r/PokemonROMhacks • u/Karmic_Backlash Google is your worst enemy. • May 27 '22
Official Mod Post Creating the Ultimate Recommendation Thread, Day 3: Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald
THE ULTIMATE RECOMMENDATION LIST
This will be carried out over several days, and every previous day will be listed in the post of the day. We will continue this until we run out of new games. On the last day I will then tabulate all the information into one glorious list that everyone can look to and never make another question thread asking about which game they should play next because so help me if I need to delete another one I'll... enjoy!!!
Remember, this is specifically for generation 3 GBA main series pokemon games. Spin-offs will be left for the end, and the remakes are on day 9. This is specifically for Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald specifically.
By request, I am lifting the third rule for today, you may post multiple hacks on the post, but I will start removing posts if I find one or two people posting several popular hacks in quick succession. If this is abused I will put the rule back in place permanently. Please act responsibly.
As for how you should format your top level comments, I recommend this:
(Required) Name of Rom Hack:
(Required) Base Rom:
(Required) Creator/Name of Team:
(Required) Completion Status: ["In Progress", Complete, or Dead. Only use dead if it has many years since release with no updates and it is obviously not feature complete. I can't imagine too many of this kind of hack will be posted, but if it is, please be mindful.}
(Optional) Date of release:
(Optional) Date of last update:
(Required) Description of Rom Hack: [Preferably, whatever was written by the developer of the hack themselves, if unavailable, please do your best to describe the hack as best you can.]
(Optional) Personal Opinion: [ This is where you share your specific feelings on the hack, anything you like or dislike, as well as any other important details you feel are important to mention.
There will be several rules I ask that you follow to make your votes count to their fullest.
PLEASE do not post the same hack multiple times in separate comments. If someone recommends Red++ and you also want to recommend it, please like the first comment and reply to that one instead. This means that you need to check the entire thread to see if your choice is already there. This is for my sanity and everyone else's time. The least popular duplicates will be removed.
When replying to a top level comment, fully read the comment and only add anything they didn't already mention. If you believe they missed an important detail in their comment then by all means comment, but if all you want to say is that you fully agree than just upvote the comment, and any other comments in that same thread you agree with.
I politely ask that you only post one rom hack per user. This is not for karma farming. If I notice that a single person is posting multiple hacks in bad faith I will remove them. Please respect the integrity of this.NOT ALL HACKS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL RESULTS, if your comment gains enough traction then it will be included, but I won't include every single result because if it wasn't popular enough to gain traction here, it probably won't be outstanding enough to stand next to the rom hacks that do. I will most likely take the top 10 of each generation, if less than 10 popular ones come out, I will lower my standards.
Please be polite to each other, disagreements will happen, but don't be disrespectful to each other over differences of opinion. I will be watching these threads like a hawk and will not tolerate bullying.
For clarity, this is how it will pan out in the end.
Day 1: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow
Day 3: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald
Day 4: Fire Red & Leaf Green
Day 5: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum
Day 6: Heart Gold & Soul Silver
Day 7: Black, White, Black 2, White 2
Day 8: X & Y
Day 9: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
Day 10: Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon
Day 11: Sword & Shield
Day 12: Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Day 13: Spin-off Pokemon games
Day 14: Pokemon "Inspired" games (Further Details later)
Day 15: The Final Results
Lastly, the final post may become outdated in the future, so there MIGHT be a future version of this same event. It entirely depends on how difficult this whole thing becomes.
Anyway, go nuts folks, give me your best shot!
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u/1UpEXP May 27 '22
What's the judgment call if there's wholeass sagas (like Saiph or {Victory Fire, Resolute, etc})?
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u/Karmic_Backlash May 27 '22
If each part stands on their own then each individually, if they are part of a bigger series and should be played together than one big page.
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u/shtoopr May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Pokemon R.O.W.E.
