You know, if you rent Pokemon Channel and keep changing the Gamecube  clock a day forward after each "Pikachu and Pichu" clip, then you can get Jirachi into the Ruby or Sapphire version.

You can really get Jirachi? I've never heard of that before.

Yeah, you can transfer it to your copy of Ruby or Sapphire from Pokemon Channel after you beat it. I'd recommend you only rent the game, though.

I haven't really bothered to level my Jirachi up much, as I just wanted to add it in my collection.

I'm not a 'hardcore' Pokemon player either, but I do like trying to collect as many of the little blighters as I can(which isn't that much).

Yeah, I haven't been as big on collecting as when I first got the games, I'm more about training and stuff, but if there are some really cool Pokemon in this one I'll probably try and catch them all. Or as many as I can get without having to go to a Nintendo tour event.

Or you could try to find someone with the rare 'mon and ask them to trade. I had a friend that owned Mew on his game. I forgot which game it was though...

Unfortunately, he wouldn't trade it with me.

The Gamecube Pokemon games offer you quite a few of the "legendaries", though(such as the tiger things).

my friend gave me an old blue version and it had A F*****N MEW!!! lucky me