The History of Pokemon Hacking

[Gold Tom]

I want to find out as much as I can about Pokemon Hacking. So does anyone know who made the first hack? Who started the craze. Any and all information will be helpful.

 

[Cartmic]

The first Pokemon ROM hack I know of was blue hack called 'Pokemon Trep Edition', but nothing much got changed in it. I think that was back in 1998.

 

[Mikasa]

I got into it after finding Phil Reuben (he's the only one on facebook) and Vida's translations of gold and silver. I do believe PokéEdit "Jass Fuller" hacked the japanese versions of red/blue long before they were released in america so he always knew that little bit more than everyone else.

 

[supersailorearth]

Pokemon Brown was the first hack I herd of...

 

[the3rdhardyboy]

yeah the first hack was trep edition i typed in google first ever pokemon hack bam trep edition and some pokemon brown

 

[Martin Yiu]

The Pokémon Brown game is one of the best Pokémon ROM-hacks ever. It wasn't first, but it was most perfect GB ROM-hack and still is. You can even find its author here on Pokécommunity - Coolboyman.

 

[Gold Tom]

I want to know so that I can remake it on FireRed

 

[thethethethe]

I want to know so that I can remake it on FireRed

Do you mean you want to remake pokemon brown? Because Rijon Adventures is Pokemon Brown 20 years later, soo I don't think that you could remake that.

 

[Gold Tom]

No I want to remake the first ever hack.

EDIT: I played Trep but it is barely changed.

 

[destinedjagold]

wow... so you're planning to make a remake of the first ever PKMN ROM Hack ever existed!

That's a cool idea! Yeah.., but sadly, i don't know what's the first ever hack. The first hack I knew was the PKMN Jade and Diamond...

 

[Fellest Revolution]

If you look up data crystal on google, it will come up with a wiki type of website about room hacking. If you look up Pokemon Brown, it will say that it was- though an ameteur hack, was the first and inspirational hack done. This led to many others to hack.

So in conclusion, however said Brown before, is right. Okay?

 

[Gold Tom]

Oh, OK. Then I won't remake it.

EDIT: Did my research, if Trep was made in 1998 then it outdates Brown.