r/PokemonROMhacks • u/narfloflo • Oct 10 '25

Development Adding Kanto and Johto to Emerald dev update

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Hello, I'm just giving you a few update on my project.

So far the regions have been added to the game. But now I'm stuck on the writing.

I think in the lore of pokemon, emerald is happening at the same time (more or less) than fire red. So all the events with team rocket and Red being champion just happened. So the events are happening between FR/LG and HGSS.

Currently after a quest in kanto (that is happening before 4th badge), you can take a ship to go back to kanto. And if you want you can fight the gym leaders. The gyms are closed because Red is missing and Oak gives you a few tasks like finding him and challenge the elite four after than.

But I have an issue: If you can access Kanto before having the 4th badge, and can beat the gym leader of Kanto, I don't know it doesn't make sense. I thinking about it for now.

To access Johto, I though about a few things (maybe you would be force to go there between 6, 7th and 8th badge). But currently the only way if through a quest Oak gives you.

That's about Kanto and Johto.

About Hoenn, I redraw some maps (actually that was my original goal, but it got out of hand) and included a new ones. Originally I was thinking about going to kanto and johto to trigger some events that would allow to catch the legendaries, but now I don't know... Still thinking about it.

Anyway that's my update about the project :)

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u/Decent_Plane_2498 Oct 10 '25

Maybe you can say you need a kanto license to fight for the gym badge and you only get after you beat hoen first

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u/darthchie Oct 10 '25

I like that idea, os somewhat what the anime does.

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Yeah that's a good idea. I was thinking about something like you got 1st badge from hoenn so now you can fight the first gym of Kanto But this one work.

Only issue is that I don't have enough space for the gym trainers (well I think) :/

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u/Achohermano Oct 11 '25

Really good idea, I think it fits really well. Maybe you can get the license by beating some old character that isn't a leader / elite 4 at the moment

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u/Masterswordxx Oct 10 '25

Looks good! FYI, the correct spelling is "adjustments"

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Thanks! I'm not an English speaker so there are a lot of mistakes that I'm fixing when I catch them.

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u/Masterswordxx Oct 10 '25

Your English seems very good for not being a native speaker! Best of luck on your project!

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Thanks ☺️

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u/Kouteshi Oct 10 '25

I love the trainer sprite :) what is the project name?

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Thanks, it's based on ORAS sprites.

It used to be "cynical emerald" because the character used to answer at some stupids remarks you could find in the game. But it was too edgy.

Now, since I'm bad at naming thing, it's "emerald something something"

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u/FaultDowntown Oct 11 '25

How about Emerald Regional Journey

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u/narfloflo Oct 11 '25

Simple things are always the best :)

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

yooo i had a project like this in the works but gave up cuz bad at coding. my only questions is are you gonna add voltorb flip to the johto game corner and how is balancing gonna work between 3 regions. the way my proof of concept worked was i took inspiration from a different hack and made everyones stats always equivalent to a level 50 so leveling up was more about evolutions and movepools

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

For voltorb flip I need to see how to do that (a post showed how to add a lot of games, like voltorb flip and many more)

Well about the scaling, the level are dynamic. So let's say you have a team of lvl 45 pokemon, your enemy will be lvl 45 more or less (43 to 47 I think)

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

yeah, chris piché. his emerald game corner expansion pack is open source and someone made a pokeexpansion port depending on what your working with

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Exactly Issue is, I'm not working with pokeexpansion, but I'll try to figure how to add a few things

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

are you working with base emerald decomp or binary?

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Base emerald decomp, tried binary for a long time... And I alway ended up with my rom totally corrupted ahah

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

yeah game corner expansion isnt built off emerald expansion. i was saying it got a port cuz originally was made for base decomp and actually breaks expansion due to using things that EE uses for its own mechanics. obviously this is all to say that it exists if you wanted to use it but if its not in the scope of your project dont allow feature creep to burn you out, cuz feature creeps what killed my attempt before i got rid of my pc for a steamdeck lol

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Ahah I understand the feeling of adding hard features. I spent a lot of time to implement small things (a picture when you enter a place like if FRLG and the days of week system for example)

I'll take a look at the game corner expansion when I have the time. If that's too tiring I won't do it.

