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>pastebin.com/H1KdYApRROM Hacking:
>Making a GBA ROM hack: pastebin.com/bvSkBkev>DS hacking: ds-pokemon-hacking.github.io/>Gen 4-7 tools: pastebin.com/WvTzcdPR>Disassemblies/Decompilations: github.com/pret/>Pokeemerald wiki: github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wikiPokémon Essentials
>V21.1: https://www.mediafire.com/file/7o3yjnuxniojmad/Pokemon_Essentials_v21.1_2023-07-30.zip/file>V21.1 Hotfixes: https://eeveeexpo.com/resources/1376/Assets:
>Tilesets: www.mediafire.com/download/sd99pug37y4v4se/Ziddy%27s+DS+Style+Tilesets+RMXP+.rar>Archived asset library: rheg.booru.org/>WIP Gen 5 tiles: imgur.com/a/CiudS>Gen 3 Asset Repo: https://github.com/Pawkkie/Team-Aquas-Asset-Repo/tree/main>Gen 6+ Sprites: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/x-y-sprite-project.3486712/Notable fan game communities:
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>>57914652
First for fuck David and the mini-lolcows that obsess over him
>>57946539>and the mini-lolcows that obsess over himwould that also include youself then?
>>57946539>>57946543can we at least wait a few posts before we derail this general again
fucking hell David is a cancer.
>>57946548Blame that on his haters as well.
>>57946559you enable the haters, David. it all comes back to you.
>>57946548I was just pointing out the irony in calling out the people obsessed with him when the 1st poster clearly is as well
>>57946565Actually, they've done a lot more damage to the /rheg/ generals than he ever does.
>>57946577>heput your trip back on and stop pretending to be someone else, David. it's played out.
and no, they suck too and have contributed to the decline of the general. no arguments there. but it all comes back to you. you enable them, you feed into them, and you refuse to put an end to it. they suck, but it all rests on you.
>>57946548I wish we had a janitor to just delete all David and David related posts.
I'm free to post my stuff here and there's nothing you can do about it. You don't own this general. Don't like me? Then take a hike.
>>57946559>>57946570You do know you are complaining about people who are exactly like you right?
Like, you understand you are JUST LIKE THEM, right?
>>57946605I would take that job in a heartbeat lol
>>57946609This is why we hate you David. We've explained over and over again why we don't like you posting here, but you're too arrogant to accept it. You can't keep acting like a victim when this is the way you conduct yourself. Sure, you have a right to post here if you want, it's not against the rules. But this is a community, and when the community has decided that they don't like you but you feel entitled to keep forcing yourself into the community anyway, it breeds resentment towards you. So don't be surprised when people continue to antagonize you. I just don't understand the mentality of needing to post somewhere where everybody dislikes you and wants you gone. What do you get out of it, just the attention? Do you not see how that makes you look like a complete asshole who has no regard for the other members of the community?
And yes, some of your haters are bad too. But they exist because of you, and continue posting because you do. We can't make them stop, just like we can't make you stop despite all our efforts and pleading with you. But YOU can make them stop. But you choose not to.
>>57946609go fuck yourself dude you're such a fucking cunt holy shit
>>57946609This is why you lost all your IRL friends.
>>57946633Oh no, they're on my side. They think you guys are being toxic.
>>57946618Well, you guys should've never given me so much attention, yet here we are. Thus, the fault lies with you as well. You continue to give me shit even when I'm civil with you. So yes, my attitude is out of retaliation against your hostile behavior towards me. Looks like I'm not the only arrogant asshole around here.
>>57946548But this is /rheg/, rKill hYourself eDavid General.
>>57946639I bet they also think you should lave.
You're friends are on our side.
God, you guys are actually insufferable. At this point, you faggots have done far worse to this thread's culture than David's ever done.
>b-bu-but he's never going to finish-
SHUT THE FUCK UP NEITHER ARE YOU
>b-but he's a degenerat-
OUR ENTIRE SOCIETY IS PURITANICAL AND INCREDIBLY FUCKING DEGENERATE, THAT'S NOT AN EXCUSE TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR HORRENDOUS BEHAVIOR
You are all fucking adults. This is incredibly pathetic behavior and I'm sickened by your completely unwarranted displays of hatred. And David, you provoked those responses by adding the little section at the end complaining about their spam. Thing it's annoying? We have a button, it's a called "report post." I find it more effective than telling rulebreakers they're rulebreakers.
God stays in heaven because he is upset he managed to create you specimens of pure failure.
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>>57946000Okay, real progress is being made.
It seems the Battle Tower ban list is based on this code, and not a set list of banned pokemon.
This makes it easier. This means any OP fakemon I add into the game are going to be banned by default. I'm going to change it so that pokemon with 601 attack or more are banned, and then ban the 600 BST pokemon that shouldn't be in the tower like Mew. Also, I'm going to free Wobbuffet.
>>57946609your life will change forever when someone do a 50-page callout on X
>>57946706Oh yeah, I guess I should see if I can make it ban the soul dew.
>>57946639Feds are NOT your friends.
My god, you and David are so insufferable! You are all fucking adults and yet you continue to display unwarranted amount of hatred towards each other! That is so pathetic! Want my advice? Just ignore David. It’s not rocket science! Trust me, I’m not trying to defend that autist, but I’m just getting sick of these threads constantly getting derailed.
>>57946670>implying mods on /vp/ will actually ban schizoposters for being schizoposters unless they're posting pornographic or racist material or they're insulting a mod's favorite generation>implying these schizos don't know how to ban evade with how comically piss easy it is to do so
How good are Pisces and Emerald Seaglass? Are they both finished?
>>57946750>implying mods on /vp/ will actually ban schizoposters for being schizoposters unless they're posting racist material>he hasn't heard of delcattyschizo
>>57946780Seaglass is eyecancer, seriously fuck those outlines
Any upcoming rom hacks that look interesting? Fakemon optional
>>57947220I'll agree to disagree, I really liked it and I'm looking forward to Pokemon Lazarus too
>>57946740you know its extremely obvious when you type, right david
>>57947407you know its extremely obvious when you type, right schizo?
