Pokemon Ambrosia ROM

Pokémon Ambrosia is a game with a focus on unique features, fun gameplay, and extensive additional and post-game content.

Story

• The story is completely new and centers on an imminent invasion of Kanto due to a war with Hoenn.
• New dialog for every NPC and event in the entire game
• Three recurring rivals, one of which uses an exact copy of the player’s party including stats, items, nicknames, everything.

World

• Many updated maps and numerous all new maps.
• Random battle weather is assigned upon entering an area, though some maps have fixed weather. 
• A more open world design allowing the player to enter areas with trainers and Pokemon far stronger than they would be able to beat but with hidden powerful rewards.
• Can travel north to Blackthorn and west to Olivine from the beginning of the game.
• Can travel to Kanto as soon as reaching Goldenrod.

Features/Brief Overview

• Reworked Pokedex with fan favorite Pokémon from across the first 6 generations
• All Pokémon have abilities, some familiar and some new – such as Gardevoir raising light screen upon switch in for example
• Physical / Special split
• Overworld Pokémon randomly wander the world, with aggressive ones attacking the player on sight
• Can rematch all trainers, including Gym Leaders
• Extensively updated battle AI
• Open world design balanced by two level caps, one for training Pokémon and another for catching wild Pokémon
• New story centered on an immanent war between Kanto and Hoen with Johto caught in between, almost every line of text in the game is new
• Three recurring rivals with one always using an exact copy of the players team, including nicknames, items, shininess etc
• Updated and new maps with random battle weather that changes between areas
• Significant Quality of Life updates
  
  • Updated and fully reusable TMs
  • Early Exp Share available
  • Sprint shoes
  • Remembral key item that acts a portable free move relearner
  • Portable PC that can also instantly heal your party like a portable Pokecenter
  • HMs can be used if learnable with actually needing to be known
  • Infinitely reusable escape rope
  • Infinite repel
  • late game item allowing player to instantly warp to important locations
• Competitive items such as choice band/specs, life orb, etc
• New vitamin Ambrosia maxes all stats and happiness with a single use
• Recurring RPG NPC letting you can play through stories from media such as Star wars, DBZ, Yugioh taking part in battles with fixed teams – video link
• Battle Frontier with 5 new areas
  
  • Battle Mirror where you fight a copy of your current team
  • Battle Roulette where you fight a random boss trainer
  • Battle Arcade where you select a trainer whos team you will use and a trainer to fight against from a selection of gym leaders and boss trainers – video link
  • Battle Trial where you engage in consecutive battles of increasing difficulty being healed only every three battles
  • Battle Tower which has 4 6v6 battles in 5 difficulties and no rules, you can win big prizes such as 99 rare candies in the higher difficulties
  • Battle Tower Mirror mode where you fight using a copy of the random enemy team rather than your own – video link
• Extensive post game with 50 optional bosses across several huge new maps and 28 legendary Pokémon, half of which are uber
• Game warping key items as post game rewards

Changelog

V2.8.0

In-game Speed Up

• There is now a Speed option at the bottom of the pause menu it lets you
  • toggle overworld movement speed to x2 or x4
  • toggle battle speed to x2 or x4
• it does not change the music speed

Battle Tower Updates

• complete redesign, allowing for 100-300 enemy sets per challenge
• option to scale your party to the challenge level
• option to play using a random team (different from the enemy team) each round
• tracking of current and longest streaks for both random and level scaled battles – records carry to new game plus

Other Changes

• naming screens automatically change case after capital letters and spaces
• eggs no longer become invisible when in the PC
• dark battle palette updated for better Pokémon visibility

V2.7.0

Player Customisation

Player can now customise their character by selecting from

• 20 different sprites (10 male, 10 female)
• 10 different hair colours
• 2 different skin colours

That’s 400 possible combinations. The player can change their look at the 2nd floor of any Pokecenter, or in their room at home. Note, the NPCs throughout the world have also been updated so there is greater variety in skin colour.

New Moves

The following moves are added to the game

• U Turn
• Volt Switch
• Flip Turn

New Ability

The ability Adaptability, which increases STAB multiplier to x2, is given to the following Pokemon

• Ratatta, Raticate
• Meowth, Persian
• Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath
• Pinsir
• Porygon, Porygon2, PorygonZ
• Slowpoke, Slowbro
• Eevee and all Eeveelutions

Other Changes

• Updated NPCs in Ecruteak to give hints about random legendary Pokemon and TMs that the player hasn’t collected
• Zygarde, Mewtwo and Arceus no longer treat all balls as Pokeballs, they now have a fixed 80% chance to break out of Master Balls
• Mid-battle evolution no longer resets battle music in fights with specific music overrides
• Whirlpools removed/reduced on Lake Tohjo/Jagged Pass maps
• Passage from Lake Tohjo to Mt.Silver made more difficult via aggressive Pokemon
• Fix issues with item and TM icon colours
• Fix issue where some characters in a Players name could appear incorrectly when receiving items
• Update dialog to allude that Blaine and Pryce are brothers

V2.6.2

• Fixed bug where toxic on a benched Pokémon could revert to normal poison after an enemy Pokémon faints
• Fixed bug where Safeguard would block the effect of Toxic Spikes on the wrong side of the field
• Toxic now uses a deeper purple palette for its status icon, distinguishing it from normal poison
• Fixed bug where the PC could lag depending on the map music playing
• Fixed bug where Mudkip sprites on Route 32 would corrupt when coming from Cherrygrove Bay
• Fixed bug where Dragon Fang would use Dragon Scale item icon
• Reduced the darkness of the battle UI palette in dark areas so it isn’t as intrusive
• Prof Oak will give Aerodactyl egg to players who have not beat Whitney, rather than Bugsy
• Fix typos

Useful Links

Reddit

Discord

Documentation

Github