Pokemon Crystal Maeson Readme.txt

Pokemon Crystal Maeson Readme.txt 

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 Pokemon Crystal Maeson - Public Version 1.1 - Internal Version 15.2.3 

 

 IT IS RECOMMENDED TO READ THIS WITH NOTEPAD++, 

 BUT YOU DO YOU.

 

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 |Sections|

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 [0]  1.1 Changes

 [1]  Installation

 [2]  Introduction

 [3]  General List of Changes

 [4]  Patch Differences

 [5]  Pokémon Changes

 [6]  Type Changes

 [7]  Move Changes

 [8]  Stat Experience, Vitamins and Fruits

 [9]  Mechanic & Gameplay Changes

 [10] New Kurt Balls, new ways to obtain Apricorns

 [11] The New and Improved Battle Tower and Trainer House

 [12] Visual Changes 

 [13] Credits 

 

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|[0]  1.1 Changes |

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 This new update is made to adress a number of things in order to 

 improve the hack. Changes are as follow:

 

 · Pokémon Stats retweaked to lower the total BST from 650 to 620 in 

   order to lower the overall bulkyness of the creatures, and to make 

   Stat spreads a bit less well rounded, so each species is a bit 

   more specialized. True Legendaries are now 660 instead of 700 too. 

 · In order to make every type of Pokémone equal, Normal Type has been 

   replaced by a new type, Beast, that shares the number of weaknesses 

   and resistances of the other types, so all types play by the same rules.

   

   This is a huge rework that involves changing some of the previously 

   Normal Moves to become Beast type  Moves, alters some Pokémon's type

   combinations, and of course the Type Matchups to inclue a new Type. 

   All the information needed about this change is offered in the 

   readmes and the new Type Matchup picture. 

   

   There are still Normal Moves, wich now act like "Neutral" Element 

   in any other RPG. No Pokémon can get STAB from it, though. 

   

 · Because of the new type, Egg Moves, Level Up Movesets, TMs and Tutor 

   Moves have been redone for every single species to accomodate the new 

   type and Moves. Level up Movesets also got a number of extra changes

   because there was some nonsense like a Pokémon learning the same 

   Move twice. Return and Enerbeam, two Normal Move TMs, are no longer 

   available through that system as they were replaced by two Beast 

   Moves, but they're still being able to be taught through Move Tutors. 

   

 · Several Battle-specific improvements, such as raising the Stat Cap 

   for Stat-boosting Moves, preventing stuff like being able to use 

   healing Moves while doing Rest-Sleep Talk combos, not using boosted 

   Stats for Critical Hits and more. An Item to boost Beast type Moves 

   (like Charcoal, for example) was also added to the game. 

   

 · Several Text edits to accomodate these changes and a few "under-the-hood"

   changes and improvements. This obviously includes all the Information 

   provided by the Pokedex.

   

 · Because all of the above, NPC Pokémon had corrections being made, 

   and every Pokémon in the Battle Tower was also redone with current 

   Stats, Types and Moves they would have. 

   

   Saves ARE compatible with this version, but you need to have in mind that 

   these changes make a huge difference, and it may be better to start over

   if you're in the middle of the adventure. If you're already on the post 

   game though, I think it'd be perfectly fine, as long as you re-do the 

   Movesets of your Pokémon. 

 

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|[1]  Installation|

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 Patching a game is usually a very easy process, specially with

 IPS Patches.

 There's a variety of programs that work with IPS files, but the

 most famous one is named Lunar IPS, also called LIPS.

 

 This hack is to be patched on a Pokémon Crystal 1.1 ROM file. 

 

 More specifically, this rom:

 Pokemon - Crystal Version (UE) (V1.1) [C][!].gbc

 CRC-32 : 3358E30A

 

 You open your patcher, and then point to it to the IPS

 patch and the original, unmodded ROM. It will apply it

 and inform you when it's finished, it should be quick. 

 

 Now, there's two versions of this hack, and each one 

 has also two varieties. 

 

 CHOOSE ONLY ONE. To know which version you want, 

 check the details at the not-surprisingly-named

 "Patch Differences" section.

 

 And yes, the patch weights almost 75% of the original game.

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 |[2]  Introduction|

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 Hola, welcome to another ridiculously long readme of mine.

 I go by the name Maeson and I made other hacks for a handful of other RPGs.

 For the most part what I usually aim for with these hacks is to create a different 

 experience, tweaking what I can to give games that I've played time and time again

 a gameplay facelift to keep them fresh for me, sometimes also trying to improve 

 aspects of a game that I think could make it more fun, varied, better paced or

 just more challenging after many playthroughs and knowing stuff by hand. 

 These hacks are made for me in first place, so they're shaped in a very personal

 manner and of course through my own tastes and ideas, but it should goewithout

 saying, I hope.

 

 But anyway... What can I say about Pokémon?

 My feelings toward the main series of Pokémon have changed a lot since its inception.

 Just like millions of other fans of video games, I lived the Pokémon craze back in the day,

 and I grew playing most of those games. I was there without fail up until the fifth Generation,

 then I started to get tired of the series gradually, and I sort of stop caring with time.

 Thing is, I really didn't stop liking the Pokémon themselves, and I still enjoy spin-offs like

 the Trading Card Games or Mystery Dungeon games, and some like Pokémon Conquest and Pokken are

 quite cool crossovers, so there's still some appeal to me, even if it's waning with each day.

 And hey, then you get things like Pokémon Snap, which it's one unique and very memorable game,

 one of the very, very few games about photography. it's a really chill, fun time overall.

 ...What it does not appeal to me all that much since a long time, though, is Game Freak and

 The Pokémon Company. The choices and "philosofies" they've been doing and following for

 several years now have been some of the most frustrating ones I've seen besides Square

 Enix, and their interviews equally leave some wonderfully baffling pearls of "wisdom".

 They've done a remarkable job at making me wanting to distance myself more and more 

 throughout this last decade, to the point that I lost pretty much all my appreciation

 for the franchise.

 

 And it's not just with the main games, their choice of pushing aside console spin-offs

 for more and more mobile based Games As A Service (that usually failed and died quickly)

 also left us without many interesting games that could at least keep us somewhat happy.

 

 And the less we talk about the lies, misinformation and the worrying use of younger

 audiences as a shield to deflect criticism from their business decisions, the better.

 I... Just can't support or stand that anymore. I feel drained.

 And I would have been completely away from this franchise, barring some old

 games, if not for one day finding that a collective of people were working on

 disassembly projects of older games.

 I found them to be really interesting, and my mind kinda played with the idea of

 having a version of one of those old games with changes that I've been wanting and

 waiting to happen for many years. Who knows, I could even *attempt* to improve what 

 was already there and even add more stuff to it.

 Checking the available games with disassembly, I chose Pokémon Crystal, as it seemed

 the most complete and evolved project of all, in combination with also being one of 

 the longer games thanks to the large post-game it originally had, plus being an

 earlier Generation game also gave me more room to do changes and improvements. 

 So little by little, with no idea of assembly, I kept hitting walls and messing around

 for a time, and what you downloaded is the result of spending the free time I had

 working in it... For quite some time. In fact it has been over 2 years of constant work,

 this started in 2018. 

 The aim of this hack is simple: 

 

 Create a new "balance", make the game more challenging, and iron out stuff I find could

 be improved, or I have the ability and knowledge to do while I add more value to

 certain aspects of the game. Make a version of Pokémon that I'd like to replay

 and have every monster be a fun addition to the team and a foe I just can't roll 

 over with little to no thought, so I want to try all of them.

 If you were expecting a new story, or a new region, or whatever pipe dream that most probably

 would end up incompleted and not stable, sorry to disappoint, but you won't find it here.

 And no, I don't really care if this hack doesn't have an "epic" name.

 There's so many other more important things to care than that...

 

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|[3]  General List of Changes|

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 Here you have a quick list with some of the biggest changes all around, 

 but there are sections for most of them to talk more in detail.

 · Attempt to reach a new balance. This has been said above, but what

   it actually means is that elements as Types, Moves, Pokémon Stats and 

   such have been changed deeply to move away from the conventions of the 

   original games, making many species feel entirely different gameplay-wise.

   

   Among other things, this means no more disappointing creatures with bad

   typing and many weaknesses, or low Base Stats filler. It also means parity

   between the Types, with each one having the same number of Weaknesses and 

   Resistances. The intent is for every Fully Evolved Pokémon to feel useful

   or, at the very, very least, usable in a way where you don't feel handicapping

   yourself to the point you ask yourself if it is even worth doing it.

   

 · Moves and TMS have been changed a lot in order to accomodate the Physical & Special Split,

   each Type now has both Physical and Special moves of different Power tiers. 

   

   Many old attacks have been removed and many others have been added. What moves each 

   evolutionary line learns also has been changed, in order to make all Pokémon have

   decent movesets depending on what their archtype is.

 · DVs (IVs on later generations) No longer matter on Stat Calculations. This means that 

   every member of the same species will have the same potential. This also means you can

   have female Pokémon with good Attack, and Shiny Pokémon with good stats, what a novel concept. 

   

   This way any monster you come across will be equal, so you can focus on having

   fun, while still having to care of it by training, feeding him vitamins and fruits,

   choosing the best moves for it in a given situation, making a balanced team, and

   you know, the actual RPG bits instead of the RNG ones.

   

   If you liked the eugenics experiment experience the original games give you, 

   sorry but that's not here. I apologize for nothing. 

 · Trainers changed all around. Better AI than in the original game, more varied teams,   

   their Pokémon have Stat Exp, meaning that the further you go, the better trained their 

   Pokémon are, and better trained your own monsters should be. I also removed several 

   limitations imposed on NPC trainers to make them factually inferior to you. This is

   made trying to make the game more challenging instead of the usual cake-walk.

 

   There's no ridiculous stuff like giving Hyper Beam to everything or illegal moves

   for NPC trainer's Pokémon (although bear in mind, many Pokémon have changed types, 

   and many have changed movesets so their moves are the new "legal" moves, but

   again, nothing impossible for you to have or to add fake difficulty). 

