Pokemon Little Emerald ROM

Pokemon Little Emerald is a GBA ROM Hack by Purkat based on Pokemon Emerald. It was last updated on May 08, 2025.

Description

Features

• Starters: Snivy/Scorbunny/Squirtle
• Hard level caps
• Gen 9 battle mechanics unless otherwise stated
• Difficulty modes:
  • Hard: All gym leaders and most boss trainers have a full team of six Pokémon with strong movesets
  • Normal: Not all gym leaders and boss trainers have a full team of six Pokémon and have generally weaker movesets than in Hard Mode
• EV Gain can be turned on or off
• Mini-Bosses throughout the game that give prizes such as BP, battle items, and access to move tutors
• A BP shop where you can buy battle items and items to customize your Pokémon such as Ability Patches, Nature Mints, and Bottle Caps
• You will permanently lose any held items that were removed in a battle (only if you win the battle)
• You can permanently take held items from Pokémon in a trainer battle (only if you win the battle)
• Trainers don’t use items
• Attract works regardless of gender
• The 5 confuse berries (Aguav, Iapapa, Wiki, Mago, Figy) heal ½ max HP and trigger at ¼ max HP (As in generation 7)
• Oceanic Museum, Mauville Game Corner, Daycare, Weather Institute, Mossdeep Game Corner, Space Center, and Devon Corp (Fossil) encounter locations are now separate
• Two new custom maps:
  • Deep Woods (accessible from Petalburg Woods post-Cut)
  • Desert Oasis (accessible from Route 111)
• New “Mega Evolutions”:
  • All Baby Pokémon (Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Tyrogue, Elekid, Magby, Smoochum, Azurill, Wynaut, Budew, Chingling, Bonsly, Mime Jr., Happiny, Munchlax, Rioolu, Mantyke, and Toxel) can evolve in battle via a held item (their respective incenses and new incenses added for the babies without one)
• Some type and ability changes, mostly to give unevolved Pokémon types and abilities from their evolved forms
• Follower Pokémon
• Most bosses have overworld partner Pokémon
• Minor story changes (just added and move boss fights):
  • Added an Aqua Leader Archie fight to Slateport’s Oceanic Museum just after fighting the grunts
  • Changed Magma Admin Tabitha on Mt. Chimnet to Magma Admin Courtney Courtney
  • Added a tag battle with your rival against Aqua Leader Archie & Aqua Admin Matt to Mt. Pyre
  • Changed Magma Admin Tabitha in the Mossdeep Space Center tag battle to Magma Admin Tabitha
• A few boss fights scale in levels depending on if you have defeated Winona yet (you can fight them before or after):
  • Optional rival battle in Lilycove City
  • Magma Admin Tabitha in Magma Hideout
  • Magma Leader Maxie in Magma Hideout
  • Tag battle with your rival against Aqua Leader Archie & Aqua Admin Matt on Mt. Pyre
  • Aqua Admin Matt in Aqua Hideout

Quality of life changes

• New Key Items:
  • Infinite Candy: Acts as a Rare Candy, cannot go past the next level cap (regular Rare Candies can, up to level 3 levels past)
  • Cap Candy: Brings a Pokémon to the next level cap instantly
  • Max Restore: Fully restores the HP, PP, and Status of a Pokémon
  • Infinite Repel: Lets you toggle wild encounters
  • Pokévial: Fully restored the HP, PP, and Status of all Pokémon in your party
  • Warp Panel: Lets you warp to a previously visited town
  • Flashlight: Brightens up dark caves
• Press ‘L’ in the overworld to open a utilities menu with the following utilities:
  • Pokémon Box Link
  • Infinite Repel (turn off encounters)
  • Auto Run Toggle
  • Change Time (set the clock)
  • Pokévial (heal your party)
  • Escape Rope
  • Warp Panel (fly)
  • Flashlight
  • Hatch Egg (choose an egg from your party to hatch)
• Press ‘R’ in a wild Pokémon battle to run
• Press ‘R’ in the overworld to toggle auto run
• Press ‘A’ to relearn moves in the Battle Moves page of the summary screen
• Press ‘A’ in the Pokémon Info page of the summary screen to change a Pokémon’s nickname
• Press ‘A’ in the Pokémon Skills page of the summary screen to see a Pokémon’s IVs or cycle between IVs and EVs if EV gain is enabled
• Romhack Version, Difficulty, EV gain, and Battle Points can be seen on your trainer card
• HMs can now be used as long as you have it in your bag and the corresponding gym has been defeated
• Removed the field move text boxes and Pokémon pop-ups
• Hold ‘B’ and press ‘A’ on a valid tile to Dive
• Hold ‘A’ and press ‘B’ on a valid tile to Emerge
• Hold ‘B’ while Surfing or Diving to move faster
• A new bag pocket for Incenses
• A new bag pocket for Nature Mints
• New NPCs in each Pokémon center:
  • Nature Mint Maker: This NPC takes a Blank Nature Mint and turns it into any Nature Mint you choose
  • Pre-Damage & Pre-Status NPC: This NPC will give you the option of Pre-Damaging or Pre-Statusing one of your Pokémon.
    Pre-Damage: You choose any number between 1 and the max HP of the chosen Pokémon – 1 to set the Pokémon’s HP to.
    Pre-Status: You choose one of the following status conditions to apply to the chosen Pokémon: Poison, Paralysis, Sleep, Burn, Freeze, Toxic Poison. Electric types can’t be Paralyzed, Fire types can’t be Burned, Ice types can’t be Frozen, and Pokémon with any of the following abilities can’t be put to Sleep: Insomnia, Vital Spirit, Sweet Veil, Comatose, Purifying Salt. Poison and Steel types cannot be Poisoned or Toxic Poisoned until you add Salandit to your Pokédex (just seen, not caught).
    *Eggs and Fainted Pokémon can’t be Pre-Damaged or Pre-Statused.
  • Hyper Training NPC: This NPC will allow you to Hyper Train a selected stat of one of your Pokémon in exchange for a Bottle Cap. A Hyper Trained stat will act as if it is 31 IV in all battle calculations. Hyper Trained stats are marked in blue when viewing IVs in the Pokémon’s summary screen.
    *Eggs cannot be Hyper Trained.
  • Battle Points Trader: This NPC will exchange certain items for Battle Points which are obtained from defeating Mini-Bosses.
  • Egg Move Tutor: This NPC will teach one of your Pokémon one of their egg moves in exchange for 1 BP.

