Pokemon Revelation ROM

Pokemon Revelation is a GBA ROM Hack by RichterSnipes based on Pokemon Emerald in English. It was last updated on May 25, 2026.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Skye Project.

Description

Ten years to the day of the release of Pokémon Throwback comes its sequel! Pokémon Revelation is a vanilla quality-of-life enhancement decompilation hack of Pokémon Emerald. There’s a wealth of other QoL Emerald hacks out there now, so that poses the question:

“Why Revelation?”

The goal of Pokémon Revelation is to include as many QoL features from recent games as possible while still looking and feeling like vanilla Emerald and remaining compatible with the official games. There may be hacks with more exotic visual flair or more involved features, but none will feel or be as true to the original game as this one. Or, at least, that’s my intention! Features added to the game will retain a similar appearance to the base game, and new or modified text/events will adhere to the intent of Emerald and the official games. Check out Revelation if you want a hack that is similar to Emerald but better!

What about the game’s plot? A small change has been made to a portion of that. But you’ll have to find out for yourself! Or simply be a keen reader.

Features

Pokemon Revelation comes jam-packed with a ton of features. As a decomp hack, more advanced features and techniques are possible, and the author has taken good advantage of that!

Pokemon

Revelation one-ups Throwback and meets the expectations of many hack players: All 386 Pokémon from the first three generations can be obtained in this hack. As overwhelming as that may sound, this hack makes everything feel natural. Here’s how:

• Time-of-day-based encounters
• New Pokémon in Emerald-exclusive maps
• Mass outbreak expansion and overhaul
• Simulated trade for trade evolutions
• In-game trade additions and changes
• New events
• Access to all event tickets
• Roaming expansion
• Game Corner prizes
• Trainer Hill prizes
• Altering Cave overhaul
• Fossils from breakable rocks in Desert Underpass
• Receive all three Johto starters for reaching specific milestones

Items

A cavalcade of improvements have been introduced for obtaining items, as well as using and managing them.

• The Bag is expanded. Now you can carry every item in the game at once! You can also carry up to 999 of a single item.
• Items are sorted into nine different Pockets for better organization, with each new Pocket being based on ones from the official games.
• Items within a Pocket can be sorted through several different means by pressing the Start button.
• The functions of both the Mach and Acro Bikes are built into one item (the Bicycle), and you can switch gears at any time while riding it by pressing the R button.
• You can register multiple items at once. If multiple items are registered, you can select which one to use from a menu when pressing the Select button.
• Medicine and Rare Candy can be used repeatedly without leaving the Pokémon menu.
• The game will prompt you to use another Repel after the effect of the previous one wears off.

As for getting these items…

• Just about every item, as well as every decoration and legal Berry, can be obtained repeatedly.
• Additional item prizes are available at the Battle Frontier Exchange Service Corner, and prices have been slashed across the board.
• Poké Mart inventories update based on Badge count. Items exclusive to specific Marts are sold by a second vendor.
• Pokémon wild held items have been expanded greatly. Look at the accompanying document for more information.
• The Pickup table has been expanded.
• Breakable rocks can leave behind valuable items. The specific items found depend on your location.

Moves

The usage and obtaining of various moves have been improved greatly, HM or otherwise:

• TMs are infinitely reusable, and all standard Move Tutors will teach your Pokémon their moves an unlimited number of times.
• Battle Frontier Move Tutor prices have been significantly slashed, and all general tutor moves exclusive to Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness have been added.
• The Physical/Special/Status split can be optionally enabled thanks to moves now having assigned categories. Press the Select button on a Pokémon’s summary screen Battle Moves page with the split enabled if you need a refresher.
• Moves learned through leveling up and tutoring that are exclusive to FireRed and LeafGreen have been inserted into the level-up learnsets of all applicable Pokémon. Moves learned per level for these Pokémon have been slightly adjusted to account for this.
• HMs can be used by wild Pokémon without being taught, and they can be forgotten normally if taught. Animations for wild Pokémon using HMs are faster than normal.
• You can use Fly from the PokéNav map screen, and you can fly to almost any location in the game.
• Cut trees and smashed rocks that block paths remain gone once removed. Boulder puzzles also remain solved once completed and progressed past.
• The default Flash radius is slightly larger, and using Flash will illuminate the entire cave it’s used in.

