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“Pokemon Modern Emerald” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by resetes12. Explore an modernized version of Pokemon Emerald with lots of changes and new stuff, like having Pokemon follow you, a modern Battle Frontier, Wonder Trades, EXP Share, and more.

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Pokemon Modern Emerald Completed GBA ROM Hack

  • Creator: resetes12
  • Base ROM: Emerald
  • Language: English
  • Latest Version: v3.3.1
  • Last Updated on: December 10, 2025
  • Status: Completed

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Description

To put it simply, “Pokemon Modern Emerald” is a modernization of the original “Pokémon Emerald” game. This game offers all the QOL features and improvements that I’ve wanted since I got my hands on the original game in 2005. Think of this as a 2.0 update for the original game. This game is not a “difficulty hack-rom”, and never will be. If you want a super difficult version of Pokémon Emerald there are already a lot of good hack-roms available. The idea behind this game is to play it instead of the original “Pokémon Emerald”, especially for those who want a vanilla experience with more features: simple difficulty modes, move splits, QOL features, new Pokémon, new areas, new rematches, and a large etc.

This hack is a “3rd generation hack”, meaning that it doesn’t try to mimic later generations and, although certain features and improvements from later generations are included, this hack is a 3rd generation game at its core. Don’t expect all the new moves from later generations, or being able to catch 900 different Pokémon. This hack does not include the “Battle Engine Upgrade” or anything similar, but it does include certain mechanics from it (like the OPTIONAL Physical / Special split that happened in Gen. IV, or the Fairy Type).

There’s a total of 423 Pokémon, including 2 from Generation 8 and 3 from Generation 9. There are two modes that can be selected from the Challenges screen at the start of the game. If you don’t touch anything, spawns will be just like the original Emerald without the version exclusives. If you enable “Modern Spawns”, all 423 will be obtainable. The game also includes Day/Night spawns for both modes (although without Modern Spawns the change is minimal and it’s mostly a rate change for certain species). There are also a ton of different options that can be selected at the start of the game to personalise your experience.

There are also WONDER-TRADES, which can help you complete your national Pokédex (All Pokémon are available for Wonder-Trade except legendaries, and you are limited to 3 Wonder-Trades every day). It’s on the second floor of the Pokémon Center, and can be used after the fifth gym.

In addition, the game is incredibly modular. When you start a new game, a menu that contains dozens of options to customize your experience will appear. This includes:

  • Gamemode: Select a preset to have a closer experience to the original Emerald, or a more up-to-date experience.
  • Features: Select a ton of new features that will enhance the game. Includes a Fake-RTC for those with flashcards / emulators without RTC.
  • Randomizer: Randomize every aspect of the game, from inside the game.
  • Nuzlocke: Create your Nuzlocke rules!
  • Difficulty: Customize the difficulty of the game with pretty simple options. Hard, or easy? Your choice.
  • Challenges: Select some challenges to test yourself.

The code is available on Github, and you can report bugs over there or in this thread. The game works on any good emulator (tested on: mGBA on PC / Switch) and on real hardware (tested on: EZ Flash Omega (BUT YOU HAVE TO SELECT FLASH TYPE 128KB MANUALLY), Everdrive Mini). Some emulators can cause crashes (OpenEMU, MyBoy, VBA) probably because they are too old or they are missing features other good emulators have.

This is my “dream emerald” version, let’s say, but now even better!

Features

Gamemode

  • Choose between a “Classic” or “Modern” preset, or customize it to your liking.
  • Modern Spawns: You can now capture the 423 new Pokémon available. Only changes wild Pokémon, not trainers. Modern Spawns have also a Night encounter version for each route, making certain Pokémon night exclusive.
  • Modern Typings: Some Pokémon have their types changed to buff them.
  • Add Fairy Type: Adds Fairy Type to Pokémon that had it added in Generation 6.
  • Better Stats: Some Pokémon have their stats changed to buff them.
  • Extra Legendaries: Adds new legendaries that weren’t available in vanilla Emerald.
  • Legendary abilities: Buffs some legendaries giving them a better ability than “Pressure”.
  • Modern Movepool: Adds 15 new moves, and modifies all Pokémon movepool to add them.
  • Nature mints: Adds nature mints to the game, available after the 4th gym.
  • Synchronize: Choose if this ability works like in modern games or like in Gen 3.
  • Sturdy: Choose if this ability works like in modern games or like in Gen 3.
  • Reusable TMs: Choose between a faithful usage of TMs or a simplistic option that makes TMs infinite. All TMs can be bought in the Battlefrontier PokéMart only if you have Reusable TMs off, and makes Move Tutors one time only just like in the original (Move tutors are infinite if you enable Reusable TMs).
  • Citrus berry: Choose if it works like Gen 3 or like Gen 4+.
  • Survive Poison: If enabled, your Pokémon will survive poison damage with 1hp when outside of battle.

