You're missing out if you haven't played Jason Godwyn's Pokemon Pink CBT.
It filters out ALL the morons.
NOBODY can beat Professor Wisteria.
Glory to Ferexalt!
The plot seemed very cringe when I started it long ago, is it actually really bad?
I wish I had the skillset to make a romhack, seems like fun to craft your own pokemon experience.
dude i have the fricking cart for it, i was a moronic 11 year old who wanted to play rom hacks on his gba but didnt know about flash carts. was in pain when i hit mt moon and couldnt progress because of moronic game design
The guy has a pretty good sense of balance and how to deliberately amp up the difficulty to frick with you.
Like Burgh in BlazedBlack who's the early game wall to make sure you know what you're getting into.
>The guy has a pretty good sense of balance and how to deliberately amp up the difficulty to frick with you.
You're a braindead moron if you genuinely believe that, lmao
The early route mons in his hacks are always busted because he gives them 200 more BST points but doesn't doesn't change the fact that they evolve at lvl 10.
He does.
But thats mainly to keep them relevant. So you don't have to box your first Kricketune or whatever when you hit the 5th Gym and its underpowered forever more. Its a mixed bag, they're overpowered early game, but fall in line more in the mid and late game. Typically ending up on the lower end by the end game. > Kricketune >Ability: New - Technician/Swarm >Base Stats: >Old - 77 HP / 85 Atk / 51 Def / 55 SAtk / 51 SDef / 65 Spd / 384 BST >New - 80 HP / 115 Atk / 70 Def / 50 SAtk / 70 SDef / 65 Spd / 450 BST
OP in the early game and not the best by the late game, but with definitely more longevity.
I think mostly he likes bug types.
In his modern hacks you have a choice to not use his stat and type redistributions regardless.
This. Rom hack difficulty has gone to the extreme end of the scale thanks to pro nuzlockers and radical red autism. Drayano to me is still the gold standard of what a "hard mode" for Pokemon should be.
Radical Red is difficult but by no means hard if you know even a bit about pokemon and real strategy.
The team I used for the elite four is Landorus, Volcarona, Mega-Gengar, Aegislash, Corviknight, and Greninja. Held items are very important and you need a balanced team. Landorus was my stealth rock setter, Corviknight was my pivot, Aegislash was my wall with poison, Greninja after a K-O setup was a sweeper with Choice Specs Ash-Greninja, Volcarona was a sweeper if you managed to play just right and get off quiver dance, and Mega-Gengar was a speed sweeper that was good for cleaning up low-hp mons.
Build a balanced team and make sure each pokemon has unique role and you'll win, and actually feel accomplishment for said win instead of just spamming your strongest move on the dogshit real pokemon games.
I recommend FireRed Rocket Edition in all these threads because it's Kanto but you can live out a GTA crime fantasy and rob almost every trainer in the game.
I've had a lot of fun playing infinite fusion. Not very difficult or balanced but the fusion gimmick is kinda fun if you do it blind and don't make anything too broken.
I just want an improvement hack that's doesn't add le competitive VGC/smogtard teams or completely ruins pre-existing teams by adding random Pokemon to make it difficult
What is a random Pokemon to you? Many of those teams don't use particularly popular competitive movesets, and the player get access to their own set of powerful moves. Frankly, if you play on Shift Mode, the Drayano hacks aren't much harder than the normal games.
I hate how "sterile" pokemon fangames/hacks are. Like, most of them are either difficulty hacks or they just try to copy the mainline games (contemporary setting, same premise, themes etc).
The most you can get is shit like Reborn, Rejuvenation, Empire etc which just have some edginess spicy sprinked on top of them. One of the few "unique" hacks I can think of is Pokemon Rocket Edition, which strays away from the classic formula.
You don't get any hacks set in the far future, the past, no high or dark fantasy pokemon game, etc etc. The only one I can think of is a french fangame (whose name escapes me) that takes place in the "medieval" era. Even GameFreak pioneered that with PLA.
