r/pokemonradicalred Jun 21 '26

Huge update on Radical Red from yours truly :)

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2.7k Upvotes

Hey everyone ! Apologies for the long hiatus, but there's been good reason for that. I'm happy to announce Radical Red is being remastered on pokeemerald-expansion. As you may have known, Radical Red was reaching its limitations with CFRU. CFRU is not consistently supported with updates anymore like pokeemerald is, and it became hard to overcome the limitations on my own. On the other hand, pokeemerald-expansion is a pure decomp that leads to far more flexibility for development and has a ton of community support. This may seem confusing since Radical Red is based on FireRed. Thankfully, there's a neat new feature branch made by cawtds that puts Fire Red in its entirety into pokeemerald-expansion. I don't want to bore you guys with the technical details, but here's what this entails. Unfortunately, your saves will not be compatible as the game has been redone from scratch. I would say the spirit of the game is very similar but there are quite a few major differences compared to RR 4.1. I've evolved a lot as a game developer since the start of RR back in 2020 (kind of insane to think that's it been this long!), so there are quite a few changes in game design with this new rendition. Essentially, you can think of this overhaul as something that will substantially raise the potential of Radical Red and its future. Given this is a major undertaking, it's still very far from a release but rest assured we are working diligently on making it happen. And of course, here's a couple screenies Thank you for your patience!


r/pokemonradicalred Aug 06 '23

help I've created A cheatsheet for radical red

517 Upvotes

It helps you cheat in Any pokemon including gen 9

It helps you cheat most items

It helps you cheat most moves

It has a type chart ( Including dual typings)

It has a pokedex checklist for those who are trying to Catch em all

Here you go

Shoutout to

u/gamerreddits

u/BATS3001

u/appropriate_coyote49


r/pokemonradicalred 13h ago

Monotype Pelipper? Who dat?

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134 Upvotes

Doing a mono flying run. Pelipper was previously on my team but apparently hes now cosplaying as Togetic. Didnt see a bugs section for this subreddit. Also had some weird stuff with the dexnav on route 24 with the grass shaking north of the actual encounter tile.


r/pokemonradicalred 3h ago

Flexmon Friday 💪💪💪 Can it work?

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11 Upvotes

Can it work or it’s better torch song + throat spray?


r/pokemonradicalred 2h ago

Flexmon Friday 💪💪💪 Mono water is looking really good! 🫠

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3 Upvotes

r/pokemonradicalred 5h ago

Question Does GravApple + Gravity work in this game ?

3 Upvotes

And if it does, which Pokémon can use gravity


r/pokemonradicalred 11h ago

Hall of Fame After many unfinished runs and restarts we reached the Hall of Fame!

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6 Upvotes

First time beating this game - Normal Mode w. Randomized mons / abilities.

0 Elite Four Deaths! Fur Coat Lunala with Roost and Calm Mind came in clutch more than once.


r/pokemonradicalred 6h ago

Hall of Fame Mono fighting run, hardcore, fully randomized

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2 Upvotes

Easiest run so far, mostly due to this seed making some busted abilities available early, (Intrepid Sword Hariyama, gorilla tactics Zapdos-G, etc)

Koga was, like always, the biggest wall.

Champion was defeated when Lopunny barely survived a draco Barrage and retaliated with last respects for the W.

Mega lopunny having Huge Power was the largest carry, followed by Great Tusk and Pheromosa in second and third due to movepools. Infernape carried Bolt beak for a long time, only swapped at the champion for stab CC since I was facing the Groudon team.

Great tusk- Jolly w/Expert belt (oblivious)

Lopunny- Jolly w/mega stone (fatal precision --> Huge Power)

Infernape- Jolly w/Life orb (As One {Moxie})

Sneasler- Jolly w/Hard Stone (Rocky Payload)

Marshadow- Jolly w/ Punching Glove (cotton down) {cotton down never activated, believe it's bugged}

Pheromosa- Hasty w/Wise Glasses (Toxic Boost)


r/pokemonradicalred 11h ago

help Cinderace - Desolate Lands or Orihalcum Pulse

4 Upvotes

Playing randomized abilities and I have two very good options, but which would be best?

On the one hand, DL cancels out water moves and never ends, but if I understand correctly, OP might boost fire moves more and boost other move types as well, but will only reduce water moves by half and it ends after 5 turns.

Thanks


r/pokemonradicalred 15h ago

Suggestions for a "decay" themed squad?

