The Worst Pokemon Rom Hack - Patch Work: Pokemon Dark Rising
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- This video is a review and my take on a Pokemon rom hack called dark rising. I speak on most of the issues of the rom hack and if it's worth giving athis hack a playthrough now. This took me longer than it should to make. The original playthrough of this game was around spring and now it's almost fall. I was going to talk about the whole game but if I Did that it would have been like a 2 hour video.
That would have been to much for my first youtube video. I'm happy with what i was able to put out even though I rushed the ending. I now learned how to structure future videos properly from now on. Can't wait to start working on the next video.
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Putting Weavile in a pre-Gen 4 game without adding the physical/special split should be illegal.
Maaaaaan so many old rom hacks do this and I have no idea why they think putting mons specifically made for the split in a rule set like that is a neat idea 😭
@@gameboylad At least when Pokemon Brown did it, it had the excuse of being a Gen 1 romhack where it's technically impossible, and it also averaged together the Special stats of the post-Gen 1 pokemon, so Weavile had a somewhat usable 65 Special (especially in conjunction with broken Gen 1 Blizzard and Gen 1 mechanics giving it an insane crit rate).
Not including the split in general should be illegal
I hated that Snakewood did this too
That's called deserved powercreep
I remember playing through this in High school. I had an abysmal time with the balancing yet I pushed myself to finish it because the edgy story intrigued me. The elite 4 balancing was atrocious. lv. 100 Regigigas spamming Hyper beam was the worst.
It's so funny cause as a teen I rarely questioned what was good or bad when it came to rom hacks. Then I played this and was like yeah, this is definitely buns
just bring a ghost lol
The fact, that you have to keep a small team to not be forced to grind a lot kinda reminds of, when you were using only the starter pokemon and nothing else. So that you end up with like a lvl 80 starter and five random HM Mons, that are like lvl 4 or something along the line.
Yeah the starter privilege. I tried doing that but too many trainers started to have 4 plus pokemon on the team that were close in levels to my starter 💀
Ah yes, the only _real_ way to play Pokémon
@@tylercoon1791 no
@@bettyunicorn6132 yes
Try playing the kaizo version, its a lot better.
I remember recently I wanted the game to be playable and enjoyable so I painstakingly replaced every sprite with the better ones we have now, and made the physical special split move by move while also fixing the horrible "legendaries" they made up
I think the biggest fix this game would need is pacing honestly. I played a lot of goofy hacks but their a lot shorter or have an end in sight. So much happens in this game that there were points I wasn't even sure if it ever ends
I mean, you're right, but when working with stuff like this, it's better to just fix what you can.
It's kinda funny, really... The 'legendary' in the game has two forms, only one of which looks like it COULD get refined into something fucking awesome with a bit of respriting + a complete overhaul of its sprite... while the other is a fucking blob of grey and black pixels that barely looks like it relates to its prior form.
Dark Rising was something else, for better and ESPECIALLY for worse.
I noticed that there were more iterations and sequels after this rom hack, would you say they've gotten better over time? Or is the dark rising series not really worth looking over@@gameboylad
Just wanna say I'm shocked people go back to see this old video and like it especially since it has such terrible audio mixing LMAO. I wish I could rerelease this video with better sound quality. Whenever a new video is out on my channel, this one also gets weirdly boosted. One day I'll cover more rom hacks and I promise my quality would be a lot higher
@@gnomefrompinkerton yeah like a what of what I say is actually spot on and aged well to me. but the audio makes it hard to hear half the time. it's a newbie mistake for sure.
No the audio doesn't make a Video Bad even with Not the best Sound IT can BE a good Video. And this is defenatly a good one. I Hope you still uploding today❤❤❤
bro i literally watch no one else when it comes to yugioh ur shit is great but need to upload more start that twitch and get that ad rev + sub rev. fk i hope u start making MD content teaching archetypes any cc thinks i been here for every meta and archetype that's been released throwing up names and shit like its pokemon.
I will never forget the thread of DoesntKnowHowToPlay (guy behind the Physical/Special Split for the Gen 3 games) critiquing this game and the backlash it got.
One reason I had the idea to make a video like this was because it was really hard to tell what was genuinely good hacks and it's still kind of like that to this day. I hope I have the time to return to this format to save other people the time on wither to play certain hacks or not
From the looks of it a lot of the gameplay problems with this just boils down to date, I’d imagine all those years ago rom hacking tools were so bare minimum, in fact even today rom hacking tools are so underdeveloped most “rom hacks” are actually made via decompilations, which to give a brief explanation, is simply editing the uncompiled source code of whatever game you have as a base then releasing a patch that exchanges the altered code to a rom.
