just an advice. if you are gonna say we should use it, because its lighter than other browsers, dont turn around and tell about all the crap that will make it worse than those by a mile. either talk about its performance, or its customizability.
Sprite artist for the game here; im really glad you enjoyed this hack, and especially glad you liked the back-sprites me and the team made! I agree that Crystal is the better game overall, but i still had a ton of fun helping make this rom hack, and im glad you had fun playing it. Hope you'll be here for Emerald Legacy too!
Kinda want to make an extra ad for it right now... Played both Crystal and Yellow Legacy . Smithplays reaĺly did an huge job. You're not playing "Old games but it's Kaizo HC Nuzlocke designed". It's litteraly just Gen 1 and 2 more sized to adult + fixing issue these games had. As Jrose did it's really "whatever you use" friendly without huge road block
Maybe there could've been a compromise where after you catch Mewtwo, the man that normally blocks you from re-entering the dock area tells you that he saw Mew flying out and heading southwest, or maybe you temporarily re-enter yourself and interact with Mew, who then teleports to the Cinnabar Mansion. Either one would be a callback to the popular myth and unlock its encounter at the Mansion when activated.
we'd have just gotten Jrose mispronouncing Ashley opposite how he insists on Lorelei's name. Which, in fact, just further raises questions about not using Ashley, since he already does Lorelei's name wrong on purpose.
One thing Jrose didn't mention if you guys aren't aware but you can buy all TMs in this game. Celadon on the 5th floor has a guy who sells the early to mid game TMs (water gun, thunder wave, etc). Cinnabar Pokemart has mostly the gym TMs and things like Dig. At the Pokemon League the mart sells the most of the high end stuff ice beam, thunderbolt, flamethrower (yes TM 04 has been changed to flamethrower). After you beat the league there is another guy next to the league mart stand and he sells the 120 power moves, earthquake and psychic as well as PP ups. Also stone evos still learn their level up movesets so don't worry about missing out on any moves.
Fun facts you didn’t note :) - the rival has more divergent teams with different pokemon based on which eevee he gets - the gym leaders between surge and giovanni have higher and lower level teams depending on which order of the gyms you completed
The eeveelution depends on the first two rival battles (the one in oak lab and the one in route 22). If player win both he pick Jolteon, if player lose both he pick Vaporeon, if it's 1-1 he picks Flareon.
The gym leader mechanic seems kind of impressive considering it's still technically a Game Boy game. Game Freak still hasn't managed to do that to this day, even with Scarlet/Violet. For the rival is it the entire team that changes now? Even in normal gen 1 games, half of his later teams changes depending on his starter so that he always has the same types present. Grass/fire/water are the variable slots in red/blue, while fire/water/electric are the variable slots in yellow.
@@qactustick It's not that impressive it's literally as easy as setting a variable to check how many badges you have then set teams for however many badges you want to care about. It's about as easy as having say, a rival fight to the left of viridian city, and having that change dependent on whether you've collected all the badges or not.
@@calamelli209the Gengar line still resists Bug in this game, I think. They removed Bug being super effective against Poison, but I don't recall them removing Ghost resisting Bug. And Cut isn't a strong move. So while it would be able to go through the Lavender Town Pokémon Tower (in the base game at least), if there is a Gengar in the Elite 4, it might not be able to win.
Sprite artist for the game here! :) I'm happy you've been enjoying Smith's romhacks overall, and I can't wait to see what you'll be saying about Emerald Legacy when it's out. Been a huge fan of you for years, watching since your Ruby Feebas run!
I figured as much since Green was one of the default female trainer names. Some forget (or didn't know) that she was basically the 4th Gen 1 "MC" trainer. Which is why her appearance did catch people off guard in the "Let's Go" versions.
I remember having some pack-in stuff that came with the OG games, with her facing down Red and Blue. I don’t think it was the manual, maybe like a Nintendo Power ad or something.
Originally her name was Blue. They gave her name to the male rival in English releases because Green wasn't released outside Japan and you can't play as a girl in gen 1 anyway.
I like that Yellow Legacy implemented more references to the anime while still being a solid tribute mod of the game. The things I would want to add would be more interesting anime touches like have the 8th Gym rematch be Jessie and James since Giovanni’s out of the picture, or how I would envision certain Pokémon to be improved such as having Hitmonchan be a bulky mixed attacker instead of just purely special. So great job to everyone working to give a great reimagining of Yellow.
We actually wanted to put Jessie and James as the Viridian gym rematch! There just wasn't room to add two additional characters into the gym's data without a lot of reworks.
Goof at 3:50, that sprite is actually based of Green from the Pokemon Adventures manga, highly recommend reading it the later chapters in particular were very ahead of its time.
I love how you acknowledge that OG Pokemon is first and foremost about exploring, trying diffrent teams and mon and not about having a difficult game to beat. I feel over the last decade people forgot about this A TON. I mean, it's still about exploration and finidng something new or a hidden detail somewhere on the side and trying out evry new thing you come across. For difficulty there are hacks, fangames or even - SHOCKING! - other games by other developers. Also: I followed Smith since the start of the project and it's great to see that you're one of the first persons to try it out!
I partially disagree. Thing is, the games WERE more challenging back in the day, either due to lack of knowledge about Pokémon attacks, movesets or due to the absurd amount of knowledge about the games themselves. And that was part of the fun. That doesn't mean modded or new versions of games have to be ultra hard, but I for one enjoy more difficult versions, so I always hope, at least, for a difficulty mod or setting. If I just go through the base vanilla games for the 1000th time it can feel stale because I don't have to think about my decisions at all. Now, if someone plays for that reason, that's fine, but that was definitely not part of the games' original charm.
