I actually have that English event Mew they gave out on September 30, 2006. It took a ton of begging to convince my parents to drive me down, since the Toys R Us was on the other side of town, but I got to battle other kids and pick some cool merch they were giving out too. As a result I've got all 151 on my Leaf Green. I am *SO GLAD* I never bothered with a national dex. Dear god. I had most of the stuff you needed, but damn. Little tidbit, I remember I traded a Trapinch to the event staff for the Mew. I wass like, "I'm okay with giving this one away, it sucks!" And the guy who was working it was like, "You should try training one!" And that was how I was introduced to the greatness that is Flygon. Good video, dude,
My equivalent of that achievement was probably getting a 5% encounter rate Chansey as my first encounter on one route in Platinum and it holding a Lucky Egg.
@@testerwulf3357 I know. I just said it was my closest equivalent to what happened here, and still pretty lucky. Something similar happened to me later when I ran into a Metagross as my first rustling grass encounter at the Giant Chasm once (5% chance), caught it in a Quick Ball (Metagross has the lowest possible catch rate, so it's a big deal), and it was holding a Metal Coat (again a 5% chance).
@@wikiuser92 Mine is catching a adamant nature cubone holding a thick club with good ivs (i assume) I also got a shiny diglett(of all the possible pokemon...why diglett should be my first?) And quickly able to find a feebas with modest nature That is all i have
As a young child at the time of Gen 3s release, it was crazy to me that "gotta catch em all" was a thing in Pokemon and that some people had achieved it. Only at a much later date did I learn this was MUCH easier to accomplish before Gen 3 (and after, thanks to the introduction of WiFi), and Gen 3 is just ridiculously impossible for any normal child.
Not only that, but as somebody who got emerald in their childhood as a birthday present, it's crazy to know it's more expensive then any of my other games... Including the game boy itself
Well yeah, me and my brother got the blue and yellow edition and got pretty close to completing one of our PokeDex, Crystal was easy too since you could trade with the gen 1 editions but as soon as I got Emerald and FireRed I said f that and never bothered with the Dex again. Didn't help that my brother grew out of Pokemon pretty quickly.
@@fauge7 ive kept my copy of Emerald all these years despite not having a gameboy. Even as a kid I knew that if I got rid of it, I would regret it later down the road.
@@ChaotiX1I bought most Pokémon games since heart gold every release…. And they have all randomly disappeared except for my game boy copy of Pokémon emerald lol
@@darthjarjarbinks2480 I have absolutely stood there and watched as my little brother did something stupid. I knew what he was going to do. I knew it was a stupid thing to do. And I absolutely could have prevented him from doing that stupid thing. But it was REALLY funny to watch him do it 🤣
@@evman1094and on top of that it wouldn't have taught them anything. I accidentally formatted ALL MY 3DS SAVE DATA cuz I thought I was in the right options for the SD card. Years of game time wasted, but rest assured I'm not formatting anything ever again.
It's ridiculous. I loved gen 1 and it seemed somewhat manageable. I figured the later games would make things easier because the trading and having pokemon locked to certain games was so obviously obnoxious, but no it seems to be worse.
@@yunglink992 I mean if you aren't doing this for content as a streamer, you'd have to be absolutely crazy to waste your time on this if you could also just get all the pokemon easier in the newer games or just cheat them in without wasting your time and money
It would never happen, but it would be nice if nintendo could make some new physical console type device for a resonable price and have it just have slots for all their old consoles and make it a physical pokemon bank allowing old gens to easily transfer to new again
I was really not expecting how insane this is. I remember as a kid wanting to complete the dex. I thought it would be a cool nostalgic challenge, but after watching this, the fact that you have to solder a battery, use toothpaste on your disk, buy all the games and play them through multiple times, and spend over a thousand dollars to actually do this without cheat codes is legit insane.
This was SO much fun to watch live, and the video turned out so great!!!!! This is my favorite generation of Pokemon, and it's absolutely insane to see where the prices have gone on it all!! You did such a good job walking through everything. Absolutely honored to have my Emerald VIP card featured at 21:14 Thankfully, the Master Ball in the JP Colo bonus disc does *not* lock the master ball behind story completion/purification, so it's actually extremely useful for people shiny hunting stuff like Shadow Entei since you can use it that early in the story! I had NO IDEA about the 255 times oversight with Gabby & Ty - that is SO cool and something I gotta work towards on my games!!
Idk..one of them extremely weak to the other one and it's not Kyogre! Just saying. Groudon got such a bad typing for the dynamic they tried to set up..there is no believable way Groudon could do anything to Kyogre before getting immediately KOed by a single droplet of water..especially in primal form where it's even MORE weak to water! For a duo that's supposedly fighting all the time and equals the typings do NOT reflect this
When I was a kid I didn't know about that glitch and I beat the whole game the legit way. The final part of the game is such bullshit. That glitch needs to be exploited.
@@abigailofdarkness the moment I read about it I just went “Ok yeah literally just why wouldn’t you do it” especially cause it’s not limited to master balls so you can use the early ultra ball for easy catches and you can spam X-Items to sweep with Pokémon that have surf. It’s literally the one thing that makes end game Colo bearable
@@conza1989 You throw the ball with your first Pokémon, then on your second one you swap the item slot with the master ball with another item. The game will register you using the masterball but because it’s technically not the item you used it doesn’t use up the masterball.
I cannot fathom the dedication that 10yo me had to achieve the same result (i did use gameshark for the event pokemon - or rather, farmed legendaries to trade with friends that had the gameshark, so I feel no shame). I should still have that save somewhere. This video made me appreciate my childhood in a weird way. Thank you for spending the (ridiculous amount of) time to make this video ❤
@@youtub-fj8mu well, everything was on official hardware, no emulators involved. I did not own a gamecube nor any colosseum game and I believe they were used here mostly to speed up the process, but some game lending and trading with friends that had it was necessary - that's how I got my Ho-oh. So many shinies were exchanged, including a horsea! Tbh I don't remember too well after 20y but I remember making a point of having a legit no exploit living dex.
