Description
Pokémon Solus is a romhack of Pokémon Red/Blue with a focus on an enhanced near-vanilla solo gameplay experience. It attempts to allow the player to accomplish anything they normally would be able to with another cartridge (looking at Gen 1 and sometimes Gen 2 features for inspiration), without the need for that additional cartridge. In other words, everything can be done in-game by yourself. Importantly, it attempts to be as close to “canon” as possible.
Patching
Download the `.bps` patch file corresponding to the version you’d like to play. Use it to patch a vanilla Pokémon Red/Blue ROM.
- For Solus Red/Solus Green, patch a vanilla Red Version ROM
- For Solus Blue, patch a vanilla Blue Version ROM
Features
The Pokémon Solus romhack makes the following major changes to the vanilla Gen 1 games.
- All 151 Pokémon are obtainable through normal means
- Some new gameplay features have been added
- HMs can be taught to party Pokémon without using up one of their move slots
- Four new TMs have been added to support forward-patched learnsets
- Trades can be performed in-game via the Trader NPC
- Battle HUD additions: EXP bar and ‘already caught’ indicator
- Professor Oak can be battled after beating the Pokémon League
- Pokémon learnsets have been partially forward-patched via Yellow Version and Gen 2 tradeback learnsets
- Some visual content is changed (sprites)
- Some bugs/oversights from vanilla are fixed
This is only an overview. For a comprehensive guide to all of the changes and new features, check the feature log.
The wiki acts as a quick reference guide to updated Pokémon learnsets, locations, etc.
CRC-32: 9f7fdd53
SHA-1: ea9bcae617fdf159b045185467ae58b2e4a48b9a
Filename: pokemon-blue.gb
CRC-32: d6da8a1a
SHA-1: d7037c83e1ae5b39bde3c30787637ba1d4c48ce2
- Vortiene, for assistance with assembly and pokered
