He's right, you know. Radical Reddit has caused unknowable damage to romhacks.

Fuck Romhackers, I still can’t get over how disrespectful it is to TPCi, GF, and Nintendo, and I mean that unironically. Japan just has different cultural expectations around this stuff, making ROMhacks is like a big middle finger to talented Japanese devs holding the industry afloat. Stop disrespecting their artistic vision

>>57976011 (OP)
Sorry pal I need more hacks like this for the youtube slop machine

>>57976011 (OP)
i dunno how it is now but when i played through radical red a few years back i literally never had to swap a team member out to progress besides for brock
smells like skill issue to me

>>57976011 (OP)
He's right. It's just a popularity contest to see which talentless overrated Youtuber will acknowledge your existence for spending a few hours making a shitty ROM hack.
Nothing is about merit or passion anymore. It's all ego and $ shit. I can't believe ROM Hacking of all things became this corporate, but this is 2025, and making everything corporate is considered good, because it always greatly benefits someone who doesn't deserve it.

for me the thing about these types of romhacks that pisses me off is that it's a zero-skill creation. just a talentless faggot doing number tweaking instead of creating anything original.

>>57976038
play emerald rogue if you haven't
it's easily the highest-effort romhack ever made

>>57976038
Overrated wacky Youtubers that adolescents have parasocial relationships with supposedly love these. That's why they're made, because they think it'll make the streamer their "friend".
I don't blame RR as much. While it was the seed, it's these shitty influences motivating everyone to make this shit. It's no longer "I want to make something good out of passion", it's "maybe this Youtuber will acknowledge that I exist and validate me as a person".

>>57976011 (OP)
It baffles me that the Fire Emblem fanbase is constantly churning out unique original hacks while Pokemon, despite being way more popular, just gets a thousand clones of the same old "it's Kanto/Hoenn again but harder and with all the Pokemon"

>>57976055
>the Fire Emblem fanbase is constantly churning out unique original hacks
qrd? i never played fire emblem

>>57976055
Why do these Youtubers ignore original region hacks so much? They seriously just play Kanto/Hoenn a million times with minor changes.

>>57976011 (OP)
I like RR. Played it many times, always use strong Pokemon on average and never need to change my team at any point, but I do hack in the 6 I want at the beginning tbf. There's no point in complaining about hard romhacks, whwt are you trying to accomplish? Just don't play them. Bloated dex is a meme, the game gives you ways to handle it, but some people don't use the resources and complain.

>>57976023
Bait? Nintendo has shit on their most dedicated and loyal fans in so many instances it's not even funny. They make gorillions with every instalment, they don't listen to fans. They sold BDSP at full price, fuck'em. Fans getting good products by fans doesn't affect their bottom line.

>>57976061
original region hacks are mostly complete dogshit paint-by-numbers slop or needlessly edgy and "mature" slop.
when it comes to good ones i can think of gaia, that's it.

>>57976064
>There's no point in complaining about hard romhacks, whwt are you trying to accomplish? Just don't play them.
Because there's way too many of them, making it very difficult to find anything of substance to play.

>>57976011 (OP)
I feel that enhancement hacks can be done well, it’s just that not many people have the ability to show restraint and not make nonsensical changes.
Don’t go throwing random types/moves that make no sense on pokemon, and don’t put strong legendaries on gym leaders. A single weaker legendary would be cool for an elite four/champion though.
Drayano’s hacks are really the only ones worth playing, even if oftentimes he arguably doesn’t make enough changes to pokemon.

>>57976066
>original region hacks are mostly complete dogshit paint-by-numbers slop or needlessly edgy and "mature" slop.
Even if you think that, wouldn't playing the same game over and over get boring? Wouldn't someone want to experience something different for once?
There's way more than Gaia. You'd know that if you actually tried playing them instead of making excuses to why you're playing bad hacks just because you favorite Youtuber said generic difficulty hack num 1237812 was incredible.

>>57976055
Andaron Saga my beloved, I’ve played that romhack three times now. Absolute kino

>>57976072
i've played my fair share, they're all shit. unbound was retarded and edgy, flora sky was boring, glazed was retarded, prism was boring AND retarded, etc. etc.
only faggots and retards watch poketubers or care abuot their opinions, which are you?

>>57976011 (OP)
I'm still waiting for a romhack that includes all the Pokemon but doesn't make any balance changes.

>>57976086
You were deliberately looking for any reason, no matter how minor, to dislike them because playing anything outside of official regions makes you uncomfortable. Or that your favorite Youtuber never told you to like them, so they're automatically bad.
There's no reason to argue to with you. You're just a mind-slave to some talentless loser you have a parasocial relationship with. If the next day he somehow said something like Prism was great, then you'd automatically love it.
I fucking hate this brainwashed generation. THINK FOR YOURSELF.

>>57976102
you're either baiting or you're a lost cause.

Give more than 5 examples of difficulty/enhancement slop.

>>57976044
YouTube has nothing to do with it.

>>57976105
You're a zoomer/alpha, your generation is a lost one by default.

>>57976109
don't reply to the schizo, please.

>>57976109
What other reason could be there for the flood of crap? It's the only hacks 90% of Poketubers play. They always say it's the greatest hack ever, no matter how bare bones it is, racks up 400k views. 12 year olds want to be a part of that.

i'm autistic as fuck and i'd really love to create a romhack with level scaling gym leaders difficulty setting and double battle setting just for the sake of it while also going though all 1025 pokemon and trying to make the weaker one stronger i have too much free time i just have no fucking clue how to make romhacks lol

>>57976117
Why not try something original?

