Pokémon Emerald
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Also known as: Pocket Monsters Emerald (JP)
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Pokémon Emerald is an updated version of Ruby and Sapphire that pits the player against Team Aqua and Team Magma, adds a new Deoxys form, and introduces the Battle Frontier.
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Sound Check
Japanese Emerald has a Sound Check like Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, and LeafGreen, and akin to the latter it was removed in localizations.
To access it, patch 0x301AC to 21 83 0E 08 to replace the Options entry on the main menu with a call to Sound Check.
The changes to the "stereo" entry in the Driver Test made in FireRed and LeafGreen were carried over to Emerald.
Unused Music
Emerald contains all the unused tracks with the same IDs from Ruby and Sapphire, except the track at ID $01D3, the Goldenrod Radio Tower invasion track from Gold, Silver, and Crystal, which has been removed. This game also contains the entire soundtrack from FireRed and LeafGreen, although only a few music tracks from that particular soundtrack are used in Emerald.
In the sound test, the tracks from FireRed and LeafGreen are prefixed with "RG". MUS-KAIHUKU remains unused; it is now labeled MUS-RG-KAIHUKU, and its new ID is 01ED.
Unused Map Data
The maps from the Pokémon Festa 2002 demo of Ruby and Sapphire are still in Emerald, but their event data has been deleted.
The Magma Hideout maps used in Ruby and unused in Sapphire are also unused in Emerald, as well as the Contest Hall, Seafloor Cavern, Cave of Origin, and the unused Lilycove City Poké Mart maps from Ruby and Sapphire. The unused duplicate landmark names for Meteor Falls, Fiery Path, and Jagged Pass also remain.
The landmark name for the version-based evil team hideout from Ruby and Sapphire is now unused. Pokémon caught in the old Magma Hideout or Aqua Hideout preserve their caught location, but it is rendered as "HIDEOUT" (Japanese: アジト, Hideout) like in Ruby and Sapphire.
The quirky landmark C4 from FireRed and LeafGreen is now unused and was renamed to "SPECIAL AREA" (Japanese: あかみどりとくしゅ, Red & Green Special).
Navel Rock and Birth Island have their own landmarks for Emerald as IDs D3 and C8, respectively, whereas the original IDs from FireRed and LeafGreen are AE and BB. This distinction may be important as there is no known distribution of the Aurora Ticket for Japanese Emerald, meaning that Deoxys caught in Emerald's Birth Island could be treated as illegitimate if their language byte is set to Japanese.
This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: How is such a Deoxys recognized by modern Pokémon games and services like Bank? |
Emerald added an optional rival fight in Rustboro City. In the released game, you cannot walk out the city without triggering a cutscene with the rival that registers the rival in your PokéNav and prompts for a fight. You can get around this line of triggers only by teleporting back to Petalburg by never using the Pokémon Center in Rustboro and then using Teleport or by blacking out, in which case you never run into your rival. Perhaps because of this potential situation, there is another trigger in front of the doorway into Mr. Briney's house, and this will trigger a different cutscene with the rival (where the rival exits Mr. Briney's house) which also registers the rival and offers the same battle as the Rustboro cutscene. However, due to a programming oversight, the trigger in front of Mr. Briney's house is never activated, so this cutscene is left unused in the map scripts.
Unused Graphics
Sprites
Shiny Celebi
Because the only way to obtain it legitimately was through distributions, none of which allowed for a Shiny, the Shiny version of Celebi was left unobtainable through normal means. It can still be seen when a Shiny Ditto or Mew Transforms into Celebi, however.
Tilesets
Unused Birch Spritesheet
There is an unused uncompressed sprite sheet in location 557A90 to 55A94F in between the used Birch opening sprite and palette. This contains the following clockwise from top left:
- A duplicate of the used Beauty Trainer Class sprite.
- An unused seemingly early design of Professor Birch with both hands in his pockets and different-colored shorts.
