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Rize
June 11th, 2008, 04:06 PM
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Hack Name
PokeHearts: Fragmented Hearts
Part One of the PokeHeart’s Triumvirate


A Hack of Pokémon http://members.optusnet.com.au/soanevalcke/famepublication/badge-ruby.png (The English US Version = AXVE)



Across the stars
Thru the Void
Shall come a child
To save us all
From a dark evil
And one lied to
To seal the Door
And destroy that man
Who hath caused us suffering and pain.



Author’s Note
This is the second time I’ve worked on PokeHearts; the first was started a few months ago but went unnoticed and was eventually lost due to a data crash on my computer recently. I have thus started a new hack with a totally redone storyline. This hack gives me two things; first, to get back into Ruby, which I haven’t played since I got Emerald, and to give back to PC for all of the wonderful hacks and resources that I have gotten from here. You guys ROCK!



Story
It has been exactly six months since you defeated Stephen and rose to the CHAMPION of the HOENN REGION. One night, as you sleep, you hear the voice of Wallace calling out to you to wake up. When you do, you find yourself, not in bed, but in a truck that you recognize as the one you moved in six months ago. When you get out, you actually jump from the ground onto the ruins of a once mighty temple. Wallace greets you and tells you to play out your memories, which you soon learn means that you must play out your adventure again. However, once you save “Birch”, Wallace reveals himself once again and explains things.

According to him, deep below the Cave of Origin, lies a place called THE END OF THE WORLD. It is here where a large door, the Door to Darkness, resides. Beyond that door lies Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds, and that Darkness stops at nothing to claim it, as Kingdom Hearts is said to be a place of infinite power and knowledge.

Wallace explains that he used the WORLD TERMINUS, a place within THE END OF THE WORLD, in tandem with the LINK VOID, a mysterious void that spans the space in between realities, to transport you here; i.e. you ain’t In Kansas anymore.

Listening to him, he says that it is his duty as the guardian of the CAVE OF ORIGIN to protect other worlds and realities. He says that this reality, ORRIN, is quickly falling into the Darkness. This is due primarily to TEAM DARKNESS, an organization that threatens to use Kingdom Hearts to plunge the world into Darkness and reshape it as they see fit. Wallace cannot, however, tell you who runs it, as they are that secretive.

He tells you, though, that there is a legend that a boy from another place can seal the Dark Door, cutting off Darkness’s advance, by gathering the scattered fragments of the Princesses Hearts. The Princesses of Purest Heart, eight maidens with no darkness in their hearts, as most people do, died long ago, but remained together with the world as their hearts later fused into one and shattered into eight pieces. It is these pieces that Darkness wishes locked away, as they are the only thing that can seal the Door. These pieces are said to be guarded by eight Sages of Light, who reside in eight Light Temples, awaiting the legendary hero.

While all this time, the Dark seeks the key to grant them passage to the END OF THE WORLD; Celebi. With its powers, the Pokémon has the ability to reveal the path to the final door. Coupled with the DARK, it would be unstoppable.

Wallace thus leaves you with three tasks; to stop TEAM DARKNESS, to RECOVER the HEART FRAGMENTS, and to bring back your RIVAL; they are too involved, but the memory relapse of reality switching has caused your friend to be stuck in a mind loop that only you can break.

And so, onwards in the next adventure.



Features

Two Teams merged into one- TEAM DARKNESS
Gyms replaced by Light Temples, E4 with The End of the World, and Champion with final Boss Battle (Guess who).
Leaders Replaced with Light Sages, E4 with the Final Guardians, Champion with Final Boss
Inclusion of KH Characters and ideals.
Custom Sprites/Scripts. Possibly custom tiles.
Sages can be played by PC members, see below.
More to come…



BASIC INFORMATION

ORRIN Region
An alternate version of HOENN that is accessible thru the Cave of Origin. It is filled with ruins and possesses Light Temples in lieu of Gyms. It is almost the same as HOENN in regards to the basic layout. It has deep connections between the powers of Time and Celebi.

