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Pokemon charity marathon aims to catch them all at the same time

by JC Fletcher on Jul 11th 2011 11:10PM

If you haven't spent all your money on charity gaming marathons yet, another opportunity for you to throw money at human suffering is coming up -- and this time, it's a test of both endurance and gluttony.

Starting on July 15, Pro3Studios will embark on a 72-hour marathon, in which it will attempt to catch all the Pokémon species in Pokémon FireRed, Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, and White -- simultaneously. The gameplay will be streamed on a 3x3 grid, allowing you to watch it all happen in real time.

As this is going on, the group will accept donations through PayPal for the Children's Miracle Network. Those donations will allow viewers the privilege of naming some Pokémon and specifying a song for one of the players to sing on air -- and also, you know, help children.

Source: Facebook

Tags: charity, ds, game-boy, marathon, nintendo, pokemon, Pokemon-Black-and-White, pro3studios

Reader Comments (41)

How are they going to get Mew? I guess they could always find the Truck next to the cruise ship... Oh wait, that was bull crap. I'm so gullible. >:(

Hell yes Pokemon! Hell yes charity!

@Frostblade10 There are working glitches to catch Mew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r74vohXFszA for example.

@(Unverified)

Im not saying that video isn't genuine, Ive heard of this before but can someone please explain to me how/why this glitch works? it seems so incredibly random.

and would something like this probably be released by a dev? finding this by chance seems impossible. exciting stuff though.

@KyGuyTC7

Numbers, bro. Numbers.

@(Unverified) We're using the Pokémon Events. We have copies of them stored on a game we're not going to be playing so we can trade it over to our game. We'll be using these event Pokémon:

Pikachu (Ash's), Dragonite, Mew, Pichu (Shiny), Entei (Shiny), Suicune (Shiny), Raikou (Shiny), Celebi, Deoxys, Jirachi, Manaphy (TRU), Heatran (Ranger 3), Shaymin, Darkrai, Arceus, and Victini (caught early during the Liberty Pass Event).

The ones that require going from Generation IV to Generation V will be done and caught how they usually are. We're also going to be doing the HeartGold/SoulSilver Arceus event to get a Giratina.

@Crashpro3

So jealous. I lost about half those legendaries named when my game crashed 6 about months ago. Just seeing their names made me a little sad. Anyway, GOOD LUCK!

@KyGuyTC7

I've done it before and it works. Supposedly each Pokemon has a unique ID attached to it. So, by doing that series of events you can force the wild pokemon that appears to have that number.

I'm actually not sure if they can pull this one off

@MEMgrizzlies7 Well regardless if they pull it off at least they are trying to help the kids! So kudos to them.

@MEMgrizzlies7

Considering nine games are running at once, I'm thinking they can do it. The Speed Gamers have done it with the third and possibly fourth generations if I remember correctly with two or three games running at once in the same amount of time.

@MEMgrizzlies7 I caught all of the new pokemon in Black and White in less than 100 hours, and they have two people for that generation. I'm not too worried.

@SteveoftheGods

Generation V pokedex (non-National) seems the easiest to fill of all generations to be honest. Maybe they decided to take it easy on us for this one time?

Charity Gaming - It's full of Win.

Cue up one massive ending Pokemon credits rap.
And Missingno counts as far as I'm concerned.

@Schlecht I don't you can count a pokemon which is Missing No. (missing a number)

Whoa whoa. No LeafGreen love? Maybe Griffin could clarify if the gaps between FR and LG covered by HG and SS, post game of course.

@thegreat1forever
The games selected were probably chosen in such a way so that all pokemon can be caught.

72 Hours? To catch a Feebas?

Good luck with that... Maybe if they teamed up Diamond and Pearl versions and worked at the same time they could cut the time it takes in half.

@Acosta02

Feebas can be obtained in B/W post game VERY easily. To the point people got upset because people think it devalued the other two generations worth of Feebas/Milotic!!

@Bluebreaker

Whoa seriously?! Man, that does sound kinda lame, (I never played B/W so I'm a little behind)

@Acosta02

Yeah, it was one of the biggest controversies this year including: No in game berry growing and No Vs Seekers rematch with ordinary trainers.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pok%C3%A9mon-72-hour-marathon-to-catch-em-all-for-the-children-s-miracle-network

Here's a link to the actual Ustream page, and if you want a trailer for a quick overview, here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqUh_alvlM

@Crashpro3

Good luck!

Let's kill ourselves....FOR THE CHILDREN!!

*raises steins*

YES! FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

The only problem they'd have is Celebi, Victini, Jirachi and Mew. All the others should be in game I think. Also, some are late game only!! Watch those roamers!!

@Bluebreaker We're using event Pokémon that will be transferred from a game that we're not using. All of the Pokémon will be legitimate. There are three Pokémon that cannot be caught, however.

@Crashpro3
Starters?

Diamond and Pearl, but NOT platinum?
I hope they have the patience to endure how slow Diamond and Pearl play, because Platinum played a lot faster.

@RupeeClock Platinum has a 50/50 chance of giving you one of the fossil Pokémon, plus the Looker segments took longer. The Pokédex was also extended, so getting the National Pokédex was even harder because there were more trainers.

It's not possible to catch them all. Some are limited time download events.

& how are they able to stream these live? Have they managed to get a DS with a video-out, or are they pirating? Because if they are pirating I will not be donating.

@Tihn

Maybe they'll have a camera over the player's shoulder?

OT: I think they can do it. ;]

@Tihn Webcams for the DS games.

It'll probably be one of the few times a ROM is used legally. As long as they can prove they own the original carts then they can use an emulator and a ROM without it being classed as pirating

@jimbo8e6 Only cartridges and official consoles. We'll be using webcams for the six DS games and capture cards for the two Gameboy Advance games via the Gameboy Player.

How are they getting every starter pokemon?

@den69 the only possible way would be: start game, get starter 1, transfer to version X, reset, get starter 2, transfer, reset, get starter 3, transfer the other 2 back

I think that's still legit

Good luck with Meloetta, Keldeo and Genesect :P
But yeah, these events are great, so good luck to 'em

@Helghast102 646 will probably be our total...

So... who's going to pay to make sure Metapod gets its schoolyard nickname?

Do they have to catch all the pokemon every games or they have to get all the pokemon in total so like they catch a caterpie in fire red do they still have to catch one in heart gold and this doesn't include shiny pokemon right?

@littleslayer15 It's cooperative, so all games will be used to achieve the ultimate goal.

@Crashpro3
ok that is kind of what I though because it would be almost impossible to catch every Pokemon in every game.

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