my Pokemon Emerald game was completely legit, I encountered 2 shiny pokemon in the game, beat the elite four countless times, beat a few of the battle frontier brains, completed 99.9% of the national pokedex (unfortunately I needed a zangoose). Here's the really sad part, my little bro "accidentally" deleted my game data. *sobs* But that was years ago but I sure worked hard just for my data to get deleted.
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