Features

  • RTC Type: Choose between using a real clock, or using a fake clock. Fake clock rate is 1h irl, 1 day ingame.
  • Shiny Chance: 8192 (Emerald default) – 4096 (Gen VI+) – 2048 – 1024 – 512.
  • Item Drops: Items held by wild Pokémon, when defeated, will be dropped and obtained by the player. Forget about catching it or using Thief!
  • Pokémon Faint: Your Pokémon will stay in the FAINTED status, meaning that you can’t use them again. CAREFUL as it could end your adventure if you lose all your Pokémon (Previously known as Perma Faint).
  • Uncaped wondertrade.
  • Easier Feebas: If enabled, Feebas have a 5% chance to appear around all Route 119.
  • Randomizer:
    • Includes every option that any randomizer can have, and it’s completely modular.
  • Nuzlocke:
    • Any option that any Nuzlocker would want to use.
  • Difficulty:
    • Lock difficulty: locks the current select option that was selected during Birch’s Speech and can’t be changed ingame. Hard sets “Battle Style” to “Set” always. Beating the game disables the lock.
    • Number of Party Members limit: From 1 to 5
    • Level caps
    • Exp. Multipliers
    • Player items
    • Trainer items
    • Player IVs: Sets all IVs from wild Pokémon to 31, or if you choose “No (HP) , between 30 and 31 to allow for different Hidden Powers.
    • Trainer IVs: If hard is selected together with “Player IVs”, you’ll completely remove IVs from the game.
    • Player EVs
    • Trainer EVs
  • Challenges:
    • PC doesn’t heal
    • Evolution limits
    • One type only challenges
    • Stat equalizers
    • Mirror Mode
    • Mirror Mode Thief
    • Play without Pokémon Centers

Story related:

  • Gym rematches are easier to trigger. After 10 wild battles won, or 5 trainer battles won, there is a 50% chance of getting a rematch.
  • The Elite Four can be rematched after battling with Steven, and they are double battles.
  • After completing the Elite Four Rematch, a rematch with Steven will be available. You will get a unique, special prize.
  • The Sealed Chambers puzzles have changed slightly. Learn braille and find out what changed!
  • Also, there are 6 Regis. Try to discover where are the new 3!
  • All the trainer rematches scale up a lot more than in the original game, and their parties have been changed.
  • All the trainers in the Battle Frontier have new Pokémon in their teams and have been buffed or modified.
  • All the gym leaders, Elite Four, the 2 champions, Wally, Magma / Aqua leaders, and Red and Leaf will appear during the Battle Frontier challenges.

Pokemon related:

  • Following Pokémon (Optional, with a second option to enable or not Big Followers like Rayquaza).
  • 40 new Pokémon species, mostly from Gen. IV and 3 from Gen 9 (Annihilape, Dudunsparce, Farigiraf).
  • 1 new box space since 2.0.
  • Night encounters. Certain species will have a higher rate during night and others will only be available during night (only with Modern Spawns).
  • All the buffs from later generations are in (optional).
  • Extra buffs for other Pokémon are in. Includes stats, abilities and/or typings. (Ex. Arbok is now POISON / DARK and Meganium is now GRASS / FAIRY). You can have a look at them in my personal document, on the “3. Pokémon changes” tab. (It’s optional now)
  • All the move buffs AND nerfs from later generations are in, with small changes to make them work in a 3rd gen game (optional).
  • All Egg moves and tutor moves have been improved with data from later generations.
  • New evolution methods.
  • Pokémon inherit 5 IV’s from their parents, no item needed.
  • Everstone works on male or female Pokémon and guarantees nature.
  • Gen. VIII Synchronize (optional).
  • Kanto fossils are available in 3 different caves.
  • Shuckle can make berry juice just like in Gen. II!! Yay?
  • Nature Mints are available to buy in the Flower Shop after the 4th Gym (optional).
  • Deoxys forms can be changed.
  • Custom Shiny forms for some Pokémon.

