How Collecting Every Pokémon Emerald Decoration Solved a 20 Year Old Mystery - Summary

Summary

This video discusses the challenge of collecting all secret base decorations in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. The decorations can be obtained through various means, including in-game events, battles, and contests. Some decorations are relatively easy to acquire, while others are extremely rare and require a significant amount of effort, like winning streaks in the Battle Tower and accumulating Battle Points (BP) to purchase exclusive decorations. Pokémon Emerald offers the most extensive range of decorations, making it the preferred version for completing this collection. The video highlights the rarity and difficulty associated with obtaining these decorations in the games.

Facts

1. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire introduced several features like double battles, special abilities, and Pokemon ribbons.
2. These games also added a secret base feature, which is scattered around the Hoenn region.
3. Players can convert wall indents, trees, and bushes into a secret base if they have the move 'Secret Power' on one of their party Pokemon.
4. The record mix feature in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald allows players to share their secret base with others and even battle against each other's teams.
5. The player can acquire over a hundred different items throughout the game to populate their secret base.
6. Decorations in the game include items like cute plush Poke dolls and Trophies of the player's battle prowess.
7. The player can use the Trader to move decorations via record mixing. The Trader has an inventory of four decorations and always spawns with a dust gold doll, Tire ball, cushion, and pretty flowers.
8. The player can exchange one of their decorations for any one decoration that the Trader has.
9. The player can use the Trader to move the CDOT doll to Pokemon Sapphire or Emerald.
10. The player can find several decorations at various decoration shops around the region.
11. The player can also find decorations north of Slateport City at the trick house.
12. The player can obtain the red and blue 10 from the trick house in Slateport City.
13. The player can find two decorations east of Fall Arbor town on Route 113.
14. The player can use soot from Mount Chimney to convert into the pretty chair and pretty desk.
15. The player can win paintings for the Lily Cove Museum's curator by winning the Pokemon contest with high scores.
16. The player can obtain decorations from the Lily Cove department store rooftop sale event.
17. The game has a system where after a regular battle, the game rolls a number from 0 to 655. If this number is lower than 655, the game picks one of the four events to spawn.
18. The player can obtain the mud ball fence, length fence, width fence, breakable door, solid board, sand ornament, stand, slide TV, round TV, cute TV, and ride on doll in Pokemon Sapphire.
19. The player can then transfer these decorations to Emerald via the Trader.
20. The player can obtain the solid board from the battle frontier event in Pokemon Emerald.