>>57976101
What’s the point of playing it, then? If I’m going to play a romhack there needs to be some changes, just nothing too extreme

here's your elite four battle bro
upvotes to the left

>>57976124
Not feeling like doing so

>>57976129
You and 90% of the people touching the tools. Go ahead, poison the well even more.

>>57976102
>>57976111
You do realise that testing various romhacks and deciding you don’t like them literally is thinking for yourself? That anon didn’t get their opinions from some youtuber, they did their own research. Also blaming it on them being a zoomer/alpha is embarrassing and immediately renders your argument invalid. Better luck next time.

>>57976133
i just like coming up with gym leaders teams and their variants

>>57976138
>You do realise that testing various romhacks and deciding you don’t like them literally is thinking for yourself? That anon didn’t get their opinions from some youtuber, they did their own research.
No, their opinion was "my Youtuber never acknowledged it, so I'm going to find any minor reason to hate it.". Notice that he/you didn't go into detail about why he hated them? Just that they're "retarded" and "boring", which could mean anything.
>Also blaming it on them being a zoomer/alpha is embarrassing and immediately renders your argument invalid. Better luck next time.
I'm not wrong.

>>57976067
There's this tool: https://pokeromcodex.notion.site/8f188f1761b9430f9adb68833c44e5b8?v=6e9c873012004f65bc91a2f39448f5bd

You can filter stuff you want, like original regions.

>le difficulty
>praised for buffing weak pokemon but only a few actually got anything meaningful (like fossil pokemon still having their same typings and STILL have the same stats, with archeops still having fucking defeatist in a ROM hack where flygon gets to have 560 BST and no hindering ability while ledian gets an overhaul)
>luxray being electric/dark while still having the same stats
>legendary pokemon being used by trainers, gym leaders, elite four members, and the champion
Fuck Radical Red

>>57976138
don't reply to the schizo, please.

>>57976154
You have nothing to say.

>>57976138
pretty sure that anon is actually a poketuber falseflagging to make his haters look bad. that's the only logical explanation i can come up with for the complete retardation on display.

>>57976164
Embarrassing if true.

>>57976164
>>57976154
Stop samefagging.

>>57976027
They already ruined the slop machine by over optimizing their runs

https://youtu.be/jqvL8q04WPc?si=Vd21cJRtB-eW7ge5

>>57976011 (OP)
He's wrong and needs to git gud. I read what he said. You don't need to do that pump and dump strategy. I beat RR using a team of overlooked mons I hadn't gotten to play with in the past like Flapple (since I went Appletun in the mainline). I only used the mons I finished with for the entire run.
And so what if people got inspired by RR and made their own challenging versions? Way to spin something positive as a negative by being an entitled brat. Just go play any of the other romhacks, there are tons. Or you know, play something else entirely, or spend more time outside/irl.
My only problem with RR was that it gave box cover Legendaries to trainers. I don't mind them having strong Megas or broken strategies or for say Giovanni to have Mega Mewtwo because that made sense, but it just felt unfitting for people typically not associated with the box cover Legendaries to have them.

>>57976107

>>57976178
yeah, it's pretty shit to just spew box legendaries everywhere, especially when they die just as easily as regular mons. blue had what, 5 legendaries and a mega? and they all went down like bitches to drampa. it's not even a crutch it's just lazy design.

>>57976175
To be fair Im sure any franchise would be considered over optimised if the People who wanted to do challenge runs just cheated because they lack the attention span to not cheat

>>57976178
The argument whether RR was a good hack or not wasn't the point of the post.

>>57976011 (OP)
Lmao stay mad as shit Verlisify

>>57976011 (OP)
> 400 Pokémon regional dex
> new game+ and postgame unlocks the ability to buy national dex Pokémon via points earned by side activities
It's that easy.

>>57976109
The only reason RR became huge was because of Youtubers. Otherwise it would've been another hack nobody cared about.

>>57976011 (OP)
The bloated Dex complain is such a non issue. You’re not using more than a handful of mons. You don’t care about game balance. Who cares about encounter tables when you have DexNav? You knowing about cheese going in and choosing to use it isn’t the games fault.
>>57976064
I’m in a similar position. People always complain about needing to rebuild your team but that was never a requirement to me. Also feel like the difficulty isn’t that bad as someone who has relatively surface level knowledge of the mechanics beyond the basics.

>>57976194
How do you balance a game where there's 50 different species to catch before the first gym? There's a reason only some are available before the first gym in the vanilla games.

>>57976199
The same way they balanced SwSh and SV having hundreds of options available before the first badge.

>>57976023
I am under no obligation to show respect to foreign corporations or foreign cultural expectations, and neither are you. How does that geta taste?

>>57976207
Which is...?

>>57976184
>Drampa
Nice, another often overlooked mon, I used it myself to get my 200 streak in the Battle Tree.

>>57976214
Not doing it. These games are not balanced.

>>57976023

>>57976218
Exactly.

>>57976221
Genuinely not sure if you’re agreeing or disagreeing here. I’m a little drunk sorry

>>57976199
Game Freak doesn't want you to know this, but regional birds/rats/bugs are functionally identical at level 8. You might as well put them all in, because it plays identically.

>>57976234
Then what's the point of implementing them all in the first place?

>>57976235
So you can have a choice.

>>57976235
Why not? They have some differences later in the game, so early choices can matter later on, they provide variety instead of only seeing Pidgey and Rattata for the first hour of gameplay, and it isn't significantly harder to have 800 Pokemon than it is to have 400. There's really no reason to leave them out.

>>57976241
But if a Kanto hack adds Wurmple along side to Caterpie to Viridian Forest, Caterpie and Wurmple are the same, your choice doesn't change the gameplay at all.

