Pokémon FireRed Version
1 recomp and 1 port
Gen1Recomp
bryanthaboi/gen1recomp
A native Lua/LÖVE recreation of the first three generations of Pokémon: Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Despite the name, it no longer stops at the first generation. The engine and map behavior are hand-written; the game data and graphics are decoded from a ROM the player supplies. It’s a recreation, not a static recompilation. There are Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS builds, among others. Beware: the gen1recomp.com website isn’t the project’s, and its author asks people not to download anything from it.
Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen (mstan)
mstan/FireRedLeafGreenRecomp
Static recompilation of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen for Windows with gbarecomp, with a separate executable and download for each game. The ROM’s ARM7TDMI code is translated to C, and the console’s real BIOS is recompiled and run too. Both games boot and get into gameplay, but its author presents it as an early preview: code the recompiler didn’t cover runs through an interpreter the first time, is compiled to native code on the fly, and is saved to disk for later launches. From the pret/pokefirered decompilation it only takes function names and addresses, not its code. It has a pre-boot launcher to pick the ROM and BIOS and set up video, audio, and controls, plus save states. Version 0.0.4 (October 18) updated the engine and launcher. 18 of its 29 commits list Claude as a co-author, and the first one describes itself as the work of a Codex session.
You needYour own US v1.0 Pokémon FireRed (SHA-1 41cb23d8dccc8ebd7c649cd8fbb58eeace6e2fdc) or LeafGreen (SHA-1 574fa542ffebb14be69902d1d36f1ec0a4afd71e) ROM, depending on the game, and a dump of your Game Boy Advance BIOS. Plus 64-bit Windows.
Installs with
Quiver Launcher · GithubLauncher (N64RecompLauncher) · WLauncher
Questions
Can you play Pokémon FireRed Version natively on PC?
Yes, though unfinished. The catalog has 1 recomp and 1 port, all already playable.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Pokémon FireRed Version (GBA). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Gen1Recomp, with 4,086 stars on GitHub.