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Off to a great start again guys
>>57946618>What do you get out of it, just the attention?I just want to share ideas and hear your thoughts. That’s all I wanted.
Just remember this, ignore my posts and the threads won’t get derailed so much. It’s not a herculean task, you can do it.
>>57946565Nta, but most David related posts are by those anons in whom David lives rent free. Their reaction feeds good ol' Dave's attention craving loop to the point he can only get dopamine from baiting in this very general.
Enjoy the demon that you have created.
>>57947220I really like seaglass but it would look a whole lot better without the outlines
>>57948058your ideas are the most boring shit ever and the only thoughts you get are people telling you how boring you are, or telling you to actually fucking shut up and learn to do things without needing explicit approval for every single thing or having to redo everything a gajillion times
just stop posting
it's that easy
Started playing Pure RGB and it's fantastic. The hack takes the gen 1 games to their peak while keeping the SOUL of the games intact. Does anyone know of a similar hack for gen 2?
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>>57947228Tourmaline is supposed to come out later this year.
>>57947363>>57948198With all of the complaining about the outlines, I'm surprised that none of you have made a patch that removes them yet. It should be pretty easy to do since it's just a graphics change.
>>57946618>And yes, some of your haters are bad too. But they exist because of you, and continue posting because you do.I would argue that they would still keep bitching about David even if he were to fuck off. They have invested too much effort on their autistic crusade to let go as if nothing had happened.
>>57948202And how are my ideas boring? Care to explain?
>>57947220The outlines are awful, whoever decided they were a good idea should be publicly castrated for ruining an otherwise good hack
>>57948218Crystal Clear is probably the best comparison to PureRGB in terms of the huge QoL featureset while being relatively faithful to the games in terms of stats, learnsets, etc. (PureRGB is way more aggressive, it buffs a ton of pokemon)
Polished is great but makes a ton of changes to mechanics, it's more like a nu-gen game in the gsc engine, however in terms of buffing mons it's closer to PureRGB than CC is
Some other more faithful hacks:
>Soul Crystal>Crystal Legacy>Cubic CrystalThese have varying degrees of QoL changes but are all pretty faithful to the base game, not as many buffs as PureRGB though.
Also try Carmine Red once you're done with PureRGB
>>57948323>whoever decided they were a good idea should be publicly castratedJudging by the discord, he'll probably do it voluntarily.
Would a rhythm game be possible to implement in Essentials?
>>57948479Why wouldn't it be possible?
>>57948330I really liked how pureRGB buffed the shitmons and improved the pokemon distribution without adding new gen mechanics like physical/special split or reusable TMs. I've played crystal clear and it's fun but I do wish it did more to make all the pokemon useful.
>Skeli toiled with his blood, sweat, tears, and cum to creat the CRFU to revolutionize romhacks with a gold standard to base all new hacks on
>more new romhacks are switching to using the pokeemerald expansion as a base for their rom hacks
What killed the hype?
>>57948795Emerald has more to offer.
>>57948795Decomp hacking is superior to binary hacking and pokeemerald-expansion offers the same features as CFRU if not even more.
>>57948887>decomp hacking>binary hacking>CFRU>Pokeemerald Expansionqrd?
>>57948892>decomp hackingCreating a ROM hack by editing decompiled source code/asset files like https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald
>binary hackingCreating a ROM hack by editing a ROM file
>CFRUComplete FireRed Upgrade. A binary hacking code injection project for FireRed that upgrades FireRed to the current gen standards and adds a ton of features: https://github.com/Skeli789/Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade
>Pokeemerald ExpansionModified version of the pokeemerald decomp that brings emerald to current gen standards and adds a ton of features: https://github.com/rh-hideout/pokeemerald-expansion
>>57948907Interesting. I didn't realize the two used different methods, I thought it was just firered vs emerald.
>>57948197Yeah but do you think they will admit it? Of course not. For people that called him out for his lack of self-awareness, they sure don’t look much better.
>>57949067>himstop this, David.
>>57949115Stop this, schizo. You enjoy feeding him attention because it makes you feel better about yourself. Admit it!
>>57948197David feeds it and enables it. when he doesn't post, the posts about him stop. we had several threads basically devoid of any David posting that are proof of this. at the end of the day, he is the omega point. he is the reason for it all. and he could end it by not posting anymore, but he chooses not to, so I will continue to blame him.
>>57948066that goes for you too when you keep replying to the trolls and feeding their rage bait which is what they want. learn to ignore them or they will never stop baiting you. your reaction is what they want, and you give it to them happily. better yet, stop posting altogether, because nobody likes you- not the trolls, not the regular posters, not anybody. but I don't think you will stop, because you clearly love and crave the attention.
>>57949120David, please. this is sad. we all know it's you.
>>57948232I don't agree with this whenever it gets brought up, because we've had several threads where David stopped posting, and so did his trolls outside of maybe a single obligatory "kys david" post. we might get the occasional post about his antics if he were to stop, but the vast majority of it would end, and there have been threads that are proof of that. David is the problem.
>>57949125I wouldn’t be so bad if you guys didn’t go as far as doxxing me! I don’t care what I did, no one deserves that.
Learn to take responsibility for your actions as well. Do you know why Chris Chan has gotten worse?
>>57949144And you need to learn to tolerate it. You’ve pushed me into this level and you just have live with it. I’m allowed to post here and you can’t stop me.
Anyone have a link to the go animate clip? Other things connecting David to it, would also be appreciated. I wanna share it to all the normie websites whenever (or if) his project goes live. I don't want him to have any peace and want to have his project partners turn on him for ruining all the work they've put into this.
>>57949166Wow, how petty do you have to be to try and ruin someone’s life over something they’ve regret doing?
>>57948058>I just want to share ideas and hear your thoughtswhy, so people can tell you your ideas suck and tell you to fuck off? that's all the feedback you get and all you ever will get from now because your brand is tainted. so no, that can't be the reason you keep posting, because you don't get anything from it besides negative attention. so I can only conclude that the attention is what you really want. you would get actual feedback on your ideas basically anywhere else - reddit, discord, from your supposed team - and yet for some reason you keep crawling back to this place which you know hates you, which you know will shit on you, which you know doesn't want you here. it's not about your ideas, David, that's clear.
