Red hack: Pokémon Solus [Complete]

[Dechrissen_]

Pokémon Solus Trailer​

Pokémon Solus is a romhack of Pokémon Red/Blue with a focus on an enhanced near-vanilla solo gameplay experience. It attempts to allow the player to accomplish anything they normally would be able to with another cartridge (looking at Gen 1 and sometimes Gen 2 features for inspiration), without the need for that additional cartridge. In other words, everything can be done in-game by yourself. Importantly, it attempts to be as close to "canon" as possible.

Changes to the vanilla games

1. All 151 Pokémon are obtainable through normal means. Specifically:
   • Caught in the wild
   • Evolved into via an in-game method
   • Found in a Poké Ball in the overworld
   • Battled (and caught) via interacting with its sprite in the overworld
   • Gifted to the player
   • Purchased
   • Restored from a fossil
2. Some new gameplay features have been added.
   • HMs can be taught to party Pokémon without using up one of their move slots
   • Four new TMs have been added to support forward-patched learnsets
   • Trades can be performed in-game via the Trader NPC
   • Battle HUD additions: EXP bar and 'already caught' indicator
   • Professor Oak can be battled after beating the Pokémon League
3. Pokémon learnsets have been partially forward-patched via Yellow Version and Gen 2 tradeback learnsets.
4. Some visual content is changed (sprites).
5. Some bugs/oversights from vanilla are fixed.

Check out the Feature Log for a (very) detailed look at all the changes.

Installation

Download the .bps patch files for the latest release here.

For Solus Red or Solus Green, patch Pokémon Red Version.

Hashes:
CRC-32: 9f7fdd53
SHA-1: ea9bcae617fdf159b045185467ae58b2e4a48b9a
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For Solus Blue, patch Pokémon Blue Version.

Hashes:
CRC-32: d6da8a1a
SHA-1: d7037c83e1ae5b39bde3c30787637ba1d4c48ce2​

Links

• Download the latest release
• Comprehensive feature log
• Pokémon Solus reference wiki
• Source code on GitHub
• Pokémon Solus video essay

Screenshots







Credits

• pret and the members of the pret Discord server
• jojobear13, for the Field Move slot implementation
• Vortiene, for assistance with assembly and pokered

 

[triassicranger]

Done a few playthroughs of this hack, which I picked because I can get an Alakazam as soon as Kadabra evolves.

Whenever I've done the Missingno gltich, he appears as a rectangle on its side instead his usual appearance.

Not saying I want his appearance fixed, I just found it curious his appearance is different.

 

[Dechrissen_]

Done a few playthroughs of this hack, which I picked because I can get an Alakazam as soon as Kadabra evolves.

Whenever I've done the Missingno gltich, he appears as a rectangle on its side instead his usual appearance.

Not saying I want his appearance fixed, I just found it curious his appearance is different.

Sorry for the late reply here. That's an interesting bug, thanks for posting. I don't know what might be causing it, but my guess is that it has something to do with the changes to the UI; perhaps it shifted the sprite unexpectedly.