25 SECRETS THAT 97% OF PLAYERS DONT KNOW OF POKEMON RUBY & SAPPHIRE 

The very first "secret" is wrong lol. An NPC in Littleroot Town says the player character is from Johto. Also, seeing how Norman was already a gym leader prior to moving to Hoenn, it's entirely possible that Whitney replaced Norman as the Goldenrod City gym leader. It's also entirely possible that she's your older sister seeing how your mother hints that you have a sibling seeing how you won't have to share a room anymore (can't imagine you've shared a bedroom with your mom and dad all these years). Some even speculate that Whitney is your older sister, and that she inherited the Goldenrod Gym form your father.

So for the first secret, it can actually be found in the game too! If you go to Petalburg City, the house to the far south will have a lady inside that will say, "Norman became our town's new Gym Leader. I think he called his family over from the Johto region." So the game confirms the player is originally from Johto too! Just thought I'd add that!

I actually remember I went around my school to every sign that had braille on it to figure out the puzzle for this cause I didn't have internet to look it up and so I basically learned braille just for Pokemon, don't remember it now since it's been over a decade but still XD

Lol no one ever talks to NPCs. In Petalburg, there’s an NPC that states their new Gym Leader Norman and his family moved from Johto.

The berry glitch patch was also available by connecting the game to Emerald version, I did it for my Ruby version.

3:30 it seems you misunderstood the info... that especial diploma is for ALPHA Sapphire & OMEGA Ruby, is not for completing the Pokédex, but rather by transfering a Pokémon from Ruby/Sapphire to AlphaSapphire/OmegaRuby...

So Brandon/ Ruby was from Jhoto? I never knew that

97% of players don't know there's a shop on the roof? I don't think I believe that statistic.

#2 is known in the bike world as an endo. Happens when you intentionally use the front brake, the "trick" is keeping your bike upright lol

There was a shiny pichu gift pokemon that when unused, and it is possible to get a shiny celebi by using the Japanese bonus disc from colosseum...

0:44 GOOD QUESTION!!! In the Pokemon Trading Card Game on the 'GameBoy' console, one of the greatest mysteries in the first Gen game is the inaccessible door in the Poke-Cup Tournament Coliseum. So far, there is no RU-vid video or source following up on the game to further explain its purpose. In the second Gen, the door leads to new content to further open up a DLC portion of the game.

Fun fact: Brendan/may's family is from olivine city. Norman mentions this in gen 5 during the Pokemon world tournament

The patch for the berry glitch was also included with firered and leafgreen

There are ways to reset the RTC after replacing the battery. There's plenty of videos on this too!

You could've known that you were from Johto if you were curious enough to talk to everyone at Petalburg City

For the legendary Beasts soundtrack, I find it even more interesting that this was made and included in these games, but then in FRLG, the companion games where the Beasts did become available, the soundtrack was NOT added. Probably just an oopsie daisy, or they ran out of time to get the roaming soundtrack to play correctly.

I found the Regi trio entirety by mistake, I found that little area with the dents and I’m like “is that braille?” Looked up braille alphabet hand did the thing and the room shook then I was confused, until wandering around those strange rocks that suddenly had a cave now

I will never forget the day i bought Ruby. I was in Belgium with my mom for an medical operation on my hand. I think i was around 10 years old. We went into a game shop, i remember it being a small shop like corridor with games on both walls. I saw pokemon it was in french and i had to have it. It was the nost expensive yet, i had super mario world and lotr 2 before pokemon. Ended up buying it and also a used copy of earth worm jim. I was stuck after the electric gym leader cos i didnt understand french, luckuly a friend of my in school had sapphire in english so i went off from there. As a side note, gba and gba games werent available in my country. Years later i still uncovered sone stuff in the game: randomly finding rayquaza, and even some years later when the internet became mainstream i found the regis. Fun times, i still have the game working, never got to mirrage island tho and cant anymore.

Thought that Ruby and Sapphire did mention the player came from Johto, only being omitted in Emerald.

I'm still always impressed by the leap we got from gen 2 to 3, in terms of graphics, mechanics and so many small mysterious things that were so cool for the time. Honestly as much as I want pokemon games to be as good as they were it'll never happen and that's a little sad. The games don't have that sense of wonder anymore, the Internet being what it is responsible is a big part of why that's a thing for a lot of games now.

That front wheel wheelie is called an endo or nose manual (often referred to as a nozzer). When Gen 3 came out, BMX was reaching the "mid-school" stage, bike trials was becoming popular, slopestyle (sometimes called Dirt Jump) and Freeride MTB (an offshoot of downhill) were taking off (pun intended). It's likely that the Acro bike was intended as a reference to these growing and popular forms of trick riding but the nozzer was likely deemed useless from a gameplay perspective as besides a little nozzer to hop, there's not a huge amount you can do with the trick and nothing you can't do from a wheelie or manual (wheelie without pedaling). The Acro bike can perform a 180 flat (a 180° spin from a hop, not a ramp) and can perform brake stall hops both static and in motion as well as side hops, all moves crucial to bike trials and which were really starting to see massive use in BMX to diversify what could be done in a skate park. As a long time BMX rider (over 16 years) and a fairly experienced enduro MTB rider (4 years) seeing the Acro bike in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald made me super excited as a kid and still offers a little thrill as a 26 year old pokemon and bike nerd.

