Crystal hack: Pokémon Fool's Gold: A hack of Crystal where everything is familiar, yet different...

[Astralaria]

I forgot tk mention that I did catch a crosola, but is it really any good? I'm assuming the base stats haven't been altered too much.

You can see all locations, movesets and the altered stats (not many were altered) in the google doc that was posted some posts above. So yes, Corsola isn't that great. There aren't many fire types in Johto it seems, but you can trade an Abra for Tyrogue in goldenrod dept store.

Spoiler:

Also some Kanto starters are fire typed, you should explore the new location Tumbleweed Town for that, if you're strong enough. I'm not strong enough yet, so I haven't found them, and I hope this info is correct.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Ayee so i explored the newly added areas around Johto and i absolutely loved them! Out of curiosity, are there any newly added areas in Kanto? I'm not very close to finishing Johto yet, so i thought I'd ask.

 

[celadonk]

To Inner Rhymes... Fire type is definitely one of the more sparse types in Johto. As others have mentioned, Corsola is available on Route 46, and two of the Kanto starters, available in Tumbleweed Town, are Fire type. Apart from those, you can hatch Cleffa from the Odd Egg if you're lucky; Scyther is a 1% chance on Route 33; Dunsparce is in Mt. Mortar (1% chance but becomes more common as you move farther in); Growlithe is on Route 44 (extremely common at night, and you can also catch Arcanine in Victory Road). There are also a few ways to get Tyrogue (from Kiyo in Mt. Mortar or by trading for Abra in Goldenrod, or by breeding Hitmontop from Route 49) which you can evolve into Hitmonchan with a Fire Stone.

Additionally, there are no new areas in Kanto yet but that's definitely on the list for the future. For the upcoming update 1.2 we are adding new moves, overhauling movesets and base stats, and adding in some more new locations, including the areas from HGSS west of Cianwood.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Dropping it here that version 1.2 is available on discord!

 

[Astralaria]

With 1.2 I finally beat the e4 (not really saying "finished it" before I am done with Kanto). I'll put most of this behind a spoiler tag, since not everyone wants to see the new designs.

Spoiler:

After waiting for 1.2 to drop and planning my team in advance - with some ideas I read on discord - I grabbed it as soon as it was out. I caught a Pidgey for sprout tower and went to get my first MVP - Bellsprout. I then nabbed a Cubone, leveled it until it learned headbutt and shook all trees until I found one that spawned Scyther and Yanma. So. Much. Experience. I might have gone a bit overboard with leveling, because when I entered sprout tower I was level 22 with STAB bonus against weakness. Those Bellspouts did not have a good day.

Bellsprout line coverage is no joke (electro, water, fire, ice, steel, poison), and Spark being replaced with Thunderbolt in 1.2 is super op but fun. Bellsprout was level 25 when I went against Falkner and the levelcurve didn't catch up to me until Cinnabar. I pretty much ate Bugsy for breakfast as well.

I reset the Odd Egg until I got Tyrogue and evolved it to Hitmonlee instantly. Honestly, those two alone would have carried my whole game, between great physical and special coverage. There are a lot of steel, dark and fly types, so fight and ice is really good. Nevertheless I took the Eevee and evolved it to Flareon after it learned Baton Pass as well. It wasn't too useful in the end, didn't even learn its signature move before I fought the e4 and was left to mostly use Bite against some psychic types. But it's a purple Dragon, I need it. Need!

Chuck gave me some trouble, since Victreebel has a fight weakness and Hitmonlee has pitiful defense. I actually had to grind a bit to beat him, but the rest of the leaders fell easily. Before moving on to Blackthorn, I tried to get a lucky egg, but gave up when my team was almost level 50.

My last team member was Suicune, which I spent too much time on resetting for shiny, just to get one with horrible stats. Not that it matters much, it's still Suicune and one of my favorite designs of this hack. It wasn't too useful; Confusion is pretty weak, even with STAB, and Victreebel and Hitmonlee already knew ice and water attacks. It'll get Psychic in the postgame, though. And yes, I play fully like back in the day, offensive moves all the way :p

For what's probably my favorite design I had no room: Gligar. I had kinda hoped it would be able to be my Fly mon (well, it has wings, alright) but it wasn't, and between needing all 4 HMs on Krabby and a mon that can learn Fly, Gligar didn't stand a chance. Sorry, lil guy :( Once I am done with Whirlpool, I will make room for one. Gligar is one of those things I'd put on my desk IRL and pat it occasionally on the small little (plastic) stone head.
I mean, look at this cutie:

Honorable mentions to Ledian, which carried my first run on 1.0/1.1 (didn't reach HoF) and is also a great design. Other mons I really liked were Sandslash, Horsea line, Arcanine, Corsola, Stantler and Teddiursa. All of the designs are all pretty great, but some I just fell in love with.

Shiny odds are increased, so I found a shiny Diglett on my first run, and a shiny Yanma on my second run, in addition to some I reset for, like Eevee and Suicune. Shiny palettes are really nice, too.

I loved the attention to detail; changed card game in the game corner, changed lighthouse mon, the eeveelutions. Some of the new palettes are awesome, the area around Blackthorn, the mornings, the colorful touches on cities. Having Cherrygrove City with pink trees is so good. Some of those colors I want to rip straight out and take with me into every crystal hack ever.

