Download Pre-Patched Pokemon TCG: Neo GBC ROM Hack
- Creator: Cataclyptic
- Version: v1.2
- Hack of: TCG
- Updated: February 19, 2023
- Language: English
Pokemon TCG: Neo is a GBC Rom Hack by Cataclyptic based on Pokemon TCG in English. And It is now available to download. It was last updated on February 19, 2023.
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NEW: Version 1.2, the final version, has been released, containing massive changes!
A new player character and new player character portraits! Balance changes! Booster pack edits! Typo fixes! Animation fixes! Fight Ronald more! Basically, everything and the kitchen sink was added to the game, there’s probably even a pokémon from Orre in there for all I know!
Description


This hack, Pokémon TCG Neo, is a nearly complete overhaul of the base game in terms of battling. Why? Because all the generation 1 cards in this game have been replaced with generation 2 cards, everything has been balanced.
Featuring your favorites from Neo Genesis all the way to Skyridge, so many cards have been added and replaced that it’s completely changed the way this game is played. Pokémon, attacks, abilities, and even a few trainer cards were altered to create a new battling experience. If you’re looking for a TCG hack with all-new pokémon cards, look no further and download the link below.
If you aren’t looking for a new way to play the old TCG, see the instructions below.
You have to play the game anyway because I worked really hard on it for months
Features
As previously stated, all 187 pokémon in this game have been replaced by generation 2 cards from real-life sets. This completes the real Johto Pokedex, with some Kanto Pokémon thrown into the mix. These cards’ attacks and abilities either reflect their real-life counterparts, come close to them, or I ignored them for a better attack. Trainer cards have also been altered, but not as extensively. In particular, though, Super Energy Removal is no longer in the game, having been replaced by Master Ball.


Everything in this game has been balanced. Cards that I thought were weak received buffs, and cards that I thought were too strong received nerfs. In general: Pokémon, especially evolved Pokémon, got more powerful, while trainer cards became less powerful. Games will now be more focused on the pokémon and not the trainers, giving new strategies to pursue!
As 95% of the cards in this game are different, the dialogue, trades, and text in the game have also been altered to reflect that difference. In particular, there are now only 7 promo cards and EVERY card in the game is obtainable, so deck build to your heart’s content; no more Card Pop holding you back from key cards.


Speaking of which, every single NPC deck has been altered. Some even use completely different strategies. This is also true for the auto deck machines, of which I mostly just filled with ideas for fun decks that I had and the boss’s decks. One minor note: You can get the Imakuni? card after beating him 2 and 4 times instead of the 3 and 6 in the base. Another notable trainer- the guy who wants to steal all of your energy cards- no longer does so because that was annoying. You can now get a promo by being nice to him.


Finally, the tutorial duel has been eliminated. I’m going to assume you all know how to play the card game; thereby letting you skip the tutorial and go straight into the fun. The dialogue for learning the game has been unaltered, so use that if you must.
The Art Style


