AGGGHHHHHHTHE GLITCHESTHE TEXTTHE SPRITESTHE MUSICTHE ALLUSIONS TO SOME ARG, CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE OR DEAD KIDS IRLSAVE ME DARK-TYPE-MANI'M GOING INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool romhack. The eldritch entities acting like redditor tumblr sexymen hybrids was kinda gay tho.
It was pretty cool except for the vague post walls of text
It was okay, if anything a bit barebone with little side stuff to find on your own but this whole romhack was apparently done in only 5 months
sans sailor
>>747556727>5 monthsI was going to lay into the hack a little but I suppose that explains it. Still not really a fan of how blatant the hack creator was just apeing Undertale/Deltarune writing style for character writing. They could have put just a little more effort into making it feel like actual pokemon dialogue.
>>747556408What is this, and is it good? I've been waiting for Elite Redux Leaf Green but that's taking longer than I expected.
this one was a disappointment
>>747559384it's a shitty ooga booga romhackFRLG.IPS
>>747559384https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjafTjKCFQ&t=2s
>>747556408ghost grey>ips
>Dood..... It's like you are the bad guy or something.... Because you are playing a game for children in a way that devs did not intend
>Missigno israel , and he's going to come eat YOUR BUTTHOLE in REAL LIFEI was so scared I sealed my butthole with wax immediately after beating the game...
>>747556408The story is that some chick got erased from reality because an Eldritch entity baited her with Pokémon rumors and creepypasta, and this hack is its second attempt of trying to get out.
There's fascination to be had in this turbo online faggot just regurgitating Toby Fox's own reheated nachos, with a dash of that zombie hack because it's one of their autistic little hyperfixations. It's hardly worth playing through, none of the mysteries get answered and the update just added an extra cutscene with the special snowflake evil Creepypasta entity telling you she's happy in a shitty 16MB cartridge.
>>747560061Lance is never going to retire.
>>747561132That’s probably not her anymore.
it's no pokemon snake-wood, that's for sure
>>747561351In a good or bad way?
>>747561132>Toby Fox's own reheated nachosThis is purely a problem because the creator couldn't help themself is copying tobyisms. Imagine writing a pokemon character to have a talking quirk of going "nwee hee!" every other sentence. What a fucking joke.
>>747556408>romhack play as normal game with minor changes unless you do a specific thingkinda cool idea nglexecution was rather meh, but in itself it's worth a playthrough
>>747556408>pokemon but weird route>ending is just "you can't escape the consequences of doing the bad things" just like blunderfail
>>747561132
>>747561969meant for >>747561237
>>747561969literally gaster follower dialogue lmao
>>747559384a fun tribute to playground rumors and hoaxes, with a touch of spoopiness
>>747559547That new rock by the water is the best part of the hack.
Had a video of this randomly recommended to me the other day, probably the better way to experience it because 98% of it seems to be you doing a bunch of scripted bullshit anyway.Maybe I've finally gotten to the point where I'm too old for vidya creepypasta but disembodied voices loredumping for dozens of textboxes on end isn't really doing it for me.
>>747561969>bruh what if i put undertale and deltarune weird route in pokemonDespite how obviously inspired the writing is by Toby's works, it is a pretty interesting idea. Wouldn't play it though.
>>747561132i'm someone else that is fascinated by snakewood (and think it actually does some stuff well like having a normal RPG sidequest for most of the game just to get faceleech/snorlax and skylax) but the issue is that snakewood is a one of a kind hack that could only be made by the one person behind it in that time period, even with hacks that restore content or fix the game's glitches. trying to put it, even if a bit in a creepypasta/toby fox dialogue hack is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
>>747559384An homage to those "do this and then this, then beat the league 50 times to get the Crystal Onix" hoaxes from the 2000's, with lesser known glitches, and an extra of manmade horrors beyond the comprehension.It is intended for you to follow a guide that also looks like an early 2000 page. If you don't it is regular FireRed gameplay.Quite well done honestly.
>>747556408Ghost Grey is a better spooky hack.>>747559384Deltarune's Weird Route but Pokemon, complete with a Sans expy because the Weird Route isn't complete yet.
>>747563348fuck it, i'm gonna (You) myself cause there's a bunch of random shit to snakewood, their video on it isn't even that good cause while it mostly goes through the main game, they completely brush off the side content and other weird bullshit so they skip>gym island and the steps to get there via roclobster (or even earlier cause cutlerine forgot corsola also carries red shards/hard disk solos), so skips over those gyms that have shit like a reformed zombie and a jet set radio reference>basically every legendary, so no shaderu/broken heart quest, no catchable senex, no luca zamon that goes into a random fight with kamina that sends out himself, no tea barqan that requires catching the previous two, and no furis cause you get strength at gym island (plus there being two ways to get to the one in the S.S. cangrejo via either the stupid madio caves or returning to meteor falls, better because the former gets rid of the fucking HM)>no unused maps also in the madio caves if you get rid of the NPC blocking the ladder that has an intact script to warp you to an unused townnot even getting into stuff like unused fakemons/zombies that usually don't have a sprite change (zombified for politoed, maw for possibly mawile, mewby/mutagon and crazymadio), not asking for a full breakdown but it's a pokemon game, you don't put it down the second the main campaign finishes even if you just brush it over. unless it's a modern pokemon gameis it good? fuck no but it's a guilty pleasure and it kind of sucks that any video on it either doesn't play through the mess or just dunks on it cause of how retarded it gets and how shit some of the sections are and goes no further.
