From left to right: Bucket, Poki, Soup, Marble, Bubbles, and Goopy :)

I'm playing the following following platinum rom hack, so its been fun having my Pokémon follow me around.

Just beat the elite four so now I'm probably wrapping up my time with the game, and will eventually move on to gen 5 (I'm playing through each gen moving through the regions, I've not really played any modern games so I'm looking forward to trying them :)

a picture of a 3DS screen showing a Pokémon trainer in the middle and three Pokémon on each side. From left to right, bastiodon, garchomp, spiritomb, rotom fan, toxicroak, and the blue and green variant of gastrodon. There's confetti falling, and at the top of the screen it says "League Champion! Congratulations!" and at the bottom it says "Cris ID 03050 Time: 126:50"
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

What's the rom hack? Gen 4 is one of the few Pokemon gens I haven't played and I've wanted to do it with a Rom hack that fixes some of the old issues with it

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Renegade Platinum's the way to go. There's much more pokemon variety, the trainers are stronger and smarter, and there's plenty of QOL fixes that make it feel more modern.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago

    The ROM hack I'm playing is just following platinum. I don't remember what quality of life changes there are, but it adds your Pokémon waking behind you like in HG SS

    This is my first play through, so I wanted something focused on quality of life stuff, or that could be described as vanilla+

    https://pokehacking.com/fangames/following-platinum/

    (Having looked at the link now I don't think it adds any quality of life stuff, and I just REALLY wanted my Pokémon to follow me. I think renegade might have a version based on following platinum though? It makes more changes like difficulty though)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Hey, I was researching my options for gen 5 and found this very helpful thread (though I don't know that it's entirely complete):

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1chx77r/compilation_of_vanilla_quality_of_life_qol_hacks/

    and this option from the thread, which is compatible with following platinum if you wanted quality of life, plus your pokemon following you :) (frankly I really wish I had played this instead 😅)

    https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/platinumqol-now-compatible-with-following-platinum.465574/

    and following platinum https://pokehacking.com/fangames/following-platinum/

    I think I was mistaken that renegade is compatible with following platinum, here's it's page if you're interested in something that makes more changes and adjusts the difficulty curve :)

    https://projectpokemon.org/home/forums/topic/52294-pok%C3%A9mon-renegade-platinum/

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nice! Yeah I don't mind a modest difficulty increase but some of the romhacks really don't play well without super optimized teams of competitive mons

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah thats very fair. My impression is that Draynos hacks are usually not brutal, but there's no version that doesn't patch difficulty so if you like the challenges you either play with higher difficulty or you pick a different patch

    I want more vanilla+, so I'm usually a tad bummed about that, but people regard his hacks really highly, even if theyre less what I'm looking for :)

    I hope you find the right one for you! ☺️

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