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I got mine without preordering... weird? I should preorder my copy too soon. I'm going away on the 28th so I should get it asap before I go away for a couple weeks. Are you getting Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire?
The people at my EB Games said I had to preorder ORAS to get a gengar code. I want a Diancie code so bad though lol.