Pokemon Crystal Legacy - You Can FLY! Edition Twisted ROM

Pokemon Crystal Legacy – You Can FLY! Edition Twisted is a GBC ROM Hack by moosedude451 based on Pokemon Crystal in English. It was last updated on October 07, 2025.

Description

Pokemon Crystal Legacy: You Can FLY! Edition Twisted is a small mini-mod of TheSmithPlay’s incredible Crystal-enhancment hack- Pokemon Crystal Legacy, which simply adds HM FLY to several Pokemon’s learnsets, with the guiding logic being that, if a Pidgey can fly with you, these Pokemon should be able to as well. It also adds dual typings to the starter Pokemon, Chikorita line is now Grass/Dragon, Cyndaquil line is now Fire/Ground, Totodile line is now Water/Dark and the Hoothoot line is now Ghost/Flying. While I feel Crystal Legacy does an amazing job fixing most of Gen 2’s problems.

I wanted to take things just a little bit further, as one thing that bothered me even as a child about Gen 1/2 is that there are all these winged/ Flying-type Pokemon that for some reaso,n can’t learn FLY, and thus felt a bit redundant/ pointless to add to your team. My hope is that this simple change will help make these Pokemon be much more useful and viable as long-term team members because you will no longer have to waste an additional team slot on another Pokemon to use as a “dedicated Flyer”.

Twisted Version Changes

• Starter Pokémon now have dual typings
• Chikorita line: Bayleef and Meganium are now Grass/ Dragon and learn Dragon moves via level up
• Cyndaquil line: Quilava and Typhlosion are now Fire/ Ground and learn Ground moves via level up
• Totodile line: Croconaw and Feraligatr and now Water/ Dark and learn Dark moves via level up
• Rework/ retype of Hoothoot line: Whole line is now Ghost/ Flying and has reworked learnset featuring Ghost moves.
• Morty’s Rematch Battle now has the middle of his 3 Gengars replaced with a lvl 54 Noctowl.
• Wild Pokemon will have their updated typing and will utilize their updated level-up learnset against you.
• While no changes have been made to trainer team composition outside of the above mentioned changes, Pokemon will have their updated typing on a trainer’s team (i.e. Falkner’s Noctowl is now Ghost/ Flying). Furthermore, if a trainer uses an updated Pokemon on their team and they do NOT have a predefined moveset for that Pokemon (like the Rival/ Gym Leaders do), they will just use that Pokemon’s updated level-up learnset against you (like wild Pokemon do). This is normal Crystal/ Crystal Legacy behavior for basic trainers that lack a defined moveset.

New Features

Adds HM FLY to the following Pokémon learnsets

• Beedrill
• Butterfree
• Celebi
• Gligar
• Jumpluff
• Ledyba/ Ledian
• Mantine
• Scyther
• Venomoth
• Yanma
• Zubat/ Golbat
• Dragonite

Tweaked Encounter Rates for Route 29

• Decreased Pidgey encounter rate from 50% to 30% (morning, day)
• Increased Hoppip encounter rate from 5% to 24% (morning, day)
• Added 1% encounter rate for:
• Chikorita (morning)
• Cyndaquil (day)
• Totodile (Night)

Crystal Legacy Features

• Dynamic Gym Leader level scaling for ‘non linear’ part of Johto. The team’s and levels of Chuck, Pryce and Jasmine scale to whether you have 5, 6, or 7 badges.
• Gym Leader teams optimized. Leaders see more Gen 2 representation, while still retaining their original aces (e.g. Bugsy keeps his Scyther, but Metapod and Kakuna are replaced with Pineco and Ledian). Movepools see increasing diversity and complexity. Gym Leaders use held items.
• Improved level curve. Gym leaders and trainers no longer fall off in the late mid-game, only to spike in the Elite Fuur. The game now sees a more linear rise in leveling, with expanding trainer teams to provide more EXP. Players who don’t grind will still be under leveled to the champion, but this is intentional and typical for most Pokémon games.
• Pokémon availability increased. Kanto locked Gen 2 mons like Houndour added to Johto. Route encounters have been diversified. Gen 1 trade mons evolve by level up. Gen 2 trade items now simply work like evolution stones. Increased accessibility to evo items. Fossils + GS Ball added to Ruins of Alph. All legendaries are now catchable.
• Gameplay Balancing. Dark-type is now Physical while Ghost is Special. DRASTIC improvements to Pokémon movepools. Balancing to actual moves (notably large improvements to bug and fighting type). Weak single evo mons + other underperformers have seen some stat buffs (i.e Misdrievus is now closer stat wise to Mismagius, but not on par).
• Item Improvements. Flower shop now sells Berries. Cianwood pharmacy sells Stones & Ethers. Post radio tower Mahogany mart sells Upgrade and Metal Coat. Mahogany, Blackthorn, and Celadon now sell TMs. X Items cannot be purchased.
• Storyline enhancements. Slight adjustments to timing of Silver’s character arc. A man helps Lance uncover the Rocket Hideout. Team Rocket has seen Executives named as Archer and Ariana. ‘Hyuck-Hyuck’ Rocket now has a small character arc. The game now has an explanation for the missing Legendaries of Kanto.
• Quality of Life: Unique Pokémon Sprites, Running Shoes, Bigger Bag, Early EXP Share, Delete HMs whenever, TM pickup now says move name, PC added to Elm’s Lab and House after Tohjo Falls, Gameplay Icon that shows Weather, Bugs Fixed, Brick Piece (found in Goldenrod Warehouse) now evolves Hitmontop, Odd Egg always has good DVs, Happiness System makes Friendship Evos faster, Third Trainer Card show Kanto Badges, bugs fixed AND MORE.
• Rematch Johto Gym Leaders after becoming Johto Champion.
• Kanto is now it’s own separate league. Gym leader teams have competitively set teams of 6. Upon beating them, you must rematch the Elite Four for title of Kanto Champion before facing Red. Consider this section a ‘challenge’ post game.
• Fight the creator (Smith), production manager (Craig) and video editor (Weebra) in the Trainer House.
• The ability to challenge yourself with forced level caps and set mode in hard mode.

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