Best of Rom Hack edition

Notable Games:
>pastebin.com/H1KdYApR

ROM 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/wiki

Pokémon 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:
>www.pokecommunity.com/
>https://eeveeexpo.com/

Last >>57964210

What do you think of these sprites?

>>57996863
Fuck off! I don't want this thread to get drowned with David drama!

>another Daniel thread
fuck

kill yourself Damien

>>57996864
1st stage of grief
>>57996865
3rd stage of grief
>>57996868
2nd stage of grief

tinfoil hat theory: this "david" is a manufactured character created by shitposters as an excuse to derail every thread and make the topic in one form or another about this character and not about the original thread. yes i realize this post itself is part of the problem but there was no other way to get the message out there for knowers. do not engage, anyone talking about it or claiming to be it is in fact the shitposter trying to kill the board.

>>57996999
Yes, that's all of them. Every time someone bitches about one of these characters they are usually replying to themselves or just making shit up

>>57997005
>>57996999
Unfortunately no, David is real and even if he isn't present the anons obsessed with his life are here at all times, there's no way to escape this

hydropotamus

>>57997017
ah yes, the weens. people obsessed with lolcows who do nothing but worship them.

..anyway, off topic, but I was planning on turning some of those old pokemon.com flash games into a DS game.
I never got far, though.
(1/2)

and here's the other (2/2)
I didn't get far because I didn't really know how to do the backgrounds. hopefully I can get them done one day.

>>57997017
Honestly, I want to play his game at this point. Hopefully one of his fans/haters finishes it eventually.

>>57997045
I mean the idea is not bad, there's worst things like Empire or Soulstones

>>57997017
There is a correct response to people flooding a thread with off-topic troll posts.

>>57997019
water river?

>>57997066
oui

>>57996999
He's been posting the same shit in the exact same way for years.

>>57997045
to be honest there's nothing about evergreen that'd make me want to give a shit about it, the only thing it has going for its relevancy over any generic custom region hack is the creator making a fool of himself on this board
everyone here knows that the only reason they care about it is because of david's foolishness
as opposed to more infamous kusoge like >>57997059 mentioned which is infamous because of the games themselves being trainwrecks of writing, game design, and artistic presentation, and not the creators being idiots beyond whatever's in their games

>>57996999
No, he has a verifiable paper trail that exists outside of this website. The guy is sadly very real. And yes, his stalkers ARE just as bad as him, let's get that out of the way. But at the end of the day, I still blame him for enabling them.
>>57997045
Honestly, all the drama aside, his game just looks....painfully mediocre. It's just like the safest possible Pokemon game, and every design choice has been crowdsourced and focus tested so it doesn't feel like it has any identity or vision. I actually wish it looked worse, because then it would at least be fun to play and make fun of. But it just looks boring. I probably wouldn't play it even if I didn't know who David is, but since I do I definitely won't be playing it.

>two /rheg/ threads up entirely about David
David won.

>57997391
You are part of the problem.

>>57997395
I'm part of the solution. I kneel to King David.

just give david some ice cream.

>>57997426
but then he'll just want another

>>57997450
Throw a ball out onto a street then, maybe that'll get rid of him....

Reposting in new bread

>>57997570

>>57997572
>dual type gym leaders
neat idea
why the single monotype leader tho

>>57997570
Natures in the encounter text is such a good feature. Backgrounds are nice.
>>57997572
Dual type gym leaders are a nice mix up from the standard even if I don’t really mind it in the first place.

Ok, let's get this out of the way. How can we tell the real David from a troll post posing as him?

>>57997596
just ignore both

>>57997596
report anyone who mentions it for off topic

>>57997426
sorry but he's not joe biden
that won't work on him

>>57997572
>cleavage lines/shading visible on fire/flying gym leader's chest
those are definitely some hot boobies

>>57997125
I remember David saying that it won't be anything amazing.

