Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Finished playing Pokémon Emerald Enhanced for the second time and loved it, the quest system, the new areas, the new stuff to do and so on. Is there any other hack rom like this? I quite like the expansive part on the map. Also no kanto because I fucking hate it. It could be original map too
 
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Finished playing Pokémon Emerald Enhanced for the second time and loved it, the quest system, the new areas, the new stuff to do and so on. Is there any other hack rom like this? I quite like the expansive part on the map. Also no kanto because I fucking hate it. It could be original map too
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Polished Crystal is essentially just an enhanced version of Crystal with a few QoL/modernity updates (Fairy type, unlimited use TMs, Phys/Spec split, gen 4 evos and regional variants for old gen 1&2 mons, and so on) with a few new areas integrated from the PokeWalker into the game as well as some sidequests bringing back popular characters. There’s something like five different versions of it to sift through, though; faithful vs. type rebalanced versions of 2.2 and 3.0 as well as a fork of 3.0 that brings in even more stuff. Also: Kanto.

New maps and stories, on the other hand, hard to go wrong with classics like Prism or Unbound, both featuring my favorite little edge lord kaiju, Larvitar.
 
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negativlad said:
Polished Crystal is essentially just an enhanced version of Crystal with a few QoL/modernity updates (Fairy type, unlimited use TMs, Phys/Spec split, gen 4 evos and regional variants for old gen 1&2 mons, and so on) with a few new areas integrated from the PokeWalker into the game as well as some sidequests bringing back popular characters. There’s something like five different versions of it to sift through, though; faithful vs. type rebalanced versions of 2.2 and 3.0 as well as a fork of 3.0 that brings in even more stuff. Also: Kanto.

New maps and stories, on the other hand, hard to go wrong with classics like Prism or Unbound, both featuring my favorite little edge lord kaiju, Larvitar.
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Never played prism or unbound, but does polished Crystal fix the kanto area as in making the fights decent and harder and fixing the map? Also what version would you reccommend?
 
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Never played prism or unbound, but does polished Crystal fix the kanto area as in making the fights decent and harder and fixing the map? Also what version would you reccommend?
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From looking at the data in the github, wild encounters in Kanto go up through the 60s so I’d assume trainer and gym fights also scale accordingly; Mt. Silver is no longer the only feasible place to grind endgame mons. I don’t know about fixing the map, but at least the Orange Islands and some new areas are in.

I’d recommend either the stable but more classic 3.0 “beta” which is essentially finished, or the more feature-rich but buggy 9bit which is under active development.
 
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The future of pokemon looks so bright.
 
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I have a directory:

I should make a new entry... or just make a dedicated web page.
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Do it. Be cool to have a directory of Kiwi Approved™ romhacks.

Speaking of, looking for something similar to Radical Red, but without the gen 4 and up Pokemon (harder, better AI, gen 4 attk/sp atk split). I do plan to play it but I also want an improved vanilla similar to Emerald Revelations.
 
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As redundant as they are materially, they only share a weakness to Grass and Water and a super effectiveness against Fire while almost everything else is backwards between the two. Ground hits Steel SE, while Steel hits Rock. Rock hits Flying but flying is immune to Ground, etc.

I think the two also get conflated really easily because of their shared strengths and weaknesses to the three starting types so everyone is just used to blasting every creature with some dirt on its feet with the same moves. Also because every fucking Rock type in the first three generations (barring sudowoodo, nosepass, and regirock) is mixed.
 
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I finished playing the main story to the demake version of pokémon sword and shield for the first time. I know that the demake being 2d and the sword/shield game being 3d, but holy shit the map is fucking ass, instead of traversing it, I was just using the corviknight travel to move around.

It was my first Gigantamax experiences and the raids are hard, I had to use all my team to beat a single pokemon and then catch it.

I was using my team all round, but then found a Lucky egg, put it ok my Clawitzer and he ended up being overleved beating everything in the game, until the Lee final fight. I had no idea he would scale his team to my, so I had a lvl 88 Clawitzer and the rest were 30 levels lower than it. The fight was really hard, I didnt had many itens and never found a quick claw, so I was always attacking last, and holy shit, his team was strong, I managed to beat all his team except a charizard that was one shot killing all my team so I had to use save states to solve the game. I found a pokémon that depending of the move would survive and give him hyper potions to save his ass and make him waste his PP, I had 20 hyper and ended up using 10 in the charizard only, he already used all his full restores I had just to connect to win, but I managed to win using my worst pokemon to use a thunderbolt and win.

After that I caught the sword and shield dogs and fought him again, now scaled to lvl 94 but before that I feed the rare candy to Dragonite so I had two strong pokemon instead of a single one.

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This fire starter is shit, my firebug was way better

Tomorrow I guess I will finish the dlc/post game and maybe start one of the recs from here.
 
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Crossposting this here for discussion's sake because Pokémon is apparently appearing at PAX West.
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Nintendo is apparently popping up at PAX West.

Rate me dumb for not expecting it, but hasn't Nintendo been absent from almost all physical showcases for quite a while now? I know that they didn't go to E3 for the entire last decade of that expo's life for sure, and I don't remember hearing much about their participation in other showcases at all either. Last I remember them doing stuff like this, my age was still written in single-digits. I thought they just stuck exclusively to Directs and COVID gave them a great excuse to keep doing just that.

Very odd timing when combined with the indie world + partner showcase so recently, too. I wonder if that Direct was made to get the "smaller" announcements out of the way like they sometimes do before major ones?
I'm interested to see what they showcase regardless. I highly doubt it'll be a Switch 2 reveal or anything that spectacular, but it would be interesting to get some more details on stuff like that new Zelda game or some Pokémon titles (I'm aware that they're not the same thing, but Pokémon also has a booth at the event and there's no way they won't have any kind of cross-promotion going on at their stalls. Especially with Z-A probably being one of the Switch's first-party releases and having so little info on it atm.)

My current idea is that they'll have some gameplay demos of games they announced earlier in the year and maybe some small announcements for tinier titles or features in already-revealed ones. Probably nothing too major. Would be neat if there was, though, so I'm holding out a bit of cautious hope.
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Maybe this is where the Z-A news will be? I highly doubt it, but it does seem very odd for Pokémon to have an entire separate showcase that's THIS big (and close to the entrance):
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if they really have nothing new to show for it.

There aren't even any actively-developing spin-offs (or much more than mobile games and the year-old DLC) to show off, really, so is it just going to be the usual regurgitation of what's already out there? Or is there going to be something else?

Fun to think about. I've got low expectations as always, but I'm keeping a cautious eye out for this one.
 
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