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I've been playing through Altered Emerald recently. Basically just a 386 hack with gen 4 evos, phys/special split, and difficulty in general being ramped up is the tldr of it.
The romhack itself isn't bad, but some changes are weird. Team Aqua+Magma have teamed up to 'stop climate change' and you're sorta pushed into the 'bad guy' role, but it's only in dialogue and nothing much changes other than the Magma base being a sort of stealth-section. A lot of pokemon have gotten stat/movepool changes, some of which seem sorta fanfic tier-y, but whatever. A lot (though not all) of routes have been changed a bit, and there's a handful of new ones added. Worth checking out if it sounds appealing to you.
Any recommendations? Just finished Mossdeep Gym (which the game apparently recommends you do after grinding all the ocean trainers for levels and stuff), so I should be done with the game in due time. Might go for another Renegade Plat run, or maybe Fire Red Omega. Never played that before, admittedly.