/heg/ Rom Hacks and Essentials General

>>31156137
Fuck yeah /heg/ 2017
Hack resolutions of the year edition?
Me: finish inserting Pokemon (18 done of 98 replacements) and mapping to get an alpha out next year.

>>31156402
>to get an alpha out next year
So 2018?

I want to make a hack that has
>new 'mons (most likely by replacing ones I won't have in the game)
>changed type chart
>a few new moves and abilities
>physical/special split
>reusable TMs
>new region and text
Which game would be the best platform for this

I've been spoiled by ZetaOmnicron, Insurgence, Reborn and Prism, are there any others that live up to these?

>>31156846
Ethereal Gates

>>31156402
To actually get started on the "programming" end with Essentials. There's a lot of planning I'm doing but I'm wary because I don't know what is and isn't possible to do with Essentials.

I just got rpg maker xp with money from steam trading cards, guess I can start my essentials game.

>>31156540
>So 2018?
Yeah. I get about 2-5 replacements done per day, some days nothing though.
As for maps, it's 2-5 days per exterior, fewer if working from a previous draft or longer if I'm not working off a previous draft. Plus I'm still working on plot progression and character - that's not even to say doing trainers, Pokemon distribution, scripting/events...
On second thought, 2018 is probably too optimistic. I don't honestly figure I'll get my project in any sort of playable state until maybe 2019 at the earliest. After all, I still have real life obligations and responsibilities.
>>31156690
Fire Red. Tons of tools, research, tutorials, and documentation and a couple of solid bases. Emerald works too, many hacks seem based off of it.

Congratulations! Your Bump evolved into Bumparino!

Going to be doing a new version/remake of GS Essentials whenever v17 comes out. Should I stick with the GBC screen size or go with something bigger?

Dead thread edition bump

>>31160201
Stick with it.

When do you get an exp share in pokemon prism?

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D I D G E R I D O O

Hey gents,
Here's some themes put together for my team of baddies, Team Swamp.

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/encounter-team-swamp

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/victory-team-swamp

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/encounter-team-swamp-executive

>>31161063
Max, I've asked you this before (about 7-9 months ago) and I'm not going into the archives again - what is your hack (pretty sure you're working essentials though...), and what is it about?
Got any deets to share?

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I want to make a hack that lets you fight Red, Blue, Cynthia, Wally and every major Trainer in the game with harder endgame teams and maybe add them as Title Defense matches as well.

Problem is, I have zero idea of hacking, I just have the idea.

For instance, Red would have his GSC team but all around Lvl 80 while Blue his Leader team from the same game.

>>31162300
Oh yeah, I'm talking about more of a custom patch for SM than a new game-hack.

Is my idea even possible?

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>>31161799
Yeah I'm developing Meta Mercury, a game for Essentials.
It's set in Australasia and has a fair bit of fakemon.
Every Pokémon is set to be available, which a strong focus on making every Pokémon have something that allows it to stand out from the rest.
Also, rather than being built on stock Essentials, a new variant is being developed just for it with features unobtainable in other versions.

In the story, you are the child of two famous Pokémon researchers: your mother a Pokémon breeder and your father a Pokémon geneticist.
A prodigy, you easily excelled in all of your classes at the Pokémon Academy and the school decided that you would be best off studying in the field rather than the classroom.
Your father is given a new job opportunity in a nearby region, and is given three tickets to take you and your mother as well. However, your mother decides to stay to tend to a particularly sick Pokémon. She instead gives her ticket to your childhood friend, Julie, who is an aspiring Pokémon Nurse and aide to your mother.

To help keep you company, she lets you choose one of her three healthy Pokémon to take with you: the Grass-type Cubush, the Fire-type Stegruff, or the Water-type Conoro.

Once in the new region, the three of you are shuttled off to a research facility in a booming metropolis filled with amazing technological marvels. Your father is given the task of developing a new robot, which is to keep the city under nightly watch from a group of criminals called Team Swamp.
Team Swamp have been linked to the disappearances of both people and Pokémon, and your father's employer is dead-set on stopping them from causing any more trouble.

Some feature in Meta Mercury:
>Adjustable Dual Screens
>Full-fledged cutscenes
>A completely unique difficulty system
>Three Regions

>>31161063
Pretty dope, got any battle themes?

>>31162457
Don't have one for Swamp just yet.

But here are some others:
>Wild Battle theme on the Southern Island
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/wild-pokemon-battle-auster-island
>Trainer Battle theme (work in progress)
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/vs-pkmntrainer
>Boss Battle (think UBs)
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs
>Battle at story's climax
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs-the-end-of-humanity
>Late game character battle theme (work in progress)
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs-reginald
>Regi Battle theme (work in progress)
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-versus-the-bodies-of-ice-rock-and-steel
>Frontier Brain Battle theme
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs-frontier-brain-version-1
>Sinnoh Legendary Battle theme
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs-legendary-pokemon-sinnoh
>Ho-oh battle theme
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/battle-vs-ho-oh

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Pewter City approaching its final form.

>>31163058
Oh man, that map is too solid.
10/10

>>31163058
is it supposed to be a maze?

If I want to share general details, or just keep track of them for myself, what's a good way to do that online? Is pastebin good? I probably won't be using images for a while.

