Thread 58163791

Garbage Gold 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/

Fat Falkner edition

Notable fan game communities:
>www.pokecommunity.com/
>https://eeveeexpo.com/

Previous >>58114141

Didn't Odyssey just come out, they're already making a sequel? Was the first one even good? I barely heard anything about it after it dropped.

>>58163814
yeah, its amazing

>>58163814
From what I recall, I think the intention was always to make at least two games from the start. And no doubt it's a place for numerous ideas to go into that they came up with while working on the first one.
If it's anything like actual Etrian Odyssey games, there probably won't be much, if any story continuity between the two.

>>58163814
>>58163841
so far it's really good. only played the opening. I feel like it might ruin other romhacks for me. Should I play seaglass first instead, since that one seems more basic? or unbound, gaia, glazed?

>>58163873
I think you're safe saving Unbound for later, it's not everyone's cup of tea but it's pretty much the most feature complete and ambitious romhack so it shouldn't be spoiled for you.
Seaglass you could give a go whenever, it's pretty much just a reskinned Emerald with a couple extra features, so long as you don't go into it with big expectations.
Gaia is a little outdated now so it might be best to play first, but there is an argument to be made for waiting for the updated version (if it ever comes out lol)

any completed fan games with good visuals?

>>58163873
>I feel like it might ruin other romhacks for me.
This is such a stupid mindset to have. Does eating your favorite meal ruin other food for you? Does watching your favorite movie ruin other movies for you?

Any Fire Red hacks where I can get a Skill Link Cloyster with Shell Smash?
Other than Radical Red

>>58163814
What's the story for the first one like?

>>58164025
To run with the food analogy it's like ordering your favorite food at an amazing restaurant and then later on having it at an okay place, like sure it's your favorite food but it could be so much better like that one place.

>>58163884
alright thanks! how’s mariomon? that a good one to play?
>>58164025
yeah i suppose. but i want a game that reignites my feelings towards pokemon. if its not better than the base games it wont achieve that goal.

>>58164016
>>58163791 (OP)
Any fan games where you can kill off cy Thai for good or what

>>58164116
I thought Mariomon was a fun time, it's pretty much just like a mainline game but Mario, no crazy difficulty spikes.

>>58164104
Okay, and then do you refuse to eat it at the second place, because you already had it at the first?

>>58164127
Well if I wanted a new experience I'd make sure to really look into the next restaurant I went to to make sure it could match or be around the quality of the first place and its version of my favorite food.

>>58164151
>>58164127
>>58164116
It's more like going to a party, where each guest made and brought a different food dish. Some may be similar to things you've had before, while some are completely new to you. You're able to try and and all of them, if you choose.
If you eat the first dish, and its delicious, do you then refuse to try any of the others, because the first one was so good? Does the first dish 'ruin' the other dishes that you haven't tried yet?

Pisces is such a good god damn time

>>58164452
Need it without or full fakemon

What's Peridot about?
>>58164452
I really like the aesthetics of the game but don't like the harder romhacks. Hope it gets a baby mode in the next update.

>>58164845
There isn't much of an overarching plot, just little side stories in some areas. It was an excuse to make a game with some of the Spaceworld designs.

>>58164452
Unfortunately, I've already played 1 good romhack, so I can't try pisces

The next version of Clover isn't really going to put in anti-speedup, is it? That sounds phenomenally retarded, using an emulator's turbo button isn't cheating.

So, has anyone got banned from the PokemonRMXP and PokemonRomHacks subreddits before?

>>58165428
I've been banned from r/vp/ before

>>58165356
>phenomenally retarded
pretty on brand for clover

>>58164452
I heard it gets retarded later on.

>>58165428
I don't know how you would even manage that unless you were intentionally baiting for it...or maybe if they found out you were the creator of a very disturbed video

>>58164116
>i want a game that reignites my feelings towards pokemon
Play Fool’s Gold blind, I’m completely serious when I say it revitalized my love for the series

>>58165356
Yes but everything else in the game is sped up and with heavily reduced before and after lags by default to compensate

>>58166173
Why can't I just control the speed of the game to play at my own pace?

>>58166195>>58165736

You're not allowed to calibrate the experience to your liking, you HAVE to play how the devs wants you to, or else.

>>58165736
Seconding for Fool's Gold.

>>58166292
>You're not allowed to calibrate the experience to your liking, you HAVE to play how the devs wants you to, or else.
unironically a good thing THOUGH

>>58166292
What if I just romhack your romhack to remove the anti-speedup detection?

>>58164116
>i want a game that reignites my feelings towards pokemon.
Same.
>>58165736
>Play Fool’s Gold blind, I’m completely serious when I say it revitalized my love for the series
I'm going to try this.

>>58163814
I started playing it this weekend and just reached the 6th layer and it's been an amazing time all the way through.

Gonna play Pokemon Stadium Legacy because they made it so you can use the rentals

>>58166756
Anyone who likes speedup doesn't have the attention span to actually do it.

r8 my sprites

>>58165578
Both actually

>>58165578
Well, the situation wouldn’t have escalated had they just answered my question.

>>58167411
>>58167427
Oh Davey, you never learn.

>>58167433
What the fuck is David's problem?

>>58167433
He clearly needs therapy

What's the best hack for FireRed that makes the vanilla game even better? Meaning properly difficult, additional encounters, essentially "an enhancement"

>>58167528
We are unironically the closest things he has to real friends.