Battle related:

  • Modern Battle Frontier, Battle Tents and Trainer Hill. Your Pokémon will be limited to level 50 when playing in those battle facilities, even if your level is 100.
  • 15 new moves from Gen IV to buff typings that didn’t have a certain Physical / Special move. (Ex. Dark Pulse, as Dark type didn’t have a Special Dark type move). (Now optional).
  • Fairy type introduced.
  • 3 New abilities for Regidrago, Regieleki and Arceus.
  • Gen. VI EXP. SHARE and Gen III EXP. SHARE in the same game. “EXP. SHARE S” can be obtained at the Slateport Mart after obtaining the “EXP. SHARE” at Devon Corp.
  • HM01 Cut is now Grass type, NightShade does 50 static damage, Hidden power is now 60 always, and shows the type in the summary screen and in battle, Charge now ups Sp. Def.
  • EV Training available in Lilycove.
  • IV Maximizer available in Lylicove, after beating the game. Needs a lvl.100 Pokémon.
  • A nurse NPC is available after beating the game to farm EXP in Lilycove.
  • Faster battle intros. Enable “Fast Intros” option in the options menu.
  • Faster-paced battles. Enable “Fast Battles” option in the options menu.
  • 3 beeps when low-health, then it stops.
  • Press START while selecting a move to open a new Submenu with information about the selected move.
  • Trainer class-based Pokéballs.
  • Catching EXP.
  • Macho Brace multiplies EV gain * 5.
  • Gen. IV Sitrus Berry (optional).

UI related:

  • New Pokédex! You can now see important information on the new “Stats” page. It’s very, VERY useful and it’s like having the game documentation in-game.
  • Faster battle transitions ported from Fire Red.
  • Hold L+R, then A when entering a Wild Battle to instantly run.
  • You can now register 2 key items: Pressing (as usual) and holding SELECT!
  • Swap Pokémon pressing SELECT.
  • Colored Stats (red = good, blue = bad).
  • Pressing L in the stats section of a Pokémon will bring the EVs, pressing R will bring the IVs, and pressing START will bring the default stats.
  • HM moves don’t need to be taught anymore. If you have a Pokémon that can use a certain HM, if you have the correct HM in the bag, and if you have the required badge, you will be able to perform an HM move.
  • HM moves can be deleted since they are not that important anymore.
  • TM had their price changed, especially if you are not using Infinite TMs.
  • The bag now holds up to 90 items, and item capacity has been upgraded to x999.
  • When the bag is full, items go to the PC.
  • You can change the ball your Pokémon is in using a different ball from the bag.
  • Reusable repel prompt.
  • The time on the clock can be changed.
  • Two pages with additional options in the options menu.
  • Debug menu can be enabled by everybody so you can cheat or modify whatever you want. To enable it, just hold “SELECT” then press “START” inside the options menu and you’ll hear a noise. Pressing “START” to open the menu from that moment will show a “DEBUG” option at the bottom. It can also be opened with “R” + “START”. Be careful, using certain options can break your save so I’m not responsible for any misuse.

Gameplay related:

  • Wonder-trade on the second floor of the Pokémon Center, available after the 5th badge (unless you are doing a randomizer, which makes it available from the start, or a challenge, which enables WT after beating the game). Can be uncapped now.
  • 3 difficulty modes (EASY, NORMAL and HARD). Selected at the start of the game, can be changed anytime from the options menu.
    • EASY mode: Makes the game quite a lot easier by scaling levels down, and obtaining more EXP (+20%).
      • Trainer Pokémon and Wild Pokémon scale down to 10 levels compared to the original game. More badges, less level.
      • There are no restrictions on the Battle Frontier.
    • NORMAL mode: Vanilla.
      • No changes, except rematches and small things (also on EASY mode).
    • HARD mode: Makes the game a bit more difficult by scaling levels up, and obtaining less EXP (-40%). This mode does not intent do be a “super difficult” hack-rom. It only tries to be a bit more difficult than vanilla.
      • Trainer Pokémon and Wild Pokémon scale up to 10 levels compared to the original game. More badges, more level.
      • Certain ace Pokémon have had their abilities or items changed to make everything a bit more difficult. This mode does not change anything else in trainer parties, or their strategies.
      • SET MODE is automatically selected and can’t be disabled if you lock the difficulty.
      • There are more restrictions on the Battle Frontier.
      • The GEN VI Exp. Share will give less Exp. to the battling Pokémon.
      • Legendaries will have higher stats WHILE battling, to make it more challenging.
      • (OPTIONAL but recommended) Use in combination with scaling IV/EV trainers from the Challenge Menu at the start of the game for an interesting challenge. You can also lock the difficulty in the Challenges menu at the start of the game.
  • Optional and recommended PHYSICAL / SPECIAL MOVE split from Gen. IV. Selected in the options menu, second page.
  • New Challenge Menu at the start of the game.
  • Bag capacity increased to 90,
  • Day / Night System with Day / Night encounters. Now Daytime is from 6AM to 20PM. Night-time is from 20PM to 6AM. For (2 new) evolutions, Morning is from 6AM to 9AM. Also includes cool lighting at night!
  • Run everywhere.
  • Autorun (in the options menu).
  • HM moves text and interaction is way faster.
  • Link with Fire Red / Leaf Green available from the start.
  • One-time tutors are infinite, but you have to pay now (only if Infinite TMs is on).
  • Trainer HIll prizes are the berries that were not available in the GBA games.
  • Match and Acro Bike are now one. Change between them by pressing “R”.
  • Chain fishing has been added.
  • Easier fishing has been added to the options menu (FR/LG fishing).
  • All tickets are available to buy, together with its events.
  • Faster nurse Joy healing, and now with an even faster version in options.
  • Daily money event with Meowth (post-game).
  • You can check the Soot Sack to know how much ash you have.
  • Interacting with berry trees is faster, berry trees that are in rainy routes don’t need to be watered, and berry trees don’t decay.
  • Higher berry yield (6 max, 4 min).
  • A new “Growth Mulch” item which makes berries instantly grow.
  • New Self-trader to force trade evolutions (trading with another game still works).
  • PokéMarts items change with every badge.
  • AI improvements.
  • Amulet coin works always, doesn’t matter who has it.

Map related:

  • Altering cave is now an Unown cave.
  • A few new maps to introduce the new Regis and the legendary events.
  • Mirage Island can be forced with a certain Pokémon in the party, apart from its unusual rate.

Evolution changes and improvements:

  • All trade evolutions –> Can be evolved by trading or using the Self-Trader located in Lilycove.
  • Aipom –> Ambipom, using Tickle
  • Bonsly –> Sudowoodo, using Mimic
  • Budew –> Roselia, high friendship
  • Roselia –> Roserade, increasing Beauty (less than Milotic)
  • Chingling –> Chimecho, high friendship.
  • Dusclops –> Dusknoir, trading with the item “Spell Tag”
  • Electabuzz –> Electivire, using a Thunderstone
  • Snorunt –> Glalie, level 42 (default)
  • Snorunt –> Froslass, being Female, at level 42, during Morning time (6AM to 9AM)
  • Kirlia –> Gardevoir, level 30 (default)
  • Kirlia –> Gallade, being Male, at level 30, during Morning time (6AM to 9PM)
  • Eevee –> Glaceon, holding “Water Stone”
  • Eevee –> Leafeon, holding “Leaf Stone”
  • Eevee –> Sylveon, using a Fairy Type move
  • Gligar –> Gliscor, level 36 during the night
  • Happiny –> Chansey, level up with “Lucky Egg” during the day
  • Murkrow –> Honchkrow, level 30 during the night
  • Lickitung –> Lickilicky, using Rollout
  • Magmar –> Magmortar, using a Firestone
  • Magneton –> Magnezone, holding a Thunderstone
  • Piloswine –> Mamoswine, using Ancient Power
  • Mantyke –> Mantine, using Water Pulse
  • Misdreavus –> Mismagius, holding during the night the item “Spell Tag”
  • Mime Jr. –> Mr. Mime., using Mimic
  • Munchlax –> Snorlax, high friendship
  • Porygon2 –> Porygon-Z, trading with the item “Up-grade”
  • Nosepass –> Probopass, holding a Thunderstone
  • Rhydon –> Rhyperior, trading with the item “Hard Stone”
  • Tangela –> Tangrowth, using Ancient Power
  • Togetic –> Togekiss, holding the item “Heart scale”, only during daytime
  • Sneasel –> Weavile, level 35 during the night
  • Yanma –> Yanmega, using Ancient Power
  • Primeape –> Annihilape, level 44 during the night
  • Girafarig –> Farigiraf, using Signal Beam
  • Dunsparce –> Dudunsparce, using Drill Peck

New wild Pokemon available for every mode (Alternate Spawns and Default spawns):

  • Ruby / Sapphire exclusives (Meditite, Medicham, Lunatone, Roselia, Surskit, Masquerain, Zangoose): In their respective Ruby / Sapphire places.
  • Kabuto / Omanyte / Aerodactyl: 3 new fossils found in caves.
  • Unown: Altering cave.
  • Budew: In-game trade for a Ralts, and in Route 123 (together with Roselia), only during Night-time.
  • Chingling: In-game trade for Volbeat.

