Pokemon Radical Red GBA ROM
Hack Name: Pokemon Radical Red
Hack Original: Pokemon FireRed
Status: v3.02, 17.07.2022
Language: English
Status: v3.02, 17.07.2022
Language: English
Info
This hack is at its core a difficulty hack, but with massive additional features added to help you navigate through this game's difficulty.
List of Features
- Physical/Special split + Fairy Typing
- All Pokémon up to Gen 8 are obtainable (with some exceptions)
- Moves up to Gen 8, including some of the Isle of Armor DLC moves!
- Updated Pokémon sprites
- Mega Evolution
- Abilities up to Gen 8
- All important battle items (with some exceptions)
- Raid Battles
- Reusable TMs
- Expanded TM list
- Additional move tutors
- EV Training Gear
- Ability popups during battle
- Gen 8 Exp Share
- Hidden Abilities
- Day and Night
- DexNav, which allows you to search for Pokemon with hidden abilities and other neat things!
- Even faster turbo speed (!!!)
- Abilities like Magma Armor have field effects like recent Gens
- Destiny Knot, Everstone have updated breeding mechanics
Additional Features:
Much higher difficulty
- Bosses have max IVs with proper EV spreads (barring the early bosses), along with optimized movesets/hold items
- Improved AI
- Battle style forced to Set
- Can't access bag against Gym Leaders and other select bosses
- Similar to Pokemon Clover, there is a soft-level cap based on the next boss battle. Many "challenge" hacks can easily be beaten by simply spamming turbo boost and over leveling. This prevents you from doing so, instead of allowing you to reevaluate your team and strategy to defeat bosses.
- Bosses near the end will randomly choose between 1 of 3 teams
- Elite Four Members each have a Legendary
- Gym Leaders have access to Mega Evolution before you do
- Some optional side bosses will have their levels scale according to your team
- Johto Gym Leaders as additional side bosses(Some mandatory, but mostly optional)
- Brendan as an additional Rival
- Archer and Ariana present as Admins
- Thief/Magician won't steal from trainers
- An additional Team Rocket event right before the 8th gym
- My own curated buffs to a lot of deserving Pokémon, including Megas!
- May include type changes, stat changes, ability changes, and additional learnsets
- Brand new abilities (Some taken from Clover, others exclusive to this game)
- A revamped Game Corner
- No more coins/Coin Case, just exchange with regular Pokecoins
- Sells pseudo legends for a steep price, with options to upgrade to Shiny
- Sells even more TMs
- IV grade and colored natures on Summary Screen
- An IV perfecter in Celadon for a very steep price
- EV checker/reducer in Saffron
- Gym leaders may ask for rematches or side quests for their Mega Stones and other rewards
- Daycare south of Cerulean now can hold two Pokemon allowing for earlier breeding
- An ability swapper also in Saffron, along with an option to swap to Hidden Ability in exchange for an item
- EV training areas with its corresponding EV training gear
- Move relearner moved to Cerulean
- Move tutor that teaches Egg moves
- Additional Legendaries obtainable before the Elite Four: Virizion, Cobalion, Terrakion, Keldeo.
- Roamers: Raikou, Suicune, Entei, Landorus, Thundurus, Tornadus, Latios, Latias, Victini, Meloetta
- Regigigas
- Lugia Ho-Oh Groudon
- Rayquaza Dialga Palkia Giratina
- Reshiram Zekrom Kyurem-Black Kyurem-White
- Xernas Yveltal
- Zacian Zamazenta Eternatus Calyrex forms
- Deoxys Darkrai
- Arceus Marshadow
Quality of Life changes:
- No need to teach HMs (Even Dig and Teleport show up as Field Moves if you have the TM and a Pokemon that is capable of learning it - does not need to be taught!)
- Use DexNav to easily get a specific encounter you want, in addition to a chance of getting Egg Moves, better IVs, Hidden Abilities, and higher Shiny odds!
- Press Start in the bag to sort items
- Use L to pull up the skills menu, where you can use Auto Run, Time Changer (in-game time changer so you can get both day and night encounters/evolutions with ease), Infinite Repel, and PokeVial (From Inclement Emerald, a portable Pokemon Center!)
- Can select multiple key items
- Press L on a move you're using in battle to check its info
- Toggleable Gen 6 Exp Share
- Pokemon receive boosted EXP when above 220 points of affection
- Item Image on obtain
- Base stats on Pokedex summary screen
- Press B on the Bike gives a boost
- Removed Poison damage in OW
- Lucky Egg boost increased from 1.5x to 2.5x
- A Nature Changer in every Pokemon Center!
- Frisk now boosts chance of Wild Pokemon holding items(along with Super Luck and CompoundEyes) for maximum item farming efficiency
- Macho Brace EV multiplier boosted from 2x to 4x (16x after becoming Champion)
- Power Item EV Yield boosted from 8 to 24 (They give 252 EVs after becoming Champion)
- Consumable held items come back after trainer battles (but not wild or raid battles)
- Pokemon holding Amulet Coin do not need to participate in battle in order to receive the prize money boost
- Thiefed items go straight to the bag
- Shadow Tag/Arena Trap on Wild Pokemon no longer prevents the player fleeing from battle
- Magma Armor/Steam Engine/Flame Body now reduce egg steps by 4x instead of 2x
- Macho Brace/EV training items reduce speed by slightly less
- Catch rate universally increased after becoming Champion
- Significantly reduced the price of Potions (Potion->Full Restore, Revives, Paralyz Heal, etc) as they have much less use in this game. Price of Repels have also been reduced.
- Eviolite prevents your Pokemon from evolving (like Everstone)