@@BernardoWLopes I, respectfully, disagree. The main reason a lot of the older games were hard was because their levels were inflated to compensate for their terrible movesets, lack of coverage, the AI being just awful etc forcing you to grind just to keep up but that’s not really “difficulty” and proper challenge just makes you grind more which is cool when you’re a kid cuz you don’t care lol because Arceus knows I didn’t 😂 I had all the free time in the world to grind back then. But as an adult with better understanding or game design and such….yikes.
Exactly this, and the new games try to capture that spirit as well. I get sick of the gorillas going "Ug, pokemon not hard enuf, game bad ug ug" when it's like... It's not about you and your weird fetish for groin-crushing difficulty little bro...
@@alexisauld7781 there’s a balance to be fair. Because while I do think there’s a lot of revisionist history about the difficulty/design of the older games and a lot of “mUh DiFicUltY” among the fandom, at the same time they have since Gen six from Musuda’s own mouth have purposefully made the games insultingly easy 😂 which isn’t good either. Part of the problem is due to their crazy self imposed development cycle they don’t have time to balance the game for all to enjoy not just one group or the other.
Its very awesome to see SmithPlays make this Legacy trilogy I enjoyed your Crystal Legacy video, and this is no exception especially when you're very well versed in Gen 1 and all these solo runs Can't wait for Emerald Legacy soon
35:10 there's a bird in my neighborhood we've named Craig. Our Craig is just like this one, in that it also likes to wait for someone to walk by (minding their own business) so it can swoop in and kick the crap out of you.
Been watching all the streams thesmithplays has been putting out. Played through Crystal Legacy and on my way through Yellow Legacy. Really cool to see Jrose playing another youtubers creation
While there was no actual gamedata for a female main character in green and blue, there was concept art for a female trainer that would have completed the type triangle of Red(Ash) with Bulbasaur, Blue(Gary) with Charmander and Green(Leaf) with Squirtle. The character was then included in the gen 3 remakes as the female option for the protagonist.
They are not the same person. The FR/LF female protagonist is Leaf, the concept art girl is Green (she appears in the Let's Go remakes, and also in the manga I think).
Two things ive always wanted to see: 1. Gym leaders who refuse to battle you unless you reduce your team size to match theirs. 2. A tournament style battle against randomly generated teams which you must win before challenging the elite 4, and preferably in a stadium setting instead of the back room of a gas station in the mountains
One of the coolest changes I saw when playing was Flareon learning Growth (AKA Gen 1 Calm Mind). That with badge boost glitch made him unstoppable if I got to set up
One of my favorite rom hacks was called "Ultra Violet," which was a hack for FireRed. You were able to catch or envelope every pokemon from the first 3 generations. Pokemon that would evolve by trade instead evolved by level up. All of the legendary pokemon were catchable. Mew for example was located inside Bills pokemon machine which teleported you to a small island. There were a few hidden tiles throughout the game that would guarantee the next encounter was shiny. There were entire maps that were made from scratch. It was honestly great. Idk if it's still around
@dawnsbuneary damn, the fact that it's been longer since that song been out compared to the year it's singing about makes me feel old. Growing old sucks
Love that you're showcasing this! It's so cool to see how you found different speedbumps from me. Surge was the first time I noticed it; I smashed him with Parasect. You handled the Rivals better that I did, despite being much lower level that me xD I definitely not build a balanced team lol. Spore/Growth on Parasect was insane the whole game. Definitely my MVP.
Damn this game looks amazing! Ty for taking the time to showcase it jrose! Its a nice change of pace when you do these types of videos playing through romhacks, well done keep up the great work :)
She was actually planned for the original red and green but was scrapped midway, then she was brought back in the remakes with a new design that is popularly known as "Leaf"
I just beat the yellow legacy postgame, took me about 100 hours and I had a blast. All my favorite nostalgia vibes without the bugs and quality of life problems.
I love how the rival had 3 different teams representing the 3 different outcomes from the first couple of battles like originally but his teams also come from different games/manga I believe.
It's a major improvement over the base game, but playing through it, it feels unfinished and unpolished. A good example is the fishing mechanic. Instead of having fishing spawns change based on the route, the Old Rod catches the same 2 Pokemon everywhere and the Good Rod catches the same 2 Pokemon everywhere. They also clean up some bugs but leave in place other negative ones. They actually added Sleep strategies to trainers that didn't use Sleep before, but you still can't attack on the turn you wake up, which is so annoying. This change and others make a lot of the trainers feel like a total RNG-fest, which I HATE. It also really annoys me that they removed the Bug on Poison super effectiveness but kept the Poison on Bug. That leaves Parasect with 3 4x weaknesses. That said, so many of the changes are great. Fighting and Bug type Pokemon are finally viable which itself is a miracle.
And that's the general issue with hard pokemon games. It all comes down to puzzle encounters where you can waste forever to set up the solution to a problem, or you have to cheese it with something like a badge boost glitch. Neither is really any more fun than if the ai wasn't acting after you and wasn't setup with all the options and stats
I've been playing pokemon games on and off since Yellow came out as a kid, and I had no idea what a badge boost glitch was until I looked it up just now. I had actually forgotten about the badge boosts in general from back in the day (Been mainly playing Gen 3-5 games past several years or Pogo until I stopped a year ago).
