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Download Pre-Patched Pokemon Ascent Roms

Version: Alpha v1

Updated: April 23, 2022

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Name: Pokemon Ascent
Type: GBA
Hack of: Emerald
Language: English
Creator: Tearisten

Description

Ascent is a combat focused rush of trainer battles with roguelike inspired progression. The gameplay loop lacks the adventure side of the normal pokemon experience, in favor of refined competitive battles. You start at the bottom of the tower with three starter pokemon and progressively make your way from floor to floor, earning currency to upgrade pokemon and items. Each floor has a variety of quality of life features to get your team ready for the next gauntlet without the regular headache of grinding. See if you have what it takes to ascend to the top!

Features

  • Every floor has unique battles which must be completed in sequence to progress
  • Losing resets the floor battles. The flow is: prep->complete all battles without a pause->progress to next floor
  • Alternating single/double battle floors
  • Rotating trainer teams. Trainers have additional pokemon and may switch them out randomly between attempts. Operates on a slot by slot basis.
  • All pokemon up to gen 8
  • Mostly upto gen 7/8 battle mechanics, items, moves, abilities, with some adjustments and additions.
  • 3 different currency rewards at the end of each floor.
  • The same shops on every floor.
  • Battle points: Pokemon shop, convert to a shiny shop
  • Money: Held items shop, TM shop
  • Heartscales: Move relearner shop. Egg moves will be added to learnsets as needed to keep things tidy.
  • Free: Nature adjuster, ev adjuster, ev reseter
  • Choose one starter of every type.
  • A built in nuzlocke mode. Receive a gift on every floor from that floor's new pokemon. Pokemon automatically removed when fainted. You will lose their held item.
  • 3 difficulty settings which adjust ev/iv amounts for trainers.
  • No bag use in battle.
  • No money loss on lost battle.
  • Forced set mode.
  • Held items restored between battles.
  • All of the player's pokemon have perfect IVs and always start with ability 1.
  • No exp. All pokemon are level 50.
  • Room battle hints. Talk to the trainers on each floor for a small amount of information regarding their strategy.
  • Bag sort
  • Evs on status menu (press a)
  • PC from start menu
  • ~20 custom abilities, some may not be on any available pokes yet though.
  • ~5 custom items
  • Poison now reduces Sp. Attack
  • A few new natures with either multiple boosts or double boosts
  • Hail boosts ice defence by 1.5x
  • Reduced button prompts for cleaner battles and menus. No more spam clicking a in battle.

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Credits

  • Tearisten: The main designer and coder
  • Jeis27 and Memeos: For input on designs and suggestions
  • Freebird5678 and EmeraldStatllion: For testing and feedback
  • DizzyEgg: colored natures
  • DizzyEgg and Dr. Pop: Scrolling Multichoices
  • PokemonCrazy: iv/ev display
  • ROM Hacking Hideout: pret emerald expansions. The MVP here. Porting and spriting all new pokemon and battle mechanics is way more than a one man job I would never even attempt by myself. Emerald hacks will never be the same.
  • Mkol103: Remove low health beep
  • TheXaman: DS Style party menu
  • Hestia: Force set mode
  • Paccy: unlimited tm use
  • Zeturic: Party screen wrap
  • ghoulslash/skelli: bag sort
  • ghoulslash: disable bag use in battle
  • avara: remove starting potion from pc, change starting money, scripting tutorials, pokecommunity forum guides
  • Jaizu: skip rayquaza intro, remove contest move screen from pokemon summary
  • Lunos: replace any movie
  • Hiroshi Sotomura: remove save confirmation
  • GriffinR: map transition explanation from pret discord
  • BuffelSalt: for ev increase, reset special function & nature change function, as well as nature not being linked to personality, parental bond implementation(I think this was taken from skelli's CFRU). All extra tms post 50 implementation. Inclement emerald gave me so much inspiration.
  • AsparagusEduardo: one time tm shop buy
  • MGriffin: Troubleshooting help
  • surskitty: trainer_control
  • soupercell: bullrush ability and lots of inspiration from radical red
  • Mkol103: battle frontier adventure was a huge inspiration
  • StarsMmd: tons of inspiration, especially for the trick room on switch ability. Also for being my rom hacking hero. XG is a masterpiece and my favorite rom hack.
  • Skelli and the Unbound team: CFRU and DPE were my playground before I found poke emerald expansion. Unbound is the GOAT.
  • Anyone who helped with the emerald decomp and members of the PRET discord

Source

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