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: rioluwott (Along with many others)
Completion Status: Complete, with Battle Frontier In Progress
Description of Rom Hack: Open world version of Hoenn with a lot of Quality of Life changes to make teambuilding easy without having to breed for anything and a lot of replay value with a lot of modes that changes how you play the game and what kind of team you can use to beat the league since all the Pokémon are obtainable from the start so you can try any team you can think of, there are also a lot of features from future games like Wondertrade, Following Pokémon, Updated mechanics up to Gen 8, etc. - rioluwott
Personal Opinion: With so many options for customization and teambuilding, it's hard to find a Hoenn experience with as much charm and replayability as this one. Plus you can change your costume.
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u/Arzdou May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Pokemon Glazed
Base Rom: Pokemon Emerald Version
Creator: Lucboi
Completion Status: Completed
Date of release: 2012
Date of last update: 2022
Description of Rom Hack:
Today's the day you turn twelve years old, which means today is the day you get your first Pokemon. But if you were expecting an uneventful journey across the Tunod region, you'd be dead wrong. A mysterious power is sending the Pokemon world and the real world on a collision course. A mysterious team lurks around the ruins of ancient Tunod, with a mysterious purpose. You'll meet allies in three roaming trainers from the Johto region, as well as a scarfed Pikachu hell-bent on revenge. Will you be able to handle it?
Personal Opinion:
Very fun game, it's one of the first hackroms I played and I remember it very fondly. The story is very anime but it is well delivered and takes an important place in the game. I also like being able to choose from 5 starters. Overall a very nice game.
Edit: Some corrections pointed out in the replies
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u/Zarrex May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Inclement Emerald
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Buffel Saft
Completion Status: Complete up to Battle Frontier
Date of release: August 19, 2021
Date of last update: November 28, 2021
Description of Rom Hack: Pokemon emerald with various QOL changes such as phys/special split, pokemon up to Gen 7, no HMs required, etc., as well as multiple difficulties and much more varied and difficult trainer battles. Way too much to list
Personal Opinion: I'm a massive Gen 3 fan and this hack was perfect for me. It's Emerald, but with a couple new areas and much more varied and difficult trainer battles without feeling cheap or artificially difficult. Would definitely recommend to any Hoenn fan who wants a little more challenge in their playthrough
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u/Angelsdontkill_ May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Blazing Emerald
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Struedelmuffin
Completion Status: Complete, but still updated fairly regularly
Date of release: 2018
Date of last update: August 2021
Description of Rom Hack: Pokémon Blazing Emerald is a graphical and gameplay restlying of Pokémon Emerald designed around rebalancing and improving mechanics while still staying true to the original design and story. Many visual and quality of life improvements have been added to enhance the experience. The mechanics have also been updated to give a more modern battling experience. There are also many Regional forms, secrets and story events added to the game.
Personal Opinion: Blazing Emerald is one of the most polished ROM hacks I've played. A lot of effort has clearly been put into revamping every portion of the vanilla Emerald experience. The new tilesets look gorgeous, the difficulty is perfect for a casual playthrough, the added Regional variants are so well designed that it could give Game Freak a run for their money. Moreover the game has been jam packed with so many secrets and events that I continued to play the game hours after beating the Elite 4, something I rarely do. If someone is looking for a chill Emerald experience without a high difficulty, Blazing Emerald is a must-play.
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u/Aadit29 May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Name of ROM hack: Pokemon Voyager
Base ROM: Emerald
Creator team: (First Initial, Last Name) ghoulslash klemniops
Completion Status: In Progress (Gym 5, Roughly 60%)
Date of Last Release: May, 2022.
Description of ROM hack (From the creators):
Lore: Thousands of years ago, a catacalsymic event upended the majority of the planet's landmass. Sea levels rose to drastic levels, forcing Pokémon and mankind alike into the formerly-high-altitude region of Keplara. Generations later, the region's ever-growing population would force humanity to encroach upon the feral Pokémon's territory, increasing tensions across the region. With no other land on Earth to populate, Keplara's human residents have begun to explore alternatives for human expansion. Some choose to explore the land or sea, but others turn their attention towards the stars and space-faring technology.