Removing badge boost from hard mode sounds like a perfect thing to do. I never used it in those games. Or well... i never intended to use it. Moves functioning how they are supposed to. But if you want the jank. It is a staple for gen 1. You can play on easy where you can over level too.
@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat well unfortunately I only have my phone to run roms on and I tried but couldn't get crystal legacy to work so I probably won't be able to get this to work either sadly
@DKTN11 I tried :/ I followed the links and directions I just couldn't get it to work. I'm also pretty noobish when it comes to tech so that doesn't help lmao
In School, some time in the 2000s: "So kids, what do you wanna be when you're grown up?" Kids: "-a doctor! -a baseball player! -a model! " Jrose: yeah no, Ima be a PKMN Trainer. "of course you will...(this child is hopeless)" Jrose11:
That Surge battle shows a real shortcoming of the Hard mode function. It isn't about figuring out a better strategy with the pokemon you have, but forces you to catch a pokemon who can beat the gym leader. Imagine trying to do a solo challenge or a nuzlocke in this game mode and not catching the obligatory Dugtrio first.
A Grass type can handle Surge pretty well since they resist Thunderbolt and Surf. Pikachu can also ParaFlinch its way to victory in true anime fashion. Other options include Nidorino/Nidorina with Dig, a sleeper like Drowzee/Wigglytuff/Butterfree, or just a stocky Normal type like Lickitung. Dugtrio is far from the only answer
... catching a new Pokemon *is* a better strategy, though. The game shouldn't be beatable with 1 team. You should be encouraged to find new answers, not just find ways to set up sleep and swords dance cheese.
Hey I know it's not super relevant to the video but I just wanted to say thank you for the great videos you make! You've quickly become one of my favorite UA-camrs to listen to and I really appreciate the relaxing and (for lack of a better term) wholesome vibe your stuff has. God bless you, I pray you're well, and keep up the great work!
Old Rod not only catches Goldeen, you can also get a Poliwag! I got oneon my playthrough, and it´s now a really tanky Poliwrath that learnt Ice Punch naturally!
Its sad we live in a world where all Game Freak have to do is either copy and paste this game or hire this guy and they will make bank. But instead they copyright these kind of games so moone can play them. What a joke of a company.
@@budsmokinpandaz pretty sure it doesn't, and pretty sure that a lot of people will just click off for it and that the algorithm REALLY doesn't like that
Definitive edition my ass. Clearly even without hard mode enabled the whole game is set up to punish anyone trying to run a full balanced team. Making it stupid hard doesn't make it better. I thought the idea was to make these older games accessible to modern fans with quality of life and bug fixes, not make a pseudo kaizo hack. The sprite updates do look nice though, I'll give ya that.
This brings me *_so_* back to the times I used to play Pokémon Tower Defense! I never truly considered playing the Gen 1 games beforehand, but now? Now I want to play this game a darn ton for sure!! Shout out to the dev that called it the perfect rendition, because I haven't even played the game and I can already say that they're totally right!
I don't like the girl option in yellow at all. No it's not because I'm anti-girl, but rather Ash was always meant to have the pikachu, so it just goes against the original story.
im also of two minds on the badge boost glitch still being around, on one hand there is what jrose said - it's a staple of the game, and yeah removing it from hardmode would be a nice balance between staple and difficulty, but there is an argument to be made for it not existing at all: this is supposed to be the 'perfect' version (im not sure if the mod author uses that phrasing or just jrose) and if that is the case, removing all glitches/exploits/etc. would, and really should, be a priority.
It's always interesting to see what 'improved' versions of the games get wrong and right. Giving Raichu surf, while a fun reference, ultimately invalidates the entire system of type advantage/disadvantage. Having all the pokemon in each game and replacing trade evolution with level up is a good change, but the way the were spread through the game invalidates the game's choke point difficulty design. Brock can't be a tough take down if there are a bunch of special attackers or pokemon with super effective moves before you get to him.
Raichu can get Surf in the new games. And what? Have you ever heard of Type coverage? They even had that in Gen 1 like letting Dragonite learn Fire moves or Rhydon learn Electric moves. They added Grass, Water, and Fire Types early because they're way too far into the map as is and most Yellow players will end up relying on the starters for their coverage. A lot of the early Pokemon games have this issue for some reason, most of the early routes will just have Bug and Normal and Rock Types.
@@LazurBeemz I mean that's not why Smith did it. He did it so the average Yellow player's team up to a certain point wasn't just Pikachu and the three starters you basically get for free, because there's literally almost no Grass, Fire, or Water Pokemon in the early game until around badge 4. Plus he increased Onix's BST anyway so it's not like you'll be able to one-shot it. Yellow's technically the hardest in the beginning because both of Brock's Pokemon are completely immune to Pikachu but they balance that with adding Mankey to Route 22 and giving Butterfree Confusion as an evolution move.
i think its inevitable that crystal will be the best. gen 2 had more obvious things wrong whereas yellow's issues are too apart of its identity to really change without getting radical. you can't change the lack of counter to sleep for example without inventing abilities or new moves.
8:04 Well, because it breaks the spirit of the game. The whole spirit of Pokemon back in the day was that of discovery. If you knew everything about Pokemon, and what moves they learn, at what level, when they evolve, etc. etc., then there were no discoveries to be made, no surprises. And you can see this is what Game Freak intended with the franchise, because if you looked in the original Pokemon Red/Blue Instruction Manual (and believe me, I poured over that thing for way too long as a kid), you'll notice in the back they have a Pokedex printed in it, with all 150 Pokemon slots, but most of them are empty, leaving it up to the player to discover what Pokemon belong there.
