Thread 58531114

Mega 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/

Previous Thread: >>58495575

As stated in the last thread, I tried to compile a list of hacks that aren't enhancement stuff & are finished and of a somewhat quality: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZrRXlkq0ZmBr7Zzglb1Zer_JuJoTUWckrtRP0ROWCU/edit?usp=sharing
I advise you go into View & set Text Width to Wide.

Since people have been complaining about the pastebin maybe this can be a little companion-piece to it, but it's still a WIP & only Gen 3 for now. I'm sure most of the descriptions can be improved too since I've played very few of these, and if something should be added (or removed kek) I can do that. Let me know your thoughts crew.

>>58531183
I would consider Aquamarine, Fuligin, Giratina Strikes Back, and Kanlara Ultimate. I think those all qualify.

>>58527111
Why not make the MC Daisy's son or daughter.

Being the protag son is kinda lame, you could make more just making use of the world already created like for example Bill and Daisy are married and they had a child.

>>58531183
>Pokemon DarkViolet
Goddamn I like this one, I wish it were remade using pokeemerald but alas..

>>58531218
sounds good, i'll look into them and keep em in mind. Basically anything goes as long as it's finished and original.

>>58531183
Definitely can't have a hack compilation without Emerald Rogue 2 (1 is also pretty good)

>>58531183
Nice work

>>58531183
Respect for making this anon, more centralized resources for learning about different hacks are always a good thing.

>>58532159
this site's a pretty good resource, dunno if people here know about it. I was gonna put it in the OP links at some point but the web address is stupid long and trying to shorten it gets flagged as spam:

https://pokeromcodex.notion.site/8f188f1761b9430f9adb68833c44e5b8?v=bb31503a729442f798b4233509dacab8

this hasn't been updated in years but was good too:
https://gbahacks.blogspot.com/p/completed.html

>>58531114 (OP)
The megas look a little rough desu

>>58533534
Nameless is pretty rough in general, respect to the creator for pumping out content nonstop but nothing in that series ever stood out as particularly polished

>>58531183
Pretty nice to see! Emerald Z caught my attention (never heard of it)

>>58531183
>muuhh difficulty hack.
There are quite more developed anď you made that kind of list.
Remminder you have other hacks of demakes quite well done.
Well seeing how you avoid your native language hacks is laughable that you don't mention them.

>>58534729
I've already played Kanto a million times, make something new.

>>58534776
Learn to read i was mocking that anon doing the list that ignored other countries hacks and went full retard kanto.
>sword and shield gba : not mentioned, made by brazilian.
>scarlet & violet : not mentioned, made by spanniards.
>legends arceus : not mentioned, made by spanniards
>legends Z-A : not mentioned made by brazilian.
>let's go pikachu & eeve : not mentioned made by spanniards.
>digimon ruby : not mentioned made by chinese.
>palworld : not mentioned made by chinese.
Yet the anon didn't even mention them and went same kanto difficulty hack.

Wake me up when the Kalos starter Megas get added to XY.

>>58535093
Well the language barrier can be annoying, the palworld one looked great with good sprites and the sprites got used by dorkly i think people started assuming palworld was chinese by that gba hack (the company making the game is japanese).
Well hope we get more hacks instead of "just another difficulty hack".

A friend of mine is working on a Gen 3 romhack featuring Fakemon. Here are the starters.

The idea of actually making one of these seems impossible, let alone without a team or being a highly driven renaissance man
I will thinkmax until a game magically forms out of raw mental energy

>>58535788
>First and Middle stages look better than the final stages
Your friend is doing great emulating Gen 3 so far

>>58535788
Ohhh they look pretty good I would say, your friend (if real) has talent

>>58535927
>>58535917
Thanks! Here are (planned) back sprites for all of the Fakemon.

Are there any romhacks with gen 1-9 pokemon and also doeos anybody remember any old romhack that had the the pokemon XD mc in the cover and shadow lugia

>>58535788
Friends with this person?

>>58536055
Hard to appreciate the designs with onto the backsprite but so far I like the Plant-Hydra 3 stage, the shrimp, nautilus, arbok looking mon and the eels

>>58536327
I think he is just following him, hacking communities specially japanese ones are quite closed.
>>58536275
Well there are a lot (if you don't mind the language barrier), there is the scarle and violet hack that has all the mons along map and all the goodies, then you have fire red extended with all the mons but is quite shitty due to the whole anti cheat of you use save editor because author thought "i have an idea will add more trainers because difficulty is quite easy by default" and then went full retard by checking the rom on hexmaniac with author going "i will make brook a bit more challenging he will have 3 mons at lvl 45, misty is too easy so i will add a few mons that she had according to gigaleak so i will add her a machamp at lvl 50 along her classic mons like psyduck, starmie and staryu at lvl 65" and similar shit like that.

>>58536403
>>58536327
https://twitter.com/pokereplica/status/1722893141173559789
Seems to be 1:1 with the backsprites so...

I must say nice fakemons designs tho, I like them

Are there any Pokémon Red/Blue hacks that add the option the option to play as a girl that aren't also rebalancing hacks? Something as close to the vanilla experience as possible basically (stuff like making all 151 Pokémon obtainable in-game is fine as it's a given in any ROM hack).

>>58536436
You could do that yourself pretty easily.

any good gen 5 style city tilesets? preferably with outlines.

>>58536461
I have no previous ROM hacking experience so I figured I should at least try asking before setting out to do it myself.

>>58536493
There is one i think was called pokemon pink or something, was simply adding girl sprites for trainer while keeping all the same.

>>58535788
Holy peak.
Would use all 3.

>>58532479
Ahhh yes the codex. I know about it, but I'm sure others here don't. I think putting it in the OP wouldn't be a bad idea.

>try out that rejuvenation v6 copy that was mislabeled as v12 that got posted last thread
>random wild pokemon take 10 seconds from start of encounter animation to being able to flee
>no speedup
i think jan switched brands of padding-related suffering

>>58535788
>it just gets bigger
they're fine lol

>>58531218
added all four :^)
>>58531541
added "Emerald Rogue", which is what it's called on the pokecommunity page. Is there 2 separate hacks? Let me know, but I'll assume "Emerald Rogue 2" is just the expanded update to the original hack.
>>58531840
>>58532159
thanks :^) was mostly for myself but figured I'd share anyways since an anon asked.
>>58533098
>>58532479
woof, will try to look through when I get a chance.
>>58534504
the fakemon in there are quite cool I think, enjoy if you end up playing.
>>58534729
most of the hacks I listed are new regions lel, also sorry but I'm not ESL, I don't know much about that scene, but will try to add any good quality hacks for sure.

>>58531183
It'd be cool if we got a Wiki but good, for this sort of thing...

something like Dustloop/Miraheze but designed to be useful for categorizing hacks, organizing reviews of them, and hosting documentation on them.

>>58531114 (OP)
This Pokemon type chart needs work, does anyone have any ideas on ways to improve it?

Fire seems OP.

>>58531183
Did you play all of that?

How impossible would it be to port the battle/animation/dialogue speedup (without negatively impacting the music) feature from emerald rogue into other romhacks or even the vanilla games

>>58538451
definitely not! hehe.

>>58537964
I'm glad you asked...

Noise Type!!

Super effective against: Water, Steel, Ghost, Fairy
Not very effective against: Bug, Ice, Grass, Psychic.
Weak to: Bug, Poison, Psychic, Dragon.

>B-but, P-Prism and T-T-Tourma-
I came up with this independently, fr fr, they actually bit it off me, even though I never posted it anywhere ever.
>T-these type matchups don't m-make any se-
Cry about it, this is the kind of balancing that will revolutionize the in-game META, leading to a veritable Renaissance of PVE excitement.
>Who are you quoting?
I'm 10 steps ahead always, something like Nikocado.