>sterline
That's because the story is mainly the same, the focus is on quality of life, actual challenge (not just spamming 1 move with your over leveled mon), and unique pokemon/items only found in other games.
I don't think you want these cringelords who care enough about pokemon to actually sit for hundreds of hours to make a real fangame. Most of them end up as shit for good reason - their creators are autistic trannies who have never spoken to a real person. Do you want to play a story such a person created?
There's Pokemon Bushido, which is basically Pokemon Colosseum/XD set in Ancient Japan with ninjas as the evil team. Also the trainers themselves throw ninjutsu attacks at you in between turns.
Play Ashen Frost >detective/noir setting >no wild Pokemon, all Pokemon are caught from overworld events >cases that you have to solve instead of gyms >main environment is a massive open structured city >no over-the-top edginess (there is murder and the like, but it is a crime story after all and it's done more tastefully than something like Reborn)
>The most you can get is shit like Reborn, Rejuvenation, Empire etc which just have some edginess spicy sprinked on top of them.
None of these have similar settings, premises or themes to any mainline game.
>ew "unique" hacks I can think of is Pokemon Rocket Edition
And you are literally praising a hack where the setting is just Kanto, but edgy.
Your problem is that you hate gyms specifically and think they're sterile. And even a gym is just basic "level -> boss" design that Rocket Edition has in spades. If Rocket Edition made you go fight gyms instead of going through the SS Anne to fight the captain I don't think you'd be singing its praises. Even if I made a game set in medieval times but made it so that you occasionally go through a level to fight a monotype boss, I'm sure you would think that's sterile too.
Pokemon Gaia is the best hack that emulates the classic pokemon experience. Renegade Platinum is the best difficulty hack. Pokemon Xenoverse has the best fakemon alongside Sage (which is unfinished).
His ORAS hacks have them, but he doesn't hack the game so he can backport them or anything in generations that don't have Megas.
He does backport Fairy Type however.
FireRed/LeafGreen+ is literally just a dualboot rom. Take a sec to apply patches for the event islands + altering cave mons and I believe you're in a good spot.
Otherwise be the change you wish to see in the world.
I played early gen games in my youth, and after all talks about Scarlet & Violet, I went to try this, after so long not playing Pokemon.
Hear this is one of the best fangames Pokemon available; And for the moment, I am not dissapointed.
Im almost a novice, so correct me if wrong. But precisely I post this because no one have mentioned Clover yet somehow.
Im not a pokemon autist, and I dont have a team on mind. Plus, too busy leveling pokemon im interested, or at least to keep on a decent level (I dont know any pokemon of Forchun, so I cant rush by taking some pokemon on mind).
I wouldnt be surprised how I fricked by taking/deleting some skills, lol.
Pic related is an example of what I would use on a serious matter....but still some mon would be exchanged for others (Like maybe change Spanke for Muscleddode or whatever its called, for full Fighting).
Any advice for a poor lad overwhelmed by the pokemon autism?
I'd call Nova/Umbra a pretty decent SM romhack. You will definitely get btfo in some fights but they never feel like bullshit, you'll just have the rethink your strategy.
All I really wish S/M romhacks had was a skip cutscene button though.
Emerald. Difficulty is better, Smogon teams and movesets for all trainers adds to the fun of it, pokedex is pretty fleshed out.
Post game collecting all the legendaries and making a team to adds a few more hours gameplay to it.
Even more when you make a team for mono/doubles legendary battles against the entire gym leader roster and elite four.
On top of this, the QOL in the game is the best of any Romhack to date in my opinion. IV/EV training is paid for along with pokecenters having move tutors with more moves unlocking as you progress.
Just feels like a better all around experience.
