update to my Fire red hack: charmeleon version: final rom and changelog at the bottom!

[Lucaribro]

Introduction

Hi, I assume you all know and love/hate Charmander and Charizard, but have you ever considered Charmeleon for any longer than the time it takes to evolve it to Charizard? I'd assume not, because other than looking like an angrier, angstier Charmander it hasn't brought much to the table. So why did I learn how to rom hack to make a rom on this weird little gremlin? Well other than a convoluted subplot involving a sailor hat and smash bros, it's because of all those reasons! while I love Charmander and Charizard, I've always held this horrendous teenager close to my heart as I knew no one else would. So with that out of the way, let's go into what I actually made.

Charmeleons galore!

-The main change in this hack are the 21 new charmeleons added into the game and that every other pokemon has been removed from the grass as well!

-That's right, in this hack you can only use the most amazing pokemon of all, charmeleon!

-The three starters have been replaced with a new type of triangle being water, ground, and electric, don't worry about missing these encounters as they are also placed later in the game. (btw this makes the rival battle impossible to win :) )

-Each type has its own charmeleon, 3 pokemon are obtained as gifts replacing the fossils, and one more was added because I felt like it.

-Each charmeleon has a unique learnset and stat distribution based on what that type normally does

Moves have been rebalanced with higher accuracy to make them more usable.

-such as pick up on normal type charmeleon and the ability to teach it every TM (the way that Bidoof always wanted)

-The majority of stat distributions are simply a reorganizing of charmeleons base stats and for the rest a redistribution of the total BST of 405

-By making this distribution much lower than the final BST of most mons and by removing evolutions, players will have to utilize these mons set up moves and strategies to succeed. Hint :(Tips on these mons are given in their dex descriptions as well as some horrible jokes I made as well!)

-I highly recommend doing a challenge run such as a nuzlocke as this game was designed towards that. (in fact, I just completed a run on twitch myself!)

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updates!

Final version Download: View attachment 98688

Rom Base: 1636 - Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels)

fixes/ changelog

Icedrone has been fixed to be ice type as it previously was a water type as my editor kept retaining its original type .

Fixed the positions of several items such as ice beam TM being a prize now being in the fighting dojo instead of an extra exp share.

Mega punch has been changed to angsty roar which has the same effect as nasty plot, mostly done because i felt like it and it didnt work before.

chameleon moveset has been significantly buffed with moves like will o wisp, extreme speed, angsty roar, and other goodies. can also learn all other TMs, now evolves at lv 45

several other movesets have been improved as well.

The man blocking cerulean cave has been removed. All the rocks in cerulean cave blocking passage have been removed.

Ps: There are 4 more mons hidden in the game in the game, here's a hint, they aren't in the grass and they are exactly where you expect them to be.

known issues:

I did not want to deal with the Sevii island's quest, as I could not edit the script without fearing it would softlock the game. If someone knows what to do pls let me know.

the hidden mon in POKEMON MANSION, will not despawn when defeated, which honestly isn't bad as it can be found in the wild as an extremely rare capture in the safari zone.

Items such as the lucky egg and exp share that replace Prof Oak's assistants who check your Pokedex, automatically respawn which I kept as those items are really useful.