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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Pokemon Emerald is an incredibly polished game that is packed to the brim with activities and things to do. Today we'll look at the relatively rare Blend Master NPC who helps the player out with blending pokeblocks for use in the Pokemon contests.
Pokemon Contests were an added game mode in Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Sapphire, and later Pokemon Emerald, that were combined with an update to the berry items in game to create an entirely new way to play and experience Pokemon on the Gameboy Advance. Berries and contests can be difficult to really excel at and the Blend Master can fill a rare niche in making the whole process easier for players. He is the best chef in Pokemon- here is his story.
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Edit: folks we found the book that has the berry codes in it! thanks to @alexalexander4694 for commenting where to find it!
The book is the 10th anniversary complete pokedex collector's edition and the codes are on page 211. and you can check it out at the internet archive RIGHT HERE (to view it entirely it must be checked out sorry yall):
archive.org/details/pokemon10thanniv0000mylo/page/210/mode/2up
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How long did i play my emerald game to figure this all out when i was in 4th grade wtf
hello there was a guide released for the 10th anniversary of pokemon named "Collector's edition Complete Pokedex" this was a guide for the gen 3 games and showed where you got each pokemon in the gba games, colleseum and XD. The guide showed all pokemon levelup moves, tms, etc. But also had useful ingame information on page 211 titled "Extras" and then titled "Codes" it will then list all 5 sayings for which berries you get
we found it folks
You're a legend for posting this
What's hilarious is I'm getting my gf into emerald and was looking up stuff to help her get milotic. I still have the same beat up copy of this book, wish I could picture comment it
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I had this book! I might even still have it at my moms. I lost or collected all my old games long ago but never touched all the old strategy guides. Loved those things so much. Thanks mom
I remember grinding for hours to get the perfect run vs the Blend Master. I got him to make a mistake. Once.
It wasn't about getting the best pokeblock, or getting a high score. It was about dethroning the master. It was about letting him know that his days were numbered. It was about showing that even a god could bleed.
Damn, looks like your the pokeblock master now
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@@itisfreak😂😂😂
You are my new favourite person
You sound like Gary now
This man embodies the phrase "Wait, let him cook."
the stat reducing berries only got that functionality in Emerald, in RS they were exclusively used for making pokeblocks.
I love the ending so much.
So many features both back then (and especially now) have so many time sensitive requirements that are, one day, gonna be unavailable to players.
Adding access to gameplay and features outside of Internet makes the games more timeless than they already are.
Agreed, as someone who dosent have four friends who like pokemon enough, or at all, to grind for all the shiny legends in the crown tundra with me, I am worried that if I ever decide to go back to hunting them, the servers will be shut down, and I'll be stuck with some STUPID SOLROCK (you know the one)
They're not interested in preserving their games, what they want is to resell them.
(corporate greed at its finest)
I only found out about the blend master earlier today, nearly 20 years later after originally playing these games as a kid. I have been trying to complete my gen 3 livingdex on my copy of emerald and man replaying these games with a mission like a living dex really made me admire these small things which we just dont get anymore in new games.
I know for a fact that I’ve seen the Master in the contest hall multiple times, but I never even talked to him because child me always just assumed “well the best Pokéblock would come from more berries, so I will always do the four person block instead of two or three.”
Honestly, I didn’t know he was a Master at cooking until this video! If I were to have played yesterday I still would have be cooking with three NPC’s
ugh gross I'm not gonna blend with some random old man
@@droomish1”that guy looks old, I bet he doesn’t even know how to make blocks properly”
@@CordyMcDonaldhe'll probably accidentally make them triangles or something dumb instead 😂
@@jamesday9811This sumbitch wasted all my berries making pokespheres
@@CordyMcDonald I'm the guy who makes flat square pokéblocks 😄
Finding people to make Pokeblocks with back in the day was NOT a reasonable ask. I grew up with Gen 3. I was in 5th/6th grade when EVERYONE at my school was playing the Gen 3 games. And after school we used to battle, trade, and mix records (that feature that let your secret bases appear in each other's games) while we waited to be picked up.
