Dear Logan, you are the first name I see in the help section so I send this to you. I just made an account so I can't make a thread for this, but I discovered something in the fire red and leaf green roms that's really strange and I want to share this with the community, because I believe it's the only way to find the explanation. Could you help me out? I already wrote down my story so first give it a read. Thanks.
The mystery of the vanished Mt. Moon mushrooms
Dear Pokécommunity,
A few weeks ago I started playing a rom of pokemon fire red, randomized with a randomizer and I had a lot of fun. After a while I entered Mt. Moon and I remembered from the original cartridge I used to play that there are some tiny mushrooms hidden in rocks in Mt. Moon. Strangely enough, I couldn't find these mushrooms in the rom.
I started searching the internet why I couldn't find these stupid tiny hidden mushrooms and I found out that there are other people with the same problem (see sources below). So I started my quest in searching out why we don't have tiny mushrooms hidden in Mt. Moon.
The first idea was to play the rom without any hacks; maybe the randomizer messed up the items. I did choose for a shuffle of all items so this was very likely. So I downloaded a new, clean fire red rom and started playing until Mt. Moon, convinced I would find tiny mushrooms hidden in the rocks. But I didn't. So the randomizing did not mess up the tiny mushrooms, even on a complete clean rom they are gone.
This really made me think and I started a new game in leaf green, also a clean rom, to see if I could find them there. Somewhere on the internet I read this was only a problem in fire red, but oh boy, after playing into Mt. Moon on a leaf green rom, guess what? No tiny mushrooms hidden in the rocks.
Now this seems to be a rom only problem. People playing the original cartridges can find the tiny mushrooms, and after beating the game, also the big mushrooms, but on all the roms I tested, I could not find any tiny mushroom at all.
Does someone on this forum has an idea why the mysterious Mt. Moon mushrooms disappeared in the rom versions of fire red and leaf green? And could it be that also other hidden items disappeared?
Thanks in advance for the one who can solve this mystery.
Sources:
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards...rsion/68074658
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards...rsion/46522104
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https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/com...den_mushrooms/
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=352061
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=378805
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https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mt._Moon
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https://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?112064-pokemon-firered-rom-cant-get-some-hidden-items&highlight=no+hidden+items+rom
UPDATE
In one of the rom games I continued the game, I'm now 5 badges far. I returned to Mt. Moon, and... THERE ARE TINY MUSHROOMS.
So this makes clear that they do spawn, also in roms, but there is an ingame event that makes them spawn. I don't know what event it is though.
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https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mt._Moon#Items