Poképan Crystal

Poképan Crystal is a patch for  Pokémon Crystal which makes the game more open to differing sexual orientations. The only change made is to make the move "Attract" skip the check to see if the user and target are opposite gendered. Pokémon may now infatuate (and be infatuated by) males, females, and genderless Pokémon.

I made this hack as a way to mess around with the wonderful Pokecrystal disassembly project, learning a little about how the game works and getting a chance to play with assembly code. Had I the time to really dive into the guts of the game's code, I would love to make the game's handling of gender itself more diverse than male/female/none.

Pokémon Crystal was released in Japan in December 2000 and in the US in July 2001. Nearly 20 years later and the idea of non-heterosexual attraction in Pokémon (whether it be the human characters or the Pokémon themselves) remains unseen, leaving people to cobble together their own representation through fan-works.

This hack was published on Itch after being rejected from Romhacking.net as the site does not allow "political statements". Perhaps it will find a more welcoming home here.