Pokemon Balanced Sapphire GBA ROM
Hack Original: Pokemon Sapphire
Status: 04.05.2013
Language: English
Info
Pokémon Balanced Sapphire is a meticulously crafted ROM hack of the classic Pokémon Sapphire game, designed with the intention of delivering a more balanced and enriching gameplay experience. The hack focuses on addressing and refining various aspects of the original game to ensure a more engaging and fair adventure for players of all levels.
At the heart of Pokémon Balanced Sapphire is its commitment to rebalancing the game. This involves making thoughtful adjustments to Pokémon stats, moves, and abilities to create a more equitable playing field. By tweaking these elements, the hack ensures that no single Pokémon or strategy overwhelms others, fostering a more dynamic and challenging environment. Trainers and Gym Leaders are also affected by these changes, with their teams and strategies revised to offer a more balanced challenge throughout the game.
In addition to rebalancing, Pokémon Balanced Sapphire significantly expands the roster of available Pokémon. Players can encounter and capture a wider variety of Pokémon, including those from other generations. This expansion enriches the gameplay by providing a greater selection of creatures to add to your team, thereby enhancing team-building options and strategic diversity. With this broader Pokémon availability, players can experiment with different combinations and tactics, making each playthrough unique and engaging.
The hack also introduces a range of quality-of-life improvements to enhance the overall experience. These improvements may include adjustments to game mechanics, item availability, and encounter rates, all aimed at streamlining gameplay and making it more enjoyable. Additionally, the hack may feature updated graphics or new sprites to refresh the visual experience while maintaining the nostalgic charm of the original game.
Overall, Pokémon Balanced Sapphire is designed to offer a more balanced and immersive adventure by refining the gameplay mechanics, expanding the Pokémon roster, and incorporating thoughtful enhancements. Whether you are a seasoned Pokémon trainer or a newcomer, this ROM hack provides a revitalized and enjoyable journey through the world of Hoenn.
List of Features
- Starters Pokes are now:
- +Eevee (has replaced Treeko)
- +Heracross
- +Feebas
- They all start with a Lucky Egg.
- Move Changes: Some of the Pokemon have their moveset changed, Accuracy of Moves might be increased or decreased accordingly, Moves of PP have increased. Some moves typing has been changed as well.
- Pokemon:
- Several Pokemon types will be changed to have additional stab or added a dual-type so that they can have more resistance against other Pokemon.
- Most of the Pokemon now have their dream world ability added.
- Pokemon now will learn additional moves naturally through leveling.
- Evolution Changes: Pokemon which need to max out beauty or trade to evolve now evolve via levels.
- Trainers/Gym Leaders:
- Their Pokemon's Level has greatly increased to a point that they should be equal to your level range.
- From the 5th Gym onwards to make them less predictable they use different diversity of Pokemon instead of sticking to one.
- Expect 5th Gym Leader, Norman to use up to lvl5x Pokemon.
- Elite 4:
- Sidney now uses Poison Pokemon,
- good old Phoebe still uses Ghost types.
- Glacia now takes over Drake's spot and uses Dragon types.
- Drake and Champion use Diversity Pokemon.
- Rivals:
- The Gender which you chose at the beginning now affects your Rival's Pokemon.
- Male Rival Brendan
- prefers Pokemon with High Attk/High Special Attk and
- Female Rival May prefers using Pokemon with High Hp.
- May/Brendan 1st Battle will be a Lickitung the rest of their Pokemon will change as you battle them.
- Wally mains a Feraligatr.
- Items:
- There are additional items that can be bought in towns, some of them include Heart Scales, Elemental Stones, TMs, and Berries.
- To increase the difficulty curve almost all item prices have doubled or tripled.
- Pokeball-related items have their price increase a little instead of significantly.
- However commonly used items like Repel, and Escape Rope has their prices decreased.
- In-game Trades: There are trainers looking for trades in-game and that includes a Totodile, Meganium, and Typhlosion.
- Features: Trick House - Trainers inside Trick House now have Recovery Items and are of a higher level in that area.
- Completely New Pokemon Dual Types: Completely new never seen types there are some types that pokemon typing that they deserve but they didn't get it.
- New TMs, Items for Sale:
- Now your life will get easier! With Lucky egg as early as the beginning of the ROM hack, leveling should be easier than before!
- White/Black Flutes are buyable from the very 1st mart to increase the wild pokemon encountering rate if you decide to train.
- New TMs are buyable from Marts too!
Screenshots
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