11 Pokémon Romhacks You NEED To Play! (Gen 1-3)

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Play The Hacks:
➤ Polished Crystal - Dev: Rangi42 - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Red++ - Dev: JustRegularLuna - github.com/JustRegularLuna/rp...
➤ ShinRed/Blue/Green - Dev: Jojobear13 - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ PureRGB - Dev: Vortyne - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Ash Grey - Dev: Metapod23 - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Crystal Kaizo - Dev: Sinisterhoodedfigure - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Blue Kaizo - Dev: Sinisterhoodedfigure - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Unova Red - Dev: Azure_Keys - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Kalos Crystal - Dev: Azure_Keys - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ KEP (Kanto Expansion Pak) - Dev: Plague Von Karma - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ Sour Crystal - Dev: SourApple/SoupPotato - www.pokecommunity.com/threads...
➤ TheManyNamed’s Codex of Rom Hacks - pokeromcodex.notion.site/8f18...
Note: It was said that Sour Crystal was in BETA, however it's actually on release 4.0 currently and is fully finished!
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Color Your Night (Instrumental) - Persona 3 Reload
On Your Way - Ridge Racer
After School Dessert - Blue Archive
Sophisticated Fight - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Moonsiders 1st - Tekken 7
Fish on!! - Yakuza 4
Naked Glow 20th anniversay mix - Ridge Racer
0:00 Polished Crystal
1:51 Red Plus Plus
2:52 Shinred
4:42 PureRGB
5:32 Ash Grey
6:27 Crystal Kaizo
7:29 Blue Kaizo
7:47 Unova Red
8:27 Kalos Crystal
9:15 Kanto Expansion Pak
10:07 Sour Crystal
11:03 Community
12:24 Ending

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@smithplayspokemon 2 месяца назад

Get an Epic Lady Etessa using my link iOS/Android/PC ➡ t2m.io/SmithPlaysPokemon and other cool bonuses worth $50 for free! 🎉RAID 5th anniversary offer: use my link and redeem the promo code FESTIVAL5 to get: 🧪x50 Magic Brews, 💲500k Silver, 👑 x1 Tayrel Epic Champion! 💡Note: be quick, this offer is available for a limited time only! ⏳ The promo code is available from March 7th to April 11th. 📱Link for IOS users to enter Raid Shadow Legends codes ▶ plarium.com/en/redeem/raid-shadow-legends/

@gamerguy-or3xn 2 месяца назад

😅😊😊😊

@gamerguy-or3xn 2 месяца назад

😊

@jrpgmike 2 месяца назад

@armandogarcia6169 2 месяца назад

Can you sell me a copy of pokemon crystal legacy completed for gba cartridge?

@verymelonman12 2 месяца назад

For those of you who don't understand, Smith is saying the creator of Crystal Clear steals work without crediting original creators. He's not making it obvious because he doesn't want to cause inter-community drama between Crystal Clear and Crystal Legacy fans.

@mickkelley3776 2 месяца назад

Ohhhh, it's Crystal Clear he's talking about. I'm what some people might describe as "a bit dense" and struggle to understand what people are talking about unless they say it to me directly. Not being sarcastic either, I'm just like that.

@Arccharger448 2 месяца назад

I mean he can post evidence or links to the claims, I've been on the discord for years and have not once seen any paywalling

@krumbopuloskarl7019 2 месяца назад

it says in beginning of game that if you payed for Pokemon crystal clear you got scammed. its a free ROM hack.

@krumbopuloskarl7019 2 месяца назад

i will say tho that trying to edit the ROM is hard for some reason

@mickkelley3776 2 месяца назад

@@Arccharger448Yeah, me too. Then again I'm not really active in the server, I mostly just... exist there kinda.

@PlaguevonKarma 2 месяца назад

Thank you for promoting the Kanto Expansion Pak! It means the world ❤❤❤

@vava85 2 месяца назад

Very well deserved

@angeldiselatcia 2 месяца назад

Thank you for keeping it open source too!

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

We love kep and plague is awesome please play it

@arach6199 2 месяца назад

Easily one of my top gen1 hacks. I really appreciate what you did with it. Guardia was so cool!

@PlaguevonKarma 2 месяца назад

@@angeldiselatciathat's my policy! Anything I learn or make will always be freely redistributed in some way!

