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

Dark Edea said:
Pokemon romhacks are proof of Game Freak's complete and utter failure.
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Romhacks by themselves are not, they have been around since the GBC era (I clearly remember one with the orange islands).
Romhacks becoming popular recently is a sign of desperation more than anything, most romhacks are not very good but people are looking for an alternative, any alternative, to the current games that GF has to offer. A sign of failure would be for the next Pokémon games to sell like garbage and a Romhack becoming mainstream, both of which are scenarios that I don't see happening.
 
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The last time a Romhack or Romhack-adjacent fangame went anywhere near becoming mainstream or being known outside of a small pocket following, it got C&D'd. Game Freak fucks their games and Nintendo fucks fangames, so I doubt we'd ever be in that situation of a fan project going big, especially with nintendrone kiddies going "THE REAL GAMES ARE BETTER NINTENDO IS GOING TO SUE YOU" to yell over it if the project is ever hoisted up as better than Game Freak.

And Pokemania is dead but Pokemon Go + Swsh on Switch basically had the effect of gentrifying the series for a wider audience. They have a bigger buyer market that don't have experience with the 2d era of games, which are more complete than the 3d games, so the wider new audience has lower standards and will just buy any quality of pokemon game. Every year more than a thousand handfuls of babbys learn how to read, and parents now are wimp as fuck and will buy anything to get their kid to not cry, so the game sales won't end up tanking unless we get some Pokemon Nigger version and Pokemon Aryan version level of wide audience controversy-causing content, which won't happen.
 
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XMassAllYearRound said:
Romhacks by themselves are not, they have been around since the GBC era (I clearly remember one with the orange islands).
Romhacks becoming popular recently is a sign of desperation more than anything, most romhacks are not very good but people are looking for an alternative, any alternative, to the current games that GF has to offer.
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Uh. Yeah that's what I said. It is a sign of failure. Don't quibble with me over semantics.

The Legend of Zelda Link Gets Laid is the best romhack of all time.
 
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Dark Edea said:
Uh. Yeah that's what I said. It is a sign of failure. Don't quibble with me over semantics.

The Legend of Zelda Link Gets Laid is the best romhack of all time.
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You're right! Pokemon won't reach true success until they go all in on the adult appeal and make an 18+ pokemon game! Complete with sex scenes!
 
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CrippleThreat said:
Perhaps what I was getting at with "canon," was a bit like Ramotith's interpretation, but more Pokémon.

Nobody gets into Pokémon romhacks without hearing a whisper or walking away with knowledge about certain ones: Light Platinum, AshGray, Dark Rising, anything Drayano attaches his name to, etc. Such is the case with Snakewood too.
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I knew that I should have added 'Pokémon' to that post. I fixed the post now.

Dark Edea said:
Pokemon romhacks are proof of Game Freak's complete and utter failure.
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I do not hink so. I say that a lot of hacks are because o fans thinking of how a good game can get better or what new ideas the Pokémon world has. There is a big do-it-yourself aspect of the Pokémon games.
If anything, temtem would be that 'proof', and look at what happened.
 
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People are just older and their style of consuming media is changing. Romhacks are almost exclusively the realm of PCs - it only makes sense that, as we get older and get better pc's we're gonna turn to them for more.

Not to mention, many of the larger romhacks only really hit completion recently, after starting in Gens 4 and 5, and there's a lot of incomplete games and shovelware scattered around them. Many still aren't done. Saying that it's because the games are bad is just ignoring how rough the fangames can be.

Put another way: if you'd been aware of romhacks and had a good enough PC in the Gen 3-4-5 period, you would have tried them and likely been disappointed by how many were garbage.
 
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Put another way: if you'd been aware of romhacks and had a good enough PC in the Gen 3-4-5 period, you would have tried them and likely been disappointed by how many were garbage.
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Only "great" (imo) romhacks are the ones that revamp the difficulty and the general game too (catching mythicals/legendaries, access to all mons to complete the dex, etc.), such as Drayano as I've mentioned above somewhere.

Only caveat with his hacks is that if you nuzlocke them, you'll likely turn them into guide games. Your eyes will always be glued to the documentation, and even then, you will still find yourself praying that you survive.
 
I think the fact the 3DS is in its twilight years, you can google how to hack it with a $10 SD card, and the system has a GBA emulator cooked into it (facts that have been standing for a decent while) also theoretically helps with romhacks being portable and convenient now. Playing Pokemon on a laptop just feels clunky. The brand of spergs that play romhacks regularly would have the basic amount of technological understanding to put cfw on their Japanese 3DSes and learn how inject GBA romhacks as 3DS apps and use twilight menu for loading up NDS era romhacks.

And phones help too i guess but emulating digimon dusk for a nostalgia trip a year or so ago made my phone get freakishly hot and so i didn't play it as much as i would've otherwise because potentially irrational worrying about the long duration of increased temperature affecting phone lifespan/damaging it.
 
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Personally, I find that Pokémon games work quite well for mobile. If you don't have a DS or a 3DS, it can act as a viable alternative. In the topic of romhacks, though... Yeah, that's a mixed bag. Many romhacks are essentially abandonware, meaning they haven't been updated in years or are left unfinished. Usually by young kids who wanted to make their dream Pokémon game, but the lack of experience or vision made them abandon the project early.

There's also plenty of fangames that aren't romhacks, which are usually made in RPGMaker using an extension called Pokémon Essentials. It can even support animated sprites, much like Black and White. Some fangames I can name are Xenoverse, Uranium, and Azurite (which is still in development and isn't out yet). There's probably even more of them, but a quick search on Google or YouTube will have lists for those type of things, so I'd suggest you go look for yourself.
 
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I think the fact the 3DS is in its twilight years, you can google how to hack it with a $10 SD card, and the system has a GBA emulator cooked into it (facts that have been standing for a decent while) also theoretically helps with romhacks being portable and convenient now. Playing Pokemon on a laptop just feels clunky. The brand of spergs that play romhacks regularly would have the basic amount of technological understanding to put cfw on their Japanese 3DSes and learn how inject GBA romhacks as 3DS apps and use twilight menu for loading up NDS era romhacks.

And phones help too i guess but emulating digimon dusk for a nostalgia trip a year or so ago made my phone get freakishly hot and so i didn't play it as much as i would've otherwise because potentially irrational worrying about the long duration of increased temperature affecting phone lifespan/damaging it.
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Really, the bulk of Pokémon ROM Hacking was the GBA, even when later consoles have been emulated. 3D is hard, bu the GameBoy i small. You can take with you plenty of ROM Hacks ince the time when GBA flashcarts existed, yet you may have needed to wait until they relied on external memory; at one time, 1 Gigabit (not Gigabyte) was huge.
 
The new footage of Pokemon Snap has been out for a little bit now.

Looks okay... I guess. I don't know why I am less hype now.
 
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