I was thinking about the whole Unova Link feature...particularly the white forest/black city and golem chambers.
In regards to RS remakes. If they were to do more copy&past-ish remakes than I could stand, I just figured this could be a way of putting Emerald into games with Kyogre and Groudon covers (I repeat, just putting E into RS like they did with C does not work, regardless of everyone thinking its no problem. It is. gamefreak doesnt half-ass their main games.).
They could for example have the "Emerald key" working like this:
Say you had Ruby2, beat team Magma, catch Groudon, no Rayquaza anywhere, do the E4, defeat Steven as champ, but get the Emerald key, which you can send to another RS2 game without a save file. So you get a Sapphire2, get that Emerald key over, essentially turning your Sapphire2 into Emerald2, with both villains, the whole Rayquaza plot and of course enabling capture of Kyogre and Rayquaza to compliment your first game.
Thats the only way I can see plain remakes even being considered. If they wouldnt do at least that, they better not even try this cause it will be an awful mess.
Not to mention itd make a percentage of people buy both versions for this reason. lol
But I still hope itd be at least sequels if anything...its time for plain remakes to become history. As RSE are EXACTLY as old as the first remakes, this is the moment to replace this concept with something worthwhile, just like it was the time for third versions to make room for something new.
Lolfail that was only post 460.
Anyway, the missing legendaries from Gen V highly suggest a Kanto remake with Groudon/Kyogre/Rayquaza catchable, instead of a Hoenn remake. No legendaries from Gen I/II are catchable in Gen V, except for Ho-Oh and Lugia if you count Dream Radar. As a comparison, the Regi trio and Lati@s were catchable in BW2.
Look, they have been in HGSS just prior BW.
And perhaps it also makes a difference that they arent simple ~600ish legendaries that are just "Dragonites in their final stage". I mean, stuff like Heatran & co, is "oh look, this guy. fun. ima get a good natured one for competitive battling!", while these ancient uber mascots are more like "oh **** there is Groudon in this game O:!"