Apparently there was a new secret found recently where if you replicate the fly glitch from gen 1, you actually get to battle Abby now
>>747556408>AGGGHHHHHH>>THE GLITCHES>THE TEXT>THE SPRITES>THE MUSIC>THE ALLUSIONS TO SOME ARG, CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE OR DEAD KIDS IRL
playing through yellow right now and it's so much better than the modern shitno bullshit, just catching battling and trainingthe only annoying thing is the limited inventory/storage boxes
>>747556408>only blastoise gets multiple mist stone evolutions because muh abyss narrative>the other two don't even have them in the code despite being describedkinda lame
>Abyss vs Land>Groudon and Kyogre are never mentionedThis really stuck out to me.
>>747566813Saving that for the RSE sequel
>>747565774that's a fake video, they've got shedinja in it which only sans-i mean sailor is allowed to have
literal tranny game btw
>>747567083...and?
>>747567083this proves we just need to take estrogen away from those people, they're fine when they're not being groomed
>>747567145you should feel bad for liking and talking about it because it's made by someone from a group I personally dislike
Its bemusing how little the pokegods are used in anything, not that this used it in a way thats that interesting.This is a pretty shit rep for the playground rumors. And outside of the names they're not even super recognizable, nor does the logic fully hold up as some of them should literally just be gen 2 mons.>>747567083Its literally written like toby, you didn't need to tell anyone it was made by a tranny; that was self apparent.
Looked good, but also couldn't get bothered playing through pokemon fire red and grinding so I just watched a video about it.Wouldn't be surprised if it skipped over some shit.
>download soulgold>immediate johto fatigue the moment I get out of the housewhat the hell wrong with johto
>>747568254gen2 is still the best version of it
>>747568254After playing through Infinite Fusion, I've come to the conclusion that Johto works way better as the victory lap continent compared to Kanto.Not something I can fault the games for since it never really had the chance to do it, but still.
>>747568682romhack is why I will seriously defend gamefreak for dexcut. The dex is so bloated larvitar is in the first cave.
>>747568847it's not that they have to put every pokemon in each game, but they should let you trade them in or import them
>snakewood but transwhy do they have to ruin everything? jesus i'm like one of the 15 persons in the world that like snakewood
ghost grey mogs this turd
>>747567083a lot of hacks are made by gender specials. autism is a hell of a drug
>>747571039just checked it out aaaand no this is shit toozoomers trying to be edgy and mimicking old rom hacks without understanding WHY they were cool
>>747556408I hate that I know what this is.Even as creepypastas go, this shit is trite.Its filled to the brim with ominous prose, but every bit of it is hollow of substance.There is no weight or power behind the concepts being expressed.Great labors have been taken to seem superficially scary, but it feels cynical and hamfisted.Also, the final twist was basically ripped straight from 'Who is Lila?'.Only executed significantly worse.
>>747556408One of the most hilarious part of this hackjob was the not!SansUndertale character.They even did the whole 'I remembered you're GENOCIDES human' spiel without a shred of irony.
>>747571342Ghost grey isnt edgy. Its silly as fuck.Anyways sex with the pokemon mart girl that bullies me
>>747556408It's corny desu. I thought the brother and the sister were all just one person; the sister is his attempt to troon out which he repressed as he grew older. then the pretentious dude is just him too. So for me it's all like "I have different personalities" and "I happen to create romhacks as a hobby and outlet for my personalities".
>>747567145They’re chronically unfunny and trans sensitivity reading creates bad localized writing.
>>747571958>I am obsessed.How is this our fault, exactly?
>>747571342The edge is perfectly balanced with lol so randumb humorhttps://youtu.be/6-GowdRH4nU?is=rtWgp25VBiBbqSxR
>>747556408Conceptually cool I guess. Missingno already feels like a "weird route" kind of encounter, but that's because the fucking "weird route" is literally influenced by retro game glitches like Missingno in the first place.But the story is just fucking terrible. The ARG is pointless and honestly feels retarded and immersion breaking when the point of ARG is supposed to be the opposite and make you feel like a part of the world. Like typing a fucking URL from the game textbox into your browser is not a good experience at all. I'm sure most people will just screenshot and ask ChatGPT to spit out the link or some shit, but it's still fucking silly and ruins the "lore" of the game they're building up anyway cause why the fuck would the entity have access to some girl's website or whatever. Exposition in it sucked. Original sprites sucked. Gameplay sucked. It just has a cool idea behind it that's poorly handled. Would honestly have been better if it was just more vague instead of trying to remake Ben Drowned + Deltarune + Pokemon.
>>747572148>OurSister...
>>747571949The sister is real, she got taken by the abyss and the brother is the only person who remembers her. The abyss is slowly taking him as well, which is in part due to him remembering his sister and also coming into contact with that weird seaweed that took over their gba, and it will occasionally come oht through him, like writing that shitty anime creepypasta on Abby's site and then blaming the edgelord for sending it to her
>>747572435Yeah if the bro and sis are the same then the sis is real and her being taken by the abyss is just a way to say they repressed themselves trooning out. He's being "taken" by the abyss i.e. he is being swallowed by the system into conformity and losing his individuality.
>>747556408> [X] evolved into RUINIs this a joke?
>>747571342I finished it two days ago, it is a pretty fun romhack and very hard at times, and it has the right amount of dark and edgy to not feel so pretentious while still having lovable characters that cheer for you. The Pokemon designs are also very cool, from the Scatterbug species that's contolled by cordyceps fungus, the Staryu line with an eye instead of a jewel that has a third evolution and the skeleton Squirtle line, to mention some along the already known Ghost types. Postgame is ass unfortunately, it's just a hunt for superbosses and an NPC in Vermillion City that takes you to secret areas if you obtained certain key items during the game including Wario's Castle with a super hard three in a row Wario battle without recovery in-between.
>>747567083Like 35% of Pokemon's fanbase are failed males who trooned out, what do you expect?
>>747574149No its very obviously serious if you actually read it. Serious undertard writing.He saw that one of the pokegod rumors was called "Ruin" and went with it.
