Summary
One extremely dedicatedPokemonfan has achieved a monumental feat by legitimately completing a Generation 3 Living Pokedex without cheating. The journey took seven months, thousands of dollars, and eight differentPokemongames to reach the end.
For those not up to date on the lingo, a Living Pokedex presents an enhanced challenge to the “gotta catch ‘em all” mentality prevalent throughoutPokemongames, requiring a player to actively hold at least one Pokemon of every species at the same time. Modern storage management systemPokemon Homeallows this task to be carried out across all nine current generations ofPokemon, a total of 1,025 monsters, but other versions exist, like the Gen 3 Living Pokedex that this player completed, which incorporates hunting across all seven Generation 3 games spread across the Game Boy Advance and GameCube.
Boasting about the feat on Reddit, the player, who goes by the moniker Techno Trainer, spent a total of 541 hours and $3,510 to achieve this personal feat, which included an out-of-state flight to attend an in-person giveaway at a distribution event. It also included a $1,700 price tag for a copy of GameCube storage systemPokemon Box: Ruby and Sapphire, which he reluctantly bought after a corrupted cartridge cost him a save file with 220 Pokemon gathered over the course of 120 hours of play. Other necessary expenses included a GameCube from Japan and two Japanese copies ofPokemongames, which were required to obtain Celebi.
Not Just an Average Pokemon Fan
The final two Pokemon, Deoxys and Mew, were originally only available in the United States in 2005, during single-day in-person events in three cities, making them almost impossible to legitimately acquire in a Generation 3 game. Since these were much more limited releases than modern-dayPokemon online distribution events, Techno Trainer admitted to using a glitch to get Deoxys but flew from Florida to Texas to a retro game shop for a giveaway event in order to get Mew and complete the full list of 386 Pokemon.
Pokemon
Pokemon is a franchise that needs no introduction. One of the most successful media empires in history, Pokemon spans games, television, films, manga, merchandise, music, and more.
