Pokemon Sparkling Red

Download Pre-Patched Pokemon Sparkling Red GBA ROM Hack

• Creator: Hangry
• Version: 0.4.3
• Hack of: FireRed
• Released: February 05, 2025
• Language: English
• Status: Progressing (up to Gym 6, the Safari Zone, and everything in between)

Pokemon Sparkling Red is a GBA ROM Hack by Hangry based on Pokemon Fire Red in English. And it is now available to download. It was last updated on February 05, 2025.

Description

Pokémon Sparkling Red is an in-development ROM hack of Pokémon Fire Red, focusing on shiny Pokémon.

With over 350 custom shinies and drastically increased shiny odds, your Pokémon adventure will be filled with shiny Pokémon. The ROM features a light overhaul of the Kanto region, offering a refreshing experience for anyone who has already played Pokémon FireRed or a perfect start for newcomers.

Pokemon Sparkling Red Edition includes all the content from the base game, along with additional features and adjustments to discover along your journey. It has a moderate difficulty level, with some slightly tougher battles than the base game, but nothing extremely challenging.

Features

• Over 350 new shiny Pokémon for those originally found in the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn regions.
• Every non-legendary Pokémon from the Generation 3 National Dex is obtainable before the Elite Four.
• Increased shiny odds (1/8 chance) to allow the discovery of many new shinies on your journey.
• All trade and friendship evolutions have been replaced with other criteria.
• EXP grinding areas in each gym town to reduce tedious leveling.
• Reworked Poké Marts to sell many more items, such as evolution items and more.
• Post-game content featuring encounters with every legendary and mythical Pokémon from Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn.
• All new gym leaders, Elite Four members, and teams.
• A brand new rival who uses non-Kantonian Pokémon.
• Reworked routes, trainers, and Pokémon encounters across the entire region.
• The ability to obtain multiple starter Pokémon throughout the game (at a rare encounter chance).
• Better level balance and level scaling throughout the game.
• Zero shiny locks for any Pokémon.
• New areas that feature Pokémon not originally found in pre-Elite Four FireRed.
• Reworked TMs and HMs to be compatible with more Pokémon.
• And many more additional features for you to discover.

Changelog – What’s New!

v0.4.3

• Fixes a few small things involving proper NPC dialog and reworking catch rates of the Pokemon found in the Safari Zone, to make them a bit easier to catch.

Note: This is likely the final patch before v0.5 starts development.

v0.4.2

• Pokemarts have been remodeled
• Saffron now features an exp area
• The level cap in Fuschia has been added
• Tiles with incorrect collision have been fixed
• A few fixes to various NPCs
• and other smaller fixes

v0.4.1

• Various issues with the cycling road and route 18 have been fixed.
• The third gym leader is ACTUALLY the third gym leader now. The typing and level cap has been adjusted.

v0.4

• You are now able to access Gym 5, Gym 6, the Safari Zone, and everywhere in between.
• Surfing, along with the great and super rod are now obtainable, allowing for new encounters on previous routes.
• The ⁠encounter table has been updated for wild, surfing, and fishing Pokemon. Thanks to some help from @TheCrafter1024 on discord, if you happen to be playing the ROM on a physical GBA, trading between real firered cartridges is now possible on the second floor of pokecenters. (I recommend creating a save backup beforehand in case of corruption or error).

If you have any recommendations or questions, want to see upcoming sneak peeks, or would like to follow the ROM’s development, please consider joining the Pokemon Sparkling Red’s Discord (linked in the useful stuff section).

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Useful Stuff

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Previous Versions

Credits

Hangry – Spritework, region changes, etc.
The Shadow Knight – The code needed to adjust shiny odds using the Shiny PID Reroller
haven1433 – For providing HexManiacAdvance, which was used to make this ROM