Obscure Pokémon Facts SPECIAL EPISODE: Hidden Locations

[@BlueBoyPhin]

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[@LucarioAura208]

Thank you for making such amazing videos I was looking at what the title was called and as soon as I saw it was you I clicked I even bothered to go to my phone to comment this cuz I can't comment on the Xbox you make such unique content about something that has so much content

[@Blastosie_Offical]

What are the odds you chose this sponsor on purpose just to annoy patterz

[@theaa47]

I was looking for some background noise while grinding some star rail so seeing a sponsor segment for it was absolutely terrifying

[@PureLunari]

An ad for a game who made a parody of Pokemon as one of its sidequest. How fitting

[@im_a_tide_pod]

No, because I’m sick of the era of anime gambling games

[@flamenightblitz]

It's insane how much content is inside the older Pokémon games that get discovered even after so many years

[@ExitScam]

They dont make them like that anymore.

[@mynamedoesntmatter4345]

It's what keeps us glued 😅

[@SethJV]

Those things were known for years lmao. This guy make fine videos but he doesn't discover anything.

[@stonalisa3729]

@@LordDraydenwe knew all this for a long time from the game files

[@sunla]

​@@ExitScamThey do, I mean it's just leftover data and out of bounds stuff, which just naturally happens during game development. There's just a lot more to comb through these days. Give it time! I'm sure in a decade, we will learn some really weird long undiscovered obscurities in today's current titles.

[@imablisy]

The Wonder News text is supplied by the Wonder Mail/News itself. It's a struct in the save file, which means it's editable. He has no extra dialogue in the game, and he also has no defined berry. It's probably not that hard to make custom news yourself and insert it. It also looks like the wonder news can be passed to a friend via the Union room or something. The berry appears to be random. Receiving is a random berry between Razz and Nomel, and sending gives you one between cherry and razz. There's also a "big" reward for sending it to a lot of people. I think it just makes it a rarer berry. The real lost history here is the official ones.

[@dawntwilight]

I'm surprised he doesn't know about the firered decompilation

[@joshurlay]

I was reading it and saw you mentioned a struct and was like, "Oh, someone knows about coding" and then I saw it was imablisy and it made 110% sense.

[@y8knsnsnzmzz]

Would love to see custom news! If anyone can make that work its you!

[@Deoxys911]

He has text saying he'll "give you more BERRIES than [he] usually do[es]" so I'm guessing you just get several of the ones you'd normally get for sharing the news.

[@kirinokosaka]

Wowww u know so much about pokemon dude XDDDDD

[@stardmg]

There are sooo many things related to Mystery Gift and events that were left unused in Gen 3, it's crazy. Like, the infamous Altering Cave for example, or the incredibly obscure secret base Regi Dolls that came from JP only e-reader cards.

[@Ultamatum0502]

The functionality (specifically for regi stuff) wouldn't be in the game by default, e-reader cards literally run code and add things to the game that didn't exist before. So not really left out

[@stardmg]

@@Ultamatum0502 Are you sure the doll items themselves aren't in the games already? I seem to recall you being able to obtain them in a US copy by mixing records with a JP one that has them.

[@tabbender1232]

Emerald had an undistributed surfing Pichu egg event too

[@saxor96]

@@Ultamatum0502 The REGI dolls are in the game. I remember entering either Ruby or Emerald into the map editor and seeing the dolls among the sprites (and they're not the wild Regi sprites, those are way less detailed than the dolls themselves).

[@BloodThirstyAvengers]

It still baffles me why the Regi's dolls look more like the Regis than their actual overworld sprites. :/

[@ketchumall8243]

Putting models out of bounds in preparation for cutscenes is very common in old games (maybe new ones too but idk). It probably makes it was easier for the developers and the game itself this way. You could probably find out of bounds models for most cutscenes that involve thing coming in partway through the cutscene.

[@taragilesbie94]

Yep, it’s still common nowadays too. The KZbin channel Shesez does a series called Boundary Break where they do this with modern & classic games.

[@archerelms]

I know that Baldur's Gate 3 still does this with some things, so I imagine it's still pretty common practice. I assume it makes things smoother to load all the textures ahead of time than to possibly slow things down in the middle of a cutscene

[@DrMonty-ng5fo]

The reason for that is because loading things into the game lags it. that's why loading screens exist. So, rather than spawning the NPC's when they're needed (which would cause lag), they're instead spawned during the loading screen, out of bounds, then teleported in bounds when needed :)

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

It's also simpler to code. You don't need any logic to conditionally load actors. Just put everything in their movement scripts.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

It saves a lot of lag from trying to load everything about it in at once, which you want to do during a loading screen. It also helps with pop-in, as if you want to apply extra effects to the model, spawning one in will make it pop out of nowhere, then have the effects load, making it look weird and buggy. If it's just off screen, you can apply the effects then move it where you want it. Interestingly, N and Zekrom might be loaded in more conventionally during the cutscene, as they're appearing for off camera so can be loaded without rendering them, making pop-in and lag much less of an issue. Explaining why they can't be found (though they may also just be on a lower layer under the level geometry or something).

