Pokemon Quartz and Chaos Black

[Kroogah]

I was searching on Ebay for valuable GBA games (verdict: if you see Classic NES SMB or Donkey Kong, buy it, but you knew that) and auctions for these kept popping up.

After a bit more searching, attempting to find out what the Hell these are, all I know is that they are hacks of Pokemon Emerald that are available in cartridge format in China, of course. And Chaos Black is pretty funny because it has a Pokemon-style drawing of Chaos from Sonic Adventure on the front of it.

Anyone else know anything about these hacks?

[Haoie]

There are others too, like the fake PKMN Jade, which was actually Telefang.

[Cryomancer]

I've played chaos black. The level design is interesting, but it's unfinished (yes, the pirate carts won't even let you beat more than a few towns worth of gameplay!) and the pokemon art is pretty crap. It's cool to see hacks being attempted like that, but i sure as hell wouldn't buy a pirate cart you can't even finish (especially when you can download the rom patch for free from the hacker himself anyway) . The chaos boxart is amusing though, and that is his artwork from Sonic Battle, I think.

[jajaja]

I've also seen a Pokémon Ruby Version 3 hack hehe. Wonder whats different in it from the official Ruby release :)

[calthaer]

A big part of the fun of Pokemon for me is being able to transfer them around between / among cartridges / Gamecube / etc.

Which would make these hacks sort of lame.

The only hax I approve of are ones to get the unobtainable promo ones.