FireRed hack: Pokémon Fury Red (Mario Dexswap)

[CosmicView]

Welcome to a familiar adventure but with a new twist, It's Mario Time!
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Go through Pokémon Fire Red but now with all 151 Pokémon replaced with Mario Characters and Baddies with new Movesets, types, abilities and stats.

This rom hack uses the Complete Fire Red Upgrade as base by Ghoulslash to moves, abilities and type charts up to gen 8 are added, they deserve major shout outs for making rom hacks be more open.


The Patch download can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mgS7MMyAxcsVuaFadSW753edoTjss3No?usp=sharing

Spoiler: Non-Level up Evolution Methods

Poison Mushroom - Learn Pursuit

Baby Yoshi - Friendship

Shy Guy - Atk > Def - 20 = Bandit
Shy Guy - Atk < Def - 20 = Sniffit
Shy Guy - Atk = Def - 20 = ???

Sumo Bro - Thunder Stone

Blargg - Fire Stone

Shroob - Leaf Stone

Honey Bee - Female LV 32

Sidestepper - Water Stone

Lakitu - Thunder Stone

Urchin - Water Stone

Flurry - Friendship

Shell Creeper - Kamek in Party = Motley BossBlob

Shell Creeper - Sumo Bro in Party = Boom Boom

Shell Creeper - Boo in Party = Tubba Blubba

Spoiler: Known issues

A Static encounter in Fire Path does not disappear if caught

Game has frozen once during test, make sure to save often just to be safe

Setting more then one key item can be weird

Dex can show non Mario characters

Some text when obtaining Gift Pokemon isn't completely correct

Spoiler: Credits

Chillii - For being a great friend, creating the Base Stats and providing some ideas

Ghoulslash and their team - For creating the Complete Fire Red Upgrade

Haven1433 and their team - For creating HexManiac advance, would've been impossible otherwise to make this.

TheUltraNerd - For creating Pokémon Puffy Pink (One of the biggest insperations behind this hack) and for recommending and helping me out a tiny bit with Hex Maniac advance

Special Thanks to
TalonTheEagle (Provided some ideas at the very beggining of the project and their support)
Raykoline, kittyeevee TheBox and TheProfessorLink (For the support of the project and just being friends of mine)
and lastly all of those who were excited for the release of this project. Hope it meets expectations!

Spoiler: Information Doc

This Doc contains heavy spoilers if you want to go in blind. You have been warned

Fury Red Doc

docs.google.com

Spoiler: Changelog

V1:
initial Release

V1.1:
Cactus Jack ability changed (Rough Skin > Limber) to make the first rival fight much more balanced

Made the Flamethrower TM available at the Pokemon Mansion

Made all the Rocket Grunts Double battles instead of leaving some out (Beside the one who just has a single Pokemon)

Route 13/18 actually has the right wild encounters now

Fixed some of the spelling errors in the Pokedex (Mainly Species)

Fixed the rival having the wrong starter in his Pre Victory Road fight if you chose Cactus Jack (Oops)

Went and altered the Surfing and Fishing encounter tables so you can actually see where fishing Pokemon are meant to be (This mainly effected Chain Chomp and Blitty in the Pokedex Locations)

V1.2:
Overworld Sprites have been added

Altered Most text to replace any mentions actual Pokemon (May of missed a few though)

Made it so HuhWhat? can be caught in Cerulean Cave

Fixed some spelling errors on characters names

Exp. Share and Soothe Bell can now be obtained shortly after Brock

Lucky Egg is now the reward for catching 50 Pokemon

Rock Smash HM now obtainable in place of the Moon Stone in the Rocket Hideout

Fixed some spelling errors on characters names

V1.3
Mini Quick Fix Patch

Fixed some characters learning empty moves, this effected Bully, Prince Bully, Petey, Lakithunder, Cheep Chomp, Ground Urchin, and Elder Shrooboid (oops)

Updated "Spikey Topman" sprite in fuchsia.

If you find any bugs please report them here and I'll do what I can!

Happy early Mar10 Day!​

 

[RegiSilver]

Hey! I just saw the Reddit post about this hack.

The idea is phenomenal and the sprites look decent (I mean, I'd have to let them grow on me over time) I can appreciate the effort behind this project and want to thank you for sharing :)

Now, being painfully and brutally honest... I think the battle backgrounds doesn't necessarily"match" the sprites, y'know what i'm sayin'?

Nevertheless that doesn't detract from this amazing project, so congrats on release and see you around :)

 

[JJSponge120]

Really loving this hack so far! Maybe you can provide documentation on this sometime, including a Pokedex. Also, any recommendations on where and how to grind levels?

