FireRed hack: - Pokémon Unbound [COMPLETED] - The PokéCommunity Forums (2024)

Story

Welcome to Borrius, a region rich with history. Centuries ago, the Borrian people were enveloped in a great war with a foreign land. When all seemed lost, the Borrian king summoned a powerful force to help turn the tide of battle. Unfortunately, the war ended in defeat when the king of the foreign land unleashed a devastating weapon. Disgruntled, the Borrian army returned home.
The people, now enraged against the Borrian king, attempted a coup by manipulating the dark force summoned during the war. The Borrian king was able to seal away its power, however, and the coup was thwarted.
Many years later, an organization known simply as the "Shadows" seems bent on releasing the dark force once again. Are they after the destruction of the Borrius region, or is there something else at play? It's up to you to stand in their way!​

Features

• A Powerful Engine: Pushing the Complete FireRed Upgrade to its maximum potential, Pokemon Unbound contains a custom battle engine on par with Gen 8, as well as many quality of life features that improve the gameplay experience just waiting to be found. Enjoy catching all of your favourite Pokemon, from Gen 1 up to Gen 7, while using all of your favourite moves and abilities from each of these generations!​

• QOL Galore: Pokemon Unbound is also chock full of quality-of-life features to enjoy, such as Unlimited Bag Space, Auto-Run, the DexNav, Daily Raids and much more!​

• A New HM System: Have access to all of your favourite HMs without the hassle of carrying HM slaves! As long as your Pokemon can learn an HM, they will be able to use it in the overworld, and once you purchase the brand new key item - the ADM in the post-game, enjoy battling with all six Pokemon from your favourite team regardless of the HMs they can learn!​

• Updated Graphics: Sporting Gen 4 graphics in the overworld and Gen 5-esqe interfaces, in addition to a dynamic day and night system, Pokemon Unbound has a brand new, yet familiar feel! You're not in Kanto anymore!​

• Difficulty Modes: Choose from up to four different difficulty modes! Ranging from Easy to Insane, you can either sit back and relax or get your teeth kicked in by a completely brand new AI system!​

• A Unique Mission System: Pokemon Unbound contains over 80 unique Missions to complete! Mission progress can be tracked using the new Mission Log, in addition to extra details, such as which items have been found in collectathons!​

• Character Customization: Choose from up to 300 different combinations of skin tones, hair colours, and outfit colours! Unleash your fashion sense!​

• Daily Events: There are plenty of events all over Borrius, many of which can be experienced daily, and some can only be found at certain points in the day! Play throughout the day to experience them all!​

• Exciting Mini-Games: Play exciting mini-games such as Cloud Burst, Safari Sniper, and Underground Mining!​

• Challenging Puzzles: Put your brain to the test, and find ways to solve many of the unique and complex puzzles littered throughout Borrius!​

• A Rich Post-Game: Spend hours after the main campaign battling in Pokemon Unbound's battle facilities, completing Missions, mining in the KBT Expressway, catching Legendary Pokemon, and so much more!​

• A Custom OST: Enjoy over 180 original songs composed for Pokemon Unbound, each as brilliant as the last! And if you're left wanting them for yourself, you can download them all here!​

