r/pokemoncrystal

Like many people on this sub, Pokemon Crystal is my favorite Pokemon game. A few years ago I modded a Game Boy Color and started playing older Pokemon games on original hardware. I’ve been playing Crystal on and off during this time and had it in the back of my mind that it would be cool to complete the Pokédex as I’ve never done it for the old games before.

A little over a month ago I got an urge to play Pokemon Red again. Knowing that if I’d want to complete the Crystal Pokédex I’d need to catch ‘em all in Red too, I decided to attempt the Living Dex in Red.

I have all of the original game cartridges so with a combination of Pokemon Red and Blue, as well as Pokemon Stadium 2, I was able to complete the Living Dex there and use Stadium to transfer all of them to Pokemon Crystal.

I used Pokemon Gold to get anything exclusive to Gold and Silver and trade them over, as well as the starters.

All Pokemon were legitimately obtained with the exception of Mew which I used the Trainer Fly Glitch for in Red. Celebi was obtained by downloading the save floating around that had the official Pokemon Center Celebi on it and trading it back and forth. To manage my saves by uploading them to and from the computer, I use a Submodule GB01 Cart Reader.

This was around ~150 hours of total playtime across Pokemon Red, Blue, Gold, and Crystal to get this done.

I’m really happy to have finished this and thought sharing it with other fans for preservation’s sake would be meaningful. It’s been awesome to see how active this sub is for a game that’s pretty old at this point! Great job keeping this amazing game alive even to this day!

From Pokemon Stadium 2, Earl's Academy.

I defeated the gym leader, and I never got a call from professor elm to go to goldenrod. I thought maybe I just didn't remember so I went to the goldenrod radio tower and it still won't let me up.

Anyone have any idea what I missed?

I recently rediscovered the magical world of Pokémon like I used to as a kid. I upgraded my Game Boy SP with a new IPS screen and replaced the dead batteries in the few GBC/GBA games I still own.

After learning about the shiny Ditto glitch from Gen 1, I decided to dive into shiny egg hunting in Pokémon Crystal and wanted to share how the journey has been going so far :)

I’ve been trying to hatch at least one shiny per day, and surprisingly it’s been working out pretty well so far… except for Cyndaquil, who apparently didn’t get the memo.

Did my research, made my team choices. Items kept me alive for what I thought was an impossible E4 run.

Decided to put the Shiny Ditto to use in another Crystal Game, and lucked out with a Shiny Charmander after only 2 eggs!

Still no luck on the Shiny Dratini on my main game though.

I just felt safer knowing there was a non elememt based attack, but I'm okay, right?

Preface: I’ve played this game more times than I can count and have done various challenges (Eeveelutions only/Johto only/Trashlocke) and wanted to try something different, hence beating Red with only baby Pokemon.

Rules
Set mode, no items in battle, no daycare, can catch pokemon for HM purposes

Pokemon

There are 8 babies in a Crystal (Pichu/Tyrogue/Cleffa/Igglybuff/Togepi/Magby/Elekid/Smoochum)

I’m not using Tyrogue, cause it’s terrible and Pichu (since I’m planning on Elekid)

I allowed for 2 modifications to make this doable/easier

1. I made Cleffa my starter. You can’t get a baby before 1st gym and Cleffa isn’t obtainable until Kanto so I made it my defacto starter

2. Magmar is obtainable in the burned tower in Gold and Silver but not in Crystal. You can’t get it until Mt Silver which is basically useless so I modified an encounter in Burned Tower to a Magmar and breaded for a Magby

The other Mons, I caught their evolved forms and bred with a Ditto to get the baby forms.

-Moony the Cleffa was a decent early game attacker that was mainly a damage sponge for a safe swap in by the late game.

-Robotnick the Togepi is terrible as you can imagine. Mud-Slap for accuracy drop, charm for attack drop and eventually double-edge for last ditch damage

-Mariah the Igglybuff was the worst member for a long time. Icy Wind user for speed drops was its main job

-Incendio the Magby was huge learning Fire Punch early and eventually Flamethrower. Cleaned up on Steel/Ice/Grass types. Used iron Tail for some rock coverage

-Kisses the Smoochum is a massive upgrade to the team after the 7th gym. Psychic and Ice Punch dominate a ton of the game with Perish Song there for emergencies

-Socket the Elekid was the MVP. Hatched it in the odd egg (first try). Thunderpunch, Ice Punch early (eventually Thunderbolt) just destroys everything. Solo’d Lance and destroyed almost all of Kanto

There were stretches that his was not bad but there were major roadblocks as well. Whitney as usual, fire pokemon, some of Team Rocket (before Smoochum) and Lance. His team was tough until Elekid could one shot the Dragonite’s with Ice Punch.

Kanto was a joke as usual until Blue. Had to level up a ton to beat him and it took a ton of luck.

Finally Red, tried at level 65, 70 and 75 and couldn’t make any real progress. Finally at level 80, got it done with insane luck

Magby one shot Pikachu and then Espeon with a crit. Swapped to Togepi for some mud-shots to lower accuracy. Elekid swap and got a paralysis with Thunderbolt along with 2 full paralysis. Red brought in Venusaur, I set up a sunny day and one shot with Flamethrower. Next was Blastoise, swapped to Elekid who finished Blastoise and Charizard with Thunderbolt to win.

A fun but very frustrating run as these mons have terrible defense and mostly bad attack so lots of deaths and leveling up was a chore. Off to the next challenge.

He's not in the yard or any. He's not with Bill, he's not with me. Where did they put HIM?!?!