   

   If you're asking yourself this, no, in this hack NPCs do not change Pokémon constantly, 

   that tends to drag the game too much. They still do it occasionally, but not at every 

   time Type matchups that go against them. 

 · Quite a few changes related to Items, from how strong some Healing Items are, to changing 

   Kurt Balls, changing the effect (or power of the effect) on several Held Items, new 

   types of berries, and others.

   

   Healing items are no longer useable in battle, neither for you or the NPC Trainers.

   Battles must be won only with your Pokémon, their held items, and strategy.

   

   ...Or well, over-levelling through mind-numbing grinding. 

   We can't exactly get rid of that.

 · Added a whole LOT of improvements here and there to make the game flow, feel and 

   play better.

   Things like changing how Item Storage works to have more space overall, much faster

   egg hatching speeds, making every monster available in this hack, having the Pokédex 

   show you a bit of meaningful game information, as now it shows a species Base Stats

   and also the Shiny variations, make saving a faster process, making TMs infinite 

   (but not abusable), improving the scrolling while moving around making the game 

   feel and look much better, large improvements on the Battle Tower, expanding the

   Trainer House to be more interesting end-game stuff, adding Rematches, making

   PokeGear rematches better, a way to change PC Boxes remotely, move tutors and

   quite a few others.

 There's many things more, but that's what the individual sections are for.

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|[4]  Patch Differences |

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 Now, there are four patches, so let's explain this quickly.

 

 First, we have the Original versions, and the Alternative versions, 

 these last ones offer a tweaked experience in case you want to play 

 this hack again with some differences. 

 

 In which ways it is different?

 

 Well, the Starters have been swapped, so when you begin a new game,

 you get to choose between Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle.

 

 MUCH bigger difference, though, is that all the Gym trainers,

 the Leaders, other important NPCS and the Elite Four no longer

 have their teams limited to following the thematic "Type" standards. 

 Other trainers such as the Rival also have different teams, 

 (and like the original patch, he develops a different team

 depending on the starter they steal).

 

 Without that restriction each of those trainers have way more varied

 teams, making the game less predicable because you can no longer coast

 on the Type disadvantages most of the Pokémon of a Gym Leader share.

 

 This of course changes how you make your teams. You no longer "have" to

 bring "this or that Type" because later on the road there's a Gym weak 

 to it. It's more about making a team that you feel it can withstand

 anything it may come.

 

 The order of certain Ingame Trades have also been changed.

 

 There's other smaller changes to make the bigger ones sit well, 

 such as small text edits or change the order of the Pokédex.

 

 

 But Original and Alternative are divided in two too, one that I'll call

 "Intended Versions" and the other two are "Items in Battle" variations.

 

 The "Intended Versions" disables healing Items in battle and it forces Set options,

 meaning you don't get free switches after knocking out a foe Pokémon.

 You can't change the option, because it's not even there anymore.

 That's how I'd like people to play my hack, but knowing how some people can be,

 there's an extra patch, "Items in Battle", that gives you the possibility of 

 using Items and to change the battle option, but there's a price to pay.

 

 If you choose to play with enabled Items/Switch in battle, a few Items will be

 unavailable to you, the price of several Items will increase, and the HP

 they restore will be lowered. Also, NPC Trainers will also use Items. 

 That's simply because Items can be easily abused, and that is the opposite of

 what I wanted in this hack. If you choose the "right" to abuse Items during

 battle, then I have the right to make adjustments to annoy you with your choice.

 

 It's not like Hyper Potions will heal 1 HP or anything crazy like that,

 but because in my hack you can't use Items in battles, they're more

 powerful than the usual vanilla items so you could recover better

 between battles.

 The items you lose access to are all new, by the way.

 A set of consumable Held Items that raise a stat whenever the holder

 is attacked or under other circustances, similar to the berries

 in the Third Generation, albeit they're activated differently.

 Another change is limited access to a team-healing item that I made,

 and restores all your Pokémon to perfect shape. Intended to be used

 in a pinch, like being lost in a cave, or between hard fights, but

 you can only have in small amounts. In the Original patch, you can 

 carry 3 of them, but only 1 on the "Items in Battle" versions. 

 You're free to choose how to play.

 Of course, you only apply one patch. 

 

 If for some reason you started a game with one version, 

 for example, with the patch for Items in Battle, and you 

 later on want to go to the No Items in Battle version, 

 you can actually use that save file and not start again.

 But I recommend you to save first in a Pokémon Center before doing so.

 Once you did that, patch a clean ROM and rename the .SAV file into 

 whatever the new patched rom is. Now you can continue with your game.

 Remember to always make backups before doing anything of this sort. 

 

 I do not recommend changing between the Original and Alternate 

 versions.

 Lastly, trading and battling with vanilla Pokémon Crystal is not going

 to work. Not only many of the fixes made already impossible to be

 compatible with Vanilla Pokémon Crystal, but the gigantic load of

 changes I made to the game would render any attempt become a glitchy mess.

 But you can trade and battle with other copies of this hack, and the

 four versions of the patches should be compatible with each other

 for both trading and battling. I'd recommend using the No Items versions

 because it gives you access to those extra Held Items, though.

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 |[5]  Pokémon Changes|

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 Probably the most obvious and central change, these creatures are the core 

 of the franchise after all.

 As you may imagine, there have been changes to most aspects of them.

 While some of those have their sections to talk about, Base Stats

 are probably the most important one here.

 That is because for the most part there is parity in Base Stat Total 

 for all evolutionary lines in this game.

 Pokémon to me has become a rather painful series of games to look back, because there

 has never been that much of an interest to improve or balance out their creations

 to make a more varied, balanced and fun experience, and when they try to do something 

 is more on the lines of "adding" to fix instead of improving what's there already. 

 And don't get me wrong, trying to get "perfect balance" is impossible with such a large

 amount of creatures, but at the same time, Game Freak has done very, very little in 

 this regard, most other developers would at least try something, specially if they had

 the decades of game releases Game Freak has had.  

 

 But back on track.

 This is why in this hack, almost every Fully Evolved Pokémon has a Base Stat Total 

 of 620, making each all of them feel have the same potential overall.

 This means there will be no "early useless Pokémon", nor so called "Filler".

 And yes, this means your beloved Tyranitar, Dragonite, and such have the same potential 

 as a Raticate or a Wigglytuff. On the other hand, this also means you don't need to train

 a Pupitar or Dragonair to ridiculous levels to have them evolve into their final forms. 

 

 If you ask yourself "why such high Base Stat Total", well, its simple:

 The higher the roof, the more space you have to scale stats. 

 The more space you have to scale stats, the better you can "personalize"

 stats for the different species.

 

 Besides, the Base Stat Total stops being important when everybody is at 

 the same "level". 

 "True Legendary Pokémon" have a 660 Base Stat Total. 

 To this day I never used legendaries beyond wanting to see their back sprites,

 never cared about them, so they have the least number of changes, really.

 Some other changes are:

 ·Many Pokémon had their overall archetypes changed besides their Stats improved.

  Furret is now a Fast Special Attacker, for example.

 ·Almost every Pokémon now has a 50% Male/Female Ratio, except for the Nidorans, 

  Tauros and Miltank. Pokémon like Blissey, Chansey, or the Hitmon-family

  now can be both male and female. Magnemite, Voltorb and such are still genderless.

 ·The two Legendary Trios have genders and can in fact breed, thus they can be 

  seen almost as normal Pokémon, they also share the same BST too. 

 ·The Pokédex had the entries for each Pokémon modified. This is because now it shows

  actually useful information instead of the continuously repeated "scientific" info 

  that usually is full of lies and ridiculous stuff that could make an Indian Elephant

  have a headache, but hey, it may not be the Pokédex info, it may just be a bit too

  close to a Magcargo and it's experiencing how one feels being next to the Sun. 

  

  Happens to us all sometimes.

  Now, the first page of each species shows its Weaknesses and Resistances while

  the second page of each one now points out the Base Stat spreads it has,

  which is a much, much more useful ingame data, specially when this hacks

  aims to change heavily most things related to battling and "the RPG elements".

  

  Oh, and by the way, if you press Select while looking at a Pokémon's Data,

  you'll activate "Shiny Mode", and every Pokémon shown will be seen with their

  Shiny Colors!

  

  

 ·Talking about Shiny Pokémon, those are far more common. While I personally don't care

  too much about them, specially nowadays when they've become so... Uneventful and common,

  not to mention how much they've been related with hacking and cheating, Pokémon being 

  shiny lost appeal to me, yet they're still a big thing for many players, so why not make

  them easier to obtain?

  The means for finding a Shiny Pokémon in Generation II were rough. REALLY rough. With 

  the way it works now, you should find quite a few of them throughout your adventure, and 

  also finding female shiny Pokémon should also be a more common occurrence than before.

  You're bound to find a fair share of them. This being a modded game, it doesn't really 

  matter if they're not as rare or hard to find.

  NPC trainers will have Shiny monsters here and there, so you should also have the chance!

 ·As you already know, wild Pokémon may be holding items. In the original game,

  many species had nothing with them. Now, most species have them, and the variety

  is much, much bigger. Not only that, the chances for finding Pokémon with items

  has increased.

  Now there's a 50% of not having an item, 40% of having a "common" item, and 

  10% of holding a "rare" item. Better than the 2% on the original.

  Lastly, I've made another improvement in held items. Now, whenever you battle

  with a wild monster that has an Item, an little icon (similar to the one in the party menu)

  will appear on the enemy's HUD. Specifically between the Pokeball icon that appears

  when you fight a monster that you already have in your Pokédex, and the Gender icon.

  Again, only for WILD creatures. 

  If monsters have items in trainer battles is a secret to everybody!

 ·A big one, already mentioned in the introduction: 

  DVs (or IVs, if you rather call them that) NO LONGER FACTOR INTO STAT CALCULATIONS!!

  

  This means that now only Base Stats and Stat Exp matter in each Pokémon statistics.

  Oh, and by the way, the formula to calculate stats has changed very slightly.

