Regarding the level up animation, considering Caterpie evolves at that exact level, I wonder if it was supposed to show the player that their pokemon was ready to evolve.
I actually saw the broken wally zigzagoon cutscene as a kid. I genuinely thought my game was broken and asked all around school if anyone else had that happen and literally EVERYONE thought I was lying. Glad to know that wasn't just a fever dream lmao.
Sucks when no one believes you on crap like that. I had a player taken off the field in an ambulance in an early Madden game and I noticed the Happy Birthday message in H3, but I didn't have internet at the time, nor did I realize what the significance was. I thought it was aimed at Jesus of all things.
@@floydpulley3509 At least you knew the significance of yours. The "Happy Birthday" wasn't discovered by anyone else for another few years. I think it was like 6 years later. I'm such a dolt 😅
i had this when i got the ending in hey you pikachu, i had a few friends who played it and they thought i was full of shit until many years later when youtube was a thing and i found a video of the ending
I don't think the "cheating"-line from Claire is talking about cheating as in "hacking", just cheating as in not going to get the item yourself but "asking a friend to give you one" (if you would look at it from the character's perspective)
That's almost certainly what it's for, as nowhere else in any of the games does it try to account for hacking, anc trading pokemon and items is a built-in feature, so they know it's possible you get the item from someone else, so they accounted for that.
I loved the ending of R/S/E because of the pokemon showing up. I realized they were the ones I had caught, and it felt like we were ending our adventure together.
3:26 I think it signifies that your pokemon is gonna evolve after the battle. Caterpie in particular evolves at level 7 and that noise does play during the evolution cutscene.
I’ve heard people say that gen 5 is the last game with actual interesting hidden content, but gen 7 for instance has a surprising amount of hidden things in it. I assume people view newer games as having less obscure content due to the fact that every hidden fact or detail is usually plastered all across the internet day one, if not leaked beforehand.
i think part of the reason why people refuse the hidden depths of newer games is partially because of the internet. most of the actual secrets get shared the moment the game is out, so instead of the mysterious aura of not knowing what is and isn't real about your games based on rumours from your friends, you just get immediate confirmation on whether or not anything in the game is real
@@LinkinPark4Ever1996 For gen 7? The games are 8 years old... Unless you mean avoiding spoilers in new games I'd imagine most folks aren't coming in fresh to sun/moon and if you are you're kinda outside the timeline to ask for the etiquette of folks not discussing the story.
@@Eta_Hoyimi that's not at all what I meant. Like OP said, newer games have their secret stuff leaked day one almost, because there's people immediately digging the source code, compared to older games where the secret stuff would slowly come out and that was a lot cooler
Something that wounds me about the Ralts knockout is that it's actually a pretty significant time save for speedrunning! That means if someone gets their God run while also getting just the perfect IVs on that Zigzagoon, the category might die for a long time! Oh! And I believe that Hiker who knows about Arceus to be the same Hiker as the one at Sinjoh Ruins in HeartGold SoulSilver! He also begins his text with "Oh! We meet again!" if you get that obscure cutscene from visiting the ruins a second time. Same as his second time in Diamond & Pearl!
don't they file speedruns that use stuff unable to be replicated with technique in a different category? Something you have to reset the game 8000 times for isn't exactly replicable
@@nathanielbass771 Considering how heavily all the gameplay of the Pokemon games themselves are RNG based, there's not much point in filtering runs out just because they got extremely lucky with RNG.
The Clair line was likely because of the held item trade possibility. In the Gen 2 games Nintendo put a lot of effort into fixing exploits and softlocks, they probably did quite a bit of testing for the held item trades. From a programming standpoint it's quite easy to do, when you speak to Clair after she's told you to get the Dragon Fang the game checks two things: your inventory to see if you have said fang, and a flag that's set when you pick the fang up. Games like this use flag values to prevent items from respawning or players from reversing their own progress. Clair has different responses depending on the status of those two checks, I'm curious if there's also dialog for if the fang has been picked up but is not in your inventory (IE you gave it to a Pokémon and either stored them in a box or traded them away).
Kind of like Sinnoh badge checker for Elite 4 won't let you in unless you actually have obtained all badges. Or moreso all the Sinnoh walk through walls exploits using integer limits and the safari retire flag to activate obscure events
I was just thinking that they only coded it so that the only way that Clair would give you the badge is in the specific area in the Dragon's Den after you found the item. I don't think it's as complicated as you're making it out to be. Since it's not possible for her to give the badge in the actual gym, they just added that line of dialogue if you showed up with the Dragon Fang at all, legit or not. It was probably designed that way mainly because otherwise, if you could get the badge from her in the gym with a Dragon Fang and get the badge from her in Dragon's Den, that could cause issues, and the fix they'd have to do would be more complicated, so they just went with the simplest fix possible for that scenario.
The only reason I know about Claire denying you the Badge is because of Pikasprey, since he had randomized items on, he figured "Well since I already have it, I may as well show it to Clair." and was absolutely shocked when he read what Claire said.
I was wondering where I learned this fact. I thought it was one of these videos that mentioned it originally and so I was sitting here scratching my head being like "I know this, and I'm pretty sure you were the one who told me ages ago, Phin". But yeah, makes sense it was Pikasprey
For the caterpie one, i think that originally when a pokemon reached a level where they would evolve during battle, it would play that unique level up animation. I’m pretty sure this is the case since for Caterpie, it happened at level 7, which is the level where it evolves into Metapod
@@lazerbeam134 iirc, the red/green remakes were the first games where you can get exp from catching a 'mon, though i think it's less than you'd get for a knockout. the remakes were made to be extremely easy and hand-holdy to an annoying degree and included a lot of stuff like that. if i were to guess, the animation was supposed to play if you leveled up multiple times in a row? the sound as is in that scenario is slightly different, and maybe the extended animation for it was considered excessive.
I love the idea of Wally just knocking out the Ralts, then just walking up to it and catching the very dead Ralts and being all like "I did it.. It's my Pokémon!"
One time I played a mod that made it so that the player's pokemon are randomized every battle, and wally got a regirock that only had explosion and instakilled the ralts
Imagine being a kid and watching the catching tutorial knock out the pokemon, you might take a while to learn how to correctly catch pokemon thinking you need to knock them out
Wally no thats not how you do it hahaha What Its its dead wally you cant catch a dead pokemon Why not this is not a nuzlocke and wdym dead it just fainted Oh sorry im the one doing a nuzlocke it just slipped well enjoy your dead pokemon i guess i need to hurry bye Ok
The pokemon wouldn't be "dead" right? Just fainted. Pokemon logic dictates that you can't catch a fainted pokemon, for some reason. Even though that would just make it easier.
I actually saw the scene where the Skull grunt yells at you in the Shady House on my first playthrough! After Guzma left, I just thought it would be funny to sit on his throne like “it’s mine now” and was delighted to see there was a little easter egg scene :)
The Claire Thing is probably the game checking if you have the Dragon Fang in your bag and if the event in the Dragons Den has triggered. I wonder if they did this to avoid sequence breaking the plot
She gives you the badge inside the Dragons Den right after you get the fang. You don't go back to talk to her at all, and you have no opportunity to do so when doing it properly.
Pretty sure its event based, because if memory serves I once went through the den with a gameshark code that allowed me to walk through walls, and got the fang. Then I went back to Claire and got that message. I thought it was because I literally was cheating, but I was also just a kid at the time. In retrospect it was probably because I didn't trigger the events properly.
I was fortunate enough to experience the Arceus event as my local Kmart hosted it. It was probably my favourite event, even compared to the Darkrai and Shaymin ones. I loved reading about the Sinnoh lore in the Canalave library and was blown away by the event triggered by taking that same Arceus to the Ruins of Alph in HGSS!
Yeah my friend told me about that and he had an event arcues action replayed in that he let me borrow for that, very cool, and another friend also got with me and we traded the hoen legends to get rayquaza
I actually discovered some of my OWN hidden text-In Heartgold/Soulsilver when you're hiding as a Rocket Grunt, every single NPC has unique diologue-including ALL the NPCs outside of the clerks in the Department store! I only discovered this due to my nuzlocke in Heartgold making me go and buy some healing items-and I chatted to an NPC by accident. Seeing the unique text, I went and chatted to everyone I could! It's really interesting, I don't know how many people documented or discovered this but I've never heard of it until I ran into it myself!
I LOVED going through Goldenrod City as a Rocket grunt! It's sad that in future games where you could dress as another grunt (Skull, Yell), you don't get anybody making comments about your attire, not even from Guzma or Piers. It would've been cute to see Guzma getting excited about taking on the Battle Tree with one of his li'l homies from his gang. Of course, nobody in-universe takes those teams seriously like how they do with Team Rocket, so normal NPCs would probably think "eh, whatever".
