/heg/ - Hacking and Essentials General

So I can't be bothered to expand moves or add new abilities in Fire Red, and I'm replacing rather than expanding the Pokédex. Basically no new mechanics except for the p/s split. As long as the gameplay is balanced and there's a good story, people will enjoy it - right?

We're back, boys.

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I just don't want to work on anything anymore. I've been losing motivation over time already but never being able to play Prism is the straw that broke the camel's back, since I'm a Johtotoddler. I need to finish the last few songs for Polished Crystal I've been asked to do (SM's Mother Beast theme is so fucking hard to cover) and then I'm probably just going to stop paying attention to the hacking scene for a few months.

I know Polished Crystal likely won't get targeted, and neither would my own hack if I ever finished it, but watching something go so far and get cut off so short demoralizes me so much. I just don't see the point in hacking when fate can do this to you.

>>30948789
I wish ther was a eaiser way to make rom hacks. Essentials looks kinda lame to me. I used to use essentials but it was boring. Are there any FRLG rom basses with all 802 pokemon?

>>30949609
Rom Hacks =/= Essentials

>>30949847
I said essentials is boring to me. I know the difference. I would rather do rom hacking because it looks nicer

>>30949530
>but never being able to play Prism is the straw that broke the camel's back
It'll be out within a few days, calm down nigger.

>>30950085
I just don't know if that will be true. The devs seem really unsure of what to do after the C&D, it seems completely up in the air whether they'll leak it or not.

>>30950020
I know this is flame war bait but what does ROM hacking have over Essentials? It's more obtuse and importing new music is next to impossible thanks to autistic PokeCommunity mods deleting sappy updates for teh luls.

>>30948899
I'm sure that'll be the most effective strategy.

>>30950365
Rom hacking always looked cleaner to me

>>30950365
As someone that works with essentials, its a horrible game engine with shitty optimization that results in lag and programming in anything that isn't in the core package is dam hard.

>>30950518
Is Essentials a standalone engine or a layer of abstraction of another toolkit like Game Maker?

>>30950580
Pokémon Essentials is a game project made in RPG Maker XP that lets people make Pokémon-style games.

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>>30950398
REDIRECTING TO THIS THREAD

IT'S HAPPENING

>>30950453
What does that even mean? Have you never done either? Romhacking requires a bunch of seperate tools to do everything. Most of Essentials is self-contained at least.

Bumpu~

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Hey yall, just wondering how hard it would be for someone with no hacking experience to make a rom hack? How much harder with fakemon? Physical/Special split?

>>30954378
All of those are step by step procedures, so they should be rather easy to do in the first three gens.

>>30950428
I dreamt that I had a reply to that post and it was good advice, but in the dream I couldn't comprehend it.
I can't tell if your response is sarcasm or not.

Bump
Is Prism as good as it sounds?

>>30948789
What's a ROM hack I'm sorry I'm not very knowlegable in games :/

>>30959641
It's a rom of a pokemon game that has been modified to either enhance the original game (for example, hacking a rom of fire-red to increase the difficulty of trainers or add in the physical/special split) or use the rom as a base for creating a heavily modified game that's basically a new thing entirely (for example: pokemon gaia)

Bump. Where is Max?

>>30960008
Max got v&

>>30949609
For FireRed I think that the most reliable one was made by Kristiangel, a Spanish ROM Hacker. "fire red 721", 2nd link on Google, a video uploaded to his own YT channel.

>>30960008
>>30960102
I'm here, bois

Captcha: Atemax kill

Bump
It's a miracle it's staying up

Currently replacing gen 3 shitters, superfluous legendaries, and non Kanto starters with cross gen evolutions, babies, some fossils and a few personal gen 4 favorites.
It is fucking tedious, especially without gen 4-6 moves and abilities added since I have to make rough approximations; looking at gen 3 moves and abilities and base stats for the ones I'm adding.

>>30963462
You know they have ROM bases with new mins already inserted, right?

Check out out:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=346694

>>30963948
>Link redacted
Oh shit.

>>30963462
If I were you, I'd use MrDollsteak's base.

>>30963948
>>30963948
Hacking Fire Red, so no thanks and I'd like to keep a completable 386 Dex.
>>30964273
I tried everything to get that shit to work with PGE and G3HS, replaced the inis with ones provided and got fucking nothing but errors. I even messaged the man himself but he couldn't really help beyond what's already in the thread. At the end of the day, I decided to just do what I'm doing now.

>>30964531
Good luck, soldier.
Have to do something similar for my game.

>>30948789
I found an 800 rom base
https://mega.nz/#!Fo1BxIRa!-ghA46PLaioW9GyRaPf1cG6F3lzAVBLct3sqvf9fPU8

>>30964743
Jesus, someone test this, so I can add it to the database.

