Pokemon R.O.W.E Update 2.0 to 2.0.3.1: Major Changes and New Features Explained

“The latest updates for Pokemon R.O.W.E, 2.0, 2.0.1 ,2.0.2, 2.0.3 & 2.0.3.1 bring some exciting changes to the game. These updates completely refresh the gameplay with new features, bug fixes, and a few surprises. From new Pokemon and Mega Evolutions to important fixes that improve how the game works, there’s a lot to check out. In this post, we’ll explain all the big updates and what makes them so special!”

Pokemon R.O.W.E General Information

Rom Name	Pokemon ROWE
Creator	Rioluwott
Base Rom	Pokemon Emerald
Rom Type	GBA
Available Language	English
Last updated	February 09, 2025
Status	Completed
Download	Mediafire || Mega

What Makes Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0 So Special? Key Updates and New Features

Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0 has undergone a massive transformation, with a year and a half of development behind it. The update completely revamps the game, making older save files incompatible with the new version.

With this update, players can experience exciting new features, including additional gym leaders, Pokemon from Generations 1 to 9, 16 new Mega Evolutions, an in-game speed option, and much more. Keep reading to learn about all the changes in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0!

What’s New in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0: Key Features and Major Improvements

Here’s a look at the exciting new features and improvements in Pokemon R.O.W.E Update 2.0:

• Sevii Islands: Explore all 8 Sevii Islands, each with unique dungeons. Travel there from Lilycove or Slateport!
• 16 Badges: Collect 8 new badges on the Sevii Islands, bringing the total number of badges to 16.
• Hisui Pokemon: Catch Pokemon from Pokemon Legends: Arceus exclusive to the Sevii Islands.
• Gen 9 Pokemon: Encounter Pokemon from the latest generation of games (Gen 9).
• 16 New Mega Evolutions: Discover 16 new Mega Evolutions, including reimagined Dynamax forms.
• In-Game Speedup: Speed up battles without affecting audio! Use the settings or press ‘A’ during battles to fast-forward animations.
• Seasonal Changes: Enjoy Gen 5-inspired seasons that make the game world feel more dynamic and immersive.
• Trainer Skills: Unlock special abilities, such as easier Pokemon catches, shop discounts, and increased experience.
• New Costumes: Dress your character in two brand-new costumes.
• Johto Gyms: Challenge all the Johto Gym Leaders, now located on the Sevii Islands.
• Hoenn Map Updates: Significant improvements to the Hoenn region, making it stand out from other Emerald-based hacks.
• 10 Random Starters: Choose from 10 randomized starters unique to each playthrough.
• Grindless Mode: Automatically level up your party and set EVs manually. Trainers will scale to match your progress.
• Field Tools: Unlock tools by defeating Gym Leaders to find hidden items and access new areas.
• Scalemon Mode: A new badge-based scaling mechanic, inspired by Pokemon Unbound, for added challenge.
• More Achievements: Earn Battle Points and Trainer Experience by unlocking new achievements.
• Signature Moves: Several Pokemon now have unique, signature moves.
• Shiny Charcadet Mystery Gift: Claim a special mystery gift from the continue screen!
• More Pokemon Cries: New generic cries added, with more to come in future updates.
• And much more!

What’s New in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0.1: Bug Fixes and Improvements from v2.0

Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0.1 brings a lot of important bug fixes and improvements to the game. Here’s what’s new:

• Shiny Delibird Mystery Gift: A special shiny Delibird gift is now available for the holiday season.
• Trainer Skill Balancing: Adjusted trainer skills to better balance their costs and effects.
• Skill Menu Updates: The skill menu now shows the maximum skill level for each ability.
• New Moves Added: Three new moves—Gigaton Hammer, Rage Fist, and Make it Rain—are now available.
• Castform Signature Move: The signature move for Castform has been adjusted.
• Shards at Slateport: An NPC now sells shards in Slateport, and they’ve been removed from Oldale Mart.
• STAB Mode Adjustment: Monotype boosts have been removed from the new STAB mode. Now, single-typed Pokemon get a 1.5x boost, while dual-typed Pokemon get a 1.25x boost.
• Last Respects Fix: The stats for the move Last Respects have been fixed.
• EXP Bar Fix: The experience bar has been fixed and should now display correctly.
• Style Change Fix: You can now change styles after reaching level 63.
• Tauros Availability Fix: Kantonian Tauros is now available outside of Wonder Trade.
• Flying Taxi Fix: The Flying Taxi no longer costs money if you didn’t actually fly.
• Menu Fixes: Some menu options now display correctly when you have a lot of available choices in the party menu.
• Crash Fix: Fixed a crash that happened when entering buildings while on a bike, causing your character to disappear.
• Double-typed Moves Fix: Double-typed moves now work properly, even if they deal more than 4x damage.
• Collision and Tile Fixes: Fixed many collision and tile issues across the game world.
• Cracked Hole Tile Fix: Cracked hole tiles no longer cause strange tiles to appear when touched.
• IV Stats Fix: Speed and Special Defense IV stats are now displayed correctly.
• Surprise Me Transport Fix: Fixed some “Surprise Me” options that took you to strange locations.
• Tutor Moves for Archaludon, Dipplin, and Hydrapple: These Pokemon can now learn tutor moves.
• And Many More Bug Fixes!