>>57997710
that's obvious. why would I want to play it when even the creator doesn't seem to have belief in his vision? for something that you, uh I mean "he", poured years of his life into, probably 100s of dollars after all the sprites are commissioned, and derailed this general over, the best the creator can say about it is it "won't be anything amazing", is pretty sad.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17TBQ4_zhx4dbUaCAkppvYCcZ8Aw74i_d/view?usp=sharing

>>57997725
>attached your email
you never learn lmao.
anyway I'm not downloading your kiddy porn folder, david.

Frozen_treat.png

>>57996989
7th stage of grief
>>57997727
7th stage of grief

>>57997727
It doesn’t have kiddy porn in it. Just download the playtest.

>>57997866
Nah.

>>57997866
remember what happened the FBI days ago, they shut down many rom sites.

>romhack modifies the text frame options
oh yeah, it's kino time

>>57997572
The champion is gonna be Apollo

>>57996846 (OP)
any way to edit Polished Crystal 3.1 mons?
pokehex didn't work

>>57998620
No

>>57998622
i just wanted to edit nature
ok then :(

>>57998636
PKHeX wouldn't work because the save file doesn't have all of its data in the same place + gen 2 doesn't have natures and PKHeX wouldn't know how to interpret that.

>>57997572
Why are they all women?

>>57998662
Greek region and they are based off of the Muses apparently.

>>57998662
Much like rom hack devs, they're subject to change.

>>57998620
Use the hack's source code to determine the location and structure of pokemon in memory and edit them with a hex editor.

>>57998687
you mean i gotta work for it??? omg i'm going insaneeee
also thx will try

Is the a way to replace Emerald's intro and start screen with Ruby's?

I want Pokemon Ruby but with Emerald's Battle Frontier. Given the lack of support for Ruby, it seems like it might be easier to just replace all the sprites and teams in Emerald with the Ruby ones. However, the intro and start are dealbreakers for me. If I see Rayquaza instead of Groudon on boot-up, it wont be the same.

>>57999604
>Is the a way to replace Emerald's intro and start screen with Ruby's?
Yes, port the intro and title screen code from the pokeruby decomp into the pokeemerald decomp.

>>57998439
How many do this? It’s obviously not something that would be a dealbreaker but I wish it was more common

>>57985858
Still chugging along.
I also realized that I've forgotten the personalities of most of these people, so I'm hoping I got them right.

>>57997582
>why the single monotype leader tho
Beats me.

>>57997587
Agreed, the encounter text usually feels so redundant, this actually adds QoL and even some personality with each encounter. The (mostly) dual-type leaders reminds me of Insurgence.

>>57997691
CARLOS!

>>57998578
I'm lacking in the Greek mythology department. Maybe I'll do some reading before Lazarus drops.

>>57998636
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1lglupy/polished_crystal_311_gameshark_codes/
There's a code in the comments that made a Dragonite shiny with a Quirky nature, some variation of that code might help you out.

>>57996846 (OP)
So I notice the pastebin hasn't been updated in over 2 years, has nothing notable released in that time?

>>58000995
I don't think whoever made the pasta is still around, and no one has bothered to make a new one.

Hell that booru hasn't been touched in 4 years, only had 2 or 3 people post on it, and yet is still in the OP.

>>57999806
I thought the two games aren't that compatible with each other? Otherwise you could just copypaste the Battle Frontier code over to Ruby, right?

>>58001115
You could.

>>58001115
>Otherwise you could just copypaste the Battle Frontier code over to Ruby, right?
You probably could. The question is, why would you? Most people would rather just work with Emerald because it already has all that stuff and more.

>>57997572
>it's like pokemon but with brown people!
fuck off

>>58001163
>>>/pol/

>>58001115
You can modify the code to make it work regardless of how compatible they are.

>>58001396
>>58001163
>>57997572
stop replying to yourself

>>58001498
But the question is how?

>>58001865
Read the compiler error messages and fix the issues they point out.

Why does David keep ruining /rheg/?

