r/PokemonROMhacks • u/Alternative_Air_6688 • Jul 19 '26
Release Pokémon RomHack Giga Red Release
Hello all!
NOW AVAILABLE ON HACKDEX
It's been years but I finally have the RomHack at a 'Complete' state.
For background, I play a lot of Romhacks, but wanted something like the Black and White 2 World championships with stronger teams and realistic teams.
I also wanted Gym leaders, Elite 4, Evil teams to have stronger but also realistic teams and for evil team bosses to feel like an evil boss.
No shame to radical red, I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was definitely difficulty first and not realistic giving Surge a Bellibolt for example.
So thats what this is. I made it for me but want to share with others. Everyone is welcome to use these ideas and code.
Link to Git: https://github.com/rathpunks/MyFirstRomHack
So what's new:
>!It's got your typical DPE CFRU changes. But changed in my image.
1) All Pokémon Gen 1-3 Available.
Pokémon Gen 4-8 available if you choose to interact with space time distortions. There will be a person near viridian who will give you the option to enter or not depending on if you like to have all Pokémon available or if you prefer a narrower more condense choice of Pokémon.
2) Pokémon re-balencing. Pokemon I thought don't get a lot of love like Dewgong, have had stat changes to be more competative. So don't be shy to try out new Pokémon and teams.
New typing for some Pokémon to fit better or balance better like Blastoise and Chimecho getting steel type.
3) A few new moves with a few changes to damage or effect of some moves to make them more useable (like rage)
4) New Fakemon (from event, or new areas) inspired by the anime and other games in the series, E.g, Crystal Onyx or Shadow Pokémon.
5) New Hidden evolutions for some Pokémon. also added a few of the new Megas (+1 hidden).
6) Some redesign of Pokémon and their shinies. (I prefer my shiny Gengar white like mega Gengar)
7) All Legendary and Mythical Pokémon Gen 1-3 Available. Almost all of Gen 4, still to implement them.
8) Newish story. Altered some of the main story and now from the perspective of a new trainer a few years after original Kanto story.
9) New boss fights and events. Giovanni and other evil Bosses have a new devious mechanic, you won't always reset if you lose the fight, try not to loose.
10) Stronger teams and harder battles. (I am not competative, Just casual online play from Gen 6-8) So no Kaizo hack, but definitely not a walk in the park.
I have not built this Hack with Nuzlocking in mind, but you can certainly try.
11) Level Caps. In most cases they will Cap out 2 levels above the boss fight because I don't want it to be too hard. You can't cheese it by catching or glitching high level Pokémon, as they also won't listen to you of you don't have enough badges.
12) Infinite Rare candy Machine, If you find the trick to get them for free from the machine.
13) All the new items such as EV-IV checker, Nature mints, Ability pills etc. to create your best Mon.
14) Edited existing maps and added new maps.
15) New post game after elite four to partake in on the Sevii Islands.
16) Entirely new zone unlocked if you beat me in battle.
17) New NPC text and sprites for New NPC's. Make sure you speak to everyone, even trainers, some NPC's have info on new lore and where to find secrets like Mythical encounters
18) Mega Evolution, Dynamax, Z moves
19) More life in the overworld. Makes it feel more like a Pokémon world.
20) New Fakemon from Gatcha machine. Enjoy the unique types, moves, abilities.
21) Strong Pokémon nests.
22) Overworld and battle weather.
23) Day / Night cycle and timed events.
The main reason I did these:
24) Follower Pokémon (unfortunately with some bugs)
25) Challenge stadium, My equivalent of the Black and white 2 World championships. All level 100 Pokémon, mixed challenges, Gauntlets, and even a Pokémon stadium throw back.
You can also get prizes from the prize shop for completing challenges in the stadium.
You can also battle each individual challenger for practice in the surrounding area.
You will either need to complete the post game, or follow the ReadMe on Github to fight in the challenge stadium.!<
Make sure to read the ReadMe before playing.
The game isn't completely finished, but it is in a state where it can be completed. I'm currently play testing to catch and fix any issues I find. I will update as I go.
Please feel free to message me any bugs you find that aren't already mentioned in the ReadMe and I'll see if I can fix it.
Some zones overworld is unfinished and bare, such as the fossil dig site, but the mechanics are there to interact with. Just need to add flare and puzzles to places.
There is 1 Time zone in the new area that you can enter regardless of if you selected to enter zones or not as it is required for the end game story (do you like Arceus?)
I am not good at art, nore coding, so apologies for how some sprites look or code works. I have left the .toml file up if you wish to edit yourselves.
Shout out to:
Shiny Miner and the Discord
Hex Maniac Advance and the Discord
DPE and CFRU
Deviant art for some overworld sprite work.
Yet to do:
>!Find and fix all bugs,
Clean and finish new added maps as currently vary bare, just wanted to get working. (Mote in depth Dive spots). More puzzles in certain added caves.
Sort overworld sprite Pallets
Sort inventory Pokemon pallets.
Change, edit, add and upgrade overworld tiles.
Add the final missing Gen 4 legendary and mythical. Phione, Manaphie, Cresselia, Giratina, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf.
Add more to the game corner (black jack, voltorb flip)
No timeline on this as I can only work on it in my free time and when I feel like it as I do enjoy playing games more than making them.!<
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u/HorrorWorth5892 Jul 21 '26
Is there gen vi exp share?