Hacked Shiny Spiritomb distributed at San Jose Mall Tour Stop

[evandeck]

A hacked Spiritomb is being distributed at the Oakridge Mall in San Jose at the BW Mall Tour. Fans are advised to release this Pokémon if received due to the nature of the event. The Spiritomb is a level 50 Shiny Pokémon with the ability Wonder Guard and the moves Shadow Force, Focus Punch, Softboiled, and Safeguard, and has an OT of "PKMNInt" and the Trainer ID of 27042. The Pokémon is "caught" in a Cherish Ball, has Pokérus, and holds BlackGlasses. The hacked Spiritomb is being distributed alongside the fully legitimate Celebi.

The hacked Wonder Card consists of a message saying "Pokémon International's Surprise!" and a grammatically-incorrect description of "SPIRITOMB might be hard to hit but really packs a wallop! Its as if this Pokémon has a Wonderful shield around it that Guards against most attacks! SPIRITOMB is legit!" NOTE: This Spiritomb is not legit; the Wonder Card line is the hacker's attempt at legitimizing the event.

This hacked event is very similar to one that occurred at the Nintendo World release party for Pokémon Platinum, wherein a hacked Gengar and a hacked Eevee were distributed.

Just to clarify, this Spiritomb is NOT legitimate, and any players who has downloaded one from the tour should release it immediately.

Source: Bulbanews

[The Tropius of Tropiuses]

Woah. How did this happen? Thanks for the heads up!

[Sableyed]

People are advised to release if it they get it? Why would they get it in the first place if they were going to release it?

[V-Generate]

"SPIRITOMB is legit!" is my favorite part of that Wonder Card, lmao.

Originally Posted by The Tropius of Tropius

Woah. How did this happen? Thanks for the heads up!

The guy put his hacked creation on a distrubution cart. Usually when someone gets a hold of a distribution cart they just extract the data or use it to give themselves events.

Originally Posted by Sableyed

People are advised to release if it they get it? Why would they get it in the first place if they were going to release it?

The games picked up the wireless distribution signal for the fake cart, rather than the Celebi distribution. Some people may have just assumed that they had more than one event going.

[Leaftail]

Originally Posted by V-Generate

"SPIRITOMB is legit!" is my favorite part of that Wonder Card, lmao.

Lol, reminds me of those ads that say "Congratulations! You are the one millionth visitor! THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! Saying it's legit just blatantly gives away the fact that it's not.

Interesting that somebody would do this. Also I wonder how many people fell for this. If it's random which of the two events the game's wifi signal would pick up, shouldn't that mean half the people who participated in the event got Wondertomb?

[FreezeWarp]

Originally Posted by Kurusu Lapras

Lol, reminds me of those ads that say "Congratulations! You are the one millionth visitor! THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! Saying it's legit just blatantly gives away the fact that it's not.

Interesting that somebody would do this. Also I wonder how many people fell for this. If it's random which of the two events the game's wifi signal would pick up, shouldn't that mean half the people who participated in the event got Wondertomb?

It probably goes for whichever signal is stronger - in a large mall (say MoA) there are probably more than one signals being sent out because each one can only go so far. People in a certain part of the mall would have also then picked up the Spiritomb signal, and if it was stronger...

[Shadow]

Although this is a poorly-made event (since the Wonder Card info reveals that it is hacked), people can easily fall into this trap when the signals are strong enough. I wonder, though: does this hacked event cause any corruption to the game/DS console?

[LucarioMario]

Whoa. I'm shocked people do this kind of stuff. I get it if they do it inside their own games, but messing with the hardware like that and possibly screwing up loads of other people's data... o.o

Originally Posted by V-Generate

"SPIRITOMB is legit!" is my favorite part of that Wonder Card, lmao.

That seems perfectly legit. And the fact Game Freak never put anything like that in any Wonder Cards before makes it the most legit thing in the world. [/sarcasm] xD

[Aquablast]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Although this is a poorly-made event (since the Wonder Card info reveals that it is hacked), people can easily fall into this trap when the signals are strong enough. I wonder, though: does this hacked event cause any corruption to the game/DS console?

I argee with you Shadow. It is probably a trick because why would Pokemon.com not know about this?