Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced ROM

Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced is a Pokemon GBA Rom Hack by Zeta Sukuna based on Pokemon FireRed in English. It was last updated on June 05, 2024.

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Description

What is Touhoumon?

Much like Machomuu, I shall give you a bit of a description of what Touhoumon is. Touhoumon is a rom hack of pokemon that replaces them with touhou characters, hence the name. It’s similar to Moemon in that regard, but unlike (most) versions of Moemon, Touhoumon actually changes the mons themselves, the moves, type interactions, and as of the ‘1.8’ version of Touhoumon, the types themselves. The original hacks for Touhoumon eventually became templates, in both Japan and the West, to make their own hacks. Notable examples include Touhoumon Purple, Touhoumon Another World, Touhoumon Gensokyo Scenario (which hasn’t been released as of the writing of this thread), and Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced.

Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced is the one that we’ll concern ourselves with mostly here. The original version of this was created as a compilation patch in Japan, adding a bunch of touhoumon patches together to try to add in more to the game. The patches I remember are the “Johto” patch, and the “Sliding Evolutions” patch. Eventually, Aichiya Sanae, the author of Touhoumon Another World and World Link ported it over to an English version of Fire Red, and translated it. It’s remembered fondly, and is probably overall the best of the three ‘major’ hacks he’s credited to.

Why does THIS hack exist?

Unfortunately, this compilation still had problems. The maps of Johto were rather lazy overall, the trainer balance was non-existant, there were some rather odd choices in pacing between the regions, and the slide evolution system broke the game into little pieces. I saw all of these, and in my boredom decided: “You know what? Let’s fix this up a bit for myself.”

And so I tried, at the very least. Whether I succeeded, I don’t know, but I put a lot of my heart in it. Eventually it got to the point where, I put so much work into it, that I thought it’d be a shame to just keep it to myself. And that’s why you’re reading this today.

Features

I won’t be able to get them all in here. My memory is bad, and my foresight is bad enough to make sure that I didn’t exactly take notes on most of them. But I’ll try to get all of the ones I remember. A lot of these are native to “Enhanced”, but this might be helpful for those who haven’t played the original.

• Physical/Special split
• Three Regions: Kanto, Sevii, and Johto
• Edited Trainers and Gym Leaders
• Enemies with EVs
• Slightly expanded plot
• The ability to evolve your team beyond the ‘Kanto Dex’ limitations before beating the Elite 4.
• Various Battle Music changes.