Yellow Legacy

The Yellow Legacy project is the prequel to Crystal Legacy by content creator Patrick Smith (TheSmithPlays), and the second project in his planned Legacy series. It is based on the Pokémon Yellow disassembly. The Legacy project is focused on changing the base game in a way that adds quality of life additions and better balancing with the benefit of twenty years of hindsight. The primary goal of each mod is to keep the original feeling of the game while still making meaningful improvements for the player. This means that certain idiosyncrasies of the first generation of Pokémon games will remain, as they are considered an essential aspect to the core experience.

Pokémon Yellow exists in a unique role in the Pokémon franchise – it was the first truly significant revision of existing Pokémon games, and it still exists as the only core Pokémon game to be influenced by the anime. Furthermore, Pokémon Yellow introduced greater use of color, more challenging boss fights, availability for all three starters, and Pikachu as your companion. As a project to improve this game, Yellow Legacy seeks to find balance between furthering the unique niche of anime-influence while still representing the first generation of Pokémon as a whole.

Yellow Legacy aims to give each Pokémon a special niche. Balance changes were made with the intent to keep the first generation of Pokémon feeling similar to their original incarnations, while also guaranteeing that using your favorite Pokémon will not significantly handicap your journey through Kanto. As the intent is to maintain the feeling of the Generation 1 games, Yellow Legacy will not change core aspects of the battle system such as the sleep status, critical hit chance being based off of speed, or the overpowered functionality of trapping moves such as Wrap or Fire Spin.

While Yellow Legacy is not designed as a “Kaizo” project, Pokémon trainer fights (especially bosses) throughout the game have been made more difficult. Difficulty is used as a tool to make the game as engaging as possible to the most amount of players. It will not be difficult for the sake of being difficult, but rather, to provide you with a challenge that gives reaching the title of Champion a feeling of genuine earned satisfaction. Major trainers will have Pokémon and attacks designed to counter players attempting to easily sweep through the fight with a single super-effective Pokémon. However, players will also have more opportunities to create unique teams of stellar Pokémon to tackle each major fight. Pokémon availability has also been altered throughout the world to provide appropriately-powerful Pokémon based on your progression through the game. Finally, all 151 Pokémon will be obtainable in a single playthrough, and a small amount of post-game content has been added as well.

Special thanks to those that have contributed to the project:

· Patrick Smith (TheSmithPlays) for his vision and leadership of the project.

· Craig for his technical skills and willingness to wade through the cosmic horrors of Generation 1 assembly

· Weebra for her editing of all Legacy YouTube videos which help detail the project and promote the hack.

· The Discord admin team: Aero, Karlos, Regi, and ZuperZach who help lead the Discord.

· The playtesting team: Brice, Disq, Isona, Obelisk, Reader Dragon, Rwne, Sable, Talos, Tiberius, and Alakadoof.

· The various other members of the Romhacking community that assisted with this romhack. Please click on the Credits Tab to see the full list, their tutorials, and links to their various rom hacks as well. We would also like to thank the PRET Discord community.

Quality of Life

Quality of life changes are abundant in Yellow Legacy. Here is a list of changes that we have implemented to make the game more enjoyable to play through.

• Various backsprite improvements

• Ability to interact with HM objects in the overworld.

• Ask to reuse Repels

• Extended bag with more slots

• Faster Nurse Joy

• Faster Saves

• Unique Party Icons

• Hard mode - (forces set mode, no item use in battle, caps level to upcoming gym leader).

• Running Shoes

• Female character option for Green

• Full Box reminder Text

• Overwritable HMs

• Item descriptions in the menu

• Removed chance to miss not crit only in normal mode (it is still present in hard mode)

• Pokemon Palette changes

• Removed enemy chance to miss status moves

• Improved AI

• Dynamic scaling level teams for gyms 4-6 (Similar to Crystal Legacy gyms 5-7)

• Already Caught icon

• Removed items from gym leaders and Elite 4

• Fixed Surge’s Trash Puzzle

• Updated Marts

• Item sorting in bag

• Visible ™ Names

• Updated Pokedex functionality (See Section below)

Assorted Changes

Here is a list of some other assorted changes that affect a playthrough. In addition there will be links to various documents listed below that the testers have made for y’all.

• Flamethrower replaces whirlwind as a TM and takes Razor Wind’s position in Rocket Hideout.

* Razor Wind is moved to Whirlwind’s old location on route 4.

• Alakazam and Gengar evolve at 42.

• Golem and Machamp evolve at 38.

• Pikachu now receives a 25% stat boost from respective badges (instead of the normal 12.5%).

* Pikachu can learn all 5 HM’s.

• Ghost is now super effective against Psychic.

• Bug is no longer super effective against Poison.

• Rods and Rod encounters have been reworked.

• Psywave now works as normal for player and AI (Deals 75%-150% of enemy level).

• You can now purchase larger amounts of coins.

• Lowered the prices of the Game Corner pokemon & TMs.

• Made changes to the Safari zone with bait, rocks, and safari balls being more effective.

• AI Changes for trainers to make them more challenging.

• Leech Seed, Poison, and Burn now do more damage.

• Tons of Dialogue Changes that make slight tweaks to story to make characters more interesting or to hint at new gameplay features added to the game.

Documentation- Note there might be slight differences between these and actual gameplay based off if they were updated. These are the most detailed Docs on each subject though and are updated quite frequently.

Regi’s Trainer Documentation- This is his list of every trainer in Yellow Legacy.

Yellow Legacy Trainer DataYellow Legacy Data page- This is data straight from game data that lists Pokemon Moves, TM/HM compatibility, and encounters. Yellow Legacy Data - Google Sheets

-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JlZRhW2fcBUd7y23DB7MGfJCU95FK_yJI-QdRFdMawI/edit?usp=sharing

-submitted via fillout by Craig with above info

Documentation

• Overview + Game Download ➤ YouTube | Go watch the video and support Smith! Check the description to download the latest patch, v1.0.9.

• Info/Changes Doc ➤ Make a Copy | Download PDF | Master source of all info for Yellow Legacy. Start here with any questions about the game itself.

• Data Sheet ➤ Make a Copy | Download XLSX | Locations and Learnsets; for details on where to find Pokémon and what they learn.

• Trainer Teams ➤ Make a Copy | Download PDF | Comprehensive list of every trainer's Pokémon and their movesets, compiled by Regi.

Resources

• ReadMe | All-inclusive details for how to set up and play.

• Changelog | Current patch (14/05/2024): 1.0.9.

• Lookup Tool ➤ Make a Copy | Shared | Info tool for quickly looking up movesets, courtesy of jortz based on Eddie-1995's Crystal Legacy version.

• Game Shark Codes | We have confirmed the following Gameshark codesnwork with Yellow Legacy. We cannot accept bug reports from incidentsnencountered with these codes active.Rare Candy x 99 in the First Item Slot (remember to turn this OFF after using)n01281DD3n01631ED3Walk Through Wallsn010138CD

-https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonLegacy/wiki/documentation/