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remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense

you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks

this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable

between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e

For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players.

The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to:

Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles.

For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.)

For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.)

For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.)

Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.

@hinata-shochan

I loved those games but they were messy as hell

You forgot a bit that makes the whole Feebas thing even crazier – there was a way to ‘reshuffle’ the Feebas spots on Route 119 … by changing a trendy saying on a small island town on the other end of the region, when nothing in the game ever told you this. But hey, never change the saying, never change the Feebas tiles. right?

Well, Feebas was worse in DPPt, if you can believe it

It was only found in underground lake under Mt Coronet (bad) that is perpetually foggy (worse) on 4 random tiles in the whole room (oh come on) that can have other Pokemon in (seriously?!) of 528 fishable tiles (you’re having a laugh, right?)

And unlike RSE, where the tiles only reshuffle when you change the trendy saying, in DPPt? They randomise daily.

Every. Single. Day.

The only consolation was that the game was rigged that there would be a guaranteed Feebas tile every 132 tiles in the room, as categorised from left-to-right, then top-to-bottom. But then, nothing in-game tells you that.

More gems from RSE!

What’s that weird space after Ninjask in the Pokedex? I can’t find it anywhere, and no-one uses it. Turns out it’s Shedinja, a secret bonus Pokemon. You can only get it by evolving a Nincada with a spare space in your party (and, from Gen IV onwards, a spare Pokeball in your bag). Good luck figuring that out by yourself, or alternatively, figuring out where that weird cicada angel with 1HP came from.

Why won’t Feebas evolve?! I’ve tried the Water Stone, max happiness, day, night, levelling, nothing’s happening! … yeeaahh turns out you need to max out its Beauty stat. A CONTEST STAT. FROM AN OPTIONAL SIDE CHALLENGE. So even if you found the useless, ugly fish only marginally better than Magikarp, good luck realising that’s how it evolves. Also, Pokemon can only eat so many Pokeblocks in this game, so they’d better all be good ones.Say goodbye to all your good berries!

Speaking of Berries, how to get the super-rare Berries from the Berry Master’s wife? Well, the passwords are GREAT BATTLE for the best Spicy Berry, CHALLENGE CONTEST for Dry, OVERWHELMING LATIAS for Sweet, COOL LATIOS for Bitter, and SUPER HUSTLE for Sour. LATIAS and LATIOS can only be unlocked after seeing them, and surprise! you can only get one of them in each game (even in Emerald, though at least you get a choice) and SUPER and CONTEST are only attained after beating the Elite Four. Also, you can only get one of each from the old lady – you want more, you’ll have to grow them damn things the hard way, and they take 72 in-game hours to fruit, and this is a GBA, so no internal clock.

What’s that? Another missing space in the Pokedex? Between Tropius and Absol? Well, it might be a Tropius evolution … but it’s not. Regrettably.. It’s Chimecho, the Wind Chime Pokemon. It’s about as useful as one too. Its moveset is support almost entirely, its stats are such garbage even basic Starters can take it on with no worries (such that it got a whole 30-point boost in Gen VII … and it’s still awful!), and pure-Psychic is no longer a game-winning trump card. It’s only found in one location, the summit of Mt Pyre (where you were for all of about 5 minutes dealing with the villainous team), with a 2% encounter rate. And as with Shedinja, no other trainer in the game owns one, so to only way to see it is to hunt it down yourself. Mercifully, later games starting with DPPt made it possible to see every Pokemon in the Pokedex just with Trainers, scripted encounters, and other sources like pictures in books, with the exception of Legendary Pokemon.

BONUS ROUND! ORAS VERSION!!

Wanna get Regigigas? Well, today’s your lucky day, sunshine! All you gotta do is:

a) navigate a long and confusing maze of one-way currents
b) pack a Pokemon with Dive (preferably Wailord and/or Relicanth)
c) deal with the aforementioned Braille puzzles
d) catch 3 powerful Legendary Pokemon, add to party
e) Go back to the Sealed Cavern, with your shiny new Regis in tow, ready to reveal a way to Regigigas!

Seems logical, right? Wait, why is nothing happening?

Oh, right. So despite all logic, you don’t get Regigigas at the hub cave of the whole mystery. Scratch that last, hang on …

e) Go back to the Island Cave … where you caught … Regice … seems legit
f) Catch Regigi- huh?!

What d’you mean it’s not there?! Oh, I see! You missed a step, hang on …

f) Make sure your Regice in particular is nicknamed! (don’t ask me I don’t know)
g) Now we can catch wait no no we can’t

Yeah no Regigigas still ain’t here. Are we missing another step?

g) Give Regice a cold-related item to hold (e.g.: Snowball, Never-Melt Ice, Icy Rock, or Casteliacone)
h) Now we can deal with this big bastard, but to be honest no reward is worth this

Hear that? That is the sound of thousands of 3DS systems being propelled at high velocity across rooms

I honestly think this is all a big part of why Hoenn is my favorite region. Remember all the wild Gen I rumors about Mewthree or Bill’s secret garden or Pokegods or whatever? See, this was the 90s, when the internet was new and sites like GameFAQs didn’t exist, and ROM hacking wasn’t a thing at all. Long story short, rumors spread easily and were hard to disprove. After all, we were young and had no idea how video games actually worked, so it was pretty much like magic to us. Anything could theoretically be possible, no matter how fucking ridiculous it sounded.

So you have a bunch of gullible but extremely enthusiastic children, no fact-checking, and the tiniest grain of truth (Missingno) to lend fuel to the rumors. The rumor mill was an enormous pillar of the Pokemon fandom. Even if you knew it was all bullshit, you’d still participate in it by making up parody rumors that followed the same general formula.

Flash forward to 2003, and Pokemon wasn’t cool anymore. I knew by now that none of the childhood tall tales were true, but I was still young and naive enough to trust a lot of what I read on the internet, and the fandom was still pretty far off from being able to hack into the games and drag all their secrets into the open. So when Ruby and Sapphire came out, rumors started swirling around on the internet again, but this time some of them were true. And since none of my peers played (at least not openly), the only way to prove or disprove anything was to uncover the truth myself. It felt magical, for lack of a better word. And I was always so proud of myself when I got to the bottom of a particular mystery.

The internet and the fandom have both advanced to a point where there can’t ever be anything like that again.