Shin Pokemon Red ROM

Shin Pokemon Red is a GBC ROM Hack by jojobear13 based on Pokemon Red. It was last updated on January 01, 2022.

Description

This is an enhancement ROM hack of Pokemon Red & Blue based on the Pret team’s pokered disassembly project. It is a mostly-vanilla hack that focuses on fixing game engine bugs and oversights from the original game. Additionally, trainer AI routines are improved and multiple quality-of-life enhancements have been added.

It also acts as a kind of research-informed speculative work that presents an alternate interpretation of the games. Specifically, that being what the 2016 Nintendo Virtual Console re-release of Gen-1 Pokemon could have been. It is the image of a glitch-free experience with player-friendly goodies and enhancements common to other modern remasterings.

Features

• Tons of bugs, glitches, and oversights fixed
• Trainers are made more difficult not by increasing their team levels, but by doing the following:
  • Vastly improving the default ai routines
  • Giving them access to stat experience
  • Giving them above-average random DVs
  • Trainers of a smart-enough trainer class will make use of basic pkmn switching
• One of OAK’s aides will toggle on/off scaling of trainer rosters to your level (evolving them if applicable)
• All 151 pkmn are available in one version
  • Though difficult for a select few, each pkmn can be obtained multiple times
  • The uniqueness between red & blue is still preserved in encounter rarity
• You can play as a boy or a girl
• You can hunt for shiny pokemon
  • DVs are checked to see if a pokemon would be shiny in the gen 2 games
  • If a pokemon has shiny DVs, then it will play the Reflect animation when entering battle
  • If playing on a super gameboy, shiny pkmn will have a palette swap on the status screen and also change color in battle
• Minor quality-of-life improvements during battle
  • When a when a box is filled (either via catching or depositing a pokemon), notification text is displayed
  • Exp bar in battle
  • A pkmn plays its cry to signal the last turn of using a trapping move like wrap/clamp/etc
  • The safari zone mechanics run off level instead of speed and safari balls have a boosted catch rate
  • Press Select to play a mon’s cry if it’s already listed as owned in the pokedex
• Minor quality-of-life improvements outside of battle
  • Softlock Warp: instantly teleport back to your mom’s house if you get stuck (see instructions in detailed changes on the github page)
  • Running Shoes: Hold B to double your speed when walking, surfing, and biking
  • Press SELECT to use HMs based on proper context (must have the right badge and the move on one of your pkmn)
  • Move relearner and deleter
  • Nearly all trainers can be rematched just by talking to them a 2nd time after their most recent defeat
  • Due to on-demand rematches, you could do a pseudo-“new game+” by boxing your pkmn and rematching everyone in order
  • All TMs can be repurchased as they are strategically scattered across all the Kanto pokemarts
  • Hold select and enter the status screen to print a ‘mons stat exp
  • Hold start and enter the status screen to print a ‘mons DVs
  • Slot machine bugs and oversights fixed so now you can actually win big
  • A pokemon having Pay Day will tip you off to the lucky slot machine and when it’s in a special payout mode
  • An NPC will pay COINS for showing him pokemon as an alternative to slots
  • After the elite-4, a new vendor opens up in celadon allowing the purchase of normally unique items
  • After the elite-4, there is an NPC that generates a trainer battle with a randomized 6-pkmn roster
  • There’s a tournament being held in the SS Anne’s kitchen after the elite 4 are beaten
  • CUT not needed to get to Lt. Surge and Erika (a blocking event replaces the Vermilion shrub)
  • Added some special trainer battles as fun little easter eggs
• Minor learnset changes that make things more convenient while still staying gen-1 legal
  • Stone evolutions regain some level-up moves
  • Yellow-version move lists have been integrated
• Minimal changes to battle mechanics necessitated by AI improvements
  • Trapping move mechanics nerfed to prevent PP underflow glitch as well as stopping merciless, unwinnable abuse by AI trainers
    • They now end, ending the turn with no further attack, if the target switches pkmn
    • Upon hitting, user’s speed reduced 25% until recalculated through other mechanics
    • The user’s Cry is played on the final turn of a trapping move to signal its end
  • Adjustment to the sleep condition
    • Sleep does not prevent choosing a move
    • Waking up from sleep does not waste the turn and the chosen move is used