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Catching Latias or Latios works in Emerald. The differences is that in Ruby/Sapphire, depending on the version, is the pokemon you got to catch. In Emerald, you get to choose which one to catch. Red is for Latias, and Blue is for Latios. Both are activated after defeating the Elite 4.