/heg/ - Hacking and Essentials General

>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up you game?
By switching to Essentials.

>>33318016
Starting the thread off right™, I see.

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Where do I get the right fonts to make box art for my rom hack?
Any other advice on making gba style box art is helpful too.

>>33318073
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/18168/pokemon-version-font

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>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up you[r] game?
By including part of Sinnoh for post-game story.

>>33318103
That sounds pretty cool actually.

>>33318101
Whoops, forgot to say it was futura bold

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>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up you game?

Making a ROM hack.

/rhg/ when

A apanish leak from a trusted magazine shows Sinnoh will be added in UsUM

>>33318318
/hug/ when? /hueg/ when?
>>33318346
no es fake

>>33318318
Why? So the thread can be even deader than usual?

>>33318466
Dead thread is better than shit thread.

>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up you game?
Two words: Ash Greninja.

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>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up you game?
Considering I've never touched a language as low-level as assembly before and am a fairly poor coder in general, I've kind of already made my peace with the fact that sooner or later I'll have broken things beyond repair. It's a learning experience.

>>33318121
How do I get Essentials to work on my pirated Windows 10? I did all that I could, but it doesn't respond.

>>33300382
So where do I even find a copy of clover?

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Anyone know any Theta Emerald EX glitches? Really want to start playing but I don't want my experience ruined by annoying or game-breaking glitches.

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>>33319051
Pic related. There are plenty of glitches, just look through the pokecommunity thread. Meanwhile the creator refuses to upgrade the battle engine patch he's using., because he's too busy making 30 minute videos about how other romhackers all suck.

Has anyone played Pokémon Altair/Sirius? Thoughts?

>>33319641
It's alright. The Fakemon are great, but the rest is bascially just normal Emerald. Vega is better, as it's a sequel to these games with a new region, new music, more Fakemon, stuff like that.

>>33320287
Isn't Alto Mare from Heroes in Altair?

>>33318121
What is that top one with the shark pokemon following it's trainer? It looks amazing.

>>33318775
Actually made it work on 8.1 maybe it'll work for you too;

I have to add them to the DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in your pc.

1.Got to "This PC" and right click settings.
2.Go to Advanced System Settings
3.Go to settings in and in the last tab add RGSS Player and RPG Maker XP.

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Guys, what is a comfy geographical location you'd like to play in? Somthing not done in any official game yet.

Do I need to learn how c++ works to be able to edit scripts?

>>33320760
New Caledonia (pine trees along reefs)
otherwise Joshua tree or Patagonia

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>>33320896
Incidentaly im working on a region like that w/o knowing about this place. I'll look into it and take some inspiration from it.

Any feedback on pic related?

>>33321067
AHAHHAHAAH this is the worst map Ive seen in a long while. Nice one, anon. How could you think this was worth posting? I see, you've played with Rpg Maker for 20 minutes total. Great job! Proud of you.

>>33323017
Jesus, what a fucking sperg

>>33321067
So overall a positive response, thanks

is this the thread to request injections?

>>33325227
What do you think?
Do you see anything about injection in this thread?

So maybe I just suck at Google but is there a list of all the Pokemons' numbers in hex? I converted Wailmer's dex number in XSE and it gave me Nosepass so I dont feel like doing trial and error

>>33325367
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Index_number

>>33325367
Remember if it's a three digit number, you have to write it in little endian. You have to flip the bytes.
But anyway, try this.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_index_number_(Generation_III)

>>33325362
can you please inject me a movie event Jirachi?

>>33325838
I'll inject this cum in your ass, bb.

>>33325227
>>33325838

>>33326206

>>33321067
This is a bad map, honestly. You have a ton of grass with basically nothing there, but it's also completely away from the main path which is just a straight line. I think you need to start over from scratch. Try to consider both a reasonable length and a reasonable amount of mandatory grass.

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Watched Heroes last night and felt compelled to sprite Bianca. Thoughts?

>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up your game?

I'm making an open world pokemon game where you can even choose the starting town.
But I'm breaking the game into two segments:
>segment 1: The player takes a tour around the region. Maybe the player will have to fight some gym leaders, maybe there's a group of petty thugs they need to deal with... The plot is different for each starting town.
>segment 2: An ancient evil has awakened. The player must revisit the cities in any order of their choosing to fight off the antagonists.
That's the easy part.

