FireRed hack: Pokemon Crimson Red 1.01

[Noodle_00]

Pokemon Crimson Red is a ROM hack that enhances the base FireRed Experience and adds:

- Much Harder Trainer Battles
- Gen 8 Mons / Mechanics
- Enemy items / Better movesets / Switch in AI
- Better AI
- Player gets most pokemon
- All held Items can be bought
- City Vendors
- 3 Rivals
- Majour Map changes
- 400+ Hidden Items / Pokeball items
- Optional Boss Battles that give items / Pokemon
- Legendary Pokemon
- Sevii Islands
- Post Game battles (Sevii Islands not post game but mandatory)
- Lore?
-QoL Changes
- Rare Candies for Grinding
- And MORE!


What makes this game different to some other FireRed ROM hacks like Radical Red?
1. Better Overworld exploration
Every early game route and some of the other routes are completely changed With new NPCs, Items and Hidden items.
Hidden Items are scattered all over the map underneath every single rock in the game. These Hidden Items can be hiding a bunch of battle Items, Berries, PokeBalls and more niche items such as evolution items.

This is Route 1
There are 3 Rocks in this first map that have the Hidden Items as mentioned they contain:
1 Protect Pads
10 Elixir
1 Ultra Ball
It also has a Mach Bike Hidden in a Pokeball in the Grass.
There is an NPC tutor that teaches Vaccum Wave.

Not every Route is like this but this can give you a rough understanding of how the
routes of the game could look.







2. Better Trainers and Boss battles
Crimson Red Is not supposed to be a "Impossible hack" (Ek, Run n Bun) It's meant to be a Difficulty Hack, Improving the Trainers to be much harder than the base game but not being
so hard to the point of frustration.
This is the 1st Lt. Surge Battle.
Every Leader Has:
6 Pokemon
Full Held Items
Diverse movesets
Advanced AI
A sick Song
etc.

Sometimes though Gym Leaders do have a Pokemon that doesn't fit their type.
The biggest focus in this game is fairness (mainly in the early game),
You get a bunch of Held items for countering the Enemy Pokemon of Optional Trainers and Boss battles.
You get most of the Held Items that the Enemy Gym Leaders have so that you can use their own strategies
against them.

The Difficulty Spike does go quite up the further you go through the game reaching it's peak at the 3rd May Battle and Elite Four

There Is Also a Custom Nuzlocke Variant That is talked about a bit further down.

Plenty of Trainers also have creative battles and are not just a one button sweep like in the base game.






(I don't have anything against Ek, Run n Bun or other difficulty hacks. I just used them as an example of much harder Pokemon ROM hacks. I actually looked at them as a form of inspiration.)





3. Quality Of Life
Not much to say to this but you will get 120 Rare candies before the 1st Trainer.
After Brock you get hundreds more Rare Candies, 3 Bikes, Full Restores, Max Revives, Max Elixirs and Most Held Items in Gen 8


How To Play:
Download the Patch File
Download the FIreRed 1.0 Official ROM from Visual Boy Advance
Go to https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/
and Patch the Official ROM and FINISHED

Docs:

Pokemon Crimson Red Sheet

docs.google.com

Screenshots:


The Full Game which includes all the Trainers, Map Changes, Pokemon Changes and all the Changes that are not in the Base FireRed are made by Noodle (me :P) using the Complete Fire Red Upgrade by @ghoulslash

The Hardcore+ Nuzlocke Variant
- Hc nuzlocke rules
- Pokemon from overworld Pokeballs (such as Boss battle Pokemon) count as the route encounter
- No Legendaries / Mythicals
- Every Optional Boss is mandatory
- Cerulean Cave
- Wipe = Reset

NOTICE:
The game is still in quite a buggy state as of the 1.01 and 1.0 updates due to the release being kinda rushed and me overworking myself. I'm currently working on as many bug fixes as I can but due to the sheer size of this new update then bugs won't be fixed for a little while (untill I'll be finished with the next one which i'll announce) unless it's gamebreaking. The hack is playable and it's still a fun experience but there are a few bugs here and there later in the game so save frequently! Thank you all for being so patient and I hope you enjoy the hack!

 

[zoro420]

is no one interested in this hack? I just downloaded..

 

[rcsccm12]

color me intrigued - downloading rn

 

[loj]

I like the expansion of routes but the hack is kind of buggy. For example a rock in viridian forest just gave me 0 exp shares. And when I register two items for use it shows the items as "fresh water" and "exit".

 

[Noodle_00]

I like the expansion of routes but the hack is kind of buggy. For example a rock in viridian forest just gave me 0 exp shares. And when I register two items for use it shows the items as "fresh water" and "exit".

Yea I apologise for the buggy release, I kinda wanted to finish the hack quickly without much testing and I'm fixing that rn. Could you elaborate on the "fresh water and exit" bug?

