My first run of this game ended to the Route 104 trainer that spams Attract and Thunder Wave... whoever decided to make Attract ignore gender in this game is evil in its purest form. I only got one hit off the entire battle. 10/10 would recommend
as someone too casual to ever nuzlocke this, i find it more fun than ek was. that being said, i wish there was a casual mode that removed the cost from all of the pokemon center functions. because im not nuzlocking, i could theoretically go back and catch more mons until i find one that is better or i could give it a better moveset, so it would be nice to just have the radical red freedoms while still playing the clearly tough game. nothing else has to change, really. maybe infinite tms, but thats about it. the level caps are fine and the rare candy mechanic is also fine as is.
@ultimapower6950 Dek purposefully removed mons to avoid encounter bloat from the game. The mons he cut was either too bad or too good to be in the game.
I hope that Gen 9 pokemon gets to be added in this romhack. I love the additions to make this more friendly to Nuzlocking. If we do have access to all 1000+ pokemon though, I wonder how natural encounters work.
It's crazy what hackers have been able to accomplish with the GBA games and the continued development of hacking tools for the NDS games looks highly promising. Gonna have to check this one out
@@spidermanlift4527 you mean the work that other people have published, wanting others to use their coding and helping people in every way they can? explain how that's leaching. also, link rom hacks you've published. ty.
@spidermanlift4527 These tools are created and released for free specifically so people can use them and build off them to create new Pokemon experiences. You don't gotta reinvent the wheel every time and you don't gotta do something never done before in order to be recognized and complimented for that work
I’m working on a Platinum hack that has all the same Gen 4 mechanics and type chart, but the pokemon have adjusted typing and stats, a few extra boss fights, some useless moves changed to modern day moves from later gens, existing moves having accuracy adjusted for balancing, a couple custom moves i created, and the difficulty amped up a ton. The encounters are changed to make every mon available within the main game, but balanced so Nuzlockes are still challenging, but possibles. There are a few other quality of life edits as well, like mart inventories with candies. My question is, could you like this comment and potentially comment some suggestions if you would play this game. I have already spent about 80 hours working on it, and I want to know if it is even worth it to keep going. Thanks in advance :)
@@dharpify1 that’s what I expected so many people to say. The point of mine is to maintain the Gen 4 mechanics so people who like Gen 4 can still play Gen 4. RenPlat is amazing no doubt, but it’s essentially a Gen 7 game in Gen 4 graphics. My hope is to cater to a different desire, whether a niche one or not
@@windmillCR Great! Thanks for the feedback! If you have any recommendations for stuff you’d enjoy seeing implemented I’d be glad to hear them for consideration
Genuinely don’t think it’s possible to nuzlocke, the creator even said it wasn’t made for nuzlockes, the first 3 or 4 splits are tough but doable, then we get permanent enemy tailwind aurora veil and even permanent MAGMA STORM, the game gives u the tools to deal with this but when u add nuzlocke rules it gets absurd
This looks super interesting, but definitely is not my cup of tea. I like Inclement Emerald for nuzlocking since it feels tough but fair. This just looks too much like EK for me. Glad you showcased it though!
it really is harder. people have made progress much quicker comparatively to progress made in ek, but you also need to consider at this point people have been playing difficulty hacks for YEARS. people with thousands of hours of experience are going at this and its giving them a real tough time, and these same people could probably go at ek right now and get it in a few attempts
@@kaled8839 also, arguably most importantly, enemy AI has been reduced down to a science, with this mod even explaining parts of enemy AI which has changed. Being able to abuse the AI is what makes these challenges possible, and its why emerald kaizo took so long to nuzelock. No one understood what the fuck the AI was doing initially, took months of testing to figure it out.
I just oassed Winona on my second attempt of the game, however, the game is getting harder. So im wondering if there is any docs or sheets made that have hard trainers moves and mons or do i have to play the rest of the game blind?