I swear Johnstone is one of the few RUclipsrs who can captivate me in an hour-long video that I don't understand. The narration and the comedy is so compelling! Thank you; this and the video on getting every medal in B2W2 have made for an incredibly entertaining two hours!
This is a super big accomplishment, doing a Gen 3 full living dex without any glitches (besides having to ACE inject the event items as that's unavoidable now) like Emerald's Battle Tower dupe for infinite master balls / rare candies or Colo's infinite ball trick is quite a task! It was nice getting to catch quite a lot of this live while out with sickness, congrats on getting the video out!
@@thehighlightsreel953The nat dex was not like that, there were several mons that were almost impossible or take way too long without every single game from gen 3
If you're not emulating then I question the absolute state of your brain tbh If you mean retro COLLECTING then you're right but if you want to just play the games, don't bother paying these prices, emulate them.
@@steel5897 Also you can fast forward game to catch the right pokemon/nature without completely losing your sanity. Well is still a tiring task if you go for shiny.
@@LtCommanderTatoYou can just use cheat codes for shinies (obviously you have to restrain yourself a bit while using cheat in order to not optimize the whole game away)
@@perguto Obviusly you can use codes for anything but that defeat the pupose of playing the game, im just talking about the tools of emulator to speedup the time when you run in grass and fight fast, some games specially DS ones are very slow in animations and between scenes. I only would use codes to access the event tickets, nothing more.
50:28 he beated us 300 times, we hoped he went away but then he immediately just to come back after five seconds, our pokemon watched us in tears saying we can't do it boss, and the only thing he said is: go home, taunting us but we can't
Emerald is my favorite main series game - but I've only ever played it casually, so I had no idea how DEEP everything went into this. Thank you for doing this so we don't have to!
The three legendary beasts being captured by the villains is mirrored in Pokémon Ranger, and that game was even more insane. Your run as a Ranger ended if your styler broke (or just set you back to the last save if you're WEAK), and the beasts LOOOOVE to attack your styler on sight. Manipulating them to attack and trying to do loops before they start sprinting again is a necessity. Not only that, but there's THREE FIGHTS IN A ROW. you basically need to grind Poké Assist gauge until your Plusle/Minun can paralyse them, and hope you can complete 20+ loops to catch ONE OF THEM. It is the single hardest battle of attrition in the game, yet somehow feels balanced(?) anyway. Shadows of Almia would actually redo the capture system, replacing X number of loops with a dedicated friendship gauge that filled up per loop, and progress decayed instead of wiping out entirely when you stopped. The difference in quality of life is night and day, and nothing will compare to OG Ranger Charizard or the beast trio. All this to say, legendary beasts captured by evil team, something about nickels, weird happening something.
You just awoke traumatic memories of child me, oh my god. I beat Charizard in OG ranger by waiting on the attack where he puts down a bunch of little fires, but walks slowly around them. Rather than carefully move my line between them, I just quickly tapped all the fires around The Zard to remove them, clearing the area to quickly loop around him. Prior to discovering this strategy, I actually got stuck on him, resigning myself to never beating the game. Charizard is a monstrous fight, and Entei gave me very similar trouble afterward. Though I did beat it, the challenge was indeed brutal. Part of me kinda finds Almia a bit too easy in comparison, but it's definitely a better experience overall.
i lost my save data for ranger while i was almost at the end and i don't think i will EVER touch that game again. i was fortunate enough to be playing on an emulator so i could easily load up the fights again,, but that didn't stop charizard from kicking my ass for an hour straight. it doesn't help that you have to fight him AGAIN later on. i cant imagine fighting the beasts, even if i have my little cheat saves
As someone who also did this myself, I can say that Colosseum and XD cut out an ENORMOUS time in this. And it's really simple to run these games on a Wii, if you don't care about playing on 100% retail copies. Then the main hassle is just needing LeafGreen for Slowpoke, deciding if you're gonna use glitches or not for Deoxys, and getting Celebi, which needs the japanese games.
This was the best RUclips video I have watched in years. I never wanted this video to be over. I love how you kept track of how much it cost and all the tricks about switching between games and special codes. Masterclass video.
Finally someone else knows my suffering...This was hell to do back in the day. The fact that you can do it in less than 2 weeks with planning is crazy to me. It took me months to get everything lined up between school and homework back then.
if you're cool with hacking a wii and ripping an iso off a game you own, you can buy a japanese pokemon box for a fraction of the price and patch the ripped iso off of that.
Can't wait to see more videos! Love your content!!! I think I die of happiness every time you put on the fishing gear for fishing time, doesn't stop being funny
One thing Johnstone didn't talk about is if you want to transfer these Pokemon up to Pokemon Home you will have to spend another 8 or so hours just to transfer them up because of the Gen 3 to 4 limitation and the stupid hoops you have to go through. I just did it myself just for the Gen 3 mons and it took more than a whole day of just transferring up after I caught them all. No generation is more time consuming than Gen 3 by a long shot.
@@James26285 Plus since they've begun deleting pokemon from the mainline games instead of just making it so you can't find them in the wild since the switch gens, Home is basically an extortion scheme.
I remember attempting to do this back around 2018. Bought all I needed too but never had the time/drive to commit to it. Thank you for completing this. I’ve always wanted to see it.
playing through saphire rn with my childhood game on my game boy advance. Lots of nostalgia, but sad i cannot get all the pokemon you did! happy to run into this video
i actually went to that pokemon rocks america event in atlanta back in 2004! it was DEFINITELY a strange place to host it but it was still really fun. i remember getting the aurora ticket and taking a pic with a treecko mascot suiter, and my friend got to go on stage and do karaoke. it's cool seeing a direct mention of it here =) this was a crazy endeavor and SUPER impressive getting it all done in so little time!
The fact that you need to play colosseum for this challenge makes it infinitely better. I not only love gen 3 hoenn games but pokemon colosseum was the first pokemon game i ever olayed and has remained my favorite ever since.
