3rd Gen A weird old man event in Celadon City

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    At least in Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green (don't know about gen 1 versions), there is an old man in Cerulean City in a house, which just says this when you talk to him:

    Code: 
    "Sigh...
Too much time, too little to do...

Is nothing entertaining happening
anywhere?"

    Well, it turns out his in game script has much more to it than that. Turns that, if you manage to somehow give him news, he will reward the player with berries. The scripts has lines such as:

    Code: 
    Oh, oh!
Th-this news report!

Hmm...

Amazing!
What an incredible piece of news!

I haven't seen a news story this
incredible in too long a time!

Thanks for sharing this fantastic
news. Have a bunch of BERRIES!

    or

    Code: 
    Ah, you've spread the news for me?

Good news becomes worthwhile when
all sorts of people share it.

As my thanks for your spreading
the news, take this!

    Did anyone actually encounter this in the game anytime, or is this just something, that seems to be unused in the main game / cannot be triggered without some obscure e-reader feature or something?
     
    Guess it was supposed to be an optional side quest to get useful items (much like in future gens). Perhaps GF scrapped it last minute because they were running low on space or something? It also begs the question as to how we would've obtained "good news" in the first place. Could there have been a newspaper item in game?
     
    The Roniverse said:
    Guess it was supposed to be an optional side quest to get useful items (much like in future gens). Perhaps GF scrapped it last minute because they were running low on space or something? It also begs the question as to how we would've obtained "good news" in the first place. Could there have been a newspaper item in game?
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    Nah. Newspaper isn't in the game.
    The only hint at how it works is the "special 0x188" and "special2 0x8004 0x189" that are being used in the script, which could be literally anything, at least based on my knowledge on how other special command work. So far, I didn't see any documentation on how these 2 work exactly
     
    Manekimoney said:
    Nah. Newspaper isn't in the game.
    The only hint at how it works is the "special 0x188" and "special2 0x8004 0x189" that are being used in the script, which could be literally anything, at least based on my knowledge on how other special command work. So far, I didn't see any documentation on how these 2 work exactly
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    Interesting. Probably wouldn't have made much of an impact if it made it in the game anyway. (Was there a different way to get berries in Gen1? I can't remember off the top of my head)
     
    Berries didn't exist in Gen 1, so in Red/Blue/Yellow this NPC either didn't exist, or did something different
     
    this is really interesting - I wonder if the wireless link adapter was supposed to have implemented a feature where the players could do more than just trade Pokemon and battle; much like some of the more advanced online features that we saw in later generations.

    At least that's my assumption. It's really cool that things like this are still being discovered this long after generations 3's initial release!
     
    I've actually just stumbled across what appears to be the answer to this and remembered this thread existed lmao.

    In the Mystery Gift menu, there's an option for something called Wonder News which apparently allowed players to download information about upcoming events and distributions. Presumably once this is done you can speak to the old man and, as the script suggests, he'll give you some berries as a nice little something extra for using it.

    Seems to be a pretty heavily overlooked feature! I certainly didn't know what it was and easily 90% of the search results for it are folks asking what the heck it is and what it's for. Always fun learning something new about these games!
     
    I genuinely wonder how many secret bits of code there is in the Pokemon games, and how many events that were scrapped with code that was left lying around, it's certainly interesting to think about! This seems pretty cool though, it's always nice to see there's more than some NPCs than meets the eye ^_^
     
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