Chuggaaconroy (found early Pokémon Platinum videos from YouTuber; 2008)

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Screenshot from a resurfaced video, showcasing Chuggaaconroy's battle against Cynthia.

Status: Partially Lost

Since 2008, Emiliano "Emile" Rodolfo Rosales-Birou (a.k.a. Chuggaaconroy) has made a career doing Let's Plays (commentated walkthroughs of video games), and is currently one of the most famous internet personalities of the genre. Aside from regular playthroughs, his earlier videos sometimes consisted of one-offs, in which he would show single aspects of certain video games that caught his attention (i.e. cut footage from playthroughs, glitches, or limited edition DLC & offers). Among these one-offs was a series of low-quality videos showcasing events in the 2009 Nintendo DS game Pokémon Platinum. These videos consisted of "highlights" from the game, mainly battles against the in-game rival, gym leaders, Team Galactic (the game's main antagonists), the Elite Four & Champion Cynthia, and the Battle Frontier Brains.

Uniquely, the most well-known videos showcased a series of events that would allow one to encounter (and potentially capture) its various Legendary Pokémon, most notably Regirock, Regice, and Registeel. Said Pokémon were the secondary trio of Legendary Pokémon from the 2002/2003 Game Boy Advance games Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire and its 2005 re-release, Pokémon Emerald, and could only be caught in Platinum through limited-edition downloadable content.


The announcement video for Chuggaaconroy's 2015 Platinum LP, in which he discusses the lost videos.

At some point, the videos were made private, causing them to be visible to only a select number of viewers, and they were eventually deleted with no indication of potential recovery. According to Chuggaaconroy in the December 18 announcement video for his 2015 Pokémon Platinum let's-play, the videos were primarily made as a way of answering general questions about the game when it was still new and were a method of figuring out "what exactly [he] wanted to do in the way of videos." Because he was never too fond of how the videos turned out, he eventually deleted them, with his 2015 LP of the game being made to fulfil his wish of doing a proper playthrough of it.

Mirror upload of the Rotom video

The first of Chuggaconroy's videos to resurface was a mirror upload of his encounter with the rare Pokémon Rotom on August 6, 2011, by ChuggaaArchive. The next bout of recovery wouldn't occur again until June 18, 2015, when a YouTube user by the name of "AquaRing" created a playlist containing mirror uploads of five of Chuggaconroy's Platinum videos. The first three document his battle with Champion Cynthia, the fourth shows off the in-game Distortion World event, and the fifth his battle with the Legendary Pokémon Regigigas. The complete playlist can be seen here. According to AquaRing, these five videos are the only ones that they have been able to recover; no other ones are known to have survived as of yet. Because of Chuggaaconroy's dissatisfaction with the videos, it is likely that he will not be reuploading them anytime soon.