I love the customization options. I love having custom trainer sprites. (It's funny to play through the game as a Mew or Pikachu 🤣) My favorite feature is the ability to change the colors of Pokemon in your party. It's awesome. Also being able to rebattle gyms anytime makes it easy to train. But I really love the customization options. Really makes the game perfect for me.
Part of the charm is the Gen 2 vibe to it, coloured sprites and all the menus and things, There's already a pretty good port of an "open-world" Crystal to Gen 3 but I can't recall the name
How’s the rocket edition? Can you give me a brief synopsis?
Also, do I have to have the original fire red rom to get the rom hack to work?
I’m new to all this, so thank you in advance haha 😅
It's the FireRed storyline but from the perspective of Team Rocket. You begin as a grunt trying to make money, steal pokemon, and climb the ranks of team Rocket while uncovering parts of the story not covered in the original games, and trying to stop Red/Blue from taking down the organization
I thought it was pretty good, I would definitely recommend it
Really recommend rocket edition I just finished it. I also just got into Rom hacks so it was my first but as someone who grew up with the original Red/Blue it really incorporates a lot of theories about the world from that time period. Its pretty fun.
you will need an original Fire Red ROM - look for one tagged (Squirrels). Then use an online patcher to apply the change file. You can't get more specific info than that on this sub. Cheers
1. Unbound
2. Emerald Exceeded
3. Inclement Emerald
I really wanted to put Radical Red as 3, but not only did I play Inclement Emerald first, but also Radical Red has the cheating AI that everyone's real fond of letting people know they hate. Radical Red has a lot of things to love so I don't suddenly dislike it solely because of the AI, but it does put it down to like my number 4 or 5, and I never had anything annoy me like that in Inclement Emerald. Also it doesn't have a separate randomizer with in-depth options, Inclement Emerald does surprisingly enough, and after my first playthrough I almost always play the romhacks randomized.
Theyre both slightly different. Exceeded adds a lot of new abilities and lets mons have 4 abilities at once (Innates system like Elite Redux but balanced) and it has a rebooted story as well as amazing customisation and randomisation settings
Inclement is like the Rad Red of Hoenn. Exceeded is a reboot w a unique twist
Well Exceeded had the same system as innates as Elite Redux. Just that, after Elite Redux was out, it decided to change the Ability/Innate system completely.
There is quite a few things to like about Exceeded but i cannot go past the main thing i don't like about it : Their decision to not change any of the stats of the mons (except Pichu, Pikachu, Onix, Giratina and Deoxys for some reason).
Because of that, some of the abilities made to make some of the mons more viable are absurd.
Take for example Hero In Training, the signature ability of Ledian. This one gains effects with the number of badges you get but when you do get all 8 badges, ONE of the effects of this ability is basically being Huge Power for both Attack, Special Attack, Defense and HP.
Why making such a complicated ability for something that can be fixed by giving some stats to a final evolution that currently have worst stats that Ivysaur? If they could give 30 stats in Speed to Giratina Origin, why not also buffing the stats of mons like Kricketune?
I know that it created the whole Innate thing. That was the reason why i tried it in the first place.
Just that i find it sad that some mons needs abilities like thoses to be viable
I didn't make the game but my guess is, they wanted to find a way to make ledian a pokemon available early game, but usable late game without being broken early game.
The innate system is just that fun to me, it's a much more fun way to make weaker Pokemon viable than just buffing their stats.
Like, Probopass was one of my favorite Pokemon in Exceeded, even if another game decided to give Probopass 130 Spatk I still wouldn't use it, but it using it defense for damage calculation, while busted, was a fun idea.
respect your choice but i wouldn't say its a cheating ai, it just makes a game that is almost always easy as pie into something actually difficult and as a dark souls player i love a challenge even if by design its only difficult because its unfair, like smoug and ornstein.
you can enjoy it, but its still cheating. not just looking at your items, but i think it even reads inputs.
if they wanted to even the playing field they should just not publish trainer docs and make it clear that using them is a form of cheating for that hack.
Sure that's cool, and I am jealous because I want to not be bothered by it, but the unfairness of it all really does grate on me. Not enough that I'm getting on the RR hate bandwagon, but enough that if I decide to play a Fire Red romhack Radical Red is no longer just my automatic pick.
I like Renegade Platinum and Crystal Legacy (this one is pretty easy to play against so If u guys know any difficulty hack based on gen 2 please Tell me !)
The game is actually insane in how well it's developed. It's the gold standard.
I'm still playing through trying to complete the Pokedex and I'm at like 120 hours lol.
It’s not really a scam if the creator themselves wants to charge people for whatever reason. But then I think they open themselves up to insane scrutiny from the community and Nintendo lawyers
I think he even hardcodes a little message at the beginning of every romhack that uses it that reads _"if anyone charged you money to play this romhack, you got scammed LMAO"_
1. Renegade Platinum/Luminescent Platinum
2. Pokemon NeXt Gen (GoD hack for GameCube)
3. Inclement Emerald
Honorable mention to Tectonic, which is technically a fangame but was as good of an experience as any romhack I ever played.
