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

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

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

the biggest challenge is this is getting all of these LEGALLY

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

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

The absolute state of retro gaming

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,

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

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.

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!

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 😂

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!!

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 ❤

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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! 😊

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

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.

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 :)

New Johnstone, YAY Crobatthew killed me

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

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

Your dedication is impressive dude!

And people thought Dexit in Sword and Shield was bad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now get all stars for your card😂

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

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

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

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!!!!

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

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 😊

The "Go Home" bit had me dying

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

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

Incredible video, congrats on getting this done!!!

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

The TRAINER replied, "GO HOME."

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

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!

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.

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.

Another amazing video, john! Keep it up!

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

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

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

few things are more fun to me than someone playing pokemon and losing their minds at the craziest luck-based occurrences tbh

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

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

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!

Bro this is madness. Good job!

Let's GOOO JOHN!!

It’s been decades since the last vid lol😂

Great job. Loved the streams

I love getting living dexs or attempting to finish a living dex in every pokemon game I've played, this was an amazing watch.

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

I've just stumbled across your channel and I do love Pokemon but have never completed a full dex or a story for most of the games. I'm considering doing so because this looks fun lol. While I don't have $1500, I do have a sibling who has a few games. Excited to complete a dex! New sub! Time to watch your other stuff!

Well done, Johnstone. I’m happy I started picking up all the games and bonus disks years ago when they were cheaper. One day I’ll do this same run

I always get so hyped when a new Johnstone video drops

SO COOL TO SEE SKIPLOOM AT 12:58. I used Jumpluff in my last Colosseum playthrough and it was genuinely a HUGE help. Fast Sleep Powder is great in double battles and I also used Sunny Day to fire off Solarbeams while boosting my Espeon/Umbreon's Morning Sun and Moonlight, AND my Typhlosion's Fire-type attacks. Jumpluff is a top-tier Colosseum Pokemon imo.