>>30964673
I don't need luck, just time and motivation. Between work and school, well... At least I'm motivated, churning out about 6 per day in my spare time.

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How is the logo?

>>30965368
Not great, Bob!

>>30965368
Font is fine.
Symbol needs to be elaborated on.
Outline it in silver and give it a gradient or pattern on the inside.
Right now, it's just a Cheerio.
How does it tie in to the game?

>tfw enjoy fast, lively /vp/
>also enjoy slow /vp/ so we can keep these threads up and not bump them every 20 minutes

>>30966090
Im thinking of making a fakemon mascot legendary for the game based around cobalt. Or mabye a form of an already existing pokemon

i've been working on my own pokedex for a while and now i'm interested in making a romhack. is gen5 too difficult to be worth the trouble?

>>30967352
The best games to hack are Fire Red, Crystal, and probably Emerald - there's more ASM, tools, and scripting documentation done on these than the DS generations. Some have managed, but there aren't many. There's a Fire Red hack that replaces Kanto mons with Gen 5 and Johto mons with Gen 6 (I think), so it's fairly simple to do that - just really time consuming. There are even easily insertable sprites for those generations done, just save and plug into your preferred editor.

>>30967625
how hard are hg/ss?

any way to change time in prism? running bgb.

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>>30964743
Am I supposed to patch it? It works in pic related. But in trainer editor it only goes up to gen 3

>>30967937
What trainer editor are you using?

>>30967963
Advanced trainer editor

>>30967143
Okay
I'd maybe make the logo remember a key feature from the legendary

>>30968517
*Resemble

>>30964743
>>30964756
>>30967937
Holy fukken shit boyz, it works.
Findings so far:
Pallet Town houses are like the lab but silver and ugly
CRIS spelled in flowers in Pallet, some minor map changes like extending the inlet
The girl is now a PC
Zygarde10 and Janmo-o on Route 1
Virtually nothing else changes
Works in A-Map! Findings: You need to copy your A-Map ini folder to the same folder as the .gba to get anything else
Works with the version of g3hs it has, presumably by copying the .ini it will work with any g3hs
Does not work in Advance Starter (only goes to 386) or Hopeless Trainer Editor (again, only goes to 386)
Aside that, nothing else changes. There's a fuckton of Pokemon, and I think the National Dex is enabled from the beginning.
P/S split
Fairy type
Updated moves
Sprites done for like, everything.
Will report further experimentation and findings. If someone with technical knowledge wants to crack it open, by all means.

>>30968795
How do we fix trainer and starter editor?

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>>30968795
Gonna dump some images
>>30968824
No idea. I think to fix starters you just need to edit the scripts in the lab; I'll try other trainer editors though, maybe google and try to track down the source of this thing

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>>30968935
I wouldn't even bother changing all of these.

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>>30968935
Found the guy on youtube, don't speak burrito so no idea. Still, it's something huge a talented hacker could easily build on or offer collaboration with.

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>>30968935
Man, I'm so fucking tempted to use this. If I had a trainer editor that worked with it I would ditch my tedious methods and go to town with this thing.

>>30968010
Try G3T's trainer editor.
It's simply the best

>>30969209
Can Anyone test if this works?

>>30969209
same problem.
Though UTE and G3T have customizable inis...

>>30967937
>>30969209
>>30969472
>>30969483
It needs an .ini for a trainer editor and then I think it'd be good to go. Evidently this is an alpha, so a future release would have such a feature, unless someone else wants to give it a shot.

>>30968795
A D D I N G

>>30969520
How could you make an ini for it?

>>30964743
>>30968795
>>30968935
>>30969547
I thought this was a romhack ready to play ;_;

>>30969588
Dude idk, I'm just an idea guy.

>>30969094
IT changes all wild Pokémon past gen 3 to chimecko for me

>>30970759
I installed 1.9.2 and it changes the newer pokemon to bulbasaur,golbat,weedle

>>30964743
>>30967937
>>30968795
>>30969483
>>30969520

Here's a G3T that should work with this base:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u22e5au6ao8numa/G3T%282%29.zip

I looked over some things and some Gen 7 pokemon are missing sprites along with abilities.

It seems to be built on top of MrDollsteak's ROMbase.

I haven't tested if all mons have their respective cries, but I highly doubt it, because then the ROM would probably be expanded to 32mb.
Another indicator of this is that the Pokemon were most likely expanded (to 922) by G3HS which is outdated and buggy, and doesn't expand the crytable, which means all the mons past Chimecho just use Bulbasaur's cry.

It's something, I guess.

