The mystery was how the Rooftop Sale/other timed events spawn, which hasn't been fully documented since Ruby and Sapphire released in 2002 :)

@limonada4347

Жыл бұрын

so what was the mystery

@The_Dim_Vanced

Жыл бұрын

I spent days trying to get some solid boards and actually never got them, despite me getting all trainer card stars in emerald, it always felt like without them I hadn't cleared the game, so thanks a lot I never knew there were decorations for battle tower streaks though, guess I was never really that close to full completion

@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr

Жыл бұрын

if lots of people are asking, then it's a bad title :p

@pdg1135

Жыл бұрын

You did kinda gloss over the "mystery" on the title

@wildboris1

Жыл бұрын

My bad

What gets me is how much better looking the Regi dolls are than the overworld sprites of the actual Pokémon. I feel like a toy being more on-model than the real ingame thing is some kind of paradox

@eklxtreme

Жыл бұрын

I mean you're talking a big plush vs. a tiny handful of pixels, so of course I'd expect the doll to look a little more accurate

@nickvang7

Жыл бұрын

@@eklxtreme Nah they're about the same size. But it's probably to not spoil the player right before the Legendary encounter

@darkcloak100

Жыл бұрын

I prefer that then the other way around because the dolls will be seen way more then the overworld sprites. Besides maybe when you shiny hunt them.

@nickvang7

Жыл бұрын

@@darkcloak100 The video has literally just described how obscenely hard it is to witness these dolls in-game. The heck you on about?

@darkcloak100

Жыл бұрын

@@nickvang7 I'm saying if did manege to get these dolls I would want them to at least look good for everytime you see them in game.

I was always fascinated by the old guy who changed with every playthrough. I couldn't find anyone talking about him, thanks for explaining how he works

@a-s-greig

Жыл бұрын

He's Giddy!

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

That was one of those features I was never able to do anything with since... you really need a large number of people to record mix with.

@bilowik123

11 ай бұрын

I remember being so certain he was one color before and was different, thought I was crazy

@vivimannequin

10 ай бұрын

Those guys got more lore in ORAS

@everythingpony

9 ай бұрын

​@@a-s-greighe's trader

I love how the 20 year secret was broken ON 3RD TIER OF DIFFICULTY OUT OF 6

@EebyDeeby413

Жыл бұрын

@@bannah6400 Ok but what did Jesus say about pokemom Emerald?

@whenthe7633

Жыл бұрын

@@bannah6400 But can jesus beat pokemon emerald kaizo hardcore nuzlocke?

@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz

11 ай бұрын

​@@whenthe7633 Yeah and it would be very easy, since water is everywhere

@Explivious

10 ай бұрын

@@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uzbut then he’s drunk?

@lanceknightmare

9 ай бұрын

​@@whenthe7633I am quite out of date regarding Pokemon Emerald Kaizo Nuzlocke and pretty much everything Pokemon related. Years ago there were only a few people who managed to beat it.

Man game freak must’ve thought children had way more friends than they actually do. Because I can firmly believe you’re the first person to actually do this. And for a child to do it they’d have to have a lot of willing friends. I had my brother and a neighbor kid to bother into these kinds of tasks in Pokémon, it was not as fruitful as a result.

@EnigmaBarry

Жыл бұрын

I guess Game Freak is counting on kids meeting other kids playing Pokémon and having a link cable on standby. That's feasible (probably) if you live in a densely populated city like Tokyo. Outside of cities, you'd have to hold an event at a mall or card/comic shop.

@AllergyPuppy

Жыл бұрын

@@EnigmaBarry yeah, I always dreamed of such things as a kid. The Pokémon Journey Across America event for the 10th anniversary was one of the highlights of my childhood, as that was one of the few times I got to experience that fantasy. I’d be really curious to see an account of someone from Japan in a major metro area like Tokyo, and if they actually had that dream.

@ironleegaming8227

Жыл бұрын

and even if you did manage to have a friend, you couldn't be sure they even played pokemon.

