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I might like Johto but Johto for years sure didn't like me, every save I tried to have would literally explode. I hope that's not the case this time.

I have the same exact issue I have with OG GSC where my save would literally blow up and stop working after a bit with HGSS... Desume guys didn't help much.

Kris and Lyra are pretty interesting because they outright forgot Kris existed when making the remakes...

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GBA Gen 2

What’s up with the GBA and GBC hacks for gen 2. I’ve tried 4 so far and only been in early game but they all have varying editions of being a bit off in terms of what little I remember of Gen 2’s beginning and they don’t match. Like, I’m pretty sure falkner’s Pidgeotto wasn’t that high level?

There doesn’t seem to be that many in general that attempt to remake it for gen 3 that don't have something weird attached??? Like, certainly there must be more out there than just liquid crystal, redux, fire gold, and ultra shiny gold or whatever long name it has. This is something to think about after I finish Reboot which will be soon considering I’m 5 badges in already. (And I never did finish up these GBA runs... I should get back to that.)

Anyways the answer I was looking for was Golden Sun but that's in Japanese so I already know it's never getting translated.

Pokemon heart and soul Finally, after years. I have them all Golden Sun GS Chronicles Liquid Crystal Crystal Advance Redux Saffron Ultra Shiny Gold Sigma Crystal Dust Shiny Gold The 8 Johto GBA remakes Another one Glazed has it as a postgame though I haven’t played glazed in years

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Crystal Clear

Made ANOTHER crystal clear save for some reason, there's battle network music in this game. maybe my issue with pokemon battle themes being boring is that there's not much variation to them. most of the crystal clear koharu run was me beelining to route 28 to catch extremely overleveled mons by resetting to then sweep gyms with because that's literally the speedrun strategy of just resetting until the rng let's you full health catch a mon vaporeon tangela rapidash (not galarian though) i got softlocked because i didn't have cut but thankfully there's a key that lets me teleport back to my house. i wish there was documentation that let you know where things were pokemon wise that is included with the game download. I feel like having a discord for a rom hack's documentation is a stupid policy Go back to forums

Crystal Clear Begins
I have 3 saves for my initial runs of the game, one where I played through Kanto backwards, the second with pokemon from the safari zone primarily, and the last with only gift pokemon. Then I had a fourth save rear its head because I heard there was an Easter egg with the blue avatar fighting gym leader blue so I decided to reconstruct a team using pokemon that blue has had that were never iconic at all- that being his stadium picks. There’s quite a lot of pokemon he’s had that were never acknowledged again since it was a spinoff. Since it’s open world there’s nothing stopping the player from going at neck breaking pace to a spot with high level mons and chucking balls til one’s caught then going to the nearest gym and sweeping until the level cap catches up. In fact, the tentacruel I caught by accident without knowing that was an intended speedrunning strat. It’s been a year since the plot of crystal apparently in lore and now all these swinub OC’s are here for events but unless you go out of the way to find them then it’s just… boneless crystal. It’s a good team builder thing but unless you have a set goal it’s very easy to wander aimlessly as I tend to do in open world games. Once you get fly the entire open world experience of walking is rendered trivial because the game lets you go anywhere even if you haven’t touched it on the map. I actually have 8 saves of this now.

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The design philosophy of Johto is you’re supposed to actively look for the new pokemon rather than just getting them handed to you through regular gameplay but they never follow up that with any other gen so Johto sticks out because as a pokemon generation it’s never had a true sequel of its philosophy People want to speedrun the games to get as much of the experience as possible and that's the antithesis of Johto as a whole The thing with HGSS people ignore for emulation is that the pikewalker was sort of an essential bit of the experience for expanding the roster and allowing for exp yield but uh, emulators don’t HAVE the pokewalker