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Retcon - Short for “retroactive continuity”, a practice in media where previously-established information is changed in order to fit with a new direction that the series is going.

The Pokémon Series, for the most part, does not retcon. Instead, they create elaborate reasons for why things didn’t exist before. One example of this is in Eevee’s evolutions. Rather than simply adding new evolutions, GameFreak came up with increasingly complex reasons why Eevee couldn’t evolve to new forms in previous games. First it was because of happiness, then because it must evolve in certain locations, then because it needs to know a specific move. In other cases, they pass off bugs as intentional decisions. For example, Pinsir is a Bug Type Pokémon that learns only Fighting Type moves. However, since it wasn’t a Bug/Fighting Type from the beginning, that will never be corrected.

The refusal to retcon has added up over the years. Enter this Micropatch Collection. It targets Gen III games and makes a series of retcons to provide a fuller, richer experience for longtime players.

It contains 2 main categories: evolution/breeding changes and type changes. Each patch is fully compatible with all of the others, and SHOULD be compatible with most other hacks, as they only change one byte here and there. The reason this is released as a “micropatch collection” and not one big patch is to allow players to choose which changes they want to make, and which they want to ignore.

All-In Patch
Contains all of the patches listed below.

Evolution/Breeding Changes

azurill.ips - Azurill’s gender ratio corrected to 50%/50%, and its type is changed to Water

eevee.ips - Eevee evolves to Espeon by Sun Stone, and to Umbreon by Moon Stone

nidorina.ips - Nidorina’s and Nidoqueen’s egg groups corrected to Monster/Field, allowing breeding

mrmime.ips - Mr. Mime’s gender ratio corrected to 100% Male

babyless.ips - Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Azurill, Wynaut, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, and Magby are able to breed.

happiness.ips - Smoochum, Elekid, and Magby evolve by happiness. Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, and Azurill all evolve at Level 13. Marill evolves via Water Stone.

Type Changes

badkitty.ips - Changes Meowth & Persian to Dark. Pay Day changed to Dark.

clamperl.ips - Changes Huntail to Water/Dark and Gorebyss to Water/Psychic

dragons.ips - Changes Bulbasaur to Grass, Charizard to Fire/Dragon, Blastoise to Water/Steel, Gyarados to Water/Dragon, and Sceptile to Grass/Dragon

lightningbug.ips - Changes Volbeat and Illumise to Bug/Electric

lugia.ips - Changes Lugia to Water/Flying

normalize.ips - Changes Unown, Wobuffet, and Wynaut to Normal

pinsir.ips - Changes Pinsir to Bug/Fighting

porygon.ips - Changes Porygon & Porygon2 to Electric

psydark.ips - Changes Girafarig to Psychic/Dark and Absol to Dark/Psychic

psyduck.ips - Changes Psyduck and Golduck to Water/Psychic

purity.ips - Changes Geodude/Graveler to Rock and Gastly/Haunter to Ghost