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>>30971397
I got this working. Im still having trouble with advanced map. All new Pokémon turn into chimeco

>>30971957
It's funny, because Chimecho was the last pokémon inserted in RSE, even after Deoxys and friends.

It being the last slot may be a hint to your problem, but I'm not sure.

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>>30972710
Are you using 1.92? Is your 1.92 ini folder in the same location as your gba file?

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Forgive me for being a casual but I came to your general desperate for help, how can I install pypng to compile https://github.com/TheFakeMateo/RedPlusPlus since the make command gives me an error, easy_install didn't work idk what else to do

>>30972710
I got it working. How do i change the starters?

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https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/pokemart-1

Revised the PokéMart theme
How does it sound?

>>30974335
Attach a script editor like XSE to your Advance Map, go to Prof. Oak's map in A-Map and open the Pokeballs script, change the givepokemon command's first "0xNumber", replace the number after 0x with the National Dex ID Number in Hex of the Pokémon that you want, compile the script and replace the old one with the new one.

>>30948789
Bump

Bump.this thread is slow

>>30975575
A remix of r/s/e mart song? Sounds very chill with the guitar. Aren't you going for a region based on NZ? It sounds a little beachy, and its not like the whole place fits that tropical vibe like S/M does.

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>>30979134
>Are are you going for a region based on NZ?
Spot on.
In fact, it's Tasmania, Aus, and NZ set as three regions.

>>30979134
>>30979550
Haven't decided if shops are more like small shacks on the outskirts of towns and beaches or a more of a department store deal. Either way, I think if fits in a music sort of way.

>>30979578
*Muzak

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>>30964743
>>30964756
>>30969547
>>30971397
So the g3t(2) provided by anon works with it (pic related)
I've packaged all editing tools that work with it along with screens I took last night and a patch (rather than the rom itself, which is illegal) and zipped it up for the future.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tl3518xkbg1zuzb/Firered_Soly_Luna_Alpha_1.0_heg_starter_pack.7z

Max, this is the one you'll want to add to the database; so long as you have a rom to patch, a person can edit and play with this thing to their heart's content.

Now, my question is how do I export sprites and icons from G3HS? That is, how do I save the sprites from it to use in another hack?

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>>30979695
Thank you, kind anon

>>30979695
G3HS doesn't have that option.
You'll have to use NSE or UnlzGBA.

Bimp

I do i insert sprites into a rom for new Pokémon?

>>30979817
Does G3T? I can't check until after work.

>>30980936
No

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Discord wasn't in the OP, so here you go
https://discord.gg/CEy37az
https://discord.gg/CEy37az
https://discord.gg/CEy37az
https://discord.gg/CEy37az

>>30980967
Okay, the old fashioned way it is. Thanks anon. The most exciting thing to me about this resource are the sprites.

bumo

Now that the 800 base excitement is over, are there any other bases /heg/ would recommend aside from MrDS'?

>>30983385
JPAN's ROM Base
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=194241

Mrdollsteak's ROM Base
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=326301

Is there no way to force the randomizer to work with hacked roms? Also looking for a hack with up to at least Gen 6 pokemon, other than Theta Emerald.

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I'm trying to cut out the music from Prism and looking at the .gbs file from Crystal to figure it out.
Do I just look at the offsets in the map file and delete everything not remotely related to music? Do I just need the ROM banks with music in them, or the engine as well? Will I need to rearrange shit?

For the love of god, someone please help me.
I cannot get PGE, G3T, or G3HS working with MrDollsteak's patch! I've hex edited, replaced inis, I've spent probably 10 hours over the past month trying to get this shit to work.
This is the last straw, because that rom base looks awfully tempting to use but I really want to keep a completeable dex.
Can someone upload me a PGE with ini that will automatically work with a rom patched with MrDS' base? Something in a folder that I can move my patched 1.5a rom to and have it work without giving me "numberofevolutiontypes missing!" errors?

>>30984687
Nevermind. I don't exactly feel retarded, but I could be called a retard.
I kept naming the fucking ini rombase.ini rather than just naming it the same as my fucking base (rombase)
So I had rombase.ini and rombase
Kids, don't be autistic. Adults, be less autistic.
I've wiped out five days of trying to work out reasonable translations of Gen 4/5/6 learnsets and typings, but now I can just make regular edits. What a load off my mind.
Uh...how do you increase the number of evolutions in PGE though? Running 3.7 - need 3 more evolutions for Eevee...

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>>30986498
Whole lot of context there, anon.

>>30986498
Rename your midi to not have spaces or numbers.

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Bumping with loli lioness

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Does this look like shit? I need Marowak A for the Lavender Tower and can't find much in the way of reliable sprites. I ripped some from the 800 base, but I kind of like how unearthly and warped this one came out. Does it look like shit though?