  Remember that +5 bonus at the end of the calculations? Now it's a 6.

  That means that a 100 Base stat (Not HP) of a fully trained monster is 300 and not 299.

  This also means you can now have Female Pokémon with good Attack power, and Shiny 

  Pokémon no longer are weak, two rather big things for me at least.

  

  No more you will have to waste hours of your life breeding and abandoning 

  dozens if not hundreds of Pokémon for good DVs (what a great lesson!). 

  NPC Trainers also get good Pokémon too, making things better for everybody.

 ·Evolution has been streamlined and homogenized. This means that Pokémon that

  evolved by trades, special events, and such have simpler, more direct ways

  to do so now. But also, all Pokémon evolver on similar levels.

  

  After all, if they are supposed on equal footing in Power, they should 

  also be on the same level on this matter too. 

  

  Here's a few examples: 

  

  Pokémon with three stages evolve at levels 20 and 32.

  

  Pidgey evolves to Pidgeotto at level 20, and to Pidgeot at level 32.

  Chikorita evolves to Bayleef at level 20, and to Meganium at level 32.

  Dratini evolves to Dragonair at level 20, and to Dragonite at level 32.

  

  Pokémon with two stages evolve between levels 22 and 24.

  

  Rattata evolves into Raticate at level 23. 

  Venonat evolves into Venomoth at level 24.

  Rhyhorn evolves into Rhydon at level 24.

  Hoothoot evolves into Noctowl at level 22.

  Of course, there are a couple of exceptions. Caterpie and Weedle

  are still the fastest evolving lines, and of course Pokémon that

  evolve through stones can do so anytime you want.

  Oh, and by the way, in this hack, you WANT to evolve when Pokémon want to. 

  You won't get much from stopping an evolution, and with Pokémon that evolve 

  through stones and such, you should do it before too late.

  This is because many species learn better techniques at the same level they evolve, 

  and it would be a waste to not learn them.

  You can find at which levels are recommended Pokémon to evolve through stones in 

  the specific Pokémon Stat list txt. But if you want to make it easy:

  If the Pokémon has two evolutionary stages > Use the stone at Level 22 or 23.

  If the Pokémon has three evolutionary stages > use the stone at level 30 or 32 (to reach the last stage).

  That said, if you feel like not evolving for whatever reason, you've not lost everything.

  The game has a Move Reminder, and you'll be able to remember freely any move from a species

  learnset.

  Oh, and the Time Capsule seems to work as long as you of course follow the rules.

  But a few notes:

  Any Pokémon you bring from Generation 1 may have their moves changed upon 

  arriving your game. The moves may turn into a very uncharacteristic one for

  the Pokémon, because I repurposed many moves into new ones.

  The stats of the Pokémon will change from Gen 1 to Gen 2, and most notably,

  the HP of any Pokémon that reaches Gen 2 will not be fully healed, because

  of the change in stats, but there's no problem at all as far as functionality,

  just heal.  

  

  That said, have in mind there's NO NEED to use the Time Machine. 

  You do so under your responsibility. 

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|[6]  Type Changes|

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 Yet another big shake to the, in my personal point of view, rather badly balanced formula. 

 I'm not going to discuss or waste time with this. This is how it works here:

 Defensive wise, each type now is weak to two other types, while resistant to three, 

 one of them being itself. There are NO immunities. Every type is equal as far as 

 weaknesses and resistances, except for Normal. 

 A new change with 1.1 is the removal (for the most part) of Normal type in Pokémon. 

 It has been substituted by a new type, called Beast, and it shares the same traits 

 as the rest of the types, two weaknesses, three resistances. 

 

 The reason of making a new type instead of giving weaknesses and resistances to 

 Normal type is, beyond the fact that being "weak to Normal" sounds ridiculous, 

 this way I also avoid having one type with an absurd amount of moves to use with STAB, 

 so there's Beast Moves, and Normal Moves that act neutral for every species. 

 Offensive wise, each Type is effective against two Types, and is resisted by three, 

 one it being itself. Normal Moves as said, remain neutral to everything. 

 So, among other things, Dragon is no longer weak to itself, and Ice 

 is not such an awful and pathetic defensive Type that exists to be mocked.

 Oh, the Fairy Type has been added too, but how it works doesn't exactly 

 resemble the original game, just like the other Types.

 Now, because I know how certain part of the community can act (and let's not kid 

 ourselves pretending it doesn't happen), to make myself clear and blunt: 

  I don't care if you think Type X should be weak/resistant to type Y.

  I don't care if you don't want to learn new Type Matchups.

  I don't care what Game Freak does with types now or in the future.

 I'm not Game Freak and I have made this wanting to break away from their norm,

 I don't have to follow any rules, not theirs, not yours.

 Making a more even ground for all types, trying to make each monster good, so I could

 play with all of them and have fun was one of the important things for me, and to

 reach that goal I made as many changes as I saw fit.

 

 This hack is born out of my need to have something that feels different to play. 

 You're free to stop reading and go look for another hack if this will bother you.

 End of the "serious" moment. Good? Great, let's continue!

 With this change, every Pokémon will always have more good points 

 than bad points, not to mention that the maximum number of weaknesses a Pokémon 

 can have is 4, and if it has 4 weaknesses, to compensate it will have 6 resistances.

 There is an image in the RAR file with a Type Table to show you how Types work now,

 but beyond that, in Violet City's Pokémon Academy, there are two books that teach you

 the differen Types and their strong and weak points.

 And then, if you're so lazy to figure it out, the weaknesses and resistances for each

 individual species is listed on the Stats text file. 

 

 And theeen, if you're even lazier than that, you can also check the Pokedex Entry

 of a given *captured* Pokémon, as it gives you useful info such as this.

 

 Basically what I'm trying to say is that you have a number of ways to find out

 how types work. Use them to your advantage. 

 Oh, lastly, in this hack there are NO Pokémon with double weaknesses.

 I've never liked them to be honest, and to me just show how unappealing some

 types were designed to be that they make such awful combinations.

 I still remember how excited people were for Aurorus until they saw its typing,

 and then it all turned into either jokes at its weaknesses or pure disapppointment.

 No fun.

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|[7]  Move Changes|

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 Alongside the previous two changes, the Moves have been changed A LOT too.

 Instead of just "copying" what Game Freak has done in later generations, 

 this hack had in mind to actually modify moves in ways to make them more 

 interesting based on the limitations of the GBC games, and also another

 little thing:

 There is a Physical/Special Split in this hack, so one of the big changes of this 

 hack was to give each Type a number of both, Physical and Special moves to cover 

 different Power levels so Pokémon can have good STAB moves that go along with their stats.

 

 After all, that was probably the best thing Generation IV did for me. While it took

 some toys from some Pokémon (like Elemental Punches from Alakazam), it really was

 a big change for the better for most species.

 So for example, we have Rock Slide for Rock Pokémon with high Attack, and Rock Launch 

 for Rock Pokémon with high Special Attack. For this, many old moves were removed and 

 reworked into new moves, mostly moves that were redundant and exactly the same as other 

 moves (Like Whirlwind and Roar, or Wrap and Bind, they're the exact same thing).

 

 While this gives every type and every Pokémon solid Stab moves, the limitation of 

 254 moves makes it so I can't add many "wild" and unique moves, but oh well,

 it's already much, much better than what it was originally on Generation II.

 

 ...No, really, I forgot how rough and unfair the move list was in old Generations,

 with some Types having almost no good moves at all, or moves that Pokémon couldn't 

 take advantage of because their Stats and their Types didn't match. Hoo boy...  

 Another big change is that most attacks now have secondary effects, and very often, 

 the lower the Power of a move, the higher is the chance to inflict those secondary effects.

 For example, Fire Breath (New move) has a 15% Chance of causing Burn and 70 Power, but 

 Flamethrower only has 10% chance of causing burn and 95 Power. This makes moves with lower

 Power a bit more useful.

 

 And as of 1.1, the new type, Beast, also has a number of Moves for both 

 Special and Physical Pokémon. 

 As you may imagine, Pokémon Movesets have been changed tremendously, not only for those 

 critters that had their Types and Stat distributions changed, but also to accomodate

 all the modifications related to Moves.

 Movesets in this hack are in no way attempting to copy later generations of official games, 

 specially since Generation 2 Movesets were incredibly sad to look back. 

 

 Instead, they're focused on attempting to give what that certain species needs. So no Pokémon 

 will be let without good STAB moves, and you also won't see Pokémon that are obviously Physical 

 attackers getting Special moves or viceversa. 

 A handful of moves also got their priority changed.

 

 Safeguard, Haze, Mist, Transformation and Bide now go before other moves. 

 This change actually shakes up battles a bit, it was fun to see the AI 

 read my moves from time to time and prevent Status, and hey,

 with Transform having priority now Ditto is more usable too!

 A list of the moves, what they do, and their other data is in its own TXT file,

 although with ingame descriptions, it is not necessary.

 As far as TMs and HMs, things also have changed.

 TMs no longer get consumed when used, so they have infinite uses. The Moves they teach

 have also changed for the majority of TMS, with most of them teaching both Physical 

 and Special "end-game" moves. There's also a total of 55 TMS now.

 None of them can be found in shops, you must find them by exploring or obtained from 

 an NPC. 

 HMs have also changed a bit, making them more useful. Cut now is a 70 Power Normal move

 with a High Critical Ratio, and Fly is a strong move with 110 Power that causes Recoil damage. 

 Flash causes damage and can lower Accuracy. Strength is now is Fighting type and causes Flinch.

 And Whirlpool is a bit more powerful and now takes more HP at the end of turns, so its a rather

 cool combo alongside Toxic on bulky Pokémon.

 Also, HMs can be forgotten like normal attacks, so you can swap attacks easily in case you

 want, and unlike in Gen. 1, because you can't drop them, you can't get stuck.

 Or rather, you wouldn't get stuck, because there's another change. 

 These moves:

 

 Headbutt

 Rock Smash

 Cut        

 Surf

 Strength

 Waterfall

 Whirlpool

 Don't need to be known by a Pokémon to be used in the overworld! You only need a Pokémon

 capable of learning such move, and the needed Medal in the case of the HMs. 