 

[CandyTheCatBR]

i got exp share, and it says i got 0 exp share. and when i went to look in the bag, the exp share i got simply doesn't exist

 

[Noodle_00]

i got exp share, and it says i got 0 exp share. and when i went to look in the bag, the exp share i got simply doesn't exist

Okay thanks for the feedback! I fixed the exp share and some other things that weren't working correctly in the 1.01 update however registering 2 Items is the limit and is just a visual bug that I can't fix since it's a bug with the engine i'm using it on. Using the "fresh water" uses registered item 1 and the "exit" uses item 2.

 

[CandyTheCatBR]

Okay thanks for the feedback! I fixed the exp share and some other things that weren't working correctly in the 1.01 update however registering 2 Items is the limit and is just a visual bug that I can't fix since it's a bug with the engine i'm using it on. Using the "fresh water" uses registered item 1 and the "exit" uses item 2.

any prediction on when the update will come? i'm excited to try it again ^^

 

[Noodle_00]

any prediction on when the update will come? i'm excited to try it again ^^

I already released a mini update fixing the small early game bugs (1.01). But I'm currently working on update 1.1 that will fix some of the dialogue, make more quality of life changes and fixes more bugs that should be released soon. Either that or I'll be working on a full overhaul of the region With something I have planned (2.0 update). I'm glad you like the game :)

 

[deanmoreira7]

Just got up to rock tunnel, the first time you go down a ladder (and then one more to B2), it spits you out on a mountain and you cannot move. Had to use walk through walls to continue to play.

 

[sylinuser]

Cool project!!!
but i just wanna say, i didn't see any credits in the thread post

 

[Noodle_00]

Just got up to rock tunnel, the first time you go down a ladder (and then one more to B2), it spits you out on a mountain and you cannot move. Had to use walk through walls to continue to play.

Hi! I'm so glad you're enjoying the hack so far! Unfortunately I couldn't find the Warp bug in Rock Tunnel you were talking about everything there looks fine but there is a bug I found describing that description on Mt.Moon (Which will be fixed along with a bunch more bugs in the 1.2 update). If it was in Rock Tunnel could you please describe it a bit more detail cuz I can't find anything. Again thanks for playing :)

 

[Noodle_00]

Cool project!!!
but i just wanna say, i didn't see any credits in the thread post

I added credits under the screenshots, It was a solo project and the only thing to say besides that that it's using the CFRU made by ghoulslash.
I hope you enjoy the hack! :)

 

[Nekromantikx]

Hi, I'm enjoying this so far but wanted to point out some things I noticed and wasn't sure if you were aware of it. There is a ladder on the first floor of Mt. Moon that throws you in the middle of a mountain that you cannot move on. Then once I entered cerulean city the player freezes. Also come npc will be in the middle of trees or building alone viridian and pewter.

 

[WineBeast]

Hi, I'm enjoying this so far but wanted to point out some things I noticed and wasn't sure if you were aware of it. There is a ladder on the first floor of Mt. Moon that throws you in the middle of a mountain that you cannot move on. Then once I entered cerulean city the player freezes. Also come npc will be in the middle of trees or building alone viridian and pewter.

Yeah, the game crashes entering Cerulean, but only on the top and middle lines. You can go to Cerulean City by using the last line (?!).
Sorry, English is not my main language, and it's difficult to explain, but I have attached an image that probably helps.

I'm currently on rock tunnel, and all the bugs I've found are warps to the wrong places (some cases had to use walk-through walls cheat).

 

[Noodle_00]

Yeah, the game crashes entering Cerulean, but only on the top and middle lines. You can go to Cerulean City by using the last line (?!).
Sorry, English is not my main language, and it's difficult to explain, but I have attached an image that probably helps.

I'm currently on rock tunnel, and all the bugs I've found are warps to the wrong places (some cases had to use walk-through walls cheat).

Hi! Thank you so much for playing my hack! The initial release is quite buggy and I do apologise greatly. I have Fixed the Cerulean bug aswell as the Rock Tunnel warp bug and I'm implementing more changes that all will be in the next update. It will take a while to make though so please report any more bugs you find and I'll do my best to fix them. Again, thanks for playing! :)

 

[Noodle_00]

Hi, I'm enjoying this so far but wanted to point out some things I noticed and wasn't sure if you were aware of it. There is a ladder on the first floor of Mt. Moon that throws you in the middle of a mountain that you cannot move on. Then once I entered cerulean city the player freezes. Also come npc will be in the middle of trees or building alone viridian and pewter.

Hi! I have fixed the Cerulean City crash and the Rock tunnel warp bug however I'm having trouble finding the Npc in the middle of trees. Could you please elaborate a little bit so I can fix it? Also Thanks for playing and I'm working on a massive update on the game, if you find any more bugs please report them here! :)