[@Netroshin]

The text with N: I think the sprite is there because the text bubble arrow shows into the direction of the NPC. To show the player that this text is coming from the right, there needs to be a NPC sprite, although it's interesting that they used the N sprite than any other default sprite

[@caliburnleaf9323]

If you think about it, it only makes sense. It takes no more effort to use N's sprite than any other random sprite, but N is going to stand out a lot better in your map editor than a random cooltrainer would. Remember, games are made by humans, so if you intend a line of dialogue to be spoken by a particular NPC, why wouldn't you use that NPC's sprite as the placeholder for it?

[@Netroshin]

@@caliburnleaf9323 sprites are usually listed like a dropdown field. So mostly the "default" sprite or the first sprite are the characters of your own trainer are listed first. As far as I know (from Advance Map, many years ago) the only thing you see is a green square with a "S" inside. So you don't see the sprite within the map editor. But it can be different in Gen 5 map editors, I don't really know, so you might be right

[@ferrisffalcis]

​@@Netroshinpokemon devs did not use modding tools to make their games tbh

[@caliburnleaf9323]

@@Netroshin I didn't know you had direct access to GAMEFREAK'S IN-HOUSE MAP EDITOR. You're assuming every map editor is as limited as "Advance Map," whatever that is, which is a very bad assumption. Dropdown field or no, sprites are named, and can be searched by their name. Furthermore, most map editors are going to give a proper visual representation of the game map, typically broken up into layers, because that makes development easier.

[@TheStarsTwilight]

They might have used N's specific sprite because his text has a unique quirk where he talks super fast, to the point where he even out-speeds the fastest setting if you have it selected. There's a chance that code is set to activate only if his sprite is the one speaking, so they'd need to use his.

[@thisismyaltaccount4195]

It's thrilling to see old content rediscovered in FRLG after all these years! I adore seeing these games continuing to get love after all this time. Keep up the great work!

[@seanchou9049]

Translating what i see from 10:58 onwards, “Is there any interesting news around these days?” “Hmmm I’m bored…” “Is there any interesting news around these days?” “It’s been so long since I’ve seen such an interesting piece of news!” “Hmm hmm…” “Wonderful! This is wonderful news!” “It’s been so long since I’ve seen such an interesting piece of news!” “As thanks for showing me such incredible news, here’s a bunch of berries” So it seems like you need to unlock something that allows you to show him different news, and he will reward you with berries accordingly

[@Philosopheraptor]

MVP

[@MiyukiErieAyashii]

That last one was absolutely insane. The first time we have seen that text in English!! That is so cool. I’d love to see more text from the old man but I dont know if we’ll ever get it. Anyone have a translation to what he says in Japanese?

[@yozora9382]

10:58: "Nothing interesting going on lately." 11:01: "Huh...so much free time..." And they repeat in the next frames (These are the dialogues translated to EN when you don't have any news) 11:03 and 11:08: "It's been so long since I heard such interesting news!" 11:04: "Oh..." 11:05: "Wow! Such incredible news!" 11:12: "I'll give you lots of berries for showing me such great news!"

[@antoniacorrales9148]

​@@yozora9382Goated ngl

[@gravityzoommaster]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@yozora938211:04 and 11:05 are swapped. Also, 11:04 actually reads, “it’s been a while since I’ve seen such incredible news like this!” You forgot that “ひさしぶり” means “long time ago” or “a while”.

[@HitoHitoNoMiChromosome]

​@@yozora9382❤

[@MrLateXD]

Ask and you shall receive. These are the officially localized strings of text associated with the old man. Anyone with the know-how can fetch them in 10 minutes. - Sigh... Too much time, too little to do... Is nothing entertaining happening anywhere? - Ah! A new news report! Hmm... I see! That was quite informative! I applaud you for taking interest in the news at your young age. As my thanks for sharing the news with me, I want you to have this. - Oh, oh! Th-this news report! Hmm... Amazing! What an incredible piece of news! I haven't seen a news story this incredible in too long a time! Thanks for sharing this fantastic news. Have a bunch of BERRIES! - It seems such a shame to not share this news with other folks... I wish I could tell someone... Let others know the news... - Ah, you've spread the news for me? Good news becomes worthwhile when all sorts of people share it. As my thanks for your spreading the news, take this! - You've spread the news some more? Magnificent! That piece of news must be delighted to be passed around so. Yes, indeed! Consider this a show of appreciation from me and the news. I'll give you more BERRIES than I usually do. - I'm quite enjoying myself with all sorts of news. Yes, I am satisfied! I won't be bored for a while. - Hm? Your BERRY POUCH is full. My gift remains ungiven, then.

[@maxentirunos]

In platinium, all of the mystery gift legendaries can be accessed by going physically where they are on the world map through out of bound. Meaning their appearance is not conditional, only reaching them is.

[@browserjunior4707]

Not necessarily. This works in Diamon and Pearl however for Platinum the encounters won’t work unless you have the Wonder Card data for the events to work in the first place.

[@maxentirunos]

@@browserjunior4707 Just verified it but no, you can in fact walk to Darkrai island through the void, to Shymin platform and Arceus position, and provoke the fights, just using out of bound in Platinum

[@browserjunior4707]

@@maxentirunos Really? Every video article and bulbapedia state that it’s only possible in Diamond and Pearl.

