Emerald hack: Pokémon Revelation v231014: A Vanilla Improvement Hack for Hoenn

[RichterSnipes]

Pokémon Revelation v231007 Update Is Here!

As I expected with the last big update, there were some regressions. This update primarily serves to fix those issues. If you ran into issues with magically-appearing Pink Ribbons and palette chaos at Sootopolis, this should fix them.

There's a couple of new features, too! Changes for this version are included in both the spoiler below and in the "Changelog.txt" file included with the download. Enjoy!

Spoiler:

• The Macho Brace now functions like the Destiny Knot in later games when held while breeding. 5 IVs from the parents will be inherited instead of 3.
• e-Reader support for English-language e-Reader Berry cards. Official Berries are fully supported, while fully-custom Berries won't transfer sprite/description data to the game and will use the Enigma Berry's data instead.
• Prevent player from enabling Mystery Events until obtaining the Balance Badge.
• Automatically fix casing for all e-Reader names.
• Collision added to chairs in e-Reader Trainer house in Sootopolis City.
• Prevent player from being able to nickname gift Celebi and Jirachi in order to keep them (semi) legal. Their names are also forced uppercase in the decap version of the hack.
• Fix player sometimes having a Pink Scarf added to their bag. Players previously affected by this harmless glitch will still have the free Pink Scarf.
• Fix palette glitch caused by the Sootopolis legendaries cutscene. This was caused by a fix added to remedy a different cosmetic bug. It only occurred during a single frame, so reverting it is for the best.

 

[talathar]

Throwback was great, and this looks like it must be as well. Thanks.

One feature request- is it possible to make the Gym Rematch triggers easier? In vanilla, you need on average 1500 wild battles or 500 trainer/battle frontier battles to trigger just the first round of 8 matches.

Perhaps this is commonly hit for those who do and train teams for the battle frontier? But if you just want to do some events and rematches this is an enormous grind, and currently the E4 rematch is locked to this.

Really all the Gym rematches could use reworks -the first teams are all inadequate for anyone whos run the E4, and for the early gym leaders all their teams are kind of sad- but I am aware thats generally not within the goals of your project.

Edit: It appears that on route 114 Zangoose is the 1% encounter and Lombre is the daytime encounter? Possibly this is local though.

 

[RichterSnipes]

Throwback was great, and this looks like it must be as well. Thanks.

One feature request- is it possible to make the Gym Rematch triggers easier? In vanilla, you need on average 1500 wild battles or 500 trainer/battle frontier battles to trigger just the first round of 8 matches.

Perhaps this is commonly hit for those who do and train teams for the battle frontier? But if you just want to do some events and rematches this is an enormous grind, and currently the E4 rematch is locked to this.

Really all the Gym rematches could use reworks -the first teams are all inadequate for anyone whos run the E4, and for the early gym leaders all their teams are kind of sad- but I am aware thats generally not within the goals of your project.

Edit: It appears that on route 114 Zangoose is the 1% encounter and Lombre is the daytime encounter? Possibly this is local though.

I certainly could adjust Gym Leader rematch chances. I hadn't thought about that before, so I'll add it to my to-do list. Like you said, though, the rematch lineups likely won't change.

Zangoose at 1% is the nighttime encounter. It's 19% during the day. Lombre is a 10% encounter during the day only. Seviper and Nuzleaf are the opposite time-of-day encounters for those two, respectively.

 

[FrigidAntithesis]

I'm not sure how active this thread still is, but I've got a small question. So, I've really been loving this romhack-- so much so that I decided to try for a full pokedex now that it's actually possible in one game-- and I'm at the point where I only have a few stragglers left. Including the onix and larvitar lines, which brings me to my question.

When is Steven's little cave in meteor falls supposed to open up? I thought it was just after entering the HoF and reading Steven's letter in his house in Mossdeep. Is my rom bugging out or is there something else I have to do?

That aside, I'd just like to say again how much I'm loving Rev. All the changes and additions really feel like the way the game should have been from the start and it's now the "definitive" way to experience Emerald in my books. Great work.

 

[Bladeheart111x]

I'm not sure how active this thread still is, but I've got a small question. So, I've really been loving this romhack-- so much so that I decided to try for a full pokedex now that it's actually possible in one game-- and I'm at the point where I only have a few stragglers left. Including the onix and larvitar lines, which brings me to my question.

When is Steven's little cave in meteor falls supposed to open up? I thought it was just after entering the HoF and reading Steven's letter in his house in Mossdeep. Is my rom bugging out or is there something else I have to do?

That aside, I'd just like to say again how much I'm loving Rev. All the changes and additions really feel like the way the game should have been from the start and it's now the "definitive" way to experience Emerald in my books. Great work.

afaik you need to beat Juan then the E4 and Wallace

 

[FrigidAntithesis]

afaik you need to beat Juan then the E4 and Wallace

I already had (confirmed by their dialogue being rematch dialogue), but I rematched them all and now the cave's there! I don't know why it wasn't before, but thank you.

 

[Dreaker75]

Oh my goodness. I was actually working on a hack with this exact premise (Just regulard Emerald with QoL improvements), I can't believe someone else was doing this already. It's a shame I didn't find it before, this seems so good!

I'm curious about how you implemented some of the stuff, but if you're not comfortable with sharing that that's totally fine. I'll keep working on my version in the meantime, since there's a few points I'd like to do differently.

Anyways, keep up the good work!

 

[rbysc978]

This hack looks excellent. I have one question, though. Are the secret base decorations still locked to that terrible rooftop sale that almost never happens? That is one thing in vanilla that was awful and would be nice to see fixed.

 

[Bladeheart111x]

This hack looks excellent. I have one question, though. Are the secret base decorations still locked to that terrible rooftop sale that almost never happens? That is one thing in vanilla that was awful and would be nice to see fixed.

yes, but iirc it's easier to get random events (the news happens every day in the morning after beating the league once iirc)

 

[rbysc978]

yes, but iirc it's easier to get random events (the news happens every day in the morning after beating the league once iirc)

Awesome thank you for the quick response.

 

[Bladeheart111x]

Awesome thank you for the quick response.

no problem, just remember to check a TV every in-game morning to see if the Rooftop Sale is coming (I would also check for the Blend Master too (for Milotic facilitation)

 

[TacoBell-kun]

This is a great rom hack. Same with Throwback. You should also make similar QoL mods for the 4th generation games.

 

[TacoBell-kun]

If you're playing on hard mode, does the lack of badge boosts affect the Battle Frontier?