Pokemon Rogue Rescue Team - National Dex Expansion ROM

Difficulty

• Item carry limit at dungeon entry shrinks as difficulty rises (full pack → 10 → 5).
• Dungeon recruit chance drops with difficulty; Friend Bow bonus also shrinks.
• Floor visibility rolls are harsher on higher difficulty.
• Monster House chance increases with difficulty.
• Sticky item chance increases with difficulty.
• Boss weather triggers are more likely on higher difficulty.
• Boss HP scales up with difficulty.
• Boss level offset increases with difficulty.
• Kecleon shopkeeper is more likely to be missing on higher difficulty.
• Gengar hint cost surcharge increases with difficulty.
• Skarmory recruit offer cost surcharge increases with difficulty.

Features

• Three difficulty modes: Normal, Hard, Nightmare. Difficulty dynamically affects recruitment rates, boss strength, item limits, visibility, trap density, weather usage, shop behavior, and dungeon variance.
• Two Pokémon pools available: National Dex, which enables Pokémon from gen 4 onwards that are implemented into the ROM hack to spawn and be chosen as starters; and Classic, which limits the experience to the vanilla Rescue Team Pokémon pool (gens 1-3 + Munchlax).
• All Friend Areas unlocked from the start.
• Start each run by selecting one item from five randomized options.
• Play as any Pokémon with any partner from the beginning, including legendaries.
• Recruitment no longer tied to level; base recruitment chance scales by difficulty.
• Optional “never recruit” mode for challenge runs.
• Limit on total recruitable Pokémon at a time, scaled by difficulty.
• Boss fights feature weather effects where appropriate; higher difficulties increase weather usage.
• Weather appears naturally in appropriate dungeons (e.g., rain in water-themed dungeons).
• Bosses have custom movesets and HP scaling to prevent trivial encounters.
• Healing moves removed from bosses.
• Bosses drop loot on defeat, improving as harder dungeons are cleared.
• Dungeon generation significantly expanded: outer rooms enabled, more secondary maze types (maze, plus, checker, pool, island, divider), increased randomness, and removal of tiny floors.
• “Super Trap” rooms added; NPCs can reveal which floor is heavily trapped for a fee.
• Kecleon shops may spawn without a shopkeeper, forcing theft-only decisions (more common on Nightmare).
• Reduced chance of missing Kecleon.
• Interactable NPCs between dungeons offer paid hints or Pokémon recruitment services.
• NPC available to delete unwanted moves (e.g., Splash) to enable effective Struggle usage.
• Randomization seed selection supported for reproducible runs or shared challenges.
• Item spawn stickiness scales with difficulty.
• Item carry limits on dungeon entry scale with difficulty.
• Visibility range influenced by difficulty.
• All Pokémon balanced to be viable at level 1.
• All Pokémon start with at least two attacking moves at level 1, including Ditto.
• Regular Attack automatically uses the stronger of physical or special damage.
• Multi-hit moves (Bullet Seed, Bone Rush, DoubleSlap, Fury Swipes) rebalanced with reduced power.
• Silver Wind, Heat Wave, and Powder Snow deal reduced damage and can hit allies.
• Spore only affects foes directly in front of the user.
• Agility affects only the user.
• Attract duration reduced to two turns.
• Frustration and Return both deal a flat 30 damage.
• HMs function as standard TMs and can be found in dungeons.
• Increased Max Elixir spawn rates.
• EXP gain increased by ~20% to reduce grinding.
• Pokémon with unusually high EXP curves receive bonus EXP per defeat (e.g., Magikarp line, Ho-Oh, Unown, Milotic line).
• Floor spawn logic weighted by total base stats; early floors favor weaker Pokémon.
• Shiny system added, rare but guarenteed recruit.
• Shiny structure reworked to allow body-part color modifications.
• Munchlax and Decoy (glitch Pokémon) are playable with custom-designed movesets.
• Bonsly, Mime Jr., Riolu, Lucario, Weavile, Joltik and Galvantula are playable exclusive to the National Dex mode.
• Shop buy and sell prices capped at 4000; overpriced items rebalanced. Banana price set to 50.
• Friend Area entry bug fixed.
• Autopilot system added, toggleable via R + A.
• Auto leader swap system added, toggleable via R + B.