Team Darkness
An organization that seeks to use Celebi to open the Final Door; the Door to Darkness, and to Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds. They will stop at nothing to claim it and turn Celebi to the Darkness. Its two leaders are unknown, although one of them is rumored to be from another reality like the player.

Tabitha, Matt, Shelly, and Courtney
All of them remain Team ADMINS, with exceptions that their names have been changed, and of course redone uniforms. I have yet to figure out new names for Courtney and Tabitha.

Maxie and Archie
They don’t appear here as their teams don’t, but I will tell you who replaces them.
Their names are Shadow (Maxie) and Ansem (Archie) Last one was kinda given. Shadow is an original character, my presence in the game.

Heart Fragments
The fragments of the Hearts of the Eight Princesses of Pure Heart, maidens with no Darkness in their hearts. These fragments are said to be the keys to locking the Door to Darkness.

PC SAGES
As a tribute to the various PC Members who have great other hacks, I am going to allow seven of the “Leader” positions and all four “E4” members to be based off of a hacker here at PC; i.e. they will choose that Sage’s Pokémon and Name. Exactly who will get these slots remains to be seen, however, I will be PM’ing possible people as soon as this thread is approved, if it is.



Screenshots – Here Ya Go! - IGNORE THE TILE ERRORS, I'M WORKING ON THEM

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9739/pic1bw9.png http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7880/pic2wk0.png

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7390/pic3vp5.pnghttp://img61.imageshack.us/img61/4985/pic4zh4.png
What's going on here?

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8776/pic5vx4.pnghttp://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1702/pic8lo5.png
Former Littleroot Town -----------------------------------Former First Route

Would have more but having some annoying tile errors. Will have more soon.


Videos

None at the moment, check back later.



CURRENT PROGRESS (Note-I’m going kinda randomly here at the moment as when one thing bugs up I have to go do something else and think about how to fix it.)



Working On Completed Bugged Up and Working On Planned New Ideas Under Consideration

Add in New Team DARKNESS Sprites
Editing of Talks with TEAM MAGMA/AQUA to TEAM DARKNESS
Editing Littleroot Town into FORGOTTEN RUINS
Editing Route 101 to RUINS PASSAGE
Editing Oldale Town to HOUR TOWN
Editing Petalburg City to include LIGHT TEMPLE (Furthur edits pending)
Adding in battles with current Team AQUA members, as data is already in there.
Changing of EVER GRANDE CITY to THE END OF THE WORLD.
MORE TO COME.



Show Your Support
To show your support for PokeHearts: Fragmented Hearts, please place the following userbar in your sig.

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Give Credit to ME

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The Team
I am so far the only person working on this. Please see below for ways to increase that.



Would You Like to Help?
If you would like to help, I could sure use it. Please PM me the following form.

User:
Position:
Previous Work: (please include usernames of that project’s head, unless you were it.)

I will need help in the following areas.

Overworld Spriter
Scripter

You are also free to PM me with suggestions, querys, etc. I will
More positions may be added later on if needed.

CREDITS
To hackers here at PC for all of the resources that you have; they got me interested in ROM Hacking again.



That’s it. Questions, comments, concerns? Post them here.


-TSU

GSanky
June 11th, 2008, 05:08 PM
First.
Looks interesting. I like the story.

Sky
June 11th, 2008, 05:30 PM
I like the Idea
Keep it up and TOL ^^

linkinkid
June 11th, 2008, 06:40 PM
looks interesting,keep up the good work.

Shiny Mudkip
June 11th, 2008, 07:23 PM
Nice, the story sounds very interesting, good luck.

~Shiny Mudkip

Meowth
June 11th, 2008, 09:25 PM
Awesome story... I just dont get why the character stays in ORRIN instead of traveling to the other "worlds" to get the fragmented heart pieces.

Keep it up though!

Destined
June 12th, 2008, 08:00 AM
lol its based of Kingdom Hearts (THE BEST PS2 GAME xD). Good luck in this, maybe you should try and make custom tiles to suit the theme of the game (tiles based off Kingdom Hearts).