>>58167780
Wow, that’s really sad. He should get help.

mega victreebel sprite

wonder how long before these new megas get added to a game

>>58168445
Pokémon fans work fast.

Fakemon design I'm working on for my fangame where you can never see the top of it

>>58168710
Couldn't figure out how to make it's height "???" so I just set it to 999 as a placeholder. Also just noticed the typo lel

>>58168445
Pretty good sprite. I'll probably make my own once I have time, since featuring playable ZA megas would be a pretty big draw for a fangame.

>Check documentation
>EV trained pokemon
Instant turn off for me

>>58167597
Firered Omega

>>58168965
>This romhack is for hardcore nuzlockers
Eww

>>58167203
They're good.

>>58168710
>>58168718
Creepy as fuck. I like it.

>>58168445
We can't add them without stats, and need even more time if they have a new ability.

>>58169364
>We can't add them without stats
it's big and fat and megas always have 100 extra BST while not touching HP, I feel like throwing a good chunk into special attack and defense and lowering speed would be good. I remember plenty of old rom hacks throwing in unreleased pokemon. I think it was Victory Fire? where you could get a fenekin and they added that before gen 6 came out.
>ability
fuck it, give it corrosion, it's a good fit for it's gimmick being completely submerging shit in poison

>>58169364
80 HP
125 Atk
105 Def
110 Sp.Atk
110 Sp.Def
60 Spd

>>58169370
>use offical design
>make it a fakemon in function

>>58165356
>anti-speedup only affects higher difficulties
>if you want to zoom you can still play on easy mode
Now you can't complain

>>58169522
>NOOOO DON'T INCLUDE FUN NEW STUFF NOOOO LEAVE IT ON THE BACK BURNER FOR NO REASON
best part of this weird ass hill you're willing to die on is that what I made up is almost certainly at least 90% what they're going to do. His ability might be different, but his stats are almost certainly going to be close to what I said.
Mark my words, he's going to be slower, have more bulk, and either keep him as a shitty mixed attacker or increase 1 attack stat dramatically. I don't see it as any different than any other romhack that does balance changes

>>58168445
Impressive how fan work looks so much better.
It's still a ridiculous design but at least it isn't completely sad to look at. It looks pretty good and dangerous even.

>>58169655
The game's out in october, chill

>>58169596
i swear every single post i hear from cloverdevs about disabling muh heckin speedup gets increasingly more retarded
you don't have to choose a retarded hill to die on

no fuckin wonder the update is taking so long with these shitty half measures being shoved in over a "problem" that doesn't actually exist and isn't ever going to be worth the resources to try and deal with if it actually was a problem in the first or second place

although it's perfectly fitting for the /vp/ romhack made by /vp/ users (allegedly) to officially include retarded hills to not just die on but commit suicide on

>>58169674
I only read part of your reply before I grew impatient and skipped most of it

>>58169655
>for no reason
Dude, can you even read?

>>58168965
Almost all rom hacks do this. The typical manchild pokemon fan version of difficulty is one turn rock paper scissors where your options are useless unless you ev grind or use some boring cheese.

>>58170029
As opposed to what?

>>58166434
Anti-speedup is only being done by people who can't stand the thought of anyone skipping over their special snowflake text walls and turning their fancy new music into a cacophony.

The reality is that the kind of person who was going to read all your dialogue boxes and sit back to listen to the new music (like me) was going to do it regardless of speed-up, and vise-versa.

All it does it alienate your potential playerbase by removing a timeless emulator feature, it enhances the drag of any form of tedium, and it hurts people who replay the game on the condition of doubling or quadrupling the pace... something your "sped-up" battle animation won't be able to emulate (unless done Emerald Rogue 2 style, which doesn't even affect the OW I might add).

>>58166756
Lol, so far I haven't seen any romhacks worth that trouble. Scale x Fang had some neat fakemons designs, but it seems in and out of death.

>>58167203
They look cute!

>>58167597
Gonna agree with other anon, Firered Omega was my first romhack and it's pretty good. It's from 2009ish so it's quite vanilla in terms of QoL, just a ton of gen 3 mobs every route and some good boss fights.

>>58168445
I like it, especially the gen 5 style sprite animation.

>>58168710
>>58168718
Very cool, and interesting concept. Kinda vaguely reminds me of Wobbufet with its strange tail it tries to hide/defend, love dex entries like that.

>>58169596
Who wants to play on Easy Mode, especially a repeat player? What an insult.

>>58170032
Giving the enemy teams good pokemon with good moves but not giving them competitive stats.
Giving the enemy team's perfect iv/ev's leads to fucking dodrio outspeeding a jolteon. Fuck that shit.
And if you want to be special you can rebalance the stats of specific types so that the majority of bug/ice are not easy mode.

>>58168965
>1% rates for common mons like starly or pikachu
>muh difficulty hacks, where you have to grind for the first gym
>fangame with the hacker's self-insert

>>58170141
KINOOOO

>>58168445
A bit of a weird request to ask, but could anyone do a BW/BW2 sprite of Venusaur that looks like pic related? It always bothered me how different and frankly uglier the actual art is compared to Ivysaur.

>>58170225
Forgot to add, if mega venusaur could be done with it too that would be great

>>58163791 (OP)
are there any gen 4/5 rom hacks or fan games that add improvements from later gens? such as max repel usage, hm replacements, better ev/iv/nature/ability experience, etc?