>>31163221
It's supposed to facilitate exploration

Are there any good romhacks that incorporate Smogon's fakemons? Some of them are pretty well-designed

>>31162437
Just by that description I would play it even if it was an edgy game with 3 gender options

Blibbity blamp

>>31163138
Thanks! Still not quite there, gotta do a little more block editing and fine tuning on corners and stuff but it's close. Probably be finished in a week or so.

>>31156846
Is Insurgence finished? I want to play it, but if it isn't finished I'd rather not.

>>31156846
Rejuvenation is very similar to Reborn (and was based in it).

Most people that liked Reborn end up liking Rejuvenation. I am one of those, it didn't disappoint. But like Reborn, you might need to turn off your comprehension sometimes if you dislike edge

>>31165701
Not yet

Been seeing Pokémon Prism around a lot lately? Would anyone be kind enough to let me know what that's about? Also, something about Pokémon Iolite I think it's called? something like that?

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We regional variants now.

Is it clear what's on the new Ursaring's hands?

>>31167714
Beehives right?

>>31168562
yes

>>31169659
Nice incognito bump there :^)

>>31167714
Bug/Dark?

>>31170312
yes

At first I was just gonna make it normal/bug, with teddiursa being pure normal. But I saw that dark/bug was an unused combo, so I thought that was perfect. (I want to use up the unused combos in my game) Teddiursa will be pure dark.

>>31170565
a dark bug doesn't exist?

suprising

>>31171220
Yeah it's weird because most bugs are fucking gross so you'd think making an evil bug would be the easiest fucking thing

Give it to me straight lads, how difficult would it be to create 3D gifs for 100+ fakemon for my game?
I've been developing this game for a long time and I actually care about the outcome. I want it to be better than even gamefreak so sprites just simply won't do.

>>31166114
Prism was the hack that got C&D'd for being too good. It's VERY rough around the edges since we got an unfinished leak but a few anons are working on polishing it up. What happened to the generals, anyway? They suddenly just stopped after a steady stream of bugfixes.

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anyone familiar with pokecrystal?

i'm trying to convert .png back into 2bpp.lz and cant figure out how

There's hundreds of fangames that has their own stories in their own regions, but would anyone be interested in a fangame that acts as a sequel to one of the existing Pokémon games?

>>31173696
Which one? I really liked BW2 so unless it's Hoenn I'd try it
I also considered this angle but decided against it because none of the existing regions have room for some of the set-pieces I wanted to add

>>31173773
Different poster here, I was thinking of making a region based on the SW part of Hokkaido that was cut from Sinnoh. Unfortunately I found one of the ranger games is set there already

>>31171940
Pretty hard. Even if you're actually a talented 3D artist it will take you a stupid amount of time. Simply creating sprites for 100+ mons will take you a lot of time.

Give up on that really, I understand wanting to do better than gamefreak, and it's doable on some point, but you'll never have the workforce of GF when creating a new generation.

>>31173773
It's Hoenn. I just find that it has the most potential for a sequel. Especially with May and Brendan now being Lorekeepers, Hoenn having been invaded by the Ultra Beasts and Anabel being kidnapped by them.

>>31174087
It's not impossible to work with
I just don't like Hoenn as a region
I think people would be interested if you went all the way with the UBs

>>31163449
I don't know of any, are people allowed to use the fakemons?

>>31167714
Bug/Dark sounds breddy gud

The design is really neat too, reminds me of the University of California's mascot too; great color palette.

Anyone interested in a Game based on Historical Events like WW1/WW2, ancient Greece/Egypt?

>>31174169
>WW1/WW2
Jarring-as-shit tone
>ancient Greece/Egypt
I'd be sold

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>>31173696
I've always wished GF would do sequels instead of remakes (or just revisit the region with a new story altogether).
If I ever stop being an idea guy and actually learn to program shit, I'd definitely make a follow-up game to Johto/Kanto.

Feel free to share your ideas so everyone can rip you off.

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How exactly did the Sevii islands work in-game and what was the general opinion on them, good or bad?

From pic related I'm assuming there were 3 zones, each with a few islands. Could the player fly between them?

does anyone have a savegame I could use so I can skip Kanto?

>>31174623
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ilpij0zs70jiet5/Pok%C3%A9mon+Fire+Red+almost+perfect+save+file.sav

>>31174623
Good concept, mediocre execution, pretty shitty that they were forced into the main plot and hosted a tedious sidequest necessary to trade with RSE.

>>31174734
Is there a specific FR rom I should be using? I tried to import the battery file and got an error.

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>>31167714
Idea for a second Ursaring variant.

>>31163058
oooh, nice!

>>31174623
Nice concept, basically beta-Alola. But absolutely terrible execution. All the islands were extremely barren, especially 2, 3 and 4. And the two islands you see on your image that are without icons? Yeah, those are event-exclusive and do nothing but hand you a free Lugia, Ho-Oh and Deoxys.

>>31163058
what are you planning to do for this? Make a fire red game with improved already existing locations? If so then that was what I was exactly doing with emerald before I got bored. If this is really what I am thinking it is then is it possible to add more elevation to Kanto? Looking at the region in it's entirety feels very flat.

