how were you supposed to find the regis without a guide

>>28978678
by using the handbook that came with the game?

>>28978678
the manual with the game has a braille alphabet at the back

>>28978678
You weren't, considering the fact that they thought children could interpret visual braille

>>28978678
>tfw my friends and I had no clue how to unlock them since we had no internet
>one day my friend said he went to the library to ask the old librarian if she knew anything
>she said the dots were Braille
>he checked out a book and brought it to us
>what the fuck is a Relicanth

>>28978678
By reading the instructions in-game, with a braille guide.

And blind people wouldn't even be able to translate for you since it's a on a screen

>>28978715
Did the localized versions come with the alphabet as well? It's been years and years and I don't remember and don't own the games anymore.

Wait, fuck. Wasn't there an actual braille alphabet in-game as well? It didn't show which letters were what, but it had them all arranged in the alphabetical order so you could make your own guide.

>>28978723
Yeah, in the first room of the Sealed Chamber.

>>28978720
Yes, but they were integrated into the manual.

You just had to remember the Braile that was listed in the game (at the place that had all the letters listed in alphabetical order), assuming you knew it was in alphabetical order.

Then, you had to apply that knowledge at the 3 places where you fight them. Simple, really.

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>>28978715
>tfw can't read braille nor moonrunes
This game box is amazing btw.

>>28978678
It really wasn't that hard. The braile key was in the same room, or one over. I just got a pen and paper out.

>>28978728
There you go, anyone who was smart enough to try deciphering shit could do it then even if they didn't have the manual with the braille alphabet.
>>28978740
>assuming you knew it was in alphabetical order.
Why wouldn't it be? After transcribing what seemed to be like the alphabet, if you compared the letters with the ones from the other places you'd eventually get to the messages like DIG HERE and such, and then realize that they were indeed in the alphabetical order.

>>28978678
Honestly, unlocking the Regis was fucking fantastic. They looked weird as fuck compared to other Pokémon and actually unlocking them all was a fun process. It was like a treasure hunt.

I wish more legends were encountered in this way.

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If you people had trouble with the Regis I can't even begin to imagine how you dealt with the Ruins of Alph.

>>28978774
>yfw the steps for unlocking the Regis were real versions of "that kid" cheats

>>28978788
unknown are literally just the alphabet not braille, something not a lot of people have studied, especially 8 year olds.

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>>28978678
I think the regis were an attempt to capture the glitchy parts of gen 1 and 2 without intentionally making them gamebreakingly buggy. If you think about the mew glitch you had to perform a very specific set of tasks that would be hard to believe at first and you wouldn't be able to figure them out without pure luck or by word of mouth. The regi trio are similar and were possibly the result of gamefreak realising that these kinds of rumors and hunts contributed to RBY's popularity

>>28978788
are you retarded? it's just slightly abstract english letters

>>28978788
It was also just simple puzzles iirc

I think i was in 7th grade when i played gen 3, was pretty easy to figure out once you put together the room with 26 carvings is the english alphabet, i fucking loved doing this

>>28978732
I actually looked for that and the manual only have this related to braille thing
>The world of Pokémon is a vast and mysterious place with many hidden wonders. If you happen upon a place where there is writting on the walls, but you can't read it, think about something that might help you solve the puzzle... it might be Braille. If you are unable to search out the answers you need, remember that you can always contact Nintendo for help on your journey.

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>Regigigas in ORAS

>In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the player is able to encounter Regigigas in the Island Cave after capturing all three Legendary titans. To do so, the player must have a nicknamed Regice holding a "cold item" (a Casteliacone, a Never-Melt Ice, an Icy Rock, or a Snowball), as well as Regirock and Registeel in their party. Regigigas cannot be encountered during nighttime.
Regis are just made to fuck with you in as many ways as possible.

>Regis were this crazy adventure
>fighting horses in B2W2 literally jumped in your way as you progressed through the game
Where did all go so wrong?

>>28978678
By not being stupid. I was 5 and still found them.

>>28978878
I feel like they did it intentionally to make fun of all the fake rumors that ran rampant at the time.

>>28978879
But the question is, why do you have to nickname Regice and give it something cold just to summon Gigas?

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>>28978893
>Mewtwo and the birds in XY

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>>28978774
This. The way the Regi trio was handled is how it should be for all legendaries. Not many NPCs reference them and they were actually somewhat difficult to find, making them mysterious and intriguing. Much more interesting than "Whoa it's _____, you better go fight it and save the world because you're the player!"

