

Pokemon Recharged Pink
About the Game
Pokémon Recharged Pink is a Game Boy Advance game based on Pokémon Emerald, created by Jaizu. It is a pink-themed variation of Pokémon Recharged Yellow, with Clefairy as the starter Pokémon and changes to Pokémon stats, abilities, moves, types, interfaces, and gameplay systems.
🌸 Clefairy is Your Starter
The main difference between Pokémon Recharged Pink and its related Recharged Yellow version is the starter Pokémon.
- Clefairy is your starting Pokémon.
- Pikachu can still be found in Viridian Forest.
- The Pokédex uses a pink-themed interface.
- Standard text boxes use pink.
- Battle text boxes use a pink/purple design.
🗺️ Kanto on the Emerald Engine
The game recreates the Kanto region using the Pokémon Emerald engine.
You can explore locations such as:
- Viridian Forest
- Mt. Moon
- S.S. Anne
- Rock Tunnel
- Pokémon Tower
- Safari Zone
- Silph Co.
- Power Plant
- Seafoam Islands
- Victory Road
- Pokémon League
The main adventure follows the Kanto Gym progression and ends with the Pokémon League.
👥 Your Pokémon Can Follow You
Pokémon Recharged Pink includes a Pokémon follower system.
Your selected Pokémon can appear behind you while you explore the overworld.
The game also uses different Pokémon color variations inspired by Pokémon Stadium.
These variations can appear in:
- Pokémon followers
- Party screens
- PC boxes
🎨 Pink-Themed Interface
The game uses a pink visual theme throughout several parts of its interface.
Documented changes include:
- Pink Pokédex interface
- Pink standard text boxes
- Pink/purple battle text boxes
- Modified Pokémon icons
- Pokémon color variations
💻 Built-In Cheat Menu
One of the notable features is the built-in Cheat Menu.
You can access it through the player's computer.
The menu provides options related to:
- Obtaining Pokémon
- Obtaining items
- Editing Pokémon IVs
- Editing Pokémon EVs
- Evolution items in later versions
The cheat system is built directly into the game rather than requiring external cheat codes.
⚔️ Modified Battle Mechanics
Pokémon Recharged Pink changes the physical and special classification of several types.
The documented changes include:
- Ghost → Special
- Dark → Physical
- Dragon → Physical
These changes affect the way certain moves calculate their damage.
Trainer Pokémon and their movesets have also been modified in accordance with the game's battle system.
🧬 Pokémon Type Changes
Several Pokémon have different types from their standard forms.
| Pokémon | Type in Recharged Pink |
|---|---|
| Ninetales | Fire/Ghost |
| Paras | Bug |
| Parasect | Bug/Ghost |
These changes affect their weaknesses, resistances, and move interactions.
📊 Modified Pokémon Stats
The hack changes the base stats of numerous Pokémon.
Some documented examples include:
- Beedrill: Attack increased to 90
- Clefairy: Attack 50 and Speed 45
- Clefable: Special Attack increased to 95
- Vileplume: Special Attack increased to 110
- Gyarados: Attack 110 and Special Attack 110
- Flareon: Speed increased to 80
- Steelix: HP increased to 90
These are examples of the documented stat modifications in the game.
🧠 Ability Changes
Some Pokémon receive different or additional abilities.
Examples include:
- Sandshrew: Shield Dust as a secondary ability
- Sandslash: Sand Stream as a secondary ability
- Onix: Huge Power instead of Sturdy
- Steelix: Rough Skin instead of Sturdy
📚 Modified Moves
The game changes the power, accuracy, type, or availability of various moves.
Examples include:
- Cut: Bug type
- Rock Smash: 40 power
- Dive: 80 power
- Dig: 80 power
- Fly: 80 power
- Petal Dance: 80 power
- Absorb: 40 power
- Mega Drain: 60 power
- Giga Drain: 75 power
- Leech Life: 40 power
- Tackle: 45 power
- Lick: 30 power
- Mud-Slap: 40 power
- Thief: 60 power
Some move accuracy values are also different:
- Hypnosis: 75 accuracy
- Glare: 90 accuracy
- Tackle: 100 accuracy
- Pin Missile: 90 accuracy
🧬 Reworked Pokémon Movepools
Pokémon can learn different moves and learn some moves at different levels.