>>31174623
is it possible to change this separate map as the size of a new region all together? Really wanna use this part of the game to extend my region but don't know how.

Quick question about blaze black and volt white 2, is any rom patchable with the hack regardless of its region? I'm guessing the patch was meant to be used with the American version but is it possible to, say, patch a japanese rom and have it working?

>>31175458
No.

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>>31174830
Thanks!
>>31175228
I am in the process of a hack named Kanto Roads. About 9-10 months ago I released a very bad demo of the hack that was pretty much just bad mapsturbating. Since then I've practiced quite a bit with mapping and done a lot of research and writing to figure out just what I want to accomplish with my hack.
It's Kanto, but its MY vision of Kanto. New and/or improved maps, a new roster of Pokemon (98 Pokemon replaced with Gen IV-VII), a new take on the old story.
>is it possible to add more elevation to Kanto
Duh. The only issue is border blocks, but as you can see I've gotten around that by expanding the map and making sure the border blocks start well after the player's field of view ends. Obviously I'm still working that out though.

>>31171940
If 3D gifs don't work out, you could always go for actually good sprites. Gamefreak never got pixel art "right" anyway, even in Black/White, where the sprites were the best they've ever been, they completely ruined them all by having machine-made animations.

>>31174162
That's great to hear actually because my region is basd on California

>>31156137
why arent there no PMD hack roms ?

>>31176567
How much can you do with a game whose level design is randomized?

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>>31174016
What would I need to do it?
I'm thinking like smogon's CAP 3D fakemon such as pic related

>>31176567
Ruby Destiny Rescue Rangers is the closest you can get, unfortunately.

>>31178185
That's a quality model and animation for a fakemon

sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this

I was going to do a playthrough of crystal but just found that amnesia only boosts sp.def in gen2. How would I go about making it raise sp.atk instead?

Okay. Have soundhax running, and jksm... How the fuck do I into injecting via QR?

New 3dsxl, sun, cart

>>31156137
Looking for a good romhack that'll keep me busy. Currently playing through Pokemon Glazed right now, it's a lot of fun but looking for something else.

Anybody offer any good suggestions that have exploration/sidequests, lots of pokemon (can be new or already existing), and maybe new moves or types? Just looking for something fresh that'll feel new.

Thanks for any help guys

>>31178185
that's because it's from Smogon. Smogon is autistic as fuck, as we all know.

Time to start an extended video playlist :^)

>>31178185
Some 3D modeling software like blender or something else. You'll need to learn about modeling and rendering to get a result similar to official games. Dunno about exporting to gif but it can't be too hard.

>>31178185
lol its got dicks in its face

>>31179475
I did some searching and found a move editor for gen 2, but it only works with gold and silver.
Is there one that works with crystal

>>31175694
Are you going to add in Mt. Silver or any unique locations?

>>31178185
At first I thought this was real until I looked into it. Looking at it now the animation would be completely exact to real pokemon animations if it weren't for that tiny pause in it's wings.

>>31180398
I would like to include Mt. Silver if possible, but also my own original locations.

>>31156137
Are there any Gen III tilesets that try to emulate Gen II's aesthetic?

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I'm currently playing around with the idea of making an OmegaRuby 2 / AlphaSapphire 2. I've been thinking about how the region would've changed after the events of the first games, and tried to expand the explorable area by adding new areas to previously empty spots on the map. After Groudon's awakening, I imagine Mt. Chimney erupted shortly afterwards, destroying Lavaridge Town and blocking the path to the desert, but opening up a deep cavern path with lots of flowing magma that connects to the other side of the mountain.

Pic related is my preliminary map. Thoughts?

>>31182730
I'm interested.
What resources did you use to make the map?

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Another regional vartiant. Grass/ground, it's taller and more vivid due to the fertile soil of farms in the Caulo region.

I plan to do regional variants of Gen II pokemon only.

>>31182730
Do you still start in Littleroot Town?
Is there a Neo Team Aqua/Magma to deal with?

>>31182748
I made it using the two ripped maps and map tiles from ORAS as inspiration and made it all by hand.

The programs I used were Illustrator for outlining the ORAS soaring map, which I then exported and scaled far down. In Paint I then made three copies, added routes to one and routes + icons to the other, then removed everything but the routes and icons, respectively, and layered the three on top of each other in Photoshop, then scaling it up by 300% to give it the same pixel-y look that ORAS has and adding additional effects. The background I made in Paint and then added the darker part in Photoshop.

All I need is to add elevation on the green parts and make separating lines between routes. But I don't want to do that before everything else is fully done.

>>31183072
Well Dam Son
That's some mighty fine Paint skills, my dude.

>>31183071
You start in the new town above Lilycove City. I want the player to explore the right side of the mainland first before going to the left, as opposed to the original games, where the right side is extremely barren. Littleroot Town and the desert are going to be late-game or post-game, and in Littleroot there's a new area called Birch Preserve where the player can find Pokémon not found anywhere else.

My idea is to merge OR and AS together and create a sequel from that, so both Team Aqua and Magma are both disbanded. I'm not sure yet what the new evil team is going to be called, or if they're going to be made of Neo Aqua and Neo Magma grunts or completely new people. I would've called them Team Aether had Sun and Moon not taken that name already.

