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I think so yes, it doesn't stray too far from the original story but adds a lot on top of it and adds a lot of post game mechanics that I haven't encountered yet. I had never played Crystal before (but I did play Silver and I think Crystal's story is 90% same?) and it seems really polished (haha). It just feels like a much more modern game than what I remember Silver being.

I'm looking for a similar sort of ROM hack for Emerald since I never played gen 3 and later. I think I'll go for Modern Emerald but I'd love to hear other suggestions.

I have gone down the same rabbit hole lately. I've been playing Polished Crystal and am planning to play Modern Emerald next.

Polished Crystal adds a ton of features and I love it. They added many Pokémon that you can all catch, it adds a lot of new moves and introduces the modern types and physical/special split which I prefer. It also seems like a lot more difficult than vanilla gen 2 with revised gym leader parties. I'd suggest playing the 9bit version which has almost a decade of new features added to the 2.2.0 version you usually find.

Oh yeah there are plenty of way worse examples. It's just such a shame because Battlebit had something going for them and then they messed up like this. Many developers would kill to have a faction of the exposure Battlebit had.

It would be nonsense were it not for the fact that Battlebit is still in Early Access. Being Early Access implies regular updates and the fact the game technically isn't released yet. There are still bugs and balance issues in Battlebit that remain unsolved.

You are right that people lose interest but the majority of players wouldn't have lost interest if updates kept coming to this unfinished game, or at least if the developers kept their promises.

They promised a huge update over a year ago that never came. Seems like development has completely stalled. Huge disappointment as this was such an amazing game.

Same thing happened to me. If you are on the KDE forums you could message Paul Brown and ask him to manually add you as adopter on an app of choosing. Don't forget to provide the name you used to donate.

You can "adopt" one of several KDE apps if you donate 50 usd/eur or more. Your name will be listed on the app's webpage until April 2025. Other than that it's just a donation with a fancy name.

I donated without adding a comment which app to adopt. Is there a way to fix this?

So uhm, they made a mobile port of a pc/console port of a mobile port of the original pc/console games?

They still haven't formally announced that development on KSP2 has stopped right? They didnt even announce the studio shutdown. Yet it's still on sale on Steam...

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