Pokémon Royal Sapphire

INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY I'm Gongas (They/Them) and this is my First Binary Rom Hack; Pokémon Royal Sapphire is a Heavy Enhancement-Reimagined Version of Pokémon Sapphire, similar to hacks such as Renegade Platinum difficulty wise + quality of life wise, and Gaia for story events.

In a nutshell, I changed the Storyline of Sapphire, while keeping the same nostalgic feel of it by keeping the same Gen 3 Mechanics and General Dex, as well as the Story beats remaining in a similar path, but expanded upon to make you feel as if it was your first time going through Hoenn once again. All maps, encounters, trainers, learnsets, and the general story are changed. The specifics of what parts have been changed are all in the paragraphs below!

FEATURES

—----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generation 3 Mechanics. (No Physical/Special Split, 1/16 2x Crits) Royal Sapphire uses Full generation 3 mechanics, exact same as Ruby/Sapphire, so the AI is all Expert AI (same as a Gym Leader) For every trainer, Switch AI is the exact same, There's no Physical Special Split, No Fairy type, Critical Hits are 1/16 and 2x Damage. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Starter Selection, Regional Forms, Added/Unavailable Mons The starters are now Hisui Sneasel, Hisui Qwilfish, and Galar Slowpoke! Its a Poison trio with Fighting/Dark/Psychic.

This upcoming list of pokemon have been changed to be their Regional Forms: Voltorb; Electrode; Growlithe; Arcanine; Exeggutor; Sandshrew; Sandslash; Raichu; Slowpoke; Slowbro; Slowking; Sneasel; Qwilfish

This Upcoming list of pokemon have been added to the game: Sneasler; Overqwil; Meltan; Melmetal

