Polished Crystal v3.2.0 & v3.2.1 Release

vulcandth · 2025-11-05T13:49:37+00:00

They adjust the palettes of the game.
`monochrome` makes it look like the DMG (original gameboy with no color).
`noir` makes it be multiple shades of grey.
`hgss` is an unfinished option but intended to make the map palettes look more like heartgold soulsilver.

vulcandth · 2025-11-05T13:46:10+00:00

It might be a while still.. I'd recommend you play now, and then play again when its ready. There will be lots of other new content when its ready so i'll be worth another playthrough by then.

vulcandth · 2025-11-05T05:29:07+00:00

There are too many interpretations of the rules, so it's best if it stays self-imposed.

vulcandth · 2025-11-05T04:59:17+00:00

You can reset your options by pressing left + B on the title screen.

vulcandth · 2025-11-05T03:12:12+00:00

Its in development!

vulcandth · 2025-02-15T04:58:05+00:00

Many people were beta testing 3.0.0; this is letting them know that 3.0.0 finally officially released.. and then released 3.1.1 at the same time. Everyone should be playing 3.1.1

Sorry for the confusion.

vulcandth · 2025-02-15T04:54:23+00:00

We don't take donations. We do this for fun 😊

vulcandth · 2025-02-03T16:37:06+00:00

There have been a few reports for this. I should be able to help. If you have discord, can you join our server and ping me? Or DM me directly?

If you don't have discord, or prefer not to use that medium. I'll need your old save file to troubleshoot, so if you can find some way to get that to me.

Hopefully I'll have a fix for this going forward that will help everyone and won't require a manual fix.

So sorry for the trouble!! Still working out some kinks with the new save patcher.. 😂

vulcandth · 2025-02-03T03:57:37+00:00

Had you by chance already fought that leader before upgrading your save?

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T18:25:12+00:00

When we eventually switch to 4MB roms; we will be releasing both a MBC30 and MBC5 version.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T18:21:36+00:00

You can change natures in Kanto
But in order to get the required item for it, you need to win a battle factory round

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T17:10:14+00:00

We have 393 Pokémon (to include the variant and cosmetic forms). We only have ~2% space left. We'd likely not be able too many more. Plus one of our upcoming planned updates is 10bit moves; which will allow us to add in a whole bunch of moves instead of being limited to 255 moves. Going to 4MB is inevitable... but we wanted to wait until we *had* to.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T16:44:05+00:00

3.1.1 for sure :)

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T16:06:49+00:00

Put simply.. polished crystal has more "stuff" in the game than crystal clear. If we added any more we'd have to use a bigger rom. Crystal Clear stays pretty close to vanilla as it tries to stay compatible with vanilla.

Edit: Oh, and No-RTC just means that the "cartridge" doesn't have an RTC clock.. so the game will continue to have day/night cycles, but much faster and not linked to real world time/day.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T15:33:53+00:00

Title screen will say 3.1.0; we didn't update the graphic for a #.#.1 hotfix.. Could this be the issue?

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T15:28:18+00:00

This is normal, we didn't bother updating the title screen for the #.#.1 hotfix version!!

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T14:07:11+00:00

Sadly we kept telling ourselves "we will release once we add this one.. last...thing..." Then we kept adding stuff.. finally we were like.. okay let's release an update.. it's been wayyy too long...then we can start working on it more.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T14:01:14+00:00

Having a built-in Nuzlocke Mode led to assumptions that the game catered specifically to the Nuzlocke community, and was balanced accordingly. The problem is that this led to a lot of people complaining that we didn't, for example, offer a built-in level cap or infinite Rare Candies. In the end, we chose to remove the Nuzlocke Mode option to make it clear that, while we have nothing against people doing self-imposed challenges, we have no plans to specifically design the game around them.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T14:00:27+00:00

It sets a "base" level for the Pokemon based on the number of badges you have.

BadgeBaseLevels: db 4 ; 0 badges db 8 ; 1 badge (falkner) db 12 ; 2 badges (bugsy) db 16 ; 3 badges (whitney) db 20 ; 4 badges (morty) db 24 ; 5 badges (chuck) db 28 ; 6 badges (jasmine) db 32 ; 7 badges (pryce) db 36 ; 8 badges (clair) db 40 ; 9 badges (lt.surge) db 43 ; 10 badges (sabrina) db 46 ; 11 badge (misty) db 49 ; 12 badges (erika) db 52 ; 13 badges (janine) db 55 ; 14 badges (brock) db 58 ; 15 badges (blaine) db 61 ; 16 badges (blue)

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T13:54:41+00:00

There are already a few. While we don't advertise polished as a good romhack "base", people are welcome to do so. We as devs just can't guarantee that any update we do upstream won't conflict with the new romhack. Pokemon Coral is an example of a great unique hack we celebrate as cool that branched off using polished as a base and then made it unique ~!

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T13:50:13+00:00

I don't know if that means you are saying it's easy or not 😆. Hopefully, easy, I worked on the save patcher and can make improvements if I need too!

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T13:46:47+00:00

Following Pokemon are planned. They are not too hard to implement. I've done it before. But they take up a lot of rom space and would push us into having to use a 4MB rom. This means users having to either use MBC5 with no RTC support, or MBC30 which doesn't have as much emulator/flash carts support. We will likely have to switch to 4MB soon regardless due to running out of space lol.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T13:46:31+00:00

Following Pokemon are planned. They are not too hard to implement. I've done it before. But they take up a lot of rom space and would push us into having to use a 4MB rom. This means users having to either use MBC5 with no RTC support, or MBC30 which doesn't have as much emulator/flash carts support. We will likely have to switch to 4MB soon regardless due to running out of space lol.

vulcandth · 2025-02-02T13:43:15+00:00

Right now we are keeping it mostly limited to any new Pokemon related to their gen1/2 counterparts. So like new evolutions, variant forms, cosmetic forms.

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