A Pokemon Liquid Crystal blind playlog

[Personthing]

I've been on a Pokemon high of sorts lately, and I've really been feeling the urge to do a playlog, so here we are. I'll be playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal, a Pokemon Crystal remake for the GBA that uses Fire Red as the base game. Why this instead of Heart Gold or Soul Silver? Well, I kind of felt like doing something different, and speaking of doing something different, apparently Liquid Crystal has taken some liberties and did some things differently from HGSS.

This is going to be completely blind, except for one thing: I've heard that trade evolution Pokemon have been changed to evolve through other means.

If this is the wrong forum for this, apologies to the mods.

Now let's begin...

Part 1: Beginning - Falkner:

Quite the pretty title screen I'd say.

I decide to play as the female protagonist, as I'm quite find of her design.

Yep, this game somehow has a day and night cycle that reads your computer's system clock. You have to download an emulator included on the Liquid Crystal website to actually make use of this.

I get the Pokegear and quickly make my way to Elm's lab. I predictably choose Cyndaquil. I nickname him Cinder. Cinder comes with an Oran berry.

I reach Mr. Pokemon's house with little issue. I use up Cinder's oran berry though. Elm calls afterwards as per usual, so it's time to head back to New Bark Town

Rival time!

I see they stuck with ??? instead of Passerby boy.

Oh! Totodile's level 6 instead of level 5.

And I actually lose because of it. Totodile top tier in the scratch/tackle meta. Defeats: 1

Take 2.

I'm a stickler for "canon" names, so I name him Silver.

Gotta talk to mom before I leave. She gives me a nugget and running shoes! Holy crap, talk about spoiling your child.

Now then, onto everyone's favorite, youngster Joey!

OH. OH BOY. Between Joey and the next youngster I go through 6 potions. Liquid Crystal definitely ups the difficulty compared to GSC or HGSS. I realize that I will have to grind.

Who the fuck is this autobot?

So it looks like I have more than one rival this time around???? OK, this'll be interesting.

This Porygon is an asshole. It used Conversion to turn into a rock type, so I did piss for damage and had to use leer spam + a lot of potions to win. I've already burned through my nugget funds.

Yep, he's gonna be recurring.

Grinding in the grass, and hallelujah! Cinder finally learned Ember!

This guy is new.

He has a Charmander, Pidgey, and Machop. The Charmander also had an Oran Berry. I've never seen this Charmander sprite before, is it custom?

Here we go.

Since it's night time, I head to Sprout Tower only to grab a Gastly. We'll be doing the Sprout Tower next part.

Almost forgot to note this, this hack has the special/physical split.

Immediately after catching Gastly I head to the ruins of Alph and solve the Kabuto puzzle to specifically grind Gastly.

After Gastly's grind, I head to the route west of Violet City I encounter this new NPC. For answering yes to his question I get...

THUNDER!! WHAT.

YESSSSSS!!!! RIP Falkner lmao.

About to enter the gym, and this guy gets in my way. He runs away without a fight. Another rival??

Gastly OHKO's all of Falkner's cronies.

True to GSC and HGSS, Falkner has two Pokemon, but they are significantly stronger. Not that it matters, Gastly has freaking Thunder.

Easy badge get, and Falkner gives us a TM for Mudslap. A brief summary of Gastly's time in this gym:

The team:

End of Part 1.

Future parts will still use images, but I'll try to make them shorter. The start is a pretty long thing to get through. Next time, Bellsprout Tower, Union Cave, and maybe Bugsy. Feedback is appreciated

Edited March 18, 2016 by Personthing

[Red_Chaos]

:3 thats what i call my cynderquil when i get one

[Personthing]

Now then, onto Part 2: Sprout Tower - Pre-Bugsy Rival Clusterfuck:

And to start this part, we take on Sprout tower. On an unrelated note, I am quite fond of the tilesets that this hack uses.

Aside from the trainers being significantly stronger, there's not much different to Sprout tower. I feel sorry for those who picked Totodile or Chikorita.

At the top of the tower, we find Silver mocking the Elder. While the Elder doesn't put up much of a fight against me either, his levels are higher than everyone we've faced so far aside from Falkner with a level 15 Hoothoot and 2 level 13 Bellsprout.

On route 32 I avoid most of the trainers on the Southern part of the route, as I want to grab some new team members in union cave and train them up.

A very pleasant surprise awaited me in the Pokemon center here. Was the old rod here in GSC? I forget, but either way I'm quite happy with this.

After facing off against a horde Tentacool, I find this little guy. I've never used the Horsea line before, so this'll be interesting. Permanent team member #3, Hydrus the Horsea, obtained.

This game is really generous with items. First Thunder, and now this?

And right as I try to enter Union cave, Zane pops out of nowhere, surprising me for the second time. He doesn't want to fight this time, and promises to fight me in Bugsy's gym instead.

And with no repels, I set forth through Union cave.

Permanent team member #4, Behemoth the Onix and a temporary team member Chomper the Raticate, obtained.

This guy has a goofy sprite. The trainers here were actually kind of tough, and a few of them were packing potions as well.

I step out of the cave and... Oh god no, it's Zane.

