With the release of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in 2014 the Hoenn Region received a complete overhaul with a familiar but improved and expanded storyline, new battle mechanics, gameplay improvements, and more and more. Some people theorized that Delta Emerald would be released alongside Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but of course, it never happened. We never received a full Hoenn experience in one package. Omega Ruby provided us with an expanded look at Team Magma and Groudon.
Alpha Sapphire did the same for Team Aqua and Kyogre, and neither of them had the Battle Frontier, which is an Emerald-only feature. Everything is just scattered between different games and we do not have an all-in-one version. That’s what I was aiming for when creating this hack. I wanted to bring everything that ORAS improved on into one, complete Hoenn game. New character designs and new dialogues from ORAS, updated movesets and abilities, Gen 4+ evolutions, Megas, and many more!
Features
- Character Designs and Storyline updated, including:
- Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon and Mega Rayquaza incorporated into the story
- Most of the trainer sprites are updated to the ones from ORAS
- Almost all main story dialogues are updated to the ones from ORAS
- Zinnia is included into the main plot, along with her theme songs
- Wally can be encountered at the Battle Frontier in the postgame, instead of the Victory Road
- also his ORAS theme songs are included as well
- Steven is the Champion again and Wallace is the Sootopolis Gym Leader
- Some Trainer teams are tweaked to be more akin to the ones from ORAS (Wally has a Gallade, Brendan/May has a fully evolved starter and so on)
and a lot of other things
- Emerald Battle Engine Upgrade V1, which includes:
- Fairy-type
- Gen 4-7 Moves and Abilities
- Mega Evolutions and Primal Reversion
- Physical/Special Split
- Pokémon gain experience after capture
and many more
- Pokémon stats updated to the standards of Gen 7
- Updated Pokémon sprites and cries
- Gen 4+ Evolutions of Gen 1-3 Pokémon with their respective Evolution methods and items
- Hoenn Dex and National Dex are expanded to include new Pokémon
- All 211 Hoenn Dex Pokémon are catchable without trading or events
- All Trade evolutions now evolve also by just holding their evolution item and leveling up
(Machoke, Kadabra, Graveler and Haunter need a new Link Cable item to evolve) - all non-Hoenn Dex Pokémon that are available in vanilla Emerald are also catchable (except Lugia and Ho-Oh), including all three Johto starters
- Rematch trainers have higher-leveled Pokémon
- Proper rematches for the Elite Four and the Champion
- Game is fully decapitalized
- Day and Night System
- In-game trades are changed to ones from RS/ORAS
- Menu colors from Ruby and Sapphire were restored
- Items pocket is expanded from 30 to 60 possible items
- Infinite TMs
- Infinite Move Tutors
- FireRed-style fishing
- Pokémart items depend on your badge count
- Running indoors
- Eggs hatch at level 1
- Poison survival at 1 HP
- B2W2 Repel System
- Max amount of money is 9,999,999
- Nature-colored stats
- ipatix HQ Sound Mixer
- and much more
Changelog
V1.1.5
- Some Gen 6 moves are renamed to resemble their official names more (e.g. Charming Cry -> Disarm Voice)
- Protector doesn’t freeze the game anymore
- Sudowoodo’s ability to breed is fixed
- Wartortle can now evolve into Blastoise
V1.1.4
- Gardevoirite and Prism Scale can be obtained earlier now (check the documentation for details)
- Matt in Seafloor Cavern is fixed
- May’s team in Rustboro’s battle was changed from Treecko and Shroomish to Treecko and Wailmer
- Several text errors fixes
V1.1.3
- Dragon Pulse Move Tutor available in Meteor Falls
- Chingling is now capturable at Mt. Pyre Summit
- Steven’s Metagross knows Hyper Beam now instead of Giga Impact (which is too OP now)
- Charizardite Y is now available in Scorched Slab instead of another Charizardite X
- Bug when a lot of NPCs turn left when they shoudn’t is fixed
- Yes, and text error fixes
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