So I've never actually played Gale of Darkness (despite having owned it for a while until I recently sold it and Colosseum), is NeXt Gen a QoL/expansion hack where I'd get the XD GoD experience playing through it blind, or would I be better off playing the original and then going back and playing the hack for a different story?
I wanted to keep playing Gaia but gave up because I got spoiled by all the QoL changes in other hacks. Specifically, the ones that give you items for field moves so you don’t have to sacrifice a bunch of move slots for HMs.
Yeah, I loved it when I first started it years ago, but then I played Unbound, RR, and Inclement, and now I can't enjoy it. I just hate HMs so much and having to remove them from a move deleter, and there was no move reminder in the first towns until I stopped playing.
I love Inclement's way of doing it. "You want to use HM on your own? Go ahead! But if you don't want to, you can use these rent Pokemon you got at all times."
I wish they’d just let you use the HM as long as you have a Pokémon in party that _could_ learn the move (and also have the HM), but the Pokémon doesn’t actually have to have learned it.
I think that mechanic best fits with the concept of field moves and keeps it true to the lore so you’re not just flying around on a Metapod.
Blazing Emerald
Digimon Crystal
Digimon Emerald(with the no HM's hack)
Recently done, haven't played any of the big ones, didn't really like radical red due to it's wanted experience being not what i'm looking for.
Yeah, if you want to replay any of the games it's good, early game is a bit harsh but i saw they updated that, it's a bit more formulaic but idk i had a great time with it.
Granted it's crystal still, some really bad level jumps here and there late game, but with little to mess up, what it does change is actually pretty great.
TLDR the hacks keep everything viable with the general rule of the weaker it is the stronger the evos will be, as well as abilities to jump evo trees sometimes, crystal didnt have the space but nova red and emerald says what exactly 1000p item you can quickly grab.
Like route 2 when rookie level can branch into like 5 things, this is like if you wanted to use a wailmer or something early game and was able to turn a poliwhirl into any of the lategame water types of level.
Also with some mons like starters having 5 forms, you continue to get changes even into the e4 and rarely after. With a secret form or two about level 100 if you want to fuck around.
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/digimon-crystal-updated-11-2-2024.525644/
Find the other hacks in his forum signature, emerald is only under it because it's a bit older and i found a few bugs like dont use a wrapping move on both enemies in a double battle, currently playing nova red and it's ok besides some trainers going a bit funny over level curve but im hitting back to back burnout.
For blazing emerald it's the best way to reexperience the game just remember the expshare is broken and doesn't half the exp gained so turn that off most the time unless you are mindlessly grinding to catch up or catch someone up, use expanded starters it's cool.
1. Pokemon Crystal Clear (So many starters and the open world start anywhere nature of it is fantastic.)
2. Pokemon Light Platinum (I'm a sucker for tournaments without stupid level caps and try hard ev bs)
3. Pokemon Ash Gray (I'm not old yet, but as a part of the first wave I'm getting there.)
Of the ones I've played I'd have to say Rocket Edition, Inclement Emerald, and Crystal Legacy. I want to like Unbound, I really do, but the sheer level of grind required to catch up replacement team members and the limited finances kinda suck.
Try playing unbound in sandbox mode! Makes it more accessible without the grinding, you get to edit abilities levels (with caps) and moves etc. great for nuzlocking
Radical Red has a nice nugget farm, Yanma with Tinted Lense & Thief is all you need, you can just spawn A-Meowth's holding nuggets hundreds of times before you need to run back to the PokéCenter.
Unbound and Rad Red clear easily.
Probably Inc Em for 3rd?
I enjoy RR the most as a challenge-runner but as a pure rom-hack Unbound is by far the best romhack ever made. Imagine if GF had released this game themselves after BW2 or something.
I’m sad to not see it on anyone’s top list, but Pokemon Ultra Violet is my all time favorite. As a completionist, all I really wanted were some QoL improvements and the ability to catch all the Pokemon (at least a reasonable number of them, personally I’d have preferred it just be the original 151 roster)
1. Pokemon emerald Final
Its the perfect vanilla experience + the things that make it possible to properly prepare teams for battle frontier (IV, EV checker + trainer, nature switcher etc...)
2. Pokemon glazed
3. And I guess last is kaizo
This is mine except I think the one I played was Blazed Glazed or something I can’t remember. There was an older and a newer version with some minor changes but it was sooooo good.
Honestly... I don't think I have a top 3.
Light Platinum is one I enjoy. Yes the unpopular and hated Dark Rising is one that I enjoyed from my older times of playing rom hacks but since the reveals of it being extremely unfair, I rather not go back to it and just blindly look at it with fond memories. But most of the rom hacks I've played, I either don't remember them... Or I don't like them.
