Pokemon Dark Rising

Pokémon Dark Rising is a well-known fan-made ROM hack of Pokémon FireRed, created by DarkRisingGirl in 2012. It is the first entry in a popular series and is famous for its high difficulty and darker, more mature narrative. Players explore the new Core Region, tasked by Arceus to defeat an ancient evil named Darugis. The game features 386 Pokémon from the first five generations, along with newer moves and abilities.

Pokemon Dark Rising is listed as a Community Patch entry in CheckpointDB's preservation database.

This record is treated as its own version or project, separate from normal game database entries.

Requirements are not individually verified yet, so the flags below should be treated as leads rather than confirmed instructions.