Emerald hack: Pokemon Emerald Squared - A Doubles-only 386 Enhancement Hack [V1.2 Release]

[shibarianne]

Pokémon Emerald Squared: Emerald, in 2 by 2!

My first completed ROMhack. Take on the Hoenn region once more with a new, 19-year-old battle style.

Features

• Double Battles for every trainer fight in the game.
• The whole Pokédex is encounterable and catchable before the League.
• Buffs to weak Pokémon and moves.
• A new Rival to battle you on your journey.
• Improved difficulty throughout.

Download the .UPS patch here!
Version 1.2: link


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Changelog

Spoiler:

10th February 2021: V1.2 release
- Altered the team of Team Aqua's Matt
- Reduced strength of one of Flannery's team
- Fixed so Tate & Liza actually give you 2 TMs
- Fixed Swimmer Santiago not being updated
- Softened up Elite Four and Champion
- Reduced level of Deoxys, Ho-oh, Lugia and the Regis.
- Made the Mew encounter scarier.
- Gave all Safari Zone pokemon a proper chance to run.
- Upped Beldum's catch rate to a whopping 9.
- Changed a bunch of evolution methods.
- Removed some more CAPS
- Spoopified the Daycare

7th February 2021: V1.1.1 release
- ACTUALLY made it so Surf hits all non-users on the field.
- Added some grass on Route 112 so you don't need to ledgehop to encounter wild Pokemon outside Lavaridge

5th February 2021: V1.1 release
- Fixed Aurora Beam being bugged
- Fixed Togepi using Struggle
- Fixed Camper Drew not being edited
- Changed a trainer on Route 110 who was too strong
- Cleaned up some dialogue formatting
- Updated Surf to affect your partner
- Removed some CAPS
- Gave Rapidash some more moves
- Changed encounterables on Route 120
- Added a Move Deleter in Mauville Pokemon Centre
- Tweaked Thief for a friend
- Added a list of what Pokemon have changed types, and what too, to README.txt

1st February 2021: V1.0 release
- Initial release!

 

[Zack knight]

Does this game have physical/special split?

 

[Sparhawk55]

Does this game have physical/special split?

The icons aren't there, but tackle is 100% accurate, so maybe?

 

[shibarianne]

Does this game have physical/special split?

No, it is still per-type. Sorry.

 

[MetalWolfBR]

Had a ton of fun playing this. Great game!

 

[hazein]

Hello, I've encountered a glitch at Mt. Pyre. 1st trainer, 2nd floor. After beating this trainer my character switches colors and freezes in place. I suddenly gain control of a color swapped version of my rival on a different part of the screen. I'm able to move around a small area and fight wild pokemon, but I can't go up stairs or get past the graves near me. This locks me and I have to reset a previous save.

Hopefully you can help, I'm loving the rom :)

 

[koopa990]

I recently found your rom hack for an alternative double battle theme. I must say that this modification is both great and uninspiring at times. the positive side is you managed to add different pokemon types to each trainer's themes respectively. However, I'm not fully content with major battles with gym leaders, evil team bosses, their goon's teams. it just breaks the flow and coherent based on their pokemon teams are supposed to be. Another aspect I dislike is adding an extra pokemon to all trainers. I also happen to notice a mistake on pokemon typing you may accidentally changed? Drowzee is weak to ground and farfetch'd is immune to dark.

I conclude this hack to be a fusion of the typical challenging rom hack and the thrill of double from colosseum/XD. Overall, your work is good, but needs some more balancing (especially Roxanne, because good lord, a full team at the intro of the game is overkill).

 

[naloD]

The best thing about this hack are the funny Pokédex entries.

In case I can't catch them all, is there a list of the Pokédex entries uploaded?

And where can I find Charmander?