>>747556408I watched a vtuber playing it and I found the stream when she was halfway through it. From what I understand and investigated, it's a "normal" copy of FRLG that you have to play vanilla while taking notice of very subtle hints, and it's until you reach around Cinnabar when the game finally tells you "whoops, you have to start the game from the beginning and follow this autistic list of steps and visit this website with the links I give you in-game to get to the real romhack part". Needless to say, it's a game created by some guy obsessed with Undertale, all the way to the not-Sans fight with an extremely obnoxious team to defeat and the "your choices don't matter" Genocide ending where you end the world and nothing's left behind.If you're really curious about it, just watch a playthrough.
I found the story interesting even though it was very obviously copying most of Toby fox's works including fucking sans disguised as a sailor.In the end, the game like deltarune does not and maybe will never understand that the SOUL and THE HAND are beyond strength because they are us. Whatever THE ABYSS and THE LAND does, they will always lose against infinite power. Even missing.no's last desperate trick at the end can easily be sidestepped.
>>747567083It's funny how people like you spend literally a full decade just obsessing about something that means nothing because fox news told you to
>>747574203>hard at timesWhen? It has the same level curve as fire red but le different. They literally spoon feed ypu every broken thing you need to have a fun casual time in pewter. Although I will say this. Having to buy the boulder badge made me audibly kek
>>747574485Which vtumor?
>>747561052My disappointment when Missingno was in fact Missingno and not M' was immeasurable. I thought the player was being led astray but this was really disappointing.
>>747556408So uh...is it fun?how many pokemon are in it? just 151?
>>747574675ZuzuMizuchi, just some girl the algorithm recommended me because I sometimes click on videogame horror videos. She actually skipped the not-Sans fight after fighting him once because the fight only triggers if you have taught Blastoise Dive.
>>747574991>Is it funNot especially.You're just following a checklist of steps outlined on some blog.
>>747567083At this point I don't care, I find it good when a tranny knows restraint and doesn't shove a bunch of tranny shit down their romhack that feels out of place. Good on them for making a good romhack, for all my beef with it, it was fun. I liked the New under the truck part too.
>>747574653I played with no recovery items during battles and without using the Kinder Egg during the first half of the game, but I had to re-equip it and grind because I realized how underleveled I was at that point. That and Chandelure was a terrible choice for starter.
>no one ever mentions the edgekino that is plaguemonIt is an actual travesty
>>747575686I would love to finish it, if only the game wasn't filled with intentional glitches that threw you into glitch city every 5 steps cuz muh schizo mc
>>747575686Nobody mentions the sequel hack for the pokemon tcg game.
>>747577301>be into Quarantine dex>see the devs bragging about how their fakemon dex is the first one to have an actual tcg variant>show them rhe plaguemon tcg hack>"erm ok but we looked for it and thought it was lost so it doesnt count"
All the supernatural shit sucks ass, easy way to make your vidya horror story immediately not scary I think for a Pokemon hack you should just go for unexplained disturbing imagery and events, like the game is just really badly corrupted
>>747574590The good ending is scamming abyss and getting the overpowered blastoise and blasting through the gyms and elite 4 easily
I would have prefered a playable hack like frlg.ipsHaving to use one pokemon the entire route with like 1 insta hit move doesnt seem any fun to me. The short dev time is obviously the culprit, but it would have been way more engaging having a team of pokegods with more than one actual challenge (sans sailor) even though that one is a slugfest relying entirely on luck.
>>747556408Tired of hipster bs
>>747575216This is what defeat looks like
>>747575194so it's not actually a legit pokemon game? trainer battles, pokedex etc?
>>747567145kys troon freak
>>747561052>Free rimjobWhats the issue?
>>747579085It is, you can play the game normally, but once you find the website, which the pokecommunity thread and the game itself can lead you to, and you follow the guide found on there, it unlocks the other path of the game. There's a ton of changes to playing the game normally too, however.
Is this the thread?
>>747579528No, it's just one anon being buckbroken and obsessed, go away.
>>747579085it is, it has every pokemon availableit's just that it has deltarune weird route attached to it
>>747574590Yeah addressing the player immediately negates any suspense or stakes because a player always chooses to engage by the rules of the medium. You CAN just hack the game or write a mod or be even lazier and have one of the demon AIs write one for you to make the big bad do the fortnite dance for your amusement.
>>747575654>grinding instead of using the rare candy bag that is given to you in pewter and or by every place an oaks aid would be when ghost grey has evs and ivs set to 0 to prevent difficulty issues Well that sucks. The only issue I had was catch rates
>>747556408I kinda like the idea of FRLG.IPS but the troondev really fucked it up with sailor sans, the non-ending and the vague MUH ELDRITCH GODS LORE AND MUH SPOOKY DEAD GIRL STORY. Anyone playing this already knows everything there is to know about old Pokemon related internet apocrypha, just make your FRLG genocide route and let us use old fakemons in the base game once it's over. That's enough of a Faustian bargain without the MUH MISSINGNO IS THE KING OF ALL POKEGODS AND ACTUALLY A COGNITOHAZARD ELDER GOD FROM THE OCEAN shit.
>>747579829The best way to grind is the Vermillion Port's fight club. Even so, I only had to grind halfway through the game with some wild Pokemon and before the E4 because the level gap was too big with no more trainers around to battle. And then there's the postgame with ridiculous teams, but by then you can just easily grind to Lv100 if you feel like making the postgame irrelevant, so it doesn't really matter.
