Pokemon Elastic Emerald ROM

Pokemon Elastic Emerald is a GBA ROM Hack by zenmodeman based on Pokemon Emerald. It was last updated on February 01, 2025.

Description

Pokemon Elastic Emerald is a romhack that gives the player monotype options, and it’s a game driven towards utilizing the game mechanics of Pokemon. Pokemon have been given buffs, but most buffs tend to be quite tame.

Features

• Monotype Pokemon
• The player’s PC has several items to bootstrap the experience. 
• Move relearning can be accessed from the party menu.
• Pokemon can be encountered in trees by interacting with them
• The Pokedex contains expanded Pokemon information, such as level-up moves.
• New Locations
• The gen 9 catch rate boost to low-level Pokemon (below level 13) is in effect
• Gym Leaders now have the option to be battled in either Single or Double battles.

Changelog

V0.1.2.1

• Double Battle AI adjustments: more robust targeting under KOs, and AI mon places bias on number of hits to kill between two player targets.
• Illuminate now causes “Illuminating” moves to apply the Follow Me effect on the user.
• Tailwind causes Razor Wind to resolve in one turn.
• Made Mail be unswappable by Trick or Switcheroo. Adjusted Trick AI to be disincentivized against Mail.
• Aurelio tweaks: added text for Aurelio when saying no to the Battle; set Aurelio to heal before the fight; fixed minor issue where Aurelio only faced the player the first time he was talked to.
• Patched up encounter bug that made slot index 3 unreasonably weighted.
• Removed Affection mechanics that were being applied.
• The menu system for viewing IVs and EVs has changed, now pressing A in the stats screen.
• Swapped Venonat trainer’s Zoom Lens for Wide Lens
• Removed some text that wasn’t supposed to be there for Level Cap info inside the Truck at the beginning of the game.
• Did a big merge with Pokeemerald-expansion, which could potentially cause unknown regression issues (none identified so far).

V0.1.2

• This release finalizes pre-Dewford to a playable state.

V0.1.1

• Added many AI adjustments, further logic based on player modes
• Completed Rustboro Gym and pre-cut 116
• Added custom mon HM usage.

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Documentation

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