@idkaname1085

Жыл бұрын

@@EnigmaBarry Its the main issue with pokemon and why the trading/version exclusives thing is an archaic and outdated thing and a scam. When Satoshi made the games he did it with urban kids in dense tightly packed Japanese cities in mind. In his own words he felt that urbanization was making the bug collecting he loved doing as a kid harder to impossible to do so pokemon was made to simulate this for urban kids. They also did it since they were never expecting pokemon to be a global hit. Its something that never got rectified and is kind of an example of Gamefreak holding back their own series but realizing its own flaws. Sometimes due to their own greed. This concept has made replaying ANY older title completely ass due to trade evos and certain mons basically being locked and impossible.

@SummonerArthur

Жыл бұрын

Wait... You had FRIENDS? Damn, that is harder than getting the dolls themselves

Fun fact: if your team is shiny and you mix records, when your friend battles your team of shinies, they will lose their shininess and become regular colored Pokemon. Was pretty lame to find out for me and a shiny hunting friend

@thatdankguy5140

Жыл бұрын

On the bright side after mixing records your friends can appear in the battle tower where their Pokemon will keep their shininess.

@meemo5196

Жыл бұрын

that makes me wonder if the pokemon /can/ be shiny by random chance, since the shininess is not kept track of :0

@dooflydetailguuy4349

Жыл бұрын

@@meemo5196 it can, that man who levels tons of pokemon to level 100 in weird ways did it

@rinlovestraps4894

Жыл бұрын

any chance you could be more specfic? tried looking up "lvl 100 pokemon" but a bunch of garbo came up. thanks

@gyakutenryu

Жыл бұрын

@@rinlovestraps4894 i think they might be talking about absolblogspokemon? he does a bunch of vids on leveling pokemon up to lvl 100 with unconventional methods. his vids are great. the videos on that series are called "level 100 gauntlet". not sure if this is it but in any case it's worth checking out 😊

I find it extremely validating to know that the rooftop department store was spawned by such an absurd mechanic. My friends all said "I don't know, it just spawned randomly for me," until one of them looked up the solution online and said "oh, it just spawns on Saturdays." I never got to the rooftop marketplace :(. Excellent research!

It's amazing how much weird, random stuff they crammed into these games back in the day. You'd never find something so elaborate yet so pointless in a modern Pokemon game.

@akiraeatsguitarpicks491

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much the entirety of gen 6 is elaborate and pointless

@lunathetrip3241

Жыл бұрын

clearly you haven't seen the currydex

@FrenkTheJoy

Жыл бұрын

Well other than all the Alcremie formes? I guess it's not all that elaborate, but the Kalos power plant sure was pointless.

@mjdxp5688

Жыл бұрын

@@devinnall2284 that's my favorite pokemon game

@LimeLoaf

Жыл бұрын

You can't enter the gen 9 buildings unless they are "Important"

Time travel needs to be invented so that this guy can go back to 2004 and blow everyone's minds

@maxamilliandavies7741

Жыл бұрын

And he could stop 9/11 while he's there! Win win

@ars.superstar

Жыл бұрын

@@maxamilliandavies7741 ... how old are you

@maxamilliandavies7741

Жыл бұрын

@@ars.superstar old enough to watch pokemom videos with swears in it😎😎

@cakeyyyyy3379

Жыл бұрын

hate to break it to you but 9/11 happened in 2001 💀

@maxamilliandavies7741

Жыл бұрын

@@cakeyyyyy3379 fr?!

For all our Regiguy enthusiasts, 15:02 says "This card cost me 278, so be grateful"

@everythingpony

9 ай бұрын

It's free online

@natedawg6755

9 ай бұрын

Just translating the braille my friend @@ravinraven6913

@LeonKuwataMusic

8 ай бұрын

​@@ravinraven69131: He might also be including the cost of the e-reader. 2: It isn't like a qr code, you need a physical copy of the card. I doubt printing it would work.

It's crazy to learn I got the clearance sale completely randomly, I remember getting those decorations

@wheatleythebrick2276

Жыл бұрын

same

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

@@wheatleythebrick2276 back when I was playing, not sure where I got the info, or if it was just a random guess on my part, but I went with the idea that each morning there was a random chance of it being there, even if I had no idea what caused it.

