In Development POKÉMON - HOENN'S LAST WISH

POKÉMON - HOENN'S LAST WISH​

Description: A parallel universe where Rayquaza failed to stop Groudon and Kyogre, which caused a natural collapse in Hoenn... After long years of natural destruction, the entire Hoenn region was practically devastated, the era of trainers / pokeballs ended, the pokémons became wild animals, and the nomadic people trying to survive... After years the plot is the millennium comet (Jirachi) and Celebi (time traveler), giving the player an opportunity to go back in time and prevent this disaster from happening... With the return in time, some things from Hoenn destroyed for many years affect the "normal" Hoenn of the past, generating new forms of pokémon, new characters, new villains, gym leaders, etc...

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Imagine a version of the Hoenn Region that didn’t end with the usual triumphant victory. Instead, things went terribly wrong. The legendary sky serpent Rayquaza failed to stop Groudon and Kyogre from unleashing the full force of their powers. The land cracked, oceans spilled into valleys, storms raged and ecosystems collapsed. Over long years the region was almost entirely devastated towns were abandoned, infrastructure shattered, and the era of trainers and Poké Balls faded into myth. Wild Pokémon reclaimed territory. No more gyms, no more grand battles: humans became nomads, scavengers, survivors in the wasteland of their own world. Nature itself turned chaotic, every mountain and sea bearing scars of the cataclysm. But here’s where it gets really interesting: one fateful event changes everything. The little wish‐making star Pokémon Jirachi (the comet) and the time-travelling forest sprite Celebi arrive giving a glimmer of hope. They offer you, the player, a chance to travel back in time and stop the disaster before it ever happens. When you return to the “past” Hoenn, the Hoenn everyone knows things aren’t quite normal. The wreckage of the doomed future has started seeping in: mutated Pokémon forms emerging, new factions rising, gym leaders you remember changed, villains with unfamiliar goals. The relaxed journey you expected? Tossed out the window. You’re in a race against time, with the weight of two worlds on your shoulders. You’ll traverse familiar routes that now feel eerie. Explore towns that look the same yet are subtly twisted. Encounter trainers who remember nothing, yet act like they know something’s wrong. Wild Pokémon that are beginning to mutate, reacting to echoes of the decimated timeline. Gym battles still happen, but the stakes are higher: every badge you earn, every puzzle you solve could help prevent the collapse or inadvertently kickstart it. And in the shadows: new villains, drawn from the future-ruined world, meddling with the timeline for their own ends. Some survivors from the wasteland have made it back in time too desperate, broken, trying to rewrite fate. They’re neither pure “good” nor “evil,” just desperate. Your path intersects theirs. Ultimately, the story is one of redemption and second chances: of a world left for dead, a chance to rebuild before the fall, and the heavy responsibility of doing it right. The consequences of your choices echo through both time and space.

HOENN'S LAST WISH (emerald) decomp project (pokeemerald expansion)
DOWNLOAD BETA PATCH LINK: HERE (GOOGLE DRIVE)
Category: Coding / Scpriter / Almost Everything (even open to talk about / play test, sprites design, map design, ideas)
Project Type: ROM Hack (pokeemerald expasion)
Project Completion: 5-10% (hard to tell)
Compensation: Credited in game, your sprites / design in game (it's a for fun project so no payment, all for the love for the game )
Contact: DM / email : rafaelsanna96@gmail.com
Timezone: BRT
DISCORD: HERE

The "team" so far is currently overloaded... (actually the project is mine and a personal friend's who is helping with sprites and some dev stuff, but basically I'm having to deal with 100% of the game's code development...Me: Rafael Sanna (main dev, creator of the plot and idea of the game, spriter / graphic designer / game designer)Eric (my personal friend: (spriter / graphic designer / pixel art in general)

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ONGOING DEX (WIP):

RANDOM IMAGES:

> ALL CREDITS SO FAR: HERE

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MADE BY: RAFAEL SANNA (RS design) and Eric Serbinenko - 2025

rafaelsanna96@gmail.com / @rafaelsanna all socials
Personal links to find me: https://bento.me/rafaelsanna

NON PROFIT PROJECT!!! ALL RIGHTS OF POKÉMON EMERALD (base game) BELONG TO NINTENDO / POKEMON COMPANY! THATS A FAN PROJECT MADE FOR FUN! <3

Based off RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.13.2 https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion/
special thanks to: Team Aqua's Hideout yt channel and discord server!
and thanks to all people that made pokeemerald-expasion possible:
(AgustinGDLV,Alex,Bassoonian,DizzyEggg,ghoulslash,hedara90,Martin Griffin,Pawkkie,Philipp AUER,tertu,psf,wiz1989,PCG,kittenchilly,ExpoSeed,Linathan,Eduardo Quezada,khbsd,Cafe,agsmgmaster64,Ruby,mudskipper13,surskitty,grintoul,bassforte123,iriv24,Bivurnum,Emilia Daelman,RavePossum,Zatsu,poetahto,lordraindance2,Pablo Pena,tustin2121)

SPECIAL THANKS: ERIC SERBINENKO:
(My dear friend helped me a lot in all of the project, specially on sprites and graphics!) <3
Sprites: xxx, xxx, xxx
Animated Frames: Jirachi and Torchic
Codes: xxx, xxx, xxx