>>31183107
Paint is an extremely useful and easy-to-use program when it comes to pixelart as long as you know how to use it effectively and have another program for transparency and effects.

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Hey guys, does anyone know how to get Pokemon Meme Sapphire playing in Citra?

I can't seem to convert the prepatched .cia file to a .cci file or a .cxi file.

The most I've managed to do is to extract a content.0000.000000 file with ctrtool. How do I convert this to a .cxi file?

Thanks guys.

>>31183206
Haven't really thought of that.
I usually go head first into Gimp or SAI
When I think about it, you're absolutely right!

>>31183299
I don't use Gimp and SAI for pixelart specifically because Paint can do the all same stuff (bar transparency) and is much faster once you get used to it. Extra stuff I do in other programs, but Paint is a really quick way for me to get started :^)

Didn't know essentials was a thing... I have RM VX Ace though, should I buy XP or the essentials for VX are good enough?

>>31183440
VX Essentials is nowhere near where XP is, unfortunately.

>>31183660
Well, just have to wait for my bank to process the payment so I can start using XP, then...

Any beginner tutorial I should be aware of?

Im kinda new but ive sprited before. Any new advancements in pokemon editing?

>>31173696
That's literally happening right now on PokeCommunity, is called "Ruby/Sapphire 2" and uses Emerald as its ROM Base. A lot of people in that community liked them, but I don't really feel them like a sequel desu.

>>31163058
How easy/hard is it to navigate in-game (as in, in the 240x160 screen FireRed has)? Seems like making everything larger would have consequences to maneuverability.

>>31179475
>>31180191
All Pokémon games from Gen 2 onward have Amnesia only boost Sp.Def, but if you still want to change it into essentially Nasty Plot, you can get the pokecrystal disassembly and make it happen just by changing one line of code in battle/moves.asm.

>>31184224
http://pokemonessentials.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorials

Particularly:
http://pokemonessentials.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:Introduction_to_Essentials

http://pokemonessentials.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:How_to_use_Essentials

>2017
>still no essentials for mac

>>31184592
I've yet to test this particular map, (as it's still in drafting) but the other 5 maps I have were fine in that regard.

>>31184892
Not him.

But is it hard to learn how to use essentials? I have been thinking of making a fangame, but I never did this whole programming stuff

>>31184981
To use Essentials is not very difficult to learn.
However, there is a big learning curve when it comes to making custom scripts and implementing unique in-game mechanics.
If you mostly want to make a game similar to that of gen 3 or 4, it's relatively easy, but if you want to go any further than that, I suggest studying the programming language Ruby.

>>31163058
this map is tight. what function does each building fulfill? just curious.

Any tutorials on pokecrystal?

>>31184905
>2017
>still owning a mac

>>31184892
Thanks anon. I'm actually playing and looking at the events/codes in RM to better grasp what they did... Seems not impossible. (much easier to start than rom hacking)

>>31185081
Standard Pewter City - however, the small mountain is the gym and the house in the woods has an eccentric Eevee fanatic living within. What they will give you I've yet to decide.

>>31184892
Thanks senpai

>>31185041
Understood! Thanks, sempai

>>31184388
It uses Emerald as the ROM Base? Well, I was planning on making mine Generation 5 based with Essentials with updated graphics and eventually Gen 7 mechanics/Pokémon.

>>31187464
This is exactly how I plan my games. I don't tey to keep up with Gamefreak, but I still would like to stay up to date with the best changes to gameplay. I tried to play Crystal the other day, and goddamn it was boring.

peg

>>31162437
When do you think the game will be released?

Have Moon on Citra. Runs so slow and laggy.

Do I have to configure anything?

>>31188993
thr no outlines patch

>>31184905
Just use wine.......? Like why port when u can just install it with wine and winebottler

>>31188518
bruh play polished crystal if you want up to date changes on crystal

>>31188993
can you play oras and x/y on citra?

>>31188765
I should have some sort of demo out before Summer.

A full release will take some time.

https://github.com/ihaveamac/3DS-rom-tools/wiki/Extract-a-game-or-application-in-.cia-format

Does anyone know how to convert a .cia or a content file (.000000) to a .cxi file?

Thanks.

>>31172052
Pretty sure it got C&D'd for copyright infringement.

How do you guys feel about an auto-snatch ability?
Would that broken or would it depends?
>Dragonite used Dragon Dance
>POKEMON stole the effects of Dragon Dance!
I'm making a dark type pokemon based on greed and I want that to be it's ability. It has a bunch of arms. I might make it some type of bug.
Dark/Bug

>>31190732
I think it'd be fine as long as it doesn't have baton pass, bug/dark is a bad typing defensively

>>31190796
Nah, its part of a group based on the seven deadly sins. Being GREED means it definitely won't have any sharing moves.

Think I'll name it KLEPTOPEED
as in Kleptomania, Centipede, and Greed.

>>31190882
maybe using peed is a bad idea

>>31190898
Why? Because off peed and piss and pee and urine? Or because it just sucks?
Kleptopede

>>31191051
I was thinking along the lines of the urinary jokes

maybe even peede would work

bump general

>>31185041
How hard is it to transition from C++ to Ruby?