>>747580057Apparently he's not even based off sans, his entire personality is based off that one line from those fake rumors where he'd tell you to "buy it or die" if you played a pirated copy, and the sans parallels were just sort of coincidental
>>747580434speaking of grindingfrom a video i watched of this (fuck no im not playing this), the instakill move works on 'mons lower level than you, and none of the spooky ebil mons they face are max levelcan you get to max level and completly fuck up whatever story the game wants to tell by killing the bosses you arent supposed to kill
the concept is neat but being actively developed with the idea that you absolutely have to read a quirk chungus text guide to make any progress just kills it for me. you could argue the same is true for things like genocide/weird route or even black souls but at least for those its possible to figure out elements on your own, whether it be via in-game hints or minor trial and error.>>747580057and yeah the payoff for dealing with the relentless guidefagging is a very shallow ending. cant really blame the dev too much since its likely just an amateur passion project where they make their own tobyfox-esque game but without any real sauce to it.
There was way too much exposition for it to be spooky.
>>747580585Yeah, you can kill the one in Lavender Tower, and it leads to an actual Game Over scene. Also, if you save and reset outside of Lavender Tower after completing it normally, the ghost girl shit talks you for ruining her plan of trying to get you to kill the boss and trapping you there forever, all in the recap segment
Anyone remember quarantine crystal? What happened to those trannies?
>>747580873Still being worked on from what i've seen
>>747556408I actually really liked this one due to the sheer number of old playground rumors it incorporated and how it assembled them into something neatOn a separate and entirely unrelated topic Abdication Day sucks ass compared to 'the old Coronation Day
>>747580587>the concept is neat but being actively developed with the idea that you absolutely have to read a quirk chungus text guidethe entire point of the hack is that it's an homage to shitty and overly elaborate internet walkthroughs that obviously wouldnt work in hindsight.
>>747580746kinda cool, kinda gaylet me get strong to save the world instead of dooming it
>>747580057>MUH ELDRITCH GODS LORE AND MUH SPOOKY DEAD GIRL STORY.oh its a godzilla nes situation?
>>747581239Not remotely.
>>747580746So not-Flowey, how lame.
>>747580587>the idea of a route based on the bullshit rituals to acquire made up Pokemon you could only find by reading a guide online is good>actually reading a guide online to do the route is badWhat?
>>747580534i refuse to believe that considering his last ditch effort to beat you is literally the exact same thing of trying to stall you out by locking you into something that prevents you from killing him in the hope that you'll get bored and stop
>>747574597Fox news?It's an /r9k/ social contagion pushed by fetishists no wonder people want them dead.
>>747580057sans sailor guy is the only real issue for mei like the other stuff well enough
>>747580534wasn't even a rumor, that was actually a thingiirc it was one of the copies of the game that had one of those scene intros taped onto the front of it
>>747580746>>747581167Not a fan of the old creepypastas then, are we?You're fighting the boss of Lavender Tower. Win and the game crashes, lose and get a unique game over. That's Buried Alive.RUN is the option not used in any of the old stories about Buried Alive, RUN is the option that works.
>>747580534Its actually quite interesting.Real "myths" seem to be more powerful in frlg.ips, since the sailor was "real" ("Buy it or Die.") He has more agency than the less substantial myths. And since he's aggressive towards "outside behavior" like piracy and is able to tell somethings wrong, it figures he'd be the biggest threat to the players plans
>>747578620Not everything and everyone has to be dedicated to your internet culture war.
been over 5 years since ive last played a romhack, have any good gen3 romhacks come out recently? I remember playing altered emerald and that was decent.
>>747580434>The best way to grindI'm not doing that in a game that gives me the tools to not have to. I will rare candy my mons to the lowest level of the next trainer I come across. My starter was level 20 by the time I got to diglets murder cave. Also tho>>747580746I thought this was cool, I had a good laugh over it
>>747581048Coronation Day was the dumbest shit and I don't think you could make it worse. It was like watching somebody with a list of creepypasta memes check each off each item>I can't think of a spooky word to put here so I'll use [REDACTED] text>need backstory... okay one day everyone decided to cut each other up>hm... can't forget to dump blood on everything>need some jumpscares>can't think up characteristics for the secret ARG bad guy so I'll just give it a vague title>perfect
>>747580534I can believe that the idea to make the figure that does this the sailor was inspired by the "buy it or die" guy.But the fact that there needs to be a single figure doing this and many of the things he does are absolutely Sans references. I doubt it's unintentional either.and yeah that "rumor" was real, just not official- one of the first cracked versions of the game put online has that string edited in.
>>747581887I mean, the original was a serviceable creepy game. The new one? Oh god just fucking kill me, this shit is fucking retarded. Did this really need milk and the SCP foundation for fuck's sake
>>747581801He's also the only myth to originate from FRLG itself
>>747556408Nah, this one is actually pretty cool. Gen 1 glitches felt like a real life creepypasta already, and all the PokeGods/Bill's Garden/Mew Truck rumors deserved a good romhack. They did a good job with this from what I've seen.Also, check this shit out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbMfRGQ534
>>747579727Yeah you understand! That's what I was getting at
>>747574590The "trick" at the end doesn't rely on anything within the game anymore. By remembering Missingno, the real one that you can encounter in an unmodified Gen 1 cartridge, by having it fresh in your mind, you nourish "Missingno", the king of the abyss. It's nothing to do with the game anymore, it's your mind. You can't exactly shut that off at will. Not easily, at least.I admit that I didn't feel particularly "threatened", though I never found Missingno particularly scary to begin with.
>>747571342Ghost grey only really gets good after a nigger steals your bike.
>>74758205080'3" singing lady is pretty hot. Thanks for showing this anon.
>>747582050I like it as a tribute too. It doesn't perfectly include everything it references, but none of the references are badly misplaced either, it all shows genuine affection for the old stories it calls back to. In a way it feels mournful over the mythos dying, but glad that there was something true to replace it. Letting that mythos claw its way back, even if as an act, even for a moment, was nice.
