Top 5 Pokemon GBA ROM Hacks To Play As Team Rocket

In 2024, there are numerous Pokémon games available on various devices such as GBA, NDS, RPG, 3DS, and Switch. Typically, when playing a Pokémon game, players assume the role of a trainer with the goal of collecting gym badges and becoming the champion of the region’s Pokémon league. Throughout the journey, players also need to stop evil teams whose mission is to harm the region with dangerous Pokémon.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play a Pokémon game as a member of an evil team? This post explores the Top 5 Pokemon GBA ROM Hacks To Play As Team Rocket, where you can experience being a part of Team Rocket, one of the well-known evil teams from the Pokémon anime.

Let’s Begin The List.

5. Pokemon Apollo

• Creator: MrDollSteak
• Status: Incomplete
• Language: English

You awaken in your bed at Team Rocket Headquarters; it’s your first day on the job. Exiting your room, you’re informed that Giovanni has summoned you. Upon entering his office, he rewards you with your first Pokémon. After proving yourself, he assigns your first mission: to steal the TM from the man in Cerulean City. Gradually advancing through the ranks of Team Rocket, you undergo various missions, taking you from Mt. Moon to the fall of Giovanni and ultimately contributing to Team Rocket’s revival in Johto.

Key Features:

• Play as a member of team rocket under the eyes of team rocket.
• Choose your starter from 3 New Pokemon: (Ekans, Koffing & Grimer)
• Gym concept has been removed, you will badges by completing respective missions.
• Gen 1 & Gen 2 Pokemon are waiting for you in the game with their updated sprites and movesets.
• The Game Has Physical/Special Split Mode but icons are not shown in status screen.
• New TMs/HMs List With New Move Tutors.
• You will find some anime characters in the game, which you rarely got to see.
• Enjoy the art of stealing, steal Pokemon and items all over the region.
• Day/Night System.

4. Pokemon Rocket Science

• Creator: LocksmithArmy
• Status: Completed
• Language: English

You assume the role of a Team Rocket Scientist on a mission from Giovanni. After Giovanni’s defeat at Silph Co., he summons his spies employed by the company to a secret meeting in his gym. He assigns a new mission to create super-powered Pokémon, designating you as the “field agent.” Your journey takes you across Kanto, completing missions often linked to the actions of RED, the hero from the FireRed version.

Head to Mt. Moon to retrieve the fossil RED left behind. Rectify the aftermath when a fellow Team Rocket Grunt fails to steal TM DIG. Infiltrate the S.S. Anne at sea to pilfer HM CUT. Collect Cubone Skulls from Pokémon Tower and capture the mystical birds for Team Rocket. Uncover the origin of Mewtwo and Team Rocket’s acquisition of Mew DNA. Simultaneously, pilfer Pokémon for Team Rocket’s use or sale at the Rocket Game Corner.

Navigate through the game, tracking RED and addressing the challenges he poses to Team Rocket. Ultimately, confront him in the Elite Four.

3. Pokemon Team Rocket: Jessie & James Edition

• Creator: MrNightology
• Status: Developing
• Language: Spanish

You’re James from Team Rocket, and with Jessie and Meowth, you’ve journeyed through Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn trying to catch kids like Ash, Brock, Misty, and Aura to grab Pikachu. But now, things are about to shake up…

After Taking Off Again, Team Rocket’s Delibird shows up with a letter from Giovanni with a message that, You will pause the Pikachu chase (for now) and head back to Kanto to do whatever missions the boss gives us.

I won’t spoil the quests, but mainly, you’ll be stealing Pokémon and items, checking out places, and messing up with the enemies plan’s. Isn’t that what Team Rocket does?

Key Features:

• Explore 3 Regions (Kanto, Johto & Hoenn).
• Play As James, with your companion Jessie And Meowth.
• Complete various mission’s given by your boss Giovanni.
• Enjoy Stealing of Pokemons and items.
• Mega Evolution.
• BW Repel System to avoid wild encounter .
• Realtime Day & Night System to make the game more realistic.

2. Pokemon FireRed Rocket Edition

• Creator: Colonelsalt
• Status: Completed
• Language: English

One important morning in Pallet Town, a new hero starts his adventure to become a Pokémon Master. He loves battling Pokémon and really wants to be the top. He challenges the Gym Leaders in the area and finally beats the Pokémon League. It’s a common story, but there’s more to it than that.

Red’s Pokémon journeys may seem simple, but there’s a hidden, darker story that he doesn’t know about. It’s important for him and the Kanto region. Evil scientists, vengeful nurses, and dishonest Gym Leaders are some of the characters who reveal their true selves after Red leaves. The people he thought were kind might actually have bad plans.

How are Lance, Giovanni, and Professor Oak linked? What happened in the Great Pokémon War? How was Mewtwo made? And what happens to the Trainers Red beats? The answers are in the hidden story, starting in Kanto’s criminal world.

Key Features:

• Enjoy your gameplay as a member of team rocket.
• Increase your rank by completing various missions and increase your popularity.
• You can steal Pokemon from every single trainer after defeating them in battles.
• Discover the real story behind red’s adventure.
• Engage, battle and steal Pokemon from well-known characters after defeating them.
• You can choose to be good or bad, even though you’re a Rocket. You’ll get rewards either way. People in Kanto, both good and bad, will ask you for help with shady tasks. If you help or betray them, it could affect your journey a lot.
• The game has better looks and improved gameplay Experience.

1. Pokemon Team Rocket Edition

• Creator: Dragonsden
• Status: Completed
• Language: Spanish

You start your journey as a new member at the main base of Isla Inta, which is made up of seven islands. Your goal is to move up the ranks by completing tasks given to you by your bosses. Your story happens at the same time as Red and Blue’s journey begins. Eventually, you’ll go to Kanto and experience Red and Blue’s story from the perspective of a team member.

Team Rocket, and others, explore the hidden parts of the story (this involves guesswork), trying to fit everything into the original games, while adding some unexpected twists. The idea of this hack is that you, as a regular Team Rocket member, can try to change the usual outcome where Team Rocket and Giovanni are defeated by Red. This means giving Red a rival who’s as skilled as the player, leading to a clash between this new story and the original one (which will still be part of the hack).

Even though most of this is new, it’s still part of what we’ve experienced before. We’ll also get to see some of Team Rocket’s major plans unfold, and a big part of the game will be about solving mysteries that many of us suspected but were never sure about.

Key Features:

• Enjoy your gameplay as a member of team rocket
• Explore and catch Pokemon’s from Generation 1 To 9.
• Explore 3 Completed Regions (Kanto, Sevii & Johto).
• Hoenn Region is also added in the game but it is not 100% complete.
• Enjoy a playtime of around 90 hours.
• The phenomenon of Mega Evolution is also added.
• New Fakemons Created With Rocket Experiments.
• Meet and defeat 1200+ Trainers in Total.
• The storyline is darker.
• Hierarchical system within Team Rocket.
• And Much More.