A real pain was HM management. Gen2 has just too many (And other field moves! Ugh.) and it's so hard to plan a team and figure out who can learn what without being able to look up info. Especially with water HMs being seemingly random, with a bunch of mons being able to learn Surf, but not Whirlpool and/or Waterfall (this has always been the case in core games as well, and it has always annoyed me. It's not like being able to learn Whirlpool gives that great advantage in battle). Wanted to use Bellossom; nope, no Whirlpool. Wanted to use Voltorb; nope, no Fly. It took me forever to figure out that Krabby still can learn Surf, Whirlpool, Cut, Rock Smash and Strength (but no Flash, he), from which moment on it singlehandedly carried almost all my HM needs.

The only thing that makes me seriously paranoid is the lack of a move relearner. The game is so great, but later gens and other hacks spoiled me a bit in that I am really stressed out about having one wrong click possibly ruin a mon on level 50 by forgetting an attack it can't get back, and for which there is no TM. That's pretty much the only quality of life improvement I still desperately wish for.

All in all - thank you guys for this awesome hack.

 

[lolcat]

hi!! noting that you changed shiny odds, do shinies still rely on IVs as usual for gen2? I'm wondering if I can still use a male red gyarados to help breed shinies since I'd love a shiny totodile. (also I absolutely adore totodile in this, it's my fav starter generally but now it's my fav type as well? 10/10)

 

[swagdec77]

Will there be an update coming out soon or should i just go ahead and play this now? Also the google docs and google drive I don't have access to? Was this a mistake or am i doing something wrong?

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Will there be an update coming out soon or should i just go ahead and play this now? Also the google docs and google drive I don't have access to? Was this a mistake or am i doing something wrong?

I don't know about soon, but from what I've read on the discord, there are plans to implement the Sevii islands as extended post game, not to mention new areas as well. Also, I suggest you join the discord to keep yourself regularly updated since the developers aren't very active on the Pokécommunity.

 

[kyokay]

hey new to it and absolutely love it!!

But i have some struggle thoughts with a lot evolutions out there.
Is there any evolution guide or something where it shows how diffrent pokemon will evolve?

Like the nidorans what kind of stones do they need if they still do?
Growlite still firestone?
Whats with all the trade pokemon?

Please help!

 

[Rattatack]

Just finished conquering Mt. Silver! It'll probably be a while before I can manage to beat that mysterious trainer.
Anyways, this was SUCH an awesome hack! I caught everything I came across - all the Pokemon had great designs. By far, my favorite is Golduck (like, SOUSAPHONE THAT'S AWESOME.)
Congrats on the super fun hack! I look forward to a future update. Also, take a close look in the Google docs were you download the patch - there is an evolution guide if you dig deep enough.

 

[Robgatti]

Is there any difficulty enhancements?

I've spoiled myself with Kaizos and Draynos hacks lol.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Is there any difficulty enhancements?

I've spoiled myself with Kaizos and Draynos hacks lol.

Nope, there isn't however a blind playthrough can definitely prove to be a bit difficult.

 

[alex5490]

I am loving this game. The changes to the pokemon are awesome. So far I have two shinies. Furret which I caught as sentret and yanma.

 

[Dankroska1]

Where do you get the exp share in this game?

 

[d4rk]

This game featured fresh changes that made me consider Pokemon I usually overlook, in that regard it is good.
Was the Physical/Special split featured? I do not think so... Although the use of some further gen moves suggest it.

I've found some oddities regarding Pokemon stats versus their typing (ex: Kingler being Electric while still having ATK > SPA) or in the moveset distribution (ex: Bug-type attacks in Sneasel). But overall not too annoying.

I was overlevelled a bit after obtaining the 4th badge due to my grinding method: all 6 Pokemons in my team must stay at same level. The two extra towns at that point of the game were interesting to grab a few more 'mons. I would say the difficulty being too "easy" has lasted only for a while, for the trainers at Cianwood's safari and the legendaries were a bit tedious, which was enjoyable. After doing the Legendary Pokemon quests, I've headed to Pokemon League. And there, after beating a rival that was some 5 levels under mine, I got crushed anyway by the Elite 4, so I guess I have a bit more training to do. I grew so curious of all the mons present, that I will change teams after beating Elite 4, with a brand new team for beating Kanto and Red.

Overall not bad but the difficulty curve could use some re-polishing. Thanks for the experience :)

And btw @Dankroska1, to get the multi exp. you trade the red scale with Mr. Pokemon in the early game route. You get the Red Scale after beating the Red Gyarados.

 

[KarateDan]

If anyone can link me to the 1.3 patch, with a guide on how to patch it on my phone it would be appreciated.

 

[MageMagius]

Hey can anyone tell me where's the best place for grinding here? I'm kinda stuck here coz the Gym Leaders of Kanto r quite strong.

 

[jastolze007]

I really enjoy this hack. Just started, but is there a list of pokemon BST? Some clearly got a change (like Chikorita) but others (like Hoot Hoot) didn't.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

Yo the spritework is cleaaaannnnn. I'm super jealous too because I've been wanting to make a Gen II hack for a while but I'm a bit intimidated by PokeCrystal.

 

[Tubarão Asmático]

Hi there! I'm absolutely LOVING the game, even caught two shinies so far! However, I got stuck for some reason.

After I talked to Jasmine in the lighthouse, I got to Cianwood and the pharmacist only offers to sell me stuff, with no mention of the sick Pokémon. Is this a known glitch? What should I do? Thanks in advance!