@@alishac5540interesting you say that, just binged all these videos to now, because that seems like an oversight by gamefreak/Pokémon co because even extremely obscure things were easter eggs. Must be something related to how these attention to details dropped off significantly after bw2. (Imo could be that they consider the 2d games were all played by og fans, and the shift to 3D was to bring in new fans, so no need for obscure references. Although they could’ve easily continued unique dialogue for such a unique mechanic that has only used in a few games)
I actually had no clue it was rare to see the hiker I used to ride the lift constantly just because it was fun; I love lil cutscenes of riding stuff (I wanted to watch the train ride each time in shield). My favorite part of gen 3 as a kid was riding the lift and making my way to lay in sand to hatch some eggs then making my way down to my secret base from there because I would love to do contests between the cities and my base. I think base building is probably my most missed feature (why can't we at least decorate our rooms anymore? Or the new dorms?)
Wally’s zigzagoon knocking out the ralts is well-known in the speedrunning community as it would save lots of time over watching Wally throw a pokeball and catch the ralts.
If anyone else noticed with the missing level-up animation, that was the level that Caterpie evolves at. Most likely it was gonna be an animation to signal to a player that a Pokemon had hit its evolution requirement level up wise
The clair thing reminded me that, in the crown tundra dlc, I brought the necrozma I caught in sm to the researcher in the cave, trying to continue with the story without having to catch it ( i wanted to get it shiny). I remember I got a message saying something like "this is the creature but it comes from a different universe"
oh wow! I did attend the arceus event back in ‘09 and never knew this fact- I’ll definitely have to check my copy! I always learn something new from these videos even after loving the franchise for 20 years. 💗
First time I played emerald as a kid Wally killed his Ralts. I was confused and thought that was how you do it for the longest time. (First Pokémon game as a kid). My friends called me insane and I gaslit myself into believing I made it up. Until today. Thank you.
It's probably not as obscure as Arceus one, but back in the day there was a special distribution Regigigas in Platinum that changed few empty caves with single items into special rooms where you could encounter Regirock, Regice and Registers.
Similar to the Ralts KO, there's a similar phenomenon that can happen in Pokémon Colosseum. At one point, there's a scripted battle between Eagun and a cipher grunt named Skrub. Eagun uses a Pikachu, while Skrub uses a shadow Hitmontop. The fight is supposed to end with Skrub winning and a cutscene playing afterwards that indicates this, making way for the player to battle them. Because Eagun's Pikachu has the Static ability, however, it is possible for the ability to trigger on turn 1, then have Hitmontop get paralyzed for enough turns after that to lose the fight. I have seen this happen myself, but I didn't record it, so I hope that someday someone proves this possibility with video
I've heard that bit of trivia before, though I've never seen it myself. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that if that happens the game just reruns the fight until he loses, right?
I actually had that event Arceus! Never saw the cutscene unfortunately but that Arceus was interesting in that it also had the signature moves of dialga, palkia and giratina.
I remember when I discovered the watching the S.S. Tidal cutscene. I was traveling from Lilycove to Slateport and I went to sleep, but the game didn't spawn me in Slateport and I was like, "what?" so I looked at the Town Map and saw I was on the map just west of Pacifidlog, and when I checked again I was slightly farther west, suggesting the boat was moving across those routes in real time. Eventually it arrived in Slateport on it's own, so I did a run back to Lilycove and went to sleep, which teleported me there instantly instead of waking up mid-journey. Eventually I wondered why the routes west of Pacifidlog were simulated in real time, so I looked out the window and lo-and-behold there was the boat sailing through those routes. Was pretty cool to find. I'd imagine lots of players have wondered why you have to sleep twice going from Lilycove to Slateport without ever realizing that the boat cutscene was the reason.
I knew about the Emerald ending credits because I once did a playthrough that was just 6 Linoones, since I was just farming that playthrough for items. The credits were beautiful and I loved it. Im glad to see its getting proper recognition now.
I'm pretty sure Ruby and Sapphire also had those credits as well. I noticed it when I just doing normal playthroughs and thought, these pokemon are ones I caught
I always love how you make these sound like they're true crime/unsolved mystery type things and not just Pokemon facts. The energy is so different from other Pokemon fact videos
There is another unique scene in HG/SS where you can actually make your mom angry. After you get the 8th badge and you get called by Prof Elm to get the Master Ball, if you instead try to go to Kanto before getting the Master Ball your mom will remind you Elm wants to talk, then ask why you ignore her, then tells you she starts to get angry. I found this randomly after I tried to rush to Kanto without doing the Ho-Oh part
Agreed, I wonder what would happen if you continued to level up or if you canceled the evolution and leveled up again. I'm thinking it would only play on the original level where it would have evoved.
Someone said pokemon where supposed to evolve mid battle which was cut from the game. The animation was supposedly used to reset the status bar after the evolution since the pokemons Name could change.
About the Arceus Hiker, it is theorized by Japanese people that that hiker is actually Volo, who is also popularly theorized to be immortal and lived for hundreds of years. One reason this was a thing is that Volo uses uncommon first-person pronouns in Japanese. That hiker uses the same pronouns. Also, Volo's Ginko Guild outfit actually slightly resembles a hiker outfit for some reason. And this is a hiker who is awfully enthusiastic about Arceus. There are further theories that the hiker in SInjoh Ruins is the same Arceus in Platinum, which will also be theorized to be Volo for the very same reasons. What adds up is, Sinjoh Ruins is a very specifically used to worship Arceus. And what other person do we see in there? Cynthia, who is supposedly the descendant of Volo or Cogita. Edit. A lot of replies seem to fail to understand what I actually mean. They definitely won't have the plan of Volo when Platinum and HGSS just came out. What I was saying is, when the character Volo was planned during the development of Legends Arceus, they might took inspiration from these two specific hikers who worshipped Arceus.
This is just stupid. I can see how the hiker can be a descendant of Volo, or a member of the Ginko Guild, or something like that, but there is no way he is actually Volo. And Volo has NOT lived that long, the immortal one is Cogita. She lived a very, very long amount of time and she is the original writer of the poems you can find around all Hisui.
You are the only one that manages to make a Pokémon fact video that actually has new information about the Pokémon world. Your effort in making this series is uncanny and immensely appreciated! I love these video through and through! Every time you release a new one; I grap my headphones, close the door, get comfortable and hope the video never ends...
fun fact about that arceus philosopher/hiker guy! he also appears in two other events between Pt&HGSS, and there is a very popular theory in the japanese side of the fanbase that he is actually Volo from Legends Arceus! the reason is that the philosopher speaks in a very (VERY) specific way, which is the exact same way Volo speaks in Japanese. Japanese has a lot of different ways you can speak, like having polite/casual speech, many different first-person pronouns, and sentence enders that can make the vibe of your speech change. Both the hiker and Volo speak with polite speech, friendly speech, and both use two different first person pronouns, which is already rare for a character to do (it's very common in real life tho), but BOTH pronouns are also very uncommon. It's also supported by the fact that he's so knowledgeable on plates and sinnoh history, and appears around ruins which volo is known for doing. and the fact that he's a philosopher when Volo's name comes from a philosophical statement (volo, ergo sum). (cogito's name comes from the similar "cogito, ergo sum") Additionally, Cogito is hinted in game to have lived for way longer than normal human lifespan, and if Volo is related to her like he appears to be, then maybe he can too. Or maybe he's just a weird reference to this random hiker guy!!!!!! anyway if anyone's ever seen fanart of volo in a hiker outfit or in present day sinnoh, that is why 😇
Big fan of this channel! I found it about 2 months ago from my recommended feed and I've been working my way through the obscure facts series. Love the deep cuts and the aesthetic of each title card.
I found the Exeggutor Island animation by total accident, didn't know it was supposed to be a secret. Still, nothing will hit me like the time I had caught Pokerus in HeartGold. When the nurse suddenly started talking about a "virus", I freaked out a little. But then my cousin freaked out too, telling me I had pretty much found something far more rare and valuable than a shiny.
I got pokerus in Crystal!! The nurse told me about the virus and then Prof Elm called and told me but I was young and I just read "virus" and went to box the pokemon that was sick (hoping it would get better) but I cried when I saw my WHOLE TEAM was sick! I couldn't box my whole team but I think at least one of my pokemon did get boxed with it. I was so sad every time I saw the PKRS "status" on their summary screen, I thought I was a bad trainer. Now I know better but MAN I was lucky!!
I got pokerus in HGSS and I am still annoyed that I can get the luckier than a shiny odds but I have played through almost every other mainline game and have only ever gotten scripted shinies
I somehow managed to get it from a wild pokemon in Sword a day after release. I was shocked that something so rare had happened, I thought for sure they must have made it more common.
I like to think that Wally saying he caught the fainted Ralts is him going through denial, grieving because he had knocked out the first Pokemon he had ever encountered in the wild. Even going as far as to catch another Ralts and say that its the same one from before.
