>>23169783What you say is mostly true, but there are still a few people hacking the first two Gens.
Honestly, I can understand why they mostly stick to Gen III; they've made leaps and bounds with it, a lot of later Gen mechanics changes have been ported, Fairy-type has been added, phys/spec split is the norm, a lot of abilities and moves have been backported and people are now able to expand the Dex to 721 and beyond (even if nobody's done so yet).
Maybe in the future we'll see things like proper Megaevolutions and things like Zoroark's Illusion working properly.
To start completely over on a later Gen is just asking for a lot. It's like the people that want people to move onto Smash 4 hacking as soon as it becomes possible (I don't think it'll be possible until the Wii U can be emulated but you know what I mean), Brawl's just had so many leaps and bounds and we're starting to see a stable roster expansion method (right now 7 clones; hopefully we'll see that amount expanded in the future, and no BrawlEx is not stable, it crashes all the time), we can get up to 78 stages and potentially even more with Alternate Stage Loader being refined, etc.
It's sad that we can't get all the additions of later games, but all the leaps and bounds that've been made so far are too much to throw away and start over. If we saw more Gen IV, Gen V, and Gen VI hacks, that'd be great, but with the amount of work, it'd be not worth it when you could probably more easily backport new features eventually.