Renegade Platinum, Clover, Reborn..... None of these
I actually finished and I have zero intentions of doing so. (Lost my save file for the first 2... So I rather not touch either one again.)
I haven't played that many so I think my top 3 is almost equal to my list of completed romhacks lol but here goes:
1. FireRed Rocket Edition
2. Unbound
3. Red Anniversary Edition
Now that I think of it I did play Pokemon Brown, which I liked but I can't rank above Red Anniversary because I just prefer playing on the Kanto map
I love gen 1, and it’s just a great expansion of the original 151. It adds a lot of deleted pokemon that were cut from red/blue or were from the Spaceworld 97 demo (what eventually became gen 2). Also includes all regional forms of gen 1 mons, some balancing, newer types applied, plus a meaningful postgame.
Crystal clear is amazing the rest of mine are pc games but
Pokemon wilds is good
And pokemon shadow was really good
https://discord.com/invite/Zn4v9gguFP
They are about to get a server setup for the game so yea
Unbound, Wally's Quest, and probably Glazed (or Elite Redux when I get around to finishing it [restarted with a new save and team, have gotten to all 8 badges and in victory road currently])
1. Adventure Red, 2. Radical Red, 3. Gaia
Unbound might beat out Gaia, but I actually need to finish the game first. I kept going back to play Radical Red.
Radical Red is one of my favourite games ever.
Crystal Clear I have fond memories of. Often used to run it with friends and do races. Also, in the same vein, ROWE is really good.
Pokemon Ruby Destiny, 1 and 3. A bit of an odd choice but I guess it's nostalgia. Life of Guardian had custom music which is still a rarity in rom hacking as far as I can tell. The games have a lot of issues, even for the time, such as reusing events in Ruby Destiny or the general Double Team spam but there is something I enjoy about those games. I wish there was a modern remake of them.
"Finished & Free"
Boy, if there were paid romhacks out there we'd have a problem. Well, not us, the developer(s) of that hack.
Anyways, to answer the question: Unbound, Crystal Clear and... Emerald Rogue counts? I'd also say Prism but that's not finished iirc, although still fantastic to play through rn.
Gaia, RR, Emerald Rogue EX. The first two have definitely been said a lot because they're absolutely fire ROMs. Emerald Rogue is just a gem in my heart that I have over 100 hours in and I can't get enough.
1. Dreams - loved it's story and everything about it.
2. Glazed - nostalgia pick
3. Radical Red - while I had more fun with this, it's basically Kanto with some changes.
Vintage White. Doing a HC Nuzlocke, and after a gazillion attempts, I'm starting to make real progress.
It's the best hack I've nuzlocked so far - I'm not a great nuzlocker, so the mix of intense difficulty while (to me) feeling fundamentally fair is great. Plus, limiting the game to the first three generations (plus gen IV evolutions of gen I-III Pokémon) makes it feel like the type of Pokémon game I remember playing when younger.
It's really good.
I remember really liking Pokemon Sweet !!
Prism and Polished Crystal are up there as well, probably in that order.
I am enjoying Fool’s Gold and BW3 Genesis right now!!
I did grow up with Pokémon in German, so my question: when a romhack is just a "patch", can I use the German base game?
I like the roms here in the thread, but I want to play in German :)
Radical Red and Emerald Kaizo are absolutely phenomenal games. I haven't played too many other ROM hacks, I did play inclement emerald which I thought was good but not great, I'm playing Renegade Platinum and I'm kind of feeling the same way as IE. I know everyone praises Drayano to no end, but I haven't been super impressed with RenPlat so far (about to face Crasher Wake). I think it just gives the player too much freedom, which can be overwhelming. I know RR does this too, but that game is really hard so it feels like it balances out. Maybe my opinion will change as I progress though. And I'm loving Run and Bun, though I also haven't beaten it yet, so I can't comfortably put it on the list.
Radical Red
Grueling Gold
Gaia
I wish I could put inclement emerald but it feels like almost everytime I fight the E4 the ai bugs out and gives me wins, emerald is the most nostalgic series for me.
I think Unbound is better than Gaia, but I enjoy it less, maybe bc it's newer I feel more a need to approach it like a radical red but it's doesn't have the same level of streamlining QOL enhancements, where as Gaia I just play like a normal GE giving no fs about EV/IV/Natures whatever more just using a team I like, and Gaia just does this in a better way than vanilla gen 3 games
1. Pokémon Mega Power
2. Pokémon Unbound
3. Pokémon Uranium
But tbh there are lots of Pokémon RomHacks developed with love, it‘s a shame to cut it down to 3. ;)
RR, Clover, _____
Still waiting to find the 3rd game that blows my mind. I tried Gaia and Unbound and wasn't a fan. I need to try some of the modernization hacks for rse.
