Emerald hack: POKEMON BRUTAL EMERALD

[McNippleTheGreat]

This is my second rom hack called Pokemon Brutal Emerald!


FEAUTURES
-New trainers
-Edited maps
-A huge portion of Pokemon are edited, whether it's a small change to a moveset or a complete makeover.
-Increased difficulty
-A much wider range of Pokemon catchable
And more!


POKEMON CHANGES
Here is a list of every edit made to a Pokemon in this hack.

Spoiler:

REMEMBER - CTRL-F IS YOUR FRIEND
IF YOU NEED TO FIND A POKEMON AND HOW IT IS CHANGED, USE THAT



Basic things


All fully-evolved starters get their elemental hyper beams at Level 60.
The pidgy, spearow, doudo, and tailow lines are pure flying type.


-------------GEN ONE CHANGES-------------

Bulbasaur learns leech seed at level 10, and vine whip at 7.
Venusaur'S s.attack increased to 120 and s.defense increased to 105.
Charmeleon learns Dragonbreath at level 20.
Charizard 's hp increased to 88, and attack to 90.
Charizard learns heat wave at level 54.
Squritle line changed to water/rock.
Squritle learns water gun at level 7, and rock throw at level 13.
Wartortle learns water pulse at level 25.
Blastoise 's defenses are both increased to 120, but speed is reduced to 63.
Butterfree 's attack, defense, s.attack, and special defense are all increased to 80.
Beedrill 's attack is increased to 130, defense is increased to 85, and hp is reduced to 35.
The pidgey line has hustle as a second ability.
Pidgey learns peck at level 9.
Pidgeotto learns wing attack at level 18, and aerial ace at level 27.
Pidgeot's attack is increased to 100, hp is increased to 93, defense is increased to 85 and speed is increased to 111.
Raticate 's attack is increased to 101, def. , s.atk. and s.def are all increased to 70.
Fearow's hp is increased to 85,attack increased to 130, but both defenses are decreased to 41.
Fearow's only ability is intimidate.
Ekans learns acid at level 13.
Arbok is now poison/dark, learns poison fang at level 22, crunch at level 38 and iron tail at level 56. Arbok's attack/s.attack are increased to 95.
Pikachu learns volt tackle at level 50.
Raichu learns superpower at level 60.
The cleffa line is normal/psychic.
Ninetales's 2nd ability is drought.
Zubat learns poison fang at level 16.
Golbat/Crobat learn sky attack at level 49.
Paras 's attack increased to 90.
Parasect 's attack increased to 125, is pure bug type and learns metal claw at level 24.
The venonat line 's second ability is trace.
Venonat learns confusion at level 10.
Venomoth is bug/psychc.
Diglett learns mud slap at level 1 and mud shot at level 15.
Dugtrio learns rock slide at level 38 (I got rid of scratch and slash on the diglett line because well... they have no hands.)
Persian has insomnia as it's second ability.
The psyduck line is water/psychic.
Golduck learns psybeam at level 33 and psychic at level 50.
Arcanine learns heat wave at level 60.
Poliwhril evolved into politoed by happiness in the day.
Abra learns confusion instead of teleport.
Kadabra learns pysch up at level 16 and evolves into alakazam at level 40.
Alakazam learns psycho boost at level 95.
Machoke evolves into Machamp at level 40.
Machamp learns superpower at level 67.
The Bellsprout line has overgrow as it's second ability.
Victreebell learns sludge bomb, razor leaf, solarbeam and body slam at level 50.
Tentacool learns water gun at level 1.
Geodude learns megapunch at level 25.
Graveller evolves into golem at level 40.
Golem 's s.def is increased to 85.
Ponyta now evolved into rapidash at level 35. (It takes WAY too long to evolve ponyta so I lowered the levl a bit.)
Slowpoke evolves into slowking by water stone.
Slowbro now has 110 s.atk.
Slowking now has 130 s.def.
The magnemite line now have levitate as their only ability.
Magneton 's s.def has been increase to 95, but it's hp has been decreased to 30.