>>58170060
>speedup re-enabled in new game+
Where does the goalpost move now

>>58170060
>All it does it alienate your potential playerbase
not a developer but why would I care to pander to people who clearly don't give a fuck about my game?
>story is shit so let me speed through it lol
>music is shit so let me speed through it lol
>battles are shit so let me speed through them lol
at this point why are you even playing the game if you hate everything about it and only care about engaging with it as little as possible?

>>58170060
>Scale x Fang had some neat fakemons designs, but it seems in and out of death.
of course, it's hard to go on if basedboys are threatening to mass report your game for not bowing down to their demands

>>58170141
Pikachu was always a rare encounter. The only times you can find them with a >5% encounter rate are the Trophy Garden and RB's Power Plant.

>>58170405
PlatinumQoL adds infinite tms, the repel qol, using hms without teaching them, and some other stuff to Platinum. it's pretty much the definitive way to play the game imo although I know some people don't like the music remixes they add.
idk if there's an equivalent for gen 5 or not.

>>58170668
>Where does the goalpost move now
It doesn't, you didn't address the sources of tedium or slow engine in vanilla.
If I need to grind up a low level mon to be near or at par with my other mons without modern exp share it's a hassle, if I need to backtrack around the region without Fly it's a hassle.

>>58170898
>not a developer but why would I care to pander to people who clearly don't give a fuck about my game?
I see this one often. If people truly didn't give a fuck about your game you probably wouldn't be hearing the complaints in the first place, critiques like these come from a place of constructive criticism and not wanting the dev to sabotage their own project, not malicious intent.

Some people say "this is my project, I can do whatever I want, I don't care about the people who don't wanna play it without the option of speed-up".
This can be fair, but if you decide to share and advertise your project you're clearly invested in others seeing your vision and playing it, that's just the truth. If you add "features" that don't respect the players time don't be surprised when people don't care for your vision, then pretend you never wanted them to see it.

>story is shit so let me speed through it lol
>music is shit so let me speed through it lol
I already addressed this.
>battles are shit so let me speed through them lol
Pokemon's battle engine is slow, needlessly drawn out pauses and animations. If I'm playing a very difficult romhack I expect to lose or start out losing frequently until I figure out the path to victory, this process is so much slower without speed-up.

>>58170912
Yeah I feel sorry for the dev if seeing the backlash demoralized them. Some people in this community have a level of entitlement that spills out into their critiques in the form of negativity. If people don't like a project they can comment on it, anything more seems excessive.

>>58171384
>If you add "features" that don't respect the players time don't be surprised when people don't care for your vision, then pretend you never wanted them to see it.
but often those "features" are just the dialogue, story and music, which you "addressed" by basically saying people who don't care about those things just won't play the game if there's no speedup. and as a fangame developer, I have to ask myself, do I really care about those people playing the game anyway? you're right in that if I'm putting my game out there, I do want people to play it. but it's not for the purpose of maximizing my audience. it's not like I'm making a profit off that. I want people who actually appreciate the game I'm making to play it. and especially when it comes to a romhack that's built on the back of another game and many features made by other people, often the most personal touches you can make come in the form of dialogue, story, music, etc. that's where the developer really gets to express themselves. and if you're just going to dismiss that as "muh special snowflake text walls", then yeah, you're probably not part of the audience I care about capturing. albeit, it is dependant on the type of game you're making - somebody making a difficulty hack is probably going to feel differently, and that's fine.

Playing Clover and the auto HM feature doesn't seem to be working even though I have it turned on, the right badge, and a mon that can learn cut. Am I a retard or is the game bugged or something?

Are there any other hacks similar to seaglass that basically change the aesthetics of the entire game to be something else?

So,
We all know that the Pokedex itself is a side quest from the word go, and has little to no bearing on the plot whatsoever. If you include a quest system in your game, would you include it in the list? What about some enhancements to make it worth selecting on the menu (like a world map with Pokémon encounters in each region, or a complete listing of stats, abilities, and moves for every Pokémon caught)

>>58171507
I've always considered it my main quest, WAAAAY more important than battling

>>58171380
nice hack
i just replaced the custom music with the ost using nitro explorer

>>58171453
>but often those "features" are just the dialogue, story and music, which you "addressed" by basically saying people who don't care about those things just won't play the game if there's no speedup.

"Features" was referring to the anti-speedup implementation.
Sorry if I wasn't being clear, I was saying that forcing people to play on regular speed won't magically make the demographic who was gonna mute the game and mash A through your dialogue stop, it's just gonna make their experience slower, while taking away the option from everyone else in every other context that they might wanna use it. And yes, it will likely turn away a lot of those types, but also the people who wanna experience all parts of a game regardless.

>>58171453
>often the most personal touches you can make come in the form of dialogue, story, music, etc. that's where the developer really gets to express themselves. and if you're just going to dismiss that as "muh special snowflake text walls", then yeah, you're probably not part of the audience I care about capturing.

I was being facetious with that line and probably could've put it better so don't take it too seriously. My point was that these devs are willing to sacrifice player agency where many others wouldn't think to do so because, as I mentioned above, they have the idea that restricting the players fast-forward freedom will change how they interact with your game, which I feel is misguided. I call it "special snowflake" in this case because it comes off just a bit, self-important I guess? That kinda sounds bad too but do you get what I mean? I understand the importance of expressing yourself, and highly appreciate the efforts that go into hackmaking, but it's just obnoxious. I was gonna read it all anyways, now I'm questioning what you wrote that you thought was so important it warranted removing built-in emulator features to railroad the lowest common denominator.

