Pokemon ROWE ROM

Pokemon R.O.W.E is a GBA ROM Hack by rioluwott based on Pokemon Emerald. It was last updated on March 11, 2025.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Fire Red Reworked.

Description

Pokemon R.O.W.E is an attempt to create an open-world Pokemon Emerald with QoL changes and a high replay value, with diverse team building as the primary goal.

Features

• Explore the region in any order you want.
• Gen 8
• Following Pokémon
• Tons of QoL Changes to get your team without having to Breed to get good Ivs/Abilities
• Egg Move Tutor
• Chose between 9 starters or get one randomly.
• 3 Different Game Difficulties – Easy, Normal, and Hard
• Regional Music Options(Chose between Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh Music)
• Randomized Mode
• Double Battle Mode(Every fight is a Double Battle)
• Inverse Mode(Inverted type chart)
• Perfect Ivs Mode(everything has 31 ivs)
• No Evs mode(Nothing has evs)
• Random Party Mode
• Little Cup-like mode
• No need for HMs
• In-Game Wonder Trades
• Nature Mints
• A way to change the Poke Balls of already caught Mons
• Pokémon from all the 8 Gens
• AutoRun Options
• Up to 120 Tms
• Physical/Special Split(This can be removed by an In-game Mode)
• Daily Gym Leader Rematches
• Level scaling based on your number of badges with an evolution system for both trainers and wild Pokémon
• Re-Usable TMs
• Mega Evolutions
• Find rare Pokémon with the DexNav. (by ghoulslash’s)
• Gen 8 Flying Taxis from the beginning. (by surskitty)
• Name Rater, Move Reminder, Move Deleter and Iv checker on all the Pokémon Centers.
• Decapitalized Text. (by Wyrserth and AsparagusEdu)
• Press B to Surf faster. (by ghoulslash)
• Pokémon Clover Soft Level Cap in Hard Mode (by PokémonCrazy)
• Gen 7 Daycare System
• A beautiful and useful Pokedex. (by TheXaman)
• Gen 6 Exp.Share that you can always turn off (by Lunos)
• Fly without the need for the move by having a Pokémon that could learn it in your party (by Buffelsaft)
• Eon Flute
• And more…

Changelog

V2.0.3.2

New Signature moves

• Swellow : Aerial Ace – Becomes a 70 BP move that doubles its power if the user is poisoned, burned, or paralyzed.
• Exploud : Roar – Becomes a 60 BP move that knocks away the target and drags out another Pokémon in its party, also boosts Sp.Atk.
• Mawile : Hyper Fang – Becomes a 80 BP Fairy-type move that prevents the user and the target from switching out until either of them faints, ignores defense.
• Mega Mawile: Hyper Fang – Becomes a 50 BP Fairy-type move hits twice and ignores defense, may boost attack.
• Honchcrow : Beat Up – Becomes a 25 BP move that hit the target up to 5 times using its Murkrow cronies to attack, each hit may lower the target’s defense.
• Probopass : Magnet Bomb – Becomes a 90 BP Steel-type move that can paralyze the target and is super effective against Steel-types.
• Serperior : Wrap – Becomes a 70 BP Grass-type move that prevents the user and the target from switching out until either of them faints and leeches the target.
• Emboar : Heat Crash – Becomes a 130 BP move with 90% accuracy, If this move misses the user takes damage instead, has a 20% chance of burning the target.
• Samurott : Razor Shell – Becomes a 90 BP move sets up Spikes when used, ignores the target defense changes.
• Hisuian Samurott : Night Slash – Becomes a 90 BP move sets up Spikes when used, ignores the target defense changes.
• Togedemaru : Pin Missile – Becomes an Steel-Type move that boosts the user’s Speed stat but lowers its Defense stat.
• Dugtrio: Dig – Becomes a 35 BP move that hits the target 3 times, can flinch the target.
• Doduo : Peck – Becomes a 40 BP move that hits the target twice, can raise the user attack.
• Dodrio : Drill Peck – Becomes a 35 BP move that hits the target 3 times, can raise the user attack.
• Magneton : Discharge – Becomes a 35 BP move that hits the target 3 times, paralysis chances becomes 15% per hit.

