pokeemerald-randomizer

Randomizes warps, and offers some QoL features

Try it online here: https://cloudef.github.io/pokeemerald-randomizer/

QoL features

• New game intro sequence is lot faster
• Start menu has a Softlock option, selecting this teleports you back to the intro truck

Usage

usage: pokeemerald-randomizer [options]
Options
 -h, --help            display this help and exit.
 -d, --verbose         verbose output.
 -o, --output          specify output path.
 -s, --seed            specify seed manually.
 -f, --filter          provide custom warp blacklist.
 --unlinked-warps      entrance and exit may be different.
 --allow-unresolved    include unpaired warps (softlock likely).
 --no-filter           do not use the default warp blacklist.
 --randomize-mons      randomize wild encounters.
 --randomize-trainers  randomize trainer battles.
 --test-rng            print out some random numbers and exit.

Output is a ROM file prefixed with either generated or specified seed number.

Building

If you simply want a randomizer for the original Pokemon Emerald, with default custom features applied on it, then you do not need anything except make and a working C compiler.

make

Building for a customized ROM

Symlink your pokeemerald decomp repository into randomizer's repo or point the HACK_ROM env variable to your hacked ROM file. In addition to the hacked ROM file, you'll also need the .elf file with the same name as this is used to find offset for your rom hack. Delete the patched.sha1 and the Makefile realizes that a new data.h file should be generated from your ROM. You must have a clean copy of the original ROM called pokeemerald.gba in the source directory or point to it with ORIG_ROM env variable.

The bootstrap-hack.bash requires some dependencies installed: objdump xxd awk sha1sum.

Nix

If you build with nix (OSX, Linux) then you can just run nix-shell and you should have shell with all the dependencies required.

nix-shell
make

Similarily you can build pokeemerald also with nix:

cd pokeemerald
nix-shell
buildPhase