@Gamesmarts194

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember getting this myself, but I DO remember having a wooden plank (the bridge), the mud ball, and the mud statue. Either I didn't think this was as rare as it actually was or this is one of those deep hidden memories.

@wheatleythebrick2276

Жыл бұрын

@@marhawkman303 thats what i thought too basically

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

@@Gamesmarts194 Well, if you do a 1000 pokemon battles each in-game day, you do the random roll 1000 times. Which is pretty much guaranteed to trigger something.

I must have been one lucky freak in my original Ruby playthrough. I must have gotten the Lilycove sales lady early, because I have no memory of it, yet I have the exclusives she sells. Breakable door and slide were always part of my secret base. What I do remember getting, however, is to Mirage Island. I got there, got the liechi berry and caught some Wynaut, because why not? I then planted the Liechi berry and went to do something else. ... And I could never come back to harvest it. I said I was lucky, not clever. :D

I really love these super niche Pokemon deep dives. Something about getting into the nitty gritty of Pokemon games is just really fascinating to me.

@claytonharting9899

Жыл бұрын

+

@UnfoundedForge

Жыл бұрын

griddy

@donefinished

Жыл бұрын

Same

@joshmaril1136

Жыл бұрын

+

@salamipiranha3249

6 ай бұрын

Do you have any recommendations for other videos like this?

I remember if you record mixed, you could save your friend's secret base into your world, where you could battle them with the team they had at the time of the mixing. The best summer vacation of my life, like 20 years ago, my cousin from across the country visited and we spent a week together doing dumb kid stuff, hanging out, and just playing pokemon and other videogames side-by-side. We were like rivals, since our saved games were in the same places and we kept battling. It was so fun, but I haven't seen him since. Anyway, I was digging through my gameboy games a few years ago and came across my old copy of pokemon Sapphire. I booted it up and rode around until I found what I thought was my secret base. Apparently it wasnt, but instead had been my cousin's secret tree base. His npc with his name was there and everything. And talking to him threw me into a battle, which was a feature I completely forgot existed. I got goosebumps when it was his old party and everything. Like a snapshot in time from what I was little, as if only a few days had passed. Obviously I trashed his team. He couldnt beat me at the time, and definitely couldn't later. Also his base looked like garbage compared to mine which was filled with tons of stuff, including stuff I had got on the rooftop sale.

back in 2008, i used to search through all the possible forums just to find out how to fill those gaps in secret bases. not being able to understand english properly was a problem too, but the worst thing was that everyone just shared the myths they heard so you couldn't find any reliable information. you, sir toasty, just relieved my 11 year old self from a big headache. thank you and congratulations on completing your collection :D

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

10:39 I actually just avoided using those bases. But this goes into the idea of good and bad bases. And... well...I'd say there were more bad than good. If you're being picky, and also the definition of "good" varies based on what you want to use it for I guess. so even the weird squiggly tunnel has a use.

@nburtoninferno

Жыл бұрын

I played enough Emerald to just happen to catch these events randomly. I remember having the breakaway door and slide among other decorations. I must have knew well enough that that merchant didn't appear very often so I think I bought at least one of everything they sold. I know for a fact I used the blend master, as I spent a lot of time doing Pokemon contests, I probably interacted with him multiple times. I still have many pokemon transferred up from gen 3 with master ribbons.

As someone who took the time to get all 7 gold frontier badges in emerald, I can appreciate the determination & patience it must’ve taken you to accomplish such a feat that most won’t even fully understand. Cheers to you mate.

@SLKibara

Жыл бұрын

@@ZeroGravityFuneral Hey, let someone be proud over somethimg that isnt mediocre. Like you

"For the sake of narrative buildup..." I love this kind of unnecessarily honest, meta, and easy to miss commentary.

@LoverOfMuch

9 ай бұрын

timestamp 1:14 for anyone curious

You know we're in for a hard one when the EASIEST group includes getting another copy of the game and an specific trainer ID just to get a free plushie.

