I Completed Pokemon Emerald's RIDICULOUS Pokedex

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Pokemon Emerald is known to have the most difficult Pokedex to complete in the history of the Pokemon franchise... but how hard is it actually? I challenged myself to complete it as fast as possible, all while doing a 'Living Dex', where I need to have a complete catalogue of every individual Pokemon - and this is how it went. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Day 1
5:58 - Day 2
9:42 - Day 3
14:45 - Days 4 & 5
17:02 - Day 6
25:29 - Day 7
29:27 - Day 8
31:18 - Day 9 & 10
38:47 - Day 11 & 12
40:20 - Day 13
43:31 - The Final Days

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@Varigatou Ай бұрын

Shoutout to John's sister supporting him destroying his save file

@darthjarjarbinks2480 Ай бұрын

I feel like she just stod nexst to him doing nothing

@evman1094 Ай бұрын

@@darthjarjarbinks2480 I have absolutely stood there and watched as my little brother did something stupid. I knew what he was going to do. I knew it was a stupid thing to do. And I absolutely could have prevented him from doing that stupid thing. But it was REALLY funny to watch him do it 🤣

@akionlizard Ай бұрын

@@evman1094and on top of that it wouldn't have taught them anything. I accidentally formatted ALL MY 3DS SAVE DATA cuz I thought I was in the right options for the SD card. Years of game time wasted, but rest assured I'm not formatting anything ever again.

@x_Arone_x Ай бұрын

@@evman1094 who u

@wholelottanuts Ай бұрын

@@x_Arone_xshut up weird guy

@hollispeterson2457 Ай бұрын

There was something incredibly foreboding about seeing that he had finished the story of the game six minutes in

@maxcoy1771 Ай бұрын

Reminds me of a werster speedrun where the first split was "beat the game"

@roddorfj Ай бұрын

It only cost 150+ hours, $1450, and Interviewer Gabby's will to live.

@KawaiiBabyTragon 24 күн бұрын

Tbf, back in the day, the games were only $40-60 a piece. But the Jirachi bonus disc and the celebi bonus were really hard to get. 😓

@LeCaleb 15 күн бұрын

Wow the game cost $1450 now days?

@counterfeit4450 Күн бұрын

@@LeCalebyou didn’t watch the video, did you… lmao

@LeCaleb Күн бұрын

@@counterfeit4450 I didn’t have headphones. What did it say?

@ShouAlias-io7ud Ай бұрын

I actually have that English event Mew they gave out on September 30, 2006. It took a ton of begging to convince my parents to drive me down, since the Toys R Us was on the other side of town, but I got to battle other kids and pick some cool merch they were giving out too. As a result I've got all 151 on my Leaf Green. I am *SO GLAD* I never bothered with a national dex. Dear god. I had most of the stuff you needed, but damn. Little tidbit, I remember I traded a Trapinch to the event staff for the Mew. I wass like, "I'm okay with giving this one away, it sucks!" And the guy who was working it was like, "You should try training one!" And that was how I was introduced to the greatness that is Flygon. Good video, dude,

@Masterofxtreme93 Ай бұрын

That Shiny Horsea holding Dragon Scale was absolutely mental. You should've gone and bought some Powerball lottery tickets after that.

@TheGigaOnion Ай бұрын

The best instance of streamer luck.

@wikiuser92 Ай бұрын

My equivalent of that achievement was probably getting a 5% encounter rate Chansey as my first encounter on one route in Platinum and it holding a Lucky Egg.

@testerwulf3357 Ай бұрын

@@wikiuser92 Not anywhere near as rare as a shiny I'm pretty sure..let alone a shiny holding an item. Haven't done the calcs but I'm pretty sure lol

@wikiuser92 Ай бұрын

@@testerwulf3357 I know. I just said it was my closest equivalent to what happened here, and still pretty lucky. Something similar happened to me later when I ran into a Metagross as my first rustling grass encounter at the Giant Chasm once (5% chance), caught it in a Quick Ball (Metagross has the lowest possible catch rate, so it's a big deal), and it was holding a Metal Coat (again a 5% chance).

