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Pokemon Rom Hacks - Ep 96
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It's the Pokemon Emerald Variety Hour! Allison takes James on a tour of the community's most interesting and deranged creations.
Check out Allison online: twitch.tv/pikapeww
Music is "Fork and Spoon" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Transcript
James's Pokemon TCG Addiction
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James? James. James. Yeah, what's up? What's up? James, I want to be the very best. Like no one ever was. Yes. um And I've been collecting. i've been I've been gathering also to call you out a little bit. I got you addicted to Pokemon TCG for a little bit. You did, and I wasn't going to admit it in public. Most
Stagnation in Pokemon TCG Pocket
00:00:28
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like positive interaction that you've had with Pokemon and like literally your entire lifespan. it's It's okay. I've had some that approach that level of positivity, but this is the first time I was hooked.
00:00:39
Speaker
oh It's good. Pokemon TCG Pocket's a really fun time. It's gotten a little stale for me at this point. I've gotten like every card in the new set. I'm almost done with this like the old sets.
00:00:51
Speaker
I'm missing one card from the Pikachu pack, two from Mewtwo, and two from Charizard. I'm just waiting for that new pack to drop so I can get some new strats and more interesting decks because right now it just feels like it's kind of stagnated.
00:01:05
Speaker
but yeah TCG Pocket, marvel of a game. So well put together. So good. So... wow Honestly, yes. Genuinely. i I feel ashamed that I've enjoyed a Pokemon property for this long. I've enjoyed other Pokemon games and properties and things, but not...
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Not
Introduction to Pokemon Emerald ROM Hacks
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this officially and not for this long of a time. So you you've defeated me and destroyed who I am as a person. And I get the distinct impression you're getting ready to do it again. Yeah, let's get deep deep down into the dark underbelly because you said this one, the last one was officially. These are... These are...
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Nintendo would be displeased. Nintendo would slap some hands. It's very funny because some of these do not even have names on the creators because they don't want to be sued. ah Right.
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I am talking, this is just going to be a rum hack compilation episode. I've been playing ah
Boom in ROM Hacks Post-Decompilation
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bunch of Pokemon Emerald rum hacks, um specifically Pokemon Emerald rum hacks,
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for For a fun little good reason. In 2020... God. what's I literally just looked at it. What the fuck is that guy's name?
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Speaker
Dr. Egg, I believe. Oh. The man? Egg? Where Oh, Oh, God. um dr is it dr egg where where is it oh god ah I hate to break it to you, but that does sound like a different franchises thing. Dizzy Egg. Dizzy Egg is the man.
00:02:43
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I've got Robotnik on the brain. I can't stop thinking about him. Dr. Eggman. His paintbrush mustache. um Dr. Eggman just playing on a Game Boy Advance.
00:02:55
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Hell yeah. But Pret, P-R-E-T, which is a group of people, and Dizzy Egg, which is a single gentleman from Poland, ah have gotten together to make a dream team that has made the Pokemon Emerald decomp.
00:03:12
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Pokemon Emerald has basically, at this point, been fully decompiled. Oh, yeah. It has led to a boom and Pokemon ROM hacks because now you can do anything.
00:03:26
Speaker
Because before it was a binary ROM hack, which to give a quick explanation, a binary ROM hack, you can kind of reassemble the ones and zeros that are already there to kind of restyle, but not really mechanically change anything.
00:03:40
Speaker
You can't really add beyond a certain like number limit. You can't really change mechanics. You can't effectively change button combos or button presses. You can just make the game look different.
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With a full decompilation, you have access to the actual root code and can redesign this game in any way you want. um So I've been playing
Exploring Diverse ROM Hacks
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a bunch of Pokemon ROM hacks that have kind of come out of the full decomp that's come through.
00:04:09
Speaker
There are still a couple of things that are working on the decomp. You can talk to Pret. There's a whole Discord server. They are actively working on ah um basically a decompilization...