>Hi there trainer! Roaming legendaries are frustrating so here have this free Latias.

>>28978941
Delete ORAS

>>28978923
Supposedly It often came to visit Regice in its chamber, and i guess a named one would be more personal or some shit, i dont know

>>28978934
I remember trying to find them in R/S back then, it was really cool, one of my best experience with pokemon games.

>>28978923
Snowpoint temple was where you originally found it. They could've made it a little more obvious as to what you needed though, but I think an npc mentions something for it? Can't remember.

>>28978678
As a kid I found the chamber but couldn't get any further as I couldn't read Braille. I could dive and dig as an intelligent guess. From playing in the Battle Tower after the game, I saw the Regis which I then linked to the sealed chamber. Keep in mind I didn't watch the show so I didn't know of them until that and I played on an emulator so I didn't have the game's manual. Still though, it was pretty cool uncovering the whole thing for the first time. Same for the Sky Tower

>>28979009
I don't think anybody in the game mentions something about it. Or they might have, and I just missed it.

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>All the Regi stuff was approved across all the Hoenn games
>Arceus event was considered to be too hard

>>28978700
That's fucking funny Anon.

>>28978923
It's Regigigas' favourite and he wanted him to bring some ice cream.

>>28979041
>Oh Regice, you're the coolest.

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>>28979041
Always thought there was some form of favoritism.

>>28978678
I found the brail message. Called my friend we spent like 20 min throwing out ideas.
I then grabbed my game guide. Notice the same kind of code at the end. Decrypt.

I didn't know it was brail though I just thought it was pokemon secret code language.

>>28978696
> visual braille
was this the worst puzzle in all of gaming?

>>28978941
Roamers are so fucking boring. I would rather see dungeons like the birds or quests like the regis.

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>>28978941
ORAS WORST GEN REEEEE

>>28978928
> randomly find birdmon 12 times before you can even do anything
> mewtwos literally just in a single room of a one-floor cave
IT HURTS

>>28979082
In Mewtwo defense the forest is the dungeon and he is the final room. It's just not a hard dungeon.

>>28979067
The quests for the Regis got better in the Mystery Dungeon series. ...I still hate that fucking cave.

>>28978838
>english letters
m8, you might be the retarded one

>>28978831
Annoying if your Japanese though

>>28978788
ESCAPE

>>28978678
By not being retarded.

>>28978868
>>28978720
Not sure about english, but my german manual had the braille alphabet at the very last page.

>>28978678
By looking up a Braille alphabet, there was one in the back of my dictionary. Dead simple.

My game didn't come with the guide. Pretty horrible thing really. I half translated it using an old book about codes, but I guess the difference in country of origin meant that the braille was slightly different.

not to be a nostalgia fag but honestly, good ole days where game freak didn't casualize their shit and nowadays we have fucking Masuda saying shit like 'oh no mobile babbies will cry at difficulty''

>>28978678
The back of the game's manual had the braille alphabet. Even if you lost that, the full alphabet was written in the sealed chamber.

I still think gen 3 was the last time they had any remotely good puzzles in the series. It's a shame that they dumbed it down even further after that.

>>28978868

>you can always contact Nintendo for help on your journey

I would love to call up the Nintendo corporate office to ask them for help on capturing Regice in my original Pokemon Sapphire game.

>>28979474
>>28979474
>gen 1
>bird trio in hidden caves/dungeons with fairly challenging mazes and rocks puzzles
>gen 2
>dog trio roaming throughout the regions and only traceable via pokedex
>gen 3
>regi trio offers treasure hunt wild ride with cryptic braille codes
I always thought the experience would get better in later gens. But I skipped thr 3ds gens, what happened in those gens? Legitimately curious.

>>28978678
It was way better back in this time, than now.
You have had a booklet, which gave you some information you used in the game to deciver the writing and then you did, what it said you should do.

>>28978834
I was about to ask why they would stop doing this since that is a correct assumption if the case, but then I realized that if it really was their intention they'd have kept doing it.

>>28979613
Gen 4 had a crapload of legendary events. Like proper, fleshed out and scripted events, but they were largely gated behind event items to trigger them that they never ended up giving away, which sucked. It removed a lot of the puzzles, but the events made them feel a bit cooler. A combination of both would've been perfect, but they just gave them away as downloadable mons instead.

