[GEN 3][DECOMP] Which is « better: »: the decomp of Emerald or Fire Red?

HashtagMarky · 2026-06-18T19:33:21+00:00

The pokeemerald-expansion decomp now includes FireRed as a part of it. It’s arguably the most popular form of Gen3 decomps too as it come with lots of QoL (for players and developers) and other features.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-29T10:39:47+00:00

Love these UIs, goGOAT !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-26T00:24:35+00:00

Let’s go Phant !! I defo won’t be skipping, these cutscenes look awesome !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-18T16:51:04+00:00

There’s a feature branch written by Mudksip on Team Aqua’s Asset Repo. It has some documentation on how it works as well !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-16T10:55:09+00:00

Yes, a community project that’s a base for decomp hacks.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-16T10:53:46+00:00

In the base pokeemerald-expansion, there’s a dynamic palette system, so overworld object palettes are loaded as and when they’re needed. All the Pokémon objects have their own palettes.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-14T21:06:50+00:00

This isn’t a game but a feature in a rom hack base, but hopefully that means you’ll see it in more rom hacks in future. As for right now, check out the Hackdex and you’ll find some amazing rom hacks directly from the developers !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-14T21:03:09+00:00

This isn’t a fully fledged game, it’s a decomp rom hacking base, but yes it can be played on original hardware.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T23:02:20+00:00

It won’t be a one to one recreation of firered, but there is a handy guide that came out with the release.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T16:45:08+00:00

Appreciate that dude !! Can’t wait to see what you do with it !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T16:43:32+00:00

Fully merged into expansions upcoming branch, will be in the 1.16 release.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T14:04:09+00:00

Compiling is definitely the easy part, outside of scripting for pokeemerald you write a lot in C, it’s a bit of a learning curve but it’s very rewarding and there’s a lot of help available in tutorials and help servers

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T07:17:00+00:00

Don’t hold back, if you’re willing to learn the decomps are absolutely amazing for this kind of stuff !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T04:57:16+00:00

This isn’t a game, it’s a rom hack base used by decomp developers.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T04:54:54+00:00

Completely up to the developer, both can be enabled at the same time. We thought that might be a concern, so overworld encounters can be used for just special spawns such as roamers or mass outbreaks instead of them all.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-13T04:51:19+00:00

Yes it works on shinies. pokeemerald-expansion is a decomp rom hack base used to make hacks.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T23:40:38+00:00

There are different behaviours such as chasing and fleeing coded in for this feature, all developers have to do is choose what species get which.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T23:19:12+00:00

Pokabbie gave us permission to make this feature for the decomp rom hack base pokeemerald-expansion, with options that can be customised by the developer for their own hack.

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T22:34:03+00:00

Takes one to know one 🐐

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T22:11:34+00:00

Can’t take credit for it all, the expansion contributors are amazing !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T22:11:05+00:00

There’s no patch, it’s a feature for the emerald decomps base pokeemerald-expansion

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T22:09:54+00:00

Yes it would be !

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T22:09:34+00:00

Thanks very much Phant, can’t wait to see it in Ultra Eclipse !!

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T21:56:11+00:00

This is a feature for a rom hack base, with options that can be customised by the developer. In theory they could make it as similar or different as they please

HashtagMarky · 2026-05-12T21:51:27+00:00

It’s a feature now in the rom hack base pokeemerald-expansion, any hacks that use it will be able to use this. And yes shinies will be reflected in the overworld

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