I'm wondering if someone actually won all 9,999 of the required coins or paid over 200k to get the little cyber birdie. Either way, he looks so cute in the ball!
I'm wondering if someone actually won all 9,999 of the required coins or paid over 200k to get the little cyber birdie. Either way, he looks so cute in the ball!
There's several slot manipulation strats to maximize coin gain so a lot got it legit. most others used item dupes to get the money needed to buy it.
Abusing Missingno to dupe items was known even back then.
Most players of the original Pokemon predated things like every game of any note having a wiki that every player would be expected to use, or even every player having access to the Internet at all. Even those with it wouldn't necessarily think to look, since that culture hadn't developed yet in the mid-90's. I certainly remember just grinding the casino games as a kid, and I never looked online and only really traded (which had to be done by physically plugging your Gamebrick into someone else's) between my brother and a couple friends I knew about.
Most players of the original Pokemon predated things like every game of any note having a wiki that every player would be expected to use, or even every player having access to the Internet at all. Even those with it wouldn't necessarily think to look, since that culture hadn't developed yet in the mid-90's. I certainly remember just grinding the casino games as a kid, and I never looked online and only really traded (which had to be done by physically plugging your Gamebrick into someone else's) between my brother and a couple friends I knew about.
Dude, even I knew about the glitches when the game was released and back then I had no access to the internet (fyi I only got access to the internet around 2004). The only method I had to gain info about games were some specialized magazines and in one of those they explained how to duplicate items and how to find the Saffari Zone pokemon outside the Saffari Zone. Those were good times...
Dude, even I knew about the glitches when the game was released and back then I had no access to the internet (fyi I only got access to the internet around 2004). The only method I had to gain info about games were some specialized magazines and in one of those they explained how to duplicate items and how to find the Saffari Zone pokemon outside the Saffari Zone. Those were good times...
"Some specialized magazines" are going to have a lot less circulation than one of the most popular games of the era. Hence, most kids playing the game didn't read them. And for some reason, the more popular magazines that kids would read (which even then were read by minorities of players), I.E. Nintendo Power, weren't exposing duplication tricks that can overwrite all kinds of data that can be undesirable. Yeah, print cheat guides existed, but it was a very small minority of users who bought those games. (In fact, more people probably used a Game Genie than bought cheat guide magazines that covered a specific game...)
I'm wondering if someone actually won all 9,999 of the required coins or paid over 200k to get the little cyber birdie. Either way, he looks so cute in the ball!
...Wait. We're not supposed to get that many coins?
//hides the Porygon I got from the Casino back in Red.
Most players of the original Pokemon predated things like every game of any note having a wiki that every player would be expected to use, or even every player having access to the Internet at all. Even those with it wouldn't necessarily think to look, since that culture hadn't developed yet in the mid-90's. I certainly remember just grinding the casino games as a kid, and I never looked online and only really traded (which had to be done by physically plugging your Gamebrick into someone else's) between my brother and a couple friends I knew about.
It's called word of mouth. That form of information sharing has existed for millennia.