Too many don't understand the difference between difficult and tedious, hate when they make you fight someone who can flinch you to death without giving you any potions or pokemon to counter, it just becomes rng battle, you should always be able to counter game's mechanics, artificial difficulty doesn't make the game better. Those are still better than anything GF ever made, and some of them have difficulty options at least.
I personally just like a game that is challenging, but doesn't necessarily require every battle occur twice (once to get blasted and learn the gimmick they're abusing, once to actually clear it with a per-battle designed team). That's why I hate shit like Kaizo - 95% of the gameplay, and you can see this even with streamers who spam rare candies and vitamins, ends up being team planning, with 5% being execution + maybe losing one or two Pokemon.
Very boring. I get it's a team building game, but I'd like to keep a decent pace rather than 6+ hours per badge.
it always gives you tools to win? uhh they're called pokemon? if you're complaining about getting flinched maybe bring a pokemon that is faster or has inner focus? its not like fangame gyms are running scarf togekiss
Drayano hacks are my bread and butter. Renegade Platinum, Rising Ruby & Sinking Sapphire, and Blaze Black 2 & Volt White 2 are my top 3 Pokémon games of all time. BB1 & VW1 are great in terms of challenge, but I feel like making a full dex hack of B1W1 goes against the design philosophy of those games. I'm working on a version of BB1/VW1 that keeps the level curve, but uses Unova Pokémon only. Sacred Gold & Storm Silver aren't quite as polished, but he's working on a new version that will bring it to the same quality level as Renegade Platinum.
As far as non-Drayano hacks go, I really enjoy Rising Sun & Waning Moon, plus their Ultra counterparts Setting Sun & Waxing Moon. There's also Twitch Plays Pokémon's special Anniversary editions of Red and Crystal, and the soft-Nuzlocke style TriHard Emerald. I kinda wish XG didn't change so many of the original Shadow Pokémon, but other than that it's great.
For more elaborate hacks, I gotta recommend Brown and Prism. In my opinion, they're the golden standard for custom Pokémon romhacks. And for non-RPG games, Pokémon Pinball Generations pretty much doubles the amount of content in the game.
Whatever happened to that original Pokemon project they were doing here on /vp/ ? I feel like they started at least ten years ago, did it ever get finished or did all the devs grow up and realize they'd never be on the same page to complete it?
Gaia is the only one that truly emulated a pokemon game experience without tryhard competitive bullshit or edgy plots.
Clover is the only one that gave me that sense of wonder and discovery like gen5 did, with so many new pokemons to discover and actually pulled difficulty in a non obnoxious way.
Most of Drayno's romhacks are good but it's not fair to compare them because it's much easier to improve on something with hindsight than make something from scratch.
clover is so kino, i have a team prepared for new game plus with a bunch of ebin islands mons whichll be my third playthrough
i pirated scarlet and got to the psychic gym, started feeling sick in my stomach from the game, and then quit to play tekken 3 beachball mode i think this will be the first gen where i dont even complete the game
renegade plat is kinda neat if you just want an "elevated" vanilla experience. the removal of the more obvious field HMs was pretty dope and i liked how it had to restructure things around the different paths.
Im surprised no one has mentioned pokemon glazed yet. I just beat the second elite four and it was a really comfy time. Minus a few half-baked story beats, it felt a lot like an “Emerald 2”.
The quality of life features for pokedex completionists were nice too
Thread is empty just like it should be.
No lol, it’s worse than Dark Rising. Which is worse than SV. Also because all Essentials games are bad.
>all essentials games are bad
i think you just don’t like anything without game freak’s name on it
Because rom hacks are superior.
Basado
rejuvenation is my guilty pleasure
same
came for the kudzu plot, stayed for the waifus
wack… i kneel…
kino
You're missing out if you haven't played Jason Godwyn's Pokemon Pink CBT.
It filters out ALL the morons.
NOBODY can beat Professor Wisteria.
Glory to Ferexalt!
is that final boss actually impossible or is it hyperbolic advertisement
frick Amaria
all my homies hate Amaria
Literally the best Pokémon game ever.
