Pokemon Modern Emerald
Customize Emerald with modern encounters, typings, moves, difficulty rules, randomizers, Nuzlockes, expanded battles, and hundreds of options.
- Modern mechanics
- Huge Pokédex
- Nuzlocke mode
- Randomizer
- Post-game content
- Status
- Completed
- Plays on
- PC · Android · iPhone (emulator)
- Base game
- Pokémon Emerald
- Version
- 3.0
- Made by
- resetes12
About Pokemon Modern Emerald
Choose Classic, Modern, or fully custom settings in an Emerald overhaul built around control. Modern encounters can add all 423 Pokémon across the main game and post-game, while optional modern typings, Fairy types, stats, moves, abilities, evolution methods, shiny odds, randomizers, Nuzlocke rules, and challenge settings let you shape a run. Gym and Elite Four rematches, expanded Regis, modernized battle facilities, following Pokémon, and a large options menu extend the base adventure. resetes12 made this completed English GBA hack of Emerald, version 3.0.
What's in it
- Choose Classic, Modern, or fully custom presets.
- Choose original, modern, or post-game encounter modes.
- Update some Pokémon typings for balance.
- Add Fairy typing to Pokémon that gained it in Generation VI.
- Improve certain Pokémon base stats.
- Add Legendary Pokémon absent from Emerald.
- Improve Legendary Pokémon abilities beyond Pressure.
- Add 15 moves and update learnsets with them.
- Make Nature Mints available after the fourth Gym or after becoming Champion, depending on settings.
- Toggle modern or Generation III Synchronize behavior.
- Toggle modern or Generation III Sturdy behavior.
- Toggle reusable or one-use TMs; original-mode TMs are sold at the Battle Frontier PokéMart and Move Tutors are one-use.
- Toggle Generation III or Generation IV-and-later Sitrus Berry behavior.
- Let poisoned Pokémon survive outside battle at 1 HP.
- Choose a real clock or a clock where one real hour equals one game day.
- Choose shiny odds from 1 in 8,192 to 1 in 512.
- Have defeated wild Pokémon automatically drop held items.
- Make fainted Pokémon unusable for the rest of the game.
- Remove the three-per-day Wonder Trade limit.
- Make Feebas appear anywhere on Route 119 at a 5% rate.
- Toggle Legendary bans in the Battle Frontier based on difficulty.
- Use a fully modular randomizer.
- Use standard Nuzlocke rule options.
- Set difficulty locks, party limits, level caps, EXP multipliers, escape odds, item restrictions, IV and EV modifiers, and Escape Rope or Dig restrictions.
- Use no-PokéCenter, no-PC-healing, expensive-shop, evolution-limit, monotype, stat-equalizer, Mirror, and Mirror Thief challenges.
- Name your rival.
- Trigger Gym rematches through wild or trainer battle wins.
- Rematch the Elite Four in double battles after battling Steven.
- Unlock a Steven rematch and special prize after the Elite Four rematch.
- Solve altered Sealed Chamber puzzles.
- Find six Regis, including three additional ones.
- Face stronger trainer rematches with changed teams.
- Face buffed or changed Battle Frontier trainer teams.
- Encounter Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, Champions, Wally, Magma and Aqua leaders, Red, and Leaf in Battle Frontier challenges.
- Enable following Pokémon and optionally large followers such as Rayquaza.
- Adds 40 Pokémon species, mostly from Generation IV plus Annihilape, Dudunsparce, and Farigiraf.
- Adds storage for 450 Pokémon.
- Adds night encounters, including night-only species with Modern Spawns.
- Optionally add later-generation Pokémon buffs.
- Optionally add extra stat, ability, and typing buffs for other Pokémon.
- Optionally add later-generation move buffs and nerfs.
- Improve Egg and tutor moves using later-generation data.
- Add new evolution methods.
- Pass five IVs from parents without an item.
- Make Everstone work for either parent and guarantee Nature.