>>58536401
To see their front sprites, check her account.
https://x.com/pokereplica

>>58538986
If GF added Dragon and Fairy there's no reason to not include Angel/Light type or Orc type

>>58537791
>new regions.
>difficulty hacks.
Choose one, those mentioned are quite good and translated to english at least older versions, the only thing is they use spanish rom version as base so can't be modified as easily with current tools and they release patched roms which seems to be an issue here even if they are 20 year old games.
Well is just seeing the list since are mostly patches of hacks and not prepatched roms.

>>58539002
>new regions.
>difficulty hacks.
>Choose one
This is openly false

>>58538987
Yeah I know, I'm >>58536415
Still thanks anon

>>58538986
>Noise Type!!
Never been a fan of Sound/Space types, Sound is already a subcategory of moves, it would need heavy rebalancing for both moves/mons/abilities. However I do agree with >>58539000 a Light type would make sort of sense since all the traditional RPG elements are already covered

https://mega.nz/file/pmAzWTQZ#8fZ8VFtJbuxBN1KfCSvbwm1DLbew7qNYdmzsMjJqJX4
>>58537140
>v6 copy
V6 ended at Amber. V-12 has a considerably different story in Act 2 than any of the official versions (e.g. no Puppet Master, no Bad Future) and goes up to Saki (who is badge #12 here instead of #15).
>no speedup
use this, essentials default is 40 FPS and the turbo in rejuv is 200 FPS
https://himeworks.com/2014/10/rm-fps-control

>>58540464
strange
the copy I have has "version 5" on the splash screen
and the readme says version 6
i downloaded that one you just posted and it's also the exact same, down to the filesize
and the latest asset modified dates are in 2015 or 2016 at the absolute latest

>>no speedup
>use this
i've just been using cheatengine speedhack as my go to for anything without speedup (or needing more speedup)

>>58540677
>v5/v6
I have no idea about this discrepancy, but this is the old dev build. Jan probably changed the readme but didn't change the splash screen before deciding to move onto a different build location.
>exact same
yeah it's the exact same link too, i'm the anon who posted it last thread
>cheat engine
yeah fair, just thought i'd post the fps control thing for other anons that don't want to use cheat engine for any reason

>>58540711
guess I'll just chalk it up to the usual "jan is bad at game development" and "this is an insult to typewriting monkeys" reasons then
Anyways did you know that the version that got posted has an early game infinite money exploit because Jan forgot to make at least one sidequest end event not become inert after its nominal completion
On a less funny note, there's at least one bug I've encountered that'd fuck up your game if you didn't have debug mode on to walk through walls with

>>58541043
i didn't know about that exploit, that said
it doesn't have the "how the FUCK did he forget to remove this" exploit that existed in V1 (was patched in the version that he posted on X several months ago) and V2.0 that allowed you to get a "M14/Eind" Victini through Mystery Gift.

>fuck up your game if you couldn't W2W
oh yeah the main Kristolica Palace map has had all of its events removed for some reason so it'll softlock you if you don't replace it, lemme find an earlier version's Map145.rxdata

>>58541112
checking those singlets
also I refuse to believe that v12 is this old with this little polish
here is a trainer backsprite that is twice the size it should be

>>58541112
the main map is from V6 with all of its events removed while the other maps under it are all from V5
the outside "Deep Sewers" map is also from V6... but links to the V5 map's starting location? no idea wtf is going on there, just replace the one in the V-12 folder with the V5 version of 145.rxdata

>>58541177
i don't have both versions you're talking about
just upload the map replacement to mega or something

>>58541173
yeah there are a bunch of sprites that are double or half the size they should be, e.g. the black female MC sprite, i have no idea why or how Venam's backsprite is double the size though
it's the dev build of a LITERAL nigger that has 6 entire extra versions of rushed beta content that he worked on solo. you can at least give credit for the fact that he wasn't begging people for patreon buxx- oh wait, you need to pay him to get access to this dogshit and you get banned from the subreddit for talking about it (even though all of the text in it is accessible through datamining V5)
he was just writing tons of stuff without going back to polish it, this is like if ame had a secret dev build of E18 with a considerably different storyline in the Chrysolia Region, then when he got a dev team he didn't tell any of them about it and decided to make the narrative head to the Agate Circus instead of his original plans

>>58541218
https://mega.nz/file/13JGnALD#VueB66bejeLU-RnanLB8o1CU-9ikBPoGeKuOzCGe1BU

Anyone ever made or is making a shiny/living dex in Unbound? How well does it accomodate that autism? If i remember right its Dexnav feature basically eliminates IV grinding

>>58541535
Shiny Charm + 50/100 chain with max research level is a 2% chance at a shiny and 3 guaranteed 31 IV's + Egg moves. It's the most balanced system these romhacks have for shinies. Treats it like a real video game and not whatever fucking inane nonsense Elite Redux has (i hate Emerald Enhancement hacks)

I'm playing the spanish Rocket edition, I was told that I might find vulpix outside the rocket warehouse, is that true? I found the other pokeymans.

I'm fairly new to Rom hacks and I haven't played Pokemon in a while. What is a recommended Johto hack with a modernized feel and QoL stuff like pressing R button for a pokeball etc. Mostly looking to replay the Johto story as I never got around to playing it way back then. Preferably GBA graphics.

>>58541657
True seems to be a rather low chance though, took me a while only to get a Houndoom egg a few minutes later.

>>58542507
I autistically grinded out my team to beat Red only to find out the world breaks when I do that so I fight the super nerd again and then Red again. At least the other version kinda recognized that you won despite hand-waving it....

>>58542492
Heart&Soul literally just dropped and it's a Gen 3 demake of HGSS, not sure if it has R button throwing but it's easily the most modernized version of Johto.
Scorched Silver also exists but it's a sequel to the original games that adds every Pokemon and some extra areas, so if you want to play the original Johto story it wouldn't work.

>>58531114 (OP)
I haven't played a Johto game since I was a child, and I feel like going back and playing that one.

Can you recommend the best Johto Enhancement hacks?

Preferably without any amateur fiction hallmarks like generic evil teams relying on edge and shock value to cover a lack of substance, OC partners/rivals who steal the show during cutscenes but never help during gameplay, and a story that gestures at safe ideas we already collectively believe in without meaningfully exploring them.

And without any amateur game balance mistakes like thinking you balance a game by giving every Pokemon ever access to the best signature moves ever and give the player easy access to the strongest Pokemon ever as early as possible.

Could I also get balance feedback on my updated Type Chart? I decided it was cooler if Steel and Dragon are Super Effective against each other.

Anything new from nihonga anon?

>>58542740
>OC partners/rivals who steal the show during cutscenes but never help during gameplay
I fucking HATE this trope with a burning passion

>>58542740
Wait until Drayano KEK releases KEK Aurora Crystal kekekekekek

>>58542753
We should make a bingo board with all the cliches we hate.

>OC Partners/Rivals/Gym Leaders/Champs steal the show during cutscenes but never help during gameplay, not even to keep enemy grunts out of your way or block escape routes
>hero only wins by disproving author's STATED ideology
>quirk chungus obese womanchild whose personality traits is consuming media, pretending to be happy, and imitating her favourite underaged anime girl
>side-shaved impotent rage-machine woman who thinks she's too tough for human connection and compassion and family sold as a "strong character" and not a victim of society's retarded backwards idea of who's strong and weak. No, you can't write a 90 pound woman like a 240 pound drill sergeant and expect me to take her seriously.
>political issues raised during the story are forgotten entirely because "war is bad and conflict must be avoided and we need healing and forgiveness" must be pushed for maximum cynical profitseeking even if it means the abused underclass must shut up and go back to work for the abusers.
>story sidesteps all political issues raised in the first 90% by making the evil team leader a lying cynical cackling supervillain whose movement dies with him and he was probably solely responsible for the problem his people used as motivation anyway. It literally only worked with Chairmen Drek, stop giving us shit like Amon
>religious guy who wants to return to tradition never gets a chance to say what his people's ancient traditions are before he becomes a cackling supervillain satanist Nightmare Moon knockoff who wants the night to last forever
>idiot authors only know how to make you like a faction by immediately declaring you its leader. Your underlings then proceed to order you around and give you missions you cannot delegate or reject. Either have characters acknowledge you're a charismatic politically useful figurehead leader and not the one calling the shots or don't write it like that.

