Pokemon Parallel Emerald ROM

Pokemon Parallel Emerald is a GBA Rom Hack by Joggel19 based on Pokemon Emerald in English. It was last updated on March 13, 2024.

Description

Pokemon Parallel Emerald is a QOL and difficulty hack of Pokémon Emerald made using the pokeemerald decompilation. The core goal behind the hack was to create a new and unique Pokémon Emerald experience by expanding/altering existing maps, introducing new gym leaders, maps, and all new encounters/trainer teams.

Features

Quality Of Life

• check IVs and EVs from party menu
• flying from the menu right after tutorial
• BW2 repel system
• more bag pockets and bag sorting
• register multiple items
• Nature Changer and Move Reminder in every Pokémon Center
• toggle-able Auto Run Feature
• cheaper healing items
• rare candies available to buy after receiving the Pokédex
• nickname your Pokémon from party menu
• reusable TMs which there are 100 of
• no need to learn HMs moves; you can also forget them like any other move
• berry yields increased and growth time reduced
• Pokédex that shows Base Stats/Learnsets
• no more trade evolutions
• Sandbox mode (optional):
• heal party from anywhere for free
• access pc from anywhere
• max money
• free move reminder
• damage calculator available (see below for link)
• and much more!

Gameplay

• Generation 8 Battle Engine (Physical/Special Split, Fairy type, all new abilities/moves/items/learnsets included)
• Vastly improved AI
• Two difficulties (changeable at any time):
  • Hard (Default): Disables bag use in trainer battles and forces “Set” battle style. Trainers have more Pokémon, perfect IVs, EV investment (within reason!) and better held items.
  • Normal: Enables bag use in trainer battles and let’s the player choose battle style. Trainers will have less Pokémon, 15 IVs, no EV investment and less powerful held items.
• Dynamic Level Scaling of Trainers and Wild Pokémon
• Level Caps for every Gym Leader
• Changes to weaker Pokémon to make them more fun to use
• Move tutors all over Hoenn
• Mega Evolution
• 1-2 more difficult boss trainers on every route
• Detailed documentation on all changes, where to find what item or Pokémon as well as trainer teams
• and much more!

Changelog

v1.2

• Added possibility to play with perfect IVs and disabled EVs on every difficulty
• New battle interface design
  • Health boxes, battle backgrounds (credits to RavePossum and Ruki), textbox, mega icon, recolor of status icons
• Two additional services in the pokecenter
  • Change hidden power type
  • Set the IV of a specific stat to zero
• Starter selection is still random but no longer depends on trainer ID
  • Starters are selected randomly upon interacting with birch’s bag instead. this removes unnecessary replaying of the intro for nuzlockers or players looking for a specific starter
• Replaced button mode option with Sandbox Auto Heal option
  • Fully heals party after every battle (except back to back battles)
• Drastically improved AI thinking time by removing debug calls of several functions
• Export your team and boxes to the calculator with custom lua script (credits to Tennis)
• Documentation
  • Added documentation for all normal trainers
  • Updated imports with normal trainers and fixed typos
• New standard text window
• Increased badge one EV cap to 42 (was 0)
• Removed sorting of berries and TMs (they are already sorted by number)
• Fixed typo in rare candy item description
• Restricted access to shed shells to one per save (by removing it from species held items)
• Changed snoms and woobats evolution method to level evolution
• Added missing basculin striped sprites
• Fixed outdated versioning in HOF
• Nerfed endure to 5 pp
• Wider path to fortree city gym
• Fixed setup AI
• Nerfed pinch stat boost berries in ATO to one stat stage
• Various dialog fixes
• Minor balancing
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed freeze relating to cherrims form change
  • Fixed cut-off safari UI
  • Fixed overlapping safari windows
  • Fixed ripen ability pop-up on non-berries
  • Fixed sheer force not suppressing all the secondary effects it should

V1.1

• trainer and boss teams
• changes to pokemon and the battle system
• encounters and the dex
• item, tm and tutor locations
• puzzle solutions
• the changelog from v1.0 to v1.1.1
• features/changes overview
• guides, tips and meta knowledge

v1.0

• Main Game Completed
  • Completely redesigned Pokémon League
  • All remaining locations (routes, dungeons, cities) are redesigned with completely overhauled encounters, trainers and items
  • Three remaining badges
  • Conclusion of Team Aqua and Team Magma story
  • New Location: Crestwood Town between Mauville City and Fortree City with three trials and minigames
  • Boss trainers, optional areas/battles and more
  • 200+ tutor moves
• Major AI improvements
  • Post-KO switch-ins and pivoting counter your active Pokémon whenever possible
  • AI knows when it can safely use setup or healing moves
• Reworked game intro
• Completely overhauled documentation
• press the R Button while selecting a move to see its full description
• Quick Run from wild Pokémon option
• Moves are colored according to their effectiveness on Normal difficulty (except for Pokémon with Illusion or Inverted Scales)
• New Sandbox mode available
  • heal party from anywhere
  • access pc from anywhere
  • give yourself max money
  • move reminder is free
• Day/Night times changed
  • Day is from 4am to 8pm
  • Night is from 8pm to 4am
• Rare candies now available after getting the Pokédex
• Game version and difficulty now shows on save screen
• Added pret&RHH expansion intro
• Increased maximum money to $9,999,999
• More Pokémon changes/buffs → see documentation
• More balance changes → see documentation
• Starter Choice is now completely random for each save file (instead of random but fixed pool of starter Pokémon)
• nature changing is now instant and does not require a battle to take effect
• Made early game trainer levels non-dynamic to smoothen difficulty curve
• Made challenge for Gym 4 more forgiving so mobile players don’t destroy their phone
• Items received by Pick Up are far more useful
• Player no longer has to walk over the footbridge if locked out of Slateport City – Mr Briney is there instead
• Bug fixes
  • countless battle engine fixes
  • countless visual and dialog fixes
  • countless misc fixes

FAQs

What are the level caps?

• Badge 1: Lv. 16
• Badge 2: Lv. 24
• Badge 3: Lv. 36
• Badge 4: Lv. 47
• Badge 5: Lv. 50