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Speaker
and decompiling of every single Pokemon main game. A lot of the Pokemon side games like Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Pinball, Pokemon TCG, Pokemon ah Mystery Dungeons, they're working on Pokemon Red, Crystal, Ruby, FireRed, Emerald, Diamond, Platinum, HeartGold, Gen 4.
00:04:41
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um they They are willing to help you with all sorts of stuff. They have not Pokemon stuff as well for like Ace Attorney, Fire Emblem. um I think they were Yeah.
00:04:55
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um but those are kind of inactive right now they don't have any one working on them so if you do go chat them up but ah go go talk to prett um if you're not ah dizzy egg then don't talk to does if you do i mean you can probably reach out to him you you might be nice um but i don't want to sin genuinely who knows I don't know. Not a lot of people know him very well.
00:05:22
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um And I just don't want to send a bunch of people messaging him when Pret exists and they can be bothered instead. So go bother Pret. They would love it. um But ah yeah, you have access...
00:05:37
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Everyone now has access to basically the coding structure of Pokemon Emerald and have been playing with and messing with it in so many different interesting ways.
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um
Nostalgia in ROM Hacks: Emerald Sea Glass
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And I've got a couple of really interesting ROM hacks here. um They kind of range from like cozy, chill, somewhere like really hardcore mode that like every fight, even like a trainer Joey with his breezy shorts, you like really have to sit there and like think about it.
00:06:06
Speaker
You're like, Okay, cool. Like, I'm going to use this Pokemon, and I have to switch out to go into this Pokemon to clear the spikes, and then I need to hit with this and then switch to this because they're going to hit back with this, and I need to make sure that I tank that and hit, and then, like, every fight is a fight for your life. It's awesome.
00:06:23
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um There's a range from in between, like, the... Super chill. There's one that's working to make Pokemon into Stardew Valley, which I love. That's really rad. They're trying to turn it into a farming game or like a cozy life sim game. And I think that's really interesting and cool.
00:06:41
Speaker
You're farming berries. There's a whole like far like growing mechanic where you water your berries from Gen 2 and beyond. Already in the game. So like there's a farming system. You plant your water, you grow, you harvest, you sell, make some NPCs, add a little bit of a Pokemon twist to it Boom.
00:06:59
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Like, yeah, like there there there are people working to rework the structure of Pokemon into the wildest things you've ever seen. And it's so fun and funky.
00:07:12
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have a question. I might have an answer. How is this not heretical? How is this not blasphemous against the divine word of Pokemon?
00:07:24
Speaker
Oh, it is. And I love it. like I myself am a heretic. So like, Hey, see. But I, I, that's actually on my interest list. Cause I, I write down all my interests. And one of my things that I really like is that it really shows where the fans want to take the game.
00:07:41
Speaker
Like, you see so many different approaches of, like, oh, we could make ah a farming sim, or we could make a really hard game, because these games are kind of meant for children. So, like, let's make it harder so it's more for adults.
00:07:53
Speaker
I'm going to implement Nuzlocke and make it hard rules, so you actually can physically only catch one Pokemon per route. Your Pokemon is permadead. I'm going to turn mine into a roguelike. I'm going to make mine have 35, 50 Pokemon types instead of the regular like 16, I think 18 Pokemon. Too many types is really funny. ah There's like furry type and sound type and magic type and Democrat type and Republican type.
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There's Gun Type. Oh, you know what? This rings a bell. I feel like saw it. There bunch streamers were playing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Point Crow and them. It's very funny. i really like it. It makes it very interesting, and I highly recommend checking that one out. It's very funny. It's on my list of ones that I wanted to mention. Yeah, somehow you said...
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Republican type and Democrat type like rang the bells. I'm like, oh, that's a dumb enough thing that is unique that I've i've definitely seen. before Yeah, I just like that people. ah People and fans are really getting interested in making some really crazy romhacks.
00:08:59
Speaker
That just kind of express the things that they're interested in So I just have like a couple here. This episode is probably going be kind of short because like it's Pokemon. where We know Pokemon. I just want to describe a couple of these and recommend some of them because, man, I love Pokemon. I
Gameplay Changes with New Pokemon Types
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love seeing what the fans want to do and seeing different perspectives on this kind of tried and true formula that is has become so formulaic and seeing someone do something new and unique is so interesting and exciting.
