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{{quote|''"The balance of power has shifted."''
The third set of games in the ''[[
▲{{quote|''"The balance of power has shifted."''|'''Promotional poster/pamphlet''' included with ''Pokémon Emerald Version''}}
▲The third set of games in the ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'' series, ''Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' were released for the [[Game Boy Advance]], with ''[[Updated Rerelease|Emerald]]'' arriving a few years after. Along with ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|FireRed]]'', ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|LeafGreen]]'', ''[[Pokémon Colosseum (Video Game)|Colosseum]]'' and ''[[Pokémon Colosseum (Video Game)|XD]]'', they are known collectively as the 3rd Generation. It introduced many changes to the gameplay, such as: natures, abilities, double battles, contests, and over 100 new Pokémon to collect. Along with massive graphical improvements over its predecessors, it also brought a complete overhaul of the data structure, resulting in the games being incompatible with the previous two generations. The games took place in Hoenn, which is based on the Kyushu region of Japan rotated ninety degrees<ref>Of course, since the world is round and we never see Hoenn on a map along with any other regions, this rotation doesn't matter much</ref>.
The game begins with the player moving to their new home in Littleroot Town, where they save Professor Birch from a wild Pokémon. As thanks, he gives the player their own Pokémon, and the adventure begins. Unlike previous installments, the player has ''two'' [[The Rival|rival trainers]]: The first is Brendan or May (depending on which gender the player is), Birch's child. The other is Wally, a sickly boy who catches his first Pokémon with help from the player, and who leaves home soon afterward.
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On their [[To Be a Master|quest to be the best]], players will encounter two villainous groups: Teams Aqua and Magma, who want to flood and dry out the planet, respectively. ''Sapphire'' players will become allied with Team Magma to stop Aqua summoning Kyogre, while ''Ruby'' trainers help Aqua stop Magma summoning Groudon. ''Emerald'' put them both in the antagonist role, with Rayquaza being summoned to stop the chaos.
These games may be the biggest case of [[One Game for
On May 7, 2014, remakes for these games on the 3DS were announced by Nintendo, labeled ''Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'' respectively.
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* [[After Combat Recovery]]: 5/7 of the Battle Frontier facilities (the exception being the Pike [although subverted when certain conditions are met] and the Pyramid).
* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: The Secret Bases, which can get addicting. You can also decorate your bedroom at home, though to a lesser extent than the Secret Bases.
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: The weather trio starts as an in progress Class 0, but stated that if it is not stopped, will become a Class 4 (Groudon bringing harsh heavy everlasting sun, leaving desert wildlife, or Kyogre flooding the world, which allows purely aquatic life to remain).
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: This generation is the only one to be incompatible with previous generations, which is one among various reasons behind the hatedom towards these games.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** A replica of Submarine Explorer 1 can be seen in the museum when you first visit it.
** There's one that may go unnoticed in ''Emerald'' thanks to how subtle it is. Thanks to the Match Call feature, trainers that you register will randomly call you for stuff that never really matters. At one point, your rival calls and remarks on seeing a flying, green Pokémon in the sky. Most players just take it to be another silly adventure. But when Groudon and Kyogre are clashing in Sootopolis City and Wallace asks you where one might find Rayquaza, the big green, flying legendary Pokémon, suddenly your rival's phone call seems a little more useful.
** Similarly, a couple in Lilycove mentions they are vacationing there and were excited because the first Pokémon they saw was a dragon flying through the sky.
** There's also a man in Fortree City who remarks on seeing a gigantic green dragon.
*** Even funnier after you manage to capture/defeat Rayquaza: He will ask "By the way, you smell singed. Were you at a volcano or something?"
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The background music played inside the Oceanic Museum at Slateport is a remix of the S.S. Anne theme.
** Not to mention, one of the ship replicas contained therein is of the S.S. Anne.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Mt. Chimney. You shouldn't be able to stand right in front of the lava pool like that.
** Humorously averted with a Team Magma grunt who's standing guard near a lava pool. When he engages you in battle he complains about his post and says his left ear is burning.
*** That grunt seems to exist solely to avert this trope. After the fight he says he's getting heat exhaustion and, if you talk to him after the fight, questions why Team Magma is wearing hoods in a volcano.
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** You can't lose the starting fight; the wild Pokémon will flee if you purposefully screw it up. Birch still compliments you...
** You will be let into the museum for free if you don't have the money needed to pay the fee, but only during the one time the plot requires you to enter.