- A duplicate of the Birch sprite from the opening sequence in Ruby and Sapphire, unused in Emerald.
- A duplicate of the Birch sprite used in this game's opening sequence.
Unused Weather
The unused weather types from Ruby and Sapphire remain so in Emerald.
Unused Wild Held Items
Some Pokémon, when encountered in the wild, have a chance of holding an item. Held item data also exists for some Pokémon which cannot be caught in the wild in the final game, rendering such assignments unused.
# | Pokémon | Held Items | Note |
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012 | Butterfree | (5%) Silver Powder | |
015 | Beedrill | (5%) Poison Barb | |
022 | Fearow | (5%) Sharp Beak | |
027 | Sandslash | (5%) Quick Qlaw | |
035 | Clefairy | (5%) Moon Stone (50%) Leppa Berry | |
036 | Clefable | (5%) Moon Stone (50%) Leppa Berry | |
038 | Ninetales | (50%) Rawst Berry | |
046 | Paras | (5%) Big Mushroom (50%) Tiny Mushroom | |
047 | Parasect | (5%) Big Mushroom (50%) Tiny Mushroom | |
058 | Growlithe | (100%) Rawst Berry | |
059 | Arcanine | (100%) Rawst Berry | |
061 | Poliwhirl | (5%) King's Rock | |
062 | Poliwrath | (5%) King's Rock | |
064 | Kadabra | (5%) TwistedSpoon | |
065 | Alakazam | (5%) TwistedSpoon | |
068 | Machamp | (5%) Focus Band | |
075 | Golem | (5%) Everstone | |
079 | Slowpoke | (5%) King's Rock | |
080 | Slowbro | (5%) King's Rock | |
083 | Farfetch'd | (5%) Stick | |
085 | Dodrio | (5%) Sharp Beak | |
090 | Shellder | (5%) Big Pearl (50%) Pearl | |
091 | Cloyster | (5%) Big Pearl (50%) Pearl | |
094 | Gengar | (5%) Spell Tag | |
104 | Cubone | (5%) Thick Club | |
105 | Marowak | (5%) Thick Club | |
110 | Weezing | (5%) Smoke Ball | |
113 | Chansey | (5%) Lucky Egg | |
117 | Seadra | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
121 | Starmie | (5%) Star Piece (50%) Stardust | |
122 | Mr. Mime | (5%) Leppa Berry | |
124 | Jynx | (100%) Aspear Berry | |
126 | Magmar | (100%) Rawst Berry | |
143 | Snorlax | (100%) Leftovers | |
147 | Dratini | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
148 | Dragonair | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
149 | Dragonite | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
151 | Mew | (100%) Lum Berry | Available though a limited event in Japan. |
161 | Sentret | (5%) Oran Berry | |
162 | Furret | (5%) Sitrus Berry (50%) Oran Berry | |
171 | Lanturn | (5%) Yellow Shard | |
173 | Cleffa | (5%) Moon Stone (50%) Leppa Berry | |
186 | Politoed | (5%) King's Rock | |
199 | Slowking | (5%) King's Rock | |
200 | Misdreavus | (5%) Spell Tag | |
208 | Steelix | (5%) Metal Coat | |
215 | Sneasel | (5%) Quick Claw | |
230 | Kingdra | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
238 | Smoochum | (100%) Aspear Berry | |
240 | Magby | (100%) Rawst Berry | |
242 | Blissey | (5%) Lucky Egg | |
250 | Ho-oh | (100%) Sacred Ash | Available though a limited event in America and Japan. |
251 | Celebi | (100%) Lum Berry | |
267 | Beautifly | (5%) Silver Powder | |
269 | Dustox | (5%) Silver Powder | |
284 | Masquerain | (5%) Silver Powder | |
295 | Exploud | (5%) Chesto Berry | |
301 | Delcatty | (5%) Leppa Berry | |
306 | Aggron | (5%) Hard Rock | |
315 | Roselia | (5%) Poison Barb | Was available in Ruby/Sapphire. |
317 | Swalot | (5%) Big Pearl | |
323 | Camerupt | (100%) Rawst Berry | |
332 | Cacturne | (5%) Poison Barb | |
337 | Lunatone | (5%) Moon Stone | Was available in Sapphire. |
356 | Dusclops | (5%) Spell Tag | Was available in Ruby. |
362 | Glalie | (5%) Never-Melt Ice | |
372 | Shelgon | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
373 | Salamence | (5%) Dragon Scale | |
374 | Beldum | (5%) Metal Coat | |
375 | Metang | (5%) Metal Coat | |
376 | Metagross | (5%) Metal Coat | |
385 | Jirachi | (100%) Star Piece |
Altering Cave
As with FireRed and LeafGreen, Mareep, Aipom, Pineco, Shuckle, Teddiursa, Houndour, Stantler, and Smeargle were also meant to replace the Zubat found in Altering Cave after using Mystery Gift.