>>28978941
good riddance, sitting forever with a wobbuffet until the fucking thing gets in it pokeball is cancer. ORAS had the best legendary system with hoopa rings in certain locations

Gen III had a bunch of great secrets.
>Regis
>Shedinja
>Chimecho
>Mirage Island

>>28978678
What? you don't know Japanese braille? What are you retarded?

>>28980229
>chimecho
?????

>>28980257
have fun encountering that shit, rates are nonexistent

>>28979064
You should see some of the "puzzles" in the point-and-click games you find on Newgrounds.

>>28980279
Really, is that so.
Hmmmm, I played gen 3 and never even notic-
Oh...

>>28980229
>Chimecho
>Night-based evolution in a game where night was removed
Gamefreak just liked fucking with us

>>28980279
It was the last pokemon I needed to complete my Gen 3 dex.
I actually thought it was going to be a Chimera pokemon.

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>>28978928
>Lati@s in ORAS

>>28978678
Is that RegiGold? Whit is his type

>>28980389
Type-Jew

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>>28978678
Am I the only one who found the regi overworld sprite really interesting? They did not even try to make them look like their real forms.

>>28978878
>>28978941
>>28980353

Something tells me I did well in skipping ORAS and pretending it never happened. The more I hear about it the worse it gets.

>>28980404
It had some cool things in it like Dexnav, I'd say it's worth pirating just for the occasional thing they did right, but goddamn did they fuck up some of the content hard, you made the right choice in skipping.

I want to fuck that moth

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>>28980397

>>28978678
Found these dots all over the place as a kid playing emerald

>At the boys&girls club me and other kids are trying to figure it out
>ask staff lady
>"oh, that's braille"
>she prints out the braille alphabet for us
>four of us are decoding braille and searching for regis
>one of us heard of the feebas rumor
>one looks for feebas while the rest of us look for regis
>we find the regis
>we each get a designated regi
>i got registeel best regi
>guy finds feebas
>he cant stop fishin em up
>a feebas goldmine
>he trades us some feebas
>we 1v1 each other with our designated regis
>registeel is best regi
>then we have a big legendary only team battle 2v2
>then 1v1
>with shiny feebas as the prize
>good times man

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>that overworld sprite

the Regis deserved better than that

>>28978678

By looking up braille and translating it? Shit some of my fondest memories of Ruby were printing out a braille to English thing with my dad, and then hand-translating everything.

All it takes is not being an idiot and doing puzzles like you were supposed to.

>>28979289
>Implying the Japanese don't know the alphabets

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>>28979511
>they just leave you on hold for 3 minutes

>>28980452
>tfw you'll never experience this again.

>>28979422
All RSE manuals had it.

>>28980333
Chingling is a gen 4 mon retard. Until then Chimecho was a single stage.

>>28979511
You can still call the old telephone number for Super Nintendo games, I believe.

>>28980155
They stopped doing complex legendary encounters in original titles because they think most kids wouldn't figure it out and putting stuff like that in would be a waste of resources. Someone at gamefreak (I forgot who) has gone on record saying this is the reason that they backed out of the Arceus event in D/P/Pt

>>28978678
I had a class at school about braille, that's when I connected the dots.

It's genious really. I had so much fun.

I have a release day copy of Ruby imported from NA. There is no Braille guide in the manual.
It must have been added in later prints.
My launch UK LG does have the Braille guide, however.

I bought prima's guide with the games lol.

>>28980863
I haven't played gen 4 or 5 in a long time. Did they have any out-of-the-way dungeons?

>>28978923
He play favourite. He want you to give Regice ice cream and cute nickname. He don't give shit about his other two children.

>>28978678
I did it with no guide when I was little because they taught us how to read braille in second grade for whatever reason.

>>28981203
Likely to compensate for it being the worst type.

>>28978696
I didn't know braille was a thing at the time. Me and my friend figured it out at the end of sunday school after realizing there around the same number of boxes as the alphabets, that's pretty 101.

We were more confused about the "first comes Relicantth last comes Wailord" or whatever but my autistic classmate Rory figured that out.

HOW DO I GET THE REGIS IN ORAS??????????????????????

>>28981168
I suppose the methods for getting Giratina (in diamond and pearl), Rotom and Spiritomb were pretty interesting and complex in gen 4. In BW2 I think the legendary trio literally appear before you on your journey but I haven't played them very much

My mom re-writes books and teaches Braille so when I saw it I just ran and worker her up to ask what it said

>>28978678
You read the instruction booklet like a normal person and used it to decipher the braille text.

