Pokemon Little Emerald ROM

Pokemon Little Emerald is a GBA ROM Hack by Purkat based on Pokemon Emerald. It was last updated on May 04, 2026.

Description

Features

• Starters: Snivy/Scorbunny/Squirtle
• Hard level caps
• Gen 9 battle mechanics unless otherwise stated
• Difficulty modes:
  • Hard: All gym leaders and most boss trainers have a full team of six Pokémon with strong movesets
  • Normal: Not all gym leaders and boss trainers have a full team of six Pokémon and have generally weaker movesets than in Hard Mode
• EV Gain can be turned on or off
• Mini-Bosses throughout the game that give prizes such as BP, battle items, and access to move tutors
• A BP shop where you can buy battle items and items to customize your Pokémon such as Ability Patches, Nature Mints, and Bottle Caps
• You will permanently lose any held items that were removed in a battle (only if you win the battle)
• You can permanently take held items from Pokémon in a trainer battle (only if you win the battle)
• Trainers don’t use items
• Attract works regardless of gender
• The 5 confuse berries (Aguav, Iapapa, Wiki, Mago, Figy) heal ½ max HP and trigger at ¼ max HP (As in generation 7)
• Oceanic Museum, Mauville Game Corner, Daycare, Weather Institute, Mossdeep Game Corner, Space Center, and Devon Corp (Fossil) encounter locations are now separate
• Two new custom maps:
  • Deep Woods (accessible from Petalburg Woods post-Cut)
  • Desert Oasis (accessible from Route 111)
• New “Mega Evolutions”:
  • All Baby Pokémon (Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Tyrogue, Elekid, Magby, Smoochum, Azurill, Wynaut, Budew, Chingling, Bonsly, Mime Jr., Happiny, Munchlax, Rioolu, Mantyke, and Toxel) can evolve in battle via a held item (their respective incenses and new incenses added for the babies without one)
• Some type and ability changes, mostly to give unevolved Pokémon types and abilities from their evolved forms
• Follower Pokémon
• Most bosses have overworld partner Pokémon
• Minor story changes (just added and move boss fights):
  • Added an Aqua Leader Archie fight to Slateport’s Oceanic Museum just after fighting the grunts
  • Changed Magma Admin Tabitha on Mt. Chimnet to Magma Admin Courtney Courtney
  • Added a tag battle with your rival against Aqua Leader Archie & Aqua Admin Matt to Mt. Pyre
  • Changed Magma Admin Tabitha in the Mossdeep Space Center tag battle to Magma Admin Tabitha
• A few boss fights scale in levels depending on if you have defeated Winona yet (you can fight them before or after):
  • Optional rival battle in Lilycove City
  • Magma Admin Tabitha in Magma Hideout
  • Magma Leader Maxie in Magma Hideout
  • Tag battle with your rival against Aqua Leader Archie & Aqua Admin Matt on Mt. Pyre
  • Aqua Admin Matt in Aqua Hideout