>>747582729My one complaint is how 8F, one of the most powerful ACE items, is reduced to something you hold onto for maybe a minute before it gets replaced by the mist stone
>>747556408This romhack is fine if you're in that age/mind-phase where you find creepypastas and 'le heckin spooky eldritch goys XDXD' scary. Otherwise it just comes across as cliched and vapid. The dialogue is also very cancer. Like another anon said, they ought to have at least made it sound like it were a Pokemon game rather than Deltatroon.
>>747556408Does my boy Doomsday appear in this?
>>747583086Is the game trying to be genuinely scary? Maybe unsettling in some spots sure, but scary? I don't think so. It's a tribute to a bunch of stuff that was meant to be scary in its heyday, but it felt like it more expected you to recall it fondly than be scared of it.
>>747582431That's when everything goes downhill in an instant for your character, so it's when the story gets interesting. The problem is that the whole "you against the world" trope amounts to nothing when you're never given the option to truly kill Bruno even during the postgame.
>>747583307Perhaps as an homage it's fine as its own thing, but it doesn't really come across as an homage to the style set by the Pokemon games of that time, but rather a contemporary application of current worldviews on to that time period. It feels oddly anachronous, especially the writing style. The Abby character wishing to 'go to Japan' in the early 2000s seems moreso an attitude that someone in the 2020s would have at that age rather than someone from the 00s. I applaud the effort going into the ARG mind, I find that compelling in of itself, but the content is lacking.
>>747583396It's unfortunate, truly. Bruno deserves to get a bullet in his head.
Witness people discovering Missingno for the first time here:https://web.archive.org/web/20260308084250/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.nintendo.pokemon/c/UVfzFBPxjX0/m/psTrs4-H_3AJ?pli=1Not sure if it's the actual first time it was shared, and maybe the Japanese were sharing it already, but it's the first known reference online as far as I can tell, mere months after the game released in English.
>>747583672>it doesn't really come across as an homage to the style set by the Pokemon games of that timeAnd it isn't meant to be...? It's an homage to the bullshit stories people made up about the Pokemon games of that time. I can understand being a bit confused because it sometimes mixes in straight up scary stories like Lost Silver with myths like the mist stone and Bill's garden, but it isn't an homage to Pokemon in general, it's an homage to the mythos people made up around Pokemon before it had really developed. Most of that was off color, and when it had the balls to quote supposed in-game text it usually sounded just plain wrong. >The Abby character wishing to 'go to Japan' in the early 2000s seems moreso an attitude that someone in the 2020s would have at that ageMaybe that slipped by me because I also wanted to go to Japan as a kid, with Pokemon as a major factor for why. Though it happened a few years later with me, late 00s rather than early.
>>747577493This, the good ones are always ones based in reality, either>The game has creepy content for no larger reason, does not extend outside of the game itself (i.e. jvk1166z.esp)>The game is made by a malicious dev that wants to harm the player or the player's hardware somehow (i.e. pendrive azul)>The game serves as a confession to a crime (i.e. Pale Luna)
>>747584180>arguing on /v/
>Watch a bit of it>Story is pretty neat but the faggy voice kills tension>little to no room for deviation. Shits just an on rails experience Swear to go if it ends up going "u enjoy hurting people dont you? :)" im going to call whoever made this a niggerfaggot.
>>747556408>check the thread to download it>guy is trying his fucking hardest to just be le wacky toby fox vagueposting but who was poster??? shit>it just comes across as desperate and cringeYeah nah
>>747584589>Swear to go if it ends up going "u enjoy hurting people dont you? :)"You're not going to believe this...
>>747584370jvk fucked it up right at the end funnily enough, i choose to believe it was the writer's friend hallucinating but considering the time period it was written it could've very easily have been SPOOKY FREAK IS REAL!!!!
>>747584589>the faggy voiceThe one reading the numbers? That's the only voice I can think of and it doesn't come up very frequently.>little to no room for deviationReplicating the experience of following a guide from an ancient geocities website.>if it ends up going "u enjoy hurting people dont you? :)"I'm pretty sure it doesn't, but apparently I have a preternatural ability to brush off the game telling me I'm a bad person, so take that with a grain of salt.
>>747584589>u enjoy hurting people dont you? :)More like >u just HAVE to see all the content dont you >:(
>>747584370I disagree, creepy shit that can fit within the bounds of reality is fine and all but writing off any and all "supernatural" stuff because it doesn't make you feel like you could be in real danger feels silly.
>>747581887It was fine before it got updated out of nowhere with Ayys and other retarded shit
>>747584820>>747584693Please no.
>>747580534>sort of coincidentalHe straight up goes "you wanna have a bad time" like fucking sans and has the whole "final fight before everything goes down" bit from the genocide route going on, I highly doubt that's a coincidence. It's painfully obvious that the dev has a huge boner for undertale/deltarune and that makes this hack worse for it.
>>747585087It makes a few points throughout its runtime that you've probably seen Kanto a billion times and don't have much affection left to wring out of it, but it doesn't treat you as evil for this. People are overly sensitive about the game potentially telling them they're evil.
>>747585281Oh boy meta bullshit. Great. Undertale was a mistake.
>>747585141>It's painfully obvious that the dev has a huge boner for undertale/deltaruneOne of the explicit inspirations was Deltarune, so that isn't surprising. I only object to the sailor because it feels like all but saying you expect the weird route to end just like genocide.
>>747584357>And it isn't meant to be...? It's an homage to the bullshit stories people made up about the Pokemon games of that timeFair tbhdesu, I don't think the creator quite hit the mark if that's what they were going for but it was a good effort overall. They just need to improve their writing, or cut out the Sans-Doondertool-Sexy-Yaoi-Tumblrman.txt shit.>The Abby character wishing to 'go to Japan' in the early 2000sStood out to me as peculiar and online-coded, as kids around that time weren't pining for the Orient as some younger kids do today. Perhaps in more weebish circles that was the case in the early 00s mind, but I don't recall kids being as into that shit back then.