@minter5571 Ай бұрын

@@wikiuser92 Mine is catching a adamant nature cubone holding a thick club with good ivs (i assume) I also got a shiny diglett(of all the possible pokemon...why diglett should be my first?) And quickly able to find a feebas with modest nature That is all i have

@adrian_hook Ай бұрын

3:58 "Why would you ever want a Horsea?" 27:18 "Kingdra is probably my second favorite Pokémon ever" bruh

@wholelottanuts Ай бұрын

fr 😂

@roobeedooo Ай бұрын

stay humble 😎

@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 Ай бұрын

He'd rather have his own

@Zac_Frost Ай бұрын

It's possible to hate a previous form of a favorite Pokemon lol.

@adrian_hook Ай бұрын

@@Zac_Frost Right, but he said who would ever want one. And the simple answer to that is someone who wants to evolve it to become a Kingdra.

@OFunnyshii Ай бұрын

the biggest challenge is this is getting all of these LEGALLY

@themetamancer7402 Ай бұрын

The absolute state of retro gaming

@steel5897 Күн бұрын

If you're not emulating then I question the absolute state of your brain tbh If you mean retro COLLECTING then you're right but if you want to just play the games, don't bother paying these prices, emulate them.

@themetamancer7402 Күн бұрын

Fax

@LtCommanderTato 6 сағат бұрын

@@steel5897 Also you can fast forward game to catch the right pokemon/nature without completely losing your sanity. Well is still a tiring task if you go for shiny.

@Jrose11 Ай бұрын

For the record I did this over like 2 years, idk how you managed over 2 weeks. Great stuff!

@MagiCarson08 Ай бұрын

Hey Jrose didn’t expect to see you here!

@amberhernandez Ай бұрын

How fast can you beat the Emerald PokéDex with only a JRose?

@lukaskarlgerhard Ай бұрын

Jrose you are genuinely a legend, your videos really helped me through some tough times man. Thank you so much ❤

@om0206 Ай бұрын

What @@lukaskarlgerhardsaid

@triste4-21 Ай бұрын

I would have been surprised if you DIDN'T comment @Jrose11

@nbkarkat Ай бұрын

i'm consistently SO glad that big youtubers like you talk about how much of a money and time sink pokemon can be. this is absurd, oh my god.

@travisthompson1679 Ай бұрын

It's ridiculous. I loved gen 1 and it seemed somewhat manageable. I figured the later games would make things easier because the trading and having pokemon locked to certain games was so obviously obnoxious, but no it seems to be worse.

@ronnieketchum1241 Ай бұрын

Or... Just use any one of the 200billion dex enhancement hacks.

@yunglink992 Ай бұрын

@@ronnieketchum1241 at that point just cheat them all in

@Finalras Ай бұрын

@@yunglink992 I mean if you aren't doing this for content as a streamer, you'd have to be absolutely crazy to waste your time on this if you could also just get all the pokemon easier in the newer games or just cheat them in without wasting your time and money

@dojo45789 Ай бұрын

It would never happen, but it would be nice if nintendo could make some new physical console type device for a resonable price and have it just have slots for all their old consoles and make it a physical pokemon bank allowing old gens to easily transfer to new again

@ShayyTV Ай бұрын

This is a super big accomplishment, doing a Gen 3 full living dex without any glitches (besides having to ACE inject the event items as that's unavoidable now) like Emerald's Battle Tower dupe for infinite master balls / rare candies or Colo's infinite ball trick is quite a task! It was nice getting to catch quite a lot of this live while out with sickness, congrats on getting the video out!

@Bengt2509 28 күн бұрын

IS THAT SHAYY UNDERTALE

@thehighlightsreel953 17 күн бұрын

How is it a huge accomplishment? Kids everywhere used to do this...

