Pokemon Epic Emerald ROM

Pokemon Epic Emerald is a GBA ROM Hack by Cataclyptic based on Pokemon Emerald in English. It was last updated on January 01, 2021.

Description

The story remains unaltered from Pokemon Emerald and the game can now be considered a difficulty/convenience hack.

Features

• All 386 Pokemon available before the Elite Four, in appropriate locations

• Pokemon edits (base stats, learn sets, a few type changes) to make them all viable in the game- pick your favorites and use them.

• Move edits: some moves are added, some are enhanced, others changed completely. A few have comedic names in reference to the original project’s goal.

• The Fairy type and other type edits

• Physical/Special split

• Difficulty mod: Trainers will actually use good movesets and held items. This will make the game harder to complete, but not necessarily grinding hell.

• All TM’s have infinite uses

• Legendaries appear in different locations- explore to find them all

• Kyogre and Groudon can now be obtained after getting the 8th gym badge instead of after the Elite Four, talk to the man in the weather institute like usual.

• You can use ANY Pokemon in the Battle Frontier

• Jaun is not a water-type gym leader for obvious reasons. He still gives out Water Pulse because there are no fairy TM’s and I’m scared to alter his script.

• Oldale Town Mart sells rare berries.

• The whole hack is really pretty simple. No mega evolutions, no Z moves, no Gigantamax- just normal Pokemon doing normal battling, as Arceus intended.

• The Kantonian birds have been replaced with their Galarian counterparts because I felt like it.

• The Lilycove department store special sale is always open. In addition, the store now sells heart scales and rare berries.

• The Trick Master now ACTUALLY HAS GOOD ITEMS in his trick house instead of mail!

• Map edits! Not too crazy, but map edits nonetheless for convenience purposes!

Known Bugs

• The hidesprite command does not work. I am convinced that the game itself is broken in this specific manner because I can copy scripts verbatim and it STILL doesn’t work. As a result of this, the static encounters can be weird. Some of them don’t disappear, some give more than one of the same Pokemon. It doesn’t break the game though so it should be fine.
• Trainers John and Jay use the default movesets of their old Pokemon for some reason.
• Zapdos’s pokedex entry does not center.
• The Galarian birds have odd entry animations because I have no idea how to animate. At least they look cool.
• Wally catches a Charmander in the tutorial. This one was originally intended to set up Wally as a Genwunner in the original project, but now I can’t seem to change it back…