Emerald hack: Pokémon Inclement Emerald: A Decomp Difficulty Hack [Version 1.13]

[Buffel Saft]

Greetings. I wanted to say thanks for putting this ROM together, it's been great thus far and your QoL changes have really changed things. I also wanted to ask a few questions about the ROM.

Reading the FAQ, you mention that cheats can't be implemented, but I wanted to ask if it's possible to use a sprite editor to change the colors of the player character?
You also mentioned continuing the Battle Frontier, it was so much fun back in the original. Is there an estimated time for its release?
There was also a note for adding Gen 8 Pokemon in a future update. Would you be adding a secondary typing to the Galar starters the same way you altered other starter Pokemon?

Once again thanks and keep up the great work.

Hey, thanks! That's possible, but you'd need to track down the locations of the player sprites as they're probably not at the usual addresses. The download includes a map file with addresses for things, but using the memory viewer on an emulator would probably be easier.
I might add a secondary typing to Inteleon, but the other two are already very good, so they won't get any major changes.

 

[MysticEggShell]

Just came to report a bug. My phantump used bullet seed once on Roxanne's tyrunt. The first of two came from my side, then the second bullet seed came from the tyrunt and hit my phantump before the tyrunt attacked. Bizarre

 

[Windstorm696]

Hi there. Sorry for bothering you but it seems that for pokemon with multiple forms that have different learnsets (i.e. Lycanroc and male/female meowstic), the pokedex only displays the learnset of the base form with no way to change which one it shows. Just thought you should be aware.

 

[Buffel Saft]

Just came to report a bug. My phantump used bullet seed once on Roxanne's tyrunt. The first of two came from my side, then the second bullet seed came from the tyrunt and hit my phantump before the tyrunt attacked. Bizarre

Hey, thanks for that. Pretty sure it's a bug with the Red Card Tyrunt is holding.

Hi there. Sorry for bothering you but it seems that for pokemon with multiple forms that have different learnsets (i.e. Lycanroc and male/female meowstic), the pokedex only displays the learnset of the base form with no way to change which one it shows. Just thought you should be aware.

I'm aware of that one, but thanks for letting me know anyway!

 

[Africa Corpse]

A bug I've just encountered: if you use a field move Flash to increase your field of wiev(tried specifically in Dewford Cave) then either enter a battle, change floors, go to any menu(like your Bag or Pokemon screen) or even save and reset the game, your light radius reverts to a state before Flash. When you try to re-use Flash you get text "this is in use already" and nothing happens. This state persists until you exit and reenter a cave(simply changing floors again does nothing). Having multiple mons capable of Flash does nothing, they all give that same message. Actually having Flash in your moveset makes no difference.

Another thing I've found(unless I'm blind, that's also possible): after evolving my Cubone into Alolan Marowak, I looked into the Pokedex to check its moveset. All I found was data for Kantonian Marowak, nothing on Alolan form. I did not have any Marowak form registered in the Pokedex(either seen or caught) before evolving that Cubone.

 

[MechaNessa]

Hey, thanks! That's possible, but you'd need to track down the locations of the player sprites as they're probably not at the usual addresses. The download includes a map file with addresses for things, but using the memory viewer on an emulator would probably be easier.
I might add a secondary typing to Inteleon, but the other two are already very good, so they won't get any major changes.

Ok thanks! Do you happen to have any recommendations on how best to do that or application(s) to use? Although I would like to get more involved in editing ROMs, this is my first foray into this type of experience.
That's understandable. Cinderace's Libero makes a secondary type rather moot and I can't really think of a good secondary for Rillaboom other than normal perhaps. What did you have in mind for Inteleon? Ghost would be rather thematic.

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Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug. After receiving the Poke'Nav and speaking with Roxanne outside the Devon HQ, I noticed that her trainer profile wasn't added to the Match Call registry. The 'Anorith Cut' ability functions, but Roxanne herself doesn't appear in the Poke'Nav. Are Gym Leaders registered after a certain point later in the game, or is this normal?

