RPG Hack Showcase: Pokemon Ash Gray and Firered: Rocket Edition (GBA)

Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Pokemon Ash Gray by Metapod23 is a hack of Firered letting you travel Ash’s journey as a Pokemon Master through the first season (Kanto) and part of the Orange Islands episodes along with the events of the first 2 Pokemon movies! The game will follow Ash’s journey and you can catch all the Pokemon Ash had during the 1st season, along with many others! Fight and make friends with Brock and Misty and follow content from the episodes like the S.S.A nne and even episode banned from the US including the Porygon episode! Other quality of life additions were added and some new abilities and equipment replace old HM’s from vanilla along with new tiles, graphics and more! Due to the uncompleted nature of the hack, it ends halfway through the Orange Islands adventures (there are other hacks for Orange Islands).

There is an unofficial 4.6 beta made by RevKenHack which fixes a number of small bugs and adds some quality of life features.

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