As someone who put 1K+ hours into Emerald.... I love this. There were so many things I didn't do despite playing over and over and keeping the same save file for years. I love learning new things about one of my all time favorite games.

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, really, I personally contributed to documenting a weird graphical glitch in the English Gen3 games. This being a glitch with Sticky Hold where if the sticky hold pokemon gets KOed by an attack trying to steal his item... the sprite stays until the player leaves the battle screen(such as swapping pokemon) and gets recolored to use the palette of the next pokemon. But I never even bothered with the extra grindy stuff.

@davekachel

10 ай бұрын

thinking about this comment.... god how many h did I spend in the old gens? Most of my games had a runtime of over 300h before I reached the elite 4. And I played most games multiple times.

@starcrysis23

9 ай бұрын

I played Emerald like it was my second life. I would just restart the game over and over. They could remake those games every year and as long as they didn’t take anything away that was present in the original, I would buy it

I agree that the Point payouts in Emerald are hilariously bad, but here is one trick that will significantly speed up the process: Once you get to three Silver Symbols, you will be allowed to bet on your Battle Frontier performances in a house in the eastern region of the Frontier. So you just lose your streak in whatever facility they want to bet on first, then bet the maximum amount and beat the first set of trainers there. I managed to get to the Venusaur doll without much effort in about one or two days if I remember correctly.

@Moonstone-Redux

2 ай бұрын

Ah yes, match fixing. Ahh Pokémon Emerald, the game of federal crimes. (just saw another video where a glitch speedrun technique requires your Pokémon to steal mail from your other Pokémon)

I was OBSESSED with the secret bases when I was playing emerald, and minus those regis I most certainly did all the bullshit required to collect all the decorations. I remember the day I got that stupid plank, and that REALLY sealed in my obsession. Luckily I had a good group of friends who were also obsessively trading, battling and playing, I never truly realized just how difficult and time consuming collecting them all was.

@starcrysis23

9 ай бұрын

@@ravinraven6913 I get it, you don’t like the cool shit in emerald. Replying to everyone who loves it isn’t going to change their mind.

I'm shocked. I remember playing Emerald as a young teenager and loving secret bases. Not only I had all the special sale items without knowing it was a very random event and the contest glass statue but I also had lots of these Battle Points exclusive dolls. I didn't even remember it taking so long to get them. My dream was to get the Regi dolls ):

I miss these little secrets gen 3 hid. There's so many little things that let you feel more immersed into the world, without the game explicitly telling you anything about it. That kind of world-building is gone, and I miss it so badly.

I actually had a registeel doll in my old emerald. a friend from japan had visited me for a summer way back when (still comes to this day to hang out) gave me the doll through the trader, showing me how all that worked since I never messed with it before. then my cousin got ahold of my gameboy, and we all know how kids are with someone else's save file.

@SirToastyToes

Жыл бұрын

The Decoration Present was actually a pretty good marketing ploy, if your friends already had the six packs of battle e series 1, why would you buy them? Well if you each got a chance to win the dolls and could share with your friend then you would both want to buy all six packs.

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

Жыл бұрын

Do you two...you know...

@Rallyhn

Жыл бұрын

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 no, it was sadly stolen years ago

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

Жыл бұрын

@Rallyhn Wait stole what?

@Rallyhn

Жыл бұрын

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 the game with the save file with the rare dolls

You solved another little mystery of mine in this video: how that left-facing "decorating" sprite is used. I had seen it in the ROM visualizers/decomps but had skipped out on the hidden bases so never got why it was always/only facing left. Thank you!

@carnage0685

Жыл бұрын

Which one, again?

@voliol8070

Жыл бұрын

@@carnage0685 The one that holds the furniture/decorations when you place it.

This was a great video! As one of the ~five people on the internet interested in gen 2 decoration collecting, I'm obligated to encourage you to attempt the GSC equivalent of this challenge. There's even less documentation to go off of and I don't believe there's a single account of someone actually completing the set!

@alcor3372

Жыл бұрын

Wait where would you put decorations in GSC?

