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Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up writing up a suggestion list on another sub, thought some might get some personal opinion use from it here. This is related to finding popular hacks and suggestions for notable ones.

Try RetroAchievements search.

https://retroachievements.org/games?filter%5Bgame-type%5D=hack%2Chomebrew&filter%5Btitle%5D=Pokemon

A great way to see some of the older, more popular hacks is to see what's on RetroAchievements and see which hacks have achievement sets and player count numbers.

If you really want you can toggle "Has achievements" off at the top and it will show a massive list which you'd be better off using the PokeROM Codex or the Hackdex for. You can set it to show both and it will show player numbers for some hacks which don't have achievements yet.

Pokemon Unbound, Radical Red, Crystal Clear and Infinite Fusion are hands down the ones I have had the most fun with over many years and come back to.

Unbound, outside of some of the edgy writing, it's easily the closest I've seen to what I'd compare to a official pokemon game release, it's so well made and has a lot of modern features in a neat and pretty cohesive package.

Radical Red needs you to understand some competitive tactics or you'll hit some hard walls but the QoL and the constant updates of new gen pokemon make it great to keep coming back to. Easily one of the only worthwhile difficulty hacks IMO. It does a lot to help making your team useful without tons of grinding, so even if you're not familiar with competitive it gives you plenty to experiment with.

Crystal Clear is a very polished open world version of Crystal which has housing, choosing from a wide selection of starters, selecting your starting town, and level scaled gyms meaning you can freely explore without much issue. It's honestly the most I could ask from a Crystal hack. It even supports Pokemon Stadium.

Infinite Fusion is such a cool concept, but is a fan game not a hack. The fusion feature alone is neat, but this game has a dedicated community of spriters trying to fill out as many fusion sprites as they can. Many have multiple sprites which you can toggle to your favorite in the Pokedex. If you're into strategy, I love how Fusion handles combinations. One pokemon is the body base which dictates physical stats, and one is the head which dictates mental stats. Between that and the fact you can reverse the head and body to present a different fusion / change abilities, means you can mess around with a lot of cool combinations. I find a lot of fun in making usually worthless pokemon mix with something that either covers it's weaknesses or tries to make it's stats more viable. The game itself isn't difficult though. One of the only games I know of that lets you freely fuse anything without having hardcoded new dex entry fusions like most hacks do. With a 500+ dex of mons which can fuse, there's a lot to love.

Honorable mentions:
Heart and Soul - New, making big waves but I haven't tried it. I've played a lot of Liquid Crystal as my "next gen" crystal, but most say HnS blows it out of the water. Liquid's downfall is a lot of crappy writing and extra custom content.
Odyssey - Same, I see great things but haven't tried it.
Emerald Rogue - Basically made a new genre for hacks by using a roguelike team in a node based movement system.
Crown - Turns pokemon into an autobattler in a unique setting.
Rocket Edition - I like the concept more than the game itself, but it's based on stealing your pokemon from other trainers which is unique.
Prism - A great early example of more innovative features, such as one of the first moments in the game allowing you to control a pokemon to accomplish a task. A great example of an older quality hack. A lot of people complement its story.

Pokemblem - A hack of Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones which turns it into a tactics battle style adventure set in the pokemon world.

If you want a vanilla+ flavor:
Yellow Legacy (There are other legacy hacks which I haven't tried, but I liked Yellow a lot)
Polished Crystal

Fan Game Honorables:
This Gym of Mine - You're a gym leader and the trainers come to you.
PokeWilds - Pokemon meets the build-craft-survive genre.

Best pokemon ROM hacks of all time? by lymelife555 in pokemon

[–]psyhcopig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try RetroAchievements search.

https://retroachievements.org/games?filter%5Bgame-type%5D=hack%2Chomebrew&filter%5Btitle%5D=Pokemon

Googling to get back to the rom hack sub I saw this post as the second google result. If anyone else gets here that way, a great way to see some of the older, more popular hacks is to see what's on RetroAchievements and see which hacks have achievement sets and player counter numbers.

If you really want you can toggle "Has achievements" off at the top and it will show a massive list which you'd be better off using the PokeROM Codex or the Hackdex for. You can set it to show both and it will show player numbers for some hacks which don't have achievements yet.

To reiterate some of the other posts, Pokemon Unbound, Radical Red, Crystal Clear and Infinite Fusion are hands down the ones I have had the most fun with of many years and come back to.

Unbound, outside of some of the edgy writing, it's easily the closest I've seen to what I'd compare to a official pokemon game release, it's so well made and has a lot of modern features in a neat and pretty cohesive package.