>>31191116
buy a book about ruby or something, it isn't that hard to learn

>>31176206
>you'll never have BW graphics with Crystal animations
>>31176567
We don't know enough about the newer ones, and the older ones are kinda of Jenga Tower so we didn't make too much progress in spite of having more prep time.

>>31191051
I really like Kleptopede.

>>31191265
Thanks
Hey, another question (trying to keep this alive)
How do you all decide what to put in each city/town? What are the necessary NPCS? Name rater, Move deleter, etc. Etc. I haven't played the main games since gen 5 and I need to know all the new attractions that are found in the cities.

>>31183030
I like it.

>>31191345
You haven't played for 2 whole generations, and you're making a fangame for the franchise? That's odd, I guess.

There haven't really been all that many new attractions since Gen 5 though, mostly just an NPC who measures your Pokémon's affection and gives the Best Friends Ribbon. The rest is optional niche stuff like stores and marts doing speciality stuffs, like a Berry Juice Shoppe that makes EV/Friendship/Level/etc. boosting drinks based on the berries you give them or Hyper Training that allows you to raise your Pokémon's IVs in trade for rare Battle Cap items and stuff like that.

>>31191116
Different, but surprisingly easy.
You can buy a book like >>31191128 said, but you could do just fine jumping in and getting your hands dirty, if you are good with programming concepts in general. Plus, there's plenty of documentation online.

>>31192606
>>31191458
what are the new mechanics that are not currently possible to emulate with essentials/hacking?
Also,
Does anybody know anything about England? I've exhausted my wikipedia browsing and I find that aside from London, England has fuck all to offer in terms of attractions translatable to pokemon. I have no idea what to put in my cities aside from Whitecrown aka London.

Just totally had an idea to remove hms by using an Ocarina of time/pied piper mechanic. An updated version of Pokeflute that calls upon a pokemon to perform a task.
Now that I think about it, this is really similar to Pokeride...fuck

>>31192953
No, that's a good idea. It's a one item HM, you puff on it and one of your party Pokemon cuts/shoves/breaks/surfs/etc.

>>31193039
Yosh!
I was thinking like you find or learn different tunes that you play like in Ocarina of Time for a specific function.
For instance, a Flying song would summon a flying pokemon (so you won't be obligated to carry a flying pokemon in your party) and it will perform the Fly function. And then of course Strength, Cut, and Surf would also have a song.

I was thinking about adding some rare pokémons with very low encounter rate that could be increased in certain situation. Like planting a certain type of berries will attract certain pokémon in the grass around it. Or rain attract other pokémon ( and you're able to set the rain in the overworld with rain dance). Talking to npc or just exploring the world would give you information about those particular encounter, which would be added to the pokédex once discovered.

I think it could be a good idea to make the world more lively, but after seeing the reaction to sos battle special encounter I'm not sure.

What should I do to make sure it's not just tedious ?

>>31193480
>sos battle special encounter
na ni?

>>31193564
Like mareanie

When is Polished Crystal gonna finish

New to Essentials here. Do you recommend I map some cities first and then fill in the events or you think it's better to do them as I go?

Have tons of experience with RM Maker and somewhat good at programming.

>>31163058
I dont think having real grass in a city is a good idea

>>31194869
get with the times gramps, sun and moon already did this

>>31192787
You don't have to have have the cities be exacly like their real counterparts, the main games do this frequently with towns like Lentimas, I'd say at least 80% of the towns in the game don't have much of a connection to their real life counterparts, even with areas like the desert in Manhattan. If you wanted to though you could model cities off other atractions which aren't in the main towns, like a Stonehenge town could be done in a similar way to Geosenge town in X and Y with the Carnac stones. Other areas such as Nacrene city are based off of relatively insignificant attractions like cafes and disused tram tracks in a specific area of New York, someone posted this video in one of these threads before, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3tp82ujo4&t=78s. Even just general things associated with England could be used, Sinnoh has some rural towns connected to nature and agriculture such as Floraroma and Solaceon because Hokkaido is considered relatively rural in Japan, you could do something like this in your region with something like a run down steel factory town around the North Lincolnshire/South Yorkshire area in your region.

Best emulator for the hg/ss?

>>31194869
Why not?

>>31195645
DraStic for Android.

>>31194989
what?

The only instance of grass I remember is explicitly separated by gates. It basically acts like you're going to a different route every time you open a gate even.

>>31195475
Thanks

How possible would it be to make a mantidfly 'mon that can randomly hatch from ariados eggs in gen 3's engine?

>>31198886
It could be possible to do something by looking at the code used for Illumise when it breeds either itself or Volbeat, and then applying it to ariados.

>>31199661
>gen 3's engine
Fairly sure that was introduced later.

>>31199686
I don't think so, I can't find anything on it other than volbeat having the chance to have itself or Illumise as offspring with Ditto from gen 5 onwards, even if they were I think Nidoran female always had a 50:50 chance of producing either male or female Nidoran, so that should be in the game.

I noticed in the description of a few rom bases that the rom has been locked into 'set', so the player is forced to play with the set style instead of switch.

Is there an actual reason for doing that? I can't see why you would take the choice away from the player.

