Mirage Island

[DragonLover]

I was just wondering if there is anymore iformation on Mirage island. Like which pokemon will see it or not, or what time it appears in general.
I was also wondering If anyone has found out or knows whats is the signifigance of those rocket launches, do we benfit from then in anyway?

[Poryhedron]

Each day, a random number is generated. In order to see Mirage Island appear, you have to have a pokémon that matches that randomly generated number...I think the 'stat' that has to match is the hidden value that determines gender, personality and shinyness as well as a Spinda's spot pattern.
So to answer your two questions, nothing can truly be known about what pokémon can see it because it's random, and it'll appear any time of day that you have a pokémon in your party that matches the daily generated number.
By the way, just to make sure, you know that the old man in Pacifidlog who's looking out an eastern window can be counted on to tell you whether Mirage Island is there or not, yes?

[Tallest_Los]

Do a search for Mirage Island. There's an official Mirage Island topic.

No one knows what the rocket launch count is for. Some people say it has to do with getting Deoxys or Jirachi, but that hasn't been proven. I myself think it's bull.

[Animelee]

The rocket launches once every week, so I think it's just to remind the player how long he/she has been playing for.

[Geofree]

the rocket launches are for dEoXyS!!!!11!
on my silver cart i got 10o rocket launches and DeoxYS appeared@!!!!
all u have to do is take your gameboy advance battery out when a rattata appears and when u put it back In deoxys will appear!!!!@

[DragonLover]

Spam, maybe?

[Poryhedron]

I'd call it more a deliberate parody of some of the morons out there who post those rumors in all sincerity.

[Animelee]

*Remembers Pikablue and Togepi in RBY, Nidogod, Mewthree, Mist Stone to evolve Togepi, Charbok, Flareth, etc.*

*Remembers how people would talk about catching "Bruno", who actually turned out to be Snubbull. I remember people mistook its Japanese name, Buru (romanized as Bull), as Bruno*

*Also remembers rumors of people going to Johto and Kanto in RS, back in November 2002*

[HedgeCat]

Originally posted by Geofree
the rocket launches are for dEoXyS!!!!11!
on my silver cart i got 10o rocket launches and DeoxYS appeared@!!!!
all u have to do is take your gameboy advance battery out when a rattata appears and when u put it back In deoxys will appear!!!!@

Aw, damn! I have a GBA SP! No Deoxys for me. =<

(j/k)

Poryhedron explained Mirage Island, and the rocket launches are just there.

[Gralion]

Originally posted by Geofree
the rocket launches are for dEoXyS!!!!11!
on my silver cart i got 10o rocket launches and DeoxYS appeared@!!!!
all u have to do is take your gameboy advance battery out when a rattata appears and when u put it back In deoxys will appear!!!!@

1) Ratata canot be found

2) Dexnox can ONLY be got through cheating or a Nintendo event now

So we can safely say LIE

[master jao]

Originally posted by Gralion
1) Ratata canot be found

2) Dexnox can ONLY be got through cheating or a Nintendo event now

So we can safely say LIE

It was obviously a joke from the ratata point lol. No need to say lie, when it is explicitly presented as one. ;-p

[Profesor_Rod]

Hahahahahahaha (and goes to laugh like 10 minutes)

*sniff* That was a good one. It remainded me a "friend" of mine (personally I think he is a moron, bot don´t tell him, *giggles*)

But returning to the main topic, then, the apparence of the island is random. I heard a rumor that it was a pokémon with 0 in all it's "genes" what unlocks the island, but now I see it vanished.

What are the probabilities of get the island?
What is the format of the hidden value? Or better, IV goes from 0 to 31, From what to what this number goes?
How do I check the launches?

Graleon will get a better humor? Everything and more in the next post!

Thank-Q

[rinku]

The hidden "gender value" is a 32 bit number (4 bytes), but I don't know if the mirage island number is generated that large (they may only generate a 2 byte number and match it vs the high or low part of the hidden value, for example).