This easily became my favorite of Johnstone's videos. There are some parts in the video that are genuinely hysterical; John's luck is actually crazy sometimes!
Huge respect! I've been slowly completing the national dexes on all of my childhood copies (thankfully I had all the games and the hardware needed anyways) and Gen 3 took me almost a decade (2015-23) to fully do. I had every pokemon needed, legit acquired, by 2016 thanks to some good fortune but trading every pokemon between every game was such a discouraging process until AbsolBlogs released his box edits. So much slower than your time, but it's just been a side project while I finished Uni and started Antarctic research. About halfway through gen 4 now! Keep up the great work :)
Im trying to do that right now myself. This has always been a childhood dream of mine. Are you saying you have a legit mew and deoxys though? Short of just getting on reddit and begging anyone who has a real one to mail me a cartirdge, meet up in real life, or find one on ebay for a billion dollars, I am not sure how to go about LEGIT completing this
@@Bittls that was the aforementioned good fortune - I was going to a lot of local conventions at the time and met some folk who were willing to trade thir childhood event pokemon. It was really lucky! The chance is definitely a lot smaller these days, since I did those trades in 2015/16, but you may still have luck if you go to a Pokemon competition or the like, especially if you ask around online first. Wishing you all the best!!!!!!
Good lord. I am amazed at your dedication. Emerald was one of the first pokemon games I played through to the end and it always bothered me that the National Dex was so far out of reach. Amazing video!
I don’t really have a comfort show or food, I just watch these videos of yours. Pokémon was such a huge part of my childhood and every couple of years I find myself replaying one of the games. I think I’m past due for a play through now 🤣 thanks for making these videos!
It's not free time if you're doing it as a job as a youtuber. There's a reason why normal people don't do living dexs, and why youtubers do. Try and figure out why
@thomascampbell5321 I'm not saying he isn't lucky to be a youtuber but also pouring 150 hours to the cause, doing additional research outside of that, and doing this all while streaming and investing in different equipment for long periods of time isn't necessarily the easiest thing. I used to do streams on platforms outside of youtube, and OBS and my internet connection alone made me want to stop doing it despite overwhelming positive reception. There's a lot of behind the scenes work that goes into videos like these too, as well as timing it right so algorithm doesnt mess you up. I was fortunate to stream and make content on my friend's site, that already had a built in userbase and not have to start from scratch on somewhere like twitch or youtube.
Amazing video, takes true dedication to pull something like that! 👏🏻 For those that still want a complex Dex of gen 3 there exist ROMs where in LFRF you can catch all pokemons as well as RS. Of course it's not a 100% legit way to do it. But all it takes is a phone or computer and to download the ROM as well as the Emulator.
12:00 The Version exclusive Pokémon are also available as Shadow Pokémon in XD. You only need other copies of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald for the other starters.
Congrats, John! I'm working on the same thing. I've spent $600 on rebuying Emerald, Colosseum, and XD and modding my GBA. This task is not for the faint of heart if you don't already have all the games.
Minus the Gamecube titles, my lord am I glad to have gotten the GBA games second hand within 5 years after their release, like Black and White were the new games at the time.
It´s so refreshing to see people put love and effort into playing pokemon, it´s something you barely see nowadays with how toxic the online community tends to be, subbed
I am attempting this challenge on this channel, and I learned some new things about how to make this process easier. Thank you Johnstone for paving the way for others to try this ridiculous quest! 😊
4:30 Just like how Greek tragedies are forgotten about in modern times, it seems that the tragedy of Jerma's debt has also been lost to the sands of time.
Man, i gotta say, awesome job and effort right there! I bumped into this video randomly and i gotta say that's something i didn't really expected nowdays.
Thank you John for providing entertainment and good luck. I watched this video probably 4 times while shiny hunting Mewtwo in fire red and I finally got it at 3347 encounters!
Congrats on completing your Emerald Pokédex!!! I SALUTE YOU!!!! I'm working on this too! Oh, wait... I'M DOING THIS 10 FREAKIN TIMES!!!!! I'M TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR RUBY, SAPPHIRE, EMERALD, FIRERED, AND LEAFGREEN TWICE!!!! YES, I'M PLAYING TWO INSTANCES OF THE GBA POKéMON GAMES AND TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR ALL OF THEM!!!! Pokémon is a full time job! Hey wait! What the heck am I doing playing Wario Land 3 Master Quest!? I gotta get back to Emerald and get the last 13 Pokémon in the Hoenn Pokédex so I can get my Johto Starter! AND THEY'RE ALL EVOLUTIONS!!!! Edit: I DID IT!!! Twice! That makes 6 out of 10 regional Pokédexes complete! I chose Cyndaquil and Totodile for my Emerald starters, since I already had Chikorita! I also finished my 2 FireRed and LeafGreen Kanto Pokédexes a while back! Now... RUBY AND SAPPHIRE x2 remain! I'm playing these for RetroAchievements so there is some emulation involved! But I also bought 5 GBA SPs, 5 Wireless Adaptors, and 5 EZ-Flash Omegas to do 5 player Wireless Adaptor stuff! Yep, I spent QUITE a bit of money JUST to play 5 player games of Berry Crush, Pokémon Jump, AND Dodrio Berry Picking! Am I insane? Well, let's put it this way... decent Wireless Adaptor emulation development is slower than a mound of molasses, so I just figured that I should just get the physical hardware since I'm not waiting till 2025 for a CHANCE of 5 player Wireless Adaptor emulation being implemented into mGBA!!!!
I absolutely loved watching this! Monumental effort and congratulations on completing it. The reward you get for completing it is so hilarious. I remember completing the Dex in my copy of Pokemon yellow and being so deflated when all i got was the diploma🤣
Another great video Johnstone! As always giving me inspiration for future challenges, after catching every Pokemon from their original region in a Poke Ball with my OT and moving to HOME I wanted another Catch Em All style challenge, I'd love to have every Pokemon available from every generation or something like that in HOME but since Bank is closing and there isn't enough space to do that in HOME anyway something like what you have completed here might be my next best option, keeping all the Pokemon on their original games and such. Would love to see you do this again for more games!
