sup y'all! If you would like to submit a Pokemon fact for me to dive into, I just started a new email just for that! - blueboyphinfacts@gmail . com ❤ feel free to even send me something open ended like a rumor or an idea you have for a deep dive! Thank you to anyone who left a kind comment on this vid, Makes me feel good and inspired to make more stuff❤

The Lorelei fact is so funny. The more you bully her, the more plushies she buys to cope. She’s going through it.

That bard not singing Celebi and it just popping up slowly... Was actually kinda creepy, ngl.

The fact that Lorelei canonically buys plushies to console herself after every loss is so damn cute. Best E4 girl.

The DP Starly you encounter is actually the strongest Pokemon ever. Sure, it can be defeated pretty easily if you try, but if you lose using that method, you black out permanently. You are dead, and the Starly killed you.

For fact number 1: This is probably a default setting. Talking to the guard loads in the safari zone (too costly to have it loaded at all times). They probably needed to have a default pokemon you could encounter (plus this makes the game not crash if you were to accidentally get there via an exploit). It's more likely a fail safe rather than an anti cheating measure

Fun fact, if losing that first DP battle didn't crash the game and warped you at your house like losing a battle normally would, it would be by far the fastest speedruning route. Because by going into your house you would trigger the mom and player walking down to the table cutscene that normally plays starting from the top of the room after a transition, except here you would play it from the door, so by walking down your character would get moved... into the void, where typical tweaking trick subglitches can be used to get anywhere or HoF warp. It's really funny how close this was to being by far the most useful glitch in gen 4 speedrunning

As a kid, I actually beat the Elite Four 100 times in Ruby because I heard a rumor that you could unlock Deoxys. It never actually happened but I'm glad that it actually did something in another game lol.

In defense of the finale's black screen freeze, the game *does* say you blacked out. The Chimchar lost to the void is probably from the fever dream you fell into after doing this for hours on end.

For the Celedon City encounter tag, my guess as to the reason the Pokemon's met location is being rewritten is because the Celedon Department Store doesn't simply have its own location tag, it's overwriting the same tag for both Celedon City and the store. This is likely to overcome some sort of limitation within either the GBA hardware, the game's ROM storage structure, or to prevent a glitch that was encountered during development.

Anyone can get the bard in their game regardless of trainer ID. The trainer ID just determines which one you start with. Every time you mix records with somebody, you will swap the old man that appears in your game with them. This is also how you get the song to change, as each player can only update 1 word, so you need to chain it along to multiple people to get a fully original song.

11:55 I like to imagine the player character just happens to know how to play Cynthia's theme off the riff.

I've actually got all of Loreli's Plushes. This is because in my spare time (Eg bus trips) I would train all sorts of pokemon to lv 100. I have multiple boxes of them now. I switched up my training spot to avoid boredom, but before I settled on RSE secret bases, the FRLG elite 4 was my main place. I visited the house too, its a nice detail.

Something that's really cool about Amnesia Psyduck is that it's actually referenced in Stadium 2 as a rental! If you select Psyduck as a rental in Prime Cup and it's Round 2, one of its moves become Amnesia instead. The same thing happens to Pikachu, where it replaces a move with Surf. Neither of these are particularly useful, but it's a cool nod nonetheless.

I think the only reason for the Rattata in the Safari Zone is to prevent an encounter with Missingno. Its simply a place holder.

The Amnesia Psyduck is simpler than what was described. Any prize Pokémon from Stadium will hold either a Normal Box or a Gorgeous Box, depending on if it was obtained on Round 1 or 2. Therefore, it's not just Psyduck, but the starters, the Hitmons, Eevee and the fossils. The normal box can be opened to reveal a Silver Trophy, while the gorgeous box will be a Gold Trophy. Psyduck can, therefore, net you either box, because it can be gotten in round 1, if you register every Pokémon then.