Changed Signature moves

• Honedge : Slash – Becomes a 85BP Ghost-type Move that ignores the target’s defense and steals half the damage inflicted.
• Doublade : Slash – Becomes a Ghost-type 45 BP Move that ignores the target’s defense and hits twice.
• Aegislash : Slash – Becomes a 90BP Ghost-type Move that ignores the target’s defense.
• Blastoise: Hydro Pump – Now hits both enemies at once
• Mega Blastoise: Hydro Pump – Now hits both enemies at once
• Lapras: Surf – Now hits only the enemy and not its allies
• Mega Lapras: Surf – Now hits only the enemy and not its allies Staryu: Swift – Now hits only one target, boosted its power to 50
• Starmie: Swift – Now hits only one target, boosted its power to 60

General Fixes

• Added an extra team to each Jotho gym leaders
• Buffed trainer exp skill, now its 10x times better but costs more too
• Added Galarian Zapdos as mystery gift, now each weekday may have a different mystery gift including re-runs of old mystery gifts
• Added a note to the summary screen telling you if that pokemon is immune to ground type moves, for pokemon that used to have levitate
• Changed Rayquaza and Moltres wild encounters to make them easier to catch by removing roost and life orb from them
• Fixed trainer exp shown not being the correct one
• Fixed some signature move descriptions
• Fixed New game plus lowering the trainer level if it was above 255
• Fixed a Pokemon in your party becoming rayquaza or other after battling certain legendaries
• Fixed some dive areas taking you to an area that would soflock you
• Fixed lag while chosing a move in random ability mode against a trainer
• Fixed Aegislash not changing its stats as you changed forms
• Fixed catching rate being wonky on some legendaries or hard to catch mons
• Fixed dunsparce evolution method not being shown in the summary screen
• Other small fixes

V2.0.3.1

• Signature moves not changing some move types in battle
• Fixed the issue where Special Moves used Physical stats for damage calculation
• Fixed the bug where some new mega evolutions did not gain their new stats/abilities/types upon mega evolving(Example Mega Snorlax)
• Fixed the issue where some people got stuck in the start menu by pressing Up a few times
• Some Collision fixes
• Added the item finder to the start of the game, if you already started the game just go and talk to the blue nurse and it will appear in your bag
• Now the sniper ball skill also ups the chances of catching a Pokémon regardless if you get a critical catch or not
• Other small bug fixes

