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If Pokemon Ruby & Pokemon Sapphire was remade, would you buy it?

Seen February 12th, 2022
Posted October 27th, 2017
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I agree with adding the Sevii Islands, it looked like they might do that in Emerald but changed their minds. But I still think any remakes should be based on Emerald. I think the Battle Frontier should be as in Emerald as well (although the layout could be a little improved). As with HeartGold and SoulSilver, I think Latias and Latios should be version-exclusive (personally I'd like Latias in Sapphire and Latios in Ruby as a sort of switcharound), and I think the Safari Zone should be expanded greatly to more than four areas (or more than six after you get the National Dex). I think Pal Park and transferring from generation 3 should return but restrict it to FireRed and LeafGreen.
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^Nice speculation.

Any, seeing as the games will comes out next year* (10th anniversary and all, but it'll clash with Gray...) we should get news on them late his year :)

That's true, I never thought of it like that, I was thinking we were still in 2010 for some strange reason but yeah, next year and it will be 10 years since the release, it's gone fast! and also that's a good point, if they do the same as they did with HG/SS (10 years after it's original games) then like you said, it should be revealed later this year, can't wait for this and I hope they do remake them, it would make sence really considering they've remade every other game in the past series, RG, GS so RS should be next, besides Nintendo will do anything for money and this would surely rake in a few million.
Also, I've just figured out that Red & Green were made in 1996, then remade in 2004 (8 Years on) Gold & Silver were made in 1999, then remade in 2009 (10 Years on) so I wonder how they will do it in R/S, maybe with the Red & Green remake they only did it 8 years on as a test to see how well it would go down with the public and it's gone down well so they did the same with HG/SS but 10 years on as an anniversary and they're probally going to want to do something for R/S 10th anniversary, hence a remake and another point is that R/S/E (combined) sold 2 million more copies than G/S/C (combined) did and only 0.8 million short of R/B/G/Y (which has 4 games) so R/S/E are the best selling Pokémon games of the franchise so far and if R/G & G/C got a remake and sold less copies then theres a high chance that R/S will get a remake and theres still months to sell more copies.
But then it could be announced after the 3rd game of Pokémon Black & White is released, which by schedule should be 2 years AFTER Pokémon Black & White are released (2012/2013) with Diamond & Pearl released September 2006, then Platinum, September 2008, then we had HG/SS in 2009 so by this rate it may be announced late 2013 - early 2014, but then again that would be 12 years after R/S was made, which would kind of make sence considering R/G was 8 years, then G/S was 10 years then R/S is 12 years (and there's a 5 year difference between the remakes so far FR/LG - 2004, HG/SS - 2009) but we'll just wait and see, I hope that theory is incorrect!


Also, we'll probally gather some more hints as we play through Black & White when it comes out in March!

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Sapphire = my first pokemon game. I'd love to see what they'd do to improve the graphics and gameplay. Not only that, but I recently lost my copy of it.

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I think Pal Park and transferring from generation 3 should return but restrict it to FireRed and LeafGreen.
The feature was removed in the first place because hardware changes make it impossible. That's just going to get worse once the 3DS arrives.
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Eh, third gen is by my far my favorite and I feel like if they revamped it...it would get ruined if it's anything like the newer gens. I'd probably still buy it honestly because I'm horribly impulsive when it comes to these games but I wouldn't adore it like the original, most likely.
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The feature was removed in the first place because hardware changes make it impossible. That's just going to get worse once the 3DS arrives.
Maybe it will, but maybe it won't, seeing as they're planning to have a store to buy retro GB-era games from. All it would need to do is detect the games on the internal memory, or if you own a First-gen DS or DS Lite (like me) it could also read from the GB slot.
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Eh, third gen is by my far my favorite and I feel like if they revamped it...it would get ruined if it's anything like the newer gens. I'd probably still buy it honestly because I'm horribly impulsive when it comes to these games but I wouldn't adore it like the original, most likely.
Yeah, I woudn't like it too much If they made the graphics similar to Black & White, all 3Dish, it just woudn't be the same.

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This would mean that the new Gen V Pokémon would be in it and it may have some link with the Pokéshifter.

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Same. Hopefully it wouldn't have any wild Gen V pokémon. An in-game event involving an event legendary (seems to be the norm now, no?) to unlock something like the Kanto birds or some other unavailable pokémon (out of the few you can't get in Black and White) would be ok, but no wild Gen V. Maybe a couple in the Safari Zone (after all, in Emerald, there were no non-Hoenn 'dex pokémon outside of the Safari Zone), and a few Gen I/II wild pokémon appearing when you have the National Pokédex, but no more. I personally love how Hoenn excluded so many, whilst still keeping a lot of old pokémon. It makes it much more unique.

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I'd probably preorder the games if they came out, but I'd prefer a yellow remake, tbh.
The one feature I'm really hoping for is full compatibility with a BW game that has beaten the Pokemon League, the follow me feature would be nice as well.
As for the storyline, I doubt they'll do something similar to Emerald, as cool as that would be, for the simple fact that they are remaking Ruby and Sapphire.
I know they added the features in Crystal to HG/SS, but some of Emerald's stuff is too estranged from the original Ruby and Sapphire, to be in both remakes.