@victorabreu13

Жыл бұрын

@@alcor3372 You put them in your bedroom. You can even see it in 3D in Pokemon Stadium 2. Most of the decorations are gotten via Mystery Gift, where you have to use an infrared signal to both give and receive items to other gameboys (or 3DSs).

@elmerandrewcrowley2822

Жыл бұрын

i remember reading a forum topic about people trying to figure out how stadium 2 decided what gifts to give out because anytime anyone came up with an idea, someone else came along to tell them their save didn’t fit the pattern.

@keepyourhornson5311

Жыл бұрын

I would absolutely love to see this!

@johnhawkins5314

Жыл бұрын

Oh god, yeah good luck with that. You require Pokémon Stadium 2 and absurd luck for things like the Pikachu Bed

I cannot imagine how much that regi doll card must have cost... I applaud your dedication to these collection challenges, it's the same spirit that made me complete a gen 3 living dex back in the day! Borrowing games, cloning real event pokemon from friends, emulating a distribution cart and when all else failed, glitzer popping. Love your channel!

@liruenth

Жыл бұрын

It's written on the slide in braille. It was 278.

@yoshiwoollyworld

9 ай бұрын

@@liruenth278 in what currency?

I'm stunned that out of all the decorations, only 3 are tied to an event distribution.

The Battle Frontier dolls are super easy to get. Best method is just Pyramid with a Choice Band Slaking, Blissey, and something else of your choice like Suicune or some other physically bulky mon. You can get huge streaks which gives you 15 BP per completion, and sometimes you don't even need to fight

@TheKnaeckebrot

Жыл бұрын

pyramid was scary tho :D

15:30 "this card cost me 278 so be grateful"

@iquemedia

Жыл бұрын

who knew going blind would help with youtube

@healgoth

Жыл бұрын

be grateful that scalpers won? evilBay and Pokemon are the ones who should be grateful for the cut, at least this singular collector can recoup the cost with video ad revenue

I vaguely remember having that breakaway door in my base as a kid, I never knew how rare that was

As a kid I accidentally got the sale and had no idea it was something special. I just checked and saw this new npc and bought him out since I was really into the secret base stuff. I’ve since restarted my game many many times since and stopped caring about secret bases. Watching this video just made me a bit sad since I threw out what would’ve been an awesome relic from my childhood😅

Stuff like this is so cool to me. I never even gave secret bases a second thought back in gen 3, but I’d love to see them return some day! Maybe in an actual house or something similar instead of cave squatting lol

@davidcook9875

Жыл бұрын

would be awesome to have secret bases in scarlet and violet, but i doubt it

@Whiteythereaper

Жыл бұрын

So basically the GSC bedroom decorations from Pokémon Stadium 2?

@devinnall2284

Жыл бұрын

Even better would be a Pokemon/Animal Crossing Crossover!

@marhawkman303

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcook9875 even better if they change the layouts to get rid of the dumb ones. like the one where half the layout is a squiggly tunnel... kinda annoying and you only have a small area to work with.

wasnt expecting the 20 year old mystery to be something as mundane as "nobody knew how the spaghetti code worked so it was just ignored"😆

I’m tripping out because I haven’t played Pokémon since Emerald, and yet I remember that rooftop sale!!!! I had no idea how hard it is to get that event. I was very serious about decorating my secret base, so I imagine I likely purchased everything I could at the sale. I highly doubt I got any of the harder decorations though :p This gave me some incredible nostalgia. Pokémon Emerald, and FireRed are two of the games I hold so dearly in my heart. The amount of wonder and curiosity I had throughout these games are unlike anything else I have ever played. Thank you for making this.

If there are 35 dolls and there are 386 Pokemon in ADV, then the 35 dolls collected amounts to 9.06% of the Pokedex.

I love how all the heavy furniture is sold in a tree house with a rope ladder to carry it down.

To be honest, I kinda wish that something similar to secret bases gets added in one of the newer pokemon games. The concept for them is pretty neat, but it's hard to actually visit player bases in the two sets of games it was in without having to go out of your way to fetch somebody's base. I feel like it would be pretty cool if secret bases were added into something like Galar's wild area or pretty much anywhere in Paldea, with the bases of other players automatically taking open bases if you're connected to the internet.