In case this won't be mentioned, since I actually discovered this via a 9-year old let's play: -Once the Spinda Café opens in PMD Explorers Team Sky, Chimecho will ask you whether you want your team members inside the café. She will ignore your denial and make fun of those video game questions where your no won't be respected and wonders if you just wanted to see her reactions, but DID YOU KNOW, afterwards she will ask you if you know that you can use the calling bell to use her assembly service shortly before entering the dungeon, as opposed to using it inside of the guild. If you say no, despite having used this service before, she will also ask if you just were curious about her reaction EDIT: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5NgidaeltzdgKM.html, it's german, but this is the lets play in question

You can get one of the other Mauville old guys to appear in your game by mixing records with another player, so if you had Giddy but you mix records with your friend who had the Bard, that specific Bard with your friend’s song will appear in your game. If you have Ruby or Sapphire and mix records with an Emerald player who had the Bard, and his song features a word that is exclusive to Emerald (such as some battle frontier terms I think), it will appear as ??? in your Ruby/Sapphire game and I think like Celebi it’s creepily silent

Something I find really interesting is that you can technically win the Mega Evolution tutorial in X/Y without Mega Evolving, even though the game resets the battle after the first turn if you don’t. You need to use Bone Rush and land all 5 hits with at least 2 (possibly 3) crits. Sadly the game just resets the battle like normal again

That Starly "glitch" is something new to me, and now makes me even more sure that Pokémon aggressive natures from Hisui never fully left them, even after it became known as Sinnoh and modernization came along. It killed the Chimchar, and then the Trainer.

With regards to the Safari Zone Rattatas, I have some experience hacking HGSS and can shed some light on it! The tables where the safari zone encounters are stored, due to the complexity of the HGSS safari zone, are pulled from a completely separate area from other encounter data. The Rattatas are there as placeholders for the map's encounter data, to be temporarily overwritten, when the player enters the Safari Zone, with the intended encounters. Entering in an unintended way means that the placeholder encounter table isn't replaced. The Bug Catching Contest works the same way! Edit: I'm definitely not the first person to comment this lol. But, yes, I can confirm for everyone that hypothesis is correct!

There’s another sprite oddity later in the series. In BW2, Samurott received a brand new back sprite and I don’t know if any other Pokémon got a new sprite between BW and BW2

I got the Cynthia piano thing. Platinum is my most-played game in the entire series, so I had plenty of cash to burn on the expensive furniture. As for the Lorelei plushy thing, while actually seeing them there is an extremely rare sight, that fact was actually mentioned in the official Nintendo Power guidebook for FRLG. The Sinnoh games have a similar gimmick where beating the Elite 4 a certain number of times will raise the levels of Barry's pokemon when you refight him in the Battle Area.

14:29 Looks like some sort of creepy pasta. He sings normally but when he tries to sing the word "CELEBI" a different voice comes out...

I got chills and goosebumps as soon as I heard Cynthia's theme. Talk about scarring man.

This isn't the only sprite-related oddity concerning Teddiursa! And it happened quite recently! Since BDSP, as we know, the pixilated menu sprites are gone and got replaced by new icon sprites, reminiscing of older sprites, just polished. And every Pokémon reappearing in Scarlet and Violet has kept its new icon sprite from BDSP. Except for... Teddiursa (as far as I'm aware of, at least). What an interesting little bear!

17:35 Game Over 😢 *You got a literal game over in a Pokémon game*

Cynthia and her melody on the piano is one of the most grindy accomplishments I have completed in any Pokemon game. It is a cool Easter Egg - even more so due to the efforts you need to undertake to get some of the furniture. The other facts were pretty out there as always, I am constantly amazed by the weird and frankly time consuming things Pokemon games have to offer.

Teeechnically there's another way to get The Bard without the right ID. If you use the Record Mix room with your friends using a link cable, you'll get their Mysterious Man.

You might be able to keep the “celadon dep.” description if the celadon Pokémon was in your party but then you faint inside the dept due to poison DOT

I don't know if it's obscure, but I learned recently that in DPP Arceus *actually has a ???-form* with a green and purple sprite when you check your team It's only accessible by hacking and doesn't seem to be usable in battle (it reverts to his normal sprite) but I still find it interesting that the devs put it into the game

Just a thought, but the Safari Zone Rattatas would be a great way of shiny-hunting Rattata.

