Pokemon Emerald's Eight (GBA)

Pokemon Emerald's Eight GBA ROM

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Hack Name: Pokemon Emerald's Eight
Hack Original: Pokemon Emerald
Status: v1.5
Language: English

Info

This is a bit of 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, some QoL features that seemed like a must added, as well as all initial gym leader's teams to feature a full 8 member party, together with elite 4 and champions.

List of Features

Party size of up to 8 members on both player and enemy parties.
New 4/4 party menu layout.
Double battles supported.
Gen 6+ Exp. Share can be found in the main character's room.
Custom gym leader, elite 4, and champion 8-member teams.
Reusable TMs.
Indoors running.
New music on gym leader battles.
Starter Tyrogue along with the usual starter of choice.
Hall of Fame supports an 8-sized party.
Single full party bug catcher at the very beginning that was used on testing, but decided to leave into the final game
Full 386 pokemon catchable.
Physical/Special split added.
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.
Event items are obtainable from player's 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.

Known Issues & Bugs:

Slight graphical glitches on the 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 beginning, or cause a black screen when starting champion Wallace's battle. Retroarch mgba core seems to mostly run the game just fine.