/heg/ - Hacking and Essentials General

>>28232428
Hope this stays up this time

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>>28232472
Same cuz. I think we've died down a bit now thought, so that's a plus

Also, rate my shitty Fakemon sprite guys

>>28232692
Better shading than anything I've ever made in my life so that's a plus

>>28232692
Bigger sprite please
Design looks good, but you might want to expand and repose it, even in the 64x64 constraint

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>>28232738
Bigger sprite it coming up. And yeah, repose maybe. Not sure about making it much bigger though - I really wish there was a guide like [the one I'm about to post] for Pokemon sizes in 64x64 sprites

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>>28232954
what i'm on about

>>28232727
tyty man, cheers

Guys, I've been avoiding spoilers for Sun/Moon, and /heg/ is the only Pokemon place I visit currently. I've gotta ask though, whats up with this Snorlax shit?

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>>28233158
After 20 years of sleeping, Snorlax has finally awakened with a powerful attack.
Yes, this means Snorlax trying to stand up through history was intentional.

>>28233158
>>28233277
And the attack's name is one of the dumbest things we've ever heard from the Pokemon series to boot

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Is it okay to ask questions on romhacks here? If told too I'm sorry and will delete this post.

I'm interested in playing the johto games again but decided to look into romhacks as I want something more difficult. What would you guys recommend in terms of a harder johto hack? Graphics are no concern to me, will play any version of the games.

>>28233349
Yeah, but I kind of like it. It's just so gloriously stupid that it loops around into hilarious.

Any help on world map hacking? Someone's gotta know. Not the advance map editor mean as in replacing the world map for a custom one of my own design.

>>28233440
Liquid crystal is fun if you may prefer gen 3 graphics.

>>28233440
Sacred Gold and Storm Silver are great. There's also Mind Crystal if you want Fairies and some of the new abilities.

>>28232428
Can someone get me started with hacking a gen 3 rom. I don't feel like reading the paste bins. Thanks.

>>28233728
>>28233851
Thanks guys, trying liquid crystal right now. Next time I play gen 2 I'll try storm silver or mind crystal.

>>28234020
So, you want to make a ROM hack? First, you need to decide on a ROM base: FireRed, Ruby or Emerald. There are various pros and cons to each, but in general FireRed has the most documentation and research, with Emerald hacking becoming an emerging art and Ruby being a piece of shit you should avoid at all costs because it was made by a GameFreak who don't know what they're doing.

Once you've chosen either FireRed or Emerald, download the following tools:

http://ampage.no-ip.info/index.php?seite=details&program=AdvanceMap&ver=1.92 -AdvanceMap 1.9.2
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=85025 - eXtreme Script Editor
http://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD - HxD
http://vba-m.com - VisualBoy Advance-M
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=320113 - Generation 3 Hacking Suite
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=311461 - Generation 3 Tools
http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=26913 - GBA Graphics Editor
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=149454 - Nameless Tile Map Editor
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=85025 - Advanced Palette Editor
http://www.irfanview.com/ - IrfanView
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=205687 - Nameless Sprite Editor Classic

You might then want to check out some tutorials on getting started:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=66

>>28234020
Okay. Here is my guide. Hope this helps.
Read the pastebin.

>>28234047
Neato thanks.

So can you only replace existing moves and pokemon? or can you do just about anything?

>>28234077
You can add pokemon and moves if you want. Try in Gen 3 Suite. You'll have to create your own sprites, animations, and stats for both however so good luck.

>>28234077
dude that was just the first section of the pastebin I was just fucking with you

>>28234020
If you're too lazy to read the pastebin, you're far far too lazy to figure out how to make a hack

>>28232979
holy fuck please tell me there's one like this for gen 3 out there

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A few questions in terms of taste. My base hack of Emerald uses 70 starter pokemon to choose from. The moment you choose 3, you are dropped into the world with them at lvl 30.
Now, with the release and concept of SuMo, I decided to play with the island Explorer idea. Here are my questions

1.Do I create multiple rivals essentially ( a hand full of trainers who get stronger as you progress) or just a fucking ton of ace trainers, bug catchers, youngsters and such.

2.What variety should I use for starters? I have many middle evos of Kanto and johto mons set now with crappie movesets and random assortment items

3. What types of Islands would you like to see, what excites you for exploring? Because Mt. Moon is nice for its moonstone, rare candy and fossil that are all on the way... but the rest of the cave was trash. What makes you want to go deeper?

>>28234289
No use beating a dead horse anon... some people are lost causes.

>>28233440
This is a HGSS hack I've been playing:
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=347879

It's not much of a difficulty improvement other than a higher level curve and some gym leader pokes added/leveled up

>>28235073
1. I've never seen a game do more than two rivals well, so to be safe, I'd stick to 2, no more than 3. You just don't get a whole lot of screen time to develop them and make them interesting characters if you have too many.

2.I'd say a variety of midstages is the way to go. Starters and regional birds are a safe bet as well as fully evolved rodents. Things like Luxio might be good as well. Ensure you've got a wide variety of types too, so don't go ham on grass/fire/water Pokemon since you already have the starters for those. Usually speaking, you can probably just use the Pokemon's natural moveset at the level you give them at, though, keeping STABs might be important.

3. More importantly than anything, make areas different and unique, not just from one another but from stuff you commonly see in games in general. Rock Tunnel was a slog because there was nothing that made it stand out from Mt. Moon before it and the Seafoam Islands and Victory Road after it. Perhaps instead of being just a cave, it's a crytal cave or a submerged cave that you have to dive new places to get to. Map design is also important. Don't pull a Mt. Moon where a lot of it feels extraneous and pointless, have it be more like Union cave or an Oreburgh Gate where the main part of it is pretty compact, but if you explore off the beaten path, there's stilll a lot to do.

Hope this helped.

Do all the hacks use the same gym leader + HM progression formula? I'm just typing out some ideas and I think a pokemon game where you sort of go on quests and complete tasks to proceed might be interesting. Maybe a strong wild pokemon could act as a boss.

>>28235073
1. 2 rivals is the upper limit I'd say, and even that mainly works when ones the main battling rival and the other checks your pokedex or whatever.

2. Mid evolved starters seem like a good fit. I'd say to include lots of mid evolutions. Helps feel like you're at a higher level, while still having room to grow.

3. Not sure one specific islands, but as for exploring, I usually get excited when there's rare pokemon in a particular spot or chamber, or when there's puzzles to gain access to rare items. Most of all, it's exciting when it's a place that's entirely optional, or even secret. Even discovering it should require a bit of exploring to help make it feel mysterious.

>>28235665
>Strong wild pokemon boss

Uranium had something like that. Trouble is that you can catch it and get a huge advantage because it's 10 levels above your party.

You could do away with Gym Leaders and HMs though depending on how you go about it. The only main one you might want is Surf, and either Fly or something to fill the same function to go from town to town quickly.

>>28234703
this

Long story short, I haven't played a single Pokemon game after Gen 3, but I want to come back. I'm naturally thinking about playing Gen 4 next, but the problem is Pokemon games as they are just aren't challenging enough to keep me interested, so a 'hard mode' hack for Gen 4 (and potentially up too) is what I'm looking for. I looked through the 'Notable ROM hacks' pastebin on the OP, but which would you guys recommend? Thanks in advance guys.

What's the best hack you ever played?

>>28236315
Cuckold emerald

>>28235688
I was thinking about doing the same. How bad would it be to not be able to capture the boss pokemon ? I don't like the idea of arbitrarly stoping players from capturing pokémons, but I don't want them to get strong pokémons just like that. Maybe having a low capture chance is enough.