The hard part will be making a fair level curve for the entire region, so players don't get fucked over by unfairly strong wild pokemon. What I might do is put underleveled mons in the main routes and the player can rematch trainers if they need to grind. Wild pokemon will be stronger in the optional/alternate routes.

>>33328392
Can you do adaptive levels somehow? Like have wild pokemon levels be +/-5 from your party's average level, and trainers be +3-8 from average.

>>33328237
Looks good!

>>33328994
I think I found a solution but I'll test it out in the morning.

I don't really like adaptive levels. It's harder for the player to gauge when they're ready to take on a boss or not because the boss will always be stronger than them.

If level scaling is my only option I'd need a way to set up a level cap so a player with one Lv 50 mon and five Lv 5 mons won't be stuck fighting Lv 12 mons. It's probably just a case of setting variables though.

>>33329700
You can scale it based on objectives completed/badges earned.

I'm playing through Brown right now, enjoying it but I don't understand why dark isn't super effective against ghost anymore?

>>33330073
might be the gas type interfering

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>>33330073
I checked the type chart, and it's supposed to be super effective.

>>33330131

>>33330131
That's what I was thinking too, is Haunter gas type too?

>>33330178
yes

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What do you guys think? First map, just dabbling in things.

>>33330272
cozy/10

>>33330272
Needs some water :^)

>>33330272
The house is a little small.

>>33330272
Get rid of the top two stair tiles in exchange for more of those cliff tiles surrounding the area, because it doesn't look right.

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>>33330272
There should only be one set of those stairs; not two.

I didn't see a Sage thread so posting here: I just finished the demo finally, is Cut actually available or not? The wiki page for TM/HM locations says it's in Legato Crossroads but the page for that town doesn't indicate where.

>>33331285
looks nice. nothing to point out

>>33332679
>sage
i totally forgot about that. didnt play it because it wasnt completed. how much progress on the demo?

>>33332963
Up to the third gym, about 10 hours if you go about catching everything

>>33331285
comfy/10

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Flower Paradise.

Maybe I should get back to devamping Alola, but with USUM around the corner, I feel I should wait for the revised Alola. Thoughts?

>>33334782
epic black surprise text

simply epic

>>33334782
F*ck Alola. Go on with your own project man

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>DUDE DEVAMPS LMAO
>DUDE [GAME] BUT WITH PHYS/SPECIAL SPLIT AND ALL 802 POKEMON LMAO

Why are ROM hackers so unoriginal?

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R8 my cave. Think of it as a route 1 equivalent. The ladder to the lower level will be blocked off until later in the game.

>>33320394
want to know it too

>>33334850
We haven't ever gotten a finished devamp so it's completely fine for more people to try. They probably won't finish it themselves but I support any attempt.

>accidentally overwrite map because advancemap is garbage
GUESS WHO WANTS TO FUCKING DIE

>>33335300
I tried to warn you bro. But you didn't listen. Switch to Essentials.

>>33335300
Sorry to hear that, anon. You should start keeping backups more frequently so you can avoid this issue in the future.

>>33335300
git gud

>>33335300
Now you can make it even better.

>>33335401
now neither of us will be virgins

>>33335401
True dat!

>>33332679
Late, but talk to the lumberjack after going up and doing the plot event Northington asks you to do.

>>33335300
Serves you right for hacking gen 3. What is it, 2006?

>>33335561
>implying hacking gen 4 is feasible without being a real programmer
>let alone gen 5

So *is* there a DPPt demake in gen 2 style yet? Or at least a mostly complete one

>>33336095
no because demakes are boring as fuck to develop and there's barely any incentive to play them either.

>>33336093
Gen 4 and 5 are probably on par with each other, it's just that there's been no major collaborative effort for either.

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>>33336095
There isn't. You could keep an eye on this hack here, it got uncancelled a few months ago but the creator has been focusing more on their other hack and hasn't released any public progress yet.
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=325333

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>>33328237
Next up, original outfit Moon/Muzuki/Selene.

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>>33328237
>>33336830
I'm not a sprite artist, but the legs seem weird to me, especially Bianca. Her left leg seems broken honestly. Chicken's proportions also feel a bit off, like her waist is too high.
I think both of those sprites are perfectly acceptable for a fan project, better than I could do personally, but touchups could definitely improve it.

>>33336683
what romhack is this?

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>>33336928
Yeah, the leg issue with Bianca I sorted out after I posted it here. I'll see what I can do with Chicken.

>>33336935
Judging by the alternate forms, it's an essentials game. Don't get your hopes up, it probably doesn't have a demo or anything.

>>33338165
>Judging by the alternate forms, it's an essentials game

Why? Can't I do these things in a ROM hack?

Is it better to make an Essentials game then?

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>>33338390
You can do it in either engine, however, essential games are rather notorious for it. Just look up some of the delts forms for insurgence if you want to see what I mean.
For example, this is delta charizard. Venusaur is worse.
Now, on the topic of engines, they both have thier pros and cons. What is it that you want to do with your game?

>>33335029
I had to look at that for several moments before realizing it wasn't Whirl Islands

>>33335558
Thanks anon

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https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-1/battle-cipher-peon-gbc-8-bit
https://pastebin.com/bmMzE5dC
Did another thing. I feel iffy about it since I don't normally do songs from spinoffs but it was a direct request by someone working on a ROMhack so I thought I'd make an exception.

>>33338680
I like Delta Charizard, specially the Mega.

Anyone have a working download link for ASH Extractor?

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/ASH_Extractor

>>33340371
Good shit, dude.

>>33340588
try this
https://www.thetechgame.com/Downloads/id=33860/ash-extractor-01.html

>>33340625
> Requires registration

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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What do you think about replacing HMs w/ *You should have this type of pokemon*

Like if you played Prism there is a dark mine where you need to activate a generator w/ an electric type.

You'll need water type to surf etc. One problem is that I want pokemon like Snorlax to also be able to surf. So maybe a check like: *If the pokemon able to learn surf - then you can surf*

And then make all HMs TMs.

Another way is to make HMs instead of adding a move add an indicator that this Pokemon can do this. Maybe a ribbon?

>>33320749
Thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to try that out.

>>33341234
>maybe a check like: *If the pokemon able to learn surf - then you can surf

That's basically how I'm doing it, I check the TM/HM learn list. Giving a ribbon could be another way to do it, but I myself replaced the ribbon page with a "field skills" page that lists which "HMs" you've acquired and, out of those, which ones that Pokémon can use.

>>33341234
I'd go with the "any mon able to learn Cut is able to cut trees" approach, rather than type-specific requirements.

As far as gating progress goes, I'd prefer having Key Items to signify which field actions you've unlocked. Having these items is a clear and easy way to see what you can do (if only you had compatible Pokémon), which I think is useful. Having X badges unlock field actions doesn't let you refresh your memory of what you've unlocked unless you actually try it, which is more effort.

How do you feel about HMs/Ride Pokemon as a mechanic?

For me, there are times where it feels like a very cheap way to lock people out of exploring, and sometimes (like when you get Surf) it feels like it opens everything up.

Ignoring the inability to forget them or them being shitty moves, just the mechanic of there being obstacles that can't be overcome until the game lets you.

>>33342625
HMs are necessary in my opinion. It allows you to create a lot of believable roadblocks and locked-off side areas that, as you said, are suddenly opened up all at once when you get a new one. You can easily fuck up region design despite having HMs (just look at the part of ORAS where you get Surf and are IMMEDIATELY teleporter to Mallville against your will, completely negating the fact that the western half of Hoenn is designed to be re-explored on the way there and secrets exposed based on the path you take) but I think having HMs is very important.
Now, replacing HMs with ride Pokémon that serve the same function is in theory perfectly fine since it lets you make the same design choices. SM used ride Pokémon very poorly though, with some rides having literally ZERO use before the area in which you get them like Mudsdale. If you employ old-school region design then they shouldn't have any problems.

>>33342708
Fair points. I just don't think most Pokemon games use them in a satisfying way. I think for the obstacles that you need to backtrack for there should be higher reward, not just low/mid tier items.

There's also the dungeons/routes that have multiple HMs needed, so even once you get one, you still need others, which means you keep returning only to leave empty handed.

