What is eligible in official events?

[Acheront]

I bought myself a Pokemon Emerald from Japan last year on my trip. However, I was wondering if Nintendo Events such as ones in America accept Pokemon with Japanese names. I mean, in tournaments, would they allow Pokemon from the Japanese games? Or, if I named my character and Pokemon in a Japanese game in English, would they be able to find out if I trade it to an English game?

Also, do Pokemon from the Japanese games work with Colusseum and XD? I wanted to start new games in my GBA Pokemon games, so I was curious on this matter before I make the new games.

 

[shining-Celebi]

I can answer #2 for you

Japanese Fr/Lg/E/R/S are not compatible with American/Uk Colloseum/XD. sorry

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

Well I'm pretty sure the gameboy games are compatible no matter wehere they're from, so I can't imagine why anyone would stop you entering pokemon on a japanese cart. Just so long as they are legal pokemon with legal moves there's no real difference between them.

 

[Acheront]

It'd be hard to prove that movesets are legit though. I guess I can just trade them over to my FR (English), to make life easier.

As with Colusseum and XD. Since its not compatible, can I trade the Pokemon into an English cart and work it from there?

 

[gregjammer]

http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=22157
^^^LOOK UP HERE FOR THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION!

Sorry for the all-caps, just wanted to emphasize my statement, and here is a counter-statement to the freeloader statement that's mentioned somewhere in the above link:

...According to Kiera2, not even Freeloader works. If you want to read my reasoning on it, feel free, but otherwise just skip the quote.


Quote:
The nature of Freeloader is that it has to continuously fool the GameCube into thinking it's reading from an US/NTSC (or whatever version your GCN is) disc, that also includes any data stored. It's basically a GameShark with one code on it, to force a regional setting to match yours. I don't know if this is really the case, but I'm assuming the data saved is tagged as a US/NTSC data, but is formatted in whatever origin it had.

When you load up the Japanese Bonus Disc, a JP/NTSC compliant, and it reads the "Japanese Colosseum Data" it probably picks up the US/NTSC mark Freeloader made and thus becuse the bonus disc is meant to read JP/NTSC data, it will refuse to load up the US/NTSC "Japanese" data...

You'll see that the GBA games may be inter-compatable across languages, but because of television system differences, the GBA games can't connect to a GCN of another language... And the name of the species and the OT can't be translated, even when traded to a Pokemon cartridge of another language, just the description, the names of the moves and their respective types, its current level and the Item it's holding...