Pokemon Colosseum Question (God Help Me)

[Gligarman]

I know I've made it pretty clear on more than one occasion how much I loath this game. But I finally have some free time on my hands and I'm determined to get that Ho-Oh. But I have a few questions before I take on the final bosses so I don't mess things up anymore than they already are in this game.

1) So I'm at the last part of the game where you have to fight about 6 trainers in a row. I managed to beat 3 out of the first 4 trainers. The only thing is that I knocked out the 4th trainers Shadow Pokemon before he beat me. If I were to challenge them again, will that Shadow Pokemon be there again or did I just ruin my save file forever?

2) I've been told that in order to get Ho-Oh after beating the Mt. Battle 100 Trainer challenge and purifying all of the Shadow Pokemon, you have to use Pokemon from your story-mode file. But I also know that after I beat the final boss I can trade between the GBA games and Colosseum. So my question is, does it count if I use Pokemon from the story mode that I traded into the game?

I'd appreciate the help. Thank you.

 

[The Pig King]

For 1, if you can re-fight him, you should be able to get it again.

For 2, I have no idea.

 

[bobandbill]

Aw, don't go hating Colosseum. Even if there are no wild Pokemon, or routes, or gyms, or contests, and plotholes everywhere... well, those are bad things. But, it has Miror B - look at the positives!

Anyway, for one, the guy's Shadow Pokemon will still be there when you go back. In fact the how scenario plays out again, with the cut scenes and all (basically, you save the world again - another of Colosseum's flaws in that regard, but at least you get second chances on snagging Pokemon). Also, the Master Ball glitch helps greatly if you don't mind that sort of thing (a glitch that helps you reuse the Master Ball - a quick Google search should lead you to it if you don't know it).

Anyways - you get infinite chances for every Shadow Pokemon that you've missed.

As for 2, yes, it can count. You can use Pokemon from outside Colosseum (from GBA games), just be sure to have 'registered' them as your team in Story Mode then, and use that registered team. Then you are good to go, once you've purified all 48 Shadow Pokemon before taking the Mt Battle challenge in Colosseum mode (NOT story mode), that is.

Hope I helped. Good luck in getting that Ho-oh. Mt Battle challenge is pretty easy, just long-ish. Only near the end does it start to get 'hard', but none of my Pokes lost (you can get continues for clean-sweep victories), and had a Quagsire on my team...

 

[Gligarman]

Aw, don't go hating Colosseum. Even if there are no wild Pokemon, or routes, or gyms, or contests, and plotholes everywhere... well, those are bad things. But, it has Miror B - look at the positives!

Anyway, for one, the guy's Shadow Pokemon will still be there when you go back. In fact the how scenario plays out again, with the cut scenes and all (basically, you save the world again - another of Colosseum's flaws in that regard, but at least you get second chances on snagging Pokemon). Also, the Master Ball glitch helps greatly if you don't mind that sort of thing (a glitch that helps you reuse the Master Ball - a quick Google search should lead you to it if you don't know it).

Anyways - you get infinite chances for every Shadow Pokemon that you've missed.

As for 2, yes, it can count. You can use Pokemon from outside Colosseum (from GBA games), just be sure to have 'registered' them as your team in Story Mode then, and use that registered team. Then you are good to go, once you've purified all 48 Shadow Pokemon before taking the Mt Battle challenge in Colosseum mode (NOT story mode), that is.

Hope I helped. Good luck in getting that Ho-oh. Mt Battle challenge is pretty easy, just long-ish. Only near the end does it start to get 'hard', but none of my Pokes lost (you can get continues for clean-sweep victories), and had a Quagsire on my team...

You helped in more ways than one. I didn't know that there was a master ball in the game. I just got it. So here's one more question. Do you have to catch Ho-Oh or do they just give it to you?

 

[Umbreon Freak]

You helped in more ways than one. I didn't know that there was a master ball in the game. I just got it. So here's one more question. Do you have to catch Ho-Oh or do they just give it to you?

They just give it to you. It shows up in your PC after you beat the Mt. Battle challenge.

 

[SpecialAgentKato]

About the mt battle chalenge, I haven't purified all pokemon yet, am i able to chalenge, leave it and continiue later, or do you need to start, haveing purified them all and end without going anywhere else during the chalenge?

 

[Nando]

One other warning. You said you only made it up to the fourth guy, the male Cipher Peon? Be careful once you get past him, as the levels suddenly spike 10 levels higher when you go to fight Nascour to go into the 50s, then spike by 10 again for the boss after him.

 

[Gligarman]

One other warning. You said you only made it up to the fourth guy, the male Cipher Peon? Be careful once you get past him, as the levels suddenly spike 10 levels higher when you go to fight Nascour to go into the 50s, then spike by 10 again for the boss after him.

Yeah, I read about it in the guide I'm using. That's part of the reason why I've been dreading this so much. But still, once I beat this game I'm copying the file 3 times so that I never have to do this again if I need another Ho-Oh.

 

[bobandbill]

New question answered already - you get the Ho-oh, but I don't think you can copy the file, as that would be an easy way to clone. Nintendo made it so that you can't copy the file so you can't copy the Pokemon within it, so no copying the file I'm afraid.

If you need some levelling up, Mt Battle in story mode is useful, and you can buy TM's with the winnings there.

About the mt battle chalenge, I haven't purified all pokemon yet, am i able to chalenge, leave it and continiue later, or do you need to start, haveing purified them all and end without going anywhere else during the chalenge?

You NEED to have purified all 48 shadow Pokemon before attempting Mt Battle in Colosseum mode to get Ho-oh, I believe. Otherwise you'd have to do it again...
I think you could do other stuff inbetween in story mode while doing the Mt Battle challenge, not sure. Think it's two linked records there so you can as long as you don't register another team of Pokemon while doing so...

 

[archer9234]

You can copy save files if you have the GC to SD/USB card. Or if your daring, swap cards back and forth tilll it lets you save to the second one.