The Johto Dex Idea/wish list/Debate

[Poryhedron]

Until recently, you had to go somewhere such as a Toys 'R' Us store in order to get anything...and what you got was the pokémon itself, despite the fact that there's hidden content in the game allowing you to explore special areas and find the pokémon in a scripted encounter.

These days, though, Nintendo has started handing out event-unlocking items through Mystery Gift, and you don't even have to leave your home! (Assuming you have WiFi in your home.) You just have to activate Mystery Gift on your 4th-gen game (which is done by giving certain answers in a survey at the Jubilife TV Station), and then you can use WiFi to connect to Nintendo's servers. Doing so will get you an item like the Secret Key or the Member Card; these items are needed to access special hidden content in your game. (This might only be doable with Platinum Version; I'm not sure.)

[CadoAngelus]

Until recently, you had to go somewhere such as a Toys 'R' Us store in order to get anything...and what you got was the pokémon itself, despite the fact that there's hidden content in the game allowing you to explore special areas and find the pokémon in a scripted encounter.

These days, though, Nintendo has started handing out event-unlocking items through Mystery Gift, and you don't even have to leave your home! (Assuming you have WiFi in your home.) You just have to activate Mystery Gift on your 4th-gen game (which is done by giving certain answers in a survey at the Jubilife TV Station), and then you can use WiFi to connect to Nintendo's servers. Doing so will get you an item like the Secret Key or the Member Card; these items are needed to access special hidden content in your game. (This might only be doable with Platinum Version; I'm not sure.)

Well i was on Bulbapedia (Pokémon Wikia) and it gave a list of the Nintendo events coming up and already passed, and it suggested most of them were automatically available to Platinum versions, but it also suggested quite a few of them were open to Pearl and Diamond, being a "seperate" event from the Platinum version - i'm guessing because of the subtle differences in the game engine not allowing them to release one single event for both P&D and Pt.

Did the previous events get rereleased for WiFi? or have they just been classed and "done and finished", because i don't know where i read it, but something i read suggests that the events depend on your DS being set to your time-zone actual time, so you need to have your DS time set properly in order to access these events...thats a little question i wasn't too sure about