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So yeah, um Pokemon Emerald Seaglass is a rework of Pokemon Emerald that is more so of a nostalgia vibe. It takes Pokemon ah and reverts all of the sprite art back to Gen 2, Pokemon Silver and Gold.
00:09:47
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Um... adds a couple of the fan favorite mechanics like Pokemon following behind you. They rework all the backgrounds. They rework all the environments. They reworked every single like city to make them bigger and more interesting and more actually like viable as like a town instead of it just being four houses in a square. There's like river flowing through and a bridge and like a little bit more flowers and it it looks better designed, honestly. Mm-hmm.
00:10:14
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um And it just wanted to make Pokemon pretty. That really is a lot of what its goal is, is just to make Pokemon look gorgeous. And it really did. it It does such a good job of making it very retro, but just so, so pretty. I think it's probably the prettiest Pokemon game I've ever Prettiest 2D Pokemon game I've ever played.
00:10:36
Speaker
Um... Yeah, that one's Pokemon Emerald Sea Glass made by Nemo622. You can find it on Poke Harbor. i highly recommend that one. That one was really, really cool. I liked it quite a bit.
00:10:48
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um Pokemon Too Many Types I talked about. They just added a bunch of types. I think there might actually be like 90 or 100 types. That one's made by a bunch of different people, but this one is like ah specifically only possible due to the decomp.
00:11:03
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that you couldn't make it without. um But ah Kobosco, Marine Pez, and Cannon's Creative made this one. You can also find it on Poke Harbor.
00:11:14
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um But they just wanted to make Pokemon weird and interesting and see what would happen if you made it too many types.
Innovations: Pokemon Quetzal Multiplayer
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Speaker
Like, there genuinely are just... There's too many different types. The type matchup, they do have a spreadsheet for the type matchup. It's like pages long. and wide.
00:11:33
Speaker
It is like huge. Um, and you can have up to three types per Pokemon. So it is it is of weird. kind of weird um Yeah, and that that one's very fun. I like that one quite a bit.
00:11:48
Speaker
ah Pokemon Quetzal, like Quetzalcoatl, um is a hardcore mod that has a live multiplayer, which is really cool. It used to be called Pokemon Online or Pokemon Multiplayer, but then that like kind of became hard to find. So Pokemon Quetzal is like...
00:12:08
Speaker
You're playing Pokemon Emerald, but there are two people and they can run around the map simultaneously. Like you can see each other in the map and you're playing like a local multiplayer game. It's really cool to have a bunch of features. There's like a ton of different sprites you can be.
00:12:22
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can be sprites for different characters all throughout the entire ah games. Y'all can like sync up your games. You can do randomizers. You can do Nuzlocke. You can do all sorts of different like... styles of Pokemon play within this one ah ROM hack. And it's just, it's really, really rad. And the fact that you get to experience it with a friend and there's online, very cool, a little bit tricky to set up, but if you're willing to put in the effort to set it up, it's it's It's worth it. um
Challenges in ROM Hack Development
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Really, really rad. I like Pokemon Ketzal a lot. i
00:12:59
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I have two that I found through YouTube, not through Poke Harbor, which Poke Harbor, if you want to play a Pokemon ROM hack, go to Poke Harbor. They'll show you some of the more popular stuff. It's always up at the top in the top right corner. ah They've got some great stuff. Poke Harbor is like super really nice.
00:13:15
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I found a couple through YouTube that I really am like super interested in and One just finished coming out and one's been kind of start and stop. And I really want to see more of it. Pokemon Emerald Mini is a binary hack, not ah a decomp ROM hack um that takes Pokemon and makes it small.
00:13:35
Speaker
So like all of the the routes are really short. All of the towns are really tiny. ah You can't go in any of the buildings. It's just like a small building with the person that you're fighting or talking to on top of it.