Screenshots

Videos

Special Thanks

• Golche for sprite work, feedback, music, bug testing, and all around good work.
• Theharth for many things such as testing, Trainer text, menial labour, and just being a good friend.
• Lixdel for helping with a ton of stuff, including move animations, data insertion, and thorough bug testing.
• Nex for great sprites, great tiles, and the amazing title screen background.
• Criminon for plenty of great sprites, UI designs, and pouring hours into the costume system.
• Kwenio for several stellar character redesigns, including the main characters.
• Pascal van den Bos for taking on the role of Sound Director and ensuring the Unbound OST was phenomenal from start to finish.
• Rowyn Berlan, Jose Villanueva, Humanly, and Blanders for a huge chunk of the astounding OST.
• CyanSMP64 for helping save ROM space and making the OST even higher quality.
• Maria Panaiotti for the great redesign of the logo.
• U.Flame for the underwater tileset, as well as several tile and map improvements.
• Dr. Fuji and Hillsy13 for great tileset and mapping work.
• SevenK for always doing a great job tracking down bugs, being a huge asset in fixing them, and almost all of the custom shiny palettes.
• HnzMtthw for a great job bug testing and designing concept art.
• Patrickz for Frontier bug testing and AI suggestions.
• Deneb and Elgathar for testing and helping create challenging teams.
• Doctordoak for several balance suggestions and revamping almost all of the Battle Frontier spreads.
• Gail for helping test the CFRU in its infancy and plenty of bug testing afterwards.
• Strudelmuffin for coming up with some great late-game puzzles.
• Noodlewhiz for handling bug reports and his research into the correct mining implementation.
• Achromatic for the CSS Template used as a base for this thread.
• PRET for their astounding work with the decomps, a large reason Unbound is where it's at today.

Credits

Bugs

All of the bugs and changes from the official games are listed in the attached readme file. If you find a bug not mentioned, please report it in the hack's Discord channel.

FAQ

Documentation

General Guide (Credits to The Spectre)
Location Guide (Credits to SevenK)
Level-up movesets
Egg Moves
Evolution Methods
Base Stats & Wild Held Items
Battle Frontier Info
Trainer Teams (Credits to SkiDY)

Main Story Completion

100%

Battle Engine Completion

100%

Post Game Completion

90%

Downloads

Unbound 2.1.1.1
Original Release Date: December 20, 2021
Update Date: November 8, 2022
Completion: This is the completed version of Pokemon Unbound. Cube Corp.'s interior is still missing, but all Pokemon can be obtained one way or another, and all Missions can be completed.
Update: Hotfix for Rival battle crash.

Unbound Battle Frontier 2.0.1
Original Release Date: August 21, 2022
Update Date: August 26, 2022
Completion: This is a demo version that allows you to play exclusively in the Borrius region's Battle Frontier. It contains five battle facilities enjoy, as well as Raid Battles and a Safari Zone demo.
Update: Ring Challenge, New Key Items, Less Time-Based Events, + More (See changelog)

Unbound Original Soundtrack
Release Date: March 6, 2022

Special Distributions

January's special distribution is an ancient puffer fish! If you're playing the main game, once you defeat the Pokemon League, talk to the green deliveryman on the second floor of any Pokemon Center to enter the password to receive this Pokemon! If you're playing the BFD, head south of the Battle Frontier and talk to the green deliveryman after travelling to the Cable Club.​

You must be on 2.1.0 or higher to claim this gift!
Password: 3ER7BX8CA5WR
Revealed On: January 3, 2022
Will be Hidden After: January 31, 2022

December's special distribution is an ancient "Weavile"! If you're playing the main game, once you defeat the Pokemon League, talk to the green deliveryman on the second floor of any Pokemon Center to enter the password to receive this Pokemon! If you're playing the BFD, head south of the Battle Frontier and talk to the green deliveryman after travelling to the Cable Club.​

You must be on 2.1.0 or higher to claim this gift!
Password: 7AX2WN9UN4BJ
Revealed On: January 3, 2022
Will be Hidden After: January 31, 2022

As part of v2.1.1's release, you can now receive a special Zarude! Obtaining this Zarude, saving, and reloading the game will allow Gen 8 mons to start being detected randomly by the DexNav. If you're playing the main game, once you defeat the Pokemon League, talk to the green deliveryman on the second floor of any Pokemon Center to enter the password to receive this Pokemon! If you're playing the BFD, head south of the Battle Frontier and talk to the green deliveryman after travelling to the Cable Club.​

You must be on 2.1.1 or higher to claim this gift!
Password: 3YT4BV7PH4UT
Revealed On: November 8, 2022

Awards

• HOTY 2019: Most Graphical Appeal
• HOTY 2019: Best Gameplay
• HOTY 2019: Fan Favourite

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