So I was wondering if only the game language counts for the Masuda method. I have two copies of pokemon, X and Y. Version X I play in English, version Y I play in Spanish. If I transfer over a Spanish pokemon and use it to breed, do I get the Masuda 5x shiny chance?
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat]
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat] Wed 30 Oct 2013 19:36:47 No. 15397739 Report >>15397708 You're not very intelligent, are you?
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>>15397739 Seriously? I'm asking if it uses 3DS region or game language. It's not very straightforward.
Anonymous
>>15397739 What's wrong about asking a simple question with no obvious answer
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat]
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat] Wed 30 Oct 2013 19:41:54 No. 15397890 Report >>15397808 Because the question is obvious and he answered it in his own post.
Does it have a foreign tag? If Y, it's foreign. It uses your 3ds region for trading BECAUSE THATS WHERE YOU ARE. Just because you have a Mexican DS doesn't mean you get routed all the way to a Mexican hub from Mongolia. It's going to trade within your region.
If it were as simple as changing your DS region to get foreign pokemon dont you think we'd all be all over that already? Shit, I swear some of you kids can't think.
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>>15397890 Holy fuck you're a dick.
Anonymous
I'm actually wondering this too. Do the black tags indicate pokemon eligible for masuda?
Jordan 1676-4167-9587 [Ice - Snover, Bergmite, Lapras]
Jordan 1676-4167-9587 [Ice - Snover, Bergmite, Lapras] Wed 30 Oct 2013 19:45:09 No. 15397979 Report Quoted By:
I was more under the impression that it went off of the region lock, so instead of it being the 3DS location or the games language, it was depending on what region the game itself is.
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat]
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat] Wed 30 Oct 2013 19:45:56 No. 15397999 Report >>15397949 It uses the games region settings not the language settings they are playing in. It has nothing to do with where you live or where your ds thinks you live. It's based completely off of region locks.
Anonymous
>>15397890 who stuck a stick up your ass
Anonymous
>>15397949 It's based on the language the game is played in, nothing else. If the pokemon has the black JPN/SPA/FRE/GER/whatever tag on its status screen, it will work, otherwise no.
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I think I know a way to definitively test. I'll put up a pokemon on the GTS from my Spanish game. I then search for it using my English game with the filter "Only pokemon from a different region." If it appears, then it's confirmed foreign.
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat]
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat] Wed 30 Oct 2013 19:48:39 No. 15398102 Report >>15398005 Don't ask dumb questions
He basically asked if his foreign SPA tagged pokemon won't work because he isn't in Spain/Mexico or whatever country he's in. That's like me getting a JPN pokemon off the GTS and asking if it'll work because it's now on an English cart and I'm not standing in Tokyo.
Come the fuck on. Use your head.
Anonymous
>>15398102 see, the thing is, asshole, people like you and
>>15398007 keep giving differing opinions
no matter how "obvious" you say your method is, there's no proof, and the other person's claim seems just as valid
Anonymous
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>>15397890 dude that's so retarded, when you start a new game of the pokemon game the current region on your 3DS is set as that game profils region, else people wouldn't have to trade around for Vivillion.
As of topic I wonder the same thing and I'm not sure about it.
Anonymous
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>>15397999 >>15398007 These are completely different answers
Let's say I have the disposable time and income to waste on dedicating a game to masuda-ing.
Would I need to order a 3DS from another region, and the game from that same region? Or would I only need to buy a local game and play it in a different language?
And if I buy a foreign 3DS and foreign game and choose "English" as the language option, would that mean I can't masuda with pokemon from that game?
I was under the impression that the system, game, AND language need to be different.
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>>15398179 Actually they have the same opinion. The argument is TAG vs Region Lock. It makes the most sense to simply be the tag, since it would suck for anyone using GTS if they got a SPA pokemon from a USA region and Masuda didn't work.
Anonymous
>>15398102 That's not what he's saying at all though. Using your example, he's asking if it matters if that JPN pokemon from the GTS is ACTUALLY from Japan or a Japanese system.
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>>15398416 It would blow big donkey chunks if you got a JPN tagged pokemon that didn't work with Masuda, as you would have NO WAY of telling. This is the main reason why I'm 98% sure it's simply based on game language.