The plot seemed very cringe when I started it long ago, is it actually really bad?
I wish I had the skillset to make a romhack, seems like fun to craft your own pokemon experience.
depending on how long ago you started, the plot maybe got revamped since to be less edgy and more actuually-making-sense.
This, Radical Red and all of Dray's QoL romhacks are peak
art direction is fricking dogshit
the most based ITT.
Renegade is fricking amazing
Literally none of them
Radical Red. People just want to play with all the Pokemon and a not braindead amount of difficulty.
This. I like unbound but I couldn't get into it as much as Radical Red.
>gameboy
>gey
lul
what new regional forms does realidea system include
It only has a regional Darmanitan and Drifblim. There's only a few fakemon.
so the starters and a legendary, like the pokecommunity page said. that sucks.
yall wouldnt know about this one
God I want to own the original print of this bootleg so fricking bad.
dude i have the fricking cart for it, i was a moronic 11 year old who wanted to play rom hacks on his gba but didnt know about flash carts. was in pain when i hit mt moon and couldnt progress because of moronic game design
pretty much everything by Drayano, honestly
The guy has a pretty good sense of balance and how to deliberately amp up the difficulty to frick with you.
Like Burgh in BlazedBlack who's the early game wall to make sure you know what you're getting into.
>The guy has a pretty good sense of balance and how to deliberately amp up the difficulty to frick with you.
You're a braindead moron if you genuinely believe that, lmao
The early route mons in his hacks are always busted because he gives them 200 more BST points but doesn't doesn't change the fact that they evolve at lvl 10.
He does.
But thats mainly to keep them relevant. So you don't have to box your first Kricketune or whatever when you hit the 5th Gym and its underpowered forever more. Its a mixed bag, they're overpowered early game, but fall in line more in the mid and late game. Typically ending up on the lower end by the end game.
> Kricketune
>Ability: New - Technician/Swarm
>Base Stats:
>Old - 77 HP / 85 Atk / 51 Def / 55 SAtk / 51 SDef / 65 Spd / 384 BST
>New - 80 HP / 115 Atk / 70 Def / 50 SAtk / 70 SDef / 65 Spd / 450 BST
OP in the early game and not the best by the late game, but with definitely more longevity.
I think mostly he likes bug types.
In his modern hacks you have a choice to not use his stat and type redistributions regardless.
This looks like the sort of balancing Clover would do
This. Rom hack difficulty has gone to the extreme end of the scale thanks to pro nuzlockers and radical red autism. Drayano to me is still the gold standard of what a "hard mode" for Pokemon should be.
So you've clearly never played them because both Unbound and Radical Red have difficulty selection.
Radical Red is difficult but by no means hard if you know even a bit about pokemon and real strategy.
The team I used for the elite four is Landorus, Volcarona, Mega-Gengar, Aegislash, Corviknight, and Greninja. Held items are very important and you need a balanced team. Landorus was my stealth rock setter, Corviknight was my pivot, Aegislash was my wall with poison, Greninja after a K-O setup was a sweeper with Choice Specs Ash-Greninja, Volcarona was a sweeper if you managed to play just right and get off quiver dance, and Mega-Gengar was a speed sweeper that was good for cleaning up low-hp mons.
Build a balanced team and make sure each pokemon has unique role and you'll win, and actually feel accomplishment for said win instead of just spamming your strongest move on the dogshit real pokemon games.
Renegade Platinum is pretty good and so are the revamped B/W2 hacks, but some of his earliest hacks (Sacred Gold and BW2) are pretty unbalanced.
Generally does well I love his stuff and clover
His volt white I played last year though and it was cancer in the first 3 gyms
Full coverage 80bp moves ev iv perfect held items
Just sucked with how limited the player is going against that
Recommend me the best hacks for the following:
- FireRed/LeafGreen
- Emerald
- Platinum
- HeartGold/SoulSilver
- Black/White
- Black2/White2
I recommend FireRed Rocket Edition in all these threads because it's Kanto but you can live out a GTA crime fantasy and rob almost every trainer in the game.