@Chanse1989

4 ай бұрын

You want palworld

@woomyiism

4 ай бұрын

@@Chanse1989 yep

Gen 3 is my favourite generation because of how many wacky secrets the developers slipped in. No matter how old they get, there's always something new to discover.

Absolutely fantastic video! Gen III is my favorite generation, and a big part of it is that for me it has juuuust the right amount of fun little bonus features like this that are almost entirely ignored but are just waiting beneath the surface to be accessed. I think there's also something kind of sad and almost liminal about multiplayer features like Secret Bases that just aren't going to be used anymore as people aren't really playing these games on original hardware with each other in person. Videos like these help fulfill the promise and potential of these features, and I'll be sure to check out your other content!

@bannah6400

Жыл бұрын

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.

@KopperNeoman

10 ай бұрын

@bannah6400 While we appreciate what you're doing for people, the kinds who need to hear this message most of all will be repelled by this kind of proselytizing. Personal testimonies in relevant situations I find work better.

Dude, you are insane for going for all these. Love to see the effort and information put into more obscure subjects like this. Awesome work

It’s sad how many of the special events in second and third generation games are rendered useless because of something as trivial as a clock powered by a battery that cannot be accessed without action that would void a warranty on literally any other device. One might think that after gen 2 introduced the Morning/Day/Night time and day of the week mechanics that determine when certain Pokemon appear (as well as some other events) Nintendo would have figured that other games would need a clock, and decide to build one into the GameBoy Advance line of systems and future proof usability of the physical games. I’m glad they got around to it in the DS and 3DS lineups, but too little too late.

@healgoth

Жыл бұрын

don’t forget that the special events were limited by region to an accessory that didn’t even sell well at the time, already back then the cost was prohibitively expensive to catch ‘em all

@alfsleftnut9224

Жыл бұрын

I'm kinda surprized those batteries weren't recharchable via the gameboy charger port

@Wesley_H

Жыл бұрын

@@alfsleftnut9224 That would have been awesome.

@NormanVN

Жыл бұрын

a few actual early title games on the GBA, such as castlevania circle of the moon, have battery powered saves, as do most SNES games and NES games that have saves. Unfortunately soldering on a new battery is just part of maintaining your retro games.

When I was a kid, my friend told me you needed the solid boards to cover the gaps inside the abandoned ship to assess new rooms in it. Crazy the I used to believe that.

I feel like this should be a speed run category for emerald

Gen 3 is Pokemon perfection. I never bothered with decorations because I'm kind of a completionist and I hated the idea of having to dedicate more time to finding all the collectibles. But the decorations are so darn cute and cool so it can make for a fun/worthwhile adventure.

@CertifiedClapaholic

8 ай бұрын

I would argue Gen 4 is the ultimate Pokemon experience with HG/SS, but I can definitely see the argument for Gen 3. Gen 3 was absolutely excellent.

@Ericss2009

7 ай бұрын

"Pokemon perfection"? Gen 3 was so bad and disappointing that it almost made me stop playing Pokemon altogether.

I had no idea how painstaking these games made outfitting your base, damn.

Its beyond comforting to know that someone out there really has completed a full collectathon in pokemon :)

@iFUCKINGp

4 ай бұрын

Most of them I actually acquired as a child. Except the Regi-dolls of course...

This was my dream to get all the decorations and have the best secret base! I never knew how difficult it really was as a kid until now! I feel satisfied knowing someone has them all though!

I admire the dedication as I could never do this myself. I don't have the patience to battle for hours and hours just to get some dolls but this is amazing.

I find it extremely hard to believe that it took until recently to find out how the tv events trigger, considering the fact that the reverse engineered source code has been made publicly available on github over 2 years ago.

I loved the secret bases 😭💕 i would love to see something similar brought back

Gen 3 is my favorite generation and I had absolutely no idea about half this stuff

One thing that really sucks is how a lot of the cool features like bases and the battle tower are basically unusable without crazy high luck or a LOT of work/grinding.

