How to donate to Pokemon With You 2016

From March 11th to March 31st 2016, you can donate to the Pokemon With You campaign to provide aid to those affected by the Tohoku earthquake. When you donate, you will get a pikachu code to redeem in Japanese ORAS/XY. The code is redeemable from March 11th to April 21st. You can only get one code per account.

What you will need: a Japanese credit card (Visa, Mastercard, JCB or Yahoo) or bank account to make the donation.

To start, you need to make a Yahoo! Japan account and then set up a Yahoo! Wallet for payment. You can get there from the home page of the Pokemon With You project page.

Sign up for an account by clicking on the link near the top of the page.

Create a new account by typing in the details here. You can get a postal code using Google :) For typing Japanese, you can copy & paste the hiragana characters from Wikipedia.

Confirm the account details.

Check your email and click on the link inside.

You should see this message for a successful registration. Click on the link down the bottom to register payment option.

Fill in your details here. You can get an address using Google Maps :) This shows how to register with a credit card but you can also register with your bank account.

You should see something like this if your registration was successful.

Head back to the Pokemon With You page and click on the yellow donation button. You should see this page to start the donation process. Click on the yellow button to continue.

Choose your donation amount here. The default is 500 yen but you can choose much higher than that :)

Confirm the amount that you wish to donate and your credit card details.

You should see something like this if your donation was successful. Click on the highlighted link to go back to the Pokemon With You project page.

If you have donated, the page should show you the Pikachu serial code on the right.

As you can see, there have already been many donations made. Hopefully this guide can help some people to make a contribution also :)

How to Redeem Scrap Codes 2016 Version

This is an updated guide from the Pokemon scrap code event from last year, covering the A Course (B Course will be up when that is released - updated post here). To be honest, it's basically the same procedure but I wanted to cover all my bases so here we go.

The A Course scrap event runs from Mar 1st 2016 to Aug 31st 2016 where you can get a Shiny Mew (1 code), Articuno (4 codes), Zapdos (12 codes) and Moltres (16 codes). Like always, the in-game codes are only redeemable in a Japanese XY/ORAS. The in-game codes are given when you register the scrap codes online. The scrap codes come with certain merchandise on sale in Japan; scrap codes and in-game codes are different!

To register the scrap codes, start off by registering for an account on the 2016 Pokemon Scrap website. Tick the square to agree to the terms and conditions, and then click the Red button on the left.

The blue box is for logging into your account if you have already made one.

Type in your email twice, press the Red button and check your email for something from info@pokescrap2016.pokemon.co.jp.

Make sure you use a working e-mail because you're going to need to check it.

Click on the long link in the email to confirm your email address, and in the subsequent web page, type in a password twice to set up your account.

Check your spam or bin if it isn't in your inbox. It is sent basically instantly.

The link in the email will prompt you to set up a password for your account.

You'll be presented with a survey. In order:

1. your age (in years)
2. your gender (male=left, female=right)
3. which part of Japan you live in (東京 is Tokyo if you're interested)
4. how did you hear about this campaign (インターネットのホームページ is internet website, or 友達から聞いて is friend, or you could even pick その他 for other)
5. which merchandise did you buy for the code (probably anything is fine)
6. which Pokemon games do you have (『ポケットモンスター X・Y』と『ポケットモンスター オメガルビー・アルファサファイア』を両方持っている means you have XY and ORAS, like a true fan!).

You wouldn't pick one of the last 3 options for Q6. would you?

 Click the Red button to send the information through, and then confirm your details.

There's a lot of clicking red buttons.

Once you click this Red button, you will be able to register your scrap codes.

Like this larger red button.

  Like the previous year, the scrap code input is at the bottom of the page.

The submit button does not appear until you check the box!

To see the in-game codes, click on the プレゼントを確認する in one of the top yellow boxes (or you can just use this link).

The red button under each Pokemon/item will take you to the page with the in-game code.

So this button will give me the Eevee code.

And of course, there's another red button :)

The code will also be sent to your email if you decide not to redeem the code right away.

Remember to register your scrap codes and redeem the Pokemon codes in time before they expire!