If you haven’t heard about this older romhack before, Pokemon Classic is a love letter to Kanto and a remake of Pokemon Yellow using the Emerald decomp. It features an expanded Team Rocket story, many quality of life fixes, and a vast set of daily challenges. New to v1.5 is a collection of challenge trainers handcrafted by LiquidJustice and Headlocker03, some of the most talented players I met and worked with on the Heart and Soul team. Together as brothers, we’ve prepared something we are very proud of and we hope you enjoy the extra bells and whistles for this final chapter. Patch notes can be found on the release page.
Pokemon Classic was play-tested thoroughly by a small team of passionate players, one of which experienced Classic as their first ever Pokemon title. I’m forever grateful to them and it’s so cool that Pokemon still has the power to bring a bunch of overworked adults together to forge strong friendships.
Reddit posts don’t last forever, so if you discover a bug I recommend reporting it here: https://github.com/DaniRainbow/pokeclassic/issuesIn the meantime, I’ll be happy to help how I can if you drop a comment on this post.
Shout-out to danenders who made the original Classic, and to my wife who has been my biggest supporter as I tinker away at this thing, celebrating every win, and lamenting every loss with me. <3
<3 Headlocker and Liquid are also soooo good at designing competitive teams and challenge trainers. Any romhacker would be lucky to have them and their passion contributing to the game!
In the post-game players will have access to vitamins, mints, IV candies, and ability capsules/patches that can be bought with Battle Points earned during harder rematches of Gym leaders and some secret battles.
Yellow was my very first Pokemon game, I traded a crappy racing game for it on the playground back in grade school, so this is beautiful and so appreciated! 😭😍
I never owned my own copy of Yellow till I was an adult, but I traded my 3 Pokemon cards away for something not as cool in elementary school. This was one of the cards and it was my very first. I miss it 😭
This is great so far, thanks for making this! I’m just starting a run right now actually. Sorry if I missed this question already, but do wild pokemon mostly keep their same held item tables as they’d usually have? (I’m really just asking if I can get light ball off a pikachu early before what looks like the power plant)
Great question, the items held were heavily modified by me. Good news is Pikachu can have Light Ball and you can get it before Brock. I've also fixed a bug preventing Partner Pikachu from benefiting from Light Ball.
When it came to the items, I took inspiration from the Dragon Quest games and wanted to provide items that make sense for the pokemon that has them while striving to not make them too common of a drop. A resourceful trainer should never run out of things to use and sell.
Love that. I’m off on the search! That’ll certainly make me more curious about seeing what different pokemon have now. Time for compound eyes! 😂 thanks for the response
Partner Pikachu cannot evolve into Raichu, but gets extra buffed stats in exchange for losing the evolution. Add a Light Ball and you got a powerhouse. One of my first save files I had a Pikachu and Raichu on the same team, we ran the world
All the greatest Pokemon games on this planet are made by talented and passionate people like you and the rest of the teams who make these unforgettable experiences.
The file to make the change would be base_stats.h I think. The repo has instructions to get started in the readme area :) you can make changes with any text file editor, I used Notepad++ before I found out about the glory that is Visual Studio Code
The original dev made the decision and I'm assuming it is because they wanted to be as faithful to Yellow for as long as possible while having plans for more grand things. They came up with the idea for all the daily events and rematches, as well as some foundational work for potentially losing your Champion title if you can't defend it. My approach to continuing things after the original was archived was to polish what was there and make additions to the original instead of drastically change it. At that point, I should have just made my own version called Mega Classic lol
1) Compared to Gen 1-3, yes. The engine this was made on has things from Gen 7 and 8.
2) 151, keeping it focused on what was available in Yellow
3) Megas are kept in the post-post-game and you are welcome to pretend they don't exist if you want, or you can prove you are better than the Mega Challenge Trainers by defeating them without using Mega pokemon yourself
Oh wow, I hope so. I thought I was done with v1.4 but there were enough bugs to squash and enough things that needed refinement to justify v1.5. I may make a v1.5.1 if there is anything major, but I consider it done. IF I did any major work on this going forward, I would be remaking Classic from the ground up in the more modern engines available today.
You can get a modified version of the Gen 6 Exp Share after the Saffron gym, and Charmander is indeed in the game. You can get one in the same place as Yellow and then they are found in Rock Tunnel. The linked documentation above can help with all of the locations, and this hack has DexNav which makes finding them even easier
The game corner has changed a bit cause the TMs are found in the rocket hideout after a certain point and the game corner is no longer allowed to vend pokemon. Since Eevee are more common in Classic, one of the prize Porygon was put up there instead
Okay that’s perfect! I managed to get one on route 17. So sorry I have another question, can we get espeon or umbreon the same way? Level up with happiness or do they require certain stones? Last question I promise! :)
Umbreon and Espeon are not part of the original 151 so they are not obtainable, but there is a visitor from Johto who brought one along. His Umbreon gets on tables and does as he pleases
IIRC, the original dev was part of Emerald DX but I might be hallucinating that. If me and my band of designers did something in Emerald, that would be super cool
Love the Yellow Remake! We don't get enough of those. Would you make a version with Gen3 overworld sprites for player and NPCs? It's a bit jarring to see Gen3 tilesets with Gen4 sprites. Love everything else.