[@EnergyBurst2]

@@maxentirunos Huh, I randomly found the Shaymin and Darkrai areas, bit never the Arceus one in Daimond, and I recall walking all across the map with an action replay back in the day, but perhaps it had to be approached vertically to get to Arceus's platform and I only ever did the whole map walk Horizontally. If that was why I never stumbled across Arceus please do let me know since you've got me curious now.

[@WaterKirby1994]

Hall of Origin is a separate map from Spear Pillar, although getting Arceus there is complicated. Also there were Mystery Gift Legends/Myths that weren't able to be interacted with physically in DP like Manaphy. The only time Manaphy has ever been encountered wild was Legends Arceus, usually you are given an Egg for it.

[@SkellyHell]

The old man only has the post news message when you hack it in because you haven't downloaded the data for whatever he would say for the news. The triggers in the debug are there because the post news text doesn't need extra information to be shown. A game fresh out the box will have the NPC, and the hardcover dialogue but couldn't know about future events to have the text already contained, hence the need to download via mystery gift mechanics

[@albertcabuang6655]

for those interested in knowing the old man's jp dialogue: 10:58 - 11:02 - same dialogue before activating the event 11:03 - "it's my first time hearing about this awesome news!" 11:05 - "hmmm" 11:06 - "amazing! this is amazing news!" 11:08 - same as 11:03 11:12 - "I'll give you lots of berries to thank you for showing me this news"

[@JimiGosu]

I actually got a few different translations from it: It's like nothing interesting is happening. Hmm, I have time... It's like nothing interesting is happening. It’s been a long time since I saw such amazing news! ...Hmm Amazing! That's great news! It’s been a long time since I saw such amazing news! Let's give a lot of love to you for showing us the good news!

[@natural8677]

Send news.

[@psych00range]

For the pond in the middle of the park, I don't think it's programmed purposefully. It's just that the water tiles probably all have a check to surf on as you walk on it. If you aren't surfing it will ask to surf, if you move and you are surfing and move to water tile, you keep surfing, if you move to non surf tile, you stop surfing.

[@theflaminggroundon632]

Huh, a boundary break of N and a few teleports with hidden developmentations, and honestly seeing that the gba games having secrets with heart going untold until now is awesome, I hope there's more for the old man and what he says originally, pretty much worth a subscribe

[@ShaoShaoMienshao]

Heart?

[@theflaminggroundon632]

@@ShaoShaoMienshao yes, and also a liver

[@tennagon3822]

In GBA games, most water tiles were pre-programmed to allow surging/fishing, while wild pokemon data is stored elsewhere. Might be the same deal here with the fountain

[@MrSirFluffy]

I remember finding Giratina via wall hack before it was widely revealed. I was like "dafuq is this???". I also found a few others that way as well.

[@zeusthefox1585]

The Pokeathelon isn't in Goldenrod. Its literally beside the National Park. You go left in the southern park gate and you go to it. So that warp was likely just how they originally intended for you to get to it but fogured having it in the Gateway made more sense

[@doofportal]

you got what he was trying to say though, the gate north of goldenrod / south of the park

[@viporial2358]

2:28 breaking news, KZbinr discovers how games are made, and yes, Zekrom is in the game overworld as a static sprite, it just isnt located in the same place. you can put them anywhere is the same loading field so as long as they can be called and not yet deleted, you can track them somewhere as well.

[@Emisystem_error]

It's not weird for it to be there standing out of bounds tho. The game will load in all it needs in those areas, used or not, to make sure all is there in case of an event, making bugs or load errors a small thing. Making sure that happens is the easiest to do on a dead piece of map that is normally unseen, so they can store the data and have little issues to move that in. It's fun to see!

[@eletho22]

The Plasma Frigate electric fence room warp probably exists because that room is different in each version but still has to exist somewhere, in the footage here you can see that the unused warp loads the W2 version while going through the door loads the B2 version

[@akoba1520]

Mann this brings me back. Late night sleepovers with action replays for the DS running around Sinnoh. We would walk through walls and found multiple random Shaymin kicking back amongst the flowers and shit in places that it wasn’t even possible to ever get to by exploring every corner of the world walking through trees

[@Aurora-xw7tb]

Another out of bounds area I found in Black and White is south of P2 laboratory (inside of the building) when you use walk through walls. It's just a blank area with untextured models, but it's really interesting that it's there.

[@bewearstar9462]

It's beta nevuma town

[@SnoFitzroy]

the fountain works for surf and fishing because those are inherent properties of water tiles. The way they build the maps, these properties are auto-assigned if a tile is a designated water tile. You get situations like non-water being surfable from instances where they DID try to set tile properties manually, for some unknown reason. Basically, the fountain is working precisely as expected, it'd be weirder if you COULDN'T surf on it. There's no encounters because encoutner tables are separate for each kind of encounter, so the water encounters must be manually programmed in

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Yep. I'd guess that if you could fish in an unintended area with no grass or other encounters you might get wild pokemon though, as there's probably a default encounter table for water tiles (probably just rod scaled Magikarp as it makes a good stand-in encounter for places where they couldn't be bothered making custom encounters), but that would only occur if the location doesn't have its own encounter table overriding it.