>>57949162you're not helping your case David. "I know the community hates me but I'm not going to stop so just deal with it" is basically what you're saying. that isn't going to get anybody on your side. this is EXACTLY why people hate you, and yet you continue to act clueless and innocent about why you receive so much negative attention. seriously just take the hint fuck off. you are not entitled to belong in a community that doesn't want you. get over it.
>>57949166https://archive.org/details/schinkid-goanimate
if you search around for his username "schinkid" you will find his other stuff to connect to him, get the link before it gets purged lol
>>57949166Fine, I’ll fuck off! I don’t want to be alienated any more. You happy now?
>>57949197thanks
>>57949198No, I'd find you morally disgusting even if you had never stepped foot in here. I'll be happy when you reveal to the audience and coworkers all the stuff you've done, but I understand that if that doesn't happen by you, it should be done.
>>57949217Please! I’m begging you!
>>57949155can I just say, I don't agree with you getting doxxed. but you were warned several times by people who were trying to protect you that your information was readily available and would be used against you if you kept pissing people off here. I know, because I was one of them. I tried to help you. but you ignored all the warnings and kept going. any reasonable person would have stopped posting here as soon as they got doxxed. any stubborn person would have stopped posting here as soon as their PARENTS got doxxed. but you just kept going. at some point, you're inviting it. I feel bad man, I genuinely did try to warn you what would happen. but you didn't listen.
>>57948018you know its extremely obvious when you type, right psycho?
>>57949197He can't delete stuff from internet archive can he? His twitter and other accounts already share the Schinkid name so it wouldn't be that hard.
>>57949223Despite the demographics of a lot (or even most) of people on /vp/ , there are still a few of us that find animated child rape in any form abhorrent. I have more tolerance for most "loli" artists than I do ones that delight in the raping component of it. Here's hoping you'll be institutionalized one day and change as a person :)
>>57949197>wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a>dad stop it you're hurting me>wah-ay-euh-ay-euh-ay-euh-ay-euh-ay-euh-ay-ay-ay-ayyy>splort>wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wahPeak fiction.
>>57949239>>57949217>>57949197Look I regret making that video, ok!? It’s the reason why I’ve stopped making GoAnimate videos aside from other stuff. Please don’t do it. I’ll do anything.
>>57949251No, this is rKill hYourself eDavid General.
If the mods won't care to clean the general up, then that's what the general actually is, a platform for David lolcow drama instigated by mini-lolcows because neither can just fuck off and stop using this place as their platform for endless lulz, and even if David DID kill himself right here and now, those mini-lolcows would keep pretending to be him because their life is literally NOTHING without their obsession over David, and the ensuing crash-out from a life without David would be their evolutions into fully-fledged lolcows who repeat the cycle by gaining new mini-lolcows who obsessively stalk them until their entire life's purpose is to fuck with the main lolcow until the main lolcow expires or goes completely off the grid, in which the cycle continues ad nauseum.
All of this because tranny jannies and faggot mods won't do their jobs and nip a problem before it gets to this egregious point, by the way. Same reason Sharty exists, they allowed /qa/ to fester into Wojak Central that by the time action WAS taken, it was already far, far too late.
>>57949286Also, another point I forgot to add, there haven't been any good romhacks or fangames with lasting appeal since Unbound.
All of the new releases are meme games or completely shit the bed at the halfway mark, so David drama is unironically more entertaining than the actual intended topic of the general.
>>57949302Emerald Rogue 2 has lasting appeal imo, but it has a lot of competition with The Pit, and Pokerogue.
>>57949197That shit was hilarious
10/10. This dude definitely got molested as a child.
>>57949270we're not talking about your "family guy" video, we're talking about something worse that we can't mention here.
>>57949330Fuck you.
>david and his lolcow stalkers are fags>mods and jannies are fags>administrative negligence is the reason this general turned to shit>now we must all suffer the consequences similar to how sharty was only born of admin negligence
>>57949349what's your favorite romhack in the last ~year then?
>>57949144David and Yawnfag are forever immortalized. A hundred years from now, when this site is only bots, they will be calling each other David, Yawnie and Shawn.
>>57949366pokemon clover, fuck you too.
Let’s move to
>>57946310 and let this drama boat sink.
>>57949401>Implying he just won't move thread tooAnon i...
>>57949401>4/7 replies related to davidIt doesn't look any better
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Thoughts?
>>57949286>If mods won't care to clean the general upMods don't even care about deleting the thread with that cropped and cum covered Absol porn and that one thread with May wearing pasties on her bare tits . What makes you think they will do their job in this situation?
>>57949421>porn good david bad!wtf i love the mods now
>>57949420Is the text placeholder? The fonts look out of place due to not being pixelated.
>>57949421Jannies and mods left post with someone admitting they were underaged up until thread was archived the other day (days)
They don't give a fuck about pretty much anything
>>57949421take this advice David! start posting cum covered Absol porn and May wearing pasties on her bare tits and the mods will leave you alone
>>57949420The fonts look weird but the layout itself looks fantastic, so do the minisprites.
>>57949387clover's last major release was a few years ago THOUGH
Ok ok, you guys are right. Everything is my fault. I brought all of this on to myself. There, I admit it! If the threads are going to be good again, I just have to leave, quietly. You’ve won, my hatedom
>>57949548not the 2.0 version yet DESU
Can someone give me a quick run down on why everyone in the general hates david so much?
>>57948219>>>sound typeWhy do people hate special normal types so much?
>>57949802He’s the Chris-Chan of /vp/
>>57949270>I’ll do anythingExcept for leaving the general, apparently
>>57949871not only /vp/, also /v/ , /g/ and /pol/ too
>>57949270>I'll do everythingFIlm a timestamped video of you shoving a Sonichu medallion up your ass. The timestamp has to be on a piece of paper with clear, legible writing visible at all times during the video.
You're basically dollar store Chris Chan anyways
How can we delete this thread and start things anew? I’m sick and tired of this David shit!
>>57948232Has that ever happened?