True but there were several other hacks that were good. It mostly comes down to pacing and inexperience. The pacing in this is atrocious and doesn't really respect your time. I get they wanted this game to be huge but there's such a thing as too much. I had to cut out so much that happened in the game just to skip ahead to the elite 4. I'm sure the creator is probably a lot better at making hacks now though
@@gameboylad oh definitely, I guess I should have been more specific, things like glitches or lack of modern mechanics like the physical special split probably were the result of it’s time having no easy way of answering those issues.
Even Light Platinum & Flora Shy was better
@@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938 I remember Flora Sky... Spend so much time on it back in the day. Cosmic Beam on Serene Grace Skymin and Hydreigon with the Cosmic Beam and Calm Mind. OP as shit XD
I've seen a few screenshot LPs of this.
That Regigigas? It doesn't have Slow Start, no... It has *HUGE POWER.*
The LPs in question got past Dark Lugia by way of Calm Mind Kyogre, *copious* Destiny Bond cheese, or straight-up making their own hackmons.
Lmao yeah my brother showed me later soon after I put the vid out. I seen people beat this with stall tactics but that's it 😭
WTF?! HUGE POWER REGIGIGAS?!?! O_O;
This something out of Pokemon Showdown Hackmons...
@@deoxysandmew2162ehh my PH Regigigas has Mold Breaker
What.... HUGE POWER REGIGIGAS???
Oh yeah, like that person that made that OP Lucario (and also nerfed the Regigigas because let’s be real, that’s a fair move.
My favorite thing about pokemon rom hacks is that youre either about to play the best game ever.... Or the worst thing youve ever played lmao.
it's a role of the die for real lmao
it's prof that some people should NOT be game designers
Exactly.
To every Dark Rising, there is an Unbound... or well almost
In every Pokemon Clover, there's always a Pokemon Clover.
Wait...
Pokemon Clover, from what I've heard, somehow manages to be both
Never thought I'd see an in depth review of Dark Rising. I admit this was one of my first romhack alongside Pokemon Prism, and it was playing the two back to back that made me see the difference in quality of romhack content could have in this community (to be fair, Dark Rising is older and one of the first of its type, while Prism took longer to develop). This really covered all my issues with the title back then, and in a really fun fashion as well.
Yeah it's a rom hack made in the infancy of the community so there was no way they would get it right first try. At least it shows all the pit falls to avoid for future creators. I hope I have the time to make more vids like this in the future honestly cause I love romhacks
Prism in fact is STILL IN DEVELOPMENT. There is one pokemon event missing to get Mewtwo.
Then, it will be finally 100% complete.
Personally Im waiting till this last update comes out, to play through it again. Its such a dense and juicy rom hack, it blows outta the water plenty of others to a tee.
A big issue I have with older Pokemon fangames(I have _no_ idea if the ones coming out now are the same since I haven’t played any in a minute) is the stupidly steep difficulty curve present in a majority of them. Also the occasional brainrotting puzzles, but that’s another can of worms.
I guess it comes from the community not being given a hard mode - and even being given a default: on, full party Exp Share that the npcs weren’t level scaled around instead - so the community has a massive pushback to the other end of the scale. But having six turns of your party getting one-shot by Level 97 McGee ends up being just as bad as pressing Flamethrower six times against random Level 20 fodder. Or maybe it’s even worse, since at least in the latter scenario you only experience it once and immediately continue with the story afterwards.
Dark Rising is a victim of that trend, and even brings in hax moves and stats that the player will never have access to(or gets access to way later on in the post-game) to skew it even further against them. But I’ve seen a whole creative slew of methods to artificially pump up the enemy trainers: giving one-sided field effects, cancelling out the type weaknesses of their mons, skipping the middle man and giving their mons straight up custom types with no weaknesses, giving them access to shadow moves, having back to back 6 mon battles, having a double battle with 12 mons, you name it.
And all the while, I’m thinking, “remember when the enemy just having some good held items, a decently leveled team, and mons of varying types was enough?”
A lot of old rom hacks suffer from those issues. Thankfully and luckily I played some of the current day rom hacks since I made this video and they are MUCH better in terms of difficulty pacing. One that comes to my mind is Pokemon Unbound. That was an extremely good game overall. I hope to come back to making these kinds of videos about patches again. Most creators cringe when they look at their old videos but I watched this again and I'm kind of proud of it although my handle on audio was amateur at the time lol
All of the newer ones at least make a reasonable curve level wise (or better yet, scale important trainers to YOUR levels, so that you can never over grind.)
Unbound even has a difficultly slider for both puzzles (a godsend), and battles (ranging anywhere from “Pokémon Platinum” to “This is a Kaizo Hack.”
