Pokemon Fire Yellow ROM

Pokemon Fire Yellow is a GBA ROM Hack by longlostsoldier based on Pokemon Fire Red. It was last updated on March 19, 2017.

Also, be sure to check out Pokemon Electro Ball.

Description

This is a Yellow remake. Obviously. But I guess I’m required to offer a little bit more information than that. It also borrows storyline elements from Electric Tale of Pikachu.

Pikachu was my first ever Pokemon, in fact one of my very first video game characters, and as such Yellow holds a special place in my heart and is the original conception of what Pokemon /is/ to me. My original games are getting quite old and next to unplayable now. So I looked for a remake with all the charm of the original.

But I couldn’t find anywhere Pikachu actually follows you from the start (maybe I didn’t look hard enough?). I’ve had this hack for over a year, feeling kind of dissatisfied with it, and waited to see if any better followme hacks would develop. Never happened, to my surprise, despite us having a followme for like 3 years now. Recently, a friend poked me, saying they’d love to play a true Yellow Remake, and I decided to post it, even though I’m kinda ‘eh’ about it. It’s no work of art, but you can do a basic playthrough.

You can do what you want: evolve Pikachu, it’ll still follow (although it will keep a Pikachu follower sprite atm, which may annoy some people), box or release it (it may still pop up here or there and be sad for not being in your party, but let’s be honest, anyone playing this hack just to release Pikachu is a goofball).

It is a fairly open world, as I’ve rarely seen this done, meaning you can go wherever the heck you want and take badges in almost any order you want, including from Johto, with the option to set trainers to your highest Pokemon’s level to make different ordering actually feasible for the player. (Please note that, without setting this option, there’s no way at the moment you’ll level up enough on your own to take on the elite four, because there aren’t enough trainers.

Features

• Following Pikachu/Raichu. Slowly befriend them by raising their friendship!
• Basically open world, go wherever you want with few obstacles, no HMs needed.
• Increased shiny chances.
• Fairy, special/physical split, more moves blah blah
• Some stat changes to Pikachu, Raichu, and Eevee.
• Pikachu was removed from the wild. Pidgeotto from Yellow is back in its place in Viridian Forest.
• Some Hoenn pokemon in Kanto. I will probably make the original 151 all catchable/gettable in some fashion. Use the link cable item or find a special trade event for some Pokemon.
• Surf disabled from the start menu, can be used by going to water. Disappears pika’s sprite, so no Pika walking on water while you surf. No need for badges or HMs to use moves; go get a water poke to surf.
• Johto is present and you can traverse around it though there’s nothing really there except 1 gym and some wild Johto pokes I hastily added a bit haphazardly.
• You will be able to get the starters Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle, through events, just like in the original Yellow.
• Butterfree is Bug/Fairy. What can I say, I was bored and there are very few fairy types.
• Activate same-level mode, so enemies will be the same level as your team, so you can truly take on gyms in almost any order. Talk to the person near the statue in Pewter.

Not implemented yet:

I haven’t touched TMs and Move Tutors very much, although I have put in Dazzling Gleam.