After finishing Ruby and Sapphire, Game Freak realized that not every Pokemon could be captured in the game anymore since these were no longer compatible with the previous two generations. And so from that came FireRed and LeafGreen, faithful and complete remakes of the original Red/Blue/Green versions. Because these games were remade from scratch on the GBA games' engine, nearly every single bug the original had was fixed up and the visuals get a very noticeable update. There are also the added features of the past two generations of Pokemon which means hold items, running, new moves and movesets (in exchange for the existing TMs, tutors around the region teach you some moves from the originals), female protagonist choice, all that stuff. The game was also noticeably changed to be easier in some ways (for example you can catch a Mankey before Brock and Charmander can learn Metal Claw, making him a breeze with any starter). There is the addition of the Sevii Islands; a set of new areas for both towards the end and at postgame that enable Pokemon from the Johto region to be captured. This is also the first game to include the VS Seeker, a key item that allows you to challenge almost every minor trainer in the game again.

It's not all shiny and cool however; though FR/LG are major improvements Game Freak had a weird notion of what in this game should be updated and what shouldn't. A boatload of all-but-needless tutorial functions were put in these remakes, and there are some odd regressions from previous installments like the trainer not turning to face an opponent when challenged, newer evolutions being completely barred until postgame, censoring of Gamblers to Gamers, and no internal clock (meaning no berry growing, though you can find these as hidden items in darker patches of grass or trade them over from another game).

However these flaws are all minor, FR/LG is a straight and complete upgrade from the originals in almost every way.

(NOTE: This game was the winner of a 2013 Vizzed.com pokemon hacking contest. It was originally published by Vizzed.com. The Vizzed admins have graciously allowed it to be added to other sites as long as the game is unchanged.)


After your grueling defeat at SILPH CO. your boss, GIOVANNI, calls you (and all the other scientists that were fired after that failure) in for a meeting at his gym in VIRIDIAN CITY. You are all put under new management and given the task of creating more powerful POKEMON. While most of your team is in a lab actually creating these "powerful POKEMON" you are tasked with field work. Your new job is to run missions, test experiments and help TEAM ROCKET succeed in their mission. You may be loaned out to help with other TEAM ROCKET missions. You may get to test out these "powerful POKEMON" before GIOVANNI gets his hands on them. You will definitely see the damage caused to TEAM ROCKET by a certain young hero. See KANTO from a whole new perspective. Enjoy the dark side.

• Pokedex is reduced to 151
• New story
• New main character graphics
• Removed rival (mostly)
• A few new maps
• Lots of new items
• New ways to get the HMs
• New poke locations (all 151 are obtainable)
• Many VIZZED members are added to the hack
• Vizzed.com is all over it as well (in funny secret locations)
• New title screen
• New intro (graphics and text)
• Credits removed (but still need real saving not savestates)
• Warps adjusted
• Lots of pot shots at team rocket (based around RED mostly)
• Lots of differences from kanto in firered... little stuff,
• Players that have played fire red will get the most out of this game

Pokemon - Fire Red Version (USA, Europe).gba - NOINTRO
CRC32: 84EE4776
MD5: 51901A6E40661B3914AA333C802E24E8
SHA-1: DD5945DB9B930750CB39D00C84DA8571FEEBF417
SHA-256: 729041B940AFE031302D630FDBE57C0C145F3F7B6D9B8ECA5E98678D0CA4D059

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