Rom hacking has truly come a long way huh.
@@borby4584 Difficulty slider for puzzles? Whaaa?
@@robertlupa8273 I’m not sure how much of a difference there is, but even on “easy” mode, it’s still around par with some of the harder puzzles of Gen 3 and 4. They don’t just go “no puzzles, go home.”
By the way, aside from what I mentioned, I wanted to add something, the E4's legendaries are buffed. I opened the game using a hex editor, and it was ABSURD:
Do you know why that Regigigas was so strong? It had 180 attack (The same as MEGA-RAYQUAZA), and not only that, but also FUCKING HUGE POWER
But attack wasn't the only thing that was buffed, oh no. Regigigas has a total of 860 BST, that's higher than literally every playable, non-boss Pokémon, but the thing doesn't end there: Cresselia has 840 (Which is still higher than anything that isn't the 1v4 designed Eternamax Eternatus), Dialga and Palkia have 890, Mewtwo has 910, and LUGIA. HAS. 1010.
This game expects you to defeat a team composed of six Pokémon above the BST of literally anything the game has ever created, with one of them, Lugia, not only surprassing the thousand, but also being a GHOST/DARK type, which I think I have to remind you, HAD NO WEAKNESSES.
I wish I was making this up, this game is straight up cheating to win
No wonder people made stall teams to beat it lmao holy shit. I felt like something was off with the legends but I just thought maybe if my pokemon were ev trained they would do more damage. lol, lmao even
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE F***!?!?!?!?!
BST 1010?!?!? This gets close to Eternatus Eternamax which had like 1100?! Im surprised that Dark Lugia had no Wonder Guard then.
And I thought the superboss from pokemon vega was bullshit, wow.
@@deoxysandmew2162This reminded me of how the 2nd gym leader in Snakewood had a fakemon with the same typing as this Lugia, but also *WONDER GUARD*
@@deepflare1028 ive seen that lmao
"Difficulty" ROM Hacks are so interesting. 99% of the time they're the least balanced thing ever. They'll have the first gym battle be a fully EV/IV trained team of 6 with TMs, egg moves, and move tutor moves while the first 2 route you could actually play had like level 5-7 shitmons. I remember playing Radical Red a few years ago and getting bodied all the time because of dumb stuff like that. I'm not someone who gets into high levels of strategy playing a Pokemon game so it gets super frustrating getting completely walled in the first gym. I think in Pokemon Snakewood (absolutely horrible game) the 2nd gym has a dark/ghost mon with Wonder Guard and you HAVE to poison it.
I love difficulty rom hacks theyre but this and radical red are ass
Try some of drayano or buffel saft’s hacks theyre pretty good
Radical red on normal mode i didnt feel ut was too bad, like there were parts that qere insanely hard, but every time i was able to see an out, plus the game gives you a lot of options for a lot.
again this looking at nornal mode with minnimal grindding
@@MisterRegrettiAgreed, even Reborn had better balancing than Rad Red because the Guide actually tells you about the Gym Leader's pokemon, signature move and it's effects plus some tips that could help the player
As someone who played radical red, i can say you are just ass at the game. The game gives you so many ways to get your Pokémon caught up, and so many resources, that if you think the early game is bs, i think this more of a you problem if anything.
@@MisterRegretti nah Renegade Plat has a Sandstorm team with good movesets and good items, I'm not dealing with that crap if I've already somewhat struggled with vanilla BW E4 who overleveled me even though I'm pretty sure I cleared every side area on my way there
Still, I'm not trying to discourage others from playing it. I've heard plenty of people praise Drayno's hacks and if that's the case, go on. Have fun. I'm sure you'll have lots of it. It's just not for me (probably).
I remember the sequel to this and the first Pokemon you fight after getting your Dragon starter back is a BRONZOR. Y'know? The Pokemon that resists all the starters moves????
The champion is absolutely cheap, to beat him i had to be cheap as well, so i brought a Shedinja, 2 of his Pokemon could do nothing to Shedinja
Yeah I'd imagine you'd have to have specialized teams for it like toxic stall and counter/mirror coat shenanigans
That Garchomp commenter at the end put the forums through the wringer 😂
I played the Dark Rising: Worlds Collide romhack because of the Digimon. I didn't quite know the infamy the whole Dark Rising series had.
And boy, the improvement didn't happen there. It's been awhile so I can't remember the finer details, but I definitely remember the end-game being absolute un-balanced trash. I have to use two Intimidate mons and switch them out while also item-abusing to keep things alive to debuff like, multiple opponents. WHILE also having a Moody mon (Warumanzaemon if you're curious) to boost to max in every single stat, evasion included, to even stand a chance against the final stuff. Also some of the Digimon sprites are super bad, like 'pixelate a detailed picture and slap it in the rom' bad. It had novelty but was just badly designed overall.