Enigmatic Soldier
June 12th, 2008, 09:02 AM
Dang i wanted to be the first person to release a kingdom hearts pokemon hack oh well.

a few things

1. Are you going to put heartless and/or nobodies in this game and if you cant could you maybe edit the shiny sprites to look like heartless pokemon.

2. Could you please put axel in this game with his music.

3.Notice how my name is enigmatic soldier which is what terra from birth by sleep was originally known by

Ralor
June 12th, 2008, 11:13 PM
lol its based of Kingdom Hearts (THE BEST PS2 GAME xD). Good luck in this, maybe you should try and make custom tiles to suit the theme of the game (tiles based off Kingdom Hearts).

Hell yeah!!!! KH is ma favorite series ever!!!!!!

If you give up on this I MIGHT kill you..., so don't! I'm already hyped up for it.

BeachBoy
June 12th, 2008, 11:47 PM
Excellent idea, I'm looking forward to learning more about such a game. I support this all the way, keep it up, Shadow Umbreon. (b' ')b

Good luck~

ximmortaldavex
June 12th, 2008, 11:59 PM
wow very awesome idea!! cant wait to play the beta. please dont give up on this!!

Nastara
June 13th, 2008, 06:11 AM
Kingdom Hearts? WHAT? Please say it isn't so...

Anyway your story seems like a good story however it's not going to be very different from R/S/E considering it seems that all events are all the same except change badges with 8 hearts and light sages with gyms. In fact you COULD scrap these gym copies and change up events. Not to mention your mapping seems bland and boring. You should really work on that.

But hey do whatever you want.

DemiKid
June 13th, 2008, 12:03 PM
Wow!
A combined of kingdom hearts and pokemon
WOW!

avatarkris
June 13th, 2008, 03:21 PM
application: I want to be a spriter a spriter
proof of work: I made ash ow/sprite,fergus ow, nesha ow & corey ow in pokemon mewtwo strikes back

i made a hero sprite like (1st gen.) sora for you, but not exact cause it needs to be original & air is hard to make !!!

http://www.pokecommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=759&pictureid=4296

bolmedias14
June 13th, 2008, 05:13 PM
Looks very interesting.
You need any testers? If so, I'd like to be one.

Ralor
June 13th, 2008, 09:02 PM
Looks very interesting.
You need any testers? If so, I'd like to be one.

same here! If you need a tester just PM me

Harry Blue5
June 14th, 2008, 04:57 PM
The Heartless... you know there's free spaces between two Pokémon... I think it's Treecko and Celebi, they all share the sprite, and some Heartless also share the same face, so my idea is that you make Heartless fill in that space, and use trainers with the Heartless so you can't catch them (I.E. A HEARTLESS would like to battle, A HEARTLESS sent out HEARTLESS).

Also, can I be a Beta Tester?

EDIT: I've just made a new banner. I haven't uploaded it to imageshack on anything like that yet.

avatarkris
June 14th, 2008, 05:05 PM
true there is free space
(i love kingdom hearts)

Harry Blue5
June 14th, 2008, 06:09 PM
A brand new banner made by me (I ripped the sprites though, and used your original banner as a base. http://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41433&d=1213466769

Just type: [ima*ge="http://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41433&d=1213466769"]http://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41433&d=1213466769[/image] without the *.

~Edo~
June 14th, 2008, 06:17 PM
Hi...
change the tiles & palets for Ruby...
history: good...
luke!

Rize
June 17th, 2008, 11:29 PM
Wow. Didn’t think anyone was interested in this…

HarryBlue5, thanks for the userbar. *adds to userbar area*

For anyone who asked to be a Beta Tester for this, you obviously didn’t read the “What you Can do to Help” section. It clearly stated what things I needed help for right now and what I expected to be done to apply, which was to PM me with an application. If you WANT to beta, try using the Application when I ask for testers closer to the actual beta release, which probably won’t be anytime soon.


And now, some progress updates!



PROGRESS UPDATE: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

About Heartless/Nobodies and traveling to Other “Worlds” to get the Frag. Heart Pieces

The Heartless and Nobody concept, as suggested by HarryBlue5, is actually slated to be a feature in the game; I already decided on this before even starting, the reason behind the fact that I didn’t say it was included in the initial thread is that I wish to, for the time being, keep it a secret as to what capacity that they will play in the hack. I cannot nor will reveal any more information about this matter until closer to the Beta, where I hope that it will work and will make it into the beta.

