News & updates

Release notes and site news across every ROM hack covered on PolishedDex.

  1. vv1.0.4Ghost Grey

    Ghost Grey: v1.0.4, and the parts of the ROM the site couldn't see

    Ghost Grey is a patched FireRed hack, so half the game was invisible to the extractors. This pass read the rest out of the ROM: gifts and statics, 236 items across 67 locations, the moves its trainers actually use, and the endgame in the order the ROM stages it.

  2. Welcome to PolishedDex

    What this site is, what this feed is for, and the four updates that landed this week: comparisons against each game's own vanilla base, level caps on boss pages, Game Corner prize counters, and the badge progress gate.

  3. vrollingPolished Crystal

    Polished Crystal rolling release updated

    The development rolling release has been refreshed. Rolling builds track the in-progress version and are updated regularly — handy for previewing fixes before the next stable drop.

  4. Modern Emerald

    Modern Emerald joins PolishedDex

    Full Pokédex, moves, items and locations for Modern Emerald, alongside the guides and tools you already use for Polished Crystal.

  5. v3.5Modern Emerald

    Modern Emerald 3.5 released

    A big quality-of-life pass: 2x battle speed, brighter nights, chain fishing, shiny form registration in the Pokédex, and a long list of bugfixes across battles and encounters.

  6. Sour Crystal

    Sour Crystal data is live

    Browse Sour Crystal’s Pokédex, encounters and trainers. Ability data is unavailable — the ROM does not implement abilities.

  7. Emerald Legacy

    Emerald Legacy added

    Emerald Legacy’s full dataset is available, including trainers, encounter tables and the type chart.

  8. vSC-v6.2Sour Crystal

    Sour Crystal v6.2 released

    Save-file tagging (so future updates apply cleanly), a reworked Itemfinder with direction arrows, spruced-up Pokémon sprites and attack animations, and a round of crash and custody fixes.

  9. v3.2.3Polished Crystal

    Polished Crystal 3.2.3 hotfix released

    A critical hotfix addressing a battle-engine game crash — Flare Blitz no longer crashes the game when called by Metronome or Sleep Talk.

  10. v1.1.4Emerald Legacy

    Emerald Legacy 1.1.4 released

    A maintenance drop of the binary-patch release: Wally’s music, an egg-move reminder, and a couple of battle-item fixes around PP and effects.

Release entries link out to each game’s GitHub releases for the full changelog; site articles open in full here on PolishedDex. This list is maintained by hand — check back when a hack ships.