>>31200556
I assume because people want their hack to be "dude so hardcore lmao"

Bump with a question
It seems as though from here on out, Gamefreak is going to give us a new gimmick for each generation (Mega Evolution, Z-Moves)
What are some gimmicksbyou are/would add to your games?
>obligatory oc donutsteel

>>31201322
I hate gimmicks. I think megas are stupid and where the franchise officially ran out of ideas and z-moves are where it's proving that. Experimental shit like "trials" aren't experimental when it's the same fucking bullshit with a different title.
Reboot the franchise and bring back sprites. Red/Blue 2, GS2. 3D was a mistake.
My hack has no gimmicks. It's a straightforward stop bad guys catch legendaries beat the Elite Four with no gimmick moves or evolutions, no fakemon. That's all. That's all I want, that's all I need.

>>31201322
I feel we have enough of those as it is. Megas were nice but specific. Z-Moves are ample, and more balanced.

It's kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh! - we have already a bunch of summonings already. Each time one was introduced and the game evolved, but I feel we should utilize what we have in hand more before trying to go beyond or so to say.

And I feel the same for pokemon. We should try to polish more these mechanics (mega even got reworked a bit in SM for example, like in the speed thing), before trying to implement more

How can I ADD trainers to the game with an simple update .cia?
I want to make a little hack that lets you fight important characters (the captains or the legends) outside the tree with 6 pokemon teams worthy of an endgame (say level 80 with competitive builds).

>>31201322
Mine's going to give the enemy team some Chimeras that the player can also catch in post-game quests.
Said chimeras actually being a parody on megas, regional forms, and some fanmade schlock like fusions and new evos. It's a gimmick that serves to make fun of other gimmicks.

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So Bulbapedia has these great 2D Maps, which might be great for tile ripping...

>>31202864
I hate that this style of mapping is still not available for hacking.

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>>31201322
Pokémon-EX
An EX Pokémon is a Pokémon surging with Evolution Energy, the common name for the inherent energy found in all Pokémon.
During an EX-surge, a Pokémon's power greatly increases, and it may even change Type or Evolve beyond its current form.
Mega Evolution is a form of EX-surge, where a Pokémon reaches a temporary higher form of Evolution in the heat of battle. Typically, this can only be accomplished by highly disciplined trained Pokémon, though it has rarely been documented even among Wild Pokémon defending their brood or tribes.
It has been theorized that Type-variant Pokémon are created when Pokémon naturally undergo an extended EX-surge in response to extreme conditions outside their normal environment.

In gameplay terms, all that shit up there is just lore you'd get from talking to NPCs and reading bookshelves.
EX Pokémon would just be an excuse to turn Legendary Pokémon (and certain Trainer battles) into superbosses by giving them stat boosts and cool Abilities or other battle effects. Basically a combination of Mega Evolution (without the form change) and Totem Pokémon.
Actual Mega Evolution also wouldn't require a held item and you'd be able to do more than one per battle, but there'd obviously be balance changes to accommodate that. And I'd probably just rather leave Megas out and balance regular Pokémon well enough that they're unnecessary.

Mostly I just wanted a catch-all excuse for all of these things outside of the shitty lore that the actual games give.

>>31204274
Lol Im the guy who asked this and I have something similar to this.
EX Power as in Extreme Power
It's only a concept, but it relates to my legendaries which are based on thermodynamics- Extreme heat and Extreme cold

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>>31201322
Not for a regular hack, but if I ever made a Touhoumon hack I'd love to include a Z-Move clone in the form of Last Words.

Like Z-Moves, Last Words would be powerful moves that can only be used once per battle. Last Words would differ though by only being usable when the player or opponent has been reduced to one puppet. (Using Revives after using the Last Word would not enable you to use another.) Ideally every puppet would have their own Last Word with unique animations, maybe with a few ensemble characters like the Prismriver Sisters sharing a single move, and if the character has a gimmick in the original games I'd prefer to translate them into secondary effects for the Last Word (i.e. Cirno's Last Word would be a low-power attack with a 100% freeze chance).

This is all a rather high amount of effort that would need to be invested, but I'm just pitching the idealized version of the gimmick. I'd probably also add some kind of level requirement like "puppet needs to be at least Level 30 to use the move" but wouldn't make a held item requirement.

>>31200556

Largely for balance reasons. Taking away the player's biggest in-game handicap - the ability to freely switch between turns - make the game naturally more challenging and in-line with how PvP actually works.

>cheating in pokemon

What could be more pathetic?

>>31205249
>2017
>not understanding the difference between RAM and ROM

>>31205249
Wrong thread anon, this is ROMhacking. Save editing and such are the territory of /ekx/, go baitpost over there.

>>31205249
>spending hours upon hours in tauros autismbox to be a cuck to RNG

What could be more pathetic?

I just want pk3ds to work on sun/moon so I can change a few pokes base stats, types, and edit a few moves :(

I've never made a romhack before. I want to make some Pokemons shiny color their normal color and vice versa on Black 2. Can I do this and how?

>>31206271
You should be able to do this via pallete switching.