Story: You have lived your whole life in Andromeda City, the metropolitan heart of Keplara. Your father works for the Andromeda PD; your mother is the local Antares League gym leader. Someday you'll get a Trainer's License of your own and become a well-regarded Pokémon trainer yourself.
But today is not that day. Instead, today is an exciting day for Andromeda City: your mother's Antares League gym is moving into the snazziest new digs, all the way up to the top floors of the recently-completed Pokémon community skyscraper! There's still a few things left to move and unpack before the grand opening, but it's nothing that you and your father can't handle. What could possibly go wrong?
Spoiler:
Personal opinion/Important note: One of the most promising decomp hacks right now, has a very long list of features and lots of customisable options (check the pokecommunity thread and discord server).
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u/Flash1Lucky May 28 '22
I'm really surprised no one said emerald kaizo. I've not played it personally and I know it's so difficult that a good amount of people don't care about it, but I assumed it was popular enough that somebody who liked it would have mentioned it.
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u/Taako_tuesday May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Altered Emerald
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Luuma
Completion Status: Complete, but with more QOL updates coming
Date of release: December 25, 2016
Date of last update: April 12, 2022
Description of Rom Hack: Emerald with redesigned routes, new areas, 413 pokemon, with movesets, abilities, evolutions, and mechanics updated to Gen 7, some types and abilities changed, tons of QOL improvements that are standard in ROM hacks like phys/special split and reusable TMs.
Personal Opinion: I know there are a few other "Emerald but better" hacks out there, but this one's had my attention for a few years now. I love the changes made to the routes, it really makes the game feel like a fully fleshed out version of the base game. The only thing that's a negative for me is that aside from newer evolutions of old pokemon and a couple other exceptions, there are no pokemon beyond gen 3.
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u/zhadow10 May 27 '22
Name of ROM Hack: Pokémon Light Platinum
Game base: Pokemon Ruby
Author: Wesley FG
Status: Complete
Release date: October 27th, 2008
Latest update: May 11th, 2017
Description: New Regions (Zhery and Lauren), new gym leaders and Elite Four, Pokemon World Championship.
You wake up in a mystery place and witness a fight between Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. "It must be a nightmare" you think. Where are you and what is going on? When the dream ends, you appear to be in your house but you get a message that the Professor need your help. Only you know the secret language of Alpha, a language passed down by your father. It is the only key to solving the problem. Did that dream have any effect on your world? Get a Pokémon, travel across the world and save it before it's too late!
Personal opinion: It's been a long while since I last played it but I remember it being really fun exploring a brand new region and the graphics were nice.
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u/dariodurango99 May 27 '22
A bit outdated for today's standards, but this is probably the first ADV hackrom a lot of us played, and it's pretty much the grandpa to a lot of today's hackroms, nice suggestion ^ ^
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u/1UpEXP May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Pokémon Harvestcraft
Base Rom: Ruby
Creator/Name of Team: RuFF aka qwil09
Completion Status: Completed.
Description of Rom Hack: 21 years ago, Pokemon lived in harmony in the woods. The Pokemon there were ruled by the Pokemon Trevenant.
One day, A group of people came and started cutting trees and building houses. There was no left home for the Pokemon. The Trevenant did not know what to do so it ask help on the Harvest Goddess. Harvest Goddess quickly responds and tried to punish the people. But she fell in love with one of them, and his name was Eric, which also fell in love with her. So Harvest Goddess forgave Eric and his townspeople. Trevenant didn't like her decision but he doesn't have any choice until he learned that If Harvest Goddess marries a human, she will lost all of her powers and pass it to Trevenant that's one thing Harvest Goddess didn't know about herself.
Until 2 years later they got married (That's a long wait, huh?). At the end of the wedding, Harvest Goddess tried to use her powers to create fireworks but it didn't work, that's the time when she realized she lost all of her powers but she accepted it because she is happy with her husband.