@Taylorperchasemccarthy 2 месяца назад

I’d personally recommend Crystal Kaizo+ over Crystal Kaizo; pChal’s community made a rebalanced version of Crystal Kaizo recently to make it a more polished game. It’s still hard, but it’s hard in that it’s crafted to be hard but beatable, closer in design to Emerald Kaizo than Blue Kaizo. Also has a lot of QOL.

@shaunduzstuffs 2 месяца назад

Yeah thanks for saying the name. I forgot what it's called

@smithplayspokemon 2 месяца назад

Oh thank you!! That’s a good suggestion

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

I will note this on our server when I get the recommendations channel set up

@ChamblesRNG 2 месяца назад

Yeah, Id love to play it but its impossible to find.. 😢 Could I ask you for a link?

@buggford1022 2 месяца назад

As someone who has played both versions a lot, I would recommend the original CK as the much better challenge for casual players, while CK+ is better for hardcore nuzlockes.

@zephyrurchin4763 2 месяца назад

For those wondering, Unova Red still features the Mew Glitch. The Pokemon replacing Mew, believe it or not, is Munna.

@DelevenD11 2 месяца назад

Definitely worth it!

@Alienldr 2 месяца назад

Is that what you get when you face a pokemon with a special of 21? Or when you fight the same trainer you normally fight to get mew? Because they might have a different special stat.

@zephyrurchin4763 2 месяца назад

@@Alienldr I have no idea. All I know is, both Mew glitches from Gen 1 are present in the game, and Munna is the Pokémon that replaces Mew.

@Alienldr 2 месяца назад

@@zephyrurchin4763 ok. I'll have to get that hack and investigate then, because now I'm curious.

@bewearstar9462 Месяц назад

Missed opportunity to make it victini

@shyorvion4692 2 месяца назад

I was wondering if he was going to mention Pokémon Brown or Pokémon Prism, but then I remembered him stating that he prefers to experience romhacks that remain more faithful to the regions and stories of the originals rather than the ones that build their own from scratch, and I can respect that.

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

We shout out prism on our server alot and will continue to do so fantastic hack

@smithplayspokemon 2 месяца назад

Maybe in another video! I wanted to keep this one focused on enhancement hacks :)

@shyorvion4692 2 месяца назад

@@smithplayspokemon That's what I figured after a second thought, lol. Looking forward to the next one either way!

@lukcdk 2 месяца назад

fool's gold is great as well.

@geisterwolf397 2 месяца назад

If we are talking Romhacks the best one in recent years got to be Pokemon Emerald Rogue. Turning Pokemon into a roguelike was a genius idea.

@jaked5144 2 месяца назад

Black and White III: Genesis was a really cool and original experience. Not sure when people don’t talk about that one more. Great vid!

@MichaelCravith 2 месяца назад

I've had a lot of fun with this one.

@ErinaCeleste 2 месяца назад

yes! it was amazing!!

@sleepychickadee4087 2 месяца назад

Oh! Is that rom hack finished?!

@shimogane2474 2 месяца назад

One of the best Rom hacks ever. But in my experience, it's a really hard hack, take the bw2 games at the hard difficulty, slap a hard mode on it, and then add strategies and modern items on them. This is the hardest fair hack I've played.

@jaked5144 2 месяца назад

@@shimogane2474 totally agree. The curve isn’t very fun. I think it was the impressiveness of the game kept me through

@waffleman246 2 месяца назад

One recommendation I would change is instead of the original crystal kaizo is the newer crystal kaizo plus. Instead of making difficulty through insane overleveling of enemies, it’s more balanced and much more fun in my opinion

@arach6199 2 месяца назад

Definitely felt like the kaizo pokemon games were hard in super uninteresting ways. I'll have to check out what's different with plus

@waffleman246 2 месяца назад

@@arach6199 in general it’s just much more well balanced. But it’s balanced around nuzlocking, in my opinion almost every pokemon is viable, but the game is still incredibly difficult

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

I Said on an above comment when I get it set up how I want I'm gonna link that one for sure.

@zuperzach 2 месяца назад

We appreciate other rom hacks in this household.

@zentazym1 2 месяца назад

For Gen 2, I’d recommend Fool’s Gold. The Pokédex is replaced with alternative forms of every pokemon up to Gen 4, level curves are adjusted, and a few new areas are added. Very enjoyable experience - I’ve played through it about 3 times I would also hesitate to recommend Crystal Kaizo personally… Blue Kaizo is grueling, but a fun and fulfilling experience. Crystal Kaizo is more on the tedious side of things and just not all that much fun imo

@blazechaos212 2 месяца назад

I'd recommend CKKPlus made with the help of Pokemon Challenges' community. It uses the concepts laid out by CK and makes it more doable in a hardcore nuzlocke scenario. So no more healing item spam needed.

