/heg/ - Hacking and Essentials General

>>32983658

Can Anyone edit Sinnoh Folk Tale 3 in the english version of Pokémon Platinum.

I want it to say there was once people who marry Pokémon and there was once Pokémon who marry People.

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Posting this again. First-time spriting GSC-style. Made GSC Dawn OWs. Anon in nuked thread said they sucked.

How can I improve them, since there's only so much 16x16 can do?

Has anyone tried making a "standard" RPGmaker game with pokemon sprites and graphics? I've just aquired all the sprites and am now writing a story. Thoughts on the general idea?

>>32984099
Why would you? Essentials has perfect Pokemon gameplay mechanics. I don't get why anyone would want to go backwards and make a vanilla RPGmaker game. Maybe a PMD-esque fangame could work, but it'd need a lot of effort put into it.

What did I miss? Why did the last thread get nuked instead of archived?

Is there a romhack for gsc where you can have Pokémon following you?
If not, I'd love to try and make it

>>32984730
Prism was suppose to have that. They might add it in an update.

>>32984099
Eevee edition did it.

>>32984730
Speaking of Prism, I really wish it had more of those pokemon-only areas.

Are there any RSE difficulty romhacks or RSE romhacks that don't stray away from the original game? (Or at least have a good plot revolving on Hoenn).

How do you change the shiny rate down to half in FrLg/RSE?

>>32985915
Open the Scripts in RPGMaker and go to the "Settings" section. Look down and you should see a variable called SHINYPOKEMONCHANCE. Change that value to whatever you want and you're good to go. It only takes a few seconds to change and it's very convenient. :)

>>32985952
and switch to a shitty fan game to play? No thanks.

>>32983817
Instead of blue, how about use pink as an accent color?
Black hair, white hat, pink details.

How many extra Pokemon can you add to a Gen III game again? I know it's just 5 for Gen II

>>32986215
As many as you want. Just go to the pokemon.txt file in the PBS folder and add as many entries as you want. It's very easy and flexible.

>>32986233
Damn, that's great, for some reason, I had like 19 in my head

>>32986233
We get it. Could you please not clog up the thread with your autism?

>>32986242
It used to be ~19 before the power of the hacked engines.

>>32986242
He's a shit poster don't let him fool you.

>>32986591
Much better.
Try making the hair a bit longer in the back and I think you've got it.

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>>32986601

>>32986664
I like this.

To the anon that managed to implement my custom world map into a rom are you willing to link the one you tested? Explaining the procedure is fine too. I asked this in the other thread but the fact that it actually worked felt like it was worth it to ask again.

apparently .spa files have transparency
these files are a real fucking pain in the ass

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>>32986664
The top of her hat is too flat on the middle row. I touched it up a bit.

is there a romhack/fan game with new regional forms?

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Starters idea here, what do you think of Azumarill, Magby and Elekid?

>>32989341
>azumarill, magby and elekid
one of these is not like the others

>>32989377
I know, but what other mon fits the criteria?
I was think Phanpy, Teddiursa and Houndour

Is the anon working on a North Korea game still here? I want to see.

>>32989341
Azurill doesn't even become part Water until second stage, and has a secondary typing (Fairy) unlike Magby and Elekid. You could always go a more unexpected route and just have two starters, with your rival always picking the opposite. I think that'd be pretty neat.

>>32989395
Good idea, since there's not a rock-paper-scissors relationship between them anyway.

>>32989390
Mm, yeah what's happening?

>>32989520
Done any work lately? I want to see screenshots

>>32989382
You want azurill, not azumarill

I've had this dream of bundling several original games into one GBA ROM where the PC storage system is shared across all games. Something like RSE, FRLG and remakes of GSC and Yellow. I don't know how much effort it would take because I'm not great at romhacking in general, but it would be really cool if this is at all possible.

>>32989648
I don't see why not, but it will take a lot of work

>>32989341
why not jynx? they were always a trio. maybe have marill the pikachu of the game.

>>32989978
Jynx hasnt been reinvent to the Electibuzz and Magmar line since Gen III
I might just go with the Phanpy, Houndour and Teddursia idea. I was also thinking maybe Azurill and Pichu and Budew

>>32989390
>>32989520
>>32989523
I'm still here. Just lurking for now, and reading for books about NK for reference/character inspiration. Everything I'm making is being temp built on a separate ROM from the final. I'm still trying to find out how to properly clean a Crystal ROM of all the vanilla maps so I can start over there and start inserting mine, all without bricking the ROM and causing the compiler to shit the bed from endless errors once the maps are gone.

It was done for Pia Carrot's Orange hack and for Prism, so there has to be a method to it. Either that or I just didn't do deep enough on my deleting spree. Thoughts and suggestions?