 

[Africa Corpse]

Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug. After receiving the Poke'Nav and speaking with Roxanne outside the Devon HQ, I noticed that her trainer profile wasn't added to the Match Call registry. The 'Anorith Cut' ability functions, but Roxanne herself doesn't appear in the Poke'Nav. Are Gym Leaders registered after a certain point later in the game, or is this normal?

She calls you herself later on in the story(probably after obtaining 2nd badge). That's how it goes in vanilla Emerald too, all other Gym leaders give you their numbers immediately after giving out their badges.

 

[MechaNessa]

She calls you herself later on in the story(probably after obtaining 2nd badge). That's how it goes in vanilla Emerald too, all other Gym leaders give you their numbers immediately after giving out their badges.

Thanks. It's just that the dialogue in IE when you speak with her outside Devon HQ sounds like you register her info there in addition to the Anorith, so that clarification helps alot.

 

[Buffel Saft]

A bug I've just encountered: if you use a field move Flash to increase your field of wiev(tried specifically in Dewford Cave) then either enter a battle, change floors, go to any menu(like your Bag or Pokemon screen) or even save and reset the game, your light radius reverts to a state before Flash. When you try to re-use Flash you get text "this is in use already" and nothing happens. This state persists until you exit and reenter a cave(simply changing floors again does nothing). Having multiple mons capable of Flash does nothing, they all give that same message. Actually having Flash in your moveset makes no difference.

Another thing I've found(unless I'm blind, that's also possible): after evolving my Cubone into Alolan Marowak, I looked into the Pokedex to check its moveset. All I found was data for Kantonian Marowak, nothing on Alolan form. I did not have any Marowak form registered in the Pokedex(either seen or caught) before evolving that Cubone.

Hey, I'm aware of both of those issues, but thanks anyway! Those are some great quality bug reports, lots of detail.

Ok thanks! Do you happen to have any recommendations on how best to do that or application(s) to use? Although I would like to get more involved in editing ROMs, this is my first foray into this type of experience.
That's understandable. Cinderace's Libero makes a secondary type rather moot and I can't really think of a good secondary for Rillaboom other than normal perhaps. What did you have in mind for Inteleon? Ghost would be rather thematic.

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Spoiler:

Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug. After receiving the Poke'Nav and speaking with Roxanne outside the Devon HQ, I noticed that her trainer profile wasn't added to the Match Call registry. The 'Anorith Cut' ability functions, but Roxanne herself doesn't appear in the Poke'Nav. Are Gym Leaders registered after a certain point later in the game, or is this normal?

Ah, in that case I'd look into the pokeemerald decomp, which is what Inclement was made with. You could edit it the old fashioned way with some sprite editing tool, but none of them will work with IE out-of-the-box. Setting teh decomp is a bit of a mission the first time but it's well worth the effort.

Yeah ghost is what I was thinking (as a play on spook = spy).

Roxanne is definitely bugged but at least that bug fixes itself, as Africa Corpse said.

 

[ellem]

i love this mod so much. best QOL mod for me, and the difficulty is just chef's kiss for a newbie like me, thank you for this!

 

[MysticEggShell]

I was curious if allowing trainers to rng for shiny pokemon would ever be a thing. Make the game feel that small amount more alive (though I guess that could be a feels bad for people, I dunno), seems neat to me is all. Also wondering if allowing Keen Edge to include Stone Edge would be too op or not (@kabutops :))

 

[Meka]

I love this game already. I'm now playing it, and have a problem. Why my berries aren't growing for some reason? How can I fix it? I'm about to fight Wattson. I need help. Thanks

 

[Buffel Saft]

I was curious if allowing trainers to rng for shiny pokemon would ever be a thing. Make the game feel that small amount more alive (though I guess that could be a feels bad for people, I dunno), seems neat to me is all. Also wondering if allowing Keen Edge to include Stone Edge would be too op or not (@kabutops :))

That would depend on how the game generates trainer mons; if they're not the same every time you could end up with a mon being shiny in one battle and not shiny in a rematch. If they're consistent I don't see why not.