>>28236515
I'd expect Sun&Moon won't allow us to catch the totem Pokémon, also B/W2 never let you catch B/W Kyurem, so I think it's fine.

>>28232428
How hard is it to make you own hack?

So I'm working on a rom hack using the Emerald 650 base, and when I get to the part where Wally has to catch a pokemon, it gets stuck before his encounter begins. one the "...Whoa!" line of dialogue, to be exact.

Any clue what could be causing this? I did mess with the wild pokemon data in that route, but I assumed that as a special event it wouldn't literally rely on an encounter chance.

As a back-up plan, is there a way to just remove that whole event? Or will skipping it not trigger some important flags?

Why is there no download for Xtreme Script Editor when I go to the link in the pastebin? The one the HackMew made. All I can download is Free Space Finder and nothing else.

>>28236236
There's Flawless Platinum, which is modestly more difficult than vanilla and it attempted to be rebalanced, but also has some weird type changes like Empoleon being water/ice. Bloody Platinum is another one that's much harder, but I've never played it so I don't know too much about it.

As for HGSS hacks, the gold standards are sacred gold/storm silver that are quite a bit more difficult.

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I had this idea for a fangame called Pokemon Topaz (Also, Pokemon Jasper as the secondary version). The cover legends are Raikou for Topaz and Entei for Jasper. It's essentially the B2/W2 of G/S/C, taking place 10 years or so after the original. The evil organisation (no name yet rip) want to capture the cover legendary beast and unlock it's true power (Probably mega evolution, but something else could be a possibility). Also, certain Pokemon have Johtoan forms. (I don't know how these'd play out, however)

Say how autistic this idea is if you wish.

>>28238471
All the attachments were broken when they got hacked.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bcnyqiz0luuffuc/9559-Xtreme+Script+Editor+1.11.zip

>>28238941
Sounds pretty cool. You could link the plot back to Eusine trying to get Suicune in GSC with him pretty much doing the same thing or some shit.

>>28238995
Yeah, Eusine would play a big role in the plot.

>>28238941
Part of the fun in BW2 was the new gyms and routes. So making entire new areas could be done, but what if you just set the game with Mt. Silver in the middle of the map, instead of the far right?

for example, the player starts in Cinnabar (or maybe a newly created volcanic island nearby). You head up to Pallet Town, but then take a hard left and go to New Bark Town, which now hosts the first gym. Then head up to Blackthorn as the 2nd gym, before crossing over the mountains to Pewter as a 3rd gym. You could continue on in this way, adding a few new routes, but mainly just using existing routes and gyms in a fresh order, crossing between Johto and Kanto frequently.

>>28239092
I like this idea. So Johto and Kanto's leagues would now be joined together?

>>28237190
Fucking incredibly hard, if you expect your work to be half decent

>>28239142
Another bit of story in this is that Raikou/Entei mega evolved and destroyed Ecruteak. Luckily, Morty and his ghost Pokemon sensed this before, leading people to safety. This incident caused Eusine to take intrigue. Doing whatever it takes to get Entei/Raikou in his hands. He sets up an evil team and assigns a man the job as a pawn leader. Basically covering up Eusine's whole involvement. Morty is also intrigued, and helps the player throughout the game.

>>28239142
yeah, but you wouldn't necessarily make the player go through all 16 gyms in order to face the elite 4, just the usual 8.

You could make a new route going over Mt. Silver, but since it's an early-game route that you'll be using to cross between quite often, spin it as super-touristy. Kinda like how Mt. Everest has gotten full of casual tourist shit in parts - hella tents and markets set up, hotels and spas, etc. NPCs saying how great it is, other saying they think it's destroying the natural beauty, etc.

how do you give a pokemon name a symbol at the end? Like how Nidoran has the male and female symbol. What would I have to do to make my own symbol for a pokemon?

>>28238941
You've just reminded me of a shitty edgy hack that was made years ago which was also called Pokemon Topaz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dofogo5FeY
Do what this anon said >>28239092 and add some new areas and update them, so it's not just Johto again. Is this going to be a romhack or an essentials game?

>>28239519
Essentials game, if it ever actually happens. It's just ideas for now.

>>28239401
In the ROMs, every character is represented by a hex code. Most Pokémon editors worth their salt should have Table.ini files which change the hex value of a string into a letter. You could go in their and assign one of the unused random characters like the Swedish accents or whatever and change that to your new symbol, assign that to something in the ini, change the name, and then manually edit the graphic for the letter in the ROM itself to look however you'd want it to.

>>28239176
>>28237190
If you can do everything on your own, it's not hard, just extremely time consuming.

So... how do you animate bitmaps in essentials?

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>>28239928
I'm using Yape and the closest thing I got is a configuration map called "charmap" in the common file which is pic related. I tried putting in the symbol i'm using in replacement for lowercase "a" which is 0xD5 in Hexidecimal just to test it but it doesn't show up in the editor whenever I put it in Bulbasaur.

>>28239928
>>28240483
wait. I have a table.ini in Gen 3 Tools. But I'm confused as what you mean by
>You could go in their and assign one of the unused random characters like the Swedish accents or whatever and change that to your new symbol
>assign that to something in the ini

aren't they the same thing? What's the difference?

I'm also lost on
>change the name

>>28238931
Thanks. Appreciate it.

>>28239928
Nevermind. I got it to work in Gen 3 Tools but for whatever reason it won't save. There isn't even a save option anywhere what gives? But once I got that figured out all I need to do change the graphic.

>>28235278
>1. I've never seen a game do more than two rivals well

BW1 handled it well with three, they just needed to stretch the battles out so you didn't have two rival battles between each Gym. I agree with not having fucking ten though.

>>28238941
This is an excellent idea except for the 'Johtoan' forms. Johto has historically been part of a landmass with no adaptations [Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh are all part of 'japan' in the Pokemon world], so it'd be strange to retcon them in, especially when the 3 regions near Johto haven't had forms retconned in. It'd just be easier and more natural to retcon in new megas and introduce vanilla 'formes' [like Wormadam, Rotom, etc have], perhaps you could introduce new forms for Raikou and Entei to make them feel more prominent within the story.

what's the difference between normal VBA and VBA-M?

>>28239928
never mind again. Apparently it did end up working in game because it was indicated by "Bulbasaur 's" with a space in between the name and the 's instead of a normal Bulbasaur's. My question is why did it show up as a space and not the symbol I replaced. I replaced à with my new symbol so wouldn't the symbol in game be "Bulbasaurà's" and not a space?

>>28241442
wait I screwed up. It didn't end up reading my new symbol... I forgot I put a space in before my symbol and it recognized the space only.

Is there any tool to modify pokemon evolutions in gen II?
I have an old crystal hackrom that changes it but I forget how to evolve Slowbro and also I lost the readme

>>28241824
Trading with a Kings rock or something

>>28239928
goddamn it I keep mistaking shit. Turns out the space that I talked about in >>28241501 can't be there and only the symbol can be put next to the name. Wew. Now that I have that bull done how do I go on and change the graphic in game cause I replaced à.

>>28241853
Yeah, I know that, but the hack changes it to something else, Its already level 55 but still doesn't evolve. The hack itself is Pokemon Crystal made by some "Morfeo" in 2006, But I don't know if that helps, it just adds the 255.
So I need the tool to look up how to evolve it there.

>>28241824
>>28241853
>evolve Slowbro

>>28242000
Shit, I'm an idiot. Fuck.
Thanks anyways

>>28240749
Yeah, Johtoan forms were an iffy idea.

