Pokemon Obsidian Emerald

Pokemon Obsidian Emerald is a GBA Rom Hack by Skolgrahd based on Pokemon Emerald in English. And it is now available to download. It was released on April 21, 2024.

• ▸ All non-legendary, non-mythical Pokemon through Gen 8 available
• ▸ Choose any starter from the first 8 generations
• ▸ Updated Gen 9 battle engine with modern abilities, moves, typing, and mega evolution
• ▸ GMax forms from Gen 8 are reincorporated as Megas
• ▸ Gen 8 TMs and TRs are implemented and available, and can be used more than once
• ▸ All Gym Leaders have a unique field effect, heightening the difficulty and giving the feeling that you are challenging the leaders on their home turf
• ▸ To challenge a Gym, Pokemon League rules stipulate that the player must have no more Pokemon in their party than the Gym Leader does. No more unfair 6 vs 4 Gym battles!
• ▸ The monotony of traveling from town to town has been replaced with grueling gauntlets, forcing you to battle many trainers consecutively to reach your destination
• ▸ All the Kanto gym leaders appear in the overworld after Groudon is awoken, offering valuable prizes to those who manage to defeat them
• ▸ A hard level cap prevents overleveling and keeps the fights fair
• ▸ Retooling and customizing your team is streamlined with exp candies, vitamins, nature mints, ability capsules and ability patches all available early on
• ▸ Revamped feathers perfect a Pokemon’s IV in a given stat
• ▸ EV berries remove 100 EVs
• ▸ IVs and EVs are visible in the summary screen by pressing L and R, respectively (pressing start returns to the default view of the raw stats)
• ▸ An optional Minimal Grinding Mode is fully implemented, causing the game to compute Pokemon stats as if they had 0 EVs and perfect IVs
• ▸ Moves can be relearned from the party menu! Moves learned at level 1 still need to be relearned with the Fallarbor Move Tutor.
• ▸ Field moves like HMs can be used by any Pokemon that can learn them, regardless of whether they actually know the move
• ▸ The PokeVial from romhacks past is implemented, allowing healing without returning to the Pokemon Center
• ▸ The PC can be accessed from the PokeNav, as long as you’re not in a gauntlet!
• ▸ The PokeRadar allows chaining of Pokemon, increasing odds for perfect IVs, hidden abilities, and shinies, as well as applying a ramping exp multiplier for large streaks
• ▸ The Exp Share has been modernized and implemented as a toggleable key item
• ▸ Many Pokemon have received balance updates, including new types, abilities, base stats, and learnsets, with more updates to come in future patches
• ▸ Repels have been replaced with a toggleable key item, the PermaRepel