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Have there been any Gen 2 hacks that generalized the Unown variant idea to apply to all pokemon? I think it would be cool for each pokemon to have variations based on their IVs like Unown to make individuals feel more unique. It would also give people another "sidequest" of sorts to do, to try to find every variant of their favorite pokemon. The code is already there for Unown, and looking at it, it seems like it would be relatively easy to generalize it to apply to everything. I figure the best way to add variants would be to use all the different sprites from the first two generations. Though one obstacle there would be modifying them to all use the same palette without looking like shit. Or modifying the code even further to allow for different palettes but that sounds like more effort than it's worth. It may also not even be possible to fit this many sprites in.
Has this been done before? If not, is this a feature anyone would even care about? I don't think it would be a very interesting hack on its own but it might make a cool little feature that others could add to their own hacks. I might take a swing at it just for fun/to see if I can do it.