Pokémon Crystal Clear was the most disappointing thing since my son. I mean, how much more could you possibly frick up an open world version of Gen 2? And while my son eventually hanged himself in the bathroom of the gas station, the unfortunate reality of this hack is that it'll be around. Forever. It will never go away. It can never be undone. If someone under the age of, like, 20 says that his least favorite hack is Clover because it was "the most boringest one", then I suggest you hide this thread right now before I carefully explain how much of a fricking idiot you are. So where do I possibly start? Nothing in Crystal Clear makes any sense at all. Comes off like it was made by an 8 year old. Like ShockSlayer finished the game in one sitting, like uploaded it in, and he decided to go with it, without anyone saying that it was poorly designed or was a stupid, incoherent mess. At this point who's gonna question ShockSlayer, or tell him what to do. He controls every aspect of the hack. Probably got rid of those people that questioned his creativity a long time ago. I also think that everyone just assumed that a open world version of Crystal would be an instant hit regardless of what the execution was. Really, how hard would it be to screw it up? It's like screwing up mashed potatoes. YOU BOIL THE WATER, POUR THE PACKET-
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>an open world version of Gen 2
that's just gen 2
This hack apparently removes all roadblocks, lets you start in any town and do the gyms in any order with level scaling based on the number of badges you have
okay, but why?
Because people like Pokemon and open-world games but Gamefreak is shit at game design.
>people like open-world games
okay, but why?
you must be 18+ years old to post here little moron
kys newbie
Imagine the game after you beat it, if it had rematches
That's what this is for the most part
>black npcs in gen 2 style
It's fixed.
nice fake mspaint edit shockslayer
The scaling is completely off.
The game is way too fricking easy after the third gym.
If it was was maybe 1 or 2 nignogs it wouldn't bother me, because it would stick out.
But iirc it was like every fricking NPC was some form of mutt.
>Crystal Clear is well done
>doesn't add most QoL things that are the standard in Gen 2 romhacks nowadays because he wants it to be compatible with Stadium
Absolutely moronic.
It's not public? lmao what a c**t
Even that furgay Rangi made Polished open source
mistyped, should be "wouldn't stick out"
>doesn't add most QoL things that are the standard in Gen 2 romhacks nowadays because he wants it to be compatible with Stadium
That's what makes it worth playing though.
What kind of psy-op meme bullshit is this? Crystal Clear is a well done (and enjoyable) romhack, and you fricking morons b***h endlessly about your "vanilla skin patch", and "Shockslayer sucks". Have any of you specific idiots actually tried it? I literally would rather play Crystal Clear, than slog through actual Golf or Silver again (and Gold was my first GB game).
>inb4 Nice Try, Shockslayer
This board is fricking dying from erotic asphyxiation, the circlejerk bullshit only intensifies
>well done (and enjoyable)
ok no
enjoyable? sure, it's Gen 2, fricking duh
well done? not in the slightest lmao
all those self-inserts that are randomly at fixed levels when the rest of the game is scaled, I'm calling bullshit police.
I will never say a single good thing about CC or Shockslayer until he makes the code public and stops being a fruity piece of shit.
Also Polished is better
the code is not public because clover devs stole your virginity
The code isn't public because it's probably shit and he doesn't want anyone to make a better a version of CC by taking all the good shit Polished added.
As in:
>Infinite TMs
>Gen 3 PC boxes
>Phys/Spec split
>Abilities
>Natures
>Continuous Repel
>Bill calls to switch boxes when one is full
>etc
>you HAVE to start at New Bark or Pallet
Really? I usually start at Cianwood with a Houndour and I had no issue.
Didn't Polished remove a few shitmons to add in gen 4 evos?
Yeah, it was a moronic decision imo removing gen 2 Pokémon from a gen 2 game.
Luckily the furgay plans to add them back in once the "9-bit" version is done.
I found this, apparently someone disassembled the rom.
https://github.com/Bynine/crystalclear
lmao, why am I not surprised?
>try Crystal Clear
>open world, go anywhere at anytime setup essentially means there is zero reason to do anything that isn't "go to the area with the highest leveled wilds" and "grind the same gyms for levels"
All wiener and no cum
My biggest gripe with CC itself is that you HAVE to start at New Bark or Pallet and the wild encounters don't scale, meaning you're likely to just explore the region as if you were playing a vanilla hack until you get Fly or Surf. There was an open world Red hack called Roaming Red that let you start in any town, so why they couldn't implement that feature in CC is a mystery to me. Everyone has a bone to pick with Shockslayer and they let that grudge bleed into how they look at the game. But you didn't need me to say that. It's pretty obvious.
>you HAVE to start at New Bark or Pallet
That was changed in an update iirc.
Still a godawful hack though with the fact that they turned Johto and Kanto into Africa just because they could.
Is Shockslayer black or just woke?
Latter. There's another thread that actually has a pic of him and let's just say I could smell it from here.
He wanted to randomize the palettes for each non-important NPC so they're all unique but didn't realize there is way more dark skin colors than light skin so the majority of the NPCs are dark.
>That was changed in an update iirc.
Really? I'm still using a version from like 2018.
play pokemon clover instead
most of those are already publicly available. Its mainly the following mons and expanded pokedex most people want. Even then I bet Shockslayer presesnts code is stolen.
just like jwnutz and wastenaut
meant for
Is there a link somewhere to the hack?
I'd like to test it, but I don't want to join some pedo discord.
So it turns out you actually CAN face the OG Elite 4 in Crystal Clear without using the shitty simulator, only they're bosses in the game's battle facility, the Kanto Underground, along with a ton of other characters like the gym leaders and a bunch of OCs including Randy Savage so good luck actually getting the opportunity to fight them.
They also have different designs and titles, Will is now called Illusionist Will. I think in Crystal Clear's lore, every member of the Elite 4 quit for some reason.
It's done well, however it's not without flaws
>Donut oc out the ass
>Wild mons don't scale
>You end up just grinding a gym you're super effective against for 40% of your playthrough
>Cryptic bullshit puzzles
>No QoL so to be compatible with Stadium2
>God forbid you have to ask a question in the discord without dealing with the most arrogant Black folk you've ever met
At least the open world was done well, and you can chain for shiniest easily
>Wild mons don't scale
this is kindof a good thing
rest is true though
The main problem is that it fricks up the level curve and makes starting in any mid-late town practically pointless as you're going to be forced to grind up in the earlier routes any way.
And that is why Polished Crystal is the definitive way to play Gen 2
No because it cuts pokemon and adds anime shit
I agree, in fact; why even play this when emerald ROWE exists. It’s this but in emerald. ROWE has all the open world shit, but it has Pokémons up to gen 8, a lot of Pokémon changes, and actually challenging difficulty. Sure, it has a lot of modern hack issues, like needing docs to know what every Pokémon had become, and plagiarizing abilities from clover. But it’s wayyyyy better. Gen 2 hacks suck, gen 3 hacks are awsome.
The only thing I took away from this is that you think mashed potatoes are supposed to be made from a packet
why did this drooling moron leave out wild levels scaling? what the frick is the point of "you can start anywhere!" if starting in pallet town or other kanto areas just gets you softlocked because wildmons are too strong????
It makes grinding painfully boring, your best option is to rematch a gym leader 20 times or so