pokeemerald-expansion is a GBA ROM hack base that equips developers with a comprehensive toolkit for creating Pokémon ROM hacks. pokeemerald-expansion is built on top of pret's pokeemerald decompilation project. It is not a playable Pokémon game on its own.
pokeemerald-expansion offers hundreds of features from various core series Pokémon games, along with popular quality-of-life enhancements designed to streamline development and improve the player experience. A full list of those featues can be found in FEATURES.md.
If you use pokeemerald-expansion, please credit RHH (Rom Hacking Hideout). Optionally, include the version number for clarity.
Based off RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.12.0 https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion/
Please consider crediting all contributors involved in the project!
pokeemerald-expansionsupports multiplayer functionality with other games built onpokeemerald-expansion. It is not compatible with official Pokémon games.- If compatibility with official games is important, use
pokeemerald. Otherwise, we recommend usingpokeemerald-expansion. pokeemerald-expansionincorporates regular updates frompokeemerald, including bug fixes and documentation improvements.
❗❗ Important: Do not use GitHub's "Download Zip" option as it will not include commit history. This is necessary if you want to update or merge other feature branches.
If you're new to git and GitHub, Team Aqua's Asset Repo has a guide on forking and cloning the repository. Then you can follow one of the following guides:
For detailed documentation, visit the pokeemerald-expansion documentation page.
If you are looking to report a bug, open a pull request, or request a feature, our CONTRIBUTING.md has guides for each.
Our community uses the Rom Hacking Hideout (RHH) Discord server to communicate and organize. Most of our discussions take place there, and we welcome anybody to join us!