Pokémon Braille: What the Sealed Chamber and Regi Walls Say
The braille in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald is real English braille, spelled out letter by letter in the uncontracted form called grade 1. It appears on cave walls in the Hoenn region: in the Sealed Chamber under Route 134, and in the three caves that hold Regirock, Regice and Registeel.
The 2014 remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, keep the same walls. Below is every message, where it is, what it means and what to do. After the table there is a short alphabet, so you can read any wall yourself, or check it with the braille decoder.
Key points
- The walls use the real braille letters of English, with a period and a comma. Every word is spelled in full: no contractions and no capital signs.
- There are braille walls in four places: the Sealed Chamber (Route 134), Island Cave (Route 105, Regice), Desert Ruins (Route 111, Regirock) and Ancient Tomb (Route 120, Registeel).
- The back wall of the Sealed Chamber opens the three Regi caves. You read it with Relicanth and Wailord at the two ends of your party; Emerald swaps the order.
- Each Regi cave has one braille message that tells you what to do to open its inner door. Emerald changes all three.
- You can decode any wall with 26 letters and two punctuation marks. The braille alphabet chart and the braille decoder do the rest.
| Question | Short answer |
|---|---|
| Is it real braille? | Yes: English braille letters, uncontracted (grade 1) |
| Which games? | Ruby and Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire |
| Where is it? | Sealed Chamber, Island Cave, Desert Ruins, Ancient Tomb |
| What opens the Regi caves? | The Sealed Chamber's back wall |
| Can I read it myself? | Yes, with the alphabet below or the decoder |
Which Pokémon games have braille
This post covers the Hoenn games, where the braille walls are part of the story of the three Regi Pokémon:
- Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version, for Game Boy Advance, released in the US on March 19, 2003 (pokemon.com).
- Pokémon Emerald Version, for Game Boy Advance, released in the US on May 1, 2005 (pokemon.com).
- Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, the remakes for Nintendo 3DS, released in the US on November 21, 2014 (pokemon.com).
Ruby and Sapphire share every wall. Emerald changes the instructions in the Regi caves and the order on the Sealed Chamber's back wall. The remakes follow Ruby and Sapphire.
There is no transcript of the walls from the game makers. The wall texts on this page come from two fan references, Bulbapedia and Serebii, and we kept only what both say. Bulbapedia copies each wall word for word. Serebii describes what each wall asks you to do. Where they agree, the table gives that meaning in plain English, with the key words in braille.
Every braille message in the games
Each row is one wall. The key words in braille are the words both sources name, so you can match them on screen.
| Where | What the braille says | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Sealed Chamber entrance, underwater on Route 134 · all five games | Go up here. up ⠥⠏ | Surface right in front of the braille. |
| Sealed Chamber, first room, the door · all five games | Dig here. dig ⠙⠊⠛ | Stand by the door and use Dig. |
| Sealed Chamber, second room, the side walls · all five games | The history of a mysterious Pokémon | Nothing: these walls tell a story. |
| Sealed Chamber, second room, the back wall · Ruby, Sapphire, remakes | Relicanth comes first, Wailord comes last. relicanth ⠗⠑⠇⠊⠉⠁⠝⠞⠓ wailord ⠺⠁⠊⠇⠕⠗⠙ | Put Relicanth first in your party and Wailord last, then read the wall. |
| Sealed Chamber, second room, the back wall · Emerald | Wailord comes first, Relicanth comes last. | Put Wailord first and Relicanth last, then read the wall. |
| Island Cave, Route 105 (Regice) · Ruby, Sapphire, remakes | Stop and wait. wait ⠺⠁⠊⠞ | After reading it, stand still for two minutes. |
| Island Cave, Route 105 (Regice) · Emerald | Stay close to the wall and run a lap. wall ⠺⠁⠇⠇ lap ⠇⠁⠏ | Run a lap of the room, staying next to the wall. |
| Desert Ruins, Route 111 (Regirock) · Ruby, Sapphire, remakes | Right, right, down, down, then use Strength. ⠗⠊⠛⠓⠞⠂ ⠗⠊⠛⠓⠞⠂ ⠙⠕⠺⠝⠂ ⠙⠕⠺⠝ | From the braille, take two steps right, two steps down, and use Strength. |
| Desert Ruins, Route 111 (Regirock) · Emerald | Left, left, down, down, then use Rock Smash. ⠇⠑⠋⠞⠂ ⠇⠑⠋⠞⠂ ⠙⠕⠺⠝⠂ ⠙⠕⠺⠝ | Two steps left, two steps down, and use Rock Smash. |
| Ancient Tomb, Route 120 (Registeel) · Ruby, Sapphire, remakes | A riddle about the middle of the room. middle ⠍⠊⠙⠙⠇⠑ | Use Fly in the middle of the room. |
| Ancient Tomb, Route 120 (Registeel) · Emerald | A riddle about the middle of the room. middle ⠍⠊⠙⠙⠇⠑ | Use Flash in the middle of the room. |
The Ancient Tomb riddles are worth decoding letter by letter, because the words point to the move. That is the fun of the puzzle, so we leave it to you and the alphabet below.