>>58002185
Shut the fuck up nigger

>>58002202
kys David

>>58002185
in your, uh I mean "his" own words

Clover will have triple battles

>>58002970
and a properly finished battle channel.

>>58002846
>chooses the most boring options possible
>you are very hard to please
I SURE FUCKING WONDER WHY

>>58002970
Wow! I didn't think that was even possible on the GBA.

>>58003158
>chooses the most boring options possible
Like what?

>>58003179
Why wouldn't it be?

>>58003211
Due to sprite limitations and screen size. I also figured that someone would've done it already if it was doable.

>>58002970
but did they remove the anti-speedup bullshit?

>>58003180
it's boring BECAUSE you're trying too hard to please us instead of just making the game YOU want to make. in trying to appeal to everybody, you've just succeeded in making something totally safe and sterile, and lacking any creative vision.
this general really isn't that hard to please. we're just sick of you using us to crowdsource ideas. we want to see people's original vision, not something that's been focus tested until it loses anything original. we also just don't like you regardless of what you create.

>>58003564
This!

>>58003436
Are you retarded? Emulator speedup works just fine on clover, I've been using it all the time to grind levels.

>>58003609
they're adding a feature that fucks with the game if it detects an emulator using speedup in the next update

>>58003609

>>58003702
>>58003720
Roms can't detect if an emulator is speeding up the game.
And it works fine in the current version of the game. Saying it might happen in the next update means nothing unless the update actually exists.

>>58003807

>>58003807
they very much came detect speedup, just look at Scale x Fang and how much it got shit on, them being one of the first to try implementing it

>>58003832
>>58003849
Nope, that's not how emulators work. The rom doesn't know anything about the emulator's unique features. It only knows it's a gameboy.

>>58003890
I don't know how it works, but it does.

>>58003890
alright then, tell me what you see happening in this romhack here

>>58003890
from what I understand you can detect speedup by referencing the ingame clock or look for frame skipping. there might be other methods now idk

>>58003926
I theorized you could use the RTC to also detect save states, but I can't think of a way that doesn't require you constantly writing to the save file.

>>58003922
that mp4 doesn't run in my browser

>>58003948
Swap devices and take a lookie.

Here's another example, from Pokemon Monomyth - an even more obscure hack. The method SxF used has an easy workaround but this one is supposedly more complex, apparently Clover's will be too.

>>58003942
>constantly writing to the save file
What would that accomplish? The save file is overwritten like everything else when you load a save state.

>>58004526
The game would compare the current RTC value to the save file's and complain if they don't match up.

>>58004047
The fuck happened to monomyth? I can't find it anywhere

>>58003922
what romhack is this?

>>58004663
Scale x Fang

>try star beasts
>forced to play as female
Dropped.

any completed ds fan-games?
i really liked light platinum's demo, it's a shame that will never get completed
>>58003922
any emulators like this for the ds games? i like how the d-pad animates as the character moves

>>58003436
How do you remove something that was never added

i want a gen 5 romhack/fangame with mons from later generations
no mega or gimmicks, just new mons

>>58005069
ok

>>58004981
drastic does it, although the button movement is a lot more subtle

>>58005069
I think Moon Black had some. The animated sprites they use would require a lot of time, effort, and talent to pull off on a large scale. The payoff would be beaitiful though, that kinda shit is why gen 5 is my personal favourite.

>>58000991
i alredy saw it but i then read you can change nature legally by in game item
thx anyway

>>58002970
Dunno why but that sounds like a bad idea and I don't even hate triple/rotation battles.
Let's hope they are designed properly

>>58003247
>all mons up to date
>all megas, Z-moves, Dynamax forms, all alternate forms for gimmick mons like Furfrou or Vivillon
>all of that on a humble GBA cartridge.
>somehow triple battles are not possible
It's 100% lack of interest rather than being technically difficult to implement

>>58005069
There's already a dex expansion project for White 2

>>58004981
What's the main factor behind the lack of DS Hacks? The 3D map models?
Did the Teraleak even provide anything useful for hack development?