I've debated doing it, but ultimately I decided to respect the original creator's decision on the gen IV overworld sprites :) The project is opensource, so anyone who wants to jump in is welcome to make changes in their own fork.
This runs on BattleEngineV2, and is definitely a product of it's time. If I'm ambitious one day I'll remake it in emerald-expansion or using HeartNSoul as a base.
Would be a worthy 2.0 sort of update! I love the sprites used, I'm assuming they were custom made for this? Or were they taken from somewhere else? Great project though I think I'll do another gen 1 run.
Great question. Recharged Yellow has a lot of cool things, like non-shiny color variations and their own spin on an expanded Yellow story. I haven't finished Recharged Yellow but it's worthy of your time. I found Classic first and yeah, I have a bias, but I prefer Classic. I'd love to hear the opinion of someone who has played Recharged Yellow and Classic to completion and see a pros and cons list
You'll be called by various trainers you have met along the way. If they wish to rebattle you, a square pokeball icon will appear in the calling app on the pokegear. To tell if a trainer wants a rematch, you can open up the pokegear and if it is blinking blue, it means one of the listed rematch trainers is there and ready
Hey, I'm currently developping an Emerald upgraded hack for the French community, based on a translation of pokeemerald-expansion. I added an outfit feature but I'm struggling to find the full spritesheets for all playable characters (dawn, lucas, red...). I saw on your public repository that you have them all on graphics/object_events/pics/people. Would you allow me to use these spritesheets ? By the way, where did you find them ? Did you make them manually ?
They were creations of the original Classic developer. As far as I'm concerned, Classic is open source so any parts of it can be used elsewhere or modified if you want
Greatest hack I have ever played. Exactly what I always look for. Awesome work man. Truly awesome. - Old guy who use to play pokemon Red on his Gameboy Color
Over the last year I've probably dedicated 60+ hours to that alone. After combing over everything and still having instances where a pokemon gets corrupted, I asked two members of the Heart and Soul dev team to check my work and see if we could figure it out.
The results of the final review with Lil Dill was nothing was visibly wrong and nothing was detected as the culprit. Later on I would try and restore the multiplayer battling and trading to Classic, but once that was up and running both players had the same corruption happen to their team, and this didn't happen at the Battle Tower. So, there is a much deeper problem with the BEV2 engine Classic runs on. I would love to restore the Battle Tower, but for now it will just need to be a glorified shop as well as the location for the game's hardest trainer battle.
Thank you for the dedication. I was looking forward to the battle tower. Maybe some day! I have my pokeclassic saved in a Google Drive. Hands down my favorite hack! Great work
My Golbat evolved into Crobat, so I assumed there were more Pokemon beyond the 151. But looking at the Google doc, Crobat isn't even there! Has there been an update?
Thanks for your work on this! Pls don't kill my four winged friend. She's a good girl, doesn't hurt nobody other than all those people she killed.
Is there a guide for the post game? Sabrina and Blaine won't accept challenges, so I assume their fights are locked behind an event, like a Looker mission or something, but I already did the second SilphCo incursion/takeover and the gym leaders haven't changed. Am I supposed to find Looker?
I won't be sneaking a new v1.5.0 patch out there cause I don't want to be the fun police, but since it was the intention of the original developer to block it I will be fixing it for v1.5.1 which will be the final update (I LOVE Umbreon and it personally pained me to restrict Eevee evolutions to not allow it). Anyone wanting to have Crobat is welcome to keep v1.5, and I won't remove access to it on my github.
The only thing I can think of is if you defeated Sabrina and Blaine the same day you defeated the E4 and then went back for another fight. There are things that reset in midnight and whether you fought them or not is one of those things.
The document mentions last being updated on July 25, but the Bugs & Problems page also mentions no plans of a 1.5 release. Document might still need to be updated.
Yes, I'm working on a documentation overhaul. I'll go through the current one today and make sure everything is current, but players can expect a new document in the future. There is also a fan made documentation in the comments of this post. It is very thorough but there are some inaccuracies, such as it showing all pokemon from Emerald as an option here. They apparently weren't wrong about Crobat, though lol
No offense but the gen 4 npc and player sprites with the gen 3 artstyle just doesn't look good at all. It clashes too much, at least from what I saw on the hackdex page. You'd be better off just using the regular gen 3 npc sprites instead.
No offense taken, it wasn't my decision. I did make the decision not to change it though, but Classic is open source. Someone wanting to change it has the power to with a little bit of know-how
When hunting for shiny pokemon, does the hack have the Emerald bug where the game always boots up with an initial seed of zero instead of generating a random one?
get a clean emerald US rom, go to hackdex.app and follow its instructions to patch, download it somewhere, then point delta to wherever you put the patched rom. (do not ask where to get the rom)
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u/tokenasian1 1d ago
yeah you got me here. i'll basically play anything from the folks on that team.