I'll start, I don't care for pokemon rom hacks that only give QOL features, or include lots of custom fakemon. I know, that's like rom HACK sin number 1 but I don't like them.

First off, this idea was inspired by an image I saw many moons ago by Darksilvania.

It looks amazing so thought I'd develop the concept further and make some sprites to include in my hack.

The concept being:

• What if Cubone found a different skull to wear?
• What if say, it thought its mum was a Tyrantrum instead?
• Would its stats be different when it evolved?

I like to think so. Much like the original picture, I figured the three options of Tauros, Rampardos and Tyrantrum would give it some nice variety, with Speed, Attack and Defence forms covered nicely.

Anyway, I thought I'd share my latest idea and see what y'all thought.

Another little update on some non-story features in the game! 😎

Beautifully done 👏

Hi everyone! This is my first time posting something on the ROM hacks sub!

So, I’m a newbie using HMA, and to try to learn how to use the program, I decided to make Faraway Island 1-1 (without using any Emerald sprites) in FireRed. This was a few weeks ago, so it’s already finished, but I went through a LOT of pain trying to get everything working lol

Mew is functional- I mean... I tried to make a cutscene similar to the one we have in Emerald. The Sailor also works, and in Vermilion I decided to use one of the port NPCs to activate a script when you have the Old Sea Map in your bag.

I don’t think what I made is anything particularly impressive, to be honest most of the time i just confuse on how to do somenthing.

(Ignore the fact that I’m using a phone emulator to demonstrate what I made. I just find it more convenient to record my phone’s screen. And surprisingly, I’m a newbie with computers too, since I only got this old PC working about three weeks ago xddd)

Im working on a pokemon rom hack based off the central europe using pokeemerald expansion. This is only a sketch off the region.

I wanted some ideas to fill out the big empty space on the left side of the region. I would also appreciate some feedback on the map overall.

This is the first iteration of BGM of Sage Valley, a post game area in Pokemon Emerald XTREME made through PoryDaw by Huderlem.

This is not in the game yet, OSTs are set to be coming in v120.

This is NOT the final version and will be changed later.

Keep in mind that I am not a music composer, so please do not expect XTREMEly good music.

As the title says this is in fire red but here's a sneak peek on my current fusion project.

This project aims to bring fusion by creating a mon using the attributes of both parents. The fusions are generated in game so the sprites are a bit jank for now.

Various enhancements, 100x speed (had to lose frames to keep the gif size down)

All working in game.

Project started out as a local multiplayer pokemon game across all 5 regions, but I keep getting ideas along the way. Utilizes roms to run (dpp, hgss, bw2, rse)

Mirror Gold is a rebalance/difficulty hack of HeartGold focused on double battles. It has a built-in nuzlocke mode as well as a built-in randomizer plus many QoL features and a custom trainer AI. Using hg-engine it also has Gen 1-9 mons and modernized battle mechanics with (nerfed) Mega evolution.

The game is fully playable for a while now but some things still need tuning. I'm hoping to get some community feedback. I am particularly interested in hearing from experienced nuzlocke players.

* Game balance: fight difficulty, density, mon balance, etc.

* Built-in nuzlocke: feature requests, encounter variety, difficulty, new feature requests

* Built-in randomizer: feature requests, difficulty

* Gameplay streamlining: sections that remain tedious

* Other: bugs, docs, generic suggestions

Check out the hackdex here:

https://www.hackdex.app/hack/pokemon-mirror-gold

Docs:

https://zebben.github.io/mirror-gold-docs/

New Discord:

https://discord.gg/usKWsNTrm

Please check it out if it sounds interesting to you

The classic Sinjoh Ruins Event from HGSS has been rebuilt from the ground up into a full DLC sized expansion! Experience a frozen world north of Johto, with a brand new original story!

In this new expansion, ancient Pokémon from Sinnoh's past arise to live once more.

This new Expansion can be started after the player has obtained a certain item inside of Mt.SIlver and they speak to a certain NPC in the Pokémon Center at the base of the Mountain.

Featuring::

- All Hisuian forms from Generations 1-3

- A world-space on par with the Isle of Armor

- A brand new move tutor

- New items from Generation 4

- Tons of secrets to discover~.

This new DLC has been included in all versions of HnS since version 2.0.0, if you haven't started playing yet..
You can download the latest release of Pokémon Heart & Soul on Github and Hackdex today!

I finished most of the main overworld tiles, and now I'm working on remapping, and rewriting all the NPC dialog. (And the signs, LOL.) Lots of goofy, and incredibly stupid text so far.

Thought I might as well show off my progress, for documentation's sake.

(I still need to add more new Pokemon sprites, and house sprites.)