I actually am the kind of player who will stop to talk to every NPC, I stop and listen to all the custom music, I explore every corner of every map, I make notes of places of interest to re-visit later, and I give my full attention to the story the dev has wrote. I also am a large proponent of speeding up the game in bursts if and when I feel necessary. Taking this away from me shows you don't respect my ability as the player to control this tool, and it sours me on the game before I even give it a chance. If I do still give it a chance and end up enjoying it then it'll hurt my willingness to replay the game in the future when what was novel and exciting before gets a bit more stale.


Ironically srry 4 txt wall.

>>58171862
>Taking this away from me shows you don't respect my ability as the player to control this tool
Watching enough Youtubers playing romhacks at 25x speedup with their generic ahh commentary proves to me that you can't

>>58171862
>built-in emulator features
And it’s not a feature of the game system on which the games that these hacks are based, are played on. It’s not about purporting that your hack’s writing is high-brow and simply a cut above Pokemon Wacky Emerald Resneeded 1025 Edition, it’s about establishing the fact that your work is worthy of respect in and of itself and that it’s best experienced in the same way as a cartridge game. There’s an ocean of difference between having RSE/FRLG on your gameboy and playing it on an emulator while sanicspeeding everything, the former tends to resonate more because you’re taking in everything around you and immersing yourself in the game world rather than just rushing through to the next dopamine pitstop. It’s similar to the analogy of how the internet used to be a place you would “go” either on the family computer or your own PC vs the internet now being ubiquitous with the advent of smartphones. You are fundamentally experiencing the game in a different way if you speedfag it. I’ve used it in the past too so I know, but once I moved from playing hacks on an android phone to a 3ds, I saw the light.

>>58148063
Still working on the trainers, but I did make some progress by making the Sketch battler and Sketch tutor.

The Sketch battler is a trainer designed to challenge to give you an easy way to learn moves from Sketch.

The Sketch tutor is..... Well, here's the deal. I've put HOURS of work into the PBS file for pokemon because there isn't a universal pokemon PBS file that has every available move a Pokemon can learn. The Gen9 PBS removes all moves that aren't in gen 9 even thought they are in essentials. Although I've done a lot, there's a strong chance I fucked up and forget about something, and I still can't figure out how to make an egg move tutor, so I just gave every pokemon the ability to learn sketch. Yes, I know this will et some people cheat, but whatever. If that's how they have fun I won't stop them.

>>58165736
>Fools gold
>downloads Trash Gold by mistake
>it crashes on my nds
bruh. are romhacks not stable on original hardware? i’m playing in a japanese xl with TW menu

>>58171507
>What about some enhancements to make it worth selecting on the menu (like a world map with Pokémon encounters in each region, or a complete listing of stats, abilities, and moves for every Pokémon caught)
Both sound like good ideas. The location search feature is especially shit in pre-HGSS games and few hackers bother to improve it since most people check online docs anyway

>>58171862
>I call it "special snowflake" in this case because it comes off just a bit, self-important I guess? That kinda sounds bad too but do you get what I mean? I understand the importance of expressing yourself, and highly appreciate the efforts that go into hackmaking, but it's just obnoxious. I was gonna read it all anyways, now I'm questioning what you wrote that you thought was so important it warranted removing built-in emulator features to railroad the lowest common denominator.
well, to be honest, I feel like I'm kind of entitled to be a little self important. a romhack is something I put tons of my own time and sweat into, and get nothing in return except maybe, hopefully, the praise of a couple strangers on the internet. it's like, it's not necessarily about stroking me ego, and as another anon said I'm not claiming my story is amazing and better than any others. but it IS personal, it's something that I invested a lot into for no reason other than my passion, and I do want to feel that the people playing my game respect it, you know? I hate to use a food analogy, but I love to cook. and it's a really shitty feeling when you put a lot into preparing a meal for somebody and without even tasting it, they dump a bunch of salt or hot sauce or ketchup or something on it. like if you're paying for that food, whatever, do what you want with it, but I prepared it a specific way for a reason and it feels disrespectful to ignore that.
I can see your side of it too, and you do raise some good points. but unfortunately I think that people like you who use speedup features reasonably are a minority.

>>58173540
The people who are addicted to speedup as some compulsory tool to check it off as "beaten" without really experiencing it wouldn't have talked about it or been relevant at all, except that by going out of your (or Clover's, or whoever's) way to stop it means that any discussion is now also flooded with inane bitching and arguing about something that's an inherently subjective design decision. I don't use speedup 99% of the time, but if I decide to restart after gym 3 or lose my save or literally any reason that necessitates getting through shit I already did in the immediate past, having that option disabled is obnoxious.

what impression does the region give based off the map alone

>>58173641
My first impression is that you must get Surf very early on.

>>58173641
lots of water, some of the interconnecting routes seem extraneous, L-shaped cities are interesting, obligatory desert

>>58173641
Industrialized and urban west, very rural north (though I wouldn’t expect the north to be so densely populated with 5 towns in it), top right city is probably some kind of mining city or a traditional one linked to a lost civilization. I can’t think of any real world parallels based on the shape and biomes so I’m assuming it’s a custom region. Also it’s strange not having the center city be the biggest one considering its connected to the whole region and gets an island all to itself.

>>58173641
With a wide and interconnected map I would expect lots of backtracking, intentional or not.