Yeah Hard Mode should remove badge boost glitch. Or they should add Expert mode and that takes out the badge boost glitch. Release the Pikachu really quick.
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Opera is trash and run by bad people
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either talk about its performance, or its customizability.
Sprite artist for the game here; im really glad you enjoyed this hack, and especially glad you liked the back-sprites me and the team made! I agree that Crystal is the better game overall, but i still had a ton of fun helping make this rom hack, and im glad you had fun playing it. Hope you'll be here for Emerald Legacy too!
you and the team rock dude i love the game
Emerald Legacy?!
@@TobiasKryzeu ppl need to stop demanding for future projects
@user-lh5dc5cy1b did you bother to read his comment or are you just being an ass because it's all you know how to be?
@@RandomDude-k7w reading comprehension at its finest
Thanks so much for playing and featuring the romhack again! As the king of gen 1, we're honoured bro!!
Yo smith your rom hack is so good I literally 100% the pokedex
Kinda want to make an extra ad for it right now...
Played both Crystal and Yellow Legacy . Smithplays reaĺly did an huge job. You're not playing "Old games but it's Kaizo HC Nuzlocke designed". It's litteraly just Gen 1 and 2 more sized to adult + fixing issue these games had.
As Jrose did it's really "whatever you use" friendly without huge road block
Bro this rom hack is so good! Thank you for making it 🙏
@@100sleepeon3what game is that? Sounds nice I'm looking for something not on extreme difficulty to play
Man I wanna say this romhack made me fall in love with Gen one all over again.
Thanks for sharing this with us
My man really walked into Silph with the Team Rocket special, Ekans, Koffing, and Meowth.
"When the hell else am I going to use a Grimer?"
Next solo run maybe? :P
It definitely felt like foreshadowing.
Or in layman's terms, grimmuendo
@@owenbeaufort5614underrated comment
151 likes not gonna ruin it
It took 3 months for it
In story Mew in the Mansion makes sense however Mew under truck would have been peak
Maybe there could've been a compromise where after you catch Mewtwo, the man that normally blocks you from re-entering the dock area tells you that he saw Mew flying out and heading southwest, or maybe you temporarily re-enter yourself and interact with Mew, who then teleports to the Cinnabar Mansion. Either one would be a callback to the popular myth and unlock its encounter at the Mansion when activated.
Missed opportunity for sure. But as it stands it isnt bad
Fool's Gold did that one beautifully, imo
You can still get Mew doing the glitch lol.
There's still SOMETHING under the truck at least 😊
Jrose: **names his player character “Ashette”**
Me: "Ashley was RIGHT THERE"
That bugged me so much too lol
we'd have just gotten Jrose mispronouncing Ashley opposite how he insists on Lorelei's name. Which, in fact, just further raises questions about not using Ashley, since he already does Lorelei's name wrong on purpose.
@@youmukonpaku3168 no? no.
@@youmukonpaku3168 I can hear the ”Ash-lye” from here
@@youmukonpaku3168 I met a girl named Lora Lee growing up in Alabama. I miss her...
One thing Jrose didn't mention if you guys aren't aware but you can buy all TMs in this game. Celadon on the 5th floor has a guy who sells the early to mid game TMs (water gun, thunder wave, etc). Cinnabar Pokemart has mostly the gym TMs and things like Dig. At the Pokemon League the mart sells the most of the high end stuff ice beam, thunderbolt, flamethrower (yes TM 04 has been changed to flamethrower). After you beat the league there is another guy next to the league mart stand and he sells the 120 power moves, earthquake and psychic as well as PP ups.
Also stone evos still learn their level up movesets so don't worry about missing out on any moves.
Now THESE are the changes I actually value massively. The aesthetic stuff is nice but this sort of thing matters way more to me.
Fun facts you didn’t note :)
- the rival has more divergent teams with different pokemon based on which eevee he gets
- the gym leaders between surge and giovanni have higher and lower level teams depending on which order of the gyms you completed
The eeveelution depends on the first two rival battles (the one in oak lab and the one in route 22). If player win both he pick Jolteon, if player lose both he pick Vaporeon, if it's 1-1 he picks Flareon.
@@DMaster8686thats for base game yellow, i imagine what they mean here is that his team changes entirely based on those same conditions for this mod
The gym leader mechanic seems kind of impressive considering it's still technically a Game Boy game. Game Freak still hasn't managed to do that to this day, even with Scarlet/Violet.
For the rival is it the entire team that changes now? Even in normal gen 1 games, half of his later teams changes depending on his starter so that he always has the same types present. Grass/fire/water are the variable slots in red/blue, while fire/water/electric are the variable slots in yellow.
@@qactustick It's not that impressive it's literally as easy as setting a variable to check how many badges you have then set teams for however many badges you want to care about. It's about as easy as having say, a rival fight to the left of viridian city, and having that change dependent on whether you've collected all the badges or not.
Proven to be the same encounter basically by the potions he uses in the later encounter though he should be on hyper potions by that point.
You didn’t notice how OP they made Caterpie. He learns CUT now.
Caterpie can hit ghosts now? Cool. Maybe it's actually possible to solo the game with it now.
@@calamelli209(X) Doubt
@@calamelli209the Gengar line still resists Bug in this game, I think. They removed Bug being super effective against Poison, but I don't recall them removing Ghost resisting Bug. And Cut isn't a strong move.
So while it would be able to go through the Lavender Town Pokémon Tower (in the base game at least), if there is a Gengar in the Elite 4, it might not be able to win.