And btw, if I manage to successfully do it, I might just upload that to GitHub to save others the time. We'll see.

>>32991046
There's no trick. Just keep deleting things until it works.

>>32984730
Someone did a proof-of-concept for it a long while ago but nobody's fleshed it out or put it in a hack yet.
https://github.com/yenatch/pokecrystal/tree/following

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I use the pokered disassembly. When I played around with adding new trainers to routes, I tried using a sprite that was not previously on that route, and the result was a buggy mess of a sprite that had only one frame and not even of the sprite I wanted.

Tried looking around for some quite of sprite set or other limitation of which sprites can be displayed where, but I found nothing. Closest I could find is the trainer overworld engine

https://github.com/pret/pokered/blob/master/engine/overworld/trainers.asm

but even that doesn't seem to contain anything that would limit one to use any trainer sprite in any map.

I've been messing around with FL and actually managed to make something
https://soundcloud.com/user-320358459-244350696/battle-gym-leader

Feedback would be nice since I'm looking to learn and improve.

>>32992917
https://github.com/pret/pokered/blob/46a94c63fc287e7290502776d02648476bc44171/data/sprite_sets.asm
You're limited to a set number of sprites per area, and can only reload said sprites to use different ones by reloading the map (e.g. putting in a route gate).
I'm not that familiar with pokered so I can't tell you what everything here means but this is where that code is.

>>32992948
It's nice, but I kept thinking of how this piece would better be used for an early rival match or evil team encounters, it never really reached a climax or got serious and instead maintained the same mood through it all. Get busy with it, a personal favorite of mine is adding heavy drums in the background to bring it some additional serious beats.

I assume you've already checked the canon themes, but if you haven't, here's a video with them all, check the comment for time stamps for each gen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Hh5FVhboY

Has anyone else played "Pokemon Bonfire Stories"? Pretty unique fan game as far as I know. I really enjoyed it

>>32993024
That's most definitely what I'm looking for, thanks! Will check later if I can use existing sets for the new configurations I want, if I should make any new sets, or what happens if I'd merge one or two sets together.

>>32992948
Not going to lie, it's not great. I really don't like that piano sequence that continues through the whole thing. The sequence itself sounds fine, but when its combined with the bassline, it sounds very dissonant. There also isn't much of a distinct melody. The strings just kinda plug along without music purpose. You need to build and release tension in music, otherwise its just kinda there. The drums are also very weak. They're boring and unchanging. Nothing about them scream "Battle Theme".

What I do for Pokemon Styled Battle themes is I work on an interesting bassline and get it done for one whole section. Then I use the bass to make chords, and use those chords to write the song. That might not work for you, but you should try it. Also, I almost never go with the first melody I think of.

Are there any Prism on cartridges yet?
Not the old version

>>32992948
It's good.

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Just started today. Route 1 is coming together.
Any tips? Ideas?

>>32993373
Looks very comfy. The straight path is a bit too long without any variation. Not necessarily a bad thing, I would just watch that in future maps. You don't want exploration to be too boring. Also that ledge at the bottom seems a little too long. I'm assuming there will be an item at the end. I would make it so that the right side starts a little closer to the house and extend the grass to the left a bit more.

>>32993373
Needs unskippable grass. Doesn't have to be a lot, but if you can ignore all the wild encounters altogether it makes the route boring.

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>>32993475
>>32993484
The region is located between Johto and Hoenn with some rare Kanto Pokemon.

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>>32993373
>>32993730
I'm glad you took the correct path.

>>32993244
Nope. Probably waiting until the new team declares it bug-free and done.

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>>32993730
First town completed.

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>>32994309
Here's Route 2 and encounter rates for Route 1

>>32994309
The fountain seems a bit out of place

>>32994309
>>32994873
move the fountain one or two tiles to the right imo

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This is the first time im using essentials so im pretty bad at design and what not, but heres my first route in the game. Any thoughts/opinions?

Sorry for trashy image quality, mobile fagging

>>32994940
Also the tileset can use a bit of works as you can see

>>32994940
The fenced trees don't really make much sense.
And the turbines should be uniformly spaced, since they're man-made.

>>32993730
>>32994309
>>32994755
Jesus Christ, these are pure shit. Fucking stop now and learn how to fucking map, you worthless faggot.

Is Marshadow legal yet to be traded?

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>>32994999
Well anon, I am learning but thank you for the constructive advice. But you're right i can improve more so the new Route 2. Do you think is better?

>>32995569
the grassy patch on the far left could be expanded, add a cut tree that goes into a little inlet beneath the entrance of the route with a little pond and an item/trainer

>>32995569
Not that guy but here is some general advice on mapping. Go look at the routes and towns you like and try to figure out why you like them, think about how the player will progress through the map if they've never seen it before and if they can only see a small square of it on their screen.