>>57949930shitpost for about 192 more posts until we hit bump limit
I don’t know which is worse. David, his stalkers, or the culture surrounding him.
>>57950108So, which are you?
>>57949822There are still moves like tri attack
>>>>sound typeIt's more like a vibration type rather than sound specifically. Most of the physical echo moves aren't sound based.
>>57950124All of them are bad. They’ve done a lot of damage to the /rheg/ generals. David should fuck off for the sake of his mental health. He should not become the next Chris Chan.
>>57950108they're all terrible. but David is at the center of it all, so it ultimately rests on him. he could have stopped posting a long time ago when people were initial getting frustrated with him - then he wouldn't have been doxxed, he wouldn't have been banned off all his other platforms, and this culture around him never would have escalated to this point. but instead, at every step of the way he dug his heels in, making his life worse and dragging the general down with it.
>>57950108it doesn't matter, as soon as David posts again in the new general it will just start all over again. we had a few threads without any of this, but inevitably he will come looking for his fix of attention and start it up again. this general is a lost cause.
>>57949270>it. I’ll do anything.OK, great! Stop posting here. That's all we want.
>>57949930someone make a 50-page document on twitter/X about him and his antics
>>57950175it would be hilarious, but at the same time I don't want to give him that kind of attention and notoriety. he loves that shit. this is a dude who tried to make a kiwifarms thread about himself.
this guy is /rheg/'s burden, I don't want to unleash him on anyone else.
>>57946529 (OP)>havent been to vp in months>urge to come back to check my favourite general, purely to see if its still david's general>Not Dissapointed
Ok it's true! I crave the attention you guys gave me. Why? Because I'm bored and have nothing better to do. That's 75% of the reason. The remaining 25% is because I want to share what ideas I have which you guys said are boring because you are very hard to please.
So yeah, I admit it. But even so, it's not worth my time anymore, especially with my social life at stake.
>>57950243Just ignore them man.
>>57950243Well at least you finally admitted it.
>>57950142That doesn't answer the question.
>>57949197What year was his videos made before they were archived? I feel like cancelling people for things they did decades ago makes us no better than virtue signaling twitter trannies and their cancel culture.
>>57950356He made it last year. Pretty recent if you ask me.
>>57950356it was last year lol. I think he uploaded it there because it got taken down from YouTube. and instead of just moving on and saying yeah that was a bad idea, he decided he needed to immortalize it.
>>57950243>especially with my social life at stake.I don't think diddling little kids doesn't count as social life
>>57950373Actually, it was there as a reminder for me to never make something like that again. Ever.
>>57950411I don't. In fact, I hate being around kids. They're so loud. I've stated that countless times.
>>57950416We can tell you really hate them, David. I think your artistic endeavors showcase that very explicitly.
>>57950448Look, even though I don't like being around kids, I would not wish harm on them.
>>57950464Explain why you made this video then
>>57949197
>>57950469It portrays the father's actions as the heinous crime it is and gets properly punished for it. Also, the child victim gets comforted by her family in the aftermath.
>>57950508is that what happened to you when you were a kid? is that why you're so into parent-son incest? let it out, man. it's ok, we all have scars.
whats the easiest way to edit PokeMart in Emerald. AdvanceMart doesn't seem to work in 2025.
Can i do it on Advance Map?
>>57946706 Might as well have this in both threads.
As of now, the game is ready to ship.
Compared to the last build, I've:
>got EV training working>got IV training working>added in MOST of the removed attacks back in to move pool (still got some work to do)>fixed the fire status move tutor soft lock >finished the tower trainer PBS and made the tower fully functional >made every pokemon from gen 1-9 available>added in 21 fakemon from Snakewood>revamped the pokemon hall to make it more usable>added self insert NPC into lobby (sorry)>added in key remapping plug in>decided not to add in a speedup button (eh, you'll have the project files, if you want it, it would be easy to add)There's still more to be done after I put out this build, but yeah. I'll post the download link on the 3rd so you can spend the weekend of the 4th playing it. I'll be spending the time till then doing other touch ups that may or may not be finished by time I post it.
>>57951364Use Hex Maniac Advance. I'm not sure if it's the easiest but it can certainly edit them.
>>57947220It looks fine, but IIRC doesn't it have troon shit?
>>57949251wake me up if it appears
>>57951910will probably never happen with David shitting this place up
Tell me about Pisces is it finished is it good?
>>57951752most romhacks do
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>3 day vacation for fat fingering the wrong report type on a sharty postI see I didn't miss much though..
>>57939924Here's a compilation of Darkfire screenshots I compiled from the devs Twitter in the meanwhile, for those who don't have a Twitter account or just didn't feel like scrolling.
Has anyone played Dokimon? It costs money so is it worth buying?
>>57953060>DokimonNever heard of-
>It costs money THE FUCK!? What the FUCK is this?
>>57953081https://yanako-rpgs.itch.io/dokimon-quest
Not a romhack or essentials game. Built with its own engine as a real game.
>>57952717>I see I didn't miss much though..seconding
rapidash was my mistake back in early march 2025
>>57952717this game's aesthetics look great, has anyone played it?
>>57953060>>57953083So, this doesn't belong in this thread.
>>57953240I mean not really but it's more on topic than the first 100+ posts itt.
it's not really a Pokemon game but just looking at the images it's clearly heavily based on Pokemon.
>>57953272Fair point.
You have me there.
Any high quality fangames that aren't rpg maker? As in, not emulating the main quest that's been done a million times, just a flourishing game about pokemon. Pokerogue is kinda close, but it doesn't even have to be about battles that much. Maybe not just a visual novel either.
Pathetic more isn't available on the Switch officially
>>57946529 (OP)How do you deal with Legendary bloat? I could just implement them all but I fear I'll run out of flags on Decomp at this rate. What's another way I could distribute them without bloating the game?
>>57954207You can always add more flags.
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>mixing gen 3 and 4 OWs
>>57946529 (OP)Anyone else dream about making a classic gen 3 overhaul hack? Fakemon or not, but specifically with no phys/spec split and a focus on the region/environments rather than battles. That's the concept that got me interested in ROM hacking about 15 years ago, not the kind of difficulty hacks that have become popular since.
