Pokemon - Aaron's Low Budget Crystal ROM

Pokemon – Aaron’s Low Budget Crystal is an improvement hack with a lot of new features.

Features

• Running Shoes
• Use HMs without teaching the move
• More or less open world from the start (most blockers have been removed, Magnet Train is working from the beginning)
• Dynamic scaling system means the game world levels up with you as you gain badges
• Many Pokemon learnsets and base stats have been revamped
• Many moves have been altered, some with entirely new effects
• Gym leaders use different parties depending on your badge count
• Overworld Pokemon spawns can be interacted with (including some new boss encounters with boosted stats)
• Fairy Type added
• Dark and Dragon swapped to special,
• Ghost and Fairy set to special.
• Several Pokemons types have been changed to be less redundant (and hopefully more fun to use)
• Different starter options based on your chosen origin (currently only effects starters, looking into adding more differences)
• Freeze condition replaced with PLA’s frostbite
• Reduced encounter rates should make the game world a lot less frustrating to traverse
• Rematchable gym trainers (plus nurses in gyms for healing)
• Catch them all: Trade evolutions replaced with different methods, all Pokemon should be somewhere in the game world now. With the exception of a few legendaries that I’m working on new maps for.
• Dynamic level caps, based on badge count (current cap viewable on the trainer info screen).
• Boss Pokemon on the overworld (complete with expanded health bars that still need a bit of work).

Changelog

September 16, 2024

• Erika should now always use her own party, instead of using Faulkner’s party at low badge counts
• Kanto Gym nurses should now actually appear (except in Seafoam and Viridian gyms)
• Fishing Pokemon should now have significantly more variety. (Magikarp was appearing around 8 times more often than expected)

September 15, 2024

• Articuno and Moltres have been added to the game along with their own maps.
• Mahogany Gym and Ice Path can be reached without completing the Lake of Rage quest.
• Indigo Plateau is now accessible from Kanto pre-elite 4, assuming you have 8 badges.
• You can now fly in Kanto without having reached the Indigo Plateau (Saffron is unlocked by default since you’ll probably enter Kanto there).
• AI knows to prioritize Solarbeam in Sunny weather.
• Made a pass through wild Pokemon spawns; Totodile is now actually available in the wild (oops).
• At this point, every Pokemon is available in-game, except for Zapdos, Mew, Mewtwo, and Celebi (they’re in the restroom until I create their events/maps if you really want them).
• Vitamins are now significantly more effective, and their cap has been raised accordingly. You can feed a ‘fresh’ Pokemon up to 5 vitamins for (almost) max stat xp. Still debating the exact numbers.
• Numerous movepool improvements
• Several base stat improvements for underperforming Pokemon.