@Bengt2509 11 күн бұрын

⁠@@thehighlightsreel953The nat dex was not like that, there were several mons that were almost impossible or take way too long without every single game from gen 3

@Jlaps941 Ай бұрын

I’ve completed the National Dex for every generation 4-8, but I’m NEVER completing a Gen 3 National Dex or my bank account will never recover 😂

@Mimikyu_Lov3r Ай бұрын

Note ✍🏻to ✍🏻self: ✍🏻Never ✍🏻do ✍🏻a ✍🏻living ✍🏻Dex ✍🏻in ✍🏻any ✍🏻game ✍🏻ever ✍🏻 ESPECIALLY✍🏻 GEN ✍🏻3 ✍🏻

@CringeKing103 Ай бұрын

Me who's done a Shiny Living Dex in SV: 👀

@SylasTheShadow Ай бұрын

National living dex* regional living Dex isn't too hard and is actually pretty fun

@jeanief.6036 Ай бұрын

Not so hard nowadays, just finding the box space is the hard part.

@Dkgow Ай бұрын

Especially not in Home, trying to get all Gen specific badges.

@deff8487 Ай бұрын

I can only agree. Did it in Shield, it broke me when the 2nd DLC came out (I ran out of space)

@browserjunior4707 Ай бұрын

The fact you didn’t use the infinite master ball glitch for late game colosseum is crazy, I’m so sorry for your loss

@abigailofdarkness Ай бұрын

When I was a kid I didn't know about that glitch and I beat the whole game the legit way. The final part of the game is such bullshit. That glitch needs to be exploited.

@browserjunior4707 Ай бұрын

@@abigailofdarkness the moment I read about it I just went “Ok yeah literally just why wouldn’t you do it” especially cause it’s not limited to master balls so you can use the early ultra ball for easy catches and you can spam X-Items to sweep with Pokémon that have surf. It’s literally the one thing that makes end game Colo bearable

@conza1989 Ай бұрын

So that's the thing where you throw the masterball, but then you swap a thing, eh idk look it up but it works

@browserjunior4707 Ай бұрын

@@conza1989 You throw the ball with your first Pokémon, then on your second one you swap the item slot with the master ball with another item. The game will register you using the masterball but because it’s technically not the item you used it doesn’t use up the masterball.

@Jimmylikehalo Ай бұрын

The fact that you need to play colosseum for this challenge makes it infinitely better. I not only love gen 3 hoenn games but pokemon colosseum was the first pokemon game i ever olayed and has remained my favorite ever since.

@blakebarrington237 Ай бұрын

That shiny horsea with the dragon scale was insane. And that bit at the end. "Go home." I think I died laughing 🤣

@eventfultable20 Ай бұрын

i am still yet to complete a single pokédex and this guy is lapping me like ten times over

@alancamacho9856 Ай бұрын

If you need help getting exclusives or something lmk I'm always down to help!

@orbfatherpng4726 Ай бұрын

I didn’t have one done either until Violet. You can do it!

@andrewwhyte7130 Ай бұрын

Might I suggest bdsp or let's go. Both have very simple and easy to complete dexes

@nosoundsgal Ай бұрын

X/Y and ORAS is the cheapest and it allows you to complete a living dex up to Gen 6. just missing the mythicals.

@SupaflyProductions12 Ай бұрын

I just recently finished my SwSh dex in about 7ish days! If you need some exclusives in there, I’d be up to help if you need!

@akgplayz Ай бұрын

"My boyfriend is this Mightyena." Good Job John.

@BBWahoo 4 күн бұрын

Knotty Boy

@sparklepawz1185 Ай бұрын

4:30 Just like how Greek tragedies are forgotten about in modern times, it seems that the tragedy of Jerma's debt has also been lost to the sands of time.

@Gabba64 23 күн бұрын

I cannot fathom the dedication that 10yo me had to achieve the same result (i did use gameshark for the event pokemon - or rather, farmed legendaries to trade with friends that had the gameshark, so I feel no shame). I should still have that save somewhere. This video made me appreciate my childhood in a weird way. Thank you for spending the (ridiculous amount of) time to make this video ❤

@youtub-fj8mu 23 күн бұрын

Farming legendaries to trade instead of cheating yourself? Damn, you were commited

@youtub-fj8mu 23 күн бұрын

Also, did you have to play all the games he did? I'm playing emerald on a emulator and have no desire to go out of the mainline games

@Gabba64 23 күн бұрын

@@youtub-fj8mu well, everything was on official hardware, no emulators involved. I did not own a gamecube nor any colosseum game and I believe they were used here mostly to speed up the process, but some game lending and trading with friends that had it was necessary - that's how I got my Ho-oh. So many shinies were exchanged, including a horsea! Tbh I don't remember too well after 20y but I remember making a point of having a legit no exploit living dex.