Farfetch'd gets a HUGE makeover.
TYPE- Pure flying.
-MOVESET-
lv 1-peck
lv 6-sand attack
lv 11-wing attack
lv 16-fury attack
lv 21-leaf blade
lv 26-fury cutter
lv 31-swords dance
lv 36-slash
lv 41-aerial ace
lv 53-sky attack
-STATS-
HP-55
ATK-94
DEF-75
S.ATK-60
S,DEF-52
SPEED-120
It can have one out of two abilitys - Hustle or Guts.


Dewgong learns icicle spear at level 42.
Shellder learns icicle spear and water gun at level 1.
The gastly line is pure ghost and can have shadow tag or oblivous as their abilitys.
Haunter evolves into Gengar at level 40.
Haunter can learn focus punch by tm.
Gengar can learn ice beam, blizzard, solarbeam, and shock wave by tm.
Hypno learns shadow punch at level 33.
Krabby 's s.atk is increased to 55.
Krabby learns water gun at level 1, and crabhammer at level 16.
Kingler 's s.atk is increased to 75.
Kingler learns hydro pump at level 57 and learns dragon claw, earthquake, brick break and shadow ball by tm.
Onix evolves into steelix at level 35.
Voltorb learns thunderbolt at level 30.
Cubone 's atk is increased to 80, but s.def is decreased to 40.
Cubone learns brick break at level 28.
Marowak is now ground/fighting.
Marowak 's atk is increased to 140, but s.def is decreased to 50.
Marowak learns low kick at level 32, earthquake at level 50, cross chop and double edge at level 62, superpower at level 70 and fissure at level 75.
Lickitung gets 125 in both defenses, 10 in speed, 70 in atk, 60 in s.atk and 60 in hp.
Lickitung learns body slam at level 51.
Rhydon 's hp is increased to 115, atk to 140, def to 130 and s.atk and speed are increased to 50.
Tangela 's atk is increased to 85, but speed is decreased to 20.
Tangela learns vine whip at level 1 and ancientpower at level 28.
Seadra evolves into Kingdra at level 43.
Seadra learns ice beam at level 34.
Scyther learns extremespeed at level 35 and evolves into scizor at level 45.
Jynx learns confusion at level 1, Psybeam at level 30 and psychic at level 51.
The Elekid line gets lighteningrod as it 's second ability.
Electabuzz learns mega punch at level 40.
The Magmar line gets Blaze as it 's second ability.
Magmar learns heat wave at level 41, and flamethrower at level 45.
Pinsir is bug/fighting.
Tauros 's s.def is increased to 80.
Magikarp learns water pulse at level 1 and take down at level 15.
Gyrados 's s.atk is increased to 95, while his attack is decreased to 105.
Gyrados learns slam and thrash at level 20, dragonbreath at level 30, bounce at level 35 and outrage at level 55.
Ditto has 65 in all stats.


The eeveeloutions arn't changed at all besides that they learn a special move at level 65.
-Vaporeon learns hydro cannon
-Jolteon learns volt tackle
-Flareon learns blast burn (I also switched flareon's s.atk and atk so now flareon actually has some moves)
-Espeon learns extrasensory
-Umbreon learns pain split
Moving on, Porygon evolves into porygon2 at level 38 and learns signal beam at level 1.
Omanyte learns water gun at level 1 and water pulse at level 19.
Omastar's def. is increased to 155 and learns iron defense at level 46.
Kabuto learns metal claw at level 16.
Kabutops learns swords dance at level 46, his atk is increased to 125 and speed to 100.
Aerodactyl learns rock slide at level 36 and sky attack at level 55.


