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Useful Tips
| All the tips you need to know first in Pokémon! |
| Note: some of the screenshots come from the French version. |
1] Good to know! | | The clock bug | Some players of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire may have run into a serious problem: a bug in their cartridge that prevented anything time-related from working. This bug prevented:
– the clock from running,
– Berries from growing,
– Pokémon from evolving depending on night/day,
– events linked to the shopping mall,
– events linked to television. The game therefore lost all its long-term appeal, and then all appeal whatsoever. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the developers’ solution:
They built in a debugger (a sort of antivirus to get rid of the bug) that restarts the internal battery and so fixes every time-related problem! How do you use this debugger?
1. Go to the title screen of Pokémon FireRed or LeafGreen, then press B + Select. A green screen appears! 2. Link the GBA with Pokémon FireRed or LeafGreen to the GBA with the Pokémon Ruby or Sapphire game whose internal battery has died. Turn on the GBA and wait… The bug is then fixed. | | The National Pokédex | After beating the Pokémon League at Indigo Plateau, you know there is still plenty left to do. But what, exactly?! The first thing to do is to have caught 60 different Pokémon: nothing too complicated so far.
Once you have reached 60, go and see Prof. Oak! He congratulates you for getting this far in this mission and gives you the National Pokédex! You can now head to the Sevii Islands from Vermilion City. -> Please note that none of this is possible if you have not beaten the League. | | Transferring the National Pokédex to R/S | It would be really unfair if only owners of  Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen had access to the National
Pokédex!
Fortunately, the developers at Game Freak thought of everything and built the National Pokédex into Ruby/Sapphire as well ^^
That is what makes these cartridges “hyper-evolving”.
To unlock this new Pokédex, nothing could be simpler: just make a trade with the R/S versions.
That’s all. 
| | Evolution problem |  Few people really know how or why, when they try to evolve one of the first 151 Pokémon into a Pokémon from the others (for example: Eevee into Umbreon), they fail and only get a sorry “…?”.
The answer is really simple: you need to get the National Pokédex! 😉 How? It is explained a little further up.
Opposite: an animation a very kind visitor once sent me. He had used an Action Replay code to get Ralts but could not evolve it because he did not have the National Pokédex.
Just goes to show that AR codes are not always a good thing 😉 | | Pokémon exclusive to FireRed and LeafGreen | Here is the list of Pokémon exclusive to each version: Exclusive Kanto Pokémon: Exclusive Johto Pokémon:
(temporary – the numbers should normally be equal) |
2] Item locations and uses | | The two ways of getting around | 1. Travelling on foot
 This obviously includes regular walking but also the Running Shoes. How do you get the Running Shoes? Go to the first Gym, beat it, then head to the route east of Pewter City. One of Prof. Oak’s aides will give you the Running Shoes!
To run, just press B when you are outside a building.
2. Travelling by bike
 Unlike Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the bike has only one “mode”:
the “Bicycle” mode. That is, it is neither a very fast bike nor one you can do tricks on.
It is an item like any other, and we obviously recommend registering it to the SELECT button. | | The different rods | 1. The Old Rod:
It is the worst of the rods. It will only let you catch Magikarp (which are still quite useful Pokémon, especially once evolved into Gyarados).
You will find it in Vermilion City, in a house right next to the Pokémon Center.  
2. The Good Rod:
It is the “mid-level” rod, for catching a wider variety of Pokémon than Magikarp, though still weak ones. It is found on the route between Vermilion City and Fuchsia City.  
3. The Super Rod:
A must-have! With it, rare and powerful Water Pokémon will no longer escape you 🙂
For those who have forgotten where it is, it is in the house next to the Safari Zone warden’s, in Fuchsia City.  
Fishing: quite an art!
 Fans of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire will feel right at home, as it works exactly the same way:
1 – Cast the rod at a body of water.
2 – “….” appears. If something bites, press A; if nothing bites (the character puts the rod away), you can try again.
The “……” may also reappear. In that case, wait until something bites again, press A, and so on… until a battle starts!
3 – You then battle the Pokémon 
| | Evolution Stones | Quite a few Pokémon evolve with Evolution Stones.
In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire, getting stones was rather tedious (you had to collect shards and bring them to a researcher…), but FR/LG reset everything, and it is much better that way. List of Stones:
– Thunder Stone => Electric-type Pokémon (example: Pikachu into Raichu)
– Fire Stone => Fire-type Pokémon (example: Vulpix into Ninetales)
– Water Stone => Water-type Pokémon (example: Poliwhirl into Poliwrath)
– Leaf Stone => Grass-type Pokémon (example: Exeggcute into Exeggutor) 
You will find these 4 stones on sale in unlimited supply at the Celadon Department Store! 
That leaves one stone we have not talked about: the Moon Stone!
It evolves Pokémon such as Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Nidorino, Nidorina…
You find these Moon Stones lying around in the wild. | | The Trainer Card | The Trainer Card (accessible from the START menu) displays a summary of your game.
It also lets you gauge the level of trainers.  
On this card, you have:
Front: The player’s name, ID, level (represented by stars), money earned, number of Pokémon caught, play time.
Back: the game data (time of the first League victory, number of trades, number of Link battles and number of mini-games with the Wireless Adapter). Here are all the existing levels for the card:  | Basic
League not beaten, no Pokédex completed |  | Bronze
League beaten only | | Copper League beaten, Regional Pokédex from 001 to 150 completed (from Bulbasaur to Mewtwo). | | Silver
League beaten, Regional AND National Pokédex (from Bulbasaur to Rayquaza) completed. | (Image not available) | Gold
League beaten, Regional AND National Pokédex completed and something else to discover…
Beat the League a 2nd time? |
| | The two diplomas of FR/LG |  Ever since the Pokémon video games have existed, you have had to catch a whole bunch of monsters in them to earn the ultimate, symbolic reward: the diploma.
In Ruby/Sapphire, we saw that there were two diplomas: a Regional one (Hoenn) and a National one (Kanto + Johto + Hoenn).  In FR/LG, it is exactly the same…
Once you have caught the first 150 Pokémon, you need to go to Celadon City to get the first diploma, the Kanto Diploma.
To do so, head to the Celadon Mansion, up to the 3rd floor, then talk to the developer at the back of the room.
For the National Diploma, complete the National Pokédex (Pokémon from 001 to 386!).  
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