>>58542740
Polished Crystal is my go-to if you want a ton of QoL enhancements and all the new content added in HGSS

When will the Z-A Megas be added to hg-engine?

>>58542740
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-pure-heart-pok%C3%A9mon-true-soul.526956/

>>58542813
have you played a single video game besides pokemon empire

>>58536436
Shin Pokemon. It's really the only one out there that has no re-balancing and doesn't jack with the meta. Bills itself as a "what if" kind of re-release or remaster as opposed to someone's fanfiction idea of "here's how I made gen 1 perfect".

>>58542563
>Heart&Soul has exp share for the whole party right from the beginning

Now that's what I call QoL improvement holy shit is that nice

>>58531114 (OP)
>plays Pokemon Heart And Soul
I wanted a challenge so when accepting challenge limits, I said my Pokemon cannot level past the lowest level Pokemon on the foe's team.
Also I have no EVs, foes have EVs scaling based on badges, and we all have perfect IVs.
I played the game up to the Falkner fight, killed his level 8 Pidgey, then got killed by his level 11 Noctowl who two-shots everything I have, even the Onix I traded a Bellsprout for.
I have no methods of changing my strategy or using TMs or HMs or trade evolutions or different party Pokemon.
The only Pokemon I have who should beat Flying lack any Typed moves that beat Flying.
Nobody resists Flying except Onix the useless bastard.
I'm fucked.
Can't change the challenge rules without restarting and undoing all that time trying to catch every Pokemon on the way here.
I'm fucking softlocked because the retard who designed this game didn't playtest.

>>58543384
Challengefags keep losing, lol

>>58543384
KEK! fucking deserved you retard, try the debug menu

>>58543384
I tried again stacking my team of level 8 babies with electric-type Pokemon. Mareep and Pichu are my only options. Mareep knows zero electric moves at level eight. Pichu is a weak piece of shit who dies in 2 hits from Pidgey and 1 hit from Noctowl. I cannot progress any further than this town until I beat the Gym Leader. It's over, and I don't feel like redoing the last half-hour of gameplay on an objectively worse gameplay setting where all my Pokemon overlevel most of the Gym Leader's team and steamroll them.

>>58543393
You are disabled. If a game designer builds a challenge into the game, it should be possible, otherwise the designer is a subhuman retard. Fnd a word with sixteen letters in this sentence. That's your challenge. It's impossible, of course. You can't find that word? Too bad, retard, you're just a failure. Admit impossible challenges are bullshit.

>>58543408
Debug menu? Yeah, how about I open Pokesav and set my Totodile to level 30 while I'm at it? How about I hack the game myself and fix it for the cunt who made it?

>>58543436
>>58543408
>>58543393
>>58543384
The pedotranny who "made" this game (mainly stole from other developers) disabled debug mode.

Probably because too many people cheated past shit design instead of enduring it, or broke their saves cheating then complained because they're brown.

>>58543462
Huh, good thing I played the first demo then, debug menu was still accessable

>>58543384
Grind money by selling acorns/berries, sell all the items except potions, buy as many potions as you can and just keep healing yourself until Noctowls PP run dry then just whittle it down

>>58542813
>side-shaved impotent rage-machine woman who thinks she's too tough for human connection and compassion and family sold as a "strong character" and not a victim of society's retarded backwards idea of who's strong and weak. No, you can't write a 90 pound woman like a 240 pound drill sergeant and expect me to take her seriously.
That sounds like Titania from Reborn (kinda)

>>58543677
i'm pretty sure just starting an entirely new run would be faster

>>58543677
One of the challenges I accepted was to never use items in battle.
This is bullshit. If a game offers a built-in challenge it should always give you the tools to beat it. That's game design 101. That's a lesson they might not even bother to teach in game design school because they assume it's obvious. What kind of retard adds a mode like this to a game without playtesting it? If I play without it I'll just end up overlevelling most of every Gym Leader's Pokemon anyway.
Fuck it, I'll play something else.

>>58543843
Go play Scorched Silver

>Guy remakes Gen 2 in Emerald by himself
>Releases ROM hack as open source so it can be used as a ROM base for other hackers to build on
>Some asshole who has never built or contributed anything in his miserable life has an autistic meltdown over an optional feature not working right, instead of fixing it himself or at the very least reporting the issue to the dev
What a faggot

>Fuck it, I'll play something else.
Nobody cares

>>58543865
You're the faggot who made this?

Kill yourself.

>>58543865
we don't sign our posts here

>>58543865
I reported the issue to the dev, that nigger banned me from his trannycord.

Is it even a remake of HGSS? I gave myself a Beldum and it couldn't even learn a physical psychic move

>>58543865
Also, you didn't choose to release it as open source. You had to, because otherwise you couldn't steal from open source github projects.

>>58543941
That never stopped any of the other FOTM hacks.

>>58543889
>Calls dev a tranny
>Surprised when banned

>>58543941
>otherwise you couldn't steal from open source github projects
Nothing forces you to share your source code even if you utilize code written by others.

>>58543957
Not on this site, of course. But lmao, imagine being such a cowardly pathetic tranny you ban someone asking for help on discord because you suspect he's the guy on 4chan calling you a faggot.

>>58544025
this is just a retarded idea
good and bad ideas can come from anywhere
ignoring good ideas because they come from somewhere you (were told to) dislike and accepting bad ideas on the basis of someone you like saying so is retarded

>>58497638
How the hell is it that there isn't a single free to use battle sprite for Bede? This is really bothering me since It's starting to get harder to find trainers to fill the mono type niches.

>>58544084
Fix your game. That's a good idea.

Ban critics? Retarded idea.

Make someone a critic by banning him for asking for help? More retarded.

I still have your game, I just don't feel like playing it.

I don't know why trannies get up their own ass about needing to feel respected and validated at all times. It's not my job to perform emotional labor for you on command, eunuch.

The game has a difficulty modifier? It should be playtested.
Level 8 Ghastly will only help me in this battle if Falkner has zero non-Normal Type attacks.

>>58544548
You're a scumbag, big shocker the dev wouldn't waste time on you.

>>58543384
>i wanted a challenge
>so i made all of the enemy trainers have 31 IVs in all their stats, gave them scaling EVs, prevented myself from being able to gain EVs, and i can't level beyond the lowest level mon on the gym leader's team
>cries about difficulty instead of admitting that you bit off more than you can chew
this is what you get for disabling EVs on your side and enabling the "HARD" level cap, don't complain when you have actively made the game as hard as possible without literally PULSE2ing the enemy trainers
even fucking "hardcore" nuzlockers use the HIGHEST level mon on the gym leader's team as their level cap, not lowest level mon

>>58544254
Just use public ai, create image, downsize, edit a but, done new sprite.
Is not that hard to do.

>>58537791
Emerald Rogue 2, is an incredibly "updated" sequel hack built from, I believe, entirely different code. Honestly, it's so much of an improvement that you might as well add it instead of the original. The Pit is another roguelite take on pokemon that plays quite a bit differently (less super hard boss trainers but no perma death, much greater focus on health items, and limited opportunities for catching new mons).

>>58538986
>>58539961
Compromise and have a "Wave" type? Both sound waves and light waves (all across the non visible spectrum) can be fitted into one type. They can still embody the more spiritual aspects of light and music while also fitting the scientific aspects. Earthquake and magnitude might be a little weird and overlap slightly as well as the traditional sound moves (and a few light adjacent things like signal beam), but maybe that can be a property of the "Wave" type, where depending on which deals more damage, it can be either type? Or maybe the entirety of the offensive Wave type is determined by other types, while the users get stab as well as unique defensive properties. Almost like the inverse of the Stellar type.

>mfw there are all these hidden mechanics about different stats and genders and abilities
Was this always the case? I don't remember anything like that when I played the GBC games

>>58545393
IVs and EVs were in the games from the beginning, though as DVs and stat exp. Genders were added in gen 2 and abilities in 3.

