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May 12th, 2008, 16:06 GMT · By Calin Ciabai

Pokemon Platinum Revealed

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Probably one of the most successful franchises on the Nintendo DS handheld console, the Pokemon franchise, will welcome a new member to the family and it will be called Pokemon Platinum. The news has been revealed in the latest issue of the Coro Coro Magazine and, even though most of the fans would've loved to get a brand new Pokemon game, Platinum will only be an
expansion. Still better than nothing, right?

According to the magazine, the only facts confirmed officially are those regarding the name (Platinum, that is) and that it is an expansion, like Pokemon Yellow for the Red/Blue games. However, the rumored specifications of the expansion surely give fans a few reasons for joy, especially because it is said that The Underground will be Wi-Fi enabled. Also, we'll probably see Giratina on the box when the game is released this September. A new area, called Battle Island, will be introduced and it will be similar to the Battle Frontier.

Also, fans will notice a few alterations in Gym leaders and Pokemon placement. For example, Volkner will no longer be the Gym leader of Sunyshore City, Giratina and Regigigas will get new forms which will allow them to get the Levitate ability, Shaymin will be at least partially Ice Type with its Another form, and a few new other forms will be introduced (Giratina - Origin Form, Regigigas - Sky Form).

Even though Nintendo will probably run out of names for their Pokemon games (at least if they decide to stick to the minerals), Pokemon Diamond is still one of the best in the franchise, generating a lot of interest from fans worldwide. We have a wide coverage of action replay codes, hints and lots of tips from users here and it's surely worth a visit. You should at least try to find all the secrets until Pokemon Platinum is released...

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Comment #1 by: Nolan on 14 May 2008, 21:42 UTC reply to this comment

Don't remake this game yet! Remake G/S first!!

Comment #1.1 by: hris on 25 May 2008, 16:08 GMT

smart one they did
pokemon crystal!

Comment #1.2 by: sager on 08 Jul 2008, 23:27 GMT

mayb they shuld jus put all the pokemon games and make jus 1 big pokemon game from kanto 2 sinnoh n dis new 1 shuld have mre pokemon

Comment #1.3 by: pokejunk30 (Youtube) on 23 Jul 2008, 18:26 GMT

u r right. try to remake gold and silver before, diamond and pearl came out only a year ago.

Comment #1.4 by: Jcool813 on 16 Aug 2008, 19:08 GMT

they are remaking gold and silver

its gonna be

Dusk Gold and Dawn Silver

Comment #1.5 by: Jared on 17 Feb 2009, 02:19 GMT

I saw something on youtube about a DS remake of the original pokemon games like, Red, Blue, Yellow, and those Jhoto games whose names slip my mind but anyway, I couldn't read the box cover name because it was japanese and the Region starting place thing? I totaly agree with that I mean COME ON!!!!!! But they should also let you travel through every region there is so you can play like every game on one DS Game card!! WHO'S WITH ME!!!! eh?


Comment #2 by: J on 15 May 2008, 23:18 UTC reply to this comment

They would probably remake G/S for GBA since it would not make sense to place it on the DS and give it so many enhancements . . . They just need to make one Final game with all monsters in it all regions and all features ever introduced . . . and call it Pokemon Universe

Comment #2.1 by: DarkNess108 on 05 Jun 2008, 20:30 GMT

no the Pokemon Nintendo franchise want to make money and they made hella lot with diamond and pearl (especially diamond) so as long as they are successful they will continue to keep on going with new games.

ps they are gonna need to figure out what they are gonna name it lol xD
they'll figure it out


Comment #3 by: Joao on 15 May 2008, 23:41 UTC reply to this comment

I'm not understanding the thing of Origin Form and Sky Form for Giratina and Regigigas. I don't like the ability of Regigigas in Diamond and Pearl but the Levitate Ability?

Comment #3.1 by: Jesse on 26 Jun 2008, 15:44 GMT

Giratina when traded from Diamond or Pearl to Platinum will change to the origin forme...Regigas has no alternate forme, the only thing different with Regigigas is that if you trade the Regigigas given away at the Pokemon 11 movie in Japan from Diamond or Pearl to Platinum then it will allow you to catch the original three Regi's in Platinum version...the sky forme pokemon is Sahymin and it is a grass/flying type...not grass/ice...to verify this go to either seribii.net or pokemon.co.jp


Comment #4 by: Den on 17 May 2008, 05:15 UTC reply to this comment

There are dawn silver and dusk gold, I think those were the remakes of Gold and Silver.

Comment #4.1 by: anonomys on 13 Aug 2008, 00:17 GMT

there were no such things!!! Just Crystal version smart one

Comment #4.2 by: Enigmatic on 29 Dec 2009, 19:26 GMT

....It's HEART Gold and SOUL Silver, for clarification.


Comment #5 by: Will on 17 May 2008, 19:36 UTC reply to this comment

Wow! I just wish Crystal was expanded...