Proud to have experienced the Gold Trainer card dialogue in the Hoenn games. One of the only games where you don't have to trade across games to complete it Edit: the only games where only the regional dex is required rather than the national dex. There are still a few required trades for both gen 3 & 6 games, but no mass migration from older games required
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need to trade for Ruby/Sapphire exclusives like Shuppet, Lunatone, Zangoose and the other Lati. Ofc you can still use Glitzer Popping to get any pokemon.
@Protofall I'm fairly certain you can catch all of these pokemon in swarms by watching the TV. Assuming you don't have a dry battery. I know for sure you can get Surskit this way, so I'm guessing that also works for the others Edit: no idea on the other Lati tho, didn't see that the first time I read your comment
@@PinkSheepification According to bulbapedia, pokemon like Zangoose can't be found in swarms. Instead the swarm on route 114 is for a higher chance of finding Nuzleaf (1% -> 50%)
@@Protofall you are right, I was thinking that you didn't have to trade across generations (like in almost every other game you need the National Dex not just the regional), but forgot that even in Emerald there are some unattainable. I must have traded for those few but didn't remember
I actually discovered both alola facts by accident. For the chair animation, I once saw that you could sit in it, so of course I did, getting the animation. For exeggcutor island, however, I actually used it to grind and evolve dex mons, meaning I would go there quite a lot, and I might have someday just gone there early
That's exactly what it is. That audio cue is still in the game. Theres the normal level up ding and a special ding when your pokemon can evolve after the battle. Its just kinda hard to notice less you're cheating and giving yourself multiple levels worth of XP
First time viewer of this channel, so sorry if this has been covered, but a (sort of) cutscene not mentioned here that I didn't know about for a game I'd played endlessly for nearly 25 years: In Pokemon R/B, if you defeat your rival on Route 22 without having obtained any Pokeballs or any Pokemon besides your starter, and talk to Prof. Oak before either reaching Pewter City or before obtaining the Boulder Badge, he'll comment on you not having caught any Pokemon, saying that catching a variety of Pokemon will make your journey easier, and give you five Pokeballs.
Blue version was my first video game ever when I was 5 years old. My older sister and I were huge fans of the show, but where she actually paid attention to the catching tutorial in Silver version, I assumed the game was like the show and you caught Pokémon after making them faint. I got halfway through the game with only my Bulbasaur/Ivysaur/Venusaur. So Wally making the Ralts faint and still saying he caught it is always very nostalgic for me, because I feel like he's just operating with my five-year-old brain 🤣
I've done something similar to that Mudkip ending. I cheated straight to the elite 4 with just a Swampert and only saw the Mudkip line in the ending. That's how I knew about it.
I went to the Toys R Us event for Arceus, and I talked to the NPC and got the Flame Plate. That part was pretty well documented back in the day. But I had no idea there was a second part to the event?? I don't recall any websites at the time covering it.
I also attended the Arceus event and I do remember some sites covering the Canalave half of the event, I got real excited for it because I loved the gen 4 folklore. Both parts were documented well before the Toys R Us event because it also worked with the Japan Movie Arceus too, which was distributed several months before the Toys R Us one. Usally Pokémon Co was good at the time at bringing up the in-game event details, but they skimped on Arceus because they were pushing people to trade it to HGSS for the Shinjo Ruins event, which is probably why most sites didn't bring it up.
@@FreddyBGood-gb2ky The machines were basically just DS' with a special distribution cart. Those carts are VERY hard to find and command a good price as most were sent back to Nintendo to be destroyed
The Guzma's chair animation isn't really obscure, not only I got it, I remember it was posted everywhere when the game came out. And probably I played a lot of SM because I remember the exeggutor island too. While the NPC from the Arceus event used to be obscure, recently it came into the spotlight because people started theorizing that NPC might be Volo, so a lot of people know him now.
An episode where I actually witnessed two of them! (That I'm aware of) I instinctively sat in Guzma's chair and got yelled at by the grunt haha. And the ending of the green 3 games, if you have more than one registered, but not enough to fill out the spots, it will just sort of sit there with no more pictures showing until the credits.
The Mudkip one sounded familiar and then you reminded me of who did it legitimately! I used to watch Zuzuki Kenzou's "Complete the pokedex using only Used Pokemon Copies"! He's awesome :D
While all your videos have been fully of really interesting facts, the ship cutscene in Emerald is the first one to have legitimately blown my mind. To have played a game for almost 20 years and still have no idea about something like that is incredible.
I was personally surprised to see it on the list, doesn't one of the NPCs on the boat tell you to "enjoy the view out the window" or something like that? I don't think I would've done it without prompting, but I did know about it already. Though perhaps I'm wrong and just discovered it by accident
8:40 I actually stumbled upon that one in my first ultra moon playthrough. those games have so many funny events and dialogue like that. makes you just want to talk to everything.
I was lucky enough to get a non-cheated in Arceus during that short span. This makes me wanna go back in for those cutscenes lmao! Still got the save file since it was my first ever game:)
THANK YOU Phin for your incredible research and presentation of these obscure Pokémon facts. These are my favorite videos of all time on UA-cam and they wouldnt exist without you.
I actually knew about Emeralds ending being the pokemon you've caught in your dex. I realized this after doing a challenge run with specific pokemon and having caught the legendary pokemon when they appeared on the credits.
For the Exeggutor Island one, you can also get the cutscene by flying there, you don’t have to take the boat. I’ve gone there hundreds of times to shiny hunt Exeggcutes for an annual Easter event, and it’s actually kind of annoying since I just want to get my sos chain started 😅
I remember when Emerald wasn't all that old I caught my first ralts which was shiny immediately after Wally caught his and that shiny basically cemented Ralts as being my favorite pokemon from then. The other reason for my love of Ralts is that episode with Max.
A few weeks ago, I got to play Pokémon emerald and actually finishing it for the first time. I always played the game as a child but had no idea what to do after the first badge and would get stuck, so I decided as a grown up to finish a game I was curious about. When I went on the ship on my play-through, I clicked on the window and saw the animation mentioned in the video, I thought everyone knew about it, so I was very surprised to see it in one of your videos. Nevertheless there is still so much to learn from all of these games even though they are so old, I really appreciate these videos
Nice video, BlueBoyPhin! I also only recently learned about Nurse Joy's special message for Gold Trainer Cards in Emerald. My brother and I have Gold Trainer Cards in Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, and LeafGreen...but not Emerald, so we haven't unlocked that hidden message yet. We're hoping to do it one day, though! For your trivia about the Pokémon that appear in the credits of Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, they are indeed mostly randomly pulled from Pokémon in the Pokédex...except for one! The last image is always the player's starter Pokémon. I think it serves as a reminder of the player's humble beginnings as a trainer. Come to think of it, I suppose that's why for the credits in ORAS, they inserted images of the player's Pokémon throughout some important battles.
I generally only watch these kinds of videos in incognito mode so they don't show up in my stream when they turn out to be junk, but after doing so, I'm so impressed you will now receive the highest honor I bestow: A well deserved subscribe. Such a cool video.
3:20 that audio/visual ding on the level up to level 7. Thats because thats the level Caterpie evolves into metapod. Its like an early indication you're gonna evolve. The audio cue is still in the game, its just the special wipe over the status bar that was removed.
As a kid I always watched the ship in emerald with that birdeye view… it was lovely Didnt know any other secret and I was stunned the whole time Btw this video also shows how Sun and Moon are underrated. There are so many details and remember it’s the last game with full pokedex so u better replay it and put it in the S tier lol
I did know about the Ralts thing due to the GDQ randomizer run. In that run, the runners talked about how Wally could knock out whatever randomly generated pokemon instead of catching it, which technically saves time. Nevermind that the run went kinda long due to awful RNG at one of the earlier gyms. :p
I got the french version of the Michina Arceus from a store back in the day, and i just checked if my game had that secret event unlocked without me noticing. And surely enough, it does!
That Arceus one is pretty interesting. I got quite a few event Pokémon during Gen 4, but not sure if I got that one. The only Arceus I remember getting was a level 100 one that I got from an event I think in X and then forgot about till I was showing the game to my friend and encountered the Mystery Gift delivery guy (basically I had claimed the Mystery Gift but just never picked it up). That one with the S.S. Tidal is also pretty cool though!
I swear as a kid I remember Claire not giving me a badge and being soo mad. She's still my favorite gym leader because of how difficult she was for me as a kid. Plus she's just cool
I actually got the "Sit on Guzma's Thrown" cutscene as well as the "Executor Island sun/moon bathing" cutscene in my playthroughs of the the Alola games. They were really interesting and fun to see little easter eggs like that, especially when knowing nothing about them beforehand. I'm curious if the last one is purely because you guys hacked the game. I have seen solo play throughs before and don't remember seeing the same pokemon get flashed like that multiple times (Alpharad's Mudkip only video for example). I wonder if that is something that would be different between an original cartridge vs an emulator, though I feel that is highly unlikely.