But nobody (besides me) gave a SHIT about contests, so nobody wanted to play the berry blending minigame. I think I was able to convince ONE kid to try a multiplayer contest with me, and after 2 turns he was like "this is dumb" and unplugged the link cable.
contests were great, but the presentation was a complete disaster in gen 3, and the pokeblock minigame was a fucking travesty
@@F14thunderhawk Oh yeah I completely agree. And I've always found it frustrating how much the contest stats mattered. Like you could completely demolish everyone just because you loaded up on Pokeblocks, and then the appeals section doesn't matter at all but you still have to sit through it for 5 turns. Or, you could out-play everyone in the appeals section, but it doesn't matter because your opponent just had better contest stats than you.
It was fun in theory but in practice, the system definitely needed a rework.
@@F14thunderhawk it doesn't help that feebass(the only other reason people might want to help you with the pokeblock mini game) is so rare most kids probably didn't even know it existed
I had friends who played Pokemon as a kid, but getting together to link was a very rare event. You needed a link cable (not everyone had one), as well as a time and place where it was allowed (i.e. usually not at school).
Getting to actually see another person's secret base was a mind-blowing one-in-a-lifetime experience for me, and I never got another secret base on my game. I spent hours making bases only for no one to ever see them.
For me, stuff that required other players basically didn't exist. Trade evolutions were essentially mythics. There was a distressing amount of content totally locked off, and it bothered me a ton as a kid.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ Yeah I can definitely relate to that to some extent. There were a LOT of barriers you had to overcome back then if you wanted to access the multiplayer elements of these games. I was lucky enough to know a group of kids who also were into Pokemon, were stuck at school for a few hours after school got out, and our after-school program was lenient enough to allow Gameboys.
But most people didn't have link cables. I was the big nerd who carried around 3 link cables just in case I ever encountered a potential 4-player multiplayer situation. (It never actually happened.)
But even if you found someone played Pokemon, you still had to *convince* them to play with you. Most people were down for battles or trades, but in-game trades had arbitrary restrictions, like Kanto games couldn't trade with Hoenn games until they had cleared the post-game.
There were also kids would just unplug the link cable when they were losing a battle. Much like how people rage quit disconnect from online games.
And just like the contests and berry minigames, most people did not give a single shit about secret bases or mixing records. Most kids didn't even understand what mixing records was. I used to have to do a sales pitch to explain what the benefits were and *convince* them to take a few minutes to mix records with me. (Yes, I was that kid.)
I actually "imported" the Master by trading data with a friend's copy of Emerald (you need to share events), so I had him appear occasionally in my copy. That's also how I caught a Seedot in Sapphire, despite it being a Ruby exclusive, by taking advantage of the swarm news on the tv.
I remember sometimes trying to sabotage it and get normal color Pokéblocks just for fun as I always used to get Gold ones even surpassing Master average perfects at times. Btw, Yes I won all the master contests and completed all the paintings in the museum.
I miss when pokemon was this complicated, not that I miss how difficult it was to create good teams. But I miss the braille puzzles and mirage island level stuffl, I remember reading the booklet and figuring out how to get regirock
my friends were passing around the gameFAQs guide one of their mom's let them print out at home around like it was contraband! really special times
@@droomish1 Yeah it was awesome mate. Though I was really young when I got emerald and a lot of others didn't play gameboy at my age. When I got to be around 8 and onwards I remember everyone brought their DS's to the boy scouts (the cubs) and we all played pokemon diamond underground together, was sick.
For me I remember the braille stuff and I had no clue what it was, so I asked my aunt and she said it was braille. We printed out the braille letters and I translated the stuff. I couldn't figure them all out but they weren't to cryptic besides the dumb relicanth since who knew about this thing. It was so damn rare.
The braille puzzles were an accessibility issue though? Not everyone knows braille. You shouldn't have to be bilingual to get a pokemon.
Yeah, pokemon since XY have been mostly snooze fests, with pretty much everything handed to you on a silver platter or behinds mountains of boring grind (granted the grind existed before, but it was mostly for making competitive pkmn)
I now understand the phrase “unlocked memory”
This happened once for me. Less than the shinies I’ve seen while not shiny hunting. I completely forgot about this
I found him once as a kid. It felt magical at the time.