Why am I worried, you ask? This is my team after Union Cave. Out of healing items, and in no condition to fight a rival.

And being distracted by Zane, I stumble into this jerk. RNGesus was on my side though, and I managed to cheese him with Specter and Hypnosis.

Oh thank god he doesn't want to fight. I gotta find this kid's Pokedoll in Union cave, and Zane gives me a repel for my troubles.

This is the only place I haven't explored yet. Also that Pokemaniac to the south was one of the big reasons my team was so messed up. A level 18 Slowpoke hurts, even with Thunder.

First thing I see is a TM for swift. Since all Hydrus has for attacks is Bubble, I can't think of anyone better to teach Swift.

There it is.

And Zane buzzes off without a fight this time as well. Phew!

After healing, I check out the Pokemon on route 33. Go home Roselia, you're in the wrong region.

Kurt can't make balls because he's all in a huffy about the Slowpoke. Welp, time for team Rocket.

Aside from being much higher level'd than in GSC, not really much different here.

I head to Ilex forest to check out the new Pokemon and get the Silver fight out of the way. But instead the guy who bumped into me in Violet city shows up.

Rival Battle!

He leads with a Quagsire. This thing was quite frustrating to take out, especially with it's leftovers. Hit quite hard as well.

His next two team members, Electabuzz and Growlithe were not nearly as tough as Behemoth resisted/was immune to most of their attacks.

He finishes with his weakest team member, Bagon. All it knew was double edge, it seems.

So his name is Axel. Well, Axel bids us farewell, but I can't help be disappointed by the lack of a Silver fight,

Wait, nevermind! It looks like Silver decided to take a page out of Cheren and Bianca's book and wait until we just finished fighting Axel to sucker punch us. No healing, just Silver.

Rival Battle #2!

This fight gave me more trouble than it had any right to. This Gastly crit my Gastly with lick when I tried to bring it in and KO'd it.

Because I'd lost Gastly, Mud Slap spam was my best option. Croconaw still ran a train over most of my team.

Just a Zubat.

And with that, Silver is defeated. Despite having an inferior team, Silver put up more of a fight than Axel did.

I heal up and head to the gym, and true to his word Zane is waiting for me. He's courteous enough to let me choose to not fight him if I wish.

Rival Battle #3!

Conversion worked against Porygon this time around. It turned into a steel type, and got destroyed by Cinder.

This Eevee took forever and a half to kill. It spammed rest, but it didn't really do much else.

Zane also switched into his Shroomish twice to preserve his Eevee. It was odd.

Silver put up a better fight than Zane did, as well.

And with this, Zane proclaims that he will be the champion and runs out. Welp, that's all for this part, I'll save Bugsy for part 3.

The Team:

Hasty Nature

Bashful Nature

Quirky Nature

Docile Nature

Docile Nature

Part 3 will probably be either sometime this evening or tomorrow.

[Genesis]

Aw man silver/ crystal has always been my most favourite of the canon games and now you've shown me something that will most likely consume all my time.

Would you be so kind as to share the download link/ site for this hack?

Also good and easy to follow documentary. You mention making the posts shorter - I say keep them as they are or even longer with some more detail I personally find it more entertaining as it feels like I am going on the journey with you step by step

[Personthing]

Aw man silver/ crystal has always been my most favourite of the canon games and now you've shown me something that will most likely consume all my time.

Would you be so kind as to share the download link/ site for this hack?

Also good and easy to follow documentary. You mention making the posts shorter - I say keep them as they are or even longer with some more detail I personally find it more entertaining as it feels like I am going on the journey with you step by step

Link: http://pokemonliquidcrystal.com/

I'll keep that in mind. I do like making substantial progress in every part, my main concern is making it so it doesn't drag on.

[Genesis]

Link: http://pokemonliquidcrystal.com/

I'll keep that in mind. I do like making substantial progress in every part, my main concern is making it so it doesn't drag on.

Thanks for the link, I played with all 3 starters before and while Cyndaquil is definitely my favourite I think I may just give Totodile a shot...

I wouldn't worry about dragging on the story either. So far you've already shown me enough interesting stuff in each episode you've posted to want me to see more. If this follows more or less the same story line as the original (gaining access to the Kanto region after E4 then there is loads to report on. I am definitely interested to see and experience how the new rivals fit in to everything and if red will still be the final boss and if not who is going to replace him. As far as you can see do yu know yet what gen mechanics this hack follows? Gen 4/5/6?

If you keep things interesting enough then even if the thread goes on for pages and pages it won't feel like its dragging on and so far it's pretty good

Edit:

It seems Roselia's not the only hoenn pokemon in the game. There's ralts and whismur in the grass by Mr Pokemon. The encounter rate is bloody low though

Edited March 17, 2016 by Genesis

[Lord Drakyle]

this game certainly seems interesting and if i'll go with Chikorita just to ramp up the intensity against myself

[Personthing]

Now then, it's time for part 3: Bugsy's gym - Pre Ecruteak city:

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After clearing out the rivals last part, it's time to take on Bugsy. His gym has the exact same layout as it did in GSC.

Gym leader #2, fight!