>>28242424
>>28238941
>>28240749
I think johtoan forms are doable, but you have to be careful.
Arbok actually has a "Johtoan form".
It's markings vary in each region through Hoenn.
One could argue that Bellossom is a is a Johtoan mutation, due to the discovery of the Sun Stone not found in Kanto.

You'd have to make small changes instead of things like Vulpix, where the type changes completely, and there has to be good reason for doing so.
They still have to strongly resemble they're Kanto counterparts, too.
No Johto Pokémon or Pokémon with Johto split evos should be considered.

Some good candidates are Pidgey, Spearow, Rattata, Poliwag, and even some fossil mon.

>>28238941
Johtoan forms sound cool. But like Max said, keep the changes relevant. For example: Due to the rainbow trails and ashes Ho-oh leaves behind while roaming around Johto, the Spearow soaring the Johto skies strangely reacted to these and adapted an affinity to Fire.

>>28243335
You have a good head on your shoulders

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>>28243362
Thanks <3
Another idea: Suicune's continuous search for impure water in Johto has led it to factory waste dumps on the city side, where Grimer and Muk were then indirectly cleansed, turning them to pure Water-types.

>>28232954
Looks like ASS!

>>28243591
That's a good one, but I think there would be discontinuity if the Johto Team rocket didn't have Poison type Grimer.

>>28243626
But wasn't anon's idea 10 years after GSC? He also has an unnamed evil organization so I'm assuming he isn't using Team Rocket.

>>28243741
That's true
Since, suicune would have already been quelled at this point, it does make sense, after all.

Can you use the randomizer to make all pokemon available without randomizing wild pokemon?

>>28243591
You, I like you.

>>28243741
Yeah, the evil team isn't Team Rocket. I have no name for them yet.

I don't know if this is the best place for this question, but seeing how this is a more technically minded portion of the board perhaps someone will be aware of this problem.

A long time ago I got into RNG abuse pretty hard. I enjoyed it, it was fun and had just the right amount of challenge, so I went at it for about a year and collected a very sizable amount of RNG abused pokemon. In this time I used a piece of software called IR GTS BW to store my RNG'd pokemon, as well as ones I traded for, and also to clone them as needed. When gen6 came out, I transferred a bunch of my RNG'd pokemon up en masse using PokeTransporter, and for a while was content.

Well, I went back to the old tricks today and wanted to dig out a couple of older mons that I haven't seen in a while and discovered that I could not get IR GTS BW to work any more. Specifically, according to a thread I found on Project Pokemon, IR GTS BW no longer works at all because GameFreak pulled the gen5 GTS down and even though IR GTS BW transfers from your personal computer to your DS it still has to do some communication with the official servers beforehand. As a result, it appears that my entire library of RNG'd pokemon is basically stranded on my computer for all eternity, and this makes me sad.

Long story aside, what methods are there to get gen5 and gen4 .pkm files onto gen6 games nowadays? Is there a suitable replacement to IR GTS BW that completely intercepts the DS communication and can still be used?

How do I use tilesets? How do I split them up into the individual tiles for laying out on a tilemap?

I'm playing vega and it's great but the need for HMs is killing me. Does anyone know if there's any code breaker or something one can use to avoid having to carry two slaves? It never occured to me there could be cheats foe this.

>>28244048
>>>/ekx/

>>28232428
Hey guys I am currently playing the adventure of red hack version 11e (well that is how it says, I downloaded from some site because I am playing it on gba4ios). But I need the .doc with all the changelog. I want to know
- how I can get a politoad instead of poliwrath
- how can I get mew and when
- how to get the gengar with all these circles
- can I still get a shiny ghastly on a sunday?
- are mega evos permanent?
- is mega gengar shiny version white?
- how to get mega pikachu
- how to get charmander/squirtle
- I couldnt beat rhydon in the cave but when it seems I skipped the event somehow, how can I still get a moonstone?

Sorry for these many questions

>>28245018
I take it that is where this belongs, then? I see, thank you for the link.

what are some good essentials games?

reliccastle wont let me register or see anything
I swear these threads need a list of notable Essentials games in the OP pasta.

>>28245737
Uranium is... pretty divisive here, but I think it's pretty good, and it's one of the only fully completed Essentials games that's any good (okay, everyone can at least agree it's better than Reborn).

>>28245737
Uranium plays like trash, looks like trash particularly during battles and has a terrible embarrassing story and pokemon design.
Avoid at all costs. It's also the only completed essentials "game" after god knows how many years.

>>28245842
See? Divisive.

>>28245737

play the sage demo if you are up for an hour of 10/10 looks and atmosphere be prepared for suffering in route 1 though
>hail
>tickle
>charm

madness

>>28245012
All the cheats for FireRed should work, 1.0 FireRed specifically.
Also, have you considered Kawappa's Evolution? Fucker learns basically everything aside from Fly and Flash.

>>28245737
>what are some good essentials games?

Here, I got a pastebin of them.

http://pastebin.com/ARVxRNZr

>>28245737
Reborn is pretty good in gameplay and challenge, but story is kinda edgy, so you go if you want to have good battles.
Rejuvenation is a complete rip-off of Reborn for the first half, but samme logic as above applies.
Uranium is overrated, but go for it if you like fakemon. Still, story sucks. A LOT. Also battles and level curves are very badly designed
Insurgence is for in case you want to satiate your urge for alolan forms, since it has delta forms.

While whether story of those games are good or not, I feel it's still better than official mainline games (none surpass Mystery Dungeon though)
Only fangame with actual bad story to the point you would lose neurones so far is Full Moon.

>>28245955
I'm just a bit annoyed by having to keep a third of the team locked to a pair slaves. Still I've been looking for a while and there doesn't seem to be anything that lets you use the HMs without pokemon that have them.
Shame, there's so many cool new things I'd want to have around.

>>28246260
>Essentialsfags have such low taste that they'll actually suggest playing Rejuvination

>>28245910
It's only divisive because some people give it a free pass on the cringeworthy story and very-obviously-fakemon designs because 'oh my god, it's fan made and finished' or because '9 YEARS?!'.

It really is a subpar game. You can still have fun playing it, but it doesn't make it any less trash

>>28246260
>I feel it's still better than official mainline games

Sorry, just discarded your entire opinion because of that. You're either ridiculously underage, and want to play a ""mature"" Pokemon game, or want to play a Pokemon game with a ridiculously contrived cliched piece of shit story. I've played all of those, bar Rejuvenation, and the story has sucked in every single one.

Being darker, or more complex than mainline Pokemon stories does not make it better, especially when the person writing it can't write for shit

>>28245737
Spectrum is pretty decent if you're cool with a mix of Fakemon and official 'mons.
https://mega.nz/#!h9ZTgBYJ!--B410Nv8IjmibfP9pqGyqa756HHadbAFZkfNNAKL10

DOORS

>>28247179
Not that anon but I think there could be decent albeit darker themed games. Just don't overdo the plot and make it practical.

War time pokemon
>pokemon used for wars (which is canon)
>promotes the usual friendship with pokemon since they are your brothers in battle
>get to see the horrors of war so it also has the usual peace message
>instead of gyms it's military compounds
>trainers are stray soldiers or deserters
>the Evil Corporation can do what they always do: steal powerful pokemon, sell them to the highest bidder to promote the war and make a profit

It's dark but it's it has all the messages and usual pokemon themes.