So now I just transfer 2 ENG breeders to my SPA game, breed out a perfect IV offspring, transfer it back to my ENG game and Masuda the fuck out of it.
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat]
Sean - 0061-0522-0780 [Grass: Ivysaur, Oddish, Gogoat] Wed 30 Oct 2013 20:06:49 No. 15398705 Report >>15398551 I have no idea how region locking works on the DS but you can solve this really quick by trying this
Swap DS's
Spanish game on English DS
English game on Spanish DS
Load up games and trade and see which region the pokemon identify to. Is it the cart location or the ds location? Will the games even start?
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>>15398705 I only have one DS. Two USA games. One using English language, one using Spanish. I have confirmed that a pokemon transferred to my English game from my Spanish game has the SPA tag.
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Ok I just tested this. I put up a pokemon from my Spanish game on the GTS. I can find it just fine from my English game.
Anonymous
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>>15397708 Where is this battle taking place?
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Any insight from other people?
Anonymous
okay, this thread seems to contradict itself, I'm going to try and put this mess together since y'all are needlessly hostile.
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>>15402965 Why the language tag then? Is there truly no way to determine if a pokemon is from a different region? I could go trade a bunch of Spanish 5IV Gibles right now claiming "Hey look guys- foreign perfect Gibles!" and get a bunch of good trades. However, they would actually be USA region, therefore screwing over whoever I traded them to.
This would suck.
Anonymous
>>15402965 no, its based on language not region
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>>15403348 Where is this confirmed? Like I said before-
I put up a pokemon from my Spanish game on the GTS. I can find it just fine from my English game with no filter.
However... When I filter for pokemon in different regions, my Spanish pokemon does not show up. This leads me to believe it's region locked and not language.
Anonymous
Seeing as the carts aren't actually region locked I presume it must be based on language.
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>>15403439 But this just goes off the region that your 3DS is set I would think instead of its actual hardware region (NTSC, PAL, JPN). If it can be proved that it's based off the latter then it would really suck as the language tags would be useless...however I do believe personally it is based off the tags.
Anonymous
>>15403439 >- The Masuda Method of breeding shinies now works based on the language chosen in the game the Pokemon was originally from, not the region. Look for a 3-letter symbol next to the Pokemon’s name, which indicates it comes from a language not your own. its been in the X/Y Question General since they started it
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>>15403526 Carts are indeed region locked. You can't play a Japanese game on an English 3DS.
Anonymous
>>15403606 Oh really? Pokémon X and Y aren't region locked between the USA and PAL so I assumed it was true for Japan as well, my bad.
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>>15403657 I don't have firsthand experience, but I've been researching this for quite some time now. From what multiple people have reported, apparently the load screen will show, but you can't actually play.
Anonymous
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>>15397890 You'reassshitheadwhodoesn'thavetheslightestinklingofwhathe'stalkingabout/10
Anonymous
>>15403745 Oh right, that's a weird one. At least we can play in foreign languages if we want to anyway.
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>>15404008 I'm playing one of my versions in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish. It's kind of fun.
Anonymous
>>15404079 Are you trying to translate it as you play? I'm considering playing through Y in either Spanish (which I know a bit of) or Japanese (which I know almost nothing of) to try and help my language skills.
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>>15404163 Yeah. I took Spanish a long time ago in High School so I can piece some of it together, but I have had to google translate a bunch of things. If I hadn't already done one playthrough to know where to progress this would be MUCH harder.
Anonymous
>>15397999 >It's based completely off of region locks If that were true, UK pokemon would be able to masuda with US mons but not with German ones. That's wrong.
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>>15404690 This is what I'm hoping. If it's just language, I can breed my own perfect foreign pokemon to use with for breeding Masuda shinies.
Anonymous
>>15403578 Can anyone actually confirm this with a source? How do we know?
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>>15405192 I've been researching for a few hours now and haven't found a single confirmation one way or another. Just extremely conflicting information.
Anonymous
OP, it has changed. It's by language now. Not region. So MM works just fine with your SPA pokemon and an english pokemon.
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>>15407989 Where is the proof? I haven't seen a single reliable source confirming either side.
