Pokemon VGC 2010 DATES / rules announced for the US!

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I live like 10 minutes from where the VGC is gonna be held so barring anything miraculous I should be in Birmingham.
 
I may or may not wear a baseball cap like I did at the 2008 VGS in New York when I dared to wear a Red Sox cap to the chagrin of Yankee fans as it was a good luck charm at least. Who knows I could pass as Kevin Youkilis although my hairs are much grayer though. Anyways we'll be there, myself & Gouki Shinkou. For those that may remember us, we were top 16 two years ago and don't intend to settle for less than that. Here's to hoping all the worthy of us get in and don't have to face each other in the earlier rounds.
 
A quick question I couldn't find any answer for the in the Europe FAQs. Can I use pokemon traded from a Japanese version of Heart Gold as long as I am playing on European Soul Silver? (80% of my legit trained pokes were trained on Jpn HG)
 
olly2007 said:
A quick question I couldn't find any answer for the in the Europe FAQs. Can I use pokemon traded from a Japanese version of Heart Gold as long as I am playing on European Soul Silver? (80% of my legit trained pokes were trained on Jpn HG)
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You absolutely can. Two Pokemon on my team last year were Japanese.

Syberia said:
Not to mention, the people over at Project Pokemon have torn apart and analyzed every single byte that forms an actual pokemon itself. If there was some sort of a marker, I think they'd have found it by now. It would be easy for the game itself to set some type of flag if an AR was used, though. They'd just need some sort of monitoring routine where if the memory was suddenly changed without the game's expecting it to, it makes a note of it somewhere.
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Well, not every byte. There are still many non-zero unknowns, and it is unknown how they are generated. Presumably, the hack checker DOES know how they generated, and if someone tries to take a shortcut - like transplanting the IVs and PID of a flawless Pokemon onto a caught legendary - they won't know how to fix the unknown bytes, and the hack checker will spot them. Probably.

Also PBB you forgot to put me down for Phoenix and SF (both potentially).
 
Going to Newark, just a half hour away from I live. Didn't make it last year to PA because I got the MamoSWINE flu at the time lol; heard many people weren't able to get in. Hope to see everyone from VGC 2008 there and Smogoners as well. Should be fun!
 
dragon9owns said:
Does anyone know if having a ridiculous date on a Pokémon will get me in trouble, even though the Pokémon is legit and states legit on the legality checker?
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It's a catch date. For all they know, you were playing in the future; and because sometimes that happens in RNGing, it was perfectly legit anyway.
-stops the hack talk-
Expert Evan said:
I may or may not wear a baseball cap like I did at the 2008 VGS in New York when I dared to wear a Red Sox cap to the chagrin of Yankee fans as it was a good luck charm at least. Who knows I could pass as Kevin Youkilis although my hairs are much grayer though. Anyways we'll be there, myself & Gouki Shinkou. For those that may remember us, we were top 16 two years ago and don't intend to settle for less than that. Here's to hoping all the worthy of us get in and don't have to face each other in the earlier rounds.
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Well yeah, if I see you, I'll say hello.

Hopefully we don't battle each other until (hopefully near or at) the end.
 
ultimatedra said:
http://www.pokemonvgc.com/en/regulations.php



If it is "expressly forbidden" - why are you going to risk your chance at prizes because you wanted to save some time?

It is unknown EXACTLY what the hack check looks for, and TPCi is going to keep it that way. Why tell people what they are looking for just to have people get around it?
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Lol Mike told me exactly how it worked last year when he was checking my Cart. It basically compares your poke to a "list of what's allowable ingame" (pokemon/nature/IV/EV/gender/shinyness/ability/movepool/level/met-at-screen) that's what he said.

THAT BEING SAID...

You're 100% a noob if you try to sneak anything past the hack check. IIIIIIIIITS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOT WOOOOOOOOOORTH DIIIIIIIIISQUALIFICATION!!!!! RNG is easy. Learn to do it. :P
 
mattj said:
You're 100% a noob if you try to sneak anything past the hack check.
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Why? Do you really think that it should be necessary for someone to waste their time mindlessly trying to hit a specific time (which is more difficult for some people than others) in order to have a competitive team?

I very much doubt that Nintendo has any system sophisticated enough to catch high quality legit hacks anyway.

As for the regional locations I'm a bit disappointed how far away from me they all are, it looks like I won't make it this season.
 
No kidding Voltron. At the very least nationals are in Indianapolis, so it's not like the Midwest completely got the cold shoulder.

Chicago 2011!
 
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