>>57954465Why dream about it when you could actually make one?
been trying pokemon pisces. Can't really get to it because most of the fakemon designs look like complete and utter shit, i do not know why the fucking troons keep lauding it as some fakemon masterpiece when every fakemon sprite looks utterly retarded. You can't even guess the types from their designs alone because they clearly couldn't copy a sliver of Sugimoto's style.
>>57954722great blogpost dude
do you have to know how to program to do vanilla+ romhacks
>>57954754Depends. What is your limit with "vanilla+"?
>>57954761keep everything the same except Luxray becomes electric/dark type
>>57954761well on second thought this might not count as vanilla+ but i'd want PSS and different/future gen pokemon availability. and i'd like to tweak gym leader rosters and shuffle around item availability
>>57954769Lol good luck then bro.
>>57954768>>57954769None of those require programming
https://vocaroo.com/1hJ8RkEzQpmi
Thoughts?
>>57954961I envision a small town.
At the center is a stone garden, and there are NPCs moving in perfect synchronization dancing.
>>57954961>>57955011Yeah, sounds like something you'd hear in some thematic side-town, like Floaroma.
How many tracks/instruments on that snippet?
I was just thinking about how unique Pokémon Yellow is. Would anyone want to recommend me a romhack based on it?
new romhack player here, so far I’ve finished Dark Violet and FireGold and now I’m wanting to move on to the Hoenn games. I’ve been messing around with Seaglass but I’m wanting more of a vanilla look. What’s the best Emerald hack with a 386 dex and QoL changes?
Anyone know where I can find a download for Meme Sapphire?
>>57954961Coast route. Beach at the start, but progresses to cliffs.
>>57948534>>57948330>>57948218>PureRGBI'm gradually starting to work on the next release. Here's one of the new features, you can unlock learnsets for pokemon by talking to specific trainers after battle or specific (previously pointless) NPCs
Has anyone messed around with using the C decompilation of the gen 3 games as a basis?
>>57948225Sadly outlines get formed when reducing image size and by game itself.
The only way could be editing code and editing sprites but is too much work for some and several will complain.
>Phanto is special attacker with a high SPA and low ATK.
>Its entire learnset is ATK-focused.
>Essentially has to rely on TMs just to have a SPA-focused moveset.
>Even with the TMs it learns a bunch of solid moves like Shadow Force.
I don't get this at all.
>>57956040Where can I find it?
>>57956141>the yakuzafag is also a romhack pokefag whoa
I’ve been on a hiatus from gaming for awhile and since there’s not a thread on /v/ right now, what are your thoughts on Infinite Wealth and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii? last entry I played was Gaiden
>>579562368's story is a complete mess but it's got a lot of solid side content even if most of it is retreading side content from 7. It's also a Kiryu game, Ichiban is borderline irrelevant to the story and the story even tends to forget he even exists at times. Combat is infinitely better balanced and done than 7 by a considerable amount and it's insane 7 came out in the condition it did because 8 makes it seem like amateur devs were in charge of it all.
8G's story is a generic pirate story but the characters are solid and it has some great substories. Combat is the easiest it's ever been and you have to either make sure you download the "Rings don't give attack" mod if you're on PC, or never upgrade your attack at all if you're not.
>>57956263I’ll give them a try. Thanks
now to keep the thread on topic, what emerald hacks should I play?
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>>57956297Digimon Emerald Project if you want something a bit different.
>>57949217Are you really going to do this? I mean David made a living for once and you have to ruin it for him?
>>57956501don't start this again. just fuck off. it's for your own good.
Why is the romhacking and fangame community so full of people with gender dysphoria?
>>57956520gender dysphoria is associated with high iq autistic males.
>>57956520when you think about it, hormone therapy is kinda like changing a few of the files in your body's rom
>>57951749is not based enough if the 50-page document weren't made yet.
>>57956520gender dysphoria is common among autists. to make a Pokemon fangame, you have to be extremely autistic. you see it in any community with a high enough concentration of autists - speedrunning, computer science, modders etc
>>57956520>Gaming attracts autists >Game dev and art attracts a lot of autists >Pokemon especially attracts autists >Transgenderism is heavily linked to autism Do the math and you will find out why trannies are so common in the fandom.
>>57948219Tourmaline is one of the hacks I'm looking forward to the most, I really enjoyed the demo.
Honestly, the talented devs that post here being the ones behind stuff like Tourmaline and Peridot are the only reasons I still frequent this shithole, might've never even heard about these hacks otherwise.
>>57954961This sounds really pleasant anon, gives me gen 5 vibes.
>>57955550>I was just thinking about how unique Pokémon Yellow is. Would anyone want to recommend me a romhack based on it?https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-pink-n-purple-hatenna-sneasel-edition.530254/
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-yellow-cramorant-edition.496597/
https://www.pokeharbor.com/2022/09/pokemon-recharged-yellow/
https://www.pokeharbor.com/2024/09/pokemon-recharged-pink/
https://www.pokeharbor.com/2024/05/pokemon-yellow-legacy/#general-changes
>What’s the best Emerald hack with a 386 dex and QoL changes?Read up on these two and make your pick.
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-modern-emerald-complete-2-4-released-following-pok%C3%A9mon-modern-battle-frontier-and-more.494005/
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokemon-emerald-final-v7-41-updated-january-18th-2023.410480/
>>57956667>every FUCKING time someone does a romhack like this, they claim to add only new evolutions from future gens and keep gens 1-3 otherwise>ALWAYS FUCKING LEAVE OUT OBSTAGOONfuck you, not playing your hack faggot. stop intentionally leaving out Obstagoon NIGGER
>>57956694Don't care, didn't ask. Eat shit.
>>57956694If there aren't regional forms, they aren't including Obstagoon because it's an evolution for GALARIAN Linoone. Retard. Do you want them to make an effective fakemon by creating a Hoennian Obstagoon that you'll invariably get mad at because it "goes against the faithful vibes" of the hack?
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>>57956706We were robbed.
>>57956699Cared enough to reply, nobody asked you, you first.
