well i am also an items collector, i collect lots of hold items, because FYI my fire red game, (which i got for my b-day 2 years ago,) is my main game,
i spent almost 200 hours and i have 300 something pokemon atm, but i left it at my friends house and he tried a gameshark code for having all pokemon and it changed my dex from 300 something to 200 something, and it erased the data of some pokemon i already had, so i had to recatch all those pokemon that were erased.. -.-, but luckily they were all the pokemon i got from the first genereation, which i cought all and got the diploma, but now i need to get them all again,
i think i got all of them almost, havent really played my FR lately,
And i think im going to catch 5 more shinies, (if i can) and make a shiny team xD