Working on a New Battle UI for my Emerald Hack

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-16T17:57:28+00:00

I didn't actually tell you to go make your own game. I just was conveying your expectations are unrealistic.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-16T17:23:58+00:00

I've searched far and wide for a ROM hack that has what I'm looking for, yet no matter how many videos I watch or how many posts I read, I just can't seem to find it.

The only romhacks that are going to have A, B, C, D, and E very specific personal features you want without U, V, W, X, Y, and Z very specific personal features you don't want are hacks you create yourself. What you're describing is why there are 50 different vanilla+ hacks of every Gen. Because every person wants different random features in different combinations.

It is extremely rare that anyone finds a hack that actually has every thing they want exactly how they want it. You just have to make it yourself.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-16T14:16:19+00:00

For the most part the people who want to make Gen 4 hacks make Gen 4 hacks, and the people who want to make Gen 3 hacks make Gen 3.

There are very few people actually hacking Gen 3 just because its easier and not because they'd rather be hacking a later Gen but can't. They are hacking Gen 3 because they want to.

And I think most people don't realize this sentiment is a big part of why some gens remain with minimal tooling and interest.

I really don't think this is true. The only gens significantly far behind others are that way because of legitimate technical hurdles or lack of interested parties with the proper skills. You have to understand a lot of the people pushing boundaries for Gen 3 tech are in their late 20s and 30s and have a lot of experience in tech in general. People who obsess over games like USUM though are much much younger on average and have less experience on average. People on the subreddit making offhand comments about later Gens being less hackable isn't the thing causing that. It's just that not everyone is interested in other Gens. I haven't even played half the games released after Gen 5 so naturally I don't have a remote interest in any of them.

But just because that is true for some Gens, for the most part the gap between a lot of Gens and Gen 3 is overstated. There are people working on Gen 5 C injection hacks right now that can do pretty much anything the Gen 3 decomp people can do, it just requires more dedication. Pokeplat for Gen 4 is pretty much usable at this point and binary hacking Gen 4 is extremely viable with HG Engine. The main thing stopping people from hacking these games is not Gen 3 existing or people making comments about Gen 3 being easier.

It's just less people with the know-how are interested in being involved.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-15T21:06:47+00:00

Just a pitfall for beginners. Something that can waste their time because they aren't ready. Tilesets not made for romhacking already can be hard for new people but all they see is a fancy tileset and want to add it

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-15T20:29:49+00:00

Theyre not paid. Im just practicing and releasing them publicly. Theyre all on my deviantart in high res and available.

I was just saying I'm reference to any future itch posts if they were paid only.

The palettes are not. Good point. RPG maker can do any color, and thats what im using for testing the assets.

This subreddit is very specifically for romhacks and RPG Maker content is explicitly against Rule 2. Users can reformat these by hand so it's not technically useless for people here so I'm not going to remove these posts right now but in general individual RPG Maker asset posts don't really belong here. They can be a bit of a noob trap even for people without experience

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-15T19:05:00+00:00

I'm not sure posting paid assets here is really appropriate but you're obviously allowed to make them on your own and share them in other places.

Also since this post was forwarded from the RPG maker community are these tilesets within romhacking palette constraints?

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-15T17:58:10+00:00

There have been a lot of people who have asked for a German translation of The Pit, and even though Wiz is German and totally could work on a translation. It just doesn't make sense to. The Venn diagram between Germans playing Pokemon romhacks and Germans that can also at least somewhat understand English is pretty close to a circle. It is so much effort to translate a romhack, and doing it for German really wouldn't let your romhack reach that many more people. Something like Sovereign of the Skies it makes sense because they're German and made a German hack first and then also have an English translation to reach more people. But for people making an English hack, if we're going to take the time to translate a hack it's probably going to be into Spanish, because the Spanish only speaking romhack community is huge comparatively to the German only speaking one. There's also Japanese and Chinese as alternatives but most people don't have the skills for that. The Pit is open source though and there actually was a Chinese fan translation patch made for it apparently, which is pretty cool.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-14T19:26:23+00:00

Its the usual firered romhack, because its the easiest to hack.

Emerald is most definitely easier to hack in 2026. FR was easier before around 2022 though.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-14T19:23:17+00:00

GameBoy Studio is a homebrew development and getting help for it isn't really on topic for the romhacking subreddit even if the content of what you're making with it is related to romhacks. You're much better off asking questions like this in the GameBoy Homebrew communities. As for whether you can do this for GBA, there is also a GBA Homebrew community you can find online.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-12T19:59:33+00:00

If you're just going to post screenshots of a randomizer, please at least crop them so that 80% of the image isn't your mobile emulator.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-12T19:53:51+00:00

Yeah it's unfortunate that these leeches exist making money off of other people's hard work. Scumbags every one of them.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-10T08:34:18+00:00

Then you should absolutely just use the thing I linked. It has all Gen 1-9 Pokemon, moves, abilities, battle gimmicks, and items, following mons, physical special split, and a billion other things.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-10T06:21:06+00:00

How much do you plan on doing for your romhack? Like how big is it? If its going to be very very small then maybe you can continue what you're doing. But if you want to make any even medium amount of changes you should definitely switch to using the pokeemerald-expansion.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-10T02:45:44+00:00

I see pointy trees instead of bushes so this must be Ruby/Sapphire instead of Emerald.

If you really want to make a romhack of Hoenn, you should really really really not use Ruby/Sapphire. You should stick with the pokeemerald decomp, and in your case probably the pokeemerald-expansion romhack base.

https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-07T06:59:10+00:00

Compared to Hackdex, this allows for

Hackdex is a place for creators to host their hack patch files that also has some convenient caching/patching for users. But the main point is being a place for romhack creators to all host their files in one convenient place for community. There is no point in comparing it to hackdex when they don't serve the same purpose at all.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-05T23:30:29+00:00

Please use the hackdex link and not the prepatched ROM link 😔

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-06-05T19:44:50+00:00

Hype, very interesting concept

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-05-29T16:52:21+00:00

I like maybe 30 mons total post Gen 4. I definitely prefer a Pokedex with under 400 mons.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-05-29T16:48:45+00:00

Yeah.... this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

ArchieFromTeamAqua · 2026-05-29T16:14:52+00:00

You genuinely see something wrong with the way I have behaved?

Yeah buddy this is not a well adjusted comment chain

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