00:13:47
Speaker
So you only get the important people. They made it really easy for you to like... get to your get everything that you need and nothing more so if you're trying to run through the game real fast and you just want to play through a pokemon game really quick without a bunch of the fluff and a bunch of the walking around that is kind of unnecessary that uh that is definitely a really fun way to get through and do that which i think is really neat that might interesting yeah Yeah, it's ah it's a really way good way to like kind of cut through a lot of the fluff of just like ah a Pokemon game that otherwise would be very, very drawn out. um The other one was called Pokemon Corundum.
00:14:28
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It's being made by Bisa, B-I-S-A, on YouTube. um And it's really cool because from what I see, a...
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it is a
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uh uh actual decompack because it is an expansion it's the opposite direction of making the world bigger more immersive and then adding diagonal running and diagonal movement so it's not just locked to the same four directional grid you actually have eight cardinal directions which is really interesting actually adds quite a bit to the way that you move about the world.
00:15:12
Speaker
And watching them make it has been really cool. And they haven't been around for a while. Their last video was about five months ago. And it's... um Their last video talking about the game is about five months ago, and they're like, i just really don't have a lot to say. I've been working on it, but financially, it's been kind of challenging. I've got a job, and I just haven't had enough a lot of time to dedicate to it, and when I do, i've been I am still working on it, but...
00:15:41
Speaker
updates are coming slower and there's not a lot to do because I used to do like a a weekly or a monthly thing and I just i can't do that anymore because the videos just are kind of stale now but I am subscribed i do have my notifications on if anything does happen I would be so happy to see more content from them because they really do.
00:16:02
Speaker
I really am very excited for the future of this ROM hack. I think it's really cool, but it's just not there quite yet.
Thriving ROM Hacking Community Despite Legal Issues
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Speaker
Um, but yeah, if you, if you do want to poke visa or at least just give them support, like their videos, subscribe, stuff like that. I'm sure that it would be plenty motivation to, ah to them to keep working on it and see where this thing goes in the future. Cause it looks really cool. They've, they've made some really cool progress and I'm um excited to see it.
00:16:34
Speaker
Um, and then the last one I have here is just a Pokemon, uh, Obsidian Emerald, which I think is really cool and that it is all double battles. And that adds such a huge layer of complexity to the actual gameplay itself.
00:16:50
Speaker
Cause single battles are really fun. But they're kind of easy. Double battles make you really have to think about synergies that you normally wouldn't have to think about in... It unlocks a lot of moves that you normally wouldn't use, and it opens a bunch of synergies that you normally wouldn't use if you're just playing singles. So changing it to be double battles all the way through, from start to beginning, makes the game a lot harder, but a lot more, like...
00:17:14
Speaker
A lot more interesting, in my opinion. i really, really like Pokemon Obsidian um ah or Obsidian Emerald. I really, really recommend that one. um And then I've got two, which is Pokemon Emerald Rogue and Poke po ok Rogue.
00:17:28
Speaker
I like Poke Rogue, which is a browser-based one, very much. No idea who made it. No one really knows. They've been very, very hidden. but They're on the line, yeah. Pokerogue on the desktop. It's just browser based Pokerogue.com. Play Pokerogue.com. Sorry.
00:17:48
Speaker
Play Pokerogue.com. Such a, such a, such a fun game. Takes Pokemon, boils it down just enough, just right to make it ah such a fun roguelike.
00:17:59
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Adds a bunch of really cool mechanics. Very interesting. okay ah Pokemon Emerald Rogue. Different game. Actual ROM hack, so it's more portable. You can put it on your phone or on like ah one of those little handheld emulators.
00:18:13
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um Also very fun. Very good way of turning a Pokemon ROM hack into or pokemon into a roguelike. I've talked about that one before, but it did just recently get an update.
