GBA Pokémon - The Pit (Hack)

[RageBurner]

A roguelike style hack with deep mechanics and focus on team building, using the Pokémon Emerald decompilation as a base.

Author(s): Team Aqua Leader Archie
Date: 25th of April, 2025
Version: 2.4.1
Source: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/the-pit-v2-roguelite-style-hack.528423/
Status: Complete, in active development

Overview:

Pick 3 random Pokémon
Fight trainers with random teams for 100 floors and beyond
Singles, Doubles and Mixed battles
Many difficulty customization options
Special services every 5th floor
Boss trainer battles every 25 floors

RB's Notes: the hack comes in 3 flavors, each denoting Pokémon availability by generation (e.g G5 has Pokémon from generations one through five).

mGBA is recommended, though recent builds of VBA-M work well in my testing.
myBoy is not supported.

 

[RageBurner]

anyone know how to run this game on the ndsi? tried it with gbarunner3 to no success :(

Have you tested other advanced hacks based on the Emerald disassembly?

 

[onny]

anyone know how to run this game on the ndsi? tried it with gbarunner3 to no success :(

 

[purple366]

it also works with tempgba on psp if anyone's wondering

 

[DumbPup]

Great romhack

hellyeh

 

[Otsdarva]

Great romhack

 

[Abecero]

Jokes aside, looks like a solid romhack, might have a look at it.

 

[RageBurner]

Anybody know how I can salvage my run on the version 2.4.0? Im on floor 49 and I heard the game breaks at 50. I heard something about "renaming my save" but idk exactly how to do that. I reached out on the discord, but couldn't get any help. Any insight would be really appreciated!

I don't know if it's really possible (maybe things changed too much from the previous version, but try making a copy of your save, naming it the same as the current version, and dropping it on the saves folder.

Needless to say, never load savestates when you do this. I mean the normal save RAM. After you confirm it works, then save a new state and continue.

 

[coomer_ultimate]

Anybody know how I can salvage my run on the version 2.4.0? Im on floor 49 and I heard the game breaks at 50. I heard something about "renaming my save" but idk exactly how to do that. I reached out on the discord, but couldn't get any help. Any insight would be really appreciated!

 

[RageBurner]

it freezes right after picking the trainer's name on all versions here, playing it on myboy emulator

Myboy isn't supported.
Ostensibly, VBA isn't supported either, but I had no problems with recent builds of VBA-M.

 

[SaebaSan86]

This hack is really cool! The UI got a complete revamp, and lots of sprite improvements and new trainer sprites. The only criticism I have now is that we can begin with a super OP pokemon like Mewtwo, we should get non evolved, non legendary Pokemon

 

[Not_Red]

it freezes right after picking the trainer's name on all versions here, playing it on myboy emulator

Unfortunately MyBoy has become quite weak to run some of the most recent rom hacks, I had to change emulators it after it failed to load both Moemon Star Emerald and Emerald Enhanced.

 

[WarmMash]

It plays fine on an everdrive

 

[yamatou]

it freezes right after picking the trainer's name on all versions here, playing it on myboy emulator

Works fine on mgba inside retroarch.

 

[pedroxturbo]

it freezes right after picking the trainer's name on all versions here, playing it on myboy emulator

 

[beholdvisibleaura]

Love roguelike hacks. Gotta try this.