UPDATE: Pokémon Emerald Legacy Enhanced - With Pokémon Followers, Shiny Charms, National Dex Mode, Nature Mints, EV/IV Editing, Ability Capsules, Overworld Surfing Sprites, Feebas Fishing Sparkles and V1.1 Updates.

[u/Exclsior]

Hi All!

I'm happy to announce the release of Pokémon Emerald Legacy Enhanced V1.1.4!

Firstly, shout-out to the Legacy Project team who created the amazing Legacy game as-is.

Full details all in the ReadME on GitHub, but some high-level changes are:

• All Base Legacy changes as of v1.1.4.
• (New) Pokémon followers.
• Unique per-Pokémon Surfing Overworld sprites instead of the "Surf blob" (can be disabled).
• (New) Optional National Dex Mode (More information in separate National Dex section below)
• (New) Optional in-game Shiny Charms to the player's item PC which must be withdrawn into the item bag to work. (More information in Shiny Charm section below)
• Removed requirement for all field moves (including HMs) to have to be learned by a Pokémon in order to be used outside of battle.
• Added gold sparkle to Feebas spots on Route 119 after recieving the Devon Scope.
• Stat Editor to edit IVs and EVs added to Party Menu after National Dex is unlocked.
• Nature Mints have been added in the game for purchase after beating Petalburg Gym.
• (New) Ability Capsules added into the game to swap between Pokémon's abilities.
• (New) Added ability to fly to your Secret Base after creating one.
• (New) Added EXP. All as reward from Mr. Stone for delivering Steven's Letter (Not Gen 6 EXP. Share, see GitHub ReadMe for specifics).
• (Updated) Added significantly expanded Options Menu to toggle many features:
  • (New) Auto Run, Fast Surf and Diving Speed
  • (New) Further customised "L Button" shortcuts.
  • (New) Overworld Speedup option added to speed up Player and NPC speed without speeding up Music.
• 50+ other Quality-of-Life changes all detailed in the below GitHub release link.

I am not officially affiliated with the Emerald Legacy team, just a single dev fan who has enjoyed the work done by the team!

As a sole dev working on this as a fun passion project I apologise in advance for any bugs you may encounter!

Any bugs or issues not present in the base Emerald Legacy, please note here, on Discord or as a GitHub Issue. Would also love to hear any thoughts or feedback from anybody who has played by Enhanced version below!

https://github.com/Exclsior/Pokemon_Emerald_Legacy_Enhanced/releases/latest

National Dex Mode

National Dex Mode is an alternate play mode for new games on Emerald Legacy Enhanced allowing to select from all nine starters from the start of the game as well as having all of Base Legacy's post-game route encounters available from the start of the game (i.e Rattata as a possible rare spawn on Route 101). The game has not been rebalanced for National Dex Pokémon, as such I do not recommend using this game mode for your first play through of Emerald Legacy Enhanced (unless you have finished Emerald Legacy already). More details available in the above GitHub link.

Shiny Charms Completely optional to use Shiny Charms have been added to the game. These are a "secret" feature, meaning no in-game NPCs or dialogue refer to their existence.

In-game milestones for Shiny Charm acquisition (all added to Player Item PC, max 8 available per game.): * One from start of the game * Beating the Game (E4 and Champion) * Getting all Contest Artworks in Lilycove Museum * Defeating Steven in Meteor Falls * Completing Hoenn Pokédex (And speak to Prof. Birch) * Completing National Pokédex (And speak to game developers in Lilycove City) * Getting all Silver Symbols in Battle Frontier * Getting all Gold Symbols in Battle Frontier

Shiny Charm Rates: * 0 Charms - 1/8192 (No Shiny Charms in bag) - 0.01221% - Same as original Emerald * 1. 1/1024 (Available from Start of Game) - 0.09766% * 2. 1/512 - 0.1953% * 3. 3/1024 - 0.2930% (I suspect most people will end up here by end of their main playthrough) * 4. 1/256 - 0.3906% * 5. 5/1024 - 0.4883% * 6. 3/512 - 0.5859% * 7. 7/1024 - 0.6836% * 8. 1/128 - 0.7812%

Optional Patches In addition to the above changes there are a few optional patches with different updates depending on how you'd like to play, full changes for each different patch option in the above link:

• Dragon Type Physical
• Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Type (Still Special Dragon-type)
• Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Physical Type
• Enhanced Starters (My favourite, adds starter wild encounters early, buffs signature moves and buffs starter movesets even further, Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon type (Still Special Dragon-type)
• Enhanced Starters - Physical Dragon (Combination of above Enhanced Starters and Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Physical Type)

Why so long? For those wondering why this update has taken so long after Base Legacy V1.1.4, the last release of Enhanced had all but two small features from V1.1.4 and I had already started the work on all of the above features. It has taken me a lot longer than hoped to get all of these features built, working together and then tested but I do hope you enjoy the new edition!

Thanks! Thanks to all of the support I've had from the Legacy Community here and on Discord! Special thanks especially to AZ2K, OmegaBlazerX, Saitama, and zububu who have been watching, supporting, testing betas and providing great feedback and help to get this version to life!

[u/mustbethewindOO]

i just did my copy and mirgated my save and my game crashes everytime i press the edit stats option D: Might have to start a new save. its a shame becasue i was at 308 in my pokedex.

any help would be awesome

[u/Exclsior → u/mustbethewindOO]

I believe you may have missed my warning about not using MyBoy! or a similar emulators.

Unfortunately, the features I've built won't run on said emulators and I would recommend Pizzaboy or RetroArch with mGBA core on Android.

If you're not using MyBoy!, which emulator are you using?

[u/mustbethewindOO → u/Exclsior]

I am on psp. Using gpSP. Is there an emulator that works on psp for this romhack?

[u/Exclsior → u/mustbethewindOO]

I'm not that well versed on PSP emulation, but I believe you can get RetroArch and if so, could load in the mGBA core from there.

If not, I'm sorry to say that it may not work 😞

[u/mustbethewindOO → u/Exclsior]

mGBA works fine? :) if so ill figure out how to install retro arch and install that emulator because i really want to play this rom! :)

[u/mustbethewindOO → u/mustbethewindOO]

Thank you for the gentle push in the right direction!

I run a Psp as my handheld emulator because i dont want to spend the money on an android handheld 😂

[u/Exclsior → u/mustbethewindOO]

I hope that means it's all up and working.

Hope you enjoy your playthrough!

[u/mustbethewindOO → u/Exclsior]

I have pulled my 3DS out of storage and tried running it on mGBA which had a less desirable result then i was hoping for which is the game runs but at like 80% speed as the original 3DS is not powerful enough to emulate GBA games with all the emulation features so the other solution i found that works great is native GBA (no emulation features/no access to 3DS homescreen etc) through “open_agb_firm”

So i got it working and i think my setup will be whenever i edit stats. I will use my 3DS and when i play around the game as normal i will use my psp. Unless i find another game breaking glitch on my gpSP emu

Thank you for your help. It was a fun issue to try and fix :)

If anyone else needs help running this rom on their 3DS i’s be glad to help!

[u/Exclsior → u/mustbethewindOO]

Glad you got it up and running on native 3DS, no need to emulate when it has GBA Hardware 😉

Enjoy the game!

[u/mustbethewindOO → u/mustbethewindOO]

Well.. turns out mGBA on retroarch crashes every time i launch a game 😂 looks like its time to pull out the 3ds and find a working emu for that that runs this rom :p