For that route I think the ledge at the beginning that the player has to jump over could be removed. With that there they can't backtrack if they're trying to heal up or go back for any reason which unless you're trying to make that punishing seems a tad harsh for route two.

>>32995569
The grass could be cleaner. In-game grass is normally used in patches rather than scattered.

>>32995742
patches aren't really needed as long as it doesn't look messy.

Essentials guy, where's the best place to get RPGmaker XP for free?

Does this list of pokemon do the ocean areas justice instead of just Tentacool and the wingull line? So far the ocean around Dewford has Tentacool and remoraid. The Sootopolis and Mossdeep area has Wailmer, Sharpedo, and Corsola. Lastly east and west of Pacifidlog has Wailmer and Gyarados. Every area has the Wingull line and Route 134 has Wailord for convenience. I dont want to add anything that looks like it shouldnt be anywhere other than the region it was created in plus I'm saving others like Lapras and Mantine for other areas.

Has Coral Dev been recent on things?

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>>32988869
Looks great. I used to sprite years ago, but that was trainer/OW sprites for gen 4/5, so I'm of course a bit rusty. Thanks for helping me clean it up.

Anyway, now I've moved on to a GSC Dawn trainer sprite; largely an adaptation of her DP sprite. I don't have access to PS right now, so I had to piece this together with paint.net. I hope I managed.

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>>32996658
More leg shading.

>>32996402
replace tentacool with qwilfish

>>32996682
Looks good, but her right arm kinda clashes with the rest of the style, being all pink like that.

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>>32996748
That's the other end of her scarf. Her right arm is that thin white line to the scarf's right, ending with a Poké Ball in her hand.

How's this, then?

>>32996776
No no, HER right.
The scarf looked fine.

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>>32996817
Oh. Reverted, then. This better, with the darker outline?

>>32996846
Much better, I should have been clearer.

>>32996352
wait for a bundle to buy it

Wanted to do doodles hack, but had to update yesterday and didn't make it in time. Could anyone help me out and change my Tyrunt's Ability to HA?

Can somebody post a working rom of Ultra-Violet?
I have tried changing the cartridge save type and trying different FireRed roms to patch, and I keep getting a white screen after pressing start at the title screen.

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This is a shitty hand drawing of my region. Toughs.

>>32999073
I like it.

>>32999073
what is the map legend ? I'm really interested by thoses little lines and triangles and stars? M? you've drawed

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>>32999105
the star is where the main legend is gonna be the triangles, circles, lines, are to mark dungeons on the map like caves, tunnels and forests. I still dont know what legendary Pokemon are gonna be in the game but this are the maybe's.

>>32993373
Use a different tileset while it's still time.

Is it possible to have pokemon appear only at night in Fire Red with the day and night modifier?

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>>32996951
Fantastic! Also, here's her in Platinum attire.

>>32999073
>completely linear until you hit g
>then you have to backtrack to h
>then backtrack again back to g to get to i/j just so you can
>backtrack back to h to go to k/l, then back through
>i/j to get to n/m
just a rough map makes your game look like half of it is a complete cakewalk through the northern side and the other half is frantically jumping between cities in the south just to get the right key item or hm to unlock the next city. and whats with the second 'n' city and the unmarked city?

Can there be overworld pokemon which once beaten get us badges on romhack ?

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>>33000184
You got it wrong anon. The progression is
>A
>B
>C(1s Gym)
>N(2nd Gym) >M >N(ISLAND, 3rd)
>I
>G(4th Gym)
>F
>E(5 Gym)
>D(6 Gym)
>F(7 Gym)
>H(8 gym)
>K
>Unnamed Island
>L(Pokemon League)

Update. Here's Route 3.
>H>K>L

>>32993730
Get on discord, and I can help you do maps.

How do I stop being dumb?

I want to learn how to use essentials but every time I try it feels like my brain is going to melt. I'm a low-functioning autist. The most complicated tool I've ever managed to use without getting headaches is Mario Maker.

>>33001040
Read the wiki and look at the example maps

>>33001054
I've been trying, but that's what makes my head hurt.

>>33001085
Do it one step at a time then. Make a new map, try and make the player character spawn in that map when they start a new game.

Then you can try creating a NPC that the player can talk to in that map.

Then you make a second map and try creating an event that moves the player to the second map when they step on a certain tile in the first map.

And so on.

Newfag here. Should I use essentials or romhacking?

>>33001253
See >>32993758

>>33001253
Depends. Do you want something that actually feels, plays, and looks like a Pokémon game? Or do you want 3edgy cancer full of meme-tier fakemon, pathetic attempts at grand plots, knock-off-looking menus and battle graphics, and crappy midi music, all of which can't even be ported to run on an actual Nintendo system if you so choose, instead giving you a crappy .exe file?

