A little background on the development of the hack

Spoiler: If you don't know already, for every April 1st, ever since I started hacking, I released a small joke hack. The first one was simple and very uninteresting, the second one was creative but also somewhat lazy.

This year, I was thinking of creating a hack where all your Pokemon are pernamently poisoned (it seems that the world wanted it to happen, since it would line up with the recent events). But it turned out that it doesn't provide any tension or anything, as I hoped. It just becomes a more tedious Fire Red, where it's harder to get levels and you run out of money to beat the Elite Four at the end of the hack. LAME!

Thankfully, I still had time to make this instead. Sadly, it isn't a joke hack.

Introduction

Features

- 2 versions of the hack: a Normal version and the Double battles version

How the hacks works

Spoiler: You start by getting 50 Masterballs (check your PC) , 1 copy of every TM in the game and catch yourself a team of Pokemon that you want.

You can only catch fully evolved Pokemon that are allowed in the Emerald Battle Frontier, others are not avaliable.

You can then use the Move Tutor and TMs (remember, only 1 copy of each TM) to make their movesets better.

The Move Tutor can teach your Pokemon any move that they can learn in Fire Red, including egg moves and other Move Tutor moves (except for some useless moves + some Pokemon get elemental punches that they could only get in Emerald otherwise).

The Dept. Store has access to free Master Balls, free Big Mushrooms (for the Move Tutor), free Vitamins (that can easily max out EVs) and many items that you will need in the pit.

It is important to buy items wisely since money is limited, or you could not even have a chance of clearing "the pit".

Once you enter "the pit", you cannot exit.

Every regular trainer has 2 Pokemon. Trainers that were story important in Fire Red can have more than that.

You can heal in between battles by using your items.

If you lose a battle it's game over, and you either have to reload your save or start a new game with a different team and items.

Bonus challenge (that is more true to the original Paper Mario pit) for those feeling like it:

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Also don't check this out if you don't wanna get a bit spoiled

The chart:

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1 Raticate Pidgeot 2 Beedrill Buterfree 3 Ledian Ariados 4 Beutifly Dustox 5 Raticate Sandslash 6 Wigglytuff Clefable 7 Pidgeot Nidoqueen 8 Golem Rhydon 9 Aggron Cradily 10 Aerodactyl Nosepass Omastar Regirock Lunatone Tyranitar 11 Sandslash Raticate 12 Muk Houndoom 13 Crobat Arbok 14 Nidoking Bellossom 15 Swellow Delcatty 16 Furret Linoone 17 Pidgeot Raticate Arcanine Alakazam 18 Kingdra Cloyster 19 Seaking Azumarill 20 Swampert Lapras Milotic Suicune Lanturn Ludicolo 21 Exploud Girafarig 22 Jumpluff Raichu 23 Shuckle Scizor 24 Machamp Tentacruel 25 Wailord Starmie 26 Pelipper Sharpedo 27 Ampharos Electabuzz 28 Electrode Magneton 29 Raichu Manetric 30 Electrode Zapdos Electabuzz Raikou Raichu Jolteon 31 Marowak Slowbro 32 Hariyama Claydol 33 Sudowoodo Donphan 34 Persian Swalot 35 Poliwrath Ninetales 36 Muk Porygon2 37 Seviper Qwilfish 38 Breloom Sceptile 39 Vileplume Meganium 40 Venosaur Sceptile Ludicolo Shiftry Tropius Meganium 41 Crobat Sneasel 42 Cacturne Sandslash 43 Mightyena Arbok 44 Steelix Kangaskhan Dugtrio Rhydon 45 Gengar Dusclops 46 Banette Misdreavus 47 Gyarados Arcanine Pidgeot Alakazam Exeggutor 48 Swalot Muk 49 Arbok Weezing 50 Weezing Gengar Nidoking Tentacruel Seviper Crobat 51 Crawdaunt Mightyena 52 Kangaskhan Muk 53 Metagross Porygon2 54 Pidgeot Rhydon Gyarados Arcanine Alakazam Exeggutor 55 Muk Houndoom 56 Marowak Hypno 57 Flygon Gligar Nidoqueen Swampert Camerupt 58 Slowbro Gardevoir 59 Slowking Medicham 60 Metagross Wobbufett Grumpig Alakazam Starmie Latias 61 Cloyster Walrein 62 Kabutops Feraligatr 63 Relicanth Quagsire 64 Torkoal Typhlosion 65 Electrode Magneton 66 Rapidash Magmar 67 Ninetales Houndoom 68 Typhlosion Flareon 69 Ninetales Charizard 70 Blaziken Charizard Magmar Houndoom Entei Moltres 71 Blastoise Seaking 72 Jumpluff Parasect 73 Crawdaunt Dewgong 74 Kingler Golduck 75 Roselia Sunflora 76 Whiscash Piloswine 77 Steelix Claydol 78 Rhydon Sandslash 79 Marowak Golem 80 Flygon Claydol Nidoking Marowak Swampert Dugtrio 81 Dragonite Altaria 82 Miltank Aggron 83 Tyranitar Forestress 84 Slaking Snorlax 85 Electrode Metagross 86 Articuno Cloyster Regice Lapras Glalie Jynx 87 Hariyama Hitmonchan Hitmonlee Hitmontop Blaziken Breloom 88 Gengar Banette Shedinja Misdreavus Dusclops Sableye 89 Dragonite Salamence Kingdra Flygon Aerodactyl Altaria 90 Tyranitar Pidgeot Heracross Arcanine Gyarados Exeggutor These next trainers are a bit special, so they are extra spoilery: Spoiler:

