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[gngerbred]

8:36 All these Pokemon contributed to the scattered bits of Corsola that lie on Alola's ocean floor.

[nacho]

Finally someone actually explains this, in actual depth

[khyllax]

If you ever do an in depth "Pokémon eReader Mini-game Collection" Video, I would be 100% down on that. I loved those, and didn't realize how MANY different games there actually is.

[Solaris]

Cool. Didn't the E-Reader have something to do with accessing that locked door in Mossdeep City, though?

[nicholasmascioni]

I already know about the ereader but I could listen to Josh talk about garbage cans I would click the video.

[LuigiBlood]

As someone who knows about a few technical things: e-Reader mostly does not "unlock", per say. The program, or the data is actually inside the dotcode which uses obviously the same tech as QR codes. While Amiibo, let's admit it, only unlock things (with few exceptions), most of the time on e-Reader, it wasn't like that.

Super Mario Advance 4 Level Cards do actually contain Level Data in them. We kinda understand it now and it's not impossible to make custom cards to play on your original SMA4 cartridge for real if we want to. That's the interesting part: custom e-Reader cards have a lot more potential, and you can even make your own homebrews just fine for the e-Reader. Pokémon games were mostly just that, really.

Japan has a lot of cards and potential to use, F-Zero cards were like Level Cards (that said, all the e-Reader content for F-Zero Maximum Velocity are actually included in western releases in the ROM!), there are also very rare Mario VS Donkey Kong Level Cards. But some e-Reader levels are actually included in the ROM of the US and Japanese versions for debug purposes, it's possible to access those.

[matarese]

I REMEMBER THIS THING, I loved my childhood
JWittz keep up the awesome work

[eggnuggets]

Oh my god, I asked my mom to buy me an NFC amiibo reader and she bought one of these online, it came with Donkey Kong Jr. Cards. I didn't even know what it was at the time haha

[TheOneNamedMrLife]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the E-reader commercial which involved DK Jr getting flattened into a card....

[BrandedLamb]

Bucket list goals: Shake hands and give Josh and Renae a big hug for being them! E-reader was such a huge part of my coming of age card game life

[CapnShades]

I remember this thing from the bajillion times I mashed the Random Page button on Mario Wiki when I was bored.

[revilo]

You have quite a collection, nice video!

[Kingreed]

Jwittz: Has enough money to buy tons of Nintendo merchandise and decoration
Me: Can barely afford new pants

[TheTreyBlue]

I can Confirm that it does work with the DS Lite

[BlockO]

I remember whenever I was in elementary school and the E-reader Pokemon cards came out a kid at school told me that they were used to get free Pokemon onto my gameboy games. I went back home and tried everything possible to get them to scan to my gameboy, but had no luck. I went to school the next day and called the kid a liar so we stopped being friends.
10 years later, this video comes out and now I realize he wasn't lying lol.

[Strawberryflavored]

I always wanted an e-reader to go with my Skyridge and Aquapolis cards when I was a kid. I had no idea there were entire minigames involving them.

[megaTenLover]

The Mario vs. Donkey cards hold a bit of a mystery. Five cards were released by Corocoro Comic, 1 was given away for participants at the 20th World Hobby Fair. And there was a Japanese contest where cards were distributed across 1000 players, but nobody knows which ones, or even if they're the same. The game has 12 slots for new levels, but I don't think it's possible to access them at all.

[junethefox]

Josh could make a phone book sound intersting.

[ShadyKnight]

My personal memory with the e-Reader is Emile's rant about the Eon Thicket when he LP'ed Pokemon Emerald a couple of years back, describing one of the main issues that ultimately doomed the system quite succinctly.

[theSato]

The Super Mario Bros 3. e-reader cards are actually super cool and by far the best application of the technology. It's a shame that these didn't catch on and were so expensive, it was a neat idea.