 That only leaves Flash and Fly out of that list, right?

 About Flash:

 I also added an item that will let you light dark caves so you don't need

 to have a Pokémon with Flash, but you get it quite a bit later than the HM.

 Just look around Mahogany after things calmed down.

 

 It can be assigned to Select for quick use, too!

 

 About Fly:

 

 There's a small sidequest you can do later in the game that will 

 net you a special object. This item will let you use a different

 version of Fly. Mechanically, it's the same, you can fly to places

 you've explored. Animation-wise is different, though.

 Because all of this, you no longer need to have any HM 

 on any Pokémon unless you want it (because most of them are

 actually respectable attacking moves), which gives much more

 freedom to parties and movesets!

 

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|[8] Stat Experience, Vitamins and Fruits|

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TLDR VERSION: Use Vitamins, use Fruits. They improve your Pokemon's stats, and 

          you need to take care of your team to withstand other trainers

          which have properly trained monsters. Use them intelligently,

          don't waste them with Pokémon you don't want to have in your team,

      at least early on when you have limited resources.

          Vitamins are no longer as limited in effect, or as expensive.

          Fruits are new, and are twice as good as Vitamins. 

 Pokémon games have a system in which, through adquiring certain points through different means,

 a creature can improve its Stats. In Generations 1 and 2, these are called Stat Experience.

 This is a system Game Freak has never informed the players about at all, and the games never 

 came even close to mention it in any trully useful detail, so bare with me if this is your first

 time with this stuff, although I doubt you found this hack knowing nothing about it. 

 Stat Experience points can range from 0 (Empty) to 65535 (Maximized).

 Unlike later generations, In Gen. I and II, you can maximize the experience of all the stats.

 Stat Experience points are divided and exclusive for each stat.

 HP, Attack, Defense and Speed have their own Stat Exp Table. 

 Special Attack and Special Defense share the same Stat Exp Table.

 So reaching 65535 Stat Exp in each Stat will make your Pokémon perfect stat-wise.

 Even Pokémon at Level 100 can get Stat Experience, but to gain the effects, they need 

 to be stored on the PC so their real Stats can get updated with the current Stat Exp.

 they have at that moment. 

 The ways you get Stat Exp are these:

 By battling -Each time one of your Pokémon defeats another, the Base Stats of the enemy's species

          is added to your Stat Exp in each stat. This is the slowest way, but it's also free,

          and will raise your stats by just playing through the game.

      If you defeat, let's say, a Caterpie, it has these Base Stats:

HP 75, Attack 60, Defense 70, Speed 95, Special Attack 90, Special Defense 70.

      As I said, Special Attack and Defense use the same Stat Exp Table. The game takes

      the Base Stat related to Special Attack, so in this case, your Pokémon will be

      awarded 90 Special Stat Exp Points, alongside the rest.

      Training only through battles is not only pointless when you have other means,

      but also incredibly tedious. While in my hack Pokémon have higher stats that make

      training this way faster, battling for Stat Exp should only be relied on when

      you've already fed your Pokémon Vitamin and Fruits, to get those last Stat Exp Points

      needed for a Perfect Stat.

      But of course, any Stat Exp gained through battles is benefitial, just don't battle

      *only* for the Stat Exp unless, as I said it's to finish Stat Exp training!

      By the way, there's a special condition named Pokerús, which is a benefitial virus

      that will double the amount of Stat Exp you get from battles. This is very rare

      to get, and you will be noticed by a PKMN Center Nurse. The games don't tell you 

  what it does exactly either... 

      It can be very useful, and it propagates through your Pokémon team, and disappears

      after some time. If you ever get Pokerús, try to keep a Pokémon with active Pokerús

      on your PC so you can pass it to other Pokémon. But as I said, it's very rare!

 By Vitamins -Vitamins in the original game were pretty useless. They raised very little, and they

      could only be used up to some point, which is less than half way the Stat Exp total.

      In this hack, though, they're much better, and even necessary, as the people living

      in Johto and Kanto have *actually* trained their Pokémon properly and they have Stat

      Exp, so they'll be stronger and more challenging, and after a certain point, all

      trainers you'll find will have maximized Pokémon, like any trainer worth their salt

      would be doing.

      Each Vitamin gives 10.240 Stat Exp Points per use, and they can be used until the 

      Stat Exp of the Stat that you want to raise reaches 51.456, at which point, the

      Pokémon wont get any benefit from it (it won't be wasted, so don't worry).

      To make it easier to understand, let's put it this way:

      An untrained (either just catched, or just hatched) Pokémon will have 0 Stat Exp on

      everything. If you feed it HP UPs, it will be able to eat 6:

      10.240 1 HP Up

      20.480 2 HP Up

      30.720 3 HP Up

      40.960 4 HP Up

      51.200 5 HP Up > Doesn't go pass the limit so you can eat another one.

      61.440 6 HP Up > Passed the limit, so you can't feed more, but it's almost Maximized!

               You can get the rest by battling.

      If you're used to Effort Values from Gen 3 onwards, let's make it even easier:

      The way it works, each modern EV means 256 Stat Exp, so if it's easier for you, just

      divide Stat Exp by 256:

      Each Vitamin gives 10.240 Stat Exp, that means 40 EV.

      The limit of Stat Exp is 51.456, that means 201 EV.

      So with a Pokémon without EVs, you can go from 0 to 240 EV through vitamins.

      You can obviously give Vitamins to a Pokémon you've been battling with no problem,

      but an untrained Pokémon is better to use as an example. 

      Their price is much lower so you can keep up with enemy trainers, although they

      cost enough to make each purchase a bit of an investment early into the game.

By Fruits   - Fruits are almost exactly the same as Vitamins, but they give twice the Stat Exp.

      Each one gives 20.480 Stat Exp (Or 80 EV if you want it that way), and the limit

      is 41.216 Stat Points (or 161 EV). This means that your Pokémon can eat up to 

      three Fruits in a stat to jump for 0 Stat Exp to 61.440 (or 0 to 240 EV) and 

      almost maximize it. Let's again use an example of raising HP with Fruit now:

      20.480 1 Salty Fruit

      40.960 2 Salty Fruit > Doesn't go pass the limit so you can eat another one

      61.440 3 Salty Fruit > Passed the limit, so you can't feed more, but it's almost Maximized!

      Thus, fruits are much better overall than Vitamins, but they're scarce, and should

      be better used for Pokémon you know they have little to no training in a certain Stat.

      You can combine Vitamins and Fruit without problem, but if you do, first use your

      Fruits, then the Vitamins so you don't waste Fruits unnecessarily.

Why the limit - If you're asking why the limit is 51.456, or 240 EV for Vitamins, and 41.216 or

161 EVs for Fruits, it is simple to answer:

If you feed a Vitamin/Fruit to a Pokémon in a way that would go over 65535, a bug

would happen and the Stat Exp of that Pokémon would roll back to 0. I think it's 

obvious why that would suck.

So, by putting these limits you're safe from that to happen, but you also get very

close to maximize a stat. It's the best balance I could achieve.

 

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|[9]  Mechanic & Gameplay Changes|

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 Already said that under the hood, there are many, many other changes. 

 Some (not all of them, not by a long shot) changes are as follows:

 

· The Clock Reset function now has a much easier button combination to open it.

  The combination is like this:

  

  1: Hold    Select + Down 

  2: Release Down while holding Reset. 

  3: With Reset Held, now hold Up too.

  4: Release Select. The Reset Clock menu will open.

  

  It requires less buttons, making it easier to do, or able to do at all

  depending where you are playing. You still need to input the password,

  though, removing that would let you abuse certain things very easily. 

· Prices for several things have been lowered on the "Intended" Versions of this hack.

  Because you no longer can abuse Items to progress, I saw no real reason to 

  make you pay as much as usual. You're still going to need them, because the

  need for healing between battles is still a thing.

  Another reason to do this is because you will also spend much more money than

  usual on Vitamins and other stuff to properly train and prepare your team.  

· Catching Pokémon grants you Experience now! The Exp. is the same as if it was

  defeated, and every Pokémon that fought in said battle will get a share of it.

· The Odd Egg will always give you a Shiny Pokémon between 7 ramdonly selected

  species, and both genders. Each Species get a unique move, instead of all of

  them getting the same (now non-existing) move.

· Talking about Eggs, Pokémon now hatch much, much faster, so there's less

  walking up and down through Goldenrod. Not only that, but Egg Moves also

  changed all around. Pokémon also lay Eggs faster, and Nidorina &

  Nidoqueen can now breed, alongside both "legendary" trios.

  Now each basic species has between 3 or 4 Egg Moves for the most part

  they are different from vanilla, and basic Starter Pokémon have 5 Egg Moves.

· Trainer AI has been much improved. Now they know much better what they do, and they 

  can priorize stuff like Status Effects, they take better advantage of weaknesses and 

  resistances. 

  

  They also carry Items with them, if you play with the patch that lets you

  items in Battle, of course.

 

  Trainers also have properly trained monsters, with Stat Exp increasing throughout

  the game. Feeding your team vitamins and fruits is now important to stay on toes

  with them. Of course, there is more variety in species of monsters used by NPCs,

  their levels are higher, and team sizes have increased a bit.

  Making each trainer a full 6 Pokémon team would drag the game, though, and probably 

  couldn't fit, I already was suffering the lack of space with what I added, because

  when adding Stat Exp, custom Movesets, and such the space gets used way too fast.

  Also, the game was very, very unfair to the NPC trainers. 

  Not only were they hard-coded to fail more often, have mediocre AI, and Low-Level Pokémon,

  you also got your Stats and Types boosted as you got Badges, so they became completely

  inferior and disappointing... At least, if you want to have any challenge. 

  That's why any bonus that Badges give you was stripped down. No Stat Boost, no Type Boost.

  This will make the game far more fair and chalenging, in turn making it more enjoyable if

  you look for having to think and put a bit of effort, which is, you know, the point of 

  this entire hack.

