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And that's Pokemon Polished Crystal, 100%'d! Perfect, if lengthy, introduction to my Analogue Pocket.

Fantastic romhack, cannot recommend it enough. Better Pokemon game than Gamefreak has put out since Sun Moon at the least.

Improvements are stellar, can't believe it fits in 2MB. I think I'll make a formal review on https://sirtaptap.com later

#pokemon #retrogaming #romhack #polishedcrystal #pokemonpolishedcrystal #romhacks #pkmn #gen2 #gbc #gameboy #gb

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pokedex completion certificate, edited for Polished Crystal playtime 118:39
A high level pokemon team, my 'mains' a weavile, pinsir, sylveon, typhlosion, ampharos, mewtwo

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Has anyone played Pokemon Polished Crystal, the rom hack? I'm missing 2 families, the third starter (Silver's), and Natu/Xatu.

I think I get the latter after getting all 28 Unown forms, but I'm stumped on getting the Rival's starter. I've done everything, beat Leaf, Red, E4 rematch, Orange Islands, everything.

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#pokemon alllmost finished #PolishedCrystal now, beat E4, only about 10 Pokemon left to go:

Natu/Xatu (I think I have to get all 28 Unown?)

The last starter (must be on Mt. Silver from Silver?)

Celebi (mythics are in game!)

And a couple eg/evos

I'm close to a living dex, but with two brand new games plus Pikmin 1+2 waiting, I'm just gonna finish the dex, beat Red, and call it for now.

Fantastic rom hack, if Gamefreak released it everyone would love it. Above and beyond recent games easy.

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yoooo spikey eared pichu!!

#pokemon #retrogaming #Romhack #polishedcrystal

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Polished Crystal gives Weavile Crunch!!!!

Best romhack ever, easy. Like no really so many changes are super impressive even at a technical level, they had to combine a few (identical) moves just bc they use the max num of moves the game supports. Same for pokemon

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Classic stuff, hunting for a 5% rare ditto outside the daycare in #Pokemon Polished Crystal rn

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Should really have kept all the #polishedCrystal stuff in a thread. I always forget.

Anyway, so many cool quality of life things!

You can spam out of battle moves with the animation only once, SO nice for headbutt

Silver/gold leaves drop from trees for new NPC services

Cut trees STAY CUT FOREVER!!! finally oh my god

Just got a phanpy

Bug catching contest has venomoth and yanma added. Got a Pinsir for false swipe.

Been the perfect game for my Analogue Pocket

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Difference between the Polished Crystal town map graphics and the original

Note the new areas and added connections between routes

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My sneasy in Polished Crystal.

Still trying to get a Razor Claw. Got 3 grip claws...sneasel doesn't even trap wtf.

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I'm at the Elite 4 in Pokemon Polished Crystal, it's exactly as hard as I figured.

I turned off Predict switching mode to Switch, helps a bit and I'm mostly just grinding. Midnight, my Weavile can obliterate Will but Koga gives me a hell of a lot of grief since I have no psychic moves AT ALL, no TMs, and only a few viable, untrained mons. Just gotta overpower.

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Using my 4k TV the best way I can, playing my #analogue pocket with some Pokemon Polished Crystal

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They really had to go add current puzzles to Gen 2 in Polished Crystal?

Oh well, just this one area. Getting the last battle items (3 EV training items), 4 more legendaries, then the E4, and all I have left is 30 pokemon to catch and the Orange Islands which are new to me too. Plus battle facilities but I should prob take a break and play mario/sonic

#polishedcrystal #pokemon #retrogaming #romhack #rom #gameboy #gb #pkmn

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Pokemon Polished Crystal has a national dex and reusable TMs and I'm unironically enjoying it way more than Scarlet/Violet.

The Gym guy doesn't call you "champ in the making" though so I gotta ding it for that. Though maybe they just didn't in gen 2 I forget.

VERY impressed they somehow made saving instant, even when changing boxes.

#pokemon #pokemoncrystal #pokemonGSC #polishedcrystal #retrogaming #gameboy #GB #GBC #gaming

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@SirTapTap Found the answer, no the RTC basically doesn't function unless the game is playing since it's a ROM and pocket doesn't pass RTC to the core/game or anything.

with Polished Crystal however, they simplified resetting the RTC so it's pretty easy to do on your own: https://sirtaptap.com/articles/set-time-in-pokemon-polished-crystal/

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