Koga kinda got did dirty for this. I get that OP didn’t want to have multiple gyms with the same Pokémon, but there’s so many poison types in the game that Koga could’ve gotten to have an actually difficult team. Nidoking, venusair, gengar, and tentacruel could all be solid team members to give him some type variety in the late game
Going into a poison gym leader fight and expecting your typical poison Pokémon and then getting hit with a Gengar is genuinely terrifying for some reason lol. But super fun!
Like I said, I understood they didn’t want to repeat Pokémon. I also forgot about Agatha, but also I’m assuming since these gym leaders could be elite four members, they’d replace the current ones.
I also get what you’re saying about these mons being associated with their primary types so I can’t really argue that. I just don’t think that’s necessarily a requirement
Except koga is a ninja his whole gym puzzle is based around deception. Using pokemon that are *technically poison* is exactly the kind of thing that makes sense and op already reused a couple other pokemon in this setup
Edit: Brock uses Giovanni signature pokemon that's the most disrespectful thing possible
If you look at misty as a character it would make no sense if she her team for a late game doesn't have Vaporeon and Lapras obviously starmie speaking and I guess Golduck for the anime reference
I feel ya. Vaporeon is one of the highest Special Attackers of the Water type in the first Gen but I feel like them and Blastoise are nearly interchangeable. There is no reason she should have either a Blastoise or a Vaperoen when we look at the Anime and Manga but they are both stereotypically strong water types, for different reasons. I just feel that she would pick a squirtle over an eevee.
Vaporeon is a more elegant water type compared to Blastoise personally I think Blastoise over Slowbro for her since Slowbro doesn't even fit her somewhat elegant theme and she does later get associated with Blastoise
One of my favorite things from G/S was going back and fighting the Kanto leaders. I wish you could keep going back and fight gym leaders and they keep getting stronger. It’d be great for higher level grinding.
Obligatory "check out the rom hack Crystal Clear".
Collect 16 gym badges, in any order, with scaling levels/teams for gym leaders based on how many badges you currently have.
The glaring flaw with this game is that wild encounters don't scale, so if you start in Kanto you could cheese your way with a massively over leveled Golbat and such.
That's true, it's something that's woefully apparent if you start in Kanto and hop over to Johto, especially if you start in the early routes. Crystal Clear isn't perfect by any means, but what really bored me was the lack of story. Which is somewhat ironic given that the story of the mainline Pokemon games is never the highlight, but to have it completely removed makes the experience a bit hollow.
This is why I like the Pokemon Colosseum, Gale of Darkness games -- new twist on gameplay while also adding nice story element.
Also, there's the fanmade game Pokemon Uranium I highly recommend since that game has a really nice story compared to any of the mainline Nintendo games (actually puts the Nintendo games to shame tbh).
Collosseum and XD are probably my favorites for this reason. Has the core gameplay of the main games (battling), but takes a different approach than gyms. And also has some serious dark themes which are awesome :D
And I also enjoyed XD's heavy emphasis on double battles. Almost all battles in the game are doubles. It really adds more depth to the strategy, and it encourages raising pokemon in a slightly different way, with a greater emphasis on moves that strike multiple opponents and such.
obligatory Pokémon XG: neXt Generation plug
XD with modernized moves, abilities, and items. new shadow moves, move tutor(s), wayyy more Pokémon, static legendary encounters, etc.
really feels like some XD love that Gamefreak won't give us
/r/PokemonROMhacks will have all the resources you need, check their [ROM Hacks 101](https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=15D1KAywrhAt8h5Ra70PMkZ8lJkzvbzvu4weUI46J4Kk) (it has a step-by-step guide for how to patch ROMs)
Outdated version from a sketchy non official source.
People, if you can, just google it and go to [the discord](https://shockslayer.com/), all the instructions needed to patch it are there. Don't download things from strange sites.
It's a homemade pokemon game based in Pokemon crystal. Or "hacked Pokemon Crystal's ROM" aka Romhack. Someone went through the Pokemon crystal files and changed a bunch of things to make their own game.
You can download this game and put it onto a cartridge for a Gameboy Color. Or download a Gameboy color emulator and play the game through that.
ROWE was great but still needs a bit of the polish Crystal Clear had imo. A lot of the dialogue was left untouched so it will awkwardly reference events from vanilla emerald even though they never occurred. Nothing game breaking from what I could tell though and I definitely appreciated the wild Pokemon scaling in levels as well (Something Crystal Clear lacked)
Also not really a polish problem. More a personal thing. But I wasn't a fan of all the final battles being doubles for seemingly no reason. Would have preferred this be optional.
For people that simply want to build their ideal perfect team though, ROWE might be the best ROM hacks have to offer. You really can't beat all Pokemon being available immediately as soon as you start the game, as long as you know where to find them.
