No.3 Trainer: 8 Female cards | 100 Male cardsIt turned out that Qwachansey was not only an avid Chansey collector, but also an all-around great guy. No.2 Trainer: 3 Female cards | 51 Male cards No.1 Trainer: 4 Female cards | 50 Male cards You see, as his name suggests, he has a particular interest in cards which feature the Pokémon Chansey.It just so happens that Chansey appears on some of the rarest and most elusive cards in the e-Reader library – The 2002 Battle Road trophy cards were a set of.Specifically, the 1st and 2nd place variants.The 2002 Battle Road trophy cards were a set of Trainer cards that were awarded to competitors placing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd positions in the 2002 Battle Road Trading Card Game tournaments in Japan.The tournaments were held during both the Spring and Summer of that year in several locations: Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kansai, Chūgoku/Shikoku, Kyūshū, and Tokyo.The tournaments were open to both men and women, and boys and girls, and the cards awarded to these competitors would reflect this.Women and girls would receive a female variant card, while men and boys would receive a male variant.The text on the trophy cards would also note which season (Spring or Summer), region, and tournament position the winner competed for.The artwork on the card also featured more Pokémon the higher the position the winner placed in.According to a post by user chok on the popular Pokémon Trading Card forum ‘Elite Fourum’ (or ‘efour’/’E4’ for short), here are the total number of 2002 Battle Road Trainer trophy cards that were officially distributed: This scanner would act as a loan scanner to be sent out to those with particular cards of interest who might not be able to send cards our way to scan.We’d ship this scanner alongside an e+ Pro, an e-Reader placed into a custom-printed shell we previously talked about in the fundraiser post, designed to be able to read the data on cards from inside a grading case.That way, we’d be able to view the contents of the card, as well as obtain a high-quality scan.With that, let us introduce Qwachansey, an avid collector of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, but with a twist.
The scans came out nicely (which would prove useful later), but our job would only be half done without the ability to view the actual data stored on the card.With little in the way of options, we asked Qwachansey to remove pieces from our custom shell with a hobby knife in the hopes that it might make the card readable.Several pieces of the e+ Pro were cut away, but unfortunately it didn’t seem to help.That was until we proposed one last trick – destroying our custom shell entirely, and exposing the camera on the inside.While not the prettiest sight, there was some method to this madness.Before the creation of the e+ Pro to test that such a concept would actually work, we disassembled an e-Reader and tried to read a card using just the camera alone.And it’s certainly possible, but it requires a very steady hand and a lot of patience.The e+ Pro shell simply exists to keep the card at the correct distance and ensure a steady hand.Patience, however, was something our friend Qwachansey would seem to have a lot of.He spent a great deal of time that evening manually moving his trophy card in front of the e-Reader’s camera. With the extra acrylic in the way, our measurements were out of range for the focal length of the camera that rests inside of the e-Reader.This was quite the blow with everything else already being in place. The added thickness came from the front of the case having a raised plastic edge around the entire perimeter of the card.Previous grading cases all had the card placed close to the front of the case. Unfortunately, thickness wouldn’t be the only obstacle here. We made this particular e+ Pro shell with gold colored filament as RevZ, the designer and printer of the shell, had some leftover gold filament, and we also thought it would be fun for a 1st place trophy card to be swiped into a golden e-Reader.Sadly, the fun and games soon came to a halt when it was discovered that Qwachansey’s trophy card didn’t fit into the e-Reader despite the custom shell specifically being designed to fit graded cards.As it turned out, CGC had recently designed a thicker case which no longer fit into the card slot.
Thank you!Pampaka-pampan! Congratulations on your victory! You’ve done a great job! You’ve done a great job, and now I can’t get enough of you! I’ll be looking forward to working with you! Champion!”If you’re interested in seeing more of Qwachansey’s collection, you can follow him on his Instagram where he regularly uploads pictures and trivia about his cards.Based on this experience, we have made small changes to the design of the e+ Pro.While it still might not be able to read cards from the newer CGC case design, we are happy to report that it works flawlessly with PSA cases and older case designs.As such, we have already begun printing more e+ Pro with the new design in hopes that other collectors might come forward and help preserve the remaining missing trophy cards!For those interested in printing their own e+ Pro shells, RevZ has kindly uploaded the files (in STL format) to his GitLab repo where they are available for anyone to download:As for the loan scanner, it has now been shipped out to help preserve an equally unique card we hope to be able to talk more about in the near future.We’ve also been able to account for several other cards through auctions – some proving more difficult than others.These were primarily very rare Rockman (‘Mega Man’ in the west) cards which were also missing from No-Intro’s undumped list.The first of these was ‘Serenade’ (or 136-C003), a promotional Rockman EXE 5 card which was only distributed to those who purchased Rockman EXE 5 – Team Colonel from a Toys"R"Us store in Japan.Then came ‘Dream Bit’ (136-A018), a regular but rather popular card in the Rockman EXE 5 – Part 1 set.We didn’t directly obtain this one through an auction, but rather, through a trade.Thanks to a rather prominent and helpful Japanese e-Reader card collector, we were able to trade this card for a complete-in-box copy of Mario Party-e, a game which was exclusive to the western market. His lips move as the A button is pressed, congratulating the player for winning the tournament.Here is a (very rough) translation of what he says provided by the translation software DeepL:This is a message from Imakuni? Here are some words of encouragement from Imakuni to you, our subscribers.
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