[@Maskedmous]

It isn't weird to have objects (npc's) loaded somewhere where the camera isn't supposed to go. It is often used as a way to smooth transition from one 'scene' to the other without having to load in the NPC's / assets. Because loading in on the fly is expensive and may cause frame drops depending on what you're trying to load. Nintendo's hardware usually is on the lower end which forces you to be efficient with loading things beforehand rather than dynamically. Once loaded they can just set their positions and be done.

[@RuneKatashima]

3:45 It's likely not "programmed" but rather propagated. Water tiles themselves likely have the code for fishing and surfing built in to them. And fishing just pulls from a *pool*, heh, of mons designated for the area, and I'm pretty sure there's a default list if there's none set for an area. Which is why in some games where you fish where you normally can't, it's generic and shared with other places you shouldn't be able to, with maybe a level difference or sometimes set at 50 or 30.

[@ferrisffalcis]

Pretty much. Probably coded this way from the get go either because it's easier to implement or because if they somehow forgot to block a certain water tile it'd be less harmful to just have the player surf on it normally than to crash the game

[@Yackerw]

What? The game uses 3D models, it's not like the 2D games where collision and visuals could be tied together. You'd have to deliberately tile out the collision for the 3D model to be "water". There's no magic tool that detects "oh this is a model of a fountain therefor it should be water"

[@SnoFitzroy]

This is mostly correct, technically, although worth pointint out that the defual spawn table for anything is no spawns, because the default values are zero everything. a 0/255 chance to encounter species #0 at level 0 in all available slots.

[@gappa857]

​@@Yackerwyou can perfectly map tile based logic to 3d models if the game logic runs on tiles. the graphics are completely independant from the logic. like if you divide a map in a grid, flag certain tiles as collision, surf tiles, script tiles... if the graphic assigned to it is a 2d sprite or 4d reality bending light beam going straight through your brain it would not matter. stop being so confidently wrong when you don't even know how the game works. there are probably a set of default tiles, such as water tiles that have the water graphic assigned to them and the corresponding flags set that allow surf to be used. its common in mapping to have default common building blocks.

[@Yackerw]

@@gappa857 Okay, then let me specify. Tile based collision can't be automatically linked to models WHEN THEY AREN'T TILE BASED THEMSELVES. It is abundantly clear that the fountain itself is not made of tiles; not just because it'd be silly to do so, but because the amount of overhead that'd add to the DS would be very large. The DS is not strong. At all. And even if it were, the graphics for the fountains water is different than all the rest of the water in the game. So it'd STILL be a case of "this has to be set manually" because this graphic isn't used anywhere else.

[@fillphd]

For anyone wondering, the old man in Japanese is mostly saying “This is great news! It’s been a long time since we had such good news” etc

[@BloodThirstyAvengers]

Fun fact: In the English versions of Black 2 and White 2, Ghetsis says he's going to make Kyurem use Glaciate to freeze you solid so you can watch him conquer Unova. Glaciate doesn't have a chance to freeze. In the Japanese versions, he instead makes a barely veiled threat to straight up murder you, a teenager he met only 10 minutes ago.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I remember stumbling into that pokeathelon gate as a kid, i was f*cking around with an action replay wanting to see how far the world actually spreads out before hitting the black void. I got so confused and scared yet didn't expect it. But found it kinda cool that after all this years I wasn't insane and it was real

[@Josephdquinn]

I think I might not remember it fully… but at the back of my mind I did trigger a conversation with this old man! I’m RSE you could enter into Pokémon contests. A little while later your contest would be aired on the TVs in a play by play text recap. If you mixed data in the pokecenters with other players who had done contests, you’d see the broadcast mention their names! I vaguely remember doing this between Sapphire and Fire Red, and when you’d go to a TV it would say something like “News from the Hoenn Region!” and then a recap of the contest. I might be wrong but I do sort of remember the old man getting really excited watching one of my contests!

[@Kirisiac]

This is so good and opens a lot of potential. I always thought the National Park walk through walls had a debug menu and you could tweak there. I'm not too caught up on the glitch scene nowadays but I would love to see a full deep dive into everything in the gen 3 4 and 5 games one day, there has to be so much out there and maybe even things even AdvanceMap couldn't find

[@lemontop881]

4:17 that's not weird at all. It is a very normal practice in game design. It taxes a system to spawn in entities the moment the player needs them, so often entities will be placed in a game scene but far out of reach or sight of the player. That way, instead of getting framerate drops because everything is loading in at once, the necessary entities just have their positions updated to be in-bounds so that the player can see and interact with them.

[@itzl2124]

That’s really interesting

[@ProfessorKantonio]

Took the liberty of translating those japanese texts from the old man for you. All his speech endings are just the typical patterns you might hear from an old man. Starting at 11:01 うーむ ひま　じゃのう (Hmm, not busy.) さいきん　なにか　おもしろい　ことは　おこって　ないかのう (Lately nothing interesting has been happening it seems) こんな　すごい　ニューズ　みたのは　ひさしぶり　じゃわい (Its been a long time since I`ve seen news this amazing.) ふーむ！ (Hmph) すごい！　すごい　ニューズじゃ Amazing! Amazing news! いいニューズを　みせてくれた　おれいに　たくさん　きのみを　やろう In thanks for showing me good news I will give you many berries.