-------------GEN TWO CHANGES-------------



Meganium 's def. and s.def are now both increased to 140, while atk and s.atk are decreased to 60 and speed is decreased to 70.
Typhlosion is now fire/ground, his atk is increased to 100 and he learns eruption at level 36, flamethrower at level 45, earthquake at level 50 and fissure at level 55.
Croconaw learns crush claw at level 25.
Feraligatr 's atk is increased to 140, while his s.atk is decreased to 70.
Feraligatr learns brick break at level 30.
Furret 's speed is increased to 100, atk increased to 80, def. increased to 65, s.def increased to 75 and learns slam at level 15, extremespeed at level 30, and double-edge at level 65. (Can't tell if broken or not...)
Hoothoot is pure flying and learns confusion at level 13.
Noctowl is flying/psychic, his attack is increased to 76, and his s.atk is increased to 86, learns psybeam at level 27, psychic at level 42 and nightmare at level 57.
Ledian 's atk is increased to 110, learns the 3 elemental punches at level 18, brick break at level 42 and mega punch at level 60.
Aridos has 90 in both atk stats, 70 in both def. stats and 75 in speed, learns spider web at level 18, sludge at level 25 and sludge bomb at level 34.
Chinchou learns water gun at level 1.
Lanturn 's s.atk is increased to 106, but his hp is decreased to 105, learns zap cannon at level 43 and thunder at level 47.
Pichu learns volt tackle at level 35.
Togetic 's def. is increased to 135, while s.def is increased to 145.
Xatu learns extrasensory at level 70.
Ampharos learns thunderbolt at level 30 and learns the three elemental punches at level 50.
Sudowoodo learns rock blast at level 37, iron defense at level 41 and hyper beam by tm.
Politoed learns hydro cannon at level 80.
Jumpluff learns aromatherapry at level 55.
Apiom has 70 in everything except atk. and s.atk, atk is increased to 80 and s.atk is increased to 40. Apiom also learns Doubleslap at level 13, slam at level 17 and double edge at level 57.
Sunflora 's def is increased to 75 and learns morning sun at level 30.


Yanma gets a pretty big boost in usability aswell.
Type-Bug/Dragon
It's s.atk is increased to 105
It learns dragon rage at level 19, dragonbreath at level 32, ancientpower at level 43 and dragon dance at level 52.
It also learns water pulse, hyper beam, iron tail, flamethrower and fire blast by tm.


Quagsire learns fissure at level 70.
Murkrow 's speed is increased to 130 and learns learns wing attack at level 1 and sky attack at level 60.
Misdreveus 's atk is increased to 70 and learns confusion at level 1.
Unown has a s.atk stat of 155 (why you ask? why not?)
Girafarig learns psybeam at level 25, take down at level 34, psychic at level 43 and double-edge at level 49.
Pineco learns rollout at level 31.
Fortress learns headbutt at level 34.
Dunsparce 's atk. and def. are both increased to 80.
Gligar 's atk is increased to 105, learns vicegrip at level 1, fury attack at level 13, revenge at level 28 and earthquake at level 63.
Steelix learns earthquake at level 49.
Granbull is now a fighting type, learns brick break at level 23, low kick at level 32, cross chop at level 38 and superpower at level 61.
Qwilfish now has 75 in s.atk, learns sludge at level 10, water pulse at level 19 and sludge bomb at level 37.
Scizor 's s.def is increased to 100, it's speed is increased to 80, it learns metal claw, double team and fury cutter at level 45, slash at level 50, swords dance at level 54 and silver wind at level 64.
Heracross learns cross chop at level 60 and superpower at level 80.
Sneasel 's s.atk is increasd to 70, it learns blizzard at level 43 and crush claw at level 64.
Teddiursa learns return at level 7.
Slugma evolves into macargo at level 32 now (I find it was extremely hard just to get a macargo so I lowered the evoloution level a bit!) He also learns magnitude at level 22.
Corsola gets a makeover aswell to make it useable.

-STATS-
HP-55
ATK-100
DEF-105
S.ATK-70
S.DEF-100
SPEED-35

-MOVESET-
Lv.1-Tackle
Lv.6-Harden
Lv.12-Bubblebeam
Lv.17-Recover/Refresh
Lv.23-Water Pulse
Lv.28-Spike Cannon
Lv.34-Rock Blast
Lv.39-Mirror Coat
Lv.45-Ancientpower
Lv.63-Explosion

Remoraid learns signal beam at level 22.
The useless bird known as Delibird isn't so useless anymore.

-STATS-
HP-45
ATK-65
DEF-80
S.ATK-95
S.DEF-95
SPEED-85
Instead of having hustle he has serene grace as an ability.
-MOVESET-
Lv.1-Present and Icy Wind
Lv.10-Wing Attack
Lv.20-Hail
Lv.30-Refresh
Lv.40-Icicle Spear
Lv.50-Ice Beam
Lv.60-Blizzard

Mantine learns hydro pump at level 43 and learns fly by hm.
Houndoom learns sacred fire at level 90.
Kingdra learns octazooka at level 43 and outrage at level 70.
Porygon2 learns signal beam at level 38.
Stantler has 100 in both attack stats.
Smeargle has 65 in everything except for hp and speed, it has 70 in both of those stats.
Tyrouge learns karate chop at level 1.
Milktank learns double-edge at level 60.
Larvitar learns rock throw at level 1.
Tyranitar learns dragon dance at level 85.