91 Zapdos Articuno Togetic Skarmory Moltres Swellow 92 Scizor Pinsir Heracross Venomoth Shuckle Ninjask 93 Slaking Snorlax Tauros Porygon2 Blissey Miltank 94 Dusclops Gengar Shedinja Banette Misdreavus Sableye 95 Poliwrath Breloom Primeape Medicham Blaziken Hariyama 96 Metagross Skarmory Magneton Aggron Registeel Foretress 97 Latias Latios Kingdra Dragonite Flygon Salamence 98 Tyranitar Murkrow Umbreon Houdoom Sharpedo Cacturne 99 Typhlosion Feraligatr Meganium Mantine Ampharos Crobat Of course, the final trainer has to have an additional spoiler warning:

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100 Tyranitar Latios Suicune Raikou Registeel Slaking

Of course, the final trainer has to have an additional spoiler warning:

These next trainers are a bit special, so they are extra spoilery:

Anyone can beat this by saving and reloading between each battle, to have a good outcome. But can you beat it froms start to finish without reloading? It is possible, however it probably won't be easily doable in the first try. After about 4 test runs I could memorize what the team for most of the trainers is, so I could prepare accordingly for them and know which tactics work on specific Pokemon (on both single and double version of the hack). But because I know how short the attention span is these days, you can check out this chart that shows all the Pokemon that the trainers have. Be warned that you still might have to learn which stategies work best on some Pokemon:Also don't check this out if you don't wanna get a bit spoiled

Tips

Spoiler: - Speed and Attack/Special Attack are the most important stats

- Choice Band OP

- You can sell TMs that you won't use for some extra money.

- You can save TMs for the pit and teach them at the point when you actually need them

- Talk to the NPCs. They have some tips on their own

- Having multiple moves with the same STAB can be useful for having more PP for a move type

- Don't teach TMs to Pokemon before you check the Move Tutor. TMs are one use only, Move Tutor is infinite

- Try to at least have a nature that raises a good stat for your Pokemon

- Having a good mix of Potions, Ethers/Elixirs and Revives is cruical

- Even if Revives are expensive, they are probably the most important items. Don't be a cheapskate!

- Just because the item is more expensive than others, doesn't mean that you will have a better use for it!



Special changes

Spoiler: - Return now has 102 base power at all times (Frustration is unchanged)

- Pickup is gone

- Payday gives no money

- Some useless moves cannot be learned by the Move Tutor (that's because the Tutor can only have 18 moves to learn at the same time. Pokemon with very big movesets were otherwise unable to learn some moves that they should)

- Scyther, Onix, Pikachu and Clamperl are catchable along with all the other fully evolved Pokemon



Known bugs/oddities:

Spoiler: - Free items can only be bought 1 at a time, so it can take a while. You have speedup to fix that :P

- The Blaine Gym has some graphical glitches as you beat trainers in it. Nothing game breaking

- If you play the Double battle version and have only 1 Pokemon alive in your party, the battles will be somewhat glitched, with you having 2 copies of the same Pokemon on your side, however if one of them faints, you lose the entire battle



Version 1.1 update:

Spoiler: -Unown is no longer catchable, because it caused a crash when encountered. Apologies to all people who wanted to attempt an Unown only solo run.

Screenshots

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Credits:

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4xh7e26dott86pq/Pit_of_100_Trials_ver_1.1.zip/file

This hack takes the concept that was introduced in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where there is a challenge area (The pit of 100 trials). There, you have to battle 100 different enemies that appear all throughout the game, with progressing difficulty and it has a superboss and a reward at the end.While this hack doesn't exactly have a pit in the literal sense, I think the name still fits for what it tries to accomplish.In this hack you can easily get yourself any team of Pokemon you want, EV train them almost instantly and battle 100 battles that represent the progression throughout Fire Red.For example, you start with battling Bug Catchers, then you battle Youngsters, then Brock, then Rocket Grunts in Mt. Moon, then Nugget Bridge trainers, etc.Of course these trainers are only the same by the type of Pokemon they use. Their Pokemon are all level 100 and can be from any Generation from 1-3.You battle these types of trainers up to a certain point. The final 10 trainers are all a bit more special.- 100 level 100 trainers to battle in a row- All "balanced" fully evolved Pokemon easily catchable + some non-fully evolved ones- Easy EV training (just give 4 vitamins of a single type to max out a single stat (for example, 4 PROTEINs will give 252 ATK EVs in total))- Move Tutor that can teach almost any non-TM move- Buy the items you want for the pit with limited money. Spend carefully!- A loss is a GAME OVER!- A different story. A barebones one, but a story nonetheless- With the hack releasing close to Easter, of course it has to have an easter egg- You get more money to buy items in the Double battle version, since it can be quite harder at timesfor help with getting the "super duper vitamins" to work-Me-My dogfor (indirectly) providing the solution for the Pokemon in Pokemon Tower not appearing as uncatchable ghosts.The original file that was modified to create the ROM hack was called:"1636 - Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels).gba"The download contains both the normal version and the double battle version of the hack: