I am a little curious about something. If you found Vizzed because of Leggy's review, then I assume you found it back in 2014, when you registered. If that's true, then why did you wait 4 and a half years before replying?

For some reason when I signed up on a whim to reply to this post, it said I was under "Administrator Approval" or something similar. I lead a very busy life and didn't really think I had access to the forum until I did my bi-yearly "Let's search myself on the internet" boredom run on Google. Also, the fact that I saw a new thread about my putting the referral was kind of interesting, and I wondered if my account was approved or not, which it is. Not even sure if you ever even had an "approval system" in the past or not, I just know something was preventing me from properly logging in at the time. I had even forgotten about my quest to reply to this thread until my recent Google search brought up the thread about the referral thing. I hope that answers any questions on your curious mind, and thank you so much for this community being so polite thus far. I remember replying to a similar thread about me a long time ago on another forum and they were super strict and condescending to me, even when I had tried to follow their forum rules. Very refreshing to see reasonable mods and community members here! If you want to talk further, I'm in the community Discord. Just drop me a line if there's anything else you want to ask. I wouldn't want to clutter up this thread that was just meant for some silly review.

Hello,



I realizing necroing threads on forums is usually frowned upon, but this thread is still open and I'd like to take a moment on commenting on this "review" of my "Pokemon Hack."





I don't find any review of Cokemon to be insulting or even too bothered by them. However, I do occasionally browse the internet and search for what people are saying about my ROM Hack after all these years.





For anyone who is curious, I'd like to correct some misconceptions about this person's review, because in my opinion I don't believe they were trying to be funny or inventive with their review, but rather serious. This makes everything they "reviewed" much worse because we're supposed to take everything they said at face value as if they're serious.

I'd like to make some corrections and commentary, if I may. If you find this necro extremely inappropriate (especially for my first post) I do apologize, but it's honestly the only topic I came here to respond to and discuss and didn't find a new thread would be appropriate. (Unless you find it is appropriate by some means, then a moderator can take action from there.)





To begin, some back story. This author of this review may not be aware, but Cokemon: Blue was one of the first ROM Hacks of Pokemon to exist. Most people are in agreement it's the "2nd known ROM Hack to exist of Pokemon" but I highly doubt that. For the past 20 years, I've received a large number of "fans" and ROM Hacking enthusiasts emailing me. Most of this was on an old Hotmail account which is lost, but I sometimes still get the occasional "fan mail" if you want to call it that.





Keep in mind, during the generation this hack was originally made... there were very close to NO hacking tools. (No map editors, no graphical editors.) Most of the game was changed using primitive HEX editors.

On to the comments on the review:





Yes. That is Clair from Pokemon 2nd gen if I do believe I am correct. You don't get the option to choose if you are a boy or girl of course, but I find it rather stupid they would stick you with a character that is quite obviously a girl. I mean, at least in the original games, you could easily pretend Red was an ambiguous non-genderal character, but with this... we don't get any other choice.





When Cokemon was first created, Pokemon Gold hadn't even officially came to America yet. The "Clair" character was unknown to me at the time. I thought it would be interesting to take the Japanese version of Pokemon Gold, and dig inside to see what sprites were used. I had found a "long haired figure" that seemed kind of cool to use. I copied the sprite from one game to another. I had no idea if the character was a boy, or a girl. All I thought was that the sprite looked cool, and added it. (Keep in mind your Rival has long hair too, and I had no idea if that was a boy or girl either.)





The author of the review also says we "Don't get any other choice" to switch characters. Again, ROM Hacking was in it's infancy and completely coding a "Gender Select" screen was unheard of unless you were some sort of Bill Gates level genius. (Again, rom hackers used simple HEX editors to do all their editing back then.)





This was probably the least insulting thing about the game. At least the sound stayed unchanged. However, with a game as thoroughly lacking in wit, I half expected Yakketty Sax or some other stupid music to play at some point during the game. I was somewhat disappointed in that



Again, this would have required a working knowledge of where the music data was stored at the time and manually changing each HEX code to compose a new symphony. Not possible back then.