@@calamelli209 Did they change Cut's type or something? Because a normal type move still can't hit ghosts...
Caterpie CAN cut it!
It's now realistic for the rival to have 40 types of Pokemon on the S.S. Anne!
I checked after I fought him and I literally had 39! 😭
It was always possible. You could always trade with other players…🙄
@@SimonFrackI can't believe I never thought of that before
Knowing the rival, he wouldn't do that until after the Champion title was taken from him.
@@Not_Alanius I disagree, I see the rival as a vicious wheeling-and-dealing trader taking advantage of ignorant collectors
The "while smith may know how to improve generation one, I know how to break it" is such a line
Like there was no reason for it to go so hard man
That was such an unnecessary but badass line.
For real that gave me chills 😂
And also the line “Smith might know how to play Pokémon, but I know how to WIN Pokémon.”
Sprite artist for the game here! :)
I'm happy you've been enjoying Smith's romhacks overall, and I can't wait to see what you'll be saying about Emerald Legacy when it's out. Been a huge fan of you for years, watching since your Ruby Feebas run!
Fun fact: that custom sprite is based on Green from the original manga.
I figured as much since Green was one of the default female trainer names.
Some forget (or didn't know) that she was basically the 4th Gen 1 "MC" trainer. Which is why her appearance did catch people off guard in the "Let's Go" versions.
I remember having some pack-in stuff that came with the OG games, with her facing down Red and Blue. I don’t think it was the manual, maybe like a Nintendo Power ad or something.
I was going to mention this myself. I wasn't sure, but the sprite looks _so_ much like her.
Originally her name was Blue. They gave her name to the male rival in English releases because Green wasn't released outside Japan and you can't play as a girl in gen 1 anyway.
Pokemon Adventures manga is absolute kino tbh
they fixed the 1 in 256 glitch as well but its still in hard mode.
Huh... really odd they didn't patch out the badge boost glitch in hard mode if that's the case
@@lambybunny7173Badge Boost glitch being unpatched is intended, it's a primary way of how they balanced Pikachu.
@@lambybunny7173it's this way soo that Pikachu still playable
2:55 to skip the ad
"When am I gonna next use a Grimer? Do I sense a Grimer video next release?
I was literally just thinking "when is jrose making a yellow legacy video?"
Yep, been waiting for this ^^
Dude same!
Sameeee
"Nobody is playing a game from the late 90's for aesthetics". Uhh, yes I am.
Same lol 😅
Pokemon being on a hanheld means the graphics had to be way simpler. There are lots of gorgeous games from the 90s.
I was looking for this comment while pretending to clutch at both my pearls, and my digital copy of Shadow Tower. So here's another "nobody."
Cough Spyro games
I started following smithplayspokemon because of the first video about fixing a region. I'm happy to see his work is making people interested
I like that Yellow Legacy implemented more references to the anime while still being a solid tribute mod of the game. The things I would want to add would be more interesting anime touches like have the 8th Gym rematch be Jessie and James since Giovanni’s out of the picture, or how I would envision certain Pokémon to be improved such as having Hitmonchan be a bulky mixed attacker instead of just purely special. So great job to everyone working to give a great reimagining of Yellow.
We actually wanted to put Jessie and James as the Viridian gym rematch! There just wasn't room to add two additional characters into the gym's data without a lot of reworks.
@@Isona_Isano Aw sadge. Hopefully in a future update we can at least rematch them in post game even if it’s not a gym leader rematch.
@@Isona_Isano i thught jessi and james allready exist thugh? or mean it counds as a new char everytime want to change the roster?
Rare footage of JRose actually attempting to enjoy playing Pokémon for once 😂
OK, the weirdest thing about this video is seeing you in Seafoam. I think that might be a first for the channel.
I love the little sprite for Grimer in the party-menu, it's adorable \o/
Thank you for showing this version, this is fascinating
Goof at 3:50, that sprite is actually based of Green from the Pokemon Adventures manga, highly recommend reading it the later chapters in particular were very ahead of its time.
I love how you acknowledge that OG Pokemon is first and foremost about exploring, trying diffrent teams and mon and not about having a difficult game to beat. I feel over the last decade people forgot about this A TON. I mean, it's still about exploration and finidng something new or a hidden detail somewhere on the side and trying out evry new thing you come across. For difficulty there are hacks, fangames or even - SHOCKING! - other games by other developers. Also: I followed Smith since the start of the project and it's great to see that you're one of the first persons to try it out!
I partially disagree. Thing is, the games WERE more challenging back in the day, either due to lack of knowledge about Pokémon attacks, movesets or due to the absurd amount of knowledge about the games themselves. And that was part of the fun.
That doesn't mean modded or new versions of games have to be ultra hard, but I for one enjoy more difficult versions, so I always hope, at least, for a difficulty mod or setting. If I just go through the base vanilla games for the 1000th time it can feel stale because I don't have to think about my decisions at all.
Now, if someone plays for that reason, that's fine, but that was definitely not part of the games' original charm.
@@BernardoWLopes I, respectfully, disagree. The main reason a lot of the older games were hard was because their levels were inflated to compensate for their terrible movesets, lack of coverage, the AI being just awful etc forcing you to grind just to keep up but that’s not really “difficulty” and proper challenge just makes you grind more which is cool when you’re a kid cuz you don’t care lol because Arceus knows I didn’t 😂 I had all the free time in the world to grind back then. But as an adult with better understanding or game design and such….yikes.