00:18:26
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um and that one is now in 2.0 and it has a lot more of a plot there's like base building there's a lot more going on that one is also due to the decomp specifically very very cool they seem to have a lot better direction for what they're wanting to do with the game itself i'm very excited to see where that one continues to grow because all of these are still growing all of these people are still working on these games they are finished versions of them, but there is still like little tweaks and updates and things that have come out, and it's very exciting to like see them... see this entire scene grow so crazily. It's it's really, really fun um to see this whole community just thrive in a way that I i don't know if I ever really expected for Pokemon, because ah Nintendo has been so...
00:19:13
Speaker
So crazy about smacking down anything that pops up. um And it's getting to the point to where like there, there really isn't a way for them to do that anymore. It's, it's grown
Encouragement to Explore ROM Hacks
00:19:28
Speaker
so exponentially that yeah they would have to like start an entire company just to stop people from making ROM hacks.
00:19:34
Speaker
Yeah. Which, honestly, could still happen. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise On the table.
00:19:41
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on the table but ah Outside of that happening, I genuinely think this is this is such a fun time for Pokemon ROM hacks.
00:19:52
Speaker
Check out Poke Harbor. Check out Poke Community or. um Oh, I can't remember the other ones, but like there are plenty of sites out there for hosting Pokemon ROM hacks and talking about Pokemon ROM hacks.
00:20:07
Speaker
that like this community is thriving. It is growing so much because of these D comps. And there's so many cool projects out there. Just check it out for sure for real. Like just download ROM hack. It's so interesting.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah, i I feel the way about this as I do about a lot of the Pokemon community, which is i i continue to be amazed by the fans' dedication. I think they're a shining example of how how fans, dedicated fans like who who love what it is that they're doing, can completely... like gut and rearrange and like restructure and reimagine their favorite thing in really like new creative ways. and just like The creativity and and passion that comes from that is is really cool to see.
00:21:01
Speaker
Even though Pokemon and I have got beef, I i really respect the the community around a lot of these projects. Yeah. um It's really cool. And There's another one, sorry, I completely forgot about that I'll mention that Nintendo really hates, and I think it's really funny because they haven't been able to get rid of it yet.
00:21:22
Speaker
But someone remade all of Pokemon Sword and Shield and Pokemon Emeralds using the decompilation. That's pretty good. It's really good, It's really fun to play. So if you wanted to play Pokemon Sword and Shield, but you can't afford it. Like all the mechanics? Basically.
00:21:40
Speaker
So if you can't afford Pokemon Sword and Shield, and you wanted to play it, and you wanted to... yeah play with some legally dumped roms or whatever you want. I'm not even going to ah try and guise this one. Go go check out Poke Harbor. There's some cool shit on there.
00:21:56
Speaker
um But yeah, I really love the dedication that this community has to like, even though they know Nintendo fucking hates them, with every fiber in there being, Pokemon just absolutely, the Pokemon company hates them.
00:22:11
Speaker
It's so cool to see them still continue to be like, Nah, we were thriving. <unk>re we're We're doing it despite or in spite of the the vitriol that we've received in the DMCA is and everything else. We just want to like show our passion, our dedication to making this thing so, so incredibly wonderful and so cool beyond any description I can possibly come up with.
00:22:39
Speaker
um but I love to see this community grow. I i i love to be a part of the Pokemon community and watch the awesome things that everyone comes up with. It it really truly is such a special little thing to to watch grow. And i adore every second of it.
00:22:59
Speaker
Go pick up a ROM hack. they're They're all so cool. And there's so many cool ones out there. So like...
ROM Hacking as a Learning Platform
00:23:05
Speaker
If any of the ones that I spoke about today, like id I talked ah at length about several, if none of them really spoke to you, if you don't want any of those, that's fine.
00:23:14
Speaker
Just go look at some of these websites. See if there's something that speaks to you. there's There's something for everyone out there. And like to the point where Poke Harbor has a ah random feature. Every time you refresh, it gives you six random new ones of like, hey, maybe check these out. They're popular and they're they're just weird.
00:23:32
Speaker
Um... And yeah, it's it's it's such a boom right now to like just hop in see what you like and see what see what's there, because like chances are you'll probably find something that you think is really neat.
