History VideoGame / PokemonRubyAndSapphire

* ContinuityNod: The background music played inside the Oceanic Museum at Slateport is a remix of the SS Anne theme.

-->--'''Poster/pamphlet''' included with ''Pokémon Emerald Version''

-->"The balance of power has shifted."
-->--'''Poster/pamphlet''' included with ''Pokémon Emerald''

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* RandomlyDrops: Feebas is arguably the most frustrating Pokémon to get in these games. Out of 436 water tiles on Route 119, only ''six'' randomly-picked tiles[[hottip:*:(whenever a new game is started or the trendy phrase in Dewford is changed)]] have Feebas, a 1 in 72.67 chance of finding a tile that has them. You're not even guaranteed to get one by fishing on those tiles.
* SceneryPorn: By GBA standards, anyway. Hoenn is arguably the prettiest region in the Pokéverse. Among the environments seen include, but are not limited to: [[TheLostWoods forests]], beaches, mountains, cliffs, cities, [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere villages]], [[TreeTopTown treehouses]], islands, deserts, volcanoes, rivers, rain-forests, sea basins, hot springs, [[UnderTheSea underwater]], caves, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs underwater caves]]... The variety of environments in this game is so vast, [[UrbanLegendOfZelda some even thought]] that you would be able to ''go into '''[[BeyondTheImpossible OUTER SPACE]]'''''.[[hottip:*:You know, to catch Jirachi and Deoxys.]]

* [=~Chekhov's Lecture~=]: There's one that may go unnoticed in ''Emerald'' thanks to how subtle it is. Thanks to the Match Call feature, trainers that you register will randomly call you for stuff that never really matters. At one point, your rival calls and remarks on seeing a flying, green Pokémon in the sky. Most players just take it to be another silly adventure. But when Groudon and Kyogre are clashing in Sootopolis City and Wallace asks you where one might find Rayquaza, the big green, flying legendary Pokémon, suddenly your rival's phone call seems a little more useful.

* FridgeBrilliance: In the Devon Corporation building in Rustboro City, there is a scientist who mentions that "I'm attempting a device that lets you see into the dreams of Pokemon!! But it's not going well..." Two generations later, you get to [[DreamWorld do just this]] in ''PokemonBlackAndWhite''.

* Volcano Lair: In ''Emerald Version'', Team Magma's headquarters is located in Mount Chimney, specifically because that's where [[OlympusMons Groudon]] is.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite being anti-water, Team Magma's base is underwater in ''Ruby''.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The Beldum line, particularly Metagross. (Metagross is also possibly a ShoutOut to a boss in ''[[{{Metroid}} Metroid Fusion]]''.)

* EasterEgg: There are six hidden tracks in ''Emerald'', five of them GBA remakes of [[PokemonGoldAndSilver Generation II tracks]][[hottip:*:the Pokémon Communications Center theme, the Route 38 theme, the Team Rocket Radio Tower Takeover music, the Raikou/Entei/Suicune battle theme from ''Crystal'', and the redone Viridian/Pewter/Saffron City music]] and the last one an alternate arrangement/possible demo of the Littleroot Town music. They don't show up in actual gameplay, however.

** 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 ''[[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.

** There are a number of remastered [[PokemonGoldAndSilver Generation II]] songs that [[DummiedOut remain unused and do not appear in the final game]], possibly because those beta tracks were only used for sound tests:

* DummiedOut: It was stated in a NintendoPower interview that Gastrodon (and presumably Shellos), of [[PokemonDiamondAndPearl Generation IV]] fame, was initially designed to be a Pokémon for these installments, but was later scrapped.

The third set of games in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' series, ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' were released for the GameBoyAdvance, with ''[[UpdatedRerelease Emerald]]'' arriving a few years after. Along with ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed]]'', ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue LeafGreen]]'', ''[[PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'' and ''[[PokemonColosseum XD]]'', they are known collectively as the 3rd Generation. It introduced many changes to the gameplay, such as: natures, abilities, double battles, contests, and over 100 new Pokémon to collect. Along with massive graphical improvements over its predecessors, it also brought a complete overhaul of the data structure, resulting in the games being incompatible with the previous two generations. The games took place in Hoenn, which is based on the Kyushu region of Japan rotated ninety degrees[[hottip:*:Of course, since the world is round and we never see Hoenn on a map along with any other regions, this rotation doesn't matter much.]]

The third set of games in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' series, ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' were released for the GameBoyAdvance, with ''[[UpdatedRerelease Emerald]]'' arriving a few years after. Along with ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed]]'', ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue LeafGreen]]'', ''[[PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'' and ''[[PokemonColosseum XD]]'', they are known collectively as the 3rd Generation. It introduced many changes to the gameplay, such as: natures, abilities, double battles, contests, and over 100 new Pokémon to collect. Along with massive graphical improvements over its predecessors, it also brought a complete overhaul of the data structure, resulting in the games being incompatible with the previous two generations. The games took place in Hoenn, which is based on the Kyushu region of Japan rotated ninety degrees.

These games may be the biggest case of OneGameForThePriceOfTwo in the franchise, as there is literally no way to legitimately collect all 386 Pokémon without aid from ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed]]'', ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue LeafGreen]]'', ''[[PokemonColosseum Colosseum]]'', and ''[[PokemonColosseum XD]]'' (Oddly, only ''Ruby'' '''''or''''' ''Sapphire''). [[hottip:*: The GameBoyAdvance had backwards-compatability for the [[GameBoyColor GameBoy Color]], 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 ''[[{{Ptitleh2xwpnnp}} Gold]]'', ''[[{{Ptitleh2xwpnnp}} Silver]]'' or ''[[{{Ptitleh2xwpnnp}} Crystal]]'' to ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'' or ''Emerald''. 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. Between ''Emerald'' and ''Ruby[=/=]Sapphire'', only Zangoose and Lunatone respectively are missing and both are found in ''XD'']]. Due to being released after the "Pokémania" phase of Generations I and II, and before the "It prints money" phase of the NintendoDS, ''Ruby and Sapphire'' were the least successful (though were still ''greatly'' profitable) "main pair" of games.

* UnderTheSea: With [=HM08=] (Dive), a feature that didn't return until ''[[{{Ptitle2gli7wce}} Black and White]]''.