@PlayrR3D156 Ай бұрын

6:13 The way I see it, Kyogre is the one who's surrounded. What's under the ocean? That's right! More land.

@Jlaps941 Ай бұрын

Plus we know land isn’t there normally, which means Groudon literally raised that plot of land on its own and could probably do plenty more

@testerwulf3357 Ай бұрын

Idk..one of them extremely weak to the other one and it's not Kyogre! Just saying. Groudon got such a bad typing for the dynamic they tried to set up..there is no believable way Groudon could do anything to Kyogre before getting immediately KOed by a single droplet of water..especially in primal form where it's even MORE weak to water! For a duo that's supposedly fighting all the time and equals the typings do NOT reflect this

@PlayrR3D156 Ай бұрын

@@testerwulf3357 Drought/Desolate Land + Solar Beam.

@alex.polychronopoulos4487 Ай бұрын

@@PlayrR3D156 People debating this in 2024 makes me happy

@yoisakikanade_ Ай бұрын

yes but how will this affect the meta

@AbsolBlogsPokemon Ай бұрын

This was SO much fun to watch live, and the video turned out so great!!!!! This is my favorite generation of Pokemon, and it's absolutely insane to see where the prices have gone on it all!! You did such a good job walking through everything. Absolutely honored to have my Emerald VIP card featured at 21:14 Thankfully, the Master Ball in the JP Colo bonus disc does *not* lock the master ball behind story completion/purification, so it's actually extremely useful for people shiny hunting stuff like Shadow Entei since you can use it that early in the story! I had NO IDEA about the 255 times oversight with Gabby & Ty - that is SO cool and something I gotta work towards on my games!!

@f0rm0r Ай бұрын

New level 100 gauntlet idea?

@zdelrod829 Ай бұрын

@@f0rm0r The Uber Gauntlet: Complete a Living Dex of a certain game, but you *must* grind all of the mons to level 100.

@Calruxio Ай бұрын

Finally someone else knows my suffering...This was hell to do back in the day. The fact that you can do it in less than 2 weeks with planning is crazy to me. It took me months to get everything lined up between school and homework back then.

@LPcrazy_88 Ай бұрын

One thing Johnstone didn't talk about is if you want to transfer these Pokemon up to Pokemon Home you will have to spend another 8 or so hours just to transfer them up because of the Gen 3 to 4 limitation and the stupid hoops you have to go through. I just did it myself just for the Gen 3 mons and it took more than a whole day of just transferring up after I caught them all. No generation is more time consuming than Gen 3 by a long shot.

@Mustache99 Ай бұрын

50:28 he beated us 300 times, we hoped he went away but then he immediately just to come back after five seconds, our pokemon watched us in tears saying we can't do it boss, and the only thing he said is: go home, taunting us but we can't

@bella-chan1013 Ай бұрын

New creepypasta just dropped

@Heyimconnor Ай бұрын

With Baabu and Boingo Jumpluff stock has risen over the last few years

@Gentledude. Ай бұрын

You're such a good storyteller.. I'm literally zoned in every video. One of one man, i love your stuff!

@ThatGillessGamer Ай бұрын

This easily became my favorite of Johnstone's videos. There are some parts in the video that are genuinely hysterical; John's luck is actually crazy sometimes!

@amberhernandez Ай бұрын

The three legendary beasts being captured by the villains is mirrored in Pokémon Ranger, and that game was even more insane. Your run as a Ranger ended if your styler broke (or just set you back to the last save if you're WEAK), and the beasts LOOOOVE to attack your styler on sight. Manipulating them to attack and trying to do loops before they start sprinting again is a necessity. Not only that, but there's THREE FIGHTS IN A ROW. you basically need to grind Poké Assist gauge until your Plusle/Minun can paralyse them, and hope you can complete 20+ loops to catch ONE OF THEM. It is the single hardest battle of attrition in the game, yet somehow feels balanced(?) anyway. Shadows of Almia would actually redo the capture system, replacing X number of loops with a dedicated friendship gauge that filled up per loop, and progress decayed instead of wiping out entirely when you stopped. The difference in quality of life is night and day, and nothing will compare to OG Ranger Charizard or the beast trio. All this to say, legendary beasts captured by evil team, something about nickels, weird happening something.