Having done this myself, I *hate* Colosseum with every fiber of my being. Really glad I could use an emulator and avoid Nintendo's scummy monetization practices during Gen 3.
As someone who has been trying to complete the Pokemon Home National Dex (so basically all 1025 mons), I salute you. This definitely looks a lot harder to do than that. ...though now let's see you go for all 1025. ;D
Bro Sapphire was my first introduction to the Pokémon world. Watching you play this makes me reminisce about my younger days of playing Pokémon nonstop. I even had the Pokémon Kanto region book of all the species and tips! I miss the GBA Advance/SP days.
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I actually have that English event Mew they gave out on September 30, 2006. It took a ton of begging to convince my parents to drive me down, since the Toys R Us was on the other side of town, but I got to battle other kids and pick some cool merch they were giving out too. As a result I've got all 151 on my Leaf Green.
I am *SO GLAD* I never bothered with a national dex. Dear god. I had most of the stuff you needed, but damn.
Little tidbit, I remember I traded a Trapinch to the event staff for the Mew. I wass like, "I'm okay with giving this one away, it sucks!"
And the guy who was working it was like, "You should try training one!"
And that was how I was introduced to the greatness that is Flygon.
Good video, dude,
Can you send me a save file copy
That event staff sounds like an actual pokemon npc lmao
That staff guy actually is ball guy from sword and shield
I also still have my Mew from that event :) it was my 2nd lvl 100 pokemon after my Kyogre. good times.
@@aguenyamade me cackle AHAHAHAHA
That Shiny Horsea holding Dragon Scale was absolutely mental. You should've gone and bought some Powerball lottery tickets after that.
The best instance of streamer luck.
My equivalent of that achievement was probably getting a 5% encounter rate Chansey as my first encounter on one route in Platinum and it holding a Lucky Egg.
@@wikiuser92 Not anywhere near as rare as a shiny I'm pretty sure..let alone a shiny holding an item. Haven't done the calcs but I'm pretty sure lol
@@testerwulf3357 I know. I just said it was my closest equivalent to what happened here, and still pretty lucky.
Something similar happened to me later when I ran into a Metagross as my first rustling grass encounter at the Giant Chasm once (5% chance), caught it in a Quick Ball (Metagross has the lowest possible catch rate, so it's a big deal), and it was holding a Metal Coat (again a 5% chance).
@@wikiuser92 Mine is catching a adamant nature cubone holding a thick club with good ivs (i assume)
I also got a shiny diglett(of all the possible pokemon...why diglett should be my first?)
And quickly able to find a feebas with modest nature
That is all i have
3:58 "Why would you ever want a Horsea?"
27:18 "Kingdra is probably my second favorite Pokémon ever"
bruh
fr 😂
stay humble 😎
He'd rather have his own
It's possible to hate a previous form of a favorite Pokemon lol.
@@Zac_Frost Right, but he said who would ever want one. And the simple answer to that is someone who wants to evolve it to become a Kingdra.
Crazy how the slogan of pokemon is “gotta catch em all” but then don’t give you the resources to do such that with a single copy of a game.
Gotta catch 'em all, not can. But you gotta.
Funnily enough they stopped putting it on the box from gen 3 onwards
Gotta catch ‘em all, and give us another $60!
There's nothing crazy about it.
Welcome to what can only be described as "kindergarten level marketing"
@@droyconanother thing is that was only the American slogan. In Japan it was simply "Catch Pokemon"
As a young child at the time of Gen 3s release, it was crazy to me that "gotta catch em all" was a thing in Pokemon and that some people had achieved it. Only at a much later date did I learn this was MUCH easier to accomplish before Gen 3 (and after, thanks to the introduction of WiFi), and Gen 3 is just ridiculously impossible for any normal child.
Not only that, but as somebody who got emerald in their childhood as a birthday present, it's crazy to know it's more expensive then any of my other games... Including the game boy itself
Well yeah, me and my brother got the blue and yellow edition and got pretty close to completing one of our PokeDex, Crystal was easy too since you could trade with the gen 1 editions but as soon as I got Emerald and FireRed I said f that and never bothered with the Dex again. Didn't help that my brother grew out of Pokemon pretty quickly.
@@fauge7 ive kept my copy of Emerald all these years despite not having a gameboy. Even as a kid I knew that if I got rid of it, I would regret it later down the road.
@@ChaotiX1I bought most Pokémon games since heart gold every release…. And they have all randomly disappeared except for my game boy copy of Pokémon emerald lol
@@kdburner7356heart gold came out 5 years after emerald
There was something incredibly foreboding about seeing that he had finished the story of the game six minutes in
Reminds me of a werster speedrun where the first split was "beat the game"
When not even half the vid is used to beat the story. That’s how you know it’s a banger challenge vid
hows that possible? speed hack?
@@hangyao479I’m pretty sure he mean six minutes into the video from what I saw I think it took him around 15hr to beat the actual game
Shoutout to John's sister supporting him destroying his save file
I feel like she just stod nexst to him doing nothing
@@darthjarjarbinks2480 I have absolutely stood there and watched as my little brother did something stupid. I knew what he was going to do. I knew it was a stupid thing to do. And I absolutely could have prevented him from doing that stupid thing. But it was REALLY funny to watch him do it 🤣
@@evman1094and on top of that it wouldn't have taught them anything.
I accidentally formatted ALL MY 3DS SAVE DATA cuz I thought I was in the right options for the SD card. Years of game time wasted, but rest assured I'm not formatting anything ever again.
@@evman1094 who u
@@x_Arone_xshut up weird guy
i'm consistently SO glad that big youtubers like you talk about how much of a money and time sink pokemon can be. this is absurd, oh my god.
It's ridiculous. I loved gen 1 and it seemed somewhat manageable. I figured the later games would make things easier because the trading and having pokemon locked to certain games was so obviously obnoxious, but no it seems to be worse.
