This Rare NPC Is The Best Chef In Pokemon 

the long awaited what was he cooking thumbnail is finally here... share this with 99 of your closest friends... Edit: folks we found the book that has the berry codes in it! thanks to @alexalexander4694 for commenting where to find it! The book is the 10th anniversary complete pokedex collector's edition and the codes are on page 211. and you can check it out at the internet archive RIGHT HERE (to view it entirely it must be checked out sorry yall): archive.org/details/pokemon10thanniv0000mylo/page/210/mode/2up Yeehaw!

hello there was a guide released for the 10th anniversary of pokemon named "Collector's edition Complete Pokedex" this was a guide for the gen 3 games and showed where you got each pokemon in the gba games, colleseum and XD. The guide showed all pokemon levelup moves, tms, etc. But also had useful ingame information on page 211 titled "Extras" and then titled "Codes" it will then list all 5 sayings for which berries you get

I remember grinding for hours to get the perfect run vs the Blend Master. I got him to make a mistake. Once. It wasn't about getting the best pokeblock, or getting a high score. It was about dethroning the master. It was about letting him know that his days were numbered. It was about showing that even a god could bleed.

Finding people to make Pokeblocks with back in the day was NOT a reasonable ask. I grew up with Gen 3. I was in 5th/6th grade when EVERYONE at my school was playing the Gen 3 games. And after school we used to battle, trade, and mix records (that feature that let your secret bases appear in each other's games) while we waited to be picked up. But nobody (besides me) gave a SHIT about contests, so nobody wanted to play the berry blending minigame. I think I was able to convince ONE kid to try a multiplayer contest with me, and after 2 turns he was like "this is dumb" and unplugged the link cable.

This dude was the MVP, helped me evolving my milotic :D

This man embodies the phrase "Wait, let him cook."

the stat reducing berries only got that functionality in Emerald, in RS they were exclusively used for making pokeblocks.

I love the ending so much. So many features both back then (and especially now) have so many time sensitive requirements that are, one day, gonna be unavailable to players. Adding access to gameplay and features outside of Internet makes the games more timeless than they already are.

I know for a fact that I’ve seen the Master in the contest hall multiple times, but I never even talked to him because child me always just assumed “well the best Pokéblock would come from more berries, so I will always do the four person block instead of two or three.” Honestly, I didn’t know he was a Master at cooking until this video! If I were to have played yesterday I still would have be cooking with three NPC’s

I only found out about the blend master earlier today, nearly 20 years later after originally playing these games as a kid. I have been trying to complete my gen 3 livingdex on my copy of emerald and man replaying these games with a mission like a living dex really made me admire these small things which we just dont get anymore in new games.

I actually "imported" the Master by trading data with a friend's copy of Emerald (you need to share events), so I had him appear occasionally in my copy. That's also how I caught a Seedot in Sapphire, despite it being a Ruby exclusive, by taking advantage of the swarm news on the tv. I remember sometimes trying to sabotage it and get normal color Pokéblocks just for fun as I always used to get Gold ones even surpassing Master average perfects at times. Btw, Yes I won all the master contests and completed all the paintings in the museum.

I miss when pokemon was this complicated, not that I miss how difficult it was to create good teams. But I miss the braille puzzles and mirage island level stuffl, I remember reading the booklet and figuring out how to get regirock

I now understand the phrase “unlocked memory” This happened once for me. Less than the shinies I’ve seen while not shiny hunting. I completely forgot about this

No padding, all information explaining a game mechanic in depth, love the videos man

I’m not 100% certain, but I’d imagine the berry phrases all came to light in a Japanese guide/promo material somewhere, and the phrases then managed to get translated to EN. From there, they spread without their original context - just translating a couple working phrases that give the player something is a lot easier than translating a whole page scan after all.

Odds are that someone just looked into the code to find the berry master words.

I found him once as a kid. It felt magical at the time.

I am once again blown away at the idea that there is still more to learn about these games. Well done.

I miss that area in HGSS. There was a period of time where I thought I had dreamt it, since I haven't really seen people talk about it, nor is it accessible anymore. But I remember playing it so much as a kid.

There's a certain wistful melancholy to finding these little secrets to a game that will never be new again.