>>58545393
Don't forget the hidden move interactions
>Earthquake hitting for double damage through Dig invincibility
>Thunder doing the same for Fly invincibility
>Stomp doing the same for Minimize
stuff like this made dealing with bullshit less annoying because there was usually some hidden counterplay

>>58545451
>>Thunder doing the same for Fly invincibility
Don't forget Gust and Twister.

>>58543384
Can't you catch a Geodude in Dark Cave?

>>58544964
I can't tell of you are tolling or just retarded. That would look awful.

>>58543865
>nobody cares
>seething so hard he writes a wall of text
Pick one

>play an optional challenge that the game wasnt designed or balanced for
>gets upset when his complaints are ignored
Is that the gist of the issue?

>>58545569
*trolling

>>58538539
There's an open-source implementation of the battle speedup and there are tutorials for speeding up text, so adding those features to the vanilla decomps or any open-source hack should be pretty easy. For games other than that it's possible, but you probably wouldn't be able to do it.

>>58545021
The problem is that most Pokémon types are taken from classic RPGs
>Elemental types: Fire, Ice, Water, Ground, Rock, Electric, Grass and Dark to some extent (Darkness attribute)
>"Monster" types: Dragon, Fairy, Steel, Bug
Psyquic is pretty much a generic "mind" or "magic" type, Fighting is the closest to generic Physical/Force attacks, same with Normal type, Poison is treated as a status ailment in most games so that's an oddity
Realistically that leaves only "Light" or "Holy" types to be added, there's also an argument for a "Wind" type but I feel Flying covers it
Also again adding a non-Elemental type like Sound or Wave will requiere heavy balancing to make it work

>>58545762
>Realistically that leaves only "Light" or "Holy" types
Fairy?

>>58545762
Forgot to mention Ghost on the "Monster" type section, I think you get the idea: there's not a lot that can be added to the type chart without it feeling gimmicky or Fan-fiction tier (Sure Stellar exists as a type but it's first and foremost a battle gimmick, not a permanent part of the type chart)

>>58545774
You could say that, yeah
I was thinking more Holy/Sacred element since Fairy is more Girly/Fae related than angelic desu

>>58545782
Togekiss is about the closest this series has to an angel, and was retconned to be a Fairy as soon as the type was introduced.
>since Fairy is more Girly/Fae related than angelic desu
A lot of the types can serve multiple themes. Flying for wind and birds, Ground for mud, clay, sand, or bone, Grass for all kinds of plant and fungi.
I do agree that there isn't a whole lot of wiggle room when it comes to adding on to the existing type chart. Popular choices like Sound already exist as a move property.

>>58531183
https://rainbowdevs.com/title/rijonadventures/

I've seen hardly any talk of this. It's a vanilla-ish new region hack and while I haven't played the 2015 version I know the 2009 beta goes up to Rijon's Elite Four.

>>58545812
I still can't believe he named the region after a weird spelling of "region."

>>58545797
>Togekiss is about the closest this series has to an angel, and was retconned to be a Fairy as soon as the type was introduced
Fair
>A lot of the types can serve multiple themes
Absolutely, but Fairy doesn't strike me as Holy/Angelic type but more cutesy/somewhat-nature/Precure themed based on both Move descriptions and fairy mon designs (not saying it can't be Holy themed, just that the Holy theme is weak overall)
Something similar happens with the Dark type where a lot of moves are Feral/Cruel (stuff like Bite, Beat up and such) but also as a traditional Darkness type with moves like Dark Void, Dark Pulse or Night Daze

>>58545841
Gadevoir is also somewhat of a guardian(angel), despite not having the visage of one. This also applies to the Tapus.
It's not leaned into as much as general fairies/mythical creatures, or even foodmons, but it's still there.

>>58545860
Granted Gardevoir is a weird case where the guardian angel theme predates Fairy type (same for Togekiss) but if GF leaned more into the Angelic/Holy aspects of Fairy type then nobody would bat an eye

>>58545881
TPC probably wants to distance itself from religion as much as possible. The best we'll get are "guardians" or "blessings."

>>58545881
NTA but I think people are kinda forgetting thet Dark is known as the Evil type in japanese. Going off that, fairy is just trying to be the opposite of Evil by being something inherently good-natured, which is why Gardevoir got the Fairy type, since it's meant to be a noble knight (hence its japanese name being literally Sir Knight). The fact they chose Fairy at all definitely makes it confusing though, but the only opposite term I could think for an Evil type would be a Hero type, but that feels like it's overlap too much with Fighting type.

>>58545884
Makes sense, they play it safe
>>58545887
>but the only opposite term I could think for an Evil type would be a Hero type, but that feels like it's overlap too much with Fighting type.
Well Fighting type kinda works like a Hero type sometimes, but it's mostly a Martial Arts/Physical type.
The only mons I can thing of that fit the "Hero" bill would be the Swords of Justice, Chesnaught, Sirfetch'd, the Zamas Dogs and Iron Valiant

>>58545905
Even if Zacian is not fighting for some reason lol

>>58545905
Yeah no matter how you slice it, the Hero type just isn't intuitive. Fairy at least has the benefit of being associated with cute or beautiful things, as well as being vaguely associated with bugs. There's a lot more to go off than the vague concept of being heroic. Light is really the only appropriate opposite of Dark/Evil linguistiucally, but it's a lot harder to associate something with Light than it is with Dark. Sunflora being a Grass/Light type would be pretty funny to see though.

>>58545921
I mean a Hero type would add more problems for mons like Escavalier, Gallade, Lokix or Palafin imo since so far all of those are Knight/Chivalry related or Kamen Rider/Superhero themed

Still waiting

>>58546117
nothing ever happens chuddy

>>58545812
added :)

>>58544753
inagine if that guy comes across a FEAR

>>58543384
In one hand, yeah they should playtest those difficulty options to at least be beatable cuz damn that sounds like a straight softlock but also anon how the fuck do you plan to deal with this without it murdering you?
>perfect IVs
>Scaling EVs for enemy trainers depending on badges
>No EVs

>challenge fag still mad about it after all this time
Touch grass lmao

>>58537891
if i was better at programming or something it'd be a great idea, but unfortunately i have no technical ability

>>58545938
Sadly pokemon is a slug, snake, frog triangle for a hero type it would need.
>Maou type
>Hero Type
>Champion type
>Champion is strong against hero, hero is strong against maou, maou is strpng against champion.
Sadly most rom hack devs just make a shitty rock sissors shit ignoring the system and end up with a broken hack which is true.
That's why you have 3 mons at start, water is strong against fire, fire is strong against grass, grass is strong against water.

>>58546754
In that case adding any new types to counter Dark is ignoring the triangle that exists in the game.
>Dark beats Psychic
>Psychic beats Fighting
>Fighting beats Dark
and in reverse the type either resists what it's strong against, or in Dark's case is immune to Psychic.

>>58546787
Is there any other RPG "Monster" type missing?
Elemental types are pretty much covered unless you want to add combined elements like dunno "Plasma" type or more neutral types like Artema from FF or Almighty/Nuclear Damage from SMT
Something like "Beast" type maybe? Although a bit too generic

>>58546837
What would a beast type even encompass?

>>58546837
>Artema
Well, Arutema in JP, Ultima in English (too much time playing FF on moon runes and the autocorrect doing stuff)

>>58546837
I guess maybe a Slime type? That could fit the water type, but those are often fish in Pokemon.

>>58546870
Good question, I got the idea from Etrian Odyssey, in that game they are just Mammals (mostly Carnivores)
Too generic imo, basically any Route 1/mammal based mon would be considered a "Beast" type

>>58546907
I guess if you really wanted, you could split Normal up into "Beast" and "Artificial."

>>58546911
Saying that, I did totally forget about the Smolive and Helioptile lines. Regigias wouldn't fit, either.