@GSavel 2 месяца назад

Not only a few new areas, but the entire Sevii Islands!

@staxstix 2 месяца назад

Hell yes, Fool's Gold was the most fun I've had with a rom hack so far. It's like Pokemon as a fever dream: Everything feels so familiar, but it's all different and weird. The feeling of every pokemon being new and somewhat unknown to you was such a breath of fresh air and that feeling reminded me of playing RBY for the first time.

@Tomreese130 2 месяца назад

Pokemon Vega is easily one of my favorite rom hacks. It has the perfect combination of a new region, new tiles, new story, original music tracks and very well done Fakemon. It genuinely feels like a lost Pokemon game from the 3rd Generation. It's just such a solid experience and what every rom hacker is looking for in a game!

@itranscendencei7964 2 месяца назад

Some really good romhacks beyond just gen 1 & 2 as well. Literally any of the Drayano hacks for example are amazing, and I couldn't recommend them enough.

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

Most of this community is actually gen 1 or 2 fans so he tailored it to that. On our discord we will have a section dedicated to gba games and such as well

@os.venegas27 2 месяца назад

Appreciate your effort to shed some light into gen 2 romhacking. I enjoyed a lot playing polished crystal back then, but sharing updates on RU-vid like you is way more friendly than on a forum for noobs like me. :)

@mickkelley3776 2 месяца назад

Finally, somebody brings up Sour Crystal, I rarely hear anybody mention it. Everyone talks about Polished Crystal, and while I can agree that it's an amazing hack, it's way too over-the-top in my opinion - though I'm not opposed to trying it out and seeing if I don't change my mind. Sour Crystal is juuuuuust the right balance of old and new for me. And to clarify, I specifically have a version of Sour Crystal that has both HMs *and* the gen 7 system - I don't know if that's still the case for the current version of the hack, but if it is, just know that if you don't like the gen 7 field move system, you don't need to use it since HMs still exist. Edit: Out of curiosity I decided to check out Polished Crystal, but its page on Pokécommunity says it removes certain Pokémon from the game. And I'm sure it was because of certain limitations at the time, or it's an intentional design choice for one reason or another, but I draw a line at removing species of Pokémon.

@innocenthedgehog8367 2 месяца назад

The latest dev build of Polished Crystal (9bit) adds them all back

@mickkelley3776 2 месяца назад

@@innocenthedgehog8367 I'll wait until the full release then, I don't like using dev builds due to them being so unstable.

@egon3705 2 месяца назад

when i saw there was a branch with lickilicky in it i was intrigued but then i saw it had abilities and natures and idk about that

@Yominication Месяц назад

@@egon3705when you start the game you can turn on and off stuff you like/dislike

@egon3705 Месяц назад

@@Yominication hm, might try 9bit then

@12triproberts 2 месяца назад

Another one I'd recommend for Kirby fans is Pokemon Puffy Pink. I hate "fakemon," but it's all official Kirby enemies, and it feels weirdly natural.

@ExitSad 2 месяца назад

I'd like to recommend Pokemon: Cramorant Edition. It's a Romhack of Yellow, where the starter Pikachu is replaced with Cramorant, and there's a lot of Legacy-like improvements to the game. It has lots of custom animations and makes for a really polished Gen 1 experience with a twist.

@Aerogod223 2 месяца назад

This was on a list of 20 that we tailored down to 11. I will for sure be linking it in our discord when I get it set up

@theMetallico666 2 месяца назад

Came upon your channel by YT's algorithm on my feed. Loving your content so far and definitely gonna try to play Legacy Crystal on my GBC for extra nostalgia points. Gen2 is criminally underrated but it will be one of my favorites along with Gen 3

@Purgatoriesify 2 месяца назад

“I love Kanto. Sometimes, FireRed just feels too modern for Kanto. I think the Gen 2 graphics is a nice touch of modernization without going too far.” Wow, did we just become best friends?

@lukasfuina3836 2 месяца назад

I can't wait for Emerald Legacy!

