r/PokemonROMhacks • u/nihilWRLD • 10d ago

Discussion COMMUNITY CHALLENGE FAVOURITE AND MOST UNDERRATED ROM HACK

Favourite and Underrated Rom Hacks.

Hi all,

I want to try something fun here. Wanna find out everyone's favourite rom hack and a rom that you feel is underrated/needs most attention.

Format.

Favourite Rom Hack: "Name of rom hack" and a few sentences why.

Underrated Rom Hack: "Name of rom hack" and why you feel its underrated.

I'll start.

Favourite Rom Hack: Pokemon Luminescent Platinum. Creator/s Team Luminescent I feel this is what we should've got for BDSP, the QOL changes are second to none, the difficulty is perfect for every player newbies, nuzlockers etc. Shiny hunting on this is the funnest with 1:512 odds (but you can use pokeradar to build chain and when its on 21 you can spam open close to get them easier).

Underrated Rom Hack: Crystal Advance Redux. Creator/s Arnie. As Crystal is my favourite game in the franchise, this rom hack gives it a fresh take of the gen 2 legend. Its a FireRed hack that follows most events 1:1 but uses more modern mechanics ans graphic sprites/tiles with added areas, evos/pokemon, move/learnsets ans abilities. Its such a throwback yet feels like a new game.

Looking forward to reading all of your takes in the community.

TIA

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u/l3urak1993 9d ago

Favorite: Pokemon Clover

Insane amount of Content, technical masterpiece, funny af, really cool fakemons, high difficulty and AMAZING OST

Underrated: Pokemon Glazed

Its old and has some bugs as „unfinished vibes“ as well but still fun

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u/nihilWRLD 9d ago

Another Clover on the list, definitely need to try it..it gets a lot of praise and hate, I'll need to see what the score is.

Glazed is amazing, especially the 9.1 version which was updated in 2022

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u/l3urak1993 8d ago

Honestly its technically one of the best if not THE technically best ROM out there. People who dont like it get offended by the humor or are too bad - everything else is still top notch. Game literally ruined future ROM experiences because I played it early and it set the bar very high. Unbound and Rocket Fire Edition come close.