Yeah, lot of little things in gen3 are pretty hard to find, and most never see them even after hours of gameplay.
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I've seen a lot of them, not knowing they were rare and then never finding them again. 😭
I swear I had a lucky cartridge, though. My trainer ID was almost identical to my school one.
No padding, all information explaining a game mechanic in depth, love the videos man
I’m not 100% certain, but I’d imagine the berry phrases all came to light in a Japanese guide/promo material somewhere, and the phrases then managed to get translated to EN. From there, they spread without their original context - just translating a couple working phrases that give the player something is a lot easier than translating a whole page scan after all.
I miss that area in HGSS. There was a period of time where I thought I had dreamt it, since I haven't really seen people talk about it, nor is it accessible anymore. But I remember playing it so much as a kid.
Sinjoh Ruins?
There's a certain wistful melancholy to finding these little secrets to a game that will never be new again.
I am once again blown away at the idea that there is still more to learn about these games. Well done.
Odds are that someone just looked into the code to find the berry master words.
and here I am buying nintendo power guides like a fool
Wait, Genius, I'll try to do that on my PC
Yeah, datamining was a thing even back then and earlier. Someone definitely just found the list.
This was probably it. Even if there may have been some obscure guide somewhere with the full list or 5 words collected across multiple guides, I think it's more likely someone just looked at the code and then posted their findings on the net.
I remember this guy showing up when I was a young kid. Damn, so many memories from Pokemon Emerald.
The plaza in Platinum. Oh, how I’ll miss you!
Let that man cook
let him cook! let him cook!
the master chef may have been cooking, but no one cooks harder than droomish !!! another absolute banger, you get better and better- it's amazing to watch in real time
To evolve Feebas, I used two Gameboys my self and pushed the button on both, it was kinda hard but doable, never knew about this master lol.
The Berry Master making Master Rank Contests in Pokémon Emerald possible to this day.
did not expect that a video about the blend master was going to make me cry today
I suspect these passwords might've been brute-forced or datamined.
Either that or there was some real-life event that distributed them.
Droomish, this video was truly amazing. The way you swing from (seemingly) merely explaining an obscure piece of Gen III trivia to making grand statements about game design and the *impact of video games as art* was awe-inspiring. I hope you get a Morbillion subscribers. I thought this was genuinely one of the best Pokémon videos I have ever seen on TH-cam. Thanks for doing what you do man.
After being...basically the only person I've ever known to like (adore) the Contests, it's super refreshing to see someone else praise them
I am definitely guilty of looking at contests and thinking "this is dumb" just because it was complicated and not what I knew. But after trying to theorycraft for it and put together builds I have a ton of respect for it and think the format is super fun! it's a great time!
Hello, elder pokemon fan here
The phrases for the berries were discovered via data mining, except the one you mentioned in the video, which was distributed by nintendo
Love your content
Pokemon games are so meticulously detailed the older ones at least
Gamefreaks mindset has changed that’s why. They used to care about how much they put into the games and then out of nowhere got the mindset that kids are stupid and don’t have good attention spans… they said this in some sort of interview a while ago
@@whitedragonzerureusu4480 I think it was answering why they dropped the Battle Frontier and the response included ADHD as a reason.
I may be misremembering since it has been awhile, but if that is a case I’d honestly like to slap whoever said that. I have AHDH and I personally enjoy battling in the Pokémon Frontier to this day.
I distinctly remember getting pokeblock master as a kid. I spent so much time on Hoenn. Great considering I’m pretty sure I was like…one of three people with this game in my area.
I adore gen 3. Thanks for covering this.
This channel is gold. So glad I stumbled upon it.
This is such a well put together video and I love the message delivered at the end. Amazing job!
You have the answer to questions I didn't even know I had. 😂
This was way deeper than I expected it to be.
