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3rd Gen How long did it take you to notice?

I heard about Sky Pillar from a friend at school in 4th grade. And either the summer before or after 5th grade a different friend told me that he found this place called "Dotted Hole" in Emerald version and I did some research and found on that location and learned that that is the way you unlock the regis. I found shoal cave by myself.
EDIT: And the awesome experience that came with finding dotted hole was that my friend knew some braille so we figured it out together one night when he came for a sleepover. Finding all of those places were each super awesome experiences that I wish I could relive.
 
Kinda sad...but it took about a year or two before I knew where Old Mauville was.
 
Nintendork15 said:
This is for Ruby and Sapphire versions only:

How long did it take you to notice the things not really covered in the story like

Sky Pillar
Shoal Cave
Regi's Hideouts.

And stuff like that?

Took me 2 times playing through to find all 3.
Wasn't really mentioned well in game.

And the braille thing was difficult to figure out without the internet.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.​

I had a Bradygames guide to read prior to buying Sapphire, so I already knew about Sky Pillar and the Regi Hideouts once I started playing. ^_^

Love is the Law, Love under Will.​
 
The first times I played them, I was really into exploring in the games, so I noticed them in the first playthrough, the braille thing wasn't too hard because I learned a little braille when I was younger, but I didn't learn a lot of it, so I needed a little help. I was excited when I found Snorunt in the back of Shoal Cave, Snorunt was one of my favorites back then, so I caught one and raised to level 100, that same Snorunt is sitting on my White version right now(of course, now it's a Glalie).
 
I had no clue about much of those areas until a year or two later when my friend freaked out at how bad I was at Pokemon.
 
I think I found Shoal Cave before Mossdeep.

I tripped over Sky Pillar one day just surfing, I was super giddy when the ball clicked down and I actualy caught Rayquaza (and had nothing to use it on)

The Regi caves were also pretty simple, but I printed out a chart for the braille instead of just looking around and finding the slabs that stood for A-Z. I was kind of disappointed with the actual Regis when I was younger, but their battle theme was rad.
 
I knew about them all only because I bought a strategy guide that covered both Ruby and Sapphire when I bought the games. On my first playthrough I just read the strategy guide for everything, so I knew exactly where they were.
 
Agastya said:
I think I found Shoal Cave before Mossdeep.

I tripped over Sky Pillar one day just surfing, I was super giddy when the ball clicked down and I actualy caught Rayquaza (and had nothing to use it on)

The Regi caves were also pretty simple, but I printed out a chart for the braille instead of just looking around and finding the slabs that stood for A-Z. I was kind of disappointed with the actual Regis when I was younger, but their battle theme was rad.
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I was dissappointed with the Regi's too ... I was expecting at least a half decent dungeon to explore.
 
I spent a lot of my time on my first file of Ruby. So I'm pretty sure I explored like everything. It took me awhile to find that route beneath Mt. Pyre though.
 
Well, I pretty much played through the games with my friends, so we were more people out looking for things, so pretty much discovered all of them on my first playthrough. Shoal Cave and Sky Pillar weren't really hard to find, as they weren't really hidden as well as the Regi's were, and they were easy to discover when you loved exploring the games. Only the Sky Pillar really got me interested though, especially since there was a legendary located there, and I remember everyone at one point wanted me to help them through the tower, because they couldn't control the bike lol.

But the Regi caves were really well hidden. Not enough with that it was in Braille, which I at first had no clue how to decipher untill I checked through my guide, it was also translated to English through the Braille, which I didn't understand anyways, so without anyone to translate, it took me quite a while before I finally got to open up for the cave where you open up for the Regi's, and then came the whole hunt for the specific Pokemon, before i finally got to open the Regi caves. But in the end it was all worth it, and I agree that this is definitely the way legendaries should be hidden. Maybe not with the constant use of Braille, but just some kind of more subtle clues and such to make the puzzles harder and such.
 
I had never really noticed at the time I was playing since I had purchased the game guide along with the game. So, everything that was missing from the story was compensated with the help of the game guide. Though Regi's Hideouts proved to be difficult to unlock and the braille difficult to decipher so I ended up not doing the quest.
 
I noticed Shoal Cave as I was playing through the game. I remember I caugth a shiny Zubat in there. As for Sky Pillar, I remember just one day coming across it randomly and getting quite a surprise. Ah yes, back in the day before I had guide books and internet.
 
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