Quality of life changes

• New Key Items:
  • Infinite Candy: Acts as a Rare Candy, cannot go past the next level cap (regular Rare Candies can, up to level 3 levels past)
  • Cap Candy: Brings a Pokémon to the next level cap instantly
  • Max Restore: Fully restores the HP, PP, and Status of a Pokémon
  • Infinite Repel: Lets you toggle wild encounters
  • Pokévial: Fully restored the HP, PP, and Status of all Pokémon in your party
  • Warp Panel: Lets you warp to a previously visited town
  • Flashlight: Brightens up dark caves
• Press ‘L’ in the overworld to open a utilities menu with the following utilities:
  • Pokémon Box Link
  • Infinite Repel (turn off encounters)
  • Auto Run Toggle
  • Change Time (set the clock)
  • Pokévial (heal your party)
  • Escape Rope
  • Warp Panel (fly)
  • Flashlight
  • Hatch Egg (choose an egg from your party to hatch)
• Press ‘R’ in a wild Pokémon battle to run
• Press ‘R’ in the overworld to toggle auto run
• Press ‘A’ to relearn moves in the Battle Moves page of the summary screen
• Press ‘A’ in the Pokémon Info page of the summary screen to change a Pokémon’s nickname
• Press ‘A’ in the Pokémon Skills page of the summary screen to see a Pokémon’s IVs or cycle between IVs and EVs if EV gain is enabled
• Romhack Version, Difficulty, EV gain, and Battle Points can be seen on your trainer card
• HMs can now be used as long as you have it in your bag and the corresponding gym has been defeated
• Removed the field move text boxes and Pokémon pop-ups
• Hold ‘B’ and press ‘A’ on a valid tile to Dive
• Hold ‘A’ and press ‘B’ on a valid tile to Emerge
• Hold ‘B’ while Surfing or Diving to move faster
• A new bag pocket for Incenses
• A new bag pocket for Nature Mints
• New NPCs in each Pokémon center:
  • Nature Mint Maker: This NPC takes a Blank Nature Mint and turns it into any Nature Mint you choose
  • Pre-Damage & Pre-Status NPC: This NPC will give you the option of Pre-Damaging or Pre-Statusing one of your Pokémon.
    Pre-Damage: You choose any number between 1 and the max HP of the chosen Pokémon – 1 to set the Pokémon’s HP to.
    Pre-Status: You choose one of the following status conditions to apply to the chosen Pokémon: Poison, Paralysis, Sleep, Burn, Freeze, Toxic Poison. Electric types can’t be Paralyzed, Fire types can’t be Burned, Ice types can’t be Frozen, and Pokémon with any of the following abilities can’t be put to Sleep: Insomnia, Vital Spirit, Sweet Veil, Comatose, Purifying Salt. Poison and Steel types cannot be Poisoned or Toxic Poisoned until you add Salandit to your Pokédex (just seen, not caught).
    *Eggs and Fainted Pokémon can’t be Pre-Damaged or Pre-Statused.
  • Hyper Training NPC: This NPC will allow you to Hyper Train a selected stat of one of your Pokémon in exchange for a Bottle Cap. A Hyper Trained stat will act as if it is 31 IV in all battle calculations. Hyper Trained stats are marked in blue when viewing IVs in the Pokémon’s summary screen.
    *Eggs cannot be Hyper Trained.
  • Battle Points Trader: This NPC will exchange certain items for Battle Points which are obtained from defeating Mini-Bosses.
  • Egg Move Tutor: This NPC will teach one of your Pokémon one of their egg moves in exchange for 1 BP.

Future Updates

• Changes to the functionality of the Damp ability
• Reaper Cloth Duskull & Lucky Punch Happiny
• Changes to the functionality of the move Revival Blessing
• Random berry amounts
• Monotype mode
• Sandbox mode

Changelog

V1.5

Feature Additions

• Added special, one-time use Move Tutors throughout Hoenn:
• Revival Blessing – Fallarbor Town (Woman on the left of town):  – Rellor and Pawmi
• Plasma Fists – Mosdeep City (Boy next to the Space Center): – Elekid and Pichu
• Volt Tackle – Mosdeep City (Boy next to the Space Center): – Elekid, Pichu, Voltorb, Electrike, Blitzle, Shinx, Tynamo, Pawmi, Voltorb-Hisui, Toxel, Wattrel, Geodude-Alola and Grubbin
• Added a special Move Tutor than can teach Eevee one of the following moves to the 6th floor in Mt. Pyre: Bouncy Bubble, Buzzy Buzz, Sizzly Slide, Glitzy Glow, Baddy Bad, Sappy Seed, Freezy Frost, Sparkly Swirl and Veevee Volley
• This Move Tutor is infinitely re-usable, however, you can only teach one of these moves to an Eevee.
• If you have Eevee forget the move and come back, you can teach it a new one.
• Gave Hisuian forms egg moves.
• Added something I call “Route Bosses”. Route Bosses are (mostly) mandatory trainers found throughout Hoenn that have crafted teams in Hard Mode. The idea is that they’re the strongest trainer in their area. Their teams are documented in the Hard Mode Important Trainers sheet.
• Their Pokémon have Hardy natures, no items (mostly), and level-up moves in Normal Mode. Note: All trainer Pokémon not in the Important Trainers documents have a Hardy nature and level-up moves.
• Combee and Salandit are now always female.
• Added Teddiursa-Bloodmoon, a new form with adjusted stats, the Mind’s Eye ability, an added Ground type, and a separate learnset.
• Added an NPC in Rusturf Tunnel that allows you to change the gender of a Pokémon.
• Added Rising Voltage to the 1 BP move tutor.