@timothy6672 2 месяца назад

thank you for the recommends- im waiting for (your) "kanto expansion" before i play crystal legacy so i will check these out while i wait for that or yellow legacy to be finished in the meantime- love your stuff- hope your having a great trip / vacation or whatever it is buddy lol

@azimbague1004 2 месяца назад

This is a great a great video I didn't know I needed. Defenitly gonna try some of the roms you've recommended!

@SillyBanjo 2 месяца назад

I always enjoyed Perfect Crystal. Adds all 251 Pokemon, unlimited TMs and many Johto Pokemon from Kanto are put back in Johto.

@kirwynxciv8344 2 месяца назад

Pokemon Prism is another top tier rom hack. Gen 2 hack. Has old school Zelda-like puzzles; new region, new sprites, etc.

@fmlitzchristian 2 месяца назад

I appreciate all these GBC Rom Hacks they look so good on the Analogue Pocket

@angeldiselatcia 2 месяца назад

If you make a follow up video you should consider these gen 2 romhacks: 1. Quarantine Crystal 2. Fool's Gold 3. Peridot 4. Coral 5. Orange 6. Dark Energy 7. Johto Legends 8. Black and White 3 9. Gold and Silver 97: Reforged 10. Salt Crystal (for a completely different yet fun battle experience) Quick shoutout to Prism (didn't include it in the list because everyone knows of it already), Kanto Explorers Through Time, and Tri Attack (hopefully it hasn't been abandoned).

@AndreSantos-kr3yu 2 месяца назад

Thanks for this list! It's great to hear about some less known gems.

@archimagirussancti7956 2 месяца назад

Stoked to try Yellow Legacy

@Lemubaby8 2 месяца назад

Id love a fusion of Lecacy and Polished Crystal. Which is to say, Crystal Legacy's conservative approach to balance tweaking, but with Polished's gorgeous sprite art. Perfection.

@drofessor100 Месяц назад

This was thorough, honest, and complete! Awesome video, thanks for showing me some new games to add to the library!

@WitherSnow 2 месяца назад

There's also Crystal Kaizo + which seeks to refine and polish the rough edges of the original and make it more in line with Emerald Kaizo.

@RenegadeGamer89 2 месяца назад

Other games I'd recommend are Pokemon Brown and Prism. I know they are a different type of rom hack but those games are so fun

@Ospyro3em 2 месяца назад

2 rom hacks I'm very fond of are Perfect Emerald and Perfect Fire Red. They are just the regular games with QoL improvements, like the physical/special split, reusable TMs and the ability to catch/evolve all pokemon. I especially like that you evolve trade evolution pokemon in Perfect FR by sending them through Bill's teleporter.

@raptors11111 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the recommendations, im pretty new to playing Romhacks. I never enjoyed them in the past because i hate playing on a PC, but now that ive jailbroken my 2DS and can play them on that ive been playing a bunch of different ones. Not a fan of the ridiculously hard ones like Kaizos or Radical Red. But i love the wacky ones like Rocket edition and fusions, and just the improvement/expansion ones like Legacy, and a few of the ones you named sound right up my alley too

@Lobster_Dance 2 месяца назад

Outstanding. Went to a bunch of concerts and continue to plan on attending concerts with my son. I do feel like these opportunities are going to become few and far between with all these resale and hard to get into venues. Thanks

@Borgdrohne13 2 месяца назад

Crysal Kaizo was a very interesting experience. It forces me to use Pokemon in Gen 2, who I never thought, I would use them like Dugtrio or Electabuzz. The high encounter rate comes on top. Besides Koga Crystal Kaizo was more annoying than frustrating, but I had always fun (besides Koga and his Shuckle from hell). Even with the complicated paths like the route to Route 25.

@lumineinfinitussilverkagat8094 2 месяца назад

Played most of these already and they are all fantastic as well as Crystal Legacy from you and your team, I got real excited when I saw Sour Crystal on here it's such a great one and it's tied with Legacy as my fave gen 2 game, I like the expanded Kanto, Berry Pocket, Instant Apricorn Balls, and the HM Pager system. with Legacy I love the updated Pokédex, the teams the Gym Leaders have, the added bits in the Rocket Plot line, and the improved Rival Battles and his storyline.

@batmabel 2 месяца назад

I think my perfect rom hack right now would be Polished Crystal with Crystal Legacy's dex and encounter table. I really, really love the sprites and QoL they added in Polished, but I'm not a fan of cutting random mons to add some other random mons that weren't in gen 2.