Miscellaneous

• Decapitalization: All text is properly decapitalized the text in the game. Menu items and moments of actual shouting are left capitalized.
• R/S Changes: Various elements of the game’s opening section have been reverted to how they are in all other Hoenn games. The same goes for the end of the game.
• Running Free: You start the game with the Running Shoes, can run indoors, and can toggle between automatically walking and running with the R button.
• Faster Text: Text speeds have been increased all around, with the new Fast speed rendering text twice as fast as the vanilla version’s fastest speed.
• Additional Speed-Ups: Battle transitions are sped up by 50%, the HP bar drains more quickly, fleeing from battle takes less time, using Pokémon Centers is a much faster process, Berry picking is sped up, and the game saves quicker.
• EV Training: Altering Cave transforms per day into a different layout, with a different wild Pokémon available suitable for EV training and corresponding vitamin in an item ball that respawns daily. EVs are capped at 252 per stat, and vitamins can be used to max out the EVs for their given stat.
• Battle Difficulty: Easy mode enables the modern-day Exp. Share system, Hard mode disables Badge boosts and switching.
• No Bzzt: The low health sound effect only plays four times instead of repeatedly, and poison no longer affects your Pokémon in the overworld outside of battle facilities. It’s still enabled in the Battle Pyramid and Battle Pike, as well as during Trainer Hill challenges.
• Less Money Lost: Blacking out in battle will only cause you to lose a fraction of your Poké Dollars based on how many Badges you have.
• Catching Enhancements: Sleep and freeze increase catch rate by 2.5x, most Balls have their catch rates boosted to match modern games, and catching Pokémon will still net you experience.
• Overworld Ability Improvements: Additional field effects that various Abilities gain in later generations have been backported.
• Lucky Charms: The Oval and Shiny Charms have been added to the game, obtainable through the same means as in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
• Breeding Enhancements: Nature and move inheritance has been improved to modern standards, and the Masuda method of shiny breeding has been implemented.
• More Options: Change the game’s font, choose your preferred measurement units, and toggle random overworld Match Calls.
• Box Mode Order: Deposit Pokémon is now the top option. It can be switched to Move Pokémon by speaking to Lanette.
• Improved Reflection Palettes: The palettes used for reflections are automatically calculated to be highly accurate as opposed to using faulty pre-defined palettes.
• Higher Quality Cries: Higher-quality WAV files for the cries of Kanto and Johto Pokémon have been inserted. They’re sampled at 13379Hz, the default sampling rate for the GBA Pokémon games.
• Terminology: Terminology for various aspects of the game (Nature, Ability, Trainer classes, moves, etc.) have been updated to modern-day standards.
• Fixes: Most notable vanilla glitches and oversights, as well as various graphical oddities, have been fixed.

Changelog

V26.0526

• Add Courtney to the hack; she replaces Tabitha at Magma Hideout. Dialogue and Pokémon party have been adjusted to better fit the Gen III character.
• Promote (“evolve”) Maxie’s Zubat to Golbat at Mt. Chimney battle, like in Ruby.
• Replace Matt’s Golbat with Sharpedo, his ace Pokémon.
• Fix softlock when a Pokémon reaches Lv. 100 in battle.
• Fix softlock when defeating an opponent after one of your Pokémon faints in battle.
• Fix exploit where Hyper Training any stat would Hyper Train all stats.
• Fix stat names not updating color to reflect Hyper Trained status when using the judge function.
• Fix item name order for Everstone, Deep Sea Tooth, and Deep Sea Scale for the rightmost vendor at the Battle Frontier Exchange Service Corner.
• Adjust tileset used for Mt. Chimney and Magma Hideout to have tiles better flow.

