Pokemon Emerald Rogue ROM

Pokemon Emerald Rogue is a GBA ROM Hack by Pokabbie based on Pokemon Emerald in English. It was last updated on May 23, 2026.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Perfect Water Blue.

Description

Ever wondered what Pokemon might look like as a Roguelike?

How does it work?

When you go on an adventure, all routes, encounters, and items are chosen procedurally based on your progress through a run. After a certain number of routes, you will come across a random gym leader with a procedurally selected team of their assigned type; as you progress further into a run, gym leaders and other trainers will begin using more difficult setups for their Pokemon. You will have completed the run if you can make it all the way to the champion and defeat them!

When you finish or fail a run, you will return to a hub area where you can buy permanent items and catch new “starter” Pokemon to use in the next run.
As you progress through the game, more buildings/NPCs in this hub area will become available for use in preparing for the next run.

How long does a run take?

It can vary based on how thorough you are, but in the author’s testing, a complete run usually takes between 3-4 hours of in-game time.
There is a quick save option (REST in the menu) which lets you put the game down mid-run and return however be warned this does not allow save scumming.

Features

• Randomly chosen routes
• Procedural items, trainers & wild encounters
• Hub area with unlockable buildings/NPCs
• Character customization
• Multiple game config settings e.g. prevent over leveling, trainer difficulty, double battle mode
• Seeded mode, with individual config settings (useful for multiplayer races)
• Galarian Forms
• Mega Evolution (In Battle)
• Rare legendary encounters
• Mart contents change as you progress
• Safari zone allows you to capture mons you have previously used on runs and use them as the “starter” mon
• Post-game settings (Can be accessed early if you can find the secret room

Changelog

V2.1.2

Features

• Completely reworked Experimental mode and renamed to “Fast Path”

  • Abandoned old experiment in favour of newly paced Game Mode

  • The mode adjusts the pacing to speed the run up, so you kind of tackle 2 gyms in a row and then have a longer breather to reset; this generally makes item and money management much harder and much more punishing but the run also takes much less time, so a reasonable trade off

• Potion brewing new uses the Mart UI flow, so you can craft multiple potions at a time

Changes / Balancing

• C-Gear / Config Lab now highlights newly unlocked/added options with an icon

• Gauntlet mode will now start your mons at lvl 100

• Auto pickup now activates for field effects (e.g. Strength, Rock Smash, Cut)

• Amulet coin now will only boost money from battle up to 15,000 (You’re welcome, Nacho)

• In Average mode, the final 2 Gyms and Rival fight will now have teams of 5 and ALL E4 will have Teams of 6

• Endure charm buffed to from 40% to 60% proc chance

• Adaptability curse buffed from 50% to 30% proc chance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed game soft locking when Make it Rain is used

• Fixed various riding & unique mon related crashes

• Fixed game soft locking when using item after quick tossing items

• Fixed visual bug occurring when sandstorm, teras and megas are all active

• Fixed not being able to enter Gauntlet mode with 6 Hub Pokémon

• Fixed regional forms being displayed in regional dexes that they aren’t present in

• Fixed auto pickup not always picking up master balls or rare candies

• Fixed auto pickup working while flying

• Fixed tutor moves not unlocking correctly when receiving badges

• Fixed Item Courier inventory seemingly randomising

• Fixed incorrect message appearing when using some medicine (e.g. EV feathers)

• Fixed some shops missing an icon to indicate new stock

• Fixed pokedex progressing being wiped when upgrade (I can’t revert the damage that was already done; sorry about that!)

• Fixed shiny palette for Mothim and Cursola

• Fixed some unique mons not tracking correctly for the type challenges

• Fixed not being able to deposit certain items into the PC (e.g. pokeblock)

• Fixed some evolutions being missed in the Orre + XD dex

• Fixed escape rope being used when flying causing you to be flying the next time you ride a Pokémon

• Fixed Enraged Mons from fainting to Weather chip

• Fixed Held Item based forms not registering in the Pokédex correctly

• Fixed Pokémon sometimes merging when replacing a fainted Pokémon with a newly caught one

V2.1.1

Features

• Added Pokédex for Colosseum + XD as requested by Nacho (Had to combine them into 1 because the encounter dex is far too small otherwise)

• Added popup when Pokémon manually released to indicate that it’s held item has been returned to your bag (It’s been this way forever but a lot of people didn’t realise that’s how it works)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Gauntlet Mode not spawning encounters before the 1st Badge

• Game time will still progress once you have hit 999 hrs (Fixes Unique Lab Pokémon creation)

• Fixed softlock in battle related to when AI internally gets stuck attempting to swap out a Pokémon when faced with a type immunity

• Hopefully added workaround which should re-enable the new Quest for people upgrading from Mocha’s patch

• Fixed collision tile in Team Flare Base

• Fixed Floette Eternal sometimes spawning in routes

• Fixed Croconaw silently evolving into Feraligatr

• Fixed incorrect message when using Quick Heal

• Fixed AI not understanding Oblivious is immune to Taunt

• Fixed AI not understanding Thermal Exchange

• Fixed Pokémon masteries not completing if you interacted with the Dark Deal

• Fixed new Mega Pokémon not being added to the Pokédex

• Fixed Auto-Pickup giving incorrect number of berries in Daycare Rest Stop

• Fixed the Rain animation bugging out in Double battles with Mega Evolution enabled

• Fixed swapping Ride Mon when jumping into water getting you stuck

• NPC avoids recommending Pokémon sets which are trying to use Mega Stones with Mega Evolution disabled