@meeszijlstra5426 Ай бұрын

You just awoke traumatic memories of child me, oh my god. I beat Charizard in OG ranger by waiting on the attack where he puts down a bunch of little fires, but walks slowly around them. Rather than carefully move my line between them, I just quickly tapped all the fires around The Zard to remove them, clearing the area to quickly loop around him. Prior to discovering this strategy, I actually got stuck on him, resigning myself to never beating the game. Charizard is a monstrous fight, and Entei gave me very similar trouble afterward. Though I did beat it, the challenge was indeed brutal. Part of me kinda finds Almia a bit too easy in comparison, but it's definitely a better experience overall.

@roddyu2812 28 күн бұрын

I remember absolutely destroying my screen with my stylus while playing Pokémon ranger.

@LeveledRogue 9 күн бұрын

Oh my god do i remember the rage that rayquaza caused me lol, and yeah charizard was a pain.

@SpectreXS Ай бұрын

As someone who also did this myself, I can say that Colosseum and XD cut out an ENORMOUS time in this. And it's really simple to run these games on a Wii, if you don't care about playing on 100% retail copies. Then the main hassle is just needing LeafGreen for Slowpoke, deciding if you're gonna use glitches or not for Deoxys, and getting Celebi, which needs the japanese games.

@arca173 Ай бұрын

The sister just replying "that was a bad hack" took me out lmao idk why I found that part so funny.

@KnoxNick Ай бұрын

I remember attempting to do this back around 2018. Bought all I needed too but never had the time/drive to commit to it. Thank you for completing this. I’ve always wanted to see it.

@Sean081799 Ай бұрын

Emerald is my favorite main series game - but I've only ever played it casually, so I had no idea how DEEP everything went into this. Thank you for doing this so we don't have to!

@azeria1 Ай бұрын

Theys a reason why the Japanese version never used the catch em all tag line and why gen four would drop it completely

@Tangyshrub Ай бұрын

So glad I got to watch most of this live! It was so much fun on stream and so much fun to watch again in this video. Another certified banger from John

@slateportraichu5416 Ай бұрын

This was an incredible journey! Thank you for the quality content!

@Erifire Ай бұрын

8:14 The Eon Ticket can also be shared in ORAS through the streetpass function with the PokeNav.

@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 Ай бұрын

Not just strretpass, trading wirelessy or i with a friend who has the eon ticket will force it to duplicate

@colemason1521 Ай бұрын

John, thank you. I have been looking forward to this video for SO LONG. LOVE LOVE LOVE your content!

@micah2936 Ай бұрын

You can catch them all with just 5 games. You don’t need to whip out the GameCube

@JustJamieonYT Ай бұрын

"Go Home" is so unnecessarily Savage and I love it!!

@captaincrunch3015 Ай бұрын

Emerald is my favorite pokemon game by far and I love battling the TV crew and then giving nonsense responses. Great video as always!!

@rayflyers Ай бұрын

Congrats, John! I'm working on the same thing. I've spent $600 on rebuying Emerald, Colosseum, and XD and modding my GBA. This task is not for the faint of heart if you don't already have all the games.

@abigailofdarkness Ай бұрын

That's dedication. I hope you succeed.

@Vuallum Ай бұрын

Minus the Gamecube titles, my lord am I glad to have gotten the GBA games second hand within 5 years after their release, like Black and White were the new games at the time.

@JackMoynihanOfficial 29 күн бұрын

Learning how to Picoboot a GameCube will save you a lot of time and money

@dabberdad4207 22 күн бұрын

Took me through my childhood multiple times throughout this, thanks for going through this for us to enjoy it I truly appreciated watching this today!

@IIInvokeII 19 күн бұрын

Your dedication was INSANE! I could not ever hope to do this myself and it was a joy watching you complete it. Congrats!

@Randomlybookish Ай бұрын

Good lord. I am amazed at your dedication. Emerald was one of the first pokemon games I played through to the end and it always bothered me that the National Dex was so far out of reach. Amazing video!