-------------GEN THREE CHANGES-------------





Treecko learns bite at level 16.
Grovile learns dragonbreath at level 23 and faint attack at level 35.
Sceptile is grass/dark, has 105 in attack, learns dragon claw at level 43, crunch at level 53 and dragon dance at level 59.
Combusken learns fire punch at level 21 and rolling kick at level 32.
Blaziken has 120 in both attack stats and 90 in speed, learns jump kick at level 37, hi jump kick at level 45, superpower at level 49 and sky uppercut at level 54 instead of 59.
Marshtomp learns water pulse at level 20 and magnitude at level 25.
Swampert has 85 in both attacks, 90 in both defenses, 100 in hp, 80 in speep , learns muddy water at level 36 now, rock slide at level 46 and fissure at level 59.
Mighteyna has 100 in atk and 90 in s.atk, but 50 in both defense and learns mean look at level 22, faint attack at level 32, shadow ball at level 42 and extremespeed at level 52.
Linoone has 90 in atk and 60 in s.atk and it can learn aerial ace, rock tomb and sludge bomb by tm.
Beautifly has a 90 in atk and learns signal beam at level 10.
Dustox has 90 in def and learns sludge at level 10.
Lotad learns absorb at level 1 and water gun at level 7.
Ludicolo learns muddy water at level 55 and hydro cannon at level 90.
Seedot learns absorb at level 1.
Shiftry has 100 in s.atk and 90 in atk and learns leaf blade at level 55 and frenzy plant at level 90.
Ninjask learns silver wind at level 49.
Shedinja has 90 in both attack stats and 1 in both def. stats. It learns silver wind at level 20 and learns water pulse, calm mind, ice beam, blizzard, safeguard, thunderbolt, thunder, shock wave, skill swap and snatch by tm.
Swellow learns bulk up and shadow ball by tm and sky attack at level 57.
Breloom has hustle as it's second ability.
Spinda has 100 in hp, def and s.def and 60 in everything else.
Peliper has 110 in hp, learns water spout at level 73 and learns thunderbolt and thunder by tm.
Masqurein is bug/water, has 80 in atk and 90 in speed and it learns air cutter at level 22 and water pulse at level 26.
The wailmer line has torrent instead of oblivious as an ability.
Wailmer learns ice beam at level 37.
Wailord learns sheer cold at level 67.
Delcatty has 75 in every stat.
Kecleon has 80 in hp and s.atk.
Claydol learns ice beam and recover at level 36 and calm mind, safeguard, blizzard, thunderbolt, thunder, shock wave, flamethrower, fire blast and overheat by tm.
Nosepass learns thundershock at level 1.
Torkoal learns rock blast at level 43.
Sableye has 99 in both atk stats, 87 in def and 80 in s.def.
Barboach has 57 in hp and both def. stats and 68 in every other stat.
Wiscash has 84 in both atk stats and 70 in speed.
Luvdisc stays useless because luvdisc is awful.
Corphish has 70 in s.atk and learns crabhammer at level 15.
Crawdaunt has 100 in s.atk and learns body slam at level 30, crunch at level 38, dragon dance at level 60 and learns dragon claw, earthquake and shadow ball by tm.
Feebas learns water pulse at level 1 and can evolve into milotic at level 47 if you don't want to max it's beauty.
Sharpedo learns extremespeed at level 57.
Trapinch learns dig at level 1 and earthquake at level 35.
Flygon learns outrage at level 70.
Hariyama learns rock slide at level 35 and mega punch at level 51.
Manetric has 95 in attack and learns volt tackle at level 76.
The numel line has white smoke as it's second ability.
Walrein can have water veil as it's second ability.
The cacnea line has rough skin as it's second ability.
Cacture learns crunch at level 32 and cross chop at level 56.
Glalie gets a pretty big redesign.

TYPE-Ice/Rock
Stats
Hp-60
Atk,def,s.atk-120
S.def-40
Speed-20
It learns rock blast and rollout at level 42 and rockslide at level 56.
It also has sturdy as a second ability.