* [[Dummied Out]]: It was stated in a [[Nintendo Power]] interview that Gastrodon (and presumably Shellos), of [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
* [[Easter Egg]]: There are six hidden tracks in ''Emerald'', five of them GBA remakes of [[Pokémon Gold and Silver
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Teams Magma and Aqua are constantly at odds with each other. Each version lets you take a different response to it. (In ''Ruby'', you team up with Team Aqua to defeat Team Magma. In ''Sapphire'', it's the other way around. In ''Emerald'', you fight both of them.)
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]
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** The legendaries seem to be based off of Jewish mythical creatures: golems (the Regis), Leviathan (Kyogre), Behemoth (Groudon), and Ziz (Rayquaza).
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Approximately 100 hours into gameplay or one year after the game's release, a rollover bug, called the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Berry_glitch Berry Glitch], would result in Berries ceasing to grow in ''Sapphire'' and ''Ruby'' - along with stilling/freezing anything ''else'' relating to the passage of time (e.g. the tides in Shoal Cave). Linking with ''FireRed'', ''LeafGreen'', ''Emerald'', ''Colosseum'', ''XD'', an event for a shiny Zigzagoon at EB games, a pair of Japanese promo e-Reader cards, non-Japanese releases of ''Pokémon Box'', or the PAL release of ''Pokémon Channel'' patched the error.
** The internal batteries that handled clock-based events in the initial ''Ruby and Sapphire'' weren't the longest lived either, so there was a good chance they would fail (with the same effects as the Berry glitch), and unlike the Berry glitch, as it is a hardware issue and not a software one, it can't be fixed. Fortunately, unlike ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
** And of course, the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pomeg_glitch Pomeg Berry glitch] in ''Emerald''.
** While still having bugs; [[Game Freak]] was able to perform much more bug-testing with their games starting with R/S/E (After the profits from gen I and II made up for the loss of Gen I's troubled production) And it shows.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: Dewford's trendy things are ''very'' abusable.
* [[
* [[Just Add Water]]: the Pokéblocks.
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: In ORAS, after {{spoiler|defeating the Pokemon League Champion and once the end credits are over}}, Brendan/May ''will challenge you to a battle''. You thought the game was over just because {{spoiler|the credits rolled}}? Ohh no.
* [[Large Ham]]: "GORGE your eyes on this! It's a SILK SCARF!!!!"
** Honestly, a great number of the NPCs, especially trainers, are this.
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* [[Ominous Fog]]: surrounds the upper levels of Mount Pyre, which is [[Nightmare Fuel|an entirely isolated mountain filled to bursting with Pokémon graves]].
** The "steam" in Lavaridge Town's Gym could also reflect this.
* [[Power
* [[Randomly Drops]]: Feebas is one of the most frustrating Pokémon to get in these games. Out of 436 water tiles on Route 119, only ''six'' randomly-picked tiles<ref>(whenever a new game is started or the trendy phrase in Dewford is changed)</ref> have Feebas, a 1 in 72.67 chance of finding a tile that has them. You're not even guaranteed to get one by fishing on those tiles.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: By GBA standards, anyway. Hoenn is the prettiest region in the Pokéverse. Among the environments seen include, but are not limited to: [[The Lost Woods|forests]], beaches, mountains, cliffs, cities, [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|villages]], [[Tree
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: There is a large desert, with a constant sandstorm raging, so you need goggles to get across it.
* [[Shout
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfARFF9S5Jg Route 113] is a place covered in ash - but if you've ever played any of the ''[[
* [[Sidequest]]: New Mauville. Also, the Pokémon Contests, which were first introduced in this generation.
* [[Stealth Mook]]: The Ninja Boy trainer class, who disguise themselves as various objects in the overworld like trees or ash piles to ambush passing trainers.
* [[Tree
* [[Under the Sea]]: With HM08 (Dive), a feature that didn't return until ''[[Pokémon Black and White|Black and White]]''.
* [[Wasted Song]]: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsUBDLTrZ0 Maxie/Archie Boss Battle theme] is over a minute long and really impressive sounding, but only plays during the rather short, pathetic fights against Maxie and Archie.
** Not to mention [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5d75MwT8Ow Deoxys' battle theme], which only plays when you encounter Deoxys via a difficult-to-attend/get Nintendo event.
** There are a number of remastered [[Pokémon Gold and Silver
*** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYGeIbh5OM Route 38/39 background music].
*** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOoslFfkJMw Pokémon (Communication) Center background music].
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