Pok�mon Emerald, but every trainer battle is a double battle.
VERSION 1.2 is out now! Bug fixes, better legendary integration and more!
Yup, inspired by Colosseum and XD, every trainer battle will be changed to a double battle! There is also increased difficulty and level curve! Features:
- Double battles everywhere! Every trainer completely reworked, with interesting (but still theme-consistent) teams, using a much greater variety of Pok�mon!
- Double wild battles in almost every location! (Except the water. Oh.)
- A steeper level curve, to make the games a fresh challenge. Expect level 40s by the 4th Gym!
- Emerald Battle Engine Upgrade- Physical/Special split, Fairy type, up-to-date moves/abilities/learnsets and more
- Super tough main-character battles that challenge you with advanced moves and techniques, from Gym Leaders, your rival and Maxie/Archie!
- An extra starter, Eevee, with methods provided early on to evolve, including Umbreon and Espeon!
- TMs, especially double-centric moves, are now available early on in Pok�marts, and are now infinite use
- General avoidance of HM requirements except Surf, Dive and Waterfall (7.8 too much water), especially in the late game
- Rematches with Gym leaders have been enhanced for the post-game, and you can find Maxie and Archie... somewhere!
- 386 version, with every single Pok�mon available to obtain (breeding/evolving still required).
- Secret extras!





I really hope you enjoy this hack! Many thanks to the people who helped me test this on the Discord.
Credits:
- Everyone involved in the Emerald Battle Engine Upgrade project
- igorfs10 on pokecommunity for giving me a table for all the encounter tiles for wild double battles
- Discord testers again, specifically Midbus and MrSwizzE for all the feedback (if you have accounts you'd rather be credited as, let me know!)
- The creator of Hopeless Trainer Editor, the star of the entire hack
- The creators of Advance Map, Pok�mon Game Editor, XSE, Advance Mart, VBA and VBA-M and NUPS for making this all possible
- All of you!
If there are any bugs, please send them my way and I'll fix them ASAP, if it's a trainer issue, please send me their name if possible (if not, then their location).
Also if anyone wants to try and edit the title screen to say Double Version I'll love you forever.
SECRETS:
Known bugs:
- U-turn does not work! To do with the battle engine, cannot fix. Please save often!
- When you enter a double battle with only one Pok�mon (in your party or not-fainted), the game will either clone your only Pok�mon or bring a fainted Pok�mon into the battle (who can't attack or gain EXP). Finishing the battle will enable normal progression
- The bag sprites are glitched permanently. Cosmetic only.
- When fighting a single trainer, if both you and your opponent lose a Mon, then when you put your replacement in, it says "enemy trainer sent out your Pok�mon."
- Not all normal rematches are in. Okay, not a bug, and something I might change one day, but not for now.
Previous (non-386) version
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Here's a spreadsheet with all new Pok�mon locations (if it's not on there, it's in,
but it's a secret ;)
Download the patch, apply it with NUPS on a clean Emerald ROM! If there's any problems, make sure to tick 'Ignore' under "If file is invalid" and try that.
Discord for direct contact with me and other players:
https://discord.gg/ZrNAy5V
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