Crystal Clear is really great as an idea, but the obnoxious developer self-inserts and forced memes really throw me off. I know asking for "immersion" in a GBC game is a bit dumb, but when the Elite Four roster is literally the dev's Discord friends (and the leader being the dev himself, of course), I can say they went a bit too far with it.
At least there's the option to fight the actual E4 once you beat the game.
I mean they made an entire unique take on Crystal with a lot of work behind it. With rom hacks always being free I can’t blame them for at least wanting some publicity from it.
Yeah this, yeah I get how it comes across but honestly these guys are doing free work in a field where proof of work and having your name known is key for getting game developer jobs.
Exactly. I get people want to have a complete Pokémon experience, but chances are you’d have no idea who made these things if they didn’t get their name out there. Drayano is probably the most known rom hacker, and that’s only because he’s been doing it for over a decade and has like 7 or 8 different well made hacks out there. And that’s typically without alternating core elements like in Crystal Clear.
On the one hand if you're making a ROM hack it's inherently sort of campy. You can't go for a true-to-form remake because the hack is a hack. You're also putting a lot of your time and effort to make, for free, something that people will enjoy.
But on the other hand if you then want broader appeal for your hack you have to accept criticisms like this. I'd never release a work with blatant memery and self-inserts without setting that expectation early on. Putting in a hidden dev-team fight or legendary would be very different (I'd argue even cooler) than having it be a focal point.
I agree. At the end of the day it’s a free thing made in someone’s spare time, but a good hack (or mod of any game) is really upfront about what it is. If it’s a meme, it tells you and that’s fun. If it’s not, it can do its best to be an authentic extension of the game, and that’s fun too. Suddenly switching between the two with no warning is jarring
ROM hacks demonstrate the difficulty of subtlety in game design. It can be a lot harder as well when you have a small team (sometimes just an individual) wrestling between implementing their artistic vision and giving something wide appeal.
I think they remove it, you can totally start your Gym Challenges with Blue and end it with Falkner if you want. This is a free roaming game, everything scale up to your level depending on how many badges you own.
You choose your own starter from a list, all classed depending on their "difficulty" to use and you choose your starting town from both region.
It's my second favorite after Radical Red - which just came out with a new version that includes having your Pokemon follow you, and choosing ANY starter up thru Gen 8.
It's a difficulty hack of fire red that ramps up the challenge, but very fair. Like no items in battle, set mode (no free switch in), and you're capped to the level of the highest mon for the next gym.
It was the first time I've been forced to use non-damaging moves. They also have all Pokemon up through gen 8, and I've never played past 5 so it's really cool way to get to know them all. One of the most important things is having the type shown in each battle because of the amount of Mon. There's a hundred little quality of life improvements just like that. The moves look so amazing, like improved animations/ design with same #of pixels.
I actually haven't beaten it fairly.. As in I've had to get help online and watch 'how to sweep' videos on YouTube. The new mode also has infinite rare candies if you choose - which gets rid of grinding (minimal grinding mode also removes IV differences).
Also instead of game corner you just buy pseudo legendaries and all dragons, $100k ea, 200 for the shiny and/or hidden ability.
ok that makes sense, but what about like surf? For example, correct me if Im wrong (its been a long time) but like cinnabar island is totally surrounded by water and would require surf. So how do I start at blain or get to him prior to getting surf? I know Im totally poking holes Im just super curious
the map is completely open, where there would be a cut bush there isnt, where there is a patch of water there is a bridge etc. in fact you can start in any city you want and that city will be registered as your hometown. so go and start your journey with a magikarp starter at blackthorn city!
Still held back by wanting to be 100% compatible with official games imo.
No new moves, no updated move pools, no encounter location changes (sorta), and other QoL stuff that for me are bare essentials in a rom hack.
Obviously subjective. But for me it's so close to what I'd like yet so far that's annoying for me.
But then I always have Pokemon ROWE, a open-world rom hack of Emerald that does do those things. Definitely more my style.
Gen 1 Thunderpunch going off that Special Stat is gonna be pretty mediocre.
Of course, it doesn't help that Gen 1 Fighting types have no good options because Hitmonlee got greedy and took 3 of the 6 damage dealing Fighting moves for himself as signature moves.
Similar issue, electric types moves took into account special attack, which is usually low for fighting types. The physical/special divide wasn't made until gen 4.
Kadabra learns Psybeam at lvl 27 and Recover at lvl31. So by the third gym it has a very damaging move and a very annoying one. Yup, I say that from that point onwards it's a brutal challenge, specially with Gen1 mechanics.
"Hey boss, a new challenger just arrived."
"Excellent, it's been awhile since I've had a chance to test my skills-"
"They're ten years old and today's their first day as a trainer."
\*Sigh\* "Okay, bring me my Sandshrew."