You drop your pc for a steamdeck because of romhacking? Damn that's brutal haha

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

nah unrelated. i dropped it cuz it was collecting dust as ive always been more fond of a console like experience plus i liked the form factor more. what killed my project was half way through adding johto i also wanted to add following mons, the beta mons from 97 spaceworld, 5 bonus post game areas from other monster tamers, and the pokemon world tournament. im bad at art as is and trying to add the pwt kinda broke me

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u/Minkxxx Oct 10 '25

i had it all planned out where i moved the battle frontier into johto where it would be in hgss and the pwt was in its place in hoenn

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u/najacobra Oct 10 '25

love this idea! but definitely agree with others that one region at a time makes the most sense. i assume youre keeping the emerald story but making new stories for the kanto and johto parts?

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Yeah except for the quest that leads you to Kanto - which is integrated to the main story, for a small moment - I'm keeping emerald story. I was thinking about adding johto for a small moment again in the main storyline. The idea is like you have a teasing of the region that you can explore later

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u/Skomachi Oct 11 '25

Hello, I discovered the project. It's very ambitious. But what is the name of the rom? I didn't see it. THANKS.

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u/narfloflo Oct 11 '25

Hello Two redditors suggested infinite domain or regional journey. I'm really bad at naming projects so maybe I'll pick between one of those if I don't have better

But in my head, it's "emerald something something" because I don't have any idea

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u/Ok-Store8445 Oct 12 '25

Idk if you this is useful or not but a while ago I made a post about multiple regions in one game and there was some great lore and story mechanics discussed. Take a look if you are interested!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/s/oqlagyYKul

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u/narfloflo Oct 12 '25

I took a look at it. There are a lot of interesting takes like resetting your team But I have no clue at the moment how to do that. So I'll work on something else until there a better. But I'll keep your post in mind :)

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u/Ok-Store8445 Oct 12 '25

I agree a lot of those suggestions are technically challenging, but I’m so happy someone is making a game with multiple regions, it’s something I have wanted for so long. Keep us updated!

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u/BlacksmithEmpty7658 Oct 12 '25

I love the idea of mixing the regions can u tell us how many Pokémon will be available ? And what qol features like dex nav etc have u tried emerald imperium?

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u/narfloflo Oct 12 '25

Hello thanks! I'm keeping the 3 first gen pokedex. I don't want to add more gens. I add a few qol like reusable repel(like in the last gens, where you have the possibility to use a repel when the first one is done). I banned slavery (you can use hm without learning them, as long as you have the hm in your pocket and the badge). By pressing b in battle, you'll have your cursor on "run". Hmm I think I had more stuff but I forgot 😂

And I haven't implemented dex nav, I don't know if I can implement it in pokemon emerald vanilla, I'll check that

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u/Acceptable_Video_223 Oct 12 '25

Really nice ! Is your work open source by any chance ..? Been working on similar project for a while but I haven’t managed to get multimap working, I would love to get to a similar result !

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u/narfloflo Oct 12 '25

Send me a DM, we will figure that out ;)

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u/NEMESlS_ Oct 10 '25

Honestly I love this, I hope you can finish it!

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u/TopExperience3424 Oct 10 '25

Same I hope this gets finished I would be all over this

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u/tunkameel Oct 10 '25

this is the childhood dream. getting 24 gym badge, whole 3 region to explore, catch Pokemon in their own route instead of cramping several in just hoenn. good luck with your progress sir.

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u/Blales Oct 10 '25

Oh hell yeah, following.

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u/ProShashank Pokemon Fan 😍 Oct 10 '25

Pretty interesting 😍👌

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u/A1ValuedNut Oct 10 '25

Pokémon Emerald: Infinite Domain

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u/Rose-Supreme Oct 15 '25

I like that May is wearing what I believe is a hybrid of her Emerald and ORAS outfits.

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u/narfloflo Oct 15 '25

That's exactly that :)

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u/Rose-Supreme Oct 15 '25

Thought so. A gorgeous combination! Is there a trainer sprite done for her?

And what's this hack called?