Other Updates:

• Pokemon Stats Fix: Fixed issues with Hisui Pokemon stats.
• Dexnav Update: The Dexnav now automatically registers the Pokemon you search for, making chaining easier.
• IV Skills Easier to Obtain: It’s now easier to get IV-related skills.
• Galvantula Line Fix: Fixed abilities for the Galvantula line.
• RGBY Costume Fix: The Female RGBY costume has been fixed.
• Spewpa Evolution Fix: Spewpa can now evolve properly from the party screen.
• Magnezone Evolution Fix: Magnezone now evolves with a Thunder Stone instead of a Water Stone.
• Swords Dance Fix: Kleavor, Ceruledge, and Kleavor can now learn Swords Dance.
• Safari Zone Fix: Fixed issues with the Safari Zone, including the NPC not letting you in if you had 6 Pokemon in your party.
• Pokéblock Case Fix: The Safari Zone Guard now gives you the Pokéblock case if you missed it in Lilycove.
• Rock Smash and Headbutt Fixes: You can now get items from Rock Smash and use Headbutt in Petalburg Woods.
• Hidden Power Fix: Hidden Power now shows the correct type in the battle interface.
• Route 111 Layout Fix: Fixed the layout issues on Route 111.
• Typos Fixed: Various typos have been corrected.
• Trainer Skill Update: The Trainer Skill system has been updated, with a max skill level adjustment. Skills will now reset after each update, and you’ll be given the correct number of points to reorganize them without losing any progress.

What’s New in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0.2: Bug Fixes and New Mystery Gifts

• Added Galarian Articuno as this update mystery gift, but instead of getting it as a gift you have to catch it as a roamer
• Added the PokeNav back + map
• Fixed some moves types
• Added 4 signature moves to Venipede line + Abomasnow
• Fixed new game plus not saving your trainer skills level
• Fixed annihilape, duralodon and all the new megas not working correctly in vanilla mode
• Fixed some moves missing from some Pokemon
• Fixed the overkill achievement not working as the cap is 9999 and not 12000
• Fixed some item prices
• Fixed the casino lady giving you mons for free
• Fixed not getting exp with level 100 in your party
• Other fixes and changes

What’s New in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0.3

• New Information menu, this menu lets you search for the FAQ in game without having to use another device, it also lets you see some trainer tips and more importantly your information
• telling you your modes you have enabled, your difficulty, your current level cap, the game version and other important information, you will be asked to share some screenshots of this screen when reporting a bug
• Heavily modified the game scaling, now you will grow faster at the start of the game compared to the endgame, meaning you will have access to more levels in the first part of the game, this is subject to change and tweaked in the future.
• Modified how trainers have their IVs trainer skills, now they scale depending on your difficulty and badge count
• Included access to all the Event Islands after you beat the Pokémon League making some unobtainable mons obtainable yet again.
• Fixed all the gen 9 and Husian mons lacking some TM moves from their learnsets(Only moves that are already TMs in ROWE, no new TMs were added)
• Fixed some tile errors near water
• Fixed Galarian birds not learning TMs
• Heavily reworked the signature move system, while you as an user you won’t see a lot of changes this will let me add a lot of more changes to signature moves that could not be added before and reworked a lot of early signature moves to have more effects considering its easier for me to do that, in the future I plan to make signature moves unlockable at certain levels but that is yet to come, here is a big list of most signature moves changes