v26.0509

• Add Hyper Training via the Expert at the Battle Frontier Exchange Service Corner, upper right corner; 25 BP for each stat.
• Hyper-trained stats will have their stat names displayed in gold when using the Judge function.
• New shade of gold also applied to gold stars for stats with 31 IVs. Note: This doesn’t affect Hidden Power.
• Add Ability Capsules, purchaseable for 50 BP at the Exchange Service Corner, 2nd lady from the right.
• Called “Ability Cap” ingame due to character limits.
• New item added to the game replaces Oak’s Parcel from FireRed/LeafGreen to prevent immediate removal by PKHeX.
• Pokémon will still use their standard Ability in link battles for summary screen consistency in Multi Battles.
• Add Nature switching lady to the Exchange Service Corner for 50 BP, now at the center of the booth.
• This only affects the stat changes of your Pokémon’s Nature, not the Nature itself.
• Stat changes only applied/BP only spent if selection will have an effect on chosen Pokémon.
• Implement learned moves on evolution at arbitrary levels.
   
• Moves learned by Pokémon on evolution are based on what moves are learned on evolution in later games.
   
• Enemy Pokémon will still know the expected moves at a given level.
   
• Stop learning a new move if you select “no” or press the B button on the first prompt.
   
• Implement move info window to battles.
   
• Move info window can be toggled with the R button, text size determined by if P/S/S split is enabled.
   
• Show type effectiveness in battle.
   
• Key: Green = super effective, red = not very effective, gray = no effect.
   
• Status moves and attacking moves that don’t strictly follow standard typing are all accounted for.
   
• Type effectiveness is only shown if you’ve registered the opposing Pokémon to your Pokédex.
   
• Weather Ball now shows its type (and matching type effectiveness) in battle.
   
• Pokémon stats are now recalculated at the end of each battle so that gained EVs can impact them even if not leveling up.
   
• Pokémon at Lv. 100 can now receive EVs from battle if they don’t already have 510 total EVs.
   
• Pokémon currently in battle will receive Exp. first when defeating an opposing Pokémon.
   
• Pokémon not in battle will only have one collective message display when receiving Exp. in Easy mode (via modern Exp. Share).
   
• Allow items to be swapped between two Pokémon in the party menu.
  [*]Reduce number of Egg cycles needed to hatch an Egg by 1.
   
• Scott gives you the Exp. Charm when you first get to the Battle Frontier.
   
• The effects of the Exp. Charm apply to all saves where the player has received the initial BPs from Scott.
   
• Add option to skip nickname prompt when receiving a new Pokémon.
   
• Implement nicknaming outsider Pokémon under specific circumstances.
   
• The outsider Pokémon must be unnicknamed, come from the same language origin game (English), and not a fateful encounter.
   
• Restore change case feature (toggle with the R button) on naming screen from Japanese versions of Gen III games.
   
• Increase base BP rewards for completing a round at a Battle Frontier facility by 5.
   
• Beating a Frontier Brain will also now give a +15 BP bonus instead of +10.
   
• Players will receive their lifetime BP earnings back as a one-time compensation for the increase in BP rewards.
   
• Prices of items and services at the Battle Frontier have been adjusted to match Gen VIII standards.
   
• Frontier Brain appearances at the Battle Pike and Battle Pyramid tweaked.
   
• Lucy now appears every 4th round. Silver battle is at the end of Round 4, Gold battle at the end of Round 8.
   
• Brandon’s Silver battle occurs at the end of Round 5 instead of Round 3.
   
• Overhaul in-game trades, swap out Game Corner prize Pokémon to make them all legal.
   
• Ruby/Sapphire OT names, genders reverted to their vanilla Ruby/Sapphire selves.
   
• Kanto Pokémon trades: Farfetch’d for Volbeat, Lickitung for Pikachu, Jynx for Gardevoir, Mr. Mime for Chimecho.
   