So, why is this harder than kaizo emerald? Really seems something more akin to radical red, which I can personally attest is way easier than kaizo emerald for a simple reason. Having access to any pokemon, changing natures, iv and ev manipulation, and competitive items give you waaaaaaay more tools and options to get over the very unfair battles (like my primarina hard countering lance's primal dialga in radical red E4). In kaizo emerald you get more encounter variety than base emerald, but for like most if not all the game you're limited to normal emerald pokemons, berry and crappy items while your opponents have legendaries, comeptitive items like choice band or fucking soul dew lati twins. Edit: this still sounds like a super awesome emerald rom hack and Im so gonna play it. Im just wondering if this is really harder than kaizo emerald. That game is the one game I dont think I'll ever nuzlocke.
From my POV the winrate per run is lower on average with this game though admittedly there’s more RNG that can screw you over but with that said there’s also more skill expression because of how complex the AI is and all the other resources
So I don't respect hacks that increase rng as buffs thank you for showing me they clearly don't want people to play it since they want you to randomly lose regardless of your choices inside or out of battle.
@Yu Qn attract is no less broken as is. All it would change is that you can have a broken move on one mon instead of needing at least 2. Also, pokemon are magical creatures. There's no reason that all pokemon can't be bi. Even if we're being forced to apply human ratios of sexualities, not everyone is straight either, so what gender attract a mon is susceptible to should be random.
@Yu Qn yknow im not gonna go where i did with my original response. i just thought it would be neat. i did not ask for some convoluted reason as to why they don't
The Pokémon Company might lose out on quite a few Pokémon players if they tried to be more LGBTQ+ friendly. The company would run the risk of losing profits because fewer people want to play a "woke" Pokémon game. It's like College Board adjusting their AP African American studies course so that some southern states would be willing to pay College Board by offering those courses to their schools. At the end of the day, in the eyes of giant companies, their actions are solely based on how much money they can get from them.
@Yu Qn I mean sexuality doesn't really matter, most rpgs that have a "charm" effect tend to have it work on characters regardless of gender or sexuality and the whole concept of that status effect is that the character is seduced by the enemy
Found this hack by chance and started it expecting something like Inclement Emerald which I love. Being a Kaizo was a letdown for me, the game was just boring with all those never ending battles full of Focus Sash and berries, it just became incredibly boring. Still made it till the end game and really enjoyed some additions, but not a hack I'd play again.
I'm giving this one a try, even though I've only done exactly one Nuzlocke before, so I am going to lose, it's only just a matter of when, then idk, I guess I just have to get good It's stressful, but it's also kinda fun, even though I haven't even gotten to the first boss yet (the Aqua Grunt), each of the regular trainers already feels like a mini boss fight, like the Metronome girl at the end of the first route, always landing super effective moves Is there a portable PC or anything? That's one thing that would be a bit annoying, having to run back to the Pokemon Centre after every single battle just to heal up and shuffle around the team if necessary
I'd say so. I was playing a Castlevania game on vba and it crashed everytime I tried to use a special move. I moved to mGBA and it works like a charm and looks 1000 times prettier.
The current state of the pokemon romhack fandom: comparing misty's gym 2 starmie to a gym 2 10% zygarde with this moveset i really do not think the romhack commuity will ever recover from the surplus of dog fucking SHIT difficulty hacks like radical red and inclement emerald. . . . Kappa
welcome to the current Nuzlocke meta that has started in like... 2016/17? give or take gone are the good ol' days when people didn't look up absolutely everything to completely minmax their teams, and if you forgot that something packed coverage against your current mon you just had to roll with it. like I don't know, if you need a sheet with all the Trainer information open, I think we have went from "reasonably difficult" to "masochist's wet dream"
@@Dukstless You don't just need the sheet. You also need a damage calculator, external resources to check your EVs/IVs if the game doesn't provide it for you, and information on how the AI works. I get why current hacks are made this way. We have found out that it is just not possible to make games hard unless we give the AI an advantage. But in turn, it has made the games too hard to casually enjoy them for nuzlocking, and in some cases even for casual non-nuzlocke runs.