When you start the game there are a million references to coke and swears, but after you hit Vermillion City (Or as it's known in game, Cape Cod City), almost all of this is done, leading me to wonder if it's simply an unfinished hack. The game has no consistency, and can get increasingly annoying with every reference to Cokemon.





Cokemon is indeed an unfinished hack. (Or at least was, there is a finished version on my PC which has gone unreleased. There's also a GBA version of LeafGreen that is almost complete as well.)



The image above showcases pretty much the most learning curve this game has. A lot of the item names are changed, and it's just odd to give your pokemon crack of all things to heal them.





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This is the big one. The one that turned me off this game forever.

This is like the first thing we see in the entire game. The very. First. Thing. And his name isn't professor Oak. His name is Professor Ivy.

For those unfamiliar with the anime...

This is Professor Ivy.  (image of professor ivy)





This is my biggest gripe with this dude's review and the reason why I came to the forum to even comment.

Are you not aware that this hack was originally started in 1998? Also, are you not aware, that Pokemon's official Professor Ivy didn't exist until a full year and a half later? I made the professor "Ivy" as a joke, as a pun of Professor Oak's name. Little did I know that "Professor Elm" was the name of the Professor in the Pokemon Gold / Silver series, nor did I even know that the Professors being named after trees was going to be a serious canon running joke of Pokemon.





This, my dear readers, makes my joke of "Professor Ivy" in my hack so amusing. I created a professor name that didn't even exist for another year or so, and incidentally predicted one. (As well as predicted a in-game running joke that wasn't established yet.)



And that's only some of the offensive things shown in this game. It's just so juvenile, I refuse to believe anyone but a little kid wrote it, thinking it would be funny.

It's not funny. It just shows how immature and childish the person is.



I was literally 13 when I created this thing. I literally was a child. I had no concept of what these drugs even were back then. Again, your review is a tad bit spot on, but if you had done your research, you'd realize that a child LITERALLY DID MAKE AN IMMATURE AND CHILDISH HACK.





Now, I know very little about this site. I read all the rules and passed the "Newbie test." I do also see there's a separate section for ROM Hacks and that this is a "family friendly" website. One user in this review suggested that Davideo7 "possibly remove the game" for being so un-family friendly.





My guess is that this hack ended up on here because, to my great dismay and confusion, Cokemon was been (somehow) heralded as one of the "best pokemon hacks of all time" -- Even though it's anything but. More accurate, Cokemon is more so described as "one of the most infamous and OG hacks of history." -- And that simply is all it is.

It's not good. It's not particularly funny or clever. It's not family friendly or appropriate. It is, however, probably one of the earliest ROM hacks available on the internet, and one of the most infamous and ONLY ROM hacks of Pokemon during it's time period. (The other, being it's sister hack, Bokemob, also created by a fellow hacker friend back in the day.)





I'd also like to state that the user who created this review seemed to slam me for "Putting him as a referral on this site" when in fact, he did not refer me. (I read this in another thread in which he has another username.) I apologize if this annoyed you somehow, especially if there's some super awesome referral system on here that you felt was being poisoned by my adding you as one. However, you technically DID refer me to this site by writing this review, and it's how I discovered it. Thus, you technically were a referral. Also, here I am, on the forums.





Again, I hope this post counts as something special and positive for this thread. If not, the moderators and administrators can do what they will with this thread and advise me privately on how to proceed on if I want to post again what I posted. (Or, alternatively, can tell me to shoo-off if you're un-fond of me.)





Either way, I've posted my peace and I'm happy to see a forum community that looks very "old school" and is gaming related that has a database of ROM Hacks and games. Has a very nostalgic feel, even though it seems like a lot of it's members are of a younger age than I'd like to admit exist. (Again, in 1998 when working on this hack I said I was 13, so, you do the math on that one.)



Take care!