@angeldiselatcia 2 месяца назад

Polished Crystal's 9bit branch (aka the current development branch) brings back all the original mons that were left out of previous releases, plus it adds the latest regional variants of the original roster.

@batmabel 2 месяца назад

@@angeldiselatciaoooh, that's good to hear! I'll definitely check it out then, thanks for letting me know

@ccjl9160 2 месяца назад

What about Pokemon Prism? Shame Nintendo shut it down right before the release of the final version, but the version we have is quite good

@skylerjelly8116 2 месяца назад

Really loved this video. Crystal Legacy was pretty much exactly what I was looking for in a gen 2 rom hack so I'll be honest that when I would see people discussing Polished Crystal, Sour Crystal, Crystal REDACTED I would pretty much skip those threads and discussion as I felt like I had found 'the one' and was content to continue to play and master it. Having a great breakdown of their vision and differences definitely makes me feel like I was a bit too hasty to write them off. I think I'll take Polished Crystal for a spin first.

@GabrielFMayer1 2 месяца назад

I had no idea about those Crystal Clear shenanigans!

@krumbopuloskarl7019 2 месяца назад

read verymelonman12 convo above.

@ravedagger 2 месяца назад

Was expecting Radical Red to be mentioned but I guess these are mostly gen 1 and 2 romhacks while RR is a Fire Red hack

@verymelonman12 2 месяца назад

Yeah for the most part these are meant for people who want more Gen 1 and 2 hacks to play.

@theKashConnoisseur 2 месяца назад

Gen 3 does have some amazing romhack content though, for sure.

@theluckygamer7593 Месяц назад

This is my somewhat biased opinion but radical red doesn’t feel like a Pokémon game it feels like an over glorified boss rush tbh

@conormitchell309 2 месяца назад

While not in these styles, really have to say that my fave hacks are Crystal Legacy as a hit of nostalgia from my childhood and Blaze Black 2 Redux because it’s my fave region. Really love your work and Drayano’s work!

@JDFrank20Diaz 2 месяца назад

Crystal Kaizo is a Nightmare the Maps and AI teams all have Full Restores Max Portions and Quick Claw & Bright Powder Teams and Heracross is Mandatory

@hotwax9376 2 месяца назад

Finally, a series of romhacks I actually think I would like!

@sweethyperhoneyX 2 месяца назад

Crystal clear is amazing. ( Elite four is a bit excessive )

@Joker22593 2 месяца назад

Too much OC and general weirdness.

@sweethyperhoneyX 2 месяца назад

@@Joker22593 agreed

@StreamZero-wf4yv Месяц назад

I'm already intending to play PureRGB for a video series on my own channel sometime. I've already played through it myself, and I can't recommend it enough for people wanting a Gen 1-like experience but with some QoL improvements and a little more to explore. I'll look into some of the other ones listed here too.

@ajbeasley2771 2 месяца назад

Thanks for making crystal legacy it is an awesome rom that makes great changes and actually makes me care about base crystal I love the gen 2 fan games like xenoverse gs chronicles and even ss/hg but never really cared about the older versions but now I am all in btw sorry for leaving a ton of comments on your original crystal legacy video

@DevlinUK 2 месяца назад

Kanto Expansion Pak is awesome. Not sure if Smith meant to miss mentioning what I think is one of the biggest additions in KEP: reintroducing Pokemon cut from original development (e.g. Gorochu and Wartortle’s original evolution).This is what blew my mind the most about it.

@dustinkingsbury5554 24 дня назад

Props to you for the open mind about polished crystal

@OfficialRedTeamReview Месяц назад

What I like about Legacy is the difficulty curve. I appreciate Polished trying to bring a lovely visual element to an older game and adding the Orange Islands to it and I appreciate you keeping it as OG as possible and only updating/improving only where necessary. If only there was a way to merge the two, that would be perfect 😭But how difficult it Polished compared to Legacy? Because I feel as though you put a lot of thought and effort into making sure its a fair difficulty curve

@smithplayspokemon Месяц назад

With 10 play testers, we put a lot of time and effort into making it as optimal as possible

@redapple4268 4 дня назад

@@smithplayspokemonthe game is great!

@zevosity3337 Месяц назад

After not seeing thesmithplays since prime bo3 days and accidently finding out he has a pokemon channel while looking for romhacks is mind boggling lol. Brings back memories.