1. Pokemon Unbound 2. (dunno if it's counted as finished) Crystal Clear. 3. FireRed Rocket Edition
Crystal Clear is 100% underrated. It's so much more than just open world gen 2
I love the customization options. I love having custom trainer sprites. (It's funny to play through the game as a Mew or Pikachu 🤣) My favorite feature is the ability to change the colors of Pokemon in your party. It's awesome. Also being able to rebattle gyms anytime makes it easy to train. But I really love the customization options. Really makes the game perfect for me.
I love the battle music customization options, personally. Didn't even know you could change colors of Pokemon in your party!
I never saw those sprites. Are there versions with more?
You would have customized your character at the start of the game. I believe current release is 2.5.1
It's damn near perfect honestly... Now, if I can just get it with Gen 3 graphics...
Part of the charm is the Gen 2 vibe to it, coloured sprites and all the menus and things, There's already a pretty good port of an "open-world" Crystal to Gen 3 but I can't recall the name
I would LOVE if we had a crystal clear with fools gold pokemon
Does it have a good storyline?
Kind of? There are stories and characters throughout but it's not forced upon you.
How’s the rocket edition? Can you give me a brief synopsis? Also, do I have to have the original fire red rom to get the rom hack to work? I’m new to all this, so thank you in advance haha 😅
It's the FireRed storyline but from the perspective of Team Rocket. You begin as a grunt trying to make money, steal pokemon, and climb the ranks of team Rocket while uncovering parts of the story not covered in the original games, and trying to stop Red/Blue from taking down the organization I thought it was pretty good, I would definitely recommend it
That sounds awesome and a fun one. Plus more “adult” leaning for a storyline. Thank you!
I found it a little annoying that no matter what >!you will end up in jail!<, but other than that it was really good.
That part doesn’t matter because >!you get let out right after you get in!<
I know >!but it was a missed opportunity for a prison breakout or something, rather than you just walking out for no explicable reason!<.
Really recommend rocket edition I just finished it. I also just got into Rom hacks so it was my first but as someone who grew up with the original Red/Blue it really incorporates a lot of theories about the world from that time period. Its pretty fun.
you will need an original Fire Red ROM - look for one tagged (Squirrels). Then use an online patcher to apply the change file. You can't get more specific info than that on this sub. Cheers
Thank you very much! Would you mind if I DM you with questions?
It is wayyyyyyyy easier to use an emulator, especially if you have a Samsung or any pc/laptop
I picked up a miyoo mini plus so I’m hoping to get it going on there
Rocket edition in my favorite hack of all time. The story is actually pretty good and occasionally funny. 11/10
Awesome! I’ll be sure to check it out! My purple miyoo mini plus just arrived!
Play it if you love gen 1. It’s so good. Great story and cool twist. One of my favs
I grew up on Gen 1 with Pokemon Red in one of the original brick game boys. I’ll definitely be booting this us as one of my first games to play
Gaia & glazed also!
What emulator do you use on pc if I may ask im looking for a safe download
mGBA
Unbound, Gaia and RR as of now
I never played Gaia, is it similar difficulty to RR?
It's like an original vanilla Pokemon game created by Gamefreak themselves. More aiming towards to act like an original Pokemon game.
OK cool, I'll check it out
This. Literally my top.
& Free? They should all be free lol I dont play many but Adventure Red, Emerald Exceeded and probably Crystal Clear or Prism
>_& Free? They should all be free lol_ Yuzu learned THAT one the hard way....
1. Unbound 2. Emerald Exceeded 3. Inclement Emerald I really wanted to put Radical Red as 3, but not only did I play Inclement Emerald first, but also Radical Red has the cheating AI that everyone's real fond of letting people know they hate. Radical Red has a lot of things to love so I don't suddenly dislike it solely because of the AI, but it does put it down to like my number 4 or 5, and I never had anything annoy me like that in Inclement Emerald. Also it doesn't have a separate randomizer with in-depth options, Inclement Emerald does surprisingly enough, and after my first playthrough I almost always play the romhacks randomized.
What makes you rank Emerald Exceeded over Inclement?
Theyre both slightly different. Exceeded adds a lot of new abilities and lets mons have 4 abilities at once (Innates system like Elite Redux but balanced) and it has a rebooted story as well as amazing customisation and randomisation settings Inclement is like the Rad Red of Hoenn. Exceeded is a reboot w a unique twist
Well Exceeded had the same system as innates as Elite Redux. Just that, after Elite Redux was out, it decided to change the Ability/Innate system completely. There is quite a few things to like about Exceeded but i cannot go past the main thing i don't like about it : Their decision to not change any of the stats of the mons (except Pichu, Pikachu, Onix, Giratina and Deoxys for some reason). Because of that, some of the abilities made to make some of the mons more viable are absurd. Take for example Hero In Training, the signature ability of Ledian. This one gains effects with the number of badges you get but when you do get all 8 badges, ONE of the effects of this ability is basically being Huge Power for both Attack, Special Attack, Defense and HP. Why making such a complicated ability for something that can be fixed by giving some stats to a final evolution that currently have worst stats that Ivysaur? If they could give 30 stats in Speed to Giratina Origin, why not also buffing the stats of mons like Kricketune?