And he leads with a Metapod, as per usual. Free exp for Hydrus.

However, Bugsy does actually have a line up change. His usual Kakuna has evolved. But since I have a rock type, he falls like the rest.

4x weak to rock? You know how this goes.

RIP Bugsy, squashed like a cockroach.

And we also get Fury Cutter as our TM for winning. Yay...

Oh right, this happens. Gotta get that HM 01.

And since I'm not familiar with GSC's layout of this part, I spend a good amount of time chasing around this Spearow with an identity crisis before I figured things out.

No wonder they lost their Spearow, they must be delusional. I get Cut, and the assistant gives me a Charcoal for free back at his house.

Now, I continue to make my way through the forest to grab the headbutt tutor. I want a Heracross, and that's how you got one in GSC. Cinder is my unfortunate choice for brain damage.

After spending nearly half an hour headbutting trees on Route 33 looking for a Heracross to no avail, I give up. But on my way back through the grass, I end up running into one. Turns out they were just super rare on this route. Permanent team member #5, Zephyr the Heracross, Obtained.

I make quick work of the rest of Ilex forest. This guy had a Beedrill, I think.

Speaking of Ilex Forest, the encounters here were quite high level'd. I ran into many level 16+ Metapod, Butterfree, and Kakuna. Bugsy must have caught his Metapod here.

I clear out the trainers on Route 34, giving Zephyr most of the experience. He still doesn't learn any fighting moves.

This rando had a Ninetales. The daycare is on this route, but there is no odd egg, much to my disappointment.

It's Golden Rod! Shopping, Gambling, a gym, this city has everything!

I head to the underground and grab the Coin Case. The haircut brother is also there, and for a low price of $500, he will give your entire team a haircut.

I empty out my wallet for the elemental punches.

It's time to develop a crippling gambling addition. Send help.

4 hours later... Cinder gets Fire Blast and Dig, Specter gets Shadow Ball, and Hydrus gets Blizzard.

Now then, with no more time to waste I head straight into the heart of the beast.

It's Whitney time, ready for hell? I sure am.

Now she leads with her Miltank. You see that level increase? Yeah we're gonna have a bad time.

Rip Cinder and Zephyr. Not even Fire Blast could finish off this monstrosity.

You... You monster! But it's not over yet, Specter still has curse.

Die monster. You don't belong in this world!

All she has left is this dinky little Clefairy, which loved to spam metronome. We've got this!

Noot noot motherfucker.

Begone foul creature of the night, you have been vanquished! Now it's time to head to route 35.

Oak was in for a really rude awakening. There are 721 of the damn things now.

I do a quick clear of the trainers on route 35. As per usual, they were stronger than in GSC or HGSS, and the most notable things was this cool Pikachu sprite.

I get Rollout. While it may have been great for Whitney, for me it's completely useless.

I head north to the national park, and this happens. It seems that there will be no bug catching contest because the old warden of the park moved to the Orange Islands? Like that region Ash visited in the anime? Are we gonna be able to go there eventually or something?

New warden confirmed Magmar. (He's an asshead)

I power level Zephyr on the National Park trainers because I want something better than Horn attack. Since he got brick break at level 23 I'm going to assume this uses Gen 3's learnsets, which is kind of a pain as most natural learnsets are pretty barren in Gen 3.

If I had known about this, I could have saved a lot of time gambling.

This guy was actually kind of impressive. He had a Mr.Mime, Abra, and Kadabra all decently level'd.

I had to make my way to the Sudowoodo before talking to this girl to get the Squirt Bottle. She wouldn't give it to me beforehand even after I beat Whitney.

I clear away the Sudowoodo, and for my troubles I get a Berry kit, and Rock Smash. Pretty nice rewards, I'd say. Time to head to Ecruteak.

On my way to Ecruteak, I happen upon this little scene. Axel really has it out for these thugs. Can't blame him really.

These guys want to do something to Elm, and I can't let that happen. Time to head back to New Bark Town. I did miss some screenshots of dialogue, and for future parts I promise to capture more of the new story dialogue.

These guys are ganging up on the Professor. Not gonna let that happen, jerks.

Team... Saturn? So we have more rivals, and now we have more evil teams? Fine by me.

He had two Magnemite.

They want Lugia and Ho-oh it seems, and because Professor Elm know a lot about evolution, he could be useful to them? Ok then, may as well take the dude.

An admin? His overworld sprite didn't look any different from the grunt's.

He also had a Nidorino. His Dugtrio suffers from RBY Giovanni syndrome where it can't hit anything immune to ground, and since Specter is a ghost it also can't use any normal type attacks it might have known.

And they run off. Apparently they are looking for Latias and Latios instead of Lugia and Ho-oh? If that's so they should play HGSS and go to Kanto instead.

And Axel show up, late. Dude is slow af if he got here this late, and he ran off before me. He berets me for letting the thugs go, and to be fair, since this is the world of Pokemon I totally could have used Behemoth or Zephyr to hold them in place. Apparently Axel is from another region entirely, and he wants to study Johto Pokemon. Anyways, with that I'll conclude this part. Next time, Morty and some other stuff.

The team:

Hasty nature, ability is Blaze.

