Out of all the distribution events released for Pokemon Emerald, the Old Sea Map (Chart) used to obtain Mew is by far the rarest of them all. Being almost exclusively released in Japan, this event was not obtainable throughout the world, and I obtained a legitimate event and shiny hunted the rarest Pokemon in Pokemon Emerald. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Discovering the Event
4:16 - Is the Event Real?
5:39 - Hunting Shiny Mew
Having an event Pokemon available for 3 hours is such a Pokemon move
And then people get upset when they *_don't_* do that-there is no peace ( ；∀；)
Pokemon Company hates their fans since 2000
This is a way lesser crime, but I distinctly remember during the 3DS era they insisted on doing serial code giveaways for legendaries/shinies at places like GameStop and Target instead of just releasing them via WiFi. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people missed out on these events. It didn't help that this was the only way to get mythical Pokemon like Mew and Jirachi for a LONG time.
At least outside of Japan😂
@@Silvermoon424they still do, shiny Galar legends (the dofs and Eternatus) were code events. Living somewhere which is not America/otherwise big country, and which doesn't *have* a gamestop in the country at all anymore, I have to jump through extreme hoops just to get *one* code I seriously hope they make things even more accessible. Fuck time and place limited events, especially when they decide not to bring the mons back for shiny huntijg the next generation
Watching shiny mew transform into the shiny opposing Pokémon is so cool!
genuinely sick as hell
I think it’s only in Emerald. I could be wrong.
@@Chtsht23 It's a Gen 3 exclusive thing, iirc. If you get a shiny ditto in FireRed/LeafGreen it'll do the same thing.
My single most impactful Pokémon memory was BEGGING my mom to take me to Toys R Us for the 3 hour Mew distribution after a soccer game when I was 8. I still have that Mew on my copy of LeafGreen til this day. This is still so much cooler. What a special shiny to have!
If you can trade it to Emerald, you can clone Mew in that game and have basically unlimited Mews as long as you leave at least one in Gen 3. If you want to learn how to clone in Emerald, just search "cloning glitch Emerald"
Clone it using the battle tower glitch in emerald then u can transfer it up and have it in your leafgreen
Same!
@@OsirusIrdia that glitch is very easy to fuck up and corrupt your save
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrin it’s a very easy glitch to do, just watch a tutorial and don’t mess up. I’ve used it over 100 times and it’s never messed up my save.
A few years later: I shiny hunted Wynaut on Mirage Island!
"Can you beat Pokemon emerald with Old sea map shiny mew only?"
Fun fact! Prior to po go/vc crystal, shiny mew/ditto tranforming was the only way you could legitimately see a shiny celebi
It's quite possible that some people thought the PMD2 Celebi was a special alternate form, considering that game also had Primal Dialga which was obviously not a shiny.
Was it shiny locked during the phone event in crystal for Japan?
@@Jim.E.Rustler shiny locking wasnt a thing until gen 4 (tried to) shiny locked Manaphy
@@DrabekNewburnhappy one-day-after pmd eos’s anniversary :)
it could be hunted in the original Crystal, no?
The next shiny Parasect I catch is gonna be named “mushroom brisket”. Thank you for this Johnstone. 😂
sadly only 12 characters limit.
@@chaoscolby then Brisket it is!
@@Trainer_Chad You might be able to get Mush Brisket but that's as far as you can go sadly - but it will always be Mushroom Brisket in your heart
I'll call mine m'Brisket 😂
You’d think after that Shiny Prof Oak challenge, he’d be turned off from ANYTHING having to do with Shinies.
I’m a shiny hunter, that dopamine hit is like an addiction
You said this challenge took about 40 hours to complete, but you missed the chance to say "this challenge took about seven years to complete"
lol
For future reference, both Bulbapedia and Serebii have individual pages for every existing move and they always include the Japanese name with its proper characters near the top of the page, right next to the English name.
Was about to say this too
While we thankfully got events like this again in the Scarlet and Violet DLC, it would be pretty cool to make them shiny huntable and not have them be unobtainable for years!
thanks for mentioning Pecharunt's story, apparently everyone has forgotten about it in the comments
There’s also the Meloetta hidden event, which was a nostalgic treat on my sepia-toned memories
I actually set out on a shiny Mew quest of my own back in 2022. Obtaining the Japanese cartridge, beating the game (in Japanese obviously), sending the cartridge out to have the old sea map injected and shiny hunting it took almost a year to do, and after failing it at 1401 encounters, I finally obtained it at 3332. THEN, I spent the ridiculous time and effort to transfer the mon from console to console so that I could have it in the modern Pokémon titles on the Switch. It was an insane process to go through, but it's also an awesome flex. Way to go on getting yours, Johnstone. 🎉🎉🎉
Did u turn your game off after each session or did u let it run? I’m worried I’m resetting over the same frames :/
@@DirectorChicken There was some of both. I tried to keep the console on as much as possible to minimize frame overlap, but sometimes it would die or I wanted to save its battery for long trips, so sometimes I would start from frame one.
