Pokémon Availability
Move & Ability Changes
Quality of Life
Postgame
With hacks like Rising Ruby and Supernova Sun available, why play a 3DS OR/AS hack from 2020? The answer is balance entropy.
Later hacks tend to "over-buff" the player (giving Legendaries before the 3rd gym). Build 679 maintains a punishing, SMT-esque difficulty where every trainer on Victory Road has IV/EV trained Pokémon. It respects your time while demanding strategic mastery.
Furthermore, Build 679 was the last version to support the PSS (Player Search System) online features via Citra LAN. Builds after 680 removed this for stability.
Build 679 extended the Toxic TM availability to after the 3rd gym. Combined with the new ability Regenerator on Ho-Oh (post-game) and Toxapex (available at Route 124).
Since Star Sapphire is harder than vanilla, build 679 likely still has:
A balanced team for Build 679:
Without specific details on build 679, some features or changes might be unique to that version, such as:
Pokémon Availability
Move & Ability Changes
Quality of Life
Postgame
With hacks like Rising Ruby and Supernova Sun available, why play a 3DS OR/AS hack from 2020? The answer is balance entropy.
Later hacks tend to "over-buff" the player (giving Legendaries before the 3rd gym). Build 679 maintains a punishing, SMT-esque difficulty where every trainer on Victory Road has IV/EV trained Pokémon. It respects your time while demanding strategic mastery.
Furthermore, Build 679 was the last version to support the PSS (Player Search System) online features via Citra LAN. Builds after 680 removed this for stability.
Build 679 extended the Toxic TM availability to after the 3rd gym. Combined with the new ability Regenerator on Ho-Oh (post-game) and Toxapex (available at Route 124).
Since Star Sapphire is harder than vanilla, build 679 likely still has:
A balanced team for Build 679:
Without specific details on build 679, some features or changes might be unique to that version, such as: