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I am here to announce the release of version 1.0 of the romhack I’ve been working on for the last year or so, Pokemon Emerald Imperium! I’ll try to cover the most important points up front: this is a difficulty/QoL hack of Emerald that is fully complete and beatable through the Champion battle with some post-game content. Here is the link to the PokéCommunity page, which has the download for the patch, detailed information about the game, and the links to all the documentation. Here is the link to the Discord server.

My goal in creating this hack was pretty simple: I wanted to create an experience in Emerald that is as close to the experience that Pokemon Radical Red delivers as possible by porting all of the balance changes from RR into a new game and by creating a whole bunch of new battles with increased difficulty. These balance changes include new abilities, stat changes, type changes, learnset changes, evolution method changes, etc. I want to be clear here that I am NOT affiliated with RR in any capacity; I am merely a person who has spent many hours playing RR, and who, like many other romhack players I've encountered, wished for more games just like it in other regions. I want to give full credit to its creators for all of the ideas behind the balance changes mentioned, QoL changes, and many other features that I brought over into this game. With all that being said, let's get into the features and changes you can find in Pokemon Emerald Imperium!

• Almost all Pokemon from Gens 1 - 9 available
• Modern battle engine
• Mega Evolutions, featuring new custom Megas added for several Pokemon including Gen 4 starters and several Gigantamax forms converted to Megas
• Several Gen 4 characters added, including Dawn as an additional rival, all the Gym Leaders, and more!
• Increased difficulty of trainer battles, with focus on Gym Leaders/Elite 4, Rivals, Team Aqua/Magma battles, route Mini Bosses, and optional Mini Bosses
• Several other optional Boss Trainer battles (with hopefully good enough rewards to incentivize the player to actually want to do the battles) 
• Configurable Minimal Grinding Mode
• Built in Difficulty Modes: just Easy and Normal for now
• Built in Randomizer with configurations for species and ability randomization
• Built in Level Caps
• DexNav
• Balance updates for Pokemon to match RR, which includes type-changes, stat updates, ability updates, learnset updates, etc. The goal for this was to be able to reuse the online RR dex and the RR damage calculator.
• Small story tweaks, mostly with the goal of lining up difficult battles
• Not needing to teach HMs to use them, and they are forgettable if taught
• Reusable TMs
• PokeVial with infinite uses to heal your party from anywhere
• Access to the PC from anywhere
• Stat Editor (for EVs and IVs) given in Mauville
• Toggleable following Pokemon, Auto Run. and Infinite Repel
• Hold R to speed through NPC dialogue
• Option to relearn level-up moves and egg-moves for a Pokemon in the party menu
• Move-tutor moves converted to TMs so they can be taught anywhere, no more move tutors in game
• Item care packages
• Ability Capsules and Ability Patches to easily change between abilities for a Pokemon
• 2nd Nurse in every Pokemon Center who can:
  • Change Pokemon’s natures
  • Swap genders for Pokemon with gender-specific evolutions
  • Set Pokemon directly to the Level Cap

As mentioned, these are just some of the highlights, and you can find the comprehensive list of changes as well as all of the documentation and information I could think to create over on the PokéCommunity page.

There are SO many people that I need to credit and give special thanks. Here is the link to my full credits file, which lists all of the artists, feature creators, and people who have helped me along the way, but I will specifically credit here:

• pret, for the pokeemerald decomp
• RHH, for the pokeemerald-expansion hack base
• The Team Aqua’s Hideout Crew, for everything :)
• Radical Red and its developers, for being the main inspiration for this game and for the ideas behind the balance changes brought into this game

Finally, I want to be up front and say that I fully recognize this project is not an original or unique idea at all on my part, nor am I intending it to be!
I am committed to gathering feedback from players and making continuous updates to this game to improve it as best I can. I sincerely hope you enjoy playing Emerald Imperium as much as I did making it, and all feedback here, in the Discord server, on PokeCommunity, or anywhere you can provide it is greatly appreciated!

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