>>747585435>promotional material is barely representative of the hack>has ciphered links in its preview images>name is just a filename>ughhhhh why is it metaaaaaHuh?
>>747585658No retard.>It makes a few points throughout its runtime that you've probably seen Kanto a billion times and don't have much affection left to wring out of itThat meta bullshit.
>>747585591>They just need to improve their writing, or cut out the Sans-Doondertool-Sexy-Yaoi-Tumblrman.txt shit.I don't exactly know what you're talking about here but I think I loosely agree. The sailor is too much of an agent in the story, as is Missingno, and both of them act too "cool" for what they are. But aside from that there's no real big adjustments I think would need to be made.>kids around that time weren't pining for the Orient as some younger kids do today.It wasn't really about the Orient, and I wasn't in weeb circles at the time, it was more this background understanding that Pokemon was designed for Japan first and worked in America more as an afterthought. Reading about what little we knew of Japan exclusive shit like online trading and battling in gen 2, the generally better event distributions, and the e-reader was enough to make me wish I could go there, on some level.
>>747585873I don't see the problem. It's an accurate assessment, isn't it?>games shouldn't have anything to say about my experience with gamesWhy?
>>747585916I personally think the Sailor is fine. My issues mostly lie with that fucking retarded Pikablu and Missingno. They need to talk like 50% less. Missingno needs to stop preening himself constantly, I know he's a fucking bird but still.
>>747585983>Well thats just how it isNo wonder youre defending this abyssmal dogshit.
>>747586059Dreamer, you mean? It's Donphan too, first of all, which seems to make it more of an amalgam of gen 2 hopes and predictions than specifically Pikablu. Secondly, I don't see what it relates to the cluster of buzzwords you put down. Tumblr, maybe? It just talks a lot and requires a bit of interpretation to make sense.Complaining about "Sans Undertale" and being fine with the sailor is a little funny.
>>747586503>it's abysmal dogshit for games to be written as if I've played games before and have opinions on games???
>>747586059>Missingno needs to stop preening himself constantly, I know he's a fucking bird but still
I just need to say that Abby is a bitch.We see in the game that her brother is worried sick about her, but she makes no attempt to communicate with him and just wants to be a glitch gremlin. What a sociopathic bitch.
>>747575216Abby is literally trans tho
>>747586842Shits so vague you could interpret it as the Abyss corrupting her so that's not the real abby
>>747586842We're not sure where "Abby" ended and "the abyss using a mouthpiece" began.
>>747586503>abyssmalThe abyss is getting into your head nigga, RUN
>>747587159AIEEEE I HATE META BULLSHITTTTT
>>747564783>If you don't it is regular FireRed gameplay.I'm not sure if it was a youtuber pulling a prank for the lulz but getting the map after Deoxys and then bringing it to the Sailor who goes "You don't need this map. Here, take this dumb cat thing I found under my truck" did make me laugh.
This thread reeks of HRT.
>>747586630>Entire extra story is so rigid any deviation basically breaks it and crashes the game>Heh bet you enjoy hurting people/Bored of the regular game huh? Eat my ass faggottron
>>747587278as the youtuber who posted the video in question, it's real. I went out of my way to get the map and all that because the documentation mentioned it and it bothered me that no one was discussing it because they were all too interested in the abyss shit instead
>>747587278I'm pretty sure that's not a prank, but I haven't done it myself to check. The readme text file mentions the item and its location. The explanation given for the sailor ignoring the map is "this would take us to Hoenn, where the fuck did you find this" and the explanation for Mew being under his truck is that the LAND designated him as an enforcer of some kind and that made other out of place parts of the game gravitate to him.
>>747587510>Entire extra story is so rigid any deviation basically breaks it and crashes the gameNo. You can back out and proceed to play the game more or less normally at many points. You can even complete the Pokedex while also having one of your starters at its fourth stage.>Bored of the regular game huh?Who plays a romhack before they're familiar with the original?
>>747580057The sailor sans thing was really stupid and random. They could've made the sailor antagonist more subtle in that regard.As for being sucked into a game, I think there's room to do that well. There was a japanese only DS horror game that actually executed this theme well.
>>747587721Not random, it derives from him saying "by the way, if you like this game, buy it or die" in one of the first versions of FRLG people managed to get online. It was added as a prank by whoever was dumping the ROM in the first place, he was never real, but the experience was widespread enough thanks to being in a version of the game that many people played without even realizing the content had been modified.
>>747587528Props to you. When it comes to pokemon rom hacks I honestly expect QoL and speedups. Call it cheating, but it's not like I can ever use mons from a romhack anywhere else.It's also hard to sort out legit stuff in the romhacks vs real stuff, like duplicating the RBY mew glitch much later in the game to fight Glitch Abby
>>747583672>The Abby character wishing to 'go to Japan' in the early 2000s seems moreso an attitude that someone in the 2020s would have at that age rather than someone from the 00s.Dude do you even know why we use the word 'weeaboo' on this site?
>>747588271
>>747588375Remember when 4chan adopting a term for completely internal reasons, like a word filter, could change the lexicon of the entire internet as we know it?What a time.
>>747588375Yeah and we applied it on this site because in the early to mid 00's we had a ton of people come here and pine for Japan and how it's so perfect and so much better than their country. And before that we called them Wapanese. Among young nerdy people in those days it absolutely was a thing to want to go to Japan.
So let me get this straight........I'm somewhere that's not what I would call Kanto......I'm seeing FREAKING corrupted mons and... oh yeah I'm talking to a missingno!Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I do abyss magic, kill jacked-up sailorsI'll probably fly next
>>747559384It's like if those playground rumors and urban legends from 1999 were put into a romhack, which I think is neat. There is inspiration from Deltarune's weird route but I don't know why everyone is so hyperfixated on that.
