“Pokemon Bill’s Secret Garden” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by TibJib. Explore Bill’s Secret Garden in FireRed with 40 new Pokemon, Fairy-type, modern mechanics, and updated trainers.
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Pokemon Bill’s Secret Garden Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Creator: TibJib
- Base ROM: Emerald
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v1.1
- Last Updated on: August 16, 2024
- Status: Completed
Also Check Out: Pokemon Emerald Seaglass GBA
Description
Pokemon Bill’s Secret Garden (BSG) is a Vanilla+ rom hack for FireRed. The namesake feature of this hack is a new garden area accessed from a teleporter in Bill’s house. Here, you will find Pokemon from the GS Spaceworld Beta that were cut from the original Gold & Silver versions! Between the Pokemon you can find in the garden and new evolutions, there are a total of 40 new Pokemon to find. In addition to that, there are many other changes to make the experience more interesting
Features
- New garden area accessible via teleporter in Bill’s house with Pokemon from the GS Spaceworld Beta. Includes 40 new Pokemon with new evolutions.
- Based on CFRU and Dynamic Pokemon Expansion, adding Fairy-type, modern moves, battle mechanics, and DexNav.
- Updated encounter tables; all 386 Gen 3 Pokemon are catchable, mostly before the Elite Four.
- Includes pre-evolutions, evolutions, forms, and variants of the original 386 Gen 3 Pokemon from later generations, including Paradox forms.
- Trainer teams updated to include new Pokemon, making some trainers naturally harder.
- Additional features include new move tutors and shops to support these changes.
Despite using CFRU as a base, Mega Evolution and Gen 4-9 Pokemon unrelated to existing lines have been excluded from BSG.
Changes From Base FireRed
- CFRU and DPE have been applied via Leon’s Base Rom in HexManiacAdvance. All basic features included in this engine upgrade are applied.
- 40 new Pokemon added, with some being new lines and others being new evolutions.
- New moves have been added, primarily as signature moves for the new Pokemon.
- New evolution items have been added.
- A new area was added to Bill’s House via a teleporter in the back. This garden area houses most of the new Pokemon.
- Later generation evolutions and forms for the original 386 Pokemon have been made available.
- Mega Mawile and Mega Sableye have been made into their own Pokemon, Feauxile and Gemineye. They will evolve from their original forms by level.
- G-Ponyta/G-Rapidash and Masquerain have had their types changed.
- Covet has been changed into a Fairy-type move.
- Encounter tables have been altered to allow most Pokemon to be found before the Elite Four.
- Small new areas have been added all over the region to provide catching locations for some Pokemon.
- The female trainer sprite has been changed to Blue (JP). Sprite courtesy of LouLilie.
- Player starts with Running Shoes.
- Trainer teams have been updated to take advantage of the newly available Pokemon.
- In addition, many mid-to-late game trainers who were still using unevolved Pokemon have been given final evolutions. This is most noticeable on the routes leading to Fuchsia and beyond.
- TM locations have been moved to increase availability.
- Move Tutors are now repeatable. Most Tutors have been given different moves and new Move Tutors have been added all over the region.
- PokeMarts have been updated with a second vendor for additional items, such as special Pokeballs and type-boosters.
- The DexNav has been made available in Veridian.
- The Good Rod has been moved to Lavender Town.
- Item selection in the Department Store has been expanded, including more evolution items and more Pokeballs.
- New vendors have been added to Celadon Mansion, Pokemon Trainer Fan Club, Fuchsia City, Two Island, and Five Island, providing various rare items.
- The Mystic Ticket is available on the Sevii Islands before the Elite Four.
- The National Dex catching requirement has been reduced to 30. Note, only the original 150 Kanto Pokemon will count towards this number.
- The Aurora Ticket is available in the post-game Sevii Islands.
- The Elite Four rematches have been updated with new Pokemon and are designed to be a bit harder than the vanilla game.
- A special trainer has been added to Birth Island, with a team in the mid-80s. Proceed with caution.
Change Log v1.1
- The PokeDex has been updated with entries for all the new Pokemon.
** Was unable to implement separate entries for Hisuian, Paldean, and Beta regional forms, so they share entries with their base forms. - The descriptions for TMs past TM50 have been fixed.
- The Exp Share has been moved to the Guard House on Route 11, outside Vermilion City. The ItemFinder is now in the Fuchsia City Guard House.
- The back half of Bill’s Garden has been slightly altered, to make DexNav chaining easier.
- Some TM moves have been changed to be more useful. Locations of these TMs have been moved to be appropriate to power level.
**TM41 Torment > Moonblast
**TM48 Skill Swap > Zing Zap
**TM67 Recycle > Raging Fury
**TM110 Captivate > Wood Hammer
**TM112 Round > Draco Meteor
**TM113 Echoed Voice > Dual Wingbeat
**TM114 Natural Gift > Icicle Crash
**TM115 Quash > Meteor Mash
**TM119 Sky Drop > Expanding Force
**TM120 Nature Power > Fiery Dance - Sludge Bomb TM has been moved to be available before E4.
- 20 additional Move Tutors have been added. See documentation for full list.
- Location of the Body Slam tutor has been changed to Vermilion City.
- Many late-game item pickups have been changed to remove filler and make them more valuable.
- Masquerain has been buffed, with similar stats to other rom hacks. Done to make it more viable when used by enemy trainers.
- Mawile now learns Metal Claw earlier.
- Tangtrip has been moved to Route 22, west of Viridian City.
- Bomsheal now learns Seed Bomb via Move Tutor
- Super Boss trainers have been added to Seven Island. There is one for each type, excluding the types already used by the Elite Four. These trainers have full IVs, with customized EVs, natures, movesets, and items. Their teams are in the mid-80s. They will initiate a battle as soon as you speak with them, so be ready before you approach. You’ll likely know them when you see them.
- The Rival in the Elite Four rematches has been buffed, giving his Pokemon EVs, IVs, and held items.
- A secret cheat block has been added for anti-grinding support.
Possible Future Updates
- Update animations for new attacks, which are currently recycling existing animations.
- Create an optional “Hard Mode” patch.
- Create an optional patch that enables Mega Evolution, if demand is high enough.
- Update certain Pokemon icons (some of them are pretty terrible…)
- Change in-game trades.
- Balance changes based on any feedback received.
- Multi-move tutors.
Known Bugs
- The map sprite for the roaming legendary that appears after beating the League is broken and shows the wrong Pokemon.
- Nincada’s normal evolution method isn’t working, making Shedinja impossible to get. Added a new evolution method to get Shedinja using a Dusk Stone.
- Registering more than one Key Item to the Select button causes a glitch in the item list. The items will function normally when selected, but the names will be wrong (For example, the Bike might be listed as Fresh Water).
- Some Pokemon, primarily regional forms, only give 1xp.
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Credits
TibJib (Creator)
