#rocket edition

[nelvana]

Decided to revisit my rocketsona from my time playing Rocket Edition, featuring her raticate, Pestilence!

...And then I decided to make her a pokemon irl blog. Check out @champion-rocket! Blanket unreality warning for it.

[maximilian-alexander-art]

The reason I like colouring in Adobe sketch: this.

Executive Maximus has been set on a peaceful mission for once. It’s a good thing he and the kid are already well-acquainted and on friendly terms.

[millenniumcamcorder]

So apparently it’s Jasper’s birthday and that means it’s high time I upload this

[nelvana]

Once my brother and I had beaten Pokemon Emerald and Pokemon Gold/Silver together, we felt as though we were running out of pokemon games to play together. We both wanted to stick to GBC and GBA, so we decided to turn to ROM hacks. Starting with a hack of FireRed: Rocket Edition! As the name of the hack and my drawing imply, it’s a hack where you get to play as Team Rocket, and it was tons of fun!

This was our fastest beaten game, with us starting April 24th, 2020, and finishing just yesterday, May 4th, 2020. Is that a bad thing? Nah, just goes to show how much extra free time we’ve had... And hey, if y’all have any pokemon ROM hack suggestions for us to try next, feel free to let me know!

Now, with all that said, off to the  team stats and general gameplay info under the cut:

Team Citrine, in the order they were caught/stolen (Name, Species, Sex, Moveset):

“Rhubarb”, Vileplume, ♂,  Teeter Dance - Stun Spore - Giga Drain - Acid

“Sled Fast”, Slowbro, ♂,  Slack Off - Blizzard - Psychic - Surf

“Birdra”, Dodrio, ♂,  Quick Attack - Drill Peck - Fly - Pursuit

“Bomb”, Magneton, ⚲,  Discharge - Mirror Shot - Tri Attack - Thunder Wave

“Red Baron”, Dugtrio, ♂,  Sucker Punch - Earthquake - Aerial Ace - Rock Slide

“Klromph”, Muk, ♂,  Shadow Sneak - Gunk Shot - Brick Break - Fire Blast

Team Nelvana, in the order they were caught/stolen (Name, Species, Sex, Moveset): 

“Pestilence”, Raticate, ♀, Hyper Fang - Crunch - Quick Attack - Swords Dance

“Weed”, Victreebel, ♂, Leaf Blade - Acid - Growth - Knock Off

“Bro”, Nidoking, ♂, Poison Tail - Rock Slide - Earth Power - Brick Break

“Snap”, Golduck, ♂, Blizzard - Surf - Psychic - Calm Mind

“Dula”, Farfetch’d, ♀, Swords Dance - Fly - Slash - Leaf Blade

“Siccem”, Arcanine, ♂, Flamethrower - Thunder Fang - Crunch - ExtremeSpeed

General Playthrough Notes (Spoilers for Rocket Edition):

Beating the game was around 14 hours each? This is a fairly short hack, but also really well balanced.

Going in to the league itself, my entire party was level 51 except Siccem, and Citrine’s entire party was level 52.

For some notable pokemon theft (you steal pokemon when you’re in Team Rocket): I stole Lance’s aerodactyl (because it was the rarest in the bunch, hardest to “replace” in Lance’s words) while Citrine stole his kingdra, and we both stole Red’s charizard and Oak’s venesaur.

Our nicknaming style here was to just,, nickname our pokemon based on the first thing we think of when obtaining them. It turned out pretty fun, and I at least feel that it fits the Rocket style in a way.

Citrine changed his team a whole lot throughout the game. He also explored a couple more routes than I did, so it evened out a bit in the end.

I named Missing.no “Miracle” because I thought it would be ironic seeing as how everyone else in the game called them “The Catastrophe”. Citrine named his Miggning.no “Big Glitch”.

I prepped a lot of items in the game and used almost none of them the entire time!

In the end, I had a bounty of 25k. I would only usually steal rare pokemon, pokemon that come from important trainers (I didn’t steal from any gym leader though), and just out of spite. This meant that my sentence at the end was only 4 years, which if I/my character had to sit through it instead of Shigeki bailing me out, it could have been manageable.

Citrine, on the other hand, ended up with a bounty of 386k! He stole from everyone and filled up around four and a half pc boxes. This meant that at the end of the game, his jail sentence was 54 years! What a madman.

My fight against Mewtwo lasted five turns. Pestilence set up swords dance twice, then used two crunchs, the second of which was a crit and cut through most of Mewtwo’s health, and then she quick attacked to finish them off. Mewtwo spent that entire time setting up amnesia, reflect, and light screen. Mewtwo was level 70, and Pestilence was level 41. Beware the plague.

Flash Cannon in Citrine’s game was glitched and would crash the game whenever it was used. My game was fine with it. We’re not sure what was up there, but also Citrine’s admin battle sprite was also glitched.

This was a good chance for us to try some new pokemon and revisit some old favorites! We really enjoyed it.

We both don’t like the post credits scene. Falls apart too much when you think about it, and kinda makes all your efforts feel worthless.

Moral of the story: Bill is a two-faced bitch, Blaine and Fuji are limp noodles, Ronnie can exist just nowhere near me, Oak got let off too easy, and Blue is my new best friend.

Oh, and also: fuck Lance, and Shigeki is best grandpa.

[maximilian-alexander-art]

I think I like colouring in adobe sketch more than this, but whatever.

In any case: Ronnie has an epiphany. 

[maximilian-alexander-art]

Unfinished work of the The Boy, Maximus Beaumont. I’m still trying to figure out how to art in this program.

Yes I know one of the moles is in the wrong place

[starryskyezz]

SPOILERS FOR POKÉMON FIRERED ROCKET EDITION ROM HACK

someone pls tell me where hg/ss rocket edition is i NEED to see what happened with professor elm and if ethan is a robot too

[teddygames]

Rocket Edition ending: no bounty