NORMAL CREDITS: (free stuff we used as base to edit / helped make our game / codes)
(the order does not matter, so many people to credit)

Monkeybard: zinnia trainer sprite
Kasen: helped with a lot of codes / scripts
KingTapir: Base sprite for 1 gym leader
Aveontrainer: zinnia overworld sprite
Productiepoes: celebi sprite
Aveontrainer: overworld tilesets,trainers and some sprites.
TOBALCR: tilesets and sprites
Cronchyradish: Croconaw main sprite
Poffin_Case: FRLG style overworld trainers
Bivurnum: Add Walking Animations for All NPCs
JoshR691: Intro Celebi and Jirachi Base sprite
JoshR691: SCYTHER second frame
Squid Eevee: Modern Type Icons
PurrfectDoodle: FRLG font
gasmaskblacky: Slakoth sprite
Team-Aquas-Asset-Repo: graphics in general
CFRU: battle backgrounds
KajiAtsui: base for Wigglytuff sprite
FrozenFeather: base for Wigglytuff sprite
leparagon: base beta torchic and latiken sprites
Kaiser: DPP sprites
RetroNC: base for latiken sprite
Pokets3: base for latiken sprite
The boxart fanart has no official author (but it wasn't made by me)
Unblast: mockups
Kuro: mockups
Oome: boxart template
Koepskat: alakazam second frame
Gamedevben: scizor second frame
Tenedranox: machamp second frame
.rayzard: machop main frame
Quote.las: machop second frame
Hubercioch: tentacruel second frame
.ashari: gyarados animation frame
Qaffeine: second frame weavile
Starrcasm: base for second frame torchic sprite
Tropiking: base for bulbasuar sprite
Axel-Comics: base for polihwril seadra second frame sprite
Similation: Hex Maniac Sprite
Brasbug: aggron second frame
Kevinhend: venosaur base sprite
Feebelle: Hex Maniac Sprite
Polursine: Gyarados second frame
BaylorHernandez: base sprite for 2cnd frame ivysaur
RH Hideout (discord server): help with code
Lucas Lanna: Help with code
Francisco: Help with code
Kairyu: Dragonite sprite
Quote.lass: togekiss second frame
frozencinders, luxio: second celebi frame
Conyjams: Dragonite sprite
Badmanrhys123: mismagius sprite
Pridesnake: feebas second frame
Conyjams: mismagius sprite
Markusknight: medicham second frame
POKE-PL: Weavile main sprite
Keh-ven: flygon second frame
Hero.drawing: cacturne second frame
BaysenAhiru427: gardevoir second frame
Polursine: peliper sprite
Zuccherino: mismagius second frame
Onix98: Pupitar second frame
Treedragon: Corsola second frame Sprite
Hero.drawing: froslass sprite
Meepy.1: froslass sprite
Hero.drawing: sharpedo sprite
Dragodigitalstudios: sharpedo sprite
Cristata: Ursaring Sprite
Matin.d90: gallade sprite
Astral_rain: gardevoir sprite
Xillo: totodile main sprite
Qaffeine:gardevoir second frame
Louis2288: larvitar second frame
Azunight88: azumarrill second frame
Jelexation: azumarill first frame
JoshR691: Kadabra Sprite
Michael12DZ: gengar sprite
Momogirl: makuhita second frame
Aerosym: vulpix sprite
BaylorHernandez: sandslash sprite
Geline9854: heracross second frame













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Disclaimer: no AI was used for any sprites! All edit / custom were made using asesprite / photoshop!
Only free to use / credit based graphics / main pokémon game sprites were used or used as base!
If you find any work / art on this project / as base please contact me so I can give credits!
If you have a sprite used in this project / used as a base for any graphic in the project and you would like to have it removed (errors can happen and it was a team effort so it's often difficult to control the sprites used) feel free to let me know so we can discuss either the removal of the sprite or special credit!
If anyone sell you this game or a copy of it please contact me via email: rafaelsanna96@gmail.com
I won’t share any link to download this rom, only a patch so you can use it on your official emerald rom!

> PLEASE IF YOU WANT TO USE ANY SPRITE / DESIGN ASK FIRST!!!! DON'T JUST RIP IT AND USE IT!

 

[Folk]

So the protagonists is zinia? Interesting. This make me really curious, because how she is one of dragon people and have connections with rayquaza

 

[rafaelsanna]

So the protagonists is zinia? Interesting. This make me really curious, because how she is one of dragon people and have connections with rayquaza

Oh so about Zinnia, I really like her design and I think she fits the game, tho since this is a wip I don't think it will be like Canon Zinnia, maybe some related person... her ancestor / her granddaughter or something like that... But since the plot its about going a lot of years back in the past, even if it she were Zinnia, she would be warped into a different reality anyway. And theres the non canon male counterpart (the rival/ or main if you choose male made by me), so I think I wont dive deep in that vibe of the canon ORAS, maybe only in the prologue (before you go back in time), but for now theres nothing about it in the game (no one mentions her ''real" name since you are the one who chooses it) hahaha And would be a bit wierd if you choose the male one anwyay ;) But yeah maybe a real game for Zinnia would be a great ideia for another kinda of project focused on her arc in the oras game...