I’m almost done collecting Pokémon. Just a few dozen more of the pocket monster bastards to go, and I’ll have completed my Pokedex. I’ve detailed before how I’ve gone deep into the game, in order to fill my collection up with over 700 of the iconic monsters. I’ve made friends, surfed Reddit for kind souls and luck has certainly played a part. Or I could have just taken the easy route, and used a game exploit.
As Reddit user Frocharocha revealed (via Kotaku), there’s now a painfully easy way to unlock some of the rarest of Pokemon for your collection. I’m talking guys like Arceus, Keldeo and Genesect. Pokémon which are normally reserved for events. All you have to do, is make certain that the first slot in your Pokémon box 1 is open, remain standing in front of a PC and then hit the home button.
From there, go to the 3DS camera (Hitting the shoulder buttons at the same time is the quickest way here), activate the QR scanner and scan in a QR code. You’ll get an error message, but it’s nothing to fret about. Simply exit the camera app, resume your game and check your PC.
And voila, you’ll have a rare new Pokémon. Easy as that. The only caveat here however, is that this will only work on the older Nintendo 3DS consoles. New Nintendo 3DS owners, are completely out of luck. I tested the system out this morning, and it works just fine. No save game crashes, just rare new Pokémon. I’ve already gotten all of these guys, so I’m going to do something unheard of, and be nice for once.
Prepare for a few surprising wonder trades, less-well-off Pokémon trainers. Remember, hacks can take the fun out of a game. But they can also help those of us who can’t attend big events that Nintendo holds regularly, to obtain these Pokémon. So it’s a grey area. If you want to get some of these Pokémon via this method, then you can generate your own codes here, check out this Google Doc for a list or hit this dedicated sub-reddit.
Last Updated: February 24, 2015
Admiral Chief
February 24, 2015 at 08:40
I wonder what you need to capture THIS rare critter:
Hammersteyn
February 24, 2015 at 08:43
It catches you
Kensei Seraph
February 24, 2015 at 09:08
You need to get a mind ball and use the Nightmare attack on it before you can catch it.
Ranting Raptor
February 24, 2015 at 10:19
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Kensei Seraph
February 24, 2015 at 08:41
But can it give you the rarest Pokémon of them all?
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/a448wEv_460sa.gif
Admiral Chief
February 24, 2015 at 08:42
Man I love that gif
Hammersteyn
February 24, 2015 at 08:42
XD XD XD
Hammersteyn
February 24, 2015 at 08:41
Volcanion, Steam eruption. like this?
http://media.giphy.com/media/AmqgZCTw0N9f2/giphy.gif
Admiral Chief
February 24, 2015 at 08:43
pewpewpewpewpewpewpew
James Philip Lawrence
February 24, 2015 at 11:51
What the eff is happening here
Hammersteyn
February 24, 2015 at 12:24
Bombardier beetle XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle
James Philip Lawrence
February 24, 2015 at 12:30
This should be on the international kill list!
Allykhat
February 24, 2015 at 08:42
While i dont necessarily agree with hacked pokemon, we never get access to gamefreak events…
Im severely annoyed by Japan getting a Shiny Rayquaza event :/
Brandon van Reenen
February 24, 2015 at 09:28
Does this only work for ORAS? Or for X and Y as well?
Ottokie
February 24, 2015 at 09:58
Works for both.
Allykhat
February 25, 2015 at 09:04
It works for both but you need to be careful. If you drop one of the hacked mons into X/Y with a ORAS move or item, it will crash the game and possibly corrupt saves. So just be careful.
Allykhat
February 25, 2015 at 09:09
So a bit of googling and redditing last night, I found a DB of pokemon files for everything from Gen I to Gen VI. All of them are unedited so are essentially “legal” in terms of natures, movesets and such and can be made shiny with a click of a button then converted into QR code. Personally only using this to get dex entries for Legends we dont get here (and the ones on GTS are all faked in anyways), but if anyone wants QRs, let me know?
Walt Walters
February 26, 2015 at 19:39
Where is that DB? I’d love to get all up in that.
Allykhat
March 2, 2015 at 08:14
The one I got has been taken down by the mods. haven’t found another one yet
Craig "Crios" Boonzaier
February 25, 2015 at 11:34
Oh bollocks, I just did a system transfer from my 3DS to my New 3DS XL. Probably a good thing I bought both X & Y and Omega and Alpha.
the mother bucker
March 1, 2015 at 05:57
ha suck our d*ck’s nintendo you cant stop are hacked mons with your 3rd rate piece of sh*t poke bank