This Upcoming List of pokemon have been removed from the game: Ditto; Farfetch'd; Smeargle; Chimecho —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every Map has been Changed! The title is pretty clear, every single map in the game has been changed. The main goal was to create a feel of you going through the Hoenn Region for the first time as you once did years ago. The Story Beats remain basically the same, Gym leader order is the exact same, and you go through each location at the same time as you would in the Original Ruby/Sapphire, with a few new or changed areas that you go to for additional storyline purposes or Important item scavenger hunts such as key items and HMs. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Custom Tilesets Several tiles have been custom-edited by me to really make the region feel more fresh, so while it ALWAYS uses the original nostalgic Ruby Sapphire tiles as base, they also got updated to look more new and for aesthetic reasons! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Trainer Sprites Overworld Sprites were updated for several trainers, including all gym leaders, the main characters, the evil teams, and most overworld trainers! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Custom UI Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire have a RED UI during fights. I decided to embody the full blue spirit of the game and updated the UI to use several variations of the color blue. Hopefully you like it! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expanded Team Aqua Storyline Pokemon Royal Sapphire focuses a lot more on the storyline of Team Aqua. They succeed during their plans and have a much bigger and important role in the story, especially Matt, Shelly and Archie, with their goals not just being to awaken the Hoenn legendary Kyogre, but the overlord of the sea Lugia as well, to expand the ocean with eternal rain and deep waves. Basically, you will fight them a lot more during the story. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed NPC Dialogues Go through each town's NPCs because several of them have had their dialogues entirely rewritten! Even if you don't know what they say in the original ruby and sapphire, it would still mean a lot to me if you paid attention to what they say during your playthrough! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revamped Trainer Battles Every Single Trainer Battle in the game has had their team, moves and items all carefully hand-crafted by myself, with the intent to make the game way more challenging. Think of Renegade platinum as the reference for how hard fights are. So while normal trainers aren't the most important of each section of the game, they do have updated teams to make you think just a tiny bit more while playing! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harder Boss Fights Just like mentioned before, every single trainer battle in the game was changed. This includes all Boss fights, including several brand new ones! As an example: Roxanne in Vanilla has a Level 14 Geodude and a Level 15 Nosepass. In Royal Sapphire she has a Lv14 Nidoran, Lv14 Kabuto, Lv14 Geodude, Lv15 Nosepass, Lv13 Onix, Level 13 Growlithe-Hisui. There are NO Potions. The ai will never use any super, hyper or full restores. There are however, held items on several pokemon and better movesets. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Stat/Type Changes BUT There's Changed Abilities The game does not change any Pokémon types, and the only Stat changes made in this game were the balance changes done to the 7 Starter Pokemon (Sneasel Line, Qwilfish Line, Slowpoke Line) To make them more on-par with regular starters; Think of what fire red omega did to Elekid/Smoochum/Magby. The big changes come in the form of Ability changes! So many Pokemon have had their abilities changed to make them better such as Sharpedo with speed boost, Slowbro with shell armor, Furret with thick fat, Etc! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evolution Modifications Several Pokemon have had their evolution levels changed, such as Slugma going from a Level 38 Evolution, to a level 20 Evolution! Friendship evolutions evolve at 10, and Trade evolutions depend on the pokemon's strength, but they're in the 40-42 range! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Move Modifications 90% Of moves have had their Accuracy changed to be 100%. Several moves have had their PP changed to either be lowered or increases due to balance changes (Such as setup being lowered so the AI can't spam it and neither can the player) A lot of moves have also been removed in place of others in the game, such as All OHKO Moves being removed in place of; Ex:. Horn Drill is now Drill Run; Sheer Cold is now Draco Meteor; Guillotine is now Bullet punch. There's many more balance changes such as Spit up being an instant heal like Recover, and Teleport acting like Baton pass but with -6 priority, as well as Waterfall and Surf having their base powers swapped due to when you get them and finally strength and cut getting their types changed. Use the Move Changes document to know more! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item & Mart Modifications All PokéMarts have had their contents changed to Include Rare Candies, Max Repels, Great Heals, and several other items at a MUCH lower price; For example rare candies are now 1 Poké Dollar. The game corner TMs are insanely cheap now and they each give away 5 TMs per Purchase. There's no Wild held item's and thief/covet aren't available. All items you get are in the overworld, or Mart NPCs. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trade & Egg Modifications All 3 in-game Trades and Lavaridge Egg have been changed! Rustboro City: Sentret -> Sandshrew Alola Fortree City: Pikachu -> Wynaut Pacifidlog Isle: Electrode Hisui -> Larvitar Lavaridge Gift Egg: Eevee! —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation The game is fully documented in the links far below, with a calculator and lua script being included for easier playthroughs and actions such as Exporting to the Calculator, Pre-Status'ing a Pokemon, or Simply checking it's IVs. The documents include Trainers, Item locations, Learnsets, Encounters, Move Changes, Trick House, Post Game, Links to important Resources and Credits. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Completable Postgame The Postgame in Vanilla Sapphire is pretty bland, with Emerald being the one to implement a bigger postgame; well, I decided to give my own twist to change Royal Sapphire's postgame so you can expect the following: Gym Leader Rematches in The SS. Tidal Elite Four Rematches in their respective areas around the map Several Catchable Legendaries Several Catchable Mythicals Battle Tower Secret Maxie Fight Secret Boss Fight with Gongas Final Postgame Trick House Level with a Final secret boss (Bring your masterballs) Fully Completable PokéDex —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Increased Shiny Odds Pretty clear what it is! Shiny odds were altered from 1/8192 to 1/2048! Some shinies have issues, so check Known Bugs/Known Issues to fix. —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality Of Life Improvements Rare Candies Added to the player's gamecube as well as every PokéMart for no grinding. Full Restores, Max Repels, Max Elixirs in Most or Every PokéMart. Berries are Found as soon as they become available to the player in PokéMarts. PokeCenters now have Sponsor Corners! On the top left, Tutors, Marts and Deleters will appear! Every Mart Item in the Game has had their price altered to be easily bought. You get several TMs of each, most of the time. Game Corner has new TMs, and they're all 10 Coins each and give away 5 per purchase. All Pokemon have custom Learnsets to make Physical/Special split a NON-Issue. Pokemon have had their abilities changed as a way to buff them. Evolution methods or levels changed to buff certain pokemon. —-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------