ROM Hack Carrying more than 6 Pokémon

[ThisIsRandy]

Hi guys,

I’m looking for a way to carry more than 6 pokemon in my inventory for pokemon lets go pikachu on nintendo switch. Is there a mod or something that gives you the option to use more than 6 Pokemon to fight with and add them in your party?

 

[mammoth_dream]

probably not. every pokemon game ever made limits you to 6. you can take your starter out of your party and they still stay with you to play with and be an hm slave so that's nice

 

[FAST6191]

As was mentioned it is a fairly well entrenched limit in this game series and breaking from it would require fairly extensive reworking of the game to do it.

You could go down the path we see some fighting game hackers take when they want to make in fight character swaps. Here you assign a pokemon to a blank area of memory and then with a key combination swap it out for an existing one. The game will still see six for all its purposes but there will be a seventh in memory somewhere. Saving the game might also prove to be harder so you would either have to sacrifice a pokemon each time you turn it off or alter the save handling to add that piece of memory to the end of the save and load it back there afterwards (a hard hack but not as hard as reworking the game to increase the limit), if you are good you could try savestates or note the pokemon's data down and load it back in via cheats.