Pokemon Emerald Squared is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by Jorts. A doubles-focused ROM hack featuring revamped trainers, updated mechanics, improved battles, and enhanced Pokémon, moves, and abilities.
Pokemon Emerald Squared Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Author: Jorts
- Hack Off: Emerald
- Language: English
- Released on: September 23, 2025
- Latest Version: v1.1.2
- Last Updated: September 26, 2025
- Status: Completed
Description
Pokemon Emerald Squared is a fan-made ROM hack of Pokemon Emerald, focused on enhancing the game with double battles as a core feature. Built on the Emerald Expansion base and incorporating various community-made assets and features, the game introduces significant changes to Pokemon, moves, abilities, items, and trainers. It marks the first public release after nearly a year of development, with more documentation and updates to come.
Features
- Every battle and encounter post-saving birch is a doubles battle
- Tera and mega gimmicks both included at various stages of the game, along with ways to change tera types
- Many pokemon received buffs to stats, abilities, and moves, ranging from minor defensive buffs to total overhauls
- New abilities, moves, and items
- Buffed weak items like adrenaline orb, absorb bulb, cell battery
- Trainer party pools for major bosses (you never know what you’re going to get, have been told by my closed beta testers this makes hc nuzlockes quite difficult)
- Randomized fire/water/grass starters from 3 different regions offered
- A second starter gifted by birch after receiving the first
- Swap bikes with R
- Pokevial that gets progressively bigger as you beat gym leaders
- Every TM in Scarlet and Violet
- Every pokemon through Gen 9 available, with the exception of box art/680 BST legends, coming in patch 2.0
- Infinite Repel
- EV/IV editor
- Expanded and brand-new areas
- Updated battle backgrounds
- Side story that will later unlock a new area with box art/680 BST legends (area coming in patch 2.0)
- Super candies that level you up to the level cap
- Minimal grinding via two toggles for 0 EVs and perfect IVs
- And much, much more that i’ve likely forgotten over the past 10 months
Near-term plans (next month or two):
- Bug fixes
- Additional trainer slides mid-battle
- Box legends encounter area, rematches for side bosses and gym leaders
- Additional QoL and feature suggestions that are of minor undertaking
- Documentation for those desiring it
Long-term plans (early spring to late summer 2026):
- Additional areas and rebalancings
- Fleshed-out battle frontier with restricted/non-restricted vgc-esque formats
- More polishing before I move on to a more proprietary hack with a whole new region
Recommended emulators:
- mGBA
- Retroarch for mobile using mGBA core
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