<<<<<<< HEAD Hello! This is a romhack and pet project by surskitty, based heavily on Pokemon Emerald but with a focus on double battles. It does have increased difficulty compared to the main games, but is not meant as a hard mode hack. If you are losing in not-fun ways, that is a bug to report.
This hack includes all the typical battle system upgrades from RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.10.1, including Mega Evolution. In general -- assume things work as in gen 9, except with megas and without Tera.
This is the full release of the Multi-Ability function I'm calling the Trait System! Currently updated to Pokeemerald Expansion 1.14.2
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- Most Pokémon have multiple abilities active at once! If a Pokémon seems boring, that is a bug worth reporting.
- Garbodor, Drednaw, and Orbeetle have mega evolutions.
- Castform has been made interesting.
- Wiglett and Wugtrio are now Water/Ground.
- Ledian has been given Huge Power. This fulfills the contract that every hack must give something Huge Power. Ledian has also had its base attack raised by a whopping 10 points.
- Mienfoo evolves in the mid-30s.
- The Roggenrola line has been reworked to not be a Golem knockoff; Gigalith is now the special attacker it always dreamed of.
- Trade evolutions all work like Legends Arceus, which is to say: you use the item. Most evolution items can be bought in the Lilycove Department Store.
- Pikachu only evolves into Alolan Raichu.
- Koffing evolves into Galarian Weezing by raising its Beauty. Pokéblocks are less painful now, though.
- Charcadet evolves into Armarouge with a Dawn Stone and Ceruledge with a Dusk Stone.
- Ursaring evolves into Ursaluna with the Moon Stone. This may be changed to a map location eventually.
- Surf is now the only HM. The rest are Exploration Machines, which can be deleted at will. The ones useless in battle can also be used without actually being known by the Pokémon.
- Pokemon can be nicknamed from the summary screen and have their moves relearned from the moves tab. The Move Relearner now teaches Egg Moves instead.
- TMs and move tutors are reusable. Move tutors are massively expanded; TMs are mildly edited. Most move tutors are in the same places there was a tutor in Emerald, plus also the Slateport name rater's house and the Mauville Pokémon Center dude.
- Many Pokémon can be found on the overworld! They are usually selections of the local wild Pokémon, with some exceptions.
- The limit on how many Pokéblocks a Pokémon can be fed has been removed. There is now no downside to feeding your Pokémon bad Pokéblocks.
- Berries are far more available, and the yields of Berry Trees are at XY standards, so it is actively beneficial to plant berries every time you harvest some.
- Any Pokémon in your party holding an Amulet Coin is sufficient for it to take effect.
- ... and many more!
Credits to bassforte123's system for having Pokémon have multiple abilities.
While the Ability slot has multiple possibilities within a species, all Pokémon of a species have up to three Innates.
Entrainment, Skill Swap, Trace, and other Ability-changing effects only work with Abilities, not Innates. For that reason, some Pokémon like Plusle have Plus as both a Trait and an Ability. It does not stack; there is no advantage to having an Ability identical to the Innates unless you intend on altering Abilities in some manner.
My intention is for each Pokémon species to have at least one thing it's good at, without being unintuitive what's within a Pokémon's capabilities. If a Pokémon's innates seem particularly underpowered, overpowered, or unintuitive, please inform me.
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- bassforte123's Trait System, seriously, that is a good half of the joy of this hack
- RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.10.1
- pret's pokeemerald
- the whole crew of unique surfing overworld peeps
- tustin's nameboxes
- Bivurnum's map previews
- Archie and mudskip's main menu. I made my own mugshots, though.
Shout out to all of the contributors at RHH for their long and often thankless work of making rom hacking resources for fancy fanmade Pokemon games ♥
pokeemerald-expansion is a GBA ROM hack base that equips developers with a comprehensive toolkit for creating Pokémon ROM hacks. pokeemerald-expansion is built on top of pret's pokeemerald decompilation project. It is not a playable Pokémon game on its own.
pokeemerald-expansion offers hundreds of features from various core series Pokémon games, along with popular quality-of-life enhancements designed to streamline development and improve the player experience. A full list of those features can be found in FEATURES.md.
If you use pokeemerald-expansion, please credit RHH (Rom Hacking Hideout). Optionally, include the version number for clarity.
Based off RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.14.2 https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion/
Please consider crediting all contributors involved in the project!
pokeemerald-expansionsupports multiplayer functionality with other games built onpokeemerald-expansion. It is not compatible with official Pokémon games.- If compatibility with official games is important, use
pokeemerald. Otherwise, we recommend usingpokeemerald-expansion. pokeemerald-expansionincorporates regular updates frompokeemerald, including bug fixes and documentation improvements.
❗❗ Important: Do not use GitHub's "Download Zip" option as it will not include commit history. This is necessary if you want to update or merge other feature branches.
If you're new to git and GitHub, Team Aqua's Asset Repo has a guide to forking and cloning the repository. Then you can follow one of the following guides:
For detailed documentation, visit the pokeemerald-expansion documentation page.
If you are looking to report a bug, open a pull request, or request a feature, our CONTRIBUTING.md has guides for each.
Our community uses the ROM Hacking Hideout (RHH) Discord server to communicate and organize. Most of our discussions take place there, and we welcome anybody to join us!
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