@BelugaTheHutt 2 месяца назад

A really fun enhancement mod I've played recently and been extremely inspired by is Energized Emerald. Its central tenet is basically "What is the Pokebilities pet mod were a ROMhack?", which is a concept that is SO fun to play in practice. For those of you who are not competitive players who like to dabble in the Other Metagames section, Pokebilities is where each pokemon has all of their abilities active at once. For example, what if Ambipom had Skill Link and Technician at the same time (along with its other, less useful ability)? What if Breloom had Poison Heal, Technician, and Effect Spore all active at the same time? It's that concept, explored and deepened so as to account for things such as Skarmory otherwise being nerfed into the ground by being forced to have Weak Armor. Having all of these abilities going around at once seems as if it would be chaotic, but in practice, it manages to feel engaging and exciting, but without crossing the line into outright zany or overbearing. It expands the game experience, but does not fundamentally compromise it. The major drawback (for someone like me) is that Energized Emerald is not at all a challenge hack. The battles are largely those of vanilla Emerald, so if you go into it expecting to try out the fun of multiple simultaneous abilities in battles with challenging trainers, such as in Radical Red or Inclement Emerald, you're going to leave disappointed. This mod is in desperate need of some ambitious ROMhacker making a challenge mod fork, but in the meantime, it's great for casual run-throughs.

@Marcus-oj9xw 2 месяца назад

Just finished Crystal Legacy (Hard). Thanks for such a great romhack. I plan to catch-em-all at some point.

@ravenous14 2 месяца назад

Been playing Crystal Legacy and I'm having a blast. Definitely helping me to enjoy the older games with the QoL improvements. Wish the bike wasn't slower than sprinting though lol

@kryzethx 2 месяца назад

Crystal Clear is still the best Crystal romhack released so far, imo. Regardless of what you might think of the dev and their actions, it's still incredible.

@meguy7735 2 месяца назад

Ooooh love the type 4 ost. Great game.

@trowland65 2 месяца назад

LOVE that concept for Unova Red! Especially considering some gen 5 mons were designed to be HARD counterparts to gen 1 mons!

@jare3959 2 месяца назад

I used to be involved in the MMO private server community circa 2006. I have played ROM hacks for a while, but I never realized just how similar the development process was until now. I always kinda assumed they'd be an entirely different thing. But I guess they are both game development using community shared assets.

@christianworcester6851 2 месяца назад

Even if shockslayer is a scum bag, crystal clear just might be the best pokémon game ever, even including main titles, its that good.

@01Grytz 2 месяца назад

I've played through so many rom hacks over the years, but somehow skipped passed prism. I think its a must try for sure.

@IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous 2 месяца назад

Great stuff!

@XeroShifter 2 месяца назад

I love all the wonderful work going into these roms. Now if only we could get everyone to start using the gen 5 engine to remake all of these wonderful regions and games.

@GenerusCrow 2 месяца назад

There's a version that's like Unova Red, but in Fire Red/Leaf Green, which is called Kanto Black. They have Gen 6 pokemon in the Sevii islands, similar to how Johto pokemon can be found there in FR/LG, and also implement some morr recent features such as the Physical/Special split

@steve7814 Месяц назад

Dont worry bout your hairline, it looks fine. Swooping your hair forward is really distracting and looks far stranger than what you think your hair line looks like. I also am someone who is worried about my hairline, and I just want to say you look great and the swooping is offering nothing. With that said, can't wait to play yellow legacy. Thsnks to you and your team for your work,

@TheThundertwig 2 месяца назад

Shin Red is my personal favourite romhack! I never expected to fall back into gen 1 so much, but this game feels like everything a Pokemon game was meant to be.

@jerryjb 2 месяца назад

I really enjoyed playing liquid Crystal last summer. It was cool to see jhoto in the gen 3 engine with a slight difficulty increase. I stopped after beating the elite four, so i can't say much about the added story elements in the kanto section of the game

@ashuea2 2 месяца назад

I really enjoyed Crystal Legacy and Polished Crystal. The best gen 2 romhack Ive ever played in my life.

@bingo36able Месяц назад

I'm surprised that Fool's Gold wasnt mentioned here! Fantastic Gen 2 Romhack with a lot of creative ideas

@Rippimations 2 месяца назад

I'd probably also add Anniversary Crytal to the list. A really neat reimagining of gen 2.

@Mattias_the_unimpressive 2 месяца назад

I'm only playing gsc hacks, but want to add these for that generation (in no particular order): Pokemon prism, pokemon black&white 3:genesis, and serene crystal if you don't hate fakemons. Also pokemon orange, but wait until it has been remade in the dissassembly (crashed randomly when I play it now.