>>57976254
What if I just like Wurmple more than Caterpie? I'd be happy the choice is there, and that's reason enough.

>>57976064
>There's no point in complaining about hard romhacks, whwt are you trying to accomplish? Just don't play them.
This.
Not only for Romhacks but any remotely hard game.
Is YOUR decision to engage with something that presents itself as "challenging" or "hard". Don't like it? Don't play it. Don't let your FOMO control you just because some "pro nuzlocker" is shilling the new FOTM Kaizo-like Hack

>>57976101
Pretty sure Pokémon Quetzal does that.
There's also the extended decomp of Emerald which adds all of that stuff (meant to be used as a base rather than played)

>>57976128
>Elite Four Cynthia.
The fug?

>>57976258
Consider that most hacks people talk about are just those. Why are more original hacks overshadowed by them?
And no I don't want words like they're "edgy" or "boring" or "stupid". Actually explain.

what is even the point of a "difficult" game where you win by calculating every battle ahead of time and knowing exactly how the AI will respond to every turn

>>57976283
puzzle games
a rubix cube isn't hiding anything from you

>>57976188
I'm stealing that idea. Thanks, anon.
Other games like Reborn have a somewhat expansive region which means more room to spread out a lot of mons without it feeling like there's 20 encounters per route (unlike Radical Red or something like Elite Redux)

>>57976293
*wait it's rubik's cube like it was made up by a guy named rubik. Although I think that is a made up person by whatever plastic toy company like aunt jemima

>>57976111
>zoomer/alpha
That's all you can say!
That's all you can say!

>>57976188
Man I can never make myself do a damn thing in pokemon postgames besides a few battle factory runs. As soon as I have one in the Hall of Fame my energy to play just fades by the minute. If I made mods I wouldn't want any of my work to be in postgame jail.

>>57976011 (OP)
I’m sure they’re in the workshop making the game that will revolutionize the scene for years to come if it bothers them this much.

>>57976283
no one actually does this

>>57976111
hey anon, uh, don't sound like your parents, man.
remember, the people older than you thought the exact same. and I know we'll probably think the exact same of gen alpha too eventually.

>>57976317
me personally i prefer the freedom of postgame but yeah it's kinda hard to maintain the interest on the game long term unless you are doing something like completing the Dex

>>57976064
>Bloated dex is a meme, the game gives you ways to handle it, but some people don't use the resources and complain.
>but I do hack in the 6 I want at the beginning tbf.

fuck off

>>57976329
There was a vid of some dude doing that for Vanilla Platinum (he created a series of inputs that, regardless of RNG, will 100% of the time beat the game and reach the Hall of Fame)
Pretty amusing imo

>>57976338
i mean that's different, it's some fag doing something retarded for his shitty youtube channel
no one sits there and pores over damage calculations and shit when they're playing difficulty hacks

>>57976341
>no one sits there and pores over damage calculations and shit when they're playing difficulty hacks.
Hard to say since I don't watch Nuzlocke content (and I have 0 interest toward channels like pchal)
But yeah nobody with a slight modicum of sanity would do that

>>57976336
Me hacking in 6 Pokemon I pre-planned at the start doesn't negate my point, because the "resources" I'm talking about aren't 'action replay' codes.

The game gives you the DexNav before Viridian Forest, the game ALSO has built-in codew you can input into the players Gamecube. The "DexAll" code makes all the blacked out silhouettes in the DexNav visible and instantly searchable with the R button. I figured people made "bloated dex" complaints because they don't wanna run around in every grassy patch endlessly, the creator already addressed that.

>>57976011 (OP)
It ruined romhacks in a way that whenever I play a new one and it doesn't have the same scope of qol I get just a slight disappointment

>>57976333
They have criticisms, but the inability to think for themselves was not one of them.

>RLCraft of pokemon
Lol

>>57976311
Ok Zoomer or Alpha.

>>57976280
Because Pokemon fans prefer familiarity and playing the same game for the hundredth time in 25 years. This really isn't the target audience for something original and exciting.

Most rom hacks being gen 3 makes sense when you remember that there are decompilations of the games that have essentially IDEs made for them.
No programmer would prefer manual address linking and patching over using an actual linker like ld

>>57976185
That's the thing though. Pokémon games are simple enough they are very solvable. Fire Emblem games are just different enough from each other that solving one doesn't solve another

>>57976023
cuck

>>57976072
>Even if you think that, wouldn't playing the same game over and over get boring?
maybe for normal people like you and me, not for the turboautists that make up more than half of the hardcore pokemon fanbase

>>57976023
There's Japanese ROM Hackers, who usually make better stuff than westerners.

>>57976309
>like it was made up by a guy named rubik
it was his last name, he was an architect, he made it as a tool for teaching his students about 3d spatial relationships

>>57976011 (OP)
>Improvement hack, that appeals to sweats, is so popular and accessible, it's influenced or put onto other hacks
So just like Project M and Brutal Doom?

>>57976023
Okay but Radical Red is dogshit.
You don't need a single player campaign to justify your smogfaggotry. Just play Showdown like everyone else does.

>look up RLcraft
HOLY
FUCKING
REDDIT

>>57976027
>the youtube slop machine
It's sad people aren't bashing Content Farmers hard enough, they're driving this crap up to 11.

>>57976061
Autism

>>57976660
That's what a lot of Poketubers are. Mass produced crap with no other purpose to please the algorithm to get money and fans.

>>57976603
Examples?

>>57976656
what's reddit about this?

>>57976756
It's spiritual essence

>>57976779
qrd?

