57:38 The reason for Espeon’s inclusion on Red’s team was a reference to the manga. Red obtains a special Eevee in the series that can swap between the forms of Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon when exposed to the corresponding stones, and then revert back to Eevee after battles. Eevee eventually gives up this ability and evolves into Espeon, locking it in that form permanently.

My man added level scaling to Crystal when gamefreak couldn't even add it to SV bro nice job

As a massive fan of Gen 2 I am wildly impressed with the level of detail you added to improving it. Amazing job, will definitely be playing through this nostalgia with a twist

You don't understand how amazing this rom is. Gen 2 is the generation I grew up with for the longest time and seeing it be perfected like this brings almost a tear to my eye.

Clair having a Lapras fills me with an unbelievable amount of joy

Awesome to see this project come to full fruition; been following along since the early videos. Congrats on not only creating a wicked romhack, but also some of the most innovative Pokémon content in recent days!

One suggestion I would have is that Karen's Vileplume should be shiny. It would explain more why this pokemon that always stood out is so liked by Karen as well as showcase the hidden gimmick of gen 2, introducing shiny pokemon.

Downloaded it 2 weeks ago and started playing on my phone in my free time, just finished the game and collecting all 251 pokemon today and am now restarting for a nuzlock, dude you and your entire team did an astounding job on this!! I grew up with gold so gen 2 has always had a special place in my heart and I think you just game me my definitive edition! Extremely well done!!

Sorry everyone!!! The IPS link broke but we've found a fix, so it will work now. Happy gaming!!!! (like the video, this is once again not a request)

Hope you guys enjoy! Smith, it was a blast working with you man! Glad to see this thing finally out for the public to see! ❤

Like if you vote for emerald legacy

Man I've literally just stumbled across your channel but what you've done here with this "patch" is truly truly impressive. The commitment to something you and millions of others love is absolutely incredible. Bravo dude, bravo.

love how the only clip of Karen’s vileplume was just it getting one shot by houndoom despite it “never dying”

Good to see this finally released. Looking forward to trying this out with a challenge run to see how much it improves upon the original.

Gold was my first pokemon game and gen 2 absolutely has a special place in my heart. And one of my favorite Christmas memories was when I got Crystal. Seeing yall make this rom with all the great updates is amazing! Great job!

this is what a passion-project looks like. Amazing work!

I always liked the idea of Gym leaders’ ace Pokémon being one from the region they are in

I'm very happy that Karen gets to keep Vileplume. It's based on a parasitic flower that smells like a cadaver, and also has a theme of "night blooming", so I think it fits perfectly in a Dark-type team. Also happy that someone's put so much effort into making a romhack that's NOT a difficulty hack that doesn't care about stuff like flavor and immersion. Very measured and reasonable edits, great job!

Currently nuzlocking (my first nuzlocke) on attempt 3 & lost typhlosion today 😭 Awesome awesome rom hack!!! Loving this experience, thank you!!

Found your channel by accident. This ROM is the single best thing I've played in over 20 years playing pokémon and modded roms. Thanks. I love your work

If I could ask for two things to be added to your later release that finishes Kanto, first would be that unfinished building in Vermilion city that the Machop is stamping the grounds for, how amazing would it be to see that building finally finished? The other is to include the battle with Professor Oak as originally intended in gen 1. These additions would be fantastic ❤

I LOVE the core idea for this romhack. No innovation. No new types. No physical special split. No crazy re-writings of the plot. Just an honest atttempt to create the gen 2 experience fans would have loved to play. Moveset and encounter changes here and there, modified teams, pushing the plot a bit in some portions to maximize its message without completely distorting it... you have walked an extremely fine line with this rom, and overall I think you excelled with it. I will love playing through all of this as if it was my first time in Johto. So much care and thought put into it to avoid cheesy changes. It is the subtle nature of this game what makes me love it. I wish more creators took this approach rather than adding random secondary typings and crazy new Megas at every corner. Well done, sir. Very well done. I guess FR/LG will receive its attention soon with a revised hackrom, right? I am waiting for that...

I grew up on Heartgold and Soulsilver, and had most of the same problems that the OG Gen 2 had imo. This rom fixes everything that I had a problem with and now can go back and play my favorite region all over again! Amazing work dude

This legit sounds like an awesome rom hack. I love what you've done with just about everything. Probably the definitive way to play crystal. I love it. Well done.

"Head back to the area Mew is most familiar with." THE RBY MEW GLITCH. O_O That's an AWESOME throwback!

