Emerald hack: Pokémon Limited Emerald: Boss Bash Bonanza

[Tim and Games]

Introduction
Pokémon Limited Emerald is a short challenge game that focuses only on a handful of difficult non-linear fights and resource management.
At the same time it removes all the useless fluff from A for another annoying roadblock, to E for endless boring evil team gauntlets, to G for gruelling grinding, to P for pointless plot to Z for… zomething.

The Great Bossing Bashing
All Gym Leaders are in one place and like in a Mega Man game, players can freely choose who to take on first.
Defeating a boss grants rewards, which further strengthen the team and help with future fights.
All Pokémon are lv. 100 to allow for this freedom and remove level grinding at the same time.

Resource Management
To make catching lv. 100 mons manageable only Master Balls. But buying them comes at a cost, and money is limited. Same goes for all the other useful items in the shop, such as Heart Scale, Ability Capsules or Berries.
This encourages flexible and creative planning and routing depending on the situation the player might be in.

Absolutely NO GRINDING
Here is a list of things that you won't be getting hand cramps doing:
● Berry grinding
● EV grinding (neither you nor opponents get them)
● Money/Item grinding
● Friendship Grinding
● Lv. Grinding

Features
This is a Decomp hack and as such benefitted from the works of many great hackers. The main one being DizzyEgg and their Battle Engine, Pokémon Expansion and Item Expansion.

Spoiler:

Major
● Tactical boss fights with modern mechanics against strong opponents with competitive teams
● Absolute freedom in how you want to tackle the game's Gyms and in what order
● No wasting time on things that have nothing to do with the boss fights (Plot, waddling through huge routes, only a handful of regular trainers whom are all optional)
● Access to all routes and areas after only a few minutes
● Small region and routes
● Adjusted old routes and some new areas/routes
● Tight resource management
● Marts have really good and useful items, but you need to decide what you can afford
● Adjusted TM's
● Pokémon, moves, abilities, mechanics and items up to gen 8
● Around 75 available Pokémon to the player (all of which have been buffed/adjusted)
● Adjusted learn sets, abilities, base stats, types and moves
● Mega Evolutions
● Adjusted in-game trades in Petalburg City
● NPC that gives a limited amount of berries
● New dialogue and personalities for the Gym Leaders and even some "hidden" "lore"

QoL
● BW repel system
● Running in doors
● Early bike in Oldale
● Press R in the stat summary to check your IV's, L for EV's (should be 0) and Start to go back to the regular stats screen
● Stats colored depending on nature (positive stat is red and negative is blue)
● Quick travel building from Petalburg City to Rustboro City
● Faster healing in Pokémon Centers
● Trainers use custom balls and one trainer even has nicknames
● Gym signs and the guy in the Pokémon League building give hints as to what kinds of teams the bosses might be using (helps if you want to play blind)
● Quick use a Master Ball by pressing R

Screenshots

Downloads
Click here for the google drive link where you can find the game patch and the hack's extensive documentation.

Make sure to use Pokémon Emerald (U) (TrashMan) as the base for patching with a .ups patcher like Tsukuyomi.
This will give you a .gba file you can open with an emulator.
So far I've only tested with mGBA so I can't guarantee other emulators will work flawlessly.

Known Issues

Spoiler:

● Rival doesn't show when going back through Oldale after beating them or is in a weird spot. Don't worry about it
● Scorching Sands, Poltergeist and Grassy Glide don't have animations

Changelog

Spoiler:

Version 1.0:
Original Release

Version 1.1:
● Removed the timing mini game from fishing. Now it works like it does in Fire Red and Leaf Green.

Version 1.2:
Added
● Quick use Balls by pressing R
● A few gen 8 Pokemon are now available (some completely new and some replacing older ones)
● Terrain Seeds can be bought in the shop now
● Fishing pond on Route 116

Adjusted
● Some more Pokemon's typings, abilities, moves and stats
● Prices for Ability Capsules and Thick Club
● You don't get money from beating optional trainers anymore
● Some trainers teams
● Some moves PP
● Mega Bracelet is now called Mega Ring

Fixed
● Terrains
● Terrain Seeds
● Visual bug with the Mega Symbol
● Fixed bug when entering a double battle with only one mon

Version 1.3:
Added
● New areas (with new encounters, trainers and items) you get access to when you have a certain amount of badges
● Multiple items are now purchasable in the shop (balls, heart scales etc.) that you couldn't get before
● Some new trainers and money items in old areas

Adjusted
● Shop prices and items
● Complete gym leader reward overhaul
● Some more PP adjustments for moves
● Stevens team
● Some dialogue, and signs
● Optional trainers give money again
● You start the game with 10 balls instead of 5

Fixed
● Repels now actually work

Version 1.4:
● You don't lose money from wiping out anymore

Credits
A huge thanks to:

Spoiler:

● DizzyEgg: Battle Engine, Item Expansion, Pokemon Expansion I used + BW Repel System + Nature-affected stats colouring
● PokemonCrazy: Showing IVs/EVs in Summary Screen
● Surskitty: Trainer Control
● TheXaman: Running Indoors + Fast Nurse Joy
● Lunos: Modifying the move of a TM/HM
● CatRat/Comet and the "Gen 3 hacking community" Discord: For helping with various issues and (hopefully) not getting too annoyed with me
● NobodySociety: Remove having to reel in while Fishing
● All the people that made the Emerald Decompilation possible
● The rhh community which is still maintaining the decomp expansions

Tools used:
● Visual Studio
● PoryMap

 

[Lolster14]

This seems amazing

 

[6Zedushs9]

Uhh...