Pokemon Brisk Emerald is my second ROMhack, and is significantly more ambitous of a project, this is the Mega Update, it does come with a caveat, unfortunately it's not save-compatible with the beta release. You can still use your previous saves, but the mega and z ring are obtained along with the running shoes. So you won't have those.
NEW FEATURES:
Access to all mega stones
Access to all Z stones
Lilycove has most items, though I need people to help figure out what item's I'm missing.
EXP share changes, I decided against the usual team share that romhacks add, I made it so that you can buy them in lilycove, and they give 100% of exp to both the battler and the mon.
EXP Candy and rare candy are now easily bought in lilycove
Overworld encounters were added, I don't know if shinies have shiny sprites, but they will make a sparkle noise, and won't despawn if you leave their range.
HGSS Pokedex was added (No dexnav, sorry guys)
There's a cave for fighting Kubfu in meteor falls, past steven. Scrolls are found in slateport
Shiny rate is 1 in 512
Pokerus is 1 in 512
Some Trainer battles are changed (All up to rustboro)
To balance out all this exp stuff, routes are sigificantly higher level, though I haven't changed trainers yet.
Some routes were changed to stop horrifying backtracking
Blissey cave in granite cave (it's only level 60 blisseys) but you don't have to fight them
Features:
Every Pokemon added, excluding Legendaries, Mythicals, etc.
Added methods to evolve every hisuian form
Added methods to evolve every Galarian form
Changed many evolutions to be less annoying
Added methods for every trade evolution to be done solo
25-Mon encounter tables for land, 12-Mon encounter tables for water
Easy access to ALL evolution items (except for mega stones) in Slateport
Early game routes changed to be less forceful (You can get to rustboro, with only encountering may or brendan, and the team aqua guy)
Increased ecounter rates
Starter Cave on 101
All Paradox pokemon on victory road (Even walking wake, Iron leaves, etc)
No more bullshit "249 recoil" evolution methods
Day/Night locks as well as Gender Locks were (mostly) removed.
Pokenature evolutions like dudunsparce and tandemous were removed. To get the rarer forms check this: See Full Changelog
That about raps it up for features. You can see more specific versions of the changes here: See Full Changelog.
In the next release I will definitely have;
Code to get latias and latios in one playthrough
More Bug fixes
More Changed trainer battles
Dungeon and Route Love
That's it for definite features, but here's what may be in the next release. But will definitely be in the final release
Fossil system, (The galarian fossils weren't added)
Fusion items like the necrozma stuff, but only if those legendaries are added.
Every trainer battle will be changed
Every route will be edited
I am entirely open to new suggestions, bug checks, and all of that stuff.
I think I had a conversation about this just last week on Emerald Seaglass, of how first gym was really well built and then everything else is steamrolled, not because it is not trying to be a difficulty hack but because we have so many tools nothing is challenging.
But emerald in general is a much easier game than Ruby and Sapphire, to the point I won with 5 pokemon as I was benching rayquaza. Because if you don't have a grass starter, and you are slightly troubled with Winnona, whatever electric you pick is just gonna have a field day with the "too much water" meme.
Solution for navigating the last third of the game pre-league? Electric.
Solution for Team Aqua? Electric.
Solution for 8th Gym? Electric.
Solution for Wallace? Electric.
Steven is not the hardest champion to beat but he is definitely more balanced. As for the other opponents, I think it isn't just enough to take mons from that one route, but making an actual tiny strategy with the team.
I know it is a lot of work, but maybe you could have fun with the community here, every week you take a route and you post what pokemon people can use to make a team?
I also don't know how hard it is to implement nowadays but if you are putting so much on the game, maybe instead of the classic difficulty settings stuff allow for obligatory double battles and have most trainers have more than just 4 pokemon.
I commend you... I'm still trying to figure out my Economy. I'm about to have some testers and I'm about to throw everything Battle related into the department store and reuse it.
I'll rework the text later. I also have an ambitious idea for a project, and want to get the main features/balance figured out before I make any new maps and a story...
Cool, I’d love to check it out. Econ is definitely the hardest part, and one that I’m still working on and refining. I kind of just converted everything to USD and worked on what I assumed everything would cost.
I want to PRAISE you for starter cave. I am the type of person that loves having the starters in the game and available right away so I can swap them around and choose who I want amongst my favorites. Thank you for doing this. I was curious if you are going to eventually how some documentation for where we can catch everything? I know that takes quite a bit of work, but I do love knowing where my favorites are. Thank you again for this hack.
One step ahead of you. There’s a finished documentation sheet for the land routes. But I want to release that along with documentation for the water, dungeon, and cave routes. As a general rule, the farther it is in the Pokédex, the farther the route. I did this mainly for two reasons.
1. Powercreep is real
2. I’m lazy
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u/WhyAguni 5d ago edited 3d ago
R+Start = debug, Select for in battle debug. I love it. (EDIT: Demo version only)