Or... Just use any one of the 200billion dex enhancement hacks.
@@ronnieketchum1241 at that point just cheat them all in
@@yunglink992 I mean if you aren't doing this for content as a streamer, you'd have to be absolutely crazy to waste your time on this if you could also just get all the pokemon easier in the newer games or just cheat them in without wasting your time and money
It would never happen, but it would be nice if nintendo could make some new physical console type device for a resonable price and have it just have slots for all their old consoles and make it a physical pokemon bank allowing old gens to easily transfer to new again
I was really not expecting how insane this is. I remember as a kid wanting to complete the dex. I thought it would be a cool nostalgic challenge, but after watching this, the fact that you have to solder a battery, use toothpaste on your disk, buy all the games and play them through multiple times, and spend over a thousand dollars to actually do this without cheat codes is legit insane.
Silently whupping Gabby & Ty hundreds of times then finally humoring them with an interview just to tell them to buzz off is such a chad move. Bravo 👏
For the record I did this over like 2 years, idk how you managed over 2 weeks. Great stuff!
Hey Jrose didn’t expect to see you here!
How fast can you beat the Emerald PokéDex with only a JRose?
Jrose you are genuinely a legend, your videos really helped me through some tough times man. Thank you so much ❤
What @@lukaskarlgerhardsaid
I would have been surprised if you DIDN'T comment @Jrose11
This was SO much fun to watch live, and the video turned out so great!!!!! This is my favorite generation of Pokemon, and it's absolutely insane to see where the prices have gone on it all!! You did such a good job walking through everything.
Absolutely honored to have my Emerald VIP card featured at 21:14
Thankfully, the Master Ball in the JP Colo bonus disc does *not* lock the master ball behind story completion/purification, so it's actually extremely useful for people shiny hunting stuff like Shadow Entei since you can use it that early in the story!
I had NO IDEA about the 255 times oversight with Gabby & Ty - that is SO cool and something I gotta work towards on my games!!
New level 100 gauntlet idea?
@@f0rm0r The Uber Gauntlet: Complete a Living Dex of a certain game, but you *must* grind all of the mons to level 100.
The sister just replying "that was a bad hack" took me out lmao idk why I found that part so funny.
✍🏽 how to beat one game: Beat a completely different game ✍🏽
Your dedication was INSANE! I could not ever hope to do this myself and it was a joy watching you complete it. Congrats!
It only cost 150+ hours, $1450, and Interviewer Gabby's will to live.
Tbf, back in the day, the games were only $40-60 a piece. But the Jirachi bonus disc and the celebi bonus were really hard to get. 😓
Wow the game cost $1450 now days?
@@LeCalebyou didn’t watch the video, did you… lmao
@@counterfeit4450 I didn’t have headphones. What did it say?
All just to not complete it lol
"My boyfriend is this Mightyena."
Good Job John.
Knotty Boy
6:13
The way I see it, Kyogre is the one who's surrounded. What's under the ocean? That's right! More land.
Plus we know land isn’t there normally, which means Groudon literally raised that plot of land on its own and could probably do plenty more
Idk..one of them extremely weak to the other one and it's not Kyogre! Just saying. Groudon got such a bad typing for the dynamic they tried to set up..there is no believable way Groudon could do anything to Kyogre before getting immediately KOed by a single droplet of water..especially in primal form where it's even MORE weak to water! For a duo that's supposedly fighting all the time and equals the typings do NOT reflect this
@@testerwulf3357 Drought/Desolate Land + Solar Beam.
@@PlayrR3D156 People debating this in 2024 makes me happy
yes but how will this affect the meta
Now you gotta go even further beyond, Ultra Living Dex, All shiny variants, male and female of each gendered pokemon, All Unknown letters, all shiny
Every Spinda
get a life dude
@@SUAVINHOCORPORATIONS cringe
@@SUAVINHOCORPORATIONS While he looks for a life, I sincerely hope you look for a sense of humor..
Took me through my childhood multiple times throughout this, thanks for going through this for us to enjoy it I truly appreciated watching this today!
The fact you didn’t use the infinite master ball glitch for late game colosseum is crazy, I’m so sorry for your loss
When I was a kid I didn't know about that glitch and I beat the whole game the legit way. The final part of the game is such bullshit. That glitch needs to be exploited.
@@abigailofdarkness the moment I read about it I just went “Ok yeah literally just why wouldn’t you do it” especially cause it’s not limited to master balls so you can use the early ultra ball for easy catches and you can spam X-Items to sweep with Pokémon that have surf. It’s literally the one thing that makes end game Colo bearable
So that's the thing where you throw the masterball, but then you swap a thing, eh idk look it up but it works
@@conza1989 You throw the ball with your first Pokémon, then on your second one you swap the item slot with the master ball with another item. The game will register you using the masterball but because it’s technically not the item you used it doesn’t use up the masterball.
i am still yet to complete a single pokédex and this guy is lapping me like ten times over
If you need help getting exclusives or something lmk I'm always down to help!
I didn’t have one done either until Violet. You can do it!
Might I suggest bdsp or let's go. Both have very simple and easy to complete dexes
X/Y and ORAS is the cheapest and it allows you to complete a living dex up to Gen 6. just missing the mythicals.
I just recently finished my SwSh dex in about 7ish days! If you need some exclusives in there, I’d be up to help if you need!
Lol the TV interviewer was made depressed, I never laughed so hard "Go home."
I cannot fathom the dedication that 10yo me had to achieve the same result (i did use gameshark for the event pokemon - or rather, farmed legendaries to trade with friends that had the gameshark, so I feel no shame). I should still have that save somewhere. This video made me appreciate my childhood in a weird way. Thank you for spending the (ridiculous amount of) time to make this video ❤
Farming legendaries to trade instead of cheating yourself? Damn, you were commited
Also, did you have to play all the games he did? I'm playing emerald on a emulator and have no desire to go out of the mainline games
@@youtub-fj8mu well, everything was on official hardware, no emulators involved. I did not own a gamecube nor any colosseum game and I believe they were used here mostly to speed up the process, but some game lending and trading with friends that had it was necessary - that's how I got my Ho-oh. So many shinies were exchanged, including a horsea! Tbh I don't remember too well after 20y but I remember making a point of having a legit no exploit living dex.
