So... sorry if I've done something stupid or posted this to the wrong place, first of all.
I've gone and made a patch that should decapitalize BPEE (English) Emerald roms. I've noticed nothing so far as one that's actually "production ready", just a few broken links to Wichu's and some promises to make one. Or rather, not ones that are meant to serve as a base and/or don't come with a lot of other changes (graphical edits, "controversial" name changes, 386 edits, etc.).
I've tested it, but only so far; it's not 100% confirmed to be serious error free and it's not going to be 100% free of typos at this point. I have however opened it and can confirm that the game boots, runs fine, can complete battles, captures, etc. and it really is rather presentable, and is basically complete.
After some more personal edits (which I'll isolate from this patch), I'll play through the game to try and edit it myself. Any thing I notice I'll note and try to make an updated patch when I'm done. This may take some time, though, and I'll be getting busier soon. I've gone through Petalburg personally from a fresh file, and nothing stood out.
I estimate it's upwards 95% complete. There may be some itemS like errors lurking deep within the rom, and the trendy phrases are simply without elegant solution. There's some consistency issues with the way I named things as well, but they're so utterly trivial to solve.
My method was to use index lists from Bulbapedia and manually edit things with goldfinger. Beyond that, I opened them up with PGE*, but this was primarily to check for errors (the ability editor, for example, will crash if a word ending FF gets overwritten, making it a nice quick checker). If you would like to use this, please do go ahead without restraint; I make no request for credit (truly).
I am uploading this because despite my lack of optimism it really is essentially complete - that or I really am ready to be done with it. If you want to improve it yourself, though, go right ahead. You have my full permission to use this however you see fit, from including it in tools or your hacks, whatever.
*ONLY* text has been edited. The only "controversial" change I believe I've made is renaming the cool trainer class to Ace Trainer. No roster edits, script edits, battle edits, inserted palattes, or so on.
*credits accordingly: HackMew Gemer2020 thethethethe denopqrihg ZodiacDaGreat mewthree9000 Darthatron LU-HO loadingNOW linkandzelda userpr Jambo51JPAN Kawa Bulbapedia
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