Pokemon Shin Red & Blue (and Green) (GB)

Pokemon Shin Red & Blue (and Green) GB ROM

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Hack Name: Pokemon Shin Red & Blue (and Green)
Hack Original: Pokemon Red
Status: v1.23, 31.12.2021
Language: English

Info

This is a ROM hack of pokemon red & blue based on the Pret team's disassembly.

It's a mostly vanilla hack that focuses on fixing game engine bugs and oversights from the original game. Additionally, trainer AI routines are improved and multiple quality-of-life improvements have been added.

List of Features

Lite features for a cleaned-up purist experience:

A huge number of bugs, glitches, oversights, and text errors of all sorts have been fixed.
There are too many to enumerate here, and some of them are very obscure or previously undiscovered.
Includes an English Green version.
It swaps the graphics, Cerulean Cave layout, and a few lines of text to replicate the original Green version.
Apply the patch to a USA blue ROM to use it.
Engine features from the USA Yellow version have been backported.
Super Gameboy palettes get converted to display on the Gameboy Color. No more monochrome!
The audio engine is backported. Hit SELECT on the options screen to cycle through the output types.
Trainer AI has been improved and greatly expanded.
Some trainers will even try to switch pokemon intelligently.
You get notified when a box is filled (either via catching or depositing a pokemon).
Switching out of a trapping move wastes the trapper's turn. This prevents unbeatable AI scenarios as well as a PP underflow glitch.
Rage is limited to 2-3 turns but attack boosts are kept. This is primarily to prevent infinite battle loops.
Sleep does not prevent choosing a move, and the move is used upon waking up. To maintain sleep move accuracy, sleep starts with a counter of at least 2. And Rest now sets the sleep counter to 3.

Additional Master features that go beyond engine modifications and fixes:

An experimental New Game+ has been added.
All 151 pokemon are available in one version.
You can play as a boy or a girl.
There's an EXP bar in battle.
You can hunt for shiny pokemon, and they are valid with Gen 2 games.
No more grinding wild pokemon. Nearly all trainers can be rematched just by talking to them once or twice.
The "SET" battle style gives increased difficulty by making the stats of trainer pokemon more on your level.
It also doubles the effect of X-stat items that trainers love to use.
One of OAK's aides toggles scaling of trainer rosters to your level (evolving them if applicable).
Another of OAK's aides toggles a Pokeball-caught symbol in battle after obtaining the Pokedex.
To aid with to Gen 2 interaction, this also applies a gender symbol to species that can be male or female.

Lots of quick-keys features:

Place the cursor over FIGHT and press Select to play the enemy 'mon cry if it's already owned.
Softlock Warp - instantly teleport back to your mom's house if you get stuck.
Running Shoes - Hold B to double your speed when walking, surfing, and biking. Includes proper animation speed-up!
Press SELECT to use HMs based on proper context.
Press SELECT while holding A to automatically get on/off your bike or use the best rod in your inventory.
Hold SELECT and enter the status screen to print a 'mons stat exp.
Hold START and enter the status screen to print a 'mons DVs.
When playing in colour, hold SELECT when choosing a 'dex entry to load the shiny palette.

New NPCs:

The move relearner and deleter are in Saffron City.
An NPC in the Celadon Hotel will pay COINS for showing him pokemon as an alternative to slots.
After the elite-4, a new vendor opens up in celadon allowing the purchase of normally unique items.
After the elite-4, there is an NPC in the underground path that generates random trainer battles.
The game corner chief will buy pokemon from the player post-e4.
There's a tournament being held in the SS Anne's kitchen after the elite 4 are beaten. Yes, the ship returns!
Added some special post-game trainer battles as fun little easter eggs. Can you find and defeat all five?

Other minor changes to lessen annoyance:

TMs and HMs now have their attacks (albeit abbreviated) appended to the item names
All TMs can be repurchased as they are strategically scattered across all the Kanto poke marts.
The safari zone mechanics run off level instead of speed and safari balls have a boosted catch rate.
Slot machines are a little luckier so now you can actually win big
CUT is not needed to get to Lt. Surge and Erika (a blocking event replaces the Vermilion shrub).
Yellow version learnsets have been integrated and stone evolutions gain back some level-up moves.
Hitting with a trapping move reduces its user's speed by 25% until recalculated via some other effect.
Trapping move users play their cry on the move's final turn.

Cheats and Secrets

A pokemon with Pay Day in your top slot will tip you off to a lucky slot machine and when it's in a special payout mode.
New item, M.GENE, re-randomizes a pokemon's DVs to values of 9,8,8,8 or more.
Defeat all five post-game special trainers to reactivate the legendary pokemon.
To find shiny pokemon better, put a level-100 Chansey at the top of your roster. Use a repel if you wish!
Do you dare to activate Missingno at the cinnabar shore? Only if you got your 'dex diploma.

Hardware Compatibility

Compatible with original Gameboy hardware (DMG, Super, Pocket, Color, Advance, SP)
Potentially compatible with Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2
Might be possible to use a save from vanilla USA red/blue with this ROM hack (save in RED's house before transferring over)