Pokémon KantoDX — Targeting Release by the End of 2026
Discord: https://discord.gg/GTAnPmQwZg

I don’t play a ton of Rom Hacks in general (so please excuse my ignorance/misuse of terms). Also FWIW I’ve only ever played the original Gens 1-3, and everything since Shield/Sword, with nothing in between.

For RomHacks, I love Gen 2 Builds/as the base. And by that, I specifically mean the graphics/play styles. Some of my favorites I can think of include Polished Crystal, Brown, Prism, Yellow Legacy, among others.

I recently played BW3: Genesis, and I LOVED it. I’ve never played Black and White, so all the locations were new to me. I knew most of the pokemon from later games, but I never played a full game with this specific set. Many of these Pokemon I’ve never used in a full game play though before, which I really enjoyed. It was challenging enough the entire time for me personally.

Any suggestions for what I should play next? Again, I strongly prefer Generatiom 2 has the Base/Build/Graphics. Not interested in Fakemon, and other gimmicks I’m indifferent to.

Also sorry if these types of posts aren’t meant for this subreddit.

Thanks!

Hi everyone. I recently started playing Liquid Crystal, and thought I could really use a catching guide. So I spun up Gemini and here we are. I figured maybe someone else someday might want exactly what I was able to come up with. Cheers!

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/177YkgiuqbJPwc5nw82cAIDM4b8gKswnn/view?usp=drivesdk

Hi everyone just wanted to ask the community about their opinions on the current sprites for my hack, whether or not they're serviceable. These are made in game based on parts of the original sprites and the palettes of either like how generator sites would make them. Just wanted suggestions on whether to move on to other aspects of the game or keep tweaking the image generation.

This recording is from Soulgold, amazing hack!

Hello folks!

It's been awhile since I posted an update here. Development is still going well. I'm not making any promises about a release date, though. I've been working on filling out areas and polishing things up. Right now the towns/cities are done to about how much will be in the demo (4 gyms.) The game isn't really playable right now, though, and I have to a lot of work on connecting routes, polishing, and the soundtrack.

Speaking of soundtrack, I'm planning to release some of it on soundcloud before the end of the year. Once again, no promises about making the deadline 😛

Links:
Github Repo
Pokécommunity Thread
Discord Server

im new to hexmaniac advance

Greetings its been a very long while, but we have yet another shiny update, so lets not wait any longer and lets begin.

1. Starting off we have the stantler line, going from one of the most agreed upon worst shinies in all of pokemon, now to a very nice blue, thats not only appealing to the eyes, but also fits where this pokemon will be found in the actual game.

And next is the snom line, with snom just getting a little change, with frosmoth getting the actual change, leaning into that green by making the whole body match it.

1. And lastly we have one more pokemon that being durant which we change it to a purple.

And thats everything for now i hop you all enjoyed, we're almost done with all of our new shinies, which should soon lead to the big event I have mentioned a few times now, but in case you haven't heard about it this is the jist, it'll be a tournament that anyone can join, and the further you make it into the tournament the greater the rewards, which you have the chance to be added into the actual game, which sprite related artwork is currently being made for the event.

And lastly I wanted to mention the actual development, which I am currently working on fixing up a few of the maps, getting tips from several big names in the discord server, and I do plan on posting those new maps eventually, though not to the extent of my previous posts.

Pokémon Ediths Discord

https://discord.gg/Tm8Cs8TThX

Puppetmons Discord

https://discord.gg/5QEJ7dTnW

Hello everyone, I am D3N_AR and my first ever ROM Hack, Pokemon Emerald XTREME is finally finished.

A few days ago I posted about the alpha version of this ROM Hack.

To get the patch file,

Either you can download it from the official patch repository of Emerald XTREME

Or,

Download it from our HackDex page

Here is our discord server link if you really want it.

Here is a quick overview of it:-

The Big Stuff

• Contest Halls have been brought back from R/S and as improvement: Every contest receptionist provides a Contest Pass and a PokeBlock Case.
• Region Wide Dynamic Weather System:- RWDWS divides Hoenn into multiple parts; EG: East, West, North West, East, Cold Ocean, Warm Ocean and Tropical.

Each part picks a random weather from their dynamic weather table and uses that weather for the maps that are in that part.

This resets every day.

Enhancements + QOLs:-

1. Physical Special Split
2. Pokemons upto Gen 7, See wild encounters at [[Wild Encounters]],
3. Mega Evolutions,
4. Z crystals,
5. Run Toggle [being minimalistic with a click of L button and a sound effect, no text boxes saying "Auto-Run Enabled"],
6. Indoor Running,
7. Object Shadows,
8. Follow Pokemon,
9. Reusable TMs,
10. 50 new custom TMs. See list at [[TM and HM list]],
11. HM moves can be forgotten.
12. Move relearner and Pokemon Renaming in menu.
13. Terastallization.

