Kata
New Member
I’ve been doing a lot of Mystery Gifts between my GSC carts and Stadium 2 over the past year. I’ve got a decent decoration collection and it’s been pretty entertaining, but this experience has raised a handful of questions which don’t seem to have answers anywhere. I’m posting this thread in hopes that I might connect with the other two or three people on this planet who are into gen 2 Mystery Gift.
For those unaware, the items/decorations your GSC save is able to send through Mystery Gift are determined by your ID number (something which doesn’t seem to be very well documented).
Through my testing (~500 Mystery Gifts with Stadium 2), I’ve observed that Stadium 2 seems to mimic your GSC save’s ID in regards to which items can be sent. For instance, I know that none of my GSC saves are able to send Magikarp Dolls (a common decoration), and I never received one from Stadium 2 in hundreds of gifts… until I did - the day after my Crystal sent a Big Lapras Doll to Stadium 2 (which prompted a freak out dialogue from Carrie), I received a Magikarp Doll. Sooo… my hypothesis now is that you can receive special loot the day after you send Carrie an uber rare item. It’s possible what I experienced was just a coincidence, but it seems like I should’ve received the Magikarp Doll much earlier if there wasn’t something to this. Has anyone had a similar experience?
Additionally, in my ~500 Mystery gifts with Stadium 2, I’ve not received any of the three Stadium 2-exclusive decorations (Pikachu Bed, Tentacool Doll, Unown Doll). I’ve spent hours looking through forum posts from the early 2000s searching for anyone who might’ve received any of these items. From a 2001 Azure Heights post, Meowth346 (of Pokémon Forever fame) apparently got a Tentacool Doll, which made Carrie complain for a week, though they didn’t share any other details about it that I’m aware of. (This is the only person I could find who actually had any of these items >_>) If you’ve received any of these items, I’d love to hear about it!
If anyone has any other remotely relevant pieces of information, anecdotes, trivia, or ideas on who I might pester to learn more about GSC/Stadium 2 Mystery Gift, please let me know!
For those unaware, the items/decorations your GSC save is able to send through Mystery Gift are determined by your ID number (something which doesn’t seem to be very well documented).
Through my testing (~500 Mystery Gifts with Stadium 2), I’ve observed that Stadium 2 seems to mimic your GSC save’s ID in regards to which items can be sent. For instance, I know that none of my GSC saves are able to send Magikarp Dolls (a common decoration), and I never received one from Stadium 2 in hundreds of gifts… until I did - the day after my Crystal sent a Big Lapras Doll to Stadium 2 (which prompted a freak out dialogue from Carrie), I received a Magikarp Doll. Sooo… my hypothesis now is that you can receive special loot the day after you send Carrie an uber rare item. It’s possible what I experienced was just a coincidence, but it seems like I should’ve received the Magikarp Doll much earlier if there wasn’t something to this. Has anyone had a similar experience?
Additionally, in my ~500 Mystery gifts with Stadium 2, I’ve not received any of the three Stadium 2-exclusive decorations (Pikachu Bed, Tentacool Doll, Unown Doll). I’ve spent hours looking through forum posts from the early 2000s searching for anyone who might’ve received any of these items. From a 2001 Azure Heights post, Meowth346 (of Pokémon Forever fame) apparently got a Tentacool Doll, which made Carrie complain for a week, though they didn’t share any other details about it that I’m aware of. (This is the only person I could find who actually had any of these items >_>) If you’ve received any of these items, I’d love to hear about it!
If anyone has any other remotely relevant pieces of information, anecdotes, trivia, or ideas on who I might pester to learn more about GSC/Stadium 2 Mystery Gift, please let me know!