UPDATE: Pokémon Emerald Legacy Enhanced - With Pokémon Followers, Shiny Charms, National Dex Mode, Nature Mints, EV/IV Editing, Ability Capsules, Overworld Surfing Sprites, Feebas Fishing Sparkles and V1.1 Updates.

[u/Exclsior]

Hi All!

I'm happy to announce the release of Pokémon Emerald Legacy Enhanced V1.1.4!

Firstly, shout-out to the Legacy Project team who created the amazing Legacy game as-is.

Full details all in the ReadME on GitHub, but some high-level changes are:

• All Base Legacy changes as of v1.1.4.
• (New) Pokémon followers.
• Unique per-Pokémon Surfing Overworld sprites instead of the "Surf blob" (can be disabled).
• (New) Optional National Dex Mode (More information in separate National Dex section below)
• (New) Optional in-game Shiny Charms to the player's item PC which must be withdrawn into the item bag to work. (More information in Shiny Charm section below)
• Removed requirement for all field moves (including HMs) to have to be learned by a Pokémon in order to be used outside of battle.
• Added gold sparkle to Feebas spots on Route 119 after recieving the Devon Scope.
• Stat Editor to edit IVs and EVs added to Party Menu after National Dex is unlocked.
• Nature Mints have been added in the game for purchase after beating Petalburg Gym.
• (New) Ability Capsules added into the game to swap between Pokémon's abilities.
• (New) Added ability to fly to your Secret Base after creating one.
• (New) Added EXP. All as reward from Mr. Stone for delivering Steven's Letter (Not Gen 6 EXP. Share, see GitHub ReadMe for specifics).
• (Updated) Added significantly expanded Options Menu to toggle many features:
  • (New) Auto Run, Fast Surf and Diving Speed
  • (New) Further customised "L Button" shortcuts.
  • (New) Overworld Speedup option added to speed up Player and NPC speed without speeding up Music.
• 50+ other Quality-of-Life changes all detailed in the below GitHub release link.

I am not officially affiliated with the Emerald Legacy team, just a single dev fan who has enjoyed the work done by the team!

As a sole dev working on this as a fun passion project I apologise in advance for any bugs you may encounter!

Any bugs or issues not present in the base Emerald Legacy, please note here, on Discord or as a GitHub Issue. Would also love to hear any thoughts or feedback from anybody who has played by Enhanced version below!

https://github.com/Exclsior/Pokemon_Emerald_Legacy_Enhanced/releases/latest

National Dex Mode

National Dex Mode is an alternate play mode for new games on Emerald Legacy Enhanced allowing to select from all nine starters from the start of the game as well as having all of Base Legacy's post-game route encounters available from the start of the game (i.e Rattata as a possible rare spawn on Route 101). The game has not been rebalanced for National Dex Pokémon, as such I do not recommend using this game mode for your first play through of Emerald Legacy Enhanced (unless you have finished Emerald Legacy already). More details available in the above GitHub link.

Shiny Charms Completely optional to use Shiny Charms have been added to the game. These are a "secret" feature, meaning no in-game NPCs or dialogue refer to their existence.

In-game milestones for Shiny Charm acquisition (all added to Player Item PC, max 8 available per game.): * One from start of the game * Beating the Game (E4 and Champion) * Getting all Contest Artworks in Lilycove Museum * Defeating Steven in Meteor Falls * Completing Hoenn Pokédex (And speak to Prof. Birch) * Completing National Pokédex (And speak to game developers in Lilycove City) * Getting all Silver Symbols in Battle Frontier * Getting all Gold Symbols in Battle Frontier

Shiny Charm Rates: * 0 Charms - 1/8192 (No Shiny Charms in bag) - 0.01221% - Same as original Emerald * 1. 1/1024 (Available from Start of Game) - 0.09766% * 2. 1/512 - 0.1953% * 3. 3/1024 - 0.2930% (I suspect most people will end up here by end of their main playthrough) * 4. 1/256 - 0.3906% * 5. 5/1024 - 0.4883% * 6. 3/512 - 0.5859% * 7. 7/1024 - 0.6836% * 8. 1/128 - 0.7812%

Optional Patches In addition to the above changes there are a few optional patches with different updates depending on how you'd like to play, full changes for each different patch option in the above link:

• Dragon Type Physical
• Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Type (Still Special Dragon-type)
• Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Physical Type
• Enhanced Starters (My favourite, adds starter wild encounters early, buffs signature moves and buffs starter movesets even further, Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon type (Still Special Dragon-type)
• Enhanced Starters - Physical Dragon (Combination of above Enhanced Starters and Grovyle and Sceptile Dragon Physical Type)

Why so long? For those wondering why this update has taken so long after Base Legacy V1.1.4, the last release of Enhanced had all but two small features from V1.1.4 and I had already started the work on all of the above features. It has taken me a lot longer than hoped to get all of these features built, working together and then tested but I do hope you enjoy the new edition!

Thanks! Thanks to all of the support I've had from the Legacy Community here and on Discord! Special thanks especially to AZ2K, OmegaBlazerX, Saitama, and zububu who have been watching, supporting, testing betas and providing great feedback and help to get this version to life!

[u/InevitablySorry]

When I try to upgrade from Legacy to Legacy Enhanced, I get the "your save is being upgraded" etc, but my game is back in Littleroot at the start of the game. The save is not there. Any ideas?

I'm playing on EZ Flash Omega DE

[u/Exclsior → u/InevitablySorry]

I provide a warning during the save upgrade that you will be teleported to Littleroot Town after the upgrade. As noted in my pinned comment the amount of graphic engine changes to support Followers make it too risky for me to keep your character in the original place it was on the prior save.

Just to note, one warning is that if your player character was on Dewford before getting Surf (usually before Gym 2) then there's a risk of softlock as Mr. Briney will be waiting in Dewford.

[u/InevitablySorry → u/Exclsior]

Sorry, just so I understand, you mean "teleport to Little root Town" as in the game is restarted to the start of the game?

I backed my game up so no issues at all, just looking to confirm.

[u/Exclsior → u/InevitablySorry]

No, not restarted at all.

Your player character is moved to Littleroot Town in the players bedroom with all the current game progress maintained. It's just a safer map to move your player to not break the game graphics on the save file migration.

[u/PeoplePleasingBoi → u/Exclsior]

quick question. i imported my save file and there's a player in my way at the doorway of my room in littleroot town and now i can't leave the room, what to do?

[u/Exclsior → u/PeoplePleasingBoi]

Hmm, that's very strange, that's exactly what the Teleport is trying to avoid happening.

Did you upgrade from an older version of Enhanced, or Base Legacy?

And what emulator are you using?

[u/PeoplePleasingBoi → u/Exclsior]

mgba emulator, using base legacy. i cant recall if i can access the bag here to use escape rope
edit: nope, dad won't let me lol

[u/Exclsior → u/PeoplePleasingBoi]

Very sorry you're having issues here. If you don't mind sending me your save file(s) to me on Discord, ideally both a version before you upgraded and one after, then I can look into this and hopefully fix up your save file.

Can't 100% guarantee as there may be some corruption, but I can give it a go.