He indeed caught a shiny stuck in a 20 year old pokemon event
Eh. He for sure hacked the event in but still decent content ig.
How can you prove he hacked it?
@@dunkdon158show proof then instead of just saying you think he cheated it
@@dunkdon158 you didn't watch the video
@@dunkdon158 No Bonus !
The pokemon Emerald rng seed wasn't meant to be the same every time it's just a bug. The devs forgot to implement the "random seed picker".
More precisely, they forgot to uncomment the codeblock that made it work like in FRLG lmao
@@lyn4739 damn that's kinda dumb ngl
So the parasect's moves were 茸の胞子 (mushroom spores), leech life flash, growth
lol, for growth the phone translator he used was saying seichu and seichi, i was like that sounds familiar but not quite right, oh it's seichou haha ( i know some words from anime but not able to read in jp, not committed to studying just yet.) edit nvm is did say seichou in the first one i missed it i guess
mushroom broom
Having Shiny Mew transform into any shiny is a pretty nice detail
Really wish they would do some cool events like this again. Something about physically having to go somewhere to get a rare pokemon is super cool
It’s cool in concept, but not when it’s gatekeeping people from pokedex completion. I’d rather those events be cool optional stuff like new forms of existing pokemon, or pokemon with moves they can’t learn normally
but... they literally just did this in gen 9?
everyone says this until the event happens halfway across the world from where they live
@@thavion3287you could download that one. Also it's SV, so there's problems with it. ALSO PECHARUNT IS LITERALLY A YOKAI, ITD FIT IN YO-KAI WATCH TF
This happens regularly in pokemon go (safari zone ) and people complain. A lot.
Congrats on getting your beautiful blue boy. While I didn’t get a copy of Japanese Emerald that had the event on the cart, I did hunt my Shiny Mew on Japanese Emerald after injecting the Wonder Card. It became my longest hunt ever: 17,526 encounters. I was legitimately going crazy while hunting it. Once I got it, I knew I would transfer it out, so I went the extra mile and got it every single Ribbon it could possibly have. Since then, I’ve made sure to get it every possible Ribbon and Mark it could get, including the Master Rank Ribbon from the brief moment it was allowed in SwSh Ranked Battles and the Mightiest Mark from the Mewtwo Tera Raid event.
I had never heard of Pokémon events when I was playing back in the early 2000s.
events really took off with gen 4 wifi, i remember waiting for hours outside toys r us for arceus lol loser
@KurtusOldroyd Naughty!
I loved all the forensics that you put into determining if this was really from back into the day!!!! So many fascinating details to how Pokemon were distributed back in the day - I remember vividly the conversation I had as a little kid with the Toys R Us employee convincing him to trade me 4 Mew back during that event in my small Louisiana town LOL Congrats on one of the most legit Shiny Mew to ever be found!!!!!
Mew transforming into another pokemon's shiny is such a cool detail that I never even thought about
The moment it appeared made ME unbelievably excited and it's not even my Mew- congratulations on such an incredible successful hunt dude!!!
I can feel everything you've been through in this hunt. Thats truly the holy grail of Pokemon! Congrats! ❤️
Short, sweet, and highly rewarding. Thanks John!!
Ive shiny hunted Deoxys in Firered recently, so it's cool to see the other rarest Pokemon get shiny hunted in the same gen
Shiny Mew is a beautiful shiny and it is such a shame that it hasn't been in mainline series since Faraway Island despite countless times GF has given away regular Mews
I discovered you with the video on pokemon let’s go and your channel became my safe place. I’m always so happy to notice that you’ve posted a new video. Tanks and Please Keep making what you do
John's channel is basically becoming an encyclopedia for all things past in pokemon and that's great actually. Recording things properly and explaining them before they are in danger of disappearing or maybe even have almost disappeared is important. alsk it's just enjoyable to watch. ty john
I used an r4 to get the old sea map a couple of years ago and shiny hunted mew on my childhood gba sp. That mew is easily my favourite pokemon i own and seeing the blue coming across the screen was a moment I'll never forget. I can only imagine how it feels to have a legitimate one! Love the video man!!
congrats on finding the shiny Mew, John!!
