Been playing Pokemon Odyssey and wow also finished Pokemon Unbound and it was great

No need for romhacks

Play Pokemon Kaizo Ironmon

Pokemon Ash Gray is the only one for me.

The pit is nice for killing time. Also have heard delta emerald is fun. It’s just ORAS but for emerald and in pixel art mode instead.

Super Smash Bros Melee Arkenia
DK64 Tag Anywhere (makes the game tolerable)
NFL Blitz 2025
NBA Street Vol 2 Legendary Edition
Zelda: The Missing Link
Mario Kart Wii Deluxe
Project+
Super Smash Bros Remix
Mario Kart Amped Up
DKC Boss Rush

A lot of rom hacks are pure slop and it feels like that community is transitioning to decomp/recomp efforts nowadays

NFL Blitz 2025

All the Drayano ones

Radical Red is legit the best Pokemon game I have ever played by far

Any Drayano hack (need Aurora Crystal asap), Radical Red, and Elite Redux are probably my favorites. Pretty impressed with what they're doing with Elite Redux tbh.

I used to play Victory Fire a lot

Been watching pchal’s Dayano gauntlet

Playing odyssey rn too s*** is pretty crazy how different it is from most Pokémon romhacks

My go tos:
Team Rocket edition
Altered Emerald
Liquid Crystal

Mega GOAT legend

What's special about these games in particular and can I play them on an android phone?

What's the basic run down on Odyssey?

@op do you have any recommendations for where I can download roms and emulators for Android?

Completely different type of story/set up. You explore a labyrinth island with different biomes, each biome has a “leader” you fight. Game is a lot more about survivability and exploration. Side quests and material gathering - no gyms, no evil team, no league. Tons of double battles, actually might only be double battles? Can’t remember if there’s any single battles maybe in wild encounters. New regional forms for some Pokémon, two new types, and every Pokémon has rebalanced stats making all of them viable. Think it’s only Pokémon up to gen 3 which is my favorite 3 eras lol.

pokemonodyssey.com

Honestly for my steamdeck I just google them and usually the first few results have worked for me

I beat the game not too long ago odyssey 2 soon

Radical Red and Emerald Imperium
Unbound

The Drayano hacks are more or less "definitive" versions of the original games. BST, move, type, etc. changes all across the board. Definitely more difficult than the original games, but not too bad. I believe all of them have all Pokemon available to catch in that game's dex.

Radical Red is more of a challenge hack that takes place in Kanto using Fire Red as a base game. Similar to the above but much more difficult.

pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-radical-red-version-4-1-released-gen-9-dlc-pokemon-character-customization-now-available.437688

Elite Redux is relatively new. The main gimmick is that all Pokemon have 4 different abilities active at the same time, so you can probably imagine that getting pretty wacky lol. New moves, fakemons (tastefully done imo, usually new forms of existing mons). Lots of active development on it. It's on ver 2.5 rn and I think 2.6 should be coming out soonish? It is considered a challenge hack, but there is an easy mode.

pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-elite-redux-v2-1-complete-%E2%80%94-unique-multi-ability-difficulty-hack.499227

There's a bit more to it all than what I said, so I recommend checking out the Pokecommunity threads on em.

The Drayano hacks are probably the safest bet in terms of getting into rom hacks. Basically just considerably better than the base games. Renegade Platinum, Blaze Black2/Volt White2 redux, Storm Silver/Sacred Gold (Aurora Crystal is the one he's been working on for awhile now).

This new hack also seems really good.
reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1n814q5/pok%C3%A9mon_heartgold_generations_v20_full_trainergym

If you like the gen 3 games a lot, you can check out Emerald Seaglass. Very cool looking game. Haven't played it myself but people love it.

In Imperium I was getting my ass beat by Flannery who I think remember had a Walking Wake I gotta get back to playing that at some point.

@op @Grenouille how did you guys beat Mel?? He's cooking me 😭

Great post, thank you so much

Been a while since I played but I think I ran like half a sun team — Salazzle speed control deals with Bewear and some of the others, Camerupt walls a good chunk of his team too. Curse spam on something easily wallable and the camel runs riot