Pokémon: Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Version

Pokémon: Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald form the third generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon: Gold and Silver. Noticeable differences include the graphics and interface, Pokémon abilities, and running shoes that allow the player to move around much faster in the overworld before getting the bike.

This TAS completes the game without using any glitches. There is another TAS of this game which uses a notable glitch to skip the second half of the game.

Note: To play the .bk2 file you need to configure your timezone to GMT-5 (US Eastern Time).

Pokémon: Ruby and Sapphire are the debut games of the third generation of Pokémon video games and the first ones to be released on the Game Boy Advance. With this generation comes a whole plethora of new features such as Pokémon species-specific abilities, double battles, Pokémon contests, and more. Ruby and Sapphire take place in the region of Hoenn, where trouble is stewing about due to two terrorist organizations that want to change the climate for highly questionable reasons. As with before, this gets in the way of your quest to be the best, and it will be up to you to resolve it.

For this run, gabraltar and Fortranm combine their efforts to play both Ruby and Sapphire simultaneously and complete the Hoenn Pokédex as fast as possible without resorting to any glitches. To do this, lots of trading is done between the games along with tons and tons of RNG manipulation to make catching and evolving Pokémon as efficient as it can be. For further details, you can read the authors' notes here.

There is also a video from the authors that adds in their commentary and an overlay that gives statistics such as Pokédex progress and what's in the players' parties.

Pokémon: Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald form the third generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon: Gold and Silver. Noticeable differences include the graphics and interface, Pokémon abilities, and running shoes that allow the player to move around much faster in the overworld before getting the bike.

This improvement of nearly 22 minutes over the previous TAS is the result of thorough research and testing by the author. A new strategy allows ending the game with only 5 badges by corrupting the memory, allowing her to execute arbitrary code. This was possible due to a switch to the Japanese version, which has a larger character set to use for the PC Box payload. For more information, see the author's comments.

We also have a run that completes the entire game without major glitches.

Pokémon: Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald form the third generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon: Gold and Silver. Noticeable differences include the graphics and interface, Pokémon abilities, and running shoes that allow the player to move around much faster in the overworld before getting the bike.

Watch as drkspace runs through the fields and catches every single Pokémon as part of the Professor Oak Living Dex challenge, which involves catching every Pokémon and one of each evolutionary stage before each gym.

Encoders Note: Due to the YouTube limit the encode is split into two parts.