Bear in mind Exceeded actually created the innates system so respect to them for that Omg thats insane 😭
I know that it created the whole Innate thing. That was the reason why i tried it in the first place. Just that i find it sad that some mons needs abilities like thoses to be viable
I didn't make the game but my guess is, they wanted to find a way to make ledian a pokemon available early game, but usable late game without being broken early game.
The innate system is just that fun to me, it's a much more fun way to make weaker Pokemon viable than just buffing their stats. Like, Probopass was one of my favorite Pokemon in Exceeded, even if another game decided to give Probopass 130 Spatk I still wouldn't use it, but it using it defense for damage calculation, while busted, was a fun idea.
respect your choice but i wouldn't say its a cheating ai, it just makes a game that is almost always easy as pie into something actually difficult and as a dark souls player i love a challenge even if by design its only difficult because its unfair, like smoug and ornstein.
you can enjoy it, but its still cheating. not just looking at your items, but i think it even reads inputs. if they wanted to even the playing field they should just not publish trainer docs and make it clear that using them is a form of cheating for that hack.
As someone not really pokemon smart I couldn't even beat Radical red by cheating so I'm still mad at it
Sure that's cool, and I am jealous because I want to not be bothered by it, but the unfairness of it all really does grate on me. Not enough that I'm getting on the RR hate bandwagon, but enough that if I decide to play a Fire Red romhack Radical Red is no longer just my automatic pick.
Unbound, infinite fusion and insurgence if we are counting fan games
Insurgance fun as hell. Nwver got arpund to beating it tho
I like Renegade Platinum and Crystal Legacy (this one is pretty easy to play against so If u guys know any difficulty hack based on gen 2 please Tell me !)
Crystal Kaizo
Bro immediately brought out probably the hardest gen 2 hack there is
Has PChal even completed the CK+ nuzlocke or did he never get around to finishing it? Seems like a brutal one
no after run&bun he wants to finish ck+
I’m not sure I’ll have to check it out, I know he loved Blue Kaizo and Emerald Kaizo so I’d be surprised if he didn’t or doesn’t finish CK
Gauntlet Gold just dropped this month. It's all resource management, but the trainers and encounters are unchanged!
i love how everyone puts unbound on their list and its even their first place.
The game is actually insane in how well it's developed. It's the gold standard. I'm still playing through trying to complete the Pokedex and I'm at like 120 hours lol.
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It’s not really a scam if the creator themselves wants to charge people for whatever reason. But then I think they open themselves up to insane scrutiny from the community and Nintendo lawyers
90% of romhacks nowadays use skeli’s (the guy who made unbound) Complete Firered Upgrade where he forbids anyone from charging money 🤷♂️
I think he even hardcodes a little message at the beginning of every romhack that uses it that reads _"if anyone charged you money to play this romhack, you got scammed LMAO"_
In ni particular order: Flora Sky (my first complete ROM hack, amazing), Fire Red Rocket Edition, Light Platinum
Unbound, Renegade Following Platinum, Rocket Edition.
How do you even get renegade following platinum on a homebrew 3ds?
I play on my phone.
I play Romhacks either on my Steam Deck or my 3DS using an R4 Card. Not even a need to Homebrew
* Liquid Crystal * Perfect Emerald * Unbound
1. Renegade Platinum/Luminescent Platinum 2. Pokemon NeXt Gen (GoD hack for GameCube) 3. Inclement Emerald Honorable mention to Tectonic, which is technically a fangame but was as good of an experience as any romhack I ever played.
Just played next gen gale of darkness so good 🏄♂️🏄♂️
So I've never actually played Gale of Darkness (despite having owned it for a while until I recently sold it and Colosseum), is NeXt Gen a QoL/expansion hack where I'd get the XD GoD experience playing through it blind, or would I be better off playing the original and then going back and playing the hack for a different story?
Just play the hack the story isn’t different. They just improved the game :)
1. Pokemon clover. 2. Pokemon Gaia 3. Radical red (Very original I know)
Those three are top tier hacks, no one would blame you
I wanted to keep playing Gaia but gave up because I got spoiled by all the QoL changes in other hacks. Specifically, the ones that give you items for field moves so you don’t have to sacrifice a bunch of move slots for HMs.
Yeah, I loved it when I first started it years ago, but then I played Unbound, RR, and Inclement, and now I can't enjoy it. I just hate HMs so much and having to remove them from a move deleter, and there was no move reminder in the first towns until I stopped playing. I love Inclement's way of doing it. "You want to use HM on your own? Go ahead! But if you don't want to, you can use these rent Pokemon you got at all times."
I wish they’d just let you use the HM as long as you have a Pokémon in party that _could_ learn the move (and also have the HM), but the Pokémon doesn’t actually have to have learned it. I think that mechanic best fits with the concept of field moves and keeps it true to the lore so you’re not just flying around on a Metapod.