>>747589109You know why.
>>747589109People are fixated on it because they really hate Deltarune, and thus anything inspired by it is worse.
>>747583672I know someone in their 20s whose dad was such a weeaboo that he learned japanese, went to japan, and got a japanese wife and that's how he was born.I also wanted to go to japan as a budding weeaboo in 2010, and that's only because I was too young to be one before then. I was 11 at the time. My weeaboo cousin got to go to japan around that time too.If anything otaku culture feels weaker these days so people seem less shiny eyed about it
My idea for a creepy pasta romhack far exceeds this shit. But I wouldn't waste my time making a romhack in 2026
>>747589676>yeah the game in my head is better than this but I'd never actually make it heheMany such cases
The problem with making a "Weird Route" for a game is that the Weird Route for Deltarune itself it's not over yet. You can't exactly replicate it if you don't know how it ends.It could end with super meta bullshit or it could just be genocide again.
>>747589609That and you see infinity amounts of Indians being granted infinity visas and free roam of the country, and you begin to wonder why in the fuck would you want to go there.
>>747585591>Stood out to me as peculiar and online-coded, as kids around that time weren't pining for the Orient as some younger kids do todayWrong
>>747589676being an idea man has never been worth shityou never make anythingyou only criticize others and say you could do betterbut you never do
>>747589861Yeah, that's the part that stands out the most negatively imo. The hack has a "sans" and a "flowey" being used the exact same way Undertale used them. It's clear the holes in our understanding of the weird route were paved over by the fandom understanding of the genocide route from UT.
>>747575686i love plaguemon but it kind of loses steam around saffron when basically all the trainers are gone aside from the pokemon mansion having a trainer gauntlet before bibrodo, so you either have to grind the fuck out of your mutants or use missingno to dupe candies (which is probably intentional considering the game, can even dupe stuff like the dark chip you get all the 4th starter evos).kado is pretty neat too and he's been working on a crystal hack which i'm excited for due to being a suckered for gsc sprites.
>>747559794I’m tired of the Wifies generation’s complete lack of understanding of what “ARG” means. How did we fall so far from Haunted Apiary.
>>747590206nobody knows what that is unc
>>747561969>>747562017Like I said, it’s not her ANYMORE.
>>747571342That’s literally just a Pikachu with a sheet on his head.
My final opinion is that the moment-to-moment writing and gameplay fucking blows but I am vaguely intrigued by both the concept and the overarching story we don't really get to see.>kid's sister loves Pokemon rumors>gets too into it, starts a rumor mill blog>said rumors literally steal her from reality for spreading them too much, everyone forgets her>he remembers her but she has BECOME 'le rumor' and he risks the same fate by 'spreading' her>starts schizoposting on her old website as her before going full schizo himself>eventually fucks off while his sister lives a """""""""happy""""""""" life in a 16 MB cartridgeI really like that plot, I just wish all the Undertale characters weren't the ones feeding it to me.
>>747590389I know, and it’s sad. People missed out on the magic of Cloudmakers, Haunted Apiary, and other early ACTUAL ARGs and now the “genre” has become such an incestuous clusterfuck that people think>paste string of letters as a google drive URL, highlight white text in a blank text document, Caesar cypher shift it, and use that as a youtube URLis what they’re about.You’ve all played so much “wait a minute that card” tier puzzle design, the idea that ARGs used to be high-budget affairs designed like a real life Outer Wilds or Obra Dinn isn’t even comprehensible.
>>747571949>>747572435Most of the posts on the website are actually from Kyle, not Abby. You can tell because he doesn’t bother to change his writing quirk of using backticks instead of apostrophes. He even expresses remorse for defiling the last trace of her existence. He even tried making his own Pokémon hack for her, and it is vastly worse.
>>747591294Well, it is ultimately an Undertale/Deltarune reference, so I don't think you can mark it down too hard for being made by someone who likes how those games are written.
what's the website thing you have to follow for the "weird route" in this shit? game hasn't shown it yet or likely I am dumb (this is likely) and missed the link
>>747591337At this point I don't even consider those as "ARG"s. They use design language that was once endemic to ARGs, but now they're just puzzles.
>>747591337I am really fucking sick of the monoalphabetic cipher at this point personally. The second I see that shit I turn off my brain and look it up on a wiki. It was neat the first time, but after a while you realize it's just a nuisance used to waste the player's time.
>>747592042Did you look at the actual forum post? All the screenshots have a bunch of text on the top and bottom. It's a ciphered link to the website.I think the in-game hint is the trades? Their nicknames spell out the link if you put them all together. Yes, you're expected to do every in-game trade to get the link if you didn't pay enough attention to spot it in the forum post, apparently.
>>747592042Abby's Pokemon Aquarium
>>747592042https://abbyspokemonaquarium.neocities.org/
>>747592260>>747592286thanks homies
too wordy and not enough spooky
I feel like it copied Deltarune without realising that the weird route was in service of a narrative about the rigid nature of video game storytelling and how breaking them to see what will happen is a cruel thing to do just because you didn’t get the desired outcome you wanted
too vague and too much terrifying
>>747593053I don't think that's the way the weird route is going necessarily.
>>747593202Probably not 100% but I doubt Toby will endorse the torture of “real people”, the Gaster (aka Satan) connotations aren’t a good sign that route ends well.
>>747593354Are you actually retarded?Nobody is a "real person" in the game, that was the entire fucking point of Undertale Genocide.Toby isn't going to moralize. He never has.
>>747593476The reason he doesn’t sell Lightner merch is exactly because they are “real”.Undertale was anti completionist. He absolutely was moralizing with that
>>747593606Undertale was only "anti completionist" in the form of making yourself miserable by doing things that go against what you enjoy the game for just because that's the only content left. It's not against completionism if you enjoy the whole thing, so it's not moral in the slightest.
