Just wanted to shout out my favourite RSE hack, which I've been enjoying for years but never see anybody talk about.

This is a fairly standard, but very well-considered 386+ Ruby hack with some fun balance changes and additional modern features up to Gen 7. It offers you a lot of freedom and customisation in building your team, along with a firm but fair difficulty increase to compensate. It has a simple vision, but it is so well-realised that I keep coming back for more. I firmly recommend it to anyone who is up for a fun, challenging Ruby playthrough.

• Contains original 386 Pokemon plus later-gen evolutionary relatives.
• Movesets updated to resemble Gen 7.
• Altered typings for 10 Pokemon: >!Farfetch'd, Pinsir, Bellossom, Sunflora, Masquerain, Volbeat, Illumise, Banette, Tropius, Luvdisc!<
• Various other Pokemon (reasonably) rebalanced with altered movesets, abilities, BSTs etc.
• Some later gen moves, abilities, held items etc. added.
• Fairy type added.
• Hidden Abilities added.
• New mechanics to change nature, change ability, learn Egg moves without breeding.
• New areas to explore.
• Permanent TMs (92 TMs in total) and unlearnable HMs.
• IV toggle in stats screen.

Pokecommunity thread

Github page, ft. notes on all Pokemon balance changes and reasoning behind some

https://preview.redd.it/mp8wqw0nepxd1.png?width=240&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce30560b0433ffddd1434bd74ca8553b9ae68a29

I was recently doing some work on a Gen 1 romhack of mine (Pokémon Solus) and part of the work involved visualizing all of the potential moves that could be 'forward-patched' into Gen 1 via Gen 2 tradeback learnsets.

For those who don't know, Gen 2 tradeback learnsets are essentially moves that a Pokémon can learn in Gen 1 after being traded to Gen 2 (and then back to Gen 1) whether it's by TM, level-up, tutor, etc.

There are multiple avenues for learning these tradeback moves, and I couldn't find a comprehensive data table with all of the possible moves that some Pokémon might get access to via Gen 2 tradeback learnsets. So I made a tool that takes advantage of PokeAPI to do generate a data table myself. I wanted to make a post in case anybody might find this information useful.

The data table is here: https://github.com/Dechrissen/tools/blob/master/pokemon-learnsets/data.csv

There are five columns, each representing a distinct method through which a Pokémon learns a Gen 2 tradeback move.

If you want to use the code as a base to develop some similar data table, you can find it in this subfolder: https://github.com/Dechrissen/tools/tree/master/pokemon-learnsets

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I am a very armature hacker. I'm still trying to learn so this is definitely a work in progress. But I vastly prefer Double battles to singles and have made some previous in the past for myself. I recently learned of programs that help add in more QOL benefits and, with the lack of doubles romhacks out there, I thought maybe this would be enjoyable to others too. It's also fully compatible with the pokemon universal randomizer, which was something else I really wanted

-IPS patch to Fire Red ver 1.0

-All battles turned to Double Battles

-Uncommon FBI HM patch

(Use HMs with certain types in party without learning move)

Only need a Normal type in the party for all HMs

-Maps edited to walk around Cut bushes

-Rock Tunnel edited with green path to remove need for Flash

-LibertyJacob99 Unique Battle Backgrounds

-Critical Hit/Rough Skin Update

-Reusable TMs

-Running Shoes Indoors

-Nature changes colored

-Physical/Special Split + Icons

-Updated Base Stats to Gen 7

-Changed Impossible Evolutions

-Updated moves to Gen 9

-Catch rate increased to 255 for all pokemon (Save time in Randomizers)

-Faster Text (Medium to see, Fast text doesn't appear)

-Get National Dex at start (to evolve non gen 1 pokemon)

-Lowercase Pokemon Names

-Lowercase Move Names

- +10 to every pokemon base exp

-All pokemon sprites moved up or down 1 to give a shadow

-Movepools updated or changed for balance or more fun use

-Held items changed from some pokemon

-Vitamin Cost lowered to $1 to make EV training easier

-All Trainers Teams increase to 2 or more Pokemon

\-Try to diversify teams so they don't repeat pokemon

\-Pokemon stick to generation while incorporating gen 2 

	(Fire Red - Gen 1+2, Emerald - Gen 2+3)

-All Trainer Pokemon evolved at appropriate levels

-Gyms progress 1-2 = 3 Pokemon

3-4 = 4 Pokemon

5-6 = 5 Pokemon

7-8 = 6 Pokemon

-All Cool Trainers have 6 pokemon teams

-All Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon Catchable

I have a Singles version too, but to be honest, there's better singles romhacks out there than this one. So I haven't included it.

I included all the materials and things I changed for others to see. Some changes, like exp were changed to make it a more streamline experience without having to stop and grind on low level wild pokemon or the same trainers over and over again. With a full party of 6, my test run made it to the Elite 4 at level 52

I hope it's enjoyable to others!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mXRZQdVioYix8jHWlpgE6tlmRtu-0Ndk?usp=sharing

Does anyone else feel like people complain about them too hard or is it just me?

Me personally, I don't care if a romhack creator decides to not release any demos and just do a full game. Definitely better than having to restart a bazillion times - or have to wait 6+ years for a new build (cough procyon deneb).

Or in some cases, game dying entirely (liquid crystal cough cough).

Either way, I made this post out of frustration from a very LOVELY interaction (sarcasm due and intended) of someone coming into a space of mine, unprovoked, and complaining about how I was running a project of mine and that I was taking too long to make a romhack, which A isn't their business, and B was extremely rude to begin with, and C, this happened to be another romhacker so I do not know why they would behave like this.

