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universal-pokemon-randomizer-zx
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universal-pokemon-randomizer
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DS-Pokemon-Rom-Editor
New DS Pokemon ROM Editor, based on Nømura's 2020 edition. Expanded with loads of new features, bugfixes and better usability.
A lot of people on phones use this online one
If you want to romhack Gen 1-3 the best place to start is the pret decomps. I have a tutorial series for Gen 3 in the works, but there are many resources for the other two Gens as well. If you want to hack Gen 4 then look up the Kingdom of DS Hacking Discord which has a lot of resources for that, it's binary hacking though so it can be a little harder than decomp hacking (which involves editing the source code directly instead of a compiled ROM file)
Someone has also ported the platinum one for Emerald as seen here. What I recommend doing is porting the Emerald version to the pokefirered decomp, since the two code bases are similar, or possibly even identical.
As for difficulty, if you just want harder fights, try using this randomizer branch. You can manually bump all trainer levels up by a percentage modifier, and also increase the amount of pokemon bosses have up to 6, so all gyms and rivals etc are harder. You don't even have to randomize the game, just tick a box in the upper left that limits pokemon to Gen 5, so that the additional pokemon for bosses are from Unova. This tool also lets you disable trade evolutions, and make pokemon evolve earlier so Volcarona and Hydreigon etc are easier to use.
Emerald Eight's party expansion is open source. You can create an emerald decomp hack with it to have a team size of 8 in your hack.
You can check the forks of the poketcg decompilation to see if any of them are romhacks in a state to be played.
Yes this exists for Platinum here
Someone has also ported the platinum one for Emerald as seen here. What I recommend doing is porting the Emerald version to the pokefirered decomp, since the two code bases are similar, or possibly even identical.
I watched that SmallAnt video and a couple others play HGSS with almost every warp randomized. The link is in that description https://github.com/adrienntindall/hgss-map-randomizer/releases/tag/Release but the .exe thats supposed to randomize the rom of your choice, is a microsoft application and I have a mac. Is there an easy way to get around this? Could I get someone with windows to download it and randomize a rom and then send the rom file to me pre-randomized? I have little to no knowledge about any of this stuff, it's my first rom, please send help:)
There's also a patch for FireRed by the same person here
It's on github https://github.com/AdAstra-LD/DS-Pokemon-Rom-Editor/releases/tag/v1.7
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