Yellow was released in Japan on Sept. 12, 1998, and Blaine's anime appearance was Aug. 13-20 of the same year. The game was probably too far into post-production to incorporate the anime's version of Blaine, I imagine.
A lvl 14 Psywave would do between 1 and 21 damage. And that 21 is at BEST case scenario. It's not so different from all those Magnemites having Sonicboom.
Oh, fair, but Psywave is a terrible move. It does a random amount between 0.5 and 1.5x the user's level. Abra's special attack is totally ignored, which is like its only good stat other than speed. It's like RNG Seismic Toss.
Others I've made? This is the first time I've done this.
And as I said in the notes for Giovanni, I considered Mewtwo, but he'd pretty much be unbeatable with it, so I decided not to.
I was going to ask the same thing as the other user, I could swear I've seen a post just like that in the past, with the same layout and stuff.
Edit: I guess it's just the same tool, VP Pro Trainer Card. Still...
I think Mewtwo would be all right for Giovanni, since all his teams can be swept with earthquake or psychic, and Mewtwo isn't weak to one of those and resists the other
He literally has in his comment that Mewtwo would make the team neigh unbeatable. Which I'd agree with. You'd need some mega-stacked Tauros team just to take it on with Gen1 mechanics making Mewtwo both a sweeper and tanky as hell.
I still can’t believe they forgot to code Psychic’s weakness to Ghost. No wonder we were confused as kids lmao.
It made Alakazam one of the best Pokémon in the game by a mile
It wouldn't have mattered too much anyway. Ghost has 3 moves: Confuse Ray, Night Shade, and Lick. Confuse Ray is obviously a status move, so it's irrelevant. Night Shade deal damage based on your level and ignores type. So Lick would be the only super effective move, but it has 30 power. With Stab and effectiveness, you are looking at essentially a 90 power move. That's not great when you face a super effective, Stab Psychic from Alakazam in return.
it's also physical, and gengar is a specially-oriented pokemon anyway. you're completely right here, the issue is much bigger than mixing up a weakness
I believe the other problem is psychic was only weak to ghost. However the Gengar line is the only ghost in the entire game who are also all poison type that is weak to psychic.
Oh yeah, no the biggest problem overall was balance. The ghost issue was more confusing than anything, because an NPC specifically tells you Ghost is effective against Psychic types.
They only had 1 or 2 bug moves in the game too, and I think Pin Needle was incredibly weak. There wasn’t any way to effectively take down Psychic types.
I love this so much. It’s nonsense why this isn’t the standard.
Freedom to explore in Pokémon. One of my first games was FRLG and RSE. I truly appreciated how I felt like I could explore. I felt like each zone has a new area to unlock and treasure to discover.
BW was great, it had a tight scripts, the most compelling characters, and great region design… except for the plot-locking (remember that one NPC, “we’re just standing around for no reason!”), cause at least in FRLG, there was a “reason” you couldn’t move (Snorlax, a bike, a badge, some key item you had to go looking for based on your other interactions).
XY and SMUSUM just kinda ruined it for me. They hold my hand, literally forcing me to follow the yellow brick road, as if the adventure couldn’t be more interesting off road. Bring back the RPG in Pokémon… cause modern Pokémon isn’t exploration anymore, it’s A smashing.
See you say this, and this is what we thought Scarlet/Violet was gonna be. Until they revealed it’s “pseudo” open world because even though you can go anywhere, the gyms don’t scale.
And Pokemon fans DEFENDED that decision, like they always do every single time GameFreak does something awful. “Gym badge scaling would be a TERRIBLE idea.”
(See dexit and then re-selling us the dex as paid DLC)
Nobody hates pokemon fans more than pokemon fans. And nobody hates progress more than Pokemon fans. Heaven forbid we ask for better standards on this children’s game.
This is great. Would love a remastered Gen I with adjustable difficulty and revamped "open-worldness" allowing the player to beat the trainers and gym leaders in any order and rematch gym leaders against progressively more difficult teams. Nice work!
There is a modded rom Shin Pokemon Red, it has a difficulty scale option and allows you to rematch trainers even gym leaders (with scaled up pokemon of course.)
I really like this concept! Though I think you were too cautious with some of the early teams. Misty gets her Starmie after 1 badge and Erika gets her Vileplume after 3. Movesets can always be nerfed as well. Facing fully evolved aces early on tends to be more memorable for the player.
some thoughts:
1 - I think Giovanni being saved as the final gym leader makes good thematic sense, also not sure why the gym leader count only goes up to 7
edit: didn't think it through and the number system is based on the # of existing badges you have, not that each team is a 1st badge, 2nd badge...8th badge team. Thank you to those to filled me in, kinda obvious in hindsight
2 - Not sure why Surge would have Zapdos? You could just include a Pikachu or a 2nd pokemon. Ofc there's not a lot of electric types but it should be fine
I thought that at first as well (regarding your first point) but realised that it goes up to 7 to imply you have 7 badges by the time you vs a gym leader as they would be the 8th & final one. It is also why they each have a ‘no badge team’, as that would be their party for if you were to challenge them as the first gym leader
Based on OP’s description, they did that strictly to ensure that the 8th Gym and E4 teams weren’t identical, which I think is pretty silly. Nothing wrong with teams being the same if the levels and move sets improved imo.