@@FiboSai counterpoint: play other hacks. There's plenty of hacks out there and still being made that aren't aiming for extreme difficulty. I get that these games aren't for you. even as someone who loves nuzlocking, run and bun looks like something I wouldn't enjoy. But you're acting as if every single new hack is made like this, which is blatantly false. Hell, radical red, the poster child for extremely difficult modern hacks, has an easy mode planned to be added for people who don't want that extreme difficulty. I'm not sure how progress on the easy mode is going, it's just kind of weird that no one even acknowledges it. This whole "all modern hacks are too hard" crap is manufactured by people who can't be bothered to look beyond the absolute most popular hacks.
1:54 HUH????!?!????? IS THIS 🤔🤔🤔🤔 A REFERENCE TO 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈👨❤️👨👨❤️👨👭👭👭 HOMOSEXUALITY????? GAY??? 😱😱😱😱😱😵😵😵😵😯😯😯😯😮😮😦😧😧🐶😒🐶🤓💀🤓💀😍😸😃🆕😮🕐🙁🙁🇨🇬🇨🇬🇨🇬🇨🇬
@@joshalben833 I think it's worth pointing out as well that a game being harder to nuzlocke, doesn't necessarily mean that the game itself is harder overall. The difficulty added by the specific restrictions of nuzlockes can affect the difficulty of any given game differently
this seems difficult and all but can it really be the hardest if it doesn’t have the deadly seven from pokemon snakewood in it
STOP BEONG EVERYWHERE
they really oughta confiscate my table key
Jeez
WE TAKE THAT GAME TO THE GRAVE
uhhh may I ask why?
My first run of this game ended to the Route 104 trainer that spams Attract and Thunder Wave... whoever decided to make Attract ignore gender in this game is evil in its purest form. I only got one hit off the entire battle. 10/10 would recommend
Gay Pokémon would truly ruin competitive
@@tayIorswif technically bi spec, but yeah
great desicion by the creator imo btw
This is also how it works in PMD lol
Ever had a female skitty attract a legendary genderless Moltres? Thats how it works in MD
@@grundgutigertv6170 toxel attracting landorus
as someone too casual to ever nuzlocke this, i find it more fun than ek was. that being said, i wish there was a casual mode that removed the cost from all of the pokemon center functions. because im not nuzlocking, i could theoretically go back and catch more mons until i find one that is better or i could give it a better moveset, so it would be nice to just have the radical red freedoms while still playing the clearly tough game. nothing else has to change, really. maybe infinite tms, but thats about it. the level caps are fine and the rare candy mechanic is also fine as is.
Dekzeh, the creator of the game, said he was going to add an unrestricted mode with infinite scales.
@@Elloling thank you for letting me know
After playing Rad Red, it's hard to go back to games with so many restrictions.
@@Ellolingwell that’s neat. Now is he going to add the cut mons from gens 1-3
@ultimapower6950 Dek purposefully removed mons to avoid encounter bloat from the game. The mons he cut was either too bad or too good to be in the game.
I hope that Gen 9 pokemon gets to be added in this romhack. I love the additions to make this more friendly to Nuzlocking. If we do have access to all 1000+ pokemon though, I wonder how natural encounters work.
yea that would be super fun
@@Drxxyt Thanks for the reply!
It's based on the Pokeemerald-expansion base, so once that adds gen 9 mons then this hack can too.
Thanks for the introduction Drew, looking forward to playing Run and Bun!
just another game for you to destroy
This game looks insane, cant wait to play it
best of luck on it man
@@Drxxytthank you
It's crazy what hackers have been able to accomplish with the GBA games and the continued development of hacking tools for the NDS games looks highly promising. Gonna have to check this one out
I can’t wait for nds to get to this level. For now I’ll just enjoy the hell out of this one
the creator of this hack has not done anything special. Just leaching off of others works as usual.
@@cheba_1 I'm not excited for gen 4 to be filled with garbage like emerald
@@spidermanlift4527 you mean the work that other people have published, wanting others to use their coding and helping people in every way they can? explain how that's leaching. also, link rom hacks you've published. ty.
@spidermanlift4527 These tools are created and released for free specifically so people can use them and build off them to create new Pokemon experiences. You don't gotta reinvent the wheel every time and you don't gotta do something never done before in order to be recognized and complimented for that work
This game is incredible! I hope to see someone conquer it soon
very informative i've been inspired to play this game now!
