Pokemon Wishes of Tomorrow ROM

Features

• An original region and a three-act story campaign, from a quiet mountain village through a surveillance city to a finale atop a tower — with an archipelago of post-game islands to surf and fish between.
• The Shadow Pokémon system. Corrupted Pokémon fight harder and defend worse, and can slip into Hyper Mode mid-battle. Steal them from enemy trainers with the Snag Machine, then purify them to keep the offensive edge without the drawbacks.
• Snag Balls — a custom ball with a heavy multiplier against Shadow Pokémon, sold on the black market.
• The Shadow Log, a dedicated field menu tracking every Shadow Pokémon in the game as loose, snagged, or purified, with completion counters for post-game collection.
• Quest journal with a start-menu interface, main and side quest tracking, and on-screen notifications as objectives advance.
• Character portraits during story dialogue, driven by a speaker table so any named NPC can be given a face without touching a script.
• Boss encounters with animated intro cards, custom teams, and scripted set-piece choreography.
• Quality-of-life systems: an HM menu that frees a party slot, custom heal locations and checkpoints, a curio shop for Mega Stones, and Ability Machines.
• Custom soundtrack, sequenced and ported from later-generation Pokémon titles into the GBA’s m4a engine, with the mixer widened from 5 to 12 direct-sound channels so field effects survive a busy score.
• A post-game chapter with a legendary encounter, a personal transport system, and a liberated overworld that reflects the ending.
• Built on pokeemerald-expansion, so the modern battle engine comes along with it: current-generation Pokémon, moves, abilities, items, and battle gimmicks.

The Shadow Pokémon system

• Shadow Pokémon hit harder, defend worse, can snap into Hyper Mode
• Snag Machine steal a Shadow straight out of a trainer battle
• Battle a snagged Shadow once to open it, then purify it at the Celebi Island shrine
• A Shadow Log tracks every Shadow in the game as loose, snagged or purified

Changelog

V1.2.2

• Wild double battles About a 1 in 5 chance and you can throw a Poke Ball at whichever of the two you want.
• Exp Share toggleable
• 3x fast forward in Options, off by default. Some battle animations run 8x and overworld speed 3x without skewing the music.
• Curated starter moveset: Gible gets Thousand Arrows, Frigibax gets Glaciate, Axew gets Dragon Darts.
• Added the Game Guide: Walkthrough of every map in the game, spoiler warning. https://flatfootlabs.com/guide.html#m1
• Shin-Tokyo Tower crashes
• Minister’s Mega Stones on the docks, he sells the Mega stone for whatever is set as your lead, if they have a mega.
• Removed AI-slop

V1.2.1

• Shadow Pokémon can now Mega Evolve. Holding the right stone was being ignored for any Pokémon still in its Shadow state, so a Shadow Gyarados with a Gyaradosite simply never transformed.
• The Jirachi at the summit is the right one. The tower’s final encounter was spawning the ordinary Jirachi rather than the Shadow one the story is about — so it could not be snagged, and the Shadow Log could not be completed.
• Mega forms now show on the Hall of Fame and resume screens. A Pokémon holding its stone was drawn in its base form on the champion roll and on the continue screen, which made a Mega-heavy team look like it had reverted.
• The ship at the end of the story sails again. It appeared at the dock after the ending but could not be interacted with; it now runs to the post-game Battle Frontier as intended.
• Siren Allison behaves like a Trainer. She could not see you at all if you stayed on land — a water-bound Trainer can never sight across a waterline — so she was simple to walk past. She now spots you from open water, swims in, and comes ashore to battle, with splash audio on the approach and the same banner shimmer as General Edwards. Her overworld sprite, battle sprite and portrait have all been redrawn from the artist’s sheet at the correct scale; she was previously appearing at double size next to every other NPC.
• New title screen. Rebuilt from the artist’s layered artwork at 256 colours: the nebula, the peak, the logo, the stylised “Wishes of Tomorrow” lockup and Shadow Jirachi, with PRESS START blinking over the top. The earlier version was assembled from a single flattened image and carried visible artifacts from it — a canvas grid, speckling in the rocks and logo, and a washed band behind the title.

V1.2.0

Randomizer Mode (highly requested)

Start a new game and, right after you name your character, a settings screen asks how you want to play.

• Four switches. Randomizer on or off, then Starter Pokémon, Wild Pokémon and Trainer Pokémon independently. Turn the master switch on and all three come with it; leave any of them off to randomize only what you want.
• Levels never change. Only species are swapped, so the difficulty curve of the campaign is exactly the one it was designed with.
• Gen 1–10, base forms only. No megas, no regional forms, nothing outside the National Dex.
• Deterministic per save. The same Pokémon is always replaced by the same one for the whole of that playthrough, seeded from your own Trainer ID — so the world stays coherent and two runs randomize differently.
• Your starter’s portrait is the Pokémon you get. The three sealed choices show whatever they actually rolled into.
• Shadow Pokémon are never randomized. Every Shadow keeps its identity, which keeps the Shadow Log completable and the story’s set-pieces intact. The Oni’s ace and Draco’s Armored Mewtwo are left alone too — that Mewtwo is handed to you after the fight, and rolling it would mean fighting one thing and receiving another.
• Changed your mind? The PC in your bedroom reopens the same settings screen any time before you take your starter.

Changes

• A new starter trio — Gible, Frigibax and Axew — with their portraits shown at the choice. All three lines now evolve on the same schedule, at 16 and 36, so no choice is punished by a late second or third stage.
• A post-game region chart for the archipelago, given by Nessa after the jailbreak. Press R on the map to toggle between the mainland and the islands; fly destinations work on both.
• The Fisherman’s questline pays off. Hand him the Gyarados he wants and you get what you need to take the Route 2 yacht — where Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip are waiting, and you may bring one along.
• The Battle Frontier is reachable. After the ending, the ferry docks in Shin-Tokyo and runs to the Frontier.
• The Game Corner has real prizes. Two counters, both scrolling lists with prices shown: fifteen Pokémon from Gimmighoul at 999 coins up to Porygon at 9,999 (holding a Dubious Disc), and thirteen TMs and evolution items. Nine of those TMs are new to the game — Draco Meteor, Close Combat, Scale Shot, Play Rough, Swords Dance, Nasty Plot, Scorching Sands, Earth Power and Knock Off.
• Mega Stones. Three lie on the floors of the Distortion World, drawn as the stones themselves rather than as item balls: Garchompite, Baxcalibrite and Gyaradosite. For everything else, the Minister at the Shin-Tokyo docks will source the stone for whichever Pokémon is at the front of your party, for ₽10,000 — and tells you plainly when that Pokémon has no Mega form.
• Purifying five Shadow Pokémon for the Professor’s assistant now rewards a Gold Bottle Cap.
• Flying is now the reward for purifying your first Shadow rather than for finishing the game, and the three guardians teach you how purification actually works.
• Text boxes and the start menu could go permanently blank. Warping while the map-name banner was still on screen left the text layer scrolled off the display, and nothing put it back — every message box and menu stayed empty from then on, across maps. Most reproducible walking straight into the Shin-Tokyo arcade.
• Randomizer settings did nothing. The choice was being erased by new-game initialisation moments after it was made, so both on and off produced a standard game.
• A softlock on Celebi Island. Beating the three trainers and approaching the lake trio could leave no way to trigger Celebi’s arrival.
• Fly destinations on the main region map were scattered across the wrong locations.
• Surfing off the south of Shin-Tokyo, and returning north from Celebi Island, both landed outside the playable water.
• The Snag Ball’s description was cut off after one line.