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I don't want May and Brendan replaced :( Can't they just do a different revamped Emerald storyline as to a sequel?
They wouldn't do this anyway.



And really, a Yellow remake is very, very unlikely. Yellow was an experiment on Game Freak's part to cash-in on the unexpected success of the cartoon, while also giving them some more time to work on Gold and Silver. Since, Game Freak have never really included any references to the show in their games. They're a very separate thing.

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Agree with the above.

Although I do have hopes for the Emerald storyline...but then there'd only be on remake game, as it'd be pointless giving two the exact same storyline. Plus, I want to be able to choose the remake with Zangoose and/or Lunatone in :)

Also, as I was just playing through Emerald again, and have just recieved my PokéNav, I noticed that there's Devon Corp. worker working on a machine to reproduce the dreams of pokémon. This reference to Gen V has been spotted before. However, do you think that this means the Dream World will be part of the RSE remakes, just via some machine, rather than the dream pokémon?

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Also, as I was just playing through Emerald again, and have just recieved my PokéNav, I noticed that there's Devon Corp. worker working on a machine to reproduce the dreams of pokémon. This reference to Gen V has been spotted before. However, do you think that this means the Dream World will be part of the RSE remakes, just via some machine, rather than the dream pokémon?
I remember somebody posting something about this, how the Dream in Black & White is relevant to R/S/E, this could possibly be a hint along with other that may occur when the games get released in English.

Also, I found this on Bulbapedia..
In the anime, it is revealed in BW006 that Fennel's Munna's Dream Eater has the same effect as the Dream Visualiser Devon wanted to make in the anime. But as Munna is a Pokémon from Unova, Devon might not have known about the Pokémon.

Also, i've been doing some thinking about how nintendo do a release with the pattern, remakes, ect. and by the looks of things, we should be getting the news late 2011-early 2012, then the games will be released late 2012 (10 years on) then early 2013 for The rest of the world (Worldwide).

Just added a FEW more hints:

Pokémon Black & White spoiler alert!
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3. Both 6th Gym Leaders of Black and White and Ruby and Sapphire are female Flying type specialists.
4. The genders of the Isshu Elite Four members that specialize in Ghost and Dark types match the Hoenn Elite Four. Both Ghost type specialists are female while both Dark type trainers are male. Only the order is switched between the two leagues.
5. Rapid currents appear on some Isshu water routes. They function exactly like the rapid currents in Seafloor Cavern from Hoenn.
6. The official map of the Isshu region for the upcoming Black and White games was revealed today. It has a massive desert just like the Hoenn region.


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I overall hated the gen 3 games.The gameplay was nice don't get me wrong but i hated the graphics and i hated most of the gen 3 pokemon.So no i wouldn't buy a remake version of them.
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I don't want May and Brendan replaced :( Can't they just do a different revamped Emerald storyline as to a sequel?
May and Brendan we not really much of a rival. I hope they fix that :\ give them stronger pokemon and actually have their starter evolved by the final battle. And Wally, he was a good choice for a real rival. I just wish they will allow us to battle more than once before the final battle in Victory Road.

Yes, Emerald's storyline was a combination of both the storylines of Ruby and Sapphire. Keeping Emerald's storyline in both remakes wouldn't help to differentiate between Ruby and Sapphire remakes.

Unless they just make a single Emerald remake. Then, just maybe I might support something like that in Generation V.
A single Emerald remake sounds awesome, but that is the confusing part about the Hoenn reamkes. Are they going to do 2 games or just 1?
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The curious thing is, usually the remakes occur in the same timeframes as the main games of that generation. If it were to be a faithful remake, Ruby/Sapphire remakes would be set several years before Black and White.
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I overall hated the gen 3 games.The gameplay was nice don't get me wrong but i hated the graphics and i hated most of the gen 3 pokemon.So no i wouldn't buy a remake version of them.
I think the main reason why I didn't enjoy the gen III games was because of this. The graphics.

But with the better graphics we have now, I think I may enjoy the remakes and maybe actually like Hoenn. So I am thinking about buying the remakes even if I didn't really enjoy R/S/E.

I think Hoenn in 3D would be awesomeee.

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Yeah, Ruby and Sapphire was a very rough transition to larger, full-colour graphics and a new style. Most of the overworld tiles were pretty bad and the general Pokémon sprite style in Gen III isn't nearly as nice as the one in DP and later. (although this was improved to a lesser extent than the overworld tiles in the new FRLG sprites)
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hell yeah! theyve done the other 2 generations as remakes, so ruby and sapphire with the emerald story should be on the cards, maybe after theyve let black and white do their rounds nintendo will announce a return to hoenn.

what do you suppose they'll be called?

pokemon volcano and ocean? (not to toot my horn but i like those names :P)
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Magma Ruby & Aqua Sapphire?

Haha, idk. Just thought of them. Although I do like them, since Magma and Aqua are the villains in the game. So it fits :3

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Magma Ruby & Aqua Sapphire?

Haha, idk. Just thought of them. Although I do like them, since Magma and Aqua are the villains in the game. So it fits :3
Yeah, I have a feeling the names will have something to do with Water and Lava/Magma.