I’m working on a Platinum hack that has all the same Gen 4 mechanics and type chart, but the pokemon have adjusted typing and stats, a few extra boss fights, some useless moves changed to modern day moves from later gens, existing moves having accuracy adjusted for balancing, a couple custom moves i created, and the difficulty amped up a ton. The encounters are changed to make every mon available within the main game, but balanced so Nuzlockes are still challenging, but possibles. There are a few other quality of life edits as well, like mart inventories with candies. My question is, could you like this comment and potentially comment some suggestions if you would play this game. I have already spent about 80 hours working on it, and I want to know if it is even worth it to keep going. Thanks in advance :)
That sounds great. I’ve been looking for a Platinum hack like that for a while. If you finish it, I’d love to play that.
@@windmillCR just play ren plat lmao
@@dharpify1 that’s what I expected so many people to say. The point of mine is to maintain the Gen 4 mechanics so people who like Gen 4 can still play Gen 4. RenPlat is amazing no doubt, but it’s essentially a Gen 7 game in Gen 4 graphics. My hope is to cater to a different desire, whether a niche one or not
@@windmillCR Great! Thanks for the feedback! If you have any recommendations for stuff you’d enjoy seeing implemented I’d be glad to hear them for consideration
@@ediizzy6641 ren plat has no mons past Gan 4 the only things it adds are fairy type and reusable tms. Not a gen 7 game at all.
Drxx 50% of the time:Calm
Drxx the other 50%:HDKSNDNDKZM
Not relevant to the video but it is true
lol
Genuinely don’t think it’s possible to nuzlocke, the creator even said it wasn’t made for nuzlockes, the first 3 or 4 splits are tough but doable, then we get permanent enemy tailwind aurora veil and even permanent MAGMA STORM, the game gives u the tools to deal with this but when u add nuzlocke rules it gets absurd
it's possible, but you need rng
Yea possible but a tough grind
1:57 Attract is now inclusive XD
This looks super interesting, but definitely is not my cup of tea. I like Inclement Emerald for nuzlocking since it feels tough but fair. This just looks too much like EK for me. Glad you showcased it though!
Me as well, I looks for something is tough but fair, you have some suggest?
Anyone know why he doesn't play with fast text speed?
I dunno if its exactly harder than Kaizo emerald just because it had a race
No, it definitely is.
it really is harder. people have made progress much quicker comparatively to progress made in ek, but you also need to consider at this point people have been playing difficulty hacks for YEARS. people with thousands of hours of experience are going at this and its giving them a real tough time, and these same people could probably go at ek right now and get it in a few attempts
@@kaled8839 also, arguably most importantly, enemy AI has been reduced down to a science, with this mod even explaining parts of enemy AI which has changed. Being able to abuse the AI is what makes these challenges possible, and its why emerald kaizo took so long to nuzelock. No one understood what the fuck the AI was doing initially, took months of testing to figure it out.
"not an extremely fight by any means"
Another banger keep with it g
Appreciate it brotha
1:58, hell yeah, new bisexual rep just dropped
I was just curious how did you code in a infinite rare candy, i been trying for about a day to do the same in hex manic but its only single use
Plz upload more vids of this
I just oassed Winona on my second attempt of the game, however, the game is getting harder. So im wondering if there is any docs or sheets made that have hard trainers moves and mons or do i have to play the rest of the game blind?
Hi! I battled with you on showdown today.
ggs bro
those sticky webs really helped me out
My day was just improved by 200%
@@Drxxyt sticky webs are a major advantage in random battles
I know this game is really hard but I can’t take it seriously with the name “run n bun”
So, why is this harder than kaizo emerald? Really seems something more akin to radical red, which I can personally attest is way easier than kaizo emerald for a simple reason. Having access to any pokemon, changing natures, iv and ev manipulation, and competitive items give you waaaaaaay more tools and options to get over the very unfair battles (like my primarina hard countering lance's primal dialga in radical red E4). In kaizo emerald you get more encounter variety than base emerald, but for like most if not all the game you're limited to normal emerald pokemons, berry and crappy items while your opponents have legendaries, comeptitive items like choice band or fucking soul dew lati twins.
