Custom romhack-specific online-based emulation with Live HUD & Cloud Save Sync: Trainer party data, wild encounters, enemy parties, & 2-way real-time damage calculation
For the past 6 months I've been working on building a platform to document all of my favorite romhacks. I've built a parsing and extraction engine that directly reads the .GBA file for binary & decomp hacks and arranges it into a frontend to visualize everything I've ever wanted to know about romhacks in a much more convenient way for my type of playthroughs. Desktop- and mobile-friendly, no files, no spreadsheets, no searching through discord for answers.
But I've always struggled with Emerald. As a kid, I stopped playing after Crystal, so I have no nostalgia for Emerald. I've tried dozens of times to complete it but always fall off after the 5th or so gym because I get lost and lose motivation.
I know some people love blind playthroughs, but that's not me. I want a perfect playthrough, no matter how long it takes. I want to know every single possible encounter for every single route, and every single detail about the enemy's trainer, and everything about my own party, as much and often as possible. ^(yeah i know i'm weird)
I love watching playthroughs as much as I love participating in them and one thing I always thought was amazing was ScottsThought's HUD. The amount of detail packed into the videos, with second-by-second updates, made me feel like it was what I needed to finally complete Emerald.
I would like to introduce the new REX Live HUD. It reads the ROM's memory directly, pulls from the custom, romhack-specific parsed and extracted Pokedex & documentation, and arranges it in a beautiful display flanking the emulator - light/dark mode & theme compliant - updating inreal time (500ms).
Your current location is read to pull true encounter tables. Each battle pulls enemy trainer details that update live during the fight, with full damage calculation on both sides, per-move and per-(active) Pokemon. Works in single & double battles.
Cloud Save lets me pick up any other device with an internet connection (and a large enough screen) and play there. I can connect a bluetooth controller to my iPad and sit back and just enjoy the ultimate excess in Pokemon theorycrafting for a 25-year old game.
Not currently public yet. I'm looking for alpha testers who are interested in testing this further for Emerald Legacy and more romhacks. comment or DM if you would like to try it out and provide feedback, please!