@hworld9832 Ай бұрын

You have pain, ChaoticMeatball has pain, everyone has pain.

@jurczynskithibaud5380 Ай бұрын

Which means all poketubers are French

@MoonDanceGames Ай бұрын

This is next level. This video brought me so much joy! Love ur content Johnstone. Keep up the good work 🫡

@christianj5950 9 күн бұрын

As a young child at the time of Gen 3s release, it was crazy to me that "gotta catch em all" was a thing in Pokemon and that some people had achieved it. Only at a much later date did I learn this was MUCH easier to accomplish before Gen 3 (and after, thanks to the introduction of WiFi), and Gen 3 is just ridiculously impossible for any normal child.

@Phillips455 Ай бұрын

Great Job John! Cant believe the luck and good times during the streams. Heres to many more!

@officerjazzi Ай бұрын

I am attempting this challenge on this channel, and I learned some new things about how to make this process easier. Thank you Johnstone for paving the way for others to try this ridiculous quest! 😊

@cre8009 Ай бұрын

This is a really video and I really enjoyed it. I had no idea about some of the tricks you used for some of the mons especially for the latias and camping on the bike route.

@burnsiedg9136 Ай бұрын

Proud of the commitment and the optimism throughout all of this! Congrats on your living Hoenn dex!!

@Aeroczema Ай бұрын

New Johnstone, YAY Crobatthew killed me

@giacomobongrazio Ай бұрын

Your dedication is impressive dude!

@Zai_Nomi Ай бұрын

Huge shoutout to the editing! The video is really well made and just genuinely fun to watch! I had an amazing time :)

@thomascampbell5321 Ай бұрын

Alternative Title: Johnstone flexes how much money and free time he has

@TheRhedNova Ай бұрын

Huge respect! I've been slowly completing the national dexes on all of my childhood copies (thankfully I had all the games and the hardware needed anyways) and Gen 3 took me almost a decade (2015-23) to fully do. I had every pokemon needed, legit acquired, by 2016 thanks to some good fortune but trading every pokemon between every game was such a discouraging process until AbsolBlogs released his box edits. So much slower than your time, but it's just been a side project while I finished Uni and started Antarctic research. About halfway through gen 4 now! Keep up the great work :)

@Bittls Ай бұрын

Im trying to do that right now myself. This has always been a childhood dream of mine. Are you saying you have a legit mew and deoxys though? Short of just getting on reddit and begging anyone who has a real one to mail me a cartirdge, meet up in real life, or find one on ebay for a billion dollars, I am not sure how to go about LEGIT completing this

@TheRhedNova Ай бұрын

@@Bittls that was the aforementioned good fortune - I was going to a lot of local conventions at the time and met some folk who were willing to trade thir childhood event pokemon. It was really lucky! The chance is definitely a lot smaller these days, since I did those trades in 2015/16, but you may still have luck if you go to a Pokemon competition or the like, especially if you ask around online first. Wishing you all the best!!!!!!

@StickMaster500 Ай бұрын

And people thought Dexit in Sword and Shield was bad

@matthewbraith0411 Ай бұрын

Different, this gen had all the code, shit and piss (Sword and Shield ) did not.

@Jparter03 17 күн бұрын

playing through saphire rn with my childhood game on my game boy advance. Lots of nostalgia, but sad i cannot get all the pokemon you did! happy to run into this video

@captainhades1583 Ай бұрын

One of my favorite Johnstone videos to date 😂 so many great bits and accidental triumphs

@buddy1sock Ай бұрын

Only 4 views in 1 minute? Man johnstone fell off…

@Newtverse Ай бұрын

334 in 3 min Still so less😢

@BrokensideTV Ай бұрын

1.6k in 5 minutes? :(

@damienn369 Ай бұрын

1.4k in 7 minutes!? What happened to him

@Junpei_Yoshino109 Ай бұрын

Cuh peaked

@Lost_In_Neverwhere Ай бұрын

Can't wait for people to stop spamming this tired "joke" on every damn video.