Exactly this, and the new games try to capture that spirit as well. I get sick of the gorillas going "Ug, pokemon not hard enuf, game bad ug ug" when it's like... It's not about you and your weird fetish for groin-crushing difficulty little bro...
@@alexisauld7781 there’s a balance to be fair. Because while I do think there’s a lot of revisionist history about the difficulty/design of the older games and a lot of “mUh DiFicUltY” among the fandom, at the same time they have since Gen six from Musuda’s own mouth have purposefully made the games insultingly easy 😂 which isn’t good either. Part of the problem is due to their crazy self imposed development cycle they don’t have time to balance the game for all to enjoy not just one group or the other.
None of this excuses that Pokémon to this day doesn’t have a regular type of difficulty choice
the badge boost glitch shouldn't be removed for hard mode, it should be extended to the opponent and the AI reprogrammed to take maximum advantage
Its very awesome to see SmithPlays make this Legacy trilogy
I enjoyed your Crystal Legacy video, and this is no exception especially when you're very well versed in Gen 1 and all these solo runs
Can't wait for Emerald Legacy soon
After a hard 11hr shift, nothing is better than a jrose upload. Thank you
I just played it. I think it is far better yellow. It also great seeing regular trainers use less garbage pokemon. Yellow my first game
You missed two battles, officer Jenny and Fuchsia city Nurse Joy
He mentioned that there were secret battles that he didn't want to spoil.
35:10 there's a bird in my neighborhood we've named Craig. Our Craig is just like this one, in that it also likes to wait for someone to walk by (minding their own business) so it can swoop in and kick the crap out of you.
is it a magpie?
@@markblacket8900 pretty sure it's a Northern Mockingbird, but I wouldn't be surprised if its mother was a magpie.
Congratulations 🎊 YOU GOT CRAIGED
Craig: SURPRISE MOTHAFUCKA
I can't believe Jrose uploaded on exactly midnight on my birthday omg
Hbd
That's awesome!
Happy birthday bro wish you many more 🎉
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Happy birthday!!
Been watching all the streams thesmithplays has been putting out. Played through Crystal Legacy and on my way through Yellow Legacy. Really cool to see Jrose playing another youtubers creation
Should we mention about the special thing about Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny?
Yes
Lt. Surge was buffed to be an actual challenge in Yellow Legacy…
Yet I still managed to solo him with Pikachu 😂
Thank you Para-flinch
While there was no actual gamedata for a female main character in green and blue, there was concept art for a female trainer that would have completed the type triangle of Red(Ash) with Bulbasaur, Blue(Gary) with Charmander and Green(Leaf) with Squirtle.
The character was then included in the gen 3 remakes as the female option for the protagonist.
They are not the same person. The FR/LF female protagonist is Leaf, the concept art girl is Green (she appears in the Let's Go remakes, and also in the manga I think).
In even earlier concept art there was a female player character in red and green. She looked kinda like Red but she had long curly black hair.
Red and Ash, and Blue and Gary are ALL different characters
I hope you play through Emerald Legacy when it finally drops too. These are great videos
Two things ive always wanted to see:
1. Gym leaders who refuse to battle you unless you reduce your team size to match theirs.
2. A tournament style battle against randomly generated teams which you must win before challenging the elite 4, and preferably in a stadium setting instead of the back room of a gas station in the mountains
The mullet on Ashette is too wild!!!! Great video JRoss11😂
25:50 omg I recognize her from somewhere but idk where!!!
You're thinking of Kris, from Crystal version. She was the playable female character.
@@THEREDHOTWRECK Technically yes, but _technically_ technically... her username is very important here
Right before bed. Perfect.
One of the coolest changes I saw when playing was Flareon learning Growth (AKA Gen 1 Calm Mind). That with badge boost glitch made him unstoppable if I got to set up
"when else will I use a grimer?"
Epic foreshadowing is epic
One of my favorite rom hacks was called "Ultra Violet," which was a hack for FireRed. You were able to catch or envelope every pokemon from the first 3 generations. Pokemon that would evolve by trade instead evolved by level up. All of the legendary pokemon were catchable. Mew for example was located inside Bills pokemon machine which teleported you to a small island. There were a few hidden tiles throughout the game that would guarantee the next encounter was shiny. There were entire maps that were made from scratch. It was honestly great. Idk if it's still around
Not to be confused with Dark Violet btw
23:22 'this motley crew of Pokémon' has got to be a reference to the Pokémon guide from the 90s, RIGHT?
When did motley crew become classic rock?
@dawnsbuneary damn, the fact that it's been longer since that song been out compared to the year it's singing about makes me feel old. Growing old sucks
Love that you're showcasing this! It's so cool to see how you found different speedbumps from me. Surge was the first time I noticed it; I smashed him with Parasect. You handled the Rivals better that I did, despite being much lower level that me xD I definitely not build a balanced team lol.
Spore/Growth on Parasect was insane the whole game. Definitely my MVP.
This was so much fun to watch on Twitch! Not as great as Crystal but still excellent.
Damn this game looks amazing! Ty for taking the time to showcase it jrose! Its a nice change of pace when you do these types of videos playing through romhacks, well done keep up the great work :)
The girl character is Green/Blue (depending on the language) from the pokemon manga.
She was actually planned for the original red and green but was scrapped midway, then she was brought back in the remakes with a new design that is popularly known as "Leaf"
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt Leaf and Green are not the same character. Green appears in the Let's Go remakes with her original "concept art" appearance.
