FireRed hack: Pokémon: WaterBlue Version (~Classic Style~)

[Esarty]

Pokémon: WaterBlue Version
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~Classic Style~
a FireRed 1.0 hack by Esarty

Made in honor of the 22nd anniversary of the release of Red and Blue in North America.
This is a simple hack of FireRed with changes to resemble the encounters, trades, exclusives, etc. of the Japan exclusive Blue version.
This is not a full 386 dex hack. This is made to resemble what a real English Remake of JPN Blue would be (with minor interpretations) meaning you cannot obtain all Pokémon on a single copy without outside influence.

Story

It's literally the same story as the original games.

Features

Spoiler:

• Jigglypuff replaces Nidorino in the intro video
• Encounters are adjusted to resemble JPN Blue Version in a Gen 3 setting (Pokémon like Jynx and Lickitung are encounterable in the wild; seafoam/icefall and safari zone, respectively)
• Exclusives have been split between FR/LG's
  Spoiler:

  
• Trades have all been altered to be like the ones from JPN Blue; Haunter for Machoke, Tauros for Persian, etc.
• Game Corner Prizes have been altered
• Rival Names have been changed, and the randomly generated name pool(when you enter a blank name) for the protagonist has been tweaked
• Cerulean Cave has been remodeled
• While not available without the use of cheats, Deoxys has been changed to it's Normal Form.
• Pokédex entries have been interspliced between FireRed's and LeafGreen's (with favoritism toward LG as it got its dex entries from Blue)
• Typos have been fixed from the Dex bug to the obscure 'Pokcet' typo in the Teachy TV

Screenshots

Credits

Spoiler:

Original assets and the source for the Blastoise title Sprite by GameFreak
Made primarily with Hex Maniac Advance
Assembly code for the 'Presents' bug via Sierraffinity
Custom sprites made using GraphicsGale
Other programs used even for minor things:

• APE
• AdvancedMap
• MEH
• unLZ-GBA

Downloads

1020- WaterBlueVersion.ips
make sure to patch it to a 1636 - Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels).gba


If there are any issues be it major or minor such as a FireRed leftover let me know and I'll fix it up.
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[Pyxal]

Approved! :D

 

[Esarty]

New photos added~

 

[Scyfr-]

The TM case looks like this? Any fixes for it?

 

[rayquazamay]

This hack is really great, you should make a Pokemon Yellow version!

 

[erpster8]

The TM case looks like this? Any fixes for it?

I could not encounter nor reproduce this problem on my Win10 PC using mGBA 0.9.2.
do you have all 7 HMs and all 50 TMs in that TM case?

edit: maybe try using different frame sizes or different video settings (ex. change "display driver" option) for mgba
my Win10 PC has onboard video that does not support OpenGL well so I set the display driver in mgba to Software Qt