@viporial2358 Ай бұрын

"The beginning of Pokemon XD is too slow" *game speeds up "The end of pokemon XD is too fast and hectic" Bruh

@perkypenguin1663 Ай бұрын

The dedication you have to the tasks you set out to do is impressive to put it lightly. Very very good video!

@RaeCrazyGaming Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed the evolution of Johnstones content recently. I like those pre recorded style of videos but he also includes enough amazing stream clips to genuinely incentivise me to watch his streams as they seem like great fun. That and the fact he is also doing INSANE challenges too

@Tiger21820 Ай бұрын

Congrats on completing your Emerald Pokédex!!! I SALUTE YOU!!!! I'm working on this too! Oh, wait... I'M DOING THIS 10 FREAKIN TIMES!!!!! I'M TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR RUBY, SAPPHIRE, EMERALD, FIRERED, AND LEAFGREEN TWICE!!!! YES, I'M PLAYING TWO INSTANCES OF THE GBA POKéMON GAMES AND TRYING TO COMPLETE MY POKéDEX FOR ALL OF THEM!!!! Pokémon is a full time job! Hey wait! What the heck am I doing playing Wario Land 3 Master Quest!? I gotta get back to Emerald and get the last 13 Pokémon in the Hoenn Pokédex so I can get my Johto Starter! AND THEY'RE ALL EVOLUTIONS!!!! Edit: I DID IT!!! Twice! That makes 6 out of 10 regional Pokédexes complete! I chose Cyndaquil and Totodile for my Emerald starters, since I already had Chikorita! I also finished my 2 FireRed and LeafGreen Kanto Pokédexes a while back! Now... RUBY AND SAPPHIRE x2 remain! I'm playing these for RetroAchievements so there is some emulation involved! But I also bought 5 GBA SPs, 5 Wireless Adaptors, and 5 EZ-Flash Omegas to do 5 player Wireless Adaptor stuff! Yep, I spent QUITE a bit of money JUST to play 5 player games of Berry Crush, Pokémon Jump, AND Dodrio Berry Picking! Am I insane? Well, let's put it this way... decent Wireless Adaptor emulation development is slower than a mound of molasses, so I just figured that I should just get the physical hardware since I'm not waiting till 2025 for a CHANCE of 5 player Wireless Adaptor emulation being implemented into mGBA!!!!

@crispyandtoasty4073 Ай бұрын

Lol the TV interviewer was made depressed, I never laughed so hard "Go home."

@IdealPal 11 күн бұрын

Can't wait to see more videos! Love your content!!! I think I die of happiness every time you put on the fishing gear for fishing time, doesn't stop being funny

@PedrenoZ Ай бұрын

Great video. That Horsea was lit 🔥 I loved the Colosseum part too

@JC-hi8fk Ай бұрын

“This is played on original hardware.” “I’m playing this on an Analog Pocket.”

@TheDarkSide11891 Ай бұрын

I mean it's essentially a perfect hardware emulator so it's close enough to original hardware

@dreadedfred9766 Ай бұрын

correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he say "actual hardware", not "original hardware"?

@traiges414 Ай бұрын

Bro wouldnt comment such maidenless nonsense if he would have hit at least once

@nightlygarbagerun7395 Ай бұрын

you can play original cartridages on analog pocket

@ChatZ279 Ай бұрын

Now get all stars for your card😂

@aidenmilkovich6792 Ай бұрын

Love your content, your insane for doing all of these!

@matthewshelby9287 Ай бұрын

Super impressed with your video! This is the first video I've watched from your channel and I will be a forever subscriber! Keep up the GREAT work and much love from Oregon!

@JumpinJew Ай бұрын

As a Feebas enthusiast, I can confirm that it is very difficult to find. (I found a shiny one in Ruby)

@Lucas-to2jc Ай бұрын

Having done this myself, I *hate* Colosseum with every fiber of my being. Really glad I could use an emulator and avoid Nintendo's scummy monetization practices during Gen 3.

@gobbagoo Ай бұрын

not just gen 3, its now a modern staple of the series

@capreo Ай бұрын

Congrats! Watching this live was so fun. Stoked for the Battle Frontier next!