The event distribution was probably scrapped because the evolutionary lines of these Pokémon can be obtained from Colosseum. They can instead be found in Emerald in the extended area of the Safari Zone (except Smeargle, which is found in Artisan Cave instead). There is a change from FireRed & LeafGreen however: Each of the wild Pokémon can hold an item that could not otherwise be obtainable 5% of the time in Emerald!
Thank you for using the MYSTERY GIFT System. There appears to be a rumor about rare POKéMON sightings. The sightings reportedly came from the ALTERING CAVE on ROUTE 103. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to investigate this rumor.
ふしぎなおくりもの を ごりよう いただき ありがとう ございます! さいきん 103ばんどうろ にある へんげのどうくつ で めずらしい ポケモンが でる という うわさが ながれてる ようです ぜひ いって たしかめて みては いかがで しょうか?
Altering Cave Held Items
The Pokémon encountered in Altering Cave are programmed to each have a 5% chance of holding an item that are exclusive to this location, and this event. All items cannot be obtained anywhere else in Emerald alone.
# | Pokémon | Item | Notes |
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179 | Mareep | Ganlon Berry | This berry could only be obtained in Colosseum/XD, or through certain events |
190 | Aipom | Berry Juice | Apparently Shuckle isn't the only one to have Berry Juice after all... |
204 | Pineco | Apicot Berry | This berry could only be obtained in Colosseum/XD, or through certain events |
213 | Shuckle | Berry Juice | Wild Shuckle hold Oran Berries in the Safari Zone |
216 | Teddiursa | Petaya Berry | This berry could only be obtained in Colosseum/XD, or through certain events |
228 | Houndour | Big Mushroom | Big Mushrooms are otherwise unobtainable in Emerald |
234 | Stantler | Petaya Berry | This berry could only be obtained in Colosseum/XD, or through certain events |
235 | Smeargle | Salac Berry | This berry could only be obtained in Colosseum/XD, or through certain events |
Berry Juice
The only source of Berry Juice in any of the Generation III games would've been as a held item on wild Shuckle in FireRed and LeafGreen, but the item is effectively unused because the Altering Cave event was never used. Wild Shuckle in Emerald instead hold Oran Berries when encountered in the Safari Zone. If, however, a Wonder Card containing the Altering Cave event was injected into a Pokémon Emerald save, wild Shuckle & Aipom(!?) would have a 5% chance of holding a Berry Juice.
BERRY JUICE
きのみジュース
A 100% pure juice that restores HP by 20 points.
きのみ 100パーセント ポケモンの たいりょくを 20 かいふくする
Development Text
Multiple cases of miscellaneous development text are present in the ROM.
