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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The message at the bottom floor of the Dotted Hole is possibly a reference to Bill and Celio creating a device that allows trade between FireRed and LeafGreen and Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald by using the Ruby and Sapphire found in the Sevii Islands.
* The message at the bottom floor of the Dotted Hole is possibly a reference to Bill and Celio creating a device that allows trade between FireRed and LeafGreen and Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald by using the Ruby and Sapphire found in the Sevii Islands.
* The pillars and door at the entrance to the Dotted Hole actually have real braille symbols on them. The full six-dots found on the door is the arrangement for "For" as used in Grade 2 braille, the left pillar (with the single upper-left dot) has the arrangement for the letter "A", and the right pillar (with the three dots in the bottom-right) has the arrangement for a closing quotation symbol () also as used in Grade 2 braille.  
* The pillars and door at the entrance to the Dotted Hole actually have real Braille symbols on them. While the symbols would seemingly be random to someone who knows English Braille (as the symbols on the left pillar, right pillar, and door respectively in English Grade 2 Braille are an A, a closing quotation mark(”), and the word For), in Japanese Braille they're much more obvious: The left pillar is very similar, being the symbol for the A kana (あ); the right pillar's symbol is for the N kana (ん), which is equivalent to "Z" in the English alphabet as the "last" symbol thus mirroring the "A" of the other pillar; and the door's symbol is for the ME kana (), which is, again, seemingly random.
**While the Dotted Hole's location blurb suggests the mark on the door was not intended to have meaning and only there to give some reasoning for the Dotted Hole's name, the marks on the pillars are there deliberately, though seemingly random.
**Though, it should be noted that the door's mark of six dots is likely not intended to have character meaning, but lore meaning. The area description says the Dotted Hole got its name because of the mark of six dots on the door, so despite the dots being a valid Japanese Braille character, this is likely just a coincidence.


==In other languages==
==In other languages==
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