potentially speaking, than other players."

Discover how to get rare Pokémon in Platinum by using GBA Slot Pokémon features. Learn which GBA games to use and where to find them!

So, as far as we know now, Explosion can be gotten at random at the game corner.

In what may be the oddest way to get Pokémon, GBA Slot Pokémon are a clever way to get you to buy the GBA games to get certain Pokémon. In fact, there are many older Pokémon you can only get by doing this method.

So, how does it work? First of all, you will need to get the National Dex for Pokémon gotten with this method to start appearing. Next, you will need to plug in the Pokémon GBA game in the DS's GBA slot BEFORE you turn on the DS, or else it will not work. Note that the Pokémon will stop appearing once you switch to another cart, so make sure you get them while you have it hooked up.

After all that is done, specific Pokémon of that cart will start appearing. Here is a list of all the Pokémon that appear by cartridge, and the location they appear at:

Ruby:

Pokemon	Location
Seedot	Routes 203, 204, 205 North, 212 South
Nuzleaf	Route 212 South, 229
Zangoose	Route 208, 210 South
Mawile	Iron Island
Solrock	All Three lakes, Mt. Cornet, Sendoff spring, Turnback Cave

Sapphire:

Pokemon	Location
Lotad	Routes 203, 204, 210 South, Eterna Forest
Lombre	Routes 210 South, 229
Seviper	Route 208, 210 South
Sableye	Iron Island
Lunatone	All Three lakes, Mt. Cornet, Sendoff spring, Turnback Cave

FireRed:

Pokemon	Location
Caterpie	Route 204, Eterna Forest
Metapod	Eterna Forest
Ekans	Route 212 South
Arbok	Great Marsh
Growlithe	Routes 201, 202

LeafGreen:

Pokemon	Location
Weedle	Route 204, Eterna Forest
Kakuna	Eterna Forest
Sandshrew	Wayward Cave
Sandslash	Route 228
Vulpix	Route 209, 214

Emerald:

Pokemon	Location
Pineco	Routes 203, 204, 210 South, 229, Eterna Forest
Shuckle	Route 224
Teddiursa	Route 211, Lake Acuity
Ursaring	Routes 216, 217, Lake Acuity

All:

Pokemon	Location
Gengar	Room in Old Chateau with eyes in one of the pictures