3rd Gen Why Cheating is useful.

[Elite MarcoPolo]

As the title says, cheating is alright because you never know what happens next.

This is an earlier post, but it is big enough to be a thread starter.

THIS IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY!

Long before I heard off emulators and such.

I played Pokemon FireRed(Me)/LeafGreen(Friend) with my friend and we were determined to get all of the Pokemon.

I started out. I made accounts on my game-catridge, and I got a starter Pokemon and played untill I was able to trade.
I transferred 2 off each starter Pokemon too his game.
Then after all that, we traded the Pokemon to eachother and got 2 of each starter Pokemon.
We then played normally and beat the game, and then we were determined to catch FireRed/LeafGreen exclusive Pokemon for each game and trade...
We were to gather all Pokemon and train them.
We actually almost got all of the Pokemon, but then I realized.
The game started to get boring, we finally got all Pokemon even the exclusive Pokemon (my friend went to the Pokemon Center in Manhatten, NY after school, so he got the tickets)
We shared tickets and got the rare island Pokemon.
I traded the game to his Pokemon Emerald. We all were determined to get the Ruby/Johto Pokemon in that game (2 off them each).
We finally did! (NO CHEATING WHAT-SO-EVER)
My friend and I traded some Pokemon to this Pokemon freak who leveled up all the Pokemon like wildfire!
My friend got all Pokemon too level 50 and then were happy with ourselves.
We went to the PokeFreaks house and realize our 20 Pokemon we gave him, were level 100! I asked him how he did it, he told me he got unlimited rare-candies by GameShark.
We were stunned! We did all the work without cheating and he ruined it, good thing we gave him crappy Pokemon except for a Larvitar and Feebas.
We then quit basically, we got the Pokemon back and then went to drink some Chocolate Milk, turns out it spilled on our highly treasured worked on Pokemon Emerald and Leafgreen were we stored our level 100(PokeFreaks) and all Legendary Ubers in all Generations!
The game data was erased, and we never mention Pokemon ever again!

I cried as I wrote this...

 

[Eruption]

Woah! that was an amazing achievement.
The end bit was a big blow though.

 

[Richard Lynch]

Back when I was a tyke and used to play the originals, I got a gameshark... I filled my pokedex, all the way up to Mew. And that was about it... I got bored, started the game over. With little regret. Cheating gives it a little extra excitement, as all "back door" methods do. But it realy isn't as satisfying as knowing you trained a Mewtwo to level 100 without cheating.

I mentioned in a earlier post that I used gameshark on my Emerald version, just to see what I could do with it. And it stopped my berries from growing! Then it transferred to my Ruby game when I traded. Started them both over, lost fairly good teams, and that's that. And, of course, me being diagnosed obsessive compulsive, I know for a fact I'll never use gameshark again, nor trade/mix records with a game that's used it. It's that paranoia that it could ruin your game that now keeps me away. I personally go by Murphey's Law: what can go wrong, will go wrong.

So in Pokemon terms, "if gameshark/action replay can ruin your game... it will!"
That's PokeShark's Law. :-P

 

[Legendary Squirtle]

Thats really sad. But cheating is not without its risk too

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

I only cheat if I'm desprite , for example catching all of the Pokemon and I know I can't go to the Nintendo events so I use a Cheat to get the legendaries

:t354:~*!*~Queen Boo~*!*~

 

[The Fallen]

There are many many threads about cheating, most recently should I Play Fair; so for now, you can use that thread since this isn't really necessary.

Closed~