Video game leaker Shpeshal Nick has said on X that the Pokemon Ruby/Emerald/Sapphire ports for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 are planned to be released in late September early October. The ports of the classic Pokemon games have yet to to be confirmed by The Pokemon Company, but were expected to be coming. Hopefully we won’t have to wait long to find out.
Shpeshal Nick: Pokemon Ruby/Emerald/Sapphire ports planned for Switch late September/October
Easy money
Hell yes, the leaf green and fire red ports brought down the prices of second hand gba carts, this will slash the price of the rest of the gen 3 games i hope
I have had the roughest past week. I legit saw this and almost teared up lol… I really needed a win, this makes me so happy :’)
Good for you. I also dont get the complains about them asking 20 bucks for this , i spend over 10.000k hours on these games so they already earned my money multiple times over not to mentiont that you can now play them on your 75 inch 4k oled tv’s and the handheld mode of the switch 2 is far superior to any old handheld the no glare alone is enough reason for me to buy them again. Right now Ruby and Sapphire are my most wanted next release so this will be sick if true.
Also remember , no matter how bad stuff gets there will always be better times. This got me out of the hole multiple times and i’m currently very happy.
I think the complaint mostly comes from that there are currently 29 GBA games you can play on the NSO app that you don’t have to pay extra money for. Plus you can use save states and the rewind function on the NSO but you can’t on these standalone $20 games. That would be my guess.
I would myself be very dubious of savestates and rewinds being allowed on an official release of a Pokémon game.
Why? What’s the difference between having that in Pokemon games vs older games? Don’t people like to shiny hunt and stuff? I feel like those features could be a huge time-saver, depending on when the RNG is decided in those games (idk the specifics)
Being able to save state would allow you to generate infinite shiny or legendary or mythical pokemon.
Step 1. Encounter a shiny and save state.
Step 2. Catch it and either trade it to another game or transfer it to HOME.
Step 3. Revert to save state and repeat step 2.
Cheating is already rampant in Pokemon, let’s not make it even easier to do.
Though I imagine you couldn’t care less.
So what’s “cheating” in this context exactly? Is this kinda like when people say you “cheat yourself” if you play on an easy mode or something and don’t want them implemented in games?
Pokemon is not an exclusively single player game, but you obviously knew this already so that was clearly just a bad faith argument.
The games actively try to stop players from doing exploits like this, otherwise rare and shiny pokemon become ridiculously common and lose their rarity.
I can tell there’s no point arguing with you though, you’ve shown time and again on here that you have nothing but contempt for this series and the people who enjoy it. You don’t care about our community or the effects that cheated pokemon has on it.
Just leave us alone already.
Me criticizing Pokemon games shouldn’t feel like a personal attack on you.
That’s an easy fix then. Just implement that all save states are erased whenever you connect with another player. A little unnecessary for a 24 year old game imo but it’s also shouldn’t be a big deal to implement since the original games had you save before doing the same thing.
Thank you!! That was really sweet. I’m definitely doing my best to hang in there! And yeah, I don’t look twice at the price tag lol… I’ve tried tracking down original carts, and Ruby & Sapphire each go for ~$80. And Emerald sells for around $200 – $250 last time I saw (just the cartridge, and they’re extremely bootlegged so it’s hard to find an authentic one without a ton of research). And those aren’t just unsold listings, they genuinely sell for these prices constantly. $20 is how much it costs to get lunch or takeout these days. I think it’s just people on the internet will be mad about anything, so it’s best to pay it no mind and continue on in your own space to not stress yourself out lol
Sending good vibes your way! Glad this cheered you up!
You need to go touch grass and enjoy life this shouldn’t make you happy like that
I am SO excited for this. I played FR/LG alongside my 11 year old and we had a blast. Definitely gonna do the same with these!
I have both of these on 3DS right now. Going to be hard for me to justify buying these two just to have on Switch 2. But, playing on a 70 inch TV is nice too instead of a small 3DS Screen. Glad to see they are doing these releases again for the big screen.
This better be legit.
I want Crystal!
And the DS Remakes!
This version of Emerald better have the Old Sea Map to reach Far Away Island so we can get Mew legally.