“Pokemon Emerald’s Eight” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by AstroBreak. Discover a new Emerald ROM hack that lets you carry 8 Pokemon instead of the usual 6.
Pokemon Emerald’s Eight Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Creator: AstroBreak
- Base ROM: Emerald
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v1.5
- Last Updated on: July 31, 2021
- Status: Completed
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Description
Pokemon Emerald’s Eight is an experiment-hack that consists of the base Pokemon Emerald experience, such that all of the mainline mandatory battles are playable, but with a party size of 8 pokemon not only on the player’s side, but on enemy trainer parties as well. Along with this, i’ve added some QoL features that seemed like a must, as well as expanded all initial gym leader’s teams to feature a full 8 member party, together with elite 4 and champion’s.
Features
- Party size of up to 8 members on both player and enemy parties.
- Full 386 pokemon catchable.
- Physical/Special split added.
- Custom gym leader, elite 4 and champion 8-member teams.
- Tuned down a bit the Exp. Share. This results in a slower level curve and alleviates overpowering the full party.
- Trade evolutions are now all friendship evolutions.
- New 4/4 party manu layout.
- Reusable TM’s.
- Indoors running.
- New music on gym leader battles.
- Starter Tyrogue along with the usual starter of choice.
- Event items are obtainable from player PC upon starting a new game.
- Expanded item pocket to hold up to 50 items.
- Forgettable HM’s.
- Evolution stones sold on Petalburg pokemart, heart scales sold on Fallarbor pokemart.
- Buffed Cut && Rock Smash.
- Rock Smash now also lowers defense every time.
Change Log
v1.5
- Small buff to Flannery && Winona teams as they seemed too easy compared to other gym leaders.
- Fixed Hall of Fame freezing the game after beating league.
- Fixed bug preventing 7th/8th pokemon from being switched in on double battles on occasion.
- Fixed bug incorrectly selecting party members on forced switch in (Roar, etc.)
- Fixed bug preventing pokedex data from being recorded correctly.
Known issues & Bugs
- Slight graphical glitches on party menu.
- Battle Frontier and postgame are largely untested so probably broken somewhere, due to them being out of the scope of this project.
- Some emulators might produce freezes at the beggining, or cause a black screen when starting champion Wallace’s battle. Retroarch mgba core seems to mostly run the game just fine.
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Credits
Everyone working on the decompilation project! I’m sure this would not have been possible to do with binary hacking, and the decompilation project is an amazing work of reverse engineering.
My friend Airen for playtesting the hack.
u/SilverPrince94 for suggestions on expanded enemy trainer party members.
Blurose for their implementation of the gen 6 Exp. Share, and Lunos for their port of said implementation.
Romhacking Hideout members for their PSS battle engine implementation.
Jordan Davenport for creating the MIDI that i used on the gym leader theme.
All users that encouraged me to finish the initial version of the hack!