I swear Johnstone is one of the few RUclipsrs who can captivate me in an hour-long video that I don't understand. The narration and the comedy is so compelling! Thank you; this and the video on getting every medal in B2W2 have made for an incredibly entertaining two hours!
This is a super big accomplishment, doing a Gen 3 full living dex without any glitches (besides having to ACE inject the event items as that's unavoidable now) like Emerald's Battle Tower dupe for infinite master balls / rare candies or Colo's infinite ball trick is quite a task!
It was nice getting to catch quite a lot of this live while out with sickness, congrats on getting the video out!
IS THAT SHAYY UNDERTALE
How is it a huge accomplishment? Kids everywhere used to do this...
@@thehighlightsreel953The nat dex was not like that, there were several mons that were almost impossible or take way too long without every single game from gen 3
That shiny horsea with the dragon scale was insane. And that bit at the end. "Go home." I think I died laughing 🤣
The absolute state of retro gaming
If you're not emulating then I question the absolute state of your brain tbh
If you mean retro COLLECTING then you're right but if you want to just play the games, don't bother paying these prices, emulate them.
Fax
@@steel5897 Also you can fast forward game to catch the right pokemon/nature without completely losing your sanity.
Well is still a tiring task if you go for shiny.
@@LtCommanderTatoYou can just use cheat codes for shinies (obviously you have to restrain yourself a bit while using cheat in order to not optimize the whole game away)
@@perguto Obviusly you can use codes for anything but that defeat the pupose of playing the game, im just talking about the tools of emulator to speedup the time when you run in grass and fight fast, some games specially DS ones are very slow in animations and between scenes.
I only would use codes to access the event tickets, nothing more.
I also lost a Blaziken (and a Latias) to the failed cloning glitch so I understand your pain. Great vid!
As someone who played these games, i know how stupid lucky this run was and am amazed beyond words
50:28 he beated us 300 times, we hoped he went away but then he immediately just to come back after five seconds, our pokemon watched us in tears saying we can't do it boss, and the only thing he said is: go home, taunting us but we can't
New creepypasta just dropped
the biggest challenge is this is getting all of these LEGALLY
I still have multiple legit Deoxys from an event in my city. :)
Jirachi wjagqgaunavqua
@@MMasterDE the stash from outta space
Emerald is my favorite main series game - but I've only ever played it casually, so I had no idea how DEEP everything went into this. Thank you for doing this so we don't have to!
I love how you fully commit to these, and I especially get a kick out of when you go on a detour to play a completely different game for a while
Omg that broadcast from the news duo at the end there was perfect
The three legendary beasts being captured by the villains is mirrored in Pokémon Ranger, and that game was even more insane. Your run as a Ranger ended if your styler broke (or just set you back to the last save if you're WEAK), and the beasts LOOOOVE to attack your styler on sight. Manipulating them to attack and trying to do loops before they start sprinting again is a necessity.
Not only that, but there's THREE FIGHTS IN A ROW. you basically need to grind Poké Assist gauge until your Plusle/Minun can paralyse them, and hope you can complete 20+ loops to catch ONE OF THEM. It is the single hardest battle of attrition in the game, yet somehow feels balanced(?) anyway.
Shadows of Almia would actually redo the capture system, replacing X number of loops with a dedicated friendship gauge that filled up per loop, and progress decayed instead of wiping out entirely when you stopped. The difference in quality of life is night and day, and nothing will compare to OG Ranger Charizard or the beast trio.
All this to say, legendary beasts captured by evil team, something about nickels, weird happening something.
You just awoke traumatic memories of child me, oh my god. I beat Charizard in OG ranger by waiting on the attack where he puts down a bunch of little fires, but walks slowly around them. Rather than carefully move my line between them, I just quickly tapped all the fires around The Zard to remove them, clearing the area to quickly loop around him.
Prior to discovering this strategy, I actually got stuck on him, resigning myself to never beating the game. Charizard is a monstrous fight, and Entei gave me very similar trouble afterward. Though I did beat it, the challenge was indeed brutal. Part of me kinda finds Almia a bit too easy in comparison, but it's definitely a better experience overall.
I remember absolutely destroying my screen with my stylus while playing Pokémon ranger.
Oh my god do i remember the rage that rayquaza caused me lol, and yeah charizard was a pain.
That Steelix was pain...something like 30 loops for such a bulky mon...
i lost my save data for ranger while i was almost at the end and i don't think i will EVER touch that game again. i was fortunate enough to be playing on an emulator so i could easily load up the fights again,, but that didn't stop charizard from kicking my ass for an hour straight. it doesn't help that you have to fight him AGAIN later on. i cant imagine fighting the beasts, even if i have my little cheat saves
With Baabu and Boingo Jumpluff stock has risen over the last few years
BAABU MENTIONED
Wait... BAABU MENTIONED
As someone who also did this myself, I can say that Colosseum and XD cut out an ENORMOUS time in this. And it's really simple to run these games on a Wii, if you don't care about playing on 100% retail copies. Then the main hassle is just needing LeafGreen for Slowpoke, deciding if you're gonna use glitches or not for Deoxys, and getting Celebi, which needs the japanese games.
pokemon channel was a formative part of my childhood and im not ashamed of it, even if i should be
This was the best RUclips video I have watched in years. I never wanted this video to be over. I love how you kept track of how much it cost and all the tricks about switching between games and special codes. Masterclass video.
Finally someone else knows my suffering...This was hell to do back in the day.
The fact that you can do it in less than 2 weeks with planning is crazy to me. It took me months to get everything lined up between school and homework back then.