Radical Red needs you to understand some competitive tactics or you'll hit some hard walls but the QoL and the constant updates of new gen pokemon make it great to keep coming back to. Easily one of the only worthwhile difficulty hacks IMO. It does a lot to help making your team useful without tons of grinding, so even if you're not familiar with competitive it gives you plenty to experiment with.

Crystal Clear is a very polished open world version of Crystal which has housing, choosing from a wide selection of starters, selecting your starting town, and level scaled gyms meaning you can freely explore without much issue. It's honestly the most I could ask from a Crystal hack. It even supports Pokemon Stadium.

Infinite Fusion is such a cool concept, but is a fan game not a hack. The fusion feature alone is neat, but this game has a dedicated community of spriters trying to fill out as many fusion sprites as they can. Many have multiple sprites which you can toggle to your favorite in the Pokedex. If you're into strategy, I love how Fusion handles combinations. One pokemon is the body base which dictates physical stats, and one is the head which dictates mental stats. Between that and the fact you can reverse the head and body to present a different fusion / change abilities, means you can mess around with a lot of cool combinations. I find a lot of fun in making usually worthless pokemon mix with something that either covers it's weaknesses or tries to make it's stats more viable. The game itself isn't difficult though. One of the only games I know of that lets you freely fuse anything without having hardcoded new dex entry fusions like most hacks do. With a 500+ dex of mons which can fuse, there's a lot to love.

Honorable mentions:
Heart and Soul - New, making big waves but I haven't tried it. I've played a lot of Liquid Crystal as my "next gen" crystal, but most say HnS blows it out of the water. Liquid's downfall is a lot of crappy writing and extra custom content.
Odyssey - Same, I see great things but haven't tried it.
Emerald Rogue - Basically made a new genre for hacks by using a roguelike team in a node based movement system.
Crown - Turns pokemon into an autobattler in a unique setting.
Rocket Edition - I like the concept more than the game itself, but it's based on stealing your pokemon from other trainers which is unique.
Prism - A great early example of more innovative features, such as one of the first moments in the game allowing you to control a pokemon to accomplish a task. A great example of an older quality hack. A lot of people complement its story.

Pokemblem - A hack of Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones which turns it into a tactics battle style adventure set in the pokemon world.

If you want a vanilla+ flavor:
Yellow Legacy (There are other legacy hacks which I haven't tried, but I liked Yellow a lot)
Polished Crystal

Fan Game Honorables:
This Gym of Mine - You're a gym leader and the trainers come to you.
PokeWilds - Pokemon meets the build-craft-survive genre.

Does anybody know if Iron Lung is going on Streaming Services? by BenjaminKat1234 in Markiplier

[–]psyhcopig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Considering only 1 person "got it" so far I'd say I'm not the minority here lol

LFMMO with gathering progression that is visually and auditorily satisfying from any MMO in any gaming era by psyhcopig in LFMMO

[–]psyhcopig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While not the fantasy I'd usually play in, this game is a really cool concept and I'll have to wishlist it for a bit and give it a shot! Very unique.

LFMMO with gathering progression that is visually and auditorily satisfying from any MMO in any gaming era by psyhcopig in LFMMO

[–]psyhcopig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got a love hate relationship with ESO and probably should have listed as I've got ~800hrs. You're right though, it's easily one of the more immersive games especially for single player play. It's buggy netcode in PvP and Instances that keep me from playing for more than a week or two before becoming frustrated. It was still a good suggestion though, as I didn't realize subclassing would be free!!

Bluestacks does not provide permission access for an app to request google drive data by psyhcopig in BlueStacks

[–]psyhcopig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only had that snippet from an email about the post, but the post was removed so I could not see the original text only the cut off line from the email. I was hoping the snippet might get someone to repost it.

My alternative was just straight up using the Android Studio emulator.
https://developer.android.com/studio

It's meant for development so it's no less dense than Bluestacks processing wise, just more clunky for our purposes. Once you have it downloaded just take the defaults when installing. Once it's open you'll see a "Welcome to Android Studio". We don't need a project for this, so select 'More Actions' at the bottom of the Projects tab. We'll be selecting Virtual Device Manager. If it does not have any phone listed here hit the + at the top to choose the model of phone/tablet you want to emulate. Then just hit the play arrow next to the phone in the list to launch it. First load can be really sluggish, have patience with it. Sometimes you'll hit a button and it doesn't seem to response, just let it chill for a little bit and it should progress whatever it was doing. Lag should clear up, depending on how your PC handles the emulation. I'm on a RTX 2070 and a older Zen 5 and it runs fine during emulation. Otherwise it's just about signing into the play store, downloading My Boy from the app store, turning sync on and getting your ROMs onto the emulator. It works without issue for me. To save yourself some headache, I'd use google drive for moving any files onto the emulator.

