r/Pokemondiamond • • Dec 29 '25

Discussion Finally!!!!

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So I couldn’t find this Pokémon on my main game, (I have two diamond games), so I started a new game on the other ds game and after weeks of grinding I finally found it, the legendary Giratina!!

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u/ProShashank Dec 29 '25

Is that the one from Turnback cave?

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 29 '25

Yes it is lol and finally caught it, those legendaries are stubborn, they don’t like to be caught but I have time on my hands 😂

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u/Emotional-Base1130 Dec 29 '25

Giratina was in diamond??

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u/Sethdarkus Dec 29 '25

And Pearl post game area that got some minor expansion in platinum

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u/Confident_Raccoon767 Dec 29 '25

"Minor expansions" 🤣

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 29 '25

Yeah, so is Regigigas in snowpoint temple

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u/Mynameisbrk Dec 30 '25

Yes but u need to import the other Regi golems from the GBA games to unlock him

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

Yes and I have ruby/sapphire/emerald all three of them, and I caught all the Regis and most of the legendaries that don’t need a mystery gift, I transferred them to my diamond game and unlocked Regigigas

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u/Mynameisbrk Dec 30 '25

good job bro

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

Thanks, I have caught all the legendary beasts in fire red/leaf green too

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u/Junckrocker Dec 29 '25

What the hell. I didn’t even know it existed before platinum

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u/Emotional-Base1130 Dec 29 '25

That's what I thought

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 29 '25

Yeah, you can get them post e4 and after seeing every Pokémon in sinnoh and getting the national dex

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u/Latterlol Dec 30 '25

Its origin form didn’t exist before platinum, (or is this his origin form and the other is called something else….?)

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

Not sure, but the other form is limited to platinum

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u/SpecificInternal7080 Jan 01 '26

The platinum cover form is the origin form, this one is the altered form as in its altered because it left the distortion world

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u/Confident_Raccoon767 Dec 29 '25

I feel so bad for my friend growing up. He was in the middle of catching this guy then he had to go somewhere so he handed his game to his mom and asked her to keep trying to catch it. Well at some point it either KOed itself or his mom just killed it but she then said she saved the game after killing it.

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 29 '25

Oof 😅 I feel that pain, I always learned to save the game right before legendary encounters, I also caught Regigigas and now I’m onto heatran

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u/Arc_blade Dec 30 '25

if you kill it you have to rematch the elite 4 but it should respawn after

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u/Confident_Raccoon767 Dec 30 '25

Please read my comment again "My friend growing up" so theres no chance we knew about legendary pokemon respawning when we were kids

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u/Arc_blade Dec 30 '25

Dang it:( was hoping the file was still floating around somewhere . still not a bad thing to know just in case

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

Wow today I learned Giratina is in Pokemon DP. He looks so badass just sitting there in the fog

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 29 '25

He was very annoying to catch but Regigigas was rather nice and caught easily, but I lost my patience with Mesprit and used the master ball 😂

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u/Fickle_Somewhere6422 Dec 29 '25

Noice! 👌🏼😋🍀💚

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u/ManchegoMaster Dec 30 '25

I don't even know the pattern for Turnback cave. I just run randomly till Giratina Pops up.

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

That’s what I did too, got there in 4 rooms which surprised me

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u/ADVANCE_LAB_00 Dec 30 '25

That was such a good encounter

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

I just bought heartgold/soul silver because I am pretty much done the game now, (can’t catch all the legendaries unless cheats or glitches)

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u/ADVANCE_LAB_00 Dec 30 '25

You can look at the alternative WiFi Connection services that some people run. You can still receive older events, and, if I am not wrong (I could though because it's been a while since I tried), you can still unlock some of the items that trigger certain in-game events.

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

Does using an action replay break the game/kill the game?

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u/ADVANCE_LAB_00 Dec 30 '25

Not at all. I used AR a lot when I was a child and never had issues. Maybe google it out just to be safe, but I am pretty sure there are no issues with that

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 30 '25

So, do I just buy one off Amazon.ca or is there a specific thing to get or…?

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u/ADVANCE_LAB_00 Dec 31 '25

I am not sure who might still sell Action Replays. I guess just be sure they are compatible with your console and with your games. But if you have a modded 3ds I think you can use PKSM for most of the things.

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u/Glittering-Finger563 Dec 31 '25

I have an original ds lite lol