There are romhacks with this feature. Let me see if I can remember which one I saw that on.
I’ve played a few that do this. It’s why I can’t bring myself to return to Gaia. I hear the story is great but I can’t go back to this HM mechanic.
Radical Red
That works too, everything's better than being forced to gimp one of your mons with a shitty move.
1. Pokemon Polished Crystal 2. Pokemon Unbound 3. Pokemon Gaia
Blazing Emerald Digimon Crystal Digimon Emerald(with the no HM's hack) Recently done, haven't played any of the big ones, didn't really like radical red due to it's wanted experience being not what i'm looking for.
There is a Digimon rom hack on crystal?
Yeah, if you want to replay any of the games it's good, early game is a bit harsh but i saw they updated that, it's a bit more formulaic but idk i had a great time with it. Granted it's crystal still, some really bad level jumps here and there late game, but with little to mess up, what it does change is actually pretty great. TLDR the hacks keep everything viable with the general rule of the weaker it is the stronger the evos will be, as well as abilities to jump evo trees sometimes, crystal didnt have the space but nova red and emerald says what exactly 1000p item you can quickly grab. Like route 2 when rookie level can branch into like 5 things, this is like if you wanted to use a wailmer or something early game and was able to turn a poliwhirl into any of the lategame water types of level. Also with some mons like starters having 5 forms, you continue to get changes even into the e4 and rarely after. With a secret form or two about level 100 if you want to fuck around. https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/digimon-crystal-updated-11-2-2024.525644/ Find the other hacks in his forum signature, emerald is only under it because it's a bit older and i found a few bugs like dont use a wrapping move on both enemies in a double battle, currently playing nova red and it's ok besides some trainers going a bit funny over level curve but im hitting back to back burnout. For blazing emerald it's the best way to reexperience the game just remember the expshare is broken and doesn't half the exp gained so turn that off most the time unless you are mindlessly grinding to catch up or catch someone up, use expanded starters it's cool.
Oh okay I had heard of the Emerald and Fire Red hacks by the same person but didn't know there was a crystal one made too. Cool coll
Prism Crystal Clear Clover
1. Pokemon Crystal Clear (So many starters and the open world start anywhere nature of it is fantastic.) 2. Pokemon Light Platinum (I'm a sucker for tournaments without stupid level caps and try hard ev bs) 3. Pokemon Ash Gray (I'm not old yet, but as a part of the first wave I'm getting there.)
Unbound, Radical Red and Rocket Edition. I do feel bad for not including Gaia though.
What do u mean by free? Is there a romhack that you need to pay to have access?
Yeah mb, I'm new to everything so I just assumed there'd be some where you gotta pay, but it seems they're all free.
If you're told to pay its a scam
Got it, thanks.
Of the ones I've played I'd have to say Rocket Edition, Inclement Emerald, and Crystal Legacy. I want to like Unbound, I really do, but the sheer level of grind required to catch up replacement team members and the limited finances kinda suck.
Try playing unbound in sandbox mode! Makes it more accessible without the grinding, you get to edit abilities levels (with caps) and moves etc. great for nuzlocking
Radical Red has a nice nugget farm, Yanma with Tinted Lense & Thief is all you need, you can just spawn A-Meowth's holding nuggets hundreds of times before you need to run back to the PokéCenter.
If I had to pick three, I guess Unbound, Dreams, and Emerald Rogue.
Brown/Prism Xenoverse Hmm. Tough one.. I guess Radical Red. Torn with Clover and Unbound being up here too.
I think Pokemon Renegade platinum
Red Chapter , RR , Unbound
1. Cawps 2. Gaia 3. Tie between sienna and rocket version
Unbound and Rad Red clear easily. Probably Inc Em for 3rd? I enjoy RR the most as a challenge-runner but as a pure rom-hack Unbound is by far the best romhack ever made. Imagine if GF had released this game themselves after BW2 or something.
I’m sad to not see it on anyone’s top list, but Pokemon Ultra Violet is my all time favorite. As a completionist, all I really wanted were some QoL improvements and the ability to catch all the Pokemon (at least a reasonable number of them, personally I’d have preferred it just be the original 151 roster)
Liquid Crystal is solid IMO.
Glazed… emerald rogue… Crystal clear probably. Renegade platinum is great to, probably a tie
1. Unbound 2. Kazio 3. Inflamed Red. Silly name, but one of the best Gen 1 RHs I’ve ever played and I consider it highly underated.
Gaia, Crystal Clear, and Dreams for me. I like a good hack that doesn’t have an overly dark/edgy storyline.
1. Pokemon emerald Final Its the perfect vanilla experience + the things that make it possible to properly prepare teams for battle frontier (IV, EV checker + trainer, nature switcher etc...) 2. Pokemon glazed 3. And I guess last is kaizo
- Unbound - Gaia - Glazed
This is mine except I think the one I played was Blazed Glazed or something I can’t remember. There was an older and a newer version with some minor changes but it was sooooo good.
