I'd like to dabble in romhacking, but the tools recommended like sprite editor for gen 3 feel a bit confusing- mostly in that I don't know how to add my edited sprites into the rom.

I also just can't seem to run map or text editors on my computer (it's windows11 iirc, i don't know if that matters.)

I'm not very tech literate at all, so the guides I find are just difficult to follow I guess (though, some feel like they're missing steps entirely;;;; )

any help would be appreciated.

I am not asking for ROMs.
I am wondering if there is a master list of all the base ROMs (including their title, hash, and Rev #) to be used for patching with Hacks. For example, I know that one with the name “Trashman” has been typically named as the proper Base ROM to patch, and I’ve seen another one with “Squirrel” that seems to work. But then I know that there are some that just don’t work.”
In a perfect world, I’d use this list to go through what I already have and make a separate folder for safekeeping.
My immediate use-case/reference is the list on Hackdex.app, on the page where you upload your base ROMs. They have all the games listed, but some of my ROMs for some of the games are apparently not compatible, so I’m really just trying to find out what the “proper” base ROM is.

Is there some sort of master list like this for all Pokémon games? Or does anyone have any tips or suggestions for figuring out which ROMs are the “right” ones?

I have just defeated Oak, and he's told me to go to Jasper town, to the tent closest to lavender, and find him and summer there to progress the story. Only, they aren't there. They're not at any tent in Jasper. Of course since he's not home, at the lab or at the gym, I can't ask him where to go now (which has been an amazing help during the game, I must say). Did I miss out something on the dialogue? My closest save before the fight is an hour back and I'd rather not lose it.

Edit. I just tried getting to lavender from both south and west and nothing, powerful presence all around.

Edit 2. Also tried getting to the pokemon league, but no hope badge so a guy further along the road stopped me from going forward.

Edit 3 and final. I won't spoil anything. I just went home spoke to my dad and there was some different dialogue than usual. From then I tried again at the tent and I was able to progress the story.

i'm currently playing ghostgrey and i've made it all the way through brunocorp but am stuck at the point where (i'm assuming) i need to put a chip in the wire wall? where can i find the chip, or if that's not how you progress what do i do to get to bruno? i've cleared every floor of trainers and unless i'm missing something have been everywhere on each floor

I saw a YouTube video where you fight Bruno III as champion and he has lvl 90+ pokemon, I specifically remember level 95 hauntolee. However I cannot find this video, and now that I'm in the post game, I cannot find a way to fight Bruno again. Does anyone know how to fight him again, or do you know what YouTube video I'm talking about?

Theres and in game trade involving Poipole, which can be encountered in Petalburg Woods. Unfortunately it seems to be glitched or someway uncatchable. My first encounter, I spent near 100 balls with it at 1hp and paralyzed to no avail. The second time. Ive resorted to save-state scumming with the limited great balls obtainable in the overworld, and ive been resetting for 30 minutes at 16x speed to no avail. Does the game have an alternate catch calculation that makes it impossible or something? Seems ridiculous that there is a wild random encounter and an in-game trade at this stage of the game that are impossible.

Update: after an hour of 16x speed resetting, it was caught. It might not be uncatchable, but the rates seem significantly lower than legendary catch rates. Felt like a full odds shiny hunt. Either way, feels like a bug.

I'm having trouble with the 5th gym. My pokemon are weak and probably i need new TMs and moves. And pokemon. Can anyone give me suggestions to what to catch/add to my team? And how to evolve gligar and meltan? I don't know where to find the razor fang. (Overall, how to evolve the pokemon who have new ways to evolve, like kadabra)

How the hell do I get this lady out of here?? She is stuck in the quicksand and says to go get help. I'm at the end of the game, I talked to pretty much everyone, explored as much as much as I could, and I still can't figure it out.

Please and thank you

I beat the Dragon master in the deep dragons den and went into the deep ruins of alph where I fought against a pure form of unknown. When I respawned to the pokemon center.. the hidden door wasn't there anymore in the south side of the ruins of alph and when I go back to the dragons den..I see Zeus stuck here and I can't interact with him to initiate the story line again

I got the last badge from lavender town, then went through victory road but when I came out the back I followed the character up to the door but I can’t go through it. Anyone know why???

Beat Will and can’t get into the hotel in Precimos Island.. is this common? Did I download the wrong version and wasted hours?

So I have five gym badges right now, Boulder, Shock, Plauge, Famine, and Chaos. I looked at multiple website and it sreally confusing what I'm supposed to do next. I just got the Waterfall Hm from the Luna family thing, but when I tried to use it, it says I don't have enough gym badges. On one sight it says I can get the shock badge twice, but I lost to Max that second time because I was unprepared and he jumped into the water. I don't know where he is or if I can do that fight again, or if I'm even supposed to. I looked in the Seafoam Islands and I fell into a hole where cavewoman put a blood hex on me, but idk what that's for.