Edit: this still sounds like a super awesome emerald rom hack and Im so gonna play it. Im just wondering if this is really harder than kaizo emerald. That game is the one game I dont think I'll ever nuzlocke.
From my POV the winrate per run is lower on average with this game though admittedly there’s more RNG that can screw you over but with that said there’s also more skill expression because of how complex the AI is and all the other resources
So I don't respect hacks that increase rng as buffs thank you for showing me they clearly don't want people to play it since they want you to randomly lose regardless of your choices inside or out of battle.
This game is so fucking fun I have a crippling addiction
Lol
"attract works on both genders" they should do this in the vanilla games if we're being real
@Yu Qn attract is no less broken as is. All it would change is that you can have a broken move on one mon instead of needing at least 2.
Also, pokemon are magical creatures. There's no reason that all pokemon can't be bi. Even if we're being forced to apply human ratios of sexualities, not everyone is straight either, so what gender attract a mon is susceptible to should be random.
@Yu Qn not everyone is straight what is your logic
@Yu Qn yknow im not gonna go where i did with my original response. i just thought it would be neat. i did not ask for some convoluted reason as to why they don't
The Pokémon Company might lose out on quite a few Pokémon players if they tried to be more LGBTQ+ friendly. The company would run the risk of losing profits because fewer people want to play a "woke" Pokémon game. It's like College Board adjusting their AP African American studies course so that some southern states would be willing to pay College Board by offering those courses to their schools.
At the end of the day, in the eyes of giant companies, their actions are solely based on how much money they can get from them.
@Yu Qn I mean sexuality doesn't really matter, most rpgs that have a "charm" effect tend to have it work on characters regardless of gender or sexuality and the whole concept of that status effect is that the character is seduced by the enemy
Can you do a video on JackSmiths’s RedFire
That hack was interesitng.
I’ve been trying to nuzlocke it for the past month only got to Erica before wiping out
no, I still have no idea why it's called that.
We trust woopy a1
trick house qr code doesn't work😔
That zygarde is so easy to beat, just use donphan with ice shard 😂
What does calm down do
Found this hack by chance and started it expecting something like Inclement Emerald which I love.
Being a Kaizo was a letdown for me, the game was just boring with all those never ending battles full of Focus Sash and berries, it just became incredibly boring.
Still made it till the end game and really enjoyed some additions, but not a hack I'd play again.
is it harder than grueling gold?
I'm giving this one a try, even though I've only done exactly one Nuzlocke before, so I am going to lose, it's only just a matter of when, then idk, I guess I just have to get good
It's stressful, but it's also kinda fun, even though I haven't even gotten to the first boss yet (the Aqua Grunt), each of the regular trainers already feels like a mini boss fight, like the Metronome girl at the end of the first route, always landing super effective moves
Is there a portable PC or anything? That's one thing that would be a bit annoying, having to run back to the Pokemon Centre after every single battle just to heal up and shuffle around the team if necessary
No portable PC unfortunately :/
didn't like 6 people make it to the 4th badge? am I losing it?
I’m the race only 1 guy got past gym 3. It was a 8 hour event
1:57 pog everyone is bisexual
Degenerate.
W game
is mgba better than vba??
yes
I'd say so. I was playing a Castlevania game on vba and it crashed everytime I tried to use a special move. I moved to mGBA and it works like a charm and looks 1000 times prettier.
mGBA Is currently straight up the best gba emulator.
Theres just no reason to use VBA anymore. Hell, some hacks straight up say not to use VBA as they can't work properly on it.
i prefer VBA but mGBA is required to use the lua script
Well the 1st gym has a legend to. Kubfu is one all be it not a great one
DRXX IS THE BEST YOURUBER EVER
SHEEESH
EldeGOD
Runabun made this I presume.
I'm pretty sure Dekzeh made it
You had me until "Attract works on both genders now," that sounds so broken and unfun
pokemon clover have an attract-base move named gay agenda... im amazed that someones retake that idea
Neato
Reddit and Twitter seem to really hate this hack lmao
reddit and twitter hate everything
It’s not everyone’s cup of tea
I thought the hardest pokemon game was empyrean..
careful with the descriptions, nintendo is on a killing spree right now.