@deoxysandmew2162 2 месяца назад

I must admit, most of these rom hacks add bit too much that makes them lose track of these games having an identity of when they came out, in their respective generations. Its exactly what makes them special. Hence why Smith, I love your take on the OG gen perservation as nowadays you can not experience that anymore when you think about it. Once gen 4 came to fray, with physical and special split, there was no going back. Dont get me wrong, some of these are neat, either as an idea or execution. Ngl, I cant wait to see what ideas will you guys come up with for Pokemon Emerald Legacy. I've played the heck outta Gen 3 in all sorts of shapes and form that I grew to enjoy it. Even if, Pokemon Platinum along with Heartgold/Soulsilver are my all time favs.

@egon3705 2 месяца назад

kanto expansion pak is actually really great about this the battle system is entirely untouched

@adamburditt3941 2 месяца назад

Ive been playing one caled Firered Rocket Edition. It's a lot of fun too!

@mitchellswanson4734 2 месяца назад

Love this one!! Highly recommend

@theKashConnoisseur 2 месяца назад

Heck yeah, that one is great. I really enjoyed the added depth to the classic story.

@amberhide04 2 месяца назад

woooo trails soundtrack?? hell yeah

@refugeemorales8003 14 дней назад

Man imagine all these modders getting together and creating the ultimate pokemon game.

@powerbolt2846 2 месяца назад

This list is a very good introduction to rom hacks here, i wouod've personally recommended crystal clear, radical red, emerald elite redux and prism, maybe even unbound but you need to get there gradually in my opinion, very gen 1-2 focused list which was a breath of fresh air from the sea of lists recommending gba hacka

@quitothings 2 месяца назад

I'm a sucker for Gen 3 ROM Hacks and would also recommend Kanto Black! It's like Unova Red but is based on FireRed and uses the Sevii Islands really well by letting you go there as soon as you beat Surge. It also has built in difficulty modes, as well as a bunch of brand new battle facilities and even a Trick House!

@egon3705 2 месяца назад

kanto expansion pak is also notable for having a pokemon showdown mod the metagame actually gave the devs some feedback about the pokemon balancing; this is why lickitung is obtained so far from its evolution level, for example

@z0h33y 2 месяца назад

Playing Shin Blue/Shin Red, its so far pretty enjoyable, changes arent too crazy, but it feels like a more complete experience.

@Spears1761 2 месяца назад

Hello, will pokémon yellow legacy be available ? And nice video !

@spray_liotta 27 дней назад

Pokémon Radical Red is my favorite rom hack of recent years. I was a bit disappointed to not see it on this list tbh. Y’all should check it out if you haven’t already!

@Toastishott 2 месяца назад

My favorite rom hacks are clover, unbound, rocket edition, and ofc crystal legacy!

@IAmMissingnoMaster 2 месяца назад

Ooh, some I've never heard of on here. I've heard of Unova Red, but not Kalos Crystal. Definitely a few I'm gonna want to look into. Actually made my own Red rom hack. Obviously knew I wouldn't see it on this list, it's not super well known- Pokémon Purple Version. It all started when I was getting fed up at not being able to find a fangame that lets you start with Koffing, save for maybe like one or two that had you play as Team Rocket, and I wanted to start with Koffing while being the good guy- Weezing's my favorite Pokémon. So eventually I was all, "fine, I'll do it myself." And I did. It started with just making every starter a Koffing, and then I obviously had to change movepools up so it wasn't just saddled with Tackle and Smog for a long time, and then I was doing that for more mons, and then I decided maybe I'd change around where some of them appeared, and then I started delving into the dialogue, and it all just kinda snowballed. It's relatively low-key in terms of big changes- the moves still work the way they do in the base game, I haven't changed any of the graphics (some mons now use their Green sprites, and I added the ability to play as a girl, but that's about it). The big changes are the moves Pokémon get, and a lot of text changes, which I'm honestly kinda proud of. I am no big expert rom hacker by far, but I like to think I got pretty creative and resourceful.

@AbdullahSediqi23 2 месяца назад

Im glad you are a gen 2 fan

@odintheterridorable8097 2 месяца назад

Damn the music in these videos is always so epic

@realmdarkness 2 месяца назад

I really want to see you review best Fangames next.

