“Pokemon Emerald Johto Edition” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by riddley. Explore the Hoenn region, but this time you can catch Pokemon from only Kanto and Johto (from Generations 1 and 2). The storyline is mostly the same as in Pokemon Emerald, but with a few small changes.
Pokemon Emerald Johto Edition Completed GBA ROM Hack
- Creator: riddley
- Base ROM: Emerald
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v1.1
- Last Updated on: July 28, 2024
- Status: Completed
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Description
Pokemon Emerald Johto Edition is a Emerald rom hack, where the original game’s Pokemon have been replaced with those from the Johto pokedex (with some modifications). The goal is to create a refreshed experience compared to the original Emerald game, while keeping the core experience of a mainline Gen 3 game. Kind of like a randomiser, but a little bit more thoughtful and cohesive.
This is not a difficulty hack. I have tried to keep the difficulty curve true to the original games. Due to the increased movepools and power creep of more recent generations, I have erred towards making bosses’ parties and movepools better in order to maintain the original difficulty, but ultimately it’s still a Pokemon game; it’s not gonna be too hard.
Changes from the original game
The Hoenn Pokedex has been replaced by the Johto Pokedex. All Pokemon from the first 252 (i.e. Kanto to Johto, Bulbasaur to Celebi) are be obtainable aside from Lugia, Ho-Oh, Mewtwo, Mew, and the regional legendary trios. Later generation evolutions are also available (e.g. Leafeon, Magnezone, Kleavor, etc).
Pokemon have been placed in habitats that make sense both flavour-wise and difficulty-wise. Trainer battles have also been updated to use Pokemon from Johto and Kanto. I have also tried to highlight and give players a chance to use Pokemon that often aren’t easily available in-game, and demote some Pokemon that are very common in other games. However, my first priority was always putting Pokemon into locations that made sense.
Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, and the Regi-trio retain their place within the story (in the place of Lugia, Ho-Oh, Mewtwo, Mew, and the regional legendary trios).
Regional formes are available in the post-game.
Features
- Full Pokemon replacement, with wild encounters and trainer battles updated
- Full Day/Night system. Overworld visible day and night, with different encounters in each.
- New battles. Choose to take on the Johto Gym Leaders for an extra challenge.
This hack is based on the pokeemerald-expansion, and this hacks includes the features provided with this base. I have kept the QoL features and updates (e.g. evolution methods) as they are implemented there, for the sake of consistency. See the README on Github for the full list, which includes:
- Physical/Special split
- Fairy type
- Updated damage calculations
- HGSS-style Pokedex
- Nature colors
- Running indoors
- Reusable TMs
- …and more
Many thanks to pret and everyone at RHH – working with this project was a dream!
While the updated battle engine has support for battle gimmicks (Mega-Evolution, Z-moves, Dynamax), these aren’t available within the game.
Change Log
- Version 1.1: Added Stantler’s evolution move to level up learnset. Fixed Old Amber resurrection logic.
- Version 1.0: Created website for documentation. Minor tweaks and bug-fixes.
Known Bugs
- Nighttime effects don’t apply to the cable car cut-scene
Game Related Stuff
Download Pokemon Emerald Johto Edition
Previous Version
Screenshots
Credits
pret, without whom this wouldn’t be possible
RHH contributors, without whom this simple project would have felt impossibly hard
Xhyzi, whose day-night overworld effect I adapted in this hack
Lunos, whose contributions on this forum were invaluable many times
