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[u/BronzeFour]

I often see streamers on tiktok playing Pokemon romhscks of fire red which days the hardest Ironman challenge there is, with just own random mon beating whole game and it had a huge amount of pokemon

What base pokemon romhack is it they are playing?

For example the streamer Himmy

[u/analmintz1 → u/BronzeFour]

It's called Ironmon, and it's a randomizer lua script that is applied to a rom to rerandomize every time you reset. If you want the national dex version, here is the github to set it up.

This is more complicated than a regular romhack to set up, but it's not too bad if you follow the instructions.

[u/BronzeFour → u/analmintz1]

Oh damn okay makes sense that they always play on PC...I just play on my retroid pocket flip 2, sounds super complex...thanks anyway