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Pokémon Emerald Imperium
v1.1· Updated: 01/27/25

Pokémon Emerald Imperium

by iriv24

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About

This is a difficulty/QoL hack of Pokémon Emerald that is fully complete and beatable through the Champion battle with some post-game content. iriv24's goal in creating this hack was pretty simple: I wanted to create an experience in Emerald that is as close to the experience that Pokemon Radical Red delivers as possible by porting all of the balance changes from RR into a new game and by creating a whole bunch of new battles with increased difficulty. These balance changes include new abilities, stat changes, type changes, learnset changes, evolution method changes, etc. I want to be clear here that I am NOT affiliated with RR in any capacity; I am merely a person who has spent many hours playing RR, and who, like many other romhack players I've encountered, wished for more games just like it in other regions. I want to give full credit to its creators for all of the ideas behind the balance changes mentioned, QoL changes, and many other features that I brought over into this game. With all that being said, let's get into the features and changes you can find in Pokemon Emerald Imperium!

Features

Almost all Pokemon from Gens 1 - 9 available (still need to add some Legendaries)
Vastly improved battle engine with modern mechanics and much smarter AI
Configurable Minimal Grinding Mode (MGM, described later)
Built in Difficulty Modes: Easy and Normal for now, would definitely be open to adding more options if there is interest (described later)
Built in Randomizer with configurable species and ability randomization (described later)
Built in Level Caps
Mega Evolution - New custom Megas added for several Pokemon, including Gen 4 starters, and several Gigantamax forms converted to Megas
Several Gen 4 characters added, including Dawn as an additional rival, all the Gym Leaders (only Roark is a required battle), and more!
DexNav
Toggleable following Pokemon
Gen 5 style party menu and Pokemon summary screen - Includes built in functionality to view EVs and IVs
Type icons displayed in battle
Move power calculator in battle
Sleep Clause
Heart Gold / Soul Silver style Pokedex
Form-changing Key Items for Rotom, Genies, Shaymin, and Hoopa
Form-changing NPC scripts for Silvally and Genesect (still requires their held items)
Cheat code system (available cheats listed in documentation)
Increased difficulty of trainer battles, with focus on Gym Leaders/Elite 4, Rivals, Team Aqua/Magma battles, route Mini Bosses, and optional Mini Bosses (over 100 of these battles in total!)
Several additional optional Boss Trainer battles (with hopefully good enough rewards to incentivize the player to actually want to do the battles!)
Some music from Gen 4
Balance updates for Pokemon to match Radical Red, which includes type-changes, stat updates, ability updates, learnset updates, etc. Differences from the RR balance changes are explicitly noted in the documentation, but the goal for this was to be able to match the data on https://dex.radicalred.net/ and to be able to reuse the damage calculator at https://calc.radicalred.net/.
Some fairly small story tweaks, mostly with the goal of lining up difficult battles
Heart Gold / Soul Silver style Pokedex
Post game Legendary events including access to Mystery Gift locations from vanilla Emerald

Information

Platform
GBA
Base ROM
Pokemon Emerald
Creator
iriv24
Version
1.1
Size
32MB
Updated
01/27/25

How to Play

  1. 1.Download the ROM file above
  2. 2.Open the ROM file in your emulator
  3. 3.Enjoy your adventure!