The Sealed Chamber, step by step
The Sealed Chamber is under the sea on Route 134. It has four kinds of braille.
The entrance. Underwater, a braille message on the rock tells you to go up. Both sources agree that you have to surface in front of that message.
The door of the first room. The braille on the door says to dig. Stand next to it and use Dig, and a way into the second room opens.
The story walls. The second room has more braille that tells the history of a mysterious Pokémon. These walls don't ask you to do anything. If you are curious, they make good practice: whole sentences, every word spelled out.
The back wall. This is the one that matters. In Ruby, Sapphire and the remakes, it names Relicanth first and Wailord last. Put Relicanth in the first slot of your party and Wailord in the last, then read the wall. Emerald reverses the two: Wailord first, Relicanth last. When it works, the ground shakes, and the doors of the three Regi caves open on Routes 105, 111 and 120.
Regice, Regirock and Registeel: the Regi braille
Each Regi cave has a front room with one braille message and a closed inner door. The message tells you how to open it. The three caves stay closed until you read the Sealed Chamber's back wall.
Regice braille: Island Cave, Route 105
In Ruby, Sapphire and the remakes, the braille tells you to stop and wait. Read it, then stand still. Both sources agree on two minutes, and then the door opens.
In Emerald the message changes: stay close to the wall and run a lap around the room. The sources don't agree on the number of laps. Bulbapedia and Serebii's area page say one lap; Serebii's Emerald guide says two, clockwise. Keep to the wall the whole way.
Regirock braille: Desert Ruins, Route 111
Serebii's game guides call this cave the Desert Tomb; its area page and Bulbapedia call it the Desert Ruins. The braille is a set of directions. In Ruby, Sapphire and the remakes: right, right, down, down, then use Strength. Start on the braille, take two steps right and two steps down, then use the move.
Emerald changes both halves: left, left, down, down, then use Rock Smash.
Registeel braille: Ancient Tomb, Route 120
This message is a riddle, and both sources agree on its answer: something happens in the middle of the room. In Ruby, Sapphire and the remakes, you use Fly there. In Emerald, you use Flash. Decode the wall and you will see why: the words point to the move.
Is it real braille?
Yes. The walls use the braille letters of English. Bulbapedia's braille page says the English versions use uncontracted braille, and the cells show the same thing: every word is spelled out letter by letter.
We checked the cells with the braille engine this site uses. We ran three of Bulbapedia's wall transcriptions through liblouis, the open-source braille translator, in grade 1. The cells came out identical to the cells Bulbapedia shows for those walls.
Two details make the game's braille simpler than the braille in books:
- No contractions. Everyday English braille also uses contractions, cells that stand for whole words or groups of letters. The walls never use them. That is why a player with only the alphabet can read everything. The difference is explained in braille contractions and Unified English Braille.