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>>28246174
10/10

>>28237190
Not very hard, but incredibly tedious

>>28242424
No offense, but it's the only idea that would actually make me play your game on its own

>>28247398
BW/2 are the decent, darker Pokemon games, anon. Much darker than that and you get into some deviantart/wattpad tier writing

>>28247398
And I'd probably class that as overdone. Kanto Roads seems to be doing your idea in a much more palatable way

Does Drayano modify the RNG in his games? Been playing Sacred Gold, and I got to Ecruteak recently, where between the Stantlers outside and Gastly family at the gym, I've been confused for more than I have the rest of the game combined. And, I literally fucking counted, I have hit myself in confusion fourteen goddamn times in a row. That stretches from "unlikely" to "this fucking nigger is trolling me."

>>28246522
Sorry, couldn't hear you over beating all the bullshit difficulties on the game. Call me masochist, but I like to beat that stuff.

>>28247179
Anon, not a matter of being darker, it's a matter of mainline games sucking HARD. I mean, if it were, say, Mystery Dungeon, then I can admit wholeheartedly that fangames' story can't compare. But the mainline sucks that hard

>>28247179
>Being darker, or more complex than mainline Pokemon stories does not make it better
> or more complex
Gonna stop you right there

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can someone recommend me a comedy romhack
dont really care about quality

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Does anyone have these tiles ripped? Taking a screenshot from advanced map isn't exactly the best method.

>>28248208
There's Colosseum and Gale of Darkness

The earlier games have that 90s edgieness to them, too.

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I want a Pokemon fan game that takes place in a metropolis, but the only ones that exist are too annoyingly in-your-face SJW, to the point where it detracts from the Pokemon aspect of the game.

I had an idea to create a Pokemon game that takes place in a metropolis, but isn't completely grimdark and anti-society (showing both the positive and negatives of city life) which actually features SJW hipster types as the evil team.

Would anyone be interested?

>>28251200
If it's as good as your digits, sure

>>28251200
I'm not really sure they'd be that compelling as villains? It sounds like they'd be more annoying than an a credible threat to the player. I guess that's up to how you portray them, though.

>>28251200
The villains don't seem that good. Like, unless you do them like a Team Plasma sort of way? Maybe misguided people that seek equality, or reforms, but are being a bit too extremist. The problem with SJW is that they are either hypocrites or don't focus in the actual issue. You could do with villains that are actually adressing the actual issues, but are using the wrong means.

Like, I dunno, factory is causing pollution? Blow it up. Those superenterprises are using forced labor from pokemon and shit? Take it down. Big companies are taking advantage of the population, manipulating them and doing hostile takeovers and stuff like that? Steal from them.

Stuff like Robin Hood, or maybe with some strange sense of morality behing them. Villains being well-intentioned extremists, instead of SJW that never get anything done and most of the times worse the reputation of people that actually want true justice to happen.

You could still keep the Hipster theme like a motif or in their actions/mannerisms somehow. Kinda like team Galactic are astronauts, Plasma are knights, Aqua are pirates, Skull are street punks and so on

>>28251301
Here's the idea I've been playing with.

Since the "region" is much more urbanized, wild Pokemon have become much rarer and Pokemon are bred and sold (with regulatory commissions) but younger people are less inclined to be able to afford stronger ones. A revolutionary leader appears and preaches a stateless, moneyless world where all Pokemon and resources will be shared by the people of the city, rather than privately owned.

They'll start out stealing Pokemon and performing various acts of armed terrorism using Pokemon in what they believe to be revolutionary disruption of "the system" that "oppresses" them. What you'll find out later is that their R&D is developing a system where all Pokemon are held in a public database similar to the PC system, and all the Pokemon on it would be the public property. The stolen Pokemon are kept on this database, and to give the team evil points, disposed of if they're not powerful enough. They'll also experiment with mind control technology to use on humans and Pokemon.

At the end of the story, the team will have successfully completed "The Revolution" by destroying the city's financial infrastructure and creating a device which deactivates all Pokeballs, requiring people to use their "Social Pokemon System." They'll have imprisoned/enslaved those who fought against them as counterrevolutionaries, and it'll be up to you to navigate through downtown and defeat the leader/deactivate the machine, which will be powered by the box legendary.

You get involved, plotwise, because they're very hostile to other young people who don't share their dream. They're outwardly hostile to anyone who caught their Pokemon the "traditional" way and see them as oppressors.

And lastly, it'll be obvious through their dialogue that most of them are too dumb to fully grasp the repercussions of what they're doing, and they're only doing it to seem like caring people to their peer groups.

It's subject to change.

How do I go about making a pokemon hack that centers around islands and not the mainland? I don't want it like the Sevii islands in FrLg where a cruise is a jump cut to each that'll feel too isolated. I want the player to travel to one another. But not by surf like in RSE where everywhere could be a wild encounter.

I was planning on using a sailboat to replace both the bike and surf like how in Gen 1 HM's were originally gonna be hand tools. I would imagine it's rather simple to put surfs functionality into the bikes instead and replace the bikes graphics with a sailboat but I'm lost on how to actually do that however.

Another issue I have is how to have only select areas(or tiles) of water be wild encounterable and not the entire ocean like patches of grass on land.

Does anybody have any idea on how to do this themselves or know any tutorials regarding anything that has to do with this kind of hacking? I would be much appreciated.

>>28251916
Make the sailboat only areas currents while the encounter water is just water.

>>28251916
there's tons of scripts for changing HMs into items. Look on pokecommunity

>>28251916
You could cheat by making a map that looks like water, but has the movement permissions of a regular land map. This way you can use the bike on it and set up some tiles to work like grass. Any decent advance map tutorial should cover this.

>>28247398
Shit, I'd like to play that game

>>28252075
I'm gonna do what >>28252070 said and keep the bike and make the sailboat a separate graphic than being part of the players. If I can somehow make water function as grass there has to be a way to cancel out the wild encounter functionality on regular water tiles and put it in custom ones of my own.

>>28252093
I'd make it myself but I'm piss at designing and mapping.

Where can I find move lists for Light Platinum? My patch file didn't have any documentation with it, and my Googling didn't show any results either.

What's the best GBA hack?
I've seen high praises to Light Platinum, Glazed and Theta Emerald. Which do you guys suggest? Or something different maybe?

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What do you guys think of Expert Emerald?

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>>28254693
Vega/Procyon/Deneb

>>28255054
I don't really like fakemons. What I am mostly looking for is having Gen IV/ V Pokemons and at least the more useful of the moves too.

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Are there any emerald hack that ameliorate/promote the Battle Frontier?

>>28255084
Gaia

>>28255399
Looks great, last update seems to be from November, which is a bit of a concern, no?

>>28255672
My man Spice is just busy senpai but it ain't dead

>>28255688
Ok, good to hear. I'll give it a go.

>>28254267
I said more complex, you retard. Instead of contributing to the discussion you go and bash like a shitter. What are you, 5? Can't you even build an argument to defend your point of view?

>>28254693
Gaia, above all of those

>>28255724
Are you earnestly trying to tell me all of those games have stories that are complex as opposed to congested? We are talking about those games, right?

>>28255811
I'm not telling you that. I'm saying that more complex is better. I'm not saying the games cited are complex or congested.

>>28235073
play the Essentials game Pokemon Island for ideas

does anyone have a link to Lu-Ho's animation editor and door animation editor. When I try to search it up no links show up to a download or anything.

>>28254693
Yeah, Gaia is a lot better than any of those. I don't know too much about the other two, but Glazed is a massively overrated game. They fucking made spore a universal tutor, has a bad story and the difficulty curve is all over the place.