World's most minor nitpick on a god-tier video: Pomeg Berry and friends only started reducing EVs in Emerald. In RS they were just PokeBlock ingredients
Over 20 years in and I'm still learning stuff about this game I've done a Prof Oak's in and replayed as recently as a couple weeks ago. Astounding. Thank you, Droomish! :D
Platinum plaza will forever be missed! I remember finding my siblings lost game and connecting to a nearby free WIFI to play before everyone fizzled out and stopped joining. Those were the good ol days
13:14 Wi-Fi Plaza is something that could return in remakes but I wonder what they will do to replace the Dream World functionality?
Probably nothing.
This video really speaks to my soul, i remember grinding countless hours to get a surplus of those rare berries and finally getting the berry master event a few times. Needless to say, I've filled up the museum with pictures of my pokemon lol.
You missed the e-reader berries that all override the enigma berry but overall nice job.
My experience with the NPC blenders: Immediately getting pissed off at the braindead NPCs constantly ruining my combos.
I have two theories about the Berry phrases. I was already extremely online at the time of Emerald's release, and while memory is a fickle thing and I was still a middle school kid, I DO believe that the Berry codes were known on sites like GameFAQs not too long after Emerald's initial release in the US. You might even know this; I'm sure the GameFAQs stuff you show in the video is marked with dates. But I will say that, back in the day, datamining something like this would have been controversial because Pokemon fans got very up in arms about "cheating" or "hacking" in any way. Yet I don't remember even the slightest complaint or controversy about these phrases. I believe the phrases were always taken at face value as a trivial thing, so I don't think they were merely datamined and put online. As well, it should be remembered that datamining was obviously not impossible even back then, GBA emulators developed quickly - but it took more time than it does now. This leads me to believe that the codes were printed in Japanese guides, and a source like Serebii, Poke Beach, or another major fansite that would have been plugged into the more "global" scene even early on was able to figure out English equivalents one way or another.
Emerald and the Gen 4 games all had a function where you could get a secret phrase to give to a character for bonus wallpapers; there were generators on a dutch site called filb which now seems to be called PokeWiki. I remember that these generators were developed fairly early on to match equivalent, official phrase generators for the Japanese games. If nothing else turns up it might be worth poking at the history of that generator, or online discussions about them, to see if any info about the berry phrases comes up in relation, or even asking the people who currently maintain those phrase generators about the subject.
My OTHER suggestion is... when I watched this video with some friends we all had a collective memory that the phrases were specifically in issues of Nintendo Power and not in the actual Emerald strategy guide. However, I can't turn anything up in issues directly surrounding Emerald's release in NA, but I confessedly skimmed the issues very quickly. It's also possible that the codes were unceremoniously dumped in a blurb in a later issue and weren't a full feature immediately after release.
The berry passwords were most likely datamined.
The one downside to the Blend Master's bloks, though, is that they'll always have a pretty high feel since the spelon etc. berries are only being split two ways instead of four. If you've got said berries yourself, then blending them with 3 NPCs can still get you lvl. 50 blocks once you get the hang of it, and the feel will only be 32 (i.e. 8 per pokémon instead of 6).
The fact that I've played Pokemon Emerald multiple times and never encountered him throughout
The EV berries are also only in emerald, in Ruby and Sapphire they're just regular berries
Latias disdainfully ate the pokéblock is my favorite thing in this video
That is where the Pokemon go when you use a Repellent.
I really love Pokemon Contests because of the Anime and if I was in Pokemon I'd want to be a Top Coordinator so when ORAS released I was SO excited to finally be able to properly do contests and I set out on my Master Quest to be the very best and beat Master Rank in EVERY Contest category to prove to myself that I really could become a Top Coordinator and I'd beat every category with a different Pokemon to simulate having an actual team of Pokemon (and NO Cosplay Pikachu because that's cheating) and I did it! I grew my own berries and made my own Pokeblock and came up with my own Contest Pokemon move combos and entered Contests until I won Master Rank in EVERY category! I beat Cleverness with Umbreon (My favorite Pokemon), Coolness with Sceptile, Toughness with Mightyena, Beauty with Latias, and Cuteness with Lopunny! It was so much fun and I'll always cherish those memories!
Same! I grew up watching the anime and I adored the contest plots, it was just as exciting as the gym battles to me. Every coordinator was so cool to me, my favorite one was Drew (That green haired coordinator from the gen 3 season) I liked him so much when I got diamond I named my guy Drew.