Oh my gosh, twins! I just got this Mew yesterday just before 10k, and I was rewatching your gen 3 living dex video😂😂
You finally got it! I was watching you hunt this on stream for a while.
AAA congratulations on the Shiny Mew catch✨ That looks so cool, especially how the Mew transforms into shiny forms of the opposing Pokemons! Thank you for sharing this with us💚 FUN FACT: "Paras" means "(The) best" in Finnish, so you saying that Parasect got a secret name, for me it was twice as funny 😹
That is so nice!!!!!! Congratulations on your Shiny Mew!!
It is so cool that this cartridge happened to make its way to you. Great Johntent!
ERMAGOH ANOTHER JOHNSTONE VID LESGOOOO !!! ❤🎉
Happy you got it! And happy you like Pokemon Go still! I just hit level 50 a few weeks ago
Congrats on the sivk shiny! I am 2.5k deep into my shiny Mew hunt and your awesome video has boosted my motivation once again :D
Ive never been this early to a Johnstone video im gonna treasure this moment
I remember waiting on line at Toys R Us for the Mew in 2006. I think I waited for just over an hour and traded an Oddish for it as it was distributed via link trade. I still have it. On a somewhat less related note, my oldest sister was one of a few at the same Toys R Us to be selected to get a Mew for Pokémon Blue when that was still new. She ended up releasing it because my other sister just wanted the PokéDex data and she was spiteful.
Man I really enjoy your videos as I think the stuff you set up to do is super cool. But that cartridge story has heavy “my uncle that works at Nintendo” vibes to it 😆
Such an incredibly cool catch, congratulations!
On one hand I don't miss how, um, _easy to miss_ these events were, but on the other it felt incredibly special to go somewhere in real life and be rewarded with an event Pokémon for your trouble. The feeling of really going somewhere for an event made these games feel alive, like they were more than just a game. They had treasures just waiting for you to get the keys to unlock them. It's a magical feeling that's just... not really there anymore. Online distributions are convenient, but they aren't _special._ Going to those events in real life, you could just feel the passion in the room. Passion for Pokémon. I think it might have been a big part of why I loved the series so much in my younger years but have since kind of outgrown it. Events like these just don't really happen much anymore, and that's kind of depressing.
and here I was thinking pokemon fans had some iq remaining but they clearly don't, they literally just did this in Gen 9, Pecharunt got an entire story arc instead of the usual "getting a ticket from an npc to somehow go to a random location"
it’s before school for me but seeing john uploaded means i gotta watch this instead of get ready.
This is so incredibly cool!! Ever so slight correction though bc I’m a big nerd: you can run away, leave, and comeback, for any legendaries in this game which is very convenient for dodging emerald’s lack of random seed. The same doesn’t work in R/S, however. Congrats on the shiny find and even more rare game find!!
Absolutely beautiful! Congratulations!
Having this so legitly is just amazing!
09:16 Congratualations on getting that Mew shiny eventually. Meanwhile I got that Dialga SHUNDO on my first encounter in Go! XD I've never been this lucky with raids in this game.
the fact that it transforms into the shiny version of the opposing pokemone, is so cool😍
I cannot believe it transforms into the shiny version of the pokemon it’s battling. That’s so awesome
Banger video John. You did what Little Joey always wanted to do
Congrats on your shiny mew!! ahh that's so awesome!!
Finally... The Stone has come home.
Shiny Mew is really pretty, the soft blue color definitely makes it look amazing!
Perfect pokeball choice John!
Not lie i rewatch every johnstone video like 20x cuz its always interesting and entertaining while drawing, gaming and just working in general! I really love everything this man does, one day ill join the ropes of being as great as him in my own unique way!☁️
I came to find out and this is not my main account so i had to re sub so .. i am but john if you see this i hope you enjoy your day, and keep up the amazing work!
WOOOO! 8192 Shiny content! Looking forward to the Safari Week video 😊
7:51 😂😂😂😂😂 No, running away and re-entering the area works on more than just Mew and Rayquaza. It works on most static encounters in FRLG and Emerald, including Groudon, Kyogre, Deoxys, Ho-Oh, etc.
