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TL;DR Editing money in PkHex is functional for most Rom Hacks - might need previous Version from 24.06

I saw quite some people asking for infinite money cheats for different Rom hacks e.g scorched silver.

In many cases the given cheats didn't work out for people or corrupted safe data.

I am not sure if this is common knowledge or not but what I personally do i cheat my money via pkhex.

Yes it is true that pkhex is incompatible in terms of Pokemon editing with most hacks but setting infinite money is what nearly works in every Rom Hack.

As far as i remember this worked for nearly all hacks I ever tried this with (Emerald Rogue V2 does not work) - One weird thing I noticed is that I get an error with the latest PkHex version and had to go back to the one from the 24.06.

For people who dont know how it works here is a quick rundown:

• Create a first save (or already have an .sav file)

- Open Pkhex (as admin) and open the .sav (do it via the file tab --> open, drag and drop weirdly doesn't work sometimes)

- In the right section of the window navigate to the SAV tab and open the "Trainer Info"

- Hit the "+" beneath the money field and hit save

- Now again file tab --> Export sav --> To its original location

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Always Back Up your Save before editing (just crtl + c it into a backup folder)

Do not mess with other stuff (especially your item bag) - It may corrupt your save data. If you only adjust the money I never encountered a single problem

Playing difficulty hacks like Pokemon Radical Red, has really opened my eyes on the quality of life improvements possible in a ROM Hack. Currently, I would say these are my requirements:

Must Have Features

• physical/special split

• expanded TMs (more moves to use)

• ability capsules to change a Pokémon’s ability

• Modern repel system (or even better radical red’s infinite repel system)

• in game day and night change system IF there are specific pokemon that can only be captured at specific times of the day

Nice to Have Features

• ability to change pokemon natures

• ability to ev train pokemon easily

• ability to max out IVs

• following Pokemon sprites in the overworld

• overworld Pokemon

• expanded Pokedex

• easy way to make money and grind exp

• easier way to obtain shiny pokemon

• good battle AI

• special events/battles from known Pokemon characters from other games/anime (i.e battle Ash, Cynthia, Dawn, Silver, Brendan, etc)

• remove the need for HM Pokemon (this is close to must to have but if the Pokemon selection is large enough I can usually wiggle together a team with some decent HMs like Waterfall, and Strength)

Gold Standard

• new story/new map

• graphical improvements

• custom soundtrack

What are your “must haves/nice to haves/gold standards” for ROM hacks? Would be also amazing if you could name the ROMs with those unique features.

I'm interested in ROMhacks that optimize the experience for emulation by every pokémon of each region/generation in just one ROM without trading (i.e. FireRed with all 151 pokémons, Emerald with every Hoenn pokémon). Plus, some good QOL such as reusable TM and so on.

I know and use some of these hacks, but since there are a plethora of these hacks and new ones are made every once in a while. I'd like to learn what you're using. Who knows, maybe I'll discover some better alternatives.

I'll list the one I'm currently using. BTW I got most of them from this awesome list of improvement ROM hacks for many games.

• Pokémon Red & Blue: EMU Edition
• Pokémon Yellow: Thunder Version
• Pokémon Gold, Silver & Crystal: Perfect Crystal
• Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald: Revelation
• Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen: Throwback
• Pokémon Diamond, Pearl & Platinum: Refined Platinum
• Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver: Refined Gold
• Pokémon Black & White: Complete Unova Pokédex Edition
• Pokémon Black 2 & White 2: Unova Dex

I've got none of that for the 3DS games for now, though I'm interested.

Hey I barely use reddit, I read the rules and I believe this is in line with them, I'm including a screenshot of some of the work.

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[Context] I'm making a minor rom hack of Emerald for a friend, just including some inside jokes and replacing important characters with our friend's OCs and characters he/we like, the problem is I'm consistently running into issues. Just recently I ran into an issue I fear I may have to start all over again.

[Hired Help] I need someone to either repair the damage my inexperience has done or transfer over the sprites, dialogue, and pokemon I've added.

[The Damage] The battle music for wild encounters and the female rival music seem slightly corrupted, I believe the pallet for the grass & the dust when you hop down is corrupted as well, the software I'm using (hex maniac advanced) may have saved over some of the data when I was expanding the map or the dialogue for trainers.

