also been playing pokemon crystal again on my flashcart. wish it had a proper RTC but, alas
i should ask around and see if there's any good quality-of-life hacks for crystal out there, mayb that also have an option to replace the rtc timer with setting it upon starting the game and then just using frame timers
comedy option: build it myself
@Xkeeper the "speedchoice" rom has a lot of quality of life stuff built in, including a manually settable starting clock
@atinyfairy i found the repo(?) for it but there's no readme on the changes or anything: https://github.com/Dabomstew/pokecrystal-speedchoice
also seems to be a randomizer(?)
@Xkeeper https://github.com/Dabomstew/pokecrystal-speedchoice/releases has an .ips version, and you can turn the randomization stuff off sing the in-game menu and just get the quality of life stuff
@Xkeeper "“Crystal Speedchoice” ROM is almost identical to the original Pokemon Crystal game, with some quality of life changes - the most notable ones being instant text if you hold A or B and the Dragon’s Den quest
to get the RisingBadge not being necessary, since Clair gives you the RisingBadge
immediately (which makes HM 06 - Whirlpool, effectively optional). Another key difference is
being able to fly between Johto and Kanto,. There are some other customizable options."
@atinyfairy intriguing and interesting. i wonder how well it handles vanilla saves
@Xkeeper unfortunately all of the info on the rom and what all the options do is on a discord server 🙃 but there's stuff like starting with the bike, using B/W exp, splitting exp among all party members, fishing/breeding always working, viewable gender in battle, viewable DV/EV values on stats screen, being alerted when a desired pokedex entry is on the current map, etc, all toggleable in-game
@atinyfairy my game is already a good way in progress (post-goldenrod) so if it isn't vanilla save compat then i'd run into problems, but otherwise it sounds pretty good