Red rides a Machamp down a sunlit road. The camera pulls back over Kanto’s forests and coast, then drops into a wild battle. A two-minute clip shared by Charmi turns Pokémon FireRed into the 3D adventure you might have imagined while staring at a Game Boy Advance screen. The Machamp taxi alone earns a second viewing.
Charmi describes the project as FireRed with Pokémon: Let’s Go visuals and the older game’s battles, still a work in progress.
A separate GitHub project is building a 3D version with Let’s Go scenery and animations over a Rust rewrite of FireRed’s rules.
The project’s status notes list Pallet Town and Route 1 as the only fully playable areas in its Rust versions. Battles and wild encounters work; trainer AI and move effects remain unfinished. The project has no public release or download.
Pokémon: Let’s Go gave Kanto a handsome 3D look; FireRed’s routes and battle rules could make that world feel like a different adventure. The Pokémon Company’s 2026 Switch rerelease brings back the original Game Boy Advance journey. A 3D version would offer a different perspective: walking through those familiar places at ground level.