Comment #5.1 by: Kieran on 23 May 2008, 13:04 GMT

Crystal is an expansion, of Gold and Silver,


Comment #6 by: Daniel on 18 May 2008, 03:22 UTC reply to this comment

hey nolan do you go to jordan middle school

Comment #6.1 by: Nolan on 27 May 2008, 16:20 GMT

No...

@Hris: Yeah, I know. I'm talking about the Dusk and Dawn games.


Comment #7 by: tyler on 29 May 2008, 00:58 UTC reply to this comment

yo I heard you can get palkia and dialga in the game. Word on events in japan theyre giving away a lv 100 regigigas and lv 50 shaymin

Comment #7.1 by: Raa-tai! on 01 Jun 2008, 18:37 GMT

yeah they give you shaymin and regigigas if u go to the 11th movie and what not.

Comment #7.2 by: Jimmie on 30 Sep 2010, 05:48 GMT

yeh i kow how to get Dialga and Palkia. but first there is alot of going on at the moment saying that you have to beat team galactic at stark mountain seriously un true here's how you do it you beat team galactic in the distorsion world then go to Celestic town talk to cynthea's grandma and se will tell you about Dialga and Palkia then go to the Spear pillar and a blue portal will be there look in it and Dialga is there then do it again exept Palkia will be there the second time. hope i helped


Comment #8 by: Raine on 30 May 2008, 23:58 UTC reply to this comment

I agree, a new version of those would be great.

And, Pokemon Crystal isn't a remake, it's a continuation much like Emerald and Yellow. A remake is when the game's graphics, sound, etc. are remastered. An example being FireRed and LeafGreen.

Since Crystal is still my favorite pokemon (possibly altogether) game to date, I'm eagerly waiting a remastered version.


Comment #9 by: pie! on 08 Jun 2008, 15:55 UTC reply to this comment

what about a continuation for fire red and leaf green why not a pokemon waterblue! T_T


Comment #10 by: rod on 12 Jun 2008, 01:17 UTC reply to this comment

dude platinum will have sky forme shaymin and ice form regigigas and a new place called tornworld made by giratina and there is going to be a battle frontier like area and if u bring shaymin to platinum from D P it will automattically transform into sky form shaymin which is grass and flying type. plus the weather climate in sinnoh got colder so there will be two new people added in the game to investigate which is caused by ice form regigigas.


Comment #11 by: gold on 14 Jun 2008, 00:13 UTC reply to this comment

remake gold /silver it was the best one.

Comment #11.1 by: ryan on 12 Jul 2008, 05:25 GMT

i AGREE! it's the best. it has the best story, etc.... but if they did what name would they give it?


Comment #12 by: Chi on 15 Jun 2008, 12:52 UTC reply to this comment

hey guys, i found all this stuff out like a month ago. this is old news. ok. just thought id fill u in


Comment #13 by: YNG on 16 Jun 2008, 19:26 UTC reply to this comment

Giratin's origin form is for when it is traveling through the seperate dimensions and SHAYMIN'S sky form well i dont know why the're making it able to fly


Comment #14 by: stubbs on 17 Jun 2008, 15:26 UTC reply to this comment

i think they should make a game with a cheese pokemon


Comment #15 by: John on 02 Jul 2008, 22:48 UTC reply to this comment

ok i know im late on this but will you be able to get Shaymin without hacking and events? and if you can what about arceus and darkrai?


Comment #16 by: Sarah on 04 Jul 2008, 12:33 UTC reply to this comment

You can already get darkrai on pokemon diamond/pearl O.o


Comment #17 by: alan on 12 Jul 2008, 11:58 UTC reply to this comment

this is like crystal with gold/silver
emerald with ruby/sapphire
yellow with red/blue
and now platinum with pearl and diamond but still at least there's a new game with a few new stuff!

Comment #17.1 by: devon on 14 Aug 2008, 18:26 GMT

what about fire red and leaf green these are gba expansions of red/blue/yellow
why cant they make a ds expansion of gold/silver/crystal


Comment #18 by: chesterthehun on 19 Jul 2008, 01:47 UTC reply to this comment

is this game going to be better


Comment #19 by: katie on 25 Jul 2008, 11:31 UTC reply to this comment

They should just make one game where you can travell to all of the regions and be able to change what you wear ect..


Comment #20 by: dane on 28 Jul 2008, 20:24 UTC reply to this comment

dudes this will be awsome i mean PLATINUM it sounds so reviviating and ya they should make g s &c again like call them
uhh salt zinc and calceum


Comment #21 by: caz on 03 Aug 2008, 18:57 UTC reply to this comment

i think that they should do all of them in one as well call it Pokemon eternity and u should customize ur charactar, infact ill just tell nintendo


Comment #22 by: m E` on 05 Aug 2008, 06:23 UTC reply to this comment

they should make an expansion on firered n leafgreen
pokemon prob still has heaps to come b4 they call it quits so dont plan 4 a final all-in-one game just yet. but its good to hope.