Stone Edge is a stab rather than a slash, so it wouldn't fit as a Keen Edge move. I do have plans to add a custom Rock-type slicing move for Kabutops though!

I love this game already. I'm now playing it, and have a problem. Why my berries aren't growing for some reason? How can I fix it? I'm about to fight Wattson. I need help. Thanks

Thanks! Could be your emulator doesn't support real-time events, or you've messed with the clock. If it's the latter they'll start growing again when the time catches up to wherever it was 'fast-forwarded' to.

 

[MysticEggShell]

Ah, makes sense. I didn't think about rematches.

Sick!! I look forward to the animation.

 

[Harmoniauri]

Hello (firstly, sorry for my language, english isn't my main idiom). I have the same problem as NoMoreStars with the internal clock. At first, everything works perfectly, but I needed more oran berries than I had, and I changed the clock on my computer. Now, time matches with my computer clock, but the days are not advancing (berries don't grow, bottle caps in casino don't regenerate).

Is there solution for this problem? Thank you.

That's an issue with either god mode 9 or the virtual console; it'll fix itself eventually, though it might take a day or two. I don't really want to deal with any issues that may arise from adding a way to change the clock in game, that's a major change that would require a lot of testing. You can also get caps from several repeatable sources that aren't time based now, no need to abuse the clock over and over just for the two in the game corner.

Nope, it's done when it's done! I might just add the buggy version back in and make people level up the "level up with item" evos without candies for a while, as that was the only issue with that code.
You can still get to the ruins via the desert underpass, so you haven't missed the Odd Keystone!

Thanks! Glad it breathed some new life into Hoenn for you!

Of course!

The Misty Terrain crash is something a few people have run into now, I'm hoping I'll have it fixed for next version. Only happens when the AI uses it, which is weird. Do you remember what any of the other crashes were? Some people have random crashes, but most people have no problems (other than bugs like the misty terrain one). If they're random crashes you could try changing some emulator settings (maybe the renderer?), but if they can be recreated some more information would be appreciated.

I won't ever be making cheat codes, but there's a patch on the discord that gives you lots of rare candies, among other things.

Congrats! Good to see a Sunflora, how'd it do? Not too strong or too weak I hope?

You'll have to ask Game Freak on that one, though I see they finally gave it thunder shock in gen 8.

 

[ImmortaL-DK]

Sorry , i just started but why does charmander goes poison type ?

 

[Buffel Saft]

Sorry , i just started but why does charmander goes poison type ?

It doesn't. The hack you are playing is not Inclement Emerald.

 

[AlvaroOverlord]

Hey all¡¡¡

Thanks for this rom, i have only started and im enjoying it a lot. I have two questions i want to ask:

1- What post game is avaible? im a huge fan of OG emerald and HG/SS battle frontier and want to know if we have it here.
2- i have enabled More Level Caps, to have Level Caps till im champion, sadly all my Pokémons are growing and i dont see any Level cap working at all

Thanks¡¡¡

 

[TheZipBon]

The "X would like to battle" text that appears when a battle starts should probably be changed to "You are challenged by X", seeing that the latter is what the games use since Gen 4.

 

[BRETOB01]

Hello!
First, I want to say thank you for the ROM. I missed the boat with pokemom emerald so it's nice to be able to play it with a wide variety of pokemon.

Quick question. I'm currently trying to get a shiny eevee, and after finding shinies of everything else in rustboro (its only location) besides eevee itself, I've decided to change up my strategy by breeding for it in order to eliminate an RNG factor by always getting eevees. The odds for breeding a shiny are 1 in 1064 right? I keep reading that breeding chances for shinies are unchanged, but I don't know if it means unchanged from the 1/1024 or if it's the odds from the vanilla games.