I’ve completed the National Dex for every generation 4-8, but I’m NEVER completing a Gen 3 National Dex or my bank account will never recover 😂
if you're cool with hacking a wii and ripping an iso off a game you own, you can buy a japanese pokemon box for a fraction of the price and patch the ripped iso off of that.
Note ✍🏻to ✍🏻self: ✍🏻Never ✍🏻do ✍🏻a ✍🏻living ✍🏻Dex ✍🏻in ✍🏻any ✍🏻game ✍🏻ever ✍🏻 ESPECIALLY✍🏻 GEN ✍🏻3 ✍🏻
Me who's done a Shiny Living Dex in SV: 👀
National living dex* regional living Dex isn't too hard and is actually pretty fun
Not so hard nowadays, just finding the box space is the hard part.
Especially not in Home, trying to get all Gen specific badges.
I can only agree. Did it in Shield, it broke me when the 2nd DLC came out (I ran out of space)
Can't wait to see more videos! Love your content!!! I think I die of happiness every time you put on the fishing gear for fishing time, doesn't stop being funny
You earned a sub. Insane RNG. Insane. Commitment. Hell of a watch. Bravo.
Emerald is my favorite pokemon game by far and I love battling the TV crew and then giving nonsense responses. Great video as always!!
One thing Johnstone didn't talk about is if you want to transfer these Pokemon up to Pokemon Home you will have to spend another 8 or so hours just to transfer them up because of the Gen 3 to 4 limitation and the stupid hoops you have to go through. I just did it myself just for the Gen 3 mons and it took more than a whole day of just transferring up after I caught them all. No generation is more time consuming than Gen 3 by a long shot.
I dont think id ever trust Nintendo enough to store my whole pokedex on Home. They axe too many things and drop support etc
@@James26285 Plus since they've begun deleting pokemon from the mainline games instead of just making it so you can't find them in the wild since the switch gens, Home is basically an extortion scheme.
I remember attempting to do this back around 2018. Bought all I needed too but never had the time/drive to commit to it. Thank you for completing this. I’ve always wanted to see it.
playing through saphire rn with my childhood game on my game boy advance. Lots of nostalgia, but sad i cannot get all the pokemon you did! happy to run into this video
i actually went to that pokemon rocks america event in atlanta back in 2004! it was DEFINITELY a strange place to host it but it was still really fun. i remember getting the aurora ticket and taking a pic with a treecko mascot suiter, and my friend got to go on stage and do karaoke. it's cool seeing a direct mention of it here =) this was a crazy endeavor and SUPER impressive getting it all done in so little time!
The fact that you need to play colosseum for this challenge makes it infinitely better. I not only love gen 3 hoenn games but pokemon colosseum was the first pokemon game i ever olayed and has remained my favorite ever since.
"Go Home" is so unnecessarily Savage and I love it!!
This easily became my favorite of Johnstone's videos. There are some parts in the video that are genuinely hysterical; John's luck is actually crazy sometimes!
Man. This video made me so nostalgic. Gens 1-4 (mostly 1-3) were my childhood. Respect and grass dude.
Guns 1-3 are forever goated
that is such sibling energy. **save corrupts and loses all of your hard work and time for a "hack"** sister: "lol sucks for you"
You're such a good storyteller.. I'm literally zoned in every video. One of one man, i love your stuff!
Huge respect! I've been slowly completing the national dexes on all of my childhood copies (thankfully I had all the games and the hardware needed anyways) and Gen 3 took me almost a decade (2015-23) to fully do. I had every pokemon needed, legit acquired, by 2016 thanks to some good fortune but trading every pokemon between every game was such a discouraging process until AbsolBlogs released his box edits. So much slower than your time, but it's just been a side project while I finished Uni and started Antarctic research. About halfway through gen 4 now! Keep up the great work :)
Im trying to do that right now myself. This has always been a childhood dream of mine. Are you saying you have a legit mew and deoxys though? Short of just getting on reddit and begging anyone who has a real one to mail me a cartirdge, meet up in real life, or find one on ebay for a billion dollars, I am not sure how to go about LEGIT completing this
@@Bittls that was the aforementioned good fortune - I was going to a lot of local conventions at the time and met some folk who were willing to trade thir childhood event pokemon. It was really lucky! The chance is definitely a lot smaller these days, since I did those trades in 2015/16, but you may still have luck if you go to a Pokemon competition or the like, especially if you ask around online first. Wishing you all the best!!!!!!
Good lord. I am amazed at your dedication. Emerald was one of the first pokemon games I played through to the end and it always bothered me that the National Dex was so far out of reach. Amazing video!
I don’t really have a comfort show or food, I just watch these videos of yours. Pokémon was such a huge part of my childhood and every couple of years I find myself replaying one of the games. I think I’m past due for a play through now 🤣 thanks for making these videos!
I discovered you last night and have been binge watching all your stuff you are my new favorite pokemon youtuber
Theys a reason why the Japanese version never used the catch em all tag line and why gen four would drop it completely
Alternative Title: Johnstone flexes how much money and free time he has
It's not free time if you're doing it as a job as a youtuber. There's a reason why normal people don't do living dexs, and why youtubers do. Try and figure out why
@@heyhackurs really??? I never knew, so like RUclipsrs make money from this??!?!? 🙄
@thomascampbell5321 I'm not saying he isn't lucky to be a youtuber but also pouring 150 hours to the cause, doing additional research outside of that, and doing this all while streaming and investing in different equipment for long periods of time isn't necessarily the easiest thing. I used to do streams on platforms outside of youtube, and OBS and my internet connection alone made me want to stop doing it despite overwhelming positive reception. There's a lot of behind the scenes work that goes into videos like these too, as well as timing it right so algorithm doesnt mess you up. I was fortunate to stream and make content on my friend's site, that already had a built in userbase and not have to start from scratch on somewhere like twitch or youtube.
@@thomascampbell5321 shush 💋🫦
John, thank you. I have been looking forward to this video for SO LONG.
LOVE LOVE LOVE your content!