>>57976669
>Mass produced crap with no other purpose to please the algorithm to get money and fans.
this and also mainstream porn artists

>>57976109
Too many types says otherwise.

>>57976787
>mainstream porn artists
For example...?

>>57976035
>i literally never had to swap a team member out to progress besides when i had to swap a team member out to progress

>>57976756
>>57976785
Not him but, it's what's called in minecraft modding a "kitchen sink" pack. The creator basically just added 150+ mods with no rhyme or reason. It's incredibly autistic and only got popular due to the minecraft resurgence at the time, with youtubers posting videos of them playing "the hardest minecraft modpack"
It's a fucking combat pack, minecraft combat is ass

>"Dude, what if we made the game hard and put all the shit from the later gens in that you wanted to avoid by playing gen 3?"
Modern romhacks are so unoriginal. All they do is backport shit I don't want.

>>57977088
>the hardest minecraft modpack
Doesn't look like GT:NH to me...
Also wasn't there some attempt to balance RLcraft with Regora iirc?

>>57977110
>GTNH
It's not 2021 anymore grandpa that pack is dead
>Also wasn't there some attempt to balance RLcraft with Regora iirc?
I have no clue, I took one look at the screenshots and refused to play it personally. The best parts of minecraft for me have always been the core loop of gathering resources, crafting shit to process more resources, and repeating

>>57976061
Because original region hacks are even worse. Pokémon ROM Hackers are unironic idiots with no creative talent whatsoever. Original regions are bad, original plots are bad, original mons are bad. All they can do is recycle existing elements of the game and rearrange them to make the game harder, unlock more Pokémon, expand the region or similar stuff.

>>57977013
This creep wants to wank it to Pokétubers hahahaha fucking weirdo

>>57977161
Not him but yeah. I enjoy the difficulty hacks to a degree, but just recently I was playing run and bun and getting annoyed at how little freedom you have
I shit you not:
>cannot go into petalburg woods until after brawly
>the game will not even let you return to route 104 until after you beat brawly
Like, why? Maybe I realized something in a previous route is useful, why can't I go back for it?
It feels like a lazy form of difficulty

>>57977176
Many of these difficulty hacks aren't designed for casuals either. They're designed for autistic minmaxxers who enjoy rigorous team building, grinding, and selecting perfect movesets.
To these people, exploration elements are tertiary when they aren't bothersome. So these hacks naturally are designed prioritising these players' preferences.

>>57977187
It's suffering. I want to play something where the fights take a bit more thought, but I don't by the same token want to have to open up the google drive link all of these things seem to have in order to do so.

It's the youtubers, it's literally the youtubers. I once watched a clip of PChal PP stalling a fire type in order to let his water type set up.
He could have just surfed, it would have been a two hit but it would have worked. These people have worms.

>>57977198
>Just using surf twice
BOOOOORING.

Hi /veepee/, introducing Pokemon Haemorrhoid Red and Gatorade Blue!
These are new ROMhacks set in the Kanto region of generation 3, and boast the following features:
>all 1000+ pokemon crammed into a region designed for 150, meaning that every route has encounter tables so diluted that every mon you want is 5% tops
>"Quality of life" features like nature mints and free vitamins
>harder trainer battles with better AI that require "better strategy"
>what this actually means is that every individual fight just becomes a smogon wannabe calc-fest as you have to build teams for every trainer, and every bit of fun is sapped out of the game!
>no actual quality of life changes like early fly or faster surfing, just the above bullshit im passing off as quality of life
>literally any original dialogue will just be utter dogshit. like, invariably
>one (1), that's right, one (1) new area! and it's just ripped from the hoenn games and slightly reskinned!
>steven stone probably shows up to give you yet another battle to smogon over
>rare candies are available! grinding is an important part of nuzlockes where you need to play carefully in the early games to avoid losing mons, so we can sidestep this issue for all you pro nuzlockers by removing that risk and turning all your pokemon into soulless assets that spend 90% of the time in the box
>don't forget the regular balance patches nerfing shit into the ground whenever i get salty about someone beating my game!
if you guys could spread this around, id really be grateful. if we can get Jan or Wolfy's eyes on this, that'd mean the world to me. i dont give a single fuck about creating a game i can be proud of, as is evident from my work, i just want twitch clout, so if you guys could help with that, itd mean the world to me

>>57977262
XD

>>57976128
>still abiding by the 510 EV limit
weak

>>57977262
I was going to play this but you didn’t have all megas + new ones, Gmax, and an elite 4 who uses tera so I’m afraid your mod is devoid of content and too easy.

>>57977302
I'd love to see stats from one of these hacks with all of these gimmicks as far as how often players used any of them

>>57977318
So far the only romhack (that I'm aware of) that includes all battle gimmicks is Emerald Rogue and from what I remember the game is hard as fuck on higher difficulties (like box legendaries before the second gym difficulty)

>>57977262
I've had this idea about making a hack that's as slow and miserable as possible.
Something like:
>Early trainers have fully evolved comp teams
>all wild Pokémon have 0 IVs with a neutral nature
>no vitamins and no TMs
>you have access to the daycare as soon as you start the game so happy grinding session :)
>remove rare candies from the game + add a bunch of anti cheat checks just to disincentivize cheating in any way shape or form
>maybe add anti speed up as the cherry on top
>Le ultimate Hard Pokimans Game, 1000% impossible to Nutzlockeee!1!1!