[Pay] I'm willing to pay over either cash-app or paypal if you're interested, after presenting proof of the working rom or the actual rom.

[Contact] I don't use reddit so you can contact me over discord, my username is "epiceif" , I accept dms and frs with no issue and try to reply in a timely matter.

Thank you for your time! (▔∀▔)╯

Kerkannon. Water/steel

Tedbush. Grass

Reginitro Poison/fighting

Brazzerk Fighting

Buzhatchi Bug/Grass

Cumotate Bug/grass

Convyrax Normal/Dark

Kerpew Water

Whopper Grass/Fire

brabman Grass/Rock

Cococreep Grass

Kerblam Water

Wigsear Fire

Maggril Fire/ground

Barpol Water/poison

Jerbail Normal

Hambarron Grass/fire

Barkreeper Grass/dark

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Its been a hot minute since ourple had a post, but yes we are still working. Here are a few new mons from the ourple team so you can see some of ourple's talent (my personal favorite is Kerpew). If you wanna see how the development is going or join in on our chaos (or help with spriting, or mapping, or anything you have a talent for) join the server. https://discord.gg/ncGy6EEKvP

this is andy. bros chill.

Hey everyone. If anyone needs pokemon Scorched silver cheats for rare candy I managed to figure out the XL, large, medium and small exp candy. They will appear in the first slot of the mart. Also will provide the max money cheat. The XL basically makes whatever pokemon to level 100 instantly as a point to not use it unless you want that.

All are codebreaker for the candy Small: 820052740068 Medium: 820052740069 Large: 82005274006A XL: 82005274006B

It's a bit buggy so be careful but it has duplicated my items in my bag otherwise nothing game breaking as far as I noticed.. just turn them all off when done is my only suggestion.

EDIT**** MAKE A SAVE BEFORE USING MONEY CHEAT*** It doesn't work exactly right sometimes so make a copy of your save or make a save state!

EDIT**** Removed money cheat as it will mess up your save file. Candies work though so hopefully I find or someone else finds a max money cheat to work.

After 4 months of work, I'm excited to announce WikiGen's first alpha release!

https://github.com/AkeemAllen/WikiGen/releases/tag/wikigen-v0.8.0-alpha

WikiGen is a tool I built to enable Rom Hack creaters to create user friendly wikis for their Pokemon Rom Hacks.

You'll be able to document changes to Pokemon, Moves, Wild Encounters and Trainer Encounters and then produce wiki's similar to fredericdlugi's Platinum Renegade Wiki.

Using a previous version, I was able to build and release my own Blaze Black Wiki.

You can check the README on my github to get some more detailed information.
https://github.com/AkeemAllen/WikiGen

Here's what a sample workflow might look like. I updated Ivysaur from a grass/poison to an ice/poison type. Then I added it as a wild encounter in Aspertia City.

The wiki is then re-rendered and reflects these changes. There's alot more we could do but keeping it brief.

Note: Wiki may take a while to re-render if you have a lot of information.

Sample Workflow

As the "alpha" suggests, there's still alot of work to be done. But with this release I'm hoping spark interest from Rom Hack creators and gain feedback on what they'd want from a tool like this.

If you're interested, just post your ideas under discussions for the repository.

https://github.com/AkeemAllen/WikiGen/discussions

Missing Features that are no-brainers

• The ability to create fakemon
• Mega evolution forms for current pokemon
• The ability to add new forms to current pokemon
• The ability to create new moves
• The ability to create or modify Items, Abilities, and Natures

I'll implement these with a later release.

If you experience any bugs, drop them under the issues tab in the repo tab, and I'll see what I can do!

https://github.com/AkeemAllen/WikiGen/issues

Lastly, to see updates on the app, you can follow my GitHub or check out my ROMhackWikiGenerator subreddit. I announce version updates there.

I'm not sure what the rules are about posting links to other subreddits, so I didn't want to post one here. But you can find it if you go to my Profile.

Hello everyone,

When you are playing a rom hack, what do you want to see in a rom hack's documentation?

I'm working on some documentation for a little rom hack (see my last post: https://old.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1cyem43/pokemon_emerald_johto_edition_beta_v8_all_gyms_e4/). Personally, I like to go in relatively blind, but I know that doesn't work for everyone. For example, dex completionists want to make sure they catch all the mons in an area before moving on. Or nuzlockers who want to know trainers and gym leader parties before challenging them. I want to make sure I cover people's must-haves and ideally some nice-to-haves as well.

So far I am considering the following.

Must have:

• Learnsets
• Trainer and gym leader parties
• Pokemon locations
• Item locations
• Move tutor locations

Nice to have:

• pokeemerald-expansion configuration and changes from the base game
• In game tier list could be fun
• FAQs
• Easter eggs
• Previous version downloads

What have I missed?

Also - if there are any rom hacks that you consider having best-in-class documentation, I would love to see those, too!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14x7WuaoU6W2CM0ucJdzzgxyamSn-JHZOE2ObfA4JmG0/edit?usp=drivesdk

So I've been making a Pokedex for a hack I really wanna Make/Direct that basically is a Regional Variant hack for FireRed Called "Pokemon Variant Red" and I'm hoping to get some feedback and Tips on the Typings and re-balance it so it's more balance instead of having like 48 Fairy Types XD.

Hello people

I have edited a base rom of Pokémon Emerald. Here are the details.
I hope you can play it and give me your opinion.
Version 5.0 is the latest update of the rom. I recommend playing that version.

Pokemon Emerald Competitive Gyms LV 100 OU3 5.0

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You can find the download link on my youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SMIXXIMS1

You can also find me as "smix7" on discord.

*Rom:

• Gym leaders, pokemon league and important trainers with competitive teams MAX OU GEN3 LV100 6X31.
  
• Story mode is removed and all battles are in the first city.
  
• Pokemons and legal sets as far as battles are concerned.
  
• Unrestricted battles. You can increase the evasion, sleep the whole team or use withering blows.
  
• The monotype of the enemy trainers is respected as much as possible.
  
• You and the trainers can't use objects in the middle of the combat.
  
• Removed the yawning of the medals of the gyms.
  
• Vendor stores are edited to add important items.
  
• Mod is added to visualize the EV and IV of your Pokémon.
  
• The tutors of moves, remember moves and tutors of hidden power are added and joined.
  
• Added Pokémon all the wild Pokémon in the last evolutionary stage lv 100 6X31 in the herbs.
  
• Other small mods are added to improve the game experience.
  
• Available from the beginning the battle front, Pokémon nursery and Pokémon contests.
  
• Other changes that I don't remember.
  

*IMPORTANT NOTE*.
Adding hidden power tutors and egg move tutor makes some Pokémon can learn illegal move combinations,
so I would ask that you validate your teams in Pokémon show Down before creating them.

To avoid this, I plan in future generations to remove these 2 types of tutors and put the wild Pokémon with IV 30-31 so that you can
yourselves raise the Pokémon in the nursery with the hidden power and egg moves you want without them being illegal.

*Upgrades and Nefrs
The rom is 99% gen-3 but I've upgraded a couple of things to balance the game a bit.

• Pikachu's Light Ball increases both attack and special attack.
  
• The "Stockpile" move now also increases defenses.
  
• Updated the "Sturdy and Rough Skin" skills.
  
• Added pill to change the ability of a pokemon in the store.
  

*Saved (Recommended to use but not mandatory):

• All 6X31 Pokémon with competitive sets are added to pc via pkhex.
  (You can add more Pokémon or edit them with pkhex).
  

~ If you add your own Pokémon with pkhex keep in mind that some abilities are inverted inside the rom,
so you will have to check them in-game.

• Battle Style (Set)
  (I recommend not to change this option to make the game more entertaining)
  

*Recommended game modes:

• Play as you like.
  
• Choose a team of 6 Pokemon and play the league with only that team.
  
• You can use the whole PC box but if a Pokémon dies you can't use it again.
  
• Play without the save, with the wild Pokémon (remember to activate the Battle Style Set in the options).
  
• Etc.
  

*Mods used to edit the rom:
- HexManiacAdvance_x64.0.5.6.debug
- ModExe - Update 14.1
- PKHex

I hope you like it and thank you very much.