New static encounters:

  • Articuno: After defeating / capturing Ho-Oh, in Bagon’s room in Meteor Falls.
  • Zapdos: After defeating / capturing Ho-Oh, in Scorched Slab.
  • Moltres: After defeating / capturing Ho-Oh, in Victory Road.
  • Mewtwo: After defeating / capturing Mew, in Altering Cave.
  • Mew: Old Sea Map, bought in the Exchange Service of Battle Frontier.
  • Suicune: After defeating / capturing Lugia, in the icy room of Shoal Cave.
  • Entei: After defeating / capturing Lugia, in Magma Hideout.
  • Raikou: After defeating / capturing Lugia, in New Mauville.
  • Ho-Oh: Aurora Ticket, bought in the Exchange Service of Battle Frontier.
  • Lugia: Aurora Ticket, bought in the Exchange Service of Battle Frontier.
  • Celebi: After defeating / capturing Lugia, with Entei, Raikou and Suicune on the team. In Petalburg Woods.
  • Jirachi: After becoming the champion, interacting with the White Rock in Mossdeep.
  • Lati@s: Eon Ticket, bought in the Exchange Service of Battle Frontier.
  • Deoxys: Mystic Ticket, bought in the Exchange Service of Battle Frontier.
  • Regieleki: After completing the Sealed Chamber puzzle, East of Route 110.
  • Regidrago: After completing the Sealed Chamber puzzle, on a secret island north of Route 132.
  • Regigigas: After obtaining / defeating all Regis, in the braille puzzle of Dewford Cave, and after being the champion.
  • (Not a static encounter) Arceus egg: Prize for beating Steven for the second time.

Change Log

Version 3.3.1

NOTE: If, for some reason, you’re updating and you have unlocked the Johto beasts and not the Kanto birds (or the other way around), don’t update until you have BOTH Johto beasts and Kanto birds unlocked.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Swapped Ho-Oh beasts and Lugia birds unlock, so it makes sense lore-wise now.
  • Added information about not being able to catch Suicune, Raikou and Entei, so it’s clearer for the player when they can be caught.
  • Added Hard mode stats for Lugia, Ho-Oh and Deoxys
  • Added HM override (anti-softlock) to Nuzlocke Easy mode
  • Lati@s roamer music matches Southern Island Lati@s legendary battle music

FIXES

  • Fixed Parasect original type
  • Added “Lock difficulty” and “Pokemon types” to challenge viewer
  • Fixed Suicune’s soft-lock in Shoal Cave
  • Fixed being able to use Pokéballs when catching is disabled by using the R button

Version 3.3

IMPORTANT!!
There’s script on the Debug menu to update from 3.2 to 3.3+. DON’T RUN THE SCRIPT IF YOU’RE UPDATING FROM 3.1 OR BELOW. FIRST UPDATE TO 3.2, THEN TO 3.3.

ADDITIONS:

  • Heart and shiny indicator in party (ported from HnS, credits to the whole HnS team).
  • 4 little secrets that can only be obtained one way (and they are rare).
  • Added unique Overworld Surfing Sprites for each Pokémon that knows surf (Thanks @Exclsior).
  • Added an option to enable the Unique Surf Sprites or not in the Options Menu.
  • Added an option to enable Modern Emerald shiny colors or not in the Challenges Menu.
  • New shinies added to the above option! Paras has blue mushrooms now.
  • You can now change the clock by pressing R while looking at it, again, and time events won’t break. You can still use the Main Menu button combo to access the “change clock” menu, just in case, as it’s the “official intended way by GF”.
  • New “Nuzlocke Easy mode” that can be enabled in the Nuzlocke Menu. It removes the “Pokémon Faint” from the Features section, as it’s exactly the same thing. It gets disabled after beating the game, just like the other Nuzlocke modes. It resets the game if no Pokémon are left!
  • Challenge Viewer on the PC! Use it to see which options you have enabled at the start of the game. Also useful to report bugs! (Credits to HnS team).
  • New “Catch Rate” option at the start of the game. Choose between x1, x0.5, x2 or x3 catch rate (Credits to @InsertCreativeName5).
  • New Stats Editor added to the Party Menu. Only shows up if you’ve accepted all Cheating Items from the Cheating Girl in Oldale Town (Credits to @TeamAquasHideout).