>>28254856
sigma is better

Okay, Elite Battle System doesn't have that clunky thing where you have to scroll through you moves anymore, so that's great.

>>28251483
Evil Hipster Commie SJWs are a great evil team. You could even have the obligatory inventor of the PC system plot-relevant because they're opposed to the evil team or something.

>>28260446
Doesnt seem like a great evil team. They would be more of a joke than team Flare, unles their purpose was really comedy. He could use hipsters as motifs or something, but I don't see a serious SJW hipster team as something good for a story

>>28260446
For that team, you'd have to pull some Team Plasma-tier plot twist.

The team would have to have the goal of Social equality and bringing down the "Over-privileged", only to realized the leader of the team only wanted to fuel social division for Xir :^) own gain.
You could even have the civilians constantly debating joining beause of the seemingly "good" cause.

>looked up snakewood
my god what a piece of shit.

Anyone know or have a guide on how to make the water tile not be a wild encounter spot? I want to have specific places in the water be a wild encounter spot like grass patches but not everywhere and it is very crucial for my hack to be like that.

>>28261946
You could make two water tiles; one that has encounters on, one that doesn't. Could even have them look different on the map to make it more obvious.

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Have you guys seen the new pokemon unity engine? It was just released and is more of a tech demo than anything, but it looks like it could be really cool if we build it up a little more. It's a 3D pokemon engine.

It runs really well, too - especially compared to essentials games, which run like dogshit on my laptop.

>>28262390
Tell us more!

Any one know where I can download storm silver?

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>tfw you find a shiny in a ROMhack that's about to have a save-breaking update

>>28238941
Why not use Team Rocket? It is based on the basic desire for power, rather than an ideal, so any disbandment it suffers might end whenever a new powerful gang leader / executive group takes control and gives profitable jobs to their grunts and agents.

Unless you have a specific idea about a team with genuine ideology and motivations (like Plasma or Galactic), you could just stick to the basics.

Or, if you parallel B2W2, have a Neo Team Rocket with a twist on its methods or motives, like B2W2 did with Black Plasma and White Plasma. Maybe the new Rocket leadership actually has good intentions? Maybe they are far more sinister, and the classic Rocket Executives come back to help you dethrone the new bad guys? How you handle your antagonist Team means a lot for the story, and too often do the hackers just choose an elemental type and run with it without much of a backstory for the organization.

>>28262522
>Pidgeotto used Whirlwind
And nothing of value was lost.
It was my first shiny, in Gold, and it gave me that bullshit.

>>28251916
Check out Naranja. It's an old hack, but I think they what you described pretty well.

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>>28262414
Here's the creator's video on the release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozaGOtIGys

That includes download links to a playable tech demo and the unity project.

I think the features list is roughly like this:
>3D maps
>Pokemon battles (but quite a few assets/pokemon details are missing)
>following pokemon
>custom events
>day/night cycle and illumination
>water/lava and HMs

The creator's starting to make tutorials to teach people how to develop for the kit too. There's a tutorial on making maps so far.

>>28262939
here's the github for it:
https://github.com/jvoyles/Pokemon-Unity

>>28260446
The PC inventor is a good idea. The PC inventor could be Gentooman and the evil team one can be Jobs, but it's implied that they're both kind of faggots in their own way.

>>28260502
Hipsters are the motif. I just want them to be incredibly fun to take down. I'll have them say things like "bae." The reason hipsters IRL are so impotent is because they don't have the means to enforce their ideologies, but in the Pokemon world, there's Pokemon-armed terrorism.

I think they'll be funny in how retarded and self-congratulating they are. I also want to give them hipster hop/hipster dance/hipster rock themes. Like a rich, more ambitious Team Skull.

>>28260671
I sort of like the idea of having her be a genuine psychopath who claims that she's doing good for the world, but is actually just on a psychotic power trip. Like Jim Jones.

>>28262272
Yes that is exactly what I was intending but I don't know how to make a water tile not have wild encounters on it. That was what I was looking to know how to do.

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>>28262390
>mfw these light sources
TAKE ME

>>28263679
Cool. Here's a tutorial on terrain tags: http://pokemonessentials.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:Adding_a_new_terrain_tag_for_wild_encounters

I suspect what you could do is just clone the original water terrain and remove the encounters portion of it.

>>28263761
I was actually making a romhack of Fire Red I should have clarified on that. Whoops.

>>28263745
It's pretty comfy having to catch a glowing Pokemon in order to explore a dark cave.

It helps that the lighting effects don't give you cancer, unlike essentials.

>>28261726
Snekwood is fun for the fakemon.

>>28263889
I mean, yes, in the same way Quartz is fun for the fakemon (although not quite to the same extent).

>>28262939
M-MUH MUH MUUUHHH DDIIIIIICCKKKKK!!!

>>28263960
Snekwood's fakemon mostly have gimmicks to them that make them fun to use, while Quartz are just reskinned and retyped gen 3 mons so you have to dig to find the interesting ones for Quartz.

>>28255176
Currently working on one

>>28262939
This looks beautiful. I really hope it becomes a thing.

Anyone can recommend a cheat engine for me to play Essentials games faster?

>>28264627
Cheat Engine's speed hack might work, but I've had limited success with it in the past. If you haven't tried it already, then http://www.cheatengine.org/

>>28264766
alright. Thank you senpai!

Any hack to give Platinum the follower pokemon from HG/SS?

Any hack to make non-pikachu pokemon follow you in Yellow?

Using pk3ds, is it possible to make two turns moves like Fly only take one turn? If so how so?

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Screens from the project I'm working on

>>28265945
Nice aesthetic. What's the story/idea behind the game?

>>28265945
Hmm, those side stairs look a little out of place. I also feel like the pokeball could blend a bit better into the mart. Looks nice though!

Anyone know a gba romhack with shadowmon?

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>>28262939
This is what it looks like in-editor if you rotate around. Windy, eh?

Do you think making the 2D sprites always locked to face the camera is a good idea? It'd look better for fly-bys and tilting the camera. I can't think of a downside yet.

>>28266110
There is an essentials/rpg maker game with Shadowmon, that works?

>>28249918
pokemon my ass

>>28266137
Yes its fine to make sprites lock to the camera angle.

Lots of AAA games do that and you don't notice unless you look closely.

>>28266030
of course they're nice aesthetics. they're from the professionally made games

>>28266142
Is that like an editor? I'm a complete retard as far as any of this stuff goes, I just lurk every now and then looking for releases or suggestions for rom hacks to play.

>>28266030
Basically the game is set in a new region based on the Chubu region of Japan called "Teiho". Teiho is located near Kanto and Johto and the game itself is sort of a modern, third-piece to the set of older regions [i'm not attempting to early-gen pander, i just figured it'd be an interesting idea to do. Other than that it's just your regular, "new generation" Pokemon game, although I've set out to give more attention to things like charcters, plot and game environments. I posted a thread on Pokecommunity today but I didn't want to be that guy who comes in here to advertise so I figured I'd just throw up some screens.

>>28266058
Thanks, and yeah I agree about the stairs. I'll look into editing them to fit properly along the ledges.

>>28266142
Oh actually are you referring to zeta? I tried to DL it but it gives me some error when I try to run it about some folder not existing so I'm not really sure, I've heard the mac version is broken.

>>28266213
Nono, it's like this: there are two types of fangames. Rom hacks are, well, hacks of roms. Essentials games are ones made through the RPG maker. They are like a separate game that is not derived from a rom. You download, extract and play. There are a few other differences though.