• All Kanto Pokémon have identical data to their FireRed/LeafGreen counterparts.
   
• Game Corner Pokémon: Eevee, Dratini, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Porygon.
   
• Traded Farfetch’d now holds a Stick instead of a Chesto Berry. The item was previously missing in Revelation.
   
• Trainer/Gym Leader rematch odds significantly increased.
   
• Trainer rematch odds for taking 255 steps increased from 31% to 70% when on their given map.
   
• Gym Leader rematch odds increased from 31% to 70% after every 60 wild encounters or 20 Trainer battles (standard or Battle Frontier).
   
• Gym Leader rematch rolls also now occur 1/3 of the time after winning an item prize at Trainer Hill or receiving a large Painting for winning a Master Rank contest.
   
• Implement ipatix’s High Quality Audio Mixer and upgrade the game’s sample-based audio.
   
• Audio samples used across all music tracks in the game have been significantly improved.
   
• Cries for all Kanto and Johto Pokémon have been increased to 31536 Hz sampling frequency.
   
• Please note that the game’s file size will increase to 32 MB after patching.
   
• Play “Evolved” jingle when catching Pokémon in the Hoenn Dex, like in most other Pokémon games (including Ruby/Sapphire).
   
• Pokémon only in the National Pokédex will still play the “Pokémon Caught” jingle from FireRed/LeafGreen when caught.
   
• Shorten evolution scene. All visual aspects are still present and have been retimed to still match the evolution music.
   
• Shorten “Evolved” jingle by 3/4ths measure (similar to Ruby/Sapphire), removing extra silence at the end.
   
• Slightly increase Surf speed on the overworld if surfing on your own Pokémon.
   
• Make AI Pokémon switching more competent on Hard mode.
   
• Battle message pauses can be skipped with the A/B buttons 8 frames after completion.
   
• Pokémon encountered in Altering Cave can now hold their normally-expected items along with special Berries.
   
• Hide map name popup when moving between maps with the same name.
   
• Revert to vanilla VBlank behavior when the Wireless Adapter is active in order to prevent possible sync issues.
   
• Disable VBlank RNG advancing when generating a Pokémon to decrease the likelihood of it being detected as illegal.
   
• Revert Feebas tile generation behavior to vanilla to restore compatibility with Feebas tile calculation tools.
   
• Fix zombie roamer glitch that occurs if the player draws in battle with the roamer (i.e. with Self-Destruct or Explosion).
   
• Fix Mew and Celebi not holding Lum Berries.
   
• Players who’ve already obtained them will receive Lum Berries for them as compensation.
   
• Fix text rendering for Japanese Pokémon nicknames/OTs if not using default font.
   
• Fix description for the Soothe Bell redeemable prize at the Exchange Service Corner.
   
• Fix caught wild Pokémon’s shadow reappearing if teaching a move to a party Pokémon with four moves on level up at the end of battle.
   
• Fix Chansey’s battle back sprite starting height.
   
• Wallace’s Milotic now holds a Sitrus Berry instead of a Chesto Berry.
   
• Restore reference to the Johto region by NPC in Petalburg City.
   
• Anabel’s Trainer class changed to Tower Tycoon; Greta’s class is now Arena Chief.
   
• Tweak Steven’s custom dialog in one place in the game.
   
• Remove parentheses for Battle Frontier facilities that always reward more than 1 BP.
   
• Fix crash when starting a battle in the Battle Tower’s Multi Battle mode as a female player with the Ruby/Sapphire outfit.
   
• Add waitmessage commands for Prof. Birch when receiving the Oval/Shiny Charms to accommodate for when text speed is set to “Slow”.
   
• Various capitalization, terminology, font, and text spacing consistency fixes.
   
• Various minor metatile fixes.

v231010

• Fixed bug where item quantities for new pockets became corrupted when a Revelation save game (native or imported) is saved in vanilla, then brought back to Revelation.

Useful Links

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