The plaza in Platinum. Oh, how I’ll miss you!

the master chef may have been cooking, but no one cooks harder than droomish !!! another absolute banger, you get better and better- it's amazing to watch in real time

I remember this guy showing up when I was a young kid. Damn, so many memories from Pokemon Emerald.

To evolve Feebas, I used two Gameboys my self and pushed the button on both, it was kinda hard but doable, never knew about this master lol.

Droomish, this video was truly amazing. The way you swing from (seemingly) merely explaining an obscure piece of Gen III trivia to making grand statements about game design and the *impact of video games as art* was awe-inspiring. I hope you get a Morbillion subscribers. I thought this was genuinely one of the best Pokémon videos I have ever seen on RU-vid. Thanks for doing what you do man.

After being...basically the only person I've ever known to like (adore) the Contests, it's super refreshing to see someone else praise them

Hello, elder pokemon fan here The phrases for the berries were discovered via data mining, except the one you mentioned in the video, which was distributed by nintendo Love your content

The Berry Master making Master Rank Contests in Pokémon Emerald possible to this day.

Let that man cook

I suspect these passwords might've been brute-forced or datamined. Either that or there was some real-life event that distributed them.

did not expect that a video about the blend master was going to make me cry today

This is such a well put together video and I love the message delivered at the end. Amazing job!

World's most minor nitpick on a god-tier video: Pomeg Berry and friends only started reducing EVs in Emerald. In RS they were just PokeBlock ingredients

Pokemon games are so meticulously detailed the older ones at least

Over 20 years in and I'm still learning stuff about this game I've done a Prof Oak's in and replayed as recently as a couple weeks ago. Astounding. Thank you, Droomish! :D

I played this game for hundreds of hours when I was a kid and I don't remember seeing this guy even once. And now I know I will never meet him because time doesn't pass anymore in my Emerald cartridge...

This channel is gold. So glad I stumbled upon it.

This was such a great video man. You’re a great writer. I was completely glued to it.

You have the answer to questions I didn't even know I had. 😂

I distinctly remember getting pokeblock master as a kid. I spent so much time on Hoenn. Great considering I’m pretty sure I was like…one of three people with this game in my area. I adore gen 3. Thanks for covering this.

10/10 thumbnail, AND a great video to boot? Simply excellent.

I have two theories about the Berry phrases. I was already extremely online at the time of Emerald's release, and while memory is a fickle thing and I was still a middle school kid, I DO believe that the Berry codes were known on sites like GameFAQs not too long after Emerald's initial release in the US. You might even know this; I'm sure the GameFAQs stuff you show in the video is marked with dates. But I will say that, back in the day, datamining something like this would have been controversial because Pokemon fans got very up in arms about "cheating" or "hacking" in any way. Yet I don't remember even the slightest complaint or controversy about these phrases. I believe the phrases were always taken at face value as a trivial thing, so I don't think they were merely datamined and put online. As well, it should be remembered that datamining was obviously not impossible even back then, GBA emulators developed quickly - but it took more time than it does now. This leads me to believe that the codes were printed in Japanese guides, and a source like Serebii, Poke Beach, or another major fansite that would have been plugged into the more "global" scene even early on was able to figure out English equivalents one way or another. Emerald and the Gen 4 games all had a function where you could get a secret phrase to give to a character for bonus wallpapers; there were generators on a dutch site called filb which now seems to be called PokeWiki. I remember that these generators were developed fairly early on to match equivalent, official phrase generators for the Japanese games. If nothing else turns up it might be worth poking at the history of that generator, or online discussions about them, to see if any info about the berry phrases comes up in relation, or even asking the people who currently maintain those phrase generators about the subject. My OTHER suggestion is... when I watched this video with some friends we all had a collective memory that the phrases were specifically in issues of Nintendo Power and not in the actual Emerald strategy guide. However, I can't turn anything up in issues directly surrounding Emerald's release in NA, but I confessedly skimmed the issues very quickly. It's also possible that the codes were unceremoniously dumped in a blurb in a later issue and weren't a full feature immediately after release.