V2.0.3

• New Information menu, this menu lets you search for the FAQ in-game without having to use another device, it also lets you see some trainer tips and more importantly your information
  telling you your modes you have enabled, your difficulty, your current level cap, the game version, and other important information, you will be asked to share some screenshots of this screen when reporting a bug
• Heavily modified the game scaling, now you will grow faster at the start of the game compared to the endgame, meaning you will have access to more levels in the first part of the game, this is subject to change and tweaked in the future.
• Modified how trainers have their IVs trainer skills, now they scale depending on your difficulty and badge count
• Included access to all the Event Islands after you beat the Pokémon League making some unobtainable mons obtainable yet again.
• Fixed all the gen 9 and Husian mons lacking some TM moves from their learnsets(Only moves that are already TMs in ROWE, no new TMs were added)
• Fixed some tile errors near water
• Fixed Galarian birds not learning TMs
• Heavily reworked the signature move system, while you as an user you won’t see a lot of changes this will let me add a lot of more changes to signature moves that could not be added before
  and reworked a lot of early signature moves to have more effects considering its easier for me to do that, in the future I plan to make signature moves unlockable at certain levels but that is yet to come,
  here is a big list of most signature moves changes
• Modified Signature moves
• Pichu – Volt Tackle: Now becomes a 130bp move instead of 110 but becomes a reckoil move
• Hypno – Hypnosis: Now can set up psychic terrain
• Golem – Explosion: Becomes a Rock type moves and removes using the highest attacking stat
• Alolan Golem – Explosion: Becomes Electric terrain and can set up Electric terrain but now does not uses the highest attacking stat and can’t set up stealth rock
• Meowth – Pay Day: Now can flinch and can raise speed by 20% instead of 10%
• Persian – Pay Day: Now can flinch
• Alolan Meowth – Pay Day: Now uses the highest attacking stat and can raise special attack by 20% instead of 10%
• Alolan Persian – Pay Day: Now uses the highest attacking stat
• Galarian Meowth – Pay Day: Now raises the user attack by 20% instead of 10% and ignores the target defense changes
• Perrserker – Pay Day: Becomes a 90BP move and now Ignores the target defense changes
• Parasect – Leech Life: Now has a 20% of cursing the target and ignores defense
• Cubone – changed from Bone Club to Bonemerang, same effect + now ignores the target defense
• Alolan Marowak – Shadow Bone: now can raise the user attack
• Alolan Exeguttor – Dragon Hammer: Now uses the user highest attacking stat
• Lickitung – Lick: Becomes a 75BP Normal-type move that cures 25% of the user health when used.
• LickyLicky – Rollout: Becomes a 85BP Normal-type that hits the target once but still doubles from defense curl.
• Voltorb – Electro Ball: Now can raise the user speed
• Electrode – Electro Ball: Can now raise the user speed
• Arcanine – Extreme Speed: Becomes a 70 BP Fire type move that can burn the target.
• Husian Arcanine – Extreme Speed: Becomes a 70 BP Rock type move that can burn the target.
• Gyarados – Thrash: Becomes a single hit 100 BP Flying-type move that dos not lock the user.
• Mega Gyarados – Thrash: Becomes a single hit 110 BP Water-type move that dos not lock the user.
• Articuno – Blizzard: Becomes an Ice move that can hit SE against Water-types, set up hail and has a 90% accuracy
• Zapdos – Thunder: Becomes an Electric move that can hit x2 against Ground-types, set up electric terrain and has a 90% accuracy.
• Moltres – Fire Blast: Becomes a Fire move that can hit x2 against Water-types, set up Sunny Day “and has a 90% accuracy.-Meganium – Petal Blizzard: Now can set up grassy terrain and becomes a 100bp move
• Scizor – Bullet Punch: now can raise the user attack.
• Scizor Mega – Bullet Punch: now can raise the user attack and becomes a 75bp move.
• Steelix – Iron Tail: Has a 95% accuracy and can set up sandstorm.
• Mega Steelix – Iron Tail: Has a 100% accuracy and can set up sandstorm.
• Bellossom – Petal Dance: Becomes a 95BP move that does not lock the user, it has a 50% chance of raising the user speed and can set up grassy terrain.
• Sceptile + Mega – Leaf Blade: now can also set up grassy terrain.
• Blaziken + Mega – Blaze Kick: now can also set up Sun.
• Swampert + Mega – Muddy Water: now can also set up Rain.
• Beautifly – Silver Wind: Becomes a 80BP move that has a 20% chance of raising all of the user stats
• Dustox – Silver Wind: Becomes a 80BP Poison-type move that has a 20% chance of raising all of the user stats
• Honedge and Aegislash – Sacred Sword: Now hits SE against Normal Type mons and ignores defense changes.
• Doublade – Sacred Sword: Now hits SE against Normal Type mons and ignores defense changes, becomes a 45BP move that hits twice.
• Charmander – Tail whip: Becomes a 30 BP move that burns the target
• Paras – Slash: Becomes a Grass type move that has a 30% chance of seeding the target and cures the user.
• Exeguttor – Seed Bomb: Becomes a 100BP move that has a 25% chance to confuse and uses the user highest attacking stat.
• Mega Machamp – Strength: Becomes a 100BP move that hits the user attack stat rather than defense.
• And a lot of bugfixes and small changes.

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