>>30989960
The front sprite looks good. The back sprite need some fixing

>>30948789
Is insurgence still a thing? Follow-up, is there a way to inject mon into it? I feel like playing games I downloaded once like 4 years ago

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A WIP BOP BOODOP A BUMO BAM DO

Is it possible to change the evolution animation?

>>30992040
What platform?

>>30949530
>I don't see the point when fate can do this to you
What you mean to say is, "I don't see the point when you're retarded."

Prism's devs, like AM2R's dev, was retarded because he advertised his game so much. As long as you keep it underground, realize that you're making a Nintendo Fan Game and be aware of all the ramifications of that and you should be fine.

TL:DR Don't be a retard and you'll avoid the DMCAs.

>>30992114
Oh sorry, I meant the default animation in Pokemon Essentials.

>>30992167
Yeah there's plenty of different versions from different add-ons Klein Studios on DeviantArt has a Gen V like animation and engine as well as a HGSS version on his site.
You could also go into your game and search pbEvolution_scene and script it manually.

>>30992233
Triple Dubs...
Refreshing.

>>30992233
ah cool, thanks

checked

I've been hearing everyone and their mother talking about prism these past few days.
Looking into it a little it seems to be a few years old, did it get a recent updater before being taken down and is it any good?

How do you make oak give you the national dex instantly?

>>30992630
It got finished, C&D'd four days before release (it was going to be a Christmas release), then a version that was like 99% done got leaked and people have been playing that. It has some bugs and a few things aren't obtainable due to oversights (e.g. Sylveon can't be gotten because of an error with the evolution method), but can be beaten from start to finished.

>is it any good?
I'm getting ready for the 8th Gym, and so far it's my favorite ROMhack of all time, bar none.

I have a question: between Celebi and Treecko there's about 20 or so unused index numbers. If I utilize them in order to expand the dex of my hack, will the game glitch out? or is it completly safe to do this?

>>30994592
In firered, probably not.
They all use unown's cry though.

Bumparuni

This is advanced bumping.

I know Essentials added Fairies and Megas, but is it updated/going to update to include z-crystals?

>>30998032
probably eventually.

>>30994592
This is probably too late to be helpful, but yes, if you catch one of the Pokemon in those slots the game will crash. They aren't safe to use and there's no reason to use them anyway; you can just expand the Pokedex, either by hand or with a tool.

Third day running, I'm impressed. I think this is being kept up for a reason.
Safety bump anyways. Anyone got anything of substance to share, add, or ask?

>>30998032
Who knows what Maruno has in mind.

So here's a question - do you buff shitmons, replace them, or leave them alone?
I try to make carefull buffs and not go nuts in retyping or expanding movepools.
For example, I boosted Slugma and Magcargo +20 in all BSTs, putting them on par with the Swinub line and capable of pulling their weight through the campaign.
I'm toying with buffing Ledyba and Sunkern line as well - dual typing their evolutions as FIghting and Fire, respectively. The thought occurs with Hoot-Hoot as well, though with the addition of the Starly line, old Hootsy is looking superfluos compared to Spearow and Taillow. Maybe Dark subtyping?

Hi, So I have Pokemon Prism source files in my computer and I want to compile them into a Crystal ROM, How i do that?

Looks like I found that 800 rom base on PC

https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=364889

Links are redacted, but 99.9% sure it's our guy. The mystery is concluded, we found a working version of the Super base.
I'm a little disappointed this didn't come from nowhere, but unsurprised.

Do I need RPG Maker to use Essentials?

>>31001766
It depends what sort of hack you're making.
Playing through a difficulty hack of Pt, it was very helpful to have all mons buffed to 500BST minimum (although single stage mons were near gamebreaking early on).

500 is a lot, so doing +20 buffs (like in XY) would probably be best. Real shitmons you could give a +40 buff like in SM. Giving Magcargo +20 in everything isn't much use, you may as well just give it +80 and ignore its speed and attack.

Re-typing is up to you, just please, let the player know. Constantly losing my electric coverage team members because I missed the "Gyarados is now Draogn/Water" note was painful. Be wary of retyping a pokemon and making it worse as well, I've seen a few ice/rock Lunatone and fire/rock Ssolrock.