Absolutely fantastic as always c: I'm.. Genuinely in awe over the level up animation! It's unfortunate that was missed in the versions we got, it would've been a very cute indicator even if a bit redundant. The zigzagoon/poochy climbing is also great
I actually knew a vast majority of these this time! When I was a kid, I saw the emerald boat cutscene because I inspected everything I could. I also sat in Guzma’s throne once he left in gen 7, and the Ralts one is well documented in speedrunning circles. I knew the trainer card ones, though I have never gotten them myself. I also got the exeggutor cutscene while shiny hunting around midnight. I got the Toys R’ Us Arceus as a kid, and learned about the Arceus cutscenes after the fact, but I never went back for the cutscenes. I probably should. And lastly, I knew about the Pokédex one in gen 3, because I did a nuzlocke and ended up with a mostly empty Pokédex. These weren’t as obscure as the others in this series, but I also know I have played pokemon more than most, so I’m sure a lot of people have never seen these before.
I actually had the chance to see Wally knock out the Ralts a few years ago, I found it very funny that this is even possible. There are a few new nice facts in this video, glad I watched it :D
Was just doing a rewatch of this series, and now I get an additional vid! Knew a bit of these, like the event with the Skull Grunt and how the RSE credits work. Few of these are really interesting though such as the lost animations. I do wonder if that event Arceus is in the Mystery Gift DNS, so that people can experience it as close to legit as possible still.
This is incredible! I thought I knew a lot of obscure Pokemon facts, but I had only known about a couple of these. Super fascinating, thanks for sharing!
I actually remember getting the Dragon Fang dialog! My friends and I were doing a randomizer, and I had found the item earlier on. It was funny at the time, but I didn't think anything of it
The only ones I knew about were the two in the Shady House, young me heard about the Deli bird ages ago. And also I hadn't grabbed the Bugnium Z the first time I was the Guzma's room (pro though it was just decor) and when I came back to grab it, I also inspected the chair. Had the little cutscene play out and now whenever I'm in that room or see that room from SM/USUM, I remember that cutscene.
Considering they have 99 Master Balls. No duh, it's a cheated file. There are cheats that consider catched pokemon as vactories rhat give XP in turn. The animation however from what others have said is real.
I got the trainer card cutscene in Diamond and Platinum since I was aiming for the elusive black trainer card. Didn't know it started in gen 3. And I actually do have that Toys R Us Arceus. Don't quite recall meeting that NPC, but I feel like I probably did.
The arceus event is triggered by how you obtained the pokemon. You need to edit save data and specifically have it obtained through the mystery box to set the flag off for the ncp.
I actually remember the first time I ever went to Exeggutor Island I saw them sunbathing, at the time I figured it was just a guaranteed cutscene for when you go there the first time so I though it was no big deal. I was also one of the people who got a Toys R Us Arceus, so that was cool.
there is a really rare post-game cutscene in legends Arceus that play where Cyllene and Kamado talk about him studying more about Pokémon and her taking over as the leader of the organization. you get a comet shard out of it. I don't know how to trigger the event but it maybe random with relation to your story progress.
I've seen the Team Skull building ones and I think the Exegutor one as well, and I've also seen the Croagunk one in the beginning. I'm also glad I'm not the only one who knew about the legitimate Arceus release. I was three when it happened, so I wasn't quite playing Pokémon yet. I'd heard that about 8 people had gotten one. I thought I was going crazy or maybe I was fed false information somewhere online, but I can go tell my friends I was right-- thank you.
I have a pokemon fact that i'm 100% sure nobody here knows. So, did you know that in Emerald there is an unused event for a surfing Pichu egg, that was only discovered a few years ago, and can be triggered with pomeg glitch arbitrary code execution? Oh, you did? Good. But there is something about this event that you actually don't know. See, the way this surfing Pichu egg works is the game just gives you a regular Pichu egg, and then after you receive it it looks for it inside of your party and teaches it surf. It actually runs checks to see if it's in 2nd slot, 3rd slot, 4th slot, 5th slot or 6th slot. ... but it doesn't check for the 1st slot. Because obviously under normal circumstances a pokemon you just obtained can't be in the first slot of your party, as you can't just walk around with no pokemon on you. However, with a pomeg glitch subglitch known as instant pomeg glitch it's actually possible to have an empty slot as the first slot in your party, and if you do the Pichu egg will be in the first slot. And so... the game will fail to teach it surf. That's right, what's even more rare than an undistributed surfing Pichu? An undistributed surfing Pichu that can't surf.
3:13 I think I have a good idea for what that special effect was for. It didn't flash like that on level 6, but level 7 is also the level Caterpie evolves. So, it could be informing the player that this is a special level up, and that the pokemon is going to evolve this level. I think it would've been really cool to have, personally
Regarding the level up animation, considering Caterpie evolves at that exact level, I wonder if it was supposed to show the player that their pokemon was ready to evolve.
That's what I was thinking. It'd be a nice way to get the player excited for it!
I too thought so
I did too
yeah I was gonna comment this! seems likely to me.
Why did he gain exp from catching a Pokémon tho? Isn’t that a gen 6 mechanic?
I actually saw the broken wally zigzagoon cutscene as a kid. I genuinely thought my game was broken and asked all around school if anyone else had that happen and literally EVERYONE thought I was lying. Glad to know that wasn't just a fever dream lmao.
Sucks when no one believes you on crap like that. I had a player taken off the field in an ambulance in an early Madden game and I noticed the Happy Birthday message in H3, but I didn't have internet at the time, nor did I realize what the significance was. I thought it was aimed at Jesus of all things.
My Pokémon centre said my Pokémon had pokerus and my friends didn’t believe me until I showed them later. I know the feeling.
@@floydpulley3509 At least you knew the significance of yours. The "Happy Birthday" wasn't discovered by anyone else for another few years. I think it was like 6 years later. I'm such a dolt 😅
@@LegendStormcrowwhat’s the happy birthday thing you’re talking about? I’m curious
i had this when i got the ending in hey you pikachu, i had a few friends who played it and they thought i was full of shit until many years later when youtube was a thing and i found a video of the ending
I don't think the "cheating"-line from Claire is talking about cheating as in "hacking", just cheating as in not going to get the item yourself but "asking a friend to give you one" (if you would look at it from the character's perspective)
Claire might be salty AF, but it's great to see that there was foresight to catch players who would try to abuse the trading mechanic with the items.
I agree with that.
That's what I was thinking too.
Why does everyone keep saying Claire if at 7:13 it's clearly Clair???
That's almost certainly what it's for, as nowhere else in any of the games does it try to account for hacking, anc trading pokemon and items is a built-in feature, so they know it's possible you get the item from someone else, so they accounted for that.
I loved the ending of R/S/E because of the pokemon showing up. I realized they were the ones I had caught, and it felt like we were ending our adventure together.
I always thought that was so cool
3:26 I think it signifies that your pokemon is gonna evolve after the battle. Caterpie in particular evolves at level 7 and that noise does play during the evolution cutscene.
Yeah this is what I would use as a tell when I'm trying to level a Pokemon up to its evolution level
Either that or it's a signifier that that's the end of any level-ups.
I’ve heard people say that gen 5 is the last game with actual interesting hidden content, but gen 7 for instance has a surprising amount of hidden things in it. I assume people view newer games as having less obscure content due to the fact that every hidden fact or detail is usually plastered all across the internet day one, if not leaked beforehand.
Gen 7 has some amazing sidequesty stuff. The haunted school is awesome
i think part of the reason why people refuse the hidden depths of newer games is partially because of the internet. most of the actual secrets get shared the moment the game is out, so instead of the mysterious aura of not knowing what is and isn't real about your games based on rumours from your friends, you just get immediate confirmation on whether or not anything in the game is real
People can't avoid spoilers anymore..
@@LinkinPark4Ever1996 For gen 7? The games are 8 years old... Unless you mean avoiding spoilers in new games I'd imagine most folks aren't coming in fresh to sun/moon and if you are you're kinda outside the timeline to ask for the etiquette of folks not discussing the story.
@@Eta_Hoyimi that's not at all what I meant.
Like OP said, newer games have their secret stuff leaked day one almost, because there's people immediately digging the source code, compared to older games where the secret stuff would slowly come out and that was a lot cooler
Something that wounds me about the Ralts knockout is that it's actually a pretty significant time save for speedrunning! That means if someone gets their God run while also getting just the perfect IVs on that Zigzagoon, the category might die for a long time!