[@ailurophilekia6565]

I never thought the term "lost media" would include some text boxes in an extremely popular game

[@ShayTheValiant]

The way he says Plasma Frigate is absolutely sending me.

[@Purriah]

Frig8

[@octoGeneric]

fre GATE

[@eFrog27]

I was trying to figure out wtf he was saying for a second 😂

[@Lil_Pac-MackYT1]

I remember my first time finding one of these in Pokémon B/W using the action replay- just a random room with a bunch of team plasma grunts and trash cans- and one of them had dialogue that recognized you were there. It was one of those moments in my childhood that I can honestly never forget…

[@ghostlyfieldclub2930]

6:35 "use walk through walls until you hit a wall" sounds really funny in my head

[@MerkhVision]

I noticed that too lol! I was like “hey, wait a minute…” Lmao

[@mr_vision66]

the N in chargestone cave one gave me chills, gen 5 is so amazing

[@darkchocolate3390]

It's pretty cool how after all these years Pokémon content continues to be discovered in games, but also kind of annoying how these small niche details were only available for such limited periods of time.

[@BlueLoveYT]

Having N's sprite on the bridge is a fascinating choice. Easily could've just been dialogue and no one would know, but here we are

[@TheStonedZone]

If I recall right, with the localizations, Japanese versions of the news will not work on an non-Japanese copy due to the differences inherent in their code. The player with the English cart would have to receive news from an international version of the news distribution. And, unless they had something set up for international players at the Pokémon Center in Japan, a player bringing (for example) an American cart with them would not be able to receive the news. This is just based on how the code event distribution worked. I would have to look at the code for news distribution to know for certain.

[@ThatGuyImortal]

idk how the hell he managed to, but by abusing a Walk Through Walls cheat to catch Shaymin in Pearl, he was able to encounter 2 of them. 1 where it normally sits, and the other sitting just out of view from the white rock area, but when I tried it, the second out of view shaymin I could not interact with at all.

[@imrqa]

I never did the event for shaymin myself, but I assumed the one you could not interact with is there for the beginning of a cutscene, and the second one is the actual one

[@cecillewolters1995]

It is possible to catch other event pokemon too this way, those being Darkrai and Arceus. Shaymin is the only one with a scripted cutscene, that is the static one you can’t interact with. This is even available in game without cheats, but through a glitch. It had something to do with riding fast on the bike to get out of bounds, there are tutorials for that. All these pokemon can be shiny hunted. Have fun ^^

[@qyurryusss]

With out a doubt the most interesting pokemon related channel on youtube. Thank you for these videos they're always so fascinating

[@Flapjack3734]

When i was a kid, my cousin convinced me that he caught his Arceus in Pearl by walking past the museum’s fossil reviver area and into the back room. It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize theres no way to get there legitimately & he was just using an action replay lol

[@BoziOnline]

every time your videos come out I drop everything to watch them. I've always wanted to make a Pokemon theory video but I have no idea where to even begin, but you somehow manage to fit like 10 into every one of your vids. Amazing work my man!

[@BlueBoyPhin]

im glad theres people out there who enjoy it! everytime im making one it feels impossible but then it happens! you should make one! good luck!

[@TheMedivalWolf]

Always a good day when theres a new BlueBoyPhin video :3

[@mothlantern]

In DPPt, there's a small puddle you can access by going west of Twinleaf Town. It's hidden inside the trees with no usual way to access it. I'm not sure it's the only one, either.

[@bewearstar9462]

Route 217 and route 214 have it too. It's symbolizes the lakes

[@goldenONX]

About te first about Kyurem: N and the other legendary don't neccesairly have to be on the map. Having a physical trigger (the Kyurem) would be enough to be able to then spawn N and the legendary and use them for the scripted event. Meaning they most likely get spawned during the event itself. Making fan games made me realize that this is worth lol.

[@StijnEngels]

Back when the deoxys event was distrubuted I got it on my leafgreen cartridge. Never checked if the old man had dialogue and since have reset my save file so no way to check. Very interesting!

[@Venemofthe888]

So the gate for the pokeathlon in the national park while cool it's been found it's just been moved into a entrance of the national park on the left not in goldenrod city. Also you tell it was N due to his dialogue speed always being one higher than your one that you set so on fast he'd be even quicker

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

This is my favorite Pokemon channel on KZbin. Despite being a seasoned Pokemon veteran and knowing just about everything there is to know about gens 1 to 4, this channel proves me wrong and surprises me with more obscure secrets every single time.

[@K3N71]

10:58 "Lately there haven't been many interesting things going on." 11:01 "Mmm, I have so much free time..." then says same thing as 10:58. 11:03 "It's been so long since we got news this exciting!" 11:05 "Amazing! There's amazing news!" 11:08 Same thing as 11:03 11:12 "If you show me some good news, I'll give you lots of berries as thanks!"

[@Amotiger]

There was this house in the original Black and White that I think may have had an event inside, and then became empty after it was done. I remember using walk through walls and going downwards to find a textureless unused room. I thought it was the house on Route 18, but I can't be sure because it's been so long, but it was definitely a house that you didn't come across during the main story, being out of the way in an area where you backtrack to.