12:01 sorry for the Flashbacks for everyone with PTSD from Cynthia❤

People probably could make a creepypasta about the Bard being unable to sing the name Celebi.

Your Pokémon fact videos are far superior to any other!

My favorite battle to lose is again Hop in SwSh. You can only lose that first battle if you stall against Wooloo. His chosen Starter can use stuff like Growl or Leer without running out of PP and so will never KO your starter but Wooloo _only_ knows Tackle

5:02 I can't believe the Pokemon manga knew about this. IIRC, there's a scene where Lorelei hides away some of the main cast in her house, and she has a giant Lapras plushie in it. Someone check me

Just a slight mistake: Fire Red and Leaf Green came out before Emerald. The remakes debuted in Jan. 2004, while Emerald came out in Sept. that same year. EDIT: Ooh! And yes! I did get the Cynthia piano in platinum!

I've been using my Leaf Green's Elite Four to level up the Pokemon I breed on Emerald for years. Just checked Lorelei's house, and sure enough, plushies are everywhere! Even a Lapras!

12:14 I’m gonna go buy that piano RIGHT NOW

Here's some facts about Pokémon locations compared to the real places that inspired them: The South Province of Paldea is inspired by Murcia and Doñana National Park. The lagoons of Campotéjar, in particular, used to be a wastewater treatment plant, which explains the typing of Paldean Wooper. Doñana constitutes the only tropical wetland in continental Europe, being a migration stop for flamingos and various warm climate animals, thus this is why the dominant Pokémon in the area is Flamigo. Kalos's Reflection Cave is based off the Armorican Mastiff in Brittany. The massif is composed of metamorphic and magmatic rocks that were metamorphosed and/or deformed during the Hercynian or Variscan orogeny and the earlier Cadomian orogeny. The competent old rocks of the Armorican Massif have been eroded to a plateau like peneplain. The concept is also be based on the legends of the Britons called Miroirs aux fées (fairies mirrors). Fairy mirrors are usually caves with bright quartz veins or lakes where they are said to live fairies and like to see themselves in them like a mirror.

In Crystal (and I assume G/S), when you bring the medicine to Amphy at the top of the lighthouse, if you interact with Amphy it lights up the room. Pretty cool

17:22 I see this now as a canonical bad ending of Pokémon Diamond/Pearl, where Starly kills everyone and the story ends

The last one makes a lot of sense, actually, it's just a very slight oversight in the code causing a segfault; there's probably an extremely small chance of it warping you to any valid location, and an extremely large chance of it just crashing the game. (And it'll always be a crash outside of very specific circumstances, probably.) Mechanically, assuming the game is written in C or C++, then the variable indicating which "safe zone" to warp you to on death is probably left uninitialised, which means that it contains either "0" or whatever value the console had in that memory location, depending on how exactly the DS compiler worked. Either way, the value is technically invalid, and actually using it can have any result. Once you interact with any "safe zone", the variable is set to that zone. But until then, it doesn't seem to have been properly initialised, so using it just breaks stuff because the memory location still has garbage in it (with 0 being the most likely value, unless the DS' startup menu writes to that specific memory location). I would _guess_ that it's a pointer, possibly a null pointer; if it was just an index for a lookup table, 0 would just indicate the first entry on the list, and would probably warp you to the first safe zone they added to the game ( _probably_ either your home or the first Pokémon Centre, but it's not guaranteed), but if it's a pointer, then the game would use its value as a memory address (and 0 is *never* a valid memory address to dereference, regardless of the hardware; trying to move to the location at memory address 0 would probably make the game try to read its own code as a map location).

