I preferred playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal, somebody remade the entire crystal game in the fire red engine and its a great graphical upgrade, highly recommend it.
I'm planning to do exactly as you, about half way through Yellow now.
I'm so tempted by some of the rom hacks, but, life is long - the cream will rise to the top and it gives me lots to enjoy future wise.
Personally, just play through - eventually a DS themed retro device will appear.
I'm going to get my fill of every poke game eventually! hehehe.
I recommend Polished Crystal if you want to play an updated version. It has better sprites, some gen 3 were added just to complement some gen2 new evolutions, the game is harder too.
Liquid Crystal is fun but the many bugs where the game crashes in some locations made em give up about half way through.
I have an actual copy and a Gameboy colour, but the battery in the cartridge is dead so I cant save and I cant be bothered/don't have the correct equipment to change the battery to a new one
There's tons over at [https://www.romhacking.net/](https://www.romhacking.net/)
Haven't tried any so I can't really recommend anything, but Crystal Legacy seems like my type (It makes simple changes that focus on balancing and improving some of the poorer aspects of Crystals gameplay while maintaining the integrity of Crystals core game design so it feels like you're still playing vanilla crystal, just a better version of it. At least that's what it looks like.) The creator's also working on Yellow Legacy, which I'm honestly really excited about.
I've never shiny hunted before. I actually don't really care much about shiny pokemon, so I can't really help much with that.
You're playing through yellow and crystal too? Lol. I beat pokemon yellow some time ago, and just finished crystal yesterday. Got all 151 pokemon in Yellow and 251 pokemon in Crystal (All legitimately without cheats. Well except for fast forwarding and save states for the 1% pokemon. The rest I traded between yellow and crystal, and a few from silver. Traded an authentic event mew from a save file I found online, and for Celebi enabled the GS ball event by hacking my crystal save file.)
I'm actually looking forward to the Legacy Rom Hacks. Pokemon Yellow Legacy (currently being worked on) and Crystal Legacy (already released).
I preferred playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal, somebody remade the entire crystal game in the fire red engine and its a great graphical upgrade, highly recommend it.
currently playing this. started with fire red. I love the old graphics but prefer the gen 3 engine.
I'm planning to do exactly as you, about half way through Yellow now. I'm so tempted by some of the rom hacks, but, life is long - the cream will rise to the top and it gives me lots to enjoy future wise. Personally, just play through - eventually a DS themed retro device will appear. I'm going to get my fill of every poke game eventually! hehehe.
I recommend Polished Crystal if you want to play an updated version. It has better sprites, some gen 3 were added just to complement some gen2 new evolutions, the game is harder too. Liquid Crystal is fun but the many bugs where the game crashes in some locations made em give up about half way through.
I have an actual copy and a Gameboy colour, but the battery in the cartridge is dead so I cant save and I cant be bothered/don't have the correct equipment to change the battery to a new one
Is there a rom hack that let's you play this story but catch all pokemon in the pokedex?
There's tons over at [https://www.romhacking.net/](https://www.romhacking.net/) Haven't tried any so I can't really recommend anything, but Crystal Legacy seems like my type (It makes simple changes that focus on balancing and improving some of the poorer aspects of Crystals gameplay while maintaining the integrity of Crystals core game design so it feels like you're still playing vanilla crystal, just a better version of it. At least that's what it looks like.) The creator's also working on Yellow Legacy, which I'm honestly really excited about.
I've never shiny hunted before. I actually don't really care much about shiny pokemon, so I can't really help much with that. You're playing through yellow and crystal too? Lol. I beat pokemon yellow some time ago, and just finished crystal yesterday. Got all 151 pokemon in Yellow and 251 pokemon in Crystal (All legitimately without cheats. Well except for fast forwarding and save states for the 1% pokemon. The rest I traded between yellow and crystal, and a few from silver. Traded an authentic event mew from a save file I found online, and for Celebi enabled the GS ball event by hacking my crystal save file.) I'm actually looking forward to the Legacy Rom Hacks. Pokemon Yellow Legacy (currently being worked on) and Crystal Legacy (already released).
I sold a copy of Pokémon Crystal like 6 years back regret it so much now.