History VideoGame / PokemonRubyAndSapphire

** The Pokémon Chimecho is not used by any trainers, which will leave you with an empty slot in the Pokédex that you won't be able to fill easily (the Pokédex tells you where you can catch Pokémon you've seen). It only appears in one area -- the top section of Mt. Pyre -- and is extremely rare on top of that with a 1% encounter rate, making it extremely easy to miss.

* AnAesop: Don't meddle with nature or you'll cause natural disasters of huge propotions.

* ApatheticCitizens: The two places which [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this are Lilycove and Sootopolis, when Groudon and/or Kyogre are woken. Everywhere else, it's played straight.

The third set of games in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' were released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, with ''[[UpdatedRerelease Emerald]]'' arriving a few years after. Along with ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed and LeafGreen]]'', ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness XD]]'', they are known collectively as Generation III of the Pokémon video game series. In addition to introducing a new story and region to explore and over 100 new Pokémon to catch, ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' brought with it many new gameplay features such as individual natures and Abilities for each Pokémon, double battles, and Pokémon contests. Along with massive graphical improvements over its predecessors, these games also had an entirely new data structure; as a result, Generation III games were incompatible with the previous two generations.

These games may be the biggest case of OneGameForThePriceOfTwo in the franchise, as there is no way to legitimately collect all 386 Pokémon without aid from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed, LeafGreen]]'', ''[[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness XD]]'' (and oddly, only ''Ruby '''or''' Sapphire'', because ''Emerald'' has whatever Pokémon the other version lacks).[[note]]The UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance had backwards-compatibility for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, but its link cables were unable to connect the two systems; coupled with the aforementioned data structure redesign, there was no method for importing or trading Pokémon from ''Gold'', ''Silver'' or ''Crystal'' to ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'' or ''Emerald''.[[/note]] The ''Red'' and ''Blue'' [[VideogameRemake remakes]] provided all 150 Kanto Pokémon and a small pool of Johto's, with ''Colosseum'' and ''XD'' having several from all three regions; together, they had all but the event-only Pokémon. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was during this generation that Nintendo stopped using "GottaCatchEmAll" as the franchise's slogan. Speaking of generations, the next one, Gen IV, starts with ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''.

On May 7, 2014, The Pokémon Company announced [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, titled ''Pokémon Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire''. Prior to their release, players could download a special demo version starting in mid-October 2014, which centered on Mossdeep Island. The games were released in November 2014 (Nov. 21 in most places, Nov. 28 in Europe), exactly twelve years after the originals' release in Japan. Groudon and Kyogre have newly-introduced "primal" forms[[note]]they have more intricate TronLines and prominent "omega" and "alpha" designs on their hands, respectively, and these lines now glow yellow and turquoise instead of blue and red, on top of straight-up glowing ''panels'' on their bodies[[/note]], which are depicted on the boxart, other Pokémon get Mega Evolutions, lots of features were added or upgraded, and a post-league scenario known as the Delta Episode was included. These games are part of the "Sixth Generation" of Pokémon games and are compatible with ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.

** Jirachi and Celebi could be gotten only with certain promotional discs, to be connected with a Gameboy Advance-to-[[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] link cable.

** Not exactly seen, but only mentioned, but one of the locked rooms in Sea Mauville contains a set of shelves containing "[[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS an old game system with two screens...]] Something about it is different from [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS the system you have]]..."

* BigDamnHeroes: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the player character, who climbs Sky Pillar to warn Rayquaza that Kyogre and Groudon are squaring off again. Rayquaza flies to Sootopolis City, makes a dramatic entrance from the clouds, and forces them both to retreat with a single roar.

* RedSpiderLiliesOfMourning: The arena where you fight Wally at the end of Victory Road is full of these flowers, symbolizing that this is the point in the journey where Wally's frail self metaphorically dies, and is reborn as a capable, competent trainer.

* SummonBiggerFish: After Kyogre and Groudon start fighting again, threatening the world, you must climb Sky Pillar to warn Rayquaza about this, upon which the latter flies to Sootopolis City and forces them to back down.

** The climax of the Delta Episode involves climbing Sky Pillar to get Rayquaza to destroy a meteor before it wrecks Earth, not unlike [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam the first ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'']], where you climb Sky Tower in the finale for the same reason. Furthermore, after destroying the meteor, Deoxys emerges from it and fights you, while in the first ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'', the meteor's remains turn into a postgame dungeon where you fight Deoxys.

* AlternateUniverse: The Delta Episode implies that the remakes are alternate universes to the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' games, with the PointOfDivergence being the fact that the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, the existence of the war in Kalos, and the discovery of Mega Evolution. It's also implied that the different versions of each game could be alternate universes to each other (a fact that had already been explored somewhat in ''Black and White''); when you first enter the Battle Resort in ''Alpha Sapphire'', Maxie muses that perhaps, in another reality, he was the one you fought, and summoned Groudon. Archie does the same in ''Omega Ruby''.

* AlternateUniverse: The Delta Episode implies that the remakes are alternate universes to the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' games, with [[ForWantOfANail the nails]] being the fact that the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, the existence of the war in Kalos, and the discovery of Mega Evolution. It's also implied that the different versions of each game could be alternate universes to each other (a fact that had already been explored somewhat in ''Black and White''); when you first enter the Battle Resort in ''Alpha Sapphire'', Maxie muses that perhaps, in another reality, he was the one you fought, and summoned Groudon. Archie does the same in ''Omega Ruby''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfARFF9S5Jg Route 113]] is a place covered in ash - but if you've ever played any of the ''[[Videogame/{{EarthBound}} EarthBound/Mother]]'' games, the music will make you think of a place covered in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjVx2FVENJ4 snow]].

** In Generation II, Pokémon hatched from eggs at level 5 to circumvent a glitch where if certain Pokémon gained a certain amount of experience at level 1, the value would underflow and they'd skip a huge number of levels. It was fixed here, but Pokémon still hatch at level 5.

** Brawly's Gym. Only the player and the three-by-three area around him/her is visible, but beating some gym Trainers increase the radius of the area. The Gym Leader grants the player Flash, which is used in a few caves.

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** The internal batteries that handled clock-based events in the initial ''Ruby and Sapphire'' weren't the longest lived either, so there was a good chance they would fail (with the same effects as the Berry Glitch), and unlike the Berry Glitch, as it is a hardware issue and not a software one, it can't be fixed. Fortunately, unlike ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Gold, Silver, and Crystal]]'', the battery isn't used to retain save data as well (which is stored using flash memory; ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' don't have batteries at all), so the game can still be played, just without the time-based events. Replacing the battery restarts the flow of day, allowing Eevee's evolutions to vary and Shoal Cave's tide to change, but completely destroys the clock-based events of the game unless you start a new file or use external devices. [[note]]Replacing the battery resets the cart's real-time clock back to its earliest value of January 1, 2000. Since the game partially allocates when time-based events are due to happen to an actual date based on when the game was started and how much time has passed since then, the game is thrown off as to when they should happen, for example a Razz Berry that has been planted for four hours in a game affected by a replaced battery won't be at the fruit-bearing stage, let alone sprout because the game hasn't reached the date that those events are to occur.[[/note]]

* DaylightHorror: Groudon, when awakened, makes the weather sunny - so much so that the sky is literally burning. Steven sums it up nicely:
-->'''Steven:''' This sunlight...people and Pokémon need sunlight to live. So why does this sunlight fill me with such dread?

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: There's an extremely rare but possible chance for Wally to knock out the Pokémon he's trying to catch during the catching tutorial. Despite this, he'll still act like he caught his first Pokémon after the battle ends, and the story proceeds as normal.