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 April 26, 2025.

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

V1.8.0

Important Fix

• Opening the about the game menu won’t restart your nuzlocke, challenge mode, level cap and extra exp modes.

Thanks to @Maya for discovering a way to reproduce it

New challenger to the Champion title added

• Maya won the contest on how to properly reproduce the bug that has been annoying us since a long time, so she and her Pokémon team are now in-game!

Don’t miss those Pokémon anymore!

• After beating the champion or defending your champ title, the following Pokémon will reappear if you don’t have them marked as caught in your Pokédex: Snorlax, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mew and Mewtwo.

In-game achievement system

• Added in-game achievements system.
• Achievements are compatible with old saves!!
• Obtain a start in your Trainer Card if you get every achievement! This replaces one from FRLG related to linking minigames (jumps in a row and berry picking related)

Some achievements are not compatible with previous saves, but can be earned again:

• Defend your title vs a Champion Title Challenger
• All the ones related to contest and ribbons
• Talk to a NPC to check Hidden Power Type of your Pokémon
• Achievement related to number of Eggs hatched
• Achievement related to number of berries planted

And some achievements will be registered if you traded any of those Pokémon from other games even if you didn’t catch them in this game:

• Catch Articuno
• Catch Zapdos
• Catch Moltres
• Catch Mewtwo

Other changes

• Added held items to the Pokédex
• Allow gaining EVs at level 100 and level cap
• Adjusted how the extra exp mode works. Now it will give less experience at the start of your run but will scale with your badge number.
• This is how the extra exp mode works.
  • 25% for having the option enabled
  • 10% if you have level cap enabled
  • 20% if you have nuzlocke mode
  • 15% for each badge you have

If you have all of that and you have the 8 badges, you will earn 175% more experience compared to vanilla games (and somehow people complain about grinding anyways)

• Added Staryu to more fixing locations

Other Fixes

• Fixed Pokémon types not showing in the Pokédex
• Fixed Charizard sprite in the credits scene
• Fixes to the Options menu
• Fixed to the follower system, dns and some fade transitions
• Fixed Oaks platform color starting in black
• Fixed e4/champion level scaling bug if you lose vs Champion/Title defender.
• Fixed some bugs with the Charmander/Bulbasaur/Squirtle trainers npcs and improved some texts
• Hopefully fixed movement in nugget bridge
• Improved some Kanto followers, more to come in the future when I need to make bugfixes releases

V1.7.2

• Fixed memory leaks with the Berry Pouch, causing possible crashes
• Fixed your Pokémon’s cry not playing when playing at higher battle speeds with the followers enabled

V1.7.1

• Fixed Mew not being obedient
• Fixed some issues with followers, including follower not entering the Poké Ball in the Pokémon Center
• Plenty of fixed related to fade transitions
• Fixed glitched text in the Options menu
• Fixed Dexnav music when closing it when surfing
• Fix some text typos

Useful Links

Discord

Pokecommunity

Reddit

Twitter

Ko-Fi