Pokemon Recharged Yellow ROM

Pokemon Recharged Yellow is a GBA ROM Hack by Jaizu based on Pokemon Emerald in English. It was last updated on September 08, 2024.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Inverse Emerald.

Description

Relive Kanto in a refreshed adventure with the pure style of Gen 3! Plenty of quality-of-life changes, built-in modes, Jessie and James, and much more!

This includes up to the champion, including stuff like hard mode, Nuzlocke, and level cap, this doesn’t include post-game content or Sevii islands.

Features

• Pokémon follower system made by Merrp
• Fully compatible with vanilla Gen 3 games and Pokémon Heliodor!
• Kanto was rebuilt in Pokemon Emerald engine, this includes RTC, berries, contests, and post-game facilities.
• Pokémon color variation from Pokemon Stadium, this is reflected in the followers, party menu, and pc boxes!
• Richer Pokémon icons, this reflects the PID of your Pokémon and if they are shiny
• Lots of quality-of-life features
• Built-in hard mode, Nuzlocke mode and level cap
• Lots of touches from Let’s Go Pikachu, including Jessie and James.
• Sevii Islands are locked to post-game, they all have new and revamped content
• And lots of more stuff!

Changelog

V1.6.1

Changes

• Faster Pokémon storage system navigation
• Victory Road boulder puzzles will stay solved after you solve them. If you solved before, you have to solve them again for them to stay solved.
• Naming screen wont automatically switch to lowercase after the first character to follow compatibility and standards with other official games
• Hall of Fame will tell you if you completed the game in hard mode or nuzlocke mode, post those awesome screenshots!
• Rival will have updates sprites thanks to Gintas and Skorpion
• Lots of Pokémon in the overworld will now be animated and move up and down just like your follower
• Summary screen will properly identify Pokémon Recharged Yellow
• Scizor backsprite got wings

Fixes

• Fixed synchronize in the wild
• Fixed text colors in the Challengers
• Fixes to the followers, shadows and day and night system
• Small translation fixes
• Fixed some backsprites floating or being too low, like Meganium
• Fixed a crash with Castform in the trade menu
• Fixed some party icons

v1.6.0

Biggest changes

• Rematchable Elite 4!
• Added a challenger system, same as Pokemon Recharged Emerald. If you beat the champion a new challenger will appear.
• Elite 4 and challengers will scale level based on how many times you fought it.
• New Key Item that allows you to obtain extra EVs of the selected stat.

Improvements

• Earn 3 times multiplier experience in nuzlocke mode, 2 times multiplier in level cap mode too. Previous values for the multiplier were 25, now 75 and 25.
• Improved Leaf backsprite
• Trainer Card uses FRLG system a TM in the Vendor Machine

Fixes

• Fixes to the follower system
• Plenty of followers(specially shiny Pokémon) fixed, more to come in the future.
• Fix rival movement in Cerulean City
• Fixes to some dialogues
• Fixes to location in the main menu after defeating the champion
• Fixes to Cerulean Cave not appearing in the Town Map

V1.5.0

Biggest changes

• Contests update!
  • The contests now feature plenty of Kanto Pokémon instead just of the Hoenn ones! Will get more and more done with the time, the lowest tier of Contests and some sets are currently done.
  • Fixed crashes when entering some contests, thanks Citrus Bolt!
  • The default winners are Kanto Pokémon, this only affects new saves.
• Custom female protagonist
  • Thanks to Sunday_Domeko and the community that provided feedback to keep improving the sprites, we have now a new appearance for the female protag!
• Ribbon viewer
  • Check every legal Ribbon in your summary screen, never seen in FRLG before!

Small Changes

• The Bike is properly called Bicycle and not Mach Bike
• Berries grow slower, but this is not a real nerf, they still growing faster than original Emerald!
• Ported the diploma from FRLG
• The male protag will have its appearance in the credits scene
• Traded Pokémon that are over your level cap will disobey you until you get your eight badge

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Castform follower
• Fixed black icons in the naming screen
• Fixed Eevee spawning after Oak’s catches Pikachu
• The Pokémon across the world won’t have their color variation affected by your follower
• Small fixes to the contest hall dialogues and NPCs
• Small fixes to the follower system
• Small fixes to trading issues