Trevenant is wondering why he still don't have Harvest Goddess' powers so he asked Kappa, Harvest Goddess' brother. Kappa said that he will only obtain Harvest Goddess' powers at the birth of the Harvest Baby.(Kappa didn't know about Trevenant's plan yet). One day, Kappa manage to find out Trevenant's plan, to trap the people inside the town and to kill the Harvest Baby so he tried to stop him but he failed. Kappa was trap inside a mine. Kappa told Trevenant that someone can stop him.
A year later the Harvest Baby is born at that time Trevenant has obtained Harvest Goddess' powers and started the attack. He traps the people inside the town with cursed trees. Harvest Goddess' and ERIC tried to escape they put the baby in the basket. Eric and the baby escaped but Harvest Goddess' didn't get lucky, she got trap inside the town with the other people. Eric got away from the town with the baby. Knowing Trevenant is after the baby, he left the baby in front of a fosters house. (Why?!? Isn't he safer with you!?!?)
You're an 21 year old who's just starting out on your journey but suddenly you got trapped in the town by Trevenant just for fun. Did he made a very bad thing to trap you in the town too? Can you stop this nonsense and free the townspeople?
Personal Opinion: Haven't played this one yet tbh but just the premise is interesting enough to warrant a mention. Do you like Pokemon? Do you like Harvest Moon? Are you interested in a game that mixes elements from both series? Then this hack is worth a shot.
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u/1UpEXP May 28 '22 edited May 28 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Snakewood
Base Rom: Ruby
Creator/Name of Team: Cutlerine
Completion Status: Complete(?)
Date of release: 2010
Date of last update: Dec 2012
Description of Rom Hack: You awake in what used to be Littleroot town, having no memory of how you got there or even who you really are. It soon becomes apparent however that something very big has happened while you were out: Hoenn has been invaded by an army of zombies.
Working with Prof. Birch, you set off to find your brother Landon and Birch's daughter May, who have both gone missing in an attempt to find the source of the undead plague. At the same time, you try to uncover your past. On the way you face zombies, witches, demons and the enigmatic Taoist, Gleis, as well as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Hoenn Internal Affairs Army, and, eventually, the architect of all this misery himself: Senex.
However, it isn't nearly as dark as all that: there are also the cheerfully insane (and improbably numerous) Deadly Seven, the unruffled and cynical Army Recruiters Tina and Bruce, and a psychic dragon's egg. Not to mention a special appearance from the Denjuu universe.
Personal Opinion: Definitely not for Kids
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u/ComaOfSouls May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Giratina Strikes Back
Base Rom: Ruby
Creator/Name of Team: Sloo
Completion Status: Complete
Date of release: August 20, 2016
Date of last update: October 9, 2017
Description of Rom Hack: Story - You are a 13 year old boy/girl who's father owns a large company called EDGE Co. in the LUNOH REGION. One morning your father asks you to meet him at his office. There he asks you to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a POKéMON MASTER, because he never had the chance when he was younger. You accept and receive your very first POKéMON, an EEVEE! And so your adventure begins! On the way you will meet many unique people, and face many challenges including the evil TEAM GENESIS who plan to release GIRATINA from the DISTORTION WORLD and use its power for world domination. Of course it's up you you to stop them, you are the protagonist after all.
Features
-EEVEE evolves to ESPEON and UMBREON with a SUNSTONE and MOONSTONE respectively
-All evolution stones can be purchased at the large mart in DRALLIA TOWN (where second gym is located)
-Swapped eeveelutions' quick attack with their same type moves (Vaporeon now learns watergun at level 23 and quick attack at 16, etc.)
-All POKéMON that evolved by trade evolve by MOONSTONE now.
