Pokemon Little Emerald ROM

Pokemon Little Emerald is a GBA ROM Hack by Purkat based on Pokemon Emerald. It was last updated on March 28, 2024.

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

V1.2.1

• Fixed the button to trigger Mega Evolution was the same as tha one used to see move info, making mega evolution impossible

V1.2

• Added a pocket for Incenses (and Electirizer/Magmarizer).
• Added a pocket for Nature Mints.

V1.1

Feature Additions

• Added a Hatch Egg option to the Utilities Menu.
• Rydel now gives you both bikes.
• Added a basic Pokémart to Oldale Town that can be accessed before getting the Pokédex.
• Added Repels to most Pokémarts.
• Added a Flashlight key item that does the same as the option in the Utilities Menu.
• Added the Cap Candy Key item, raises a Pokémon level directly to the level cap.
• Removed the Wailmer Pail.
• Made the Zorua in Fortree City a battle.
• Added Surf & Fishing encounters to Scorched Slab.
• Disabled the confetti in the Hall of Fame (for better screenshots).
• Added option to enable EV gain when starting a new game.
• Added option to choose a difficulty when starting a new game.
• Added a trigger to prevent the player from entering the Mossdeep Gym before obtaining the 6th gym badge.
• Added overworld partners to most boss fights.
• Changed the chance to hook a Pokémon when fishing to 100%.
• Removed the fishing “minigame”. (All rods get a bite on the first cast.)
• Fishing now has no time limit.
• Added Surf & Fishing encounters to Shoal Cave High Tide Entrance Room and Shoal Cave High Tide Inner Room.
• Replaced the Move Relearner in Fallarbor Town with an NPC that sells fossils after you have already revived the fossil from Mirage Tower.
• You can now view a Pokémon’s EVs in its summary screen if EV gain is enabled.
• Added the current difficulty to the back of the trainer card.
• Added whether or not EV gain is enabled to the back of the trainer card.
• Added the romhack version to the back of the trainer card.
• You can change from Hard Mode to Normal Mode by talking to Professor Birch’s aide in the lab in Littleroot town.
• (You cannot go from Normal Mode to Hard Mode.)

Feature Changes

• Rare Candies can now only raise a Pokémon’s level to 3 above the current level cap.
• Edited item prices.
• Renamed Flash in the Utilities Menu to Flashlight.
• Rock Smash now has a 100% chance to lower the target’s Defense.
• Teleport no longer ends a wild battle when used by the wild Pokémon.
• It is now always raining on Route 119.
• Armor Cannon, Lava Plume, & Psybeam are now Pulse moves (boosted by Mega Launcher).
• Attract now works regardless of gender.
• Changed Battle Bond’s description.
• Changed Battle Bond’s activation animation.
• Changed the Move Relearner’s house sign text.
• Moved Battle Points to the back of the trainer card.
• Changed the sound effect for when a Mini-Boss gives you BP.

Useful Links

Pokecommunity

Documentation

Discord