The pokemon NPC that BREAKS the game 

This happens if you don't talk to Norman after beating him, where he mentions that Wally's parents came in earlier looking for the player, cause they have something to give to the player, that being the hm surf.

4:35~4:48 *Wrong!* What allows you to use the move in the Overworld is the *badge,* not the HM. The HM is simply a device to teach the move to Pokemon capable of learning it. So yes, your traded Lapras that knows Surf would indeed be able to save you in this situation.

AS LONG AS you didn't use the Dewford Town Pokemon Center, you can escape this area by deliberately KO'ing all your Pokemon via fishing or Granite Cave (or using Teleport). This will return you to the last Pokemon Center you used. This issue is based on specifically saving and quitting and using the town's center. You can run into similar issues with Pacifidlog Town, lots of softlocking happens there.

Actually, Surf can be used without the HM in your bag.

Well this explains why Emerald makes you get HM Surf in a cutscene

It's stuff like this why I never use Teleport regularly.

In Mr.Briney's defense, you're the one who went and rubbed a genie that sent you all the way to Dewford. He is probably sailing his cruise ship without any clue that you are stranded. Oh and btw, I subbed because I enjoyed your video and the quality is great for a channel that just started out.

Old man doom the whole world by accepting a new job.

Lmao “Smoking hot” Flannery

You are right that there’s a way you can’t escape, but you are wrong as to how. You can use Surf without the HM in your bag. It’s having the corresponding Gym Badge (in Hoenn, the Balance Badge) that lets you use the HM outside of battle. However, there are a number of other ways to softlock yourself on Dewford in Ruby and Sapphire as well. For example if you beat all trainers, grab every item and buy enough items that you cannot buy anything (standard procedure for a softlock), there is no way of making money. And if your only Pokemon has all four available HMs that you can have at the time of beating Norman on it (Cut, Rock Smash, Flash, Strength), then you cannot forget a move to make room for Surf, even if you have it. And since it’s your only pokemon, the game doesn’t let you trade pokemon with anyone if you only have one pokemon. And since you have no way of making money to buy pokeballs, even if you can fish up a magikarp, you can’t catch it and level it to evolve it into Gyarados and give it Surf.

I hope we traded the lapras back to our brother

1:56 excuse me “hard fought” that was overlevelled

You can use surf with the lapras you dont need to hold the hm. it just needs to know it.

"ride its 2 pound body" killed me

Actually, Mr. Briney stops giving rides once you open the tunnel linking Petalburg and Mauville Cities.

1:11 "smokey hot flannery " A statement which could be taken in suspicious way

You couldn't even buy Pokeballs in Dewford to capture something, right? I have a memory of frantically searching for a shop only to realize there are none on the island. Or at least I don't remember where it is.

If you go with the benefit of the doubt, he stops giving you rides and takes on a new job after he hears you’ve earned the badge that allows you to surf.

5:56 but what if you have no pokeballs and are broke

This is why I always go by Meteor Falls on the way back to Petalburg. Not only is it a guarantee that i get to where im going under my own power but i also gives me the chance to scope out a fossil to revive in Rustboro City.

Well, I've genuinely learned something new thanks to this! I will admit, I never thought about taking the boat from Slateport once... I always cut through Meteor Falls. No wonder I didn't know!

So we can’t really blame Abra though for teleporting? 🤔because it refuses to teleport us back to other locations once we get stuck on the Island and I believe the old Man and his Wingul have already helped us enough by offering us free boat rides long into the playthrough and I wish him the best for actually finding a job he enjoys and I will always be thankful for helping us 🤗

I always kind of wondered if Briney was originally meant as a Master Roshi reference that got reskinned to make it less overt. Like, instead of a tiiiiiny boat you go inside, it was originally a turtle you rode on top of. And instead of chasing a Wingull around his table it was like, a Gardevoir or something. 😅

Okay just the premise, that's horrifying. Nice job amigo.

Your game isn’t stuck. Just trade a Pokémon that knows surf from fire red, leaf green, ruby or sapphire ❤ you were incorrect about using surf in the over world. You just need the badge

Dude took this personally.

I see no comments, high quality content and good voice. I see opportunity for you!

An amazing youtuber in the making 🗣️🔥

Awesome video and a great start to a new channel.

I was like damn this videos good, checked and saw you have 36 subscribers! You’re gonna blow up man trust me

Hey 46 subscribers here. Great video

3:13 teleport: am i a joke to you?

These stories are so interesting

Better get a game shark and warp to location lol

Welp, time to get emerald and not ruby or sapphire.

89th sub big dawg keep them coming

Nice content :)

You deserve my sub bro

unless you went into the pokemon center you can just make your pokemon faint then you get teleported to the last center you visited

I never knew this at all when I was younger I think I had Emerald first but I could be mistaken might have been Sapphire but Im your 19th Subscriber and my birthdays tomorrow Thanks!

But what if you don't have the money to buy a Poke Ball and catch a Tentacool?

wacthed this video and assumed it would be a video with like 15k+ views and a channel with at least 1k subs, guess not - the production quality is really high for the channel size!!!!

Nah, don't slander Mr. Briney like that.

emerald isnt a sequel

So that's why they decided to hand you surf unlike in ruby and saphire. I love the quality of life changes they made in emerald. There were always some minor things that annoyed me about ruby and saphire. But emerald? I loved it to death.

This is a interesting video

😂 gave me anxiety

Ok how did Emerald and the remakes fix this?

I might be crazy, but I feel like there is an NPC in the Pokemon Center that gifts you a surfing Pokemon if this happens. I swear I've seen that somewhere.

Well I mean he does have a pretty respectable job so I guess he doesn't need to worry about you anymore.😂 If only he would give you just one more ride before you got surf. At least they fixed it in the later games

I wanna say this happened to my cousin but it could be my ADHD glitching again. Just make a new save file I guess. 😭

i will just load my old file simple

So if I teleported to Dewford why can't I just use teleport again to get off the island?

1:10 I was about to say "Okay Drake" But apparently Flannery is 18 and thats too old for Drake 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nobody doing that