- Optionally use Generation VIII Synchronize.
- Find Kanto fossils in different caves.
- Let Shuckle make Berry Juice as in Generation II.
- Buy Nature Mints at the Flower Shop after the fourth Gym.
- Change Deoxys forms.
- Adds custom Shiny forms for some Pokémon.
- Require all Hoenn and National Dex Pokémon for completion.
- Modernize Battle Frontier, Battle Tents, and Trainer Hill with level 50 limits.
- Adds three abilities for Regidrago, Regieleki, and Arceus.
- Adds Generation VI and Generation III Exp. Share options.
- Changes Cut, Night Shade, Hidden Power, Charge, and other moves.
- Train EVs in Lilycove.
- Use an IV Maximizer in Lilycove after finishing the game with a level 100 Pokémon.
- Use a Lilycove nurse after finishing the game to farm EXP.
- Optionally use new battle backgrounds.
- Enable faster battle intros and faster battles.
- Play three low-health beeps before they stop.
- Press Start while choosing a move to view move information.
- Use Poké Balls based on Trainer class.
- Gain EXP from catching Pokémon.
- Make Macho Brace multiply EV gain by five.
- Use a new Pokédex Stats page and faster scrolling.
- Use faster FireRed trainer transitions.
- Instantly run from wild battles with L and R, then A, when enabled.
- Register two Key Items using Select.
- Swap Pokémon with Select.
- View colored stats and switch stat, EV, and IV pages with buttons.
- Use field HMs without teaching moves when requirements are met.
- Let Nuzlocke HMs avoid blocking progress.
- Delete HM moves.
- Changes TM prices.
- Expand the bag to 90 item slots and stacks of 999, with overflow sent to PC.
- Change a Pokémon’s ball using a ball from the bag.
- Use a reusable Repel prompt.
- Change the clock time, affecting Berry growth.
- Use three extra options pages.
- Enable a debug menu for cheats and modifications.
- Fix RNG.
- Access Wonder Trade in each PokéCenter basement after the fifth Badge, with exceptions for randomizers and challenges.
- Choose Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulty and change it unless difficulty is locked.
- Optionally use the Generation IV Physical/Special split.
- Use day and night encounters with defined daytime, nighttime, and morning windows.
- Run everywhere and enable autorun.
- Speed up HM text and interactions.
- Link with FireRed and LeafGreen from the start.
- Reuse one-time tutors for a fee when Infinite TMs are enabled.
- Receive unavailable GBA Berries as Trainer Hill prizes.
- Switch between Mach and Acro Bike with R.
- Add chain fishing and easier FireRed or LeafGreen-style fishing.
- Buy all tickets and their events.
- Speed up Nurse Joy healing with an even faster option.
- Sell Big Nuggets obtained from Clamperl or Rich Trainer rematches.
- Check Soot Sack ash totals.
- Speed up Berry Tree interactions; rainy-route trees need no watering and trees do not decay.
- Increase Berry yields and use Growth Mulch for instant growth.
- Use a self-trader for trade evolutions.
- Change PokéMart stock with each Badge.
- Improve AI.
- Make Amulet Coin work regardless of its holder.
- Use a Battle Frontier NPC to disable enabled challenges.
- Redesign Navel Rock as a dungeon.
- Integrate Unown Chamber into Navel Rock.
- Add areas for extra Regis and Legendary events.
- Expand the Safari Zone with a Hoenn starter area when not using Original Encounters.
- Force Mirage Island by carrying a specific Pokémon.
- Adds music and sound effects from Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver.
- Listen to included music from the title screen with Right, Select, and B.
- Give Legendary encounters unique music tracks.
- Toggle all music and Surf or Bike music.
- Choose Hoenn, Kanto, Sinnoh, Johto, random, and other music sets for battles.
- Choose Generation III, Diamond Pearl Platinum, or HeartGold SoulSilver sound effects.
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