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

09-08-26

• Add dynamic player sprite recoloring, along with 8 options of player colors. Initially set on the intro menu, can be changed at any time at the Wardrobe in the player’s room.
• Fix a bug causing players to get stuck in the Eastern portion of the Meteor Falls Tunnel complex.
• General retiling of Johto maps; especially foliage tiles.
• Lots of backend work to free up space for future content.

06-08-26

• Meteor Falls has been significantly expanded
• A number of maps have been re-tiled, and somewhat redesigned
• A number of Fossils are now available to find in-game, and can be converted to Pokemon in Pewter and Rustboro Cities
• A number of move descriptions have been updated
• Event Flags have been added to Legendary mons that were missing them. These are reset upon beating their region’s Elite 4.
• Venomoth got its poison typing back.
• The Hoenn Rockets event has been slightly modified, the Waterfall HM is now given during the Mt Pyre Event.
• Fiery Path tile corruption issues have been fixed
• Verdanturf Flypoint has been moved to match the new map layout
• The Female Psychic trainer sprite has been drastically improved
• Some capitalization issues with a few Pokemon names have been fixed
• Sudowoodo has been moved slightly, to prevent him blocking Hoenn/Kanto starts access to Goldenrod City from Ecruteak.
• Likewise, the Cooltrainer on Route 32 now only blocks Johto start players from leaving Violet City.

26-07-26

• Add Lilycove Department Store, which customized inventories
• Add a Hoenn start specific rival (Wally)
• Update Female Psychic trainer sprite
• Refactor the Johto Rival scripts (Silver)
• Fix some assorted bugs
• Add an easter egg or sixteen

Useful Links

Pokecommunity

Discord

Reddit