Modified Signature moves

• Pichu – Volt Tackle: Now becomes a 130bp move instead of 110 but becomes a reckoil move
• Hypno – Hypnosis: Now can set up psychic terrain
• Golem – Explosion: Becomes a Rock type moves and removes using the highest attacking stat
• Alolan Golem – Explosion: Becomes Electric terrain and can set up Electric terrain but now does not uses the highest attacking stat and can’t set up stealth rock
• Meowth – Pay Day: Now can flinch and can raise speed by 20% instead of 10%
• Persian – Pay Day: Now can flinch
• Alolan Meowth – Pay Day: Now uses the highest attacking stat and can raise special attack by 20% instead of 10%
• Alolan Persian – Pay Day: Now uses the highest attacking stat
• Galarian Meowth – Pay Day: Now raises the user attack by 20% instead of 10% and ignores the target defense changes
• Perrserker – Pay Day: Becomes a 90BP move and now Ignores the target defense changes
• Parasect – Leech Life: Now has a 20% of cursing the target and ignores defense
• Cubone – changed from Bone Club to Bonemerang, same effect + now ignores the target defense
• Alolan Marowak – Shadow Bone: now can raise the user attack
• Alolan Exeguttor – Dragon Hammer: Now uses the user highest attacking stat
• Lickitung – Lick: Becomes a 75BP Normal-type move that cures 25% of the user health when used.
• LickyLicky – Rollout: Becomes a 85BP Normal-type that hits the target once but still doubles from defense curl.
• Voltorb – Electro Ball: Now can raise the user speed
• Electrode – Electro Ball: Can now raise the user speed
• Arcanine – Extreme Speed: Becomes a 70 BP Fire type move that can burn the target.
• Husian Arcanine – Extreme Speed: Becomes a 70 BP Rock type move that can burn the target.
• Gyarados – Thrash: Becomes a single hit 100 BP Flying-type move that dos not lock the user.
• Mega Gyarados – Thrash: Becomes a single hit 110 BP Water-type move that dos not lock the user.
• Articuno – Blizzard: Becomes an Ice move that can hit SE against Water-types, set up hail and has a 90% accuracy
• Zapdos – Thunder: Becomes an Electric move that can hit x2 against Ground-types, set up electric terrain and has a 90% accuracy.
• Moltres – Fire Blast: Becomes a Fire move that can hit x2 against Water-types, set up Sunny Day “and has a 90% accuracy.-Meganium – Petal Blizzard: Now can set up grassy terrain and becomes a 100bp move
• Scizor – Bullet Punch: now can raise the user attack.
• Scizor Mega – Bullet Punch: now can raise the user attack and becomes a 75bp move.
• Steelix – Iron Tail: Has a 95% accuracy and can set up sandstorm.
• Mega Steelix – Iron Tail: Has a 100% accuracy and can set up sandstorm.
• Bellossom – Petal Dance: Becomes a 95BP move that does not lock the user, it has a 50% chance of raising the user speed and can set up grassy terrain.
• Sceptile + Mega – Leaf Blade: now can also set up grassy terrain.
• Blaziken + Mega – Blaze Kick: now can also set up Sun.
• Swampert + Mega – Muddy Water: now can also set up Rain.
• Beautifly – Silver Wind: Becomes a 80BP move that has a 20% chance of raising all of the user stats
• Dustox – Silver Wind: Becomes a 80BP Poison-type move that has a 20% chance of raising all of the user stats
• Honedge and Aegislash – Sacred Sword: Now hits SE against Normal Type mons and ignores defense changes.
• Doublade – Sacred Sword: Now hits SE against Normal Type mons and ignores defense changes, becomes a 45BP move that hits twice.
• Charmander – Tail whip: Becomes a 30 BP move that burns the target
• Paras – Slash: Becomes a Grass type move that has a 30% chance of seeding the target and cures the user.
• Exeguttor – Seed Bomb: Becomes a 100BP move that has a 25% chance to confuse and uses the user highest attacking stat.
• Mega Machamp – Strength: Becomes a 100BP move that hits the user attack stat rather than defense.

And a lot of bugfixes and small changes.

What’s New in Pokemon R.O.W.E 2.0.3.1

• Signature moves not changing some move types in battle
• Fixed the issue where Special Moves used Physical stats for damage calculation
• ixed the bug where some new mega evolutions did not gain their new stats/abilities/types upon mega evolving(Example Mega Snorlax)
• Fixed the issue where some people got stuck in the start menu by pressing Up a few times
• Some Collision fixes
• Added the item finder to the start of the game, if you already started the game just go and talk to the blue nurse and it will appear in your bag
• Now the sniper ball skill also ups the chances of catching a Pokémon regardless if you get a critical catch or not
• Other small bug fixes

Some Screenshots from v2.0 & v2.0.1

Conclusion

“Overall, Pokemon R.O.W.E Update 2.0 & 2.0.1 bring lots of exciting changes and improvements to the game. Whether you’re a new player or a veteran, these updates make the game feel fresh and more enjoyable. Be sure to download the latest updates and explore all the new features and fixes for yourself. Happy gaming!”