“I did the gyms first, following an equivalent format that was already in-game,” he says. there have been 16 datasets for each trainer class, and ShockSlayer entered a considerable amount of that by hand. “I basically had to find out the way to program as I went, and there was tons of knowledge that needed to be created,” ShockSlayer tells me. He decided to launch it before Christmas and for it to be fully playable, with as few bugs as possible and every one the key features intact. ShockSlayer started on Crystal Clear in June 2017 and mostly worked thereon alone until its v1.0 release in December that year. “I’d say it’s my first real software project.”
“CC was originally made as a Christmas present for a community completely outside of romhacking,” he explains. He got into programming to supplement that. ShockSlayer started modding as a young kid and was primarily focused on hardware and “portablizing stuff,” which is modder lingo for creating things portable. Late-game species might be encountered soon after starting, trainers could challenge gyms in whatever order they pleased, and even the bothersome “evolve via trade” mechanic was rectified by introducing a brand-new NPC referred to as the Tradeback Guy. Crystal Clear built upon 2000’s Pokémon Crystal so as to prioritize player freedom by implementing a variety of latest mechanics that drastically improved upon the vanilla game. While these changes are drastic for a slow-moving franchise like Pokémon, they’re almost as ambitious as those of Crystal Clear, a ROM hack designed by a modder who goes by the name ShockSlayer. There’s a replacement Wild Area kitted out with a rotational camera and online support, the National Dex is not any more, and rather than mechanics like Z-moves and Mega Evolutions, pokémon can now be Dynamaxed in stadiums, causing them to grow in size and combat brand-new forms. That’s why it’s so exciting that the series’s newest games, Pokemon Sword and Shield, are set to vary up Pokémon’s formula during a big way. Despite this, the games tend to evolve at a glacial pace, rarely making major shifts from one entry to subsequent. Pokemon is that the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, having amassed $90 billion in revenue since its creation in 1995.
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