FireRed hack: Pokémon Radical Red (VERSION 4.1 RELEASED! Gen 9 DLC Pokemon, Character Customization now available!)

[soupercell]

Is there a list of TM locations?

yes, check the google drive

 

[Gavoca]

pls add Hidden Grotto,Headbutt Tree and Side Quest that would be neat

 

[Gadget23]

Ok nvm is there a fast way to earn tons of money?

 

[Mirizi]

Ok nvm is there a fast way to earn tons of money?

Try cheat code price 1 at mart then buy tons of vitamins x99 turn of the cheat and sell it. Repeat the process you hav a billion now.

 

[Gadget23]

I don't really wanna use cheat codes

 

[Gadget23]

How do I get the amulet coin?

 

[interdiction]

Just finished this hack today and had a pretty good time with it! I'd consider it significantly harder than a Drayano hack but not to the level of a Kaizo hack or something that seeks to troll the player actively - I enjoy Drayano's hacks immensely, but they get quite a bit easier and don't require heavy teambuilding thought. This hack gives you lots of options and tools to deal with the challenges at hand with the helpful NPCs, as well as a massive variety of viable Pokemon, many TMs and tutors, and the nature/EV/IV modifiers, which I appreciated.

More detailed wall of text review incoming, which one could also consider spoilers. Hall of fame team is also attached below.

Spoiler:

Breaking down my experience with specific notes about the game balance and experience, the difficulty curve was quite good. The first few Gym Leaders still put up a fight, but don't require as much work compared to later battles and I don't think I wiped or reset (I tend to reset if I feel a battle is unwinnable, though especially if I'm tilted this can be as much as letting a Pokemon use one setup move or a move misclick) many times to them. Erika was more challenging - Triage Meganium with Giga Drain in Grassy Terrain soloed my team multiple times - but I broke past her eventually. Same with Blue, Brendan, and Johto battles up to this point. Silph Co was where things started getting a bit more spicy.

Blue still wasn't too much of a problem, but the tag battle with Brendan against the executives was my least favorite battle in the game and the only one I would go so far as to suggest nerfing or changing. It felt like I was fighting against my partner and the opponent at the same time with him smashing my Pokemon with Boomburst (sometimes one-shotting them with crits) or causing my boosted moves to hit resistances with weird targeting, while Ariana and Archer work in perfect sync and have an insanely optimized doubles composition. I was admittedly slightly stubborn with my team and had few spread-target moves, and could have bought things such as Feline Power Hyper Voice Persian (probably the strongest doubles nuker I could think of you can use at this point) or something with Wide Guard to try and babysit Brendan, it was far, far more difficult than Giovanni afterwards, I felt like I may not have even able to win without something like a Heat Wave/Play Rough miss or the AI cooperating perfectly with me. Sabrina also fell like a sack of potatoes in comparison, though I can't really remember why. Koga kicked it back up to 11 with his untyped team, though I did find the ninja theme clever; albeit I was a little underleveled and still could have optimized my EVs more at this point; I had not fully trained until the Cerulean Cave events but was slowly cleaning out useless EVs as the game progressed with those amazing EV remover NPCs. I wouldn't nerf his team at all, though.

If anything, Blaine afterwards should focus on the sun rather than pure Fire types, as he was much easier in comparison. (still requiring a couple resets, but battles such as A&A and Koga were in the 20+ attempts area versus 2 or 3 for him. His Typhlosion is pretty spooky, though. Specs Priority Eruption in the sun, thank god for Extreme Speed). Brendan in Fuchsia wasn't tough, and May took one attempt despite me being caught off guard and 2 or so levels below her. Jasmine and Pryce pick up the difficulty on the Johto side as well, though they were also in the 2-5 attempt range. The Cerulean Cave events were cool, and the battles in there were intense but fair. Ariana and Archer back to back was an extremely difficult fight, but I felt like I had far more agency due to me controlling 6 of my pokemon rather than 3 in Silph Co. Even with the 6 v 8 nature of it I'd rather re-do that fight than the previous one with them. Giovanni was also a beast , and bought massive threats to the table, but one I could slowly work my way around each attempt and learn his team. Both probably were in the 15-25 attempt range. I will admit here I did abuse Sucker Punch use by the AI a few times during the game to set up or at least PP stall it to avoid priority, but the AI was mentioned in the buglist, and faking out Sucker Punch is possible against real people. Most of the time the AI was very intelligent and would switch immediately to gain advantages rather than randomly like Pokemon's normal "smart" trainer AI type. It was consistent enough one could learn to predict it as part of their strategy, which I consider positive to allow the player to do rather than abusing the AI. (Getting 5 free calm minds off every Pokemon with Sucker Punch is a little cheesier, admittedly.) Learning to read the opponent is part of PvP, after all. Some teams could use pokemon with Haze or Unaware if they fit in the composition, I don't think I ever encountered either or at least was not stopped by them.

