Would you consider it cheating if...
I have been thinking about this for a while, and I am still unsure myself as to where I stand on this matter.
Here's the full story:
I own my fair share of Pokémon games. I've been a huge fan of Pokémon ever since the anime aired in the Netherlands for the first time back in 1999. At that time I was 10 or 11 years old, and was really inspired by this boy (Ash) which was as old as I am, about to venture forth on his quest to become a Pokémon master. I was one of many. These days though, none of my friends still like Pokémon, better still, they hate it. God knows why.
But to get back to the story. I have bought Pokémon Blue, my brother had Pokémon Red, and a friend of mine had Pokémon Yellow, so I ended up being able to play all of those on my old school refrigerator sized Game Boy. But at that time I did not get as much allowance as I would have liked, and simply did not have the money to get the newer Pokémon games for my gameboy, so I resorted to the next best thing, roms on my computer.
(And no, I am not going to name any emulators, or rom sites I used.)
How ever, when Pokémon Black & White got released, I decided it was time to get back into Pokémon the way it was supposed to be done, by simply purchasing the game in the store or Ebay (!Be careful about purchasing fake cartridges, I've had my fair share >.> ). A friend of mine, who has since then stopped playing Pokémon, offered to sell me all her games at a really low price, and well, who can refuse that
. Among other games, there was Pokémon DPPl/HgSs, but also a 'rom-cartridge' which was able to read MicroSD cards, and thus play roms stored on the card, directly on my NDS. Which made me very happy as I could still play and transfer the Pokémon from the roms to the real games. On this 'rom-cartridge' however there were about 20 different Pokémon Diamond and Pearl games. At the time Platinum got released she took them to our local Toys'r'us, and gained a Shaymin on each them. So every Shaymin has been received legit, it's just the game that hasn't been purchased in the store.
Now here is my question:
Would you guys still consider those Shaymin 'illegitimate Pokémon'? The Shaymin itself has been gained legit, it's just that they have been received on a rom, instead of a normal game cartridge.
I would also appreciate it if you could elaborate on the answer you give, instead of just a yes or a no.
Thank you in advanced.
Thoaee