I didn't enjoy gen 4's contests that much and I was horrible at poffin making, and I played emerald when I was super young, but by ORAS I was able to get most of the master ribbons which I'm still proud of.
I spent an unhealthy amount of time cooking berries when I was young and not even using it because I didn’t know how it worked
Now that I think about it, until I swap my battery on my copy of Emerald, I’ll never be able to make Pokéblocks again because I’m pretty sure the battery ticks over the berry growing for time based stuff
You can use the cloning glitch to duplicate berries, so I wouldn't worry as long as you have 1
LET. HIM. COOK.
My battery went dry while he was active, I kept him there trapped for over 400 hours on emerald 🥲🥲
This was such a great video man. You’re a great writer. I was completely glued to it.
Sometimes it's hard to replay gen 5, knowing that the intriguing center island lost its purpose
i wish i had a blend master to help me blend in real life oh and the tragedy of online spaces disappearing
Uhhh
I more than once managed to get on pair with the master, and ONCE to defeat him. It was more than pixel perfect.
One of the few successes in videogame I am actually proud of
From those extremelly high pokeblocks, I made a team of contest winners, with an electrode that won evwrything! A perfectly spherical champion
All these years... All these damn years of struggling at the berrie machines and there was a FUCKING BERRY MASTER?!
This guy is the only person i like to blend berries with....he is a old man with no one to help him.
let bro cook
10/10 thumbnail, AND a great video to boot? Simply excellent.
How the hell would you know the berry phrases if you never had internet
this expert class shall be named in my fanfiction
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Wow.
I did not expect this video to be so emotionally touching with it's ending. And what's even more tragic, the worst instance of the transition away from future proofing Pokémon games and gameplay years after their initial release? Is us soon within the coming months losing the ability to transfer all Pokémon from over 20 different games from Ruby and Sapphire on the GBA all the way to Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the 3DS and thus losi g the ability to have the Pokémon we made countless irreplaceable memories with throughout our entire childhood and teenage years. Which is why now while there is still a chance, do your research and look up what Pokémon will soon be lost forever with yhe impending Great Pokémon Bank Shutdown and loss of over 20 games worth of Pokémon.
And that Night Time Soaring theme from ORAS was the bittersweet melancholic music that perfectly fits this topic and video. The end is near and immenant so we have to make the most of what we have one last time.
I had no idea those 4 events could happen
Can you smell what this NPC is cooking?
my games battery died when he happened to be there. Now he's there forever
Droo this rocks, he cooked, and so did you! It's so interesting hearing about this stuff that I truly had no idea about as a kid. I plowed through with my very cute team and then was done! Turns out these games had a lot more to them. Another banger!
Let him cook fam.
huh, i never knew this! i just always blended with him cus i felt bad he was all on his own. i just wanted to hang out with him for a little while.
I remember as a kid I just wanted to play the contests because they were a lot of fun. And then i randomly found this new old guy npc there when I went to go make more pokeblocks and I was just curious about him. Discovered how much easier it was to make blocks with him and really liked him
Legit… everytime he was announced on tv I would STOP my game just to become a top coordinator
I really do like your voice, every one of your videos I make sure to save for when I can listen closely keep IT UPPP🎉
It'd be interesting to see one of the rival-like characters or just a rival in things like the dynamax raids who could help you out if you recruited them
I forgot he existed : > )
Can you smell what he's cooking!!!