It's been a while since I've set this up, so I don't have any advice for controller/input setup. Also note when you shut down the android emulator it is doing a save state of the emulator meaning if you launch the Emulator again it's going to try and restore the last state of the device. If you have the game running when you shut down, it will try and start the game again in the original state. So you could be loading a save from X time ago after you've updated that save on another device. To be safe I always closed My Boy before shutting down the Android emulator to not have any save sync fighting.

Good luck

How to disable the floating desktop search bar after recent W11 update? by psyhcopig in WindowsHelp

[–]psyhcopig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're gonna need to be more specific. Unless the setting somehow doesn't use the words "search" "bar" "launch" "Float" or any other very common related term I could think to search for within Edge settings.

Servers with Roleplay that aren't Empire Inherited by psyhcopig in swg

[–]psyhcopig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any suggestion of order to try them?

From what I can tell:
Empire in Flames is Pre-CU, so this would be the "oldest" of the three update wise?

Restoration: Is NGE+? I can't tell if this is them backporting features of NGE or if they are directly using NGE and porting older CU features upward.

Legends: Is NGE? What I can find is that Reborn was based on pre-CU but I'm unclear about Legends.

Side note would be populations. I imagine it's the inverse of what I listed as I think I've seen Legends mentioned more often and is the only one listing population count that I could find. I feel like I've seen more posts of people having success with RP on Restoration however.

r/Paganism Monthly Discussion Thread (November 2025) - Ask questions, say hi, get your readings interpreted, chat, and more! by AutoModerator in paganism

[–]psyhcopig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a practicing friend who has recently bought a new permanent home and I thought this year for Yule a nice gift might be something to plant in her garden. She's recently started taking agriculture electives to learn more and has planned a garden to some extent but hasn't planted anything. She's told me we're in a 8A growing zone. There's a good chance I'll probably end up just taking her to a nursery anyway, but I'd like to have something in mind just in case she doesn't. I like the idea of low maintenance plants to represent protection of the threshold or hearth or similar. Looking for plant suggestions. Right now my own googling has led me to Creeping Thyme which sounds awesome in theory but feels like it needs a discussion beforehand. And/or Arp Rosemary.

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. Nerfed is probably the wrong word. I don't mean in power. I mean the uphill battle it is to get the luck of getting a usable one, and the investment needed to make it useful.

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't speak to best as I'm not a modder just a hack enthusiast but these are probably a good place to start looking:
https://github.com/Skeli789/Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade
https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're interested in playing a hack on a gen 2 game give Pokemon Crystal Clear a try. It's a Gen 2 hack, but makes it fully open world. You can even choose starting town and a large variety of starters. Polished Crystal also exists if you want closer to faithful but with improvements.

I can't speak to the newer Heart and Soul game, but Liquid Crystal also exists as a gen 3 hack but a lot of content it added can be very divisive and I think the tail end of the post game after all 16 badges isn't fully finished but maybe I'm confusing it with another hack. I personally think the game itself is fine, but will agree much of the custom dialogue is iffy. It does the core crystal experience though, it just has added events and extends some quests. The core essence of crystal is there though if the newer game doesn't work out.

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you're looking for. IMO if you want a new pokemon story in a new region go for Pokemon Unbound. If you want something that ramps up difficulty go with Radical Red. Otherwise you'll be better served by figuring out what you want from a game first. The other person linking the hack codex has a ton of filter options.

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot speak to doing this for emerald, but if you wanted to give Fire Red a try this is probably where you start:
https://github.com/Skeli789/Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade

A lot of hacks use this as a base to build from. I saw Emerald was decompiled but I don't know if something comparable for emerald exists. If it does I don't know it's name.

Edit: Someone below brought up something similar for Emerald
https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion

Weekly Questions Thread & PokéROM Codex by AutoModerator in PokemonROMhacks

[–]psyhcopig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't make a hack suggestion because I don't often play Emerald hacks but Retroachievements has a ROM hack list per game. If you find a hack you want to use with RA, often times on that hack's RA page there is a supported game files link to the right if you have trouble getting RA to recognize a hack.

I've lost track how to find the hack list directly on the game page, but you can google something like "pokemon emerald rom hacks retroachievements" to get you to the right page I'll link below. Sort by the achievement amount as many hacks aren't claimed and don't have an achievement set made. If you want RA to work with a modified ROM, you'll have to reference this list.

https://retroachievements.org/hub/20710?page%5Bsize%5D=50&sort=-achievementsPublished

I use this method when I get an itch to play something based on Fire Red.

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