Pokémon Red Version

Re-experience Kanto in an all new light! Pokémon RBGenesis aims to recreate the feeling of playing Pokémon Red and Blue on your Gameboy for the first time. Using the colorful art style of the Gen 2 GSC games; Pokémon from gens 1-8, And all new events and characters, Kanto will feel nostalgic and fresh at the same time! RBG ups the expected difficulty of the Kanto region to bring a new challenge to returning players. Search the region for new wild Pokémon encounters based on the Day/Night cycle, or for the various Mega Stones and battle items scattered across the region! Discover all new areas, such as the River Valley, Deep Forest, or Mt. Moon Summit! Become the Champion of the Kanto region in a brand new way, and explore all new mysteries!

The Kanto Expansion Pak is a ROM hack of Pokémon Red that expands the original generation with scrapped Pokémon, regional variants, cross-gen evolutions, and Paradox Pokémon related to Generation 1. It attempts to remain as faithful as possible to the game's design specifications while doing this, ensuring that the RBY OU metagame does not deviate significantly from its roots. Thus, it doesn't include generational gimmicks or do any attempt to "rebalance" the game to not heavily be based on Snorlax, Chansey, and Tauros. It also aims to be compatible with any Gen 1 metagame, allowing tiers like Monotype, LC, NFE, Nintendo Cups, and more to be at least playable for the average user. The original Pokémon are left completely unchanged (including the lack of type changes introduced in later games) and are balanced around instead. Furthermore, the game includes multiple changes for quality of life, such as allowing you to capture every Pokémon without the need of trading, a Move relearner, and "Super Training". It also returns Super Gameboy Palettes back into the game, as well as including unused music and backports from later Pokémon games.

Started in 2018 by a secret cabal of ancient Pokemon nerds, Shin Pokemon is an enhancement ROM hack of Pokemon Red & Blue that aims to be the ultimate remaster fans never got. It is a mostly-vanilla hack that focuses on fixing game engine bugs and oversights from the original game. Additionally, trainer AI routines are improved and multiple quality-of-life enhancements have been added. It also acts as a kind of research-informed speculative work that interprets what the 2016 Nintendo Virtual Console re-release of Gen-1 Pokemon could have been. It is the image of a glitch-free experience with player-friendly goodies and enhancements common to other modern remasterings.

Pokémon PureRed is a purist's enhancement of Pokémon Red based on the pokered disassembly. The goal is to enhance the original games for excellent replayability without including features from later games. Pokémon PureRed is a part of Pokémon PureRGB which includes Pokémon PureGreen and Pokémon PureBlue. These versions are identical except for minor visual differences.

Star Beasts is a Gen 1 dex overhaul and homage to the first generation of Pokémon games. Star Beasts became its own project with entirely new fakemon designs. An entirely new Pokedex, full of new creatures to discover and tame! Completely overhauled movesets, with plenty of new moves! The Steel and Dark type! New types of trainers with different rosters! Charming new dialogue in the spirit of the Gen 1 classics! Rebalancing of the game to make it more accessible to newcomers, including plenty of NPCs that give you hints on where to find rare Star Beasts!

Pokémon Little Cup Red is a Pokémon Red ROM hack that reduces all Pokémon’s levels to 5 and brings them down to the lowest evolution. Any Pokémon that do not evolve have been changed.

Pokemon Regulation is a rom hack that attempts to maintain as much of the vanilla experience as possible while also allowing players to challenge themselves by applying special rules to the gameplay. Upon starting a New Game, you will be asked to provide a regulation code before your adventure starts. You can generate regulation codes on https://pokereg.net/

A hack based on Roaming Red by TShadowKnight The year is 199X. Several months after becoming champion of the Kanto Region, Red is called back by Blue to help on a secret mystery-solving mission! In Red's absence the Kanto region has been overtaken by a strange mist that mutates Pokemon into shocking new forms, and the military has instated a lockdown! Are you a bad enough detective to discover the origin of the mutations and save Kanto? This hack is based on a fansite from the late 90s called The Pokemon Factory". On it, fans would email in their ideas for new Pokemon to the site's artists who would make sprites and Pokedex entries of them to be displayed. These Pokedex mockups have made the rounds on the internet in the years since, with some even gaining notoriety as "Pokegods".