We did it, we got David fired! Hopefully that should get him to fuck off from this site for good. Now we need to turn his development team against him.
>>57956621>>57950175Someone should do that. He doesn’t deserve peace and happiness in his life. It should be enough to make him pull an hero.
>>57956667Whoops forgot to tag (You)
>>57955573
>>57956860>we got David fired!proof?
>>57956879Someone is sending his GoAnimate video to the place he works at. It’s guaranteed he’ll be fired.
>>57956891any proof of that though? somebody said they would, but that's not proof of anything. I'm not convinced you aren't David just trying to farm more attention now that the conversation has moved away from you.
>>57956893No he’s right. I’ve checked my schedule and it doesn’t show my shifts for this week. So yeah, looks like I’m fired. I bet you guys are glad to hear that, huh?
>>57956898>I bet you guys are glad to hear that, huh?Yeah.
You know all of this could have been avoided if you just stopped posting here. But go on, keep poking the hornets nest.
>>57956916You’re right, I can’t deny it.
>>57956898This is why anonymity on the internet is important. You've just got to face it man, you've become a lolcow. Take notes from every previous lolcow and turn off the computer before these people literally ruin your life beyond repair. It sucks and you might feel like you're "letting them win" but trust me dude this is the only recourse you have left.
>>57956954You’re right. My addiction to this site is leading me to my downfall.
How do you generate sound effects in your ROM?
The four women cruelly digested by Penny eventually reached Penny's bowels, sitting in wait to be disposed of by the small, chubby girl.
BBBBBBBLLLOOOORRRPPPPPPP
Penny's loud gut finally brought the girl failure back to the living. Her guts rumbled, jolting Penny awake and making her pissed from losing beauty sleep. “Shut uuuupppp…” Grunted Penny, slamming her hand into her gut, hearing a CRUNNCCH, breaking a bone deep in her bowels. She rubbed her eyes, grabbing her glasses and putting them on. Penny saw the time, it was eleven in the morning which meant she's already missed class. “Meh, whatever, I have more important things to worry about.” Said Penny. Penny went to look at her belly, only to be obstructed by tits twice the size of her head. “Well hello~.” Said Penny, groping her chest and moaning to her new sensitive tits. Penny's belly was still heavy and she got up, seeing the very bottom had the forms of the girls. “Mmm~. I see…” Moaned Penny. Penny got out of bed, hauling her belly around. “Lunch mmmm.” Said Penny. Penny got the cereal out, making a bowl and filling it up. Penny licked her lips, not bothering with the milk and just scarfed down the delicious cookie shaped cereal pieces. While she was doing that, the women in her bowels became very impatient, pressing against her anus. Penny dropped a handful of her cereal, turning red and needing to shit immensely. “Crap!” Grunted Penny, turning to the bathroom and holding her ass cheeks, which were so big that her arms melted into the fat.
Penny huffed, managing two steps, before gas blew from her anus.
FFFFFFFFLLLLLLWWWAARRRPPP
Penny's ass cheeks rippled and clapped together, as a satisfied left her lips. “I can't make it!”
Now you guys made me feel bad for david. I don't anyone should be fired for some autistic goanimate videos.
>>57956965WHY DOJT YOU FEEL BAD FOR JEWING TIGHTENHEART YOU COONS
WHERES MY SYMPATHY WHEN ILLEGAL.INDIAN PAJEETS TRUDEAU BROIGHT HERE HIRT ME
WHERE IS YOUR SOLIDARITY
ARE YOU MEXICANS AND OLLEGALS OR WHAT
>>57956965Well, it wouldn’t have happen if I haven’t kept poking the hornet’s nest.
>>57956965the video is just the method by which we're ruining his life. it's not *why* we're doing it.
>>57956974so, you'll stop posting here now, right? ....right?
well, clearly not because you immediately came crawling back to beg for more attention. you must be a masochist.
>>57957014> so, you'll stop posting here now, right? ....right?I should.
>>57956954 is right.
>>57957020OK, so do it. You don't need to say bye, you don't need to explain yourself, you don't need to sit here trying to reason with us or make us understand. You don't need to tell us we're right or validate us. Just leave. Just stop. Close the tab, walk away and live your life.
>>57956965Well, he only got himself to blame.
A ghost ship is such an awesome natural progression for a Dhelmise evo, 4 STABS and a pseudo legend-tier BST make it all the better.
>>57946529 (OP)Why do some fuck up a simple game.
>start playing pokemon fat kid.>reach bill>message says "you increased 7 levels and gained the following abilities for porygon are in your key items">check porygon, only increased 3 levels, none of the teqniques was on key items.>no way to buy pokeballs on the first part.>pokemon have lower catching rate then usual (you will waste the only great balls trying to get a pokemon).>they broke experience system so the only ways to level up another pokemon is either start battle with said pokemon and change it to porygon or rare candy>porygon has OP slam attack but all the others are weaker then what they shouldIs an infuriating hack.
>>57957094because 90% of hacks are made by people who have never written any sort of code and just copied and pasted from hundreds of "change this to get this feature" tutorials on whatever game they're working on, meaning they have no idea how to test their game, meaning the game will have countless bugs
some even get to the point of needing to create entirely unique new content, and instead of just, you know, LEARNING TO FUCKING PROGRAM IN WHATEVER LANGUAGE THE GAME IS IN, will start telling everyone they are "too stupid to code they're just an artist/game designer" ignoring the fact they compiled all these tutorials and shit into a game thus far
and then they enter the most evil part: having an actually fairly expansive romhack made entirely from tutorials, and now they will harass random people who actually know how to code to add new features to "their" game (not their game since it's a buggy amalgamation of one million copy and pasted tutorials)
they will then get mad when actual programmers don't paste an exact feature of code to them, and instead try to teach them any sort of programming, because they "can't code and are too stupid to learn"
>>57956137>outlines get formed when reducing image sizeI have no idea what you mean by this
>and by game itself. The only way could be editing code...So the guy that didn't know enough programming to fix the sprite blinking decided to add the outlines to his sprites via code instead of just drawing them onto the PNGs?
Somehow I doubt that is the case. Especially since I can see the outlines myself in the sprites in the ROM file (pic related).
