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Pokemon Emerald Hints & Cheats

Pokemon Emerald Unlockables

National Pokedex

Unlockable How to Unlock
National Pokedex Beat the Elite 4. Proffessor Birch will visit you and give it to you once you leave your house.

Catching GSC Pokemon At The Safari Zone

After you defeated the Elite Four, go to the Upgraded Safari Zone. In the Safari, you can catch some GSC Pokemon such as Houndour, Aipom, Stantler, Mareep, Miltank, and more GSC Pokemon. This Unlockable works only in Pokemon Emerald.

Trainer Card Color Upgrades

As you accomplish more along your journey, your Trainer Card will change colors and rise in rank, depending on completing certain tasks. After completing one task, it will rise in one rank, but there are some tasks that cannot be completed until beating the Elite Four. You must do these tasks:

-Become Pokemon league Champion
-Complete the Hoenn Pokedex
-Collect all the gold symbols in the Battle Frontier
-Win one ribbon in all five of the Master Rank Pokemon Contests.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Bronze Rank Do one of the tasks mentioned above.
Copper Rank Do two of the tasks mentioned above.
Silver Rank Do three of the tasks mentioned above
Gold Rank Do all four of the tasks mentioned above.

Battle Frontier

Once you beat the game, you can go to the Battle Frontier.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Battle Frontier Beat the Elite Four.

The Diploma

Unlockable How to Unlock
National Pokedex Diploma Capture all 386 pokemon in your pokedex. Then go to the hotel in Lilycove City and talk to the Game Designer.

Prizes from Scott

Talk to Scott in his house in the Battle Frontier, he'll give you certain decorations/berries depending on your accomplishments in the Battle Frontier.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Silver Shield (Decoration) Win 50 Battles
Gold Shield (Decoration) Win 100 Battles
Lansat Berry Obtain all Silver Frontier Symbols
Starf Berry Obtain all Gold Frontier Symbols

Altering Cave

You can go to Altering Cave after you beat the Elite Four. It is located on Route 103.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Altering Cave Beat the Elite Four

Berry Master's Wife Passwords

Tell the Berry Master's Wife certain phrases to receive the following berries. You can only tell her one of these each day.

Unlockable How to Unlock
OVERWHELMING LATIAS You will receive a Watmel Berry.
GREAT BATTLE You will receive a Spelon Berry.
CHALLENGE CONTEST You will receive a Pamtre Berry.
COOL LATIOS You will receive a Durin Berry.
SUPER HUSTLE You will receive a Belue Berry.

Special unlockable Pokemon

There are certain pokemon that can only be caught when you trigger certain events, like castform.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Beldum See Steven's house after you beat the Elite four.
Kyogre Beat the Elite Four, and go to the sea lair.
Groudon Beat the Elite Four, and go to the land lair.
Treeko, Torchic, or Mudkip Help Proffesor Birch escape the wild pokemon
Ho-oh/Lugia Get the Mystic Ticket, and go to Navel Island
Deoxys Get the Aurara Ticket, and go to Birth Island
Mew Get the Old Sea Chart, and go to Faraway Island
Latios or Latias After beating the elite four, watch the T.V. downstairs in your house.
Latios or Latias Mix records with a Ruby or Sapphire with the Eon ticket, and go to Southern Island.
Castform Take out the rival team at the weather institute.
Rayquaza Get Magma and Aqua to get Kyogre and Groudon out of the cave, and go to Sky Pillar.
Chikorita, Cyndaquil or Tododile When you complete the 200 Pokemon of Hoenn. Professor Birch will call you on your Pokenav.

Fishing rods

To get the old rod, go to dewford town and talk to the fisherman near the gym. He will give you a old rod. To get good rod, talk to the fisherman on route 118, east of mauville city. You must need surf to reach him. Talk to him and you will get good rod.
To get super rod, go to mossdeep city and go north of the space center and go into the house. The man inside will give you super rod.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Old Rod Talk to fisherman near dewford gym
Good Rod Talk to fisherman on route 118
Super Rod In the house north of the space center

Glass Items

On Route 113, to the right of Fallobour Town, is house in which a man will make you items if you bring him ash. To collect ash, walk through the ash covered grass. Then bring it to the glass item maker.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Yellow Flute Walk 500 steps in the ash.
Red Flute Walk 500 steps in the ash.
Blue Flute Walk 250 steps in the ash.
White Flute Walk 1,000 steps in the ash.
Black Flute Walk 1,000steps in the ash.
Pretty Chair Walk 6,000 steps in the ash.
Pretty Desk Walk 8,000 steps in the ash.

Training on Hills

To unlock Trainer Hill, you must beat the Elite Four.

Unlockable How to Unlock
Trainer Hill Beat the elite four

Pokemon Emerald Easter Eggs

  • Getting Latias Or Latios

    After you defeat the Elite Four, go to your house and watch the television downstairs. After you watch it, your mom will ask you what color the Pokemon is. If you say Red, you will find Latias. If you say Blue, it will be Latios.