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Added an extra frame for some asymmetrical followers.
  • Run with L+R renamed to L+R+A (Idea ported from HnS).
  • Level capped or Level 100 Pokémon can still learn EVs (Thanks @Exclsior).
  • Reverted EV cap from 252 to 255 (as it is in vanilla Emerald) to maintain better trading compatibility between Modern Emerald and official games.
  • Changed Eevee –> Sylveon evolution method to be “Hold item: Heart Scale” to maintain a possible way to evolve it even if Fairy type has been disabled. Moonblast has been removed from it’s original (Emerald original) moveset.
  • Yanmega is now Bug/Dragon, with a moveset improvement and with Levitate. Only fully available with Modified Learnsets and Modified Types (Thanks @bfedie518).
  • Bulk buying coins at the Game Corner (Thanks @Exclsior).
  • Original Type effectiveness is now Gen VI, not Gen III (Steel doesn’t resist dark / ghost, as it was pre-3.2). No changes to the Improved Type Effectiveness.
  • Modern Sturdy improvements.
  • Match calls only go through if the caller wants a rematch (Only if match calls are set to on).
  • Trainer Chip now comments about Registeel tomb being open! What a change.
  • Added partner pokémon to the trainers in the Hyper Training Gym.
  • Added given Pokémon randomization (Castform, fossils, etc.).
  • TM/HMs take into account the “Modern Movepool” setting, and uses the original TM/HM learnsets if set to “Original”.
  • Big nuggets can be obtained with Pickup at higher levels, instead of normal nuggets.
  • Wonder Trade now uses a Tier system, making certain species rarer than others.
  • Randomizer enables the national dex from the start.
  • Some moves got buffed or nerfed: Fly is now 80dmg (was 90, 70 in Gen3), Toxic accuracy is Gen3 default again (70 acc), Drill Peck is a better option than Fly (if available, 85dmg), Hydro Pump is 120dmg again (Gen3 default), and Dive is 90dmg because nobody uses it if it’s the same damage as waterfall, Comet punch is 100 accurate and damage is 30, and some more.
  • Krabby and Kingler can learn Waterfall (wth GF, Corpish can, but Kingler can’t??) with Modern Moveset.
  • Fly and Flash are shown in the Party Menu even if the player doesn’t have the required badge, in order to teach the player that they can use both without teaching the move.
  • Cerulean Cave fossils are now only available with New Encounters (or Post-Game encounters), but not with Original Encounters
  • Elite 4 and Champion rematch can be done in Double Battles or Single Battles.
  • Starting Pokéballs don’t get randomized when playing with Random Items, to prevent first encounter on Route 101 issues.

FIXES:

  • Many, many typos and text fixes.
  • Some tiles have been fixed.
  • Slight fixed partner battles in Battle Tower. Battle transition is still broken, but the UI after that works correctly.
  • Fixed Gen 8 Synchronize when set to “Modern”.
  • Fixed (hopefully) the drama with the Outfit Box.
  • Fixed Brendan (not May) text when giving the Go Goggles.
  • Fixed victory music when the Pokémon is Level 100 (Thanks @Exclsior).
  • Fixed Acid’s description.
  • Fixed Unown Question Mark back sprite position in battle.
  • Fixed the usage of EV items when playing without player EVs.
  • Fixed National Dex not triggering after beating the game, only when using “Post-game encounters”.
  • Fixed ALL follower sprites (hopefully).
  • Fixed crunch description.
  • Fixed followers breaking the triangle at deoxys island.
  • Fixed deoxys pre-battle music.
  • Fixed Mew’s elevation in grass (Thanks @DaniRainbow).
  • Fixed possible sound crash with Music set to off.
  • Fixed some Battle Frontier Reception Gate texts.
  • Fixed Deoxys forms appearing in randomizers.
  • Fixed Trainer Hill NPCs breaking graphics after losing.
  • Fixed double FLY option in Nuzlocke and other challenge modes.
  • Fixed fainted Pokémon with an item having ????? while in the PC, in Nuzlocke.
  • Changed Title Screen RTC reset combo (Now uses R instead or L, to improve usage with L=A option).
  • Fixed Hydro Cannon being unreacheable by the Elemental Tutor.
  • Fixed new Egg moves added being wrongly added to the Original Egg movepool.
  • Fixed “PC doesn’t heal” option healing for some reason while moving Pokémon.
  • Fixed random music not being truly random (it is now).
  • Fixed back Pokémon sprites disappearing when using HGSS sounds after catching a Pokémon and levelling up.
  • Fixed Normal type being not effective at all to other Normal type Pokémon with Modern Typings.
  • Fixed Faster Nurse Joy option being ignored if set before starting a game.
  • Preventively “fixed” trainer AI by removing all AI changes made in Modern Emerald. Now AI is Gen 3 default.
  • Removed chain fishing as it messed up with Synchronize.
  • Fixed Nuzlocke/Onetype checks for certain Legendary Pokémon wild battles.
  • Fixed Steven’s rematch with only 1 Pokémon (in that situation, it now forces a Single Battle).
Previous Changelogs

