Pokemon Fan Makes Incredible Discovery in Dumpster

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A Pokemon fan discovered a Pokemon Emerald Game Boy Advance cartridge in a dumpster. Pokemon Emerald is a Generation 3 Pokemon game and serves as the Pokemon Yellow/Pokemon Crystal equivalent for Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Pokemon Emerald notably earned more mixed reviews from professional critics at the time of its original release, but it is now often pointed to as one of the best games in the series.

Like most «third» Pokemon games, Pokemon Emerald offers mostly the same experience as its immediate predecessors, but with some important additions and changes. Most notably, Pokemon Emerald features the Battle Frontier, which gives gamers significant new endgame content to experience. Unfortunately for those wanting to relive the original Game Boy Advance Pokemon Emerald game, authentic used cartridges can sell for ridiculous prices online and at secondhand stores, often totaling hundreds of dollars.

That's what makes the recent discovery by Reddit user SpawnOfPossession so exciting. The user, who works for the city they live in, noticed personal garbage dumped in their site bin. After using a shovel to move CDs out of the way, they spotted the Pokemon Emerald cartridge. They recovered the cartridge and replaced the battery. A save for someone named Dylan already existed on the cartridge and featured a level 32 Breloom, a level 32 Skarmory, a level 32 Machop, and a level 15 Seviper.

It's possible that this is a reproduced cartridge, which isn't worth as much, but if this is an authentic Pokemon Emerald GBA cartridge, this find is potentially worth a couple hundred bucks, based on recent eBay listings, anyway. Pokemon Emerald has never been re-released on any of the Nintendo Virtual Consoles or Eshop platforms, and so it remains a Game Boy Advance exclusive game 20 years after its original release.

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