Giving Clair the Lapras is a nice touch. Perhaps she could have rescued it from poachers using her aquatic based dragon-esq team in the past for lore

The amount of love and care put into this Romhack is amazing. This actually inspired me to work on something of my own! Thank you for all the hard work you guys put in!

Not only have you earned a subscribe, and a like, but you have earned my respect. Thank you. Crystal is totally my favorite game, i cannot wait to start my journey again.

I particularily love what you did with Karen. She was always one of my favorite characters for how little time she has in the spotlight, respecting her 'favorite pokemon' team and trying to make her strong despite it is exactly how it should be.

The whole rom is a great upgrade, but there's one thing I feel like I have to point out: Our rival having a friendship evolution as their ace is one of the greatest character development moments in pokémon. You can keep TTar as a lvl 48 no problem, they do that all the time, but Crobat has to be relevant

The moves changes to B & C tier Pokemon is godlike. So much fun to play with things that are now somewhat viable!! Thank you!

this is simply incredible, huge props to everyone involved in this project, y'all are awesome fr

IT'S HAPPENING BABY LETS FREAKING GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some patches I'm hoping to see in the future: -Making it possible to get all the room decorations. This is a really obscure but cool feature, and if this is the "perfect" ROM hack it should be doable! -Add follow Pokémon! You've already got the individual sprites! :D Love this video. I keep watching it back just to geek out over Gen II. Thanks for all the hard work!

Ty for adding Mareep back! 😭😭😭😭And also being able to encounter other gen 2 mons earlier! That alone + the levelling scale would have been enough, but you went and made it perfect! I love gen 2 and can't wait to play this version of Crystal.

Omg I was playing this last night and I have to thank you again for this gem. I felt like playing a new region. It was so good. I felt like I was seeing Johto as it was truly meant to be.

We have been playing Pokemon for 26 years. We played competitively. We did speedruns. We played hacks, mods, fangames. This is the best Pokemon fan project we have ever seen. It is what Pokemon Crystal were to Gold and Silver, but for Crystal itself. You and your team are incredible, and we wish you luck, with our blessing, on fixing the tragedy that was an incomplete Kanto postgame.

Surprised to not see Spikes on Pineco. I know it doesn't naturally learn it until the 40s but it would be an excellent lead for Bugsy, really showing he's knowledgeable and experienced, even so young. Edit: ah, I now see you saved the Spikes gimmick for Jasmine lol

Thank you for this. I grew up playing these games and you fixed it perfectly while still staying true to the original. Happy to say I just completed my first hardcore nuzzlocke. You rock!

I’m playing it on my 3DS now, and I must say I’m liking all the quality of life updates so far. The Pokédex addition screen only shows the second panel of the information but aside from that I don’t see any other bugs with this hack. Thank you! Crystal has always been my favorite game in the series and these changes make it feel new enough for me to want to play through it again.

Finding Mew in the first place you can perform the Mew glitch... that's adorable... ☺

I would love to have a physical cartridge of this like in the thumbnail once the Kanto expansion is fully done

I absolutely love your project, I also think that your adjustments for the games balance are just phenomenal. As someone who's played all the games I think this really is the ultimate pokemon rom hack, Well done.

Absolutely incredible work, good sir! This game plays like how I nostalgically remember Johto being when I played it as a kid.

Its a dream come true! Thank you everyone who made this possible with a special thank you to Smith having the drive and commitment to seeing this wonderful project through! 🎉🎉🎉

For the Unown ruins, you could've done something with Entei to parallel with the movie and make it so we don't have to chase after him anymore and give the ruins a more genuine feel after solving both the puzzles, the murals as well as catching Suicune. You could probably do something Raikou in a similar vein with following possibly the anime in which we meet Ethan.

I love the look of this and I can't wait to play it. Crystal wasn't my first pokemon game, but it's the first one I LOVED. I have such fond memories of playing it, and I'm excited to see all the changes!

Gen 2 was my introduction to Pokémon and I will always have a soft spot for Silver and Crystal. This mod was so incredibly well thought out and follows the original spirit of the game. I'm so excited to playthrough these improvements and can't thank you enough for your work on this project. Well done.

Just a heads up for the next version; there's a typo in the Violet City school where you have everyone mention how the Ghost and Dark types do different damage and general Pokemon changes. The kid furthest from the door who talks about changes to evolutions says "dsicovery" instead of "discovery" when talking about evolving Tyrogue with a brick.