The title ' What is he cooking '
Me meth 💀💀💀
I have never heard of or even seen the blend master. probably because I can´t remember when my emerald´s internal battery was alive. bought the game second hand back then; may the battery never worked in my possession
Man, I spent HOURS making the perfect contest team lmao I would pretend to sleep and then after a bit start blending berries and perfecting my comp team. I swear blending in this game contributed to my unnatural QTE reflexes in games lmao. But I had sooooo many ribbons. It really became about becoming the champion of everything in the game. If there was a battle, I wasn’t holding back, if there was a competition, I made sure it was me being talked about on tv, of there was a legendary, I was catching it, if there were secrets I was finding them. Idk why, but as a kid, I NEEDED to conquer this game. I remember I was one of the only ones in my friend group that had like everything. So many of my friends were asking how I got the legendaries without killing it or losing, where I got certain items. I think it had so many little features that we’re almost games on their own. Safari zone. If I got bored battle, or catching, I could do so many other things. It’s kind of crazy looking back and seeing just how much there was to do. I talked to every possible npc at least twice. Haven’t played Pokémon in almost 15 years, just picked it back up in my 30’s and I’m being hit with such nostalgia lmao idk if the games are still that fun or if I’m just reliving my childhood haha
Surprised to see Benjals as your Milotic. Thought he was one of the coaches on the team.
LET HIM COOK!
i love your vids
i poked around jp pokemon internet but i only found some guides from 2003-2004 as well as yahoo answers. no idea where they got the berry master passwords from!
someone on r/pokemonribbons mentioned him and I have never seen this d00d in all my time with emerald version
It is possible to win the contests and obtain Milotic without the help of the Blend Master or human players. I did it once; I farmed the rarer berries and piggybacked off of the berry rarity. Bluk berries are the way to go for Milotic.
However if your battery is dead the berries you plant don’t grow… and there’s only so many bluk berries you can find or get. So the best way to do it now I guess is use an item dup glitch of pokeblocks or dupe the bluk berries. Action replay is another method. Using action replay is not ideal since that’s cheating and all (though there are people who don’t care since they are such old games) Another option is playing gen 3 on a PC emulator. Really sucks because I actually really like the contests in gen 3 and loved how much in depth they were. You really needed to strategise when to use certain moves to get the most appeal and plan when to steal a judges attention away from the NPC’s. Then they decided to completely butcher the contest in ORAS… look up the differences and compare them. If they didn’t butcher the contest in gen 3 I would go back and play oras just for the contests. Oh and the battle frontier place
The amazing thing to me about the GBA era special events is that most of them can still happen. Starting with Gen V and onward, Pokémon has leaned hard on timed exclusivity which has made a lot of the later games kind of disappointing to try any time other than when Nintendo specifically wanted you to try. Even the last generation now have events and items that are 100% unobtainable now because Nintendo shut down the service. By comparison, yeah RSE made you jump through hoops, but things like Pokéblocks can still be mixed with time and effort.
If only we could make the E-reader content into a DLC for the old games. I dont even need the new graphics anymore, the game just needs to continue what we loved
Overcoming these "berriers"
Shroomish appreciation week!
I think we should let him cook
He was probably cooking puffins one assumes.
I had Pokemon Ruby and Emerald as a kid and a few friends of mine also had the games, but nobody cared enough about contests or even knew enough about the game back then to even buy a link cable to blend berries
Shout-out to John, my buddy from grade school. Loved mixing records, making Pokemon food, and showing off elaborate secret bases with you. Hope you're doin good man. 🫡
I remember farming him and with him in postgame
I got so proefficient in crafting I made him slip up or even MISS a beat on 99% of interactions multiple times
Edit: 12:34
The locked door was E-reader content, DLC if you will, thats correct
What was behind it was usually a Trainer you uploaded with certain cards you used with your E-reader device
Outside of Japan this gimmic was never really used by anyone so it was literally unreachable content
Personally, the in game tiem features were a loss for me because I only ever played PKMN Emerald in emulators in my computer and, for some reason, the real-time feature was broken in all ROMs I could find. So I was essentially robbing random NPCs their berries and planting them was fruitless (pun unintentional) because they wouldn't grow back as I was stuck in the same hour of the day forever. The berries were the sacred ones for me, the real deal, the one and only I could get, so I saved them for contest training my pokémon
I still don't know what got me so engaged to play the contests in the first place but IDK it felt special to me
Breaking bad: pokemon edition
Is the "The Rock" of the Pokémon world? Unfortunately I didnt smell what he was cookin'. But, I went to him and BRING IT (berries) 😂
This mechanic is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
I honestly miss this old dude, id always load up my pokeblock box with him
Wiimfi exists though. Which lets you go to the plaza.