Download Pokemon Emerald Horizons GBA ROM Hack (Pre-Patched)
Pokemon Emerald Horizons is a GBA Rom Hack by BrandonXL based on Pokemon Emerald. It is now available to download in English and it was last updated on July 16, 2023.
- Creator: BrandonXL
- Version: v1.0
- Hack of: Emerald
- Updated: July 16, 2023
About the Game
Pokémon has always held a prominent place among my hobbies. When I was younger, I enjoyed assembling teams to challenge different Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, and any formidable Trainer considered a “boss battle.” The idea of creating my own game never crossed my mind until I played titles like Pokémon Unbound (by skeli and ghoul), Radical Red (by soupercell), and Inclement Emerald (by BuffelSalt). These hacks, in my opinion, represent the pinnacle of Pokémon experiences. What attracts me most to these games are a few shared characteristics: a diverse array of obtainable Pokémon, a sophisticated and modern battle engine, and, most importantly, a substantial level of challenge, masterfully exhibited in their intense boss battles. The concept of “boss battles” has always fascinated me, and after playing these exceptional games, I knew I wanted to create my own.
With the abundance of selflessly shared resources from this community, especially RHH, DizzyEgg, and PRET, I embarked on creating a game with a few guiding principles in mind:
- Difficult, yet fair – On a scale of 1-10, with vanilla being a 1 and Radical Red being a 10, I would rate this game at a 6.
- Aligning with modern entries in the series.
- Streamlining the player experience.
Concerning point three, while I appreciate competitive battling, I never got a kick out of stressing on EV training, maxing out IVs, or collecting Pokémon with ideal natures. Similarly, the requirement to grind for experience indefinitely is unlikely to appeal to the ordinary player.
The project was created to allow players to quickly fulfil their team-building objectives while still providing a challenge through increased difficulty. To be honest, my goal was to provide the kind of Hoenn experience that I would like playing. Despite the fact that the game largely follows the vanilla Emerald storyline, players will find new Trainers to combat and new activities to explore!
Taking everything into consideration, I am thrilled to offer my Emerald difficulty hack with the Emerald Horizons community.
Features
Many of the features below are either inherent in the RHH’s pokeemerald-expansion branch or possible due to the tireless work of the contributors in the Simple Modifications Directory (credited at the bottom of the post)!
The key features of this game include:
- Difficulty Related: Set Mode, Level Caps, and Disabled Battle Bag
- Most Gen 1-8 Pokémon are obtainable, including Hisuian forms
- Modern Battle Engine, with Fairy-Type, Mega Evolution, Updated Moves, and Physical/Special Split
- Loads of optional boss battles, with 8 Kanto Gym Leaders, 8 Johto Gym Leaders, and a few miscellaneous bosses who reward valuable items
- Exp. All
- Bosses and mid/late game Trainers scale to or relative to your strength, so grinding/over leveling isn’t a factor
- Updated move animations, courtesy of Skeli and ghoulslash
- No EVs/IVs/Natures factored into stats
- 75 TMs, with about 50% vanilla TMs and 50% custom TMs
- Ghoulslash’s DexNav (12 unique land/5 unique surf/5 unique fishing encounters)
- PSF’s Quest Menu UI, with 30 Side Quests to Complete
- Buffel’s Poké Vial implementation
- Ghoul’s Item Description Headers
- Badge-Based Poké Marts
- BW Repel System
- Unlimited use TMs/Forgettable HMs
- Nicknaming and Move Relearning in Party Screen
- Decapitalization
- Level Grinder to quickly hit Level Cap
- Linking Cord for most trade-related evolutions
- Post-Game Boss Rush Mode
- 2.5x Lucky Egg
- Premier Ball Bonuses
- No poison damage in the overworld
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Screenshots
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Credits
BrandonXL
(If I missed anyone, please let me know immediately)!
PRET – pokeemerald
DizzyEgg – Battle Engine, Pokémon Expansion
RHH – pokeemerald-expansion
ghoulslash – DexNav, Item Description Headers, Move Animations, contributing to original Quest Menu
skeli – Move Animations, contributing to original Quest Menu
PSF – Quest Menu
TheXaman – Debug menu for incredibly fast testing
Lunos – Exp. All
PokemonCrazy – Type Effectiveness in Battle
BuffelSalt – Poké Vial
StargazaART – Title Screen! Seriously, check their Twitter! Fantastic work and person to work with.
Clara-Dragon – Original Ultra Wormhole Sprite
Christopher “Nova” Foss – Miror B. Midi Arrangement
Aveontrainer and BurstXShadowsX – Gen 2 Gym Leaders in FRLG style
Contributors of Simple Modifications Directory/pokeemerald Tutorials, including AsparagusEduardo, HunarPG, Lunos, Tyler Scarff, and more – Numerous QOL features
The kind RHH community – AsparagusEduardo, Salem, Lunos, DizzyEgg, SBird, Archie, MGriffin, shinydragonhunter, Grunt Lucas, and anyone else I’ve had to bother for help
You can download the Pokemon Emerald Horizons GBA ROM from this page and you can download an Emulator for your device from this link to play the game.