6th Gen I can't see Mirage Island today...

[antemortem]

How was it accessed before? I thought it was completely random. o.o

 

[Skystrike]

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.

 

[Zet]

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.

 

[fenyx4]

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.. >_>

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..

 

[Aquali Umiko]

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.

 

[Aeroblast]

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)

 

[Deokishisu]

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.

 

[Elaitenstile]

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.

 

[Candy]

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. :/

 

[SnowpointQuincy]

First, put something good on the island. :15:

Then, make getting there slightly less heartbreaking.

 

[Hiatus]

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.

 

[Salzorrah]

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.

 

[Bobbylicious]

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.

 

[Christos]

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.

 

[blue]

Unfortunately no, so hopefully I will be able to this time round!

 

[Sabrewulf238]

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.

 

[Eevee3]

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:

 

[classiccartoonsftw]

Unless Game Freak adds some better Pokemon than Wynaut at the Mirage Island, I'm not going to bother with this.

 

[ilias_]

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

 

[Jellicent♀]

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.