Man. And I thought I was hot shit for earning the Glass Ornament, and Silver and Gold Shields!

I never thought something in Pokemon could be more tedious than getting every single ribbon, but here we are.

I'm happy to say I've 100% everything in my copy of emerald and then did like 80% of the stuff in a Japanese copy with the events. Including the decorations I've probably got 1,500 hours in emerald alone . Man I had no life as a kid

This and the Ribbon videos are your best ones yet and they’re so fun to watch. I’d watch more like this in a heartbeat

It's been nearly 20 years and I still learn about things these games have that I didn't know existed

Wow I didn't know the Department Store sale was so rare! I remember event triggering for me shortly after beating the Elite 4 and thought nothing of it and just bought all the items from the sale thinking it was just a normal postgame occurrence What a great video! Emerald is one of my favorite games and glad to see new things are still being uncovered about the game

I’m so glad someone finally made a video about all the secret base decorations. I been curious about this for years!

This was an interesting video. Thanks for showing off the expensive e-Reader Card. Props to your friends in your discord group for discovering how the Postgame TV Events worked.

It always surprises me how fucking detailed emerald is. I know that recent games have just as many things now, but emerald will forever be my favourite pokemon because at the time this type of detail was unheard of. People really take advantage of it now adays.

It doesn’t surprise me that the TV events have BS low probability tied to them like a lot of things in Pokemon lol. Great work to you and the discord person for discovering it though, as well as the grinding for the Battle Frontier dolls

You tread these waters 15 years after I did. I cannot describe to you how cathartic it is to know that someone else, somewhere, has felt the same madness. I depended on luck for the events, though. Had no idea about the battle encounter trigger. I should have known better than to attribute anything in a cartridge-era Pokémon game to "just RNG".

While I agree that this was way too difficult, I do miss these kinds of side quest sort of treasure hunts that the old games used to have. Completing them gives you an immense sense of satisfaction, and the journey is always fun. It’s a shame they don’t do this anymore.

Whats crazy is that the sprites for the regis when you encounter them in the GBA games are these crude abstract boxy one tone sprites and then they made perfectly detailed sprites of them as the most elusive DLC content of any game.

This is absolutely the kind of thing I want to do someday in some of my GBA and DS Pokémon games, they’re so full of mystique and I love it

God this brings back memories, I remember finally getting the clearance sale event as a kid and getting so excited. Great video as usual!

Man I sure do love getting notifications for videos that don't exist yet. It's always so fun.

@travismcnamera9634

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It's incredibly annoying.

@SirToastyToes

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Apologies, didn't realize KZread would push a notification that far out, just seeing how this feature goes since I've only done this once before

@jdlenl

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yeah, youtube premier is genuinely one of the worst features on this platform amendment: at least the intro countdown was rad as hell

The amount of dedication to do this for everyone to see at the end must have felt so worth it in the end!

So I finally figured out why the pokeblock master never left in my save file, the battery died as the event spawned

Hats off to you, this is the first video in a very long time that I actually learned about a mechanic in the hoenn games I didn't already know

i've been waiting my entire life for this video

so you're telling me they managed to have a working slide in gen 3 but the one in black and white doesn't work?

absolutely wonderful video, i love that someone is taking the time to deep dive these classic games

That clearance sale footage just unlocked a hidden memory in my brain. I remember that actually. :DD

Love the title card on the Regi screen, what a delightful throwback to the Regi quest

Wow, I didnt even know there were other events than the Lilycove Department Story Rooftop sale. That's the only one I've ever gotten. Also I didn't know these old guys were a thing, but it does explain why I had the Bard on my very first playthrough, loved him, but never found him again on other playthroughs!

it seems only god knows when we'll eventually know every weird obscure thing about old pokemon games

The lengths I went to aged 9+ to get ahold of that goddamn solid board. I never got it! But I never knew I was one of millions who never knew how to get it! Subbed! And love the idea of you deep diving on the GSC room decorations!