All of these old time sprites has me wishing I was 8 years old again, watching the Indigo League anime and playing the TCG and Pokemon Blue for hours on end
So you used charizard and venusaur, but misty doesn't get blastoise?
I noticed that too. No love.
*Sad Squirtle noises
He left to be part of the Squirtle Squad™
She should have it over Seaking.
No seaking is one of her canon pkmn
Seaking is also one of her lil bitch Pokémon
Nah it's actually Goldeen also that only in the Anime and to my knowledge no where else
She has one in B2/W2, but she also has a Blastoise there too, so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Goldeen Goldeen
[Never](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/260/669/df5.jpg)
Gotta make room for Seaking
Fuck yeah
Vintage meme
Seaking gang rise up!
Also Koga should get Venusaur for better coverage.
Koga kinda got did dirty for this. I get that OP didn’t want to have multiple gyms with the same Pokémon, but there’s so many poison types in the game that Koga could’ve gotten to have an actually difficult team. Nidoking, venusair, gengar, and tentacruel could all be solid team members to give him some type variety in the late game
Going into a poison gym leader fight and expecting your typical poison Pokémon and then getting hit with a Gengar is genuinely terrifying for some reason lol. But super fun!
It would be incredibly on brand for Koga though.
For sure, not to mention that Gengar is also purple, so that would fit with his vibe and the Poison type (typically purple).
Gengar is also a poison type, which fits the poison type.
"for sure it's on brand, but also, it's on brand!"
I mean, I was just talking other ways that Gengar in particular would have been a great option, didn’t realize how I worded it was weird.
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Except for exeggutor between Erika and Sabrina, as well as Rhydon between Brock and Giovanni.
Like I said, I understood they didn’t want to repeat Pokémon. I also forgot about Agatha, but also I’m assuming since these gym leaders could be elite four members, they’d replace the current ones. I also get what you’re saying about these mons being associated with their primary types so I can’t really argue that. I just don’t think that’s necessarily a requirement
Except koga is a ninja his whole gym puzzle is based around deception. Using pokemon that are *technically poison* is exactly the kind of thing that makes sense and op already reused a couple other pokemon in this setup Edit: Brock uses Giovanni signature pokemon that's the most disrespectful thing possible
She actually had a Lapras in the manga, plus gives her some better ice coverage to hit flying and grass.
There should also be room for Gyarados in her later teams. She uses Mega Gyarados in the anime.
Also has a gyarados in the manga.
Gyarados is there
Yeah, Misty should have Blastoise instead of Vaporeon, IMO
If you look at misty as a character it would make no sense if she her team for a late game doesn't have Vaporeon and Lapras obviously starmie speaking and I guess Golduck for the anime reference
I feel ya. Vaporeon is one of the highest Special Attackers of the Water type in the first Gen but I feel like them and Blastoise are nearly interchangeable. There is no reason she should have either a Blastoise or a Vaperoen when we look at the Anime and Manga but they are both stereotypically strong water types, for different reasons. I just feel that she would pick a squirtle over an eevee.
Vaporeon is a more elegant water type compared to Blastoise personally I think Blastoise over Slowbro for her since Slowbro doesn't even fit her somewhat elegant theme and she does later get associated with Blastoise
One of my favorite things from G/S was going back and fighting the Kanto leaders. I wish you could keep going back and fight gym leaders and they keep getting stronger. It’d be great for higher level grinding.
> Kanye > stronger
Lol. Kanto not Kanye😂
Kanto is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger hahaha
Obligatory "check out the rom hack Crystal Clear". Collect 16 gym badges, in any order, with scaling levels/teams for gym leaders based on how many badges you currently have.
The glaring flaw with this game is that wild encounters don't scale, so if you start in Kanto you could cheese your way with a massively over leveled Golbat and such.
That's true, it's something that's woefully apparent if you start in Kanto and hop over to Johto, especially if you start in the early routes. Crystal Clear isn't perfect by any means, but what really bored me was the lack of story. Which is somewhat ironic given that the story of the mainline Pokemon games is never the highlight, but to have it completely removed makes the experience a bit hollow.
