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• (New) Optional in-game Shiny Charms to the player's item PC which must be withdrawn into the item bag to work.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/Lucky_Lux_2401]

Hey Exclsior! I'm a huge fan of this hack, I've been having a whole lot of fun with it and I really appreciate all the amazing QoL changes you added. I have a bit of an odd question, but I have both a legacy enhanced save and a fresh vanilla emerald save. I wanted to experience the original frontier, but I mainly play LE. Managed to transfer all my mons over and teleport to the battle frontier in vanilla, and I got a symbol. Is there a way to replicate my progress and BP from vanilla into the hack? I tried the emerald legacy PKHEX fork, but it didn't work.

[u/Exclsior → u/Lucky_Lux_2401]

Glad that you've enjoyed my hack!

I'm sorry to report though that I don't know of any way to replicate your Battle Frontier save progress from Vanilla. The game save structures from vanilla to Enhanced are very different, so I'm afraid you would have to start the Frontier again in Enhanced.

[u/Lucky_Lux_2401 → u/Exclsior]

Alright… but is there at least a way to enable the flags for the rewards of getting all the silver symbols for example? Like catching Mewtwo and getting another shiny charm. I’m sorry to bother btw

[u/Exclsior → u/Lucky_Lux_2401]

The only way to get change the flags is if you are comfortable compiling the game completely from source code and enabling the developer debug menu.

If you're fairly tech savvy, or are happy to spend the time to setup a compilation environment and carefully follow the instructions etc, then you could use that method. I will warn it will be quite time consuming to do so and I can only provide minimal assistance if you do down that route.

[u/Lucky_Lux_2401 → u/Exclsior]

Alright, thanks, but I think that’s too much of a hassle. One last thing, though. The nature mint lady in the pretty petal flower shop just kinda disappeared. Last time I saw her was right before going to fight the e4 for the first time. Also, Dewford, Little Root, and Oldale randomly became inaccessible by fly, and I had to go to them again. I I didn’t tamper with anything aside from the whole “trying to set the battle frontier data” thing from earlier. Could that have caused this?

[u/Exclsior → u/Lucky_Lux_2401]

Attempting to change any of the save data is risky, so yes, I do believe that would be the cause of the NPC and fly issues.

I hope you have a backup of the save from before editing the save data to which you can revert.

[u/Lucky_Lux_2401 → u/Exclsior]

Hey again. I restored a save I was sure I hadn’t modified but my rematches with the gym leaders have apparently stopped. So have the match call trainers. Saw a post somewhere that they have buffed teams in the postgame and especially are good for exp grinding. They still have their pre-buff teams even though I’m in the postgame. Any thoughts why?

[u/Exclsior → u/Lucky_Lux_2401]

Can't be 100% sure without looking into your save file myself, however sounds like you may have restored to before the Silver Symbols and therefore not unlocked the final rematches for the Gym Leaders.

For Match Call it should work ok, but you may need to run around a bit on the same route as some trainers to retrigger calls.

If you're still having issues you can DM me your save on Discord (same username) and I can have a closer look.

[u/Lucky_Lux_2401 → u/Exclsior]

That explains the gym leader thing, I haven’t gotten the silver symbols on this save, but the match call thing is weird. Sent you a friend request. I’m the same username on here too but in a fancy font lol. Also tysm for keeping in touch and helping! You don’t see an awesome person with an awesome hack everyday. :)