>>57977345
that feels awfully similar to a copypasta I had saved/improved

Introducing: Pokémon SLOG!
>Anti speedup "features"
>Pokémon get way less exp while evolving at much higher levels
>All opposing pokemon have increased levels
>Battle text speed is permanently slow, animations are always on, set style is always on, uses gen 4 healthbars
>No running or bicycle allowed
>Increased wild encounter rate, and you can't flee from wild battles
>Random trainers have 4+ pokemon, with competitive sets to make you spend even more time teambuilding, grinding, and backtracking to a pokemon center
>All moves with 60+ BP are removed from the game, and toxic/perish song/other moves that can reliably do percentage-based damage are only usable by the AI
>Elite four & champion use the most cancerous stall teams possible, including evasion moves
>No way to change natures, evs, ivs and abilities
>Map is generic unedited kanto
>Every NPC and named character will yap even more than usual
>Using HMs requires manually going to the party menu for every use
>Gen 1 item carry limit reimplemented
>At least 1 stray softlock exists

>>57977371
Pretty much this, but at the same time make it so this whole nonsense it's a "casual filter" of sorts, if you sit down and actually use the mechanics given to you MAYBE you could beat the game just fine
(Also there's a ton of QoL Features regarding Breeding mechanics that the game vaguely hints to)

>>57976011 (OP)
The rlcraft comparison is incredibly apt.

>>57977371
I'd imagine if a Youtuber picked this up and played it, they'd say it's the greatest hack ever, like they do with every hack they ever play.

>>57977323
emerald rogue might throw box legends at you for the second gym but you're also allowed to bring your own box legends in, that's the key difference. most romhacks lock all the box legends to postgame, that's not possible with emerald rogue's metaprogression system.

>>57977371
Make the NPCs randomly quiz you or go "want me to repeat that?" with Yes highlighted by default

>>57977437
Pffff.
Imagine Pchal playing this shit and being like:
>"this is SUCH a GOOD game guys, It's so GOOD that I will 100% do a Blind Hardcore Nuzlocke"
>Proceeds to drip the game before even stepping out of the players house because he can't inject Rare Candies

>>57977444
Yeah, still difficult if you haven't played a lot and accumulated a few useful mons (which makes sense, after all difficulty it's meant to be progressive until you have to deal with Kaizo Ironmon or some other challenge like that)

>>57977318
i use megas whenever they're available, and in the few games where tera is around it's also fun.
never touched a z-move outside of when i ran kommo-o in unbound, and i don't even know any hacks that let you dynamax because it's just so inherently retarded as a mechanic.

>>57977345
Anti cheat checks and anti speed up are based though

>>57976237
a choice between shit and piss?

>>57977459
Pretty sure Rad Red as Dynamax but only as Raids against Wild mons/Legendaries
Same thing for Unbound but even more retarded, a lot of Raid dens are pretty out of the way

>>57977463
Piss is the obvious choice, imagine picking shit

>>57976756
it has lycanite's

>>57977465
oh yeah, i do remember the max raids in rad red. don't know any hacks that let you dynamax in trainer battles, though.

>>57977458
yeah the way emerald rogue does difficulty is pretty damn good. winning isn't all THAT hard even on brutal once you've got some useful starters, but the optional quests are genuinely ball-crushing.
huge fan of that hack overall.

After all this time I'm genuinely surprised there isn't a difficulty selection for more romhacks (Unbound, Rad Red, Emerald Rogue and Elite Redux have those but what about something like Pisces?)

>>57977445
based OOT owl

>>57976234
>it plays identically
until they start evolving
but fuck it i'm sure there's absolutely no difference between staraptor and noctowl whatsoever

>>57977518
Noctowl is actually good after level 40

>>57977523
>takes 40 levels to become good
or I could just use a real bird with a real statline and earlier access to good moves

>>57976756
Arbitrary difficulty and blatant bullshit like mining, gardening, fishing can alll randomly spawn annoying mobs to gank you and destroy your builds.

Why does literally no romhack allow as easy access as possble to customization as RR?
>can play with or without EVs and IVs mattering
>can change natures at any pokecenter
>can swap out any move the pokenon knows via learnset or from a tm in the party menu
Every other hack clearly ups the difficulty but then gives you no actual eady way to compensate for it and instead expecting you to seriously hunt for natures in the wild, EV train, and breed.

>>57976011 (OP)
Fangames should be edgy and have murder and blood and rape and whatnot.

>>57977627
just gen in everything you want if you want to cheat, faggot

Should I do another radical red playthrough? It's been a while and it was fun

>>57976055
>>57976060
It’s actually simple how that came to be
>Fire Emblem: every single game has its own unique mechanic and strats.. even the linked ones like PoR+RD or the GBA games still have its own unique gameplay. Hence , each game can yield 10s of unique ROM hacks
>pokemon though???? It’s the same fucking game since Red & Blue and all the “unique” mechanic each gen feels like an add-on and nothing else. The only unique game was LA but people don’t have the capability to create ROM hack

>>57977627
>>can play with or without EVs and IVs mattering
Soulless, why bother making Omgon simulator if you're just going to nuke EVs.

>>57977628
>Fangames should be edgy and have murder and blood and rape and whatnot.

>>57977703
I want to see him get mating pressed.

>>57977161
>no creative talent
The idiots you describe don't even have the absolute barest spark of creative talent necessary to actually take inspiration from non-pokemon games and think how that could inspire something in their own hack
and of the few that have the rare capacity to get ideas from literally any source that isn't the stagnant official games, even fewer have the game design capability to implement it well instead of fucking it up

>>57977198
Oh no, you can't just take the fast, easy, and obvious solution
You have to spend several minutes blabbering on about calcs and safest picks and whatnot for that sweet ad revenue
The true Pokemon Champ takes daring and even suicidal actions, because he knows they are the most likely to have comedic and entertaining results for him, anyone following his adventure, and the highlight reel
Sure victory might be an important concern, but victory without glory isn't really a victory at all.