Yeah they had a good idea of how to go about things but probably not enough experience at this point on pacing
If you're looking for another avenue for ROM hacks with Digimon then I'd like to recommend Giratina Strikes Back. They're very late game (three badges left when you get them) but they're also high quality Pokémon to use.
This whole game seemed like something else. And the stuff at the end about Garchomp, I was like... you kill it with Ice Beam, Blizzard, maybe Aurora Beam or possibly Ice Ball if you're that bad off. Not Powder Snow, that seemed too low on the Ice move totem pole. Damn! 😂
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One day when I have more time, I want to go over more stuff like this, cause I feel like there is not much information on what's good and bad. This was regarded as one of the good ones for a long time and you can see that's not true at all lmao
Or use Gardevior
@@ChrisJZedStormzone-fz8od When fairy type didn't exist in Gen 4?
LMAOOOO THE CUTS ARE HILARIOUS!
I love how yt definitely shows it's labeled and 100% Pokemon sword/shield lol, and I do love the genuine care of the creation of the mod creating a beautiful broken mess 5/10
Apparently I don't really have much control over and the type of channel I am until I have ten vids out lmaooo. I would have put fire red at the least 😭
Thank you for the video ! I think the main think with gaming is for everyone to experience fun, no matter what form it can take, but I was always baffled at how many people seemed to like Dark Rising. Even if you are someone uninterested in a pokehack's plot, the "story" of Dark Rising is so invasive and chatty at times (while nothing much happening in general) that you WILL have to suffer through it.
I enjoy cheesy intrigue from time to time but this "chosen" clichés became tiring, as well as battling so many people wanting to test you for no good reason.
As for the difficulty, even Snakewood doesn't go that far. I'm sure some people like to grind but I fail to see the point of implementing such ridiculously high-level Pokémons, especially with broken ones like level 100 Regigigas. Time is valuable and I had no shame using rare candys to spare me hours of dull grinding. Even like that many battles were barely tolerable.
I was curious still and tried Dark Rising II... But I wouldn't recommend it either. Difficulty is still of the chart and the plot is even more bonkers.
One day I'll revisit the dark rising games again lol just to see for myself how bad the rest are
@@gameboylad Cant wait for that. It will be certainly interesting.
This was a great video.
You should cover Snakewood next! 😂
I've been asked to cover that one a lot. once my channel has more of a foundation, I'll make a video on it
Snakewood is 10x the hack this one could ever hope to be.
Snakewood is my guilty pleasure; recently I played an update hack that went up to Rusturf Tunnel named Snakewood Reanimated and even though it's basically a state of play that won't be finished its still a great experience for any Snakewood fan.
WindScar:
"It's simple. We uhhh kill the Garchomp."
watched your most recent Yugioh video not too long ago and just decided to give this a chance. just gotta say that your content is just as peak back then as it is now, and I hope that you'll be able to grace us with more bangers in the coming future. all the best now fam! 😃
I made this video at a time where I didn't have enough time to consistently makes videos so my channel just stayed dormant. Some time ago as you know Kazuki Takahashi passed away and it had me thinking about all of my memories with YGO games and the friends I made. I still have friends to this day because of that game! With school out of the way I have the time to speak my mind on the games I grew up with. Hopefully if things lift off I'll get back to talking about rom hacks one day
If you think this is the worst pokemon romhack, I'd love to see your reaction to snakewood. Imo it's 100 times worse than this romhack.
I hear about this one so much lol. it's gotta be the worse if it's the one most people point at as the worst in my comments
I wouldnt touch snakewood with a 10 foot pole lol
That was quite funny and interesting never usually see criticism or in depth review of the mechanics when youtubers play fan games its usually just going through the story... informative too for what NOT to do while making a fan game..
I want to come back to making vids on more fan games cause there's a lot of good and bad out there and it's hard to weed out what's actually good or not
This video was great and had super endearing commentary. I enjoyed the various gags and reaction clips, but most of all I liked how you pointed out flaws without ever going over the line into ranting or personal attacks or anything and you tried to point out good stuff when you saw fit.
I’d love to see more videos in this style about other classic Pokemon ROM hacks, or even of some really ambitious and genuinely well-executed hacks (I’ve been playing Volt White by Drayano lately and it’s been great but there are some bruh moments in there for sure).
In general I think you have a good thing going here and I watched the whole video so that’s gotta be a good sign!
Also I loved the final part dunking on that Redditor ass contrarian talking about Garchomp lol
I hope to come back to talking about these too. maybe somewhere next year?