>>747591294doesn't help that the rumors do that through a fucking cthulhu seaweed parasite hooking onto a pokemon cartridge, which you can somehow invoke onto a regular one using a fucking gameshark code
>>747591871And you'll notice in Kyle's hack, the rock is still there, but he goes out of his way to prevent you from following the steps on the website guide>starters (besides the water one) can't evolve>viridian forest is cut off so no beating all the trainers and grinding before Brock>trying to reenter the Mt. Moon segment that replaces diglett cave warps you to the Mr. Mime trade house, so no lucky egg
>>747594095>which you can somehow invoke onto a regular one using a fucking gameshark codeThat part is a fabrication. I suspect the physical "haunted game" was too.
>>747567145I don't think it's the fact that the person who made it is trans but rather that things made by trans people tend to have a lot of annoying tropes in common
>>747594236I think he realized what was happening before it was too late, and stopped working on Pine all together to keep the Abyss from getting out.
>>747592353also don't listen when it tells you to throw out items, it actually doesn't matter and is just there to make it more like the rumors of old
>>747594236I wonder if anyone used codes to try getting past all the 'boundaries' that Kyle set up.It'd be interesting if there actually WAS an entire 'route' in Pine.
>>747595046That's probably because of how many Gen 1/2 glitches relied on some specific number of some item existing in some specific slot of your inventory, isn't it?
>>747556408But does it have hyper realistic blood?
>>747595823yep
>>747580057the missingno thing is kind of silly too cause ANYONE who knows their gen 1 glitchmons knows that it's on the lower end of them. granted like others have said it's based off the rumors of gen 1 and missingno is the most popular but all the RB one really does is fuck with the hall of fame and items, there are way more volatile glitchmons that could fit.i mean if you want a gen 1 rumors hack there's also factory adventure
>>747595517youtube anon here, the only difference I found outside the boundaries was in Lavender, the ghost girls dialogue was replaced by some lines from The Shining for some reason
>>747596346one day i wish for game freak to reference missingno in some way in a future game
>>747597147Man, Kyle is a fucking hack.
>>747595517man this would be fucking kino, imagine an alternate true route or something hidden within pine, would be too good for a romhack.
>>747556408>look this up>some troon's shitty tell-don't-show """"""horror"""""" romhack that's an allegory for abuse and like gender dysphoria or some shitMan, what the fuck is wrong with tendies? 300 replies for this niggershit from them debating literal snca. This terminal level of unbelievably shit taste needs to be studied.
>>747599461It's good, though.>but it's le troon and its le troon allegory andShut the fuck up, you are a terminal faggot.
>>747599461Thanks for the borderline retarded valueless post. What are your enlightened tastes? What should we be talking about instead since you know everything?
>>747599635>though
>>747599461i feel there's about as many posts shitting on it as there are people that do. i don't give a shit about the dev being trans, like other posts have said the UT/DR writing is gay as fuck and the ARG is the same old "person is stuck in the game" shit. it being due to the old rumors is neat but even then it's in FRLG because gen 3 romhacking is so easy even a moron like myself can get used to it.you just sound like someone wanting to throw buzzwords around for the sake of it.
>>747601045it's in FRLG because FRLG is when Missingno and a host of the original gen 1 glitches became "unreal" by not existing in the current version of Kanto. Yes, it's also because gen 3 hacking is easier than gen 1/2 hacking, but it's primarily because gen 3 marks the death of a certain kind of suspension of disbelief in Pokemon rumors.
>>747601445ah, actually a pretty decent reason. RSE did have a bit of that rumor era of pokemon like mossdeep's rocket though but that was basically the last gasp of it and RS was before the remakes.
>>747599461
>>747599461>the tranny obsessed are interpreting more media as tranny allegories than actual trannies
>>747601445>>747602113The best part of this is on Abby's site, the steps to find "Regiking" is just for Regigigas in ORAS
>>747603785Yeah that punchline is fucking hilarious in context. The one time game freak really did have a bullshit ritual to find an out of place legendary for no good reason (this is the game where magic portals containing legendaries kinda just spawn at some point in the postgame) and it happened a decade out from when anyone was naturally inclined to believe this kind of stuff. In the remakes of Ruby and Sapphire specifically, to boot.
>>747603785not the hack but i feel the regi puzzles in general were a slight nod at all those gen 1 rumors>have these two random ass pokemon in your party, one being a rare dive encounter, and make sure they're in certain spots of the party>do these absolutely random steps like flying in a cave or walk a certain way or literally just wait>have a cool secret golemjust cool as fuck in general helped by the regis having neat designs and their exclusive theme, and the remakes doing something similar with regigigas instead of random space hoop is one of the few actual praises i can give those games.https://youtu.be/i7SrUYEKMOg
>>747604859I loved everything about the regis save for using them after catching them in game.Back then I thought superpower was shit because it reduced your stats lol
>>747588475yeah it's a real good thing the internet stopped doing that just as we started to incorporate a lot more slurs into our diets
>>747567083Thanks for the info, was gonna look it up but not anymore
>>747571039You were shilling your tranny hack in these threads on /vp/ too. Make your own thread or buy an ad
>>747556408Okay, I've never played Deltarune or Undertale because the fanbase gives me the "ick" kinda like Homestuck, but I'll play this. What sort of NO SPOILERS guide do I need?
>>747612467>>747592286
>>747612467>>747592286snoopINGAS around and follow any leads that you find
>>747612553>>747612561>neocitiesKino. The only way it could have been more kino is if it had been Angelfire or actual Geocities. Thanks bros.
>>747612681you do also need the romhack itself, the site doesn't have it, just supplemental hackshttps://files.catbox.moe/qsms5h.gba
>>747556408>STOP HAVING FUN!!!!!1!! IT'S /v/ alright.
