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Working on a small-time rom hack and looking for ideas

OriginWizard

Map Maker
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    I'm currently working on a Rom Hack of Pokemon Emerald, I've called it "Magic Emerald" because of my online alias being a wizard. Not very inspiring I know.
    It started off with me experimenting with what I can make, I've extended a lot of the towns and cities already and I'm adding new areas, such as my own take on the battle frontier which I realise will be the longest and hardest thing to make for the Rom.

    I'm using Advance Map for the most part with a separate scripting program. The custom scripts are very light at the moment but I want to learn to make bigger and better scripts.
    I'm also looking for some fun and novel ideas, since this started off as me making my own Emerald for my own enjoyment I've started to run low on ideas aside from keep adding more areas until I run out of space.
    I'm not thinking of changing the story, just adding to the game, maybe new post-game stuff, more legendaries, and the biggest thing I'm trying to do is include events such as the EON ticket in the game but as of yet I haven't found a way of doing so.

    So yeah if there's something you would like to see in Emerald then please let me know and I'll see about implementing it if I can.

    Below are screenshots of some of the things I've done so far.
    Spoiler:


    Some other things of note:
    • Towns now have grass and wild pokemon, the pokemon you find will often be from Kanto or Johto as they feel safer in the towns.
    • The game is slightly harder, not a kaizo but the gyms have 6 pokemon and the elite four start at level 80.
    • Red, Blue, Green and Steven exist in the post-game and all have level 100 pokemon.
    • Self inserts of myself and my friends will be added, I will be using a slightly modified version of the team I took to the nationals back in the day. My friends have yet to pick their teams. I have no shame, this was meant for me at the beginning so why not!
    • Feebas now spawns a little more frequently because his spawn conditions were stupid.
    • Fossil pokemon can now be caught or bought but are either very rare or very expensive (There's a 1% chance of finding one in lilycove)

    Various in-game screenshots:
    Spoiler:
     
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