>>28266227
No, no, I haven't played Zeta yet. Forgive me for mentioning it on this thread, but the game I was referring is Pokemon Rejuvenation.

As surprisingly as it sounds, there are Shadow Pokemon in that game and it uses the Colosseum/XD mechanics. Snag machine, opening heart, purification, stuff like that

>>28266261
Ah ok, I usually lean toward rom hacks because I put them on my sd card and play on my 3ds. Thanks for informing me about the differences tho bro

>>28266306
Well, you see, that is kinda one of the differences. Essentials are made to be played on PC

>>28247056
>Only if you tolerate Fakemon and Edgy Plots.
I could see the Fakemon, but name one fangame that didn't have a plot that's "Ow, the Edge".

>>28245737
Actually, name one Essentials game that doesn't have a edgy plot, and isn't a remake of an existing game.

>>28266779
>>28266797
Not him, but... doesnt insurgence have a ''non-edgy'' option or something?

>>28266828
....doesn't count.

>>28266797
Ethereal Gates, dickhead. Now stop perpetuating this meme that there's some sort of requirement for all essentials games to have edgy plots. Those are just cases of bad devs.

>>28266957
Not that anon, but...

Oh yeah! I am gonna make a Dark essentials game with an actual good story! It's gonna have character developements, actual likeable characters, a bunch of the cast of ambiguous morality, like two chaotic neutral guys/gals, and, like, a Wally-like person and shit!

You know what? I'm gonna make the final boss have a motherfucking good A.I. using a fucking Mega Rayquaza and a team of smogon-banned-to ubers mons. He is gonna need to be defeated, like, thrice in a row! There will b Chaos Rings' music and shit during that battle as the buildings are falling, fire is raining from the sky, people are riding pokemon like dragon riders and groups of players are fighting each other out as if there is a civil war is going on!

>>28266797

Maybe it's just that Insurgence and Reborn have messed with my abillity to recognize edge, but Uranium doesn't seem too bad. although i'm only at the 6th gym, so there's still plenty of time for it to shit the bed.

>>28267071
I don't think edgy nor these games are actually that bad. I mean, sure, none of those have a good writing, but they really have been fun games. I think it's more like... they tried to do story, but that's not their forte.

Like, I played other fangames, but most of them are low quality, have bugs, lags, low speed and my computer is a gaming PC.

Those guys of Insurgence, Reborn, Uranium, are on the higher side of quality, but while they do this programming majjykks I don't really understand, they lack in other aspects. Take Uranium for example, if they had a good art team, they could have designed better pokemons. If they had good players to test it out, like people from here that point out the problems in the game, the level curves could have been better arranged.
Reborn has good programmers, has an idea of dystopic edgy thingy, sure it's made for tumblr and all, but if they had someone to focus on the story or with more experience, they could have pulled off a far better story.
Insurgence is another example of that. They have this story in mind. You can see they thought ahead the plot points and how things will play out, but they aren't good with the execution. They lack the subtleness needed for it to actually flow well, due to that, their characters act a spontaneously on some times and exposition is doing very forced in some points.

It's like those games have their potential, but they didn't balance out the team behind it well. If they had more beta-testers, people that didn't give only praises, but pointed out the bad points as well, they could have pulled off amazing things.

Asked this the other day but forgot to check back but is there any good hacks that have gen6 Pokemon/mechanics on them so I don't have to waist money getting a 3ds for one game and not feel like I've been missing out?

>>28268544
Isnt there a 3ds emulator now for you to play the sixth gen? Citra or something?

>>28268585
Yes but it's still going to be a while before it's playable though they just got it so it only lags a lil while walking but crashes still when you start battles because of the amount of pixels each 3d model uses so it probably won't be done for at least another year.

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>tfw you beat a team in the high '90s/one level 100 with a team that doesn't go above Lv. 65

Polished Crystal is a good hack, people should play it, when version 2.0 comes out I mean since it'll fix/add a lot of things.

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This is actually pretty cool, I like fire types having their own ambient lighting.

If you haven't been following my project, I decided to implement Plus+ version.
Some of the features it will contain are:
>Full 3D overworld
>Mobile Compatability (Android, IOS)
>Online Capabilities (trading, battling, competitions)
>Full framerate; near 0 lag
>Additional story content

Meta Mercury+ will not be developed in Essentials unlike 1.0

All the content I have shown previously will be in the Vanilla 1.0 edition.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about either release.

Guys, I'm looking a lot for people who can make fakemon concepts and people who can make fakemon sprites for my game. Of course, I don't mind paying, but where can I find these people (other than in DeviantArt)?

Thanks!

>>28272316
If you can't make the Fakemon yourself then don't have any.

>>28266957
Eh, Ethereal Gates is leagues better than any other Essentials game with its writing, but it's still a mark above even the edgiest mainline games

>>28272000
Images?
I like your stuff bro.
Also, checked.

>>28262939
Oh wow, I actually tried it, and while I hate Essentials with a passion, this one actually has promise. It runs at full speed on my toaster with few frame drops.

The engine obviously needs a lot of work, I wouldn't play a finished game that felt like this, but for a tech demo this is pretty damn good, it both looks and runs better than Essentials. Hopefully whoever expands upon the project makes you walk faster than Gen 4 though.

>>28272000
>I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about either release.

If you're making a Plus version in a different engine, and said Plus version is going to be a lot more advanced, why make the vanilla version in the first place?

>>28272000
Woah Max, that is serious feature creep. Don't try to cram more content into your games until it's finished or you'll never be able to keep up. Especially don't abandon what you've already done if you're chasing the feature creep dragon.

Also this >>28273143

You're promising the world here. Your project is already ambitious enough - don't start piling on more responsibility before you're able.

>>28272525
It seems to bem a very Bad advice.

>>28274739
Not him
It is a bad advice

But nigga, even though deviantart is deviantart, it may have what you need

>>28270682
what is this game/project again

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Before you dismiss this hack as stupid or not worthy of your time, I would like to let you know, this is what I would like to call a "comedy" hack. This hack isn't meant to have a nice unique storyline or loveable charactors. It is meant for someone to be able to come home to after a long day and be able to sit down and laugh a bit at the sheer stupidity involved in the making of this hack.

>>28275069
Derpizard is stale and unfunny.

>>28275131
I didn't even know it was a thing until I ran into this shit.

Can somebody tell me how to run pokemon glazed? I tried patching the emerald (trashman) rom using nUps but the emulator (at save type 128x) just shows a grey screen

>>28274937
Pokemon Unity Engine, see >>28262939

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How there is still no Moemon for Gen IV and V yet? Not even a work in progress?

Okay, someone has asked about non-edgy essentials so I'll ask for something else:
Are there any custom pokemon games with an interesting plot and characters at all?
And don't say Reborn because it's tumblr dogshit both in terms of plot and characters.

>>28276011
You could learn one thing or two about respecting others opinions.

Either way, some people mentioned Ethereal Gates up in this thread and praised its writing

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>>28276122
>you could learn a thing or two about respecting shit
Kek

Essentials a shit

>>28276960
Correct opinion.

>>28274848
Yeah, I think só... I'm asking it for a guy and its pricing it's pretty fair. Thanks, though.

Buying art from deviant art will almost always be cheaper than buying it from an actual artist. Deviant artists work for pennies especially those second world ones.

>>28244089
Please??? Does anyone have any answer to this?
How do I split the tilesets?

>>28249918
Snakewood

>>28278043
What are you using?