The Johto thing is also confirmed via new dialogue in the remakes.

for the legendary beasts theme, i’m pretty sure that the theme is just in the game to test out the gba sound font. it’s entirely possible that they might’ve been planned to be in the game, but i’m still sure the theme is only in for testing purposes only

I think that all this information is very interesting and if Brendan/ Ruby is originally from Johto in the Games/ Manga universe so then is May originally from Johto in the Anime since she is Norman’s daughter in The show.

Pokémon Ruby, my first and favorita game of all time, where my journey started. Pure nostalgia, love it

Alao, in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, tje Scorched Slab has even more relevance and reasons, pural, to go back later! This is because it now has even more floors in side. You'll even come across Flannery again who mentions that there's a rare Pojémon inhabiting it, which turns out to be Heatran!

The scorched slab has Heatran in ORAS

Love the vid! It should be noted that changing the battery does backdate the RTC as you said, but it actually does fix some of the clock events (but frustratingly not others) Using an R4 card, a special program, and a DS you can change the RTC to the current date and fix everything tho! :)

I don't know that the shiny Ditto trick would work, unless they've changed it. I had a shiny Ditto in Pokémon Y and was disappointed to find out that it transformed into base colors when fighting non-shiny Pokémon.

The gen 2 music that was included was likely just for test reasons. Every generation with a big leap had test tracks from previous games. Also, later revisions of R/S do not have the berry glitch, you can use E/FR/LG to fix the berry glitch, and emerald also has the battery glitch, but some clock based events still work. Time of day things like shoal cave still work but things like berriea and lottery which require days to pass do not work. I also don't know if later revisions of R/S are affected by this as I don't remember my childhood save being having to catch up but I could be mistaken about that one.

funny enough the last bit about time stuff not working, that would be the rocket launches and the mirage island i think. the shoal cave still works for me tide up and down, i just check back every few hours and yes the internal battery is dry. currently using my gba sp with ruby to train 1 pokemon with 5 zigzigoons pickup ability and farm rare items

13:12 it's wrong, I changed my battery from my Pokémon Ruby some months ago and the game works fine with time events like berry's and other stuff. So you can trust and change your batterys because the game will works fine, and it's kind of easy change the battery.

I still remember to this day finding the braille text in the game manual after weeks wondering how to unlock them lol

You can also clone in those games. Infinite masterballs.

12:39 I remember back in the day waking up at 4am deciphering the message for the Reggies. I gave up and I'm glad I did till I got older to use them to get regigigas. If I solved the puzzle as a kid, I would have knocked them out like I did with Latinos and Groundon. Yeah one of these days I have to replace the internal battery and start a new game.

I’m playing through Ruby rn so this is perfect timing 🔑

The manga plotline is not "the canon story" for the games. The games, the manga, and the anime are all distinct timelines. Not to mention, you'd already have surf your first time on Route 120 so you wouldn't have to go back to find the Scorched Slab...

These videos are some of my favorite to watch. Thanks for putting this together 🥳

did you know that, if you use cut in tall grass it actually cuts it and with hyper cutter you can cut even more grass

They have the first gen on the Switch. If they don’t put more gens out on the shop then I’m going to be very disappointed in Nintendo.

Firered/leafgreen/emerald had the patch in them also so you can fix the berry glitch in ruby and saphire

The Bike sprite could have been for a stoppie, which wouldn't have required any extra inputs as it could have just come up when the player stops inputting any directional inputs whilst on a bike. Just an idea :)

I LOVED the legendary beasts encounter theme in Crystal and I always wished they had added it. Now that I know it's within the game files but was never used, it's even more frustrating

Didn’t dialogue in ruby and sapphire say you are from johto?

I watch too many of these videos. None of this was new info for me haha. But it's super nostalgic so I'll happily watch these pokemon facts videos whenever :)

Sadly, Mirage Island was never available to me, because MY COPY OF SAPPHIRE DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!

So I might be tripping but I'm pretty sure (super vague memory) there was a specific plant in I think the villains hideout towards the end of the game that gives you a master ball. It's literally just a hidden item on a plant.

Cool some stuff I didn't know about, been a long time since I played Ruby and Sapphire though

The user manual that came with the games ruby and sapphire contained the Braille guide/list, so you could translate everything, would say that worked as a guide itself in a way

Sapphire (E) was my first game on game boy advance, inside the gamebox was a little magazine and had the braille system there to help you.

The front wheelie is just an animation for the bike going over bumps I’m sure and then they scrapped that and replaced with the hop

violet and lavender are different shades of purple so It's not that much of a stretch. Andit seems like violet in the new generation could be a reference to this also.

