Emerald hack: Team Aqua Romhacking Competition - Multi-Hack Release Thread

[Team Aqua Leader Archie]

This summer the Team Aqua's Hideout Discord server hosted its first Pokemon romhacking competition. The competition will lasted from July 1st to September 8th and was a huge success with 13 entries!
The premise of the competition was to create a standalone short experience in a single area. Like a town, an island, a mountain, or a desert.
The Theme for the competition was WATER so all the hacks will be vaguely related to Water in some way, although the theme was not super strict.

We had a ton of great entries the links to which will all be provided below, these are all English Emerald hacks:

To patch use a clean English Emerald ROM and this patching tool https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ - DO NOT USE MYBOY, IF YOU DO, WE DON"T WANT TO HEAR YOUR BUG REPORTS

Pokeless Sokoban - Download Pokemon, but not, and also with more sokoban. Think of this as a really high effort shitpost hack and it will be way more enjoyable.

Maxie Island - Full Release Thread

Pokemon SpinSpinSpin - Full Release Thread

Norman Adventures - Download Play as a former Pokémon Champion as he comes out of retirement to fight crime. After years of relaxing in the forest with his beloved Pokémon, Norman is whisked back to adventure by an unexpected visitor.

Pokemon Collapse - Download My submission for this competition takes you to Seaspray Town, the fourth town of my hack! This hack is closer to a vanilla Pokémon experience, where you are set to explore the town and defeat the gym leader.

Recollection Quest - Download In this hack, you play as Amelia, a Pokemon Ranger who can talk to Pokemon. One night, she gets separated from her team by a flood. The focus of the hack is exploring the area you've washed up in to reconnect with your team and solve the troubles of the town. You also meet a new friend, a unique form of Eevee with an unusual method of gaining strength...train your Eevee and recollect your team to solve the problem in Elthe City.

Pokemon Emerald Underwater - Download For some unknown reason, Pokemon Emerald game got corrupted. Everything seems strange and unfamiliar as the player wanders through the new place - the Underwater. The goal? Finish the adventure and restore Emerald's normal story.

Under The - Full Release Thread

Pokemon H20 - Download This is a hack focused on a "normal" exploration experience. You catch, you fight, you level up, repeat. This hack includes various features I thought would be neat to have in Gen3.

Cerulean Aquarium - Download An evil team has invaded an Aquarium. They haven't been too disruptive, aside from taking the director for "a little chat", so the aquarium is still operating, but still. Go in to the aquarium and kick out the evil team.

The Serf - Download A cursed flash labyrinth

Emerald Puzzle ver - Download This hack was designed to be pretty challenging and has some puzzles designed to softlock you really badly, so cannot be stressed enough how important saving is.

Archie Made an Oopsie - Download Meme submission

I want to thank everyone who participated in the competition, it was a ton of fun playing through these hacks and you all did an amazing job. It was extremely hard to pick a winner with so many creative and unique entries, but we obviously had to lol, congrats to PurrfectDoodle/Eva for creating the winning entry Pokemon SpinSpinSpin! It was a very close first place finish ahead of Maxie's Island and Pokeless Sokoban, with Norman Adventures, Recollection Quest, Pokemon Collapse, and Under The all very close as well right behind them. You should all feel very proud of your hacks!

 

[B-Nerd]

what does the serf use because it is not emerald

 

[tadashi89]

Is Emerald Underwater a Horror ROM Hack?

 

[Team Aqua Leader Archie]

what does the serf use because it is not emeraldView attachment 167028

It is Emerald. I don't know why it shows that but it works if you just hit the patch button anyway

 

[Sergio900]

Interested in downloading all of this games to start bew adventures! Had a quick question. Is there anyway i can find out approximetely how long each game is?

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Interested in downloading all of this games to start bew adventures! Had a quick question. Is there anyway i can find out approximetely how long each game is?

As far as I know, the length of game play is mentioned in the individual thread of each game. However, the average is about an hour or so, they are all short hacks.

 

[Sergio900]

As far as I know, the length of game play is mentioned in the individual thread of each game. However, the average is about an hour or so, they are all short hacks.

Awesome! Just finished downloading them all and will give them a shot.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

I finished up Pokemon Norman, and what a thrill it was to play. I feel like because of how short these hacks are, there is an emphasis on detail which has really caught my eye. Now, onto recollection quest!

 

[Wirawr]

Something like this is really great to make people's keep making romhack and innovating and most importantly make this community alive