This brings back memories. I remember playing though Sapphire as a kid. Decoding and finding the regis as a third grader. Finding Rayquaza, ect. Good memories.

See, shit like this is why alzheimers scares the living shit out of me. All we have is our memories. To lose them is to basically die.

I remember a frined of mine explaining the braille thing.
The Regi sidequest was funny and adventurous, it's a shame that they never tried anything similar in the following games

>>28981290

The same way you did in RSE.

>>28981369
>See, shit like this is why alzheimers scares the living shit out of me. All we have is our memories. To lose them is to basically die.
Fuck you, bro.

>>28979064
Underrated post

>>28981317
>>28981168
They jump right in front of you in BW2, but they have their own dungeons in out-of-the-way locations in BW1.

>>28978715
Can I just say..... I fucking love that box, the old GBA cardboard box along with the cartridge
Those were some of the best things

The real bullshit was the Braille in FRLG. There's only one instance of it, you need to open the door of a cave using Cut to get the Sapphire for Celio's trade uplink, but the game didn't give you an alphabet or a guide.
The Braille reads "Katto". They forgot to translate it.

>>28979469
>Implying every single one acts this way
I'll admit, I've restarted more times than I should have, but that doesn't mean I can't love the other games

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>>28980419
dont sex the moth

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>>28981254

I'm glad that at least someone had this experience

>>28980404
>Am I the only one who found the regi overworld sprite really interesting? They did not even try to make them look like their real forms.
Yeah, I always assumed it was because the ancient people had sealed them away, like it was some kind of impaired form, and when you interact they awaken and break the seal.

>>28978678
I found them all on my own, checked the handbook by chance and translated all the text.

Git gud.

>>28982884
>tfw you get a used copy of Sapphire and didn't have the handbook.

Thank god I had a yearly almanac that had a braille alphabet.

>>28978941

Roamers were cancer tho

>spend all that time capturing them
>they have shit nature and ivs
>you find out that the roamers nature and ivs are determined the very moment you trigger them (in RS case it was worse since the trigger was at the VERY BEGINNNING of the game and there is nothing you can do about it since you're forced to save to encounter them in the first place)

Good Riddance, though I would have much preferred it to be a stationary so I could Synchronize it.

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>>28980419
>>28982741
This moth?

I'd fuck this moth.

>>28978678
I was just told by my friends that when i found a spooky cave underwater, i needed a Wailord and a Relicanth
Other than that, i never knew anything about this puzzle until i randomly did it without knowing what i did

>>28982981
>playing competitive without Genning/injecting

Any misfortune of yours is your own fault and no one else's.

>>28983082

That still doesn't make roamers not cancer.

>>28978678
I found all the places related to them by accident, I don't even knew they existed because I wasn't into the internet in the time and I stopped watching the anime. Like someone said above, it was like a crazy adventure, and I had to figure everything by myself.

>>28978696
The alphabet was in the unsealing cave.

The actual puzzle was easy. Finding that stupid cave among all the rapids was hard. Heck, I beat the elite 4 before realizing pacifilog was a place. I never actually checked the map.

>>28978834
>The regi trio are similar and were possibly the result of gamefreak realising that these kinds of rumors and hunts contributed to RBY's popularity
Which is why pokemon go has no instructions at all and a lot of hidden features like naming eevee to affect evolution chance. Exact same tactic.

>>28980566
Why would he need to experience it again? Memories are special because they only happened once. A healthy person cherishes their memories while appreciating the present and future.

>>28978715
why does the braille for pe look like the character for yo? That is just stupid.

>>28978678
I liked those convoluted quests in RSE.
>tfw your friend caught a feebas and traded it to you because it was ugly
>really like my new fish friend but he's really bad
>go to the library and use one of the computers to look up a game forum because it didn't evolve at level 20 like magikarp
50 cents worth of library internet time helped my find my all time favorite Pokemon and made all the other kids jealous because no one knew where to get a feebas.

I used the lid of a McDonalds cup to decode it.

For those who weren't around at the time, the words "Diet", "Tea" and "Cola, and "Other" had braille translations for whatever reason. It was enough for me to figure out the other letters.

>>28979031
Regis were WHY the Arceus event wasn't cleared.