>>58546901
I feel that would be Water/Poison or just Mono Water/Poison (Slimes are often depicted as made of corrosive substances)
Vega had a Water Starter with that line of thought (with a bit of Chaos from Sonic mixed in)

>>58546911
I think the real problem is how you only have 2 types (and 2 Egg Groups) to define what is a mon

Also the fact that Water type is perhaps a bit too generic of a type? In any other RPG you could split Water into Fish, Amphibian, Water Elemental and Semi-Aquatic monsters same applies to other types to a lesser extent (Ghost being anything Undead/Paranormal, Flying being anything with functional wings regardless of being a Lizard, Bird or Bat and so on)

>>58546787
That's not a type triangle and I'm tired of pretending it is.

>>58546942
Splitting up types like that would only really work if you design a whole suite of monsters for it. You destroy so many movepools and sets by making everything have a unique type. Maybe if there was a distinction between offensive and defensive types.

>>58546948
For what reason? Because they have other weaknesses/resistances? Better recheck Fire, Water, Grass buddy.

>>58546980
Because Dark just shuts Psychic down, anon.

>>58546986
And? Anything that resists a type shuts it down, immunity is just more direct about it.

>>58546980
Water can hit grass, grass can hit fire, and fire can hit water. Psychic can't hit dark at all.
The only other triangles are Fighting/Rock/Flying, Fire/Steel/Rock, Ground/Poison/Grass, and Fairy/Fighting/Steel

>>58546980
>>58546993
F/W/G and Rock/Flying/Fighting are triangles because they're symmetrical. Dark/Psychic/Fighting is a triangle because the Dark/Psychic interaction is not consistent with the other sides of the triangle.

>>58547002
>>58547005
This feels pedantic. You could argue none of those other triangles are true triangles because not all the types resist themself like with Fire/Water/Grass. As long as the matchup is favorable and disfavorable in opposing directions, it's a triangle.

>>58546972
Unfortunately yeah, Pokémon is simple yet elegant but that also comes with it's own problems so overcomplicating it with a dozen new types doesn't seem ideal

>>58547019
>As long as the matchup is favorable and disfavorable in opposing directions, it's a triangle.
It's not the same unfavorable matchup for all 3.

>>58547034
NTA but I get they were trying to damage control Psyquic type being overpowered in Gen 1 but was an outright immunity necessary? Couldn't they nerf the Psyquic type and leave Dark with a Resist?

>>58547024
I don't think it's unfortunate at all, it's just how the game was designed. If it's in the water, it's a water type.

>>58547058
A lot of Dark types don't actually have strong special defense, so a resist doesn't do much.

>>58547061
meant for >>58547051

>>58547058
Sure, it works and honestly makes sense, Pokémon isn't trying to be complex even if sometimes it doesn't make a lot of sense (Clobbopus not being Water type for instance)

>>58547061
True but then that seems like GF didn't put a lot of thought to what was supposed to be the Psiquic type killer (the same way they keep doing slow and defensive Ice types/Rock types when it clearly doesn't work)

>>58547069
Clobbopus is the only real instance of it, but you can still find it on land.

>>58547080
Oh no I don't mean just Type oddities, just design oddities in general like Archen being Water 3 for some reason or certain move pool choices

How easy is it to make new modes in essentials?
If I wanted something that functioned using the combat system as a base but applied to something entirely different like how contests are, does that require a ton of unique scripting?

Wonder why nobody has made something like gta but with pokemon, is not like the themes aren't there.
We got a gta conker hack with a link to the past.

>>58547122
what the fuck does "like gta" even mean in this context

>>58547122
You just reminded me of this
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/GTA_Pokemon

>>58545688
No, it might be tolling.

>>58547181
Shootouts with Officer Jenny(s)

>>58547122
isn't that just palworld

>>58547122
>gta conker hack with a link to the past
What? No we didn't. High Rule Tail was an extensive edit of LttP, but it still played like a Zelda game.

>>58547298
that's just taxation doe

>>58547100
Jusy learn to code on ruby and that's it, is all you need to work on rpg maker.

>>58545762
>>58545841
Maybe pokemon doesn't work with a "holy" type? Even dark types aren't truly evil like aspects you'd have in other rpgs. Pokemon are "monsters" yes, but they function quite similarly to animals. The equivalent of the creator, doesn't seem to concerned with moral goodness nearly as much as protecting the fabric of space time. Pure morality generally seems to be less of a factor in pokemon lore. No Pokemon should be a "holy" type, as they are all capable of good and evil.

>>58547994
Makes sense, my point is that something like "Sound" or "Wave" or "Space" type wouldn't make that much sense but something like dunno "Demon", "Angel" or "Light" would make more sense if you had to add another type to the chart (even then I think the type chart is fine, although some small tweaks would be nice, like maybe Fire hitting Super-Effectively against Fairy types?)

Thinking about expanding the Baby Pokemon gimmick a bit.

In my RGBY remake I'm not going to have breeding, instead a scientist at the Cinnabar Lab will be able to clone your Pokemon. Since I'm maintaining the original perspective that the baby Pokemon in GSC were newly discovered, I don't want to include them in the game. But if the clone you get is the basic form, then cloning Raichu should get you a Pichu, not a Pikachu. So I'm going to lean more towards the baby Pokemon being their own type of evolutionary stage, rather than just being standard unevolved Pokemon.

So I'm kinda tooling around with the way babies work, for when I do get to GSC. For starters, babies can only be born to two members of their parent species or one member and a Ditto, rather than simply being of the same Egg Group. A male Eevee and a female Raichu will produce a Pikachu, while a Pikachu and a Raichu will produce a Pichu. Babies born to their natural mother, rather than a Ditto, are of an alternate form that has a better learn pool and gains experience faster. And each baby will have two evolutionary methods. The standard method will be as it is in the base games, but if there is a member of the parent species in the party then the babies will evolve starting at level 5.

This would slip in another aspect of the "man vs nature" subtext I'm putting into the game, since the human scientists would still not be able to replicate all the nuances of natural birth. And it will add another aspect to the Kanto-Johto relationship, with Kanto relying on science and Johto encouraging nature.

>>58548394
Have you considered pulling some ideas from expanded media? Like Pichu hurting itself when it uses Electric moves? Babies can also use moves in the TCG without having any energy attached, but I don't know how that would translate into mainline game mechanics. The original batch of them also required a coinflip to be hit.
It's your game, but babies having something that makes them significantly different from a typical Pokemon would be cool.

>>58548421
That's kinda similar to those saying "this pokemon was achieved through cheats" despite being official like surfing pikachu, flying pikachu just to mention a few.

So the tranny added a softlock in xhe romhack kek, time to play Drayano's SGSS instead.

>>58544254
Still adding trainers.
I'm starting to struggle. I've been forced to resort to really stretching who is in some of the mono type tournaments. I assigned Cheryl 3 different types, and I probably will be giving the other gen 4 partners similar treatments.

>>58531183
bookmarked.
Something like this has been sorely needed for a long time. There are like 100 incomplete, vague lists out there with no images and filled with incomplete roms or difficulty edit roms

>>58548421
I am digging into expanded media for inspiration on the little bits of lore I'm working in, but I haven't really looked at the cards too much yet. Probably the biggest piece I'm pulling from outside the games is Celadon University, which will be one of the game's battle facilities. Other than that, it's just things like adding a bit more of the Mewtwo and Mr. Fuji connection, and some hints at a connection between the Legendary Birds, Lugia, and certain areas of the region. I am expanding Rock Tunnel into a larger post-game area called Rock Mountain, which is a name from the Adventures manga, but that's a small thing.

The big thing I'm trying to create is a sense of culture in Kanto. You have Pallet, Viridian and Pewter, which don't have any road connections to the rest of the region so I'm portraying them as very rural. Then there's Saffron at the opposite end of the spectrum, which is tightly knit with the entertainment-oriented Celadon and the port city Vermillion. Cerulean I see as being somewhere in the middle, rural in spirit due to being flanked by treacherous mountain routes, but suffering from an uptick in crime due to the proximity to the city. Lavender Town is a spooky little village nestled in the mountains, accessible from the north only by said treacherous mountain route, from the south by a very long and route network, and even the short road from the west is windy and flanked with bikers and gamblers. And Fuchsia is so rural it's like another time, with the traditional land route being a very long journey from Vermillion and Lavender through all sorts of country. The Cycling Bridge is a very recent connection, connecting the cosmopolitan Celadon due to the quaint and historic village. The tileset I'm drawing will hopefully go a long way in selling these environments.