Feature Changes

• You can no longer enter the Mauville City gym until you have defeated Brawly.
• Increased the base power of Astonish to 50.
• Wide Lens now boosts accuracy by 30%.
• Zoom Lens now boosts accuracy by 30% all the time and by 50% if the holder moves after the target.
• Eviolite now only boosts Defense.
• Decreased the cost of an Eviolite to 3 BP.
• Assault Vest no longer prevents the use of status moves.
• Increased the cost of an Assault Vest to 3 BP.
• Changed the static Pawniard in Ancient Tomb to a Teddiursa-Bloodmoon.
• Revised the in-game trades from vanilla.
• Seeing Zubat or Glimmet now also allows you to pre-poison a Steel or Poison type.
• Raised the level of most random trainer Pokémon.
• Added more Pokémon to most random trainers.
• Changed many random trainers’ Pokémon.
• Made the entrance to Deep Woods a bit more noticeable.
• Moved Speedy Kid to Route 117.

V1.4

Feature Additions

• Mini-Bosses now have their own trainer class.
• The move Slam is now Steel type.
• The ability Illuminate now also raises accuracy by 30%.
• Added Staryu-Special, a form of Staryu with Pure Power as its only ability.

Feature Changes

• The Mini-Bosses will no longer battle you if you have defeated the gym ahead of their reward cap. I know that sounds confusing, so I’ll listit here:
• Scary Guy – Brawly
• Protector – Wattson
• Speedy Kid – Flannery
• Collector – Norman
• Boom Dude – Winona
• Crit Master – Tate & Liza
• Slow Fella – Juan
• Cleaned up a bunch of new NPC dialogue.
• Changed the Sandshrew-Alola in Island Cave to Staryu-Special.
• Split The Move Tutor in the Mossdeep Game Corner into two separate NPCs and lowered the cost.
• Tutor 1 Moves (2 BP per):
• Close Combat, Wild Charge, Flare Blitz, Hydro Pump, Dragon Rush, Focus Blast, Leaf Storm, Thrash, Outrage, Boomburst, Hurricane, Stone Edge, Power Whip, Raging Fury, Psycho Boost, High Jump Kick, Draco Meteor, Megahorn, Head Smash, Superpower, Solar Blade, Sky Attack, Meteor Beam
• Tutor 2 Moves (1 BP per):
• Crunch, Aqua Tail, Heavy Slam, Heat Wave, Energy Ball, High Horsepower, Throat Chop, Jump Kick, Lunge, Dragon Pulse, Muddy Water, Hammer Arm, Scorching Sands, Drill Run, Body Press
• Moved the Fossil Shop to the Fossil Maniac.
• The Fossil Shop NPC (formely the move reminder) is now the 1 BP Move Tutor.
• Burmy no longer changes its form after battle.
• Separated each Burmy form’s learnsets.
• Separated each Deerling form’s learnsets.
• Facade, Return, Protect, Attract, Rest, and Sleep Talk are now universal moves. (Every Pokémon can learn them.)
• Removed Overheat from the Mossdeep Game Corner move tutor. (It is a TM.)
• Stellar type Hidden Power now does double damage to mega-evolved targets.

V1.3.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed starter abilities.

Useful Links

Pokecommunity

Documentation

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