Oh! And I believe that Hiker who knows about Arceus to be the same Hiker as the one at Sinjoh Ruins in HeartGold SoulSilver! He also begins his text with "Oh! We meet again!" if you get that obscure cutscene from visiting the ruins a second time. Same as his second time in Diamond & Pearl!
don't they file speedruns that use stuff unable to be replicated with technique in a different category? Something you have to reset the game 8000 times for isn't exactly replicable
Boys, we found the wholesome guy! You know the one, the one in all of our childhoods! We love that guy!
It him!
You rock dude!
@@nathanielbass771 Considering how heavily all the gameplay of the Pokemon games themselves are RNG based, there's not much point in filtering runs out just because they got extremely lucky with RNG.
The Clair line was likely because of the held item trade possibility. In the Gen 2 games Nintendo put a lot of effort into fixing exploits and softlocks, they probably did quite a bit of testing for the held item trades. From a programming standpoint it's quite easy to do, when you speak to Clair after she's told you to get the Dragon Fang the game checks two things: your inventory to see if you have said fang, and a flag that's set when you pick the fang up. Games like this use flag values to prevent items from respawning or players from reversing their own progress. Clair has different responses depending on the status of those two checks, I'm curious if there's also dialog for if the fang has been picked up but is not in your inventory (IE you gave it to a Pokémon and either stored them in a box or traded them away).
Kind of like Sinnoh badge checker for Elite 4 won't let you in unless you actually have obtained all badges.
Or moreso all the Sinnoh walk through walls exploits using integer limits and the safari retire flag to activate obscure events
I was just thinking that they only coded it so that the only way that Clair would give you the badge is in the specific area in the Dragon's Den after you found the item.
I don't think it's as complicated as you're making it out to be. Since it's not possible for her to give the badge in the actual gym, they just added that line of dialogue if you showed up with the Dragon Fang at all, legit or not. It was probably designed that way mainly because otherwise, if you could get the badge from her in the gym with a Dragon Fang and get the badge from her in Dragon's Den, that could cause issues, and the fix they'd have to do would be more complicated, so they just went with the simplest fix possible for that scenario.
The only reason I know about Claire denying you the Badge is because of Pikasprey, since he had randomized items on, he figured "Well since I already have it, I may as well show it to Clair." and was absolutely shocked when he read what Claire said.
thats so good XD is that the "map randomizer"?
Is there a video or a stream vod of it?
@@Noname-cd4wg Pokémon Gold and Silver Randomized with 2 Controllers.
@@Noname-cd4wg If you want a much older VOD, Pokémon Gold with a Teddiursa as a starter is where he discovers it. From 2 years ago at 3:08:09
I was wondering where I learned this fact. I thought it was one of these videos that mentioned it originally and so I was sitting here scratching my head being like "I know this, and I'm pretty sure you were the one who told me ages ago, Phin". But yeah, makes sense it was Pikasprey
For the caterpie one, i think that originally when a pokemon reached a level where they would evolve during battle, it would play that unique level up animation. I’m pretty sure this is the case since for Caterpie, it happened at level 7, which is the level where it evolves into Metapod
That animation is so good though, no clue why they got rid of it
How did the Caterpie get experience from catching Oddish though?
@@lazerbeam134 if i had to guess it was a mod or something as i dont think a level 7 caterpie would normally give 300 xp under any condition
Can confirm. Played a ROM hack which contained this feature.
@@lazerbeam134 iirc, the red/green remakes were the first games where you can get exp from catching a 'mon, though i think it's less than you'd get for a knockout. the remakes were made to be extremely easy and hand-holdy to an annoying degree and included a lot of stuff like that.
if i were to guess, the animation was supposed to play if you leveled up multiple times in a row? the sound as is in that scenario is slightly different, and maybe the extended animation for it was considered excessive.
I love the idea of Wally just knocking out the Ralts, then just walking up to it and catching the very dead Ralts and being all like
"I did it.. It's my Pokémon!"
One time I played a mod that made it so that the player's pokemon are randomized every battle, and wally got a regirock that only had explosion and instakilled the ralts
Well, it suits him
Imagine being a kid and watching the catching tutorial knock out the pokemon, you might take a while to learn how to correctly catch pokemon thinking you need to knock them out
Wally no thats not how you do it hahaha
What
Its its dead wally you cant catch a dead pokemon
Why not this is not a nuzlocke and wdym dead it just fainted
Oh sorry im the one doing a nuzlocke it just slipped well enjoy your dead pokemon i guess i need to hurry bye
Ok
The pokemon wouldn't be "dead" right? Just fainted.
Pokemon logic dictates that you can't catch a fainted pokemon, for some reason. Even though that would just make it easier.
I actually saw the scene where the Skull grunt yells at you in the Shady House on my first playthrough! After Guzma left, I just thought it would be funny to sit on his throne like “it’s mine now” and was delighted to see there was a little easter egg scene :)
I mean really, who didn't sit there xD
@@lokis_dadlitterallyyy
The Claire Thing is probably the game checking if you have the Dragon Fang in your bag and if the event in the Dragons Den has triggered. I wonder if they did this to avoid sequence breaking the plot
what if you get rid of the fang ?
She gives you the badge inside the Dragons Den right after you get the fang. You don't go back to talk to her at all, and you have no opportunity to do so when doing it properly.
Pretty sure its event based, because if memory serves I once went through the den with a gameshark code that allowed me to walk through walls, and got the fang. Then I went back to Claire and got that message. I thought it was because I literally was cheating, but I was also just a kid at the time. In retrospect it was probably because I didn't trigger the events properly.
I was fortunate enough to experience the Arceus event as my local Kmart hosted it. It was probably my favourite event, even compared to the Darkrai and Shaymin ones. I loved reading about the Sinnoh lore in the Canalave library and was blown away by the event triggered by taking that same Arceus to the Ruins of Alph in HGSS!
Yeah my friend told me about that and he had an event arcues action replayed in that he let me borrow for that, very cool, and another friend also got with me and we traded the hoen legends to get rayquaza
I actually discovered some of my OWN hidden text-In Heartgold/Soulsilver when you're hiding as a Rocket Grunt, every single NPC has unique diologue-including ALL the NPCs outside of the clerks in the Department store! I only discovered this due to my nuzlocke in Heartgold making me go and buy some healing items-and I chatted to an NPC by accident. Seeing the unique text, I went and chatted to everyone I could! It's really interesting, I don't know how many people documented or discovered this but I've never heard of it until I ran into it myself!
I have no clue if this is rare, but I always read these messages in my playthroughs. I love to be a Rocket and try to squeeze every second of it xD
I LOVED going through Goldenrod City as a Rocket grunt! It's sad that in future games where you could dress as another grunt (Skull, Yell), you don't get anybody making comments about your attire, not even from Guzma or Piers. It would've been cute to see Guzma getting excited about taking on the Battle Tree with one of his li'l homies from his gang. Of course, nobody in-universe takes those teams seriously like how they do with Team Rocket, so normal NPCs would probably think "eh, whatever".
I hate that the Rocket Grunts don't let you leave and you can't use overworld moves like Fly or Teleport until Silver busts your disguise.
@@alishac5540interesting you say that, just binged all these videos to now, because that seems like an oversight by gamefreak/Pokémon co because even extremely obscure things were easter eggs. Must be something related to how these attention to details dropped off significantly after bw2. (Imo could be that they consider the 2d games were all played by og fans, and the shift to 3D was to bring in new fans, so no need for obscure references. Although they could’ve easily continued unique dialogue for such a unique mechanic that has only used in a few games)
I did the same a few months back when I replayed Soul Silver. I don't think it's a hidden thing at all
I actually had no clue it was rare to see the hiker I used to ride the lift constantly just because it was fun; I love lil cutscenes of riding stuff (I wanted to watch the train ride each time in shield). My favorite part of gen 3 as a kid was riding the lift and making my way to lay in sand to hatch some eggs then making my way down to my secret base from there because I would love to do contests between the cities and my base. I think base building is probably my most missed feature (why can't we at least decorate our rooms anymore? Or the new dorms?)
Wally’s zigzagoon knocking out the ralts is well-known in the speedrunning community as it would save lots of time over watching Wally throw a pokeball and catch the ralts.
If anyone else noticed with the missing level-up animation, that was the level that Caterpie evolves at. Most likely it was gonna be an animation to signal to a player that a Pokemon had hit its evolution requirement level up wise
The clair thing reminded me that, in the crown tundra dlc, I brought the necrozma I caught in sm to the researcher in the cave, trying to continue with the story without having to catch it ( i wanted to get it shiny). I remember I got a message saying something like "this is the creature but it comes from a different universe"
@esdigital5259Haha that's true! Silly and lame excuse by the game trying to force you to do more work
oh wow! I did attend the arceus event back in ‘09 and never knew this fact- I’ll definitely have to check my copy! I always learn something new from these videos even after loving the franchise for 20 years. 💗
First time I played emerald as a kid Wally killed his Ralts. I was confused and thought that was how you do it for the longest time. (First Pokémon game as a kid). My friends called me insane and I gaslit myself into believing I made it up. Until today. Thank you.