Congratulations! This was such a passion project and it shows. I can't wait to play it and relive my childhood with a fully realised touch!

Crystal was my first pokemon game I ever played, so I'm extremely happy you did this and I can't wait to play it!

I am astounded by the work you did with Yellow Legacy, so I knew I was going to have to try this one next!

Version 1.1 is now live! Link in the description. Changes include: - You can reset the time by holding DOWN B on the menu screen. - Bugsy’s Ledian’s psybeam was swapped for comet punch. - The Azaela town rival’s zubat has been nerfed 2 levels. - Whitney’s clefairy has swapped encore with ice punch - Teddiursa sees one level buff - Rocky will now obey up to 16 after beating falkner. - Cut was nerfed to 55 power 95 accuracy to match it’s grass counterpart Razor Leaf. - Twineedle has been buffed to 80 total power, and regains its 20% poison. Scyther and Scizor now learn it at 42. - Scyther's swords dance and Scizor's agility now come at level 54. - Houndour learns bite at 12. Jynx Lovely Kiss at 34, Togetic tri attack at 43, Xatu wing attack at 40 and Misdreivus icy wind via tm. - Pinsir and Heracross now only learn rock smash via tm. - Kabutops learns Swords Dance at 45 - Hoppip now appears in the day on Route 29 instead of HootHoot - The brick piece is sold in mahogany mart. - The Dragonair trade in blackthorn now gives mr mime - And the Janine Sabrina badge glitch and national park sign glitches have been fixed. - Typo fixes Check the description to get the patch OR Download the 1.1 Patch HERE and apply it to an UNMODIFIED Crystal Rom - there is a version for the Base version of Crystal 1.1 and 1.0 which is a different thing from Legacy version 1.1: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uFQCSsV2IjnvnNzRosmQyRcTo8wRPJh2 Note: You can swap the version 1.1 rom with the 1.0 rom and keep playing the same save file! Simply title the 1.1 rom the same as your .sav file and have it replace the 1.0 rom in your Crystal Legacy folder! It doesn't hurt to make a backup of your .sav save file in another location 🙂

I adore your choice of including Giovanni into the Gen2 Rocket story line, complete with him being there for the conclusion, his speech at the end is also really solid and imo quite believeable for the kind of journey/characterisation he's gotten at the end of Gen1. If I may make a suggestion, I would've preferred him being present earlier in the story, namely at Slowpoke Well. He could maybe be positioned in the Pokemon Center or something, not directly at the scene of action to a) not put too much attention on him and b) further put some intrigue into why there now is a character that wasn't there before(and why that NPC is gone after Rocket is defeated).

Dude, this is amazing. Genwunner 32 yr old boomer here, I'm glad you took up the challenge to revise crystal. You clearly have a passion for this game. You see this game in ways I couldn't have. Bravo

Thank you for making this! Just finished watching jrose play through your mods. One of the most entertaining things out! I think you’ve (pardon the pun) changed the game for all poketubers wanting a challenge and more interesting content. Well done!

As a Crystal kid, this whole thing warms my heart. Looking forward to seeing where this goes and chances are playing it myself as updates come out.

LETS GOOO! Been following this for months, so glad it’s finally time to release! Can’t wait to play it

This is so cool. Literally fixed everything and more

wow very nice work!! def need to play that romhack someday

This is like, "The version of crystal you remember from your childhood"

I am super hype to finally play this. I've been following along for months and I feel so much more excited for this to come out than I did SV. I could feel the love and care that you put into it with each video talking about what was broken or incomplete and how you wanted to fix it.

This is a dream come true. Thank you so much everyone who worked on this!

hats off, this is the best romhack consideration I've seen

What you did with Giovanni and Silver is really something. I’m so impressed at how well thought out their arcs are. Also, I always thought the Pokémon choices for Red and Bruno made sense because they’re nods to the Pokémon Adventures manga. I like the swap from Espeon to Mewtwo. But if you want some explanation for the choices for Kanto definitely pick up those graphic novels. They actually totally rock!

I love how you presented your videos creatively with that bulbasaur, while showing your detailed explanations on why you did this and that. I rarely watch long videos that's not a movie or series, but your style kept me intrigued until the release of your game. ❤

I am amazed by almost all Changes. Props. For real this is incredible and seems like a super fun but challenging Nuzlocke Game

This 1 hour video explaining the rom hack kept me entertained the entire way through. I'm really intrigued by what this hack does, thank you for making this!