As for the traveling to other worlds idea, it too is a feature in the game; it was not said as such initially as I wish to keep it secret for the time being for the same reasons listed above. I hope, however, that you guys will enjoy it once I reveal it.


Regarding Organization XIII

As Enigmatic Solider asked me, I have decided to place Org. XIII into the game. However, only one of them will be added, as a teaser for the next PokeHearts game hack, which will focus solely on the Organization, and for space. They will be at Lv. 80 with a six man team chosen by you guys. A poll has been added to determine which member will get the post; I might add two if two of them are near equally popular. The poll will close on JULY 10th.

They will be battled in a yet to be announced area and the reward will be access to another secret area.


ILEX FOREST

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4066/ilexforestvq1.th.png (http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ilexforestvq1.png)

Anyone who played GSC will know that Ilex Forest is a place sacred to Celebi. Since Celebi is a central focus to the hack, it is the replacement to Mt. Chimney. It is accessed by the lowest cave in the area; the forest exit and two other cave entrances are yet to be revealed. This is a changed version of Ilex, so don’t comment that the two are different; there not supposed to be the same!

The “Ilex Shrine” will replace the “Southern Island Stone” in the Map’s center, and the “Maxie” event here will be changed up with the summoning of Celebi and the subsequent battle with DRKNS LEADER ANSEM once “Maxie” takes Celebi away.

This ENTIRE Map is subject to change.


To anyone who thinks this will be almost the same as Ruby

It WILL NOT be so. I already have plans to change many of the scripts and tilesets in the game. Also, the “Light Temples” are the largest change in the game; trust me, it will take you quite a while to find the Light Sage in the Temple’s mazes and challenges.

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Comments always welcome.

Anyone have a Dark Celebi sprite? I would appreciate it to be used in this. Please send a PM my way if you have one; credit will be provided.


-TSU

.Pichu-kun
June 17th, 2008, 11:35 PM
The map seems good! ^^
2 things:
1. R u gonna do what DJG did in RoL? (Wild Pokemon, no grass)
2. There r some errors with the trees at the top of the map.

PokeFan187
June 22nd, 2008, 09:18 PM
OMFG!!!! U combined my 2 favorite games!!!! Cant wait to play the Beta!!!! :D

Harry Blue5
July 15th, 2008, 04:11 PM
You still doing this hack?

T
July 15th, 2008, 04:43 PM
This looks amazing... Can't wait till beta!

It would be even better if there were sora, kairi,(hero sprites), and riku(rival sprites).

Miloticx100pre
July 15th, 2008, 08:48 PM
Hello! That such?
Well, you use many tiles and palettes of ruby, change it and the hack be able to be better in graphical aspect =) Luck and Salu2!

PokeFan187
July 16th, 2008, 06:42 PM
This looks amazing... Can't wait till beta!

It would be even better if there were sora, kairi,(hero sprites), and riku(rival sprites).
I totaly agree that Sora and Kairi should be the Heros and Riku can be the Rival.

Rize
July 22nd, 2008, 08:15 PM
OK people. Just to clear things up, this hack is STILL going. I recently moved and therefore have been busy as such. I am working on this, though.

However, I can conclusively say that Roxas is to be our Organization XIII guest in the game, thanks to the poll. I am working on the new area where you will face him in the game now. However, I'm facing some setbacks.

The 13th Struggle will be in the game for that battle, as well as other music from Chain of Memories. The new music will be added as soon as I can get Sappy to start working for me again, but will probably not be in the first Beta.

As for the Sora/Kairi with Riku as Rival thing, I am considiring it, but for the time being, the player characters will remain the same. However, they will get a slight costume change, as well as somthing else that I cannot mention at this time.

I will try and get a Mod to delete the poll so I can add another soon. See ya!


-TSU

black_cat
July 25th, 2008, 02:19 PM
great idea! cant wait to see the new sprites.