To reasonable people (i.e., not faggots like >>32993758), the choice is clear.

>>33001253
Essentials. It's more flexible and you waste less time trying to get minor shit to work. With ROM hacking you're pretty much forced to make a gen 2/3 knock off and developing new features without someone spoon feeding you tools is a fucking headache.

I did low level programming once. It's not fun.

>>33001253
Game Maker Studio

>>33001253
>>33001958

Or Max's unity engine

>>33000659
huh didnt see it like that, pretty interesting

>>33001519
>you waste less time trying to get minor shit to work
Once you become competent with either platform this is a non-issue.

>With ROM hacking you're pretty much forced to make a gen 2/3 knock off
And you're not with essentials? Last I checked it's not 3D and can't make anything that looks like a DS era or later game.

Also, C is a language that exists and can be used to write new code for the GBA and DS games. You do still need to be able to read assembly, but writing it is just making things harder for yourself.

>>33001253
ROMhacking > Essentials
The Unity engine actually looks like it won't make me vomit the way Essentials does but it's a long ways off from completion. Essentials is poorly optimized and only works on PC.
As to which game you should hack, each one has its postives and negatives. Gen 1 and 2 have full-fledged disassemblies with lots of labels and comments but it's written entirely in assembly and you have to work around the limitations of the Game Boy Color. Gen 3 obviously has a lot more potential, but only Ruby and Sapphire have a disassembly and it's not as far along as the ones for Gen 1 and 2. Most people hack FireRed or Emerald, and you're limited to using pre-existing tools or hex editing and have issues like trying to find free space and not messing up any hard-coded values.
If pokeruby was as far along as pokered and pokecrystal I'd tell you to use that, but it's not there yet and we haven't seen any magic with that disassembly yet so I wouldn't have much to convince you anyway. It's all up to you.

>>33002440
Should also mention that the pokeruby disassembly is (or will be for the parts that aren't done yet) written in the C programming language rather than assembly.

>>33002330
>Once you become competent with either platform this is a non-issue.
No. There is always incredibly minor shit that can break ROM hacks no matter how good you are.

>And you're not with essentials?
No. Look at Ethereal Gates for example. It looks nothing like a gen 1/2/3/4/5 Pokemon game and it has its own unique aesthetic and screen size. With ROM hacks you can't even work in gen 4. It's quite sad, really. There are also plenty of Essentials games that have unique mouse interfaces or online features. I have yet to see either of these with a ROM hack.

>You do still need to be able to read assembly
Which is exactly the problem. There's no point doing this when I can just use essentials instead and program whatever I want however I want without needing to delve into nitty gritty bullshit.

It's quite telling that whenever there's not an essentials vs romhack argument in these threads the only discussion going on is some romhacker asking how to do something that would only take 2 seconds if they pulled their head out of their ass and just used essentials. Your game can be played on phones? Who cares, because you're never going to actually finish it, and if you do finish it it'll just be an uninteresting piece of shit.

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>>33002504
We only have essentials vs romhack arguments in the first place because you have a terminal case of shitposting and start shit on purpose
You are a plague to these threads

>>33001958
>>33001967
Wait you're serious?

What do we know about Gen 6/7 romhacking?

>>33002732
Difficulty hacks are doable, you can edit trainer rosters, Pokémon and move data, etc. but basically nothing else. Nobody on /heg/ hacks either Gen to my knowledge, and the little development it has is on projectpokemon.org
https://projectpokemon.org/forums/forums/forum/127-research-and-development/

Alright ROMhackfags, if ROM hacking is so great, tell me how I can do the following:

>Mouse controls
>Dynamic/modular character customization
>Unique Game Corner minigames or sidegames like contests or pokeathlon
>Animated battle sprites
>Online battling/trading
>Completely unique battle UI
>Screen and sprite size/resolution changes

I'll wait.

>>33002817
Why mouse controls?
Asking too much for gen 3 and 2 anon. It doesn't matter either way.
Emerald
Again Emerald
Play Showdown or real games if that's all you're interested in.
Why does that matter?
Go back to /v/

>>33002817
Can't do mouse controls obviously but I'm not sure why you'd want those for a JRPG
Character customization could be coded with assembly/C depending on the generation. Prism already has it, though it's not modular, and the most customization I've seen in Essentials is on par with Prism's.
Unique sidegames can be coded.
If you mean animated sprites during the battle and not animated intros I don't think Gen 2 or 3 have the VRAM for it, you got me there.
You could code a new UI if you wanted.
And I feel you're just looking for shit to nitpick about with that last line.

>>33002817
If Essentials is so great, tell me how I can play it on my GameBoy. Or at least on my Android tablet emulating a GameBoy.