The plot point about the npc being angry about devoting his whole life to Arceus because of his family and losing out on his life because of it is the same as Marik from the Yugioh anime. Like, same premise. It miiiight be a coincidence, to be fair, but it's worth pointing out
Might be inspired by it cause yugi is the 8th gym leader lmao
Given this hack is driven by "ANIME" logic, it makes sense lol
It's hilarious how in the info section of the channel you promise a video every 2 week. But if the quality is this 1 video every 2 month is still ok. I'm officially a new follower, I'm trying to watch every video when I have the time. Continue like this!
At the time It was feasible but school and life events kept hitting me like a truck 💀 I probably should change it to when I can 😭
Wait, hold on. Isn't the spot with the back-to-back grunts where the leader gives you an ultra ball the same layout as nugget bridge in FrLg, right down to the water to the west and the grass on the other side?
Yup! A lot of the game uses a lot of the same maps just with a "twist"
@@gameboylad I mean that can work in theory, with a good enough story-- trouble is story-wise this one doesn't seem like it's there yet. That said, there's ambition and potential here.
@@gameboylad I always like to call these a "Cookie Cutters". Just easy terrains copy and pasted or slightly adjusted. Back in the day, old rom hacks did that constantly and that was the case for any other games being editing in form of a rom hack.
Super Mario World was the same thing.
The fact that the game had the audacity to give the final boss a mewtwo that can calm mind twice in the face of a swords dance X-scissor durant and outspeed swift swim ludicolo in the rain on top of a lugia with no weaknesses, a base stat total of 1010 (I'm not fucking kidding.) With a STAB move with 25 PP that hits everything in the game, guarantees poison, and has the same base power as fucking self destruct makes me wonder what the hell the dev was smoking.
In all seriousness though, this is a really good video that I come back to fairly often and I look forward to more videos like this.
You are easily one of my favorite creators to watch, can't wait for more content!
CZcams recommend really bringing up those repressed memories of this game
Lmao 💀
You mentioned the sequels, and I’m interested in your thoughts about it if you ever got around to it.
I think it’s slightly better but the same problems from DR1 and the other spinoffs(?) are still there that you mentioned. Pacing, story, the …self-inserts. I’m not sure if you would want a video on it, since it’s a year removed from this initial review, and I don’t know if,you could handle another torture fest.
If I get to a point where I can make videos comfortably with a passive income, I really want to revisit patches and hacks!
Exp codes for Firered / Leafgreen, (whichever this one was built off) work for this game. That resolved the level problem.
It's still bad, but the sequels are fine.
I really hope that you can review more rom hacks in the future.
I want too! Just need a bit more time for some of these ideas
@@gameboylad keep up the great work chief.👍
He needs to play Snakewood 😂
@@Q-gf8vb dude, you’re right! I would love to hear his opinion on it.😂
Pretty late to the party but something I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments is just how absurd the legendaries the elite 4 (as well as ash’s ho-oh and “pikachu!!!”) are actually. Namely that they all have massively increased base stats, to the point where shadow lugia is over *1000 BST*. I think the Regigigas might be higher even if you take Huge Power into account, I don’t remember off the top of my head. For reference, Arceus has 720 total, and I think all the e4 legends in dark rising top it.
Also the “pikachu!!!” is holding a light ball, but because it’s technically a different Pokémon it doesn’t actually do anything, which is kinda funny.
16:22 NOT ASH-- I went through all stages of grief hearing that name
Leave that boy alone in his baby show having g-rated fun 😭
Great video! I enjoyed watching this review :) if I can have just one suggestion, it's to lower the music volume since at times it's difficult to hear you talk. Other than that, great stuff!
Yeah nowadays I'm much better at audio mixing lol. But I don't think I was decent at it till my WCS video. I wish I could edit the video audio just a bit but CZcams editing is not deep enough to do that
The first bad omen, that you have to grind a lot to progress in the game, is when you see the starters. Sure, they might be cool and very strong, but they also take a lot longer to level up, as your average starter. They all need 1.250.000 exp to reach level 100, which means, that they grow slower in general, but have better stats, to balance it out. I mean, Ghetsis in Black and White has an illegal Hydreigon at level 54, instead of 64. Or when did you ever use one of these in a casual story playthrough?
1,25 million exp is as much as most legendary pokemon need to reach level 100.