All of the new art in this game was done by me (Cataclyptic). I wanted to have a different feel from the base game, so instead of using mostly black and white + 2 colors, I tried to make each Pokémon as colorful as possible. This is my preference, so I’m sticking to it. If you want a poster of all the sprites, it can be viewed here https://www.deviantart.com/cataclyptic/art/Pokemon-TCG-Neo-Sprites-936162337 (Spoilers for in-game cards)
Changelog
(See Full notes in the useful stuff section)
- 1.2: Booster pack edits, sprite edits, Bug fixes, balance changes, sprite edits, deck edits, basically everything edits, see the version update history in download for more information
- 1.11: Entei1 now works properly, and one typo was fixed for Sudowoodo’s energy cost.
- 1.1: Huge balance changes, bug fixes, AI changes. Entei’s Protective Flame now works.
- 1.03: A spelling error and an attack name change.
- 1.02: Fixed a trade. Reverted Tailwind (Retreat Aide) to its original effect, as the new one was broken. Changed energy cost of Crystal Charizard.
- 1.01: Fixed a bug where returning to the Hall of Honor only gave Ho-oh.
- 1.0: Game release
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Known Bugs & Glitches
I can’t do anything about these, but all of them only minorly affect gameplay, so it’s fine. If any of you know how to fix them or what’s going on, feel free to comment below.
- Acid’s effect to make the opponent unable to retreat does NOT work on the AI. This is actually a holdover from the base game: it doesn’t work there either. I tried to make it work by altering the AI retreat actions, but it didn’t, so the Acid effect isn’t present in my hack.
- Dratini and Suicune are in weird places on the computer menus. This is a result of me being unable to repoint Snorlax’s Thick Fat to another pokémon, so I did some fiddling with Dratini and made it work except for in the menus.
- Entei’s Protective Flame doesn’t show the Protect animation if successful. This is because I’m not sure how to make it do two animations at once. The effect works regardless.
- Houndour’s Smog attack, when used by the AI, displays as Flare. Not even sure why on this one. The attacks still work regardless, but the text is shifted on the AI.
- The AI doesn’t appear to know how to use Energy Spike and Energy Search. Not sure how this one didn’t work either, mainly because the code is unaltered from the base game. With Energy search, I think it’s because only two decks have specified targets, therefore only two decks can play the card.
Wishlist
Although this game is completed, there are a couple of bonus things I would like to do but don’t have the coding skills to implement them. If anyone does know how to make these happen, then please comment below.
- Have Acid actually work.
- Have the Teleport Effect commands be optional/ Have the Teleport commands do damage without switching if you only have 1 Pokémon / Make the AI understand that Teleport does damage. For making more attacks that do this, of course!
- Have Blissey’s Heal ability remove 2 damage counters instead of one. I tried to make this happen and it results in HP Underflow if it removes only 1 damage counter.
- Make Super Fang ignore Weakness and Resistance. I had plans to implement this in the game, but it just doesn’t work if the defending pokemon is weak to Super Fang- it deals twice half HP, which translates to a guaranteed KO, which isn’t remotely fair.
- Somehow make the Wildfire code discard X cards from the top of the deck, independent of fire energies. I can think of a few cards that would be a lot more interesting if they had effects to discard say, 3 cards each time they attacked.
- Have more than Crystal Celebi uses Shift on the AI. The AI sadly can only process 1 user of Shift (Crystal Type), I don’t know how to make it process the other 3 crystal cards.
- Make the AI use Energy Search and Energy Spike (Energy Boost). Self-explanatory.
- Change the set symbols. I’d love to make all the cards from this game have set symbols from their real-life sets, but for the life of me, I can’t find those graphics anywhere.
- Change the booster packs. I’m not sure how to change the booster packs, but I want to.
Credits
Cataclyptic
1.2 is out now.
What tools where used to create this romhack?
Loved the gam, crobat is OP. Grande master Steve mention is Zapdos after u Win the Challenge
Holy shit I love you. I would pay money for you to add more cards and more challenges to this. An additional elite 4 or whatever. More cards, ultimate challenges etc.
こんなにクオリティ高いのにカード数が少ないのが残念。。
悪タイプ鋼タイプの実装もされたら嬉しい
EN: It’s a pity that the number of cards is so small even though the quality is so high. I would be happy if the evil type steel type was also implemented.
Played through it and got all the cards after much grinding, and really enjoyed it. noticed that there were some glitches in the AI, where they wouldn’t attack you even if all of the energy where there, I think one of the grand masters was a prime example, on their crystal card.
Would have preferred if the Pokemon powers for the crystal cards were more useful or varied and their attacks were less Overpowered. Built a deck around being able to change the type to any type only to realize the type has to be in play which reduces useability.