Man I plan to do this hunt eventually myself! Not quite as insane, I’m playing on emulator but even if it’s not legit in anyway there’s just something so novel about going for a hunt this exclusive. Good to know about this method! I don’t think RNG manipulation like I did for my Treecko will work here (For clarity I only manipulated because of the broken RNG, I personally enjoyed it quite a bit as it’s more about skill than luck since you have to be frame perfect. Still a very satisfying method at least to me)
I love how I was watching your recent video today and was like "Huh, I wonder when he will uploa-" and boom
I got a copy of pokemon emerald a few years ago and noticed it had the old sea map but thought he already got the mew. after watching this i decided to check the faraway island and i couldnt believe mew iis actually there. Im 90% sure its legit because it was the same scenario you had but the elite four was defeated, no gold frontier medals.... im so excited to start this hunt!
Congrats and well done!
the flashbacks nooo! the blue voltorb exploded
Let’s go, another video. I shall enjoy this one
yeah i was a bit suspicious but i had the same reasoning as you, The map was on its own, no other event items. Makes sense when you factor in the time between the events in real life and short amount of playtime. Odds really feel legit
The last time I was this early Mew could still get the Mightiest Mark
i read this in peters voice
congrats!! welcome to the blue mew club :3
Getting to access the rotom appliances for my first irl mystery gift event in platinum was a core memory. also the first game i stayed up till midnight release for
Trade it onto a flash cart, back up the save on a computer, trade it back, and then trade it from the backup file onto another Gen 3 game to move it forward. Best of both worlds, and other people can download it.
It's true what they say the best things in life really are free. Congrats on you for getting that random copy.
I also plan to do this hunt! Although mine is with the injected wonder card I think if your doing full odds it’s okay I also love that it turns into the shiny version!
BABE WAKE UP NEW JOHNSTONE VIDEO
1:45 I honestly love how universal these sorts of things are. Like you don't even need to know Japanese to know he's hyped as Frick to have this event item!
Talking about Rayquaza, the best save spot is in front of Rayquaza. The Nature is randomized on stationary Pokémon. Once the battle starts, the Nature is now set. You can test that, by saving the Master Ball, and using it to see how the Nature differs based on reloading the save file.
the return of the king
In case others haven't mentioned it already: running away and going in and out of the area works for every legendary in Emerald
Aaaa he’s back again yay just as I was about to shiny hunt
I'm almost 100% sure you can do the run and rezone trick for the entire weather trio and the regis
MOM GET THE CAMERA JOHNSTONE MADE A NEW VIDEO
Shiny older than me
I’m so jealous. Mew is my all time favorite Pokémon, I’d give anything for it to be available to shiny hunt on switch
Congratulations on getting your shiny mew❤
My boy lookin LEAN 🗣️‼️💥
Wow... What a beautiful and meaningful shiny.
It didn't even take a month to get a new video!!! Let's goooooo
Funny coincidence I just got a shiny mew today a few hours before this was uploaded
Wow, congratz man
It seems weird that they would bother programming in all of these extra events only for such a tiny percentage of players to ever see them legitimately.
for those who are curious about the math. if you get 100 mews an hour which equates to a mew every 36 seconds or 2400 mews a day and if it took him 4390 mews, that means it took around approx 1 day 19 hours and 54 minutes aka 43 hours and 54 minutes aka 2634 minutes of game time to get the shiny mew.
Congrats on getting the shiny Mew, and good luck with whatever challenge you take on next! I don't think that putting personal value onto shiny Pokémon is goofy, but at the end of the day the only person who gets to decide what your shiny Pokémon mean to you is you. Haters and gatekeepers will always hate and gatekeep, so if you think your shiny is neat, then to you it's neat, end of discussion!
God I'm so freaking jealous 😅. That is beautiful ❤️.
Congrats!!! 😊🎉
I recently bought a Japanese sapphire a month ago, and found that it had a legitimate Lucario Movie Mew on there and was really happy
I am a simple man, John uploads a new video, I watch.
so cool you got to do this!! i've low key been rewatching the previous video ever since you posted it, your videos are always super interesting and i really enjoyed both of these!
Nice, new upload
Oddest thing I noticed was that the colons were still present in the level display. In the English versions, only Ruby and Sapphire had those, dropped in FRLG and onwards for a cleaner interface. I had no idea that was entirely a localization thing.
"Or my personal favourite" 'EXPLODES'
Talk about dedication/masochism.
back when mythicals were truly mythical haha. i know its not feasible today but it was still a magical feeling
Banger vid