>>57977345
I mean anti cheat checks seem like alot of work to stop people hacking in the items you removed like candies and vitamins, just make them have the opposite effect and remove levels or evs if you try to hack them in and use them

>>57976083
>Work on Andaron Saga: Definitive Edition is in full swing. We’re aiming to have a cool teaser trailer ready for the 2nd anniversary on August 3rd, with a planned release sometime in 2026.
> Loads of additional content
> New playable characters
> Alternate B-route maps for some of the more controversial chapters
> Challenge Modes (inspired by Rebellion Saga)
> Casual Modes (the opposite of Challenge Modes—one example is Paragon Mode)
>New original soundtrack pieces composed by Treatstar
>New in-game CGs drawn by Sietje
>An all-new Chapter 32x that’s actually worth unlocking
>Improved, refined writing
>Bolwerk route!
>A huge amount of extra support conversations
>Definitive Edition will include at least 50+ brand new supports.
Fuck me then, guess I will wait until then

>>57976011 (OP)
>[deleted]
KWAB

i think older hacks like snakewood are better than ones that require you to ev train or get fucked

>>57977890
Name 5 hacks that require you to EV train

>>57976023
Bootlicker tendie tranny

>>57977654
The game has changed so much since you played, so I'll say yes. Tons of new custom shinies, and if you check out the players dresser you can choose a few different outfits/skins.
https://youtu.be/rg3E9KtnQCk?si=Ze9u0dnhrDSIRFEJ

>>57978017
>black garchomp
what is this, reborn?

>>57978031
Lmao, low hanging fruit to be sure. Several of these are Gamefreak tier too, but there's some fire ones too. They were gathering feedback for which to change in 4.2 iirc, should be dropping any month now.

>>57976011 (OP)
What is the GTNH of Pokèmon?

>>57976023
>Stop disrespecting their artistic vision
Nah, I'm making Aurora Veil exclusive to Aurorus while giving it better stats and changing the typing Ice/Electric.

>>57978451
Dangerously based.

>>57976011 (OP)
He's right. Romhacks that were their own thing almost completely died out (thanks essentials) in favor of shitty difficulty hacks that are only there for youtubers and twitch streamers to jerk off over because they PLAYED THE HARDEST POKEMON HACK EVER!!.

>>57976011 (OP)
radical red on normal is fine, it's not that difficult and there's no real restrictions use whatever you want. On hardcore though it is basically a puzzle game and not fun at all, no weather or stat raising moves for your pokemon. AI can use all that and get permanent buffs in some battles which is utter bullshit and you do need to cheese. It's not fun

>>57978683
Nice wives anon

I like Pisces and its wacky effect builds like Gravity setting on entry or priority stat reduction

>>57976027
Reddit screencap
Yikes!
And by the way, have they finally admitted that Epstein's GF was their oldest supermod yet?

>>57978683
>no weather or stat raising moves for your pokemon. AI can use all that
What the fuck is this artificial difficulty bullshit? So glad I never bothered with radical reddit.

>>57976055
No one plays Fire Emblem so no one can actually call out your bullshit.

>>57976128
>mega garchomp
A designer that is brainless and just sees big BST and soifaces over it.

>>57978435
I've heard Empyrean has an absurd amount of grinding.

>want to start ng+ unbound on insane difficulty
>recommended to get 2000 battle points and finish all missions first
the dex alone is such a fucking slog, why are all romhacks like this? i dont wanna do a sub 1% daytime only fishing encounter and 70 friendship evolutions just to finish the dex
i just want to use my full odds shiny modest drampa in ng+

>>57976011 (OP)
Anyone can play whatever they want and it's free to create any romhack a person wants.

>>57979406
I have a save file you could use exclusively for NG+ if you're interested. It has a Shiny living dex (only final evos), black trainer card, shitload of BP, and the God Scanner, which lets you edit your Pokemons attributes like it was Showdown.

>>57979538
>cheating
that's not the point

>>57976023
>making ROMhacks is like a big middle finger to talented Japanese devs holding the industry afloat.
Good, fuck those stupid pretentious hacks, and fuck you for glazing their cocks, nigger.

>>57979542
I played the game normal on my first playthrough and I'm still working away on my Black Trainer Card and Mission completion too, but I used the save file I found so I wouldn't have to wait ages before starting a playthrough. Just trying to help you out here, good luck.

>>57979566
it just doesnt feel right getting a decent full odds shiny and then using a cheated save to actually use said shiny
post the file, i really don't want to grind anymore

>>57979574
I get what you mean. Personally I still hold all my full-odds shinies in high regard too, nowadays though I won't shy away from using them in hacked save files or "recreating" them with codes or save editors if I like them enough, I still "earned it" at the end of the, y'know? Eventually even with shinies I never encountered or hunted in some way I'll hack them in and use them if I prefer the pallete swaps, the ones I found organically will always be the most special anyways. Anyways...

Here's the save file:
https://files.catbox.moe/qbs4ym.sav

Originally got it from the Google Drive link from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonUnbound/comments/yq7gdv/comment/ivn12pw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Unfortunately, the specific save I used seems to be missing now... Thank goodness for backups.

You probably already know by know, but here's the list of what gets carried over in NG+: https://pokemonunbound.fandom.com/wiki/New_Game_%2B
The upgraded Stat Scanner helps a ton, especially in Insane mode. Have fun and good luck anon!

>>57979518
And we also can criticize them if we want.

