"You've finally been granted your Pokémon trainer's license. Now, it's time to head out to become the world's greatest Pokémon trainer! The shockingly-cute Pikachu tags along behind you as you search the enormous world for monsters to train and evolve. Face off against Blastoise's torrential water gun. Stand strong when facing Pidgeot's stormy Gust. Develop the ultimate Pokémon strategy to defeat the eight GYM leaders and become the greatest Pokémon Master of all time!" - Game Freak
In this special "151 Version," You'll be able to complete your Pokédex without the need to connect with other games via the game-link cable (though you totally still can), and your Pikachu can learn SURF via HM, providing access to the surfing minigame "Pikachu's Beach"! Most of the game is left as "vanilla" as possible to remain as faithful to the original release as you remember it, though some text has been modified to no longer reference "real world" locations. However, this edition does not change difficulty, sprite-work, music, evolution methods, trainer parties, running speed, rebalance moves, modify typing or introduce anything new which might "modernize" or "fix problems" with the original release!
- Wild Pokémon from Red/Blue are found in their corresponding areas.
- In-game trades offer the "trade-evolve" Pokémon, as well as alternate methods to receiving a few other special "gift" Pokemon.
- The Rocket Game Corner carries Fossils and Moon Stones, now
- Pikachu can learn surf via HM to use in battle as an attack, in the overworld as transportation, or to play the special mini-game "Pikachu's Beach!"
The ROM-hack file in the download section cannot be played by itself! It must be applied to an original, legit copy of this exact .gba rom: Pokemon - Yellow Version - Special Pikachu Edition (USA, Europe) (GBC,SGB Enhanced) - I cannot tell you where or how to find that exact titled rom (it cannot be a "Rev 1," and cannot be in any other language, etc.), but if you have a rom like this, check it using this link https://www.romhacking.net/hash, and compare the information it gives you to this info, here:
Database match: Pokemon - Yellow Version - Special Pikachu Edition (USA, Europe) (GBC,SGB Enhanced)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy/Color (v. 20180815-131105)
File/ROM SHA-1: CC7D03262EBFAF2F06772C1A480C7D9D5F4A38E1
File/ROM CRC32: 7D527D62
If the information matches, then you can make the Yellow 151 ROM:
- Unzip the .zip file to get to the .ips file.
- Put the Pokémon Yellow 151.ips file and your copy of the Pokémon Yellow .gba in a folder.
- Apply the patch (.ips file) to the game (.gba file) using only ONE of these two options:
- Online Patcher: https://www.romhacking.net/patch/
- Offline Patcher: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240
- The file created by the patcher is the full Pokémon Yellow 151 patched game, and can now be played on your favorite GBC emulator or flashed to a cart! To be sure that the patch is applied correctly, look for a third patch of flowers outside of Prof. Oak's Laboratory. You can also check the current patch-version number on one of the computers in Game Freak's offices in Celadon City.
- 3.0: Pikachu now learns "surf" via HM.
- 2.1: Fixed the shop's glitched menu; returned items to the shop.
- 2.0: Temporary "hot-fix" to a glitchy shop-menu; removed items.
- 1.0: Yellow 151 released.
