Best one i seen is pokemon emerald rogue, which turns the game into a roguelike and adds all gen 1-9 mons to pokemon emerald.

Fusion. It has Mr. Sir

CW: Spooky shit

I have this list in my notes from 4 months ago

• Unbound
• Pisces (?)
• FireRed Rocket Edition
• Celia’s Stupid ROM Hack
• Glazed
• Gaia
• Infinite Fusion

They’re all pretty well regarded in the scene IIRC, but I’ve only played some of Glazed and it seemed cool? Pretty sure they’re all finished projects except Pisces which is why it has the question mark.

Oh also Pisces has fakemon which I know isn’t everyone’s cup of tea

Pokemon: Too Many Types (As seen in Alpharad’s video!

It makes for the funniest pokemon content I’ve ever seen

I’ve recently been playing renegade Platinum and put it on my custom-firmware DSi XL. Super fun n quite hard

I’ve been playing the Radical Red challenge hack of firered

Anything Drayano made, like Renegade Platinum or Storm Silver. Essentially the vanilla games but made better in every way.

I’m going to go off the beaten path here and suggest one that hasn’t been completed, but it is more than halfway done. It’s called Pokémon Coral. A game that intends to feel like playing Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal for the first time with completely new region and 251 pokemon from gen 1 to 7. It’s the prettiest gen 2 hack I’ve ever played!

https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokémon-coral-version-2022-demo-out-now.402361/

-Unbound
-Glazed
-Gaia
-Emerald Z

Pokémon Quetzal is a fun emerald ROM hack that has a whole bunch of extra pokémon, and settings to change how often shinies appear.

It also has multiplayer which I have not touched but sounds interesting.