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News of the latest major release of the Star Beasts hack is brought to us courtesy of our contributor YeOldeLoremonger (RHP), who designed the town layouts and gave feedback on the overworld and world map in the release.

It is believed that Asteroid version will no longer be supported moving forward. Meteor version previously already had its support dropped.

Project lead Soul Valor (RHDN) gives the following update via PokeCommunity forums. You can find the Github repo here.

Worked on over the course of more than half a decade, Star Beasts is a Gen 1 total conversion and homage to the first generation of Pokémon games.

Started as a passion project to make a playable version of Vast Fame’s Shi Kong Xing Shou for English speaking audiences, Star Beasts became its own project with entirely new fakemon designs and a new region.

Star Beasts 3.0.: Comet Version features an entirely new Dex of Fakemon and a mostly new region (Relas) with a focus on exploration.

Some of the new features are as follows:

• A completely overhauled soundtrack! Almost none of the music from the original games remains!
• An overhauled Pokedex, complete with backsprites, that fixes balance issues and replaces uglier designs and makes older evolutionary families more consistent.
• Even more overhauled movesets, with even more new moves!
• The Fairy, Steel and Dark types!
• A new region, Relas!
• New types of trainers with different rosters and improved AI!
• More dialogue and areas than the original games!
• Rebalancing of the game to make it more accessible to newcomers, including plenty of NPCs that give you hints on where to find rare Star Beasts! And, as if that weren’t enough, there’s documentation on every Beast! (Although the game is best experienced blind, use your discretion!)
• Various quality of life improvements, such as an experience bar!

So, what do you think? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.

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