Better rewards for exploring and not stacking obstacles would make exploring much more enjoyable I think, leaving the obstacle-stacking super dungeons/routes for later in the game.

>>33341951
>>33342408
It's funny how it took GF 6 gens to pick up on that and even then they replaced HMs entirely with different mechanic and we're like "yeah just make HMs not take a move slot"

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Is coraldev still around?

>>33343174
The thing is that the posts you replied to still have the player use THEIR OWN Pokémon to get past obstacles. That's an important factor to me. Using some random purpose-built Pokémon that appears out of nowhere when you call for it is nowhere near as interesting as using your own Pokémon to surpass obstacles.

I actually don't mind HMs. You actually need to plan around having them while still being able to battle proficiently (note that this only applies to the couple of HMs that are pretty poor moves; some of them are good and don't hinder you). It's maintaining this balance that enhances the experience of the journey, for me. Maybe it's not a huge impact, but it's still something.

>>33341234
Replace HMs with usable key items.

What's a good excuse for a town or area to exclusively have women (or rather, female NPCs), while allowing the male player to freely roam?

>>33345136
why would you want to do this

>>33344227
That's such a stupid thing to do. You live in a world with pokémons and you'd rather carry shears instead of having your pokémons do it for you.

>>33345136
Say that the menfolk were recently destroyed in a deadly but short-lived and highly specific plague.

>>33345136
A crazy leader.
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Tel_Mora

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Posting a map of the starting town for a project I did a year ago. Not sure if I'll continue on with it but I remember people in these generals like when maps are posted (I have a couple others too) so here it is, feel free to give your thoughts

I am thinking about maybe starting to resume development on the game again. The main snag I ran into is that it was originally planned as a fakemon project when I couldnt really into art, but I've gotten a bit better at drawing over the past year and enjoy making mons now

Bit new to the thread, so sorry for the questions.

I've done some base level "hacks" before (editing Pokemon availability and level curve) and really enjoyed it, and want to move on to bigger things like custom maps and script editing. No fakemons, no form changes, etc.

I'm guessing Essentials wouldn't be a good fit for me because I'm not using any of its strengths. Am I correct in that assumption?

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Might be the wrong place to post this, but is there a way to make tables like these side by side? it's really annoying.

>>33347613
Google Docs is a fucking nightmare to format. If it's really bothering you then should probably copy it over to Word

>>33347635
>tfw you do 90% of your work on a chromebook
feels bad being a poorfag

>>33347729
I've been there friend, just keep focused on the end goal

>>33346854
Yes, you're quite right.

>>33346740
Those tiles are real nice lookin and your town is comfy as fuck, anon. Also the map design is pretty great, it has a sense of structure like there was an actual town planner but it isn't a big square - it has an organic quality to it. Only criticism I'd have is that when you use vertical cliffs like those the stairs have to extend beyond them, otherwise it looks like you're climbing a ladder. Remember pythagoras, anon. Good job.

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I finished cleaning my pokecrystal ROM of all non-New Bark maps (New Bark, player's house, Elm's Lab, etc. were kept, for now) and connected events, so that I could start fresh when building a new region. I compiled the .gbc ROM successfully, loaded it up in VBA, and the "Welcome to the world of Pokémon" intro worked fine. However, after the sprite shrinks and the screen fades to white to load the player's house, it froze on the frame shown in pic related.

Any idea what I deleted that I shouldn't have?

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what part of the board do i want to avoid hitting with the soldering iron? can someone ms paint it for me? does the same apply to old game boy games?
>>33349999
checked

hello /spoonfeed/
can you guys give me step-by-step instructions on how to back up saves from every generation?

>>33350707
Go to the C:\Users\Name\Saved Games folder. All your Essentials saves should be in there.

>>33350709
???
i mean off of a physical cartridge

>>33320394
>>33335153
it's a mockup made by the artist of ethereal gates

>>33346740
This looks really similar to a town im working on atm. Even the name is.

Can you share where you got the tileset?
Right now im editing my own from different sources and I think I havent seen yours anywhere.

>>33349999
Try checking if the top floor of the player's house is part of what you kept.

>>33347613
Use excel or google's equivalent ?

>>33351600
Hiveminds, man.