Lunatone has 95 in both defenses, and it's s.atk is decreased to 75.
Solrock is rock/firem has 95 in both atk stats and 65 in both def stats. It learns fire spin at level 1, flame wheel at level 19, flamethrowe at level 25 and heat wave at level 47.
Azurill is pure water and it's line only has huge power as it's abilty.
Azumarill learns hydro cannon at level 99.
Spoink learns bounce at level 1 and extrasensory at level 43.
Grumpig learns extrasensory at level 55.
Plusle and Minun learn thundershock at level 1 and volt tackle at level 70.
Mawile is steel/dark, has 135 in attack and 105 in s.atk. It learns vicegrip at level 1 and headbutt at level 21.
Meditite learns mega punch at level 1.
Medicham learns the elemental punches at level 37.
The Swablu line has cloud nine as it's second ability.
Roseila has 70 in atk and 65 in def.
Tropius learns dragon claw by tm and learns dragonbreath at level 37.
Dusclops learns the 3 elemental punches at level 40.
Exploud has 131 in atk and 101 in s.atk.
Clamperl has 60 in everything, and evolves into at level 30 gorebyess if atk<def and it evolves into huntail at level 30 if atk>def.
Huntail is water/dark and learns faint attack at level 30. It can have speed boost as it's second ability.
Gorebyess is water/psychic at learns psybeam at level 30. It can have synchronize as it's second ability.
Absol learns doom desire at level 97.
Banette is ghost/dark, it learns ice beam, blizzard and solarbeam by tm.
Seviper learns bite at level 1, poison fang at level 10 and iron tail at level 34.
Aron learns double edge at level 32.
Larion learns earthquake at level 42.
Aggron learns rock slide at level 47 and fissure at level 63.
Castform has 90 in both attack stats.
Volbeat is bug/electric, has 85 in both attack stats and 62 in def. It learns thundershock at level 1 and thunderbolt and silver wind at level 37. It has static as it's second ability instead of swarm.
Illumise is bug/electric, has 85 in def and 102 in s.def. It learns thundershock at level 1 and shock wave at level 17. It has static as it's second ability.
Lillep learns mega drain at level 20.
Anorith learns rock throw at level 20.
Ralts learns confusion at level 1.
Chimecho has 135 in s.atk.

EDIT: I edited a couple of pokemon because they were just plain broken. Here is a list of what I edited:

Spoiler:

This is a list of the edits i've made to balence out some pokemon in my hack. I also increased the catch rate of the starters making them easier to catch.