@@gaobot they are the same in practice and are completely interchangeable, she even wears the Fire Red Leaf Green outfit in the manga for a bit
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt You are right, it appears they are the same character in the manga, but not in the games.
They very well could be the same in the games. The Let’s Go games use the retro designs anyway.
I just beat the yellow legacy postgame, took me about 100 hours and I had a blast. All my favorite nostalgia vibes without the bugs and quality of life problems.
So glad the Psychic Flying type beat the champion
I love how the rival had 3 different teams representing the 3 different outcomes from the first couple of battles like originally but his teams also come from different games/manga I believe.
Perfect JRose uploads again!
It's a major improvement over the base game, but playing through it, it feels unfinished and unpolished.
A good example is the fishing mechanic. Instead of having fishing spawns change based on the route, the Old Rod catches the same 2 Pokemon everywhere and the Good Rod catches the same 2 Pokemon everywhere.
They also clean up some bugs but leave in place other negative ones. They actually added Sleep strategies to trainers that didn't use Sleep before, but you still can't attack on the turn you wake up, which is so annoying. This change and others make a lot of the trainers feel like a total RNG-fest, which I HATE.
It also really annoys me that they removed the Bug on Poison super effectiveness but kept the Poison on Bug. That leaves Parasect with 3 4x weaknesses.
That said, so many of the changes are great. Fighting and Bug type Pokemon are finally viable which itself is a miracle.
And that's the general issue with hard pokemon games. It all comes down to puzzle encounters where you can waste forever to set up the solution to a problem, or you have to cheese it with something like a badge boost glitch.
Neither is really any more fun than if the ai wasn't acting after you and wasn't setup with all the options and stats
I've been playing pokemon games on and off since Yellow came out as a kid, and I had no idea what a badge boost glitch was until I looked it up just now. I had actually forgotten about the badge boosts in general from back in the day (Been mainly playing Gen 3-5 games past several years or Pogo until I stopped a year ago).
i'm glad the bulbasaur back sprite was updated in particular, it always looked like a sad frog to me lmao
Like crystal. It's a very fun mod to watch. But I'm super excited for the emerald legacy in a few years. That will be legendary
Cannot wait for the Kabutops solo run. Happy to see my favorite Pokémon putting in work!
I am the only one wondering who is guarding moltres?
Yeah, I think he forgot to show the Moltres footage, I was wondering where Moltres was the whole video
38:36 “Machamp, Champ of NOTHING.”
Sandslash didn't give any hecks to any of those Pokemon way above its level.
Removing badge boost from hard mode sounds like a perfect thing to do. I never used it in those games. Or well... i never intended to use it. Moves functioning how they are supposed to. But if you want the jank. It is a staple for gen 1. You can play on easy where you can over level too.
Yellow was my first pokemon game and I loved it so much. Wish I could play this!
You can :). There are ROMs floating around 😊
@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat well unfortunately I only have my phone to run roms on and I tried but couldn't get crystal legacy to work so I probably won't be able to get this to work either sadly
@@dennisdunker8764u just need to patch it I think
@DKTN11 I tried :/ I followed the links and directions I just couldn't get it to work.
I'm also pretty noobish when it comes to tech so that doesn't help lmao
In School, some time in the 2000s:
"So kids, what do you wanna be when you're grown up?"
Kids: "-a doctor! -a baseball player! -a model! "
Jrose: yeah no, Ima be a PKMN Trainer.
"of course you will...(this child is hopeless)"
Jrose11:
I wanna be....the very best
Like no one ever was!
That Surge battle shows a real shortcoming of the Hard mode function. It isn't about figuring out a better strategy with the pokemon you have, but forces you to catch a pokemon who can beat the gym leader. Imagine trying to do a solo challenge or a nuzlocke in this game mode and not catching the obligatory Dugtrio first.
A Grass type can handle Surge pretty well since they resist Thunderbolt and Surf. Pikachu can also ParaFlinch its way to victory in true anime fashion. Other options include Nidorino/Nidorina with Dig, a sleeper like Drowzee/Wigglytuff/Butterfree, or just a stocky Normal type like Lickitung.
Dugtrio is far from the only answer
... catching a new Pokemon *is* a better strategy, though. The game shouldn't be beatable with 1 team. You should be encouraged to find new answers, not just find ways to set up sleep and swords dance cheese.
48:04that might be most badass thing I've heard Jrose say. Love the vids, thanks Jrose!
Hey I know it's not super relevant to the video but I just wanted to say thank you for the great videos you make! You've quickly become one of my favorite UA-camrs to listen to and I really appreciate the relaxing and (for lack of a better term) wholesome vibe your stuff has. God bless you, I pray you're well, and keep up the great work!
Old Rod not only catches Goldeen, you can also get a Poliwag!
I got oneon my playthrough, and it´s now a really tanky Poliwrath that learnt Ice Punch naturally!
Its sad we live in a world where all Game Freak have to do is either copy and paste this game or hire this guy and they will make bank. But instead they copyright these kind of games so moone can play them. What a joke of a company.
Cubone and Venonat's sprite are the cutest things I've ever seen.
Sandslash sure had quite a glow up in this narrative.
The Lieutenant surge fight is what got me to pause the video give a like and comment all at the same time. Absolutely hilarious.
2 minute long sponsor less than a minute into the video the algorithm is gonna murder you man 😭😭
Does it not like when you fastforward? Lol
@@budsmokinpandaz pretty sure it doesn't, and pretty sure that a lot of people will just click off for it and that the algorithm REALLY doesn't like that
Just got home from work. New Jrose11 video. Must watch. Plus Yellow was one of my first games from pokemon. Sweet sweet nostalgia.