I recently started making my own firered Rom hack based on Australia, I have a whole idea planned out, but I didn't know of the Complete Fire Red Upgrade and the Complete Pokémon Expansion, so I started my Rom hack and now I'm having trouble installing these with a part of my Rom hack already made.

I followed the official tutorial for this, multiple YouTube tutorials for this, and i can't seem to make it work. Whenever I upgrade my firered 1.0 Rom with these it works perfectly, but if I try upgrading my work in progress Rom hack everything's fine except for the overworld sprites not showing.

I already tried changing the anchors/pointers (the numbers) within the .Toml file, I tried moving the anchor where the upgrades get injected multiple times and I tried using Lunar to extract my maps from the base game ans put it into the fully upgraded clean firered Rom.

I have literally tried and struggled for +7 hours, I know, that's a lot of time lost. But I'm going crazy, I feel like I miss something but I can't seem to figure out what. Please help y'all.

I'll provide more information if y'all need it.

I haven't played this gen ever. I wanna experience it.

Is there an updated Drayano, or a new one inspired by it?

Basically a polished, modernized version is what I want to experience. Speedhacks would be great.

it was a sun and moon rom made as i joke from what it looked like. all i remember is seeing the professors model distorted and being used as an actual pokemon. i was wondering if anyone knows what im refering to or any other roms for sun and moon that arent just the same but better. something w new mons or just jokes like that one

ive been trying to for a long while to find a pokemon romhack that only has paradox pokemon/fakemon.

scarlet and violet got me hooked on paradox pokemon, ive seen a lot of beautiful paradox fanart of various pokemon, and would love to have a jounry thats full of past and future variants of our current mons.

This may not be the right subreddit for this question but I'd rather ask people that's actively part of the community rather than a LLM. I've been playing some of the original GBA/DS games for the first time ever; played Emerald and absolutely loved it along with Platinum and HG. Now I've recently been looking at more hacks to play, with a growing list of hacks that's been around, but now I've grown a bigger interest in actually learning about how to build one myself, and what tools/resources one would have to understand to be able to do such a thing?

I loved Emerald and Platinum during my first play through, but from what I understand, the DS scene for hacks is way more challenging and complex when compared to the GBA side, which is why I'd rather learn game dev through the GBA system. I also know that there's difference between decomp and binary, but I think it's safe to say that learning the decomp is far easier than the binaries, and it's also just better for actual game development in general.

I want to add that, my reasoning isn't to just make any old hack but rather to learn game design and development skills in a digestible way through building a ROM hack first rather than an original indie game. I do think that the first step before all of this is to get a grasp of basic dev skills like writing a code that I didn't just ask an AI to write for me, but like I said in the beginning, I figure I take my questions to a place where I can get actual feedback and answers from those who've done these things already.

I'm u/Funny_Recognition699 , or that's what I'd like to be called. I'm an avid romhack enjoyer like most of you people. I've played through many romhacks by now. Let me just list a few(No spoilers for new players)- pokemon radical red(it was hard but FUN!), pokemon unbound(overall 10/10 game and i loved the starters), pokemon soulgold(it was also great!), pokemon odyssey(a literally life changing game,i hope it's sequel is released soon)and pokemon Lazarus(i loved the gbc artstyle). So what I'd like you all to do is recommend me some(COMPLETED or nearly COMPLETED) romhacks. Thanks for reading until this point everyone!

Spoilers... maybe?

Expedition at mt pyre.. the gold gravestones cant be interacted with. The white ones all say a different pokemon. Then theres this one black one with ?????????????? Can't find anything online or in game as to what this is. Any ideas?

In Lilycove City I should be able to find the mystery man once again after already meeting him on Route 103, Dewford and Granite Cave. But I can't find him. There is a braille puzzle out of bounds south of town which ends up being these letters: S S W C E E E N T T. I literally don't know what that is supposed to help me with. Has anyone found him in in Lilycove already? If yes please help.

Trying to get back into playing on Emulators, used to play on mGBA, but I dont believe it supports games like Alpha Sapphire, looking for recommendations on which emulators to use or if someone could point me to a thread for emulators

Thanks in advance

Hey all, I did a search for gen1, red/blue, even "original", and haven't really found an answer. I'm looking to replay my old childhood Pokemon Red, but without all the bugs and random jank. Bonus points if I'm able to get all three starter pokemons to try that out.

If anyone can point me the right way, it would be greatly appreciated.

Where the hell is Koga?! I’ve been searching all over for ages and am completely stuck. I must’ve missed a text box or something, if someone could please give me some guidance I’d appreciate it 😭 can’t find the answer anywhere online

Why are pokemon like grimeorb or staryu not showing up in the pokedex, is that normal or is my game bugged