GameFreak inc. TEST PRINT P0 P1 P2 P3 RFU WAIT RFU BOOT RFU ERROR RFU RESET RFU CONFIG RFU START RFU SC POLL RFU SP POLL RFU START RFU SEND ERR RFU CP POLL RECOVER START DISSCONECT RECOVER SUUSES RECOVER FAILED PokemonSioInfo CLOCK DRIFT BUSY SEND CMD REJECT CLOCK SLAVE CHILD PARENT SEARCH pokemon ruby version sapphire
Build Dates
Japan | 2004 06 30 18:43 |
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US/Europe | 2005 02 21 11:10 |
France/Spain | 2005 07 01 18:30 |
Italy | 2005 07 07 18:00 |
Germany | 2005 07 11 16:55 |
Regional Differences
Title Screen
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The logo is different and the "Push Start Button" text instead reads "Press Start".
e-Reader Support
Similarly to Japanese FireRed and LeafGreen, Japanese Emerald contains e-Reader support and its Mystery Gift system uses it in addition to the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter, specifically for the Pokémon Battle Card-e+ Emerald set that changes the NPC Trainers encountered in Trainer Hill. When in Wireless Adapter mode, its Japanese name is ふしぎなおくりもの (focus on the giver), while in e-Reader mode its Japanese name is ふしぎなもらいもの (focus on the receiver); both names were translated as Mystery Gift in English.
Like Ruby and Sapphire, Japanese Emerald also supports the Mystery Event system (ふしぎなできごと), which requires the e-Reader. It was used for the Eon Ticket distribution between December 9, 2006 and January 5, 2007 for Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald in Japan.
Overseas, Emerald only supports the Wireless Adapter mode of the Mystery Gift system from FireRed and LeafGreen, although it still contains code for Mystery Event and the e-Reader mode of Mystery Gift.
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Player's House
Japanese Emerald has a minor audio oversight where the moving Vigoroth incorrectly use Machoke's cry, which was fixed in western releases of Emerald. These Pokémon were changed from Machoke in Ruby and Sapphire, where they play their correct cry.
Faraway Island
The Old Sea Map is an event item that allows the player to board the S.S. Tidal from Lilycove City to access Faraway Island and subsequently catch Mew. However, as it was only distributed in Japan during Pokémon Festa 2005, the item is unobtainable in western versions of Emerald, thus rendering the associated content unused.
To do: Other unused content beyond the item icon should be here, too. |
Birth Island
Because the AuroraTicket was never distributed to Emerald in Japan, Birth Island, and thus the ability to catch Deoxys, is completely inaccessible in the Japanese version. The only way to obtain Deoxys in the Japanese version of Emerald is by trading one from FireRed and LeafGreen.
Sootopolis City
There is an NPC in Sootopolis City who would host battles using Mystery Gift, leaving only the NPC and the stairs blocked by trees. However, no e-Reader Cards were released for this feature even in Japan, as the only Battle-e cards released for Japanese Emerald were for Trainer Hill rather than Sootopolis City.[citation needed]
To do: Check whether it's Mystery Gift or Mystery Event in Japanese Emerald. |
Trick House Puzzle Room 4
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In the international versions, the layout of Trick House Puzzle Room 4 was altered to make two passageways wider. The first boulder was also removed; in the Japanese version, it's a beginner's trap since the player can block the narrow passageway if they push the boulder to the right.
Despite the change, it's still possible for the player to get trapped in the Trick House in all versions.
Aqua Hideout Dive Glitch
In Japanese Emerald, due to a bug, it is possible to Dive in the deep water tiles found on Aqua Hideout B2F after saving and rebooting the game. Because the water is not programmed to lead anywhere, the game throws the player back to warp 0 in entry 0 of map group 0, which is Petalburg City.
This was fixed in western versions of Emerald by not allowing the player to Dive in any circumstances.
This does not happen in Ruby and Sapphire as the entrance to the Magma/Aqua Hideout (game-dependent) is blocked after obtaining the Mind Badge, which is required to use Dive outside of battle.
Special Wallpaper Layout
In Emerald, players can unlock custom wallpapers by giving special codes to Walda's father in Rustboro City. In the international versions, the ribbon background and the cross, bolt, and Plusle symbols were removed. The latter two may have been removed due to semi-unintentional resemblance of the Red Cross.
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