>>58163791 (OP)
what are some creative turn-based combat ideas that can keep battles refreshing?

Uppies.

>>58174627
Positioning

dang, slow day in rheg

>>58177130
it happens

peak

>>58177626
Should I play this or Legacy?

What's a romhack with actually good gyms?

>>58179143
emerald rogue

>>58177130
Your competition is a new mon and a million coomer threads

>>58179363
they're winning

>>58171484
just wait for 2.0

has anyone found wynaut in fool's gold?

Best Gen 6 rebalance hacks?

>>58181041
probably Eternal X Wilting Y. not sure if there's even any other big ones but someone might know

>>58180828
NTA but that's what I'm waiting for.

>>58181901
pokemon clover's 2.0 version aka the biggest update ever.

>>58182429
I'm waiting for it.

>>58182429
the biggest nothingburger ever

>>58182706
lmao

>>58182429
There better be a Viol + Keksandra Telekino Theatre date.

>>58182429
>Still cannot speed up except in battle

>>58183645
obsessed faggot

>Update my game to use a later version
>Gotta redo all my Pokemon changes
Guess I might redo my dex. Maybe it was silly to try and retcon out the cross-gen evos. Annihilape might be too scary for Johto, especially with Doubles.

Im trying to play SS on my Desumune emulator but it keeps freezing every 10 minutes or so and I have to restart.
I got it from vimslair if that matters.

>>58184163
Try a different emulator?

Frosted Floyds

>play the new monster hunter emerald rom hack
>so far so good
>first gym leader has 4 pokemon, which includes one holding LEFTOVERS and one spamming iron defense + reflect and has smog to poison you
>hard level cap so you can't even get additional levels to power through
>movepool and move selection sucks
Genuinely what makes someone design a game like this

>>58184639
Oh, forgot to add: the one with leftovers knows sonic boom. At level 14.
That's a 2 shot on everything up to that point

>>58184163
Vimm's Lair still has Nintendo roms? I thought they got carpet bombed by the N8ntendo Ninjas.

Desmume isn't known for interacting the best with Pokemon games, and it's by design too. Use MelonDS instead, or if you're fine with mobile you might like Drastic, that's been my DS emulator of choice since 2018. If you're on Apple maybe that Delta one, can't say I've used it tho

>>58184639
Losing equals fun I guess.

If I were to make a ROMhack for Ruby/Emerald wherein I remove Anorith/Armaldo, Natu/Xatu, and Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam, what would be the most balanced Gen I & II Pokemon that don't appear in the Hoenn National Dex to replace them with?
I was thinking Larvatir/Pupitar/Tyranitar could replace Anorith/Armaldo, since Steven's the only one with one anyway and I could just remove the fossil period. Exeggcute/Exeggutor could replace Natu/Xatu, but I dunno what to do about Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam, and am unsure if I'm missing something about the balance for the previous two.

Also I'd appreciate thoughts for replacements for Lileep/Cradily. I don't have a problem with this line but it might be easier to remove the fossil event entirely.

>>58185138
Jynx and Slowpoke line could be psychic replacements for Abra line. Gengar would be comparable to Alakazam, with a different typing of course.

A different fossil could be a replacement for Cradily and would fit with the fossil revival.

>>58184032
good

>>58185138
Out of curiosity, why are you removing them?

>>58183705
rent free sperg

Wish there was a hack that is the opposite of glazed: just take every single underrated mon from each gen and drop them in one game. No starters, no shillmons, no pseudo legendaries. Would be fun i think.

>>58185468
sorry, anon, nobody cares about your shitmons, people want to play with the cool guys

>>58185468
There's an entire subgenre of hacks called Trashlockes that put emphasis on only letting you use shitmons and mons that lost access to their evolutions, actually.
As the name implies they're made with Nuzlocke in mind, but there's nothing stopping you from a regular playthrough unless the hack specifically hard-enforces the rules in the coding itself.

>>58185468
Go make your dream hack come true, anon. Don't listen to >>58185483, listen to the voices instead. You will learn to be happier this way.

>>58181012
seconding
if nobody knows we should organize a taskforce to find it and lay this mistery to rest

What's your favorite fakemon design from any ROM hacks? I think Summerasu from Pisces is a cute.

Fucking finally!

>>58163791 (OP)
What is this? It's made by someone Spanish isn't it? Which means it won't get finished

>>58184716
Vimm's Lair is a veritable hydra. Almost every time Nintendo try and take it down it resurfaces.
>>58184163
I'd recommend MelonDS as an emulator, try giving that a go anon. Been using it on my Steam Deck to play Platinum JP and haven't had issues, I've also played through Heart Gold and several other DS games.

>>58185772
My only issue with MelonDS is that I get some framedrops if I use the touchpad menu in the deck. Dunno why

>>58181012
Only thing in the game I'm missing. The dev said it's more common in the Autumn patch, apparently. Some speculate it's on Mirage Island, if that's true I don't even know where would appear or how often.

>>58184639
>>58184648
>first gym leader has 4 pokemon
Not that bad, probably an ideal amount actually
>knows sonic boom at level 14
Honestly the only real problem here

>>58185805
i've been thinking it's probably hidden the same way elecule is in quarantine crystal(random encounter in something that's not clearly identified as a grass patch), but i lost my savefile and can't hunt for it right now

>>58185286
>Jynx and Slowpoke
Works, thanks.