Also if the 1616 completely runs out, there is a chance to completely lose the file it happened to me lol. But along as you don't save when you install the new battery. You should be fine

So I basically have to play my Ruby version for 900 hours to get the clock to work again 🤦‍♂️

I believe that you’re fact about celebi is also incorrect because you can soft reset for a shiny one in Pokémon crystal and transfer it over I think

You guys didint know brendon wasnt from jhoto go to petal berg go to the bottom left and enter the house you will see a woman with her child talk to the woman and she says Norman is petal bergs gym leader i think he called over his family from the jhoto reigon

They did add the dog trio to fire and leaf, maybe they copy pasted a bunch of files from those into emerald and forgot to remove em.

I could've sworn the player being from Johto was mentioned in the instruction manual

Berry glitch can be also fixed by linking the game with FR LG and Emerald! Going to gamestop sending your game to nintendo Back then, you can’t do this anymore Or simply change the battery

5:14 didn’t know among us was already a thing back then

I got the guide and translated all the words for the Regis. Ah memories.

Wish an Emerald version would come out on switch. Relive my childhood

One more of these videos in which the NEVER BEFORE SEEN FACTS you've already seen dozen of times before... Extra Master Ball?! Game Lottery. Never before seen Pokémon Egg given to you?! The Egg from Lavaridge.. u_u

Why would you need to come back for that cave near the Steven encounter? You get surf well before you get to that point?

You can get a shiny celebi using the japanese pokemon colosseum bonus disc. The only way to get a legit celebi in gen 3, and it can be farned for shiny.

It would have been funny if they put an NPC in the scorched slab named either Sasuke or Itachi

What about the Japanese colosseum bonus disk? Gives you a level 10 celebi I’m 90% sure you can shiny hunt, like the jirachi bonus disk in the US

the museum "softlock" is barely even a thing, i;ve been playing emerald recently and just, zigzagoon could save that "lock" in like 2 minutes, lol but it is a cool thing, i always abuse it by just buying as many pokeballs as i can and then entering, i think there's a similar thing in GSC/HGSS before the lake of rage, a rocket grunt blocking a house using it as a like "toll booth" i did the same thing, would make sure i was broke, or go around since there was a path, lol

When I was young I got lucky and mirage island to spawn and I was so hype, because I legit checked every single day.

Ok, no. In the games there is a character that explicitly states that Brendan is from Johto. He said Norman moved in his family from there. You should’ve mentioned that, and not the manga, which ISN’T canon. Check your sources before spouting off about Pokémon please.

I didn't really find the Regi's "hard" nor that you needed a guide for it.. Since the game came with a manual and the braille code was literally at the end of the book you could easily decipher the code on the walls to be able to catch the Regi's.

The front wheel wheelie is called a stoppie

What if you were to start a new game when the battery has already ran dry. Would it work then?

i got the diploma from the dude in the house in emerald, dude stole my game with 600 hours on it. on the quest to do it again. i have a heartgold completed atm

Are you sure the bike sprite isnt them riding down a slope?

Isn't it stated in the games that the protagonist's family comes from Jhoto? I swear I read it somewhere else before but it wasn't from the manga.

"Front wheelie" its called an endo

Front wheel wheelie is called stoppie.

The front wheel wheely is called Endo

I m already almost all of these secrets, I'm such a hardcore fan of rse

Many of them i know i been playing this version since 2004 i still played them

Well isn’t the trainer on Blazias blaziken and lastias fusion Claire

So you're telling me that Ruby game that I have been playing for 10 years. If I put in a new battery I'd have to plan another 10 years just for it to work properly? I would only do it for snorunt luckily I have a sapphire game that has the battery dried during the perfect time where I'm able to get a snorunt. And isn't a snorunt a baby Pokemon so that is actually 2.

The bike one can be possible with my boy just press b

Isn’t the diploma at 3:40 for the time travel award in oras?

it's called the "e-reader" and during the data mine some data was found??!? nowai

Not my Sharingan awakening at 2:12

This may sound stupid but i all know all of them xD but this is also my favourite game so i grinded so much back in the day and also experimented with rom hacks

Noice. Seems like the creator doesn't care...

What the hell do you base these percentages on?

I learn how to read brail just to get the regi

How can you Tell it is 97%?

Rewatching this and it seems new

And how we can get that special diploma?... I have 386 and just get the regular one... ☹️

Being charged 50pokedollars even when the Museum is being taken over shows us that capitalism will March on.

5:13 amogus

Lol I knew most of the facts already

I love the series

WAIT... the "Gotta Catch em all" tagline was removed waaaaay back!? SO... whenever someone cries about not being able to catch all Pokemon in a game... then, theyre basically wrong 😮

I knew this kid at school that I feel like had to have been one of the first people to know about battle frontier Pokemon duplication glitch. On my life I used to watch this kid on the bus (he was always on probation and in trouble with the law) I swear this kid popped a front wheelie in front of me before. He never told me how!