Pokémon Lazarus, the Greek-inspired GBA ROM hack from Emerald Seaglass creator Nemo622, just dropped its biggest update yet. Version 2.0 arrived this week with six new Mega Evolutions, a DexNav overhaul, and quality-of-life tweaks that players have been requesting since the game’s November launch.
The headline additions are four original Mega Evolutions (Typhlosion, Carracosta, Aurorus, and Tyrantrum) plus Mega Crabominable and Mega Golisopod imported from the Legends Z-A DLC leaks. Several existing Megas got rebalanced, too: Mega Raichu X is now Electric/Fighting, Mega Heliolisk switched to Electric/Fire with Drought, and Mega Greninja’s Protean now only triggers once per battle.
The DexNav shiny hunting system got recoded from scratch. You now start with four base rerolls for any DexNav encounter, with Shiny Charms adding two more each. Chain bonuses stack aggressively: 100-chain hunts net you 10 extra rerolls, and maxing a Pokémon’s Search Level to 100 gives another two. It’s a much clearer system than the old implementation, and should make dedicated shiny hunting less opaque.
Quality-of-life improvements include an option to disable level caps entirely, the ability to swap a Pokémon’s ball type directly from the bag menu, and the removal of that cursed low-health beep. TM21 is finally Acid Spray instead of Frustration, Dragapult now evolves at level 48 instead of 60, and a new “BATTLEPASS” cheat code unlocks battle items. Nemo also fixed the bug where having Raging Bolt as your following Pokémon would freeze the game at Pokémon Centers.
Lazarus was originally released in November with 400+ Pokémon, nine starter choices, a Greece-inspired region, and GBC-style pixel art crammed into an Emerald base. The v2.0 patch is available now on Nemo622’s Ko-Fi page and the official website, and saves from earlier versions carry over without issue.
Source: Pokemon Lazarus Website