I'd probably just make a RomHack with a few changes tbh.
Give Cynthia a shiny Lucario in all her appearances.
Also give Red his Espeon back.
I've had a lot of fun playing infinite fusion. Not very difficult or balanced but the fusion gimmick is kinda fun if you do it blind and don't make anything too broken.
>muh difficulty hack
Yawn
play an easy mode hack then
I just want an improvement hack that's doesn't add le competitive VGC/smogtard teams or completely ruins pre-existing teams by adding random Pokemon to make it difficult
What is a random Pokemon to you? Many of those teams don't use particularly popular competitive movesets, and the player get access to their own set of powerful moves. Frankly, if you play on Shift Mode, the Drayano hacks aren't much harder than the normal games.
Luminescent on Switch is a brilliant way to play BDSP
when is the thread starting?
Any rom hack that doesn't have SJW shit in it?
pokemon Hemorrhoid Red and Gatorade Blue, or any of the hundreds of hacks that are just existing regions with different trainers and encounters
>pokemon Hemorrhoid Red and Gatorade Blue
is that a reference to the pasta i wrote the other day?
yes
repost that kino copypasta
I hate how "sterile" pokemon fangames/hacks are. Like, most of them are either difficulty hacks or they just try to copy the mainline games (contemporary setting, same premise, themes etc).
The most you can get is shit like Reborn, Rejuvenation, Empire etc which just have some edginess spicy sprinked on top of them. One of the few "unique" hacks I can think of is Pokemon Rocket Edition, which strays away from the classic formula.
You don't get any hacks set in the far future, the past, no high or dark fantasy pokemon game, etc etc. The only one I can think of is a french fangame (whose name escapes me) that takes place in the "medieval" era. Even GameFreak pioneered that with PLA.
>sterline
That's because the story is mainly the same, the focus is on quality of life, actual challenge (not just spamming 1 move with your over leveled mon), and unique pokemon/items only found in other games.
I don't think you want these cringelords who care enough about pokemon to actually sit for hundreds of hours to make a real fangame. Most of them end up as shit for good reason - their creators are autistic trannies who have never spoken to a real person. Do you want to play a story such a person created?
There's Pokemon Bushido, which is basically Pokemon Colosseum/XD set in Ancient Japan with ninjas as the evil team. Also the trainers themselves throw ninjutsu attacks at you in between turns.
Play Ashen Frost
>detective/noir setting
>no wild Pokemon, all Pokemon are caught from overworld events
>cases that you have to solve instead of gyms
>main environment is a massive open structured city
>no over-the-top edginess (there is murder and the like, but it is a crime story after all and it's done more tastefully than something like Reborn)
>all Pokemon are caught from overworld events where they feel like they're part of the world
Meant to add this
>The most you can get is shit like Reborn, Rejuvenation, Empire etc which just have some edginess spicy sprinked on top of them.
None of these have similar settings, premises or themes to any mainline game.
>ew "unique" hacks I can think of is Pokemon Rocket Edition
And you are literally praising a hack where the setting is just Kanto, but edgy.
Your problem is that you hate gyms specifically and think they're sterile. And even a gym is just basic "level -> boss" design that Rocket Edition has in spades. If Rocket Edition made you go fight gyms instead of going through the SS Anne to fight the captain I don't think you'd be singing its praises. Even if I made a game set in medieval times but made it so that you occasionally go through a level to fight a monotype boss, I'm sure you would think that's sterile too.
I like how nobody could reply to you because you proved him 100% wrong lol
basado
empyeran had a future segment, it was kinda cringe since it had fusion but I liked it
empyrean was bonkers in a good way
also the dev behind it is making his own IP/game now so good on him
Pokemon Gaia is the best hack that emulates the classic pokemon experience. Renegade Platinum is the best difficulty hack. Pokemon Xenoverse has the best fakemon alongside Sage (which is unfinished).