Version 3.2

ADDITIONS:

  • Hidden Potential type changer (replaces the custom selection of IVs). Chooses between 30 and 31 to force a Hidden Potential Type.
  • New type effectiveness option: Old type effectiveness and Modern Type effectiveness.
    • Modern Type effectiveness includes the following changes: Dark and Ghost do 1x to Steel, Water does 0.5x damage to Ice, Ice does 1x to Water, Bug does 1x to Ghost and Fairy, Steel does 1x to Ice, Rock does 0,5x to Rock, Rock does 1x to Ground, Ground does 1x to Rock.
    • Old-type effectiveness uses VANILLA type effectiveness + fairy type, if enabled (no Steel resists Dark, for example).
  • Trainer Hill gives money! The faster you finish, the more money you get. If you finish within less than 10 minutes, you obtain 1.000.000$.
  • Added evolutionary moves to the original movepool of certain Pokémon (Tangela, Yanma, Girafarig, Eevee, Piloswine and Dunsparce).

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Catch rate modifications for certain legendaries ONLY apply to hard mode.
  • Buff: Delibird -> BST is 420, and is now bulkier. Added Metronome and ice punch to its movepool.
  • Buff: Electivire -> Is now Electric / Fighting.
  • Buff: Fearow -> Added Wing Attack at level 29.
  • Growth Mulch should finally affect only one berry, as it was intended.
  • Growth Mulch added to Ivysaur, as Bulbasaur isn’t available in the wild.
  • Stat change animations (eg. Atk up) are now faster when using “Fast Battles”.

FIXES:

  • Costume box while surfing / biking doesn’t break the player’s sprite anymore.
  • EV / IV scaling doesn’t disable itself after beating the game. Frontier battles are still NOT affected (meaning: they have their original difficulty).
  • Wonder Trade message for “Unlimited Trades” is now shown again.
  • Fixed mom giving you the outfit box twice if you haven’t got the running shoes.
  • Fixed Raichu’s ability being none.

Version 3.1

EDIT: 3.1b released, which fixes RS May transforming into RS Brendan. Nothing else changed.

I didn’t plan on releasing this update so soon, but whatever, here it is. It’s not a large one, and it doesn’t fix anything really important, so if you don’t feel like updating now, it can wait.

ADDITIONS:

  • Mom now gives the player the “Outfit Box”, a new item that lets you change your clothing to the Ruby and Sapphire one. Mom gives you this item at the same time she gives you the running shoes. However, in order not to start your game again, you can just talk to her and she will also give you this item.
  • Added a new “Hard mode exp.” option to the Challenges Menu. It lets players select between the default experience gain option (-40%) in hardmode, or the vanilla experience gain. I don’t recommend changing it, as it makes Hard mode quite easy, but now you have the option.

IMPROVEMENTS and CHANGES:

  • Evolutions that use the “Lvl Up + Morning + [Gender]” have their Pokédex descriptions changed, showing which gender is the correct one (Basically affects Snorunt and Ralts).
  • Overworld Pokémon that were using the old Overworld sprites are now finally using the ones from the Followers implementation (notable ones: Kecleons from Route 119, 120).
  • Improved Farigiraf, Dudunsparce, Annihilape, Regieleki, and Regidrago sprites, followers and icons. Farigiraf has seen the most changes.
  • Improved the code of “Running away by holding B”, which now works as it should. You need to hold, if not, the battle will start. It wasn’t truly working before.
  • Professor Birch now explains every difficulty option. It may take longer to do the introduction, but it’s worth it so people understand difficulties a bit more.

