Ga-Ole Promotional Disks

These disks were given out through campaigns rather than sold in the cabinet, and no numbered list of them was ever published. The 230 rows below are what one catalogued list records, taken verbatim and grouped by the campaign that distributed them. English names are a mapping from that list rather than a printed identity. Research sources are linked for verification; no third-party catalog image was copied into Hidden Temple.

The catalogue number on 212 of these 230 rows is the single letter P, and it is a prefix the list assigns rather than a number printed on the disk. So P is what the number slot shows on those rows, exactly as the list has it. Hidden Temple files each of them under a key built from the campaign and the species, because 212 rows share the one value P and it cannot tell them apart; that key is a filing handle, and it is not printed on anything either.

The other 18 rows do carry a printed number, because each is a promotional printing of a disk from a numbered set and keeps that set's numbering. They are filed under the same promotional key with the printed number inside it, and each one links to the set that first printed the number. They are separate physical printings rather than one disk listed twice, so both rows stand and neither page removes the other.

One further row on the catalogued list is not published here. It files D3-067★ (Lycanroc) among the promotional disks under the campaign Ga-Olé Anime Lottery Prize 2017, and the manufacturer's own list carries that disk once, inside Dash set 3, with no promotional printing anywhere on it. It is published there, as D3-067☆, in the manufacturer's own notation. Counting it again here would turn one disk into two, so the catalogued list's 231 rows across 79 campaign labels publish here as 230 rows across 78, and the campaign that held only that row is not shown.

181 of these 230 rows carry no date information of any kind: no date on the row, no year in the campaign name, and no reused number to anchor against. The 49 that carry something show it on the row with what it rests on, and not one of them is a distribution date. A year or month printed inside the campaign name is shown as printed. A campaign that names a numbered set carries that set's release date, marked inferred, because the campaign label is what names it rather than any printed date. A row that reuses a set's number carries that set's release date as a lower bound only, since the promotional printing cannot predate the set.

Campaign labels are copied verbatim and never merged. 33 of the 78 differ from another label by exactly one word, usually a year, and merging any of those would collapse distinct campaigns into one, so the 78 groups below are what the list itself distinguishes. Two of them, Ga-Olé Member Lottery Prize X and Ga-Olé Member Lottery Prize Y, differ only by a trailing letter and may be one campaign the list disambiguated rather than two; they are kept apart because that is how the list has them, and the campaign count above reads 78 on that reading rather than 77. On a few of them the difference is a Pokémon form carried in the campaign name rather than in the disk's own name cell. Either way the campaign a tile sits under is part of what identifies it: 55 of the 108 species on this page appear under more than one campaign, and nothing on the tile itself separates those printings.

8 rows name a form the catalogued list gives no Japanese name for, and the manufacturer's own numbered set lists do: UL5-048 Primal Kyogre, UL5-049 Primal Groudon, 3 Alolan Raichu, 2 Alolan Exeggutor, 1 Alolan Vulpix. Each shows the reading those lists print for that form, labelled as the manufacturer's reading for the form rather than as a string read off a list that carries this disk, because no official list of promotional disks was ever published. 2 of them are the same physical disk as a numbered row, UL5-048 in Ultra Legend set 5 and UL5-049 in Ultra Legend set 5, so the reading transfers by identity. The other 6 are Alolan Raichu and Alolan Exeggutor and Alolan Vulpix, and every one of those forms is printed with that reading somewhere in the twenty numbered set lists, so the reading transfers by species rather than by disk. The base species reading stays searchable on all of them.

2 rows have no Japanese name at all: 1 Partner Pikachu, 1 Partner Eevee. They name a form the pinned sources publish no compound Japanese name for, Partner Pokémon, and none was assembled from the parts. All twenty official set lists were swept for one and neither 相棒 nor パートナー appears anywhere in them, so the gap is the sources' rather than a gap in this page's reading. What the rows carry instead is the base species reading, labelled on both sides so it cannot be read as the name printed on the disk.

1 of the 78 campaigns has an archived page of the manufacturer's own, which corroborates that the campaign ran and which disk it gave out; it prints no number. The other 77 campaigns have no such page located, so those rows rest on the catalogued list alone. That is a weaker basis than any numbered set page on this site carries, and the fraction above says so.