Modern Emerald Item Locations: Mints, Shards, Fossils and the Battle Frontier Shop

Everything that was in vanilla Emerald is still where it was. This is the list of changes and additions — the items that moved, the items that are new, and the NPCs that hand them out.

Oldale Town: the "cheating girl"

Next to the PokéMart, a girl gives you four things at the start of the game: a Healing Heart, an Infinite Repel, a Rare Candy Box, and the IV/EV editor built into the summary screen. If you want to play without them, the challenge options can restrict what you're allowed to use.

Nature mints

Mints change a Pokémon's nature. They arrive after the fourth gym if you enabled them at the start of the game, or after you become Champion if you did not. The full set is at the Flower Shop, and four are found in the world:

Mint	Where
Modest Mint	Lilycove City
Timid Mint	Mauville City
Rash Mint	Meteor Falls
Calm Mint	Route 111 sand tower — miss it and it is gone for good

The four shards and the Kanto fossils

Shards come from Rock Smash drops and from specific wild Pokémon:

Shard	Held by
Green Shard	Wailmer, Wailord, Relicanth
Yellow Shard	Chinchou, Lanturn (rare)
Red Shard	Corsola, Carvanha, Sharpedo
Blue Shard	Tentacool, Tentacruel (rare)

Altering Cave is the other half: it holds the Helix Fossil, Dome Fossil and Old Amber, plus a Moon Stone and Sun Stone — but the fossils only appear with "New Encounters" enabled. That is also where Mewtwo is, through the same cave.

Battle Frontier Reward Shop

The shop sells the four event tickets and a handful of items you cannot buy elsewhere in Hoenn: Eon Ticket, Mystic Ticket, Aurora Ticket, Old Sea Map, an Up-Grade, and the Macho Brace, which multiplies EV gain by five. The Frontier PokéMart next door stocks Safari Balls, Max Revives, Ethers and Elixirs, PP Ups, and — only when Reusable TMs is switched off — every TM in the game.

Trainer Hill

Trainer Hill hands out Luxury Balls and the XD/Colosseum berries — Salac, Ganlon, Petaya and Apicot — and pays money based on your finishing time, up to 1,000,000₽ if you clear it inside ten minutes. It also pays 20 Battle Points per win.

Notable held items

These are held by wild Pokémon and, with the Item Drops option on, are picked up automatically when you defeat them — no Thief required:

Item	Held by
Lucky Egg	Pelipper (rare), Happiny, Chansey
Heart Scale	Magikarp, Togepi, Feebas (always)
Deep Sea Tooth	Clamperl (common)
Deep Sea Scale	Chinchou, Lanturn (common)
Soothe Bell	Chimecho
Miracle Seed	Shroomish
Black Glasses	Mightyena
Charcoal	Torkoal
NeverMeltIce	Snorunt
Magnet	Elekid, Electabuzz
Big Nugget	Clamperl (rare)
Growth Mulch	Gloom (rare), Tropius (rare), Ivysaur (always), and the Route 123 Berry Master

Berry Juice is its own thing: if Shuckle holds a berry at the end of a battle, the berry sometimes becomes Berry Juice — the Gen II mechanic, restored.

Item sources from the official Modern Emerald documentation; held-item data cross-checked against the extracted game data (held-items.json).