>>57978031
reborn was good howeverbeit

>>57976023
disrespect deez nuts lol

>>57980314
>implying

>>57979406
I've seen emerald rogue mentioned a bunch, what's its deal?

>>57980338
edge aside i enjoyed my time with the game. also it has an overly happy ending
also I don't listen to others' opinions on the game unless they've proven they completed it so I know it's their actual opinion instead of having it spoonfed to them

>>57979693
NTA but I gotta say: Kings such as yourself are the reason why the world is much more beautiful.
I considered playing Unbound at one point but I heard the fuckers locked shit behind a NG+ which was absolute dogshit and I absolutely hated it
Fire Emblem radiant dawn did the same which pissed me off to no end… like I am on a position in my life that I can only play a game once then jump to the next. Yet some devs or ROM hack creators have to do shit like this which is super frustrating
Thank you again

>>57978784
what the fuck is "OU by technicality", anyways?

>>57980621
>Pokemon is OU
>Mega is in a lower tier
>If you don't press the mega evolution button you're just using an OU mon in a lower tier

>>57977703
This but unironicly

>>57976011 (OP)
Is he right too?

>>57980347
You like tea anon?

>>57980609
Zeke never said that

>>57976023
This is stupid to say, but I do think that romhacks and fangames are a waste of passion and creativity. There are people putting in years of work on interesting projects that will be played by a few thousand people (in the very best case scenario) and then forgotten to everyone except the biggest nerds on the net. And if they actually do make something popular they have to worry about C&Ds and other legal issues that just aren't worth it.

>>57980942
and when they make something original, it gets dismissed as tranny/modern audience nonsense or be legit enough to get Nintendo lawyers hovering an anvil at your head.
There's no winning.

>what did you mean luxray's actual problems were the stats and that it's a physical attacking electric type pokemon without a special snowflake signature move
>the real fix is to make it weak to close combat while having the same shit stats instead

>>57981390
>without a special snowflake signature move
It gets 2 former signature moves in this game in Zing Zap and Volt Tackle lol. Guts with Sucker Punch or Trailblaze is good if you’re not a shitter. Has enough coverage in elemental fangs, Play Rough, Superpower, and a neutral nuke in Guts boosted Facade.

>>57981390
if you think electric/dark is a nerf you're either braindead or you're a kid unhappy with the solid enough argument of "it doesn't make sense"

>uh yeah radical red is praised on r/pokemon for buffing shitmons but PLEASE IGNORE that fossil pokemon still have their same stats and typings while we give ledian an overhaul
>yes aerodactyl does have rock head but we're not giving it head smash
>rampardos having head smash would overwhelm the professional nuzlockers and make them committ suicide
>we definitely DON'T listen to the armchair developers at r/pokemon who say that aurorus is unsalvageable while suggest buffs for delibird (and we buffed it as well while aurorus is bound and gagged in a uncomfortable position for our serial rapist lucario named diddy)
>why yes flygon does have 560 BST (and a new ability) in our poketuber bait for professional nuzlockers but archeops who has 7 more BST is going to keep defeatist for balancing reasons
>no we didn't give tyrantrum any STAB biting moves, please understand
>uh yeah about aurorus reddit said it was unsalvageable (please ignore the overhauls we gave ledian and delibird because that would ruin their talking points)

>>57981427
>>57981390
? post ELO

>>57981457
69420

>>57980896
When I'm sick yeah, but I'm a coffee guy

>>57977900
Radical Red
Clover
Storm Silver
Emerald Kaizo
Renegade Platinum

>>57982515
Played 3 of these and you do not need to EV train. Maybe try not being a shitter?

You guys should stop playing difficulty romhacks of hoenn for the 1000th time and start playing cringekino unique region hacks.

>>57982515
>storm silver
>renegade platinum
drayano hacks don't give enemies any EVs
>radical red
minimal grinding mode removes EVs from the game
>emerald kaizo
EV training is impossible, wild pokemon do no give EVs

why is /vp/ so retarded?

>>57982680
i just typed random hacks

>>57981427
>ledian
i have a better idea to improve it
move 65 from its speed to attack and give it trick room
that way it can be used as an early trick room setter that can sweep under its own TR

>fossilmons
all of these are easy to improve (even when limited to just raising bst to 525 without lowering any stat by more than 10)
>omastar: +30 hp, gets sturdy instead of shell armor
>kabutops: +20 hp, +15 spe, -5 spa
>aerodactyl: +10 attack, gets brave bird and head smash
>armaldo: +30 spe
>cradily: +10 hp, +20 spa
>rampardos: +30 spe, gets rock head, optionally also give it a secondary typing for STAB on another thing
>bastiodon: +30 hp, no longer rock type
>carracosta: +5 spd, +25 spe, give sap sipper (some species of sea turtles are herbivorous, and the ability's name is "herbivore" in japanese, so I think it's appropriate)
>archeops: give it literally any other fucking ability that isn't a detrimental one
>tyrantrum: honestly one of the less fucked ones but i'd give it +4 spe for good measure and swap spa and spd
>aurorus: replace or remove rock typing, virtually anything would be better than rock/ice

>>57982807
>there's a typo on the image
>that i somehow didn't catch when making it
Fuck
speaking of typos I actually caught another one
i meant to type 75 instead of 65 when proposing a ledian rework

>>57976011 (OP)
shouldn't it be radical "4chan" if your argument is literally a post by a redditor?
>>57976023
oh i see now this post was the real bait hidden beneath the op. clever one but nobody actually believes this so it's not gonna work.