Comment #23 by: Enzo on 07 Aug 2008, 00:26 UTC reply to this comment

GOLD/SILVER were the two most awesome pkmn games ever. plus it had 2 regions to play in. GAMEFREAK please just make one huge game with every single region reachable by ferry train or airplane. that would be cool. :) seriously. but im still stoked about the gauntlet game thats coming out for the ds. its supposed to be like the seven sorrows. -.-


Comment #24 by: Andy on 11 Aug 2008, 11:22 UTC reply to this comment

Regigigas in not going to have a sky forme. It is Shaymin who is getting a Sky Forme. All I know about Regigigas is that it is the opposite now. Instead of getting the 3 regis to get regigigas wake up. You need Regigigas to get the 3 regis. But the Regigigas to get the 3 regis is the one given out at the 11th movie (Giratina and the sky's bouquet). But it is true that giratina will have a origin forme. But I heard that Giratina's origin forme can only be used in the Torn World in the game. If it is at anywhere else it will be it's Another forme.


Comment #25 by: Andy on 11 Aug 2008, 11:25 UTC reply to this comment

Regigigas in not going to have a sky forme. It is Shaymin who is getting a Sky Forme. All I know about Regigigas is that it is the opposite now. Instead of getting the 3 regis to get regigigas wake up. You need Regigigas to get the 3 regis. But the Regigigas to get the 3 regis is the one given out at the 11th movie (Giratina and the sky's bouquet). But it is true that giratina will have a origin forme. But I heard that Giratina's origin forme can only be used in the Torn World in the game. If it is at anywhere else it will be it's Another forme.

Comment #25.1 by: shibby on 23 Aug 2008, 10:32 GMT

listen i read al your previous comments and i think a Pokemon eternity would be the best idea Nintendo's ever gonna have (going through all the regions will be awesome like Pokemon gold/silver/crystal) but it would obviously take ages to remodel every region in the game with items Pokemon locations people who wanna tear you apart etc. but it would be interesting to see team rocket again!!!


Comment #26 by: Kody on 22 Aug 2008, 14:52 UTC reply to this comment

Why not make a Pokemon game with all the pokemon ever made plus new ones, 13 gyms with different types, have the Elite Four have the remaining four types, the Pokemon League Champion have random types, and the starter pokemon be any three of the starter pokemon from the other games such as Chikorita, Torchic, Piplup, etc.


Comment #27 by: Kody on 22 Aug 2008, 14:56 UTC reply to this comment

I think the the pokemon in Kanto was "the main", Johto was original, Hoenn was the best remke of real life animals/objects, and Sinnoh was the cutest!!!!!!!!!!!


Comment #28 by: Szag on 29 Sep 2008, 21:28 UTC reply to this comment

Actually, Shamin has sky form and nit regigigas


Comment #29 by: nintendo ds on 03 Oct 2008, 01:48 UTC reply to this comment

they should make a pokemon game that lets you travel in between all the regions with the story line from the older games in each region...


Comment #30 by: paulweezie on 21 Oct 2008, 18:50 UTC reply to this comment

i think they should make one big pokemon game...gold and silver was the best they came out with...because you had something to look forward too after the pokemon league not juss the battle tower, but the different regions and other pokemon...what s the point of having nothing to da after the pokemon leage...plus almost half the peolple have anoter person to trade pokemon with any ways....so they should make one big pokemon game...juss with two different versions... so you can split up the pokemon..and add all the bad guys too


Comment #31 by: Nate T on 06 Nov 2008, 17:33 UTC reply to this comment

in my opinion they should make an overall game give u the choice of starting out in one of the regions and you will go on from there and have all the storylines of the legendarys again and once u catch so many it unlocks the ability to catch the ones u would usually get from a nintendo event (mew, darkrei, Arceus, etc.) im getting bored only being able to explore only 1 region at a time i wanna explore all and have more places to go to u kno what i mean!


Comment #32 by: Chase on 04 Dec 2008, 23:44 UTC reply to this comment

Now they are makinga new game called pokemon platenum coming to usa in January 2009


Comment #33 by: fisader mulla on 13 Mar 2009, 18:41 UTC reply to this comment

i want that nintendo make a big pokemon called pokemon big bang that includes all the pokemon areas like kanto johto etc and then after a pause to start with a new pokemon generation with a high quality of view and 3d scenes . when they did it with n64 they should make 3d scenes with nds to. thanks everyone


Comment #34 by: Anonymous on 19 Oct 2009, 21:37 UTC reply to this comment

It's called Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Look for more in Bulbapedia or Serebii net.


Comment #35 by: Nathan on 21 Nov 2009, 02:29 UTC reply to this comment

I agree I think they should make a pokemon game where u can visit all regions.


Comment #36 by: wyatt on 27 Dec 2009, 20:54 UTC reply to this comment

what you guys are talking about leafgreen and firered is the best because it is in the kanto and johto


Comment #37 by: pokefreak10201010 on 30 Dec 2009, 18:50 UTC reply to this comment

I LOVE POKEMON PLATINUM...I JUST GOT IT YESTERDAY..AND WITH AR CODES, I HAVE ALL 8 BADGES, ALL LEGENDARYS, AND ALL LEVAL 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Comment #37.1 by: bob on 01 Nov 2011, 21:11 GMT

congrats

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