>>58185382
They all make me un-comfy due to various reasons.
Abra/Kadabra/Alakazam remind me of the Goat of Mendes.
Natu/Xatu remind me of an asshole I knew.
Anorith/Armaldo remind me of a creature I've seen in my nightmares that fills me with dread.
Whenever I see them it ticks me off so I'd rather not see them if I can edit the game.

>>58185852
Do you have OCD?

Is Pokémon Alchemist any good?

>>58185805
>mirage island
you have to take the boat to sevii and back multiple times until the ship crashes onto it

>>58186168
don't care, not playing it

>>58163814
shit game

>>58186076
Yeah

>>58184574
it contains copium.

play the gen2 hack Johto Legends

>>58186253
fuck you

Any newer romhacks that don't blatantly suck off the nugens and come up with their own ideas instead?

>>58163791 (OP)
Ok I keep seeing youtube vids recommending these games called Crystal Legacy, Yellow Legacy, and Emerald Legacy. They keep getting called the perfect rom hacks
What is this shit? These videos have tons of views and apparently they even have their own subreddit where people praise them
Are these hacks actually amazing? I looked at them and they just look like the typical balance hacks with some QoL features, nothing different or special from the many many other hacks that do this.

>>58186733
It's mediocrity backed up by eceleb clout to make it seem more impressive than it actually is, that's literally all there is to it.

How is it that nobody has made a single ORAS hack that does nothing except unlock the National Dex encounters at the beginning of the game?? It’s fucking nuts, all I want to do is use some gen 4+ Pokémon before the eighth damn gym. I’ve tried hacking it myself but my smooth brain can’t seem to find the right tools to fix this shit. Please tell me i’m just missing something and there’s a hack out there that does just this.

>>58186818
just use PKhex

Are there any romhacks/fangames with a focus on small teams? 3 or less mons on a team at a time, ideally.

any hacks where i can have sex

>>58184639
I'm dropping this shit, i wanted some fun monster hunter crossover not kaizo level bullshit

>>58186162
lmao you are actually right
it took me hours but I found it, absolute bullshit
well, mistery solved then

>>58187834
anyone could see at a glance that it was a shitty game

>>58187910
and I even found a shiny one on top of that
when it rains it pours I guess lol

>>58188008
Is that fucking whiteface dude?!

>>58172629
Done.
All the trainers now have dialog for their hotel encounters. These last few took a while, but it's done.

>>58172629
It's been a very long time since I've looked at any of Essentials' code, but couldn't you copy the move relearner's function, but have it look at a Pokemon's egg moves instead of its level-up set?

>>58188184
When's a demo coming out?

>>58188208
In theory yes. But I just don't have the skill to do that.

>>58188332
Technically, it's already out. Version 2 was a month or 3 (?) ago, but if you follow my chain of posts in the archive, you should see it. The goal for version 3 is November, but at the rate I'm going, it could be October.

>>58188805
>But I just don't have the skill to do that.
You build up skills over time. Just look at the scripts and you'll figure it out, it's nothing unreadable to humans.

>>58186168
ULTRA FIRE RED XD ISN'T CANON LOL
BUT COPE IS :^)

>>58188817
too big

>>58177626
>No infinite TMs
>Having to listen to the shitty FRLG ost

Pokemon throwback is a better hack of FRLG.

how simple would it be to make a hack that's JUST a playthrough of a modded elite 4 + champion with different trainer sprites?

>dev is nonbinary
>it's a binary hack
heh...

>>58189184
ironic

>>58189173
very simple

Does anyone know if essentials has a limit on the number of player characters you are allowed to have? I remember reading somewhere that you are limited to 8, but I wanted to know if this is true and if there is a way to increase that number.

>>58188844
George floyd isn't canon lol
but vandash is XD

>>58188008
whats this

if there was a "gen 2" of Clover, who would you like to see as a gym leader?

>>58188184
And now, the world has been populated by all the NPCs. I might add more before posting version 3, but for now I'm going to focus on other things.

>>58188822
I see what you mean. I'll try again at some point before the next version comes out, but I can't promise I'll be successful. After all, it only took me 4 hours to learn how to edit the ban list for the battle tower.

>>58189838
There's already an expanded move tutor on pokecommunity that has egg tutor functionality.

>>58189939
all male with sixteen inch penors

>>58189840
i really like this design

>>58186867
I want to change the encounters how the fuck is pkhex going to help
Are you seriously suggesting I just get an encounter on a vanilla rom and then pkhex it to the natdex encounter of the area

>>58190084
>Are you seriously suggesting I just get an encounter on a vanilla rom and then pkhex it to the natdex encounter of the area
yeah? be honest, what's the difference?

>>58190084
just catch a bunch of shitmons and pkhex them to the mons you want to use, are you fucking retaarded? holy shit

>>58186256
fair enough man whatever works then. like you brought up, I’d probably just ditch or replace both fossils

>>58189845
And adding that to the todo list.

>>58189939
These designs are so ass
Gigalith has almost no distinctive features so it looks like druddigon
And i don't even know what the green one is

>>58186162
Honestly thought you might be bullshitting me until the other anon found it, and it took so much mashing for so long on 16× speed, I would've never found this in a million years. Thanks anon :) that finally makes 486/486, the hidden stuff in this game is fucked.

>>58187910
>>58188008
Nice! Thanks for taking one for the team bro, first time seeing this things shiny too with the shiny spritesheet being outdated.

>>58185814
>Elecule
That's really interesting and fucky, I'll remember this when playing QC for the first time.

