Pokemon Crystal Clear ROM

Pokemon Crystal Clear is a GBC ROM Hack by ShockSlayer based on Pokemon Crystal. It was last updated on January 23, 2024.

Description

An open-world crystal hack.

Pick your starter, and your region, customize your character, and then do whatever you want. You can collect all 16 badges, challenge the new E4, catch all 251, rechallenge a gym, and visit new places… There are a lot of things to do.

Features

• Open world
• Pokemon Stadium 2 compatibility
• Start in any town from Johto or Kanto
• Select from 24 starters
• Character customization
• Pokemon palette customization
• Scaling Gyms and Trainers
• Pokemon follower
• Gym rechallenges
• Map changes (area expansion and new areas)
• New move tutors (Egg move tutor, Future move tutor, Gen 1 TM move tutor and Event move tutor)
• Chaining and Footprint system (to help get the perfect Pokemon and hidden power)
• Improved Pokedex interface
• Buy a residence in any town
• Loads of other improvements

Changelog

v2.5.10

Preface

Nothing has changed about anything I wrote in the 2.5.9 changelog preface. If you haven’t read that, I suggest you do. That said, there was a very strange bug found exclusively when using hardware that could randomly crash when opening the start menu, and that is obviously unacceptable. The other bugs were extremely minor and could’ve been left unpatched, but hey – if I’m already here…might as well.

Quality of Life

Between shinies and powerful auras, there’s no shortage of unique battle start messages. That said, as I’ve watched people play the game, there’s one combination of DVs that always gets fanfare when it happens to come up. As a direct result, I’ve chosen to highlight it in game as well.

• A quick animation and message will play when finding a species with all zero DVs. Soft resetting will also be locked until the battle starts, like shinies are.

Fixes

• Fixed start menu crashing under odd hardware circumstances when playing on certain hardware
• Fixed Daycare menu account not printing correctly during the Bug Catching Contest
• Kenya’s reset status will now be properly displayed by the Dex
• Fixed Morty’s Set 11 introduction text being incorrect
• Fixed a minor issue with some of Fibbef’s text
• Pigy oinking outside of the box should be fixed, but it’s up to him.

V2.5.9

• Thief now knocks the item out of the enemy’s hands for later collection when used outside of link battles.

• Added SUPER NERD COSMO to the randomized Underground Arena trainers, to increases the chance that the Power Bom music will be unlocked during a single run of the arena, if RANDY isn’t encountered.

• Added a few more secrets to Cherrygrove Bay.

• Added an easter egg with Pigy if you understand the fundamental mechanics behind Crystal Clear’s advanced features.

• Aipom: +Lovely Kiss, +False Swipe
• Dodrio: -Swords Dance
• Fearow: +Swords Dance
• Machamp: -Swords Dance, +Mach Punch
• Ursaring: +Swords Dance

• Fixed Pigy not rendering correctly due to his increased acceleration
• Fixed one of the Ruins of Alph puzzles not working correctly
• Fixed having a follower dig out of the Forest Path working incorrectly
• Moved a Maniac on Route 42 over one tile for similar reasons
• Fixed the Day Care menu account option incorrectly displaying gender in some cases
• Adjusted a footprint location on Route 25 that was too close to the map border
• Fixed Battle Tutor not checking for HMs
• Fixed the Region Map and Unown Tablet having odd behavior when attempting to sell them
• Fixed evolution stones and the Tradeback Guy circumventing Nuzlocke handling
• Fixed attempting to print Unown forms and the Cianwood Photographer softlocking Stadium 2
• Fixed music system causing inconsistent behavior in the intro sequences
• Several text fixes

V2.5.8

Preface

Menu account hotfixes.

Fixes

• Fixed chaining menu account displaying over 250
• Fixed daycare menu account exploding when egg moves were present
• Fixed default menu account exploding when exiting the pack
• Fixed some visual inconsistency with the default menu account