So, over the
past decade, I've sporadically been working on completing the Pokedex to Pokemon FireRed. Yesterday, I evolved an Omastar and collected the last non-legendary Pokemon, granting me a completion notice and a diploma.
I have 383 of the 386 possible 3rd Generation Pokemon, and I'm missing the following:
Lugia (can be collected in Pokemon XD)
Celebi (only available from events Nintendo did in 2004 or 2005)
Deoxys (only available via the Aurora Ticket, available from events Nintendo did in 2005 or 2006)
I'm so close, and yet so far!
Yes, I've stared Pokemon XD. Lugia is the prize for beating the game and doing pretty much everything it asks you to accomplish. We'll see if I can pull it off; then I'll literally have collected all the 3rd Gen Pokemon you can catch in the games outside of events. At that point, I'll probably make a Facebook post to see if anybody knows anybody who played Pokemon in 2006 but didn't migrate their legendary Pokemon into Diamond/Pearl.