Examples include:
- Pidgeot: Extreme Speed at level 40
- Ekans: Acid at level 16
- Arbok: Poison Fang at level 23
- Arbok: Crunch at level 32
- Sandshrew: Sand Tomb at level 20
- Sandshrew: Dig at level 27
- Scyther: Silver Wind at level 16
- Pinsir: Megahorn at level 34
- Flareon: Solar Beam through TM
- Kabutops: Swords Dance at level 50
🚀 Team Rocket Returns
Team Rocket remains part of the Kanto storyline.
The game also includes Jessie and James, based on their appearances in the Pokémon anime and Pokémon Let's Go games.
Team Rocket-related locations include:
- Rocket Hideout
- Pokémon Tower
- Silph Co.
- Other locations connected to the Kanto storyline
🏆 Eight Kanto Gyms
The main adventure includes the eight traditional Kanto Gym Leaders.
Your progression takes you through:
- Pewter City Gym
- Cerulean City Gym
- Vermilion City Gym
- Celadon City Gym
- Fuchsia City Gym
- Saffron City Gym
- Cinnabar Island Gym
- Viridian City Gym
After collecting the eight Badges, you can proceed toward the Pokémon League.
🏝️ Sevii Islands
The project also contains Sevii Islands content as part of its post-game material.
The Sevii Islands provide additional locations beyond the main Kanto adventure.
The availability of this content depends on the specific distribution or version of Recharged Pink.
🎮 Additional Game Modes
Pokémon Recharged Pink includes several optional gameplay modes.
Hard Mode
Hard Mode provides a more difficult version of the adventure.
Nuzlocke Mode
The game includes a built-in Nuzlocke mode.
This allows you to play with Nuzlocke-style restrictions directly through the game.
Level Caps
Level-cap options are also available.
These options can restrict how high your Pokémon can level during different stages of the adventure.
🏅 Achievement System
An in-game achievement system was introduced in version 1.8.0.
This provides additional objectives beyond completing the standard Kanto Gym and Pokémon League progression.
⚡ Battle Speed Option
Version 1.8.0 also introduced a battle-speed option.
You can use this setting to change the speed of battle presentation.
🚚 Mew Under the Truck
Version 1.8.0 introduced a Mew encounter under the truck.
This is a specific addition documented in the version changelog.
🐭 Pikachu Is Still Available
Although Clefairy is the starter Pokémon, Pikachu has not been removed.
You can encounter Pikachu in Viridian Forest.
🎒 Quality-of-Life Features
Pokémon Recharged Pink contains several quality-of-life changes.
These include:
- Pokémon following you
- Built-in Cheat Menu
- IV/EV editing
- Hard Mode
- Nuzlocke Mode
- Level-cap options
- Achievement system
- Battle-speed option
- Modified Pokémon icons
- Pokémon color variations
- Pink-themed interface
💾 Save and Connectivity
There are important differences between Recharged Pink and Recharged Yellow when it comes to compatibility.
- Recharged Pink saves are not compatible with Recharged Yellow.
- The game does not support connectivity with other Generation III Pokémon games.
- The game does not display the standard game label in the Pokémon summary screen.
The loss of Generation III connectivity is intentional and is connected to the additional systems implemented in the hack.
🎮 Game Controls
Pokémon Recharged Pink uses the standard Game Boy Advance control layout.
| GBA Button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| D-Pad Up | Arrow Up |
| D-Pad Down | Arrow Down |
| D-Pad Left | Arrow Left |
| D-Pad Right | Arrow Right |
| A | Z |
| B | X |
| L | A |
| R | S |
| Start | Enter |
| Select | Space |
Basic Controls
- Arrow Keys: Move and select menu options.
- Z: Confirm and interact.
- X: Cancel.
- A: L button.
- S: R button.
- Enter: Start.
- Space: Select.
📱 Mobile Controls
When playing the game on a mobile device, use the on-screen GBA controls.
- D-pad: Movement
- A: Confirm and interact
- B: Cancel
- L/R: Shoulder-button functions
- Start: Open the Start menu
- Select: Select-button functions





































