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In my mind these are essentially the same thing. Ever since I was a kid playing Red, it annoyed me so much and I still think about it sometimes.

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[–] YewEyeOwe31@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have any recs for romhacks?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I’m only just getting into it, but I’m playing Pokemon ultra violet.

Is a hack of fire red and it is pretty vanilla, but you can catch all the Pokemon and but have to trade for trade evolutions.

Also, you can choose a starter like normal or go to some kind of safari zone and get something else. I caught a ghastly as my starter.

[–] YewEyeOwe31@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Nice, I’ll have to look into that one.

A couple that I’ve been following are:

  • Pokemon Lazarus, an emerald romhack in a new region based on Greece. Lots of custom pixel art for the trees/architecture/terrain and apparently has megas.
  • Pokemon KEP, a red hack that adds some of the original beta Pokemon back in to the game along with regional variants of Kanto Pokemon, and adds a couple new locations/characters/music/features.
  • Pokemon Extreme Yellow which adds in some of the Kanto megas as final evolutions. A bunch of other goodies too such as expanded maps, quality of life stuff, crazy hard puzzles. The creator is trying to implement a bunch of other crazy stuff for an unreleased update including diving mechanics.