This venture has made you a Master Collector, Master of the Battle Tower, and Master Trader of Antiquities.

The trader mechanic is probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Thanks for the content, dude!

@marhawkman303

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it is seriously wacky. Pokemon isn't the only game to assume players will be ABLE to meet in-person dozens of other players though.

@F14thunderhawk

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@@marhawkman303 pokemon kinda always assumed you could meet dozens of other people inperson.its just that Gen 3 is when it got the worst with Pokeblocks and the mawville old guys. Conversely now in Gen 8/9 anyone anywhere can participate

That was impressive, Emerald was pretty much my childhood but no way I knew any of this stuff

wow, i’m just blown away by how much you have to do to get every single item. i learned so much watching this. super nostalgic. making bases was one of my favorite things about this gen

I'd totally forgotten about secret bases until this video. Maaaan Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald was a wild time. Well done; this was oddly satisfying to watch.

Man this is incredible. Your ability to explore the limits of areas not often explored in depth in this generation has been incredible to watch. Keep up the great work I look forward to more in the future if you have the sanity for them 😂.

I remember having the platform, slide, breakable door and wooden floor decorations in my ruby game. I definitely didn't know how they were gotten but it's cool to see that these were pretty rare!

I spent over a thousand hours on this game as a kid... this entire video was a beautiful trip through time.

You are the first person I ever seen collect all the decorations in Gen 3. I definitely really happy that the community has pretty much found ways to really make the Gen 3 experience 100% these days 😅

There's actually an easier way to spawn the clearance sale in Emerald, using your method of getting the higher odds in R/S. Events like the clearance sale, mass outbreaks, Energy Guru sale, etc., can be transferred to other games by mixing records. In fact, in my experience, you can mix records the day before they happen, or a day or two after, and the game(s) that they didn't happen in will still detect them and make them happen a day or two later. I had a clearance sale happen in Emerald, then attempted to mix records with my Ruby when Ruby had a Surskit outbreak, the outbreaks of which I knew could be transferred. But to my surprise, Ruby got the clearance sale some time later...and I didn't win many battles, so it's not like I spawned it by coincidence. My memory is a little hazy, but yeah, you can Mix records to transfer events. A lot easier than using the Trader over and over again.

Would you ever consider doing similar thing in ORAS? the collection there is larger, but as you well know, much easier to collect. There are still a few interesting one to obtain in those games as wellso would be cool to see it all in one video

This was SO great. Thank you for making this, I feel like there’s hardly anything new for me to see in these games at this point but this was definitely new.

I had all but the regi dolls. Until today I didn't know they were possible to obtain or even existed. Thanks for a new tidbit

Just to gain access to the the file so I can record mix my DTQs with your file to gain access to the dolls. I’d pay shipping.

This countdown is sick

The emerald music brings back waves of intense nostalgia. I have yet to play any official or hack that could match the truly inspiring soundtrack.

I've gotta tip my hat off to you. This is incredible.

Huh. About a year or two ago I did all of this on real cartridges, because I'm also an insane completionist. I remember seeing The Kraken's messages a bit earlier, and it's cool that we finally solved that! Luckily I got my Lilycove sale during the main story of the game with no extra effort. The trophies and Frontier dolls were definitely insane to get. I did the trophies completely in Emerald. I was already also going for the full Gold symbols, so getting the BP for the decorations wasn't quite as grueling as you described (although it still took months, lol) because I had two different goals in mind and I was getting two birds with one stone. I wish I had known about the Link Multi stuff though. I got the Regis from a save file I had from an emulator, so I didn't end up buying the E-cards like you did. Respect to the commitment, I'm insanely jealous. Great video! I enjoyed watching

@ryanbishoop

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It's also very cool that we're the only people to have done this :)

You should do a video where you collect every obtainable item in a game! It took quite a while but I was able to do this in ORAS (I even reset Pokemon X to get both gen 6 fossils). I included event only items as well.

The amount of hidden events and mechanics is fascinating. Game Freak was a bit too optimistic thinking we could figure this out at the time. It does contribute to the mystery of this generation and the lack of information back then.