[@NikoFool]

These videos are like a drug to me that help me get my daily fix of pokemon content

[@BlueLoveYT]

I'm hoping someone finds N and Zekrom someday. I feel like they're waiting to be found.

[@TheStonedZone]

They may be hidden waiting for the code to call them if they're already in memory like Reshiram, but they could very well not be loaded into that out of bounds empty space until the actual scene starts. Which negates the not activating the scene in finding Reshiram.

[@jonmurray9735]

I imagine that durring this scene reshram was probably some kind of object file that needed to be loaded into the scene first so they put it off to the side and just change its location to instantly teleport it to where its needed at the right moment to avoid a loading screen. For the Zekrom I imagine the file was an animation, an effect, or an overlay of some kind. Since it may have been a different filetype and didn't need to be loaded in to the scene for it to work it may not exist on the corners. The fact that they put N in his correct location though, instead of off to the side like reshram, is a pretty cool attention to detail by the devs.

[@tiannaspence9671]

So why not just translate what he says from Japan? That would solve the mystery

[@Flames285]

There is one random obscure thing that happened in pokemon gold and silver but required a walkthrough wall cheat. On the entrance of dark cave, right side of violet city, if one walks through right 4 steps on the 1st headbuttable tree, the character sprite and music will change to team rocket music. This was found by missingnoXpert in his LGPY part 20 of his video

[@TheGreenManThom]

you know, as a kid in school I once saw someone play one of the hoenn pokemon games on their gba, the newest game at the time was fire red / leaf green, and the section they were in was the southern island which I at that point only ever saw in a magazine. Now what's weird is that they could move into the egg stone thingy and were warped into a pokemon center of all things! I was really hoping to have see that here since so far you have shown so many obscure things I never saw before. But since I could never see that specific warp again documented anywhere I can only assume that was a weird / hacked cartridge they had which makes me wonder how they got it. Either way, maybe you have heard about that. I would love to put that memory to rest finally, get some closure on that.

[@cecillewolters1995]

Do you have more details about this? I’m not sure what you mean by egg stone thingy. Things that come to mind is the burial place of an Onix or a simple strength boulder

[@TheGreenManThom]

@@cecillewolters1995 you know on southern island you have to interact with the rock to fight latias / latios? Always looked like an egg to me. And I saw him just walk straight into it and get teleported into a pokemon center. I hope that makes sense now what I meant.

[@cecillewolters1995]

@@TheGreenManThom Oh yeah, now I can see it. I have never seen that island irl, but it now intrigues me

[@bewearstar9462]

Southern island is only in ruby, sapphire and emerald not fire red and leaf green. But if you remember leaf or red being their that's would be undocumented

[@TheGreenManThom]

@@bewearstar9462 you are correct, the southern island is only in r/s/e. That's why I said it was a hoenn game. I am sorry that I was not clear enough on that. I merely mentioned fire red / leaf green to give a timeframe when it happened. I am absolutely certain it was a r/s/e game I saw. Thank you for your feedback!

[@asuramaru8180]

Can’t say I was expecting a BBP video at this time of night haha

[@cecillewolters1995]

Awesome video again Phin, you have the best facts and mysteries out there! I’m gonna talk with the old man with event pokemon in my party, it likely does nothing, since they are traded in. You can mix records with other players tho, that feature changed the tv messages in the Hoenn games, it might be a shareable thing those letters, at least I hope so

[@BlueBoyPhin]

I think you’re totally on to something! I’m pretty sure his text would change if you possibly shared the wonder news with someone either by record mixing or something similar! Im 90% sure there used to be a way to send someone wonder card/news mystery gift type things, that would make sense with the old guy saying to spread the news as well!

[@cecillewolters1995]

There are people that have special cartridges for sharing events, maybe you can get in contact with one of them. Best world scenario would be if someone preserved the device used in Japan for these things, but maybe just a Deoxys event or something can do the trick. That would be easier. Anyway good luck man ^^ Oh and be sure to rest well, going to Japan and back can be tiring

[@riam850]

Maybe TV guy event worked in similar ways to how berries e-cards worked? As you don't have this data in your game, but the event file overrides exciting dummy file? You wouldn't probably recieve more than one news at one time and that way not only they could get rid of outdated news, but also add news related to things they didn't know about during development.

[@ZaestraXD]

I took apart a fire red rom with Advance Map a few years back and was able to learn a lot. All the voice lines were included as well as some other fun goodies.

[@west3Dgaming]

why do you click through this super obscure never seen before text from the old man so fast?? Had to pause and go back multiple times

[@cestrumnocturnum5075]

The last one was truly fascinating! I've been searching about hidden pokemon places/dialogues for so many years and it's the first time I see it!

[@xablauvermelho4228]

It is crazy that in 3:05 when you start to talk about the National Park you play music from Sheep, Dog, N' Wolf (or Sheep Raider in some regions). What an underated gem, good to see more fans of it.

