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HELLO POKECOMMUNITY,
MY NAME IS TOM AND I PRESENT YOU MY FIRST ROM HACK.
POKEMON EMERALD DOCAL
I'M A FAN OF POKEMON SINCE I WAS A KID AND I'M INTO PLAYING ROM-HACKS SINCE 2018.
I WORKED ON THIS HACK FOR OVER A YEAR AND IT'S NOW READY TO BE UPLOADED.
MY NAME IS TOM AND I PRESENT YOU MY FIRST ROM HACK.
POKEMON EMERALD DOCAL
I'M A FAN OF POKEMON SINCE I WAS A KID AND I'M INTO PLAYING ROM-HACKS SINCE 2018.
I WORKED ON THIS HACK FOR OVER A YEAR AND IT'S NOW READY TO BE UPLOADED.
The goal of creating this rom hack was that I wanted to play an Emerald hack, which is not too easy that you can rush trough, but also not as hard as Emerald Kaizo or Radical Red.
I wanted to create a hack which you cannot beat first try, but also don't need 100 attempts.
While creating the game I intended it to be hardcore nuzlocked. Can't guarantee for the same playing experience if you don't play as intended. So please look up the rules if you're unsure!
So I would be happy if you would do this!
You shouldn't be able to nuzlocke it first try blind, but when you're skilled enough sooner or later you will beat it.
Level Caps for Gyms:
1: 17
2: 23
3: 33
4: 44
5: 48
6: 58
7: 69
8: 77
Elite 4: 85
Champion: 86
You'll get Rare Candys to reach the caps!
Difficulty:
- Hard early-game (that only the chosen ones may proceed)
- Middle is doable if you're observant, but still no joke
- E4 + Champion is hard
The most important changes:
- You can almost catch the full national Pokedex (386 Pokemon) with legendarys being the exceptions. So all the encounters are changed.
- Every Trainer has Gym leader AI and custom teams
- EV's of the enemy mons increase troughout the game (especially this makes the early game so hard, before you have access to Vitamins)
- All the Gym Leaders have 6 Mons
- There are only a few optional trainers
- Slightly map changes
- Some areas have permanent weather effects and you have no access to weather moves
- Grass tiles in every city for an encounter
- Unlimited access to Rare Candys (to reach the level caps without excessive grinding)
-> You can already buy them in Oldale Town after defeating May from the beginning
- Unlimited Vitamins (not since the beginning)
- Almost every PokeMart has exclusive Items like TMs, Berries oder Battle Items
- In-game trades are changed and have quite good DVs (not perfect DVs)
- 15 hidden Move Tutors with unlimited re-teaching - Find Them!
- Heart Scales are buyable
- TMs are re-useable
- Set-up Moves are either banned or limited in PP
- Very few changes in level-up attacks (no dragon dance - to buff bug pokemon they got the move quiver dance, which is basically dragon dance since bug moves are physical. Or Scizor gets Signal Beam, Kingdra gets Dragon Claw etc.)
- VMs like Rock Smash got buffed
- Trade Evolutions are changed to either Level-up or Evolution-Stones
- ALMOST ALL WEAKER POKEMON GOT BUFFED STATS - this means there are almost no mons with less than 480 base stat - which makes you able to use a big variety of teams
- Almost all fully evolved mons have a second possible ability or have their bad ones changed
Screenshots:
Known Bugs:
- You can't fly to Forretree City
- If you enter some Double Battles with only one Pokemon, your Mon is also in the second slot and it seems like "duplicated"
(If you discover some Bugs please let me know)
Programs I used:
- AdvanceMap
- G3T
- GoldFinger
- HopelessTrainerEditor
- PGE
- PKSVUI
- XSE
- LSA
I wanted to create a hack which you cannot beat first try, but also don't need 100 attempts.
While creating the game I intended it to be hardcore nuzlocked. Can't guarantee for the same playing experience if you don't play as intended. So please look up the rules if you're unsure!
So I would be happy if you would do this!
You shouldn't be able to nuzlocke it first try blind, but when you're skilled enough sooner or later you will beat it.
Level Caps for Gyms:
1: 17
2: 23
3: 33
4: 44
5: 48
6: 58
7: 69
8: 77
Elite 4: 85
Champion: 86
You'll get Rare Candys to reach the caps!
Difficulty:
- Hard early-game (that only the chosen ones may proceed)
- Middle is doable if you're observant, but still no joke
- E4 + Champion is hard
The most important changes:
- You can almost catch the full national Pokedex (386 Pokemon) with legendarys being the exceptions. So all the encounters are changed.
- Every Trainer has Gym leader AI and custom teams
- EV's of the enemy mons increase troughout the game (especially this makes the early game so hard, before you have access to Vitamins)
- All the Gym Leaders have 6 Mons
- There are only a few optional trainers
- Slightly map changes
- Some areas have permanent weather effects and you have no access to weather moves
- Grass tiles in every city for an encounter
- Unlimited access to Rare Candys (to reach the level caps without excessive grinding)
-> You can already buy them in Oldale Town after defeating May from the beginning
- Unlimited Vitamins (not since the beginning)
- Almost every PokeMart has exclusive Items like TMs, Berries oder Battle Items
- In-game trades are changed and have quite good DVs (not perfect DVs)
- 15 hidden Move Tutors with unlimited re-teaching - Find Them!
- Heart Scales are buyable
- TMs are re-useable
- Set-up Moves are either banned or limited in PP
- Very few changes in level-up attacks (no dragon dance - to buff bug pokemon they got the move quiver dance, which is basically dragon dance since bug moves are physical. Or Scizor gets Signal Beam, Kingdra gets Dragon Claw etc.)
- VMs like Rock Smash got buffed
- Trade Evolutions are changed to either Level-up or Evolution-Stones
- ALMOST ALL WEAKER POKEMON GOT BUFFED STATS - this means there are almost no mons with less than 480 base stat - which makes you able to use a big variety of teams
- Almost all fully evolved mons have a second possible ability or have their bad ones changed
Screenshots:
Known Bugs:
- You can't fly to Forretree City
- If you enter some Double Battles with only one Pokemon, your Mon is also in the second slot and it seems like "duplicated"
(If you discover some Bugs please let me know)
Programs I used:
- AdvanceMap
- G3T
- GoldFinger
- HopelessTrainerEditor
- PGE
- PKSVUI
- XSE
- LSA
I'm looking forward to create a FireRed Rom Hack next year with all Gen4 Mons, Moves, Phy/Spe-Split etc...
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS ROM HACK AND FEEL FREE TO GIVE FEEDBACK
THANK YOU!
HEINER291
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