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

02-10-26

• Dialog Boxes have been significantly upgraded and rolled out to all trainers.
• Sandstorm and Hail defense boosts for Rock/ice types have been added
• The intro page now uses scrolling menus for region and player color selection
• Birdwhistle’s animation error has been fixed
• Sun and Rain properly animate between turns
• Flymap sprites should now be the correct color
• Items registered to Select should now stay registered

30-09-26

• The Kanto and Hoenn rival scripts should now actually display their victory text if they beat you Fixed a few bugs in the Kanto/Hoenn rival scripts
• Added dialog for Lavaridge Gym and the Hoenn Victory Road. No more placeholder dialog
• Lapras is now correctly a Water/Ice type, and Mewtwo is now actually a mono psychic type.

29-09-26

• Kanto now has a Rival, Green. She has several events and battles around Kanto.
• Mega Froslass replaces the Beta Blastoise. Her Back pic is still in progress
• 4 New Abilities (Prankster, Durable, Thick Fat, Serene Grace)
• Modified the Pokepics dialog box to allow text with the box open.
• Implemented a new Dialog Box system (still in testing, likely will add a toggle on/off menu)
• Over 40 new custom move animations
• Ability animation fixes (no more double animations)
• Substitute move effect HP undeflow bug fixed
• Fixed Hall of Fame held item corruption bug (and re-enabled the hall of fame scripts)
• Fixed the Magnet Train animation error (it’s the end of an era)

Useful Links

Pokecommunity

Discord

Reddit