Nope, all the KRISSHOUSE2F files are still intact.

>>33352939
>>33351692

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Rate my attempt of comfy autumn town.

>>33353161
comfy/10

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>>33348392
Thanks anon, I appreciate the praise. I always thought the fenced in bit of trees looked weird but I couldnt think of anything to replace it with.

>>33351600
The tiles are mostly public ones that were heavily edited. I comissioned the trees off of a dude on deviantart years ago and had them saved after my old PC died. Kyledove and Dewitty made most of the tiles I used for the map though.

You should post your starting town map as well, I'd like to see it! I named mine 'Springshore' since the other towns are based off of flowers (pic related) and I figured 'Spring' would be the equivalent of a 'pallet' town for that naming scheme.

>>33353161
Pretty nice
I like it

Where the fuck am I even supposed to start with essentials ?

>>33335029
You're good at these no-nonsense routes. Post more!

>>33353161
The trees feel a little rigid and blocky, but the general layout is nice!

>>33353320
How did you do this map ? It's fantastic

>>33353161
The bridge seems a little out of place looking. I would change the tiles or possibly make it elevated. Other wise it is 10/10 would start in this town

Today on idea that I will never use because I am shitty at actually making games: Using the areas "between" maps.

Like, you know. These forests in Hoenn you never explore, between Routes? What if you could use soaring to enter them from sky and then open them up from inside?

Maybe open these for public or something.

>>33353806
Sounds like a great way to add ORAS' new areas to Gen 3. Would be a convenient way to catch more legendaries.

You could also invent your own optional side locations. A snowy area in the shadow of Mt. Chimney. A swamp near Fortree. A forest with a different atmosphere than Petalburg—maybe a haunted one, maybe a Lothlórien-style Fairy one.

Is anyone familiar with using pk3ds? I want to randomize X from a .cia and wondering how to include the update.

The plan at the moment is to grab a .cia, decrypt it, use pk3ds then rebuild and install, but if I do that I assume installing the official Pokemon X update will mess things up. Can I make an already updated .cia without installing it somehow?

>>33353724
Thanks man, although I think I feel it could probably reworked. It's more of just a conceptual thing than a finished product.

Basically what I did was I traced the regions outline and then used the pen tool in photoshop to color the shape in. After that I added a brush to give it a bit of texture.

The 'paths' are just white rectangles (with a light stroke) that were rotated and combined and merged into single layers). The towns/cities are obviously just squares but I did the ctrl+backspace trick to fill their top halves in with a bit of white at reduced opacity.

>>33317967
Is there a rom hack of Emerald that includes all the Islands and their events?
Also has all obtainable Pokemon and the Physical/Special split?

>>33354932
>all the Islands and their events
You mean the islands you needed event tickets for?
You can just use a gameshark code for that.
>all obtainable Pokemon and the Physical/Special split
Yes, many.

>>33355001
Okay, the point was to have them all together
It would be preferable not to have to use a gameshark to unlock something within a rom hack

>>33355137
Check out Sigma Emerald.
It's currently on version 1.82 and seems to have all of what you've mentioned, including the island tickets being part of the main game.

>>33353161
Why is there a bench facing a wall?
Other than that and what >>33353791 said it's 10/10

>>33355298
This.
The bench should be on the other side of the house, facing the stream.

>>33318016
speaking of essentials, anyone know a good place to download rmxp because i heard you need it to run essentials

Why are Brown and Prism in the pastebin? You guys do know the website just has a message about the project being axed, right?

>>33356421
Because the OP posts have been copy-paste jobs for the past year.

>>33353467
>make a copy of the template
>start RPG Maker XP and ix-nay on the ">XP" may-may
>open up the proj file
>make some maps
>use editor.exe to set up map connections, encounters, etc
>finish your game and share it on /vp/
>watch in disappointment as everyone mindlessly shits on it for being made in essentials
>???
>C&D!!!

>>33356987
what's a good place to download rmxp

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Got the same issue as pic related

Any help?

>>33357116
Qbittorrent.

>>33357412
It probably means you're missing a sprite somewhere. That width function is used for a bitmap. If it's saying the width function is undefined it means there's no bitmap loaded as a class.