Bashful nature, ability is Levitate.

Hasty nature, ability is Swarm.

Quirky nature, ability is Swift Swim.

Docile nature, ability is Rock Head.

For future parts, (aside from the very beginning of part 4) I will be taking more screenshots during new story sequences, as it makes it kind of awkward to only have bits and pieces of dialogue that are unfamiliar to everyone. Next time, Morty's gym and a bit onward from that.

Thanks for the link, I played with all 3 starters before and while Cyndaquil is definitely my favourite I think I may just give Totodile a shot...

I wouldn't worry about dragging on the story either. So far you've already shown me enough interesting stuff in each episode you've posted to want me to see more. If this follows more or less the same story line as the original (gaining access to the Kanto region after E4 then there is loads to report on. I am definitely interested to see and experience how the new rivals fit in to everything and if red will still be the final boss and if not who is going to replace him. As far as you can see do yu know yet what gen mechanics this hack follows? Gen 4/5/6?

If you keep things interesting enough then even if the thread goes on for pages and pages it won't feel like its dragging on and so far it's pretty good

Edit:

It seems Roselia's not the only hoenn pokemon in the game. There's ralts and whismur in the grass by Mr Pokemon. The encounter rate is bloody low though

This hack, aside from the special/physical split completely follows Gen 3's mechanics including Pokemon learnsets.

Edited March 18, 2016 by Personthing

[Red_Chaos]

SO JEALOUS THAT YOU HAVE HORSE

[Lord Drakyle]

i'm having trouble getting this thing to work, not sure why but whenever I download the emulator and IPS file and try to use the emulator it always says it is missing some file

[Personthing]

Edit: redundant post

Edited March 17, 2016 by Personthing

[Lord Drakyle]

I don't know half of what you are suggesting, its like I read half the story I don't quite know what all this is patch and what not

[Personthing]

I don't know half of what you are suggesting, its like I read half the story I don't quite know what all this is patch and what not

Err, apologies on my part. I'm pretty sure most patches (or at least all the ones I've played) work just fine if the patch and the rom have the same name and are in the same folder. Ex: Pokemon.gba for the rom, and Pokemon.ips for the patch. Liquid crystal requires you to hard patch the rom with a program like lunar IPS. You

[Lord Drakyle]

apparently it is missing something called d3dx9_42.dll from my computer but there is no such thing provided just the emulator and IPS file , this is my first time with emulator games so I've no idea how to fix this stuff

[Personthing]

apparently it is missing something called d3dx9_42.dll from my computer but there is no such thing provided just the emulator and IPS file , this is my first time with emulator games so I've no idea how to fix this stuff

Hmmm. That's an entirely different issue in of itself. I believe that's one of the system files on a computer. Not quite sure how to deal with that.

[Lord Drakyle]

it's a shame this looked rather interesting, I don't see why said thing would be missing from my computer

[Personthing]

Remember when I said I was gonna make this a bit shorter? This is the longest part yet, lmao. (Or at least the one with the most images) Now then, onto Part 4: Ecruteak City - Chuck:

On my way back to Ecruteak after saving Elm from those goons, I explore a bit of dark cave and find a moon stone.

We have a few things to do in Ecruteak before fighting the gym. The first thing I take on is the Kimono girls.

Why? Because upon beating them this old guy will give you Surf.

Nothing really new here, except the Kimono girls Eeveelutions are quite a bit stronger than in GSC.

And the EXP is enough to get Specter to level 25, so now we have Spoopy Ghost V2.

Remember when I said that trade evolutions evolve differently than they normally do? Check this out.

Now then, task #2, the burned tower.

Morty and Eusine are chilling out here. Eusine's overworld sprite is just a generic super nerd, sadly. And of course, there's Silver to the north.

Oh, and look who it is. Is Zane gonna fight us as well?

Turns out, no. He instead is just here to give me a magnet. I'll give that to Specter for now.

That seems forboding. I'm not too sure on how Zane is gonna affect the story from here on out. He seems friendly and gives me items, but he also got really pissy after he lost in Azalea, and seems to have made taking me down a big goal of his.

And now, onto the main attraction, Silver.

While it could have defeated Hydrus, Silver's Haunter instead decides to use curse and gets KO'd by Surf because of it. 10/10 best Ghost.

Not much to say here, Zephyr took these two out with ease.

Zubat/10.

And right as Silver decries my ability to catch a legendary Pokemon, I drop right into a chamber with some legendary Pokemon. Talk about tempting fate. Since Raikou and Entei are roaming, I'm not gonna actively seek them out for now.

Time for Morty's gym. The puzzle layout seems a bit different, unlike previous gyms which were cut and paste from GSC. Sadly, all of the trainers here only use Gastlys and Haunters, but the Haunters actually put up a decent fight.

Gym leader #4, fight!

And he leads with a Gastly. Yeah no, come on Morty you're better than this.

Oh, oh boy. That's definitely more like it.

Hydrus predictably goes down quickly. If Morty's Gengar hadn't missed hypnosis on Cinder, Cinder would have failed to two-shot it with Fire Blast, as Shadow Ball almost OHKO'd him.

