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Pokemon Platinum owners can connect to Wi-Fi for Darkrai

Owners of Pokemon Platinum for the DS will be able to do what Action Replay DS owners have all probably done by now, get the Member Card to trigger the Darkrai catching event! The Pokemon Platinum website has been update to reveal that through August 3, 2009 and September 13, 2009, owners of the game can connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection with the Mystery Gift option and download the Member Card key for the Canalave City inn.

The site has step by step instructions for unlocking the Mystery Gift menu option and getting the key, but we’ll go through it here really quick as well. The first think you need to do is make sure you’re near a Wi-Fi hotspot where you can connect to the internet. Head to Jubilife City, to the third floor of the Jubilife TV building. Tell the producer there that your opinion on TV is “Everyone Happy” and your feedback on TV is “Wi-Fi Connection”. Mystery Gift will then unlock as an option on the main menu…

Ten million Pokémon trades internationally

Famitsu announced today that Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl have reached a milestone: Ten million Pokémon have been traded between the games over Nintendo’s Wi-Fi network. Kotaku claims that is ten million trades between players in the United States and Japan but N-Philes reports the number is the combined number of trades in both regions. Sadly, Famitsu is a Japanese language site, so we’ll have to wait for clarification.

One side effect of trading overseas is the ability to have foreign-named Pokémon. American copies of the game don’t allow players to…