FIXES:

  • Marill now holds the item FAIRY GEM, as it was Azurill who held it before, but isn’t available as an encounter anymore.
  • Adjusted the Safari Zone flee rate of certain Pokémon that were added to the Safari Zone in 3.0.
  • Pokémon Followers has been updated, which fixed a few bugs (Like Castform forms having a smaller “hitbox”?)
  • Other minuscule adjustments.

Version 3.0

IMPORTANT!!

While a new game is recommended due to all the changes that have been done, there’s script on the Debug menu to update from 2.4 to 3.0+.

So, open the debug menu, access the “Scripts” page and run the “Update 2.4 -> 3.0+” script. It will let you name your rival, ask you a few questions, and teleport you back to Petalburg (useful if you were in an interior, which are probably broken if you saved in one).

ADDITIONS

  • The rival can be named at the start of the game!
  • Added an underground floor to all Pokécenters, where Wondertrade is now located.
  • Complete revamp of Navel Rock. It is now a proper dungeon, with 2 new different puzzles.
  • Unown’s chamber is now featured in Navel’s Rock and not in Altering Cave.
  • New NPC in the Battle Frontier Pokécenter that lets you turn off some enabled challenges from your savegame (EvoLimit, Mirror, Mirror Thief, Limit Difficulty, Pokémon Faint, One Type challenge, Party Limit, PokeCenter Challenge, No Items (Player), No Items (Trainer))
  • New option in the Challenges menu to prevent the use of escape rope and dig.
  • New option in the Challenges menu to allow or not legendaries into the Battle Frontier
  • You can now get the mystery event “Pichu with Surf” after beating the game, in the house with trees hiding the stairs in Sootopolis.
  • Groudon now has STAB when it uses Fire moves, as a buff in comparison to Kyogre.

IMPROVEMENTS and CHANGES

  • You can now change the clock, including the date, in order to fix temporary events not working after a clock change. Use the combo “L+B+Left” at the title screen.
  • Encounters have been redone from scratch, and now there’s no time based encounters.
  • Now there’s “Original”, “Modern” and “Post-game” encounter options, available in the challenges menu. “Original” is FULL vanilla, “Modern” includes all 423 between game and post-game, and “Post-game” uses vanilla encounters until you become champion, then uses the modern encounter set. Version exclusives from Ruby and Sapphire DON’T appear on “Original” anymore.
  • Many text strings I added have been revised.
  • Entei, Raikou and Suicune maps now have new music.
  • Deoxys follower sprites have been improved and recolored.
  • Deoxys form change script has been cleaned up and improved to know which meteorite does what.
  • All legendaries are now needed to consider the Pokédex as complete.
  • Lati@s battle in Southern Island now uses new music!
  • Some NPCs with interesting information about evolutions have been moved to the B1F of the Pokécenter.
  • Reverted in-game trades to the original ones.

FIXES:

  • Follower fixes (Lapras).
  • Fixed cries not being played when checking Pokédex pages.
  • Fixed the “EXIT” option of the Elemental Tutor.
  • That 1 tile at the Pacifidlog Pokécenter…
  • Base Deoxys animation has 2 frames.
  • Faraway island, Birth Island and Navel Rock are now considered exteriors.
  • Reverted “Show Species That You’re Switching For in the Party Menu”, as the game showed if the trainer was going to switch out.
  • Typos
  • Many small fixes to many small bugs.

Game Related Stuff

Documentation
Game Code on Github

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Emulator Info

Game is not working in “My Boy Emulator” use “Lemuroid Emulator’ for Android.

For PC MGBA is the best emulator for this game.

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  • Coward says:
    December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM

    hello, could you update this to 3.3 please?

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  • Wuhu says:
    September 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM

    Muchas gracias, descargado!!!

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  • Coward says:
    February 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM

    hello, could you update this to 2.3.3 please? and could you add pokemon polished crystal v 3.1 too please?

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    • Admin says:
      February 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM

      updated and also added pokemon polished crystal. Now you can enjoy them

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      • Coward says:
        February 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM

        ayyy thank you

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  • Coward says:
    May 15, 2024 at 10:37 PM

    hi, do you know other rom hacks that has in game debug menu like this? I only know this and pokemon emerald multiplayer (quetzal)

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