Haunter #1. Easy EXP for Behemoth.

Haunter #2. While not too difficult, it kinda trolled me.

Ha, moron!

Wait what it lived? And he used a hyper potion darn.

Got sick of Haunter's crap and brought out the big guns. Badge #4, obtained! Now I can use Surf in the field, and trust me basically the whole part from here on out is devoted to exploring with Surf.

First things first I head to Cherry Grove to get a Mystic Water for Hydrus. But that's not all there is to this area...

To the left, there's some more land. Was this here in GSC? I really don't believe it was.

Oh, whoa Cherry Grove can lead to Route 32 now.

And the fisherman is buff as hell. Tentacruel took two thunders to bring down.

And we head more to the west. There is some grass to the north, but you can only seem to find Weedle and Gastly there.

And back to familiar territory. That was a cool little addition.

I head to Golden Rod to shop, and I notice this big building. The inside has an identical layout to the science building on Cinnabar in FR/LG.

But the people inside give new things. In the room closest to the entrance a man will trade a unique ditto for a regular ditto. In the second room, there is a Dragon Claw tutor, which Zephyr can surprisingly take advantage of. And in the third room, you can revive fossils as per usual.

And west of the Radio Tower, there's some more open water to surf on.

I head to the west, and looky here, a new area!

There are some stairs and trees you can navigate through if you want a Rare Candy.

I head to the north, and there's a little stretch of land with a beauty and a biker. The Biker has a Nidoking and Nidoqueen, both at level 28.

And I go back to the little Island and decide to surf west.

Wait what? I can surf from Golden Rod to Olivine now?

Looks like I can. And look at that, it's Axel.

Seems like Axel wants to go home. If he actually does, he'll beat May for the title of Rival who clocks out earliest.

Wow, Axel really gets discouraged quickly. We've only just been introduced to Team Saturn.

And he needs us to help the Ampharos in the lighthouse so that he can go home.

I go in the opposite direction, and check out the cafe. As it is in GSC, Strength is obtained here.

And as per usual, Silver jumps us to tell us about the lighthouse and leaves. I disregard his directions as well.

Instead I clear out the trainers on the route west of Ecruteak, and head to Mahogany Town. On my way, I see this building. This is new.

It has a kick ass shop though.

So basically, it's like the old battle Tower but I get berries if I win. Cool idea, but probably not gonna bother with it for awhile.

I reach Mahogany Town and decide to head to the lake of rage. Turns out I can't until I beat Jasmine.

I go back to Golden Rod, and decide to check out the things I can do with surf on route 34.

I get jumped by these three sisters. They all use decently strong water types, and just my luck, I had Cinder as my lead.

After beating them, I get a soft sand.

As the game allows me to, I surf west from where I beat those girls.

And it turns out I can surf from route 34 all the way to Cianwood. I skip the trainers for now, I'll get them later. Could you do this in GSC? I really don't remember being able to.

Oh hey there Suicune.

Suicune pulls his usual running away shtick, and Eusine decides to battle me.

Nothing special, took two Fire Blasts to bring down though.

Sonic Boom + Explosion.

And Eusine goes down.

Cianwood's drug store also has an amazing supply of items.

Gym time. I could go back to routes 40 and 41 to beat the trainers, but I'll do that later.

Oh yeah basically every trainer at this point is packing healing items.

OW.

And at level 31, Cinder finally gets Flame Wheel. Ironically, the Special/Physical split makes it far less useful for me.

Gym leader #5, faito!

Oh geez oh crap.

I immediately switch to Specter, and Specter does half it's health with Thunder. Specter gets OHKO'd by surf.

And Pokemon #2. Not as intimidating.

After some healing on both sides, Primeape finally falls. Good riddance.

Dynamic Punch, get! Too bad only Specter can learn it right now.

And I get Fly! This'll be useful in the future. This will conclude Part 4.

The team:

Hasty nature, it's ability is Blaze.

Bashful nature, it's ability is Levitate.

Hasty nature, it's ability it Swarm.

Quirky nature, it's ability is Swift Swim.

Docile nature, it's ability is Rock Head.

Next time, Olivine Lighthouse and Jasmine at the very least. This game seems to completely ignore anything that HGSS changed.

Also for those who are interested in trying this game, but are having trouble with the included emulator it turns out that you can run this game on any GBA emulator with a catch: The Day/Night system and the daily events do not work.

Edited March 18, 2016 by Personthing

[Genesis]

apparently it is missing something called d3dx9_42.dll from my computer but there is no such thing provided just the emulator and IPS file , this is my first time with emulator games so I've no idea how to fix this stuff

Wow, ok I had this same issue and it was a nightmare to figure out. Luckily I have.

First, install a direct X end user package from the microsoft website. (in google type in your error, follow a link with the solution and that link will take you to the download link for the direct x install you need). it's a problem common to Windows 7. Here's the link:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-gaming/system-error-the-program-cant-start-because/261e2bb5-2e75-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?auth=1

The next thing you do after unzipping and installing the direct X software is to get a patch program for IPS extensions. I used this one: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/ Lunar IPS (Lips).

Then you need to download a fire red rom.