@papabeartic1181 Ай бұрын

I’m so glad I grew up playing Pokémon and had most of this stuff as it came out. I had a living den in sapphire before doing it was really a thing, excluding some in-person mythicals. But I learned about Pokémon box and got,it for my birthday! Love the grind, what a nostalgia bomb for me 😊

@Logicaltaco5 Ай бұрын

The "Go Home" bit had me dying

@LucasDakami Ай бұрын

The TRAINER replied, "GO HOME."

@giamoral10 Ай бұрын

Another amazing video, john! Keep it up!

@gubbothehuggo2771 Ай бұрын

The problem with the nat dex in gen 3 wasn't the incompatibility with gen 1 and 2, it was just god-awful obnoxious game design.

@Patterrz Ай бұрын

We're just gonna glaze over this one John? 12:29

@ThatOneGuy-qw1xx 17 күн бұрын

oop first comment 🔥

@RiRiArthur Ай бұрын

Another outstanding video! I've been thinking about doing a living des in emerald for quite some time, also recently getting all the gab & gamecube games in Japan but man what a tedious process! Congrats on that accomplishment

@merlinwalden 21 күн бұрын

Bro this is madness. Good job!

@50zezima Ай бұрын

The Pokémon company is greedy. Tell us something that we didn't already know lol.

@ilvecchiorandyrandon2109 Ай бұрын

I would love better balls to play with John, please explain how to obtain them

@CatBack94 Ай бұрын

Always look forward to your postings ever since i watched your lets go shiny dex hunt

@L3ONARDO24 Ай бұрын

Incredible video, congrats on getting this done!!!

@bransonlincolnberger Ай бұрын

im happy now but once this video is over im back to being depressed

@leafgreen20cruz Ай бұрын

Let's GOOO JOHN!!

@SPECTRVX Ай бұрын

I always get so hyped when a new Johnstone video drops

@skipperxiv9401 Ай бұрын

Omg that broadcast from the news duo at the end there was perfect

@Ali-vk6jm Ай бұрын

It’s been decades since the last vid lol😂

@devinloew7681 Ай бұрын

Emerald being $180 makes me hate Nintendo so much you have no idea. My favorite Pokemon game

@GenusMusic Ай бұрын

At least your generations remakes were remade as Emerald! *cries in Brilliant Diamond*

@devinloew7681 Ай бұрын

@GenusMusic Soul Silver and Heart Gold were masterpieces. Alpha and Omega were pretty good too. We need better remakes of the rest yes

@GenusMusic Ай бұрын

@devinloew7681 yeah I think ASOR (especially after X and Y) were a much needed breath of fresh air that gave me a bit of hope for the future for Pokémon! Then there was the Alolan generation afterwards

@lanadelphox Ай бұрын

Nintendo isn’t the reason emerald is $180. Even if they ported it to switch it would still be an expensive game (if you’re buying authentic english) due to the market being absolutely absurd

@NinjaxShadowXx Ай бұрын

You can find loose cartridges of the game easy for like $5-$10 in Garage sales I got one last summer with a gba sp for like $10

@G-fo9uv 21 күн бұрын

Another great video Johnstone! As always giving me inspiration for future challenges, after catching every Pokemon from their original region in a Poke Ball with my OT and moving to HOME I wanted another Catch Em All style challenge, I'd love to have every Pokemon available from every generation or something like that in HOME but since Bank is closing and there isn't enough space to do that in HOME anyway something like what you have completed here might be my next best option, keeping all the Pokemon on their original games and such. Would love to see you do this again for more games!

@nguyenchuthanh9619 Ай бұрын

Its cool that you've finished them. Thanks for making my childhood dream come true 🎉

@liamlogsdon1099 16 күн бұрын

I’m a newer sub to the twitch channel, and this is the first video I’m watching on the tube. This is a really good video. I’m sorry it took me so long to watch any videos. Support this man!

@Bfine94 24 күн бұрын

Being there for the Horsea was huge!!! Congratulations!!! That challenge defines had maximum effort.

@TheSalmonFC Ай бұрын

Glad to see John back

@captainkeller2792 Ай бұрын

Lets Put the Pokemon Part aside. This video is extremly well made and narated. I was able to follow really well despite not beeing into pokemon that much. It was a really fun watch.