Which one is the best that has mega evolutions? Drayano hacks don't or am I wrong?
His ORAS hacks have them, but he doesn't hack the game so he can backport them or anything in generations that don't have Megas.
He does backport Fairy Type however.
Not only s/v every hackroom is better than any pokemon gayme
which roms hacks just let you complete the pokedex without having to trade? because that's all I want.
FireRed/LeafGreen+ is literally just a dualboot rom. Take a sec to apply patches for the event islands + altering cave mons and I believe you're in a good spot.
Otherwise be the change you wish to see in the world.
I played early gen games in my youth, and after all talks about Scarlet & Violet, I went to try this, after so long not playing Pokemon.
Hear this is one of the best fangames Pokemon available; And for the moment, I am not dissapointed.
Im almost a novice, so correct me if wrong. But precisely I post this because no one have mentioned Clover yet somehow.
Post your team. Talk more about your experience and thoughts on everything. The mons, music, maps, whatever
Im not a pokemon autist, and I dont have a team on mind. Plus, too busy leveling pokemon im interested, or at least to keep on a decent level (I dont know any pokemon of Forchun, so I cant rush by taking some pokemon on mind).
I wouldnt be surprised how I fricked by taking/deleting some skills, lol.
Pic related is an example of what I would use on a serious matter....but still some mon would be exchanged for others (Like maybe change Spanke for Muscleddode or whatever its called, for full Fighting).
Any advice for a poor lad overwhelmed by the pokemon autism?
This is unironically the best Pokémon experience I've ever had. And what makes this better is that it's compatible with Stadium 2
Peak S0uL
>compatible with Stadium 2
The actual N64 one or the rom?
You can put it on a cartridge and use it through the transfer pak.
any good sun / moon romhacks? looking for something not too hard but an improvement over vanilla.
I'd call Nova/Umbra a pretty decent SM romhack. You will definitely get btfo in some fights but they never feel like bullshit, you'll just have the rethink your strategy.
All I really wish S/M romhacks had was a skip cutscene button though.
More people need to know this gem. Pokemon BDSP made right.
Inclement Emerald or Radical Red?
here’s a radical idea: get some b***hes in your life
Both. RR is more polished, but IE has more and better double battles. Also depends which nostalgia trip you wanna go on.
Emerald. Difficulty is better, Smogon teams and movesets for all trainers adds to the fun of it, pokedex is pretty fleshed out.
Post game collecting all the legendaries and making a team to adds a few more hours gameplay to it.
Even more when you make a team for mono/doubles legendary battles against the entire gym leader roster and elite four.
On top of this, the QOL in the game is the best of any Romhack to date in my opinion. IV/EV training is paid for along with pokecenters having move tutors with more moves unlocking as you progress.
Just feels like a better all around experience.
absurd difficulty
Too many don't understand the difference between difficult and tedious, hate when they make you fight someone who can flinch you to death without giving you any potions or pokemon to counter, it just becomes rng battle, you should always be able to counter game's mechanics, artificial difficulty doesn't make the game better. Those are still better than anything GF ever made, and some of them have difficulty options at least.
I personally just like a game that is challenging, but doesn't necessarily require every battle occur twice (once to get blasted and learn the gimmick they're abusing, once to actually clear it with a per-battle designed team). That's why I hate shit like Kaizo - 95% of the gameplay, and you can see this even with streamers who spam rare candies and vitamins, ends up being team planning, with 5% being execution + maybe losing one or two Pokemon.
Very boring. I get it's a team building game, but I'd like to keep a decent pace rather than 6+ hours per badge.
it always gives you tools to win? uhh they're called pokemon? if you're complaining about getting flinched maybe bring a pokemon that is faster or has inner focus? its not like fangame gyms are running scarf togekiss
Except it's early game and you have literally 3 pokemon to catch and all are slower.
level them up?