>>31206271
Learn how to decrypt using the tools PPRE 1.4 and Nitro Explorer
Then, edit the NARC (Nitro Archive) at location a/0/0/4 in the file system using Kazowar's tool BWSE (Black White Sprite Editor)
You can replace the palletes and sprites of Pokémon rather easily if you follow the instructions correctly.

I got prism after it was leaked, but haven't played it yet. Did anyone go in and fix shit/was a more updated version found?

>>31206480
google the carl patch

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Whelp.
I might do some major redesigns to Stegruff tomorrow.

>>31194056
Create the region, map out the cities and routes on paper first. Then you can place events theoretically.
It's best not to make it up as you go.

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https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-1/vs-mother-beast-lusamine-gbc-8-bit
http://pastebin.com/zWajMT3c

This BITCH of a song is finally done. My next few ports are less atmospheric and more video game-y so hopefully I can stop taking a month on each individual song (but to be fair 90% of the time spent between Gladion's theme and this was me not actually working on the song, it got done in a few days when I stopped being a bitch about it and actually worked on it).

>>31207451
Cute. Decent style too.
I just finished designing all 151 Fakemon for my dex. Spriting is going to be a pain.

>>31174124
Yeah, as long as they give credit

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Which of these color schemes look best for a Fire/Ghost Ninetales?

>Left
+ Ghostly blue fire aesthetic
- Maybe too blue
- Might not be distinct enough from Alolan Ninetales
>Middle
+ Clear spooky/evil aesthetic
- Might look more "Dark" than "Ghost"
- Don't really know what to do with the tail tip color
>Right
+ Looks great
- Literally just regular Ninetales' shiny sprite
- I'd have to change Ninetales' shiny sprite
- People would still think it's a Shiny Ninetales and be disappointed when it's not

>>31208325
Honestyl, the right one is yhe best. The middle is too on the nose. I picture Ninetales as a sacred/spiritual pokemon and not like a spoopy ghostly being. The one on the left could be good if you tweak it.
I do like that you're making a fire/ghost Ninetales. I assumed gamefreak would do it.

>>31208325
I feel like regional forms should change more than the palette
That said, the one on the right.
>might be disappointed it's not a shiny
You're gonna have these in the wild?

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>>31209438
I'll experiment more, maybe actually switch up the color scheme like making the face/neck mane a different color than the rest of the fur.

I do want it to come across as at least threatening.
It might be a unique encounter. You'd find it in the heart of some long-abandoned shrine, and it's very unwelcoming to intruders. It would definitely be Dark-type if it wasn't already Fire/Ghost.

>>31209549
>I feel like regional forms should change more than the palette
Of course, I'm just trying to get an idea of how it would look.
That said it'd probably just be more feral looking like pic related, maybe with the ends of the tails ignited.
I'm not sure if I'd even be using the newest sprites, I might go for the retro aesthetic and decide to do this in GS Essentials whenever it gets updated or bite the bullet and learn how to mod Crystal directly.

>You're gonna have these in the wild?
Conceptually it would make more sense for it to be a unique encounter, but a big reason I wanted to do it at all is to help with Kanto/Johto's severe lack of Ghost-types, so from a gameplay point of view it would be better to make more than one obtainable.
I was going to go ahead and design a Vulpix for it either way. The name Vulpex is too good not to.

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bump

I'm the anon who was working on pic related, if anyone's interested I could upload some files that can be used to make a gen 3 styled map (bg, correct colours, map markers, etc.)

Any more feedback would also be appreciated. I still need to add a town on the extremely long route, I was thinking of maybe adding an island chain in the bottom right too.

>>31210637
Please do
Might make my own map sometime

>>31208325
Give the one in the middle, orange tail highlights [like the shiny one on the far right had]

How would one go about adding newer hold items to fire red? I know how to actually insert new items into the game, but adding/modifying hold item effects is beyond me.

>>31210705
Depends on what you want to add.
Hold items that heal or boost moves/types in battle is easy because they have pre-made effects

>>31210673
Here
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/qdh7gh53pi68hb6/

>>31210847
>a download
just post an image with the palettes and land+route style, nigga

>>31163058
>>31175694
I want to play this

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>>31210862

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>>31210897
Towns/Cities

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>>31210903
background

>>31210842
I was thinking of adding things like the choice scarf/specs, life orb, expert belt etc.

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>>31210913
Only the area inside the rectangle can be selected with the cursor in-game. Just put it over the background and don't put any cities/towns outside it.

I know you fags don't usually talk Gen 6-7, but are there Gen 7 hacks out there already? Im thinking slight more difficulty? Also what are the best XY and ORAS hacks? Drayano's ORAS or Rutile Ruby? Neo XY are any good?

Thanks

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>more than a year since the last Pokemon Gaia beta

>>31211837
I think there's a randomizer for SM now, not sure about difficulty hacks though.

>>31210637
>>31210903
>green dots and L-shaped town
'splain?

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>>31212944
L-shaped town is just a major city.
Green dots are placeholders I'm using at the moment. North will be some sort of ecological research lab (a little like the great marsh too). The south-east one will be to do with fossil pokemon, still working out the details but it'll probably be a sort of habitat.
I only posted the defaults in >>31210903, it's easy enough to modify them to suit your needs.

D'you think pic related looks better or worse?