Blastoise has 110 in both defenses and 83 in speed
Butterfree has 60 in both attack stats, 80 in both defenses and 70 in hp and speed.
Beedril is the reverse of butterfree with 80 in both attack stats and 60 in both defense stats. Speed and hp are the same as butterfree.
Pidgeot has 87 in atk.
Raticate has 90 in atk.
Fearow has 100 in atk.
Arbok has 65 in both defenses, 80 in atk and 90 in s.atk.
Golbat learns sludge bomb at level 49.
Parasect has 110 in atk and learns fury cutter at level 24.
Diglett no longer learns slash.
Arcanine has 90 in both attack stats instead of 110.
Golem has 65 in s.def.
Rapidash had 80 in attack now due to it evolving earlier.
Magneton has 75 in s.def again. It and magnemite still has levitate though.
Farfetch'd learns air cutter at level 21 instead of leaf blade.
Onix has 70 in atk and learns slam at level 35.
Marowak has 80 in attack now because oh god that overpoweredness with 140 attack
Lickitung has 90 in both defenses and learns explosion at level 65.
Horsea learns octazooka at level 32.
Seadra evolves into kingdra at level 47 and learns hydro pump at that same level.
Magikarp learns water gun at level 1 instead of water pulse.
Gyardos has 79 in s.def.
Flareon has 110 in both atk stats and has 60 in speed.
Bayleef learns grasswhistle at level 32.
Meginum has 100 in hp and both defenses, 70 in atk, 75 in s.atk and 70 in speed.
Ferligatr was water/normal for some reason... anyway, his atk is decreased to 120 and his s.atk is increased to 90.
Lanturn has 90 in s.atk.
Both of togetic's defenses are decreased to 80. Seriously, all that bulk was unnessceary.. what was I thinking?
Sudowoodo has 85 in attack.
Politoed's second abilty is drizzle.
Hoppip learns absorb at level 1.
Yanma's s.atk is decreased to 95.
Unown has 85 in both attack stats now because 155 in s.atk was very stupid.
Girafirg can learn hyper beam by tm now.
Dunsparce has hustle instead of run away as a second ability.
Snubbul evolves at level 29 instead of level 24 due to it's early appearence.
Granbull learns brick break at level 29, low kick at level 38, cross chop at level 46, double edge at level 53 and superpower at level 61.
Qwilfish has 85 in both attack stats.
Scizor has it's s.def decreased to 65 and speed increased to 90.
Corsola's attack is decreased to 75, defense increased to 115, and s.def in decreased to 65.
Delibird's hp is increased to 65 and s.def is decreased to 65.
Stantler has 60 in both defenses and learns hyper beam by tm.
Tyrouge doesn't have karate chop anymore.
Beautifly learns gust at level 10 and signal beam at level 24.
Dustox learns sludge at level 24 instead of level 10.
Shedinja's attack stats have been decreased to 75 and he doesn't get skill swap by tm anymore because oh god... oh god the brokenness
Swellow has 90 in atk and 70 in defense and Tailow's evolution line has vital spirt as it's second ability.
Spinda has 85 in both defenses.
The wingull line has water absorb as it's second ability.
Masquerain has levitate due to it's bug and water typing. It also learns hydro pump at level 53.
Torkoal is now a fire/rock type.
Sableye's attack stats are decreased to 90.
Luvdisc got a buffing because it was stupid of me to not buff it due to personal prefrence.
It has 65 in hp, 55 in attack, 75 in s.atk and 85 in s.def. It learns bubble at level 1.
Corpish and krabby both learn crabhammer when they evolve because a move of that power is just too unbalenced because they learn it so early.
Feebas learns water gun at level 1. It can evolve into milotic via water stone if you don't want to max it's beauty, but the option is still there.
Makuhita evolves into hariyama at level 28 due to the leveling curve and learns smellingsalt at level 28.
Glalie's attack stats are decreased to 110 and it's defense is also decreased to 110.
Spoink learns psywave at level 1 and bounce at level 7.
Plusle's defense is increased to 65.
Minun's defense is increased to 75.
Mawile's attack was decreased to 105 and s.atk is decreased to 75.
Exploud's attack was decreased to 121.
Chimecho's s.atk is decreased to 95.

The beta is updated to include those changed.

BUGS
The wild pokemon data is screwed up in steven's room in Granite cave. You can encounter randomly leveled sunfloras in there, if somebody would tell me how to fix this it'd be greatly appreciated! I also had to remove the grass in petalburg woods due to this same problem.

MEDIA

Spoiler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02f8nr2u11o&feature=plcp
A video of me fighting the fourth gym leader.

THE BETA ENDS AFTER FLANNERY'S GYM

The next release will go up to the sixth gym.


That's it, enjoy the hack!

 

[Munchlax11]

[SIZE="a"]This looks like an interesting hack! It looks like you've put a lot of work into it as well. I'll try it out for sure.[/SIZE]

 

[McNippleTheGreat]

This looks like an interesting hack! It looks like you've put a lot of work into it as well. I'll try it out for sure.

Thank you! I did put a lot of work into this, I hope people enjoy it. I'm working on the second beta now, it goes up to Flannery's gym. It should be out soon!

 

[McNippleTheGreat]

I hate to say it but the rom glitched up and there won't be a second beta. I have fixed said bug and the hack will be made!

 

[Pinta77]

I've heard hacking emerald opens a whole new door to stupid little glitches and bugs. Back up your Rom often

 

[Hacker Bisharp]

i found an error:

 

[McNippleTheGreat]

I've heard hacking emerald opens a whole new door to stupid little glitches and bugs. Back up your Rom often

I've had some pretty stupid glitches happen to me, most of them are corrected now though. Thanks for the advice!

i found an error:

Thanks for pointing that out! The next beta which goes up to Flannery's gym should be out today or tomorrow. Thanks for playing!

 

[McNippleTheGreat]

Sorry for double posting but the second beta is out now! It goes up to flannery's gym. I also fixed two bugs, one found by myself and another found by hacker bisharp.