>>58541177
Still blows my mind that Neved used to be white.

I wish a romhacker fell in love with me and he did all of the coding while I just focus on balancing and organising all of the content / reviewing everything.

>>58549948
>take asshole terrorist solely notable for having grudges
>retcon him to be black
what did the monkey on a typewriter mean by this

I was considering playing that spanish realidea game but....there is no wiki. No list of pokemon, no sheet, nothing, 0 information. 0 info about trainers, routes, evolutions, moves, items. nothing. I joined their stupid discord hoping to find some information...and no, there is 0 info. If you ask about a wiki a bot posts a meme saying "there is no wiki". Is this a joke? dropped that shit already. Not going to waste my time. has anyone played that shit?

After invading the DH building in Shamouti Island, where do you go in Vega?

I was watching that retroNC video about fakemon and realize what if there was a game about the fake leaked/corocoro magazines pokemon from all generations.

Interesting concept lol

>>58550046
If the game lacks basic features like this, it's already a warning sign. The "dev" didn't even bother to add a PDF file or a forum post listing the fakemons, so you can be sure that the game is extremely amateurish and full of bugs and problems. Not really worth. Plus their discord is useless

>>58550077
>i need to read muuhhh pdf and excels to speedrun and nuzlock, if dev didn't add it is bad.
How about you play the game little turd and then make one yourselves.

>>58550077
That kind of stuff is always an afterthought to me, because I never use them myself.

>>58550077
For me it's if the creator doesn't include pre-made cheat codes or in-game cheat codes. No Debug mode? Slop. No custom PKHeX branch? Shit. No source code so I can edit the mons myself? Turbo slopshit, literally unplayable dogwater trash in the gutter festering roadkill rancid putrid heinous repugnant unsightly olfactory assaulting DOOKIE.

>>58550703
>can't make his own gamesharks
>doesn't know pokehex works on 99% of cases
>doesn't know gamesharks are made by fans after release
Are you trying to bust my balls or you are hoping to get your balls busted faggot.

>>58531183
Really well done, anon
The numbers of ROMs were overwhelming, having such list is highly appreciated
For busy anons out there, is it possible to implement a ranking system for each project? Or let’s say: “this is the top 3 complete ROMs that you cannot miss”

>>58531183
Kinda out of the loop: is there any ROM hack for gen6 onwards? I remember I heard there are some flouting about. Or are they not worth playing?

>>58531114 (OP)
I just learnt that Japs hate Rom hacks.
Went to a few Jap social media and image board and their attitude to ROM hacks were pretty shocking

>>58551286
Tbf are there any other JP projects besides Altair/Vega/Procyon? Seems to check out with the lack of FOTM JP romhacks

>>58550785
;)

>>58551286
> “there is no progress”
FUCKING
THIS
everyone and their mums “fixed” gen1-3 with their own fanfic because it is safe and easy
If I had to filter out every single “I MADE THE PERFECT POKEMON XXX ROMHACK” and any other uninspired slop I would end up with only handful of ROMs left.
Why none of those bigshots stood up and revolutionize the romhacking sense by doing something with gen 6/7?
BDSM doesn’t count for obvious reason
> inb4 CHING CHONG HIROSHIMA

>>58551319
If there are, they're probably gatekept pretty hard by the language barrier. The most I know of personally in terms of romhacks beyond the team that made the three you mentioned is the Moemon niche, which still has hacks being made to this day of all sorts.

>>58551379
Fair, there doesn't seem to be a lot of noteworthy JP hacks besides those three, Moemon and perhaps a few miscellaneous hacks.
Pic rel, checked Atwiki and there aren't a lot of hacks listed there, there's stuff like Clover, Flora Sky or ScaleXFang in that list... Curious
I guess JP Devs gravitate towards making new regions rather than "Le making X region perfect" hacks

>>58551373
>Why none of those bigshots stood up and revolutionize the romhacking sense by doing something with gen 6/7?
Cuz there's 0 documentation on 3DS hacking maybe? I get what you are trying to say, it's only recently that DS hacks are gaining momentum but imo that should have been done like 5 to 8 years ago if I'm being honest instead of backporting everything to GBA

>>58551409
And even then, DS hacks are never going to actually dethrone GBA, because even once they're blown wide open, they still need a dedicated team willing to make and update a ROMbase, like how FR and Emerald have their respective expansion bases that let any average joe make a sloppy "enhancement" hack in a few weeks time.

>>58551373
They made a very good gen 9 romhack akshully

>>58551420
Yeah, that will take a while.
I don't expect a Reborn-tier game (in terms of content and scale) on DS anytime soon

>>58551286
Japs are the biggest bootlickers there are.

>>58550956
There are hacks for all of the newer games but generally they just increase the difficulty and give you access to more mons/items/moves.

>>58551373
But there is progress, even within the improvement and difficulty hacks. Compare the features of current hacks with ones made 10 years ago and you can see a difference. New changes to the gen 3 engine are continuously developed by the community.
>I would end up with only handful of ROMs left.
I bet there are many original hacks that you haven't played or even heard of. The only way you would end up with just a handful is if you only consider the best and most popular hacks.
>Why none of those bigshots stood up and revolutionize the romhacking sense by doing something with gen 6/7?
There isn't that much you can do with the 3ds games that couldn't be done with the earlier games, so it wouldn't have that much benefit compared to the required effort.
Even if 3ds romhacking became viable it would still be more limited and difficult than gba hacking, which would cause there to be even fewer new hacks, most of which would just be boring improvement and difficulty hacks.
>BDSM doesn’t count for obvious reason
I don't see why it shouldn't count. It's a fairly new game with the kind of progress you wanted to see.

>>58551570
Honestly yeah, I have seen a lot of comments about how official mons have better designs (debatable)

>>58551592
Whether or nor they're better was never the issue, it's the fact that every game mixes together pokemon from different generations, which inherently clashes with the different design philosophies of each game. Even as far back as Gen 3 I've felt a strong distinction between its current mons vs the older mons. Of course, Japs wouldn't care about this since they're nostalgia-poisoned brand cultists.

>>58551373
well, why don't YOU do it? because it's hard, and time consuming, and thankless. and if you have the skill and time to do something like that, you're better off investing it into something you can monetize and put on your resume. the better question is, why WOULD anyone do it?
don't get me wrong, I want to see it too. but that's the reality of the situation. it took until 2019 for Emerald to get a workable decomp, 15 years after its release, and that's a far simpler game to work with than the 3ds games and beyond. and frankly, it's a miracle that it happened at all. basically the only way another game is going to get that treatment is for some giga autist to come along who's sole passion is to push it along, has professional level coding ability, endless free time, and no desire to make money or recognition for their work.

>>58551286
>one random guy speaks for everyone
I dont know why people just assume that the japanese operate on a hivemind

Why is every good catching pokemon in Unbound locked behind a swarm
Not to mention some pokemon are locked entirely behind weekly or daily time limits and are otherwise unavailable
I get day/night and even weather but this is obnoxious

>>58550956
they exist, but it's obviously going to be quite hard to add new content into a 3DS game compared to a GBA game, especially when the GBA scene has so many tools devoted to that kind of thing.
DS Hacking is only now starting to go further than "mess with the teams and encounters" and thats basically where the 3DS games are as well. A few are more interesting and swap some textures to make new regional forms and things like that, but it's essentually impossible to make something as original as the Gen 3 hacks.

I was not blown away by Unbound. Like, it's competent. On higher difficulties it makes you think outside the box for team compositions. But at the same time damn is it just a Pokemon game with truly horrendous writing.

What the fuck do I play?

>>58552365
depends on what you want, scroll through the rheg catalog

>>58552374
Something that's not a pokemon game.

