I have been playing the game and I am about to battle the 3rd gym. I loved the newly added areas. They are all soo good. Gen3+ pokemon look incredible in GBA format and I notice even the first three gen pokemon had different sprites from the original Emerald. Their colours are much better for my taste. I am loving this game so far. Everything is so smooth and perfect. I can't wait to play the standard version tho.
But my game keeps freezing for no reason. I am using the latest release of mGBA, I just downloaded it for this game and didn't change any settings. But it keeps freezing every 5 minutes so I am saving my progress every minute. I am playing with fast forward maybe that is the reason why.
Also, I guess I found a glitch. I am not sure. I use Zoroark in my team and after receiving the egg from daycare, I realized this:
Zoroark turns into the pokemon in the egg in the battle with really weird sprites. So I used this to determine what is in the random gift egg the daycare gives us the next day. I don't need to hatch to see what is inside it anymore 😂. It doesn't crush the game tho.
Edit: I think the level cap is fair and needed for this kind of game. Because every trainer has more than 2 pokemon and there are a lot more areas with wild pokemon. Without the level cap, I think it would be chaotic to balance the game.
Edit2: I wanted to share my current team too.