The only pokemon I can think of, that needs more than 1,25 million for lvl 100 is seviper, for some reason. That mon needs like 1.640.000 exp. That Lucy character from the emerald battle frontier runs that mon. For me personally, it would take to long too level up. ^^
I forgot to mention that it's difficult to do starter privileges when the starter is a pseudo legend 💀
that's the biggest red flag. yeah, they're pseudos and pseudos are strong, but they all have really slow experience rates. i feel like a lot of rom hackers want to give you "cool" pokemon, but they don't understand how balance works.
youtube never notified me of this comment lmao. but yeah I think a lot of people who did rom hacks back then just wanted to make something cool but didn't have enough experience on how to properly pace a game among other things
@@gameboyladfr
I remember that the champion battle was impossible for me, so what I did for Shadow Lugia was saving state before using an attack with a seccondary effect, like frozen state, so I load it up until it happens.
Then, after beating it, Dark Rising 2 was completed, so I tried it, but Dark Rising 2 was too horrible, even for my 12 yo standards back then
LMAO yeah around that time I didn't know what a bad rom hack was exactly. now that I'm older I think the answer is one that doesn't respect your time
That was a great intro with the Lugia Lmoao.
Oh I remember the pokémon rom hacking scene from back then! this one had such tough competition back then that I think people recommended it more often on the basis that it was frequently and actively worked on (and eventually finished). Many of the old rom hacking tools for FR/LG and R/S were made by latine teens, and unsurprisingly, it follows that there was an impressive selection of hacks coming out of the latine pokémon fandom. despite many of these being more competently made and aesthetically pleasing, people would be hesitant to pick up works in progress for fear that they may never be completed, especially since most of these were written in american spanish first before being vaguely translated to english. I'm really straining my brain here, those are the only things I can think of that Dark Rising has and most other hacks of its time don't have.
pulling from the anime was pretty common back then, and it would actually be a bit surprising to see a romhack from back then that didn't incorporate at least one "forbidden" anime-only concept. I can't remember when it came out, but I know Pokémon Naranja version was a high-profile hack that specifically covered the anime's Orange Islands arc, and it looked real damn good for its time.
No way all that happened before the first gym 💀💀💀
I've been binging your Yugioh series to help get through work but using the Roberto theme from Psychic Force 2012 made me instantly subscribe. Hope to hear more of your thoughts on gaming in the future.
I always feel like i'm the only person that played psychic force lmaooooo
@gameboylad Oh nah, that game was amazing on Dreamcast and a pretty decent soundtrack to boot. Richard can go to hell though 😂
I don't know why it took me watching through all your videos to finally subscribe. On reflection, I meant to the moment I heard you use Squid Adler's theme in a video. Looking forward to watching all your stuff in the future.
Best theme in X5 FOR SURE!!!
Do you plan to come back with the pokemon romhacks reviewing?
Btw loved your yugioh videos too
YES! I just need more time and the channel to be in a good spot to pull it off. I already have a couple in mind to do too
What's the song playing at 36:11 ?
Great video btw. I've played some unfair romhacks and fangames but this one's just frustrating lmao
psychic force revenger. there are a few versions of it all with the same name though
@@gameboylad Thank you very much!
Bruh you only have like 8 vids. Hella good at that.
You're going places.
Seems like it so far lol
I remember playing this game on a rom site cuz i was bored and getting bodied by a level 100 tornadus in the first patch of grass. Wild game.
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And there are three or four sequels to this game!
I saw and I'm kind of scared to go through them lol
I remember people gassing this up, man how things look now, this game is a piece of shit
i like your sense of humor man cool vid, got me oddly nostalgic for the early days of romhacking :)
MythyMoo getting a little mention gave me serotonin
I have now watched all of your videos in reverse order, please upload 10 more
as soon as the jet lag is not effecting me, i'll do my best to upload as much as I can and as fast as I can 😭
Those edits were 10/10. Well doooone
This game was such a chore to play. Ridiculous level spikes, forty different rivals to keep track of that you have to fight constantly, and the general lack of polish makes this thing absolutely infuriating. I was into the story at first, but everything else was so bad soured it for me.
I beat that Lugia with leech seed + spamming revives. At the end of it all, he was stuck with struggle. It was cathartic to kill that thing, but definitely not in the way the rom hacker intended.
yeah I saw most people deal with the endgame with toxic stall and items. I wanted to see if you can beat the game any ol way you want but nope. If you were playing the game casually, you might be locked out unless you grind the right pokemon lol
@@gameboylad My discord friend group was watching me while I was battling it. One friend likened it to an overpowered self insert in a fanfic, or like that one kid on the playground that says he's immune to everything.
I hear Dark Rising 2 is far better than the first game. Still gotta play that one. I played a bit of it, but real life stuff got in the way. Either that, or I got distracted by another game. ADHD is funny that way.
liked the video! just wish that the background music wasn’t so loud bc at times i can barely hear what you’re saying
Yeah this is before I had a better handle on how to make CZcams videos properly. This vid came out in 2021 and there was a year gap in between making my card game series. My newer videos handle audio mixing a lot better but for some reason youtube is pushing this old video lmao
How naive I was hacking this rom on to my 3ds and thinking it was going to be a fun experience
I was like, in middle school at the time
I was in my last year of highschool when i gave it a whirl and honestly it was ok to pass the time on the bus. I probably could have spent that time playing something better though lmao
Dark raising had great story at least, unlike Snakewood which was bad for the sake of being bad.
