What are mystery gifts or nintendo events in pokmon games?

xwingsx101: What are mystery gifts or nintendo events in pokmon games?
So, I recently purchased the new pokemon game. I read online about these events and mystery gifts and i’m honestly not sure what they are, how their obtainable, or what they do for that matter. I have 3 legendaries so far…Raikou, Entei, and Lugia. Are these the only ones i get in my game (soulsilver) or can I get more, and are the rest only obtainable through events or mystery gifts?

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Answer by Claudiiester
well different things can be got from mystery gifts.
one of the things for soulsilver and heartgold is that you can download a yellow path route onto your ds for putting onto your pokewalker.this has loads of pikachu on it.
there is also pokemon such as jirachi, a very very rare pokemon.

Answer by George
you can get grodon ho-oh latios suicune riaku and rayquaza but you need kyogre from embedded tower and groudon but kyogre you cant get unless you have heartgold as well

Answer by Confused
Mystery Gift is an option you use to obtain gifts over Wi-Fi, they don’t hold any actual gifts. Nintendo will occasionally put a special gift on their server, such as a Pokemon or special item, and you can download the gift with the Mystery Gift option. Right now, you can get the Yellow Forest off of the server. Yellow Forest is a course for your Pokewalker, and the special thing about this course is that there are a few rare Pikachu in it, including a surfing and flying Pikachu, a HM move they can’t normally learn. Here is how to get the Yellow Forest course (you need to be able to get your DS online to do this):

Go to the menu screen, and make sure you have two or less wonder card in your Mystery Gift because receiving a gift will add a wonder card to your game, and the maximum number of wonder card you can have is three. Once that’s checked, select “MYSTERY GIFT”, “RECEIVE GIFT”, then “GET VIA WIFI”.

After downloading the Pokemon, go to any PokeMart and talk to the delivery man in green to receive your gift. Make sure you have 5 Pokemon or less in your party when picking up your Pokemon (in this case, Yellow Forest is not a Pokemon, so you do not need to clear your party before getting this).

Then, connect your Pokewalker to your DS, and you will see Yellow Forest as one of the routes you can take a stroll in.

Here is a list of legendary Pokemon you can get in-game without getting them over Wi-Fi: https://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/legends.shtml Any Pokemon listed there cannot be caught in SoulSilver.

There are a few Pokemon that cannot be caught in any of the Pokemon games without a special item such as Oak’s Letter and Azure Flute and/or must be obtained at a Nintendo event or traded with someone else who does have one. These Pokemon are Mew, Deoxys, Celebi, Darkrai, Shaymin, Jirachi, Manaphy, and Arceus.

Answer by the devil
well i just got the new game(soul silver) too a couple weeks ago and i have ho-oh lugia and so far thats it. for some reason enti and raikoo are just repeled by me but anyways i have been pokemon for a while and i heard about pokemon events but never actually known what they are untill i witnessed the yellow forest event. there are also more to be events such as the mew event and the celeby event and hopefully the enigma crystal event (or as now know as the enigma stone event). and there are also sometimes places you have to go to get the event item or watev like toysRus or Gamestop Etc. you should keep checking online just to stay updated.oh and btw, the giving out jirachi event is gone!! what you have to do for the most recent event (yellow forest pokewalker route) is that you have to go on mystery gift on your ds menu and select recieve gift via WiFI (excuse my spelling). then you go to any pokemart and talk to the green clothed guy who will give you your “mystery Gift”. usually if its a pokemon you shoul make sure you have 5 pokemon in your party but since this is a pokewalker course, you wont have to do that. you shoul save (obviously) and close the game and restart so you can go one the pokewalker route. (i find this step as in saving then closing and restarting very annoying, they shoul have put it on the pokemon in game menu with the bag and stuff. anyways(i got off track sry) you can catch pikachu that can fly and surf which is pretty cool since they cant usually do that (obviously) and i think im not sure it might be just rumors but someone in my school caught a jirachi on the yellow forest route. i heard its very very rare.(note- i have noticed if you have lots of stps, you get more uncommon pokemon when catching pokemon on the pokewalker. i am NOT tellingyou to run a million feet, just you know just a heads up). well i hope you enjoy the game its actually pretty fun sice there is Red and 16 gyms and lots of legendary pokemon and ur pokemon can follow you.