>>58552379
oh, idk go play terraria it's $10

>>58552174
Like in mainline games, who would have thought...? (Not a great design decision mind you)

>>58551286
Some of the romhacks i played did make much appreciate the way gamefreak handled their games more, for example making route trainers very strong just ends up making multiple trips back to the pc more required and slows the gameplay quite abit.

>>58552174
Swarms are pretty tame. The weekly encounters are actually annoying though

>>58552365
You'll be disappointed to learn that Pokemon Unbound is the peak of the "vanilla" style of pokemon game. Hardly anything comes even close. The only game thats objectively better on every metric is pokemon Odyssey, which is a doubles only pokemon game based off of Etrian Odyssey. It's widely considered the best romhack ever made. And don't listen to that other guy, the catalouge is outdated by like 6 years. Do some googling or youtube searches, it wont kill you but itll spam you with Elite Redux shilling (its ok i just dont like it)

>>58552379
Pokemon Reloaded

>>58552441
paid shill ahh writing style

>>58552441
>The only game thats objectively better on every metric is pokemon Odyssey
NTA but is it? I havent played it but Odyssey fakemons or variants or whatever feel pretty uninspired, also it seems to be pretty surface level Etrian references rather than doing something meaningful with the source material (yeah I know made in abyss is also there but I haven't watched nor I care about it)

>>58552470
Eat my penis lil nigga we're not starving for romhacks, you can have higher standards than "gen 3 enhancement hack ooo Roxanne has a Zygarde 10% this time"

>>58552621
Storys good, musics good. Gameplay is well balanced, regional variants are significantly different gameplay wise. The map is excellent, and there's a significant amount of stuff to do in the campaign as well as postgame, a lotta pokemon romhacks shove damn near everything in the postgame. If you like doubles, the only other option you have is a black and white 2 difficulty hack im pretty sure

>>58552303
Is not like that and is mostly nugens are lazy, they want to make a name for themselves but can't do or code shit (this is obvious when their pc games crack need steam installed to work).
So you have 2 factors there and last one is tools because in consideration 3ds roms can be expanded up to 16 GB so you will have lot of space but due to those issues no one will do anythimg or attempt to do something.

>>58551842
For any japs reading this thread: I do speak for everyone in the West.
Fangames are better than romhacks. Tectonic is the best fangame. Xenoverse is mid. Reborn is underrated.

>>58552801
nah

POV you don't want me to play your hack
back to Crystal Clear it is

>>58552864
Don't worry, I'll pick it up now.

>>58552864
I will now play your game, fuck difficulty hacks

>>58552864
Is that the ROM hack ShockSlayer presents "Crystal Clear" by ShockSlayer available only on the official ShockSlayer discord?

>>58552872
>>58552889
It's crazy to me that people STILL want to play a VANILLA REMAKE of a 25 year old game that already has vanilla remakes
On the gen 3 engine no less
If you're making a gen 3 hack you should at least have options for these things at this point
It doesn't even have all the features from HGSS...
Just kind of a boring waste of a hack if you ask me

>>58552929
Yes, it is SHOCKSLAYER PRESENTS crystal clear SHOCKSLAYER.COM

>>58552864
filtered, go back to the nuzlocking thread and whine about devs not giving you things that were considered cheats 10 years ago.

>>58552939
It's just the way it is for some people, plus it can serve as a gateway for someone who still hasn't actually gotten into romhacks. Minun Plusle Sexo.

>>58551319
is Touhoumon Japanese?

>>58552864
But it does.. have... Infinite rare candies

>>58552441
>catalouge is outdated by like 6 years
the new google doc one isn't

>zygarde can be deconstructed and reconstructed infinitely
>Which means If I want a good one im stuck clicking the menu for a while

>>58553014
Touhoumon is Japanese originally but it isn't one game. It has it's own subculture in the fandom and the original Touhoumon hacks are essentially a template other people worked off of.
You have things like Touhoumon Purple, Touhoumon Another World, Touhoumon Zoku Gensokyo Scenario, Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced, and then a ton of "enhancement" stuff lol.

>>58552939
It's open source, anyone can use it as a base for their own hacks.

It's the first Gen 3 GSC remake to actually be complete. That's why people are excited.

The entitlement the autists have is astounding.

>>58552663
Hmmm... maybe I'll check it out, I'm not the biggest Etrian or Doubles fan but I do like RPGs like 7th Dragon

>>58552969
I mean it's open source because it's built on Modern Emerald (which itself was yet another Emerald improvement hack albeit a good one) and it literally removed many features from that hack. You could still see them greyed out in the options menu at one point lol.
It's not really all that impressive. Most of the work was already done by Modern Emerald. And it's weirdly lazy in some parts like just including the vanilla Emerald TMs not even the GSC or HGSS ones.
I mean I don't think people were clamoring to make a vanilla gen 3 GSC remake because yeah it's kinda boring.
But yes I'm sure someone else can make something interesting out of this hack and that is worthy of excitement. As much as it doesn't feel like a step forward it is an important one.

>>58553014
Sure but anon here >>58553099 already explained that

>>58553083
Or use battle caps/Godscanner
Unless you really like resetting for some reason
>with love, a breeding autist anon

>>58553257
Godscanner makes Unbound replays so much smoother.

>>58553100
>It's the first Gen 3 GSC remake to actually be complete. That's why people are excited.
Shiny Gold X bros... our response??

>>58553314
>>58553233
Maybe Liquid Crystal if you discount the Orange Islands or Shiny Gold after Hacksrepairman fixed it up so it’s more like number 3 if you include both Johto and Kanto. Glazed did Johto too so 4 if that counts. Props for being based on Modern Emerald though. That’s my favorite Hoenn hack.

>>58531114 (OP)
Is this Type Chart literally perfect?

>>58552939
>>58553100
By the way, this "GSC remake" has so many inaccuracies and personal taste changes and artistic flourishes it's not fit for the stated purpose of "letting people use this for their own Johto content".

Developers would have to spend so much time taking your personal Johto experience and editing it to be closer to the original Crystal, they might as well just copy over Crystal's content themselves.

>>58552864
boo hoo nigga
what's the matter? can't use your crutches that the original nuzlocke challenge was designed not to use?

>>58553099
Yes but all of them are made by japanese despite using the english rom which seems to be the easier one to hack.
It would be like saying sword and shield gba isn't brazilian because has it's own fanbase and is in english despite the original being made in portugese and using the english rom.
Have checked the japan wiki and all of those hacks are made by japanese developers even having the patches in just one page with modern marisa world, enhanced, another and so on.
Japan wiki check is adviced they have shit you won't see normally, for prepatched roms search archive merged roms they have fire red set with all the hacks in one link.

>>58553498
Disabled! Haha! You're poo! Poop! poo poo, you poo poo indian eat the poo poo!

You're too stupid to understand the difference between wasting time grinding and convenience (infinite rare candies to skip the grind)!

Your time is worthless and you get mad when gamers value their time more than you value yours!

Everyone point and laugh at the subhuman poojeet! 60-80 average IQ, everybody! HAHAHA!

You're literally too stupid to understand video games and tell meaningful gaming experience apart from tedious grind...

And it frustrates you that people choose to skip dull parts when playing free fangames for fun.

You're a worthless person. You've got no reasons to smile in your life, so you pretend you're superior to people playing video games differently from you. You can't understand why their way is better!

Absolutely hilarious.

Thanks, poojeet, I needed a good laugh.

>>58553713
>>58553498
Both of you are retarded.

>>58553446
>it's not fit for the stated purpose of "letting people use this for their own Johto content"
Having the source code makes it fit for that purpose. It's easier to undo unwanted changes or pick the things you want from it than it would be to make the whole thing from scratch.

Has anyone played Platinum Redux?

>58553713
>You're a worthless person. You've got no reasons to smile in your life
Sounds like projection to me..

Are there romhacks with dating/romance elements other than Emerald Enhanced? Just curious…

>>58554036
not a romhack, but Awakening

just leveling your pokemon with rare candies during a nuzlocke is RETARDED

>>58554379
Modern Nuzlockes have strayed completely from their original intent.

