Red hack: Pokémon Beyond Red and Blue

[Sandmeister]

A romhack of Pokémon Red and Blue that includes various features from each iteration of Kanto, along with unused beta content found in the Gigaleaks. Features:

• Beta versions of the Steel/Dark/Fairy types!
• Unused Pokémon from beta builds and future generation evolutions, as well as the inclusion of Kanto-exclusive 'mons from GSC (Houndour/Murkrow/Slugma)
• Added NPCs and trades to help with version exclusive or once per save Pokémon.
• Tradeback NPC in Celadon.
• FRLG Oak's Aide rewards! (Everstone + Amulet Coin)
• Move Deleter + Relearner in Fuchsia and Indigo Plateau respectively.
• References to hoaxes like Bill's Garden and the Mew under the truck.
• Tougher Boss trainer learnsets from Yellow version.
• Gym Leader post-game rematches.
• Modern Exp. All sharing formula (Still requires 50 Pokémon caught to get)
• QoL with BW's reusable Repel system and HMs usable in the overworld.
• Daycare now has a PC, and there's a chance your Pokémon will have an Egg! (Living Dex possible in one save file?)
• Improved Vitamins and purchasable PP Ups!
• Hyper Training!

The goal is to include as many beta features as possible, and some new Kanto-related ones, without changing the feel of Generation 1. Pokémon are only type changed to their modern vanilla counterparts, however regional variants/regional fakes/gimmick forms/paradox forms etc. are NOT included.

Moves from later generations are only included if they fill out a new type, or act as a signature move for a Pokémon. Otherwise, no major changes have been made to individual species.

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Credits

Spoiler:

• Helix Chamber - For documenting a ton of beta RBY content and some custom sprites/designs relating to it.
• The Cutting Room Floor - For documenting all of the Spaceworld demos.
• Pokered and their Discord for the dissassembly and help figuring out how to navigate it!

Code referenced from:

• Kanto Expansion Pak
• RainbowMetalPigeon's Extreme Yellow
• Vortyne's PureRGB
• Jojobear13's Shin Pokémon Red
• David Volovskiy's Pokémon Red++
• Melthelesbian's Pokémon Amaranth

And anyone involved in the making of any of these resources, thank you so much!

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Release BeyondRB - v1.1 · Sandingo/beyondrb

Adjusted more text to be gender neutral. Fixed grammar in some Pokémon's dex entries. (Godzilante & Carapthor) Fixed a bug where certain non-tree tiles could be 'cut' in the overworld. Fixed the Ol...

github.com

And an online patcher can be found here!

Google Sheets containing as much documentation as possible is also available! Base Stats, learnsets, type chart, etc.

 

[MementoMartha]

Hey, this looks pretty neat, I'd love to give this a shot when I get some time :D

If it's not a huge problem, though, could you add Kanto Expansion Pak to the 'code referenced from' list? I had a look at your code and spotted some parts that I definitely recall writing/adding, so having the right credit would be nice. No problem otherwise, though!

 

[Sandmeister]

Hey, this looks pretty neat, I'd love to give this a shot when I get some time :D

If it's not a huge problem, though, could you add Kanto Expansion Pak to the 'code referenced from' list? I had a look at your code and spotted some parts that I definitely recall writing/adding, so having the right credit would be nice. No problem otherwise, though!

My bad! I was using code that was on the pret tutorials page, will add the proper credits ASAP.

 

[SpringtraP-MasK]

hay i was just wondering, is there any battle facility at all or is it just one and done like normal R/B/G/Y?

 

[Sandmeister]

hay i was just wondering, is there any battle facility at all or is it just one and done like normal R/B/G/Y?

I did intend to add a battle facility, but I ended up cutting it back. Maybe in the future I'll make an update to include one!

There's still a decent amount of stuff to do when you're done with the game, like Gym Leader rematches, a harder E4 and the Oak battle.

 

[Shortino]

It appears that leveling up Golbat to level 41 crashes the game, I don't know if it is emulator specific but I'm using MyOldboy