What's that? It's a ridiculous demand because Essentials is for Windows and ROMs are for GameBoys/emulators? I'm asking about features of the hardware system, not the games themselves? Exactly.

>>32989648

If you find someone who is willing to do this, I'll let my girlfriend be gangraped by indians

>>33003002
Doesn't matter what platform the game can be played on if the game itself is shit.

How do I change palettes of a trainer sprite in APE if I don't have photoshop to save 16 color palettes? I try to change each color right from APE but it crashes.

>>33004273
Name one Essentials game that even comes close to Emerald, or Crystal, or HGSS. All roms.
Rom hacks take those games and make them even better.

>>33004513
>>33004273
>>33003002
>>33002922
>>33002878
>>33002817
>all this shit
i dont think the differences really matter if in the end its all just pokemon fangames like the shits a dime a dozen

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>>33004513
>Rom hacks take those games and make them even better.
To play doubles advocate the bad ones make those games worse

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I know this isn't anything big but I just had this little idea of having the trainer sprite being able to swap between the Emerald redesigns and the originals from Ruby and Sapphire at a certain point in the game. Maybe like a key item that only changes the clothes of the player but I'd be stumped on how. I know in Red Adventures it's been done as a replacement for the bike. Are there any guides on this sort of feat that I can look at?

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I haven't worked on this in a bit, and I'm probably gonna start over, but I was interested in some opinions before I do. This is only up to the third gym, which is in the larger city. There's a lot of shit I learned from all of this so far, like to avoid the mistakes I made on Route 6 (walking on the mountainous areas is a mess to design).

>>33004781
What was this originally, what are you starting over and why?

>>33004781
What a waste of effort, you pathetic cunt.

>>33004798
None of the events are on the generated maps, like npcs and shit, but I was just making a simple throwback style gen 2 game. No grand plot or anything, just start in the bottom left town and go on your adventure. Some villain shit eventually but then the E4. I got so into the mapping that I forgot about some fundamental plot related shit, like the HM roadblocks. I probably won't start over entirely, but it does need to be reworked. I really enjoy working with the Gen 2 style because of how restrictive it is.

>>33004482
Irfanview

>>33004781
looks like a well designed region
gotta agree with >>33004836
dont start over

>>33004781
>>33004836
>>33005196
If he starts over, I'm stealing his maps.

>>33005146
Thats for the individual sprite. I'm talking about replacing the palette that is in game specifically because if I leave it as it is when I put my sprite in the palette gets all wacked.

>>33005222
export the palette, then import it into ape
make sure your transparent color is first in the palette

>>33005266
you can export the palette in ifranview too? Cant believe I missed that.

>>33005390
Yeah, it's under image>palette>export palette

>>33004836
A learning experience is never a waste of effort. I'm most likely not going to start over, though. It'll just take some redesigning to get shit working tighter. Since I'm using Essentials GS, it's all Gen 2 shit but with Pokemon up to Gen V. I was thinking of doing Dark for the first gym, with the TM being Embargo. Prankster Murkrow and all that.

plz don't die :(

I've been wanting to make music for my fangame but after 6 months of constant practice I am still a terrible musician.

How do I get good, or at the very least make stuff that's actually presentable?

>>33007983
Listen to the source material. Each region has its own unique style to it. The most important part is what kind of feeling you want the area/story to have.

i found pic related in an archived thread, also found backsprites from the gen 3 mons

any chance to get gen5 pokemons done in proper gen 2 style as well?

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>>33008012
ffs forgot pic ...

>>32999303
put every mon in the game. Don't be a pusy

>>33005199
Is there enough abandoned projects to frankenstein them together into a complete project yet?

>>33008435
Probably.

Hell, I'm still waiting for someone to start making the movies into hacks. Namely, 4Ever and Heroes. I think some hacks have Alto Mare in them.

any good tools for gen 5 that's not listed in the op?

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>>33008012
There's obviously a chance, someone just needs to do it. Gen 6 and 7 both have basically-complete sprite sheets and Gen 6's even has backsprites, Gen 5 is basically the odd one out, probably because it has the most 'mons of any generation so it's the most work

>>33004513
>Rom hacks take those games and make them even better.

That's the problem. You're not making your own game. You're just knocking off an official game. No one cares about playing your shitty romhack on a phone if it's just a barely modified version of an official game. Essentials games are individual games I'd actually want to play.

>>33009640
>No one cares
>hundreds of thousands of downloads
kek

>>33009669
show me your game that has hundreds of thousands of downloads.

I'll wait.

>>33009686
http://www.romhacking.net/

Here ya go.

>>33009722
so you haven't actually made a game that interest. That's sad. Maybe if you made something in Essentials you'd have something more interesting that people would want to play.

