Pokemon Emerald Squared makes use of Emerald expansion’s base, several public branches from the lovely people over there, such as PSF, BuffelSaft, PCG, Alex, Hedara, and many more, as well as some assets from Team Aqua assets repo, to mark the first step of this game towards my ideal Pokémon Emerald doubles enhancement hack! There are many changes brought about by myself and my contributors to Pokémon, moves, abilities, items, and trainers, with documentation for all of that upcoming, but here’s a brief overview of what’s available:
Features
- Every battle and encounter post-saving birch is a doubles battle
- Tera and mega gimmicks both included at various stages of the game, along with ways to change tera types
- Many Pokémon received buffs to stats, abilities, and moves, ranging from minor defensive buffs to total overhauls
- New abilities, moves, and items
- Buffed weak items like adrenaline orb, absorb bulb, cell battery
- Trainer party pools for major bosses (you never know what you’re going to get, have been told by my closed beta testers this makes HC Nuzlockes quite difficult)
- Randomized fire/water/grass starters from 3 different regions offered
- A second starter is gifted by Birch after receiving the first
- Swap bikes with R
- Pokevial that gets progressively bigger as you beat gym leaders
- Every TM in Scarlet and Violet
- Every Pokémon through Gen 9 is available, with the exception of box art/680 BST legends, coming in patch 2.0
- Infinite Repel
- EV/IV editor
- Expanded and brand-new areas
- Updated battle backgrounds
- Side story that will later unlock a new area with box art/680 BST legends (area coming in patch 2.0)
- Super candies that level you up to the level cap
- Minimal grinding via two toggles for 0 EVs and perfect IVs
- And much, much more that i’ve likely forgotten over the past 10 months
Near-term plans (next month or two)
- Bug fixes
- Additional trainer slides mid-battle
- Box legends encounter area, rematches for side bosses and gym leaders
- Additional QoL and feature suggestions that are of minor undertaking
- Documentation for those desiring it
Long-term plans (early spring to late summer 2026)
- Additional areas and rebalancings
- Fleshed-out battle frontier with restricted/non-restricted VGC-esque formats
- More polishing before I move on to a more proprietary hack with a whole new region
Changelog
V2.6.2
Bug Fixes
- Pokemon are no longer shiny locked until you get a Poké Ball
Feature Updates
- Meditite now spawns in-game (oops) replacing Drillbur on Route 106 in grass.
- Meltan now evolves into Melmetal via Metal Coat.
V2.6.1
Balance Updates
- Absol gets Sacred Sword and Moonblast,
Bug Fixes
- Megas from Z-A Mega Dimensions can now actually Mega.
- Fixes for Mega Sol and other weather things.
- Version lady now actually tells you what version you’re on.
Feature Updates
- Replaced some old Absols on trainer teams.
V2.6.0
Balance Updates
Feature Updates
- Add Legends Z-A spritework, with very few exceptions (Staraptor missing icon, Garchomp-Z WIP sprite)
- Z-A mega stones are distributed (located in the Lilycove department store)
- Z-A Mega pokemon are all available, and while some retain the abilities they received in champions, most have new or speculative abilities.
- Floette Eternal can now be encountered in the Safari Zone southwest.