A ROM hack based on Pokémon Red. Despite using Pokemon Red as the base, the story is different and unique. it takes place in 1999. You have to impersonate a baseball player who has to participate in a competition. The winner of this competition will end up owning the Pokemon League. By the way, this will also avoid a war between the Frejo and Kelgo Regions, whatever that means. You have to build up your team of Pokemon before the competition begins to save the day. On top of that, former members of Team Rocket from Kanto have made it their mission to give you hell.

Plaguemon: Lost Diaries is a horrifying Pokémon Red revision created by modder Hikikomori. A nuclear catastrophe has happened, and all Pokemon started mutating. People are getting scared and confused. You have been chosen to make things right in this cursed game. Do whatever it takes to get away from this post-apocalyptic nuclear world.

Pokémon Red++ is a hack of Pokémon Red created by Mateo. The hack uses the Pokered Disassembly from the users at Skeetendo as a base. It is intended both as a Rombase for people who want an updated Red Version as a starting point (although admittedly, some of the features wouldn't appeal to all Gen 1 hackers it seems), and as a stand-alone game for people that want to relive the nostalgia of Gen 1 without some of the broken mechanics and with added features.

Unova Red is a re-imagining of Generation 1, but using the Pokedex from Generation 5. This is because the Unova Pokedex was designed to stand alone without any Pokemon from additional regions, much like the original Pokedex. The plot is effectively identical to the Generation 1 games, the only major change is in the Pokemon available. There is also a challenge mode patch which provides a more difficult version of the same hack.

Crafted specifically for the 1-year anniversary TwitchPlaysPokemon's first run, Anniversary Red adds a ton of new content to the first gen Pokémon games. Enjoy new and enhanced features, such as being able to capture all 151 Pokémon, increased difficulty, the newly created Battle Tent, mysterious new dungeons, and unique events created specifically for this version.

This is a colorization hack of Pokemon Red, done entirely using ASM. It takes full advantage of Gameboy Color hardware, which is much more capable than the Super Gameboy. The overworld is fully and properly colorized, and with colorized attack sprites, even battles are more colorful! In addition to color, Pokemon and Trainer sprites have been imported from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, and so has the battle HUD. If you don’t want this, the “vanilla” patch does not touch these.

Originally released in the early 2000s, Pokémon Brown completely replaces Kanto with a brand new region (called Rijon), complete with its own story, trainers, gym leaders, Pokémon distribution and new elemental types. Early versions only included the first 151 Pokémon, but later editions include a vastly expanded Pokédex (up to Generation IV, with a certain special Generation VI guest star) and other features such as an expanded type chart, additional dungeons and the ability to interact with Generation II games with a patch. You can even travel all the way to Johto!

Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version are a pair of core series Generation III games that are set in the Kanto region. They were released in Japan on January 29, 2004, in North America on September 9, 2004, in Australia on September 23, 2004 and in Europe on October 1, 2004. As the first remakes in the Pokémon franchise, the games revisit the original pair of Pokémon games, Pokémon Red and Green Versions, and so feature all of the characters, plot elements, and challenges of them, but with several important upgrades to bring them up to speed with other Generation III games. The Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter was initially included with the games when they were first released, eliminating the need for Game Link Cables when trading between the two games (and later Pokémon Emerald Version). In later copies, it was sold separately. FireRed and LeafGreen went on to become the second best-selling games of the Game Boy Advance, only behind Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions. They also received Nintendo's Player's Choice awards.

Pokémon Yellow is an enhanced version of Pokémon Red and Blue that allows you to start the game with your very own Pikachu following you around on-foot and collect the 3 other starters from strangers you meet around the region. However, your goal remains the same: catch them all and become the ultimate Pokémon Master.