>>33318103
just fix the bridge and we are ok, tell me more about your hack, Im relly interested

>>33357439
ty

just asking, are Team Aqua/Magma sprites in pokemon essentials or do you have to get them yourself since i'm working on a fangame based around them

>>33357439
sweet you got a link/mega

How would I go about to check the custom movepools of an already existing Crystal romhack? I want to check if I can pull off a certain cheeky thing in Pokemon Crystal Kaizo.

>>33358142
>kaizo Pokémon
What? Is that a thing?

>>33358387
Yeah, google it.
Blue is the best one.

>>33357511
Thank you anon, silly me

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>>33353476
How about a mountain interior? Hot off the presses.

My inner Satan wants to make this floor "flashable" dark, while omitting HM Flash/non-HM item equivalent from the game entirely, so as to force the player to navigate it completely blind. This mountain would be relatively late-game.

>>33358418
You're an absolute madman.
Fucking do it, anon.

>>33358418
Was gonna say make it dark before I saw the spoilered text. Romhacks are about expressing how sadistic we can be through Pokemon. That's why I made Impossible Crystal. Check it out.

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How do I make something like this into a map? GBA emerald or GBC crystal?

Don't want to make an unnecessary new thread and the other threads about ROMs are pretty dead so I'm posting here.
Could you guys recommend me a good GBC hack?
[I already read the OP, I just want to hear some opinions.[/spoiler]
Also, I already played Prism last year and previously this summer I played regular Yellow and Crystal, do you guys think it would be worth playing some 251 hacks?

>>33358661
>Check it out.
__no

>>33359007
Prism and Brown are probably the two biggest hacks for the GB/C. There are surprisingly few hacks that aren't just "original game with enhancements", so if you've already played through Yellow and Crystal recently there aren't too many fresh options.

>>33359007
I fucked up the spoilers, disgraceful

>>33359042
Oh, that's a shame, I wanted to play something fresh during my study breaks, since I already played almost everything for GBA. Thank anyway.

>>33359007
>>33359048
Here's a short list of GB/C hacks that might be worth checking out.
Pokemon Christmas
Pokemon Dark Energy
Pokemon Bronze (Bronze 2 currently in development)
Maize (6-badge beta available)
Orange (still in alpha, beta coming soon)

There are a few others like Red++ and Polished Crystal, but those set out to enhance the original games rather than create and original adventure.

what do i need to back up ds saves?

>>33359254
Thanks my dude, maybe I'll play Bronze since Dark Energy seems cool but it's not complete yet, and I'll have to wait December to play Christmas because of my autism

>>33356987
Everyone only shits on rmxp because of essentialsfag
I know, for a fact, I would treat someone making an essentials project the same as anyone else.
I'm working on one of each, so maybe that's why.

>>33359701
No there's a handful of people that really do just think its shit. Mostly because it runs like shit on their toasters.

>>33359781
I'm not going to pretend it runs great, even on my decent setup, but it allows you to do things you'd be unable to do with romhacking, which is pretty great.
My harvest moon-esque game will most likely run like dogshit though, RIP.

>>33359254
TPPAnniversaryCrystal was also fun
I never caught the actual run so it was a bit jarring to start off in Kanto as if I were playing Red/Blue

It's inclusion of Fairy type, newer gen moves, Physical/Special split, reusuable TMs, cut content like status blockers and the Pokeflute, and it's tweaked story make it a blast for me.

It has such a wide variety of pokemon at every turn, it's great to Nuzlocke

>>33358418
I want to add a cave in an optional area with darkness that can't be flashed through and a big "DO NOT ENTER YOU WILL REGRET IT" sign at the front.
And there's nothing in it. Encounters are too low to get anything worthwhile, it's all Pokémon you could get earlier, and there are no items. The only nice thing I'd do is put a door at the end to take you back to the start that way the player could realize how much time they wasted.

>>33361187
*encounters are too low-levelled

>>33361187
make it incredibly high leveled worthless Pokemon
that way repels won't work

>>33361187
epic black surprise text

simply epic

>>33361187
I don't know why you would do that, that's just frustrating. But well, Game Freak basically did the same thing multiple times.

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>>33361187
>>33361198
Sounds reasonable.

