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Continuing the tradition of the past couple of years, its Christmas day and I’m pleased to announce we have a totally new Pokemon Gen 3 distribution to release this year, Doel Deoxys!

The Doel Deoxys was distributed at the TV Toy Museum in the Netherlands during the Pokemon Fan Days 2006 from May 25 to 28, 2006 to celebrate the release of Destiny Deoxys (Doel Deoxys). This Doel Deoxys distribution has never seen the light of day since, so needless to say we’re delighted that 13 and a half years later the Doel Deoxys distribution is preserved and available to anyone in the Pokemon community to enjoy indefinitely.

This release was made possible with significant financial contributions from the following people: ajxpk, bromario56, Deoxyz, Gridelin, InsaneNutter, Invader TAK, north13, thaleskpl, theskipster, theSlayer, UndeadxReality and YoshiMoshi which technical knowledge and insight provided by King Impoleon, fabio00 and Sabresite.

Here is a video of the...

The Aurora Ticket is an item that was only obtainable at real world events, which unlocks Birth Island on Pokemon FireRed, LeafGreen and Emerald.

Since we originally obtained the Pokemon Gen 3 Aurora Ticket Distribution, for several years some private collectors who already possessed the newly public roms said that our version of the Aurora Ticket had a chunk of data erased from the hex. None of this effected the function of usage of the distribution, as it was all miscellaneous and unused data. Not long after we obtained the Doel Deoxys distribution in September 2018, we finally were able to obtain the alleged unedited Aurora Ticket rom. The data that was erased from the public copy before it came into our possession (further proof...

Over the years I’ve been working with others in the Pokemon Community to preserve at least one of each Gen 3 event Pokemon and as many Gen 3 distributions as possible, it soon became apparently that the Pokemon Gen 3 event distributions been sold on GBA Development Cartridges on Ebay we’re replications / clones. I’m not using the word “fake” here as the software been sold on these development cartridges is legitimate, however it’s a copy been passed off as the original and sold for a lot of money. (€1000+ )

Our group worked out how this was been done earlier in the year, and quite honestly anyone could do this with the hardware you have at home now. Yet this information is not widely known, many perceive you need old GBA development kits with obscure hardware / software that won’t run on modern computers.

The reality is you simply need an Nintendo DS and a Flash Card.

We decided it’s best for the community if this information is out there and readily...

We have had the privilege of preserving another Pokemon Gen 1 Mew, this time we have a Mew distributed in Norway to Club Nintendo members.

Digiex member @Golden Toilette kindly backed up his save game containing the Norway Mew, obtained all the way back in the year 2000, allowing us to share it for all to enjoy.

The Club Nintendo Mew distribution ran in Norway from October 15th 2000, to November 20th 2000 and required you to be a Club Nintendo member to receive a Mew.

Read more: Pokemon GEN1 Legit Club Nintendo Norway Mew Event

With the announcement of Niantic Wayfarer coming soon to Pokemon Go players, it is perceived eligible Pokemon Go players world wide will soon gain the ability to submit Pokestops, so this will finally not just be limited to certain countries.

Having recently worked with an Ingress player to submit POI ideas in my local area, I learned quite a bit about the process from him. I also learned how you can analyse the S2 cells in your area with tools such as IITC Mobile. This allows you to figure out where you need to make a submission and how many submissions you need to create another gym in a certain area for example.

At first glance apps like IITC Mobile might not appear to be the most user friendly, however once you have them setup correctly its very easy to use IITC Mobile to understand the area you wish to improve on Pokemon Go.

Learn more:...

Freespace 2 is currently free to claim on Good Old Games (GoG) for the next 42 hours from the time of posting.

The game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. While defending the human race and its alien Vasudan allies, the player also gets involved in putting down a rebellion of those elements of Vasudan (Hammer of Light) and Human (Neo Terran Front) forces which don't want to cooperate with one another.

Freespace 2 also includes the FRED2 editor available in the installation directory of the game.

Link: Freespace 2 on GoG

The Xbox One scene might finally be starting to get a little interesting. XVMM has released a privilege escalation exploit for Xbox One consoles running in dev mode.

Essentially this allows you to breakout the user land sandbox and gain Administrator access. Currently this will allow you to dump the nand using the XRF tool, however it might allow for some other interesting things to happen.

