Pokemon Lazarus
Pokémon Lazarus explores a Greece-inspired island region with nine starter choices, overworld encounters, side quests, and two difficulties.
- New story
- Status
- Completed
- Plays on
- PC · Android · iPhone (emulator)
- Base game
- Pokémon Emerald
- Version
- 2.0
- Made by
- Nemo622
About Pokemon Lazarus
Explore a region inspired by mainland Greece and its surrounding islands, where a new cast faces a spooky evil team. Pokémon Lazarus is a completed English GBA hack of Emerald by Nemo622, version 2.0. Choose from nine starter options and build a party from more than 400 Pokémon spanning Generations I through IX. Overworld encounters, a changing day-and-night cycle, following Pokémon, side quests with rewards, and Normal or Hard difficulty add variety. An improved Berry system and built-in cheat function round out the adventure.
What's in it
- Explore a region inspired by mainland Greece and the surrounding Aegean islands.
- Follow a new story with new characters and a spooky evil team.
- Uses GBC-style visuals for menus, Pokémon, and overworld objects.
- Choose from nine starter options.
- Includes more than 400 Pokémon from Generations I through IX.
- Find Pokémon in overworld encounters and play through a dynamic day-and-night cycle.
- Choose Normal or Hard difficulty.
- Complete side quests for rewards.
- Use built-in cheats.
- Pokémon can follow the player.
- Uses an improved Berry system.
Pokémon Lazarus is Nemo622's GBC-style hack of Pokémon Emerald, set in the new Ilios Region. The creator's v2.0 release is patch-only and includes useful reference PDFs, but its public listing does not specify a base-ROM revision, emulator setup, or the campaign's endpoint.
Base ROM: Pokémon Emerald.
Before you patch
- Use the creator’s v2.0 Ko-fi release. It is explicitly a BPS patch package, with a README and three PDFs rather than a pre-patched game file.
- Do not guess the base revision. The release page identifies Pokémon Emerald as the base game, but gives no region or revision. No exact base-ROM recommendation can be sourced from the creator’s public instructions.
- Keep the documentation beside the patcher. The package includes general information, encounter tables and important-item locations, so those references are available without relying on a third-party walkthrough.
Who it’s for
Lazarus fits players looking for an Emerald-based hack with a GBC visual style and a new-region premise, plus official reference material for planning encounters and item hunting. It is a less certain choice if you need a creator-documented emulator configuration, save requirement, exact base-ROM revision, or a clear statement of how far the campaign and postgame go: none appears on the opened v2.0 product page.
Version history
- v2.0 — the public creator release currently available on Nemo622’s Ko-fi shop; the page does not display a publication date.
If you liked it
- Pokémon Emerald Seaglass — another Emerald-based entry from Nemo622’s Ko-fi shop.
- Pokémon Glazed — another completed hack in the catalog built on Emerald.
- Pokémon Flora Sky — another completed Emerald-based catalog pick.
Sources
Notes researched 2026-09-25 from the sources above.
Pokemon Lazarus: common questions
- What is the current official Lazarus download?
- The creator's public Ko-fi product is Pokémon Lazarus v2.0. The listing identifies it as a Pokémon Emerald ROM hack and labels the setting as the Ilios Region.
- Does the official download include a pre-patched ROM?
- No ROM is advertised in the creator's listing. It says the download contains a BPS patch file, a README, and three documentation PDFs.
- Which Emerald ROM revision should I use?
- The official v2.0 listing says only Pokémon Emerald; it does not name a region or revision. There is not enough creator-published information here to recommend a particular dump revision.
- Are encounter and important-item references provided?
- Yes. The official package includes separate Encounter Tables and Important Item Locations PDFs, alongside the general-information documentation.
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