Pokemon crystal is my favorite game, I never noticed it's flaws but all the updates you did sounds absolutely incredible. I'm excited to play this. Thank you for all your hard work!

you're a phcking god my dude. this is incredible.I'm dropping a sub and a like and learning my first romhack today, this has to go in my library.

Bro you just made my week. This is amazing

Note for that Kanto revamp project: In project Mew the diaries in cinnabar island it should actually hint that the island they found the Mew DNA on was Far Away Island, Hoehn region. Emerald version event. That's what the event originally tried to hint at but obviously it was harder for us to piece that together back then.

This looks awesome. As someone who grew up with Gen 3, hearing so many great things about Gen 2, I found myself rather underwhelmed with it when I played through on 3DS due to all of the problems mentioned in this video. I think if this was the version of the game released, it could truly be considered one of the best Pokémon experiences. Everyone involved did a great job, I will definitely have to check it out myself

Im here after finishing pokemon yellow legacy, great game, totally love it, grateful for being more faster and now, I cant wait to try this game, you and your team are the best

You sharpened this gem of a game to shine even bighter! thank you so much for redoing this game it means alot to me since crystal is my favorite pokemon game of all time.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't just add in the Celebi/Giovanni plot line from HGSS. That feels like the true conclusion of the Rocket storyline and also adds the much-needed character backstory for Silver.

Thank y’all for doing Crystal justice. I always loved the color palette of it. I was too far into the video before I realized you posted this today haha. I cant wait to play it and watch people play it.

These are the exact types of romhacks I love. Adding challenge, care to the lore while retaining the spirit of the game. If you happen to have done similar ones for other gens I'll for sure check them out.

This is really fun and I'm so excited to see the updates to kanto!!

I made it to the 4th Gym so far! Thank you -So- much for the hard work you put into this, I am having a blast. I played Gold when it came out in 99? And this upgraded version of Crystal is just amazing. Can't wait to see what you have in store for Kanto! Thank you again!! 🍻

This has me so hyped. The love and care you have put into this is amazing. This is gonna be a huge nostalgia trip. 6yo me is gonna be so stoked to play with murkrow and misdreavous 😍

This looks awesome thanks for doing this!

Amazing project! Congratzzz XD

Fun hack, enjoyed playing it!

I've watched this project develop over time, and now that it's complete, so excited to play it!

100% STUNNED BY YOUR WORK

Huge thank you for this. Having tons of fun playing Crystal Legacy. Just got the badge for Cianwood.

Clair having a lapras kinda reminds me iris in bw2 having one too, and I like the parallels between the 2 dragon masters!

This is legitimately so impressive. I clicked this just as something to listen to while I did other work and ended up actively watching it and being captivated by every little change. The amount of thought and care you and everyone else put into it clearly shines through. Pokemon gold and crystal are the first games my brother gave me when I was younger, so it has always been special to me. Being able replay it in this state is something I could only dream of before. Thank you so much for this!

Fun fact regarding Jasmine: In Pokémon Stadium 2, her team also has a Corsola. So you even unintentionally referenced another Gen2 game.

You single-handedly made this game even better. I honestly played Gold and Silver when I was younger and had been unable to really play Crystal until I was much older and the changes you introduced were an amazing turn that made me excited for a game all over again. Honestly, more than anything I am excited about the Pokemon I haven't been able to use on teams but always loved potentially being viable (I love bug and rock types, fingers crossed I can make good use of them). Will likely come back and share my team once I finish my playthrough. Would love to hear others' team compositions as well that you all enjoyed when you finish the game!

Pat has gone far with his content, I'll definitly play this rom when I have the time; looks sick! Thank you, Pat. Here's hoping for more in the future :D

I love your Rom Hacks and your youtube videos! Thank you for doing what you do :)

This looks phenomenal.

Nice editing, even got some goosebumbs with the mewtwo bit with the yakuza music

Great work making this! As the author of Salt Crystal myself, I love the Generation 2 games and your changes are certainly welcome. I see that we agree on many points that needed change in the original, while, at the same time, proposing different approaches to fix them. I'll make sure to give this a playthrough or two 👍

ive never played gen 2 but i just saw my favorite youtuber of all time make a crazy rom hack that i cant miss out on playing

Amazing video thanks for your work

So excited for this, I can't wait to nuzlocke it!

Give Clair a Feraligatr instead of a second Dragonair. Lance had a Charizard so using starters shouldn’t be off limits for the dragon trainers.