>>58554395
>>58554379
Nuzlocking is gay
>>58554718
Niggaz never heard of the Flying Dutchman?

>>58554379
You don't understand, anon! Think of the HYPE battles, the CHALLENGE of being le professional HARDCORE NUZLOCKER and being recognized by people who 100% don't play the game

>>58554718
>h*ck
>in Arceus' name

>>58554999
just doin a little reserch ther.

>>58554999
Wack is not meant at all to be serious.

>>58554999
Whatever, Clovershill

how is Pokemon ROWE?

>hack of gen 3
YAAAAWWWWNNNN oh man I can't keep my eyes open
NOT downloading and NOT playing zzzzzzzzzzzz honk sho honk sho mimimimi snore

>>58555600
Who are you replying schizo-tan?

I think halfway through this exposition i really stopped giving a shit like brother I do not CARE

I'm trying to edit the sprites in emerald to look like FRLG ones using the decomp and the pokeemerald expansion.
Some sprites look fine but others end up looking like pic related.
I've tried editing these files:

src\data\object_events\object_event_graphics_info.h
src\data\object_events\object_event_pic_tables.h
spritesheet_rules.mk

I tried changing the size, width & height of the sprites that show an error but so far nothing. Is there anything of note
that the expansion does different than vanilla pokeemerald when editing sprites?
(I know that May sprite changed from 16x32 to 32x32. I already tried to fix it by editing the files I mentioned above, but so far nothing changed)

>>58555853
If you only want to edit sprites, I think PKHex would have been a better option.

>>58555832
why can't romhacks have good writing
gamefreak is genuinely not setting a hire bar

Unbound is a really boring hack, it's not even finished

Unbound is the peak of "vanilla" pokemon experience.
Emerald Rogue is the best romhack ever created and its features should be ported into every pokemon game from now on

>no decap
>moves up from gen 3 with a few from gen 4
>no change to the pokémon types or stats
>no regional variants
heart and soul is soulless

>>58555898
I mean its pretty much finished, there isnt anyrhing of substance to add
>>58555917
Its made by a purist autist.the ways its frustratingly limited are intentional in an effort to make a Gen 2 game thats actually good, since it genuinely hasnt been done before

>>58555940
That random city/building post game? The dad stuck in whatever hell hole he was in? And there's probably more i'm not remembering

>>58555917
>changing types
I'm not opposed to these on principle but type changes almost always come out nonsensical

What are you suggestions on making a Megalosaurus fossilmon distinct from the Tyrunt line?

Ambrosia Crystal hack good?
The dex looks really good

>>58555971
Fair I guess, I don't really like when they make Luxray Electric/Dark or Zard Fire/Dragon but since the tranny dev had a discord it could have asked for some opinion, or make a version or option with type changes and one without

I got a plane trip tomorrow. Recommended cozy hack? Polished Crystal was my fav, havent played any hacks het from the past several years.

>>58556055
my top 3 hacks are
>R.O.W.E
>Emerald Rogue
>Emerald Seaglass

Seaglass is definitely the most comfy out of the three

>>58554379
>>58554395
>>58554803
Stop samefagging.

Nuzlocking is a gay self-imposed challenge that doesn't add meaningful challenges and restrictions to you, just manufactured tension so you can pretend it's sad when your Pokemon dies or scary that your Pokemon might die.

Kids eat it up but it causes retards to calc every battle with a team that mathematically cannot lose if you exploit the AI correctly.

It's still better than grinding, the masturbatory act of making numbers go up in video games by wasting enough IRL time.

>>58556065
I just dont know what there is to enjoy about R.O.W.E
Isnt Elite Redux the same thing?

>>58556146
Stop being a schizo.

>>58531114 (OP)
What was that one Pokemon Essentials fangame where EVERYONE is standing in a row waiting to be battled?

Every Gym Leader, every Elite Four and Champion... Everyone.

People called it a "battle simulator" and complained about the lack of story but I'd rather see no story than a bad one.

What was it called?

>>58539000
>>58539961
>>58545021
I was mostly being tongue in cheek with "Noise" type, since Prism/Brown did "Sound" type, and now recently Tourmaline with "Echo Type", not to mention the countless people beforehand that've thought of it. I think Sound is perfectly fine as just a move category, but I appreciate new type novelty if it exists. I think the concept of a "Wave" type is interesting.

I think the type chart is fine as it, but obviously imperfect. I think types like Rock and Ice are fine, but they favour glass-cannon types in theory, when in reality they seem to often lean to tanks mons. Bug type being resisted by a lot could maybe be helped, but eh, grass has 5 weaknesses and resisted by 7, people usually don't mention that. It has plenty of unique utility though, anc bugs get stuff like First Impression and Sticky Web.
If you wanna buff a particular type but don't wanna change type interactions then I think giving them more powerful tools is always nice, or unique immunities (Dark immune to prankster, Ghosted immune to trapping, Grass immune to powder moves)

>>58556247
ROWE is basically build your own pokemon hack. it gives you like 70 options right off the bat (monotype mode, little cup mode, various randomizers, turning on/off the physical special split etc) and you can tackle the world in any order so its endlessly replayable.

>>58545393
They were. they changed a lot through Gen 1 and 2 and we've been using the Gen 3 stat spreads since, they've changed how moves use stats (You know, moves being designed either physical or special, instead of the old system when types overall belonged to one of the stats)

>>58545451
Also female shinies being always weaker because shinies were calced from IVs or whatever

>>58545797
I get it tho, in most fantasy settings Fae are a completely different thing from Holy stuff, Paladins aren't using the same brand of magic a normal wizard does.
But I have no fucking idea of how a type like that would work in Pokemon. It feels like anything I think either belongs to Ghost or to Fairy, and just going "Divine" seems like a little too much, and Holy is a bit too SMT

You guys seen this? Looks neat.
https://teamaquashideout.github.io/tah-patchsite/hacks/hearth/

>>58557137
That does look pretty interesting. Whoever did the art clearly put a lot of care into this bitch!

This is Pokemon Emerald Decompilation Expanded but with my custom type chart. Also it has Debug Mode, hold R and press Start to activate Debug mode. https://limewire.com/d/4eTaW#UZCuki74yl

>>58557137
I like, character portraits are always a nice flavor addition.
>>58557188
>Normal type
Stop stop, he's already deeeeeeaaaaaad

There is only one type chart I believe in

>>58556146
Do you even read, anon? I'm making fun of nuzlockes, they are a circus act
Also not samefagging, idiot

>>58556372
Yeah, that would be ideal: either design mons to take advantage of their typing or give more utility/moderately powerful moves/abilities

>>58557137
Looks interesting, perhaps not a fan of the portraits arts type but seems good, downloading the demon right now

>>58557137
Playing the demo and this is actually pretty sweet. There's this system where you don't learn a Pokemon's species name until you've caught it once, otherwise they're given a two-word descriptor. Taillow is Little Swallow, Nacli is Salt Cube.

>>58557529
i wish wack (or a game with its type chart) had 1 gym for every type that has enough pokemon for a full team without duplicates, so really every type but ogre, void, wack, and iirc greasy, bone, and shadow
it's pretty clear that wack would be better with much more things to fight and use its huge dex on

>>58557795
inb4 mons that got paradox forms get words from their paradoxes' names used in their descriptors

>>58557137
The faces being on the right side of the text box bothers me. You already have the name on the left, why can't that just overlay on top of the portrait? This layout has you darting your eyes around way too much.

Just finished Gaia.
Was simple and good, I wanted my regibro but not yet.
Got some recommandation for others gba romhack?
Last pokemon are trevenant and glaceon

>>58557795
So far yeah it's pretty solid, there's some areas that need polishing (trainer card, dex, some visual stuff when battling and as >>58557831 said the portraits should be on the left, like all Mystery Dungeon Games)

>>58556275
Pink?

Sorry for asking a dumb question. But is there a way to carry over save files for hacks when they update? I wanna go from heart and soul 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 and wanna carry over my progress. I tried export/import it but it didn't work. I'm using PizzaBoy on Android if that is relevant