Monka
Yes 🗿
I've played it, it's very unfair against you. Reminds me alot of emerald kaizo but with updated mons
The current state of the pokemon romhack fandom: comparing misty's gym 2 starmie to a gym 2 10% zygarde with this moveset
i really do not think the romhack commuity will ever recover from the surplus of dog fucking SHIT difficulty hacks like radical red and inclement emerald.
.
.
.
Kappa
welcome to the current Nuzlocke meta that has started in like... 2016/17? give or take
gone are the good ol' days when people didn't look up absolutely everything to completely minmax their teams, and if you forgot that something packed coverage against your current mon you just had to roll with it.
like I don't know, if you need a sheet with all the Trainer information open, I think we have went from "reasonably difficult" to "masochist's wet dream"
@@Dukstless I love run and bun though
@@Dukstless You don't just need the sheet. You also need a damage calculator, external resources to check your EVs/IVs if the game doesn't provide it for you, and information on how the AI works.
I get why current hacks are made this way. We have found out that it is just not possible to make games hard unless we give the AI an advantage. But in turn, it has made the games too hard to casually enjoy them for nuzlocking, and in some cases even for casual non-nuzlocke runs.
@@FiboSai counterpoint: play other hacks. There's plenty of hacks out there and still being made that aren't aiming for extreme difficulty.
I get that these games aren't for you. even as someone who loves nuzlocking, run and bun looks like something I wouldn't enjoy. But you're acting as if every single new hack is made like this, which is blatantly false.
Hell, radical red, the poster child for extremely difficult modern hacks, has an easy mode planned to be added for people who don't want that extreme difficulty. I'm not sure how progress on the easy mode is going, it's just kind of weird that no one even acknowledges it.
This whole "all modern hacks are too hard" crap is manufactured by people who can't be bothered to look beyond the absolute most popular hacks.
so true marc
paging Jan
Wait you beat wattson and then what? Is that the end of the rom?
Hello how are you.
doing good man
Pog
Pog
Honestly one of the worst rom hacks ive ever played. Crazy how shit some of these new hacks have become.
skill tissue
@@vincentcircharo8259 finished it casually, games worse than inclement emerald and kaizo in every regard. boss design is a joke.
@@hannongt 🧢
So what you’re telling me is every Pokémon is bisexual now
Overuse of Ditto Breeding Method caused a genetic mutation where every subsequent pokemon to became bisexual.
Facts according to the nature documentaries I've seen
At least, I'm pretty sure that's what that was
wrr
x
hardest pokemon game is me when i play nsfw hacks
that's what she said
192nd lets go
1:54 HUH????!?!????? IS THIS 🤔🤔🤔🤔 A REFERENCE TO 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈👨❤️👨👨❤️👨👭👭👭 HOMOSEXUALITY????? GAY??? 😱😱😱😱😱😵😵😵😵😯😯😯😯😮😮😦😧😧🐶😒🐶🤓💀🤓💀😍😸😃🆕😮🕐🙁🙁🇨🇬🇨🇬🇨🇬🇨🇬
they added gay pokemon to the game??????? 🤯🤯🤯
No, they added BISEXUAL pokemon to them game.
I dont like the gym leaders having mons that dont match the type. Kinda defeats the whole point.
😅imagine getting pin ☝️🤓
🤓
Yeah, imagine 😅
Pokemon are bisexual now. 🏳️🌈
i may be wrong, but it doenst look harder than kaizo
in my opinion, it easily is but hey that's just me
@@Drxxyt the amount of options you get, alone, are a bug upgrade
@@Drxxyt thisll be a good convo to revisit once r&b is closer to being 'solved' like kaizo is
@@joshalben833 I think it's worth pointing out as well that a game being harder to nuzlocke, doesn't necessarily mean that the game itself is harder overall. The difficulty added by the specific restrictions of nuzlockes can affect the difficulty of any given game differently
Cz it isn't. Neither for nuzlockers nor for the casual players. I know it now.