  Another thing changed is the money that many types of trainers reward you by beating them.

  In this hack you have many more things to buy as mentioned above, from Vitamins, to 

  Held Items, to Decorations, and more Healing Items because of the higher difficulty,

  so a better income was needed.

  On the other hand, if you lose, which is much more plausible now, you won't get your money

  halved. Instead, you lose money depending on the number of badges you have, like more recent

  games. It's much more fair early on, specially in this hack since it is expected of you to

  buy vitamins and held items for your monsters as you go through the game, besides all the

  other items.

· Stat increase percentages have been changed.

 

  Stat-improving moves like Accelerate or Meditate, and Stat-decreasing moves like

  Growl or Scary Face can go from Level 0 (normal stat), to Level +6 or -6,

  depending if it increases or decreases a stat.

Before

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|Level -6   -5   -4   -3   -2   -1   0     1     2      3     4     5     6   |

|Perc. 25%  28%  35%  45%  50%  66%  100%  150%  200%   250%  300%  350%  400%|

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Now

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|Level -6   -5   -4   -3   -2   -1   0     1     2      3     4     5     6   |

|Perc. 25%  30%  35%  45%  60%  75%  100%  130%  160%   190%  220%  250%  300%|

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  This has been changed for one main reason: to make better balance between critters,

  Stats are now higher. With stats being higher, stat-increasing would get too broken,

  specially with +1 bonus being a whole 50% increase. So bonuses are softer now, but

  so is stat-reducing -1 Level, so it's not too harsh. 

· Item Storing Changes 

  For starters, there's two new pockets, one for Berries and Fruits in which 13 kinds of items go in it, 

  the already known berries, plus the new Fruits used for powering up your monsters. Fits all of them.

  The other new pocket is for Battle items, specifically Held Items. There are several dozen of them,

  and having such type of items be mixed with consumable and healing items was a bit of a mess, 

  even more if you have an organization obsession and want everything neatly grouped. 

  

  Every item of this type fits in this pocket, that's over 50 different types of Items!

  Apricorns are now stored in your Ball Pocket, and there's space to have every ball plus Apricorn, 

  so they will never become a nuissance to you by filling your bag like before.

  Item Pocket now can store 35 different objects instead of 20, and because Berries/Fruits, Apricorns,

  and Held Items do not take space in this pocket anymore you have much more freedom.

 

  There's one catch, though, now you can only store 30 types of items in the PC, instead of 50.

  It won't be much of a problem because you don't need to store any Berry, Fruit, Apricorn, Ball,

  or Held Item, so I think it's a good compromise. 

  Another change is, as mentioned above, about wild Pokémon. Now, many different species will

  hold items. These range from Berries and Fruits, to sell-able Items, Apricorns and a few others.

  This not only will make getting new monsters more interesting, but will also make way, way

  more useful the move Thief, and also the new Peck, which also has the effect of taking the

  item the foe holds.

  

  

· The Pokegear Map has seen a huge facelift. Not only is a bit prettier to look at,

  it's also more informative, with standout places or landmarks pointed out in the

  map. I even added different little icons to quickly see which poblated areas are

  Towns or Cities, just because why not.

· A new Building in Goldenrod has been opened. This place will sell to you all 

  the Decoration items you previously would get through Mystery Gift or through your Mom. 

 

  Some of the dolls also have been changed, to offer something new, because the game

  now is not limited to the original Pokémon icons for the Party Menu. This is also 

  true for the bigger dolls. 

  Talking about that, your Mom will no longer buy you Decoration items, and the items 

  it buys are now much more useful and simply put, better than Super Potions and such.

· A Move Reminder has been added to the game, but unlike how Move Reminders work

  in vanilla games, here it will let you remember moves from a species, as many times 

  as you want, for free. 

  

  This is because this hack, having higher difficulty than your usual Pokémon game, may 

  require you to reshuffle your Movesets or try different strategies, and I WANT you to 

  do so, punishing you with constant farming of Items to change Movesets so you can try 

  different things sounds very counter-intuitive to me. 

  

  To make this even more useful, each fully evolved creature can remember a number

  of Moves from prior evolutionary forms too.

  The types of Moves they'll retain from earlier forms are usually moves related to 

  Stat changes, Status Effects, and Attacks that may have special traits or effects.

  Basically, Pidgeot won't be able to remember Wing Attack, which is a simple, straightforward 

  Attack move, but it will remember Quick Attack and Peck, the first one having Priority,

  and the second one having the new effect of stealing Items from other Pokémon.

  You can find the Move Reminder in both Johto, and Kanto.

  In Johto, he lives with the other useful NPCs, Name Rater and Move Deleter in Goldenrod.

  In Kanto, you can find a similar group of NPCs in Lavender Town. 

· Pokegear Rematches are now much stronger, they have more Pokémon and more varied, 

  and often enough their Pokémon have nicknames.

  To give you an idea, many Pokegear trainers will end up with teams of Lvl 80 Pokémon!

  So be very careful when fighting again these trainers, they may surprise you!

  

  Also, a big change in how they work: Originally, if you didn't rematch a trainer 

  and you kept playing, when you came back to it, it would challenge you with a very

  outdated team.

  

  This is because they only get better if you fight them earlier each time. 

  This is no how it works anymore. They upgrade their teams as you advance through 

  the game, and you could very well meet them for the first time after battling them

  originally and find out they have a full team of very strong Pokémon.

  

  This makes Pokegear rematches far, far more interesting and better paced. 

  Talking about rematches, I added end-game rematches to the game.  

  Once you beat Red for the first time, a whole bunch of new battles gets unlocked:

  The Pokémon League levels get bumped, with some changes on their teams.

  Counting your Rival's rematch, levels range from 80 to 85.

  All Gym Leaders end up their training, and they await you to fight in Lvl 100 Rematches.

  If they didn't have originally, every Leader will have a full team, and all of them have

  some changes to their teams.

  The default trainer in the Trainer's House in Viridian City also goes from Lvl 70, to Lvl 100.

  And there's a few extra Lvl 100 battles that I'll let you discover, although they're

  not precissely hidden!

 

  If you ask yourself why Lvl 100, well, that's to make sure you don't win by overlevelling them.

  Once you beat Red, you also unlock a way to Level Up your Pokémon much faster.

  Just check the Battle Tower once you do so, although be warned, it requires some effort!

· Buena's Password had its rewards changed, now it's more useful overall.

· Ingame Pokémon trades are different, and they ask for hard-to-get monsters, but give you 

  very nice ones in exchange, I hope you like them.

  

  

· Bill's grandfather has seen some neat changes. His time killer of seeing Pokémon you bring 

  to him stays, but not quite the same as it originally was. Now he'll tell you riddles that 

  talk about a certain Pokémon, and if you guess them correctly by showing him the right 

  species, he'll gift you some very neat Held Items for your pals! 

  He put quite of effort in those riddles, they even rhyme!

· Fishing has been tweaked a bit.

  Now the chances for Pokémon to bit are higher (who wants to press Select several times for nothing?)

  and the Pokémon available by fishing are much more varied, yes, even the Old Rod. 

  Levels are also higher. Old Rod ~10, Good Rod ~20, Super Rod ~40.  

  Talking about the Old Rod, now you can get it sooner, before even getting the first Medal. 

  The Fishing Guru has moved to the gate that connectes Route 31 with Violet City.

  This expands which Pokémon you can get early on, and more options is better.

  ...Unless you're me, then it just makes it harder to choose which monsters you want to have. 

· Fruit Trees now give 2 Berries/Fruits/Apricorns each day!

· On Violet, Azalea and Goldenrod cities you can find the new Berry Scouts.

  These green-cladded folks will sell you the basic Status-Healing Berries,

  in order to help accomodate you a bit on the higher difficulty of this hack

  compared to the usual stuff.

 

  The price on the "Items in battle available" patches are a bit higher. 

· While there's absolutely zero intention of creating a new "story" or "region", there

  are new maps here and there. For Example, there's an actual Viridian Forest again,

  with trainers, Items and such, even!

 

  Other maps got extended a bit here and there, maybe to hide something...!

  Some areas also have changes made to look or feel better to explore.

  Others have been extended to feel more like a full place.

 

  The Gyms also had changes. It's interesting how... "small", and simple most of them where.

  I expanded most, give some light puzzles to most of the ones that didn't have anything

  going on (I even rescued unused map movement for one of them!) to make them slightly

  more interesting.

 

  Of course, please don't expect Zelda-level dungeons or anything like that.

  ...Although that could be a pretty cool thing as its own game!

  

  

· Because I made quite a few changes in the Types of the Pokémon, 

  I reformatted Bill's PC a bit. Now when browsing around your monsters,

  you can see their types on the upper left side of the screen. 

  

  

· I changed a few textbox frames, some to fix them up a bit,

  and two of them are entirely new. I like Frame 5 myself.

  

  

· The order of the Pockets in your Bag differs when youre outside

  Battle and when you're in middle of one. 

  

  This is to make the Poké Ball pocket right next to the default

  Item pocket, instead of being 3 pushes away to the right.

  

  

· Status Effects no longer are shown with 3 letter "words".

  Now they have their own little Icons, which make things cleaner

  both in Battle and specially on the Party menu.

  

  

· Of course, I decapitalized all the text I found. 

  What a tedious thing...

· Smashable Rocks now can give stone-type Items alongside 

  being a way to find certain Pokémon. 

  

  

· Once you heal Moo Moo, one of the twins opens up a 

  little shop!

  

  She'll be able to make Berry Juice for you, and

  you have two ways of doing it, for convenience. 

  

  Talking about Held-healing Items, RageCandyBar have 

  been also reworked to be eaten during battle.

  

  They're more powerful than Gold Berries, but less 

  than Berry Juice.

· Many things have been fixed. For example:

  Daisy's Haircut was buggy and could in fact reduce Happiness, has been fixed.

  Magikarps in Lake of Rage were in fact smaller than normal and not bigger, 

  and other Magikarp related bugs also existed all around. Fixed.

  A bug where Defense could be lowered by attacking a Substitute with a -Def move existed, now is fixed.

