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>>10259764
From what I've seen it's basically Crystal on steroids. Expands Kanto and adds a lot of QoL shit like tweaking Pokemon locations, adding the Kanto legendaries, items for trade evolutions, reusable TMs, etc. Of course you're forgoing compatibility with Stadium 2 or existing save editors since the data is all different.

The "faithful" branch seems fine if you're looking foran experience that's close to regular Crystal. The regular branch adds physical/special split, changes stats, Fairy type, removes Gen 2 Pokemon to add the Gen 4 evolutions, and removes old moves for newer ones. Probably shit that you don't want if you're interested in just playing Crystal.

I guess this 9-bit version is supposed to be able to add all of this shit without compromising old Pokemon and whatnot. The overhauled box system looks incredible at least.

>>9589551
Polished Crystal has an improved PC system. Though it makes many other changes you may not be interested in, and the latest version is still beta.
Red++ is planned to do the same for gen 1, but the new version still seems a long way off.