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
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
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
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!
@@whenthe7633I am quite out of date regarding Pokemon Emerald Kaizo Nuzlocke and pretty much everything Pokemon related.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.
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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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 😊
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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'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 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.
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)
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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😅
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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.
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
the braille for Tier 6 translates to "These 31 RD cost me #278 so be grateful" (not sure what the # is for but it's definitely understandable for the most part)
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
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.
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 😅
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.
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.
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 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!
Finding out about that board just gave me a massive mental flashback. I remember triggering that event as a kid and looking through those options thinking "oh, it's just ornaments - i can't even fit anything inside" and decided to skip. If only I knew🤧
Title had me confused but after fully watching the video everything made sense. Congrats for figuring out the mystery, collecting all the decorations and thank you for sharing your incredible journey
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!
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.
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.
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 😂.
Great vid and adventure. Secret bases are some of my favorite things to come out of pokemon and it's cool to see the hoops you have to go through to get everything. Also I will never forgive ORAS for having the regice doll be the only available regi doll in-game. Admittedly, it looks like it was an accident given the method it was distributed and that the other two are gettable with hacks, but my regirock-dedicated base being topped off with a regice doll hurt lol.
Now that is some dedication! Battling your way to over 1,000 BP in the stingiest BP game is so cool, I could never do that, not even with save states. And you even got the rare e-reader card!! I find the e-reader feature to be very interesting as it is an early form of DLC. The mixing records, old guys and television events are also cool gen 3 features that are not discussed as much as they should be. There's even a showcase of all the items at the end just so we can see :) well done!
The mystery was how the Rooftop Sale/other timed events spawn, which hasn't been fully documented since Ruby and Sapphire released in 2002 :)
so what was the mystery
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
if lots of people are asking, then it's a bad title :p
You did kinda gloss over the "mystery" on the title
My bad
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
He's Giddy!
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.
I remember being so certain he was one color before and was different, thought I was crazy
Those guys got more lore in ORAS
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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
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
@@eklxtreme Nah they're about the same size. But it's probably to not spoil the player right before the Legendary encounter
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.
@@darkcloak100 The video has literally just described how obscenely hard it is to witness these dolls in-game. The heck you on about?
@@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 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!
I love how the 20 year secret was broken ON 3RD TIER OF DIFFICULTY OUT OF 6
@@bannah6400 Ok but what did Jesus say about pokemom Emerald?
@@bannah6400 But can jesus beat pokemon emerald kaizo hardcore nuzlocke?
@@whenthe7633 Yeah and it would be very easy, since water is everywhere
@@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uzbut then he’s drunk?
@@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.
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
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
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.
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.
It's crazy to learn I got the clearance sale completely randomly, I remember getting those decorations
same
@@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.
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.
@@marhawkman303 thats what i thought too basically
@@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.
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
On the bright side after mixing records your friends can appear in the battle tower where their Pokemon will keep their shininess.
that makes me wonder if the pokemon /can/ be shiny by random chance, since the shininess is not kept track of :0
@@meemo5196 it can, that man who levels tons of pokemon to level 100 in weird ways did it
any chance you could be more specfic? tried looking up "lvl 100 pokemon" but a bunch of garbo came up. thanks
@@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 really love these super niche Pokemon deep dives. Something about getting into the nitty gritty of Pokemon games is just really fascinating to me.
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Time travel needs to be invented so that this guy can go back to 2004 and blow everyone's minds
And he could stop 9/11 while he's there! Win win
@@maxamilliandavies7741 ... how old are you
@@ars.superstar old enough to watch pokemom videos with swears in it😎😎
hate to break it to you but 9/11 happened in 2001 💀
@@cakeyyyyy3379 fr?!
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.
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.
@@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.
and even if you did manage to have a friend, you couldn't be sure they even played pokemon.
@@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.
Wait... You had FRIENDS?
Damn, that is harder than getting the dolls themselves
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.
The last paragraph really threw off the wholesome vibe. I lold
@@Alex-ii9spits the most authentic playful cousin thing ever
For all our Regiguy enthusiasts, 15:02 says "This card cost me 278, so be grateful"
It's free online
Just translating the braille my friend @@ravinraven6913
@@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.
@@everythingpony Yeah, but printers aren't free.
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.
@@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.
timestamp 1:14 for anyone curious
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.
Pretty much the entirety of gen 6 is elaborate and pointless
clearly you haven't seen the currydex
Well other than all the Alcremie formes?
I guess it's not all that elaborate, but the Kalos power plant sure was pointless.
@@devinnall2284 that's my favorite pokemon game
You can't enter the gen 9 buildings unless they are "Important"
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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 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!
It's written on the slide in braille. It was 278.
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'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 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.
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 vaguely remember having that breakaway door in my base as a kid, I never knew how rare that was
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!
Wait where would you put decorations in GSC?
@@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).
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.
I would absolutely love to see this!
Oh god, yeah good luck with that. You require Pokémon Stadium 2 and absurd luck for things like the Pikachu Bed
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.
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.
Do you two...you know...