Anyway, here's where the hidden "down ladder" path leads from >>33358418. Yep, it's just Navel Rock's "Lugia path," just with 7 rooms instead of 11. As I said in an earlier /heg/ thread, it leads to a hibernating Jirachi.

I had the idea of a hack set in a comfy region with a lot of places to explore, and all Pokémon that can use an HM in the vanilla games can use it on the OW as an innate skill, like the Ranger games, but I don't know what to base the region off of or how to make it more linear. If the player catches an early water type that can learn Surf, then it wouldn't be as easy to design around it or to make it feel rewarding. Any ideas?

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>>33346740
Decided to touch up Route 1 which is actually "Route 49" a bit and I'm pretty satisfied with my edits.

If anyone has any criticisms or thoughts please feel free to share them

>>33361941
try and break up the trees a bit
maybe off center a row here and there
or throw in a boulder
put a hole or entrance in the fence
a little pond in the trees

otherwise very comfy

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any complete or nearly complete G/S/C hacks that are a unique self-contained story? i played dark energy a while ago and i really enjoyed that, looking in that vein.

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>>33361383
Bottom floor and the Jirachi room. The lone rock is just a marker for where the hibernating Jirachi event will be.

>>33361977
Thanks anon, I agree the trees look a little blocky, so I'll try to change up some things there.

The map used to have a pond but it was mostly there just to take up space and it bothered my autism to have a body of water on a route that's so close to the shore. I'll try and throw in some boulders though.

Have any of you played Neo X\Y? It says the patch won't work unless I delete my update data but those updates patch serious game-breaking bugs. Does everyone just take the risk, or is there some way around it?

what's a good website to download RMXP off of so i can use essentials

>>33362149
Have you played Bronze? Its dialogue is sometimes a little cringey and it has exactly two Fakemon but other than that it's a vanilla-style game in an original region.

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How legitimate are events obtained through the event database? Are they indistinguishable from real
Events? Are there bits of code/evidence that they aren't actual event Pokemon? I missed my chance with Hoopa but I want a REAL one, and Im not sure what do

>>33362847
I'll give it a go, I haven't been blown swayback any ROMhacks yet, so I'm just trying everything

>>33362655
Just buy it on Steam.

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Why is this script not working? The NPC gives me the Pokedex, the screen fades, but he's still there. Even if I go to a different map. Pls help

>>33317967
>How do you plan on unnecessarily screwing up your game

have an established team (Team Aqua) invade a new region

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Post your favorite route in the series and explain why you like it. I suck at designing routes and want to see what resonates with people.

Hard mode: You have to be concrete

I'll start: Route 38/39 in Johto. After you beat Morty the map opens up a ton after being linear the whole game, and the music sets the tone for the newfound sense of exploration. You get an area that looks unlike any of the other routes so far (heavy use of the fence, farm, unique use of the ledges in 39), new Pokemon (both wild and introduced via the trainers), and a really fun sidequest that doesn't involve battling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZ_8tL9TxM

>>33362610
Neo XY is complete shit, but if you're going to play it anyway just don't save outdoors in Lumiose and you'll be fine. There's no way to get an XY hack to work with the update and retain all of the hack's features.

Are there any hacks where there are ice-types that aren't shit?

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>>33364756
I try to emulate HGSS's style with my maps but honestly a lot of johto routes are different from others in the series because many of them are very wide open and arent really closed in by trees/nature.

Pic related is a route I really like though. A lot of Sinnoh's routes are well done and feel very 'natural' and have a lot of depth to them despite being fairly straightforward

>>33365637
desu Sinnoh did the whole 'natural' feel right, you can tell each route apart (except maybe 213/214) and it helps build the whole atmosphere of the game

>>33365046
That really sucks. I compiled my own version using pk3ds and it reverted the encounters table, you can't have the update installed with that either. pk3ds is open source, so I'll look into getting both to work.

>>33361941
>>33362502
To add on to what other anon said, the cliffside is perfectly straight for almost the entire route, and the one bit where it isn't still has 2/3 continue straight anyway. In saying that, most of that is not visible during gameplay so it may not be relevant.

The map is comfy as fuck though, and like your town you've done a great job on the level design. You clearly have a sense for it that most devs/hackers lack. Take if from a double bachelor's graduate whose majors included game design.