@LivinSober 12 дней назад

Honestly dude, you’re speaking my language here. I am also a Gen II fan boy. I play Gen I, Gen II, and skip ALL the way to Sun and Moon 💀 because nothing in between pleased me the way GSC do. I wanna try these romhacks badly.

@josephklatt8897 4 дня назад

Pokemon Crystal Clear was a pretty good Rom Hack that wasn't mentioned.

@Ivandusttale 2 месяца назад

I love Polished Crystal, it's one of my favorites romhacks of pokémon

@Nootathotep 2 месяца назад

KEP is forever goated, I'm sad Pokemon Prism didn't appear though

@jayjay05021 2 месяца назад

The issue I ran into with Blue Kazio was the massive increase encounter rate and the extended paths in the mid game and f**** cycling road. Cycling road made me save more than most.

@abelopez4259 2 месяца назад

your bias really show on how you only enjoy the Gen 2 engine. There are other great romhacks using gen 3 engines

@caldera11 2 месяца назад

Gen 3 isn't gen 1 or 2 Some people prefer GB / GBC aesthetic. Get over it.

@BeyondTrash-xe1vs Месяц назад

He's allowed to have bias, I didn't come to this channel for him to pretend to be an objective existence lol.

@tristangray8046 2 месяца назад

out of curiosity, was the dizzy punch egg from the day care couple changed to have perfect dv's? hatched a perfect igglyBUFF, didnt know if i did the impossible or not

@George04957 2 месяца назад

One of my fav hack so far is Fools Gold. Just pure comedy 😂

@Andrew-Gomez904 2 месяца назад

Another great rom hack is one called Red and Blue Deluxe with so many options for you to build its pretty crazy.

@YoursTrulyHero 2 месяца назад

Gonna favorite this for romhack reference

@anilbalram7768 2 месяца назад

I just started Kanto Expansion. It's great but getting hard. I will have to get Polished Crystal though

@FloorFourteen 19 дней назад

These videos will never mention Clover which is a shame because it is by far the best RomHack, maybe the best pokemon experience I've ever had

@mikebraun009 2 месяца назад

Wow and people have been praising crystal clear for years without the full story. Today i learned something

@TheTuerespendejo 2 месяца назад

Everything he claimed about it is false. Why do you think he didn’t name it? He’s jumping on a bandwagon/ hate train for the clicks and views, and doesn’t want to have to stand by what he said.

@mikebraun009 2 месяца назад

@@TheTuerespendejo How do you know? Try to find the crystal clear code online or other people talking about the same topic. If he were trying to hate on it then he would of put more emphasis on that and he was giving constructive criticism more than just hating.

@gonzoengineering4894 2 месяца назад

The paywall accusation is litterally just slander

@BeyondTrash-xe1vs Месяц назад

@@gonzoengineering4894It's not too far off from the truth. The patreon is still very unethical even without the pay wall. Crystal Clear was made using Pokecrystal which is the disassembly project of Pokemon Crystal, and grabbing a lot of code from different Open Source projects that were also created using Pokecrystal. Compared to them though, Crystal Clear is CLOSED SOURCE, so no one can benefit from Crystal Clear's code and that the developer's of Crystal Clear cannot improve their coding skills by receiving well written feedback. But to make a project off the back of someone else's hard work and then accept tips for it is insane. Completely unethical.

@hardgay7537 2 месяца назад

Thanks for this upload and for Crystal Legacy, which I just recently beat on hard. I really appreciated the changed level curve towards the end. The Elite 4 took multiple tries accumulating money and EXP just like my first attempts at the Elite 4 in Kanto more than 25 years ago now, lol. One of the best changes was HM moves being replacable and earlier Skarmory meant my team was ready to go just a little bit earlier, Cutting and Flying as needed. And the Move tutor being 3000 coins cheaper was a huge convenience seeing as how I ended up needing Boltbeam on my Gengar to beat the Elite 4.

@RobertSmith-ow5kf 2 месяца назад

Gengar can’t learn ice beam on the hack

@NYGiantsfan1029 2 месяца назад

I surprised you didn’t mention any of the drayo hacks. I’m currently playing through his renegade platinum hack. It is a pretty tough rom and supposedly he makes them almost impossible to nuzlock them.

@BeyondTrash-xe1vs Месяц назад

It's probably as simple as them already being incredibly well known.

@NYGiantsfan1029 Месяц назад

@@BeyondTrash-xe1vs I can respect that.