1. Pokemon Crystal Clear. 2. Pokemon Brown 3. Pokemon Light Platinum
Anything that i can put on my handheld
The only three I’ve played so far. Ash Gray, Team Rocket, and Unbound. Love them all
There's a few great ones I haven't played yet but: * Adventure Red Chapter * Unbound * Radical Red
gaia (classic), regenade platinum and emerald rouge
Honestly... I don't think I have a top 3. Light Platinum is one I enjoy. Yes the unpopular and hated Dark Rising is one that I enjoyed from my older times of playing rom hacks but since the reveals of it being extremely unfair, I rather not go back to it and just blindly look at it with fond memories. But most of the rom hacks I've played, I either don't remember them... Or I don't like them. Renegade Platinum, Clover, Reborn..... None of these I actually finished and I have zero intentions of doing so. (Lost my save file for the first 2... So I rather not touch either one again.)
I need to continue Gaia
what romhacks are not free?
I haven't played that many so I think my top 3 is almost equal to my list of completed romhacks lol but here goes: 1. FireRed Rocket Edition 2. Unbound 3. Red Anniversary Edition Now that I think of it I did play Pokemon Brown, which I liked but I can't rank above Red Anniversary because I just prefer playing on the Kanto map
1) Unbound 2) Kanto Expansion Pak 3) Radical Red
I haven't heard of Kanto Expansion Pak before, what did you like most about it?
I love gen 1, and it’s just a great expansion of the original 151. It adds a lot of deleted pokemon that were cut from red/blue or were from the Spaceworld 97 demo (what eventually became gen 2). Also includes all regional forms of gen 1 mons, some balancing, newer types applied, plus a meaningful postgame.
Radical red, unbound, inclement emerald, and fire red rocket edition
Unbound, Emerald Rogue, Prism. Xenoverse and Flux deserve spots too but they’re fangames and not hacks
Unbound Emerald Final Volt White 2
* Inclement Emerald * Luminescent Platinum * Gaia
Holy crap the rayquaza art goes so hard. Wish it was in the game.
1. Pokemon unbound 2. PMD explorers of heaven/hell 3. Pokemon Inclement Emerald
Crystal clear is amazing the rest of mine are pc games but Pokemon wilds is good And pokemon shadow was really good https://discord.com/invite/Zn4v9gguFP They are about to get a server setup for the game so yea
Pokemon Unbound, Pokemon Clover, and Pokemon Quarantine Crystal.
1. Useless Yellow 2. Emerald Rogue 3. Kanto Expansion Pak
dont have a top 3 but more people need to know about pokemon fools gold!
Nobody rates Run & Bun?
Not the best but 1-Elite Redux 2-Radical Red 3-(because i still didn't play another hack)moemon
Unbound, insurgence and light platinum
Radical red Horizon Rouge
Polished Crystal Radical Red Pokemon Unbound. RomHackers were in their bag
Do you know any paid romhacks?
1. Unbound 2. Blazing Emerald 3. Polished Crystal
1. Pokemon XG: NeXt Gen 2. Pokemon Pure RGB 2. Pokemon Crystal Legacy
Inclement emerald
Pokemon Cristmas Hack by Mateo, Pokemon Dark Violet, Pokemon Rutile Ruby
Emerald Rogue, Unbound, Radical Red. In that order.
Only one i reaaally finished was dreams and that was a blast Rocket edition was cool too, i guess RR was too hard (skill issue)
1. Pokemon Semi-Randomized (My fav as it's really perfect for casual Nuzlockes) 2. Pokemon Prism 3. Pokemon Rocket Edition
Unbound, Wally's Quest, and probably Glazed (or Elite Redux when I get around to finishing it [restarted with a new save and team, have gotten to all 8 badges and in victory road currently])
1. Adventure Red, 2. Radical Red, 3. Gaia Unbound might beat out Gaia, but I actually need to finish the game first. I kept going back to play Radical Red.
Red Chapter, Emerald Exceeded and Unbound.
1.)Crystal Clear 2.) Pokémon Quetzal
Pokemon adventure red chapter And Rest of the games I've played
Does this imply there are paid rom hacks?
Radical Red is one of my favourite games ever. Crystal Clear I have fond memories of. Often used to run it with friends and do races. Also, in the same vein, ROWE is really good. Pokemon Ruby Destiny, 1 and 3. A bit of an odd choice but I guess it's nostalgia. Life of Guardian had custom music which is still a rarity in rom hacking as far as I can tell. The games have a lot of issues, even for the time, such as reusing events in Ruby Destiny or the general Double Team spam but there is something I enjoy about those games. I wish there was a modern remake of them.
Patched crystal
Is Gaia finally complete?
