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.
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.