>>31002367
Well, of course I'm documenting EVERYTHING for the player's benefit.
Not doing it for difficulty either. I want the player to be able to play with their favorites without having to grind them a lot - even if their favorites are hot dog shit like Slugma/Magcargo.
I'm not re-typing stuff because it's cool, I'm re-typing to try to make shitmons viable; hence Ledyba/Sunflora. Who seriously carries Sunflora to the Elite Four? Or Ledyba? Fucking nobody. I personally LIKE bug types, I want them to be viable beyond the second gym. I expect to have to come back and forth on buffing them.
As for retyping because I think it's cool, well...
Take Charizard. It's a salamander, not a Dragon. Its final form happens to LOOK much like a classic western dragon, but it's not.
Gyarados also looks like a classic eastern dragon and it gets lumped in with Lance because there aren't many actual dragons. But is it a dragon? Fuck no, it's a fish! It's a goldfish that becomes a big fucking trout or something. By that logic you might as well make Milotic flying because Feebas is basically the ugly duckling in Pokemon form.
Now as for Solrock, okay, I kind of get that. Rock/fire is a neat typing, and I guess Rock/ice makes sense - but it's a fucking moon, if anything it should be Rock/fairy, and then that just doesn't make much sense at all since you'd think a rock/fairy would be some sort of golem and by proxy you'd need to make Solrock Rock/fairy, at which point what the hell would you even be doing? But I digress.

>>31002359
Yes
It went on sale for 5 bucks on steam recently
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hot off the fuckin press, it's my baby boy. Pokemon emerald 2. enjoy lads :))))))
https://mega.nz/#!sI8wRCAQ!wrTT1Kso0XfsG7m85vq_tTpMgIRGGaFrAMhgXd2EEm8

>>31004532
What is it?

I'm extremely new at this, hence the stupid question.

What's the name of the program that has A-map XSE and all the other stuff built in and openable with buttons? Clicking the button without the programs installed will give you the option to download them.

One more stupid question.

What's the best base for emerald? I'm assuming the answer is to grab a clean ROM and patch in whatever you need yourself.

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https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=365632
Does this guy still post here?

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>>31004532
What changes have been made?

Ive been progressing really good in my pokemon fire red rom hack. It has all 802. Its difficult too. Is there any way i can document all the wild pokemon?

>>31006171
There's a 2 added on the title screen.

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>>31007033
>>31006171
>>31004532
Playing through it now
Actually pretty nice

>>31005777
Yeah. I'm the one who was investigating that 800 base.
I'm working on replacing shitmons with cross gen evolutions and some of my personal favorites before I commit to mapping again.

>>31005777
Also that map is about 2 iterations old. Probably starting over now that I've got MrDollSteaks base working with the editors. Changing the name too, but won't reveal unless I get a working alpha release.

>>31007401
Im using the 800 base to make my rom. Which pokemon are missing sprites?

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>>31007467
I found these on poke community

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>>31008212
Are there any pokemon still missing from the 800 base?

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>>31008235
I counted seven when I ran through it, so you've probably got them all. Where did you get these on PC? I need a reliable Mimikyu set - the one I got off DA and edited to make 256x64 has a fucked up shiny - pic related. Kind of cool in a way, like the rare shiny Mimikyu could hint at it's fae and fell true appearance, but this isn't LOTR it's fucking Pokemon.
Also need a Buzzwole, he really makes a great counterweight to Mewtwo in my opinion.

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>>31005777
Just gonna rattle off some thoughts about the evolution of this map:
I'm working on getting rid of Gyms as literal gyms - so here Brock would hold his gym in an underground cave and though he would tend primarily to rock and ground types, he would also carry a few fairies and fossils due to proximity to Mt. Moon. To this end I've replaced shit like Spinda, Castform, Plusle and Minun with Mimikyu, Archen, Tyrunt, and Amaura and others with their evolutions where applicable.
On that note, some places would still have building gyms like Saffron, but others like Cerulean will be in a cove-like structure, Lt. Surge will be at the Power Plant, Erika would be in a forest, and so on.
I'm also expanding maps further, if only to do neat tricks with them that border blocking may not allow, like doing mountain slope tiles: pic related on this older recent draft of Route 1.
Expanding the maps means I have to work harder on them to keep a cohesive unified world map put together. They didn't have to in Gen 1/2/3 but they did, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Another thing about this map is that it still holds traces of the old elemental/type clans which were basically pseudo-gyms; this was to indulge my interest in anthropology and history and to also fit the Hoenn and Johto legendaries; since I've replaced those, regular pseudo-gyms replace these baroque little clans and sort of excise the tumor they put in the plot.
As for plot, it's straightforward. A bit of an expansion of the Team Rocket/Mewtwo plot that involves the Elite Four more closely, but that's sitll in design stage.
There may be subplots involving the pseudo-gyms; at a certain point I will need scripting help, but that's still a ways away and I can do most essential (and tedious) stuff myself. It is my opinion that in the hacking community you only get help if you present a legitimate project that has had quite a bit of work done already.