[@AgentSapphire]

Theres something that I remember happening to me as a kid that I never had an answe for. In either blue or yellow version (I forget) I was in the bushes on route 4 afrlter you jump the ledge. I encountered a wild sandshrew that used struggle as its first and only move. Tiny me had no idea what move struggle was but I failed to catch it. I spent the next like 4 hours catching sandshrew looking for another one that knew this elusive move. Now that im older and remember this, I know that its very strange since non player pokemon dont have PP in gen 1. Maybe it spawned with zero moves? Is that possible?

[@laymankeepitbrief]

You just misremembered. Nothing like that can legitimately happen in RBY. You might be mixing it up with GSC and stalled out a Sandshrew by accident. Or your game was a bootleg. It’s possible.

[@AgentSapphire]

@@laymankeepitbrief I am not misremembering. I was playing on the original game brick. And I got my gold copy with my gameboy color. I had just come through mount moon. I was looking for a 6th pokemon before misty. The very first and only move it used was struggle. And it wouldn't have stuck in my mind if I hadn't searched so hard for another sandshrew. It might have been a bug that was due to a hardware blip and not software related. That can happen on any cartridge game, though it's rare. Maybe some memory writing issue idk.

[@laymankeepitbrief]

@@AgentSapphire That’s possible too, I suppose. I’ve seen lots of weird shit happen with cartridge tilting in N64 games. Maybe GameBoy cartridges can have similar issues.

[@AgentSapphire]

@@laymankeepitbrief I dont think I'll ever know unless someone who knows a lot checks if a pokemon can either spawn with struggle as a move or can spawn with zero moves. If its exclusively hardware it can be tested. Same with software. A mix of both is a lost cause I imagine.

[@laymankeepitbrief]

@@AgentSapphire It’s certainly not software-related because it would have been found in the code already. I do think it could have been hardware-related though.

[@boyscout244]

Anyone with an R4 back in the day would experiment with the noclip feature. I remember getting Darkrai by just messing around

[@crucifixmegabuster95]

Just when I was heading to bed the legend drops a vid

[@fishgui]

Great video, as always! I would like to leave here how amazing the soundtrack of all your videos is, I don't see this being commented enough, so here it is!

[@DustyGogoat]

N & Zekrom is probably just located in the air. Great video I didn’t know any of these

[@MrLateXD]

Or you could just use Advance Map and XSE like people did 15 years ago. Shows the whole dialog tree for the old man. Not saying the info itself isn't cool but there are easier ways to access it than using in-game debug tools.

[@Mathtron5000]

They probably put N's sprite on the bridge so that the text bubble point was in the correct spot to point off screen, as if he was actually there, which he was.

[@champ26]

it is still insane to me how you find these things and how much more things are hidden in these decade old games

[@marioipod]

A long time ago, I actually tried a Walk Through Walls code in White 2 on N's Castle, to see if any of the rooms from Black and White were intact. But, I did not find anything.

[@leaveacomment]

Love your videos Phin, please never stop uploading these :)

[@no1else344]

This is so good and so much work went in to this .. much appreciated

[@anasmumin2405]

From Game Freak's perspective, they were probably just too lazy to take out all the Warps and everything but from our perspective, its all just mystery... The NPC's and Kyurem outside the map is interesting also Shows how Game Freak works and how they make their games I always thought the NPC's spawned there at the right times Not that they were already there from the beginning, only to be MOVED at the right time Your videos always 🎯 and congrats on getting sponsored by HSR Never expected Pokémon and HSR to be in the same place

[@No__Vanity]

Its crazy that honkai still needs advertisements, but gg to get such a big sponsor bro

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

It's not so much to entice new players but to remind people that Honkai exists and get it in your head again. Like everyone knows McDonalds, but they still advertise for that exact reason.

[@kylespevak6781]

10:58 This is where i come in! I speak Japanese! First text box: "I wonder if there's some kind of interesting occurrence..." Second text: "Huh? Im not free" Third text: Same as first Fourth text: "Nice to see you again and watch great news" Fifth text: "Great! Great news!" Bunch of repeats. Sixth text: "Shown me good news! For example a lot of KINOMI!" idk KINOMI

[@Fundores]

It’s so cool to see all the random quirks in Pokémon games

[@mQQQQ1130]

Hey, just wanted to tell you that your videos are awesome. Also, I wanted to ask if you know that in my Emerald game way back... at the Battle Factory I battled a Shiny Nidoking from an opponent... I was stupid and didn't think of using/swapping it to try it out after the battle.. LOL

[@Midnight-fox18]

Love your series of discovering secrets in Pokémon games! These facts are very cool, and I want to share an out of bounds secret I saw (it’s more of a glitch, but whatever) I’m sure everyone is familiar with the tweaking/void glitch in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. When you take a little over 60,000 steps in the void, you reach a place called Fake Sinnoh, and this is a method people use to get Shaymin and Darkrai. But most people DON’T explore the entirety of Fake Sinnoh, so they never see the strange graphical glitches, and how eerily empty Sinnoh is without people or houses. My personal favorite was seeing It was all green. Very cool how the entire landscape of Sinnoh changes when you venture that far out of bounds. Since HGSS is in the same gen, I wonder if there’s a never-before-seen Fake Johto and Kanto? It would be tough to get there, since there’s no step counter and you need walk through walls to explore that void, but it’s interesting to think about!