>>31207451
I dunno actually, I think it just needs a repose and better anatomy

>>31210637
Honestly, I think gen 5 had the best map style.

>>31213106
That image looks better

>>31175228
tfw i never got bored
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=386229

>>31202864
Someone posted the exact same thing much further up in the thread, and only now you're noticing the potential? Heck you even commented on the post yourself.

>>31202864
I already tried doing that, but I noticed that the maps have scaling errors on them. I looked at the trees and the tall grass one of them and they're aren't identical. It's easy to fix of course, but I just wanted to point that out. Don't rip a tile that has these errors on them.

>>31204274
>An EX Pokémon is a Pokémon surging with Evolution Energy, the common name for the inherent energy found in all Pokémon.
No, that's called Infinity Energy.

>>31207451
It looks too much like a ground-bound Ledyba to me. And a bicycle helmet.

>>31208325
The middle, but with white tips on the tail and white chest fur. Also, the tails should be up in the air.

I don't mean to come here but I can't find any help online and /vg/ is dumb, I need some help, I've been following this guide
https//3ds.guide/installing-arm9loaderhax
and A9LH won't load when I press start to load it and I can't get to Hourglass9 can someone give me a hand? I've already tried reinstalling both .bin files and renaming them but nothing happens, did I do something wrong or should I trash it all and restart or what?

>>31215183
I'm on 2.1.0 on an O3DS btw

>>31215247
WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD

>>31215540
fuck life

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>>31208325
I'm also doing regional variants, what's your region based on?

>>31211934
Didn't Spherical Ice say he was going to start up a Patreon or some shit for Gaia? Did he actually go through with it or did he try saving some amount of dignity by not doing it?

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>>31207641
>>31213955
>>31215122
If I lengthen its frame and connect the body with the head, it makes it look more dinosaurian and less like a ladybug.
Also making its tail more prominent and less of a spike helps tremendously.
I could play with the color scheme too and see about making the ports look less like spots.
I also did away with the middle stripe.

>>31215958
>ice/rock
So wait is that a land-lapras?
Should probably change the limbs

>>31214536
>It's a shitty hack by a beginner
Time doesn't equal quality, mate

HEG is it a good idea to delete a heap of unused moves from the pbs and such? Or is it too ingrained into Essentials?2

>>31217073
You can delete any move you want I believe.
If there's any error, it's due to a script calling the move you delete, which you can just remove based on the error log

>>31217109
Cheers, so basically everything can be edited in the pbs
>still have to go through animations

>>31219555
Yeppers. Except maps and story elements

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Here's a work in progress of Team Swamp's battle theme
What do you think?
Is this too intense for a grunt battle?
A lot of work needs to be done to even this section of it.
This is just the rough idea

https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/team-swamp-battle-wip-preview

>>31221175
what do you use to compose music?

>>31221175
I guess it depends on how intense the grunts are.

As it stands I think it works fine, and even reminds me of the Team Skull grunts mood. Just know that it might take more work to make the higher-ups themes more intense (assuming Team Swamp has higher-ups.)

Dunno if this helps but one thing I like to do is for important battles, really try to come up with a strong melody that will stick with the player. And for more "generic" battles, I'd try to make the melodies sound "non-particular." I don't want to say generic exactly. I haven't heard all of it but it sounds like the theme has a lot of variety in it, and has a great "cool groove" but is "non-memorable" in a good way, so it shouldn't get annoying or anything.

>>31221272
Cakewalk Music Creator 5 + Kontakt 5/Battery 4

>>31221479
I'll need an admin and a leader theme too, but I can think of some ways of making those more intense and different.

For their other themes, I use two or three distinct motifs.
>Horns use a variant of this melody
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/encounter-team-swamp
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/victory-team-swamp
>That one two-measure synth ostenato (already used throughout the battle theme as well after 0:15)
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/encounter-team-swamp-executive
>and of course Didgeridoo rhythms in the breakdown section

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>>31201322
regional variants were such wasted potential that could've been done better

trying to work out how i'm gonna go about it since trying to come up with stuff that isn't shit is pretty hard

also megas and, to an extent, z-moves are cancer for single player and i suggest a blanket nerf on them if you want to have them and retain balance

>>31221175
How do you make Pokemon cries?

>>31221654
>dat major mode on the victory theme.
Great stuff man!

>>31221175
Max, Max, my main man! I said it before, I'll say it again. Good work! Sounds like some shit is about to go down.

>>31221884
I use a combination of animal and inorganic noises, and then pass it through filters where needed.
My personal preference is to mix it down to a mono track, similar to what GF does.
>Stegruff was mostly pig
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/004-stegruff
>It evolution was a horse, a tiger (?), a crocodile, and an electric saw
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/006a
>Conoro and it's evolution are parrot sounds harmonized at different pitches with a sound byte of someone squeezing a sponge, I believe
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/007-conoro
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/008a
>This legendary cry was part of a stock monster scream and wind blowing
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/frost
>This is mostly horse, too
https://soundcloud.com/dimbus-maximus/boxlegend

>>31221900
I knew from the beginning I wanted a major key, but I was pretty challenging to get a progression going
When I finally figured it out, I chills, man.

>>31222115
Thanks, anon

Bump for bed~