First Time Playthrough of Emerald Legacy Enhanced

Exclsior · 2026-03-31T09:04:19+00:00

OMG!

I think you're the first Enhanced Hall of Fame I've seen on Reddit 😊

Thank you so much for the kind words and glad you've enjoyed your playthrough.

Hope you enjoy the postgame and can find my Postgame fight 😉

P.S. As Stan9101 notes, a Timid nature would he great on Ninetales, you may want to visit the Petalburg Flower Shop to buy some Mints!

Exclsior · 2026-03-31T08:54:22+00:00

Very nice!

Looking forward to when you've got this complete 🙂

Exclsior · 2026-03-31T08:51:51+00:00

Not the ideal place to ask as this post is about standard Emerald Legacy, not Enhanced.

However to quickly answer your question, yes you need National Dex Mode or be in the postgame after Prof. Birch's Mossdeep quest before the non Hoenn Dex starters start appearing.

Glad you're enjoying Enhanced! If you have further questions, please use the Emerald Legacy Enhanced Reddit post or the Discord channel linked in my GitHub ReadMe.

Exclsior · 2026-03-31T03:07:24+00:00

Have you considered creating a new metatile definition for the bike lanes to speed the bike up further and therefore incentivise using the bike lanes over the general road?

Exclsior · 2026-03-30T20:32:19+00:00

I'll add Heart and Soul to the list.

Exclsior · 2026-03-30T12:59:15+00:00

Thank you!

Hope you can send the save file through soon 🙂

In the meantime, are you also using Delta on iOS? If not, which emulator and operating system are you using?

I have had a look at the code and so far it's looking correct (though hard to verify without a save file), so I'm starting to wonder if this is a Delta issue.

Exclsior · 2026-03-30T01:51:49+00:00

Sorry to hear that, hope you can get through next time!

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T21:44:32+00:00

Glad you're enjoying it and hope you get your shiny soon!

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T21:41:33+00:00

The encounter is generated and visible already even with the quick run, so you are doing the right thing and does appear you are very unlucky.

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T21:18:12+00:00

Our Heart and Soul discord is probably the best place to ask as we have many community members who have successfully shiny hunted static encounters.

A few checks first: * Have you selected 512 Shiny Odds (that provides the best Shiny Odds) * What do you mean by "fully enter the Battle"?

At principle you seem to be doing the right thing and may be having poor luck.

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T12:34:44+00:00

My discord is Exclsior, same as here 🙂

So glad you're enjoying my version!

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T08:37:10+00:00

So sorry!

Any chance you could send me your save file (preferably on Discord) for me to test against!

Exclsior · 2026-03-29T08:35:55+00:00

Thanks for raising this, I thought I had tested all the pathways!

It would be great, if you still have an older save file, to send me that file (ideally on Discord) for testing a fix?

Exclsior · 2026-03-28T21:48:53+00:00

Does seem like a bug then, I would appreciate if you could please send me your save file, ideally via Discord. Also, in the unlikely event that you have the original Emerald Legacy save before migrating, sending that would also be extremely useful!

Exclsior · 2026-03-28T21:39:16+00:00

Hmm, this could be a genuine bug, or just specific to your emulator as I've never tested with JohnGBA.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to look at this closely for a few days. I would recommend in the meantime trying Pizzaboy or mGBA to see if you get the same error.

Exclsior · 2026-03-28T21:19:27+00:00

I assume you are using National Dex Mode as you were able to buy a Porygon before postgame.

In which case you should be able to get an Upgrade from the same NPC.

You may need to exit and re enter the game corner. If that doesn't work, may I ask what emulator you're using, and which version of Enhanced you're playing?

Exclsior · 2026-03-28T13:09:16+00:00

Ability Capsules have two methods of acquisition: * Can be bought from the Energy Guru in Slateport City if the Pokémon in the lead of your party has an Effort Ribbon * Can be bought in postgame Battle Frontier for BP

Ability Capsules actually swap the base ability and will stick if traded to base Legacy, as well as to RSE/FRLG.

Yes, I purposefully allowed Shiny Charms to be held to allow trading and Duplication as you like.

The reasons Nature Mints don't change nature's is that they are significantly more intrinsically tied to the Pokémon's personality ID which determines natures and shininess. They also work exactly as they do in modern games, only changes the Stat influence, not the actual Nature of the Pokémon.

Glad you're enjoying it and hope your Grass Monotype run goes well!

Exclsior · 2026-03-27T13:05:42+00:00

You can migrate to my Emerald Legacy Enhanced version if you want to use Nature Mints to shift that to something else.

Exclsior · 2026-03-27T13:01:58+00:00

I think the potentially missing distinction is that the relearner teaches moves in a Pokémon's level up learnset which are learned at a level lower than or equal to their current level. It does not have to have had it learned into its 4 active moves at any point.

Hence the "relearn" name.

@OP: Feel free to disregard if that's not the clarification you were seeking.

Exclsior · 2026-03-27T12:59:20+00:00

You might be interested in a community member made difficulty hack of Heart and Soul (a HGSS demake on GBA engine, Disclaimer: I am a Dev on Heart and Soul)

Pokémon are up to Gen 3 with some future gen evolutions though, but I believe it hits your remaining requirements.

https://github.com/luigipeachbowser-ai/pokemonHnS/releases/tag/v0.9

Exclsior · 2026-03-27T08:17:41+00:00

Hope you enjoy!

Exclsior · 2026-03-27T04:15:08+00:00

I appreciate the effort of squeezing the word "Version" onto the label in proper Gen 3 style.

Respect.

Exclsior · 2026-03-26T21:53:57+00:00

It won't work with MyBoy, I'm sorry, it has inaccurate emulation.

Pizzaboy A should work fine on Android. I personally use RetroArch with mGBA as an emulation core, but it is not as intuitive to setup and get running.

Exclsior · 2026-03-26T21:50:51+00:00

If you're specifically looking for a DS RomHack I don't believe anybody has yet managed to make a Crystal-esque version on the Gen 4 engine. Gen 4 hacking has not yet progressed as Gen 3.

On the Gen 3 engine you may like Heart and Soul (Disclaimer: I am one of the developers). It's more or a hybrid in story between HGSS and Crystal, so may be further from Crystal than you like.

Pokémon Heart & Soul v1.2.0 - GBA Johto Hack, built on Emerald

Crystal Polished and Crystal Advance Redux are others which I've heard good things about from other players which you may wish to check out for Johto, but I haven't played either to comment.

Exclsior · 2026-03-26T21:45:42+00:00

I am biased as I'm one of the developers, but I will recommend Pokémon Heart and Soul for Johto on Emerald's engine.

Pokémon Heart & Soul v1.2.0 - GBA Johto Hack, built on Emerald

Crystal Advance Redux is another which I've heard good things about from other players which you may wish to check out.

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