>>28279159
SpriteKit and the new tilemap feature in iOS 10.
It's brilliant, but I need to actually be able to get the individual "grass right upper corner", "grass middle middle", "grass bottom left corner" etc. tiles separately, and on many of the tilesets I've seen, simply slicing 16x16 squares doesn't always get them as I need them.

>>28279392
>tile editing on a phone
o i am laffin

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>>28276011
Pokemon games don't really lend themselves to good writing or deep plots. They're just too limited by their expectations and the limitations of the medium of romhacking. You could never get someone emotionally invested in a hack.

>>28279418
>>tile editing on a phone
No, in Xcode. I'm not building the game on a phone. Plus, SpriteKit is on macOS Sierra as well.

Are there any good Pokemon generators for gen 3 roms?


I wanna take another stab at the Hoenn Frontier without having to raise competitive Pokemon in third gen.

>>28279483
I have to disagree, Gale of Darkness had itself a good plot, not revolutionary, but it was better than what we have at the times.
And if there is an army of people invested in Undertale of all things, I'm damn sure a good writer could make a pokemon NPC interesting enough to garner some attachment.

>>28280361
I feel like Gale's writing was good because a lot of it was funny. And Undertale is a whole different beast, did you not see me say a lot of the prior expectations of Pokemon games keep them from having good plots? It's because anything deeper than the shallowest character is automatically written off as edgy because Pokemon characters and writing are usually very bright and cheery. It's just a very hard formula to break, you know? Nobody has managed it so far in the 10 or so years romhacking has been around.

>>28279483
Mainline games? Sure

Mystery Dungeon on the other hand....

>>28281497
Oh, for sure. Mystery dungeon games have some of the most heart-wrenching moments in video games, period. But mainline games evoke no feeling.

>>28281559
Alright, at that I agree. Mainline's story isn't good. For me, and maybe just for me, most fangames are actually better than them even with their plot holes and stuff like that.

I feel that if they got the people that are in charge of the manga's story to write the plot of the games, I think it would be a big step in the right direction. The manga has well-thought up points, variable cast, nice battles, stuff like that. The games are kinda shallow in comparison.

Is there any rom hack/fan game where your rival is actually twins and every time you fight it's a double battle? If not, you're welcome.

>>28280361
Undertale was a perfect storm of appealing to several pre-existing cancerous fanbases. It's probably not the best thing to use as a baseline.

I'm sending out emails to applicants soon, so make sure you've applied for a spot if you wanted to do so.
The application will still be active in the future either way.

Forum thread:
http://reliccastle.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1083&pid=25969

Application
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqC9JVMLedzG337IREg0HcGUl9ALGNTE5lMyZIkxuMKzgDRQ/viewform?usp=already_responded

Suggestions:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSem4nrA-LR4O_RAO9R7Po5pm58EWqJ_EbrM8aGAFKnFdb2ixQ/viewform

>Essentials
Who fell for this meme?

>>28283316
I still am, fâm.

>>28232428
Help me /heg/. I'm making an Emerald hack and I figured out how to make a new warp go to the place I want it to, but I don't know how to make the warp return to the entry spot and not the original warp location.

hi guys this is my animated (its 3 frames xD) anime short film preview for my game

i pay money for artist to do this i hope you very much like : )

this is japdub (japdub is better alwlays)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AjMTC6sKo

this is engdub (english is shit i only use for google for anime)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmb1JiqlX0

hope u like

>>28284219
It's shit

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>>28284219
why though
Why would you spend money for a cutscene in a pokemon fangame

>>28284219
One of my biggest weaknesses:honored battle against the villain.
And it seems awesome. Great quality and stuff.

Dude, please, don't mess this up. Even if your story ends up shitty, I'm gonna play that game. But please, man! You are already at something big here.

>>28284309
ok no i do what I like because is my hobby stop

>>28284339
appricate the support friend 感謝

>>28284219
>Japanese Dub

man I.....I really don't know what to say here. This is not a good idea senpai.

>>28284426
Weebs don't listen either way

>>28284300
>>28284309
>>28284339
>>28284426
That's bait, if you weren't able to tell.

>>28284426
yes i must admit I think japanese dub is my drug u know I love anime and only anime is good with japanese dubs so I do jap dubs

ok?

>>28284483
No, mine wasn't. I really liked the animation and like this type of confrontation. Sure, may be a bit cliche, but nothing stops it from ending up as a good story.
Seems cool to have cutscenes like that in a Pokemon fangame

>>28284219
I checked this guy's channel to see what other shit he had uploaded and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUaO-k-Nsuw
>those wobbly overworlds
>awful dialogue that goes on forever
>"Oh no, I won't have my Pokemon kill you yet."
This is awful. Holy shit.

>>28284544
I don't see how somebody can put do many hours into something and still be so bad

>>28284544
Hmmm...
Yo, pay attention to this. >>28284219. Many people reject critics like that. You must learn from them. This guy is right (except for the overworld that's a matter of taste).
Watch out for walls of texts. Things like that may detract from the gameplay experience. You need to balance out situations like that to avoid being tedious. Your game has a story, but you need to make it flow.

Same reason for that dialogue of not letting kill the guy. Things must have reasons and buildups. This is the type of overexused excuse that nobody ever likes and make no sense.

People are going to judge you and not everything is gonna be praises, but you must learn from those things to avoid doing the same mistakes as everyone else

>>28284672
See >>28284491

The Symphonic Horizon guy never posted here, that was just a random anon fishing for (You)s.

>>28284758
Oh... Now I feel dumb now for trying to help a guy that wasn't here. Well, maybe I will try to talk to him in the forums or something. The way this is build it has potential, but this guy is gonna end up in a mess of cliches where this is going

>>28284817
He won't listen. I've seen him on PokeCommunity before and he refuses to learn from critique. He's convinced his game has no flaws and is best done his way. Don't bother.

>>28284845
Oh god! So much potential... wasted.

I mean, at least Rejuvenation guy learned one thing or two from critics considering the retcons he does each update. It is a mess, yes, but at least he once in a while does a step in the right direction. compared to previous versions.

Well, I will see to it what will happen to this Symphonic Horizon. Hopefully it will have its upsides.

>>28284918
What potential? It's all commissioned.

>>28284971
I mean it like this: this guys doesn't listen nor learns from critiques. If we go by that, he will be like one of those guys that will get angered by negative views on the game while the fanboys will keep praising him and say things like ''don't mind this guy''. He will do an anime story for a pokemon game, full of japanese cliches and on and on.
Maybe at some point much later he will understand that this is not good and that he could have done something much better, but by that point there will be no turning back whatsoever because everything will have been done already

>>28285021
And because of that, literally the only good part of his "games" are the commissioned artwork. That isn't his potential, that's the artist's potential

There's no point is being bummed out about it because it will never change

>>28285085
Hmmm... I guess you are right.

>>28285021
Symphonic Horizon sounds fucking awful, has no demo but terabytes of commissioned fan art.

The main character sounds like a Mary Sue self insert who gets to hook up with 6 girls.

>Disclaimer, again: I don't care who you are, don't ask me how much the animation costed me, or how this was done. I will delete your comment and you will be ignored. It's none of your business, anyways.

>>28285190
Damn, seems even worse than I thought. Either way, what can I say? I guess the art attracted me to it. I will end up playing it more than I should solely due to that. Who knows? Maybe there will be some fun in it.

