I did a brief search online but couldn’t find exactly what I’m looking for. Basically I’m looking for versions where you can, say, play FireRed but are able to catch all 150 Pokémon with all of the trading/“choose on of these fossils”/version exclusives eliminated, so that you can complete the Pokédex yourself on one save file.
So far I’ve found a bunch of cool looking ROMs that are total fan made games with new regions, able to catch all 900 Pokémon or whatever, which look awesome and I’m gonna try them at some point, but atm I basically wanna live out my childhood dream of “catching them all” which I could never do as a kid because I didn’t have multiple friends with game boys and Pokémon and link cables and all that stuff.
QOL adds are a bonus but what I’m looking for is pretty basic, surprised I couldn’t find it.
I know the universal pokemon randomizer has an option for making trading exclusive evolutions happen at a specific level
I know you gave FireRed as an example but there's actually tons of these for Gen 4, particularly SoulSilver and platinum, that give you access to the whole NatDex of that generation, if you're using a ROM there's a website that allows you to patch these games with that. I can help but I'd need more info from you if you're willing to discuss
I actually found a romhack that does exactly that lol, it's Pokemon Unbound. But the original source for the ROM is a total no-go since they were taken down by Nintendo, what else is new. It featured every pogey up to gen 7.
Long ago, I once started my own Pokemon fan game using rpg maker that would have done something like that. Something of the greatest hits of Pokemon that included all Pokemon, as well as the best parts each region had to offer.
The idea of the lore behind this was going to be that a corporation captured Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia and forced them to create matter to get free and easy resources to exploit. This eventually fucks the fabric of space, time and matter because the trio of matter warping Pokemon have to devote all their energy to producing treats, to the point that various places and times of the Pokemon universe get fractured. Putting various times/places in cacoons separated from the present. The only place left is a small island region on which there are no Pokemon, and nothing ever grows, ages or can move out of the island until a small lab develops a time/space teleporter and calls in a random someone from the past (the player character), before the fracture, (as it turns out only someone from the past can safely be transported) to restore time/space to its stable way and free Arcues, Palkia, and Dialga from the corporation that caused this all (because this corporation still exists on this island and is quite enjoying being the only group with access to Pokemon.)
Your character will then have to travel through space and time to each separated region (The first region you choose to visit determines what starter Pokemon you can choose) and enlists the help of that region's strongest Trainers while building a strong team of your own and eventually having enough comrades to challenge and defeat the exploiters of Arceus/Palkia/Dialga. Ending in you having to battle said legendary Pokemon, defeating them, then freeing them from their corporate masters and allowing them to use their power to mend the fabric of the universe.
Because the game would have taken place in every region I wanted every Pokemon ever to be catchable.
Obviously, I know nothing about making games so none of this was never made. But maybe one day.
Is there something that works like a Gameshark but for ROMs? That's what I used to cheat my way to all 151 back in the olden days.
I think the gameboy/DS emulators at least let you just open up the game's memory directly.
Based on this comment I think I found the website @glimmer_twin was looking for:
https://www.pokemoncoders.com/pokemon-fire-red-generations/
Disclaimer: Do your own security precautions, I didn't test this.
VBA supports cheats, I dunno if specifically gameshark codes though. Probably a bunch of emus have support for it, I mean they have complete unfettered access to the memory stack software is executing on since they're emulating hardware. I think retroarch has a dedicated menu exclusively for cheats too, and I found a list of cheats lol
Is this (Pokemon Ultra Violet) what you're looking for?
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1156/
Also fwiw I remember needing to patch the revision 1 version of FireRed despite it saying that the no-revision version was needed.
Let me know if that's unclear and you need assistance.
I'll take a look, I'm almost certain I played at least one romhack that made this possible. I think it was Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald generation.Pretty sure I played Pokemon Ultra Violet (posted here).
And Pokemon Unbound seems like the best around.
There's also Pokemon Infinite Fusion on PC, maybe someone's modded that to not have any fusions?
Interesting question. It's the sort of thing that's a little tough to do past maybe first gen and its remakes because there's usually some pertinent level of story integration backing up a portion of the exclusivity (particularly the box art legendaries). Maybe Emerald would be a good title since you can get both Groudon and Kyogre? The rest with wild encounters and such don't really matter, you could program that on a Gameshark if you really wanted to, and I guess just kill the script that removes the fossil you don't take . . . and I guess put the other three starters in the Safari Zone along with like 50-100 more mons that weren't included.
. . . I'm beginning to see why no one did this. Who the hell actually likes the Safari Zone? I wouldn't be able to stand going and catching like 100 different Pokemon there for the sake of completionism, it's just a worse mode than normal encounters (though the step count is at least interesting).
Good points. I know nothing about programming so I assumed there was a reason these weren’t easy to come by. I figured the first Gen/it’s remakes would be simpler because it would just be “allow graveler to evolve into golem without trading” and such
Some of my favorite Romhacks are all from a guy named Drayano, they fit the bill pretty nicely, all Pokemon from that game are catchable a noticeable, but not extreme, difficulty increase, and usually some other nice QoL features depending on the game. Here's a link to all his romhacks:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-zmEVN0Mas6Q3lLbDJDaWNyaVU?resourcekey=0-o98YGOlDJ0JVXXjxoHprIA