You'd think they would realize, after making their own hack, how long this stuff takes. But I guess some people have to hold such an impossibly high standard of others and act like they are so much better than them just for being able to finish a hack.

Like, congratulations for behaving like a no life, I guess? Really putting on a good example for the rest of the community.

Sorry that we all don't have the time to be working on this shit 24 hours, 7 days a week, nonstop.

Like man, I have real life obligations that take precedence over this, such as... idk, having a job, and having college on the side.

I think some people need to chill the fuck out and realize that not everyone is as talented as them, and struggle on specific stuff, and that it's okay to not release a romhack from start to finish within half a year.

I don't go around berating people for when they'll release their hacks or their skill level for working on this stuff, so idk why I can't get the same respect in return ever.

Sorry for the long vent, but fucking Christ - I am tired of feeling miserable when being around the romhack community and not knowing what to say ever because I'm afraid of stepping on glass and pissing off the next big egotist.

I know i posted about this with a different Username but decided to create an Account exclusively for this and future updates and projects.

First off, I built these two for myself but thought I might as well share them so keep that in mind. I do plan on making updates and welcome all feedback.

The point of these rom hacks wasn't to get a totally new experience but to be able to fully experience the game without needing a second game but made some other changes along the way.

Changes made:

1. All 151 pokemon will be obtainable without trading including
   1. both fossil pokemon(catchable in one place by fishing)
   2. Mew- you get told the location but you dont have access to it at that point
   3. Eevee's in the wild
   4. trade evolution pokemon now evolve by level-up. May change this in future update to a new stone/item but undecided
   5. normal version exclusives are thrown about. Most are on the routes you would normally find them but at different rarities. Some, however on different routes due to number of pokemon found in certain routes
2. mechanic and ease of life features added and fixed such as:
   1. running(hold the B Button)
   2. a portable pc(becomes available with pokedex)
   3. glitches that were in the game that hindered the game such as focus energy now works properly.
   4. Most trees become permanently cut after first time being cut. Only exception is inside Celadon Gym. For some reason, those will not stay cut.
   5. A little symbol will appear against enemy pokemon if you have registered them in the pokedex as obtained.
3. Some moves and move sets were modified. Too many to list but examples are
   1. Lickitung learns lick
   2. gust is a flying move now
   3. Rock Throw/Slide has been made more accurate to reflect changes made in Gen II
   4. Mew's transform ability moves to level 15 from 10 due to a bug i didn't feel like fixing.
   5. fire punch added to a few fire types for something between ember and flamethrower.
   6. Some pokemon's movesets were changed to match pokemon yellow such as Charizard, Pikachu, Nidoran, and others
4. all tms are purchasable and are spread out through all the pokemarts(Most are shortly after you normally can find the TM). Only mart without them in Pewter and Viridian I believe for balance.
5. Pokeballs slightly cheaper and some other random price edits.
6. Most npc trainers were modified to be slightly harder with a couple trainers randomly that will be much more difficult.
   1. As a warning, there is a skippable trainer in rock tunnel that meant to wreak havoc for Nuzlocke challengers.
   2. There is one hilariously strong but weak trainer out there.
7. All gym leaders have 5 pokemon with custom movesets
8. Only difference between the two games is hard-candy red has built in nuzlocke.
   1. Once they faint, they cannot be revived.
      1. revives are in the game but removed from the marts. Any revives in the game can only be sold.
   2. I tried to implement a catch only first pokemon per route in the game but it did not work as intended. You get a notification that it is the first pokemon you have encountered, however there is nothing stopping you from catching any other pokemon. This is mainly for the duplicates clause. It is up to you to keep
   3. If you talk to the guide by the statues after defeating the gym leader, he will tell you the next gym leaders highest level Pokemon. It will not stop you from battling if you over-level though.

In a future patch, I will figure out how to change the title screen to read candy/hard candy.

Here is the patches. There are now two folders within the link. One holds xdelta patch files. The other contains IPS patch files. I believe the IPS patch files is more universal i guess. I did not know there was a difference so my bad. I also used the US version of Pokemon Red. Both patches are in the drive.

Edit--one thing I noticed is after you patch the file with XdeltaUI is you need to change the name of the patched rom to a ".gbc" file.

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FL68pStxIkN_HXvDB3wyvCPLPcNU-Awr?usp=sharing

Please let me know if you find anything in the game that needs addressed.

Thank you and Enjoy!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonCandyRed/s/RXY8UdEOOk

Changelog & Download: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUKayHEUcoAMS8vW3L7RwwIBbXNalnBa_MfvBisA3lQ/edit?usp=sharing

Since a few people have requested it, I have now made an alternate version of Pokémon Velvet with the Physical/Special split. I've added 29 moves from different types, so both physical and special attacking users can still use both of their STAB types. Some Pokémon which didn't have access to a good move to one of their STAB types now have it (Example: Marowak gets Poltergeist, Chansey gets Hyper Voice). Movesets in general have been updated and adjusted.

There have been a few Pokémon who have had their stats changed to better play with the new movesets I've given them. Hitmonchan no longer suffers a Defense and Speed loss, since the Elemental Punches are now Physical, Golduck now has higher Physical Attack to abuse Psycho Cut, Wave Crash and Aqua Cutter, and Nidoqueen is now geared towards Special Attack.

Aside from this, the gym leaders have been adjusted to better utilize this mechanical change, so hopefully it'll be a bit more challenging (and fun).

I'm not gonna treat this like anything super huge, since the rest of the game has been untouched, but I hope the people who wanted this are happy. Let me know if there are any issues.