“Pokemon Too Realistic” is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by Chris Piché. This brutal ROM hack challenges players with permadeath, hunger, aging, and harsh conditions in the Pokemon world.
Pokemon Too Realistic Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Creator: Chris Piché
- Base ROM: Emerald
- Language: English
- Latest Version: v1.0
- Released on: June 28, 2024
- Status: Completed
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Description
Pokemon Too Realistic is a tough ROM hack of Pokemon Emerald that turns the game into a hardcore survival experience. In this version, Pokemon face serious dangers like permanent death, aging, hunger, and harsh environments. Players need to keep a close eye on their Pokemon’s health because there’s no easy way to check their status. Abilities are crucial for monitoring how your Pokemon are doing, and unpredictable weather and day-night changes add to the challenge.
This hack introduces long-term health issues, like Pokemon STDs and rabies (Pokérus), which can affect their stats and lifespan. Pokemon age and can die from hunger or overusing items like berries. Players must also manage their Pokemon’s feelings, as friendship levels impact how well they follow commands, especially if they’re stored in the PC for too long. The game also removes helpful features like the ability to Fly and makes healing harder to access, turning every decision into a high-stakes gamble.
Overall, Pokemon Too Realistic creates a tough survival adventure where players must constantly adapt to dangers.
Features
- Permadeath
- No HUD
- No Summary
- Ability shows health of the Pokemon
- Random Weather
- Day and Night Cycles
- Sped up Clock
- No contests
- Hunger – death via steps that can be replinished with food
- Leftovers prevents hunger
- Age (scaled by species… a list is somewhere above) – death via time
- Toxicity (medicine, berries, and vitamins can OD in succession)
- STDs – permanent burn, flame body, and mummy (except it’s STD). contracted in the day or by some wild pokemon. babies are unaffected
- Pokerus (Rabies) – permanent poison, 0 EV total, 0 EV gain, %chance contagious per battle, 1/255 chance of catching at random
- Pokerus impacts life expectancy
- Lower level flinching in battle
- Sleep patterns for DNS in battle (including nocturnal species, species that don’t sleep, and species that sleep night and day)
- Healthcare 500[p] per Pokemon charge
- Friendship impacts obedience
- Friendship impacted by time in PC
- All Pokemon can be attracted to each other
- Full speed mach bike into a wall kills your first Pokemon in the party
- Pause menu clock
- Soda makes Pokemon more hungry
Known Isues
- [7/4] Double battles have some wonkiness; if you have an unfriendly Pokemon on the left, an oversight applies disobedience to the right too. Unsure if this impacts any other stuff besides obedience.
- Fire pokemon don’t contract STDs in battle
- Friendship goes down faster than expected in PC
- Weird graphic error in place of Lv in PC sometimes
- Occassional DNS graphic errors
- Pokeblock berries require a move to be down 1 PP on the Pokemon to feed
- Pokemon health condition in Summary very ocassionally misinforming
- Mach bike doesn’t cause permadeath, just death
- Hunger, mach bike, and age deaths pop up a menu that can cause minor graphical error
- Other very minute graphic things
Game Related Stuff
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Gameplay by Creator
Credits
Chris Piché (Creator)