I just Go to Work. 😄
More rom hacks button 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
They just released Emerald Legacy a few days ago! I watched a video on it.. it looks crazy.
@@SP-ww8hv I don't think he's gonna do 386 pokémon
28:45 I believe Solar Beam was buffed to be 180 base power, could be wrong. It was also a crit though.
Definitive edition my ass. Clearly even without hard mode enabled the whole game is set up to punish anyone trying to run a full balanced team. Making it stupid hard doesn't make it better. I thought the idea was to make these older games accessible to modern fans with quality of life and bug fixes, not make a pseudo kaizo hack. The sprite updates do look nice though, I'll give ya that.
🙄 stop crying and go back to vanilla yellow. I beat this game on hard mode with only bug types
Good for you 🙄
This brings me *_so_* back to the times I used to play Pokémon Tower Defense!
I never truly considered playing the Gen 1 games beforehand, but now? Now I want to play this game a darn ton for sure!!
Shout out to the dev that called it the perfect rendition, because I haven't even played the game and I can already say that they're totally right!
Opera GX even has Chat GPT built right in. Thanks for the warning, I’ll stay far, far away from it then!
Opera is a Chinese based browser if I'm not mistaken, it made my phone slower than when trying to use Chrome which also sucks now.
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269
White people when western companies steal their data: 😴
White people when Chinese companies steal their data: 😡
Did that guy actually beat fire red with just a Magikarp or was that a ChatGPT hallucination, I can’t find any information on it online
I don't like the girl option in yellow at all. No it's not because I'm anti-girl, but rather Ash was always meant to have the pikachu, so it just goes against the original story.
There's a character named Yellow in the Manga who has a Pikachu (may be hard to tell but she's a girl)
lol the original and deep story of "a kid has a Pikachu" that can only be told with a boy
Why do you care so much about gender? lol. Video game came out before the anime you realize that
I unironically can't wait to see how JRose plays through gen I again. After seeing him beat it like 100 times
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im also of two minds on the badge boost glitch still being around, on one hand there is what jrose said - it's a staple of the game, and yeah removing it from hardmode would be a nice balance between staple and difficulty, but there is an argument to be made for it not existing at all: this is supposed to be the 'perfect' version (im not sure if the mod author uses that phrasing or just jrose) and if that is the case, removing all glitches/exploits/etc. would, and really should, be a priority.
It's always interesting to see what 'improved' versions of the games get wrong and right.
Giving Raichu surf, while a fun reference, ultimately invalidates the entire system of type advantage/disadvantage.
Having all the pokemon in each game and replacing trade evolution with level up is a good change, but the way the were spread through the game invalidates the game's choke point difficulty design. Brock can't be a tough take down if there are a bunch of special attackers or pokemon with super effective moves before you get to him.
Raichu can get Surf in the new games. And what? Have you ever heard of Type coverage? They even had that in Gen 1 like letting Dragonite learn Fire moves or Rhydon learn Electric moves.
They added Grass, Water, and Fire Types early because they're way too far into the map as is and most Yellow players will end up relying on the starters for their coverage. A lot of the early Pokemon games have this issue for some reason, most of the early routes will just have Bug and Normal and Rock Types.
Also he increased Onix's BST
Brock being tough or a cakewalk depending entirely on your choice of starter is bad game design. Including more answers to his team early is better.
@@LazurBeemz I mean that's not why Smith did it. He did it so the average Yellow player's team up to a certain point wasn't just Pikachu and the three starters you basically get for free, because there's literally almost no Grass, Fire, or Water Pokemon in the early game until around badge 4. Plus he increased Onix's BST anyway so it's not like you'll be able to one-shot it. Yellow's technically the hardest in the beginning because both of Brock's Pokemon are completely immune to Pikachu but they balance that with adding Mankey to Route 22 and giving Butterfree Confusion as an evolution move.
Ive been following the creation of this game for a long time now, so its neat to see other people finally playing it!
"When else am I gonna use a GRIMER?"
How Fast Can You Beat Pokemon Red/Blue with just a Grimer when?
i think its inevitable that crystal will be the best. gen 2 had more obvious things wrong whereas yellow's issues are too apart of its identity to really change without getting radical. you can't change the lack of counter to sleep for example without inventing abilities or new moves.
8:04 Well, because it breaks the spirit of the game. The whole spirit of Pokemon back in the day was that of discovery. If you knew everything about Pokemon, and what moves they learn, at what level, when they evolve, etc. etc., then there were no discoveries to be made, no surprises. And you can see this is what Game Freak intended with the franchise, because if you looked in the original Pokemon Red/Blue Instruction Manual (and believe me, I poured over that thing for way too long as a kid), you'll notice in the back they have a Pokedex printed in it, with all 150 Pokemon slots, but most of them are empty, leaving it up to the player to discover what Pokemon belong there.
The Pokedex feels like much more of a Pokemon encyclopedia than ever before and I love it.
Yeah I really feel like they need to remove the badge glitch for hard mode
Video starts at 3:00
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This rom hack looks amazing and I like all the improvements they made to this game
The content that can come of this game is massive for your channel
31:02 finally, Sandslash gets some respect! Sandslash is my favorite pokemon and nobody ever gives it love
Yeah Hard Mode should remove badge boost glitch. Or they should add Expert mode and that takes out the badge boost glitch. Release the Pikachu really quick.
3rd run of e 4 is poke stadium teams. Also the 1 in 256 is active in hard mode but fixed in normal
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