Hyperbeam Tyranitar absolutely steamrolls everyone too.
Also, temporal celebi + Slowking is mega overpowered, only had 2 celebi’s, but managed to beat every team in the game with Celebi + Slowking + Wobbufett + Chansey, just stalling and sponging hits then temporal removal. Perhaps a nerf to shuffle into deck rather than move to hand?
Hyperbeam Tyranitar absolutely steamrolls everyone too.
suprise to me,gen 2 tcg?,i really hope you put dark celebi card… is rocket celebi
First of all, Miltank is OP!
Second of all, I really want to hug the developer, for make this dreamed hack come true. You have all my thanks.
Does the rom includes Metal and Dark Pokemon/Energies, I am starting to play and the dark pokemon are fighting
Found this romhack super recently and I just wanted to say thank you for the hard work. Having a blast so far!
Excelente jogo, parabéns!!! Sempre quis um jogo de cartas com a segunda geração. A líder do ginásio de plantas não aparece como no jogo original. Como faço para encontra -lá?
TL: Excellent game, congratulations!!! I always wanted a card game with the second generation. The Plant Gym Leader does not appear as she did in the original game. How do I find it there?
Do you need to download the base game to play this and if so any idea where I can find it? Also any recommendations on emulators to play on mac or iphone? Seems like an awesome game and really want to get into the ROM hacks for pokemon in general. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps!
No, you don’t need the base rom to play the game as this is pre-patched. As for how you can play this on mac or an iPhone, you can play it on mac using ‘OpenEmu’ and on the iPhone by using a web-based emulator known as ‘EclipseEmu’.
Such a good job man, I’m enjoying so much, just a question, i already beaten the league, where is my charizard? :c
Having fun with this game, and found Entei with Energy Burn. The ability doesn’t seem to work unless Entei has at least 1 Fire energy attached to it, as having 2 Psychic and a DCE told me I didn’t have enough Fire Energy, while his ability told me that all energy attached to him is Fire (like Charizard’s Pkmn Power)
Loved it so far otherwise. Was planning some devious “Full Bench” decks with Bellossom.
finally this is what i need. thank you very much. i will waiting for the update
Wheres the game? I download let go lugia in mega
https://mega.nz/file/ZYYkWZbK#1MXeicj2KAVdEfoeNcFVGLfTPNgFWWKHsgLLseXSe8A
If you have to choose between the same energy, or a colorless one or a different one, I would prefer it if you never picked different one 9 times out of 10.
The below is a suggestion for anywho is a genius rom hacker:
That being said, this hack is awesome. Its a shame no one has tried to build a from scratch interface to allow for the below:
to include multi-regions and cards till gen 2 and of course, till the EX cards broke everything… EX cards are OP! to the crazy! Also, using unlimited trainer cards is awesome!
Would like similar graphics and better AI, with the same battery setup, where if you turn it off, you can continue playing it from where you stopped even if gets shut off at random type thing.
Multi Regions like I said above and all cards till the EX situation blew up my interest.
Would love it if someone could do all of this, but it would be a huge effort, to an insane level.
Finally someone made a Pokemon TCG romhack! Im gonna try this tonight, but, if this works as advertised, this is something the community has been desperately needing! It’s a shame that early on, after the original Generation 1 sets, Pokemon Cards just weren’t really super popular outside of the Pokemon community. Compared to now, they were like 1% as popular as the games by the time all the Neo sets were out… so they didn’t have a reason to keep making the card video games 🙁 Even the sequel GBC game was only in Japan. Fast forward to 2020 and obviously the card Boom happened due to boredom during the pandemic, and we got scalpers, resellers, a huge boom of popularity, and every Twitch streamer who doesn’t even associate with Pokemon in any way was suddenly getting in on the Card Openings on stream! It got bigger than it EVER was, even during the initial launch of the cards back in the day!
So with that said… WE NEED MORE CARD VIDEO GAMES!!! These are just so fun… My question for the creator is do you have a romhack planned for the Pokemon TCG2: Here Comes Team GR? That game had WAY more cards, and more battles to win, twice the content, you’d have wayyyy more room for adding new cards to it! That’d be an absolute dream!
I saw new update. So what is the update?
Fixed one line of code that disabled a trade. Reverted Tailwind (Retreat Aide) to its original effect, as the new one was broken. Also made Crystal Charizard’s attack cost 2 Fire and 2 Lightning, since Rod was somehow cheating with bypassing the colorless energy.
Ok crushed Rod so didn’t even notice haha
A top quality rom! This rom kicks ass major big ups to the creator hope too see more stuff
when i tap the mediafire link it doesnt take me to mediafire i tried it with mega to but it didnt work and i have restarted my divice a lot o times also it works on any other game
fixed it. please try downloading it again.
if someone made a gba tcg