Pokémon Ash Gray Unofficial

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Author: metapod23 and fixed by patrickfcarey.

PROGRESS: Unofficial v1.0 (01/07/2026). Playable partway through the Orange Islands up to the third gym, possible Cleopatra Island. Now highly stable with a community bug-fix patch resolving major game-breaking crashes and softlocks.

An unofficial bug-fix patch of the classic FireRed ROM hack by metapod23 that lets you play through Season 1 of the Pokémon anime as Ash Ketchum. This patch addresses several crashes, softlocks, and save corruption issues from the original beta 4.5.3 release, keeping all original story, maps, and balance intact.

🛑Features:

➡️Play as Ash Ketchum: Experience the journey of the iconic anime protagonist starting right from waking up late in Pallet Town.

➡️Anime-Accurate Storyline: Follow Ash’s journey through the Indigo League and the Orange Islands, covering events from over a hundred episodes and the first two movies.

➡️Pikachu as Your Starter: Begin your journey with a Pikachu that follows you on the overworld, refuses its Pokéball, and objects to using a Thunder Stone.

➡️Anime-Accurate Team and Events: Meet and catch the exact Pokémon Ash caught in the anime, triggering chronological, scripted events.

➡️No More HMs: Classic HM moves like Cut and Surf are replaced by Key Items to better match the flow of the anime.

➡️Scripted Anime Battles: Experience scripted events such as Brock's first gym battle being a forced loss, Pikachu refusing to battle Misty, and Charizard disobeying orders.

➡️Save-Corruption Mitigation (fixed): The game's story variables overlap PC storage; three hazardous boxes (Box 2, 3, and 6) are now reserved in the storage UI so you can no longer accidentally overwrite your data and get Bad Eggs.

➡️Breeding-Center Crash Fixed (fixed): Fixed a crash that occurred when speaking with Jessie & James or Butch & Cassidy with a full party.

➡️Grampa Canyon Softlock Solved (fixed): Resolved an issue where a scripted NPC march collided with terrain and softlocked the game during the pickaxe event.

➡️Underwater-Cave Black-Screen Fixed (fixed): Resolved an unfilled text buffer and overlapping map-script tables that caused a freeze after Dragonite's message.

➡️Tangelo Island Crash Fixed (fixed): Corrected a warp leading to a deleted map, which previously caused a crash when arriving at the Orange Islands.

➡️Doll-Competition Freeze Fixed (fixed): Patched a corrupt script pointer that mistakenly ran the braille text renderer on garbage data and froze the game.

➡️Indigo Plateau Guard Patched (fixed): Fixed the eligibility check so the guard will properly grant entry once you have all 8 badges and have passed the exam.

➡️Prof. Oak League Send-off Stall Fixed (fixed): Addressed a progression stall that occurred on league day if your party was completely full.

➡️Dragonite Invitation Loop (fixed): Declining the invitation to Mewtwo's island now properly re-offers the invitation rather than rendering the game permanently unwinnable.

➡️Pallet Town Ledge Escape (fixed): Patched a map layout error that allowed players to jump into a one-tile pocket and get trapped early in the game.

➡️Cerulean Gym Pool Walkway Trap Fixed (fixed): Corrected a collision trap that could seal players with no way back on the pool walkway.

➡️Dangling Warps Corrected (fixed): Fixed 21 reachable dangling warps across the world map that could spawn players at broken coordinates.

➡️Running Shoes Restored (fixed): Re-enabled the running flag on 44 maps—including Pallet Town—where it had been accidentally disabled in the map editor.

➡️Bike Usage Restored (fixed): Restored bicycle permissions across 16 maps that had lost them.

➡️Safe Teachy TV Override (fixed): The broken Teachy TV item now safely declines to open instead of dropping your character into a black void.

➡️Wild Encounter Level Fix (fixed): Corrected a level-wrapping typo for wild surfing Staryu.

➡️Spelling and Dialogue Corrections (fixed): Fixed several typos throughout the game, including "INIDGO PLATEAU" to "INDIGO", "recieved" to "received", and "sacrfices" to "sacrifices".

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