History Trivia / PokemonRubyAndSapphire

** Generation III was the first generation to introduce ribbons, which are attached to Pokémon as an award for accomplishing something. Alongside ribbons that are awarded to Pokémon for defeating the Pokémon League, clearing Contests or clearing the battle tower, there are a whopping '''64''' ribbons that are not obtainable within the GBA games. Only 2 of these are available through ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonXD'' (the National Ribbon, which are awarded to purified Shadow Pokémon, and the Earth Ribbon, which are awarded to Pokémon that clear Mt. Battle). The rest refer to events (such as battling competitions) that were apparently planned, but ended up not happening. The most mysterious are the tower ribbons, which are awarded for clearing places known as "Darkness Tower", "Red Tower", "Blackiron Tower" and "Final Tower". Nothing like that is even hinted at anywhere else in the ''Pokémon'' series.

* IKnewIt:
** After ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' got remakes during Gens [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire III]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl IV]], respectively, fans have been predicting that the same thing would happen to the Hoenn games. Gen V [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite came]] and [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 went]] with no Hoenn remakes, but ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' dropped several nods to the region (as well as several nods to every other region, remake or not), and on May 7, 2014, ''Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'' were announced for the 3DS.
** Just about ''everyone'' called Metagross getting a Mega Evolution, after it was revealed Steven had an interest in Mega Stones. Similarly, when it was revealed Maxie and Archie had Key Stones of their own, many had speculated that their signature Pokémon Camerupt and Sharpedo would receive Mega Evolutions. Come September, Mega Camerupt and Mega Sharpedo had indeed been confirmed.
** With confirmation that the Hoenn Pokédex would be expanded to feature several Pokémon from Generation IV and beyond, namely evolutions of Hoenn Pokémon, practically everyone predicted that Gallade would replace Wally's Gardevoir, which was confirmed alongside Mega Gallade in September.
** A lot of people suspected that Lisia was related to Wallace, due to both of them having similar color schemes and flamboyant personalities. Turns out Lisia is Wallace's niece.

** Creator/GameFreak [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110711151510/http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/dir_english/?p=28 considered altering the number of Pokémon that could be kept in the party, as well as the number of moves a Pokémon could know at a time, but eventually concluded that the changes wouldn't improve anything.]]

** Creator/GameFreak considered altering the number of Pokémon that could be kept in the party, as well as the number of moves a Pokémon could know at a time, but eventually concluded that the changes wouldn't improve anything.

** Another one involves a white rock that can be found in Mossdeep city. Apparently there is a tradition to attach slips of paper to it for good luck. This naturally spawned rumors of the rock actually being Jirachi that'll awaken when a certain number of rockets have been launched. None of these rumors are true and the white rock is just a red herring unconnected to Jirach, though a mod would be released in 2023 that does add a Jirachi event to the rock.

** ''Ruby and Sapphire'' were intended to be a SoftReboot of the franchise, hence the red and blue cartridges. Which is why Wumple and Tallow's are similar to the Caterpie and Pidgey lines.
** The games' name couldn't be agreed upon for four months until they thought of resuming with naming after crystal using corundum with the red ones called rubies and the others sapphire. However The Pokémon Company objected because they didn't want the games to be named after crystals. They had to relent due to being far late into development.

** Another one involves a white rock that can be found in Mossdeep city. Apparently there is a tradition to attach slips of paper to it for good luck. This naturally spawned rumors of the rock actually being Jirachi that'll awaken when a certain number of rockets have been launched. None of these rumors are true and the white rock is just a red herring unconnected to Jirachi.