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 no, it was sadly stolen years ago
@Rallyhn Wait stole what?
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 the game with the save file with the rare dolls
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
pyramid was scary tho :D
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!
Which one, again?
@@carnage0685 The one that holds the furniture/decorations when you place it.
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"😆
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😅
Its beyond comforting to know that someone out there really has completed a full collectathon in pokemon :)
Most of them I actually acquired as a child. Except the Regi-dolls of course...
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.
I'm stunned that out of all the decorations, only 3 are tied to an event distribution.
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
would be awesome to have secret bases in scarlet and violet, but i doubt it
So basically the GSC bedroom decorations from Pokémon Stadium 2?
Even better would be a Pokemon/Animal Crossing Crossover!
@@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.
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.
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.
You want palworld
@@Chanse1989 yep
I love how all the heavy furniture is sold in a tree house with a rope ladder to carry it down.
15:30 "this card cost me 278 so be grateful"
who knew going blind would help with youtube
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
If there are 35 dolls and there are 386 Pokemon in ADV, then the 35 dolls collected amounts to 9.06% of the Pokedex.
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!
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.
@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.
I had no idea how painstaking these games made outfitting your base, damn.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
"Pokemon perfection"? Gen 3 was so bad and disappointing that it almost made me stop playing Pokemon altogether.
Love the title card on the Regi screen, what a delightful throwback to the Regi quest
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.
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
I'm kinda surprized those batteries weren't recharchable via the gameboy charger port
@@alfsleftnut9224 That would have been awesome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
It's been nearly 20 years and I still learn about things these games have that I didn't know existed
I loved the secret bases 😭💕 i would love to see something similar brought back
Man. And I thought I was hot shit for earning the Glass Ornament, and Silver and Gold Shields!
I've gotta tip my hat off to you. This is incredible.
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
I never thought something in Pokemon could be more tedious than getting every single ribbon, but here we are.
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
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.
I’m so glad someone finally made a video about all the secret base decorations. I been curious about this for years!
That Tier 6 card got me curious, just as much as the in game puzzles for the Regis.
“This card cost me 278 so be grateful”.
I assume dollars?
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
the braille for Tier 6 translates to
"These 31 RD cost me #278 so be grateful"
(not sure what the # is for but it's definitely understandable for the most part)
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
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.
The amount of dedication to do this for everyone to see at the end must have felt so worth it in the end!
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 😅
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
In my three gen three playthroughs I had the hipster every time. All these years I had no idea that npc could change
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
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.
I spent over a thousand hours on this game as a kid... this entire video was a beautiful trip through time.
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.
After all those years I forgot the song in the credits after you defeated the champ. Thank you for refreshing those old memories!
God this brings back memories, I remember finally getting the clearance sale event as a kid and getting so excited. Great video as usual!
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
That was impressive, Emerald was pretty much my childhood but no way I knew any of this stuff
The Trader is the real MVP of this challenge. It's crazy how you went so much to even uncover how an event system works
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!
Finding out about that board just gave me a massive mental flashback. I remember triggering that event as a kid and looking through those options thinking "oh, it's just ornaments - i can't even fit anything inside" and decided to skip. If only I knew🤧
absolutely wonderful video, i love that someone is taking the time to deep dive these classic games
Title had me confused but after fully watching the video everything made sense. Congrats for figuring out the mystery, collecting all the decorations and thank you for sharing your incredible journey
Man I sure do love getting notifications for videos that don't exist yet. It's always so fun.
It's incredibly annoying.
Apologies, didn't realize RUclips would push a notification that far out, just seeing how this feature goes since I've only done this once before
yeah, youtube premier is genuinely one of the worst features on this platform
amendment: at least the intro countdown was rad as hell
That clearance sale footage just unlocked a hidden memory in my brain. I remember that actually. :DD
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!
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.
it seems only god knows when we'll eventually know every weird obscure thing about old pokemon games
I remember trying to set up the musical rugs to play different songs. I’m coming straight from your Gen 2 decorations vid, this series is awesome !
So I finally figured out why the pokeblock master never left in my save file, the battery died as the event spawned
I remember gathering all of the soot for secret base decorations as a kid on a long road trip. Very nostalgic, thanks!
I was actually disappointed at how few things the glass-blower guy could make.
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.
I'd like to thank you for passing along the information of how to spawn the berry master.
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 😂.
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.
Great vid and adventure. Secret bases are some of my favorite things to come out of pokemon and it's cool to see the hoops you have to go through to get everything.
Also I will never forgive ORAS for having the regice doll be the only available regi doll in-game. Admittedly, it looks like it was an accident given the method it was distributed and that the other two are gettable with hacks, but my regirock-dedicated base being topped off with a regice doll hurt lol.
Now that is some dedication! Battling your way to over 1,000 BP in the stingiest BP game is so cool, I could never do that, not even with save states. And you even got the rare e-reader card!! I find the e-reader feature to be very interesting as it is an early form of DLC. The mixing records, old guys and television events are also cool gen 3 features that are not discussed as much as they should be. There's even a showcase of all the items at the end just so we can see :) well done!