Emerald hack: Pokemon Emerald's Eight v1.5: Now with full dex and Physical/Special split!

[Trainer_BRANDON]

Is there a list of where to find the legendaries? Cant find them.

 

[jymjunior]

Cette rom hack est juste génial 😍

 

[Gooie]

Cool hack! Do you have any docs for it, like trainer teams? If not, could you at least give the level caps for the gym leaders and E4?

 

[Typhlosion787]

My only question is will the post game be touched? I remember doing a hardcore nuzlocke and doing the post game. I don't quite remember the post game gym leaders and if they have 8 pokemon or 6, but I do remember that Steven, the hidden final boss of the game, only had 6 pokemon in the post game fight even despite having a Mawile in the Magma Hideout fight. It's honestly the one thing I dislike about the game. I also feel Steven's team just being the original really let's the steel type down because he has both fossils and Claydol. Even if it'd only be during the final update, I really hope the post game gets touched up on a bit. Even if you don't include Registeel and Jirachi for Steven because they're legendary and mythical respectively, you still have 5 remaining steel types after Steven's Skarmory, Metagross, and Aggron. Steelix, Scizor, Forretress, Mawile, and Magneton would all work and would fully fill out his team.

 

[TKJinra]

Hey, the chances of the original creator seeing this are probably low, but I was wondering how you did this and if you'd be willing to share the process as I would like to try and make a difficult nuzlocke style rom hack with unique party size. If by any chance you come across this comment and would be willing to share a bit, feel free to reach out to sinisteak on discord (or just reply here, your call)

 

[HelenaWells]

Hello everybody! After lurking for some time on these forums and playing lots of great hacks, here i present to you my first hack (and post!):

Pokemon Emerald's Eight.​

Introduction:
My initial idea, and the one that ultimately led to me starting this project, was to create a hack that featured a party size other than the classic 6 members that's been included in all main series games to this day. There's seemingly a lack of hacks (or none at all that i've knowledge of) that have attempted to implement this, and when i first i looked into it, there didn't seem to exist any major limitation preventing it from being done, but there was definitely not a lot of info regarding different party sizes.

And so, this is a bit of an experiment-hack that consists of the base Pokemon Emerald experience, such that all of the mainline mandatory battles are playable, but with a party size of 8 pokemon not only on the player's side, but on enemy trainer parties as well. Along with this, i've added some QoL features that seemed like a must, as well as expanded all initial gym leader's teams to feature a full 8 member party, together with elite 4 and champion's.

Features:

• Party size of up to 8 members on both player and enemy parties.
• New 4/4 party manu layout.
• Gen 6+ Exp. Share.
• Custom gym leader, elite 4 and champion 8-member teams.
• Reusable TM's.
• Indoors running.
• New music on gym leader battles.
• Starter Tyrogue along with the usual starter of choice.
  
  New as of v1.5:​
• Full 386 pokemon catchable.
• Physical/Special split added.
• Tuned down a bit the Exp. Share. This results in a slower level curve and alleviates overpowering the full party.
• Trade evolutions are now all friendship evolutions.
• Event items are obtainable from player PC upon starting a new game.
• Expanded item pocket to hold up to 50 items.
• Forgettable HM's.
• Evolution stones sold on Petalburg pokemart, heart scales sold on Fallarbor pokemart.
• Buffed Cut && Rock Smash. Rock Smash now also lowers defense every time.

Screenshots:








Known issues & bugs:

• Slight graphical glitches on party menu.
• Battle Frontier and postgame are largely untested so probably broken somewhere, due to them being out of the scope of this project.
• Some emulators might produce freezes at the beggining, or cause a black screen when starting champion Wallace's battle. Retroarch mgba core seems to mostly run the game just fine.
• You tell me :)

Thank you to:

• Everyone working on the decompilation project! I'm sure this would not have been possible to do with binary hacking, and the decompilation project is an amazing work of reverse engineering.
• My friend Airen for playtesting the hack.
• u/SilverPrince94 for suggestions on expanded enemy trainer party members.
• Blurose for their implementation of the gen 6 Exp. Share, and Lunos for their port of said implementation.
• Romhacking Hideout members for their PSS battle engine implementation.
• Jordan Davenport for creating the MIDI that i used on the gym leader theme.
• All users that encouraged me to finish the initial version of the hack!

Download:
Please patch using Lunar IPS.

Changelog v1.5:​

• Small buff to Flannery && Winona teams as they seemed too easy compared to other gym leaders.
• Fixed Hall of Fame freezing the game after beating league.
• Fixed bug preventing 7th/8th pokemon from being switched in on double battles on occasion.
• Fixed bug incorrectly selecting party members on forced switch in (Roar, etc.)
• Fixed bug preventing pokedex data from being recorded correctly.

Release v1.5

Initial release v1.0:

Release v1.0​

Additionally, the code for the party expansion implementation featured in this hack is available on this repository.

Is there a list of locations for every pokemon somewhere? Thanks!

 

[WhitronPhenomenon]

What the heck, how have I not seen this yet? I'm always interested in these kind of hacks, this might seem minor but, should keep things fresh with the additional party members. Very cool