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And btw-how you where colosseum and XD take place in the timeline
Colossuem and XD don't take place in the time line at all. The regions don't exist in the main series and Neither Team Snagem nor Cipher exist. Gamefreak doesn't acknowledge the events of spin offs as Canon. Even though most Spin off titles can interact to the limit of being able to send Pokemon to the main series games, none of the spin offs are official. So the two events of Colossuem and XD don't exist with the RSE time line at all.
If this is the case, then Emerald doesnt take place with Ruby and Sapphire! The problem is that R,S, and E are simultaneously parallel to each other in terms of time. Now, I am not really that sure if Gen I and Gen III took place at the same time, we don't know. The only thing I could think up to tie FRLG to RSE is the Sevii Islands sidequest, but it could aswell be a time capsule for all we know.
I know the timeline is whack as hell but I'm guessing that GF will probably pull off some retconning in ORAS like they did in RSE when the Steel and Dark types were introduced whereas FRLG was = to RSE in terms of time.
Emerald is considered to be non canon for some points. Its a director's cut that they have continuously overlooked. Just as remakes aren't canon to the point that the events are true which is why you can have out of the time point references.
As far as HG/SS is concerned with Emerald its boiled down to which you accept as Canon and which you don't. If you accept HG/SS then the events of Emerald aren't Canon as Steven is reigning champion still even after losing to the main characters (which he makes a reference to). If you don't see the events of HG/SS as Canon since they were retellings and not the original stories, then Emerald could exist in the Canon time line. Emerald on its own was already a retelling of the main story but both sides at once. This is a bit different that with Platinum which wasn't a merger of stories but a new spin on the same story with a twisted ending. Platinum has already been shown twice over to be Canon thanks to Looker reappearing in more than one major Pokemon release (the first set released: B/W and X/Y.
As far as the mentioning of Plasma, the NPC could be refering to the B/W Plasma who were more televised than the later reincarnation who were more secretive with their tactics. I was confused as to why one of the Directors would say XY happen at the same time as B2W2 but if you only count the reference towards N's Plasma and not Ghetsis' then it can make some sense.
As for Fairy Recton....well XY broke the need for that with their main story. AZ's Floette is Fairy type yet the aids both say Fairy was a recently discovered type despite Fairy types existing more than 3000 year prior. When the games appear, they are newly discovered, but when they are remade, they just edit those words out cause its no longer a relevant remark.