Pokemon Emerald Announced

GBA News | Nintendo of Japan announce the third game in the Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire series.

In the latest issue of the Japanese magazine Coro Coro Comics, Nintendo have announced the next Pokemon installment for the Game Boy Advance.

Keeping tradition with Pokemon Yellow and Crystal, Pokemon Emerald will be an upgrade to Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, bringing the stories of both Team Magma (Pokemon Ruby) and Team Aqua (Pokemon Sapphire) together in the one game. The game will also feature an additional story and seven new ‘big’ battle types, which will be available at Battle Frontier - a huge amusement park located somewhere in the game. The most appealing new feature of the game will be the enhanced battle system, which will allowing the Pokemon's actions to be animated prior the battles. Another new inclusion will see other trainers helping you out in handicap battles.

The only Pokemon announced so far to be featured in Pokemon Emerald will be called Rayquaza. Also spicing up the game will be the ability to control one of two new character models.

Pokemon Emerald is scheduled release on the 16th of September in Japan, bundled with a GBA Wireless Adapter.

More information about the new features and Pokemon will be revealed in the upcoming weeks, when the game is planned to be playable at the Pokemon Fiesta in Japan (July 17th to August 15th). Stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks.

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21 Comments

mito

7 years ago

Not surprising really. The only thing that I didn't expect in this release is the name. Surely diamond would be a better name?

Hopefully we'll see a release with a wireless adaptor in PAL regions. Especially if it's official nintendo

Quin

7 years ago

GAH!

So that explains all the Pokemon planes I`ve seen today, one at Osaka airport, and another about to take off on Okinawa.

Gtpod

7 years ago

I don't see myself buying it. I never buy the yellow/crystal type extras.

Hyperworm

7 years ago

Yay

(BTW, Pokémon Forever has a link to a full-page scan.)

theoriginalkaching, I dunno... Rayquaza goes better with "Emerald" than "Diamond". Plus "Diamond" was the name of a pirate fake Pokémon game, there might be confusion.
GT2, me neither; not if I bought the original (R/S), which I did

Quin, I dunno if those were related... were they Emerald-themed? I'd have thought they'd have just been there anyway

Quin

7 years ago

I dunno about Emerald themed (One of them did have some of the new R/S Pokemon on though), they were both registered to Japanese Airline companies though, so I suppose they are a frequent occurance.

Mark

7 years ago

The planes are for the Pokemon Festa, set to be ready in several more days. I remember last years Festa, very crazy promotion of Ruby and Sapphire. It's good to see the craze isn't dead yet though.

The game will be more of a better add-on from Yellow and Crystal, a lot more extras this time round and new features - such as the hidden areas that are in the latest scans.

Anonymous

7 years ago

A m/b AKA must buy. I already saved my report card money for
Pok?mon Leaf Green. So next year I'm getting this w/my report card next year.

Quin

7 years ago

the_devils_son88 wrote

The planes are for the Pokemon Festa, set to be ready in several more days. I remember last years Festa, very crazy promotion of Ruby and Sapphire. It's good to see the craze isn't dead yet though.

I travelled with the company that owned the planes (All Nippon Air - ANA) from Okinawa to Ichigaki, and by reading the inflight stuff, ANA runs the Pokemon Plane from Tokyo to Okinawa and back again twice a day.

Anonymous

7 years ago

When will it arrive in the USA and UK?

Hyperworm

7 years ago

No date yet for either, as far as I'm aware.

I don't think I'll get Emerald, or Fire Red, or Leaf Green. I'm sticking with Sapphire until Pearl and Diamond come out... which apparently Nintendo think they're doing quite a good job with

We shall see...

Edit: *looks at post he made above* oh, the irony.

lugia_91

6 years ago

where else can you get the aroura ticket for pokemon fire red if i do mystery gift does that mean the other person has to have the aroura ticket please and where do i get lugia from thanx...

Cerebral

6 years ago

You get Lugia from www.gamefaqs.com. We are not a game help site, and this is not a game help thread.

Sandrah

6 years ago

You mean it's only just been announced?

My host brothers finished this while I was in Japan ,

Here's a hint :

*Don't buy this game*

I read an article in famitsu totally condemning Nintendo for extorting as much cash out of a simple franchise as they could.

