Emerald hack: [COMPLETED] Under The!

[Unfolding]

Okay, why would anyone name a hack Under The?

What's with those weird blue symbols?

Can Unfolding even make a long hack?


(I love setting up questions like these so the answers feel great when you figure them out!)



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This was my entry to the first Team Aqua Romhacking Contest, with the theme "WATER"! If you've played anything I've made before, you know what to expect:

• Silly jokes and lots of dialogue​
• A borderline obsession with doing something original with the contest theme​
• An absurd but self-consistent premise​
• A few beautiful "oh crap" moments when you realize what's coming up next​
• Janky coding errors that you have to ignore​
• And of course, puzzles involving obscure game mechanics!​

Like all my hacks, it's a very short experience, even shorter than Thirst Trap or All Things It Devours; it should be completeable in less than an hour. Enjoy, tell me about any bugs you find or what you enjoyed, and please mark spoilers! And if you stream it, I'd love to get a ping! @Unfolding

Mini-Trailer





Credits:​

• Pret and RHH for pokeemerald and expansion​
• Porymap by Huderlem​
• Pokemon Emerald Textbox Simulator, by meelje​
• Underwater Reef Tileset, by Rahtak​
• Romhacking Tutorials, by Archie​
• Everyone in the Team Aqua's Hideout server and cbt, for answering my many dumb questions!​
• More details are in the game!​
• CedarNyx, for Matthew's Nightmare, still the standard for FE Hacking​
• symplectic, for Larl Does Everything Twice Twice, one of the foundations of modern Mario Maker​

Notes:​

There's no level grinding or hidden items required - nothing tedious. There shouldn't be much that's luck-based, either!
I recommend you talk to everyone you can ASAP, because it'll make the end of the game hit much harder!

Patch:​

Under The, V1.2
Patch onto a clean Emerald ROM to play!

 

[PinkAmpharos]

Looks interesting!

 

[Z-nogyroP]

i adore this hack. such a delightful and well-made experience and a really good premise. this is the kind of thing the decomps ought to be used for. i completed it in around an hour and i immediately had to recommend it to my friends. thank you for making this!

 

[Unfolding]

Thanks for your kind words! I was actually just looking at Emerald Z the other day - that's your project, isn't it?