The gold trophy thing being able to be transferred is really fascinating to me. Stadium 2 came out over a year after gold and silver so it means they must’ve planned and put the code in for the trophy ages before it could’ve been used. The days before being able to patch games 😅

Of course the piano lifts her spirit while she destroys the spirits of her challengers. You can only get the piano once you've reached the Hall of Fame ten times. And I also love how if you get the audio equipment for the villa, it plays a bossa nova remix of Lilycove City...so dang good. Regarding Psyduck, Psyduck could first learn Amnesia by leveling up in Gen 4, not 9! Psyduck could learn it at level 44 in Gen 4, compared to level 34 in Gen 8 and 9. And Psyduck isn't the only one who can hold a Gorgeous Box as any Pokémon that wins Round 2 in Pokémon Stadium can hold a Gorgeous Box. I wouldn't say it's an obscure fact but a fact about the Grafaiai forest in northern Paldea is that it's legit! It's inspired by the real-life Oma forest in Basque Country. Created by Basque sculptor and painter Agustin Ibarrola between 1982 and 1985. The trees are Monterey pines which aren't native to Spain as they are from California and Mexico. Agustin Ibarrola was inspired by the cave art in the nearby Santimamiñe caves, and he wanted to paint on natural structures with the same technique that cave people used to paint on natural rock formations.

6:25 The Pidgeotto you mentioned was actually a Pidgeot, and the Pidgeot you mentioned was actually a Fearow. 8:15 The games prior to FRLG were Ruby and Sapphire. Emerald came out after FRLG. 8:48 Altering Cave is only available after beating the game in FRLG. In Emerald, you can access it as early as after you get two badges, since you can find it on a route just past Slateport. Other than that, really good video! You really lived up to the intro, I actually didn’t know a lot of these obscure facts.

After 1,000 rematches, Lorelei loses her house and scalps her plushies online to pay her bills.

3:32 For this, all prize Pokémon in stadium 1 have trophy boxes: Prize Pokémon caught in round 1 format will have a normal box holding a silver trophy and prize Pokémon from round 2 will have the gorgeous box like the amnesia psyduck

I played platinum a lot as a kid. I couldn't read at all back then, so every item bought for the resort was a mystery for me. That piano was scary as hell.

1:17 Is this where Joey got his top percentage Rattata?

FINALLY someone brings up the bard in emerald! His singing weirded me out as a kid and then I just never found out more about him as I grew up

6:30 Those are not "Pidgeotto and Pidgeot", they are Pidgeot and Fearow. By the way, I love these videos. Thank you for going the extra mile to find stuff I have truly never heard of before and if I read somewhere else I would think they're made up.

Did you know that the data for the Hisui Ribbon existed a generation before it was visible? While the Hisui Ribbon is currently only visible for Pokémon in brought up to Gen 9, it’s data existed in BDSP. Someone in the Pokémon Ribbon Masters subreddit took a Pokémon with one less ribbon than required to enter the Ribbon Syndicate in the Resort Area. They then did the requirements for earning the Hisui Ribbon in Legends Arceus and then brought it back to BDSP. Despite still showing the same amount of ribbons as before they were still allowed to enter the Ribbon Syndicate because the ribbon became a part of the Pokémon’s data before the ribbon itself was even visible to players.

I heard the music at 7:18, it sounded so familiar. A few seconds later I finally made the connection. Sega Bass Fishing is one of my favorite games ever, it's nice to see it hasn't faded to obscurity after all these years! One of the best purchases I've made on steam. (Also I wanted to say I appreciate you adding that in, brings a lot of good memories back :) )

Music at the beginning is called "1080° snowboarding - white out" if anyone was wondering

Great video! Ive actually done 291 E4 battle in my leaf green copy, specifically to get all the poke dolls inti Lorelei's house! The dolls on the shelf are actually a Pidgeot on the left, and a Fearow on the right! Even better, you can actually "ride" the lapras doll! Ill tag on twitter with photo proof! ;) awesome vid! Well done!

Just a heads up: Buyee just got hacked and their entire DB posted on the dark web. It's a great service, but it's something you should be aware of.

Just the video I needed today! I can't look forward to these any more than I already do, thank you for the effort you put in c: Your editing is looking even better now!!