Hahaha
It's probably not as obscure as Arceus one, but back in the day there was a special distribution Regigigas in Platinum that changed few empty caves with single items into special rooms where you could encounter Regirock, Regice and Registers.
I know this is 1 year old but registers LMAO
Similar to the Ralts KO, there's a similar phenomenon that can happen in Pokémon Colosseum. At one point, there's a scripted battle between Eagun and a cipher grunt named Skrub. Eagun uses a Pikachu, while Skrub uses a shadow Hitmontop. The fight is supposed to end with Skrub winning and a cutscene playing afterwards that indicates this, making way for the player to battle them. Because Eagun's Pikachu has the Static ability, however, it is possible for the ability to trigger on turn 1, then have Hitmontop get paralyzed for enough turns after that to lose the fight. I have seen this happen myself, but I didn't record it, so I hope that someday someone proves this possibility with video
I've had this happen as well. I wanted Eagun to rub it in Skrub's face, but too bad...
I've heard that bit of trivia before, though I've never seen it myself. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that if that happens the game just reruns the fight until he loses, right?
@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK Yep. It doesn't allow Skrub to lose.
@@k.d.2589 it didn't rerun the fight when it happened to me. The fight ended, and then the scene continued as though Skrub had won
@@gengallade That is interesting...
3:14 - "I have no clue what the purpose of this was. It's hard to say-". Hmmmn, it's almost like Caterpie evolves to Metapod at level 7.
Yeah it's like do you even know one of the most basic things about Pokemon?
I actually had that event Arceus! Never saw the cutscene unfortunately but that Arceus was interesting in that it also had the signature moves of dialga, palkia and giratina.
Damn could i have an autograph? Big fan of your work
They deleted #spam....
I remember when I discovered the watching the S.S. Tidal cutscene. I was traveling from Lilycove to Slateport and I went to sleep, but the game didn't spawn me in Slateport and I was like, "what?" so I looked at the Town Map and saw I was on the map just west of Pacifidlog, and when I checked again I was slightly farther west, suggesting the boat was moving across those routes in real time. Eventually it arrived in Slateport on it's own, so I did a run back to Lilycove and went to sleep, which teleported me there instantly instead of waking up mid-journey. Eventually I wondered why the routes west of Pacifidlog were simulated in real time, so I looked out the window and lo-and-behold there was the boat sailing through those routes. Was pretty cool to find. I'd imagine lots of players have wondered why you have to sleep twice going from Lilycove to Slateport without ever realizing that the boat cutscene was the reason.
I knew about the Emerald ending credits because I once did a playthrough that was just 6 Linoones, since I was just farming that playthrough for items. The credits were beautiful and I loved it. Im glad to see its getting proper recognition now.
I'm pretty sure Ruby and Sapphire also had those credits as well. I noticed it when I just doing normal playthroughs and thought, these pokemon are ones I caught
@ShadamyLover15 oh for sure those games had it too. I just remember that solo run because of the similar thing mentioned in the video.
@@ShadamyLover15 In my case I always had so many banked Pokémon it was functionally the same as seeing random wild Pokémon. :p
I just love how rich and deep the pokemon world is, you can immerse yourself for years and still discover more and more
I always love how you make these sound like they're true crime/unsolved mystery type things and not just Pokemon facts. The energy is so different from other Pokemon fact videos
Yeah, weird blameitonjorge energy with this one.
Imagine the paranoia I felt from watching this alone in the dark at 1:40 AM.
Pokemon obscure fact UA-camrs talk about a glitch more dramatically than crime UA-camrs talking about a real serial killer on the run
I like the theme. Makes it interesting.
Other videos. : * bright loud happy voice * today we will be talking about the scariest ghost Pokémon 🤩🤩🤩
There is another unique scene in HG/SS where you can actually make your mom angry. After you get the 8th badge and you get called by Prof Elm to get the Master Ball, if you instead try to go to Kanto before getting the Master Ball your mom will remind you Elm wants to talk, then ask why you ignore her, then tells you she starts to get angry. I found this randomly after I tried to rush to Kanto without doing the Ho-Oh part
My mom would be mad if i walked to the outside of our town at 10 so i can relate
Caterpie evolves at level 7. The hidden animation from the level up is probably indicative of that the Mon is about to Evolve.
Agreed, I wonder what would happen if you continued to level up or if you canceled the evolution and leveled up again. I'm thinking it would only play on the original level where it would have evoved.
Someone said pokemon where supposed to evolve mid battle which was cut from the game. The animation was supposedly used to reset the status bar after the evolution since the pokemons Name could change.
@@brotbrotsen1100 Ah neat.
good theory
What I wanna know is WHY IS HE GAINING EXP FROM CATCHING THE ENEMY?
Regarding 16:45, my starter in Omega Ruby was miraculously a shiny, and when getting to the credits, it showed up as a shiny there too.
Maybe since the first mudkip he got wasn't shiny it didn't work
And for you, the shiny was the first one registered to the pokedex
About the Arceus Hiker, it is theorized by Japanese people that that hiker is actually Volo, who is also popularly theorized to be immortal and lived for hundreds of years.
One reason this was a thing is that Volo uses uncommon first-person pronouns in Japanese. That hiker uses the same pronouns.
Also, Volo's Ginko Guild outfit actually slightly resembles a hiker outfit for some reason. And this is a hiker who is awfully enthusiastic about Arceus.
There are further theories that the hiker in SInjoh Ruins is the same Arceus in Platinum, which will also be theorized to be Volo for the very same reasons.
What adds up is, Sinjoh Ruins is a very specifically used to worship Arceus. And what other person do we see in there? Cynthia, who is supposedly the descendant of Volo or Cogita.
Edit. A lot of replies seem to fail to understand what I actually mean. They definitely won't have the plan of Volo when Platinum and HGSS just came out. What I was saying is, when the character Volo was planned during the development of Legends Arceus, they might took inspiration from these two specific hikers who worshipped Arceus.
I like gbis
Very cool theory
Mfer travels through all Faerun, takes the wrong portal and ends up in Pokemon world, wtf
@@danielsantarosa101 guess all Volos like writing in books
This is just stupid.
I can see how the hiker can be a descendant of Volo, or a member of the Ginko Guild, or something like that, but there is no way he is actually Volo.
And Volo has NOT lived that long, the immortal one is Cogita. She lived a very, very long amount of time and she is the original writer of the poems you can find around all Hisui.
You are the only one that manages to make a Pokémon fact video that actually has new information about the Pokémon world. Your effort in making this series is uncanny and immensely appreciated! I love these video through and through! Every time you release a new one; I grap my headphones, close the door, get comfortable and hope the video never ends...
fun fact about that arceus philosopher/hiker guy! he also appears in two other events between Pt&HGSS, and there is a very popular theory in the japanese side of the fanbase that he is actually Volo from Legends Arceus! the reason is that the philosopher speaks in a very (VERY) specific way, which is the exact same way Volo speaks in Japanese.
Japanese has a lot of different ways you can speak, like having polite/casual speech, many different first-person pronouns, and sentence enders that can make the vibe of your speech change.
Both the hiker and Volo speak with polite speech, friendly speech, and both use two different first person pronouns, which is already rare for a character to do (it's very common in real life tho), but BOTH pronouns are also very uncommon.
It's also supported by the fact that he's so knowledgeable on plates and sinnoh history, and appears around ruins which volo is known for doing. and the fact that he's a philosopher when Volo's name comes from a philosophical statement (volo, ergo sum). (cogito's name comes from the similar "cogito, ergo sum") Additionally, Cogito is hinted in game to have lived for way longer than normal human lifespan, and if Volo is related to her like he appears to be, then maybe he can too.
Or maybe he's just a weird reference to this random hiker guy!!!!!!
anyway if anyone's ever seen fanart of volo in a hiker outfit or in present day sinnoh, that is why 😇
Do you have more information about that? I highly doubt it's true, but I'll still check out this theory.
Big fan of this channel! I found it about 2 months ago from my recommended feed and I've been working my way through the obscure facts series. Love the deep cuts and the aesthetic of each title card.
I found the Exeggutor Island animation by total accident, didn't know it was supposed to be a secret.
Still, nothing will hit me like the time I had caught Pokerus in HeartGold. When the nurse suddenly started talking about a "virus", I freaked out a little. But then my cousin freaked out too, telling me I had pretty much found something far more rare and valuable than a shiny.
I got pokerus in Crystal!! The nurse told me about the virus and then Prof Elm called and told me but I was young and I just read "virus" and went to box the pokemon that was sick (hoping it would get better) but I cried when I saw my WHOLE TEAM was sick! I couldn't box my whole team but I think at least one of my pokemon did get boxed with it. I was so sad every time I saw the PKRS "status" on their summary screen, I thought I was a bad trainer.