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>>33009779
>nobody likes romhacks!
>>is told that many people like romhacks
>o-oh yeah where's the romhacks with that many downloads!
>>receives romhack hosting website that tracks number of downloads
>>sees that several Pokemon hacks have upwards of 350,000 downloads
>b-b-b-but YOU didn't make those!

Moving those goalposts must be great cardio. I find it hard to believe you can find time to make your own game in between workouts.

>>33009800
You're the one moving goalposts. I asked you to post your game that has hundreds of thousands of downloads yet you still haven't done it. Instead you post a website with romhacks for a bunch of games that have nothing to do with pokemon, which isn't indicative of th flexibility of pokemon romhacking. Maybe you should try essentials anon. Maybe then you can make a real game with its own aesthetic instead of a knock off of Crystal that has a few gen 7 pokemon in it.

>>33009849
>he's still trying
Okay, dude.

page nine

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>>33012847
What hack?

>>33013234
It's not a hack, but an engine currently under development by me and a few others

>>33013275
And it works on android?

>>33013283
Yep
There's a lot of work that needs to be done for mobile devices though.

any link to a-trainer? tried one reliable link i could find but it needs a password key in winrar but i couldnt find one at the site i downloadedit from.

>>33013395
HackRomTools
is the password
they say it on the page

>>33013377
Pretty dope, good luck.
I'm just going to assume it works on PC too.

>>33013522
Yeah it runs pretty great on PC

Has anyone have GSC sprites for the Rotom forms?

Is it okay if I make the MC delicious brown?
asking for a friend

>>33014671
Make your game in essentials so the player can make their skin color whatever they want

>>33014671
Player skin color doesn't matter at all, so go ahead. /vp/ getting inevitably assblasted over it would also be hilarious and help your game get more publicity.

>>33012847
damn can't wait for your engine to be released


>>33009849
i still don't get why these arguments even start, i think that 99% of people creating a pokemon game do it for themselves first of all, so if they want to make a romhack with only minor changes so that a game they liked in the past gets a little more exciting for them just fucking let them

>>33014794
Other colors wouldn't fit, I want that atlantis "brown skin with light/white hair" look

>>33014671
As long as it's a geographical choice regarding the game's location and not shoving in brown people for the sake of diversity (I once saw a shitty Essentials fangame where every character that was friends with yours was brown/black and every character who was antagonistic was white, it was horrible) that seems fine by me.

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>>33013793
How's this?

>>32999073
looks like Kanto

>>33018859

not the guy asking, but looks neat

>>33018859
It's great, but useless without a back sprite
Not that I'm complaining.

I just went in and added Spiritomb and Rotom to a hack of Crystal

Rotom doesn't have it's formes, so it would be cool to see what people come up with and I could add in the formes.

>>33014671
Why wouldn't it be okay?

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>>33018859
Revised him to make him slightly bigger.

This just came to me: Has anyone made a Red hack where you say yes to the Rocket grunt at the end of Nugget Bridge, thus creating an alternate Kanto journey where Red, three years later, is feared as a villain rather than hailed as the legendary hero who defeated Team Rocket? All the events would play out just like in Red, only the player would be on the other side.

>>33020539
That would be a lot of work, and it'd be a pain to balance the story and events to ensure neither choice was the objectively right one.
If it was just the standard Pokemon Red experience if you said "No", no one would choose that path so it might as well force "Yes".

The whole plot would require a lot of revising to make sure both choices resulted in a good experience.
It could probably be done, but it'd require a damn good writer, or even a team of writers to make work.

>>33020630
No, I mean one where it forces the "Yes" option instead of the "No" option. As in, there would be no "No" option, or at least not one that could be chosen and allow you to continue the game.

Pre-Nugget Bridge, the game would be the same (or mostly the same) as vanilla Red, but post-Nugget Bridge would be new.

>>33020683
That concept may have been toyed with before. There are a few Team Rocket hacks.

>>33013590
Does the engine require coding?

>>33020696
Yeah, I see a lot of hacks where you start out as Team Rocket from the beginning (like Team Rocket Edition for Red and Rocket Edition for FireRed), but so far none that let Red join TR. I mean, it'd basically just be a script and event hack, as all the maps and Pokémon would stay vanilla.

I might have to try my hand with pokered disassembly and see if there's something to this idea.

>>33020752
Hell yeah
Lots of C#

Is there a way to put in two intros before the title screen one, one showing up after the other? Kind of like how Majoras Mask did.

>>33022010
Yes. Just go to the "Title Screen" section of the scripts in RPG maker and code in whatever you want. It's very easy and convenient.

>>33022109
But that would require me playing through shit so I'd pass kiddo.

