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.
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