4.0 Changelog - Radical Red
4.0 Changelog - Radical Red
1 saves are compatible, but you might lose out on some of the
new pokemon and items! Progress on your Pokedex can also be
reset! It is highly recommended that you start a brand new save from
the beginning!
General Changes
● New Dex! Check out dex.radicalred.net for the up to date pokemon changes!
[Huge huge thank you to Ash and Yda for setting this up!]
● Added two new RR-exclusive Sevii evolution lines: Noivern, and Lokix!
○ Sevii Nymble is currently bugged and is unobtainable from the Sevii
egg, it’ll be fixed in the next update!
● Added all Gen 9 Pokemon (including Iron Leaves & Walking Wake) and Gen
9 Moves/Abilities
○ Revival Blessing, Doodle, Order Up, and Spicy Extract are currently
unimplemented so their respective Pokemon cannot learn them.
○ Tidy Up currently doesn’t remove hazards/substitute
○ To save space, the Paradox Pokemon use the same cries as their
contemporary forms & have the same Dex numbers.
○ Tera is not implemented
○ Mycellium Might, Guard Dog, Costar, Opportunist, Commander, Cud Chew
are not implemented
○ Protean, Dauntless Shield, Intrepid Sword, and Battle Bond nerfs
from Gen 9 were not applied!
○ Hail has been updated to snow in Gen 9. No longer causes residual
damage at end of turn, but boosts defense of Ice types by 50%. Snow no
longer boosts the chances of frostbite.
○ Various (mostly useless) abilities were removed to fit Gen 9 abilities:
Klutz, Aura Break, Pastel Veil, Color Change, Anticipation, Mirror Armor,
Power Spot, Healer
○ Blademaster has been changed to Sharpness from Gen 9, which boosts
the power of slashing/cutting moves by 50%.
● Gym rematches are now required in non-Hardcore mode before fighting
Koga (Brock, Misty, Surge)
○ Pewter City Gym has sand in overworld for rematch
○ Cerulean City Gym rains in overworld for rematch
○ Surge has auto electric terrain for rematch
○ Erika has auto grassy terrain for rematch
● Route 20 now has permanent snow [Pryce Location]
● Cinnabar Gym has sun in overworld
● Buff to partner Lance in the Gio 3 Tag fight to be less frustrating
● Fishing will now never fail
● EZCatch cheat code allows every ball to have 100% catch rate
● Surge no longer gives Light Clay in rematch, can now be found across Celadon
City pond
● Celadon Starter Eggs have all starters in its pool now [Including gen9!]
● Route 21 opens up from Pallet Town after receiving Pokedex for a small patch of
grass for additional early game encounters.
● Additional new area in Viridian Forest with additional encounters
● Replace Hisuian Egg option from Egg Giver to Paldean Eggs
● Can now go into Stat Scanner straight from the summary screen (including
in battle and in PC)
● Added evolution methods viewable in Stat Scanner
● Add Gen 9 moves to Learnset Randomizer
● Made Anti-AI abuse in Hardcore Mode more lenient
● Cerulean Cave Tyranitarite->Diancite
● Remove Diancite from One Island rewards
● Nerd in Saffron House sells EV Training Gear, Destiny Knot. Old EV training
NPCs in various areas removed.
● Reinserted the battle textbox to fix trades/egg hatching crashing on
Bizhawk/real hardware, big shoutouts to Plaininsane for helping out with this
● Erika no longer gives Snivy on rematch
● Islet in Route 24 now has Tyranitarite
● Mega Stone giver in Route 16 no longer gives Hoenn Mega Stones, only Kanto
● Brendan gives Sceptilite instead of Destiny Knot at his fight before Victory Road
● May gives Blazikenite instead of Torchic as reward after Cinnabar fight
● Misty gives Finizen as rematch gift instead of Froakie
● Zygarde-10 award at One Island changed to Booster Energy
● Roamers Raikou/Entei/Suicune/Meloetta/Victini -> Chien Pao/Wo
Chien/Ting Lu/Chi Yu/Walking Wake
● Add Frigibax to Game Corner
● Changed Chuck Reward from Crabrawler/Clobbopus->Aqua Breed Tauros/Blaze
Breed Tauros
● Improve Raid Den sprite - Thanks to Plaininsane!
● Meteorite at Pewter Museum now changes Deoxys form
● Cinnabar scientist now gives DNA Splicers if you show him Reshiram Kyurem or
Zekrom
● Update Hisuian mon evolution methods so they don't require 'Hisuian' potential
(evolution methods reflected in Stat Scanner).