Are you just making shit up?
Is the auto pets game still being worked on?
>>57957249>the sprite blinkingThat's still unfixed?
Well then I guess I'm not playing this romhack.
>>57957412Yeah, just saw the guy on the last thread
Let’s see if you guys can defend David.
Protip: You can’t!
>57957717
https://files.catbox.moe/9nokzj.mp4
https://youtu.be/lPBAv6rV6f8?si=AqYr24VGvb1MqZ90
>>57958003>new geniesSoulless
What are some overlooked/underrated hacks to try out?
>>57957412I think so, wouldn't be surprised if he's just sitting this shitshow of a thread out lol
>>57958167Don't even like any of the designs? I wonder if they'll each have Therian forms too.
>>57958452It gets some buzz around here, but I'd say Peridot is a pretty underrated hack for its quality.
>>57958003>>57958749The genies are supposed to be the Four Auspicious Beasts (hence the Therian forms), corresponding to the four seasons, four cardinal directions, and four times of day.
>>57958876Okay I see what you mean't by soulless, appreciate the lore drop btw, very interesting! If they're adding 8 more genies then I guess the whole seasonal and time of day motifs could be extended to the 12 months of the year as well as the 12 ante and post meridian hours of a clock.
>>57958167Just like the rest of the hack
I'm playing through ORAS right now and I'm kind of getting frustrated with how easy it is. I've played pokemon clover and even hall of fame'd it so I'm no stranger to pokemon hacks that are harder than the usual mainline game. I've heard a lot of about radical red and the pastebin bigs it up pretty well, but word of mouth is mostly how it's a smogon tier competitive scene wanna-be autisticly hard hack. Is it really as bad as I've heard?
>>57959058it's autistically hard if you're doing a nuzlocke or get to a few fights before the e4. I actually got somewhat far into a nuzlocke, but then, even when I had a pinchurchin to set up electric terrain, expanding force still hit both of my pokemon as if psychic terrain was still in effect. Niche interactions not working kinda soured me and I never took it back up since.
>>57956520Provides a fantasy haven they can escape to from a reality they can't stand
>>57956860Does this mean you'll shut up as well?
>>57956954>It sucks and you might feel like you're "letting them win"Just like you can't let David win, you're made for each other. I think if David were to post somewhere else you would follow him to keep arguing with him.
>>57959152David, we know it's you!
>>57959160Yeah, everyone not in your trooncord is David
>>57959152>I think if David were to post somewhere else you would follow him to keep arguing with him.People (and by people I mean you, David) keep saying this but there's no proof of it whatsoever. The few times David has taken a sabbatical from this general, the talk around him almost completely dies off except one or two obligatory 'kys david' posts. Stop trying to stir up more drama about yourself and just leave, David, for God's sake.
>>57959152Correct. They'll leave /rheg/, definitely, but for David, it isn't over until he goes completely off the grid like Andrew Dobson. That was the one and ONLY time a lolcow successfully escaped their infamy without killing themselves (that we know of), and that was allegedly because his brother got fucked over from a huge job opportunity solely for being RELATED to someone who created a constant online stink.
>>57959165It's obvious when you typed, David.
>>57959231what category are the vanilla-ish hacks in
>>57959231The Decomp Dark Ages
>>57959310You'd think QOL hacks would have been more prevalent with such limited tools.
>>57959332the thing is that decomp makes it stupid easy to make a QoL/difficulty hack because most of it is already baked in. you can just tweak a couple values here and there and call it your own hack, but 90% of the work was done by other people.
before decomp you actually had to have some level of coding skills to do anything, including implementing QoL. so if you were skilled and dedicated enough to hack in that era, you may as well have gone all the way and done something original.
>>57959385this is a pretty common pattern, where lowering the barrier to entry in a field does not actually produce better results because the people talented enough to do something interesting were willing to put up with the bigger barrier.
>>57959231why were there so few games in 2022 and 2023? or was it just that there was a downward trend but the first year of the pandemic gave people more freetime? I assume some radical decomp thingy happened in 2015. What made 2024 so much higher than 2023, and why is 2025 so far much less than half of the previous year?
where do you download ROMs? I keep hearing that nintendo puts you on a list or people put malware into their files.
>>5795985190% of the time the first 3 results on google when you search for "(pokemon game) rom" you'll have legit no malware roms. a good amount of the time searching for "(pokemon romhack) prepatched" will give you what you're looking for too
>>57959851>I keep hearing that nintendo puts you on a listRetarded baseless playground rumors. I can't fathom why you would believe this.
>people put malware into their files.Downloaded files pose no threat to your system unless it's an .exe or apk file. Don't be a moron and run those.
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What’s anyone’s thoughts on this game?
>>57959830the emerald decomp came out in 2019 or 2020 iirc, so the spike in 2023-2024 is likely a delayed outcome of that, also a result of the release of pokeemerald-expansion and a spike in popularity of difficulty hacks. probably a lot of those projects also started during covid like you mentioned. 2025 is probably just slower because of that wave dying down. also, what date was this data actually compiled? because it could have been much earlier this year and so not entirely reflective. I probably would have left 2025 off the graph until it was over but that's me.
I'm not sure what caused that spike in 2015, although you'd want to look a few years prior to that because these games take a long time to develop, especially original hacks which make up the bulk of releases in 2015 & 2016. you'd probably be looking at something that happened around 2011-2013. I can't think of any major developments around then, essentials came out earlier and the decomps much later. I would guess that going into the 2010s is when documentation and tutorials reached a point of being more accessible, as well as a wave of kids who had grown up with the games now reaching an age where they could do stuff like this. prior to 2010, it was really a frontier with people still figuring stuff out and pioneering things.
>>57959903thanks! that's really interesting!
>>57959884>0 fakemon>not even a regional>several pokemon in the dex are completely unobtainable for some reason
>>57959152Can anyone (including you) post proof of that actually happening?
Protip: You can’t!
