“Pokemon Cool Spot” is a GBA Rom Hack made by JoeyZeed. Enjoy the journey of Pokemon emerald with 7-Up mascot, cool spot as your powerful Starter and many more surprises.
Pokemon Cool Spot GBA ROM Hack
- Creator: JoeyZeed
- Base ROM: Emerald
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v1.1
- Last Updated on: May 02, 2024
- Status: Completed
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Description
Hey, remember Cool Spot? 7-Up’s mascot from the late 80s-Early 90s? No? He had his own SNES game!
This is a very cool and very basic hack of Emerald version, with a bunch of very cool secrets, features, and differences to make it more unique from your average emerald playthrough. Of course, the game features the 7-Up mascot, Cool Spot as a powerful playable starter Pokemon! Nearly all 386 Pokemon are obtainable, and there’s a few cool surprises that await curious trainers in the brand-new Pokemon Cool Spot Version!
Features
- Hey, it’s Cool Spot! Cool Spot as a playable Pokemon, complete with unique, custom moves (they’re cool!)
- Remixed distribution of Pokemon across Hoenn, with most of the 386 pokemon obtainable through a single-player playthrough. There are no trade evolutions, and Feebas and Milotic are a lot easier to obtain. (Currently, many Legendaries are unobtainable, but will add them in later updates!
- Bosses have new, slightly more difficult teams to overcome, making for a cool experience!
- New Music tracks, all arranged and formatted by yours truly to fit into Pokemon Emerald!
- New, Cool Pokemon with customized sprites to discover and train!
- Many, many items have been replaced by various (actually real) flavors of 7-Up! It’s delicious and nutritious for your Pokemon, complete with new sprites!
- Quality of Life adjustments such as:
- Reusable TMs
- Exp Share and Lucky Egg available for purchase at certain Pokemarts
- Evolution items available for purchase at Lilycove Dept. Store
- And more to come in future updates!
Change Log
v1.1
Bug Fixes
- Victory road cooltrainer will no longer crash the game
- Magma/Aqua, Rival Battle, Regi Battle, and Legendary Battle themes are now fixed and looped properly!
- Rayquaza cutscene will no longer crash the game
- Empty Pokedex entries are now updated and fixed
- Poliwag is now obtainable
- Lickitung is now obtainable
- Torchic is now obtainable
Balance Changes
- Brawly difficulty nerfed, because goodness gracious he was a little too strong!
- Norman difficulty nerfed
- Rival battle #5 is now more difficult and May/Brendan have a more competent team
- EXP SHARE and LUCKY EGG are now available for purchase at certain Pokemarts
- HEART SCALE is now available for purchase at the Fallarbor Pokemart, no more farming Luvdisc!
- In-Game Trades
- NPC trades in Fortree City and Pacifidlog Town have been changed to make awakening the Regis easier
- Fortree City trade: now asks for a WINGULL in exchange for a WAILORD
- Pacifidlog Town trade: now asks for a TENTACOOL in exchange for a RELICANTH
- NPC trades in Fortree City and Pacifidlog Town have been changed to make awakening the Regis easier
New Features
- Replaced Marshtomp with a new Fakemon, which is now obtainable in the postgame
- New custom music tracks for Victory Road, Regi Battle, Legendary Battle, Rayquaza Battle, Underwater, Mt. Pyre Peak, Route Theme 3
- NPC dialogue now reflects the altered story a bit more
- Story is VERY SLIGHTLY altered
- New original sprites, cries, and animations for Legendaries, a few new Pokemon
- Starter selection has been altered to create the illusion of choice lol!!!
- New NPC trainers introduced!
- Brawly has been replaced by a new, more powerful gym leader!
- Cooltrainers now have Cool sunglasses!!!
Move Changes
- Leech Life
- Power increased from 20/100% to 65/100%
- Flash
- Now an Electric-type move, 30 power/90% with 100% chance to lower accuracy
- Rock Smash
- Power increased from 20/100% to 50/100%
- Strength
- Power increased from 80/100% to 85/100%
- Cut
- Now a Steel-type move, 55 power/95% with no effect
Known Bugs
- Rival theme is currently broken in-game (v1.0), working on a fix for this
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Credits
- Me, JoeyZeed – Scripting, Sprites, Music arrangement, Animation, Maps, Features
- Cool Spot music composed by Tommy Tallarico
- Additional Sprites by Naruto747 and @Ninspriter
- Cool Spot (1993) front sprites by Tim Williams, Doug Cope, Kevin Norr
Special Thanks
- Doopie, IceCreamVyper, SunnyBunny, AceDefective, Twitch.tv/Nateathon – Testing
- Cosmo, for letting me infect his server with Cool Spot
- Virgin Games and Keurig Dr. Pepper for creating the Cool Spot
- Ghosty and SunnyBunny for giving me the idea to make this game
- You, for playing my COOL and goofy game!
- This game was developed using Hex Maniac Advance! Thank you!