Appendix:Emerald walkthrough

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Stone Badge: Littleroot Town to Rustboro City

Littleroot Town

After reading and completing the start-up screen with Professor Birch, you start in a moving truck. After exiting, you will meet with your mom who tells you to set your clock, once you've done that mini-quest, head back downstairs. The mom will be watching TV when the player goes back downstairs.

She quickly calls you to watch the T.V, saying that your dad might be on TV. However, the program ends. Your mom will continue to talk, and you learn that your father is the gym leader of the Petalburg City Gym. Your mom then suggests that you go and meet May (if you chose being a boy) or Brendon (if you chose being a girl), who lives right next door, they later become your rival. May/Brendon talks a little about what they want to do as a Trainer, and that Professor Birch is their father. They'll then leave.

You then must go rescue Professor Birch on Route 101, north of Littleroot Town, from a Zigzagoon. You will choose a Pokémon from his case to battle the Zigzagoon, either Treeko, a Template:Type2, Torchic, a Template:Type2, or Mudkip, a Template:Type2. This Pokémon will become your Starter, so choose carefully. After the Zigzagoon is defeated, Birch invites you to his lab. He talks a little bit about the responsibility of being a Trainer, then lets you keep your Pokémon. He suggests that you go to Route 103 to battle May/Brendon (and won't stop talking until you say it's a good idea).

Route 101, Oldale Town, Route 103, and Littleroot Town

In order to get to Route 103, need to take Route 101 to Oldale Town. With ledges blocking the way, you must go through the tall grass to keep moving north. Pokémon can be battled, but not captured, seeing as you don't have any Poké Balls yet. It's good for the sake up the upcoming battle that your Pokémon gains EXP, so it would be wise to knock them out.

Once in Oldale Town, you can learn about Poké Marts from the man in an apron walking outside. After telling you about them, he gives you a Potion as a "promotional item." Apart from the Poké Mart, there's a Pokémon Center and a few people who will tell you about certain basic foundations for Trainers. There's also a man blocking Route 102. Seeing as your rival is as powerful as you are, it would be a good idea to heal your Pokémon at the Pokémon Center.

Travel northward up Route 103. There are a few Trainers and some tall grass. At the end (a dead end) is your rival. Talk to May/Brendon, and you'll battle. Your rival has one Pokémon: a Level 5 Torchic (if you picked Treeko), Mudkip (if you picked Torchic), or Treeko (if you picked Mudkip). After you win, (s)he'll leave, and tell you to come back to the lab. You'll have to walk back to Littleroot Town, but this time you can avoid the tall grass by jumping over the ledges.

Once you get back to Prof. Birch's lab, he'll give you the Pokédex, and your rival will give you five Poké Balls. You can then leave for Petalburg City. Before you go, your mom walks out of your house and gives you the Running Shoes. She reads the instructions (hold down "B" while you're walking) and lets you go on.

Route 102, Petalburg City

When you go back to Oldale Town, the man blocking Route 102 will be gone, allowing you to get to Petalburg City. On Route 102, you can catch:

Poochyena, Wurmple (common)

Lotad, Zigzagoon (uncommon)

Ralts, Seedot (rare)