>>28285276
There's no demo. Good luck on waiting for one

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>>28285254
>"""""animation"""""

>>28285286
That's the good point of fangames: I don't have to wait for them. I have to wait for stuff like Sun&Moon. Those things, are more like passtimes of passtimes. And I already have Yu-Gi-Oh! for that

>>28285276
>commissioned from multiple artists
>all the art will look different in the end

>>28285313
There are yugioh fangames?

>>28285427
No, he probably plays Yugioh as a pastime. I do, too. It's cancerous but it's a good time waster.

How can I apply ROM hacks to Gen 6 games?

>>28285427
Dunno, but there are programs to play online and stuff.
>>28285728
Indeed

>>28276011
Ethereal Gates is up there. Probably won't ever be finished though. Gaia too, which probably will be. Eventually

>>28286757
Not him, but what is your opinion on Ethereal Gates?

>>28286782
The concept and design are terrible and it still manages to be one of the better-looking fangames

>>28286950
Alright, checked it up a bit. Looks good for sure, but most of the well-known fangames do too. I have to say it interested me, but I'm not into fakemon.

It may be great and all and I understand why people like fakemon, but it's not my cup of tea. I prefer to use official mons.

>>28273743
[Spoiler]These was the plan all along, but implementing them in Essentials would take too long to develop[/spoiler]
I'm releasing MMercury without these features to focus on the game itself rather than the features. By the time of release 1.0, the features I listed will be attainable and I can port over the maps and story.
Tl;dr I allocated these features to the + version to not optimize production.

>>28283104
Why don't you start a Patreon for your Essentials game while you're at it.

>Remember donating money is 100% optional and you should only do it if you really think i deserve it. There are many others who need money more then me. Currently, I am in a bit of a financial struggle, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Not in much of a financial struggle to pay for a fucking animatic for a fan game.

>>28287325
I remember you were laughed out of here when you started this in 2014

>>28287325
So what are you using instead of Essentials?

Good luck and godspeed.

>>28287346
Oy vey
Many users asked if they can help.
Applying helps me understand where talents and skills lie.

>>28287379
Kek
That was a good thread

>>28273030
There's some screenshots in the forum post. Glad you're interested

>>28273143
I've already put a lot of work in the Essentials version. If I can finish that one, I can just rewrite it with fixes.

>>28287451
Seriously looking at Unity for +.
I'm letting the engine develop a little more before I make final calls.

>>28287515
Just make a Pokemon MMO
http://www.ascensiongamedev.com/community/topic/242-pokemon-engine/

>>28280590
The only really edgy and retarded fangame that I know of is Reborn.
Insurgence isn't edgy, it's serious and it sets its tone somewhat well but the writers aren't good enough.

Reborn, on the other hand:
>wacky, colourful characters
>hyper dark murderers
>pseudo-intellectual masterminds
>2deep4u misanthropes

>characters lose their traits and usefulness depending on the plot
>rape
>mindrape
>everyone hates their family
>pointless suicides
>mental disease pandering
>all the dialogue is written in low-tier fanfiction fashion

It's all tumblr characters with tumblr projections on reality. Tone is all over the place and everything is horribly written.

>>28284544
holy shit the waffle never ends
>3 minutes of spamming 'a' before you can even do anything
>fun

anybody got any recommended quality fakemon games? I played Vega and had a blast, so I'm on a kick

>>28287575
Nah, I think this approach detracts from the main goal.

>>28287575
MMO's are cool but they cost money and I don't want to get raped by the Nintendo Ninjas so I can't ask for donations.
Even for a small thing like GTS and Battling, it's just a lose lose all around.

Random question here, how difficult would it be to make a Romhack that simply replaces pokemon? Like, say I wanted to edit Crystal to have the starters from gen 4 instead, for example. Assuming I was able to get proper sprites for everything, that is.

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We finally have an actual 100% complete Gen 2 sprite set of a later Gen, with backsprites and all.

>>28292195
For Crystal, assuming you're using the disassembly, you'd just go through the Pokémon data files and edit it.

>>28292345
I love these sprites. Gen 2 color scheme is something special.

>>28286782
Still very average, but probably the best Essentials game I've seen in a hot minute

>>28292557
You're so right. The mad amounts of dithering just make it so comfy

>>28292345
And how difficult might that be anon, for someone with no prior experience?

>>28292963
The most trouble you'll get is stumbling around looking for the right files the first time. Everything is in plain text and you don't need any tools so I'd say it's even easier than editing Pokémon in Gen 3.

After you've done 2-3 it becomes easy enough that you don't need to think while doing it.

>>28292345
Holy cow is that Mismagius-Rayquaza in the bottom right corner?

>>28287848
Someone actually went and put unironic rape in a pokemon game?

QUESTION

I understand the give pokemon command enough, is there a script for purchasing pokemon in XSE for Emerald?

>>28292345
Holy crap, this is great.
How do I split them up for use in my own projects?

>>28293822
MS Paint works for me.

>>28287325
>By the time of release 1.0, the features I listed will be attainable and I can port over the maps and story.

You don't expect that to be easy, do you? I'm pretty hyped for the unity engine myself but it's nowhere near the level of essentials and won't be for a very long time.

I'm a bit confused why you're even mentioning the + version now if you're not planning on implementing it until the game is already finished... unless you're actually really far along already?

>>28293306
Nope. That's actually one of the few things that it doesn't have.
Also, that guy is wrong about Insurgence's edgyness. Dark mode IS edgy while Light mode isn't.
Also, half of what >>28287848 said about Reborn applies to both of the games and many more.

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>>28295364
In Reborn you have hints that some characters were molested or sexually abused. It's not even subtle because they can't write subtle.

And how does most of it apply to Insurgence? The dark mode is not edgy, it simply removes the kids gloves.

>cults experiment on pokemon to create the perfect specimen
Mainline didn't do this, definitely.
>zealots are crazy
Groundbreaking.
>people die in sacrifices to evil gods
Shocking.
>parasitic viruses act like parasitic viruses
Colour me surprised.
>Evil cult leader refuses to redeem herself and then maybe dies by rapidly being removed from the screen
So graphic and violent.


I bet you're a faggot who picks Pluto in Uranium and non-binary in the tumblrshit.

>>28293838
So I have to do it all manually? Fuck.
Why can’t the people who make these sprite-sheets and tile-sheets just release ZIPs with the individual sprites as their own files, instead of making more work for everyone?

>>28295773
Yo, calm down dude. No reason to act like that and no reason to try to offend me. You have your point of view, I have mine.

As someone who played both games, my opinion is that they aren't that different. It IS edgy in dark mode to me just like it is forced upon us. For you it isn't.
And do you sincerely believe it isn't edgy? Game starts with people talking about how dark the times are, protag is about to be sacrificed in a cult and we have to pick up blood months old from the previous sacrifices that wasn't cleansed the spot for weeks. Another is sacrificed right off the bat few minutes into the game. How isn't this edgy to you?

Majority of the game has forced dialogue, bad writing and overuse of how ''bad'' things are and how ''dark'' it is and villains doing ''evil'' things.

Also everything you just said is your distorted vision. Crazy zealots are terribly put in there. You just mocked the sacrifices concept while using to defend your point of view, when instead you make it seem they are even more shitty. What was the point of parasatic virus being parasatic virus? And then you use the last situation when during the rest of the game people are dying?

Are you really defending something here or are you just trying to bait people?

>>28296262
Because you could just not be retarded and learn to set up a grid in gimp which takes about 2 minutes you sad fuck.

>>28292345
Can anyone explain why so many of the palettes are weird as fuck on this?

>>28296262
Why won't the people making art for free also spoonfeed retards who can't use basic graphic editing software indeed.