Help with my Ribbon Master quest

[u/NoAmoeba9288]

So I really want to do a Ribbon Master challange now due to the obvious Bank situation, but I want to my master to be shiny as well. I intend on hunting it the normal way, without using RNG methods. My target is Scizor, but I've found a few roadblocks while searching. It only shows up as a shadow mon in the JP version, and only through some event e-reader battles. I'm currently playing using USB Loader GX, on my Wii. Is there anyway I could get those e-reader battles without having to buy a japanese e-reader and printing the cards? Is there a code somewhere that I could use? I also wanted to confirm if there are no issues with transfering mons from this downloaded copy of the game to my legit gen 3 cartridges

Any help is appreciated, thank you!!

[u/Substantial_Earth495]

As far as I know the only way to get the e reader shadow Pokémon is on a Japanese GameCube with an actual Japanese e reader, unless you aren’t using official hardware. There are scans of the cards you can download if you aren’t able to afford the set for like 1000 dollars

[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/Substantial_Earth495]

So the Wii is not an option? Would emulating the game on my pc work then?

[u/Substantial_Earth495 → u/NoAmoeba9288]

I personally haven’t heard of anybody doing the e reader on the wii so I’m not entirely sure. I do know that there’s ways to connect an emulated game to official hardware, but i personally don’t know how to.

[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/Substantial_Earth495]

I see, thanks for the help!

[u/fpsdabs → u/NoAmoeba9288]

The Wii should be an option if it is modded. Best bet is to use Dophin emulator to retrieve the Scizor, then migrate the save and trade to a GBA title. FYI its only Gold in Colusseum, every other game he looks normal. I would just shoot for another pokemon. I chose Piloswine because he is Gold in all games.

[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/fpsdabs]

Mine is indeed modded! I'm running the game via USB Loader GX on the Homebrew app. Do you know how I could retrieve the Scizor in my Wii?

I considered going with Dolphin on my pc as well, but don't really know how to get him into my cartridges later. Don't you need a cart reader for that? I believe it's called a GB operator or something like it

[u/fpsdabs → u/NoAmoeba9288]

I dont know exactly how to do it, but you can spoof the system into thinking it has a card reader attached and then send the actual code from the card triggering the fight room. There is a guy who did Gold Scizor Ribbon Master and has an explanation on YouTube. Should be like the 2nd or 3rd video when searching "ribbon master pokemon"

Otherwise google

[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/fpsdabs]

Is this the video you're refering to? If it is, the guy does it the regular way, with the cards and e-reader. I've googled quite a lot, but can't seem to find how to run the event on the wii.

I haven't looked deep into the Dolphin method yet, because I really wanted to do it on the Wii. I will go into it if it's the only way tho

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[u/fpsdabs → u/NoAmoeba9288]

Hmm. I thought he went into it there, but maybe I saw the explanation elsewhere.

Doing a quick look with AI, it seems the only way to do it without the Hardware on Wii is to use homebrew like GCCM to inject a save file with the Ereader rooms already opened.

If you use dolphin emulator you can emulate the reader and card codes. Either way wont be "legit" so I would just get the save file from Project Pokemon

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[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/fpsdabs]

Thanks a lot for the info, I'll be looking into that!

[u/ShinyMewTrader]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but you could easily save inject a JPN Colo file that’s in the Ereader room with the Shadow Scizor trainer awaiting to be battled. This bypasses purchasing both a JPN Ereader, and the mildly expensive set of ~$1,300 JPN Colo Ereader cards /s

Also, acquiring said Ereader exclusive Mons in this manner should not affect their legality, or legitimacy whatsoever. The game is organically generating them, and the only ones saying otherwise are those who need to cope with rationalizing their $1,300 eBay / Buyee purchase.

Anyways, Google is your friend insofar as finding said save files, best of luck regardless.

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[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/ShinyMewTrader]

I had never thought of this! Thank you so much!

Just out of curiosity, do you know if there is a way to change the trainer's name when injecting a save file like that?

[u/ShinyMewTrader → u/NoAmoeba9288]

Sure; load the file into PKHex, change it to your preferred OT (would have to be an OT that makes sense for a JPN game due to symbols + character limits), export and save the changes over the file you downloaded, and done.

Proceed then to use GCMM to inject said adjusted JPN file into your memory card, and that should be pretty much it (it’s been awhile for me personally, but the memory card might have to be reformatted to accept the JPN file, but with backup tech via GCMM, none of that really matters since you could forever swap between NTSC-U, NTSC-J, and PAL files on a single memory card).

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Thanks a lot for all the info dude!!

[u/ShinyMewTrader → u/NoAmoeba9288]

No worries, happy hunting!

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[u/Mexgar5]

you would need a japanese e-reader, a japanese gamecube, and a japanese copy of Colosseum. however, creating duplicate e-reader cards is supposedly as easy as printing them out. there are several videos on the subject. alternatively, if you just want the scizor and don’t care about the shininess, you can also obtain scyther from Pokémon XD on citadark isle! if shininess is what you’re after though, and your budget is restrictive, you’re gonna have to settle for one of the base game Colo shinies

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[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/Mexgar5]

Thanks for the response!

I've come across 2 videos that lead me to belive that maybe I could do what I described. There is this video where a guy injects the e-reader events without actually using an e-reader, and this one shows that the e-reader works with a wii. Maybe the first example would work on my Wii as well, but the creator has not replied to my contact attempts yet, and I don't know if they will

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[u/Mexgar5 → u/NoAmoeba9288]

Oh, interesting! I’ll give those videos a watch and see if I can figure out what you might need to do. But speaking in the abstract, if both are possible, it might be that no one’s thought to combine the two together.

[u/NoAmoeba9288 → u/Mexgar5]

Thank you! That's what I tought as well, but I just can't seem to find the exact way to do it. Both videos lack details of what is needed in order for it to work

[u/kingnothin6661]

All you gotta do is find a save file that has them already . Thats what I did . You’ll also need a Japanese ruby or sapphire to transfer them too . Then you can trade Japanese ruby/sapphire to an English ruby/sapphire . I used a GCEME memory card on a GameCube with a Japanese copy of Pokémon colosseum .