Today is my last day working my shitty retail job, I’m finally moving on. Butttt I used to sneak an earbud under my headband and secretly listen to your videos while at work lol !!!! And on the DAY I leave, you post a NEW video. What are the chances ?? Will be watching and liking under my manager’s noses one last time lol. Thanks for always giving me something to look forward to on the hardest days Blueboyphin.

Love that you have more facts for us! 😊 Heads up, however, that your plushie names are a little off at times during the "200 Rematches" segment 😅

I’m pretty sure in Emerald, if you name the girl “Sissy” like I did after my sister, the boy rival will say “I ain’t losin to no sissy” during one of the rival fights. I remember being bewildered reading that, but I was also like 12 and couldn’t easily misread it

The finale of this makes me wonder what happens with if you manage to get the Starly Glitch to work in BDSP and if it ends in the same result since a lot of codes was transferred from the original Diamond and Pearl to BDSP

This might not be as obscure as I think it is, but it's a similar concept to the plushies thing. In the gen 4 games (idk know if it's in all of them, or just D/P or just in Platitnum or what), Barry's Pokemon will increase in level when you battle him again in the Battle Area, after you beat the elite 4 over and over. Idk the exact number of time you have to beat them, or when it maxes out. But that's just another cool little fact

These videos are EVERYTHING to me. I appreciate the hell out of you

Was hoping to find comments on how you made the Bard sing about ‘eating Celebi’ but was disappointed that there were none 🙁

That Lorelei fact is INCREDIBLE, who the heck would think to check her house again after the first, even 10th didn't change anything?

I am incredibly impressed with how obscure these facts were the only one I knew was the plushies.

Yesterday Tops was talking about the possibility of shiny hunting that Amnesia Psyduck! The DVs seem to be random and I believe it is actually the hardest shiny hunt of all time

17:50 nah man the game is not frozen, this is supposed to indicate you are ded. Slain by a bird at the ripe old age of 10.

10:42 Would it still change if you teleported out of the department store to a different city? The Lorilei one is a cute detail, didn't expect her to like snuggling up with plushies so much You're a real champ for getting that last one!

I would like to mention how psychic’s animation changes from DP to HGSS for no apparent reason. It’s always bugged me a lot

The Celadon city glitch is very interesting from a coding perspective They store the memory address of the name of the place where the pokemon was found, which is very common as storing a whole string (of characters) requires much more memory than storing its address. The weird thing is, they change the name of the city to Celadon Dept. which alters every variable that's been set to the address of the city's name.

For the last fact, I do believe there's a lot more to it on real hardware, and even the beta versions of Pearl and Diamond. I vaguely recall someone actually losing the fight in the beta to have a bright pink error handler screen appear, and a mess of colors on hardware with an official US English Platinum cartridge. May be worth looking further into.

I freaking noticed that Sega Marine Fishing music at 2:16. The Offing was such a good stage. Didn't think anyone else knew that game, thank you

I once believed that the world map was only half the world. I had no idea what a projection was so thought it was like a drawing of one side there must have been more world on the other side.

Idk if people understand how insane it is, that the game literally shuts itself down and does absolutely nothing until the player resets the game if losing to starly, that’s wild

I get so hyped when you upload! As a huge Pokémon nerd, I love learning new and obscure things about the franchise. Thank you for all the hard work and research you put into your videos!💕

4:08 “some of the last places to find affordable Pokémon games” Emulators: am I a joke to you?

I think this was the only youtube commercial i didnt skip. Nice job man. Very informative and too the point even for longer than a minute

I can relate to the Elite Four member who collects more stuff when you beat her. I, too, buy stuff to make myself feel better when I'm sad, lol.

I never dedicated myself enough to the post-game of platinum to see that Easter egg with Cynthia; but deadass I'm about to ask my sibling for the cartridge back just to re-experience Platinum and experience that specifically for the first time. That was cool, Cynthia is the best, I stan her so much.