 

[CosmicView]

Really loving this hack so far! Maybe you can provide documentation on this sometime, including a Pokedex. Also, any recommendations on where and how to grind levels?

A full Documate showing every Mons stats, location, Abilities etc, should come out at some point, likely next week.
As for grinding using the VS Seeker you normally get in Vermilion City and rematching trainers is probably(?) the best way to grind of for levels

 

[pika1025]

are mario and luigi in this hack?

 

[Kegger17]

Great work! The sprites are very well done, good mix of mons in the different environments. A couple of points of feedback. Using MyBoy has been smooth, the only but I found was a weird visual stutter walking from Viridian city up to the forest.

In the pokedex, there are a few spelling errors, nothing major, but species is spelled as speices in a few places.

For suggestions,
-if possible, speeding up gameplay in general by like 10% and setting default text speed to fast would be excellent QoL.
-CactusJack having rough skin makes for a brutal start for anyone picking the Water starter--possble rebalance?
-Some of the really early mons could probably evolve 2-5 levels earlier, but other balancing looks awesome!

Really enjoying this one, and will definitely be following the progress

EDIT: I did find a bug, registering items with select doesn't work currently. If you register 1 item, and press select, it shows a random drink (fresh water, soda, lemonade) but pressing A on "Exit" uses the registered item. If you register 2 or more items, only the first registered item can be selected, and only by choosing EXIT

 

[n00bshooter94]

I am currently in Mt Moon and having a really fun time. The sprites are all very charming (I show my wife all the new little idiots I collect) and I appreciate that they're not just reskins of existing Pokémon. They have their own personality and moveset to go with them.

I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this. Great job!

 

[Kingofclouds190]

will there be a doc with the shinies incase people don't find any??? or are there no shinies

 

[woopsnom]

The real question is if there are rare candies for like Nuzlockers or not

 

[android_001]

Found a bug where no pokemon appear on the water

 

[Kingofclouds190]

idk if this is supposed to happen but Blitty's pickup ability is giving the item to the other members in my party

 

[CosmicView]

will there be a doc with the shinies incase people don't find any??? or are there no shinies

I'll likely include what the shinies look like, due to the shiny odds being about the same as modern Pokemon the chance of someone finding one is very low

The real question is if there are rare candies for like Nuzlockers or not

Likely not

Found a bug where no pokemon appear on the water

That's intentional, I thought running into so many Pokemon when trying to surf would get annoying fast so I just removed surfing encounters.

idk if this is supposed to happen but Blitty's pickup ability is giving the item to the other members in my party

Apperently Modern Pickup just works like that if any Pokemon has Pickup in the party so luckily isn't a bug.

 

[eno22]

Really enjoyed my first play through! Is there any chance the exp share can be obtainable earlier or easier? I wanna replay a few times with different teams but don't wanna catch 50+ mons in order to get the exp share

 

[wolfen87]

Small question - do the moves use the current physical/special split? Or is it split by type as it did normally in Gen 3?

 

[CosmicView]

Really enjoyed my first play through! Is there any chance the exp share can be obtainable earlier or easier? I wanna replay a few times with different teams but don't wanna catch 50+ mons in order to get the exp share

Maybe I'll see about moving the EXP Share to Mt.Moon but don't super count on it

Small question - do the moves use the current physical/special split? Or is it split by type as it did normally in Gen 3?

Current Physical Split

Also a Doc has been added to give info to every Pokemon, feel free to view if you need some extra help or want to know where a specific mon is. Have fun!

 

[Kingofclouds190]

I'm gonna attempt to complete the dex so thx for the doc

 

[Kingofclouds190]

i wish there was an easier way to get babyyoshi's friendship higher early game

 

[Kingofclouds190]

idk why Galarian Farfetch'd is here

 

[n00bshooter94]

I've noticed a bug with the three Fishing Brothers. I met the first one and got the Good Rod, but then the other two didn't give me another rod. They said they'd give me 5 Dive Balls and the Super and Good Rods respectively.

I got refilled back to 5 Dive Balls after having previously used one or two instead of getting a full 5 new Dive Balls.

I also do not have either the Old Rod or the Super Rod. Just the Good Rod I got initially.

 

[CosmicView]

V1.2 Released, it will likely be the last update for awhile unless any big issues come up with the update.
Thanks y'all for the support of Fury Red and keep an eye out for more dex swap hacks in the future by other passionate developers, I feel like this year will be the year of Pokemon Dexswap hacks by the community.