| Aka: | Pokemon Firered Back-wards, Pokémon Rojo Fuego Reverso, Fire Red Backwards Edition (Hack) |
| Console: | Nintendo Game Boy Advance |
| TV Standard: | Other |
| Developer(s): | Game Freak |
| Release Date: | 2012-06-14 |
| Players: | 1 |
| Co-op: | No |
| ESRB: | M - Mature 17+ |
| Type: | Adventure, Role-Playing |
Have you ever thought "You know, man... if you like, went south of Pallet at the beginning of the game, you would TOTALLY be able to go through Kanto backwards"? Yeah, didn't think so. But a while ago, I did, and I decided to make it a reality.
Fire Red: Backwards Edition (also going by the title Der Erif when I try to seem slightly more creative), is a a hack of Fire Red in which the maps and scripts are messed with in a way that makes the player go through the gyms in the following order:
Cinnabar > Fuchsia > Saffron > Celadon > Vermillion > Cerulean > Pewter > Viridian.
Additionally, there are other changes:
Many Pokemon have been buffed. In particular, plenty of bugs are stronger.
Some gym leader TMs have been changed so you don't get overpowered moves early.
Some typings have been changed. Not many, though.
Surf has been given a lower base power.
Cut has been given a higher base power and made steel type.
Naturally, every trainer has been changed.
Wild Pokemon have beenc changed as well. This hack has nearly every Pokemon between Gens I and III, with the exception of legendaries and a few others.
"Teleport" is now a psychic type explosion.
Pokemon appear in puddles, like Gen V.
There is a postgame, so be sure to make your file saves without savestates.
As the hack has been released on some other forums, I already know a few bugs:
The move "Strength" has broken. It is now 100 pp with no typing. It uses the user's special attack stat.
In Pallet, the rival doesn't grab the Pokemon he ends up using, if you pay enough attention.
The move "Rock Tomb" causes the game to crash. No Pokemon can learn it, but one trainer's Pokemon has metronome and may use it.
The map doesn't correspond to the routes aesthetically. This isn't so much a bug as an "I'll fix it later".
"But Slike!" you say. "Nobody could possiblly be manly enough to go through with this hack! We demand proof!" you say. This is why, in addition to the nice, happy download I have attached to this post, I have a collection of screenshots:
