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Just started up Pokemon Quetzal and good lord (hexbear.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by laziestflagellant@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters

Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld

Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies.

Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take

Oh and also since it's a romhack so I'm playing it on my 3DS

GBA era romhackers are something else

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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

I definitely gotta agree that Pokemon switching to 3d may have been a mistake, especially considering how pretty B&W was.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

Pokemon switching to 3D would have been fine if GameFreak weren't terrible developers.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

It wasn't Stadium, but one of the later (GC era?) 3D games looked fucking fantastic, great animations and VFX that put the actual 3D games to shame

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Coliseum?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

maybe, there were a few in that era but I know jack shit about any particular one of them

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Was it on the Wii? You might be thinking of Battle Revolution. It's great for battles but the issue is that it's incredibly slow and would probably be a drag if it were a full-fledged game that did more than just one-on-one battles geared towards multiplayer.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

when I think about this kind of thing, it's very specifically this gif. so whatever this is from

and I'm really just talking about animation quality here, pokemon games haven't had a good quick pace to them since B/W

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah that's Battle Revolution. I still own that game and it used to be used for local Pokemon tournaments during the Diamond/Pearl era. Made them a lot of fun to watch.

[-] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 11 months ago

That's the thing, you look at how Mario or zelda went from 2d to 3d in the N64 and you can see how they completely redesigned it to make an amazing game that pushed the platform.

And while not as big of a change you can see how they grew to make the new Mario or botw.

While gamefreak/Pokemon is like "what if you can swivel the camera around a little bit" or "okay maybe in one area you can see the Pokemon walking around". And it still lags like crazy.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 11 months ago

Going 3d is only a problem if you use the 3d models exactly like sprites.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

pokemon walking in grass

the year is 2023 and pokemon games have finally figured out what digimon games figured out more than a decade ago.

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Did digimon games still exist in 2013?

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh and it has both toggleable teamwide EXP share AND multiple difficulty settings

And it has a lot of rebalancing so even the most lowly of gimickmons can be somewhat viable. I picked Chikorita as my starter so I'll see how far that goes lol

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Some of the fan made games are fucking brutal, I can't remember which one it was but I got stuck on the 3rd gym leader because they would throw a bunch of environmental status effects down and then swap in a mega evolution Beedrill.

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah I'm not built for the Kaizo and Radical Red hacks lol

Hacks where the give gym leaders more than two pokemon and give trainers higher level pokemon is good enough for me

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah it was one of the ones with a difficulty setting and I thought to myself "I'm an adult, how hard can Pokémon AI be?" The real kicker was each badge having a level cap.

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Unbound has mega absol at gym 2. it's hellish.

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Update: I got swept at the first gym

damn, Roxanne got hands lol

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Oh this looks like it could be fun... how long will it take to figure out how to do romhacks with my 3DS? let's see...

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

If you already have your 3ds hacked, you just open your FBI app, select 'remote install' and then 'from QR code' and then point your 3DS camera at the QR code in the reddit link.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

if you don't have it hacked you should get on that. if you do, it's very simple

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Pasting the guide I'm following here just for notekeeping purposes:

Oh sweet! https://3ds.hacks.guide/

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Hah, shit... My 3DS is of the full-size SD card era. While I have full-size SD cards, my computer only has MicroSD slots... Furcking heck

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Most SD cards come with an adapter I thought. You can just get a cheap one with an adapter if you really like your current one.

Trust me, my 3DS has CFW and I soldered in a USB-C port for charging (surprisingly easy. I wouldn't do it as your first solder job but it really takes minimal skill). I freaking love the thing. With a 64gb sd card you can fill it up with enough games you'll never play them all. There's a file management app (FBI) that will let you download and install games from QR codes too. It's sooo kickass.

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh fuck, I was thinking I have no adapter from big-to-small so I can't get any of this full-size SD cards into my laptop to get them set up. Like you said though I of course have small-to-big adapters and after formatting my microSD card, I'll have it wear the adapter and boom, it'll work.

Now, the guide recommends not having a card (with storage space) of larger than ~~I think 64~~ 128* gB. I don't have a microSD card so small. How much of a problem might that create for me?

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I think the biggest problem with that would be the formatting time. I have seen people who have +256GB cards before but I didn't really ask them about it. It'll really unnecessary though

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I've decided what I really want is to play MegaMan X on my 3DS, it surely must be possible to get an SNES emulator on here too, if GBA is possible?

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Ooh there are totally emulators for the 3DS though. I have heard, but have no real experience with, that there are emulators for almost every system that came before the 3DS. Excluding the Xbox. So PS1, 2, PSP, neogeo, I've seen a few Dreamcast things I think, etc...

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I think I actually have MegaMan X on mine. So what people do is they'll make a .CIA file (basically the equivalent of a rom) with the emulator built in.

IDK if this is allowed here, please if it's not let me know and I'll edit it out... But let's say you've installed your CFW on your 3DS. A step of that will be to install the file manager FBI.

You'll want to open FBI and go to the bottom option (it's install or download or something I don't have mine with me right now). Choose remote install, and from QR code.

Now on your phone or PC or whatever you can go to hshop.erista.me for example, here's their MegaMan X page and you'll scan that QR code. Couple seconds to minutes later (about 30-45 for the 1+gb giant 3ds games), you're playing your game!

Now I absolutely hate recommending reddit for really anything.. but their r/3dsqrcodes is a great resource for rom hacks. Almost all the bigger Pokemon ROM hacks are on there, I've got Super Mario that's been turned into The Call of Cthulhu...

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Oh fuck yes!

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah man it's insanely easy to pirate the games you want on the 3DS lmao! Great console for data hoarding.

[-] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Fuck yes, I have it!

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Hi I've never successfully emulated a game or done a romhack and I've tried like 30 times could someone as dumb as me play this?

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Download either the installer or the portable directory of mGBA here

Download this .gba file (it is already "patched" and ready to play) here

Run mGBA and do File > Open ROM and open the .gba file with it and you should be good to go

[-] LiberalScratcher@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I’ve been playing PokeMMO which is also very well done. I’ll check this out

[-] Starlet@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GBA era romhackers are something else

The entire game has been manually decompiled, so you can add just about anything that the GBA can run

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take

Don't you have to take the first one you see on a route in a Nuzlocke?

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well yes but the rules usually say you have to take the first pokemon you "encounter" on the route so technically I'm also following the rules berdly-smug

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GBA Romhackers are amazing. They've done some great stuff too with the Fire Emblem series as well. The Gaiden GBA remake is also a lot of fun if you're into GBA era Fire Emblem.

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[-] Maaj@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Has to come track this post down to say I'm loving this game and thanks for making the post about it

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I'm glad! Romhacks as a whole are so cool, more people should know about them

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