Summary
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DramaticShapeVoxelMod turns Pokémon Red/Blue into a voxel 3D remake while keeping the classic look and feel.
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It’s based on Gen1Recomp, which restores game data from a ROM without emulating a Game Boy or flashing a ROM.
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Gen1Recomp also has additional fixes for Gen 1’s bugs, including a 1/256 missed bug and Focus Energy actually reducing critical chance.
If you’re planning to visit (or revisit) the game that started one of the world’s biggest media trends, why not do it in style? Someone has released a mod that turns Pokémon Red and Blue into a 3D voxel game while staying true to the look and feel of the original. The cool part is that it doesn’t emulate the Game Boy at all; all you need is the ROM of the game.
Gen1Recomp breathes new life into the 90s phenomenon
And it doesn’t imitate anything
As our sister site points out PolygonDramaticShapeVoxelMod adds voxel graphics to the classic Game Boy title. You can see how it plays in the video above; The world is given a fresh 3D redo, and the fight scenes feel more cinematic than the two sprites dueling against a blank background in the original game.
While that’s cool on its own, it’s also worth taking a look at the engine that DramaticShapeVoxelMod relies on: Gen1Recomp. This engine includes some custom rulesets that you can use to eliminate more annoying bugs. For example, “oneIn256Miss” fixes the miss chance of a move with a 100% accuracy rating to 1/256, while “focusEnergyBug” actually quadruples your critical hit chance instead of using the Focus Energy move as a bug code. divides with four. Yes, Pokémon Red and Blue had some really wild bugs.
But here’s the really wild thing: Gen1Recomp doesn’t emulate the Game Boy at all. Instead, it takes the data from the ROM and rebuilds it in its own program:
This project does not include ROMs, no Game Boy emulating, no porting assembly, or downloading a teardown. The canonical US Poke Red or Blue ROM is the only game content entry.
The ROM is checked, used during import, and then released from memory. The cache is not copied to memory. Later bootloads the custom cache and don’t request the ROM again. Red and Blue can both be imported and played side by side.
Make sure you pay if you want to try it Gen1Recomp GitHub page visit, then catch DramaticShapeVoxelMod and upload it to Gen1Recomp’s mod menu.