  A bug where Mirror Coat and Counter would damage foe after they used an item existed, now is fixed.

  A bug that made supposedly fleeing Pokémon not able to flee is fixed. Now Fast Balls are more useful.

  A bug that made a foe under Nightmare's effect still be hurt if it was healed with items is fixed.

  A bug where the HP Bar would deplete way slower than intended existed. Yes, you're reading right.

  The speed at which the HP Bar emptied, specially at higher levels, was not intentional, making

  high level battles way, way slower. This has been fixed and is much better, albeit not Gen. 3 "fast".

  Other bugs and stuff has been fixed too.

 There's more things I could put here, but when you spend so long doing

 something you start to forget each individual thing...

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|[10] New Kurt Balls, new ways to obtain Apricorns|

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 Yes, every Kurt Ball has been replaced. Why?

 

 Well, actually, for the first year and a half of "development" of this hack, Kurt Balls were

 pretty much as they were originally, with exception of changing one for more utility, improving

 their effects to make them overall better and fixing the quite-a-few glitches related to them.

 

 But during the many tests I (and a few friends) did, all the feedback I got is that they did

 not use them much, if at all, because how situational they are, and because you can only get

 them in limited amounts.

 

 So I decided to create a new set of Balls with very simple yet very effective effects.

 Each of these new Poké Balls offer a x3 Catch Multiplier if used on a certain Type of

 Pokémon, with each new Ball being useful for 3 different Types each.

 

 For example, the Poké Ball made with Red Apricorns (named Red Ball to simplify things),

 will work best while trying to catch Fire, Fighting or Ground Pokémon!

 Other example would be the Pink Ball will do so with Poison, Psychic, or Fairy ones.

 

 There's no tricks, nor complexities. If the types match, you get a stronger effect

 than an Ultra Ball. This makes each one way more versatile, every Apricorn as useful

 as the rest.

 

 Descriptions of each new Ball points to which types are most effective. 

 

 Now, because I want people to use these Balls more often, there are a few more

 ways to obtain these Items. The first and most simple is getting Apricorns from

 Trees, from which you get two for every one each day. 

 

 Pokémon themselves also carry Apricorns, as many species hold them randomly.

 

 But I also added a new face to Johto, a traveling monk!

 He's easily recognizable thanks to his sandogasa (a traditional traveling hat).

 Because he travels around Johto, each day you'll find him in a different spot,

 and each day will offer to trade 5 Apricorn of a certain color for one specific

 Item. The Items he ask for can be obtained from wild Pokémon, and sometimes

 found somewhere lying on the floor.

 

 For Red or Green Apricorns, he asks for a Tiny Mushroom.

 for Blue, Yellow or Pink Apricorns, he asks for a Pearl.

 For White or Black Apricorns, he asks for a Stardust.

 

 Tiny Mushrooms can be held by Pokémon such as Paras, Ledyba, Oddish, Vulpix and others.

 Pearls can be held by Pokémon such as Shellder, Horsea, Seadra, Octillery and Corsola.

 Stardust can be held by Pokémon such as Geodude, Jigglypuff, Phanpy, Staryu and Tentacool.

 Of course those are just a few examples, there are more.

 I hope with all this, Kurt's custom Poké Balls are more useful all around.

 

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|[11] The New and Improved Battle Tower and Trainer House|

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 The Battle Tower was the first time Game Freak offered anything sort of similar to a Challenge Mode

 inside the main games. We got Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2, which were great little things, designed to

 be a battle simulator, with different rules and difficulties, among other things like mini-games.

 But the Battle Tower was a bit... Lacking. And HARD.

 This is because, for one, the trainers you met here had a quite low variety of Pokémon, so it 

 kinda became a bit boring (I guess Game Freak knew most Pokémon had middling stats!). 

 

 On the other hand, the monsters here sported pretty much PERFECT stats,

 and with strong moves along with them.

 This last sentence is worth noting because in older generations, training your Pokémon to their

 fullest potential, A.K.A. giving them the max Stat Exp. was a total pain and a ludicriously slow

 process. And trying to get good DVs (old IVs) was a much, much, much worse process than that.

 

 You couldn't make use of ANY mechanic to get Pokémon with good DVs, they were random, and

 unlike more recent Generations, you could not improve a Pokémon DVs by using items or such.

 You had no control besides soft resetting ad nauseam. If it sounds bad it's because it is.

 So to have a chance not only you needed High DV monsters (pretty much impossible by normal rules), 

 but also fully trained and with the best moves possible.  And you only got ONE SINGLE TM for many 

 moves, and Pokémon learnsets were for the most party pretty lacking if looking at them from a 

 competitive point of view, so you were screwed there, as you may imagine.

 All in all, it was often seen as unfair and just not very fun. And if you wanted to try it anyway,

 add to that that the rewards were laughable. Vitamins that you could buy, and didn't help you at

 all because they became useless quickly, they only helped for less than half of the Stat. Exp total!

 But here's the thing: I love the concept! The idea of having 3 monsters each, with the same level,

 where only your strategy, knowdlege and adaptibility can take you out of trouble, sounds great!

 

 Even more, maybe if you got something worth your time as a reward it could be even more fun!

 That's why a good chunk of the effort of this hack was about trying to balance types, moves,

 Pokémon and such. And also why the Battle Tower got so many changes!

 So let's list the changes:

 For starters, each of the ten Levels of the Tower got their Pokémon changed, both to update 

 the new stats, but also to give much, much needed variety to the types of monsters you would

 see, as originally the game sported just a small number of different species.

 Instead of 7 battles per round, now you have quicker rounds of 3. This makes for a much more brisk

 pace, a far less frustrating event if you lose, and easier to pick up and play.

 About difficulty, it should still be a good challenge, although this time, there is some balance,

 as now you can properly train your monsters through vitamins and fruits, TMs hold a good selection

 of high-Power moves and they're infinite and of course DVs/IVs are the same for everybody. 

 

 Oh, and you can remember old moves, too!

 

 There's also two Shops available for players, in which you can buy a selection of

 Held Items so you can prepare yourself to challenge the Tower, or to progress 

 through the game, as trainers will start using Held Items more and more once you

 reach this point in the game. 

 Up to that point is the basic stuff...

 But the Battle Tower has also opened several shops and services,

 and there's even a bit of a progression system built into it, too!

 Whenever you participate in the Battle Tower and come out victorious,

 you'll be rewarded a new type of Item: Battle Medals!

 

 You get three for each victiorous round (so each three battles).

 

 These objects are, basically, the coin of exchange for almost any 

 service inside the Battle Tower. They are stored in your Item Pocket

 and can be used in a variety of ways.

 

 For one, they're pricey objects, each one sells for 12.000P, thus they can

 cover costs for training Pokémon. Selling all 3 you win nets you 36.000P,

 which is pretty good if you realize you can buy enough Vitamins to fully

 feed a Pokémon in three different Stats (or four if you use Special Atk/Def

 Vitamins!).

 So two good rounds of Battle Tower lets you set up the Stat Exp. of

 a Pokémon really, really quickly! Or you can buy other stuff with it, too.

 But that's just a bonus compared to their real use!

 

 In the Main Hall of the Battle Tower, a new Receptionist hangs out close to the

 Battle Tower's usual lady that takes you to the battles themselves. This new

 NPC can reward you with a Silver or Gold Trophy in exchange for a number of

 Battle Medals. They're shiny decorations for your room... And hold some use.

 The Battle Tower has been expanded and now there are new rooms that host several

 services. One of them, and one I'm rather excited to manage to put in the game is

 a Reward Shop that exchanges Battle Medals for Special Eggs!

 

 Do you remember the event Pokémon from the Stadium games? 

 They were gifted to you after accomplishing something, and in Stadium 2, they

 had moves they couldn't learn normally. It was a nice little thing, and always

 made me feel curious about Pokémon with Moves that couldn't learn normally.

 You know, what new strategies could I come up with and such.

 This service is located in a room behind the Main Hall. There, a Receptionist

 will take one of your Battle Medals and will gift you an Egg with a special

 Pokémon that knows a unique move!

 There's a total of 50 different species you can get through these Eggs, and

 the one you get for each medal is selected at random. And every species has

 the same chances, no dishonest stuff like 0.0001% to get a certain Pokémon,

 like a Gatcha game.

 

 Oh, and if you're one of those, don't waste your time resetting trying

 to get Shiny Pokémon from these Eggs... Believe me, it won't work.

 

 Another service is the inclusion of Move Tutors!

 

 There are two Tutors and each one can teach 4 Moves each. 

 Seven of those are unique to Tutors, with an Eighth Move

 being Toxic, a TM you get veeery late, so I added it for

 earlier access, as some Pokémon (like defensive ones) do

 benefit from it or need it to work well. 

 Tutor Moves can only be learnt by Fully Evolved Pokémon,

 and you can do so only in exchange for one Battle Medal. 

 

 The move selection is composed of Non-Damaging moves to give more utility

 and so they can be applied to all Pokémon in one way or another, unlike

 damaging moves, and I would have liked to have more, but I hit the limit

 before the entire game gets corrupt, so these will have to do!

 Both of these features not only offer much, much better rewards for your

 victories in the Battle Tower, ones that not only can be enjoyed throughout

 the rest of the game making it more entertaining, but also give you a

 chance to get a few monsters earlier and gives new possibilites to make

 teams to challenge the Battle Tower too.

 

 ...And that's not all you can do here now!

 

 Besides normal Move Tutors, the Battle Tower has also hired a very

 special NPC: The Egg Elder... Or in other words, an Egg Move Tutor!

 

 Basically, in exchange for 3 Battle Medals, this old man can teach

 a Pokémon an Egg Move that its evolution line can learn through

 breeding with other Pokémon!

 

 And yes, any member. Pidgeot and Pidgeotto can learn moves that

 a bred Pidgey could hinerit, so no worries on that front!

 

 This way you won't longer feel like your early-game teammates (or any

 Pokémon for that matter) feel gimped or "lesser" because don't have

 this or that move only available through breeding.

