm home!! I hope i won't be too tired~
Also turns out my plan for my mass attack went well, I found enough OCs, contacted some owners and everything is going so well it's so great, I'm glad it didn't stress me out too much! My only little issue right now is that my tablet's (that I had for the past 8 years) cable broke a little bit and now there's exposed wires... I just found out about this today, I don't know how long it has been like that. I guess it happened because things don't last forever, I'm not too worried about it still, I use it 30 minutes ago and it's working great, I hope it will last at least for July, then I can work on getting a new cable.
I'll be mainly focus on my mass attack + won't have a proper place to settle down and draw so I'm not sure how much I'll have time/energy to work on regular attacks/revenges, but I can't wait to do that too that's for sure!!
tdlr: i'm an angry old man crying about fictional characters and artfight
Yeah that's just unfortunate but I should have expected it.
I have a plan to make a mass attack for this upcoming artfight, themed around a pretty speciphic pokemon theme. And I need a lot of OCs with this theme.
Finding those OCs was already complicated, because some weren't properly tagged so they couldn't show up in the research feature. Some were not showing up half of the time despite being tagged, but I guess it's a weird bug that hasn't been addressed to artfight yet? And some were only accessible through Toyhouse portals, which I hate because it's litteraly impossible to find with tags on artfight. Like I had to dig up the entirety of Toyhouse to THEN find a Artfight portal for those specific OCs.
Anyway I had my handful of OCs all neatly organized in a google doc, until I realise that Artfight was indeed coming and that not every single owners of those OCs would be active. Some have hidden some OCs and because I only saved a link to the character, I can't check who the owner is and can't ask to unhide the character anymore.
When your goal is to include 30-35 characters in a drawing where each individual characters need to accupy a very specific space, seeing that 10 of them are hidden or their owners won't be active this year really hurts.
Like I know it is what it is, but omg this mass attack was like my only purpose to join artfight at this point. I still want to make something else aside from the mass attack, but this WAS supposed to be the big thing that I thought of all year long. You don't know how many sleepless nights I had because I was just drawing in my head how the attack would look like. I was even thinking about recording the whole process and posting a speedpaint once it's over.
And now I have to wait and see, that's litteraly all I can do: see which OCs will desappear and how bad my mass attack is progressively going to look.
I don't know what emotion I'm feeling right now, I'm sad, hurt, angry and wanting to give up slightly crossed my mind for a few seconds. This is so dumb. I don't want to give up on it, I really don't, but if there's a just few characters left there's no point in this mass attack anymore (the visual key of artwork is that there's 2 groups of characters opposing each other, so I need a equal/almost equal amount on each side, and it's looking really bad, and no the characters can't switch sides).
I might need to look for a plan B at this point.
Heya people!
This summer is going to be my 3rd year of ArtFight, and I have some plans for my first ever mass attack!
It's going to be themed around Team Aqua and Team Magma from Pokémon!
Outside of the mass attack, I'm also looking for pokémon OCs in general to draw during breaks~
I need to gather as many Team Magma/Aqua OCs as I can. I have searched through the tags on ArtFight and TH but I haven't found enough OCs, so I'm seeking more OCs to add to my hitlist!
Anything works: humans, pokemon, humanoids, ferals, anthros. I’m looking for any team ranks too: grunts, admins, leaders, etc.
Also if you have a Groudon/Kyogre OC that you'd like to offer, feel free to do so (prefferably not fusions or humanoids/gijinka, but i'll look at anything!), because I'll need a Groudon and a Kyogre to fit the theme!
The only rule is that they must be Team Magma/Aqua themed or related, obviously! Only exception are the Groudon/Kyogre OCs: if they're not related to the evil teams but you still think they can fit into the story that's totally fine!
And of course you must be ok with your character(s) being included in a mass attack :)
Please link ArtFight profiles or portal profiles only so it's easier for me!
Here's my AF! https://artfight.net/~GOJISAMA
Ok thank you for reading byyyeeee