>>28979064
I loved it nigga. I want another ruins of alph/regi quest.
The lore, the exploration, the satisfaction of peeling back the layers on a mystery... It's what I live for in games.

>>28978678
With the manual that came with the game lol

>>28984325
this 2bh famalam

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this is all they have on the subject in the US version Ruby

>>28978678
The games came with a braille alphabet.

>>28980198
Especially annoying because Arceus's quest is referenced in the first 2 seconds of the opening cinematic, showing that it was very clearly meant to be a major story point.

Everything in 5 was "walk in a cave there it is" except the roaming genies.

Everything in XY was walk in a slightly longer, more loopy cave except the bird, which was roaming 2.0, slightly improved but still annoying.

ORAS has hoops rings, which came in two flavors: land on an island there it is and bullscat unlock conditions not hinted anywhere, ergo, no puzzle to solve, just something you're supposed to look up or guess at and get lucky.

>>28978774
>most legends are now "special event" hand outs

End me

>>28978678
Braille alphabet in the manual.

>>28983175
>Heck, I beat the elite 4 before realizing pacifilog was a place
Same. I dunno why, but I somehow never bumped into the entrance for the long road that leads to pacifidlog. I knew there was a town there because of the map,but took me a long ass time to find, and I think I only got there by accident when I was fucking around with dive spots

>>28980198
Seriously though, fuck whoever decided to just give away the legendaries starting Gen 5. Getting a special item and unlocking the event was so much cooler

>>28984659
>DS had no WiFi during gen IV
>I will never enjoy the joy of obtaining an item that unlocks an event
Suffering.

>>28978678
There are a few Countries that -just- recieved their shipments of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Not Emerald, not ORAS. The actual versions, and the players have been eagerly awaiting them since the last batch of games they recieved almost two and a half years ago.

They have no internet and limited phone support due to their desolate or isolated conditions. They will have absolutely no idea how to finish and no way to call for support and unless they have someone in their village who is blind and recieved some sort of braille support -- there is literally nothing to go by.


These players will someday be true Pokemon Masters.

>>28979031
>>28984282
What's this Arceus event you guys are talking about? Was there a way to get one without the Azure flute?

>>28984832
Pretty sure they're just referring to the Azure Flute/Hall of Origin event.

>>28984905
I injected the item into a gamestop distribution rom. Shit was cash.

>>28984410
>you can always contact Nintendo for help with your journey
damn I completely forgot about shit like this

>be stupid kid
>buy sapphire
>read the manual because why not
>"why do they even have a braille translation"
>play game
>months later get to the cave and find braille
>remind the manual
>translate and follow the leads
>???
>profit

>>28984905
My memory is foggy but dont you just use the flute and go up some stairs? Was there a quest?

>>28979031
To be fair there's a lot more hints towards the regis. With Arceus it's just using the flute at spear pillar.

>>28978678

I found them without a guide and internet.

I had a set of those 27-volume encyclopedias as a kid and used that kek

one of the more satisfying memories of my youth

>>28978678
Man they should do more shit like the regi quests. You really feel like the battle with them was a reward. too bad GF made them suck.

>>28988376
The nips hated Mt Coronet too. I expect it to be gimped in a remake.

>>28978694
Man, I totally forgot about that. I can't even remember if I did used that or just looked it up.

>>28989731
it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to go through the damn place so many times.

>>28979458
In his defense. Pokemon is a kids game.

>>28990156
I loved it just fine as a kid at the difficulty it was at.

If modern kids can't handle what I could handle when I was their age, then modern kids are pussies.

>>28989731
Mt Coronet is literally the reason why Unova is a fucking circle

>>28990556
>Unova

>>28990556
It's the reason Kalos was designed the way it was too. It's easy to get lost the first time through. Even at 16 I had some problems with it. First time I had ever struggled during the main game. Though I always got lost in Seafoam.

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>>28983308
F looks like an r
G looks like an o
H looks like an L
P looks like an r
V looks like an L

>>28991809
it doesn't matter what the letterforms look like, it's for the blind

>>28981203
>Regice, my dearest child
>I know how it feels to be PU, unlike my other two

>>28980279
>tfw you found 2 chimechos in less than 10 min on emerald

Is really that hard to find? what is the encounter rate?

>>28989731
Fuck, I loved Mt Coronet. It just seemed so huge and full of adventure.

>>28989731
>nips have shit taste

Nothing new here.

Bump because why not

>>28991980
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