V2.1.0

Features

• First batch of Z-A Megas (Base on Pokémon Champions)
• Added Battle Overlay to show some current field effects (e.g. hazards, weather) along with being able to view stat buffs and Pokédex page
• Added Z-A Pokédex option + new Quest with a Unique Lab upgrade as the reward (Eternal Floette can spawn as a Legend encounter with this dex active)
• Added speedup options for Overworld
• Added speedup options for Screen Transitions
• You can now press L to toggle speed up on/off at any time
• Added auto item pickup to options
• Added Quick Heal option to the Pokémon Summary which will prioritise using smaller/less valuable healing items first
• Pokémon’s held items will now be displayed in the party summary when hover over
• Added Team Plasma
• Added Team Flare
• Added ability to clear out Safari Pokémon by interacting with the sign or legend statue
• Slightly improved adventure encounter selection screen graphics
• Added an experimental gamemode to test with making runs faster (Very subject to future change)
• Added backsprites for XY trainers
• Added new upgrade for Unique Lab (I shalln’t spoil that here)

Changes / Balancing

• Myriad of Trainer balance adjustments which should make Average mode slightly easier until the end game and Hard mode slightly easier during the early game (This is still all a work in progress and subject to change)
• Increased frequency of Full Rest stops and Pokémon Lab encounters slightly
• All Shops are now incremental, meaning if you see an item in the shop, it will be in the shop again next to you view it
• Adjusted a bunch of TM/TR and Tutor Move prices
• Added Party TM compatibility view to shops
• Selling/Tossing items will automatically jump to the max stack size if the previous item you sold/tossed was also at max stack size; this should massively speed up bulk selling of items
• Tutor Moves are have been partially changed back towards how they were in 1.0 versions; you will have a limited selection of moves which will increase with each badge you get with the Pokémon in your party. After 4 badges you will have access to all Tutor Moves
• Added indicator for when new content is added to shops
• Reduced costs for using Pokéblock in the hub; now 10 Pokéblock for a Legend and 4 Pokéblock to increase IVs
• Slight rebalance for Pokégear/Daycare phone; you can now upgrade it to get multiple uses per recharge (up to 3) but it will now only recharge when you heal specifically with a Nurse. This is a bit of a give and take; it should still be really good but less versatile than the old version
• Split out Rainbow and Official into a separate control in the Trainers menu rather than a being a full on gamemode
• Slightly reduced frequency of megas outside of key battles
• Route trainers are less likely to use setup moves now (Except Brutal)
• Roaming legendaries will always move last, if they are attempting to flee, so you will always get at least 1 turn to act before they flee
• Misc sprite updates
• Multiple stability improvements for Multiplayer + slightly reworked Rogue Assistant so it shouldn’t lose connection with the emulator anymore
• Added ability to Quicksave during Multiplayer adventure and reconnect when relaunching
• Replaced TM Hail for Snowscape + Tail Glow for Quiver Dance
• Optimised Item pickup code so it shouldn’t slow down on item pickup
• Only active mega stones will now be available during runs
• Added placeholder animations for all moves currently missing animations

Bug Fixes

• Pulled across a bunch of fixes from Mocha and Lemon (Many thanks to them both for holding the torch in my absence) (I haven’t pulled across feature changes however)
• Implemented Poison Puppeteer
• Fixed Make it Rain
• Added fast Pokéblock scatter option when interacting with Honey Tree
• Tera Orb recharges during Victory Lap
• Scaleshot fix
• Cursebody won’t activate on substitute
• Fixed Soulheart
• Fixed Shed Tail
• Fixed Spectral Theif
• Fixed Galarian Legendary Birds not spawning
• Implemented  Booster Energy
• Fixed flying out of bounds
• Implemented Shield Dust / Covert cloak
• Fixed Dynamax move priority
• Fixed Hospitality
• Fixed National Dex Pokédex order
• Fixed Hisuian forms and some Legends not spawning correctly
• Fixed Pokémon not always being added to Safari e.g. if it was in the Daycare at the end of the Run
• Fixed some signature moves being applied to TRs
• Fixed Trainer Pokémon not always having the intended Natures
• Fixed Grace Charm not calculating correctly
• Fixed Galactic Grunt outfits not being named correctly
• Fixed Strong/Weak Legendary clause not activating correctly
• Fixed Save Charm + Retry Charm not always triggering correctly
• Fixed many bugs related to Pokégear
• Fixed being able to Quick Save in Catching Contests to repeat them
• Fixed Dark/Steel type catching contests from occurring on Kanto dex
• Fixed Escape Rope not always exiting maps with subwarps
• Fixed Comfey’s Triage Floral Healing crashing
• Fixed GMAX appearing in Pokémon Summary screen when it shouldn’t be
• Fixed Shedinja + Sylveon evo
• Fixed Trainer’s sometimes sending our bad eggs or mons with 0 hp
• Fixed mega evolution sometimes flipping shiny state
• Fixed Well Baked Body not being seen by AI
• Fixed Mimikyu disguise breaking from healing moves e.g. Drain Punch
• AI won’t tend to waste their first turn on Max Guard anymore when Dynamaxing
• Fix Forfeit in battle being able to fail
• Fixed Daycare mons not receiving levels if the initial partner mon is lvl 100
• Fixed rare bug where Double Battles can lock up attempting to perform invalid Mega Evolution over and over
• Fixed the same Trainer being able to spawn multiple times on the same route
• Partial fix for permanent Megas
• Fixed Mon Masteries being counted incorrectly
• Fixed Key Items menu being able to use the item even if it was removed from the bag

Useful Links

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