Pokemon Star Sapphire

Pokemon Star Sapphire is a 3DS ROM Hack by Diovento based on Pokemon Alpha Sapphire in English. It was last updated on April 22, 2017.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Rutile Ruby.

Description

Pokemon Star Sapphire and Pokemon Rutile Ruby are ROM hacks for Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. Their main purpose is to provide a more challenging game experience while not artificially limiting the player. The premier feature of Rutile Ruby and Star Sapphire is the ground-up redesign of Pokémon Trainers in the world to increase the game’s challenge. Every trainer in the game has been edited, and the level curve expects use of the Experience Share, which means that you level up very quickly. You should be hitting Level 100 by the time you get to the Elite Four.

Trainer Changes

• Harsher Level Curve: Balanced to the EXP Share!
• All-New Trainer teams, many featuring six Pokémon! Even the rematches have been edited!
• All Gym Leaders have six Pokémon!
• Trainers throughout the game have access to Mega Evolution!
• Alternate Battle Types are more common in the world!

Wild Pokémon Changes

• Post-game Foreign Pokémon are available from the beginning of the game!
• Pokémon rarity within areas has been adjusted!
• Hordes have been optimized for painless and early EV training!
• Every species can now hold Items in the wild!

Poké Mart and Item Changes

• Poké Mart lists have been consolidated to replace redundant items!
• Sacred Ash is available in standard Poké Marts, and Revives have had a drastic price increase to discourage their use in battles. Sacred Ash functions as a Max Revive for the entire party, but can only be used outside of battle.
• Competitive consumables, such as Focus Sash or Air Balloon, are available in standard Poké Marts!
• Slateport Market is now the go-to place to purchase competitive hold items like Leftovers or Life Orb.
• The Pickup table has been drastically overhauled with many valuable items!
• Prices of certain items have been adjusted, sometimes drastically. Only some price changes are listed here.

Evolution Changes

• Pokémon that normally Evolve via trade now have additional methods for Evolution. They can still be Evolved by their normal method!

Miscellaneous Changes

• Eggs now hatch incredibly quickly. Every species now has a 1-cycle hatch rate. Note this doesn’t apply to Event eggs or Traded eggs.
• Switch Mode no longer reveals the incoming Pokémon.
• Level 3 of the Hatching, Experience Gain, Friendship, and Money Gain O-Powers now last much longer.
• Brendan and May have new outfits/designs.
• Custom Title Screen!
• Custom Banner and Icon for .cia installs!

Changelog

V2.2

• Fixed the Slowpoke ability bug

V2.1

• Resized title banners to fit properly on the Home Screen (CIA installations only)
• Switch Mode no longer displays the name of the incoming Pokémon.
• Included Asia81’s Hack Pack for easier CIA creation.
• Included modified OR/AS v1.4 Update CIA that enables online play without feature loss on CIA builds.

V2.0

• Added Leveled Build.
• Added 679 Build.
• Updated Title Screen.
• Included Braindump and svdt in Distribution Package.
• Included RomFS Extractor and RomFS Builder in Distribution Package.
• Added Fossils to certain Pokémon’s 50% Wild Hold Item slot.
• Fixed Title Screen for non-Japanese/Korean languages.
• Improved Banners for .cia installations.

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