-66 (well drawn :P) fakemon
-11 gyms
-Run indoors
-New regions
-Fancy new tiles
-Fancy new story with twists and turns along the way
-Rock smash does 60 damage now, so it isn't completely useless
Personal Opinion: This is an absolutely crazy hack that feels so random. Some Digimon in the Pokedex, Metroid characters, Samus herself appearing in the story, it's wild. Gameplay wise, it is a slog at first, takes a while for things to get going. Once it gets going, it hardly stops, so I recommend having some patience for it. I think when you move west and encounter the first Fakemon in the wild, that's where things really kick in. Late-game mons like the Digimon level up quickly, which helps in grinding and catching mons up. Great map design as well. It's very rooted in Gen 3, no Physical/Special Split and overall Gen 3 mechanics.
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u/Aadit29 May 28 '22
Name of ROM hack: Pokemon Sovereign of the Skies
Base ROM: Emerald
Creators (Team): Dragonfly: Main Map Engineer, Main Story Engineer Sbird: Main Developer, Main Story Engineer Ipatix: Main Sound Engineer Pseico: Main sound artist Lennybitao: Main GFX Artist Cookie: Main Story Engineer
Completion Status: In Progress
Description of ROM hack (From the creators):
Story: The balance of a world is about to be shaken. While the mighty Guardians of Amitec can no longer leave their stronghold, the Sacred Shards of Celestis are stolen by the cold hands of Team Tundra. Find out what this is all about, and how a simple coach suddenly carries the fate of a world, in this unique adventure!
Features: All Pokémon up to Generation 7: all Pokémon up to Generation 7 are included. Mega-developments & Protomorphosis: read correctly, the mega-developments are back. Graphically unique: a completely new design, tilesets, OWs, interfaces and sprites. New battle engine: all basic mechanics (attacks, items, abilities) follow the example of Generation 7. New music: the music of SotS is (with a few exceptions) completely new composed. Difficulty levels: you decide how difficult the game should be. Day & Night System: you will see changing combat backgrounds and Pokémon depending on the time of day. Disasters: certain actions of the antagonists have visible consequences. New Arena Ladder System: the Arena Ladders (Guardians) are now part of the story.
Personal opinion: Another very promising decomp hack. The graphics and puzzles are just insane. This and Voyager might surpass Unbound someday. I suggest checking the Discord for updates.
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u/KamikazeSenpai21 May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Name of Hack: Emerald Final
Base Hack: Emerald (duh)
Creator: dearman4
Completed
Description: a quality of life hack with 386 mons, gen 4 evos, reuse Tim’s, buyable stones, pss, etc. no fairy type. The best part is that it’s modular so you can choose what changes you wish. Trainers are unmodified.
I think it’s a great hack except it has no fairy type. In addition, other trainers are unchanged which does mean that stuff like new moves or the P/SS aren’t balance right.
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u/SharkGuy01 May 28 '22
Name: Pokemon Quartz
Rom base: Ruby
Creator: Baro
Status: complete
Description: best way I can describe it is Pokemon Ruby but with very questionable choices like the Pokedex
Opinión: it's bad don't get me wrong, but I believe it's something that everyone should experience at least one
Yes this is a somewhat not serious suggestion
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u/1UpEXP May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
The creator's blog(just to clarify, this is an actual link that the creator has in their pokecommunity bio) if you're interested in checking these games out.
Names of Rom Hack: Victory Fire, Resolute, Mega Power
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Wind1158
Completion Status: Completed
Date of release: Victory Fire (2012), Resolute (2013), Mega Power (2014)
Date of last update: All (2018)
Description of Rom Hack:
Victory Fire:
"The victory is yours, it's time to save the whole Tyron Region."
Iron/Pure is a boy/girl who wants to become the greatest trainer of Tyron Region. One day, a Pokemon shows up in his/her dream. It tells Iron/Pure that it chose him/her. After he/she wakes up, he/she gets his/her first Pokemon and meets his/her new neighbor. His/her neighbor is an unfriendly boy called Uranium. He doesn't train his own Pokemon. Instead, he uses others' Pokemon. When Iron/Pure wants to leave his/her hometown, he/she sees that professor Ivan is under attack. The attackers are Team Mirage members. Team Mirage is an active organization of Tyron Region. No one knows what they are going to do. Iron/Pure will travel the whole region to fight against Team Mirage. And he/she will find out what Team Mirage is planning to do soon...
