Pokémon Emerald Azure

Gohan's Tips
Dec 23, 2025
3 min read

Author: Kacey_.

PROGRESS: Project Version 0.1 (Demo) - 12/22/2025 - The game is currently an early demo. The story is playable up until just after the 2nd Gym, in South Dewford. The full version is still a work in progress.

It is a new, difficulty-focused ROM hack that transforms the Hoenn region into a fresh and challenging adventure with a brand new story. In this version of Hoenn, all of the world's evil organizations—from Team Rocket to Team Galactic and more—have arrived with a mysterious plan involving corrupted versions of Darkrai and Cresselia. This game is built for players who love a true challenge, using the famous Radical Red Pokédex as a base for its Pokémon stats and abilities, and featuring a highly intelligent AI that can think several turns in advance. The game is packed with new content, including 108 original Variant Pokémon forms, 9 new Eeveelutions, 26 new Mega Evolutions, and a host of powerful signature moves and abilities. With a hardcore difficulty, tons of optional bosses, and a deep, engaging new story, this is a must-play for any fan of strategic, challenging Pokémon hacks.

🛑Features:

➡️A Brand New Story with All Evil Teams: Experience a completely new story where all of the evil organizations from Pokémon history (Team Rocket, Plasma, Galactic, etc.) have gathered in the Hoenn region for a sinister purpose involving corrupted forms of Darkrai and Cresselia.

➡️Based on the Radical Red Engine: The game uses the famous Radical Red Pokédex as its foundation, meaning it includes all of the stat changes, ability updates, movepool buffs, and other balance changes from that popular difficulty hack.

➡️108 New Variant Pokémon Forms: The game features a massive roster of 108 brand new, custom-made Variant Pokémon forms, many of which have their own unique signature moves and abilities.

➡️9 New Custom Eeveelutions: The Eevee line has been expanded with 9 brand new, original Eeveelutions to discover.

➡️26 New Custom Mega Evolutions: The game includes 26 brand new, original Mega Evolutions for a variety of Pokémon.

➡️Advanced, Predictive AI: The enemy AI has been significantly upgraded. It can "think" several turns in advance to find a winning line and will make smart, tactical decisions based on your entire team composition.

➡️Hardcore Difficulty & Nuzlocke Design: The game is designed to be a difficult but fair challenge. It features forced Set Mode, no healing items in trainer battles, a strict Level Cap system, and all trainers have EV-trained Pokémon with smart AI.

➡️Pokémon Roster up to Generation 9: The game includes a massive roster of Pokémon from the first nine generations.

➡️New Locations & Optional Bosses: Explore new, original locations like South Dewford, and discover a variety of powerful optional bosses with unique rewards. Some of these bosses are missable and can only be challenged at specific points in the story.

➡️Complete Grinding Removal: The game is designed to eliminate grinding entirely with several key features: an "Infinite Candy" item to instantly level your Pokémon to the current cap, the ability to allocate EVs from anywhere in the party menu, and an in-game function to instantly maximize all IVs.

➡️Following Pokémon: A full Following Pokémon system is implemented, allowing your lead Pokémon to walk behind you in the overworld.

➡️DexNav: The modern DexNav feature is included to help you track and hunt for specific Pokémon.

➡️No HMs Required: You can use all HM field moves as long as you have the required badge, without needing to teach the move to a Pokémon.

➡️Modern Quality of Life (QoL) Suite: Includes a huge number of modern features from Emerald Expansion, such as a PC in your bag, reusable TMs, an infinite repel, a sleep clause, visible type icons and move effectiveness in battle, and much more.

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