Either way its nice to see a little Xbox One activity after all these years. Microsoft will probably patch this exploit pretty soon however.

Download: Xbox One Dev Mode Privilege Escalation Exploit

A Prototype / Demo of Pokemon Silver localised for Germany has been preserved and released. This Pokemon Silver demo was purchased from a collector who was selling off various Pokemon prototype carts.

The game was already out in Japan by that time, so don't expect anything major like the space world demos with that in mind, however their are a few minor differences which are explained in the Pokemon Silver German Prototype / Demo release thread.

Regardless it is still indeed a very interesting and very rare release that is now preserved for historical Pokemon preservation.

Thanks to @Deoxyz who made this release possible before he retired from Pokemon related projects.

The Humble Store is back with another free game giveaway, this time you can claim Grid 2 by signing up to the Humble Store newsletter. In addition to Grid 2 you also get the Bathurst and Spa-Francorchamps track pack DLC.

Grid 2 includes numerous real world locations and cities such as Paris, in addition vehicles spanning four decades. Grid 2 features a new handling system that developer Codemasters has dubbed 'TrueFeel', which aims to hit a sweet spot between realism and accessibility. Races do not include a first person cockpit view.

You have until Sunday 17th March at 5pm UTC+0 to claim Grid 2 for free.

Link: Grid 2 on the Humble Store

Microsoft has released a video showing a demonstration of its upcoming xCloud game streaming service. This is a cloud gaming service that streams games to PCs, consoles, and mobile devices using Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud services.

Microsoft demonstrated Forza Horizon 4 streaming to an Android phone. An Xbox One controller was connected via Bluetooth, showing how it will be easy to stream games to mobile devices.

I can certainly see the appeal of xCloud game streaming service, it would be a great way to have some impromptu Xbox Lan's. Since split screen gaming is not really a thing this generation on most games, this could be an easy way for people to it in the same room and enjoy some Xbox gaming, perhaps even on your dinner break at work?

What do you think? if I could potentially stream the Xbox games i own digitally at no extra cost i'd be very interested. However i don't think its something i'd subscribe to in addition to Xbox Live.

xCloud...

Today Microsoft added Crackdown 2 as a backwards compatible game on the Xbox One, in addition Microsoft has also allowed Crackdown 2 to be downloaded for free. This means now both the original Crackdown and Crackdown 2 can be downloaded for free on both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

I'm personally a big fan of both of these games, so for free both are well worth checking out. If you enjoy these games then Crackdown 3 is more of the same crazy, open world fun.

Downloads:

Crackdown on the Xbox Marketplace Download

Crackdown 2 on the Xbox Marketplace Download

We're not sure if both Crackdown games will both be free indefinitely, so its worth adding them to your library sooner, rather than later.

Remember: Skills for Kills, Agent. Skills for Kills.

It wouldn’t be Christmas for the Pokemon community without a Christmas day event release would it?!

For the final release of 2018 were excited to bring you the Strongest Pokemon distribution. What’s special about the Strongest Pokemon distribution is it’s the first Japanese NDS Pokemon Distribution to make it out in to the wild. Compared to some of the European and American distributions for Gen 4 and 5 which can often be found on Ebay, this is the first time a Japanese distribution has been found on an auction site.

This distribution was used in Pokémon Center stores in Japan for part of the Strongest Pokemon event, distributing the three Pokemon that were chosen via a poll. These Pokemon are Milotic, Dragonite and Salamence.

We have @YoshiMoshi to thank for this extremely rare release, needless to say this cost a lot of money, however in true community spirit he was more than happy for this to be released so all the Pokemon Community can...

As hinted yesterday we have more lined up for the Pokémon Community this Christmas.

The Space World 97 Mew is currently the oldest event Pokemon we have the privilege of preserving and releasing to the Pokemon community.

This Mew was distributed at Nintendo Space World '97, which was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan between November 21st to 23rd 1997.

The story of how this Space World 97 Mew was obtained all these years later involves a lot of luck, so be sure to read more in the Pokemon GEN1 JPN Space World 97 Mew .pk1 thread to learn more about the oldest preserved event Pokemon.

