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Heart Gold and Soul Silver release date!

The news are in! The release date for Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver has been announced in the official Japanese Pokémon website: September 12th. Their price will be ¥4800 in Japan.

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New features in the IV Calculator!

I haven't had any time to update with the plethora of Pokémon news these days, but at least I have been working on some new features for the Advanced IV & Stat Calculator (that's a long name there). It's a massive update (code-wise at least) and the new features include:

Effort Point data and EV training tools, Pokémon type affinity, input validation, online status detection: images automatically enabled & Version Checker. Some textual changes.

I am most excited about getting done the Version Checker and the EV training tools; I needed the latter a lot myself and thus I halted playing Platinum till I finished this.

Kudos to all of you that keep me going by supporting this calculator and translating it other languages: Spanish, Italian & Italian, Korean, Chinese and possibly more that I do not know of… Leave your notes of wisdom and possible requests for future versions in the comments below. Also report any bugs/problems as usual.

Edit: Junichi Masuda writes about an interview he gave to Gamasutra which we apparently never mentioned. Also if you live in Australia, don't miss the Secret Key events!

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Heart Gold and Soul Silver map artwork!

The map artwork which shows the regions in Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver is fully revealed. This is a great deal, since this will finally end the arguments about the remakes having Kanto or not. Plus, not only Kanto itself, but also a new region can be seen on the left. Heart Gold and Soul Silver seem to have more aces up their sleeves, so let's be prepared for more surprises!

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Some more Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver news!

The japanese Box Arts for Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver are officialy revealed.

Each box simply features Ho-Oh and Lugia, while the background is a map of the area where each of them can be caught; The Tin Tower and the Whirl Islands respectively. The boxes also seem to be bigger, as they contain the much anticipated Pokéwalker.

In addition, scans from the CoroCoro magazine reveal that Heart Gold owners will be able to somehow catch Kyogre while Soul Silver owners will get their hands on a Groudon. It also seems like when someone gets both Kyogre and Groudon on one version, Rayquaza will make its appearance.

We still don't have any news on the release date, but this is yet to be expected. We'll cover up more info when further details are revealed.

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European WiFi Event for the Secret Key!

Just a quick note, to remind everyone that starting from the 8th of June until 19th of July, Platinum players throughout Europe will be able to get the Secret Key via Mystery Gift.

The Secret Key allows players to change Rotom to its different formes, so if you wish to have your Rotom turned into a fan or a toaster, you must go to the Mystery Gift option on the Start Menu, choose Receive gift via WiFi and afterwards you can pick up your gift from any PokéMart!

To enable Mystery Gift, go to Jubilife City, on the 3rd floor of the TV building, there is a TV producer. The correct answer to their question is: Everybody Happy followed by: Wi-fi Connection. Then, after saving the game, Mystery Gift can be found on the Game Menu under Continue and New Game.

You can change Rotom's forme in a locked room inside the Galactic Building in Eterna City.

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New WiiWare Pokemon title to be released

It's been announced from the official Poké site, that a new game, going by the name "Melee! Pokémon Scramble" will be released on June 16, available for the Japanese Wii-players. It's download cost will be 1500 points.

The game can be controlled with the Wii remote held sideways, or the Nunchunk. Pokemon will look like they did on "Everyone's Pokémon Ranch". Players must control their Pokémon in a pit, which is filled with many other Pokémon. The winner is tha last one standing. There's also a story mode, which includes boss fights, a 2player co-op mode ans a stadium mode, where up to 4 players can battle. Players can also trasnfer Pokémon with their Wiimotes, simular to the way Miis are transfered.

Hopefully, we'll see this one game released for the US and Europe

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