Talk:Game Center

Black Box machine's exchange/"recipe" system

After beating the game, there are card exchanges with fixed inputs which consistently output specific other cards, mostly resulting in cards from the list located here: Promotion Card (TCG GB2). Is there some reason they aren't listed? Crowding/cluttering the page? Would they be better suited for a separate, "Black Box" page? or better suited for the Promotion Card page itself? There are around 30 known examples of an exchange of multiple Rare cards for a specific single Promotional card, even though 2 appear to NOT function as intended:

One "recipe" outputs the original Charizard (Base Set 4), instead of the Promo rarity alternative artwork version. The Black Box does output the Promo rarity alternative artwork Venusaur and Blastoise in their respective exchanges.

One recipe (fails to) output the original Dragonite (Fossil 4), instead of presumably Dragonite (Wizards Promo 5), a Promo which lacks a fixed input/output exchange. It seems clear this isn't the intended functionality: part of the required input is that exact same Dragonite (Fossil 4) card. If this one was allowed to function normally, it would trade itself for itself and you would also lose 2 other cards (for no benefit). This one ultimately does not work like the others because the recipe demands a Dragonite (Pokémon Card GB promo) as input, but the Black Box handles any input Promo cards in a special manner. ErrUnimpressively (talk) 13:23, 15 June 2025 (UTC)