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The Let's Go rival "kiss scene" but make it Red and Blue 😳

My Rival Blue mod is now available on GameBanana! Small change, but it's unironically made me like these games lots more. What's Kanto without Red and Blue?

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Developing a mod that replaces the Let’s Go rival with Blue, but THIS happens…

There are already mods to play as Red, so I’m not sure why a Rival Blue one doesn’t exist yet. Making it my mission to change that 🫡

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If Pokémon were to put me in charge of a game prologue…

Loosely inspired by a conversation I had on what it would look like for reguri to go canon in the games. I honestly think it would just be a throwaway easter egg line or just very heavily implied. Pokémon please prove me wrong 🙃

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TCGP Shining Revelry finally granted me the Red full art card so I shelled out for the premium backdrop 😭 anything for the reguri boys right?

Side note: I saw the Alola expansion announcement today and IMMEDIATELY thought about Alolan Red and Blue. I know it's unlikely they'd get a card but I'd love for them to make a cameo at least. I'm also manifesting that they revisit the SMUSUM era tag team card concept again with Red and Blue.

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Scenes from clefairytea's Peaks and Valleys as imagined in the mainline games

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Introducing: Pokémon Yellow - Companion Rival Edition

aka an entry in the clingy boyfriend romhack series

What if Kanto, but Red and Blue journey together? I made a quick, small romhack to indulge in this silly idea! See below the cut for details and downloads.

Changes made (all visual-only):

Your pikachu’s overworld sprite has been replaced with Blue's, and I also updated the animation speed since Pikachu normally has a faster walking animation

Minor dialogue tweaks to give a slightly sensical in-universe explanation

(Optional) Blue’s sprites are replaced with another trainer’s for better continuity

This romhack has three versions based on what sprite replaces Blue's:

Default: Blue’s sprites are unchanged, meaning you’ll see him as both your rival and as your follower companion (you could pretend he has a twin?)

Cooltrainer: Uses the `cooltrainer_m` overworld and battle sprites; I removed the whip for taste reasons and so the battle sprite would fit within the allocated memory

Monster: Uses the `monster` overworld sprite and `cooltrainer_m` battle sprite. Arguably my personal favourite

You can download the romhack patch files here. You need a copy of the US Pokémon Yellow ROM file; download the .ips patch file for the version you want and patch the Yellow ROM with a patcher like this one. For reference, the CRC32 for the original Yellow ROM file is 7d527d62.

I’d love to share the HGSS version I teased in a recent video, but I think it’s missing some polish. If anyone happens to be familiar with the pret HGSS decompilation project and might know how follower/tsurete pokémon animation is handled, feel free to message me 😅

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Such a brag, Blue.

Sequel to this.

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What have I wrought... this is basically the clingy boyfriend romhack

When I came up with this dumb concept I kinda forgot that HGSS following Pokémon are always moving in place, and, you know, they make Pokémon noises. Oh well.

If this concept interests you, check out my new Yellow romhack!

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This is exactly what he says, what do you mean? Good ol' Alola boys! 

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GUYS look how excited Blue was when I asked him about Red

Thank you so much Masters for adding the dating sim feature 🥺