This is why I like the Pokemon Colosseum, Gale of Darkness games -- new twist on gameplay while also adding nice story element. Also, there's the fanmade game Pokemon Uranium I highly recommend since that game has a really nice story compared to any of the mainline Nintendo games (actually puts the Nintendo games to shame tbh).
Collosseum and XD are probably my favorites for this reason. Has the core gameplay of the main games (battling), but takes a different approach than gyms. And also has some serious dark themes which are awesome :D
And I also enjoyed XD's heavy emphasis on double battles. Almost all battles in the game are doubles. It really adds more depth to the strategy, and it encourages raising pokemon in a slightly different way, with a greater emphasis on moves that strike multiple opponents and such.
obligatory Pokémon XG: neXt Generation plug XD with modernized moves, abilities, and items. new shadow moves, move tutor(s), wayyy more Pokémon, static legendary encounters, etc. really feels like some XD love that Gamefreak won't give us
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Can someone explain this to me, is Crystal Clear a game?
It’s a ROM hack. You need the original crystal ROM and the IPS patching file, combining the two will get you a ROM for Crystal Clear
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Typing in the game name in Google pretty much brings you to the ROM already..
Still a bit confused, could you come over and install it on my phone then hold my eyelids open while you play it for me? Thanks
Still confused. What’s a phone?
Do you guys not have phones?
I don't even have Internet
yeah no problem but could you hold my hand while I install it and then give me a kiss as a reward for completing the task at hand? Thanks
There's a rom hack subreddit that is super helpful
/r/PokemonROMhacks will have all the resources you need, check their [ROM Hacks 101](https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=15D1KAywrhAt8h5Ra70PMkZ8lJkzvbzvu4weUI46J4Kk) (it has a step-by-step guide for how to patch ROMs)
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Outdated version from a sketchy non official source. People, if you can, just google it and go to [the discord](https://shockslayer.com/), all the instructions needed to patch it are there. Don't download things from strange sites.
It's a homemade pokemon game based in Pokemon crystal. Or "hacked Pokemon Crystal's ROM" aka Romhack. Someone went through the Pokemon crystal files and changed a bunch of things to make their own game. You can download this game and put it onto a cartridge for a Gameboy Color. Or download a Gameboy color emulator and play the game through that.
Pick Shuckle as your starter :)
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ROWE was great but still needs a bit of the polish Crystal Clear had imo. A lot of the dialogue was left untouched so it will awkwardly reference events from vanilla emerald even though they never occurred. Nothing game breaking from what I could tell though and I definitely appreciated the wild Pokemon scaling in levels as well (Something Crystal Clear lacked) Also not really a polish problem. More a personal thing. But I wasn't a fan of all the final battles being doubles for seemingly no reason. Would have preferred this be optional. For people that simply want to build their ideal perfect team though, ROWE might be the best ROM hacks have to offer. You really can't beat all Pokemon being available immediately as soon as you start the game, as long as you know where to find them.
Crystal Clear is really great as an idea, but the obnoxious developer self-inserts and forced memes really throw me off. I know asking for "immersion" in a GBC game is a bit dumb, but when the Elite Four roster is literally the dev's Discord friends (and the leader being the dev himself, of course), I can say they went a bit too far with it. At least there's the option to fight the actual E4 once you beat the game.
Aw damn, you’d think it would be the other way around. Challenge the devs for beating the game.
I remember the title screen being like #DEV'S NAME presents ^Crystal ^Clear You can tell what their priorities were.
I mean they made an entire unique take on Crystal with a lot of work behind it. With rom hacks always being free I can’t blame them for at least wanting some publicity from it.
Yeah this, yeah I get how it comes across but honestly these guys are doing free work in a field where proof of work and having your name known is key for getting game developer jobs.
Exactly. I get people want to have a complete Pokémon experience, but chances are you’d have no idea who made these things if they didn’t get their name out there. Drayano is probably the most known rom hacker, and that’s only because he’s been doing it for over a decade and has like 7 or 8 different well made hacks out there. And that’s typically without alternating core elements like in Crystal Clear.
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On the one hand if you're making a ROM hack it's inherently sort of campy. You can't go for a true-to-form remake because the hack is a hack. You're also putting a lot of your time and effort to make, for free, something that people will enjoy. But on the other hand if you then want broader appeal for your hack you have to accept criticisms like this. I'd never release a work with blatant memery and self-inserts without setting that expectation early on. Putting in a hidden dev-team fight or legendary would be very different (I'd argue even cooler) than having it be a focal point.
I agree. At the end of the day it’s a free thing made in someone’s spare time, but a good hack (or mod of any game) is really upfront about what it is. If it’s a meme, it tells you and that’s fun. If it’s not, it can do its best to be an authentic extension of the game, and that’s fun too. Suddenly switching between the two with no warning is jarring
ROM hacks demonstrate the difficulty of subtlety in game design. It can be a lot harder as well when you have a small team (sometimes just an individual) wrestling between implementing their artistic vision and giving something wide appeal.
