You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters
Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld
Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies.
Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I’m just standing there struggling to decide which one to take
Oh and also since it’s a romhack so I’m playing it on my 3DS
GBA era romhackers are something else
I definitely gotta agree that Pokemon switching to 3d may have been a mistake, especially considering how pretty B&W was.
Pokemon switching to 3D would have been fine if GameFreak weren’t terrible developers.
It wasn’t Stadium, but one of the later (GC era?) 3D games looked fucking fantastic, great animations and VFX that put the actual 3D games to shame
Coliseum?
maybe, there were a few in that era but I know jack shit about any particular one of them
Was it on the Wii? You might be thinking of Battle Revolution. It’s great for battles but the issue is that it’s incredibly slow and would probably be a drag if it were a full-fledged game that did more than just one-on-one battles geared towards multiplayer.
when I think about this kind of thing, it’s very specifically this gif. so whatever this is from
and I’m really just talking about animation quality here, pokemon games haven’t had a good quick pace to them since B/W
Yeah that’s Battle Revolution. I still own that game and it used to be used for local Pokemon tournaments during the Diamond/Pearl era. Made them a lot of fun to watch.
That’s the thing, you look at how Mario or zelda went from 2d to 3d in the N64 and you can see how they completely redesigned it to make an amazing game that pushed the platform.
And while not as big of a change you can see how they grew to make the new Mario or botw.
While gamefreak/Pokemon is like “what if you can swivel the camera around a little bit” or “okay maybe in one area you can see the Pokemon walking around”. And it still lags like crazy.
Going 3d is only a problem if you use the 3d models exactly like sprites.
pokemon walking in grass
the year is 2023 and pokemon games have finally figured out what digimon games figured out more than a decade ago.
Did digimon games still exist in 2013?
Oh and it has both toggleable teamwide EXP share AND multiple difficulty settings
And it has a lot of rebalancing so even the most lowly of gimickmons can be somewhat viable. I picked Chikorita as my starter so I’ll see how far that goes lol
Some of the fan made games are fucking brutal, I can’t remember which one it was but I got stuck on the 3rd gym leader because they would throw a bunch of environmental status effects down and then swap in a mega evolution Beedrill.
Yeah I’m not built for the Kaizo and Radical Red hacks lol
Hacks where the give gym leaders more than two pokemon and give trainers higher level pokemon is good enough for me
Yeah it was one of the ones with a difficulty setting and I thought to myself “I’m an adult, how hard can Pokémon AI be?” The real kicker was each badge having a level cap.
Unbound has mega absol at gym 2. it’s hellish.
Update: I got swept at the first gym
damn, Roxanne got hands lol
Oh this looks like it could be fun… how long will it take to figure out how to do romhacks with my 3DS? let’s see…
If you already have your 3ds hacked, you just open your FBI app, select ‘remote install’ and then ‘from QR code’ and then point your 3DS camera at the QR code in the reddit link.
if you don’t have it hacked you should get on that. if you do, it’s very simple
Pasting the guide I’m following here just for notekeeping purposes:
Oh sweet! https://3ds.hacks.guide/
Hah, shit… My 3DS is of the full-size SD card era. While I have full-size SD cards, my computer only has MicroSD slots… Furcking heck
Most SD cards come with an adapter I thought. You can just get a cheap one with an adapter if you really like your current one.
Trust me, my 3DS has CFW and I soldered in a USB-C port for charging (surprisingly easy. I wouldn’t do it as your first solder job but it really takes minimal skill). I freaking love the thing. With a 64gb sd card you can fill it up with enough games you’ll never play them all. There’s a file management app (FBI) that will let you download and install games from QR codes too. It’s sooo kickass.
Oh fuck, I was thinking I have no adapter from big-to-small so I can’t get any of this full-size SD cards into my laptop to get them set up. Like you said though I of course have small-to-big adapters and after formatting my microSD card, I’ll have it wear the adapter and boom, it’ll work.
Now, the guide recommends not having a card (with storage space) of larger than
I think 64128* gB. I don’t have a microSD card so small. How much of a problem might that create for me?I think the biggest problem with that would be the formatting time. I have seen people who have +256GB cards before but I didn’t really ask them about it. It’ll really unnecessary though
I’ve decided what I really want is to play MegaMan X on my 3DS, it surely must be possible to get an SNES emulator on here too, if GBA is possible?
Fuck yes, I have it!
GBA era romhackers are something else
The entire game has been manually decompiled, so you can add just about anything that the GBA can run
I’ve been playing PokeMMO which is also very well done. I’ll check this out
Hi I’ve never successfully emulated a game or done a romhack and I’ve tried like 30 times could someone as dumb as me play this?
GBA Romhackers are amazing. They’ve done some great stuff too with the Fire Emblem series as well. The Gaiden GBA remake is also a lot of fun if you’re into GBA era Fire Emblem.
as someone trying a Nuzlocke I’m just standing there struggling to decide which one to take
Don’t you have to take the first one you see on a route in a Nuzlocke?
Well yes but the rules usually say you have to take the first pokemon you “encounter” on the route so technically I’m also following the rules
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Has to come track this post down to say I’m loving this game and thanks for making the post about it
I’m glad! Romhacks as a whole are so cool, more people should know about them