Bump
Christmas Eve, huh? Guess everyone is with family or getting ready for tomorrow.
I'm just sitting here watching Star Trek and tinkering with a spreadsheet to create a custom national dex, making careful replacements in gen 2's list and trying to rebuild Gen 3's with mons from 4-7. Don't want too many Alolans, but some of them are pretty cool, like Golisipod and Buzzwole. Others are superior to gen 2 mons, like Zigzagoon/Linoone>Sentret/Furret.

Bimparino

I'm considering at least drafting a fleshed-out region based on the northernmost parts of Europe, since I feel like they have some very rich history that got ignored with Kalos which was pretty much France and Italy the Generation. I'm essentially smashing together Ireland, Scotland, Greenland (>Europe), Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland (>Northern Yurop), and Germany (>Northern Yurop).

The geography and general flow of the region move away from the layout we're used to and instead trends south and west with a wall of mountains on south side and the open ocean on the north. The route and city layout is asymmetrical and interconnected. Cities move from larger and gentrified areas to more rural areas, with (hopefully) each route having some unique traversal gimmick (within limits; don't want it to get too predictable or samey) with a series of gorges spanning several separate routes.

Any suggestions for base ideas for Pokemon? Animals, objects, concepts, myths? It helps if they're sourced from that general geographic region but they don't have to be. One of the best part of the games is seeing what foreign Pokemon show up to surprise you.

>>31014819

Afterword on the last part: no Muslim Pokemon please. It's predictable.

Bumpity

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I'm designing a 3D engine to mirror gen 7 using Unreal Engine. Who's wants to work on it with me.
It's mostly C/C++
3D modeling expertise greatly appreciated.

We'd be starting from near scratch, this would be unprecedented.

>>31017258
We'd also use gen VII assets, so importing and executing them is the main goal.

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>>31014819
I feel like "Northern Europe" might be too broad, especially with the wide scope you're giving it. You've got Celtic, Norse, Inuit, East Slavic, West Slavic, and German/Pagan culture all going on at once.

It seems like you intend on altering the geography pretty heavily, so I can't really give an opinion on the mapping until there's at least a draft, but I'd say you might want to do something like have Scandinavia be the primary focus/core of the region, with the other Baltic cultures like Russia and Germany maybe just having a devoted themed area around the edges of the map. Britain and Ireland would make an excellent post-game area, if not a full-blown second region entirely. With the huge potential that you could get from Celtic and English/Arthurian mythology though I'd say incorporate them into the mainland/main story path.

>Any suggestions for base ideas for Pokemon?
You could make a dozen Legendary Pokémon from the Norse Pantheon alone. Plenty of material for regulars too, like Ice Giants and Valkyries.
A sword-in-the-stone Pokémon. But it'd be hard to differentiate it from Aegislash.
A Pokémon based on Cú Chulainn. Probably would work best starting out as an actual hound/wolf, then evolving into a humanoid. Gaé Bolg could be incorporated as a stick it carries in its mouth as a dog, which evolves into a spear when it becomes humanoid, and gains a signature move to use it.

>>31014819
Theres some videos on youtube by 'Mr Buddy' like what if greece was a pokemon game . Might give you some inspiration

>>30979817
Or Impr. Pant PetSis + Paint and save as a .PNG.

>>30994592
As long as you use the Limbo Slots for GivePokemons/GiveEggs/Evolutions/Mega Evolutions, you'll be fine. DO NOT put them into the wild in any way, since they do not have an entry in the Pokedex nor they can have one, catching X Pokémon from a Limbo Slot will fuck up your savefile.

>>31000391
I'll take this chance to drop a friendly reminder for everyone:
Ruby, Sapphire and Leaf Green's Pokedexes are not expandable nor is recommended to use any of them as your bases because they're old and doesn't have even have a half of the half of the half if information that Fire Red and Emerald does.daaaddaadddaddaadddaddaddaddaa

>>31005085
1) I'll throw my 2 cents and say that the App you want is most likely Gamer2020's PGE.

2) Theta Emerald by far. It supposedly is a whole mess to use because there's way too much content and it can break easily, but is the one with the biggest amount of content.
Also, judging by the fact that LCCoolJ95 did a livestream going through it recently, I'd say that its newest version is about to come out if its not out already (didn't checked its PokeCommunity thread in a while now).

>>31018742
>PGE
I did download PGE, but the interface is a little different to the one I saw. Maybe I just saw an old version? (it had icons on the buttons too)

>Theta Emerald
Thanks, just had a look and it seems pretty good.

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Any friendly anon with a spare 6IV Ditto in Gen 6 arround?

>>31019666
>Get sick digits
>Use them to beg
This isn't that kind of general, anon

>>31020417

>obtain unethical digits
>utilize said numerals for the purpose of begging

tfw

Christmas kills /heg/
What a twist.
Page 9 bump

>>31020417
/beg/ - Begging in Every General

Are there any Theta Emerald-like hacks out there?