>>33022286
as opposed to a game that doesn't even exist because you're spending too long trying to implement every simple thing? yeah ok

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I haven't turned on my 3ds since people were reporting getting banned a few months back. Did anyone ever figure out what specifically was triggering the bans?

>>33022763
Ask in a thread where it's relevant.

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>>33022763
I have no idea. I never got banned, but I didn't use the freeshop and I actually buy things from the eshop

Are there any hacks for GB/GBA/DS games that add in all Pokemon up to SM?

>>33023048
No good ones.

200!

Shitty music guy back with more shitty music
https://instaud.io/15Rs

Where am I going wrong with it and how do I git gud?

>>32983658

Would anyone be interested in a romhack with Monster Hunter monsters?

>>33027229
If the sprites and story are good, I don't see why not.

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tiles

How do I play pokemon at normal speed? Literally I can't play any fangame donr on rpg maker because i feel the urge to speed it up 4 times.

>>33030659
Unbind the speed up key or just deal with it.

Any good fairly recently made Fire Red or Gen 3 romhacks made? Preferably with phys/special split and megas

I used to play these a long time ago so I played all the old ones IIRC

>>33021153
Danget

>>33009382
>>33008015
how do i insert these into games? wanna try editing gen 2

>>32983817
I think it looks awesome

>>33032156

https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=378692

summs up the basics quite nicely


pokecrystal disassembly is linked in the thread description if you don't have it yet

>>33031591
I don't even think there's a basic hack with those things, which is strange.

>>33031591
clover is a firered hack w/ phys/spec split

>>33033870
>playing pokemon knockoff: le epic references edition
how about "no"

>>33030118

What gen is that tileset for?

>>33034776
Whatever gen you stick then in.

Why have you not played this masterpiece yet?
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=351283

>>33035851
Reading the OP post, it sounds like reddit-tier garbage.

Convince me otherwise.

>>33035945
So is Clover.

>>33036029
I know. I never implied otherwise.

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>>33035851
>Features
>Slums(poor people/crime areas) in many of Kanto's major cities.
I feel like this hacker is the same guy who wrote pic

>>33036152
Yep. And I can say, as a guy whose worked with some dark elements in Pokémon hacks before, the whole point is to NOT go full 5edgy9me Cringefest 2017.

Yeah, it can have dark plot moments, but it's still Pokémon. There has to be a balance that doesn't venture too far outside of, say, Gen 1 levels of dark. Otherwise, it just reeks.

That FireRed hack seems to want to be dark/gritty first and Pokémon second instead of Pokémon first and dark/gritty second.

>>32989382
I like the idea of split evo starters. So you can choose between Oddish, Poliwag and Ralts, and you still have two options for the final evo.

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>>33036152
>>33036206
I don't think that's the intention.

>>33035851
Because it's not made in essentials and looks like cheap FRLG knock off garbage

>>33036225
Go shill your shitty, half-assed hack somewhere else, Crizzle.

So, with crystal disassembly now a thing, has anyone ever found out if that Lost Silver creepypasta from 2010 is actually possible to make on a ROM instead of a Game Maker/RPG Maker .exe?

>>33036225
Ah, in that case, please redirect your attention to the original analysis by >>33035945.

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>>33036272
Ok, I just wanted to post a garbage hack made by an edgy 15 year old that thinks drugs, sex and ur mom jokes are funny. I didn't mean it was an actual masterpiece autist.

>>33036335
iwasonlypretendingtoberetarded.jpg

>>33036371
I bet you're fun at parties.

>>33036335
>Your parents probably killed themselves, LOL.
That's a low fucking blow, Red.

>>32994990
not op but I like that you're giving actual solid advice

Is it possible to expand the world map for Emerald? Like, to add different world maps?

>>33039096
Yes. It's really easy and convenient!

http://pokemonessentials.wikia.com/wiki/Multiple_regions

>>33039163
You're so, oh so helpful. Can you get a name and a trip so I can highlight your posts and make extra sure I read them?

fuck off, I asked about emerald you fag

>>33039169
You're welcome. Just let me know if you need any extra help and I'll be glad to help you. Unfortunately I don't want to use a tripcode as it goes against the culture of this board, sorry.

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>>33039177
I respect your decision, but I found a way anyway :)

>>32994755
the right mountain's left wall doesn't make sense; the bottom level should just progress underneath the top rather than folding under.

there's too much grass for the player to see anything but a few screens

this one's up to you: I don't think ledges are valuable in mapping. they seem an artificial obstacle that you would expect to walk up against on the right, but the movement permissions would prevent that

other than that pretty good

>>33038310
I try.
Am I being memed?

>accidentally load instead of save
Makes me drop the game instantly.

>>33039775
>tfw retroarch has an undo save/load state function
godsend

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Finally found my rom, here's the second town, I fixed it up. Anything I could add/improve?