Hopefully things will fall in to place during 2019, so more events from years gone by can be preserved for future generations of Pokemon players to enjoy.

A big thank you goes to salinbreezy and @Deoxyz for...

Today marks the start of Christmas for the Pokemon community, especially those in Europe. Thanks to a collector who wishes to remain anonymous we are pleased to be able to release the French, German, Italian and Spanish regional variants for both the Top 10 Distribution (10ANNIV) and the Aura Mew Distribution, meaning the complete sets of these Gen 3 European Pokemon distributions are finally available for all to enjoy.

Exactly two years ago today the first ever Pokemon GBA distribution was released for all to enjoy, the English Pokemon 10ANNIV Distribution, then to follow up exactly a year after today the English Pokemon Aura Mew Distribution was released. It seems fitting for the third year the recently obtained regional language variants of both these distributions are released.

You can head over to our existing posts for the Pokemon 10ANNIV...

Released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.

The remastered edition of Full throttle features all new hand-drawn and 3D high-resolution artwork, with remastered audio and music.

In celebration of the GoG winter sale you can get Full Throttle Remastered for free until December 15 at 2pm UTC+0

It might well be worth checking out the GoG winter sale too, fantastic games such as Mafia II, complete with all its DLC is on sale for £5.99. A well worthwhile purchase in my opinion!

Crackdown is currently available for free on the Xbox Marketplace according to the games listing. This is believed to be part of Microsoft's upcoming X018 event, however nothing has been announced as of the time of posting.

At this moment in time its not clear how long Crackdown will be free to download, however as Microsoft don't have the functionality to time limit full game downloads on the Xbox 360, its pretty safe to say you will be able to keep Crackdown indefinitely if you download it now.

Crackdown can be enjoyed on the Xbox 360, Xbox One and even on the Xbox One X in 4K, with the ability to play over system link if you don't have Xbox Live gold. As one of my all time favourite Xbox 360 games Crackdown is certainly worth having in your collection if its not already.

Thanks to Digiex member Gunz4Hire for the heads up.

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 are free for a limited time on the Microsoft Store according to each games listing. This is believed to be part of Microsoft's upcoming X018 event, which has gone live a bit earlier than intended.

At this moment in time its not clear whether this is a full-on giveaway or if each game is just free to play for a limited time. Either way if you have any interest in either game it might be worth claiming them sooner rather than later.

Links:

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on the Microsoft Store

Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 on the Microsoft Store

Currently EA are giving away the Battlefield 1 Premium Pass free to PC, PS4 and Xbox One owners of Battlefield 1

The Premium Pass giveaway is set to run from September 11 to 18 and grants access to all the maps, weapons, vehicles, and more from the four Battlefield 1 expansions: They Shall Not Pass, In the Name of the Tsar, Turning Tides, and Apocalypse. In total this means you get access to an additional 16 multiplayer maps, along with new operations and game modes.

Download the Battlefield 1 Premium Pass:

• PC
• PlayStation 4
• Xbox One

In addition the base Battlefield 1 game is currently £5.25 on the Xbox One and £4.37 on...

The Settlers is a game series which has been around since 1993, developed by the German studio Blue Byte. With The Settlers series now being 25 years old, Ubisoft had a couple of surprising announcements to make regarding the city-building RTS series during gamescom today.

A new game titled "The Settlers" is currently in development, in addition The Settlers History Collection was also announced for release this fall. The Settlers history collection is a re-master of all seven Settlers games from years gone by, complete with their expansions.

The original Settlers from the history collection is actually available for purchase on Uplay right now, with the rest of the game launching towards the end of the year. However you can already purchase all the past Settlers games with the exception of the...

If you remember back to Animal Crossing on the GameCube the normal NES games that you could obtain each came as an individual furniture piece that appeared as an NES console with a single game box on top of it. When you placed the item in your house and interacted with it, it would only play that one game.

It was also possible to also obtain a generic “NES Console” item that did not feature any of the built-in games. You could buy this item from Redd, or sometimes obtain it through random events such as town bulletin-board message.

It turns out this generic NES Console can load NES roms from a GameCube memory card as James Chambers explains in his blog.


Nintendo might well have planned to distribute additional NES games on memory cards at some point, however decided against that. So its pretty neat to see unused features enabled...