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Pokémon Communication Center PokéCom Center ポケモンコミュニケーションセンター Pokémon Communication Center "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
Location:	Goldenrod CityC (Japanese version only)
Region:	Johto
Generations:	II
Location of Pokémon Communication Center in Johto.
Pokémon world locations

The Pokémon Communication Center (Japanese: ポケモンコミュニケーションセンター Pokémon Communication Center), or the PokéCom Center for short, is an expanded Pokémon Center found exclusively in the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal. In that game, it replaces the normal Pokémon Center in Goldenrod City and houses machines that rely on the now defunct Mobile System GB. As the Mobile Game Boy Adapter was never released outside of Japan, the Mobile System GB features were disabled, and the Pokémon Communication Center was reverted to the regular Pokémon Center for the international releases of Pokémon Crystal. Nonetheless, all the features are still present in the internal data of the localizations.

Initially, the background music played inside the Pokémon Communication Center is Pokémon Center and the facilities are inaccessible and unusable. Once the first successful connection to the Mobile System GB is made and the player has registered themselves in the Mobile Center, it changes to a theme of its own and the services become operational. As the Virtual Console release cannot connect to the Mobile Game Boy Adapter, the facilities remain unusable even in the Japanese version.

A scientist at the Ruins of Alph theorizes that the radio signals emitted from the Pokémon Communication Center are related to the sudden appearance of Unown patterns on the walls of the ruins.

For Mobile Tips!
POKéCOM CENTER

Facilities

The Pokémon Communication Center is divided into three rooms:

• The main room: the location of the Trade Corner (Japanese: トレードコーナー Trade Corner) and Pokémon News Machine;
• The second floor: houses the same regular linking facilities as an ordinary Pokémon Center;
• The Administration Office (Japanese: かんりしつ Administration Office): a small room with three staff members as well as three PCs containing documentation and support articles about the mobile features.
  • Access to it is initially blocked off by an old man, who came to see the new machines in Goldenrod's Pokémon Center. He claims that the staff is still busy with the preparations. Once the player connects to the Mobile System GB, the old man leaves.

In the Trade Corner, in the Japanese version, players can link with other players via mobile phone to trade Pokémon, much like the GTS in every game since Generation IV. If the player gives the Egg Ticket (which is received from the Day-Care Man at the Pokémon Day Care on Route 34) to the Pokémon Center lady in the Trade Corner, she gives the player an Odd Egg in exchange, which hatches into a baby Pokémon that knows Dizzy Punch and has a 50% chance[citation needed] of being Shiny.

The Pokémon News Machine was a service which was updated monthly that would broadcast news and compile the data of other players across Japan. Beyond broadcasting news, the Pokémon News Machine also served as an interface in which the player could play minigames and participate in quizzes.

Events

This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: Further research is required on the GS Ball event

The most important event held by the Pokémon Communication Center allowed players to obtain a GS Ball from a Pokémon Center lady to summon a wild level 30 Celebi to battle at the Ilex Forest shrine, 24 hours after giving it to Kurt in Azalea Town for inspection. The GS Ball was distributed twice in 2001: first from March 29 to May 29 and again from August 1 to 28, wherein players were requested to answer a survey correctly in order to receive the GS Ball.[1] The event involved the player obtaining 16 Badges, before successfully completing the Chieko Dice minigame three times in a row and successfully answering the "ten card quiz" via the Pokémon News Machine.[2][3]

Two lesser known events also included the distribution of Bluesky Mail and Mirage Mail, which were already present in the internal data of Pokémon Gold and Silver. Likewise, these events were exclusive to Japan.

Purpose

The creation of the Pokémon Communication Center and Mobile Center is explained by an administrator at the Administration Office.

On one of the PCs there, a staff member received an email that breaks the fourth wall, where Game Freak clearly states its desire of achieving the goal of allowing players to link with each other at worldwide level without facing the barriers of Game Link Cables in the future.

Items

Pokémon

In the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal, if the player has the Egg Ticket, they can exchange it for the Odd Egg at the Pokémon Communication Center. The Odd Egg will hatch into one of the Pokémon shown below.

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
	G		S		C			5	One
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Layout

Version	1F	Administration Office
Crystal

Trivia

In other languages

Pokémon Communication Center Language Title Mandarin Chinese 神奇寶貝對話中心 Shénqí-bǎobèi Duìhuà Zhōngxīn French Centre de Communication Pokémon German Pokémon Kommunikations-Center Italian Centro Comunicazione Pokémon Spanish Centro de Comunicaciones Pokémon

PokéCom Center

See also

References

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