Pokemon Emerald Imperium is a challenging and quality-of-life (QoL) focused ROM hack of Pokemon Emerald, offering a complete gameplay experience from the start to the Champion battle, with additional post-game content. Designed as a difficulty hack inspired by Pokemon Radical Red, this project brings enhanced gameplay mechanics, new battles, and thoughtful balance changes to the Hoenn region.
While not affiliated with Radical Red, Emerald Imperium adopts many of its acclaimed features, including updated abilities, stat adjustments, type and learnset changes, evolution method updates, and much more. The goal was to recreate Radical Red’s intense, strategic gameplay within the Hoenn region, offering players a fresh and challenging take on a beloved classic.
Whether you’re a fan of difficulty hacks or a seasoned Nuzlocker, Pokemon Emerald Imperium delivers an engaging experience while staying true to the original game’s spirit. Dive into Hoenn like never before, with new battles, enhanced balance, and the same nostalgic charm. Made by iriv24. No RTC.
Features
- Almost all Pokemon from Gens 1 – 9 are available (still need to add some Legendaries)
- Vastly improved battle engine with modern mechanics and much smarter AI
- Configurable Minimal Grinding Mode (MGM, described later)
- Built-in Difficulty Modes: Easy and Normal for now, would definitely be open to adding more options if there is interest (described later)
- Built-in Randomizer with configurable species and ability randomization (described later)
- Built-in Level Caps
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Mega Evolution
- New custom Megas have been added for several Pokemon, including Gen 4 starters, and several Gigantamax forms converted to Megas
- Several Gen 4 characters have been added, including Dawn as an additional rival, all the Gym Leaders (only Roark is a required battle), and more!
- DexNav
- Toggleable following Pokemon
- Gen 5 style party menu and Pokemon summary screen
- Includes built-in functionality to view EVs and IVs
- Type icons displayed in battle
- Move power calculator in battle
- Sleep Clause
- Heart Gold / Soul Silver style Pokedex
- Form-changing Key Items for Rotom, Genies, Shaymin, and Hoopa
- Form-changing NPC scripts for Silvally and Genesect (still requires their held items)
- Cheat code system (available cheats listed in documentation)
- Increased difficulty of trainer battles, with a focus on Gym Leaders/Elite 4, Rivals, Team Aqua/Magma battles, route Mini-Bosses, and optional Mini-Bosses (over 100 of these battles in total!)
- Several additional optional Boss Trainer battles
