Screenshot of Pokémon Crystal, portraying a player's Croconaw, battling an enemy, Snubbull.

Internal board of a Pokemon Silver game. The battery is outlined in a yellow insulator.

An internal game battery, removed. Note insulator and attached conductive tabs.

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Pokeman Crystal

Pokémon Crystal is a title in the Pokémon series of RPGs for the Game Boy Color. An enhanced remake of Pokémon Gold and Silver, Crystal was released December 14, 2000 in Japan and July 21, 2001 in North America. more...

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Crystal was succeeded by 2003's Game Boy Advance titles Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. Pokémon Crystal was optimized to be playable only on the Game Boy Color.

New features

Pokeball Crystal finally allowed players to choose the sex of their character, a feature that had not been included in any Pokémon game before. Also added was a subplot involving the Legendary Pokémon Suicune and a man named Eusine hoping to catch it. One of the game’s biggest additions was the Battle Tower, a new building added west of Olivine City which allowed players to participate in stadium-like battles.

A change that was noticeable when first started the game was that all the Pokemon had animated battle sprites once a battle begins. For example, when Cyndaquil enters battle, the flames on its back flicker.

There were also some changes made to the Ruins of Alph. This included more common Unown, as well as a new subplot — completing enough puzzles let the player read a secret message left behind by the Unown. It suggested that the Unown were left behind by the ancient civilization that constructed the Ruins of Alph, and that the statues that lined the interior were made by the Unown.

In order for the player to obtain the Rainbow Wing (the item needed to get into Tin Tower), the player must catch the three legendary beasts (Entei, Suicune, and Raikou). After catching all three, the player must visit Eusine and later the Tin Tower to receive the item.

Also, this game was the first to have a special BGM track for legendary Pokemon. Whenever Entei, Suicune, or Raikou appeared, a distorted battle start would play and then an entirely new song (exclusive to this event) would play for their battles. If all three legendary Pokemon in this game are caught or fainted, the song would never be heard again.

Another feature introduced in Crystal and later reused in later games is the Move Tutor. After the Elite Four is defeated, a man would start appearing twice a week who would teach the player’s Pokémon one of three moves – Flamethrower, Ice Beam, or Thunderbolt. In Crystal, this required 4000 coins from the Game Corner in Goldenrod City.

The player would also receive a new egg from the Daycare Couple for free. This egg can hatch into Magby, Smoochum, Pichu, Igglybuff, Cleffa, Tyrogue or Elekid, with a boosted 50% chance of the baby being "shiny", and it will always be female, except for Tyrogue (which never are). This was in addition to the Togepi egg that players would receive earlier in the game, making two eggs they would get in the game without any breeding.

The chain of events to earn the Rising Badge is altered. Where previously, it involved a trip to the Dragon's Den to retrieve the Dragon Fang, it now involves entering the Dragon Shrine in the Den. There, Clair's grandfather and leader of the dragon-user clan quizzes the player on their style of battling. Clair arrives and still refuses to hand over her badge after the player passes. In response, her grandfather threatens to tell Lance, to which Clair is terrified.