>>57959385>before decomp you actually had to have some level of coding skills to do anything, including implementing QoL.That's not true. QoL and difficulty hacks were easy to make even back then:
>download the the latest baserom (which would add QoL changes, updated mechanics and new mons for you)>introduce more QoL by applying code changes made by others on the forums>tweak some numbers around with easy to use hacking toolsI'd say that
>>57957161 is a pretty accurate description of the old binary hacking community.
>>57959391I think that the results have improved and that the decomps are very beneficial for the experienced hackers too. Both basic difficulty hacks and original hacks have more features than their older counterparts and many of those features wouldn't have been possible a decade ago.
>>57960061Yeah I actually think a more accurate reason for the decline in original region & story hacks is the rise of essentials. I'm assuming that chart is specifically tracking romhacks and not fangames. A lot of people nowadays if they want to make a region from scratch will go to essentials because it's easier to build something new there. Whereas QoL and difficulty hacks set in the existing regions are still done by hacking.
>>57959231You could've posted the source for more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1lo4fiy/the_future_of_pok%C3%A9mon_romhacks/
About the data:
>my starting point was the Compendium of Pokémon Fan Games and Romhacks, which was a huge database that acted as the precursor to the PokéROM Codex>the Compendium was more of a curated list, which would be biased to more original concepts. So, I need to find a way to make up for that.>I went to the Pokécommunity Pages for Romhacks: the Hack Showcase AND the Progressing Romhacks showcase. Because of how big the latter was, I decided to limit it to hacks until 2015.>the fewer hacks before 2015 can definitely be attributed to me putting my limit for WIP hacks at 2015, as the Pokécommunity threads go all the way back to fuckin’ 2004, which is like another 36 pages of romhacks.>if the 2025 amount of hacks seem low, I finished the data collection for this on March.That explains the spike in 2015 and the drop in 2025. Also since progressing hacks are included from 2015 onwards, most of those original hacks are likely some 1 gym demos that never became anything notable. It would be more interesting to see a similar chart with only completed hacks.
>>57946780I'm playing seaglass right now, I like it a lot. It's basically just Emerald but with kanto and johto pokemon sprinkled in to the ecosystem in a mostly immersive way. Also quality of life modern amenities. phys/special split and more fun movesets to make using some old favorites less of a chore.
Came at a good time in my life. I havent played gen 3 in ten years but its a nice hot summer and it feels right. Boxed my starter, using a poochyena with cool egg/dexnav moves. Playing on Hard mode but its too easy. Gotta turn off the exp share.
freaking good though, definitely recommend!
>>57956113hello, I like the sound of your hack. very cool, I'll play it.
Not playin essentials until it’s ported to ds/switch, simple as
>>57960237Essentials on DS will never happen but playing on switch might already be possible. I think you can install android on it via homebrew and use Joiplay to run essentials.
Someone tell me about Odyssey again. Are the main bosses Pokémon 10 levels higher than yours with a bunch of stat buffs?
>>57959385I guess you're right. You don't have to do anything from scratch, just drop in what already exists into your own repository and tweak from there.
>>57956113Didn't know you post here. You've done some genuinely awesome work with this hack. While playing my only minor nitpick was that I had to check the wiki for learnsets. Do you have a rough ETA on the next update so I know when to keep an eye out for it?
>>57960041>Gaia updates soonDon't give me hope
>>57960789I just look up my romhack on google a lot to see what people are saying about it, so I end up wherever it is discussed.
I try to make a major release around once a year, I plan on starting to work on this one fully around September so probably not until either November or December will it be done.
>>57959179Not in twitter or KF, sorry.
>>57946529 (OP)>try to clone the Team Aqua repository so I can use some assets>says the repository doesn't exist>try to download the files of what I wanted to use individually>the bitmaps are all broken and made the tileset into a jumbled mess who maintains this shit I just wanted a functioning distortion world.
>>57955956>>57956040still waiting on this
>>57961884https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/42988103/#q43012148
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>>57961805Works fine for me. My guess is that you don't have triple layer metatiles setup in your decomp.
>>57961927thank you good sir
>>57961934>triple layer metatiles setupWhere can I find documentation for this?
>>57962145On the wiki: https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wiki/Triple-layer-metatiles
>>57962177Much appreciated
Some updates on one of Iridium devs' other projects they recently revisited.
>>57962209wait, is garbage gold different than iridium?
Are there any fangames that don't use rpgmaker+essentials? I absolutely despise rpgmaker games, every one of them has that distinct rpgmaker feeling and plays like jank. Like has anyone used their own engine or something different.
>>57963022pokerogue? browser game and solely battles
>>57959385before decomp people used prebuilt programs to modify the same fucking pokemon/move data even easier than they can now just modify the files in the decomp. It's the same shit. Regardless of the era since this game appeals to everyone not just programming nerds, 90% of people who want to make a romhack will be idiots who try to avoid programming like the plague. And those idiots will make awful buggy crap or extremely derivative romhacks made entirely by copying code from people who actually know what they're doing. Look for the people who are creating the original shit, those are where the good romhacks will come from.
>>57962980I think so, but the protag looks the same in both, and the forest with the crater looks like one of the places I saw in some Iridium screenshots. Not sure what the connection is between them.
>>57959391There are many more crappy hacks but also somewhat more excellently made hacks
The lower barrier of entry brings in less skilled people but also lazier highly skilled people.
Think of it this way: many good devs would say "if we don't have the source code, why the fuck would i work on this game by editing hex? It's inefficient"
>>57963227Editing a precompiled ROM sucked because something could break at a moment's notice and you'd have to fix everything if you didn't have a thousand backups. Being able to just use git for version control is way more convenient.
genuine question, could you make some bucks off of getting featured by some youtube dingdong or is it all just "exposure"
>>57963822Nope.
You can't make anything off of fangames you dolt.
>>57963558open source movement gained a bit of ground in the 2010s and the devs who would have worked on fancy binary hacks back in the day instead decided to start with decompiling/disassembling the games in an open source repository, then make the good shit
it's a good approach
>>57963845Plenty of people try to e-beg with kofi links and the like.
Is it time for a new general yet? Hopefully David will stay the fuck away from it.
>>57963857The Pokemon scene is what I bring up every time some fag tries to say that disassembly is always a nothingburger.