remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense
you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks
this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable
between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e
For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players.
The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to:
Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles.
For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.)
For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.)
For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.)
Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.
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I’ll reblog this every time I see it, because there’s something about burly beardy bikers giving help and companionship to a small hurt kitten that makes the world a little bit better.
This is honestly one of the most amazing things I’ve ever read oh my goodness
It’s been a wild 26 years, hasn’t it? It seems like just yesterday you were a twinkle in series creator Yuji Naka’s eye, a blue hedgehog equally inspired by Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton.
Although Sega of America made you ditch your fangs and your human
girlfriend Madonna (no relation to the pop star), you still ran your way
into our hearts when Sonic the Hedgehog debuted on the Sega Genesis in 1991.
But 2D wasn’t meant to hold you forever, and so in 1998 you broke into the true 3D scene with Sonic Adventure on the Sega Dreamcast. It seemed so pretty at the time it didn’t even matter that Mario had made the switch two years earlier than you.
But the good times didn’t last, did they Sonic? You got a little confused there for a while. Sure, there was Sonic Adventure 2 in 2001, but then you lost your way. Shadow the Hedgehog got a spinoff where he shot a bunch of guns, and then you tried the whole “human girlfriend” thing again in Sonic ‘06. This didn’t work out so great, and Zolani Stewart
called it “absolutely the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in a
video game,” but you soldiered on. After that, you tried to be a knight and a werewolf. We get it. It seemed like a good move.
So you walked it back, giving 2D another shot, perhaps most successfully with Sonic Generations. But don’t sell yourself short — people are excited for Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces too.
So
Sonic, take it easy. Your legacy is more than secured. You’ve had 26
great years of pop culture personhood, so let’s raise our chili dogs and
toast to 26 more. Read more (6/23/17)