>>58189810
This is Fool's Gold, highly recommend it.

>>58191421
>This is Fool's Gold, highly recommend it.
Is it good if I haven't played a rom hack in years?

>>58189066
Never too big

>>58191571
it's ok, pretty much gen 2 with a new dex, and a new region at the end

>>58185852
You are based. Get those pokeDEMONS out of your game based trainer. I kneel. Some catch them all, but some like you hard edit the game's reality matrix to just delete that which bothers your spirit.

>>58185852
>Natu/Xatu remind me of an asshole I knew.
qrd...

>>58188817
not big enough

>>58186076
more like schizophrenia

>>58192112
up

>>58184032
Literally dead on arrival

>>58193678
At least they can't pry the 1.3.3 I've downloaded and backed up from my cold dead hands.

>>58189845
>>58190718
Well, this is.... Interesting.
I've been playing around with this and it's odd.

For Gallade, it works fine, I have access to all the egg moves, but then I tested it with Durant, and it doesn't have it's egg moves? And then Hydreigon has access to every move it can learn. I'm trying to find out why it's treating pokemon differently. IDK how this is even possible since the plugin has multiple settings, and it's almost as if the setting changes based on the pokemon I'm trying to teach moves too.

>>58193949
Nevermind, got it up and running.
Damn, this actually makes the legion of tutor NPCs I spent hours on worthless.

>>58193678
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

>>58191421
Is the most recent version 1.3.2?

I'm sure this has been asked a ton of times, but is there a romhack that is Radical Red with all the QoL and no autistic spreadsheet difficulty?

>>58194404
radical red's easy mode

>>58194289
yes

>>58191421
Dev of Fool's Gold here, I don't really use 4chan but this popped up and I had to leave a comment. Congrats to you (and the others in this thread) for finding Wynaut! I've worked hard to keep it a secret but I'm honestly really happy to see people finding it. I'm glad it stayed a mystery for as long as it did, but it's really heartwarming to see people come together to poke around my little project.

>>58189838
>>58194084
Okay, so now I've got some work cut out for me. I need to finished setting up the teams for the hotel trainers. Yeah, it STILL isn't done. Writing the trainers PBS by hand is a lot of work, but I found that the fastest way to do it is to write the trainers, the Pokemon on the team, and the EV/IV/Item. For moves, nature, and ability index, it's actually faster to use essentials debug menu. So, I originally set up what could be written by hand, and put off the debug stuff till later. It's now later.

Two things I've learned from working with the debug menu. 1. The line of text a trainer says at the end of a battle is always changed to "..." any time I make edits to the trainer or team. I've had to make a backup of the PBS and will need to go in an manually restore that once I'm done with the debug. 2. the debug menu does not acknowledge forms with alternative move sets. Normally all the moves that are legal for a Pokemon are at the top of the move list and all the illegal ones are below. Well, it only considers the base form when doing this, so it thinks regional forms have the same move sets. This isn't a big issue, but it is annoying.

Once this is done, I can move on the the PWT. The plan is to have 3 regional cups, one EVERYONE cup, and maybe ONE monotype? I will have to add more trainers into the game for a monotype cup, since I need a minimum of 8 trainers. At the moment, I have the most psychic and water trainers, so that seems like the best option, but if someone here really wants another type I could take that into consideration. Except for bug, I only have 1 bug trainer and adding 7 more is a lot. I'm not even sure I can find 7 bug trainers with gen 3 over world sprites.

>>58195002
cool, thanks for making the game bro

>>58195002
Thank you Celadonk, I'm glad to hear it :) hunting for Wynaut (and the hidden Sevii shinies) was like being kids again, discussing secrets we found in the game. Also, huge thanks to you and your friends for making Fool's Gold, it was such a blast to play and I enjoyed every minute of it! The amount of talent, creativity, and ambition on display with every re-imagined Pokemon idea/sprite is tremendous, the original music tracks you created are beautiful, and the overall gameplay experience was top-notch.

I'm looking forward to playing it again many times with all the mono-type teams idea and more that I have in mind, I've even written up moveset plans for each of them! Also I misspoke, 486/487, I still need to get Dhelmise

I hope many more Pokemon fans play it too. I wish you luck in your future endeavours, whatever they may be.

>>58184032
based, fuck cheaters.

>>58184032
Does that include speeding up the game
Because playing gba pokemon at regular speed could be used as a torture method

petition to rename clover 2.0 "slowver"

>>58190942
Gigalith, if I recall, goes through the whole line using stuff akin to ear trumpets to work with the fact that the face of the line is just holes for sound to go into.
The green one is almost certainly Sceptile.

>>58192103
I think he guy making that plan to do other regions

bump

(scared)

>>58195919
>petition to rename clover 2.0 "chadver"
ffty

i need a new hack to play

>>58198080
more like fagver

>>58198519
Pokemon Brown

The trashcan is empty.

>>58199312
nice

>>58195399
This is much more draining than I expected.

Any romhacks similar to Pokemon Wubish White?

>>58197792
If you saved your mon might be cooked, there's a daycare glitch in the game that I think activates when using the pc with a mon in there. Soneone made a code to clear the daycare if you need it.

>>58200040
Garbage Gold Deluxe came out very recently, if you think it'll satisfy what you're looking for.

>>58199312
NTA but shill it to me. Looks interesting.

>>58201902
Is the map supposed to be so dense?

>>58201916
Yep.