00:23:45
Speaker
um That's that's yeah really what yeah i I guess the the scope of it was lost on me until you mentioned that random feature. And that's that is absolutely wild. No, every single Pokemon game is being hacked right now. The decomp is just for Pokemon Emerald, but there are decomps working for every other game because, ah man, people will not and ever settle for enough is enough. they they They have an idea and they want to show it, and Nintendo's not hiring, so... yeah
00:24:16
Speaker
Let's just show it in any way I can. I'm going to get some friends together and we're going to rock this thing out. We're going code and we're going to learn how to make a game. There's something about Pokemon that just really brings together that that kind of people who say, but i can iterate on this.
00:24:34
Speaker
Yeah. is It's really special. they It is the most iterative game on the planet. they They made one and then they made that game over and over and over and over and over again with different mechanics.
00:24:46
Speaker
But they showed us like, oh yeah, if I just make that same game with my own cool mechanic, people will eat that shit up. By the hundreds, by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands.
00:24:58
Speaker
So I've got a cool idea for a weird little mechanic. Let me get a couple of people behind me and then we can do the same thing that Nintendo's been doing. Albeit far less lucratively.
00:25:09
Speaker
um course. throw a Patreon out there maybe and let's let's let's rock this shit. It'll be fun. Let's go. And that's really what it comes out to. And I i love that of like people being like, yeah, i just have a cool idea and I'm going to do the same thing Nintendo does even though Nintendo will yell at me.
00:25:27
Speaker
I love this thing. I'm going to iterate on it and just continue making cooler and cooler And it's just, it's absolutely awesome. And if you don't want to play, I've played a couple that I've played several that are like abandoned or partially finished, um, where it's like, yeah, the first four gyms are finished, but we'll see what happens past that.
00:25:46
Speaker
Um, If you don't want to do that you don't want to explore that deep, they do on Poke Harbor have a tab for just completed games. So you can find that. Poke Harbor is probably the easiest to find games on.
00:25:58
Speaker
Poke Community, it's more so a forum and they can find fan games and then you can go from there to more and more. But it it is more so a forum and you're going to have to do some digging to find what you're looking for.
00:26:12
Speaker
But ah there there is definitely a lot of resources. There's more resources on Poke Community for making your own or making your own hack or your own and stuff.
00:26:24
Speaker
Poke Harbor is more so like, I want to play a game the end. um There are Discord servers for so many of these. There's Discord servers for... um Pret and for so many other communities, like go go hop in, go figure out this stuff. And I'm sure, I'm sure you can find something that you love because man, there's so much out there for it.
00:26:49
Speaker
And I think, yeah, that's why you should play some of these games. Like, I know it's not exactly the line, but like, I genuinely think there's something out there for sure. And, uh, yeah, go, go check it out. There's so much there.
00:27:02
Speaker
Enjoy yourself. Yeah, i as always, i'm like I'm interested in the different things that the the the Pokemon fans can do with Pokemon.
00:27:13
Speaker
is in In a lot of ways, i think, like you mentioned, I mean, Pokemon proper has been making kind of the same game over and over. entirely, but in enough ways that it's like,
00:27:27
Speaker
okay yeah real creativity like further like envelope pushing is happening in these like hacks and in these like fan games and things like that that's little pockets yeah and yeah Yeah. um But it it is driving something somewhere. And I do think, like, genuinely, a lot of game developers are going to cut their teeth making these ROM hacks. And then they're going to get a cool idea and be like, all right, cool, I'm going to make Pal World.
00:27:56
Speaker
Or something along those lines of, like, I'm going to make another game that is a creature collector, but... Not a Pokemon title. So I can... I got my knowledge. I got i know how to code. I know how to make these. i know some elements of these game designs. I know how to make a loop or whatever.