 

 In a way it's like every species has its own specific Tutor Moves!

 

 But let's continue.

 

 The receptionist in the main hall (the one who gives trophies) also offers

 a new Key Item: The Box Changer. It does what it says, it gives you the

 ability to switch the Box on Bill's PC anywhere you want. 

 Just remember that you still save your game when changing boxes this way.

 

 Once you reach the "endgame", meaning, after defeating Red, two 

 other Receptionists will open up new services. And are neat ones!

 

 The first one is a Rare Candy shop!

 You will be able to exchange one Battle Medal for 5 Rare Candies.

 This will let you manage the Levels of your Pokémon faster, either

 to battle the new Lvl 100 Rematches, or to Level up your monsters

 to reach the Levels required for Battle Tower Rooms.

 

 The other, it's quite different but way more interesting too.

 

 You see, a new group of candies capable of changing the Level of a Pokémon

 to a fixed one now exist! There's Candies for Levels 10, 30, 50 and 80!

 

 No matter what Level the monster is, it will change into the Level

 of the Candy! 

 

 If you give a Level 30 Candy to a Level 4 Pokémon, it will become

 Level 30. And If you give a Level 30 Candy to a Level 82 Pokémon,

 it will also become Level 30!

 

 This is mostly for a reason: To be able to use your favourite pals

 in any Level of the Battle Tower!

 

 Once a Pokémon Level goes up, it no longer can access the Battle

 Rooms of lower Levels, and if you wanted to use a monster of a

 specific species you already raised, you were forced to train another

 one. But no longer you will need to do that!

 

 Now any Pokémon can battle in any Battle Room by using these new

 Candies in combination with Rare Candies, and you can perfectly

 control the level of your team for this challenge while also needing

 a bit of a resource (Battle Medals) to make use of it.

 

 Not to mention, Level 80 Candies can make HUGE time savers for training

 Pokémon for those Level 100 Rematches, specially if we're talking

 about bred Pokémon, or Pokémon from Battle Tower's Special Eggs!

 

 Now, be warned, you CAN NOT make use of all these features from the

 beginning!

 

 Remember those Trophies I talked about? Yeah, they do more than

 look nice in your room. Each one unlocks features of the Tower!

 

 Once you win the Silver Trophy, you unlock:

 Move Tutors   (Accessible the moment you get the Trophy).

 Rare Candy Shop  (You need to beat Red too).

 Level 30 Candies (Accessible the moment you get the Trophy).

 Level 50 Candies (You need beat the Elite Four too).

 Once you win the Gold Trophy, you unlock:

 Egg Move Tutor   (Accessible the moment you get the Trophy).

 Level 80 Candy   (You need to beat Red too).

 

 So yeah, you must prove yourself and get the Trophies to use

 all the Battle Tower has to offer.

 

 But don't fret! There's not really much grinding to do. 

 You'll see that the number of Medals needed to obtain each

 is pretty reasonable for what they unlock. 

 

 The game does not ask for hundreds of them for each,

 not even close! I know how tedious is to collect Battle Points

 for an Item or one-time use TM back in Generation IV. 

 

 And hey, if for some reason you still need a bit of a push,

 you can win Battle Medals by participating on Buena's Password.

 

 They cost 2 points, you can get one Medal every two days.

 It's a much slower pace than actually fighting, but it

 certainly adds up if you play often.

 

 And you also get a handful of them in Kanto, a certain

 NPC will gift you a bunch if you manage to do something,

 and some Gym Leaders will gift you one too.

 

 Lastly, also in Kanto, there's the Trainer House.

 Originally it was a cool little feature in which you could battle the 

 Pokémon Team that a friend had when you two did a Mistery Gift. 

 

 Because I don't expect people going around doing IR connections with a Romhack,

 the Trainer House has been changed around.

 

 I really don't want to say much, but here's this:

 

 Normally, you can battle a special Trainer daily in this building.

 But once you've beaten the strongest trainer in all the land, levels are raised,

 and you can take Lvl 100 battles... With the difference that the Pokémon used 

 in these new battles change depending on the day of the week!

 And if you win, you also obtain Battle Medals!

 

 It's a little extra end-game thing alongside the other end-game additions.

 

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|[12] Visual Changes|

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 Many, many visual changes have been made throughout the game to make the world a bit 

 more cohesive, to make Pokémon look better, or to simple improve stuff here and there.

 Pretty much every Pokémon not named Unown got their colors changed, 

 for ones that look better, closer to the original colors of a particular

 species, and also got their sprites touched up and cleaned up. 

 Because the games were originally designed to be displayed on the tiny screen of a GB, the graphic

 artists would try and take advantage to use the 4 colors available to a Pokémon sprite to give it 

 more details. With the advent of the GBC, now they could use colors too, and because the screen

 wasn't backlighted, they needed to use stronger, more saturated and often darker colors.

 The issue is that nowadays these games are pretty much always played on backlighted screens

 that are also much, much bigger than the original Game Boy's screen, so these graphics that 

 originally looked fine now I don't find they've aged as well with the ways we play them today. 

 

 Now, let's be fair here. This is not a criticism for the sprites or the artists. These sprites

 were made to be seen under a specific hardware, and they worked with what they had, and the

 gigantic jump in design quality from Generation 1 to Generation 2 is to be applauded.

 

 But at the same time, I think it's fair to say that there's nothing that says they can not 

 be revised and/or improved. That's why I took the horridly tedious job of cleaning up every

 single sprite (and each of their animated frames) to make them look more clean when played

 on bigger screens.

 

 I also took the liberty to tweak many of the colors used for Shiny Pokémon. This is something

 I've seen many people point out throughout the years, and it's true that the use of color for 

 Shiny palettes leaves quite a bit to be desired, with many Pokémon being painted with what I 

 saw called "Puke Green", and others having really dark and simply not appealing combinations 

 of colors that sometimes would make the sprites look worse. 

 

 Several of those examples could be Blastoise, Raichu, Aipom or Golbat, and this last one even

 gets its shading screwed up. Or something like Rhydon, that looks exactly like the official 

 art, while its normal color is much darker; with Pokémon like Phanpy, Sunkern, Xatu, Scyther

 and others looking very similar to their default colors. 

 Just have in mind I'm working with the limitations of the GBC and 4 Colors per sprite, so I

 do what I can do, although it's surprising what nice colors the GBC can display compared to

 the ones they used, but of course, I'm not doing this to be seen on real hardware, so I do 

 not have that limitation. 

 You can check a couple of examples in the pictures inside the RAR file for both, sprite 

 improvements and Shiny changes. 

 I also improved all the Back Sprites too, to keep consistency. And some Pokémon got entirely

 different sprites, such as Mr. Mime, or Wigglytuff, as there was better designs elsewhere, 

 like Mr. Mime's Silver sprite. It's so much better in my eyes. And yes, they have animations.

 

 Oh, and a handful of Pokémon got redesigns here and there. Don't panic, the changes

 where made only to humanoid Pokémon to remove incoherent stuff like Machoke 

 and Machamps' underwear or the boxing gear of Hitmonchan.

 

 This is because as time has passed it "snowballed" into a gigantic ball of nonsense. 

 Now, it's not that I hate Pokémon with human-made things on them, for example we 

 could make logical arguments on why they have them in the first place. 

 

 Very early Pokémon (back when it was Capsule Monsters) had a lot of very... morally

 dubious stuff in it. Trainers had whips, the monsters were sold in cages and there

 was a pretty clear aura of animal abuse in it all. The artwork was intriguing...

 And a bit worrying.  

 

 When you find out about that stuff it can make sense that humans would put things 

 to restrict their Pokémon like the "strength-reducing" underwear for the Machop tree.

 Who knows, maybe that's why Pokémon such as Primeape have what looks like

 shackles on their limbs too. 

 

 And back in generation 1, there was only ONE Hitmonchan, given to you by a human. 

 We can simply think the objects it wears are given to it by that person, and it

 would make sense. Jynx is also another Pokémon which can only be received once, 

 also given by a human and looks like one, maybe there's something going on too.

 

 And all those examples would be fine but then they're turned into nonsense when 

 you can find these Pokémon living in nature with all that stuff on them, or they

 magically appear when evolving. It just feels... dumb to me, it is something

 that I could see other developers adress in different ways, but here they just 

 where completely forgotten. 

 Because this thing is tailored-made for me, I decided to change it.  

 And talking about Jynx, when the beta sprite leaked from Red & Green leaks among others,

 it was pretty exciting to see that this Pokémon once upon a time was very different,

 with more of a yeti-like design, which can be traced to  japanese Kaiju tv shows, like

 many early Pokémon designs such as Nidoking (look up Baragon). 

 It apparently had a name that was a very easy to see nudge at Ultraman. 

 

 You can read about it here (and also see a bit of the darker Capsule Monsters stuff 

 I mentioned above, but you can also search for early concept art):

 

 https://helixchamber.com/2019/02/16/what-dreams-may-come/

 During the development of the hack I went so far as to create sprites to change 

 Jynx into this Yeti-thing, but as time went on I did not feel very satisfied,

 it felt like a random addition that felt out of place. 

 

 I thought of going back to the original Jynx, but I ended sending the entire 

 evolutionary line away and substituting it with another Ice Pokémon from the 

 third Generation.  

 

 ...Anyway, moving on from that, each species has its own unique icon on the menu and

 the overworld too, which is a great thing to give flavour to the game, and seems like

 a new standard for Pokémon Crystal hacks (with good reason).

 The overworld also got some big changes to improve visually, and sometimes, gameplay wise.

 Besides visuals, some places also changed in design a bit, for a number of different reasons.

 

 For example some Kanto cities had their design changed to look more on par with Johto, as if you

 compare maps between places, and Gen. 1 and 2, you'll see they kinda look off and weird, as

 if it didn't have the same time and effort put into it compared to Johto (they didn't).

 

 Places like Celadon and Fuchsia City for example look rather different, although they

 keep their overall structure, they just got a bit more going for them.

 

 Also there's a few improvements on sprites. For example, I drew new sprites for when

 you're surfing, similar to those in Gen 3 with your character over a undefined Pokémon.

