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{{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 Thethe Price of Two]] in the franchise, as there is literally no way to legitimately collect all 386 Pokémon without aid from ''[[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]]'' (Oddly, only ''Ruby'' '''''or''''' ''Sapphire''). <ref> The [[Game Boy Advance]] had backwards-compatability for the [[Game Boy Color|GameBoy Color]], but its link cables were unable to connect the two systems; coupled with the aforementioned data structure redesign, there was no method for importing or trading Pokémon from ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Gold]]'', ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Silver]]'' or ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Crystal]]'' to ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'' or ''Emerald''. The ''Red'' and ''Blue'' [[Video Game Remake|remakes]] provided all 150 Kanto Pokémon and a small pool of Johto's, with ''Colosseum'' and ''XD'' having several from all three regions; together, they had all but the event-only Pokémon. Between ''Emerald'' and ''Ruby/Sapphire'', only Zangoose and Lunatone respectively are missing and both are found in ''XD''</ref>. Due to being released after the "Pokémania" phase of Generations I and II, and before the "It prints money" phase of the [[Nintendo DS]], ''Ruby and Sapphire'' were the least successful (though were still ''greatly'' profitable) "main pair" of games.
 
[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)/Characters|Has a character sheet.]]
 
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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 (Video Game)|Generation IV]] fame, was initially designed to be a Pokémon for these installments, but was later scrapped.
* [[Easter Egg]]: There are six hidden tracks in ''Emerald'', five of them GBA remakes of [[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Generation II tracks]]<ref>the Pokémon Communications Center theme, the Route 38 theme, the Team Rocket Radio Tower Takeover music, the Raikou/Entei/Suicune battle theme from ''Crystal'', and the redone Viridian/Pewter/Saffron City music</ref> and the last one an alternate arrangement/possible demo of the Littleroot Town music. They don't show up in actual gameplay, however.
* [[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 (Video Game)|Gold, Silver, and Crystal]]'', the battery isn't used to retain save data as well (which is stored using flash memory; ''FireRed'' and ''LeafGreen'' don't have batteries at all), so the game can still be played; just without the time-based events.
** 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.
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* [[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-Top Town|treehouses]], islands, deserts, volcanoes, rivers, rain-forests, sea basins, hot springs, [[Under the Sea|underwater]], caves, [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|underwater caves]]... The variety of environments in this game is so vast, [[Urban Legend of Zelda|some even thought]] that you would be able to ''go into '''OUTER SPACE'''''.<ref>You know, to catch Jirachi and Deoxys.</ref>
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: There is a large desert, with a constant sandstorm raging, so you need goggles to get across it.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Young Couple [[Malcolm in Thethe Middle|Lois and Hal]]; interestingly, they're absent from ''Emerald''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfARFF9S5Jg Route 113] is a place covered in ash - but if you've ever played any of the ''[[Earthbound|Earthbound/Mother]]'' games, the music will make you think of a place covered in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjVx2FVENJ4 snow].
* [[Sidequest]]: New Mauville. Also, the Pokémon Contests, which were first introduced in this generation.
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* [[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 (Video Game)|Generation II]] songs that [[Dummied Out|remain unused and do not appear in the final game]], possibly because those beta tracks were only used for sound tests:
*** 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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