Continuing with my opinions on important battles, Clair only took one attempt for me. Not really sure why, again, I didn't find her team flawed in design. I felt my team composition simply succeeded much more against certain pokemon than others due to being heavily offensively focused. The penultimate Blue battle wasn't too bad, though I needed to keep priority up to not auto-lose to Shell Smash Mega Blastoise; still only took 2 attempts. Brendan was more in the 5-10 range, mostly due to usually not having enough Pokemon left to deal with Latios once it came out. I liked how the cooltrainers in Victory Road had moderately competitiive teams, though having to re-push the boulders every time I left to heal was a hassle. Nudging the nurse inside Victory Road instead of outside might have helped there. The Pokemon League was similar to Cerulean Cave, tough, but not in an annoying way like the tag battle. I struggled much more with Agatha and Lance compared to Lorelei, Bruno, and even Blue, but I felt it was a team-matchup issue again. My team was heavily reliant on the revenge killing of Furret (useless against Agatha) and often the Sticky Web of Galvantula (doesn't help against Lance's super-fast flying/levitating Pokemon). I don't think I could have done it without saving between battles, but that's on me, not on the game. (And as a contrast, Blue had multiple pokemon Furret's Extremespeed could OHKO or near-OHKO with a Choice Band. Furret often going 1 for 2-3 made it a vital team member.) Probably took about 4 attempts for Lorelei, 1 for Bruno (Ah, Bruno, always the weak one), and 10-15 for Agatha and Lance, though I felt Lance was harder. Overall I considered the most difficult battle in the game for me either major battle in Cerulean Cave, but only the tag battle truly made me rage within.

Past the wall of text, overall I found the difficulty fairly well balanced, but I don't know if the inconsistency in required attempts for late-game battles was due to my team's flaws or the enemy team's flaws. I'd say it's more towards the former than latter. While I know the game is being redone for 2.0, I hope this feedback is helpful; and doesn't come off as being a complainer regarding the Archer and Ariana tag battle. I don't think it should be removed, though, but possibly tweaked so Brendan at the bare minimum doesn't blow you up with his Exploud, I would take the lower power on it using Hyper Voice to avoid being hit by my ally. If you seek to make the game more difficult, I strongly suggest doing so without doing it by making Pokemon, tutors, or TMs obtainable later in the game than they currently are. I feel the huge variety of choice is this hack's strong suit. Setup moves can still wreck the AI, but there are at least priority, focus sashes, scarves, Taunt, to counter it. As I said, there could possibly be a bit more Haze, Clear Smog, or Unaware usage, though. Similarly, I felt the opponent almost never removed my entry hazards, though they were very, very consistent about setting them. I think my Sticky Webs were rapid spun away once. A few more Rapid Spins and Defogs (maybe even throwing Court Change in a moveset if possible) would help on that end, though flying types at least get around it.

As for the Pokemon themselves, I love any hack that buffs weaker Pokemon, and while most of my hall of fame Pokemon are already high tier (Charizard was often the weakest link lategame), Furret was a blast to use. Balanced due to being an Extremespeed bot similar to Linoone but with less risk and reward, but once I got the Choice Band, watching things die from 100% from a Furret's priority move was incredibly satisfying, and made it a vital revenge killer and cleaner. My team centered around Sticky Web and offense for the most part (though Gliscor didn't fit as well into that, it's one of my favorite Pokemon and still very powerful. Once that was up, I could be comfortable that my offensive threats would always hit first barring very fast scarfed Pokemon or priority moves. I should probably have gotten some form of hazard removal or prevention (stuff like magic bounce) myself as it caused Charizard to be nearly unusable in many battles, but it was incredibly strong when it did get its times to shine. Galvantula mostly existed to place sticky webs, sometimes even using a choice scarf to guarantee it; as sometimes other Pokemon ran Explosion leads, I would always consider it a victory when that trade occured.

Lastly, that battle before the League was hilarious. I was expecting a puzzle battle at first, but what I saw was much funnier.

Aside from all that, I'm interested to see what you have in store for this game's postgame and future updates. It's definitely one of my favorite rebalancing/pokedex expansions on Fire Red that's out there as well as difficulty hacks in general. I'll end this post with a question: is there anything at all that changes after beating the Pokemon League I should go look at, knowing the Sevii Islands aren't implemented yet, even a gift NPC, or is the League the last of it? Regardless, thanks for the hack! Interested in what kind of savagery the postgame can provide.

 

[Gadget23]

Weird talked to the tamer didn't get the amulet coin and I know I didn't sell it?

