In my mind these are essentially the same thing. Ever since I was a kid playing Red, it annoyed me so much and I still think about it sometimes.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I’m only just getting into it, but I’m playing Pokemon ultra violet.

    Is a hack of fire red and it is pretty vanilla, but you can catch all the Pokemon and but have to trade for trade evolutions.

    Also, you can choose a starter like normal or go to some kind of safari zone and get something else. I caught a ghastly as my starter.

    • YewEyeOwe31@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Nice, I’ll have to look into that one.

      A couple that I’ve been following are:

      • Pokemon Lazarus, an emerald romhack in a new region based on Greece. Lots of custom pixel art for the trees/architecture/terrain and apparently has megas.
      • Pokemon KEP, a red hack that adds some of the original beta Pokemon back in to the game along with regional variants of Kanto Pokemon, and adds a couple new locations/characters/music/features.
      • Pokemon Extreme Yellow which adds in some of the Kanto megas as final evolutions. A bunch of other goodies too such as expanded maps, quality of life stuff, crazy hard puzzles. The creator is trying to implement a bunch of other crazy stuff for an unreleased update including diving mechanics.