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View Poll Results: In RSE, did you ever encounter Mirage Island?
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Old May 7th, 2014 (6:02 PM).
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How was it accessed before? I thought it was completely random. o.o
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Old May 7th, 2014 (6:03 PM).
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I never got to see Mirage Island... ;-;

Also, I'm not sure how its done, but I'm sure like Team Fail said that it helps if you trade.
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Old May 7th, 2014 (6:08 PM).
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How was it accessed before? I thought it was completely random. o.o
You had to show some old guy a pokemon with a specific personality for that day or something. It was incredibly hard because you would need to have tons of pokemon just to find the right one.
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Old May 7th, 2014 (7:24 PM).
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XD In all my years of playing Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Emerald (and even Pokemon Ruby), not once have I seen this darn infamous Mirage Island. XD It's really irritating, especially after I've attained 999:59 (maximum play-time) in Emerald and I now have a broken internal battery.. >_>

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With the ability to trade on a global scale now, will ORAS make it easier to find Mirage Island? Or will they change how to access it and make it easier/harder?
I doubt global Pokemon trading would make that much of a difference in regards to encountering Mirage Island... If you wanted a Pokemon with a different personality value, you could just catch another random wild Pokemon, right...? I don't think that personality values of a given Pokemon are specifically tied to Original Trainers or something...

As for encountering it, the method needs to be kept the same; it is ridiculously hard to see as it is! I kind of hope the Liechi Berry is made hard to get but reasonably attainable in OR/AS (like as a costly Battle Frontier prize?), instead of having to rely on an island's appearance to have the best Pokemon Contest Conditions/performance. >_> I don't really care about Wynaut, because I can just breed Wobbuffet...

Cartridges that haven't hit maximum play time but have a broken internal battery (the one that tracks clock-based events) arguably have an easier time encountering Mirage Island (since the number stops changing every day and remains fixed, allowing one to potentially test his or her whole PC on the "Mirage Island man"), but the odds are still difficult..
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I completely forgot about Mirage Island to be honest. I never got to see it, so it was something that didn't impact me too much. I don't see myself pining too hard for it in the remakes, either.
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Old May 7th, 2014 (7:57 PM).
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I was lucky enough to just encounter the illusive island one day when I still had Ruby many years ago. Of course I have never seen it since.

I think with the ability to trade on Wi-Fi, it'll be easier to gather more Pokemon with different personality values required. (Or perhaps they may change the requirements)
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Old May 7th, 2014 (8:29 PM).
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I just hope they make it so the guy checks your boxes too so you don't have to haul 6 Pokemon back and forth from the Pokemon Center just so he can check to see if they match.
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Old May 7th, 2014 (9:46 PM).
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Mirage Island was a good gimmick, but I didn't see much use of it other than a rare berry. All those Wynaut with Shadow Tag were totally annoying as well. Hopefully there'll be something more to it.
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It'll still be hard as ever to encounter it, even with the global trading. Besides, we've only gotten a single Liechi berry at that island filled with Wynaut. :/
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First, put something good on the island. :15:

Then, make getting there slightly less heartbreaking.
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Personally, I'd like it to be completely removed. Might sound a little harsh, but there's no point to Mirage Island, really, aside from Wynaut and a few rare berries. :( Would be great if they'd replaced it with something else, such a cave of sorts which would give you some form of a rare item of sorts (such as Reaper Cloth, Charizardite, Choice Band, etc. etc.) every time you would visit. Though, I wouldn't really be bothered if they wound up keeping it, but still, haha.
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I never saw Mirage Island and never will. Mirage Island is just a waste to potential in RSE but if they would add let say non-Hoenn natives and some Mega Stones, maybe its worth their while.
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never got there, i hope i can get there in the remakes, but i wouldn't want them to make it substantially easier. it'd still want it to remain rare so it could be special.
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Old May 8th, 2014 (2:31 AM).
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I remember talking to the old man every day hoping I would get to see Mirage Island eventually. I never got to see it, and I think I've even had dreams of finally going to it when I was young, haha.

I liked the concept of it, and I would like to see it in the remakes if it's actually worth going to. I was hoping there would be some kind of legendary or rare pokémon or items, but it really was nothing special.

I would prefer they changed the method of getting to it, making it somewhat "harder" in a way, but not completely random. Or maybe having the check be on all your Pokémon instead of just your party.
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Old May 8th, 2014 (2:38 AM).
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Unfortunately no, so hopefully I will be able to this time round!
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I encountered Feebas, but never Mirage Island.

It was incredibly elusive.

It doesn't seem as worth it these days due to WiFi trading.

What they could do, is change mirage island so that pokemon who aren't native to Hoenn appear there. (Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos and some Kanto/Johto pokemon) That would increase incentive to find it for people who don't want to just trade in pokemon for their teams.
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This would be a great use of trading!! Wow! I never thought of this!

I never got to see it because I only had my brother to trade with and even then, I didn't have a trading cord. I would like this feature to be used again o:
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Unless Game Freak adds some better Pokemon than Wynaut at the Mirage Island, I'm not going to bother with this.
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Old May 8th, 2014 (11:28 AM).
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I didn't encounter the Mirage island.. I hope I'll encounter it in the remakes! And that's why I never searched for a video on YT. I read somewhere about it but I have never seen how it looks lol xD
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Got there once and, while I love how cute Wynaut is, and I love how rare Leichi is, it just wasn't worth it. It was just an island with Pokemon you couldn't run away from that had Counter and Mirror Coat and Safeguard plus Destiny Bond. Not exactly a fun place to train or anything. I don't mind if it comes back, but if it does I hope they make it easier to get to and such.
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I think they should now do it appear certain days (based on the console calendar )or appear at a certain time of day. I've never had the opportunity to go to mirage island in the 10-11 years that I play Ruby ( and maybe I'm never gonna get to it in the original Ruby since the internal battery run dry :/ )
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I think they should now do it appear certain days (based on the console calendar )or appear at a certain time of day. I've never had the opportunity to go to mirage island in the 10-11 years that I play Ruby ( and maybe I'm never gonna get to it in the original Ruby since the internal battery run dry :/ )
But maybe it could be made easier this time around with the ease of trading! If Wonder Trade is brought back you could have loads more Trainer IDs so much faster.
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But maybe it could be made easier this time around with the ease of trading! If Wonder Trade is brought back you could have loads more Trainer IDs so much faster.
Yeah , I totally agree because since generation IV trading became easier with GTS ( Global Trading Station ? I'm not sure about the name since I'm not used to the Generation IV / V / VI stuff :P ) I bet trading via WiFi will be available in Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire and consequently access to mirage island will be easier ( If they stick with the old method with the trainer ID's )
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I do remember being there once.
They should include it again =D
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I know there already is a thread for this in the original Gen.3 discussion board, but this got me thinking... Would Mirage Island return in ORAS? :)

It would be a great and welcome challenge imo, since I only have been to Mirage Island once back in R/S/E... Took me some time though to get there, if you remember you could go to the guy in Pacifidlog Town and everyday a random number would be generated. If the number matched, you coul visit Mirage Island on Route 130.
It is very unlikely and rare that players could visit this island though, even though there isn't much to do, it's the only place where you could catch wild Wynaut and get a Liechi Berry.

So what do you guys think? Should Mirage Island return and if so, should there be some changes to the whole thing? Like easier to access, more Pokemon to catch or anything else, what would it be in your opinion?

It would be fun to experience this challenge once more, since it's rarer than a random shiny encounter :3
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