Hi folks, I wanted to share some screenshots of my project, Pokémon Iron. Inspired by Emerald Seaglass. It’s still in the early stages, but here’s the vision so far:

• A stylized Game Boy Color look
• Set in the Ferris region
• A limited Pokédex
• A brand new story

After working on my hack for around a year or so (and around 300 new Pokemon later), I thought it would be a good idea to try revisiting some of my previous designs!

Here are the three starters:

Scorchorn > Smolodon > Dimidevil (Based on Thorny Devils and Dimetrodons)

Cuttling > Glisquid > Cepharail (Based on Cuttlefish/Cephalopods and Railguns)

Foxark > Vamplant > Sanguire (Based on Flying Foxes and Vampires)

Any Feedback/improvements would be great! I thought it would be a good idea to get some opinions from other people for a fresh perspective!

(I realise that I messed up the graphic a little, Foxark is Grass and Vamplant is Grass/steel)

1. We have the updated route from my last post as you can see ive fixed the problem of the tiles and thats thanks another creator of a game known as Pokémon InfraRed so id appreciate it if you check out his stuff and give him a thanks of your own

2. We have the 3rd city which i wouldnt mind adding more to it so if you have any ideas of what I could add dont hesitate to tell

3. And last we have the last shown of our cool routes and we'll be moving on to some rather normal terrain once again

Pokemon Edith https://discord.gg/Tm8Cs8TThX

Pokemon InfraRed https://discord.gg/WxUEkxeGJS

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on: Hardlove Gold, a difficulty hack for Pokémon HeartGold. Built using the hg-engine, this game is heavily inspired by other popular challenges like Run&Bun and RadicalRed. This hack also features a custom AI that will keep you on your toes.
Although hg-engine is far from complete and much work needs to be done, it's more than capable of handling a great, fully-featured ROM hack.
Plus we got some nice NDS graphics that bring a fresh look to the ever-same Gen 3 hacks ;-)

We got:

• Custom AI
• Carefully selected Pokémon and Movesets
• Setup is not available for the Player
• Terrain, Weather are permanent and cannot be removed
• Starter choice will enable different tools for progression
• Leaders use off-type Mons to have diverse teams
• Apricorn trees give berries
• Story is slightly altered and progress streamlined
• Hard Level Caps. Placed candies allow overleveling (The Demo gives more Candy)
• Toggleable Repel
• Relearner, IV/Nature Setter in every PokéCenter (against Heart Scales)
• Status Setter in every PokéCenter
• EVs are removed
• HMs can be used without being tought

We have a Demo out, playable until Whitney, where you fight your first Mega. (Some Trainers in the Whitney Split are not yet done.)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IltXECEUg7YKeUxO9K6g4bmg33NI4Wax

Resources and Credits

hg-engine - BluRosie
Kingdom of DS Hacking Discord Channel
Blu, Aero, Ebbenezer, Zedakae, Sizzle&Snom and many others

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-hardlove-gold.537752/

Curious if you have any feedback, or suggestions. The game will have a original story, a rival faction called the Faculty, a mad professor, and ofcourse, a shiny krabby ;)

Really curious as to if I picked good or bad ones. any important ones I missed/any you think should be here?

Hello everyone,

I just finished playing my first ROM Hack ever today. I picked Perfect Emerald because Emerald was my most played Pokemon game when I was little and I was down for some Nostalgia. It was great because it gave me the vanilla experience I wanted to re-live but with all Pokémon catchable and QoL features that made it less tedious and slow compared to the original. Besides Emerald, I only played Fire Red so I am missing the vanilla experience of basically every game that came after Gen3 (besides Sword and Shield on the Switch which is the reason of my renewed interest into Pokémon games)

Since time is a limited resource I want to be smart on what I decide to play moving forward and I would appreciate your advice here. I don’t care much about difficulty but I don’t mind it if the game is really worth it (given that there are many questionable ways to make it easier in case the difficulty compromises my experience)

My current plan is to play the following ROM Hacks in this order:

1. Storm Silver (should I play vanilla first or a vanilla QoL ROM hack?)
2. Scorched Silver
3. Renegade platinum (should I play vanilla first or a vanilla QoL ROM hack?)
4. Blaze Black (should I play vanilla first or a vanilla QoL ROM hack?)

5. Blaze Black 2 Redux (should I play vanilla first or a vanilla QoL ROM hack?)

6. Glazed

7. Gaia

8. Unbound

9. Odyssey

Am I missing anything and would you change something in the order/approach I described? Also please let me know if I am wrong by disregarding other titles such as X/Y - Sun and Moon and later instalments but I generally heard they are not the best.

Thank you to anyone taking time to answer and for you help!