This video really speaks to my soul, i remember grinding countless hours to get a surplus of those rare berries and finally getting the berry master event a few times. Needless to say, I've filled up the museum with pictures of my pokemon lol.

This was way deeper than I expected it to be.

The one downside to the Blend Master's bloks, though, is that they'll always have a pretty high feel since the spelon etc. berries are only being split two ways instead of four. If you've got said berries yourself, then blending them with 3 NPCs can still get you lvl. 50 blocks once you get the hang of it, and the feel will only be 32 (i.e. 8 per pokémon instead of 6).

The EV berries are also only in emerald, in Ruby and Sapphire they're just regular berries

Platinum plaza will forever be missed! I remember finding my siblings lost game and connecting to a nearby free WIFI to play before everyone fizzled out and stopped joining. Those were the good ol days

I really do like your voice, every one of your videos I make sure to save for when I can listen closely keep IT UPPP🎉

The berry passwords were most likely datamined.

I spent an unhealthy amount of time cooking berries when I was young and not even using it because I didn’t know how it worked

This mechanic is amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Ive definitely seen those codes on different forums, but I'm sorry to say I don't know where they came from. I'll leave that mystery for someone else to find. Great video Droomish, this overlooked feature was created out of love for the players, and it's really nice to see the love you send back in the creators direction. Much love friend 💕

The fact that I've played Pokemon Emerald multiple times and never encountered him throughout

Droo this rocks, he cooked, and so did you! It's so interesting hearing about this stuff that I truly had no idea about as a kid. I plowed through with my very cute team and then was done! Turns out these games had a lot more to them. Another banger!

You missed the e-reader berries that all override the enigma berry but overall nice job.

I really love Pokemon Contests because of the Anime and if I was in Pokemon I'd want to be a Top Coordinator so when ORAS released I was SO excited to finally be able to properly do contests and I set out on my Master Quest to be the very best and beat Master Rank in EVERY Contest category to prove to myself that I really could become a Top Coordinator and I'd beat every category with a different Pokemon to simulate having an actual team of Pokemon (and NO Cosplay Pikachu because that's cheating) and I did it! I grew my own berries and made my own Pokeblock and came up with my own Contest Pokemon move combos and entered Contests until I won Master Rank in EVERY category! I beat Cleverness with Umbreon (My favorite Pokemon), Coolness with Sceptile, Toughness with Mightyena, Beauty with Latias, and Cuteness with Lopunny! It was so much fun and I'll always cherish those memories!

13:14 Wi-Fi Plaza is something that could return in remakes but I wonder what they will do to replace the Dream World functionality? Probably nothing.

My experience with the NPC blenders: Immediately getting pissed off at the braindead NPCs constantly ruining my combos.

Sometimes it's hard to replay gen 5, knowing that the intriguing center island lost its purpose

Now that I think about it, until I swap my battery on my copy of Emerald, I’ll never be able to make Pokéblocks again because I’m pretty sure the battery ticks over the berry growing for time based stuff

Thank you for making this

How the hell would you know the berry phrases if you never had internet

This is my favourite video on RU-vid

I love Seeing content for these games so many years later

I more than once managed to get on pair with the master, and ONCE to defeat him. It was more than pixel perfect. One of the few successes in videogame I am actually proud of From those extremelly high pokeblocks, I made a team of contest winners, with an electrode that won evwrything! A perfectly spherical champion

I got this guy once, it actually helped me master rank all the contests!

I had no idea those 4 events could happen

The old man at the machine where the blend master is still makes better poke blocks than the others, because he uses higher quality berries.

Love video like this... thank you❤

That is where the Pokemon go when you use a Repellent.

Latias disdainfully ate the pokéblock is my favorite thing in this video

I use to go to him all the time back then. I felt bad that he was there by himself, and I too was alone most of the time growing up. So me and him hit it off.

My battery went dry while he was active, I kept him there trapped for over 400 hours on emerald 🥲🥲

i love your vids i poked around jp pokemon internet but i only found some guides from 2003-2004 as well as yahoo answers. no idea where they got the berry master passwords from!

LET. HIM. COOK.

This guy is the only person i like to blend berries with....he is a old man with no one to help him.

