Pokemon FireRed Ultimate is a GBA ROM Hack by its_bme based on Pokemon Fire Red. At its heart, it's still Gen 3. But I made the game more challenging without it being impossible. The basic premise is it's 1 year after Red became champion and 2 years before the events of G/S/C/HG/SS.
You can download the Pokemon FireRed Ultimate rom from this page and to play the game you need to download the Visualboy Advance Emulator here.
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Pokemon FireRed Ultimate is a GBA ROM Hack by its_bme based on Pokemon Fire Red. It was last updated on January 24, 2025.
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At its heart, it’s still Gen 3. But I made the game more challenging without it being impossible. The basic premise is it’s 1 year after Red became champion and 2 years before the events of G/S/C/HG/SS.
Dark and Ghost have been swapped, so Ghost moves are special based and Dark is physical based.
All moves that had their base power increased in later gens are changed for this hack.
Waterfall now has the flinch effect it gained in later gens.
Spike Cannon has been changed to Steel-type.
Many sprites have been changed.
Most Pokemon can be caught, excluding Gen 3.
Most trainers in the game have updated teams to include gym leaders and other special trainers.
AI has been improved on most trainers.
Move list for Gen 1-2 Pokemon have been updated to mostly reflect their learnable/teachable moves from Gen 7. A few Gen 3 Pokemon have had their learn set adjusted.
Many of the trees requiring Cut have been removed. This allows more freedom to challenge gyms sooner and to avoid Viridian Forest if so desired.
All TMs are reusable.
All Pokemon that evolve by special items such as Seadra and Poliwhirl evolve by using Moon Stone. (exluding gen 3 Pokemon)
All Trade Evolutions (Golem, Alakazam, Gengar, Machamp) now evolve to that form at Level 50.
Eevee now evolves into either Espeon or Umbreon by using Sun Stone or Moon Stone.
All stones are buyable from Celadon Dept. Store.
Items such as Ether are now buyable.
Fly locations have been added to areas such as Power Plant.
Kadabra/Machoke now both evolve to Alakazam/Machamp at level 36.
Some trainers had their levels reduced in Rock Tunnel and teams slightly changed.
The Cooltrainer outside Lavender Town has a changed team.
Sandshrew now learns Fury Cutter at level 21 instead of 11.