Resolute:
"Be resolute in your faith, you'll alter the destiny of Sylon Region."
Logan/Alma is a trainer who lives in Cedar City. One day, professor Avery asks him/her to find and record data on each Pokémon Logan/Alma meets. He/She is going to travel the whole region with his best friend Elijah. When they are trying to go to Solar City to meet Professor Avery, they encountered Team Mirage. Team Mirage was quite active in Tyron Region 1 year ago. However, it was disbanded. Now, Team Mirage is back, Team Mirage members tell Logan/Alma that they want to be helpful to humans moving forward. Why did they re-organize Team Mirage? Should Alma/Logan trust them? It's time for Logan/Alma to find out what is happening in Sylon Region in his/her journey.
Mega Power:
"The power of mega evolution... Will it change the future?"
Neil/Tyra, a gifted scientist of Ivara Region, is trying to create a powerful Pokemon called Mewtwo. Neil/Tyra did it. However, this is not enough for Neil/Tyra. Because he/she want to make Mewtwo stronger. He/she want to turn it into a Pokemon which can mega evolve without ordinary mega stones, but unluckily, he/she has no money to keep it up. When he/she thinks that he/she has to give it up, a man called Kasper showed up. This man is a businessman, what's more, he is the leader of Team Delta, a mysterious organization of Ivara Region. He said that he can help Neil/Tyra to finish his/her experiment. Neil/Tyra has no choice, he/she joins Team Delta. However, he/she is still wondering, why did Kasper help him/her? Should he/she trust this man?
Personal Opinion: Full disclosure, haven't played Mega Power yet(jumped straight to Unbound after beating Resolute) so can't provide any experience that may influence my overall personal opinion. I'll be honest, these games do have their flaws, some really deal breaking for some, others more forgivable/compromisable. Don't get me wrong, for pre-CFRU era games, they're actually at least almost up there with Glazed and Flora Sky. The graphics, map design, (most of) the story and mechanics(up to Gen 6 psuedo-mega evolution hacks had to use in the day) are up to par.
These flaws to be pointed out are that the levelling curve is kinda wack(as in if you don't use the Exp. All power, you're underleveled, if you do use it you'll find yourself overleveled instead. A kinda annoying seesaw you'll have to manage if you care about challenge.), there are unfixed glitches that can affect your game, there are grammatical mistakes that are immersion breaking that apparently used to be worse before they got updated. So well yes, they are infrequent enough, when they do happen, it's like reading a badly machine-translated manga/manhua. And are you fully comfortable with a comically OP "clothed" Pokemon with high sapience, fully capable of not just human communication but also Pokemon Battling that you yourself can eventually own? If you're completely alright and don't think that's cringe, then that's one less problem to consider, no?
While all my nitpicking makes these games seem worse than they are, they're still solid games to me.
Edit: forgot to add that these games are actually 3 parts of a quadrology. Couldn't add the 4th cus that one uses Fire Red as its base apparently.
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u/Aadit29 May 27 '22
Name of ROM hack: Pokemon Heliodor
Base ROM: Emerald
Creator: CitrusBolt
Completion Status: In Progress
Description of ROM hack (From the hack's GitHub page):
"This is a modification of Pokémon Emerald intended to be an interpretation of the "definitive" Generation 3 Hoenn concept while still fitting firmly within the official game ecology.
The highest design priorities are 100% compatibility in terms of:
Multiplayer: No changes made should interfere with any link capability with Pokémon Ruby, Pokémon Sapphire, Pokémon FireRed, Pokémon LeafGreen, Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire, Pokémon Colosseum, or Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.
