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What are your favorite ROM hacks? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 days ago by DdCno1@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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I recently came across a colorization that turns the original black and white/green version of Pokémon Red for the GameBoy into a proper GameBoy Color title. This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, but the sheer number of hacks that have been made over the course of several decades is slightly overwhelming, so I'd love to get a decent first selection by hearing which are your favorites that have improved or transformed console and handheld games in meaningful or entertaining ways.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

These are a few I've played over the years and really enjoyed. I think most are still available, but some are unfortunately only distributed via discord servers.

No particular order to these:

  • Pokemon Prism - A very in-depth mod of Pokemon Crystal with 2 entirely new regions and a large catalog of Pokemon from multiple generations to capture. To my knowledge, it is a successor to Pokemon Brown
  • Pokemon Brown - A very in-depth mod of Pokemon Red. This was made 2 decades ago, and was the first mod I ever played. Includes a new region and many Pokemon from different generations.
  • Polished Crystal - A faithful (or not) upgrade to Pokemon Crystal.
  • Pokemon Crystal Clear - A mod of Pokemon Crystal that brings in many new features and vastly upgrades the AI.
  • Pokemon RedStar/BlueStar - A mod of Pokemon Red/Blue that includes the SpaceWorld 1997 assets.
  • Pokemon Crystal Kaizo - A mod of Pokemon Crystal that adds in much better AI and a fair bit more difficulty. All Gen 2 Pokemon can be captured and just about every trainer presents a new level of difficulty.
  • Altered Emerald - A massive mod of Pokemon Emerald that adds "(almost) every move and ability from gen 1 to 7" along with a few extras while making all 386 Gen 3 Pokemon capturable.

Edit: Just realized this wasn't strictly Pokemon mods... Oops lol.

[–] echedeylr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

I would recommend you to play Pokemon Unbound :3

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

No worries, I should have been more clear on that. Thanks for the list!

(And bloody hell, why do people keep using Discord for this?)