Now I know better but MAN I was lucky!!
I got pokerus in HGSS and I am still annoyed that I can get the luckier than a shiny odds but I have played through almost every other mainline game and have only ever gotten scripted shinies
I somehow managed to get it from a wild pokemon in Sword a day after release. I was shocked that something so rare had happened, I thought for sure they must have made it more common.
I was lucky to get it few times in HGSS too
@@infernapekirbi2009 that'll change with a playthrough of lgpe or sv
I like to think that Wally saying he caught the fainted Ralts is him going through denial, grieving because he had knocked out the first Pokemon he had ever encountered in the wild. Even going as far as to catch another Ralts and say that its the same one from before.
Proud to have experienced the Gold Trainer card dialogue in the Hoenn games. One of the only games where you don't have to trade across games to complete it
Edit: the only games where only the regional dex is required rather than the national dex. There are still a few required trades for both gen 3 & 6 games, but no mass migration from older games required
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need to trade for Ruby/Sapphire exclusives like Shuppet, Lunatone, Zangoose and the other Lati. Ofc you can still use Glitzer Popping to get any pokemon.
@@Protofall Maybe in the remakes? GBA you're right, there are a few trade exclusives
@Protofall I'm fairly certain you can catch all of these pokemon in swarms by watching the TV. Assuming you don't have a dry battery. I know for sure you can get Surskit this way, so I'm guessing that also works for the others
Edit: no idea on the other Lati tho, didn't see that the first time I read your comment
@@PinkSheepification According to bulbapedia, pokemon like Zangoose can't be found in swarms. Instead the swarm on route 114 is for a higher chance of finding Nuzleaf (1% -> 50%)
@@Protofall you are right, I was thinking that you didn't have to trade across generations (like in almost every other game you need the National Dex not just the regional), but forgot that even in Emerald there are some unattainable. I must have traded for those few but didn't remember
I actually discovered both alola facts by accident. For the chair animation, I once saw that you could sit in it, so of course I did, getting the animation. For exeggcutor island, however, I actually used it to grind and evolve dex mons, meaning I would go there quite a lot, and I might have someday just gone there early
The Caterpie one is likely since caterpie can now evolve at level 7
That's what I was thinking as well.
That's exactly what it is. That audio cue is still in the game. Theres the normal level up ding and a special ding when your pokemon can evolve after the battle.
Its just kinda hard to notice less you're cheating and giving yourself multiple levels worth of XP
First time viewer of this channel, so sorry if this has been covered, but a (sort of) cutscene not mentioned here that I didn't know about for a game I'd played endlessly for nearly 25 years: In Pokemon R/B, if you defeat your rival on Route 22 without having obtained any Pokeballs or any Pokemon besides your starter, and talk to Prof. Oak before either reaching Pewter City or before obtaining the Boulder Badge, he'll comment on you not having caught any Pokemon, saying that catching a variety of Pokemon will make your journey easier, and give you five Pokeballs.
Blue version was my first video game ever when I was 5 years old. My older sister and I were huge fans of the show, but where she actually paid attention to the catching tutorial in Silver version, I assumed the game was like the show and you caught Pokémon after making them faint. I got halfway through the game with only my Bulbasaur/Ivysaur/Venusaur. So Wally making the Ralts faint and still saying he caught it is always very nostalgic for me, because I feel like he's just operating with my five-year-old brain 🤣
I've done something similar to that Mudkip ending. I cheated straight to the elite 4 with just a Swampert and only saw the Mudkip line in the ending. That's how I knew about it.
I went to the Toys R Us event for Arceus, and I talked to the NPC and got the Flame Plate. That part was pretty well documented back in the day. But I had no idea there was a second part to the event?? I don't recall any websites at the time covering it.
I also attended the Arceus event and I do remember some sites covering the Canalave half of the event, I got real excited for it because I loved the gen 4 folklore. Both parts were documented well before the Toys R Us event because it also worked with the Japan Movie Arceus too, which was distributed several months before the Toys R Us one.
Usally Pokémon Co was good at the time at bringing up the in-game event details, but they skimped on Arceus because they were pushing people to trade it to HGSS for the Shinjo Ruins event, which is probably why most sites didn't bring it up.
Wonder what happened to th machines that would give you an arceus
@@FreddyBGood-gb2ky The machines were basically just DS' with a special distribution cart. Those carts are VERY hard to find and command a good price as most were sent back to Nintendo to be destroyed
@@Icalasari any chance those special carts could be emulated if a dump of it can be found?
@@lssjvegeta7103the ROMs are around and can edited to make your own custom events
The Guzma's chair animation isn't really obscure, not only I got it, I remember it was posted everywhere when the game came out. And probably I played a lot of SM because I remember the exeggutor island too. While the NPC from the Arceus event used to be obscure, recently it came into the spotlight because people started theorizing that NPC might be Volo, so a lot of people know him now.
🤓 ok
An episode where I actually witnessed two of them! (That I'm aware of)
I instinctively sat in Guzma's chair and got yelled at by the grunt haha.
And the ending of the green 3 games, if you have more than one registered, but not enough to fill out the spots, it will just sort of sit there with no more pictures showing until the credits.
The Mudkip one sounded familiar and then you reminded me of who did it legitimately! I used to watch Zuzuki Kenzou's "Complete the pokedex using only Used Pokemon Copies"! He's awesome :D
While all your videos have been fully of really interesting facts, the ship cutscene in Emerald is the first one to have legitimately blown my mind. To have played a game for almost 20 years and still have no idea about something like that is incredible.
I was personally surprised to see it on the list, doesn't one of the NPCs on the boat tell you to "enjoy the view out the window" or something like that? I don't think I would've done it without prompting, but I did know about it already. Though perhaps I'm wrong and just discovered it by accident
8:40 I actually stumbled upon that one in my first ultra moon playthrough. those games have so many funny events and dialogue like that. makes you just want to talk to everything.
And the most evil evil team.
Who steals a bus stop? Diabolical.
I was lucky enough to get a non-cheated in Arceus during that short span. This makes me wanna go back in for those cutscenes lmao! Still got the save file since it was my first ever game:)
Cherish it ❤️
so cool !! very jealous of that haha
I know you can't just cheat in a TRU Arceus, but I know there are codes that can brute force certain mystery gifts to trigger
Me too, I remember being my parents to take me to toys r us
You can get that animation sitting in Guzma's throne in regular Sun & Moon, too.
THANK YOU Phin for your incredible research and presentation of these obscure Pokémon facts. These are my favorite videos of all time on UA-cam and they wouldnt exist without you.
I actually knew about Emeralds ending being the pokemon you've caught in your dex. I realized this after doing a challenge run with specific pokemon and having caught the legendary pokemon when they appeared on the credits.
For the Exeggutor Island one, you can also get the cutscene by flying there, you don’t have to take the boat. I’ve gone there hundreds of times to shiny hunt Exeggcutes for an annual Easter event, and it’s actually kind of annoying since I just want to get my sos chain started 😅
I remember when Emerald wasn't all that old I caught my first ralts which was shiny immediately after Wally caught his and that shiny basically cemented Ralts as being my favorite pokemon from then.
The other reason for my love of Ralts is that episode with Max.
A few weeks ago, I got to play Pokémon emerald and actually finishing it for the first time. I always played the game as a child but had no idea what to do after the first badge and would get stuck, so I decided as a grown up to finish a game I was curious about. When I went on the ship on my play-through, I clicked on the window and saw the animation mentioned in the video, I thought everyone knew about it, so I was very surprised to see it in one of your videos. Nevertheless there is still so much to learn from all of these games even though they are so old, I really appreciate these videos
Why is it that when I tried it, it didn't work on my end?
Nice video, BlueBoyPhin! I also only recently learned about Nurse Joy's special message for Gold Trainer Cards in Emerald. My brother and I have Gold Trainer Cards in Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, and LeafGreen...but not Emerald, so we haven't unlocked that hidden message yet. We're hoping to do it one day, though!
For your trivia about the Pokémon that appear in the credits of Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, they are indeed mostly randomly pulled from Pokémon in the Pokédex...except for one! The last image is always the player's starter Pokémon. I think it serves as a reminder of the player's humble beginnings as a trainer. Come to think of it, I suppose that's why for the credits in ORAS, they inserted images of the player's Pokémon throughout some important battles.
I generally only watch these kinds of videos in incognito mode so they don't show up in my stream when they turn out to be junk, but after doing so, I'm so impressed you will now receive the highest honor I bestow: A well deserved subscribe. Such a cool video.
3:20 that audio/visual ding on the level up to level 7. Thats because thats the level Caterpie evolves into metapod. Its like an early indication you're gonna evolve. The audio cue is still in the game, its just the special wipe over the status bar that was removed.
The Caterpie going to level 7 and the box shining is probably indicating that Caterpie is able to evolve. After all, Caterpies evolve at level 7.