Basically hacks with shit ton of pokemon across 6-7 gens catchable.

>>31023398
Nameless FireRed is the only one I can think of right now.

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>>30948789
What even is going on with sage? Has there even been a thread in weeks?

>>31023787
They got scared of getting a C&D from Ninty and now keep to their skype circlejerk.

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>>31023787
Sage dev here. We were playtesting, but we've stopped for Christmas. Happy Holidays!

>>30949530
I stopped working on my hack because I'm too stupid to understand how to make it work without somebody holding my hand all the way through

I will forever be an ideas guy

>>31025154
>we were playtesting
Why not release it and let the VP hoards play test for you?

>>31026086
We're playing it safe for now, it seems.
I think it's a good move.

What's the general consensus on Red++?
I've been playing the hardmode patch for the past 2 days and I've been enjoying building Red's canon team

>>31026200
You're a retard.

100 people can play test a game more thoroughly than 10.

Are there any good gen4 hackswith woring pokeradar?

>>31026357
>>>only 100 people will get their hands on a copy
>not realizing this is not the best time to go public with anything at all
You might want to pick that up with the guys actually in charge of the play test, matey. :^)

>>31026414
>not the best time

Fucking wat?

>>31026745
Prism.
Uranium.
What happened?

>>31008163
Back leg seems to be miscolored

>>31026771
Retards tried to use a fangame to drum up biz for their sites

>>31027033
The promotions for Prism weren't done by the devs, but Twitch themselves.

Uranium put up a flyer without the foresight to see it would be spread on every form of digital media available.

This version of Sage is extremely buggy anyway, so we're keeping it close to our chest.
We're not obligated to release it. quite the opposite, actually.

http://m.imgur.com/a/TnzPa

Rate my Pokédex replacements, /heg/

>>31027314
Pretty good; good replacement choices with nice diversity.
It would help rating if we knew the goal of the hack.

>>31026086
Its the difference between alpha and beta testing. We don't want you to be bug hunting. We want feedback on other elements.

>>31027375
hey i used to work on sage but lost track of it. you guys still in the same place? skype or what?

>>31027583
Yup we're still on skype
If you need back in, pm me in Discord

>>31027636
i'm not really a fan or most internet utilities. i've never used discord and i don't like skype. is there still no website base of operations? i used to post on the secret forum.

>>31027375
Thanks!
I'm the Kanto Roads guy. 8 gyms, 8 pseudo gyms, expanded maps and new maps, not much after the Elite Four, no Sevii Islands. Standard Kanto starters, a few new trainer classes like Dragon Tamer and Rancher.

>>31027671
you mean on 8 chan?

>>31027734
Oh cool
Then yeah, your replacements are darn near perfect.

>>31027808
yeah on the ocho

did that site get shut down? the only websites i ever really visit are 4chan, youtube, and my goddamn email.

>>31027840
It's still there, Last post was yesterday

>>31027889
ah neat, i found it again. part of my issue is that i have a condition where i basically don't have short term memory, so every time i clear my browser history it's impossible for me to remember what the url is.

i'm generally sad at how slow progress on sage has become but i've also started my own dex so i have something to work on again.

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Buh Buh Buh
Buuuummmp

Buh Buh Buh
Buuuuuuummmmmp

>>31029179
You know, I don't listen to much music but I think all that flowery crap by the baroque (or whatever) composers I can name (Bach Mozart Beethoven) fucking sucks. It's all tinkly little shit.
I realized this over Christmas. Idk.
Anyways this is just a bump.

I'm going to be changing the BSTs and move pools of some shitmons in my game. Is there any in particular you'd like to see changed?

>>31029475
Yeah.
Make shitmons good in-game mons.
And document it too.

why does there seem to be a lack of guidance on making gen 1 hacks, i want to make one real bad

>>31030432
The people who know how to do it are too lazy to write guides. They will help you if you're serious about it. #romhacking on rizon.

>>31017258
do it with placeholders and get the battle system working properly and then you might get help

>>31031366
Sounds good

Is the Pokemon Adventure Red Chapter hack actually dead?

So when making a game with, what do people usually do first? Do they design the fakemon (if any), the region, come up with the story, etc?

>>31032764
you want to design the non-essential elements you want first, characters, fakemon, etc. then go for something that requires organization like the map. then design the map, when doing the map initially all you want is the routes and a general idea of what you want the area to be.

I'm not familiar with later gen hacking tools but for gen 3 you have a limited map to work with so you have to know what you wanna do with the space.