- No capital signs. Bulbapedia writes its transcriptions in capital letters, but the cells on the walls have no capital indicator. Every cell is a plain letter, a period or a comma.
One more difference: in the game, you read braille with your eyes. Real braille is made to be read by touch, with raised dots under the fingertips. The six-dot cell and the letters are the same.
How to read the braille yourself
Every wall uses the same 28 cells: 26 letters, a period and a comma. A braille cell has six dot positions in two columns of three. Dots 1, 2 and 3 run down the left column; dots 4, 5 and 6 run down the right.
These are the cells you will see on the walls:
| Letters | Braille |
|---|---|
| a b c d e f g h i j | ⠁ ⠃ ⠉ ⠙ ⠑ ⠋ ⠛ ⠓ ⠊ ⠚ |
| k l m n o p q r s t | ⠅ ⠇ ⠍ ⠝ ⠕ ⠏ ⠟ ⠗ ⠎ ⠞ |
| u v w x y z | ⠥ ⠧ ⠺ ⠭ ⠽ ⠵ |
| period | ⠲ |
| comma | ⠂ |
A trick that makes the alphabet quick to learn: the letters a to j use only the top four dots. The letters k to t are the same shapes with dot 3 added. Then u, v, x, y and z add dots 3 and 6. The letter w is the odd one out. Memorize the braille alphabet walks through this pattern.
Three ways to check a wall:
- By eye, with the chart. Open the braille alphabet page next to the game and match each cell.
- With the decoder. On the braille decoder, press the raised dots of each cell on a six-dot keypad, then Add, and the letters appear. It reads uncontracted braille, the same kind the game uses. Press Space between words.
- Backwards, with the translator. If you think you know what a wall says, type it into the braille translator and compare the cells. Choose grade 1, or it will use contractions the game doesn't have.
If cracking the walls was fun, braille games and activities has more puzzles built on the same six dots, for a class or a family.
Where Braillito fits
Braillito, our app, teaches braille. It teaches the braille cells in lessons with exercises you play, with lives, levels and a daily streak: 59 lessons in 8 worlds in English. It also has a translator, a dictionary and a cell builder. The English lessons are uncontracted braille (grade 1); they don't teach contracted braille or transcription, and Braillito isn't a braille transcriber.
If the walls made you curious about braille itself, the alphabet you used to decode them is the first step of learning it, and reading by touch is the skill that comes after. The translator on braillito.com shows how a word or short phrase looks in UEB, but it only applies the rules a program can apply, so it doesn't replace a transcriber. Without paying, the braille translator works in any browser.
Braillito is a subscription with no free version; depending on the plan, it starts with a free trial or a discounted first period, if it's your first subscription (is Braillito free?). Get Braillito.
Frequently asked questions
Is the braille in Pokémon real braille?
Yes. The walls in Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and the 2014 remakes use the real braille letters of English, plus a period and a comma. It is the uncontracted form, grade 1: every word spelled out. In the game you read it by sight, while real braille is read by touch, but the cells are the same.
What does the braille in the Sealed Chamber say?
At the entrance, it tells you to go up, so you surface in front of it. On the door of the first room, it tells you to dig. The side walls of the second room tell the history of a mysterious Pokémon. The back wall names Relicanth first and Wailord last in Ruby, Sapphire and the remakes, and the reverse in Emerald.
How do you unlock Regirock, Regice and Registeel?
First read the back wall of the Sealed Chamber with Relicanth and Wailord at the two ends of your party, in the order the wall gives. That opens the three caves. Then follow each cave's braille. Regice: stand still for two minutes (in Emerald, run a lap along the wall). Regirock: right, right, down, down, then Strength (in Emerald, left, left, down, down, then Rock Smash). Registeel: Fly in the middle of the room (Flash in Emerald).
Is there a Pokémon braille translator?
You don't need one made for the games. The walls use the plain braille alphabet, so the braille decoder on braillito.com reads them: press the dots of each cell you see and it shows the letters. To go the other way, from words to dots, use the braille translator set to grade 1.
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