Then you use the Lunar IPS and open the liquid crystal game and patch it to the fire red ROM.

Once thats done you can play liquid crystal in the emulator you download from the site.

Here's more instructions from the website:

http://pokemonliquidcrystal.com/how-to-play/

TL:DR. Download the direct X program, patch the IPS file to a fire red rom, play.

Hope that helps.

Also. Great work on the update I am at Bugsy now and keen to see the new story first hand

[Red_Chaos]

smh dont understand the gengar moonstone logic...

[Lord Drakyle]

might just be to do with the Night

[Personthing]

Now then time for part 5: More surf exploration - Jasmine:

Now last part I said I'd start this part off by heading to the lighthouse. But, when I opened my map I saw these three new areas that I can reach with surf. I start off by heading to Cherry Grove to check out Route 100.

Immediately south of Cherry Grove there's a pier with some pretty buff fishermen. One of them challenged you to a double battle instead of singles.

And further south than that I come across an island. I navigate around it to reach some stairs I can climb.

There's a locked house. I'll be sure to come check it out when I get a key for it or something.

But that's not all there is to this island. To the east, you can cross a bridge and get a rare candy. Now I have two rare candies, so when Cinder hits level 34 I'll use them to get an early evolution.

There's nothing else on the island, so now I depart east from the island. I quickly find some new land with some trainers on it.

And I come across this guy. This guy took me by surprise, and you're about to see why.

He has 4 Pokemon and leads with this thing. It has Flamethrower, Dynamic Punch, and Return. (It never used a fourth move.)

I quickly swap out Zephyr for Hydrus, as Zephyr didn't stand a chance. Dynamic Punch misses, but this Typhlosion OHKOs Hydrus with Flamethrower any ways.

He also has healing items, much to my dismay.

Pokemon #2, Scizor. Would've been trouble if I didn't have Cinder.

Pokemon #3, Politoed. It actually beat Specter, and even switched out after it used Perish song.

And finally he has an Espeon. This thing hurts like hell. This guy alone sent me back to the Pokemon center to heal.

To the east lies the lost woods. This place has a gimmick that I'll go over soon. For now, I just run to the east and out of the woods.

Right outside the east entrance I encounter this guy. To get to a secret within the lost woods, you have to run in certain patterns. You'll know if you go the right way, as you'll hear the sound that plays when I pokemon heals. If you go the wrong way, you'll hear the sound that plays when you close the PC and have to start over again. The pattern that you have to follow is quite long, and after half an hour of running around the forest I give up for now. I'll head back here later.

I continue to head east and decide to check my map. Look at that, I'm in Kanto now!

I find some more land, no trainers here just NPCs.

Oh whoa, so I was right that we'll be able to go the Orange Islands. That's actually really cool.

Hrmm, looks like this is something I'll be coming back to later, as well. It's something nice to look forward to though.

I see that Cinnabar Island is pretty close, so I try to surf there. Some rocks are in the way, finally stopping me from progressing to the east.

And now I want to see if there's anything new in the Tohjo falls.

Looks like there is. Just a bit north west from the entrance I find this old man, who wants to give me a Pokemon. My party is full so I have to drop off one of my Pokemon. I come back with an empty slot and...

O-oh. WHOA! Here we go, party member #6, Willow the Chikorita. Wait a moment, if some dude in a cave gave me a Chikorita, does that mean I could find a Totodile somewhere as well? If so I might just end up replacing Hydrus, as Feraligatr is my absolute favorite water type. Speaking of replacements, if I can't find out how to evolve Behemoth soon he's hitting the bench.

Now I go clear out the trainers on Routes 40 and 41. It took awhile. Why? Just imagine a level 16 Bayleef beating up on level 30ish water types without swtiching for about 45 minutes.

Now just to the west of Olivine I come across another land mass, which is also where I find the Hollow Cave.

Hollow Cave's gimmick is that there are many holes you can fall through, and if you can fall through all of the holes a chamber opens up. Inside the chambers there's just a yellow flute, but there are some nice items like revives and elixirs hidden in the cave. You can also find Magnemite here if you want to add one to your party.

Now it's finally time for the Olivine Lighthouse. It has an identical layout with it's GSC incarnation, except for this stone seller on the 4th floor. I buy a Sun Stone on the off chance it would work for Behemoth, as trade evolutions evolve via different means now. It doesn't work.

Now it's time to fly back to Cianwood.

And back to Olivine we go.

Now that Ampharos is cured, I decide to check out what Axel's up to.

And before saying farewell, Axel wants to battle for a final time. Here we go!

With healing spam + leftovers, this Quagsire takes awhile to go down. Gets 2HKO'd by Razor Leaf without healing though.

Electabuzz is packing Ice Punch this time, so my attempt to get Cinder EXP then have Behemoth get the kill does not pan out the way I wanted it too.

Bulk up + Mach Punch = Pain.

I start making stupid decisions as at this point I really want Cinder to hit level 34. This complicates the process of taking down this Arcanine, as with Crunch it almost OHKO's Hydrus, letting any other move finish it off

.

And Cinder gets the finish.

More bad decisions lead to more setbacks, but after losing more party members than I should have I finally win.