>>31032824
Pretty much this

>>31029475
I assume you're using a base updated to Gen VII movepools and BSTs?

>>31037077
Are there any bases that update to Gen 7 moves?

>>31031751
Dead because entitled pokecommunity fags kept attacking him online threatening his life sometimes.

>>31030432
Yo check out skeetendo forums as well for gen 1/2 hacking.

>>31005777
Oh boy,this map is pretty ugly.

nice numbers btw

>>31037270
No idea, so I'll leave them out of my suggestions

>Butterfree
HP from 60 to 80
Defense from 50 to 60

Struggle Bug at Level 15
Air Cutter at Level 21
Quiver Dance at Level 27 instead of Level 47
Air Slash at Level 33 instead of Level 43
Hurricane at Level 43

>Beedrill
+10 HP, Defense and Speed
Beedrill's movepool is a clusterfuck so I'll just post what I worked out instead of writing out the explanation
>10 Twineedle
>11 Fury Attack
>14* Poison Tail
>17* Focus Energy
>20* Swords Dance
>23* Cross Poison
>26* Pin Missle
>29: Toxic Spikes
>32* Agility
>35* X-Scissor
>38: Poison Jab
>41* Fell Stinger
>44* Megahorn
Also, buff Twineedle to at least 30 BP


For Pidgeot and Fearow, I'd suggest tweaking Pidgeot to slightly favor Special Attack and fleshing out its Special movepool to give it more of a niche. Top it off with Extreme Speed because muh Dex lore. Fearow's stats would get pulled up to be the faster and powerful but less bulky physical attacker counterpart.
I'd keep going down the Pokédex but I've been up for like 20 hours

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>>31037520
Hey. I'm the author of that map.
I agree. You should see some of the other turds I proudly polished and showed off.
>>31037414
Tell me more

BUMP from page 10

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/vitlya-city

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/ytic-ayltiv

:^)

What are the things that Sage can't do? Is trading and online battling possible?

>>31040387
Technically yes.
But I don't know of any plan to implement it.

Ive officially decided the name Pokéblue fire red for my rom. Its halfway completed

Hi. I've added gen 4 to 5 in FireRed, how do I make them appear in the wild and in trainer battles? They don't show in A-Trainer and A-Map

If I replace/rename Unown in Fire Red will it fuck anything up?

>>31041071
Idk, try placing the advance map ini folder and launcher in the same folder as your ROM and editor ini

>>31041603
Where do I find the .ini? Sorry, I'm still kind of new to ROM hacking.

>>31041758
The advance map ini folder will be in the place you extracted advance map to.
If you applied Mr Dollsteak's patch and replaced a game editor ini (such as PGE or G3HS) then that will be wherever your ROM is.

>>30965368
>autism circle
fitting

What is /heg/'s opinion on Fakemon?

>>31045016
im ok with them as long as they have good sprites or >models

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>>31045016
Horrid idea
Who'd ever want to even consider that? :^)

>>31045179
>>31045285
Speakin of, is this a good place to post fakemon/sprites for possible feedback?

>>31045480
Y E S
As long as they're part of a game project

Bump, bump, bump.
So guys, gimme a hand.
Did I fuck up by overwriting Unown?

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so this is a retarded question but here goes
Theta Emerald EX (721) was just released here
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=386240
and I downloaded and patched it a shitton of times with different dumps of Emerald using different emulators, but nothing works.
Has anyone got this hack to work to prove I'm crazy?

I know how to patch Roms, I'm not that retarded.

>>31047094
Bump, anyone at all?

>>31047094
>fairy type
>megas
>stuffing 700 pokemon into one region
>level 200
seems like shit desu

>>31047481
shrug.

>>31047094
>>31047481
>megas
>level 200
>721 pokemon
>still plain old Hoenn
Look, fairy and new moves and shit is just fine but people need to understand that too many is too fucking many. Create a custom dex or use the shit in the base, but I have a hard time even with Drayano's hacks when it comes to catching all these bastards.

>>31040472
You guys are going to like it. I added the gen 6 exp share but the trainers pokemon are still always a few levels above you.

>>31047936
>>31047481
Is... is it even possible to make a game where every pokemon ever is catchable, but still have the mons spread out evenly?

>>31048716
There are about 800 Pokémon, so even in a massive region with 40 Routes like Johto + Kanto there'd still be 20 Pokémon per route on average.

Obviously there's encounter areas other than Routes, most Legendary and other unique Pokémon would be stationary single encounters, and you obviously don't need every separate member of each evolutionary line catchable in the wild, but the point is if you actually want to make every Pokémon obtainable in a single game it's pretty hard to do smoothly.
If you just try to cram everything in you get shit like having 14 kinds of shitmon on Route 1.