 

[v7aero]

on your up down right left button......press left to go back to normal menu and if u want to access it back press right (this was also my problem but i solved it)

Thank you i almost reset my save haha

 

[Rufino4]

Where i can find the Red Shard ?? I really want a Delphox (and please give to Delphox Expanding Force in the future)

 

[KevinSephiroth]

normally a lax incense is necessary to get a munchlax which is not available in this game. this will be fixed next patch, munchlax is currently unobtainable (along with a lot of other baby pokemon)

Removed need for incense to breed for Munchlax/Happiny/Bonsly etc

Welp, this killed my Azumarill chain breeding. I was aiming to make one with Aqua Jet & Belly Drum through breeding,
now all I get is Azurill ... Who can't learn any of those in Gen VII. I'm screwed.

How can I turn off this "feature" so I can get my Azumarill as usual instead of Azurill who's supposed to required Sea Incense ?

Otherwise the hack's pretty fun to play.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bargeto]

how can i have a greninja with battle bond?

 

[Gavoca]

how can i have a greninja with battle bond?

as i supposed u get the gift greninja and go to teh guys who change ability for Ablity pill i think?
the location is either saffron or cleadon (i don't remeber location)

 

[Gadget23]

How do I evolve Type Null?

 

[soupercell]

Where i can find the Red Shard ?? I really want a Delphox (and please give to Delphox Expanding Force in the future)

wild slugma holds them you can find them in mt moon

Welp, this killed my Azumarill chain breeding. I was aiming to make one with Aqua Jet & Belly Drum through breeding,
now all I get is Azurill ... Who can't learn any of those in Gen VII. I'm screwed.

How can I turn off this "feature" so I can get my Azumarill as usual instead of Azurill who's supposed to required Sea Incense ?

Otherwise the hack's pretty fun to play.

Thanks in advance.

i'll just add aqua jet and belly drum to azurill's egg moves in 2.0

How do I evolve Type Null?

high friendship

 

[Gadget23]

I figured that out thank you how do I change silvally's type though?

 

[soupercell]

I figured that out thank you how do I change silvally's type though?

there is a scientist in cinnabar who will do that for you

 

[KevinSephiroth]

i'll just add aqua jet and belly drum to azurill's egg moves in 2.0

Awesome! I found the egg move tutor in Fuchsia City, sadly he doesn't offer those moves for Azumarill.

He did offer Throat Chop for Weavile, which I would otherwise would have had to level up Litten to Incineroar and Move Remind him that move since it's a Level 1 move.
What determines which egg moves are offered by that tutor? I tried for each of my pokemon but the selection seems limited compared to the quantity of egg moves available for each pokemon in Gen VII.

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Now... I'm against Koga's 1st pokemon: Swellow (Base Stats: 75 Special Attack, 125 Speed)

HE ONE SHOTS each of pokemon of comparable level with Boom Burst (Normal type, Special attack)...

I ran simulations in the calc at pokemonshowdown site, and the only way for him to one shot each of my pokemon would be:
A/ my mons have terrible Special Def IVs (this is not the case they all have C+ or B minimum)
B/ Swellow has BOTH AERILATE AND SCRAPPY which is not possible (he does have Scrappy since he can hit my Gengar like he wasn't a ghost !)

EDIT/
After 5 or 6 resets my Gyarados, who has the best Special Defense and HP in my team, finally survived with 1% HP O_O
And he's only one level below Swellow, so that sure as hell doesn't account for the massive damage he took (I know the damage formula takes into account user and target's levels difference)
Weird stuff. He should survive 100% of the time with that amount of HP, not once in 6 tries O_o

 

[chuggaafan122]

The only things that I can't find at all, aside from the unimplemented Legendaries, are Nosepass, Probopass, Chimecho, Chingling, Cherubi, Cherrim, and Carnivine. Unown is also unavailable, but I expect it'll be in the Sevii Islands in its normal location.

Also, is it at all possible to implement a better way to get Fossils? I'm literally only missing Tirtouga and needing to wait a day only to potentially get a dupe is frustrating as FUCK.

Oh, and Max Phantasm breaks the HUD's palette.

 

[soupercell]

The only things that I can't find at all, aside from the unimplemented Legendaries, are Nosepass, Probopass, Chimecho, Chingling, Cherubi, Cherrim, and Carnivine. Unown is also unavailable, but I expect it'll be in the Sevii Islands in its normal location.

Also, is it at all possible to implement a better way to get Fossils? I'm literally only missing Tirtouga and needing to wait a day only to potentially get a dupe is frustrating as FUCK.

Oh, and Max Phantasm breaks the HUD's palette.

nosepass can be found breaking rocks in rock tunnel, the others are unobtainable and will be obtainable next patch (Barring Unown).

I'll try to add a better way to get fossils. The Max Phantasm is a known CFRU glitch and may be fixed in the future.

Swellow has BOTH AERILATE AND SCRAPPY which is not possible (he does have Scrappy since he can hit my Gengar like he wasn't a ghost !)

I hope you can reread that statement for a brief second and you'll probably find your answer