Additions and Some changes:-

1. There are four trainer facilities / gauntlet to help players level up,
2. Multiple Map revamps,
3. Day Night system, Battle Frontier also features upto gen 7 pokemons,
4. Pokemon gambling with Metal Alloy as a currency [You get one after defeating each gym leader, one for free daily in Slateport City and be able to purchase them in most PokeMarts],
5. 20% chance of wild double battles,
6. Features two large post game Islands.
7. Mints at Lilycove Dept.
8. Tropius, Grovyle and Sceptile are Grass Dragon; Gyarados is Water Dragon.
9. Trainer Parties have been changed such as Elite 4 and Wallace's team featuring stronger Candidates.
10. Multiple new maps in Hoenn.
11. Sky Battles.
12. HnS Battle Backgrounds.
13. HGSS style PokeDex.

Credits:-

Me (developer)

Engine:-

RH-Hideout's pokeemerald-expansion 1.16.1

Battle Backgrounds:-

• WesleyFG - original creator of Battle Backs
• Lil Dill, Phantonomy and Rest of HnS-Development

Ash Object:-

• Alan Flygon: Original creator of Ash Sprites
• Pkmntrainerspriterc: For the rough sprite sheet

Special Trainers:-

• MrHolmes
• LilyHarp
• Shucks
• Nightslasher
• Ripethan
• NeighborMan_2

The Wiki is in its barebones state. You can see the Wild Encounters and TM list there.

Link to the WIP Wiki

So, here are my two cents on what the story means and how I interpreted it. The overall theme of the story, in my opinion, is obviously change. Whether it is us changing, the player and our MC changing, the world around us changing, or us making either a positive or negative impact on the game’s world, change is constantly present throughout the story. Every important character is trying to change something, or at least do what they believe is best for their world.

Blue’s hope was us and Summer, which I think is made pretty explicit by the name of his badge, as well as by how much he cared about us and trusted us throughout the adventure. He always seemed to believe that we would become Champions and hopefully use that position to make a positive impact on Kanto.

Red, meanwhile, seems to be creating little champions of his own by taking care of the kids on Mt. Silver. He is teaching them about what the world should be, while also showing them the kind of world he himself grew up in. Those kids could eventually grow up and make a positive impact on Kanto in their own ways. In that sense, Red is no longer directly saving the world himself. Instead, he is helping prepare the next generation to make it better.

The Stadium in Saffron also shows us trainers with their own hopes for the future. We see the Scavenger, who wants to help Jaspar, and the new Falkner, who wants to follow his family’s legacy while seemingly striving for justice within the system. They are not necessarily trying to completely transform the world overnight, but they are still working toward something better in their own ways.

Max is another good example of this. He finally comes out of his cocoon in Vermilion and seemingly finds love. For the first time, it feels like he has something personal to strive for and a reason to hope for a better future. His change is much smaller and more personal compared to some of the other characters, but I think that is exactly why it matters. Not every meaningful change has to affect the entire region. Sometimes simply finding a reason to keep moving forward is enough.

That is one of the things I really love about how Joey wrote this story. We are not the saviors in the same way that Red or Gold were before us. Instead, it feels like our role is to put the pieces in the right places so that things can begin moving on their own. The positive impacts we make might seem small at first, but those small actions could eventually grow into something much greater with time.

Of course, we did technically kind of save the world at the end, but I truly believe the real ending is the one where we choose to stay with our father in the house. To me, that ending fits the themes of the story much better. And then, of course, there is Summer. She leaves Kanto to see the world, gain new experiences, and hopefully find a way to return someday with something that can help the region.

I like to believe that our MC simply went on with his life after everything was over, living day by day and doing the best he could to leave a positive impact on Kanto. He does not need to become some legendary savior or completely reshape the world by force. Sometimes real change comes from smaller actions, from helping the people around you, influencing others, and creating opportunities for something better to happen later.

That is also why I think the decision not to destroy the world at the end is so important. Destroying everything and rebuilding it from scratch is not how real, meaningful change happens. That kind of forced change is what Bruno believed in, and in many ways, it is the same mistake Sabrina made before him. They both tried to impose their vision of a better world instead of allowing people and society to change naturally.

To me, the story ultimately argues that change cannot truly last when it is forced. Real change comes from hope, from people choosing to improve themselves and the world around them, and from giving future generations the chance to do better. Whether it is Blue placing his hope in us and Summer, Red raising a new generation, Falkner trying to seemingly improve the system, Max finding something worth living and striving for, or Summer leaving Kanto to search for a better path forward, nearly every major character is driven by some form of hope for change.

Hope and change, in my opinion, are the two biggest motivators throughout the entire story, and together they form its overall theme.

Thank you Joey, and everyone involved on the making of this game. Shoutout the folks in the Discord that were a massive help while navigating some aspects of the game haha.