There's a level cap
what fangame?
Pokemon Unbound.
Pokemblem is pretty fun
FR Throwback, HGSS Golden Edition, Renegade Platinum. Simple as.
Quarantine Crystal, honestly I don't know what the devs are doing, they were quite capable at building some hype around it but now they've vanished.
Any recs for a good game with decent waifumons present?
Been really enjoying the GBC hacks lately, Crystal Clear and Prism are great
I also finally hacked my 3DS so I've been playing Eternal X
Drayano hacks are my bread and butter. Renegade Platinum, Rising Ruby & Sinking Sapphire, and Blaze Black 2 & Volt White 2 are my top 3 Pokémon games of all time. BB1 & VW1 are great in terms of challenge, but I feel like making a full dex hack of B1W1 goes against the design philosophy of those games. I'm working on a version of BB1/VW1 that keeps the level curve, but uses Unova Pokémon only. Sacred Gold & Storm Silver aren't quite as polished, but he's working on a new version that will bring it to the same quality level as Renegade Platinum.
As far as non-Drayano hacks go, I really enjoy Rising Sun & Waning Moon, plus their Ultra counterparts Setting Sun & Waxing Moon. There's also Twitch Plays Pokémon's special Anniversary editions of Red and Crystal, and the soft-Nuzlocke style TriHard Emerald. I kinda wish XG didn't change so many of the original Shadow Pokémon, but other than that it's great.
For more elaborate hacks, I gotta recommend Brown and Prism. In my opinion, they're the golden standard for custom Pokémon romhacks. And for non-RPG games, Pokémon Pinball Generations pretty much doubles the amount of content in the game.
mmmmBokemon
I'm disappointed this wasn't brought up yet.
Whatever happened to that original Pokemon project they were doing here on /vp/ ? I feel like they started at least ten years ago, did it ever get finished or did all the devs grow up and realize they'd never be on the same page to complete it?
pokemon sage?
Yeah! Did they finish?
no
no, and they get pissy when you ask about its release date.
it's been 5 years since the last demo, it's dire
Any good X & Y hacks?
Seems like those 2 don't get much love.
At least pic related kept me entertained.
Gaia is the only one that truly emulated a pokemon game experience without tryhard competitive bullshit or edgy plots.
Clover is the only one that gave me that sense of wonder and discovery like gen5 did, with so many new pokemons to discover and actually pulled difficulty in a non obnoxious way.
Most of Drayno's romhacks are good but it's not fair to compare them because it's much easier to improve on something with hindsight than make something from scratch.
clover is so kino, i have a team prepared for new game plus with a bunch of ebin islands mons whichll be my third playthrough
i pirated scarlet and got to the psychic gym, started feeling sick in my stomach from the game, and then quit to play tekken 3 beachball mode i think this will be the first gen where i dont even complete the game
>tryhard competitive bullshit or edgy plots.
That's Clover though
Literally the only bullshit in the entire game is ice beam coverage on the second gym.
renegade plat is kinda neat if you just want an "elevated" vanilla experience. the removal of the more obvious field HMs was pretty dope and i liked how it had to restructure things around the different paths.
Is there any Sword/Shield hack?
Yes
https://gbatemp.net/threads/pokemon-divine-sword-blessed-shield-version-1-1-major-update-exp-candies-return.590250/
Nice, I might go with those for my first Swooshie run just to try something different.
What is the go-to DS emulator these days?
Desume always had graphical glitches, but was otherwise the most feature complete around. Anything better?
MelonDS but Desmume is fine. MelonDS works great on phone too.
Im surprised no one has mentioned pokemon glazed yet. I just beat the second elite four and it was a really comfy time. Minus a few half-baked story beats, it felt a lot like an “Emerald 2”.
The quality of life features for pokedex completionists were nice too