00:28:13
Speaker
um let me Let me go from there and see what I can do. it's It's really... interesting to see where some of this is going and I'm genuinely curious to see in the future if some people are like yeah this is where I this is where I got all of my skills from for the game that I just made um i i learned a lot of it hacking Pokemon I think that there's genuinely going to be a lot of kids doing that and I'm very interested to see that come to fruition if it hasn't already
00:28:50
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's ah that's another way in which Pokemon Emerald is actually exactly like Roblox. Yeah, genuinely. You decide, there's some truth to what I've said, even though I said it in the most arctic way possible. yeah um Genuinely, there there is just a lot here, and I really look forward to seeing so much... ah
Navigating Legal Challenges with Patches
00:29:15
Speaker
so much growth from this space because I've always loved Pokemon hacks and they, they used to get shut down so fast, like so immensely fast.
00:29:26
Speaker
Um, and it's, people are getting wise to it. They're not providing ROMs or providing patches. um and if they are providing a ROM, you have to get it from a very specific source. You can't just find it wherever because the distribution everything,
00:29:44
Speaker
the Pokemon ROM was the biggest, like the easiest way for Nintendo to come after you legally. So not only is the community getting smart, smarter in their ways of hacking the game, but they're getting there smarter in their ways of getting around the legal loopholes in which Nintendo uses to smack them down.
00:30:02
Speaker
so it it is literally this cat and mouse build to, to this wonderful, amazing thing. It's really, really cool. Um, ah Yeah, i just I love this community. I love watching this grow, and I've loved watching this grow since I was 13 with access to my first computer trying to figure out how to use NoDollarsGBA.
00:30:23
Speaker
um it's It's really cool. I really recommend it Check it out for sure. And
Love for the ROM Hacking Community
00:30:29
Speaker
yeah, I think that's all I really have to say about it. um You should play these games. You should check this out. ah You should play Pokemon. It's cool.
00:30:36
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Oh, there's ah there's a racing game in here, too. Oh, OK. Using the bikes. Interesting. It's an obstacle obstacle course. That's kind of cool.
00:30:47
Speaker
That's actually really funny. Interesting. I do love that. and Sorry, I just opened up some of these things and they showed me some random stuff. And again, you just you never know what you're.
00:30:59
Speaker
Pokemon Crooked Crystal help Professor Elm get out of gambling debt. It's a Pokemon Crystal hack.
00:31:07
Speaker
Squid Game season for yeah But, ah yeah, ah there's a lot here. It's very cool. I highly recommend you check it out. And, yeah, if you want to check me out, you can find me at Peekapoo on Twitch. Again, very Poke-themed. I love my Pokemon.
00:31:27
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um You can, again, if you find James, just let me know where he is. I just want to know he's safe. like If you want to check me out, open up your... Open up your microwave. I'm in there i'm spinning around.
00:31:39
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Someone locked me in here and I'm i'm radioactive. He'll talk to me as long as I like go along with the plot of like an episode. But like if we're not recording an episode actively, it's just radio silence. And the second I see the little red light go, either I talk or he talks and then we can do an episode. But between there, I don't know where he is. i don't know what's going on. I hope James is OK. Just let me if you find him, let me know how he's doing.
00:32:03
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Now, audience, here's my little secret that I'm going to share with you. And don't I don't think Allison can hear this. i the The secret behind it is I cease to exist when I'm not talking about games.
00:32:21
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I no longer am a ah a cogent entity with ah a will of my own and ah of a physical existence. This is why I'm here.
00:32:32
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Hello? Hello? hello hello I'm back. Hi. hi Yes, Monster Hunter. Sorry. There was a weird audio real boy i have real weird audio glitch there. i didn't Did you say something?
00:32:46
Speaker
Did something happen? I don't think so. I'm not capable of doing that except in specific circumstances. Okay. I... Alright, cool. I guess... ah Yeah, I guess this is where we'll end the episode.
00:33:00
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what happened there, but anyway, I'm gonna go back to being a real person with a real body and eating food. food Okay, cool. Yeah, that sounds... It sounds like you.
00:33:11
Speaker
sounds like yeah you that I remember, at least. Exactly. It sounds like the me that I remember. It was like in my head, at least that I remember. Yeah. okay And that's that's what's important at the end of the day is that you remember me.
00:33:25
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Bye.