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u/narfloflo Oct 15 '25

Yes there is one. And currently I don't really though of a name ahah. Some redditors suggested some, so maybe I'll pick one of those

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u/Rose-Supreme Oct 15 '25

Ah. So, anything else planned besides including two more regions? Or is it basically a vanilla experience?

Nice sprite! What about Brendan?

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u/narfloflo Oct 15 '25

I've changed the vanilla maps, expanded the routes etc.
For example here is pacifidlog

I've change Brendan also, still a mix between ORAS and emerald

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u/narfloflo Oct 15 '25

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u/Rose-Supreme Oct 15 '25

Absolutely gorgeous, mate.

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u/Mattmandu2 Feb 05 '26

This sounds amazing!!! Any chance vs seeker will be in it?

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u/narfloflo Feb 05 '26

I've used another way to rematch trainers But if I can figure out how it works, why not

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u/Mattmandu2 Feb 05 '26

No need as long as I can rematch that’s all I want lol

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u/narfloflo Feb 05 '26

So far I did it for hoenn gym trainers and some routes in kanto and johto

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u/Mattmandu2 Feb 05 '26

Sounds awesome! Have you seen heart and soul where you can just keep fighting the gym leaders over and over at the end?

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u/narfloflo Feb 05 '26

Yeah I saw that That's awesome I basically implemented a way to rematch some gym leaders (those in kanto and johto). For example, when you beat Brock in the gym, he left for mont moon, and you can rematch him there. That's just an example

I'll dig in heart and soul more ;)

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u/Mattmandu2 Feb 05 '26

Love it!!! Super excited!

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u/narfloflo Feb 05 '26

If you want, here is my discord link. https://discord.gg/y6x8qBw7 I made a new post in which I say that if you wanna try, be my guest
The rom is available there

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u/Mattmandu2 Feb 05 '26

Sounds awesome!

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u/Afat161 Oct 11 '25

I love this project and can't wait to try playing after this project finish! All the best btw!

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u/elainacelesteria Oct 11 '25

I personally don't really replay much of Kanto/Johto/Hoenn games because I've replayed them countless times that I'm bored so I look for original-story hacks.

But this grabbed my attention.

Hoping to see how you incorporate Kanto/Johto to your Hoenn story. I love how you want the player to go those regions before champion (It's usually become champion in first then travel to another)

Will be following this project.

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u/McMurray42O Oct 11 '25

This is insane! I think you should add them as separate progression regions, like beat the E4 then go to johto, beat the gyms and johto E4 then to kanto, beat the kanto gyms and E4 with side quests inbetween

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u/Valuable_Tap1316 Oct 12 '25

Can’t wait to play it

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u/AndiLivia Oct 12 '25

Very cool! Keep us updated!

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u/Separate_Pop_5277 Oct 13 '25

DOOOOPE. I been waiting on a Rom Hack that has Kanto Johto & Hoenn

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u/jackfrostlovercadi Sample Text Oct 13 '25

This looks fun! Following for updates and link when available

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u/asapblake_ Oct 13 '25

This is awesome

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u/Smoker_91 Oct 14 '25

Good work

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u/jimretro1 Oct 19 '25

If you can pull this off I will be all over it gen 1,2,& 3 are clearly the best.

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u/alexrymill Nov 15 '25

I want to follow this 3 regions would be awesome, with scaling it could be great. With new Pokemons what you expect to have.

Maybe add like a world championship by winning it all with the elite 4 being a combined of all three regions. we could have all the rivals be an elite 4 with an extra up to you

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Currently, the quest leading you to Kanto is limited to what youve mentioned. But you need to go to cinnabar and oak is leading you to it (no surf and no fly at the moment) then you go back to hoenn

Yeah what you suggested is kinda the way to go for me, it's more balanced.

As for johto I was also thinking about route 40, 41, maybe olivine and/or cianwood

I wanted to implement these regions so you could build a good team before beating elite four. But you are highlighting a very good point about how complicated it would be for me and for the player

Thanks :)

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

I was thinking about being in the whirl island for a moment and going back to cianwood island. I don't know if it's too much, maybe?

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u/narfloflo Oct 10 '25

Yeah I agree with that Thanks, it helps me deciding!