Every time I see a new video posted from this series it fills me with joy! Thank you for continuing to discover the secrets of Pokémon. Super interesting!

these are my absolute favorite pokemon videos, I'm always super excited to see a new one!! you also have a really nice voice for this kind of thing

In Pokemon Diamond And Pearl not Platinum (or the remakes) just Diamond And Pearl the music in Spring Path has many audio glitches sometimes the music just doesn’t play at all but when it does the music is slightly different, In DP Spring Path uses the same music as the Old Chateau and Newmoon Island however Spring Path’s version sounds different, in the Old chateau version (and Newmoon Island but the only legit way to acess there in DP nowadays is to have a save file from back in 2009 that had the Event so you ain’t getting there without hacks or glitches) there is a part which sounds like a haunting ghost choir (appropriate for the area) however Spring Path’s version this section has said choir removed and sounds dead, empty and Hollow, this version will follow you into Sendoff Spring and Turnback Cave, this is a glitch as fitting as the empty feel is for the area as if you save and reset or use Surf in the area the regular version used in the Old Chateau starts up (I’m not certain if encountering wild pokemon fixed the music so if you want to try this yourself go in with repels), someone looking into the song files and found that the difference was an audio file called female choir didn’t load in the glitched version. Strangely in Platinum Spring Path’s music was changed to the music of the adjacent route (route 214) which maybe due to the audio glitches and in Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl the music is obviously remixed even when using the DS Sounds it is fixed (trust me I tried) This may sound like a creepypasta and I would probably think that too but I remember the music being different between DP and Pt as a kid (I didn’t find the Chateau for a while so my only exposure to the music was Spring Path) I thought I was hearing things for years but finding out I was correct all these years was satisfying as all get out If you want to hear the difference watch this video m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8loi6xzqq3YeXU.html It also has an explanation in the description if mine was long winded Too compare just type in Old Chateau on YT listen to both tracks from 0:38 to 1:21 and you’ll hear the difference. As much as I know it’s unintentional part of me wants to believe it is as it fits so well

I "lived" in my Platinum copy for 250 something hours. I had the resort house and some of the furniture. I vaguely remember some gym leaders visiting, but I'm not sure if i got everything. I had a ton of money though....

man i was just rewatching your last upload the other night! im always so hyped when you upload dude!

Just wanna say thank you for putting together a video that has facts that are actually obscure rather than those that are actually just community "secrets" with a few less known bits thrown in. A lot of videos that I come across with "obscure" facts are mostly facts that can easily be found through a google search on how to get something. This showed up randomly in my recommendations and I'm glad that I clicked on it. Across the over 4,000 hours I have spread across all of my Pokémon games, I knew NONE of these. Again, thank you for the effort of pulling all of this together.

Losing against that Starly takes blacking out to a whole new level indeed But I do agree with people, the name Celebi coming up slowly and without a word is creepy, we need that creepypasta to be written by someone 😂

Okay, yeah. You earned a sub just from that Psyduck fact alone. I thought I knew everything there was to know about Obscure Pokémon facts, but you’ve actually shown me a TON of new stuff. Thank you!

I missed your channel! So glad to see another upload :)

Very first fact surprised me and cracked me up, great job! ❤

Dang so many facts I've never heard about before, you really do your research and work well

EVERY time Phin uploads you know it’s gonna be a banger 🔥

1:39 DID HE JUST USE A MASTER BALL ON THAT RATTATA

Very happy I found and tagged you on a Twitter post about the Lorelei easter egg, hope that helped you out!

Spends hours just to be send to the shadow realm o7 cant believe that despise this many episodes there is still more to uncover, also, the bard guy, i cant believe the guy is actually real, had memories of that event happening at some point, but on my most recent emerald save the guy didnt sing, so i assumed it was just dementia or some like that, holy moly!

Loved this, I only knew about that sprite oddity with Cyndaquil, but my favorite thing about this video is that you chose to use the Time Station OST from Ape Escape, which to me is the most immaculate soundtrack ever, it's the first time I hear it as background music for a video

I just imagine the Bard with an angry face staring at you, shaking his head, refusing to say Celebi

Everytime I start to miss your videos, you post again!