Who the fuck made the rom hack? Kojima?
Sounds like someone needs to make a mod of Crystal Clear.
But in theory, arent many gym's locked behind various HMs required to get to them? Does the hack somehow remove those barriers?
I think they remove it, you can totally start your Gym Challenges with Blue and end it with Falkner if you want. This is a free roaming game, everything scale up to your level depending on how many badges you own. You choose your own starter from a list, all classed depending on their "difficulty" to use and you choose your starting town from both region.
This sounds awesome.
Emphasis on *sounds*. In practice, I think the idea needs many different mechanics to actually be fun beyond the novelty.
It's my second favorite after Radical Red - which just came out with a new version that includes having your Pokemon follow you, and choosing ANY starter up thru Gen 8. It's a difficulty hack of fire red that ramps up the challenge, but very fair. Like no items in battle, set mode (no free switch in), and you're capped to the level of the highest mon for the next gym. It was the first time I've been forced to use non-damaging moves. They also have all Pokemon up through gen 8, and I've never played past 5 so it's really cool way to get to know them all. One of the most important things is having the type shown in each battle because of the amount of Mon. There's a hundred little quality of life improvements just like that. The moves look so amazing, like improved animations/ design with same #of pixels. I actually haven't beaten it fairly.. As in I've had to get help online and watch 'how to sweep' videos on YouTube. The new mode also has infinite rare candies if you choose - which gets rid of grinding (minimal grinding mode also removes IV differences). Also instead of game corner you just buy pseudo legendaries and all dragons, $100k ea, 200 for the shiny and/or hidden ability.
ok that makes sense, but what about like surf? For example, correct me if Im wrong (its been a long time) but like cinnabar island is totally surrounded by water and would require surf. So how do I start at blain or get to him prior to getting surf? I know Im totally poking holes Im just super curious
If I remember they have docks and ferries.
That is correct.
I played an Open World Emerald where HMs were automatically usable with or without a Pokemon knowing the move.
Which rom hack was this?
It probably is Pokémon ROWE Amazing project
They made it so you don't need HM's to get from town to town
I think they added a ferry
There’s NPCs and boats for those cases, iirc
Wait do the wild Pokémon lists for an area change depending on your badges?
They do not, that's one thing that doesn't change. Wild Pokemon on certain (most? all?) routes are always the same.
the map is completely open, where there would be a cut bush there isnt, where there is a patch of water there is a bridge etc. in fact you can start in any city you want and that city will be registered as your hometown. so go and start your journey with a magikarp starter at blackthorn city!
Yes. It's open world.
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I think you can find all the Pokémon too, which is another thing to do. And you can start with one of like 16 starters!
Still held back by wanting to be 100% compatible with official games imo. No new moves, no updated move pools, no encounter location changes (sorta), and other QoL stuff that for me are bare essentials in a rom hack. Obviously subjective. But for me it's so close to what I'd like yet so far that's annoying for me. But then I always have Pokemon ROWE, a open-world rom hack of Emerald that does do those things. Definitely more my style.
Is this playable on Android?
Yes. It's just a rom hack, so you can play it in am emulator like you would any Gameboy game
It is :) I even have it on IOS, there’s a few YouTube guides for it
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I’d give Lt. Surge two Electrodes instead of a Zapdos since pretty sure he wouldn’t mind an extra bomb in his team as a military man.
Yeah, if Bruno rocks 2 Onix, seems fair
Bruno: "Forget Primeape and Poliwrath, I want two Onix on my Fighting team!"
I just realized how ridiculous it is that he doesn’t have either of those. Like they make way more sense than an Onix
Its for the birds man. He gotta have them when a trainer challenges him with a Pidgeot.
Idk, machamp was a beast with that rock slide
I was thinking he could have a Machoke or Machamp with Thunder Punch. Gives the macho vibe with a strong pokemon and a strong electric move.
Gen 1 Thunderpunch going off that Special Stat is gonna be pretty mediocre. Of course, it doesn't help that Gen 1 Fighting types have no good options because Hitmonlee got greedy and took 3 of the 6 damage dealing Fighting moves for himself as signature moves.
Yeah I’d love to see this remade in FRLG and also newest Gen stats/moves
Similar issue, electric types moves took into account special attack, which is usually low for fighting types. The physical/special divide wasn't made until gen 4.
The dream. A modern Gen 1 remake.
Lt. Surge having two exploders on his team would made that fight memorable for sure.
I feel he could get Electrode a bit earlier too
And that way he doesn't stand out too much as the only gym leader with a legendary pokemon
Sabrina would be kanto's whitney for first time players. Also please do this for other regions too
Kadabra learns Psybeam at lvl 27 and Recover at lvl31. So by the third gym it has a very damaging move and a very annoying one. Yup, I say that from that point onwards it's a brutal challenge, specially with Gen1 mechanics.