Still kinda unbalanced though 😂
damn snake wood was putting people through it lmao
@@gameboylad I wonder if someone seriously completed it, I gave up in the invisible teleport maze 🤣
ey man just wanna spread some love you one of the best youtubers i been watching lately you on the comeup trust
thanks! I super appreciate hearing the kind words!
Will you ever cover the two other Dark Rising games? I really enjoyed this video
one day but way down the line after i make more videos on digital card games
How could I contact you? I have a ROM I made I'd love to hear your input on.
In discord which the link to it is in the about me tab in my profile
Yeah you can tell this was their first project. It's pretty awesome..if only the levels wasn't all over the place.
Love this video! Just found you today!
Thanks for watching! I'm lucky that people can somehow find my videos in the first place 😭
@@gameboylad are you ever gonna do a video on Dark Rising 2?
@@Andrew-Gomez904 I want to one day! I got a bunch of card game videos I have to get out into the wild but I want to return to talking about pokemon rom hacks again one day!
I remember almost finishing the game, only to be blocked by a super tanky Cresselia from one of the Elite four.
the whole E4 is a MESS
Cresellia in the e4 is crazy 💀
34:10 is the segment from any outer source? I couldn't help but laugh uncontrollably with sped up hokuto bgm and fighting sequence haha
It's from a old kajetokun(?) Video. From the guy who made the over 9000 meme. We talking 2008 CZcams lmao
@@gameboylad Hahahahaha okay I laughed pretty hard at this. I don't know much about vintage youtube stuff
What song is playing around the 26:00 / 27:00 mark?
Good video btw
It's germany's theme from new turf golf
@@gameboylad thank you
I know you suffered a great deal... but I need to know every single track you used for this video, it's so good! Feel free to ignore.
Lmao yeah I got you. Some of the tracks are mad obscure so you might have a tough time finding some of them. I'm at school so it might take a bit before I get to it
@@gameboylad Understood, take as much time as you need. Make sure to crush those classes while you're at it.
@@Kotakaquie ok so in order [Psychic force 2012 Carlo theme] [Let's Compare! - Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. - Torami Houjou's Theme] [yugioh duelist of the roses - rose duelist summoning] [megaman x5 squid adler (snes remix)] [front mission - shop theme] [X-Men COTA Storm Theme] [Knights of The Round - Stage 2 Arrange ( The Fight ~ in the cause of Peace and Justice~)] [sf3 second impact - seans theme] [Pokemon Battle Revolutions - Poketopia Skylines Remix (shofu theme)] [steam hearts - rise out] [xmen COTA omega reds theme] [neo turf golf germany theme] [psychic force 2012 might theme] [Hokuto No Ken - L'assaut] [psychic force revenger] [Winning Cup by Yoshitaka Mihara]
I liked your video a lot! Could you cover the rest of the series at some point?
one day but probably in the far future cause I want to build up my channel with digital card games and then some of this again lol
I wonder what WindScar is up to today 🤔
I remember my best friend tried to play this back in middle school, he said "absolutely not" after like 2 hours
smart guy lmao
Pokemon: Anthony Mackie just doesn't roll off the tongue like ruby
Fyi 1st time doing a YT (i think kinda lol) but we in there
the tutorial was in the original frlg too btw it was just oak who explains how battles worked
Yeah I realized soon after lol. Kinda weird to leave it in since other rom hacks at the time took it out
Man i just noticed someone used the volt kraken mmx soundfont by sfc.
I think we are the only one we used them remixes, based af.
And good video man, i cant believe you put up with all this shit.
I wanted to try it but this game is painful ESPECIALLY the Kaizo version.
I do like this. You should try to check out Unbound. That's a real treat you would appreciate.
I actually played unbound somewhere last year. easily one of the better rom hacks and gave me a lot of hope for rom hacks made now a days and in the future!
I wouldn't say Pokemon rom hacking as in its infancy in 2011/2012, I remember Pokemon Shiny Gold or something like that being a gen 2 remake on the GBA, and I played a beta of that in like 2008. I'd say that's closer to the infancy, because I remember a lot of hype about that one and it was definitely one of the first major project attempting a full rom hack with new maps and everything.