[@ZeroFlareon]

It's stuff like this that make the mainline (sprite) Pokemon games were so great. They have so many easter eggs to be discovered.

[@Zurenza]

A lot of people know about it now but Arceus was never obtainable the way it was intended until Brilliant Diamond and Shinning pearl. The reason for this that the Event Item, Azure Flute, was never distributed, as in, it was never distributed in ANY country. But there's a bit more to this, as Arceaus is actually always there, above spear pillar, whether you have the flute or not. Moreover, in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the protagonist of that game is more than likely the protagonist from the Original D/P/Pt. Meaning that after nearly 20 years, your character from those games can finally meet and befriend, arceus who watched you all this time. Then, presumably, arceus sends the Azure Flute to the BD and SP timelines.

[@pockypu]

Man you create EXACTLY the sort of content I live for thank you so much for doing what you do 😢

[@monster3339]

oh that last one in particular was WILD. also sorry to be that guy but... its pronounced "FRIG-it" lol

[@justini126]

I wonder if N's sprite being there is a technical thing required to make his text go faster? I think you mentioned it in a different fact video that his text is always fast but I don't know if that applies to Black and White 2 as well...

[@SgvSth]

Likely that plus having the speech bubble indicator point off-screen to the right.

[@Yourfriendlyneighbor-y5q]

Hi, so I view the script for the old man and find out what will be the hidden text he to say in the English copy of the game, "Ah! A news report! Hmm. I see! That was quite informative! I applaud you for taking interest in the news at your young age. As my thanks for sharing the news with me, I want you to have this. [Gives you an item(idk what item it is as it says XXXXXX)] (Different text for different event) "Oh, oh! Th-this news report! Hmm. Amazing! What an incredible peice of news! I haven't seen a news story this incredible news in too long a time! Thanks for sharing this fantastic news. Have a bunch of berries!" (If your berry pouch is full this command will appear) "Hmm? Your berry pouch is full. My gift remains ungiven, then." (If you don't share the new?) "It seems such a shame not to share this news with other folks. I wish I could tell someone. Let others know the news." (Once you spread the news) "Ah, you've spread the news for me? Goodnews becomes worthwhile when all sorts of people share it. As my thanks for your sharing the news, take this!"( Gives you an item?) (If you spread the news to some more people) "You've spread the news some more? Magnificent! That piece of news must be delighted to be passed around so. Yes, indeed! Consider this a show of appreciation from me and the news. I'll give you some more berries than I usually do!" (If you talk to him after the text) "I'm quite enjoying myself with all sort of news. Yes, I'm satisfied! I won't be bored for a while." There are some more scripts saying "!" And "long pause" but due to my lack of knowledge of scripting I don't know what does it mean😅

[@keithxedge21]

Such a great video Phin! Also would love to see more footage from your trip to Japan!

[@maxalmonte14]

One of the few channels putting quality Pokémon content out there!

[@KreepyKat911]

I kinda love npcs and important pokemon being stashed out of view until they're needed. Feels like actors waiting just offstage for their lines

[@nappeywappey]

7:37 possibly they put N there so that the speech bubble comes from very far in the right, since it probably requires an NPC to "point" to

[@graymech4852]

Seeing the kyurem out of bounds reminded me that when I was a kid playing around with my pokemon pearl version and an action replay I found a dialga out of bounds in an area that had a bunch of trees as the placeholder instead of a void. interestingly though you could actually interact with this one and it would initiate a battle which theoretically means you could shiny hunt it.

[@tr984]

Watching these clips of old Pokémon games makes me sad. It reminds me of my childhood and makes me miss the old days 😢

[@yommmrr]

Same man. Im a gen 1er and it was the best times of my life.

[@tr984]

@@yommmrr facts

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

Phin, my dude, you desperately need a pop filter, you are just hitting my subwoofer hard. They're like 15 bucks.

[@Li_Mn]

I legitimately thought the bit about the old man in cerulean city was going to be a long "bit" about hitting the sub button 😂

[@omegaleonidas2705]

the old man asking if anything interesting was happening and then saying many things, somethign different presumably for each even, something interesting happening, is a really neat feature, hopefully we can learn more bout this old man in the future

[@hawkfeather6802]

Its really interesting that the developers put so much stuff into these games that the players will never find.

[@enoyna1001]

Storing a NPCs out of bounds is kind of a normal thing to do

[@ediizzy6641]

Having been through hell and back in the form of rom hacking, as i am currently finishing up a Platinum project, the Kyurem thing is pretty common as a way of spawning in sprites/entities while the player is in those areas, as in the scripts used to activate their events, it will typically say something like “Set overworld (whatever number) default position to (map coordinates)”.

[@Xhsa21]

I love your videos! I'm always looking forward to the next one. Pokemon has always been a big part in my life so I always thought that there was nothing I didn't know about this games but man, you keep proving me wrong over and over...and I love it. Keep up the good work! ❤ PS. Sorry, english is not my main language, but I just had to tell you this!

[@enoyna1001]

Your English is perfectly fine..

[@thelegendarybroccoli4736]

Bro i am literally on my quest to finish fire red rn and i remember talking to this guy and just assuming he was depresses but BOY was I wrong! So happy i got to see this!