Hack Series: X/Y Rebirth - a light, 'adjusted difficulty'/Vanilla+ hack of X and Y

[Volcanion56]

Hmm. It looks like the issue seems to specifically be for Y. I'm looking into the issue right now.
EDIT: Alright, I think I got it fixed. If your issue was specifically trying to get the Torchic version of Y Rebirth to work, then the issue seems to have been with the dllfield.cro file not working for Y specifically (I must have copy-pasted the one for X). The new files are up now.

It's fixed, thank you so much! It was the torchic version of Y Rebirth. Looking forward to do a nuzlocke run now.

 

[Riku Harada]

Would this hack still work if I implement it in a current save?

 

[DynamoKota]

Would this hack still work if I implement it in a current save?

As far as I'm aware, it should be fine. I've never had anyone report otherwise, and I've never had any issue with it myself.

 

[kirimoh]

Hey! I was trying to find your Discord channel, actually joined the PokeCommunity Discord hoping you'd be active there. I even made this account just to say: WOW!

For over 12 years, I haven't really been able to enjoy the 3DS Pokémon games. They were just too easy for me, and I'd end up playing them on autopilot. But then I discovered your mods for ORAS and XY, and holy crap, I had an amazing time.

I've tried tons of ROM hacks, some of my favorites being Luminescent Platinum for the BDSP remakes and Compass for Scarlet/Violet, but even those were either a bit too hard for me or changed more of the base game than I wanted. I'm definitely more of a casual player and not a competitive expert or anything, and your mods hit that perfect sweet spot of difficulty while still feeling totally official.

I got that same feeling playing Prismatic Moon and Let's Go: Peerless Pikachu. They were an absolute blast.

I really hope you keep making more mods, especially for the Switch titles like Sword/Shield, BDSP, or Scarlet/Violet. Just wanted to say thank you for all the incredible work you've done, it's honestly reignited my love for the series.

Sorry for the long message, but I just had to let you know how much I appreciate what you've created. Seriously, thank you!

 

[DynamoKota]

Hey! I was trying to find your Discord channel, actually joined the PokeCommunity Discord hoping you'd be active there. I even made this account just to say: WOW!

For over 12 years, I haven't really been able to enjoy the 3DS Pokémon games. They were just too easy for me, and I'd end up playing them on autopilot. But then I discovered your mods for ORAS and XY, and holy crap, I had an amazing time.

I've tried tons of ROM hacks, some of my favorites being Luminescent Platinum for the BDSP remakes and Compass for Scarlet/Violet, but even those were either a bit too hard for me or changed more of the base game than I wanted. I'm definitely more of a casual player and not a competitive expert or anything, and your mods hit that perfect sweet spot of difficulty while still feeling totally official.

I got that same feeling playing Prismatic Moon and Let's Go: Peerless Pikachu. They were an absolute blast.

I really hope you keep making more mods, especially for the Switch titles like Sword/Shield, BDSP, or Scarlet/Violet. Just wanted to say thank you for all the incredible work you've done, it's honestly reignited my love for the series.

Sorry for the long message, but I just had to let you know how much I appreciate what you've created. Seriously, thank you!

Thanks so much for the kind words, I appreciate it a lot!

I'm actually not part of too many Discord channels, so here and Reddit are definitely the best places to contact me in regards to my mods (I have Bluesky and Tumblr too, but I have DMs closed on the former, and obviously the latter isn't the most active platform).

Yeah, "Vanilla+" hacks tend to be the ones I enjoy the most, rather than full-blown Challenge Hacks (even though I greatly admire the work those devs do), so I definitely was disappointed when I couldn't find any for Gen VI games, and decided to take matters into my own hands, even if I had little to no experience with making romhacks. But I'm really happy people have been enjoying Rebirth and Repolished so much, and I appreciate every compliment and constructive criticism.

As for the future, I don't have anything planned. I've toyed around with an USUM hack, and even made a mock-up beta for myself to test and see if it's even worth releasing, and I'm not entire sure it's worth it seeming the games are already considered pretty difficult by Pokémon standards (even if the Kahunas have incomplete movesets).

For the Switch era, I think it'd be a while before I even look into it.
BDSP wouldn't really feel worth it to me, since Platinum hacks like Refined Platinum exist. And if you're dead set on playing BDSP, I think if you use cheats to turn off the permanent Exp. Share and Affection mechanics, the game would be basically perfect in terms of difficulty (aside from the Pokémon League being a borderline-unfair difficulty spike)

Sword/Shield are mostly okay if you use a cheat to turn off the permanent Exp. Share. Aside from a few incomplete movesets earlier in the game, most of the major fights are okay.

And I don't even know how I'd take on S/V other than slight moveset and team adjustments. Realistically, I'd prefer the game to have scaling difficulty for the Gym Leaders based on the order you face them, but that's probably not ever going to be changeable. And I don't need to say that Indigo Disk is perfect the way it is (I'm actually okay with Pokémon games being fairly easy if they have difficult postgames, and Indigo Disk is definitely that)

Anyway, ramble over. I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me how much you've been enjoying my mods; it definitely brightened my day!

 

[zanddy]

this hack looks so fun and im excited to get through it just getting to gym bagde 1 as i write this. only thing id say is make the no version exclusives encounter doc a little more readable as right now it just looks like you vomited onto a google doc and called it good

 

[DynamoKota]

this hack looks so fun and im excited to get through it just getting to gym bagde 1 as i write this. only thing id say is make the no version exclusives encounter doc a little more readable as right now it just looks like you vomited onto a google doc and called it good

I didn't want to spend hours writing down every single change made to the dex and where you could find each Pokémon. I'd have to go through the encounter tables and look at every single change made (including what was removed to make room for these encounters), along with encounter rates, floors, etc.
So I decided to just dump the encounter tables so people could just ctrl+f and search for the mons in the meantime before I end up finally going back in and recording all of the locations. But as you can see, I just kept putting it off.

But I can put a general "these are where you can find the Version Exclusives" doc in the folder. It won't go over every single change to the entire game's encounters, but you'll get a gist of where each of them can be found with the encounter rate. I think that'll work for 95% of people.
EDIT: This new doc should be up now. as I mentioned, it won't go over every single change made to the dex, but iirc most of the non-Version Exclusives aren't overly changed.

 

[zanddy]

when do i get access to the mega stone for kangaskhan? i cant find any info on it and i wanted to use it for the pre ramos rival battle but thats not an option as the shop doesnt sell it and neither does the vendor

 

[DynamoKota]

when do i get access to the mega stone for kangaskhan? i cant find any info on it and i wanted to use it for the pre ramos rival battle but thats not an option as the shop doesnt sell it and neither does the vendor

It's one of the many Mega Stones that becomes purchasable from Poké Marts after you obtain your 5th badge, so you'll have to wait until you beat Clemont, unfortunately.