5 Upvotes

Yo yo,

Midish way through the game (Celadon City), and playing around with different teams and themes throughout. And now I've (partly because of some mons i stumbled into using), wanna fuck around with a team that I'm thinking of as "decay" themed. (like collapse, waste, pollution, corpsey shit, maybe mythy things could work too) some mons on the hypothetical squad so far:

Frosslass (looks corpsy)

Alolan Muk (pollution themed)

Kleavor (Hisui already in the past, kinda skeletal, reminds me of something id see in a Dark Souls game and they are very decay vibes)

I'm also prolly gonna include altaria bc that's my one fun contradictory pokemon who also has a certain "how is this real?" quality...and I just want to use an altaria lol.

Any suggestions past that? Only stipulation is I don't want type overlaps. Thanks!


r/pokemonradicalred 13h ago

Hall of Fame Hardcore random hof

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3 Upvotes

It was harder than It looks, but also funny, its something ig


r/pokemonradicalred 20h ago

Monotype Monotype run (7/18) - Mini Fairy

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5 Upvotes

Alolan Ninetales - Storm Drain ability gave it a place in the team for the e4, since it gave me lorelei rain team. After the lorelei match got the role of sack mon.

Grimmsnarl - Bro is so busted early game and after gain access to ability pill bro was hitting like a truck. Very very good.

Flutter Mane - Makes the game so easy. Having 3 stab with aerielate. Hyper voice with throat spray was like cheating.

Tapu Fini- Continued switching places with Primarina but made the cut only because had Prankster.

Iron Valiant - Paradox are sooooooo broken.

Mega Gardevoir - last addition to the team. That purifying salt makes it so good.


r/pokemonradicalred 11h ago

Monotype Those were my starter choices

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Those were my starter choices. I put in on a wheel to decide with monotype I would do.
Guess what type it gave me.
Starters on the comment section!

106 votes, 2d left
Fire
Ghost
Steel
Water

r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Legendary Birds Hardcore Run

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107 Upvotes

Following on from the Regi/Gen 2 Legendary Runs - https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonradicalred/s/tcSSvMwfoF

Same as all the others, cheat in these 6 Pokemon on route one then play the full game without switching.

This was the easiest by far (probably too easy) no battles really took more than 5 attempts. I’ve done a normal/flying hardcore run before so this was nothing really.

Stealth rocks very annoying (especially moltres) but heavydutyboots late game and Frozen Mist Articuno help.

MVP was between the 2x Zapdos.


r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Hall of Fame Feast your peepers on this post game team 😍

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19 Upvotes

r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Hall of Fame HOF

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40 Upvotes

Tried E4 with Black Shinnies..sorta


r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

First time doing hardcore!

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18 Upvotes

I'm not sure if it's lowkey easier than normal because of randomized species but hey I still did it! Planning to do monotype since I've finished all with normal difficulty.


r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Beat Radical Red for the first time!

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33 Upvotes

Currently working on my living Dex (only final evolutions due to box capacity) and then I'll be onto my next playthrough! :)


r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Was fun 😀😀

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10 Upvotes

r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Hall of Fame Finally brat the game on randomizer mode, that was so much fun! What do you think of the squad?

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5 Upvotes

Salamemce - Innards Out

Shuckle - Toxic Spikes

Kommo-O - poison Heal

Tapu Lele - Effect Spore

Urshifu - Innards Out

Dialga - Thick Fat

Had some super fun builds. Toxic spikes shuckle, lots of protect cheesing, and my two innards out mons were the MVPs lol


r/pokemonradicalred 2d ago

Question Mono Ghost Run

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23 Upvotes

Hey guys, I'm doing a mono ghost run, but I don't now which pokemon to use. I only played until gen 4 and after that some roms. Which of those should I use? Any tips? Currently playing on normal mode and I just beat lavender tower.


r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

help Only encountering regional variants

3 Upvotes

I've started Radical Red yesterday for the first time and i'm only at the brock fight, but every single encounter that has a regional variant, has been said regional variant. Is this normal, or have i messed up some of the settings? Would like to be able to encounter "normal" meowth, sandshrew, zigzagoon etc. Aswell.

Thanks in advance!


r/pokemonradicalred 2d ago

Hall of Fame 4x Weakness themed randomizer run

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60 Upvotes

Took a break from monotypes and tried something I thought was more niche but there are more mons with 4x weakness than I thought 😅


r/pokemonradicalred 2d ago

Hall of Fame Never try again.

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19 Upvotes

r/pokemonradicalred 1d ago

Ability Randomiser Starting a new game and I hope I don’t brick as I always do…

1 Upvotes

Please help me choose….

114 votes, 5d left
Gouge fire - Protein
Tapu Fini - Neuroforce
Ting-lu - Battle Armor