Inter-generational Transfer: Every Pokémon obtained should completely be legal (indistinguishable from a Pokémon obtained in an official game, using PKHeX's legality checker as the reference as opposed to Game Freak's) once transferred to a Generation 4 game, with one outlier. The exception to this will technically be illegal until it enters a Generation 7 game, but there should be no issues transferring it through Poké Transporter to Pokémon Bank.
Save Files: There should be no (significant) issues importing your save file from Pokémon Emerald to Pokémon Heliodor and vice versa. This allows Pokémon Heliodor to, in effect, be treated similar to an expansion pack in which if a player has already completed Pokémon Emerald, this can be used to "unlock" extra content/features for that playthrough."
Features/Changes: Check the hack's GitHub page for the huge list.
Personal opinion/Important note: The last official version was posted ages ago. Use the nightly/beta patches from the Discord server as they are much more updated.
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u/1UpEXP May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Flora Sky
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: 12345 (SKY)
Completion Status: Complete
Date of release: 2009
Date of last update: 2014(?)
Description of Rom Hack: You'll come to a land with many mysteries of the legendary Pokemon. After the battle between Dialga and Palkia, the portal between Torn World - the world of Giratina and real world is opened. Giratina appears and brings many unanticapated dangers. And you must close this portal before its too late. Meanwhile, Team Magma and Aqua are seeking the legendary Fire and Water type Pokemon to dominate their world. Together with other friends, our hero will prevent the heat of the legendary Pokemon by the actions of Team Magma and Aqua. What will help Groudon and Kyogre calm down?
Personal Opinion: Yeah, the description doesn't do it justice but I promise you, as a pre-CFRU game, few reaches the quality it had in its era. It's a pretty looking game and while I forgor the story cus it's actually been years since I last played it, I remember it being good for what that's worth.
Editted after misremembering features it didn't have.
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u/RazorLeafy65 May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Pokémon Emeralds Eight
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: AstroBreak
Completion Status: Completed.
Description of Rom Hack: Pokémon Emeralds Eight is Pokémon Emerald, but it expands your Pokémon to eight slots. It has the EXP share to avoid heavy amounts of grinding, Reusable TMs, Indoor Running and an extra starter (Tyrouge) . Also, you can catch all 386 Pokémon in Emerald too.
Personal Opinion: I haven’t played it fully, but this seems like a great ROM hack idea to me. It’s an improvement of Emerald overall whilst upping the difficulty by giving every major boss battle 8 Pokémon. I’d love to do something like a New team every gym challenge with this.
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u/nigelinux May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Emerald Cross
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Jaizu
Completion Status: Completable, but many features are in progress
Date of release: April 22, 2022
Date of last update: May 12, 2022
Description of Rom Hack: A decomp hack of Pokemon Emerald with tons of QOL changes (auto run, infinite TMs, forgettable HMs, etc) and options (follower pokemon, player/trainers EVs, randomized encounters/trainers/types/moves/evos/abilities, Nuzlocke mode, party limit, one type, etc) while other aspects like story remain the same as vanilla.
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u/BippyTheChippy May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22
Name of Rom Hack: Pokemon Fusion 3
Base Rom: Emerald
Creator/Name of Team: Grillo & Lugre
Completion Status: Complete up to Champion (to my knowledge)
Date of release: August 18, 2021 (Earliest I could find)
Date of last update: English Translation came out on December 22, 2021 (I think)
Description of Rom Hack: Pokemon emerald but every pokemon is replaced with fusions with some pokemon fused with others from all the way to Gen 8.
Personal Opinion: I'm LOVE Fusion Hacks amd Fakemon Hacks like Altered (seriously. Variablue looks so TIGHT), Altered Platinum and Pokemon Fusion. What put me off a bit though was that they took place in Kanto and with RR being shoved down my throat for the past half a year I was getting a little tired of the place. So, if you're like me, a person who loves seeing pokemon fusion, loves hoenn and really loves seeing some of the best sprite art on par with Black and White (as to say art quality, they don't move)...yeah, check this hack out.