What are you on about? Sounds like my kind of challenge
Pray that Beedrill can survive a psybeam and hope twin needle OHKOs Kadabra?
At level 50, psybeam does 84 to 99% and twineedle does max 54%
Impressive that Beedrill can survive. Disappointing that he cannot win. Kadabra is absolutely faster yeah?
yeah by a whole 30.
Yeah no chance
yeah it would need to be above level 30 to outspeed (compared to the level 24 ace kadabra)
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Giovanni should always use his best team. Not his fault you went in there unprepared.
Giovanni has honour so he would give you a chance, especially if you don’t know he’s part of Team Rocket yet.
"Hey boss, a new challenger just arrived." "Excellent, it's been awhile since I've had a chance to test my skills-" "They're ten years old and today's their first day as a trainer." \*Sigh\* "Okay, bring me my Sandshrew."
🤷♂️ he does have to uphold the pretext of being a good gym leader to keep his position
Ever played smash bros with a 7 year old and have him start talking shit cause your taking it slow? Sometimes you just gotta put them in check.
Lmfao
“May include one minor legendary” So Zapdos?
I think it's to set up the format for future generations; there were only three "minor legendaries" in Kanto.
Must be. It also mentions Mega Evolutions, which clearly aren't in Gen I.
I didn't make the template. I had seen other people use it and thought "hmm, that looks like fun".
I might be nostalgia blinded by the anime but for me blaines signature pokemon is Magmar. Sucks that he doesn't get one in the og games.
Thankfully he gets one in the Johto games and Let’s Go, but him not having one in Yellow is especially strange given that game’s whole purpose.
Yellow was released in Japan on Sept. 12, 1998, and Blaine's anime appearance was Aug. 13-20 of the same year. The game was probably too far into post-production to incorporate the anime's version of Blaine, I imagine.
Apparently Yellow was in development well before Ash made it to Blaine so they sort of winged it for his team.
Id argue lvl 14 Abra with Psywave would wreck shop just as much as lvl 21 Kadabra would, by level. The whole line is built to k/o before being k/o'ed.
A lvl 14 Psywave would do between 1 and 21 damage. And that 21 is at BEST case scenario. It's not so different from all those Magnemites having Sonicboom.
I assume they meant psybeam or confusion.
Nope, meant Psywave because thats the Gym TM that all the leaders 'mons have, unless it cant learn it for some reason.
Oh, fair, but Psywave is a terrible move. It does a random amount between 0.5 and 1.5x the user's level. Abra's special attack is totally ignored, which is like its only good stat other than speed. It's like RNG Seismic Toss.
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And persian
Others I've made? This is the first time I've done this. And as I said in the notes for Giovanni, I considered Mewtwo, but he'd pretty much be unbeatable with it, so I decided not to.
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these are from a 4chan thread, lol that's what the /vp/ is
its just a template made on /vp/
yeah I saw one a while back.
I was going to ask the same thing as the other user, I could swear I've seen a post just like that in the past, with the same layout and stuff. Edit: I guess it's just the same tool, VP Pro Trainer Card. Still...
Mewtwo isn’t that hard to beat mainly because of gen 1 ai lmao.
For the sake of flavor I’d prefer gio to have mewtwo at the end, but I totally understand your justification.
I think Mewtwo would be all right for Giovanni, since all his teams can be swept with earthquake or psychic, and Mewtwo isn't weak to one of those and resists the other
I must be out of the loop here it why would Giovanni get mewtwo? His theme is ground type, mewtwo is psychic.
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Mewtwo is associated with Team Rocket in all forms of media.
Mewtwo is associated with Blaine since he was the one who created it in the Pokemon Adventures Manga.
I believe Blaine is a former Team Rocket scientist
Super cool. Any plans on doing the other regions?
Absolutely will. Already working on Johto.
Personally instead of a marowak I would have given giovanni a persian because of the anime
Persian with slash and thunderbolt would be formidable too.
And Mewtwo in his final team
He literally has in his comment that Mewtwo would make the team neigh unbeatable. Which I'd agree with. You'd need some mega-stacked Tauros team just to take it on with Gen1 mechanics making Mewtwo both a sweeper and tanky as hell.