I check for the croagunk every single time I visit the area, as I saw it once as a kid and thought it was supposed to be every time
I'm so happy to see how Mudkip is so universally loved. Best starter ever.
I am always looking forward to these videos of yours. I love that your obscure facts are infact actually obscure. Keep up the good work.
In Diamond and Pearl, if you get a starter pokemon, then evolve it before you talk to professor Rowan to get your Pokedex, you get secret dialogue
I believe i know what the Caterpie one is. If i remember right Lvl 7 was the original first evolution lvl in the first pokemon games
As a kid I always watched the ship in emerald with that birdeye view… it was lovely
Didnt know any other secret and I was stunned the whole time
Btw this video also shows how Sun and Moon are underrated. There are so many details and remember it’s the last game with full pokedex so u better replay it and put it in the S tier lol
I actually saw the Delibird in the chimney the very first time i ever played Sun! I didn’t know it was considered “rare”!
I sat down in the throne on my first run 😂😂😂 we both knew one of these
I did know about the Ralts thing due to the GDQ randomizer run. In that run, the runners talked about how Wally could knock out whatever randomly generated pokemon instead of catching it, which technically saves time. Nevermind that the run went kinda long due to awful RNG at one of the earlier gyms. :p
Then what pokemon will he have in the next encounter?
I got the french version of the Michina Arceus from a store back in the day, and i just checked if my game had that secret event unlocked without me noticing. And surely enough, it does!
That Arceus one is pretty interesting. I got quite a few event Pokémon during Gen 4, but not sure if I got that one. The only Arceus I remember getting was a level 100 one that I got from an event I think in X and then forgot about till I was showing the game to my friend and encountered the Mystery Gift delivery guy (basically I had claimed the Mystery Gift but just never picked it up).
That one with the S.S. Tidal is also pretty cool though!
Arceus was like: do not make thou waitith.
Maybe that audio cue for Caterpie is when it's about to evolve since Caterpie evolves at level 7
Now imagine how rare the gen 3 catching cutscenes would be with both ralts and zigzagoon being shiny and the KO occuring
I swear as a kid I remember Claire not giving me a badge and being soo mad.
She's still my favorite gym leader because of how difficult she was for me as a kid. Plus she's just cool
I love that she accuses you of cheating for that
Despite the player in the clip having used walk through walls to get to her
I actually got the "Sit on Guzma's Thrown" cutscene as well as the "Executor Island sun/moon bathing" cutscene in my playthroughs of the the Alola games. They were really interesting and fun to see little easter eggs like that, especially when knowing nothing about them beforehand.
I'm curious if the last one is purely because you guys hacked the game. I have seen solo play throughs before and don't remember seeing the same pokemon get flashed like that multiple times (Alpharad's Mudkip only video for example). I wonder if that is something that would be different between an original cartridge vs an emulator, though I feel that is highly unlikely.
I KNEW I wasn't crazy when I remembered Wally failing to catch his Ralts once.
I KNEW IT!
Absolutely fantastic as always c:
I'm.. Genuinely in awe over the level up animation! It's unfortunate that was missed in the versions we got, it would've been a very cute indicator even if a bit redundant.
The zigzagoon/poochy climbing is also great
I love it, but I know speedrunners would hate it XD
3:20 Maybe it was a way to tell the player the Pokémon is ready to evolve already, since Caterpie evolves into Metapod at level 7.
I actually knew a vast majority of these this time!
When I was a kid, I saw the emerald boat cutscene because I inspected everything I could. I also sat in Guzma’s throne once he left in gen 7, and the Ralts one is well documented in speedrunning circles. I knew the trainer card ones, though I have never gotten them myself. I also got the exeggutor cutscene while shiny hunting around midnight. I got the Toys R’ Us Arceus as a kid, and learned about the Arceus cutscenes after the fact, but I never went back for the cutscenes. I probably should. And lastly, I knew about the Pokédex one in gen 3, because I did a nuzlocke and ended up with a mostly empty Pokédex.
These weren’t as obscure as the others in this series, but I also know I have played pokemon more than most, so I’m sure a lot of people have never seen these before.
It’s amazing that even after several of these videos over a year, I’m still learning things about these games.
Been missing the videos man welcome back
I actually had the chance to see Wally knock out the Ralts a few years ago, I found it very funny that this is even possible.
There are a few new nice facts in this video, glad I watched it :D
Was just doing a rewatch of this series, and now I get an additional vid!
Knew a bit of these, like the event with the Skull Grunt and how the RSE credits work. Few of these are really interesting though such as the lost animations.
I do wonder if that event Arceus is in the Mystery Gift DNS, so that people can experience it as close to legit as possible still.
That’s a really good point actually I would assume so
This is incredible! I thought I knew a lot of obscure Pokemon facts, but I had only known about a couple of these. Super fascinating, thanks for sharing!
I actually remember getting the Dragon Fang dialog! My friends and I were doing a randomizer, and I had found the item earlier on. It was funny at the time, but I didn't think anything of it
The only ones I knew about were the two in the Shady House, young me heard about the Deli bird ages ago. And also I hadn't grabbed the Bugnium Z the first time I was the Guzma's room (pro though it was just decor) and when I came back to grab it, I also inspected the chair. Had the little cutscene play out and now whenever I'm in that room or see that room from SM/USUM, I remember that cutscene.
I'm pretty skeptic of the Level up animation because gen 3 doesn't give exp from catching a pokemon. That's at the very least a rom hack.
Good catch. I wasn't even paying enough attention that the Oddish wasn't knocked out to give the exp.
Considering they have 99 Master Balls. No duh, it's a cheated file. There are cheats that consider catched pokemon as vactories rhat give XP in turn. The animation however from what others have said is real.
@@linhero797 no doubt a cheated save, but cheated save != rom hack
She learned that water bottles are no longer just to hold liquid, but they're also status symbols.
I got the trainer card cutscene in Diamond and Platinum since I was aiming for the elusive black trainer card. Didn't know it started in gen 3.
And I actually do have that Toys R Us Arceus. Don't quite recall meeting that NPC, but I feel like I probably did.
Wally caught the pokemon because he was smart enough to catch an unconscious pokemon
Another banger BlueBoyPhin video! I love the intro 😮
So engaging ❤❤
The arceus event is triggered by how you obtained the pokemon. You need to edit save data and specifically have it obtained through the mystery box to set the flag off for the ncp.
These videos are really cool and interesting! obscure facts are the best and really fun to see!
I actually remember the first time I ever went to Exeggutor Island I saw them sunbathing, at the time I figured it was just a guaranteed cutscene for when you go there the first time so I though it was no big deal. I was also one of the people who got a Toys R Us Arceus, so that was cool.
there is a really rare post-game cutscene in legends Arceus that play where Cyllene and Kamado talk about him studying more about Pokémon and her taking over as the leader of the organization. you get a comet shard out of it.
I don't know how to trigger the event but it maybe random with relation to your story progress.
I've seen the Team Skull building ones and I think the Exegutor one as well, and I've also seen the Croagunk one in the beginning.
I'm also glad I'm not the only one who knew about the legitimate Arceus release. I was three when it happened, so I wasn't quite playing Pokémon yet. I'd heard that about 8 people had gotten one.
I thought I was going crazy or maybe I was fed false information somewhere online, but I can go tell my friends I was right-- thank you.
I have a pokemon fact that i'm 100% sure nobody here knows.
So, did you know that in Emerald there is an unused event for a surfing Pichu egg, that was only discovered a few years ago, and can be triggered with pomeg glitch arbitrary code execution?
Oh, you did? Good. But there is something about this event that you actually don't know.
See, the way this surfing Pichu egg works is the game just gives you a regular Pichu egg, and then after you receive it it looks for it inside of your party and teaches it surf. It actually runs checks to see if it's in 2nd slot, 3rd slot, 4th slot, 5th slot or 6th slot.
... but it doesn't check for the 1st slot. Because obviously under normal circumstances a pokemon you just obtained can't be in the first slot of your party, as you can't just walk around with no pokemon on you. However, with a pomeg glitch subglitch known as instant pomeg glitch it's actually possible to have an empty slot as the first slot in your party, and if you do the Pichu egg will be in the first slot. And so... the game will fail to teach it surf. That's right, what's even more rare than an undistributed surfing Pichu? An undistributed surfing Pichu that can't surf.
I'm pretty sure you can put an egg in the first spot of your team. In battle it will then just send out the second pokemon.
@@EskChan19 I didn't say you couldn't do that
Haha I love this! That’s a great one!
The music and vibe of your videos are so dream esque.. very calming
3:13
I think I have a good idea for what that special effect was for.
It didn't flash like that on level 6, but level 7 is also the level Caterpie evolves. So, it could be informing the player that this is a special level up, and that the pokemon is going to evolve this level. I think it would've been really cool to have, personally