>>57980609
>NTA but I gotta say: Kings such as yourself are the reason why the world is much more beautiful.
That's very sweet of you to say anon, thank you! Made my day with this one! I hope you enjoy Unbound to its fullest, you won't be able to look at nearly any romhack the same after playing it. Hope you get more free time in the future to replay your favourites bro.

>>57982661
No thanks, im straight

>>57983419
No problem brother, brother
The moment the plague - aka discotroon - hit the Internet, the world went to dogshit mode. Most files, guides, save files, softwares , codes and everything you imagine are no longer available on any search results because you must suck up to filth to get access to such things.
It’s refreshing and warming to see people still share stuff publicly like the good old days with no restrictions whatsoever. I was so pleased when I saw your post.
> you won't be able to look at nearly any romhack the same after playing it.
That’s what I heard too. Granted I only got few ROMs on hand after constant filtering because everyone and their mums made one. I ended up with Unbound, fucking Clover because why not and that Team Rocket one because it was an idea I wished for since the 90’s. The rest are just
> DUUUUUUUUDE THIS IS CRYSTAL BUT PRISMATIC!!!!!!
If someone out there wants to smack me with a recommended ROM that stands on its own feet be my guest
> Hope you get more free time in the future to replay your favourites bro.
Amen !!!!

>>57976072
I'm literally autistic and have completely Crystal hundreds of times, along with hacks like Crystal Clear and Polished Crystal. Not trying to insult anyone but I wonder if others are similar to me. I just like a hack that expands on the base game but doesn't giga overhaul it (Crystal Clear is pushing it for me, I prefer Polished, but it's still very enjoyable)

>>57983829
I've run through crystal numerous times, including right now. I was going to give polished crystal a shot, but up until Azalea Town where I stopped, it's been pretty vanilla outside of the Voltorb trade. I just want a romhack that adds fairy typing and regional pokemon into the game, and attempts to integrate them naturally. i.e. I wouldn't expect to see Chuck or Morty with Annihilape, but I would expect A-Ninetales from Pryce.

>>57976011 (OP)
>I hate that dexit failed and I wish every pokemon game had every fillermon ever made
>...
>NOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!

>>57984008
I mean, yeah, literally "not like that."
Every Pokemon's nice but the RR game map is not big enough to properly accommodate them all. Almost no romhack or fangame has a map big enough to do so.
Pokemon as a franchise circumvents that by keeping most of them out in a given generation and simply letting you transfer up from previous games or trade with others, which is a fine compromise.

>>57976011 (OP)
I like the concept of having every Pokémon up to the current gen in a romhack and idgaf about balancing that or bloated encounter tables. But everything else about Radical Red sounds like bullshit that I don't want in a romhack.

>>57976101
Same here. I want a romhack that has all the Pokémon but vanilla difficulty and none of the other crap hackers slap on.

>>57984017
Inb4 Radical Reddit adds a Johto/Hoenn post-game.

>>57976023
I dunno it seems more disrespectful to file patents for things you didn't invent after another game did the thing you're patenting.

>>57984110
When are you going to make it?

>>57982807
>all of these are easy to improve
So this must be what it's like to not be a Pokefag.

>>57976011 (OP)
Been saying this for years now. Nu-Romhacks are soulless showdown simulators for ecelebs

>>57978735
>have they finally admitted that Epstein's GF was their oldest supermod yet?
Any ideas what is this Discordtroon talking about?

>>57984515
MIGApedes are pushing the narrative that Epstein did nothing wrong because Trump IS in the list and they decided to purge said list and pretend it doesn't exist.

>>57976055
>It baffles me that the Fire Emblem fanbase is constantly churning out unique original hacks
>>57978783 is right.
The Pokemon romhacking community is way larger than Fire Emblem's and offers way more. There are Pokemon hacks that simply add newer sprites, a Fire Emblem hack claiming to do the same still sneaks in balance changes. There are plenty of Pokemon hacks with new regions.

>>57978783
>No one plays Fire Emblem
People play games other than pokemon, pokefag

>>57976011 (OP)
I only read the title but he's right. I'm not going to read the rest, though, because he's probably wrong about the reason for it and there's nothing that I hate more than seeing some retard do a really shitty job arguing in favor of something I agree with.

>>57984971
But do they play Fire Emblem? I think that was anon's point.

>>57976128
>Assault Vest
>Dark Hole
...is Dark Hole not just Dark Void?

I would like radical reddit if it also randomized trainer battles as well instead of only Pokemon encounters, abilities and movesets. Also if they didn't do the stat upgrades to existing mons because thats faggot shit. I want an Emerald rogue but with more exploration.

>>57986165
Radical Red has a move called that, 100 power 100 accuracy and a really good chance of sleep, might've been 30% or 50% I forgor. You can teach it to any dark type from a move tutor on Cape Brink in the post-game, but only once per save.

... Radical Red doesn't have an E4 Cynthia though, so no clue what hack this is.

>>57986177
That would probably result on softlocks if not properly balanced

>>57976023
No
https://youtu.be/GaU4JsE2mRM?si=HWLbKvvS12f8omhz

>>57986165
it's from "emerald imperium", basically a shitty port of radical red to an emerald base.
t. knower

>>57987265
Palworld is actually looking more and more like they will win the lawsuit recently. Nintendo made a huge tactical mistake this time in their hubris.

>>57989104
Really? I absolutely hope they get thrown out because fuck the entire concept of patenting gameplay mechanics, but they have endless money to swing around in the most favorable possible jurisdictions.

>>57976023
probably the most fascist thing I've read all day.

>>57981407
Based
>>57981416
Based

Clover is the only romhack to get difficulty correct.