He is very chill about losing. And wait a moment, I thought he was going home? Did kicking his ass make him decide to stick around or something?

And right before I enter the Gym, Zane decides to ambush me. He seems quite confident.

While his Porygon may have been scary the first time I faced off against Zane, but now it's just pathetic. Took a long time to go down though, so I switched into Cinder to speed things up.

Shroomish/10. At this point, it's not a threat.

Lapras was a pleasant surprise though. It nearly took Specter down, as it could tank a Thunder.

And for his final Pokemon, Umbreon. This thing was an asshat. It spammed wish and Sand Attack like there was no tommorow.

It stalled for so long I decided it would make things quicker if Behemoth it it with a few screeches, and then had Cinder finish it off with a Blaze boosted Flame Wheel.

Uh no, it's very logical. If you were weaker than me to begin with, and we improve at the same/similar rate, I will still be stronger.

Looks like he just realized than himself.

Well, at least he is applying himself instead of being pissy about it.

Gym leader #6, fight!

Fire Blast misses, and Cinder takes a boatload of damage. Magnemite goes down next turns.

I can tell this won't be easy.

I don't want to risk Fire Blast missing as I'll need Cinder to take down Magneton, so I send in Hydrus. Hydrus narrowly fails to 2HKO and gets absolutely destroyed.

OH COME ON!

RIP. Heracross even got a crit with Brick Break and it still lived.

RNGesus has it out for me today goddam.

Victory! Jasmine gives me the TM for Iron Tail, as per usual.

You saw how Cinder hit level 34?

Now that he's evolved, he can learn Fire Punch and Thunder Punch. Because they are physical now it's not as good as it could be, but I'll take it. Now that Cinder has a significant level lead over everyone else, I'll only have him fight if I absolutely need it.

The team:

Hasty nature, it's ability is Blaze.

Naive nature, it's ability is Overgrow.

Bashful nature, it's ability is Levitate.

Hasty nature, it's ability is Swarm.

Quirky nature, it's ability is Swift Swim.

Docile nature, it's ability is Rock Head.

Now then next time, onto the lake of rage!

Edited March 19, 2016 by Personthing

[Genesis]

Great work and great documentary, RNGesus definitely threw everything it could at you to make your time miserable.

[Personthing]

It's time for part 6: Pre-waterfall mount mortar - Pryce:

Now that I've cleared out Olivine City, I can make some real progress in Mahogany town. But first things first, lets explore the bit of Mount Mortar that we can check out. I've also decided that if Behemoth doesn't evolve before level 40, he's getting benched.

In the first entrance there were a good few items, and some trainers. Now it's time for the center entrance.

There's a waterfall a little bit to the north, but I can't traverse that for now.

I go down the ladder and surf north east first, and stumble upon this. So we'll be able to find Moltres here later. I wonder what the infatuation instrument refers to?

These two items were the big prizes for exploring for now.

Yep, the officer is gone. It's time to go beat up a red Gyarados.

Inside the checkpoint there's an Aerial Ace tutor. I want to teach it to Zephyr, but I'll have to delete cut before I can make use of this.

I clear out the trainers on route 43, and since I'm feeling a bit under level'd I grind Willow and Hydrus a little bit. While I knew Willow would evolve at level 32, I didn't know that Hydrus would evolve at level 32 as well.

And we arrive at the lake of rage. First thing I do is ignore Gyarados and head west, which nets me a rare candy.

Time to kick this big dragon-thing's ass.

Ew, what happened to the shiny colors? It looks kinda bad IMO.

Behemoth actually manages to 1v1 this thing, and we obtain a Red Scale.

And here's Lance! He could easily handle his investigation on his own, but he wants us to do the work for him help him out.

Time to head to that shady store in Mahogany

But before we help Lance, I quickly rush back to Mr. Pokemon's house to trade the red scale for an EXP share.

He knows.

Now in the Rocket base. These rocket statues are easy exp, definitely a bit weaker than the trainers on route 43. Behemoth reaches level 35 by cleaning out all of the statues, and...

Convenient healing.

And the two grunts with the password willingly tell me that they know the passwords and give them up upon defeat. They could've just played dumb and I would have failed in my quest.

Oooh, nice! Since basically all of Willow's movepool barring Solar Beam in this gen will be physical because of the Special/Physical split he'll make good use of this.

Almost at the boss door, and it's Silver time, again.

And he got absolutely shit stomped by Lance. Cue the beginning of Silver's character development.

As per usual, he's not here to fight us in this encounter. Funny logic though, he's the one who approaches the player, and then he's like "I don't have time for you!"

Rocket Executive would like to battle!

His last Pokemon was a Golbat. You know, it always bugged me that Team Rocket always packed the really shitty com mons, how can you strike terror and commit large scale operations with lowly Raticate? It's especially jarring here as the generic route trainers would be able to easily put these fools in their place.

Setting an example that the grunts should follow, the executive leaves without telling me the password. Too bad his Pidgeotto that's suffering from an identity crisis undermines his efforts.

I go back to open the door, and it's time for mini boss #2. Lance doesn't join me for a double battle this time around, as it was in GSC.