>>58005838
>What's the main factor behind the lack of DS Hacks? The 3D map models?
Lack of reason to use the DS' Hardware, you already have everything on GBA (also a lot of resources, decomps and such which the DS and 3DS lack)

>>58005838
there were a couple tools in the tera leak iirc, but they aren't as advanced as the GBA decomps, or hell probably even the DS decomps we have now - which do exist, they just lack documentation and organization. which is why GBA stays on top, because it has so many resources available. and DS hacking doesn't really offer anything that you can't do on the GBA besides 3D graphic assets, and touchscreen stuff which most people who emulate probably don't care about. so there's just not that much incentive to push into the frontier of DS hacking. it will probably happen eventually though now that we do have decomps for them, it will just take a couple people motivated enough to dive in and create documentation to make it as useable as pokeemerald is.

>>58004990
because stolen assets will NEVER be removed

>>58000872
I've changed up the way I'm doing this. I'm making teams first, and giving them moves afterwards.

I've only got 23 more teams to make.

where do i find good fakemon designs and/or resources for what make a pokemon look like a pokemon? i want to take a shot at designing some fakemon, but i don't really understand why some fakemon look...well, fake, and other designs look well-suited as pokemon

>>58003922
>>58004047
what 's the fuckin point of this beyond being annoying for the sake of being annoying
it's a fucking singleplayer game
speedup is a victimless "crime"

>>58004835
despise that shit. just let me play as a guy

>>58003180
trying too hard to look like what I can honestly describe as what happened if you let an AI make a pokemon romhack based entirely on literally every other one, barring any remotely edgy or unconventional outliers

>>58006549
it's not really the kind of thing you can write a guide on. there's no hard rules, even official Pokemon have wildly different art styles between generations. you just either have the artistic intuition, or you don't. study real Pokemon and try to understand what makes them work, study bad fakemon and try to understand what doesn't work about them, compare and contrast them to real Pokemon and to good fakemon.

on a scale from "witnessing to a schizo meltdown on 4chan" to "foam adventure" how cringe is the story of pokemon reborn?

>>58006549
try AI, unironically.

>>58006570
because these retards think people play romhacks for the plot, and if you use speed up, you might miss something!

>>58004648
>The fuck happened to monomyth? I can't find it anywhere
No clue. Kinda unrelated but the SxF devs Pokecommunity thread had a shitshow of backlash in the replies, they went radio silent for a long while and people thought the hack was dead, then they came back saying the project was being revived. Some time later the devs then wiped the thread completely. They said in a Discord server that they took it down because they wanted to work on the hack more in the background or something like that iirc. Apparently the Monomyth devs were in kahoots with them(?), so maybe they decided similarly, cleaning their slate from the net until they had a more complete product. Just some speculation.

>>58006706
It's alright, it's basically a 2010 Deviant art Role play session with Pokémon sprinkled on top
The Field mechanics are nice tho, with a good strategy even the weakest of mons can thrive to some extend

>>57997029
would be cool to see

>>58007757

>>58003807
Retard-kun, there are rom hacks that have already done anti-speedup. It's not theoretical. Check out Scale x Fang.

*ahem*

>>58006383
Taking a break from team creation to work on other things. Finally sitting down and fixing the Pokemon metrics so that everything is in positioned better in battle. THANK GOD for the built in editor in debug mode. It's making this so easy.

>>58005838
>Did the Teraleak even provide anything useful for hack development?
It had source code for HGSS and gen 5, which would allow you to analyze the games easier and make hacks at the source level like you would with the decomps. The DS decomps are still far from complete so the leaks are very useful but I don't know how much DS hackers actually utilize them because I'm not on discord.

>>58007757
>>58007760
Source?

>>58010726
reverse image search is your friend

>>58010726
https://x.com/coraldev_?lang=en

>>58011002
Thanks.