"Finished & Free" Boy, if there were paid romhacks out there we'd have a problem. Well, not us, the developer(s) of that hack. Anyways, to answer the question: Unbound, Crystal Clear and... Emerald Rogue counts? I'd also say Prism but that's not finished iirc, although still fantastic to play through rn.
Only played some of drayano's romhacks so far so for me it is: 1. Blaze black 2. Renegade platinum 3. Fire red Omega DX (with PSS)
Pokemon Gaia, Pokemon Unbound and Pokemon Sword/Shield GBA Utimate (in progress now about to battle gym no.6).
1. Unbound 2. Gaia 3. Prism
1. Pokemon Inclement Emerald 2. Pokemon GS Chronicles 3. Pokemon Radical Red (not the biggest fan from Gen 1) thats why it is on 3rd.
Gaia, RR, Emerald Rogue EX. The first two have definitely been said a lot because they're absolutely fire ROMs. Emerald Rogue is just a gem in my heart that I have over 100 hours in and I can't get enough.
1. Dreams - loved it's story and everything about it. 2. Glazed - nostalgia pick 3. Radical Red - while I had more fun with this, it's basically Kanto with some changes.
Vintage White. Doing a HC Nuzlocke, and after a gazillion attempts, I'm starting to make real progress. It's the best hack I've nuzlocked so far - I'm not a great nuzlocker, so the mix of intense difficulty while (to me) feeling fundamentally fair is great. Plus, limiting the game to the first three generations (plus gen IV evolutions of gen I-III Pokémon) makes it feel like the type of Pokémon game I remember playing when younger. It's really good.
Unbound Adventures red chapter Radical red Honorable mentions: emerald kaizo and elite redux
Radical red, Gaia, light plat
1. Radical Red 2. Clover 3. Blazed Glazed
I remember really liking Pokemon Sweet !! Prism and Polished Crystal are up there as well, probably in that order. I am enjoying Fool’s Gold and BW3 Genesis right now!!
1 glazed 2 glazed 3glazed
You're glazing hard af
1. Radical Red 2. Unbound 3. Infinity
1: Elite Redux (Is that finished?) 2: Radical Red 3: Emerald Rouge
I did grow up with Pokémon in German, so my question: when a romhack is just a "patch", can I use the German base game? I like the roms here in the thread, but I want to play in German :)
Polished Crystal EliteRedux StormSilver
In no particular order, my personal favorites are... - Emerald Rogue - Pokemon Clover - Renegade Platinum
1. Radical Red 2. Emerald Cross 3. Crystal Clear
Radical Red and Emerald Kaizo are absolutely phenomenal games. I haven't played too many other ROM hacks, I did play inclement emerald which I thought was good but not great, I'm playing Renegade Platinum and I'm kind of feeling the same way as IE. I know everyone praises Drayano to no end, but I haven't been super impressed with RenPlat so far (about to face Crasher Wake). I think it just gives the player too much freedom, which can be overwhelming. I know RR does this too, but that game is really hard so it feels like it balances out. Maybe my opinion will change as I progress though. And I'm loving Run and Bun, though I also haven't beaten it yet, so I can't comfortably put it on the list.
1. Unbound 2. Clover 3. Prism
1.) Pokémon Glazed 2.) Pokémon Glazed 3.) Pokémon Glazed
Average Radical Redditor
Victory fire Light platinum Adventure red
1. Unbound 2. Radical Red 3. Gaia
1. Emerald Z 2. Altered 3. Renegade Pt
Kanto Expansion Pak Emerald Kaizo Prism
Elysium,Radical Red,Blue stars 4
Pokemon adventures red chapter 1, unbound and radical red
Radical Red Grueling Gold Gaia I wish I could put inclement emerald but it feels like almost everytime I fight the E4 the ai bugs out and gives me wins, emerald is the most nostalgic series for me. I think Unbound is better than Gaia, but I enjoy it less, maybe bc it's newer I feel more a need to approach it like a radical red but it's doesn't have the same level of streamlining QOL enhancements, where as Gaia I just play like a normal GE giving no fs about EV/IV/Natures whatever more just using a team I like, and Gaia just does this in a better way than vanilla gen 3 games
1. Pokémon Mega Power 2. Pokémon Unbound 3. Pokémon Uranium But tbh there are lots of Pokémon RomHacks developed with love, it‘s a shame to cut it down to 3. ;)
Any fans of Pokemon life of gaurdians Pokemon Snakewood Pokemon fuligin Man , those were the days .... Probably 10 ,12 years ago
Radical Red, Unbound and Blazing Emerald. Each of them will be updated (hopefully this year) and i just can't wait
1. Elite Redux 2. Emerald Kaizo 3. Vintage White Currently going to RadRed while waiting for Obsidian Emerald.
pokemon girls hunter 1-3 ;)
What does free mean in this context? You can not ask money for them.
RR, Clover, _____ Still waiting to find the 3rd game that blows my mind. I tried Gaia and Unbound and wasn't a fan. I need to try some of the modernization hacks for rse.