Amazing video, takes true dedication to pull something like that! 👏🏻
For those that still want a complex Dex of gen 3 there exist ROMs where in LFRF you can catch all pokemons as well as RS. Of course it's not a 100% legit way to do it. But all it takes is a phone or computer and to download the ROM as well as the Emulator.
12:00 The Version exclusive Pokémon are also available as Shadow Pokémon in XD. You only need other copies of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald for the other starters.
Huge shoutout to the editing! The video is really well made and just genuinely fun to watch! I had an amazing time :)
8:14 The Eon Ticket can also be shared in ORAS through the streetpass function with the PokeNav.
Not just strretpass, trading wirelessy or i with a friend who has the eon ticket will force it to duplicate
Congrats, John! I'm working on the same thing. I've spent $600 on rebuying Emerald, Colosseum, and XD and modding my GBA. This task is not for the faint of heart if you don't already have all the games.
That's dedication. I hope you succeed.
Minus the Gamecube titles, my lord am I glad to have gotten the GBA games second hand within 5 years after their release, like Black and White were the new games at the time.
Learning how to Picoboot a GameCube will save you a lot of time and money
The magnitude of the absurdity of the “Gotta catch them all” dream actually played out we were sold as kids
It´s so refreshing to see people put love and effort into playing pokemon, it´s something you barely see nowadays with how toxic the online community tends to be, subbed
This was an incredible journey! Thank you for the quality content!
I am attempting this challenge on this channel, and I learned some new things about how to make this process easier.
Thank you Johnstone for paving the way for others to try this ridiculous quest! 😊
4:30
Just like how Greek tragedies are forgotten about in modern times, it seems that the tragedy of Jerma's debt has also been lost to the sands of time.
Man, i gotta say, awesome job and effort right there! I bumped into this video randomly and i gotta say that's something i didn't really expected nowdays.
Glad you got your account back. This is my favorite video of all
You have pain, ChaoticMeatball has pain, everyone has pain.
Which means all poketubers are French
Great Job John! Cant believe the luck and good times during the streams. Heres to many more!
That shiny horsea holding its own evolution item is absolutely INSANE! GG bro!
51:38 makes alot of sense now
Thank you John for providing entertainment and good luck. I watched this video probably 4 times while shiny hunting Mewtwo in fire red and I finally got it at 3347 encounters!
Your dedication is impressive dude!
New Johnstone, YAY
Crobatthew killed me
Congrats on completing your Emerald Pokédex!!! I SALUTE YOU!!!!
I'm working on this too! Oh, wait... I'M DOING THIS 10 FREAKIN TIMES!!!!! I'M TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR RUBY, SAPPHIRE, EMERALD, FIRERED, AND LEAFGREEN TWICE!!!! YES, I'M PLAYING TWO INSTANCES OF THE GBA POKéMON GAMES AND TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR ALL OF THEM!!!! Pokémon is a full time job! Hey wait! What the heck am I doing playing Wario Land 3 Master Quest!? I gotta get back to Emerald and get the last 13 Pokémon in the Hoenn Pokédex so I can get my Johto Starter! AND THEY'RE ALL EVOLUTIONS!!!!
Edit: I DID IT!!! Twice! That makes 6 out of 10 regional Pokédexes complete! I chose Cyndaquil and Totodile for my Emerald starters, since I already had Chikorita! I also finished my 2 FireRed and LeafGreen Kanto Pokédexes a while back! Now... RUBY AND SAPPHIRE x2 remain! I'm playing these for RetroAchievements so there is some emulation involved! But I also bought 5 GBA SPs, 5 Wireless Adaptors, and 5 EZ-Flash Omegas to do 5 player Wireless Adaptor stuff! Yep, I spent QUITE a bit of money JUST to play 5 player games of Berry Crush, Pokémon Jump, AND Dodrio Berry Picking! Am I insane? Well, let's put it this way... decent Wireless Adaptor emulation development is slower than a mound of molasses, so I just figured that I should just get the physical hardware since I'm not waiting till 2025 for a CHANCE of 5 player Wireless Adaptor emulation being implemented into mGBA!!!!
I absolutely loved watching this! Monumental effort and congratulations on completing it. The reward you get for completing it is so hilarious. I remember completing the Dex in my copy of Pokemon yellow and being so deflated when all i got was the diploma🤣
Another great video Johnstone! As always giving me inspiration for future challenges, after catching every Pokemon from their original region in a Poke Ball with my OT and moving to HOME I wanted another Catch Em All style challenge, I'd love to have every Pokemon available from every generation or something like that in HOME but since Bank is closing and there isn't enough space to do that in HOME anyway something like what you have completed here might be my next best option, keeping all the Pokemon on their original games and such. Would love to see you do this again for more games!
Having done this myself, I *hate* Colosseum with every fiber of my being. Really glad I could use an emulator and avoid Nintendo's scummy monetization practices during Gen 3.
not just gen 3, its now a modern staple of the series
The "Go Home" bit had me dying
The TRAINER replied, "GO HOME."
As someone who has been trying to complete the Pokemon Home National Dex (so basically all 1025 mons), I salute you. This definitely looks a lot harder to do than that.
...though now let's see you go for all 1025. ;D
Not choosing torchic is a crime.
Now do the Shiny version of this challenge
And people thought Dexit in Sword and Shield was bad
Different, this gen had all the code, shit and piss (Sword and Shield ) did not.
You can catch them all with just 5 games. You don’t need to whip out the GameCube
Bro Sapphire was my first introduction to the Pokémon world. Watching you play this makes me reminisce about my younger days of playing Pokémon nonstop. I even had the Pokémon Kanto region book of all the species and tips! I miss the GBA Advance/SP days.
Whew, glad I never seriously tried to complete a Pokedex as a kid! This is absolutely insane :o
We're just gonna glaze over this one John? 12:29
oop first comment 🔥
Now get all stars for your card😂
My boyfriend is Typhlosion.
And he's my best friend
now do a living dex in pokemon go. it will take you years. 😂
loved the video man, Emerald was always my favorite.
6:16 heck yeah! Kyogre team for the win! 😁😆