>find intersting rom hack
>you can only play as a girl

>>58006748
what if there are people who can read more words per minute than what pokemon's original target audience (first graders)
https://scholarwithin.com/average-reading-speed#average-reading-speed-by-age-and-grade

>>58011197
you WILL play at the developer intended text speed.

>>58011169
>he wants to stare at a man his whole playthrough
Congrats on coming out of the closet anon

>>58006570
It's specifically to make (You) mad, and it's working.

>>58011247
>he wants to stare at a man in the mirror his whole life
We get it anon, you're having "gender thoughts" and aren't sure whether or not you want to come out of your egg. It's okay to admit you might be trans and want to look at a cute and valid girl in the mirror whenever you see yourself.

>>58011247
it's an 8x8 pixel top down sprite anon. best of luck with your transition!

>Attention, the following Anon is an autogynephile who dated Curtis in BW2:
>>58011247

>>58011169
Gurlz rule, boyz drool.

>>58011169
god forbid a pokemon player touches any game where the mc isn't a self insert

>>58011015
No problem bro.

Question, can someone direct me to where the battle animation sprites are? SpritersResource doesn't seem to have the attack animations anywhere. I'm specifically looking for this background for Psychic from HGSS. I want it for a background but without any of the pokemon or battle platforms.

>>58006748
Like the door to the pokemon center

>>58006202
Neither will (you)

>>58006570
>>58006748
>>58013375
Maybe you should quit being a cheating piece of shit?!?

>>58013628
lol

I'm playing CAWPS now, partway through the sunken ship's aboveground
What do you lads think of this hack?

>>58013628
I remember when clover devs went around crying to everyone to "play the game legit" when most npcs, most notably the champion, had mons with illegal stats and shit lol

How do you add features for the Pokegear in Essentials?

>>58014994
learn to code david

>>58014994
What pokegear features do you want? You already have the map, the ribbon page works better than the pokegear, and I think calling is already in there. If it's not, I know there's a plugin.

Have you guys use ChapGPT when thinking of lore for your region?

>>58015080
no. I've used it to generate names and some incidental dialogue, but worldbuilding deserves a personal touch imo. it's your project tho, do what you want.

>>58013628
by your line of thinking we should all return to being mindless cavemen refusing to use tools, because doing anything even remotely conveniently is le heckin cheatingerino

>>58015106
skipping the core fulfilling content of the game isn't a convenience

>>58015127
Speed-up is not skipping, it's speeding up.

>>58015080
No because I have an imagination

>>58015127
you know literally nothing about what you're talking about and you are literally the most retarded retard on /vp/ ever

>>58015393
eat my ass, you fucking doofus

What are some good hacks with Totodile as a starter? It’s my favorite Johto starter.

>>58015486
Elite Redux lets you, and also gives Feraligatr 2 mega evolutions iirc

>>58015486
Sacred Gold

wasn't there some RPG-maker type tool for making PokeClones?

>>58017319
Essentials?

>>58017356
is that it?

>>58017319
Essentials is RPG maker,
I think Pokngine or something was the tool that's an RPG maker clone built around the goal of making a pokemon game, but it's still under constriction?

>>58018140
pokengine is the one I was thinking of.
as is typical of wannabe creatives, I have ideas but no capacity to code them myself.

>>58017319
There was some sort of French thing, Pokemon SDK. Don't think it caught on.

>third text box in the game tells you you're canonically gay
??

Emerald seaglass worth playing?