I've been getting comments recently that I was to harsh on this cause rom hacking on with this big of a scope was still new territory which may be true. But I also remember a few rom hacks that came around the time that were decent to good. If I replay some more old ones I'll have a more informed opinion. I made this 3 years ago as my first video and I'm kinda surprised CZcams is pushing it out of nowhere
Bro im more invested in the Garchomp dude at this point lmao
Goofy ahh rom hack 💀
I hope I can do better when I make my hacks lmao
I think by watching videos and reviews of bad rom hacks while also playing rpg's with proper pacing, I think you'll naturally avoid the pit falls. Good luck!
Mmmm Neo turf masters ost? You know I'm subscribing
My taste in VG OST's is unmatched honestly lmao I'm happy someone caught one of the tracks on my vid. I should probably list the tracks I use in the future
Was watching this but ain’t you the guy who locked in at mihawk’s black paint on luffys bat
idk what this means but i do love one piece and fully aware of the fact that fraudhawk paints his sword
I cant stop thinking about the 100% jolly volcarona
We need another Pokémon vídeo, this is pure gold!
What's the music playing during the bloopers? It made that fourm post much funnier lol
Germany from neo turf masters 2! fun golf game
Do you have a list of the songs used in this video? (in order)
ok so in order [Psychic force 2012 Carlo theme] [Let's Compare! - Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. - Torami Houjou's Theme] [yugioh duelist of the roses - rose duelist summoning] [megaman x5 squid adler (snes remix)] [front mission - shop theme] [X-Men COTA Storm Theme] [Knights of The Round - Stage 2 Arrange ( The Fight ~ in the cause of Peace and Justice~)] [sf3 second impact - seans theme] [Pokemon Battle Revolutions - Poketopia Skylines Remix (shofu theme)] [steam hearts - rise out] [xmen COTA omega reds theme] [neo turf golf germany theme] [psychic force 2012 might theme] [Hokuto No Ken - L'assaut] [psychic force revenger] [Winning Cup by Yoshitaka Mihara]
was lurking for this comment, thank you!
Ok your music taste slaps tho
I got an ad for pokemon sleep watching this lmao
there's not even suppose to be ads on this video what in the lmaoooo. CZcams is not paying me for that. Bunch of scammers
@@gameboylad Oh lord, then again not too surprising. I got 2 unskippable 20 second ads before a 10 second kamen rider shitpost one time.
This is a neat vid though. Would be fun to see you tackle another romhack, *cough cough* pokemon clover *cough cough*
it's very trival, but it irks me when people mix the ds and gba overworld trainer sprites together.
I had a friend say this to me a few days ago lol. I don't think it happens as much now but god a lot of them did it back then and it was always jarring
Insane to see anyone else knowing about the GOAT Duelist of the Roses OST
I can see hard mode rom hack works if they actually give you tools comparable to boss trainers. Like being able to EV training and breed good IVs pokemon easily, actually get good rooster of Pokemon and decent level curve (or do the good old Healing wish Chansey/Blissey/Audino repeatable battle thing) Kinda sad that most hard rom hack either fck up level curve, give you only shitmons and give the boss OU/Uber level mons or full EV/IV trained first gym (or both) while you have to kill Pidgey for speed EVs, without Power items.
Why is Anthony Mackie in all your thumbnails? 😂
He just has a funny face lmao
Do you have a VOD channel ? Very good video btw
Not yet but my twitch channel still has a lot of my VODs and highlights!
If you think this Rom hack is the worst, then let me point you towards what is widely considered the absolute bottom of the barrel bad rom hacks: Pokemon Snakewood, cause this Rom hack looks like Pokemon Insurgence by comparison.
I hear mention of snakewood and I shutter to think of something worse than this 💀
I recall someone rage ranting about DR2's final boss, except they complained on some ROM hack aggregator site, thinking said site was the dev's. Fun times.
YOU CAN'T PLAY THE WHOLE GAME WITH ONE POKÉMON AND COMPLAIN THAT IT'S HARD! The video was really entertaining, though. Your voice is super relaxing! And I love your sense of humour. Think I might subscribe
tbf most pokemon games you can beat wit one pokemon lol. but the logic was that if I started with a full team I would have to grind way too much. so better to pace myself and make a team slowly. Still had to grind like crazy just not as much when I played it in the past
I got tired of this games non-stop damn grind so I used cheats to give me a ton of rare candies to get where i needed to be
I think I have a different version of this rom hack because in that cave area in the beginning of the game, there weren’t any encounters for me. Also made it to tiki village and the Pokemon outside the town are all grass starters 🤔
Hmmm she did have a couple versions of this out in the wild I think, but it's been so long since I covered this lol
You wanna talk the worst ROM hacks, you gotta talk about Snakewood.
One day maybe now that so many asked for it