 And yes, they're different for both the male and female player characters.

 

 There's also HUGE CHANGES in how information is displayed in several points, with the

 biggest improvement being the Pokémon's Stats Page. It took me quite some time to get

 it to look nicer and more organized / easier to read, and I even expanded it

 by adding a fourth Stat Screen to show some extra "for fun" info.

 The font was also changed for a thin yet wider one, to make it less empty between letters,

 and also more consistent with the different characters, like numbers.

 Also, HUGE, HUGE thanks to HyperDriveGuy's amazing work and effort, a way of improving the scrolling

 and movement on the overworld to make it much more smooth and, to be blunt, less disgustingly

 choppy if you're used to smooth scrolls.

 This change to me is like magic, it makes the game feel so much better! 

 To be fair, finding this improvement refueled my interest in continuing this hack, 

 so thanks again HyperDriveGuy, your work is not just great, it also really did 

 drive this guy forward, pun no intended... Or maybe a bit. 

 That said, coding this introduced some bugs, some of them harmless, and others being 

 progress-halting or even game-breaking. But fret not, as I managed to fix them all with 

 a bit of work, some trial and error, an a lot of luck, but it was all worth it because

 the result is a much more fluid experience that translates into a more fun game.

 Overall, the game uses much less aggressive colors too, because 99% of the people that 

 may play this (which that would make a total of 4 to 5 individuals, probably) 

 will do it on a lighted screen. Also there's little touches here and there.

 Another tiny change that makes a bit of a difference in the long run is battle effects.

 Most of them on Gen 2 used the same palette: Gray tones! Well, that's not that way anymore.

 

 Most of the effects now have color added to them, and make battles look a bit more fun.

 A few effects were changed visually, even. For example, Pokémon no longer see "chickens" when

 confused. Now Pidgeys fly around their poor heads! 

 

 The Trainer's card also got a bit prettier, specially the Badges section. Oh, I also added

 a third page to your Trainer's Card, showing your progress through Kanto's Gyms. 

 You only need to press Right while on Johto's Badge screen when you get at least one Badge

 from Kanto! 

 

 Asymmetrical Badges also spin correctly. Funny enough, the game has coded that function in,

 but it is only assigned to a medal that was symetrical (Clair's badge). Sounds silly, but

 once you start seeing Game Freaks coding it's... Actually par for the course, in a way.

 

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|[13] Tips and Questions|

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 Tips:

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 What type of beginning you want? Each starter is going to change your early hours.

 Taking in mind how things work in the Original version of this hack, Cyndaquil

 would make your first steps more easy than the other two, as his Fire/Rock

 typing would make him effective against the first two Gyms, while Chikorita's

 Grass/Ground typing would make it a bit harder than normal. Totodile, with its

 Water/Ice typing would be a medium difficulty.

 But of course, the point of the game is to make more friends and balance your team!

 You could also ignore the starters and make your team without them. 

 That's how I usually roll. 

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 You can get an Exp. Share very early on. 

 Once you brought the Egg to Prof. Elm,

 and you're ready to go away on your adventure, go back home and leave 2.000P with

 your mother. Once you battle once (With Youngster Joey on Route 30), she will call

 you, telling you she bought something for you. It can come in handy this early!

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 Talking about saving with your mother, she will buy many useful items, so it's

 in your best interest to send her money from the beginning!

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 During your first few Gyms, look for people in green clothes near the towns and 

 cities' main Sign. These people will sell to you Berries to heal Status Effects!

 

 They will come in handy to prepare against the trainers and leaders there!

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 Don't waste your Fruits and Vitamins without having in mind what team you want!

 This becomes more important the further you go, because NPC trainers will have

 trained Pokémon either you've raised your own properly or not.

 

 As you get more money, or get more fruits you'll be able to quickly prepare

 Pokémon, but early on you need to think ahead. 

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 Talking about team, while I tried to make all Pokémon good and be on the same Level,

 that doesn't change the fact that having a balanced team can make things smoother.

 Making a team of only slow, defensive Pokémon, or only quick but frail monsters can

 make things harder for you at certain points. Although, of course, you could just 

 play with your favourites and tough it up. That's what I usually do.

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 Take advantage of Pokémon such as Meowth or Spearow, capable of learning stealing

 moves! They will help you to get ahold of many items, that you can either use or

 sell to make a profit. 

 Also, be aware of said Pokémon, as they may steal something you have!

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 Experiment! Because TMs are infinite, HM moves can be forgotten easily, and you 

 have access to the Move Reminder freely, you're given the chance to try all sorts

 of combinations for a given species. Not to mention, the further you advance through

 the Battle Tower, the more options you'll have through Move Tutors and the Egg Elder 

 to teach new moves, thus increasing the number of strategies for each species!

 You'll only need to watch out for "Event" moves, such as the Odd Egg Pokémon, 

 or the Special Eggs gifted in the Battle Tower, as each have a unique move

 and you cannot remind it if forgotten.

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 Check the Game Corner on Goldenrod when you arrive! 

 

 They've expanded the number of prices you can get. For one, you can get HP restoring 

 Berries there, with Golden Berries being really useful early on, and they're not that 

 expensive.

 

 Even more, new species of Pokémon have been added, and they're Pokémon hard to come 

 by during the early parts of the adventure!

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 Can you get every single Pokémon in the game? How can I get Mew?

 Yes, of course, what would be the point of a Pokémon Hack if you couldn't get every

 monster available in it by yourself?

 There's a lot more variety early on, both so you can get your team-making juices boil 

 sooner, and because different people like different monsters, and having a bigger 

 variety helps with making more people happy. 

 Although for Mew, you'll have to buy my exclusive and new Park Ball Plus and send it

 to your game through my exclusive Park Ball Plus-To-GBC Link Cable(tm), or upload it

 to my exclusive service PokéMaeson Hostage Holdings, previous payment of course, and

 then you can connect your game magically to it through Infrared connection. 

 Really, it just works. Wait, are you going to play this on an emulator? Tough luck 

 then, no Mew for you.

 ...Nah, it's somewhere in the game, you just have to find it, like the rest.

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 Are you going to do more Pokémon Hacks?

 

 Niet. Nee. Ahneo. Tidak. Nej. Nope. 

 

 ...What I mean is, don't count on that. The amount of time I put into this is so big that 

 I could have made several other things, the testing has been killing me the most. I have  

 reached the point of burnout, I've been working on this almost on a daily basis for years.

 You can't imagine how many times this thing has been reworked and changed over time. 

 Beyond that, my love for the franchise has pretty much being forced to disappear. 

 

 And even if I wanted to do more, I wouldn't be able to use any other disassembly project

 thanks to current DevkitPro versions being incompatible with 32 Bit systems; I'm not going 

 to get a new computer only to do more of this, and going back to the older "Hacking Tools"

 is not a very welcoming idea, mostly because they're so much more limited and risky to use.  

 

 So, sorry but no, I have no intention, I have no energy, I have no passion for it anymore. 

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|[13] Credits|

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 This wouldn't exist without a lot of people involved with the Pokémon Rom hacking community.   

 Thanks and Credits to every single person on PRET, a community dealing with disassembly for many

 Pokémon games. These projects look like THE WAY going forward, how awesome they are.

Check it Here: https://github.com/pret

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 Thanks and Credits to Rangi42, and all people on places like the Skeetendo and Pokecommunity forums, 

 and many others that shared their findings and information about ASM, going so far to make great

 tutorials to teach stupid people like me how to do do a whole lot of things, fix several of the bugs

 in the game, and many other things.

Check it here: https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal

   https://hax.iimarckus.org

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 Oh, and of course, credits and thanks to Rangi42 again for Polished Map, an amazing utility

 for map editing, very complete and absolutely essential. 

Check it here: https://github.com/Rangi42/polished-map

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 Thanks and Credits to the TPP Anniversary Crystal 251 Project to create the code for the Move 

 Reminder, which I adapted to my hack. I couldn't even have known where to start with it, and 

 my hack is only better thanks to it. Also for giving me an idea of how to make Caught Data

 be shown in the Stats Page. My approach to how the information is displayed is different,

 but again, without TPP I couldn't have know where to start.

Check it Here: https://github.com/TwitchPlaysPokemon/tppcrystal251pub

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 Thanks and Credits to HyperDriveGuy for its example and implementation of "60 Frames per second"

 project, which created a new way of programming a Run Button, but even more incredible, it made

 the scrolling of the game as you walk, run, and ride so, so much more smooth. It's amazing.

Check it here: https://github.com/hyperdriveguy/pokecrystal-60fps-example

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 Thanks to Chamber, Soloo993, Blue Emerald, Lake, Neslug and Pikachu25 for their 

 Pokemon Icons. While I did a number of them myself, I also used a good amount made by

 them, and also remade some of them from their initial work, so they deserve the credits!

You can see their work here: 

https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal/wiki/screenshots/minidex.gif  

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/pret/pokecrystal/screenshots/minidex.png

 

Also, if you play my hack and find any of the icons or tweaked sprites I made good enough

to use it yourself, go right ahead. Just give credit and you're good to go, don't even ask. 

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Credits and Special thanks to Vice04 for helping me test my hack over the years. 

May you never be assaulted by Level 168 Slowbros ever again.   

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Music Credits:

Credits to FroggestSpirit for "Hoenn Wild Battle" and  "Hoenn Trainer Battle" themes.

You can find FroggestSpirit music in this Soundcloud link, check it out:

https://soundcloud.com/froggestspirit

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Credits to Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm for "Hoenn Rival Battle", "Route 101", "Cipher Peon Battle",

"X/Y Rival", "Hoenn Champion Battle" and "Shoal Cave" themes.

You can find Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm music in this Soundcloud link, check it out:

https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-1

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Credits to TriteHexagon for his Night Theme music for cities and his tutorial on how to 

implement them in the game. His ASM files and his Soundcloud can be found here:

https://pastebin.com/u/TriteHexagon

https://soundcloud.com/user-930339535

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I hope I'm not forgetting anyone, it's way too much people hacking around the world!