>>58019025
no

>>58018999
lol ur gay feg

>>58018999
ur a faggot
checking those trips though

also i'm pretty sure that shit goes against the very concept of having a blank slate MC
the point of those is to let the player characterize their character through their actions, instead of having personality traits or decisions arbitrarily shoved into their characters despite any of their actions done ingame or any possible headcanon players have for their character

>>58018999
>as you know, i'm your boyfriend!
this is somehow worse than oak asking for the name of his grandson

>>58018999
last time someone pulled the "I'm the champion and I'm dating your self-insert without giving you a choice in the matter" was Pokemon Quartz back in '06

>>58002204
you first tourist

>>58018999
romhack with hot steamy gay sex when? we had a few for lesbians (they were pretty bad) so let's give the male faggots their turn

i do not understand the appeal of "enhanced difficulty" romhacks like Radical Red when you could just play Showdown instead

>>58019820
smogoniggers ban everything fun so the only way to enjoy it is difficulty hacks

>>58019870
Your AG?
Your BSS?

>>58006759
sounds utterly retarded. By the time it would be finished, only a minority will play/pay attention to it

>>58012250
just admit that you're a trannie anon

>>58019874
Sorry I don't speak ebonics you'll have to elaborate

>>58019920
i am, but that's besides the point. i like the character i'm playing to be a guy sometimes and even different races.
>>58019820
because you can't soft reset or look at their teams ahead of time. they want the joy of pretending as if they're good at competitive but without the risk of losing to a real human being

>>58012250
self inserting is a major part of Pokemon's appeal tbf. I don't need to self insert in every game, but part of what draws me to Pokemon specifically is the feeling of being part of this world and vicariously going on an adventure and bonding with Pokemon.

how do you gentlemen do your cultural research to try and make the game world feel more authentic? I'm planning a game set in Wyndon exclusively (like a purely urban game) and I really want to get the feel of London right. particularly, Old School London. I've been watching some old movies and stuff to get the vibe, but I want to go deeper.

>>58011169
Do you prefer to play as an androgynous child as your avatar?

I've been trying to play through Scarlet and the pop-in and lag have been too much to deal with. Any good mods for pre-Gen 6 that add Pokemon from the newer games? And maybe up the difficulty a bit? I'm not looking for a Kaizo hack but I like that the gym leaders in Scarlet have a bit of strategy.

FE romhacking is better than pokemon romhacking

>>58020704
You should post this to /fe/ then

>>58020704
please elaborate

>>58020850
>>58020847
https://feuniverse.us/t/pokemblem-complete-v1-14/8875

>>58020939
Yes, I know that there's a Pokemon themed FE hack but that doesn't explain why you consider FE romhacking to be better.

what mon should i switch out krookorok for? my team is basically complete with 5 mons since gengar is subbing for when i catch giratina later.

I'd go for d.blastoise if i could or pangoro, maybe even a grass fighting or dark but there's nothing decent up to gen 6.

power creep ruined my taste in pokemon.

>>58020501
just watch a shitload of guy ritchie films and you'll do alright love

pity bump before the presents knocks us off the board. see you on the other side if we don't make it

>>58022779
I await Groudon posting.

>>58022779

>>58021782
I've seen all of them and branched out to stuff like Michael Caine movies and Blow Up

>>58006570
>Speedup is a crime
KEK

>>58013376
You will never be a woman, hothead.

>>58013628
I'll play legit when my mom stops using a Masdawg with excessive EVs in every stat that goes beyond the normal cap of 510, which literally isn't possible.

>>58025666
>dumbass cordie can't recognize quotation marks
kwab!

>>58013628
not with the anti-speedup

>>58020704
trip on, nigger
>>58021189
none
krookodile is cool

>>58006748
>NOOOOO you should listen to our dogshit custom earrape BGM instead using speed up!!!!!!!
lol no

>>58025747
we're talking about, autist

The direct was so bad, /rheg/ survived it.

>>58026150
to celebrate the lack of occasion
i wanna know if there's any hacks/fangames that give groudon a regional form

>>58026150
cant wait to see how many hacks will try to shove Mega Dragonite into their own hacks before ZA even releases

>>58026150
survived thanks to david's sheanigans
see emma threads in the catalog

>>58026173
I'm sure there's already a GSC-style battle pic for it.

>>58025743
current version of clover doesn't have anti-speedup, RETARD

>>58026399
2.0 version will release anytime, NEWFAG.