Man, I spent HOURS making the perfect contest team lmao I would pretend to sleep and then after a bit start blending berries and perfecting my comp team. I swear blending in this game contributed to my unnatural QTE reflexes in games lmao. But I had sooooo many ribbons. It really became about becoming the champion of everything in the game. If there was a battle, I wasn’t holding back, if there was a competition, I made sure it was me being talked about on tv, of there was a legendary, I was catching it, if there were secrets I was finding them. Idk why, but as a kid, I NEEDED to conquer this game. I remember I was one of the only ones in my friend group that had like everything. So many of my friends were asking how I got the legendaries without killing it or losing, where I got certain items. I think it had so many little features that we’re almost games on their own. Safari zone. If I got bored battle, or catching, I could do so many other things. It’s kind of crazy looking back and seeing just how much there was to do. I talked to every possible npc at least twice. Haven’t played Pokémon in almost 15 years, just picked it back up in my 30’s and I’m being hit with such nostalgia lmao idk if the games are still that fun or if I’m just reliving my childhood haha

I just have to say... immaculate thumbnail 🔥

this expert class shall be named in my fanfiction

let bro cook

I’m pretty sure that I have most Gen 3 guides, handbooks, etc. in storage. And I don’t recall ever reading about the phrases. And I spent more time going through those books as a kid than I did completing my school work lol So yeah… I don’t know how people figured out the codes. My guess is data miners. But… I’d never heard the term prior to Gen 6 when a bunch of game data from X and Y was leaked. Great. Just what we needed. Another Pokemon mystery 😂

I have never heard of or even seen the blend master. probably because I can´t remember when my emerald´s internal battery was alive. bought the game second hand back then; may the battery never worked in my possession

Can you smell what this NPC is cooking?

huh, i never knew this! i just always blended with him cus i felt bad he was all on his own. i just wanted to hang out with him for a little while.

im so glad i stuck around to the end of this vid, i completely agree how much it sucks that so much about pokemon games are getting lost to time. it makes me so sad that even now the 3ds wifi network will be disconnected soon. some of my fondest memories come from wondertrading in sun/moon or using the festival plaza in those games. knowing that whole part of the game will be lost soon makes me so sad. nintendo REALLY needs to future-proof their games, especially if nearly all of their evens are wifi based now. there's already such a level of exclusivity in the newer games that will only increase as old wifi networks and entire game features are lost forever. i cant even imagine now horrible sw/sh and s/v will be without a network service. how horrible high level raids will be with only half-usable npc battlers. how some rewards and quests in the new s/v DLC will be lost forever due to the multiplayer being gone. your plea for another blend master type npc in all games is one that really resonates with me. having something like that ensures even 20 years from the game's release, it can be enjoyed to the fullest!

I remember farming him and with him in postgame I got so proefficient in crafting I made him slip up or even MISS a beat on 99% of interactions multiple times Edit: 12:34 The locked door was E-reader content, DLC if you will, thats correct What was behind it was usually a Trainer you uploaded with certain cards you used with your E-reader device Outside of Japan this gimmic was never really used by anyone so it was literally unreachable content

I forgot he existed : > )

Legit… everytime he was announced on tv I would STOP my game just to become a top coordinator

That shroomish does look happy

I honestly miss this old dude, id always load up my pokeblock box with him

All these years... All these damn years of struggling at the berrie machines and there was a FUCKING BERRY MASTER?!

my games battery died when he happened to be there. Now he's there forever

I had Pokemon Ruby and Emerald as a kid and a few friends of mine also had the games, but nobody cared enough about contests or even knew enough about the game back then to even buy a link cable to blend berries

The multi-player stuff from gen 3 has never been an issue to me on account of me being a pokemon clepto when I was young.

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this is the second video by you i´m seeing. Considering you name and pic I would´ve been dissapointed if your name wasn´t drew. I´m happy the channel name is the pun I thought it was

Is the "The Rock" of the Pokémon world? Unfortunately I didnt smell what he was cookin'. But, I went to him and BRING IT (berries) 😂

I grew up on these games had had absolutely no idea you could connect 4 gba's together!

i wish i had a blend master to help me blend in real life oh and the tragedy of online spaces disappearing

Shroomish appreciation week!