Pokemon Green Helix Chamber Hackrom + Strength Fix

This is the Pokemon Green beta hackrom by Helix Chamber. It’s an amazing hackrom that includes many features and scrapped content from the leaked Pokemon Gen I beta. It was featured on a live stream once.

You can read more about it on Helix Chamber’s site: https://helixchamber.com/2019/02/16/what-dreams-may-come/

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210419181547/https://helixchamber.com/2019/02/16/what-dreams-may-come/

I’m also uploading a “fixed” version of the hackrom. The original hackrom is not really finished, and you can’t get the HM Strength because the Safari Zone was not completed and you can’t get the Golden Teeth item. I just modified some bytes so the TM 01 (Mega Punch) now teaches Strength. You get that one early and you can also buy it off the Celandon Dept Store.

What the ZIP has:

• “Pokemon Red and Green Beta.GBC” is the rom you can find online (it’s becoming harder to do so though)

• “Pokemon_Red_Green_Beta_fix.GBC” is the same rom with my fix for Strength.

• Some pictures of the things I talk about here

• A copy of this text

RUN-ENDING/SAVE DESTROYING BUGS: Please read these carefully to avoid losing all your progress :):

• The game is buggy and there’s many places where it can crash, some of them will even wipe your save file. More on this below, but as a general warning, save often, and use save states if possible.

• On Shilp Co. there is a softlock where if you have a full bag, a character won’t be able to give you the key item you need to open the doors. Just make sure to always have space while on that part of the game.

• Victory Road is the most bugged part of the game, with some trainer battles being able to corrupt your save file. Luckily you can skip most of it. I’ve put some pictures on how to (I fully recommend you make a trip after you've cleared everything else and made some save states tho - it's one hell of a trip, you'll see what I mean).

• Some moves are bugged too. Namely, Meditate will crash your game and delete your save as soon as it tries to show up on screen (eg. if a trainer uses it, or if one of your mons tries to learn it). It’s a rare move but I’m putting a picture of the one trainer I found that has a Hypno over level 43 that tries to use Meditate. He shows up at the Shilp Co. postgame (spoilers!)

• On the Pokémon Mansion in Cinnabar, the Muks also have a move that crashes your game. Not sure which one exactly, but I guess Sludge or Poison Gas.

• Sometimes when a pokemon gets frozen the screen will go black. Don’t panic, you probably can still move your cursor on the menu. Just continue playing, the screen will refresh on the next battle animation.

• When you face the Elite 4, make sure to make them walk towards you for the battle. If you don't (eg. if you just walk right next to them), you'll get stuck in a loop where they challenge you over and over after you win.

And some miscellaneous notes (spoilers!):

• There’s 2 easy to miss post-game quests: one is at Shilp Co after you beat the league, the other you can go to after completing the Shilp one, by talking to an NPC in a corner of Celandon. Pics attached.

• There’s also a reference somewhere about a “Shilp Basement” quest, but I was not able to find it, and the HC member I talked to doesn't remember it existing. I’m guessing it was planned but not implemented.

• You CAN catch Articuno. The strength puzzle is broken and won’t work, however due to a bug, you can skip the “you can’t surf here” dialog by trying to surf off the top of a ledge. I’ve put pictures of it.

• People online say you can catch every Pokemon in this hackrom. I’m not 100% sure of that, at least not without using lvl 7 glitch encounters.

Questions you might have:

Q. Are you part of Helix Chamber?

Nope, but shotouts as some of them do amazing work on Pokemon history preservation and restoration on social media.

Q. Where did you get this rom from?

I googled it. You can find it online (as of this writing) in shady sites. Idk how they got it.

Q. Why are you archiving it here?

This is, in my humble opinion, the greatest Pokemon Hackrom someone has made. If you are into this beta and cut content stuff, this hackrom is just a treat. It’d be a crime if it got lost to time.

Other sites don't like you to link to hacked roms, only patches, and I only have the rom.

Q. Did you get permission for _?

I already spoke with someone from HC, they were fine with me posting this here.

Q. [Insert comment about the Pokethon drama]?

I wasn’ there, and I don’t care about it. I like the work Helix Chamber does, this hackrom is amazing and so is their site and their research.

Q. Is your “fix” safe or does it make the game buggier?

I literally only changed 2 bytes with a hex editor. It’s as “safe” as the vanilla rom, aka not much haha.

Q. Why didn’t you just put the Golden Teeth somewhere?

Making TM01 into Strength was as far as my very limited knowledge of rom hacking could take me. General Gen 1 hacking tools don’t work on this rom. I’m happy with this fix.

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Thanks a lot to Helix Chamber for their work on Pokemon history discovery and preservation, and thank you for this incredible hackrom. My friends and I had a blast while I played it on a private stream, our jaws dropping every 5 minutes.

For the rest of you, hope you like it as much as we did!

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