Pokémon Wishes of Tomorrow

What it is

Wishes of Tomorrow, by Joe of Flatfoot Labs, is a full fan game built on the community's pokeemerald-expansion engine. It takes place in a brand-new region and is told in three acts plus a post-game: Jirachi wakes from a thousand-year sleep to grant one wish, and a faction led by a gold-masked Oni wants it first. The main campaign runs roughly four to eight hours.

What's new

• Pokémon from generations I to X, plus Mega Evolution with Mega Stones bought from a curio shop
• A Shadow Pokémon system: snag Shadows from trainers with the Snag Machine, then purify them at a shrine and track them in a log
• A quest journal, a field-move menu that replaces HMs, character portraits and boss intro cards
• Choices that change outcomes, Ability Machines, following Pokémon and an optional built-in randomizer
• Running shoes, easy EXP and optional cheats; version 1.2.6 adds an auto-sprint toggle and a fast-forward mode

The creator says AI tools were used for most of the code and event scripts and for parts of the dialogue; the maps were built by hand, and the art comes from credited sprite and tileset artists.

Playing it

The patch is applied to your own clean Pokémon Emerald dump; the Hackdex page patches it in your browser, and the creator's site has a game guide.