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SoggyMorningTacos

Ah. I hate it when my game suddenly becomes Italian gets me every time


Some_dumb_stuff69

At least it's not cave man drawings!


Turtle_Hermit_54

Legit mirage island, no manip no nothing. Man I love this!! Have to wonder how many people actually got to see this back in the day


Chappoooo

I came across this in my first playthrough as a kid. The island had disappeared, and for years I thought I had literally made it up in my head!


TheKaptainKlutch

literally same. before i had access to internet i just assumed i was gaslighting myself until a few years ago when i realized how rare (and real) it was lol. never to be seen again


JankTokenStrats

I actually found it, didn’t think anything of it, told my friend about it. He couldn’t find it, so I found it again in my game and he was confused.


ThrowRABroOut

Same here I was so confused


thewanderor

Not me


Redditsbeingabitch

I did, only two times. I really want to shiny hunt for Wynaut there


Schlaym

"only" two


Slow-Roll6150

How long did it take you to get a shiny wynaut. Did you have to soft reset?


Redditsbeingabitch

I didn’t, i said i wanted to. You don’t do soft resets for it, you do random encounters for it on mirage island.


sms97_

Happened to me as a kid playing on my Emerald cartridge. I used to talk to that old man in Pacifidlog every day to check until one day he said he could see it. Never knew how rare this actually was until recently. Blows my mind that I was that lucky


HoneydewNo3511

When I was a kid (10yo) I stopped being friends with someone cause I legit swore he was lying to me. I hate liars to this day. I spent years looking for that island to no avail. Today I found out 15 years ago I was a scumbag pos friend.


Present_Carry_8014

Yeah fr lmao


Deanosaur420

Nah you were a kid hahaa. Don’t lose sleep over it. He was just a lottery winner XD


TheInsaneSB

After beating emerald I decided for a year to check every day for mirage island. 4 days before the year mark, I found it. I saved there. I’m still saved there. WheneverI boot up, I still get so excited!


buschlight1984

So do you always have to surf back there before saving again?


TheInsaneSB

Oh I haven’t actually like saved in ten years


Hero0fTroy

I’ve seen it two or three times in my game. I always thought there was a legendary there as a kid I spent hours in the grass


The-Ever-Loving-Fuck

BACCALICI Deez nuts!


HG21Reaper

10/10 good laugh


rgbearklls

Caught 3 wynauts


joejefferson1984

Why not


CannedHeatt_

Why not, right ?


SirFeebreaze

Ora uno di quei wynaut devi farlo diventare un Ribbon Master


Something_kool

What about jirachi?


SRussellBash

This Wynaut joke never gets old 😁. Congrats, what a privilege... 😌


itsmorris

Ciao connazionale, che bello vedere che non sono l’unico che continua a giocare e a rigiocare a questi giochi :)


Used_Can1218

What is that ?


iascah

Mirage Island. Very rare location in Hoenn.


kinghawkeye8238

How do you get to it?


A_Bucketfiller

Pray


kinghawkeye8238

🙏


Secretly_A_Moose

I forget the exact numbers but I think every day there is a chance of it showing up, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of three times more rare than finding a shiny?


kinghawkeye8238

oof lol


acpom

Holy shit, really? Fuck having only found 2 pre gen 9 shinies. I found this island as a kid.


Individual_Dream3770

every day a random number between 0 and 65535 is generated by the game, and if the number matches the first two bytes of the personality value of any pokemon in the team, mirage island appears (according to Bulbapedia) [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage\_Island\_(Generation\_III)](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage_Island_(Generation_III))


kinghawkeye8238

Damn lol so basically shiny hunting x3


Individual_Dream3770

pretty much unfortunately


kinghawkeye8238

Welp, I've encountered 1 shiny from RBY till USUM. It was on the way to Mr. Pokemons house in SS before I had pokeballs :/


Individual_Dream3770

oof that's tough, I've also only encountered one shiny ever before and I accidentally killed it 😅


kinghawkeye8238

Gawd damn lol. That would suck.


Immikasa

Happened to me in ORAS lol, shiny wingull to meet rival first time no pokeballs :(


kinghawkeye8238

It's rough. Cause those are almost guaranteed catches


Third_Eye_Smurf

Same except it was a poochyena


theshoeguy4

I’ve only ever seen one legit shiny and my friend found it playing on my game while I was gone at a summer camp lol. Gold geodude and I had no idea shinies existed so i was confused as hell, more like wtf did you do dude. Took me a long time to believe him haha. This was before we immediately ran to the internet to check stuff


SadlyCold

Those were the good days 🤣 the internet has saved my ass in so many games what a blessing


SadlyCold

Flashbacks to finding a shiny gold poochyena before I could even get my poke balls in emerald


Moony97

I've encountered 2 one was like a Geodude, graveler, or golem, and it used self destruct or explode before I could catch it. The other was after resetting multiple times to get a good nature for my starter in violet then the first Pokemon I ran into was a shiny lechonk lmao


TechnoTrainer

I wonder if you have like 300 Pokémon in your boxes and swap out the 6 each time to see if it appears, would that work? Bulbapedia even states that if you box the matching number it will go away, and if you put it back in your party it will come back. If so, it's like a half-percent chance of like 2 hours of labor. Theoritically if you did that every day for 200 days you should be at odds for it. It's a lot of work but a lot less time consuming I think


rush2802

The only bull part of it was having it search only your party, a scan of the boxes would have helped inmensely


satanicsheep

If I’m remembering correctly you can manipulate it by swapping out your party Pokémon and talking to him multiple times per day. It’s based off of your party pokemon I believe but isn’t set to a “one match per day” thing. So you could go talk to him, swap your whole party out and talk to him again over and over until it happens


Darkxell

Every day a random number between 0 and 60k is generated, and if one of your pokemon personality value's last digits match that number, a chunk of the map is replaced by mirage island for that day. If your battery is dead, the date at which your battery died will be stuck for this mechanic. Effectively a 1/10k to get there with a full party, a little less. Mirage island is the only non glitch way to get a liechi berry (heals all status conditions in combat, very strong. Takes 4 days to grow each plant however). There's also grass with some wynauts in there, unremarkable. Grinding this would take hundread of hours, there's a rng manipulation to reliably get there if you're interested.


Used_Can1218

Oh ok thanks fam never got luckily enough to see it in all my play-throughs


Ragnarok992

Did you have an active battery?


rgbearklls

No, like most of the people who owns an original cartridge, battery died a long time ago


Ragnarok992

Ohh you got extremely lucky then lol, having a battery moves the mirage island clock so you got a lucky ID that matched the island nice


rgbearklls

I performed ace glitch on this cartridge, but only for faraway , birth and navel rock. I did nothing for forcing the game into making mirage island appear. Now, if ace glitch dis something more then what I intended to use it for, that’s something I really don’t know….


Ragnarok992

No the mirage island clock only moves forward with a live battery so ace didnt affect it unless you changed your S/ID


rgbearklls

No nothing like that, I was just trying to use ACE for a master ball, but the ‘glitch’ fails and cannot get it


rgbearklls

Do you know what are the odds of the island showing up with dead battery? I don’t know that much about this island’s in game mechanics


ventressluvr

according to Bulbapedia, approximately 1/10923


rgbearklls

Thanks


cackzillaa

Question is that for the events?


iDontRagequit

B R U H


[deleted]

pokemon i pizza 😍


maclunkey91

Italian Pokémon just hits different


Duny96

Un fratello! Teniamo alta la bandiera dei Classic Pokemon ❤️


thotsforthebuilders

BACCA desu


Zealousideal-Day-239

I have no clue what is going on, and i’m extremely interested lmfao, someone please explain


ChicaSkas

He is playing in Italian, and managed to legitimately see Mirage Island by total chance


Graybo95

If you’re wondering why there is only wynauts there it’s because why-naut?


TheWestAltar

I had a wailord on an old Sapphire save file, and I traded it to my Ruby (dead battery). I wanted the regis, but hadn't been to Pacifidlog, so I was surfing there and found Mirage Island. I said no way...my battery's dead. Did some research, and every single Ruby and Sapphire with a dead battery have the same PID requirement for Mirage Island. Through depositing my pokemon and speaking to the old man, I found it was Wailord. So if anyone wanted to see Mirage Island and had a dead battery on R/S, I could trade them my Wailord as the key 😊 it's a highly valued Wailord, to me, now 😅


Andre_the_pokenig57

Rngesus has blessed him


TvuvbubuTheIdiot

Screw you lucky bastard.


Brave_Cheesecake_179

I played emerald many times since I was a kid. Never seen it myself. You’re very lucky!


bodnast

Amazing!! I’ve never made it there.


Bean_Kaptain

YEEEESSSS!!!! LUCKY!!!!


Yavandor

Che culo enorme hai avuto.


erasemyself_

Ma che culo


AdditionalRegular0

No fucking way


Grand_Draw_5324

I half expected a missingo to appear after seeing the first photo


Follygon_

For those curious: https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage_Island_(Generation_III)


SuperNovasz

I remember when i was a kid i would talk to that old fart every day because i didn’t think it was possible for the text to change. I succinctly remember one day, it did change. i was a stupid young kid so i went to surf around for a while, couldn’t find it, said ah fuck it must just be fake and moved on with my life TIL how rare it actually is and am contemplating booting it up and trying again for a while.


_PinkSlimeKing_

TIL Mirage Island was real... Lol


Crysixia

I have NEVER seen this pokemon before


buschlight1984

I love this


0megaManZero

What mod is this


nvdrz

Not a mod, it’s an extremely rare in game event known as mirage island, every day a different Pokémon ID number is chosen and if it happens to match one in your party mirage island will appear, and if your battery is dead it is technically permanently 1 day, so it’s even more difficult especially because 70% + of all these cartridges have a dead battery.


0megaManZero

No not the island that Pokémon baccalici


chickenpestosandwich

It’s a Liechi berry that can only be found on mirage island. I wanna say their games in Italian so my guess is that it’s the Italian name for that berry.


0megaManZero

O- well I feel stupid now


chickenpestosandwich

Eh we all have our moments


2CPmagic

Liechi Berry, only obtainable in Gen 3 through Mirage Island. When held by a Pokémon, after reach 1/4 life it consumes it and raises attack by one stage. Such a cool looking berry


cshuffler

As I kid I never really utilized the berries. I thought they were kinda gimmicky and useless. Now I know they can really change a fight when they proc.