>>58201490
a very competently made gen1 hack, not much else to say

>>58201966
The original or the new version?

>>58195002
really, really wish there was a way to randomize fool's gold

>>58202429
I can't see any reason not to play the new version over the old

>>58201902
This is for the forum RP, right?

>>58195919
>>58198589
UNGRATEFUL SPERGS LIKE YOU IS THE MAIN REASON THAT POKEMON CLOVER'S 2.0 GETS DELAYED

>>58203042
NTA and I'm sure this is bait but blaming others for game projects being delayed is retarded and always has been

>>58203042
LOVE THE IMPERSONATION, YOU WISH YOU WERE THIS COOL
CLOVER'S NOT DELAYED, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT NON-STOP SINCE WE SWITCHED OVER TO DECOMP :^)

>>58203128
is that powerpoint npc XD

>>58203135
ARE YOU THE FUCKING BASKIN ROBERTS TRUST FUND BAND GUY? YOU'RE THINKING OF CLIPPY.

>>58203135
do you mean nft

Best emerald qol hack? No new Pokemon or types

>>58203042
If me calling it fagver gets it delayed, the devs are even bigger faggots than i previously though

fagver

>>58203166
LOL
"FAGVER"

clover was a mistake and this is proof of it

>>58203251
BE A LITTLE MORE MELODRAMATIC PLEASE

>>58203159
I like ROWE

>>58203486
ROWE is a buggy mess.
>h-hey I just gave away a priority ground move to garchomp instead of fixing berry/new sprite/new tile graphical glitches and all the failed address jumps coincidentally caused by signature moves and also implemented sevii islands with closed doors, deleted hidden items and more bugged tiles and addresses

>>58203514
i just finished playing the latest version today and found none of those things you described

>>58163791 (OP)
Dont ask questions, but I have a physical copy of Sword (from a library) and i want to put it digitally on my switch while being able to return the physical copy to the library
is that possible, ideally without ruining the cartridge?

>>58195919
truth nuke
>>58203388
finish your game instead of begging your patreon please.

>>58203696
Yes

>>58203251
based

>>58163814
>>58163841
>forced female mc
fucking ruined

>>58203760
stay mad, klara is better than avery

>>58203762
uhhh yeah? what's the correlation

lmao

>>58203772
jeez that's a lazy recolor. I was making better ones in elementary school.

>>58203734
ULTRA FIRE RED XD HAS BEEN DONE FOR LIKE SEVEN YEARS :^)

>>58204944
>XD
>>>/reddit/

>>58195399
Okay, so Music is a pain. I took a break from the trainers because of >>58199993 and started working on music. Well, I am faced with a choice, and both options aren't the best.

1. I only use the limited default essentials music.
2. I import music from other games to be more fitting, but at the cost of them not looping.

I just can't win. I am leaning to the improper loops, but I want to hear what other people think and of they found workarounds.

>>58205733
Never mind. Found ENLS’s Pre-Looped Music Library.

Holy shit, this changes everything.

>>58205733
Can't Essentials play midi files?

>>58205822
It can? Don't midis also need sound fount files to go with them?

My new HoF.

>>58207071
Pretty cool, why'd you use rotom wash if you already have a water type? Why not frost or fan?

>>58207134
Wash is my favorite form.

>>58207255
>>58207260

>>58207255
Nice.

>>58188817
triple the size

>>58207071
>>58207077
What hack?

The credits in Emerald Rogue are so kino

felt like sharing my dex here, some of these guys have already been posted here but not the entire roster (there's still a lot of mons missing)
at the moment the majority of them still need a final retouch so don't mind the wonky/incomplete pixel lines and lack of shading lol

>>58208909
Are the crabs meant to just be Krabby and Kingler? If not, I'd give them another pass because their inspiration is too obvious.

>>58208916
oh yeah it's a regional form of the krabby line, a deep-sea version of them to be exact
there is a regional hoppip in there too, it will get a specific evolution

>>58208924
Kingler almost looks different enough that it could reasonably be its own Pokemon. At that point, I'd just cut the connection and make it something unique.

>>58208909
these are dope, love the gen 2 style sprites

>>58208825
Read the filename.

I think I have choice paralysis. For better or for worse, there's like hundreds of romhacks out there.

>>58203760
filtered

>>58209130
Is it fun?

>>58207260
One job...

>>58207476
Fans do what Nintendon't

>>58207255
>>58207260
>>58207267
>>58209500
Did it really need to be a third blue eeveelution?

>>58208909
great spritework as always, nihonganon, looking forward to seeing all this completed

>>58209879
He couldn't just make Victini's eyes black? They look goofy.

>>58208909
Lots of great designs here! You're talented anon.

>>58205733
I'm really looking for any reason not to work on those trainers. I'm not eve half done. Whatever, I'll knock them out a few at a time while doing other things.

I installed some more tiles I found/stole and used them to create a new arena for the Battle Tower. The main reason I did this is to make the room bigger. There are some NPCs that don't have walking animations, so I can't put them in the tower or PWT, so instead I'm going to set it up so that they are in the audience for the tower/PWT after you beat them.

>>58208909
What hack is this?

>>58209451
Sort of.

Fat Falkner Edition
>>58209551
>>58209551
>>58209551

>>58203128
>>58203150
>>58203244
>>58203388
>>58204944
>LOVE THE IMPERSONATION,
it is funny to piss mistakes like you.
tripcode next time

>>58203251
trvth nvke