The Pit

This is a roguelite hack that is inspired by Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, in which the Pit of 100 Trials is an optional dungeon with 100 floors of battles. We have translated that concept into Pokémon with some twists.

In this challenge, you start with random Pokémon and must fight through a random trainer gauntlet. There is a singles, doubles, and mixed mode as well as tons of other difficulty and challenge options. The Enemy trainer mon levels are tied to the floor number, with Lvl 1 being the minimum and Lvl 100 being the maximum. The number of trainers per floor is random from 1-4, at the start its weighted towards single trainer floors and the average number increases as you progress.

After clearing each floor you will get item drops and then the next floor warp will activate letting you progress. Every 5th floor is a Heal/Shop/Tutor floor where you will be able to rest and prepare for the next trial. Every 25th floor, there is a random Boss battle with a harder trainer, if you defeat the boss you will be given an option to gain a party member.

If you do manage to beat the final trainer on Floor 100, you can choose to keep going and see how far you can get. That's all the info I've got. Hopefully, you have fun. If you're interested in discussing the hack make sure to join the Discord.

Feature List:

• Three different game versions for Gen 3, Gen 5 and Gen 9 including all the vanilla behavior of those generations! (Hackdex currently only has Gen 9 mode, check the PC post or come back later when Hackdex supports multiple patches)
• Choose from 16 different avatars or play as any Pokémon species
• Extensive amount of game modes singles/mixed/doubles - 3 mons only mode - No starter choice - 50 floors short experience
• Different difficulty settings (XP share values, Trainer EVs, cash rate, Stat changer, etc.)
• Different randomizer modes (moves, abilities, base stats, types, evos, battle weather
• New custom options added on top of the vanilla ones
• Battle speedup
• Randomized maps
• Randomized map music
• Follower mons (standard expansion feature nowadays)
• Countless custom UIs with matching style
• Text boxes were all changed to dark mode
• Random Map Arena System
• Random Boss System with predefined Aces
• Random Trainer System
• Random Item System (victory drops and held items)
• Many additional songs for both the overworld and battles
• Random overworld mons to interact with
• All species available (Shedinja can only be obtained by finishing the SEEN Dex) some evos have been altered so they are applicable. All info can always be found in the Dex! (tip: use the search option "PARTY")
• Move tutors for all potential kinds of move acquisition: relearner, tutor moves, egg moves, pre evo moves
• TM merchant UI upgrade for QoL
• TM lists match the generation, including all 230 TMs for Gen 9 all items, moves, abilities etc. available (standard expansion feature nowadays) overworld trainer counter
• HGSS Pokedex with additional filter modes for quick access of all relevant data
• Random Secret Base Options and Secret Base Shop with All Decorations
• Easter Egg Pokemon Pinball NPC

Credits: Core Team

• Lead Dev: Archie

• Co Lead: Wiz

• Art Direction: Mudskip

• Mapping + Various: Nico

• Testing/Balance/QOL: Aereon

• Various: RavePossum

Everyone Else Who Helped Out Directly or Indirectly

• All battle / late Gen stuff / plenty more is from Edu and the Expansion Team at RHH, they do amazing work.
• The decomps themselves were created by people at pret.
• Nico made the Battle UI and helped with a ton of the mapping
• RavePossum implemented the Gen 5 Summary Screen and the battle bgs as well
• Phantonomy with Testing the final versions.
• Chairry/Livra/Logan/HighNoonMoon helped with the v2 Avatars and bosses, Lillie, Rosa, Nate, plus Valerie and Bugsy boss trainer sprites
• Ghoulslash made the Item Desc Code + the UI shell code used for my UIs
• Mudskip and I together made the Main + Start Menu / Pokeball Case UIs (Mudskip made the graphics)
• Hyo/Poffin made the majority of the FRLG style sprites.
• Nicolavs gave me the original cave tiles.
• The rest of the tilesets come from TAAR: Credits Here. Here. and Here. There are too many people to list out in this post but all the credits are in these links.
• Bsbob made the map pop-up branch.
• Lunos the instant text branch.
• Pokabbie made the Ingame Battle Animation Speedup Code.
• Edu made the extra bag pockets branch.
• MGriffin helped with my autosave code.
• TheXaman wrote some of the randomizer and Party Menu code (graphics by me).
• Devolov/Rioluwott/EliteRedux/Graion/PCG for various QOL additions, mostly battle related
• Following Pokemon feature by Merrp, Edu, Gerben, Rahtak, and the Expansion Team.
• Lucas/Dawn Sprites From Here Edited By Archie To Fit Gen 3 More
• Cynthia sprites from Here by Aveontrainer and Here and Here by mid117
• Ethan and Lyra from Eevee Expo resource Here
• Oak backsprite adapated from Here
• ShantyTown for the Pokeball Pinball code
• TeOn Skip pokedex gaps code
• Bassoonian preEvo tutor code
• ryuujiryu for the new Max Soup icon
• Zatsu for easy copy&paste of the Tera Shards code

Special thanks to everyone in our Team Aqua Discord.

There are too many people to thank here, but this hack is built on community resources. If you notice something here that you worked on and I didn't list your name and you would like me to, please reach out to me and I will make it happen. Without all of them, this hack would not exist. Thank you all <3

DO NOT USE VBA OR MYBOY. USE mGBA on PC or PizzaBoy/Lemuroid/RetroArch+mGBACore on Mobile

Join the Pit Discord to talk about the hack.