Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions/Trivia


 * Along with and the remakes Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, these are the only  to feature both parents for the main character.
 * These are the first core series games where the name of the rival cannot be chosen by the player.
 * These were the first Pokémon games released for the Game Boy Advance.
 * These were the the highest selling games on the platform they were released on, a distinction claimed only by these Pokémon games.
 * These games were released in Japan on the third anniversary of the Japanese release of.
 * A special promotional coin featuring and  was available with American preorders of Ruby and Sapphire, respectively.
 * Pre-release American boxart for these games depicted the version name below the mascot with the same font used in the Generation I and  games, with the "Gotta catch 'em all!" slogan present below the Pokémon logo. This was dropped for the final boxart, which features the version names directly below the Pokémon logo and in a different font, dropping the slogan entirely.
 * Due to the font used in the international versions, the marker for when a move is selected for usage in the battle screen differs from that of the Japanese version. Whereas the Japanese version uses an arrow to indicate the current selected move, like all later releases of the Generation III games would use, the international versions of Ruby and Sapphire utilize a red rectangle with the same purpose.
 * The intros of Ruby and Sapphire differ slightly: Ruby features or, depending on the gender chosen, riding a bike near forest and mountains, when  appears (and afterwards shows him or her battling against a  and a ), while Sapphire has instead Brendan or May (again, dependent on the gender chosen) riding a bike near an ocean, with  appearing (and then, similarly to Ruby, he or she is engaged in a battle).