Random: This Man Discovered A Misplaced Pokémon Emerald Cartridge And Flew To Japan To ‘Heal’ It

In the event you forged your thoughts again a few years, you may recall a quite heartwarming story a couple of man who stumbled throughout an “deserted” copy of Nintendogs on a late-night prepare house and set out looking for the misplaced pups’ proprietor. It was a candy story instructed in 5 components by content material creator and Nintendo Life reader Ben Riou-Pollard (@ben.m0v), and now, two years later, he is solely gone and finished it once more.

Worry not, this is not one other story of canine abandonment, however it’s one among deserted Pokémon. You see, whereas hitting up an area automotive boot sale earlier this month, one other misplaced recreation discovered its approach into Ben’s path: a battered previous copy of Pokémon Emerald. And so, naturally, we’re as soon as once more shopping for a ticket to a different emotional rollercoaster of a TikTok collection.

After asking round to see if he may observe down the GBA recreation’s unique proprietor (to no avail, clearly), Ben determined to take the cart house, clear it up, and see if he may work out who it belonged to by testing the Coach identify and staff data.

This, too, was unsuccessful, with Ben’s DS failing to recognise the cart regardless of a rattling good scrubbing. So, what is the logical subsequent step? Throw the cart away? Return it to the automotive boot sale? Make a collection of elaborate ‘Discovered’ posters as he beforehand did with Nintendogs?

After all not! The logical subsequent step is to fly out to Japan and get assist from the Pokémon Heart officers. Clearly.

And so, Ben did simply that. We do not need to spoil the tip of the three-part drama in writing, but it surely’s protected to say that all of it labored out… kinda. Elements one and two can be found on Ben’s TikTok, and we’ve got hooked up the third and closing chapter under so you possibly can try how the ‘therapeutic’ course of went.

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Earlier than anybody rushes to the feedback with it, sure, we’re fairly positive this can be a pretend cartridge, and sure, Ben is aware of this, too (as one look on the replies on any of the collection’ vids makes clear). However so what? The journey to reunite it with its rightful proprietor is simply as honourable, and we might be mendacity if we mentioned that we did not watch the entire thing with a giant previous grin on our faces — let’s admit it, we have all picked up a bootleg GBA cart or two in our lifetimes.

However that is not all of the Nintendo content material from Ben in latest months. Whereas on the Pokémon-saving mission, he additionally stopped by the Kyoto Nintendo Retailer to choose up a type of swanky tote baggage with a devoted Recreation Boy pocket. And sure, there is a TikTok for that buy too. Okay, now we’re actually envious.

Thanks, Ben, for the heads up about your newest misplaced recreation journey!