Pokemon Double Up GBA ROM
Hack Name: Pokemon Double Up (Delevelled)
Hack Original: Pokemon Emerald
Status: v2.2.2, 30.07.2022
Language: English
Hack Original: Pokemon Emerald
Status: v2.2.2, 30.07.2022
Language: English
Info
Double Up Delevelled is a vanilla+ rom hack of Emerald that applies the standard Battle Engine upgrades while also changing to double battles and making pokemon stats independent of level. It is a new challenge on an old framework that should make an interesting replay.
List of Features
KEY FEATURES:- Every possible Trainer Battle with more than one Pokemon is a Double Battle
- Wild Double Battles occur at ~30% rate.
- Altered encounter list to make all Pokemon catchable (Deoxys available separately in all four forms)
- The level is removed from Stat Gain
- Stats updated to Gen 8
- Learnsets Updated to Gen 7
- Moves/Abilities Updated to Gen 8
- Combat changed to Gen 7 standards (Criticals, Status effects, Weather, etc)
- Items changed to Gen 7 standards
- Physical/Special Split
- Fairy Type added
- Various small aesthetic changes (Mostly Combat)
- EV/IV stat changes applied after the battle
- Ghosts can not be trapped by Shadow Tag, Mean Look, or similar
- Ghosts can flee all wild battles.
- Mew and Deoxys obey.
- Badge Boost was removed.
- Coloured Natures (Red Up, Blue Down)
- IV/EV Checker with L/R
- Removed Fishing Minigame
- Infinite TM use
- Removable HMs
- Move Swapping from the menu (Similar to Arceus)
- Trainer Battles are Optional
- Trainer Rematch available from the beginning of the game
- Trade Evos updated to Level 35 or Item Use
- Swap Bikes while riding (Press R)
- Shuckle Makes Berry Juice
- EVs capped at 252 per stat (Can be done from Vitamins)
- EVs can max out each Stat
- Later Gen Evolutions were added to the game
- Low Health Beep removed
- All Wild Pokemon have at least 3 Perfect IVs
- Shiny Odds increased
- Later Gen Evolutions (and baby forms) were added into the game
- Professor Birch's intro speech is altered
- Move Tutors are reusable
- Birch gives a free Pokemon when getting a Starter
- Various sellers are spread around the map for limited, time-based, or missable items
- Four neutral Natures have been altered to give two positive and two negative stat changes
- Natural Gift now acts as Physical Hidden Power and replaces the Roar TM
- Unown learn Natural Gift
- Others are listed above.
- Pokedex shows Shiny sprites
- Trying to leave Oldale town before Rival Fight crashes the game
- Leaving the Move Swap menu without learning a move puts the pointer on the menu of the last pokemon that used Move Swap
- "Nickname this Zigzagoon" shows the starter pokemon name.
- Morphed Castform has no sprite
- Pokeballs will sometimes fail in Double Battles, unknown why.
- Battle Debug menu is available by pressing Select, useful for seeing stats and Stat Stages. Use at your own risk
- Game Corner Man gives continuous charity
- Youngster Calvin on 102 is rematchable
- One of the key features of Double Up Delevelled is that Level is no longer a factor when determining a Pokemon's stats, with the exception of HP. Now Stats are at a set value based on Base Stat, IVs, and Nature. They will be altered as EVs are gained.
- The level is now more a representation of the state of training, as it still affects the moves a Pokemon knows, the effects of level-based moves (such as Seismic Toss), when a Pokemon can evolve, and does make them slightly tougher increasing Max HP by 1 per level gained.
- As of version 2.11, damage also no longer scales based off level.