Her first Pokemon was an Arbok, that took a surprising amount of punishment.

And now it's time to clear out the Electrode. They are at a measly level 23.

Now that team Rocket has been routed, it's time to challenge Pryce's gym.

Misses a 70% chance to hit, gets hit by a 30% chance. This is really feeling like Fire Emblem right now.

These gym trainers are rich. Two of them even drop $4000+ upon defeat, more than what Pryce gives!

Now then, after clearing out the gym trainers it's time to take on Pryce. Gym leader #7, fight!

And despite the level difference, this is the easiest gym battle since Falkner. Can't blame the dude, Ice type is soooo bad defensively.

I get Icy Wind, and Pryce wants to give me a Pokemon as well? That's cool, I just gotta drop off a Pokemon to get it.

Elm informs us of our next objective. We won't be tackling it in this part though.

Oh...

Wait, it's holding a water stone. Could it be?

YEESSSSSS!!!! Well on that happy note, this concludes part 6.

The team:

Hasty nature.

Naive nature.

Bashful nature.

Hasty nature.

Quirky nature.

Next time, Rocket tower and onward!

[Lord Drakyle]

so I started playing it finally, chose Chikorita elm says easy to raise....we will see Elm....anyway so part way through after bumping into Poliwag near Mr Pokémon's house and Phanpy at that place with hills as well as a Geodude I dunno why but I thought huh maybe if I hold down space ill use running shoes, bad idea, I started moving at lightspeed and was thinking hit the brakes!

Edit I am now at the Elite 4 after a long play and think I have the 3 things needed for Moltres, Articuno and Zapdos assuming I have guessed correctly what might be the hinted Infactuation instrument or whatever it was said as.

Edited March 19, 2016 by Lord Drakyle

[Personthing]

So this part will be divided into two posts. Turns out I went way past the image limit in this part, so yeah. Part 7 first half, Rocket tower:

Heeding Elm's information, I head immediately back to Golden Rod. Team Rocket grunts are blocking various buildings throughout the city.

I clear out all of the Team Rocket grunts in the tower, except for the ones behind the shutter that I need the gate key for.

At the top we have a rocket admin disguised as the director waiting for us.

He has 4 Koffing and 2 Weezing. Not much to see here.

When the people who are supposed to be in charge are screwing over their own plans, you know something is horribly wrong with an organisation.

Nearly immediately after entering the basement of the underground, guess who it is?

Rival Silver Lannister would like to battle!

Leads with a Golbat. It goes down pretty quickly.

Pokemon #2 is his strongest pokemon, Feraligatr. I want to take it down with Thunder Punch, but that doesn't pan out the way I'd have liked it to.

After Willow finished off Feraligatr, Behemoth proceeds to solo the rest of his team. Haunter almost defeated him, but the rest of his Pokemon failed to leave a dent.

Silver begins to realize that without the power of friendship he will never win. We he's kinda right, his Golbat will never evolve otherwise.

And then I spend a good 15 minutes faffing around with the shutters until I get it to work.

I clear out the rest of the Rocket grunts and save the card key. Of course, I leave the old man to starve.

Team Rocket really didn't think this plan through. It hurts them even more than one of their executives gave me directions to rescue the card key.

His Houndour went down easily, but he had an obsession with keeping that Koffing alive.

And then Specter died horribly.

And team Rocket has to disband because of another teenager. These guys can't get their shit together.

And for our efforts we are rewarded with $50 a soothe bell.

Oh, this is new. I guess I gotta stop by the Tin Tower before going to Blackthorn.

Gen 2 had weird TMs. (I know this hack is Gen 3, but it uses Gen 2's TM list)

Well then, now it's time to check on what the old Radio Tower dude told us about.

Nevermind then??? Ok off to Blackthorn.

While clearing out the trainers on Route 44, I notice that I can surf south. I find the entrance to a cave and decide to check it out.

An alternate entrance to Ice Path?

Deeper into the cave I find this Marowak. Whatever it's hiding, I'll have to come back later to find out.

So Articuno will be here later as well. Neat.

I'm about to take the normal entrance to Ice Path, and look who it is? Is Zane here for a fight this time?

Looks like he is. Rival battle, fight!

U-uh... Oh my god really? This thing still hasn't evolved holy crap it's so weak. Gets OHKO'd.

Zephyr out speeds and OHKO's this thing as well.

A solid 2HKO.

Zane's final Pokemon is Breloom, and unlike the rest of his team it puts up enough of a fight to live long enough to use a Hyper Potion. You notice something about Zane's team? All of them except for Breloom are weak to fighting.

So Zane flips out after losing this time. Zane, my secret is not having 4 Pokemon weak to fighting, and benching weak Pokemon that don't evolve.

I really, really doubt that. Zane is easily the rival I've had the easiest time beating. Silver and Axel can at least put up a fight, lmao. I will at least give him that some of his Pokemon are pretty good on their own, but they do not go together well at all.

So apparently there was a cave-in. What now?

K, so now I can do something about the Tin tower.

The fuck? Kyogre is a Hoenn Pokemon what is this?

Umm, well lets go.

Continued in the next post.

Edited March 20, 2016 by Personthing