Japanese Promos from Gen 1 & Gen 2

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For reference, I’m including recap of the whole process;

Metadata YAML file

All the cards to be listed on TCG ONE needs to be first defined in a Metadata YAML file on carddb repository. Each “expansion” gets its own YAML file.

Metadata YAML draft prepared by @jamie756 in Github. Contributions are called “Pull Request” (PR) on Github. Here is the PR for this one

How to make suggestions/changes to the draft YAML in PR

Further suggestions/changes to this metadata should be handled in the PR, by selecting the relevant lines, then adding a comment & suggestion. Example;

Card numbering system

Each “expansion” gets its own YAML file. Each card in an “expansion” should be assigned a unique card “number” for that expansion. It typically starts from 1 but card “numbers” may contain letters (like prefixes) too, e.g. GB5 is also valid. Alternate arts can take suffixes too, e.g. 43b

Scan file naming

Each scan file should be named equal to their card number in the set. Example;

id: 116-1
pioId: unnumbered-1
enumId: SLOWPOKE_1
name: Slowpoke
nationalPokedexNumber: 79
number: ‘1’

For above card definition, its scan file should be either 1.jpg or 1.png.

Needless to say cards of each expansion goes into a different folder.

Scans

We are tracking the scans in this Dropbox folder.

Note that this link is view only. If you wish to contribute just send me a PM or reply below then I’ll send you the editing link.

Kudos to @linkinboss for preparing and uploading scans!

Latest Updates

I am sharing some latest messages here for visibility;

@linkinboss

Alright, I have uploaded everything that I got done as of now. I uploaded 2 versions of Ancient Mew (render and English translation).

I am missing the following cards, but I should be able to get through them in a few days:

72 Brock’s Onix
75 Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz
76 Erika’s Dratini
77 Brock’s Mankey
78 Erika’s Bulbasaur
80 Lt. Surge’s Jolteon
81 Blaine’s Growlithe

That aside, I noticed there are a few alt arts that are missing from the metadata (and these are done as well):
Eeevee (fan club)
Flying Pikachu (ana alt art)
Lucky stadium (Several alt arts)
Articuno (blackstar promo alt art -toshinao aoki)
Zapdos (blackstar promo alt art -toshinao aoki)
Moltres (blackstar promo alt art -toshinao aoki)

But, probably there is a bigger omission, there is another flying pikachu that has thunder jolt instead of thundershock as its first attack, which makes it a different card from the other 2 flying pikachu.

@linkinboss

On a side note, you will notice on Ivysaur and Bulbasaur (pokemon snap) that Leech Seed has different text, that’s because I took the minor errata into account (compulsory vs optional effect). May be worth making errata versions of the other cards that have translation errors

Next Items

Please review & comment suggestions on the PR shared above.

Let me know whether it makes sense to include all GB Exclusive Cards alongside this work? Or do you think it should be done separately? I am especially interested to have all the cards that produce random effects, as getting those random effects implemented here would be fun. @FGR89 have shared some of them in this topic in the past but there are many more to be done. We can find a numbering system that works for all. Either in separate expansions or a single one. Please comment on what you think would be the best.