>>36565697>be 2005>have Japanese pen pal because of a Catholic program>he has 3 copies of Japanese Emerald>news of Old Sea Chart event comes out>he goes to the event and downloads it on to all 3 carts>the trainer name on one of the carts is my name, but in Japanese, because I wanted neat Japanese Pokémon and we made a deal that he would give me a copy in return for some English shit>that same cart has the other Japanese tickets on it>he mails the cart to me; I send him some English shit>read about the RE method on some ancient forum around the same time>tfw legit shiny Mew after over 9000 attempts>mfw it's still with me on my US as we speakShame that thanks to fucking injectfags everyone thinks it's not legit.