Pokemon Emerald Blitz is a Completed GBA Rom Hack made by FranklyNathan. Explore a fast, competitive Hoenn draft adventure delivering streamlined progression, modern mechanics, and rapid two-hour runs packed with strategy.
Pokemon Emerald Blitz Completed GBA Rom Hack
- Author: FranklyNathan
- Hack Off: Emerald
- Language: English
- Released on: December 11, 2025
- Latest Version: v6.9
- Status: Completed
Description
Pokemon Emerald Blitz is a decomp hack of Pokemon Emerald streamlined for competitive, fast-paced draft racing. Despite playing through the entire Hoenn region with a team of nine Pokemon, from first gym to Elite Four Champion, a single playthrough takes just two hours to complete. Emerald Blitz is customized with new features and quality-of-life improvements geared toward making the game as fast as possible; it’s all of the good with none of the tedium.
Features
Roguelike Randomization
- Randomized Gyms: Gyms are randomized; upon entering a gym, you’ll be warped to any of Hoenns eight gyms at random. Leader teams are adjusted to your current strength.
- Elite… Eight!?: Battle Frontier Brains join the Elite Four for a more diverse lineup of final bosses.
Quality of Life Improvements
- Pokemon Catalog: The notebook on the player’s desk now comes stocked with every Pokémon in the draft. Simply scroll through, select your Pokemon, and get racing.
- Permanent Repel: The Cleanse Tag now functions as a toggleable permanent repel.
- Portable PC: A PC in your bag, accessible from anywhere besides the Elite Four chambers.
- Med Kit: A key item Pokecenter in your bag, automatically registered when you enter the Elite Four.
- Visible IVs: When paused to view your Pokémon’s stats, press A to display their IVs.
Built for Speed
- Level Cap Candy: Instantly jumps your Pokémon to the level it next learns a move, evolves, or hits the current cap (whichever of the three comes first). The evolution animation is shortened. Asking to learn a move only asks once, not twice.
- Flygon Bike: Flygon replaces the bike, able to hop up ledges, move over shallow water, leap over rocks and trees, and Fly with the press of a button.
- Just the Good Stuff: All plot, including all events involving Team Aqua and Magma, Steven, Wally, and Scott have been removed.
- Polite Trainers: Ordinary trainers no longer challenge any player they see. They can still be fought, however, if you interact with them.
Difficulty Boosts
- Nuzlocke Mechanics: Your Pokémon can’t overlevel the most powerful Pokémon of the next major boss trainer. You can’t use items in battle.
- Stat Boosting Cap: While a Pokemon’s stats can still be debuffed to -6, a Pokemon’s stat stage can never be raised beyond +1. You’ll need to rely on more creative strategies than Dragon Dance sweeps to take down these bosses.
- Updated Teams: Gym leaders use more well-rounded teams, having bolstered their rosters with new Alolan, Hisuian, and Galarian members.
- New Boss Fights: The Elite Four champion is now Steven Stone wielding a Mega Metagross. Wallace, meanwhile, now joins Juan to make the 8th gym a double battle. Additionally, Viola is vacationing from Kalos to give Hoenn some bug representation.
- Buffed Battles: All enemy trainers use perfect 31-IV Pokémon.
Reworked Shop
- Fixed Money Supply: Players are no longer able to sell items, and non-boss battles no longer award money. The player has 62,000 to spend, and every purchase has an opportunity cost.
- Slateport Outdoor Market: Most relevant items, including evolution stones, mega stones, power TMs, and ability-changing items are available for purchase in the Slateport outdoor market.
- Purchasable Berries: All easily accessible berries are available for sale in the Pretty Petal Flower Shop
Modern Mechanics
- Mega Evolution: Mega Stones are here! Click Fight in battle and then press Start before selecting your move to mega evolve. Mega-evolved Pokemon revert to their base form after three turns.
- Fairy Types: Fairy Type has been added to the game. Pokémon have had their typing and learnsets updated to generation VII.
- Generation IX Pokémon: The auction pool includes Pokémon and items all the way up to additions from Legends ZA.
- Physical/Special Split: Moves calculate damage based on the split introduced in generation IV.
- New TMs: TMs from generation 6 including Hone Claws, Dazzling Gleam, X-Scissor, and Trick Room help even out coverage for your team.
New Unique Tools
- Milk Drink: Skiddo and Mareep’s Milk Drink can now be used in the overworld to increase a Pokemon’s level by one, ignoring the level cap. Choose carefully–you can only use it once!
- Forecast: Castform’s Forecast ability now sets rain, sun or hail depending on the type of the first move in its movelist.
- Last Respects: Last Respects’ power is now determined by how many deaths you’ve had over the course of your run, gaining 15 Base Power each time a Pokemon faints. Your Houndstone only grows more powerful as its allies fall.
- Seed Sower: Arboliva’s signiture ability now sets Leech Seed when another Pokemon’s attack makes contact with it.
- Undead Corsola: Upon fainting, Corsola revives at the end of the battle as Galarian Corsola.
- Applin Evolution: Applin’s split evolution path is now determined by what gym you reach first: Fortree for Flapple, Lavaridge for Appletun, and Rustboro for Dipplin.
- Sketch: Smeargle’s signature move can now be used from the party menu to learn one of four powerful, randomly selected moves.
- …And many more!
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