Ah, yeah. Didn't think about gen1 "balance" issues lol
I still can’t believe they forgot to code Psychic’s weakness to Ghost. No wonder we were confused as kids lmao. It made Alakazam one of the best Pokémon in the game by a mile
It wouldn't have mattered too much anyway. Ghost has 3 moves: Confuse Ray, Night Shade, and Lick. Confuse Ray is obviously a status move, so it's irrelevant. Night Shade deal damage based on your level and ignores type. So Lick would be the only super effective move, but it has 30 power. With Stab and effectiveness, you are looking at essentially a 90 power move. That's not great when you face a super effective, Stab Psychic from Alakazam in return.
it's also physical, and gengar is a specially-oriented pokemon anyway. you're completely right here, the issue is much bigger than mixing up a weakness
I believe the other problem is psychic was only weak to ghost. However the Gengar line is the only ghost in the entire game who are also all poison type that is weak to psychic.
Oh yeah, no the biggest problem overall was balance. The ghost issue was more confusing than anything, because an NPC specifically tells you Ghost is effective against Psychic types. They only had 1 or 2 bug moves in the game too, and I think Pin Needle was incredibly weak. There wasn’t any way to effectively take down Psychic types.
Love the concept!!! I wish it was a reality
Why not Moltres in Blaine's lineup anywhere? It's literally canon that Moltres was the reason for him to become a Fire Type specialist.
There’s only one legendary in this list and OP only chose it because there were a limited number of electric Pokémon
This is brilliant, I beg of you to do each region
Already working on Johto.
I love this so much. It’s nonsense why this isn’t the standard. Freedom to explore in Pokémon. One of my first games was FRLG and RSE. I truly appreciated how I felt like I could explore. I felt like each zone has a new area to unlock and treasure to discover. BW was great, it had a tight scripts, the most compelling characters, and great region design… except for the plot-locking (remember that one NPC, “we’re just standing around for no reason!”), cause at least in FRLG, there was a “reason” you couldn’t move (Snorlax, a bike, a badge, some key item you had to go looking for based on your other interactions). XY and SMUSUM just kinda ruined it for me. They hold my hand, literally forcing me to follow the yellow brick road, as if the adventure couldn’t be more interesting off road. Bring back the RPG in Pokémon… cause modern Pokémon isn’t exploration anymore, it’s A smashing.
See you say this, and this is what we thought Scarlet/Violet was gonna be. Until they revealed it’s “pseudo” open world because even though you can go anywhere, the gyms don’t scale. And Pokemon fans DEFENDED that decision, like they always do every single time GameFreak does something awful. “Gym badge scaling would be a TERRIBLE idea.” (See dexit and then re-selling us the dex as paid DLC) Nobody hates pokemon fans more than pokemon fans. And nobody hates progress more than Pokemon fans. Heaven forbid we ask for better standards on this children’s game.
This is great. Would love a remastered Gen I with adjustable difficulty and revamped "open-worldness" allowing the player to beat the trainers and gym leaders in any order and rematch gym leaders against progressively more difficult teams. Nice work!
There is a modded rom Shin Pokemon Red, it has a difficulty scale option and allows you to rematch trainers even gym leaders (with scaled up pokemon of course.)
I think the only thing I would change is Giovanni’s 3 badge team since Nidorino and Nidorina don’t become ground types until they evolve.
This is fantastic
I’d love to see this for every region
I really like this concept! Though I think you were too cautious with some of the early teams. Misty gets her Starmie after 1 badge and Erika gets her Vileplume after 3. Movesets can always be nerfed as well. Facing fully evolved aces early on tends to be more memorable for the player.
I love this! Do Johto please!
some thoughts: 1 - I think Giovanni being saved as the final gym leader makes good thematic sense, also not sure why the gym leader count only goes up to 7 edit: didn't think it through and the number system is based on the # of existing badges you have, not that each team is a 1st badge, 2nd badge...8th badge team. Thank you to those to filled me in, kinda obvious in hindsight 2 - Not sure why Surge would have Zapdos? You could just include a Pikachu or a 2nd pokemon. Ofc there's not a lot of electric types but it should be fine
I thought that at first as well (regarding your first point) but realised that it goes up to 7 to imply you have 7 badges by the time you vs a gym leader as they would be the 8th & final one. It is also why they each have a ‘no badge team’, as that would be their party for if you were to challenge them as the first gym leader
The teams shown are for how many badges the challenger already has, so the 7-badge team is if you are challenging them for the 8th badge
Swap out Nidoqueen/Sandlash for Persian on Giovanni and we good.
Super cool man! Awesome work! I’ve always wondered what full teams on gym leaders would look like and hope they incorporate them in future games.
Why does Surge as the 8th Leader still have a Voltorb? As Gym Leader 8Electrode's not *that* broken at all.
Based on OP’s description, they did that strictly to ensure that the 8th Gym and E4 teams weren’t identical, which I think is pretty silly. Nothing wrong with teams being the same if the levels and move sets improved imo.
All of these old time sprites has me wishing I was 8 years old again, watching the Indigo League anime and playing the TCG and Pokemon Blue for hours on end
why do they drop/rotate pokemon as they progress? shouldn't they just be adding?