When I saw it for myself , i couldn't say much different , except for a revamped battle tower.

Unless the prospect of having Rayquaza in your squad makes you squeal with anticipation , don't bother with this , it's a remake of a game only just released.

Hyperworm

6 years ago

Sandrah: lugia_91 did a major bump on this topic, it's quite old

As I said above a while ago, I'm not buying Emerald. Especially since I use a DS for my GBA games now, so I wouldn't even be able to play multiplayer.
It is actually quite an improvement over Ruby/Sapphire, but nothing that I think would warrant a repeat purchase.

Can't wait for Diamond/Pearl...

I wonder if we'll have to wait till e3 *peers at sig* for info, or if コロコロ will give some information away early...

ObsoletE

6 years ago

Hyperworm wrote

Can't wait for Diamond/Pearl...

wasn't that a Prince song?

mangaman

6 years ago

Pokemon

i still know heaps about it, but not that excited anymore.
reasons for this are obvious.

Hyperworm

6 years ago

Are they?

I really dislike the spin-offs (Pokémon Channel, the Pokémon Mini, Pokémon Dash, Pokémon Yellow / Crystal / Emerald / etc..), but the actual new entries into the series (Gold/Silver and Ruby/Sapphire) have both introduced large new strategy elements into the battle system and dramatically expanded the number of Pokémon we've got to work with, great buys for sure

Your choice of course

[info]Working with the original 151 in Red/Blue was extremely limiting... the Psychic type ruled, and there just weren't enough different Pokémon around to give you decent variety.
Gold/Silver introduced colour, 100 extra much-needed Pokémon and the two new types Steel and Dark (dramatically balancing out the battle system).
Ruby/Sapphire allowed each Pokémon to have a natural Ability (like Levitate for Magneton, preventing it from receiving Ground-based attacks), a Nature which directly affected its stats (meaning that it became quite easy to make the first steps towards getting a decent-stat team), as well as Double Battles and a more limited and strategized EV system, and also over 130 new Pokémon - creating even greater variety in the parties you could make.
I definitely think the DS versions will be even better, with possible addition of 3D, touch-screen gameplay, hopefully even more beneficial changes to the battle system... and maybe even put the franchise online?
Certainly something to at least be interested in, I think...[/info]

ObsoletE: I have no idea.

ObsoletE

6 years ago

i never got into the Pokemon thing... i was playing Magic: TG and Star Wars: CCG at the time it (the card game) came out (and i was just leaving the CCG "phase"), and i played a couple of games but i didn't get it... maybe it was the people i played with, or that it was so new but there seemed to be heaps wrong with it... too many bugs to iron out... hence i never got into the games... i saw the original gameboy games but they never really seemed my cup of tea...

and yes... yes it is...

Gtpod

6 years ago

I did get into the 'Pokémon thing', must have spent over £300 on the TCG, and abut £80 on games..

MasterCamo

6 years ago

Ruby and Sapphire are awesome, but Emerald will contain pretty much a whole new world (like a secondary world revolving around battling with high amounts of skill) The older games where rather average with strategy and planning, but the new ones require extreme amounts of strategy and skill, although sadly you only need to know what your doing against other people that know what there doing, but it is definantly an incredibly difficult game to master.

Hyperworm

6 years ago

Ah, good, another fan.

I've heard that Emerald will have a couple of additions favouring high-skill trainers, but it's still not enough of a change for me to pick it up.
For Diamond/Pearl, I hope they really provide support for the advanced trainers ... for example, by adding in ingame machines that can (for a fee) show you the current EVs of your Pokémon, or take in an egg and allow you to redistribute its IVs before birth*... also a built-in Breeding Chain finder would be good.
*this would cost money exponentially for each relocated IV point, and be balanced by an auto-save after the IVs had been changed, meaning that after paying out you could end up with a Pokémon of a bad Nature and have wasted your money.

MasterCamo wrote

although sadly you only need to know what your doing against other people that know what there doing

Quite. I can't see how an RPG which is so heavily based in strategy has kept such appalling AI for so long.
Let's see the NPC trainers actually switch Pokémon, and use Toxic/Mean Look/Protect combos and so on ... this means using those moves at appropriate times and not seemingly randomly, please, Game Freak.
(Either that or online support.

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