● Setting Hisuian potential by NPC in Saffron removed
● Hisuian Ball now a Pokeball you can switch to
● Celadon Dream Ball drop->Loaded Dice
● Second Seviian Egg in Fuschia pokecenter
● Moved fossil shard guy to Vermillion Fan Club + moved up evolutions to be
a bit earlier for a lot of the fossil mons
TM Changes
● Pokemart in Cerulean now has a different stock of TMs added in this update
○ Icy Wind, Pluck, Snarl, Aerial Ace, Smack Down
● TM15 Electroweb available in new Viridian Forest area
● Add TM56 Hone Claws to Game Corner
● TM40 Aerial Ace->Low Kick
● TM15 Hyper Beam->Electroweb
● TM87 Swagger->Aerial Ace
● TM in Rocket Hideout -> TM105 Trailblaze
● Short Kid in Route 14->Item drop TM02 Dragon Claw
● Small area past the water in Viridian City now has TM120 Ice Spinner
● Brendan gives TM68 Dual Chop in Silph Co instead of Treecko
● Psyshock TM in Underground Path in easy/normal mode only
○ Route 7-8
● Mudkip Kid now gives TM Earthquake as first reward instead of Mudkip
Move/Ability Changes
● Armor Cannon boosted by Mega Launcher
● Blademaster->Sharpness, now boosts 1.5x for sword/slash moves instead of
1.2x, +1 crit ratio
● Bleakwind Storm now has 20% chance to inflict frostbite, Springtide Storm can't
miss in rain
● Bleakwind Storm, 80 Acc->90 Acc
● Chloroblast 120 BP->150 BP + takes 50% in recoil instead of 33%
● Dire Claw 70 BP->80 BP and regains sleep back
● Esper Wing New Effect 80 BP 100 Acc Special Psychic Move with High Critical Hit
Ratio and gives +1 Speed
● Following changes have been made since Hail got buffed in transition to
Snowstorm:
○ No end of turn damage, boosts Ice Type Defense by 50%
○ Remove Frostbite chance being 2x likely in Snowstorm
○ Remove Frostbite dealing more residual damage in Snowstorm
● Glacial Lance 130 BP ->120 BP
● Grassy Glide 70 BP->60 BP
● Psyshield Bash 40% to raise defense->100%
● Raging Bull: Type based on Primary Type rather than species specific
(Raging Bull is Fairy for Granbull, Normal for Bouff/Tauros, Water/Fire for
respective Tauros-P forms)
● Recovering moves PP nerfs applied (All have 5 PP)
● Sandsear Storm80 Acc->90 Acc
● Spin Out BP 100->110 BP
● Springtide Storm 80 Acc->90 Acc
● Unbanned Storm Drain, Motor Drive from HC mode
● Wicked Blow BP 80->75 BP
● Wildbolt Storm 80 Acc->90 Acc
Raid Changes
● Mt Moon Raids starting at 3 stars->6 stars now have Regirock/Registeel/Regice
● Pokemon Mansion 5 Stars Necrozma/Spectrier/Regidrago ->
Hoopa/Spectrier/Regidrago
● Pokemon Mansion 6 Stars Genesect/Tapu Lele/Diancie -> Tapu Lele
● Power Plant 5 stars Dracozolt/Arctozolt/Regieleki -> Zeraora/Regieleki/Iron
Valiant
● Power Plant 6 stars Tapu Koko/Zeraora/Genesect -> Tapu Koko
● Route 10 raids starting at 4 stars->6 stars now have Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf
● Route 13 Raids starting at 5 stars->6 stars now have Victini/Volcanion/Cresselia
● Route 16 Raids starting at 4 stars->6 stars now have Diancie/Zygarde-10/Iron-
Thorns
● Route 2 Raids starting at 4 stars->6 stars now have Entei/Suicune/Raikou
● Route 25 Raids starting at 4 stars->6 stars now have Necrozma/Celebi/Calyrex
● Victory Road 5 stars Regirock/Registeel/Regice/Uxie/Mesprit ->
Meloetta/Jirachi/Genesect
● Victory Road 6 stars Hoopa/Cresselia/Zygarde/Jirachi/Volcanion -> Zygarde
● Viridian Forest 5 stars Calyrex/Zarude/Shaymin -> Iron
Leaves/Zarude/Shaymin
● Viridian Forest 6 stars Celebi/Tapu Bulu/Azelf -> Tapu Bulu
Critical Bug Fixes From 3.1
● The PokeVial Sturdy puzzle bug has been fixed
● Freezing while hatching eggs on real hardware/Bizhawk has been fixed
● Water Absorb not working on Water Gem has been fixed
● Cursed body now works correctly on AI
● Neutralizing Gas no longer causes weird glitches
● Player’s Pokemon can no longer accidentally transforms in the Cerulean Cave
Giovanni Fight/Pryce Seafoam fight
● Fix New Game Plus code not giving Gyaradosite
● Fix New Game Plus Seviian code missing some Seviians
Credits:
- Team(Goes without saying they’ve all given great input for this release :
- PlainInsane for Seviian Nymble/Lokix sprites,a lot of QC on
sprites, testing, updating battle box to support real hardware
emulators
- Scipio for testing, and Seviian Noibat/Noivern sprites (additional
credits for Diezombie4114, Gladiator Kraken, pissuinhaaleatoria
for those sprites)
- Gobou for an insane amount of testing,great suggestions, and
documentation help
- Darkster for great documentation help, testing, and making the
teaser
- Silva for heavy amount of testing, lots of documentation help, and
great suggestions
- JudasThundersteel for formatting a large amount of Gen 9
follower sprites, and testing
- Symes for testing, documentation and suggestions on Hardcore
Mode
- Ash for testing, and the Dex
- Pacman, Karthik for the RRSH Dex maintenance
- Yda for testing and the dex
- Terminaut for several Gen 9 sprites
- Johnny for beating the Elite Four many many times
- Duk, Barack Obama, Haku, Toast, Cyro for testing and support!