>>33039823
I'm usually a sucker for snowy towns, but this feels a bit too much like a pit stop.
The Pokemon Center is the first thing you see when entering from either path, and it, the gym, and the mart are all on the town's edge.
The residences seem like more of a side attraction than anything else. The residences should be the main focus of any town, since its main purpose is as a home.

Everything seems just a bit too neat and planned, which results in a snowy town somehow not feeling cozy.
A distinctive landmark would do some good as well to bring some character to the town.

>>33032521
meant how to do it from this image lol just crop out the pokemon i want?

>>33040276
Has anyone made a reimagined Cinnabar Island map?

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>>33040302
How's this?

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>>33039842

>>33040841
It definitely feels more cozy, nice job.
Is there room for something in the center of town? A couple of benches maybe?

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>>33040846
Couldn't find any bench tiles in gen 3 style

>>33040894
That's pretty cute.

bumpu

>>33041196
Why bump when we can just make a new thread?

I downloaded pokecrystal 3 months ago, but since I'm starting fresh I decided to wipe everything and install the latest version, clean, hoping it'd be better to work with. Everything was going great until I hit make.

>$ make
>make -C tools/
>make[1]: Entering directory '/home/User/pokecrystal/tools'
>gcc -std=c99 -o lzcomp lzcomp.c
>make[1]: gcc: Command not found
>make[1]: *** [Makefile:22: lzcomp] Error 127
>make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/User/pokecrystal/tools'
>make: *** [Makefile:54: tools] Error 2

The fuck is this shit?

So if a pokemon rom on emulators say the internal battery run dry does that mean there is no way of fixing it? Would the day and night tool not work either?

>>33041406
It's most likely caused by your emulator settings, not the rom.

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fuck

>>33042098
rip

>>33041366
It didn't find gcc. What operating system are you running this on?

>>33042180
Windows, running with rgbds v0.2.5.

How the heck do I edit black 2 to edit a pokemons base stats? I did this last year buy fuck me I can't remember how. Everything I google brings up SPRITE editing, but I'm not worried about sprites. Help?

>>33040894
How does it look with the paths being cleared of snow?
unless it's actively snowing people won't leave snow on walkways because it might freeze and turn to ice, which just fucks everybody's shit up.

>>33004781
>(walking on the mountainous areas is a mess to design)

Not really if you differentiate the tiles you can walk on with the ones you can't.

>>33009382
Not a Primarina fan but that sprite is amazing. Should be facing the other way though.

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I've never made a map before this so I'm looking for some feedback on it and any advice in general on how to improve on mapping.

>>33044106
Actually looks really good. The rock in the lake to the right doesn't need the shore tile to it's left. I'm not a huge fan of rocks being so uniform on the left side, but that's pretty nit-picky. Also, the ledges end a bit abruptly. You could clean that up with custom metatiles.

>>33041366
>>33042180
>>33042501
The install instructions changed. You need gcc but you dont need python anymore. Rerun the cygwin setup and pick 'gcc-core'.

https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal/blob/master/INSTALL.md

>>33044175
Oh thanks for the feedback I'm glad I'm heading in the right direction. I'm not really sure how I would go about doing anything with custom metatiles, is there a guide anywhere that would help me with that?

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>tfw DittoWare is going to make Essentials completely obsolete
>tfw /heg/ will become /hdg/
>tfw Hacking v. DittoWare discussions won't have the Essentials shitposters trying to create flame wars

DittoWare PC
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7uf28aVyGlycFlOY3RSd3p0QnM

DittoWare MAC
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7uf28aVyGlyNV9DX1d6R0Q2RGc

DittoWare Linux
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7uf28aVyGlyWjl1WWU4RmxWQms

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>>33047564
Aside from some pretty seriously bugged UI, this is promising.

>>33047564
Don't forget the mobile versions senpai

iOS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7uf28aVyGlyWTByMUVReVZvSWs

Android: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7uf28aVyGlyM19YTUV6UEtwV2M

>>33047564
>>33047746
This is all extremely promising, but the real question needs to be asked...

DDPtHGSS disassembly, when?

>>33047777
checked

>>33049735
no more bumps. Just wait for the next thread.

>>33049738
Yep. This thread's got too much old gunk in it. We need to start fresh.

>>33047423
What's obsolete? The two have different audiences. Plus DittoWare isn't going to be even close to usable for at least three years.

>>33049756
the 20's will be an interesting time for pokemon fan games

>>33049756
Why the hell would anyone use RPGMaker instead of Unity after the Unity engine gets completed?

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>>33049756
>>>3 years
Ni[B][B]a, I've been the only programmer so far, and we've only been a thing for two weeks

>>33050506
Godspeed