  • Shiny pokemon

    Every time you encounter a pokemon you have a 1/8192 chance of the pokemon being a different color, this is called a shiny pokemon

  • Getting the other Lati

    To get the other Lati (Latios or Latias), Mix Records with a Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire game that used the Eon Ticket. You can then get to a hidden island via the SS Tidal where you can find the Lati you didn't choose.

Pokemon Emerald Secrets

  • Mystery Gift

    To unlock mystery gift, go to a pokemon mart and press A on the piece of paper on the counter. Then insert the words LINK TOGETHER WITH ALL. Press select to easily find the words. After this the store lady will talk to you and tell you that mystery gift is now unlocked.

  • Faster hatching eggs

    Simply put a pokemon with the ability Flame Body or Magma Armor on your team to cut the amount of steps needed to hatch an egg in half.

  • Swarm's second ability

    The Pokemon ability Swarm has 2 effects. It raises Bug-type attacks by 150% when the user is weak, and, new to Emerald, it makes pokemon cry in the background more often. For example, in caves outside of battle, you will hear a Pokemon screech more often.

  • Shedinja

    To get Shedinja, you must first catch a Nincada, and have an empty space in your party. People say you need a Pokeball for it, but you do NOT. Shedinja copies the ball the Nincada was caught in.
    Anyways, with one empty space in your party, level up Nincada to level 20. It will evolve into Ninjask. When you check your party, you will see Shedinja sitting in the final slot, along with the Ninjask and 4 other Pokemon.

    That is how to catch Shedinja.

  • Intimadate and Keen Eye's second ability

    If you put a Pokemon that has intimidate or Keen Eye 1st in your party the chances of wild Pokemon encounter is reduced by 10%.

  • Compound Eyes Second effect

    If you have a Pokemon with Compound eyes 1st in your Party it will drw Wild Pokemon that has held Items more often.

  • Hustle's Second Effect

    If you have a Pokemon with Hustle 1st in your Party it will draw Wild Pokemon that has a Higher Level than the Pokemon that has Hustle.

  • Cute Charm's Second Effect

    If you have a Pokemon with Cute Charm 1st in your Party it will more likely draw Wild Pokemon with the opposite gender of the Pokemon with Cute Charm.

  • Static's secondary effect

    If you have a pokemon with the Static ability in the front of your party, it increases the chance of finding a wild electric type pokemon. This is EXTREMELY useful for finding rare electric types, like Pikachu in the Safari Zone.

  • Battle Steven, the former champion.

    After beating the Elite Four, a new part of Meteor Falls opens up. It is in the northwestern corner where you found Iron Tail. A new cave was made and you'll find Steven in it. His Pokemon are in the high 70's.

  • Magnet Pull's secondary effect

    If you have a pokemon with the Magnet Pull ability in front of your party, it increases the chances of finding wild steel-type Pokemon. This is very useful for finding rare steel types, such as Mawile.

  • Lightningrod's second ability

    If you have a poke'mon with lightningrod as an ability, you will get calls from registered trainers more often.

  • Synchronize's second ability

    If you have a poke'mon with synchronize as an ability, you will encounter more poke'mon with the same nature as the poke'mon with sychronize. Note that the poke'mon with this ability must be in the front of your party.

  • Suction cups/Sticky hold's second ability

    If a poke'mon in your party has suction cups/sticky hold as an ability, then you will have an easier time fishing for wild poke'mon.

  • Raising weak pokemon easier

    Just put the weak pokemon in the first slot. When a battle starts just switch out that pokemon right away. After the battle the pokemon will recieve half of the exp. points.

  • Get the Mental Herb

    In one of the treehouses in Fortree City is a man with a Wingull. Talk to the Wingull, and it will fly off out of the treehouse. When you get to Mossdeep City, you will see a person with a Wingull. Talk to it and it will fly off as well. Then go back to Fortree City and into the treehouse where you talked to the first Wingull. Talk to the man next to the Wingull, and he will give you the Mental Herb, and item which is a hold item that prevents attraction on the Pokemon that is holding it.

  • Mirage Island

    Mirage Island is an invisble Island located on Route 130. Most of the time it will be invisible but on rare cases, the island will be visible. To find out if the island is there or not, go to Pacifidlog Town and talk to the old man in the bottom right house looking out the window. He will tell you wheter the island is there or not. The cause is unknown so a bit of luck is needed to find it. On the island you will find the rare Leichi Berry that powers up your Pokemon's attack in battle when it gets weak. In the grass, you will only find Wild Wynauts.

  • Cut's Out of Battle effect

    Have a Pokemon use CUT to remove grass where wild Pokemon live. It will remove the chance of encountering wild Pokemon. The grass will regrow once you leave the area or enter a building.

  • Inherit Pokemon Natures through breeding.

    To do this you need an Everstone. To get one, search in Granite Cave for a lone rock on top of a plateau. Once you get an Everstone, let the a Ditto or a female Pokemon that you are breeding hold on to it. Once you receive and hatch the eggs, the offspring will have a 50% chance of inheriting the Nature from the Pokemon holding the Everstone.

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