Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire
Pokémon Box Ruby and Sapphire is a Nintendo GameCube product released May 30th 2003 in Japan and in North America on July 11th 2004. In North America however, it is only available at the Pokémon Center NYC. Pokémon Box itself is not so much a game, however, as it is a storage unit for a trainer's Pokémon.
European gamers can receive the game through a Nintendo run campaign or purchasing the game with a Game Cube which includes: Pokémon Colosseum, a memory card and a Game Cube link cable.
Features
Trainers can store up to 1500 Pokémon in twenty-five boxes that hold sixty Pokémon and trade between Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. All the Pokémon can be stored on a memory card which comes with the game itself.
Once a Pokémon is in a box, trainers can examine the stats of their Pokémon and open a spreadsheet style graph with numerous catergories such as orignal trainer, moves, Pokémon Contests stats, friendliness and level to name a few. In the main menu, each Pokémon can be displayed on a small stage.
The game also comes with a GameCube to Game Boy Advance link cable, which allows trainers to deposit Pokémon from their GBA game to the Box without the ned to trade. However, certain conditions in each game must be met before depositing Pokémon can begin. For example, the cartridge must have at least 100 Pokémon in the Pokédex and in the case of Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon Leaf Green, trainers must have the National Dex as well.
Bonus Eggs
When a certain amount of Pokémon are deposited from a game pak, a Pokémon egg is deposited in box and said Pokémon has a special move that it would not learn normally and can not be passed down through Breeding. It is important to note that these Pokemon do not have to all have the same original trainer ID number, but just have to all come from the same game pak into pokemon box. Thus, if you have lots of friends, you can use Pokemon Box to transfer their pokemon to your game pak in large numbers at once, and then put them back into Pokemon Box yourself to get any egg without having to cath all of the required number of pokemon by yourself. The Pokémon are:
- Swablu with False Swipe: receive at the start.
- Zigzagoon with Extremespeed: 100 Pokémon from one game.
- Skitty with Pay Day: 500 Pokémon from one game.
- Pichu with Surf: 1499 Pokémon from one game.
Emulation
Aside from being a storage device, Pokémon Box can be used to play Pokémon Ruby or Pokémon Sapphire on the television without the Game Boy Player. Only those versions can be played and does not have the storage part of the main Pokémon Box. You can however play the game as you would on the Game Boy Advance.
