Pokemon Glimmering Emerald
Refresh Emerald with time-based play, following Pokémon, DexNav hunting, soaring, tournament battles, expanded Battle Frontier options, and Gen 6 systems.
- Quality of life
- Post-game content
- Status
- Completed
- Plays on
- PC · Android · iPhone (emulator)
- Base game
- Pokémon Emerald
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Made by
- paccy
About Pokemon Glimmering Emerald
Soar over Hoenn on Latias or Latios, bring the lead party member into the overworld, and search areas with DexNav in Pokémon Glimmering Emerald. paccy made this completed English GBA hack from Emerald using pokeemerald-expansion, with many settings following Generation 6 standards. Its day-night system divides play into morning, day, evening, and night, while the Pokémon World Tournament appears in the Battle Frontier's Battle Dome. The Battle Frontier also uses Pokémon through Generation VI. Reusable TMs, HM deletion, 100 TMs, updated breeding, and revised PokéMart stock round out its changes.
What's in it
- Use pokeemerald-expansion with many settings based on Generation 6 standards.
- Use four time periods—morning, day, evening, and night—with time-based encounters and Pokédex locations.
- Have the first party Pokémon follow the player.
- Search for and shiny hunt Pokémon with DexNav through the PokéNav.
- Compete in the Pokémon World Tournament at the Battle Frontier's Battle Dome and load up to eight custom trainers with custom eReader cards.
- Use Battle Frontier Pokémon through Generation VI with Smogon movesets.
- Soar on Latias or Latios and fly to routes as well as towns.
- Use high-quality audio mixing, decapitalised text, indoor running, auto-run, reusable TMs, 100 TMs, removable HMs, and expanded bag options.
- Buy PokéMart items according to badge count, with some marts using a second clerk.
- Use Pokémon locations and time controls in the Pokédex, including Alolan and Galarian form switching.
- Use Generation 6 breeding mechanics, level-1 egg hatching, and a 252 EV cap.
- Rematch the Elite Four and use expanded overworld features.
- Receive the Eon Flute from Steven in Sootopolis and a starter Mega Stone from him on Route 120.
- Fight Wallace as Gym Leader and Steven as Champion.
- Receive both bikes from Rydel.
- Catch Rayquaza only after the Elite Four.
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