Future Updates

• Changes to the functionality of the Damp ability
• Reaper Cloth Duskull & Lucky Punch Happiny
• Changes to the functionality of the move Revival Blessing
• Random berry amounts
• Monotype mode
• Sandbox mode

Changelog

V1.3

Feature Additions

• The ability Damp no longer prevents a foe from using explosion moves, but prevents damage from them.
• A Pokémon with the ability Quick Feet can no longer be fully paralyzed.
• A Pokémon with the ability Tangled Feet can no longer hit itself in confusion.
• Added a move tutor in Mossdeep Game corner with the following moves (5 BP each):
• Close Combat, Crunch, Flare Blitz, Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, Dragon Rush, Focus Blast, Heavy Slam, Leaf Storm, Thrash, Outrage, Boomburst, Hurricane, Stone Edge, Heat Wave,
• Power Whip, Raging Fury, Psycho Boost, Overheat
• Each TM has had the contained move added to its name. This affects shops.
• The abilities Battle Bond and Flower gift no longer only work with Froakie-Special and Cherubi respectively.
• The move Fury Swipes is now Dark type.
• The move Barrage is now Psychic type.
• The Reaper Cloth item now bounces back status moves when held by Duskull (Magic Bounce).
• The Lucky Punch item now makes every move critical hit when held by Happiny.
• Added a new form of Feebas, obtained when given a Prism Scale.
• Added Reaper Cloth and Prism Scale to the special held items shop in Slateport City.
• You can now set a Pokémon’s IV to zero with a Gold Bottle Cap at the Hyper Training NPC.
• Added Gold Bottle Caps to the BP Shop for 4 BP.
• Added Monotype Mode:
• When starting a new game, you can choose a monotype.
• Your starters will be three random Pokémon of the chosen type.
• Snivy will always be a starter if Grass is chosen.
• Scorbunny will always be a starter if Fire is chosen.
• Squirtle will always be a starter if Water is chosen.
• The random fossil you pick up in Mirage Tower will match the chosen type if possible.
• Pokémon hatched from eggs bought from the man in the Daycare will match the chosen type.
• The Pokémon hatched from the egg given to you by the old woman in Lavaridge Town will match the chosen type.

Added Sandbox Mode

• When starting a new game, you can choose to enable Sandbox Mode.
• In Sandbox Mode, there is a new submenu added to the utility menu. This new menu has the following options:
• Give Max Money
• Give Max BP
• Directly set a Pokémon’s IVs
• Directly set a Pokémon’s EVs
• Toggle EV Gain
• Toggle 100% Catch Rate for all Pokémon
• Toggle trainer battles (trainer battles are also disabled if collision is disabled)
• Toggle collision (walk through walls)
• In Sandbox Mode only, there is a new NPC in Rusturf Tunnel (accessible pre-Gym 1)
• That can give any Pokémon any ability in exchange for 10 BP.
• Added a Hidden Power type changer NPC:
• Found in Rusturf Tunnel (accessible pre-Gym 1)
• Changes Hidden Power to any type (even Fairy, Normal, and Stellar)
• Hidden Power type is no longer based on IVs, therefore, this NPC will not modify IVs
• Cost: 2 BP

Feature Changes

• Most Pokéballs now cost ¥300 (Excluding Poké, Great, Ultra, Premier, Cherish, Beast, and Master).
• Added colored text to toggleable options in the Utilities Menu.
• The Protector item now blocks critical hits when held by Rhyhorn instead of raising Defense and Special Defense.
• Species-specific held items (Protector, Lucky Punch, Reaper Cloth, etc.) now cost ¥10000.

V1.2.1

• Fixed the button to trigger Mega Evolution was the same as tha one used to see move info, making mega evolution impossible

V1.2

• Added a pocket for Incenses (and Electirizer/Magmarizer).
• Added a pocket for Nature Mints.

Useful Links

Pokecommunity

Documentation

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