FireRed hack: [HotM October 2009] Pokémon ToxicPurple (Team Rocket hack)

[gocaall]

Sorry if I sound like a newb, but how do I download this to my Ipod Touch if it isn't a GBA file?

Do you know where I can find help on how to patch? Anywhere here, or can you lead me to a place that can teach me?

 

[TombolaMan]

How many more people are just going to ask how to patch the rom or get the game? =/ This is getting ridiculous now. This is a thread for ToxicPurple not a FAQ on downloading and patching roms.

 

[PokéPwnage]

Please Lemme help!
I can map(ok ish)
I could make a support sig
I can write scrips
I can think of Ideas

 

[ckret2]

Please Lemme help!
I can map(ok ish)
I could make a support sig
I can write scrips
I can think of Ideas

Well, thanks for the offer. We don't really need any more help right now... Scripts and ideas are taken care of, and we've got quite a few support banners right now, hah. On maps, though, eventually all of Johto needs to be mapped out, so maybe you could help out there. Do you have any proof of work on mapping?

 

[SycoSoft]

Cool, man! This seems awesome. I think you should continue working on it

 

[snap12]

hey ckret2, this looks sooo good! great job!

and also i was wondering, is it difficult to script the HM replacing items?

 

[ckret2]

hey ckret2, this looks sooo good! great job!

and also i was wondering, is it difficult to script the HM replacing items?

Most of them, no. Cut, Strength, and Rock Smash are pretty easy, Surf's going to be a hassle but isn't impossible. Things like Fly and Flash, though, I can't think of a way to script. This is okay, because I don't really want to script them; Flash is beyond worthless so it's just being banished, and allowing Fly to function in the game would open up a huge can of continuity-related worms. Which I'm not going to discuss in-depth, because I can't give away the whole plot of the hack. :P

 

[Sky the Shaym]

Hey ckret2, I was thinking of making a hack(myself) where the player would be apart of team aqua, And I was wondering if that would be ok with u. I always wanted to be apart of team aqua sence i first played sapphire... It would be on an emerald or sapphire rom, but i need to get like clearence with u first... I'm not really trying to copy you, but idk...

 

[ckret2]

Hey ckret2, I was thinking of making a hack(myself) where the player would be apart of team aqua, And I was wondering if that would be ok with u. I always wanted to be apart of team aqua sence i first played sapphire... It would be on an emerald or sapphire rom, but i need to get like clearence with u first... I'm not really trying to copy you, but idk...

Hey, I hardly have a monopoly on hacks where you play as the villain. :P Just don't copy ToxicPurple's ideas and I won't have any problem with it.

I'd recommend you hack Ruby, though. Even though Sapphire and Ruby similar, there are enough differences that hacking tools configured to work for Ruby won't work as well for Sapphire, and when you do releases of the game a lot more people will have a Ruby rom they can apply the patch to than will have a Sapphire rom. They could probably find a Sapphire rom pretty easily, of course, but it's never a good idea to annoy people wanting to play your hack by making them have to download a whole new rom just for the purpose of playing your game, when every other hack out there is compatible with either FireRed, Ruby, or Emerald. I also wouldn't recommend hacking Emerald because I've heard that it's notoriously hard to work with.

Anyway, good luck with your hack! Getting to be a part of Team Aqua certainly sounds fun.

 

[Sky the Shaym]

Hey, I hardly have a monopoly on hacks where you play as the villain. :P Just don't copy ToxicPurple's ideas and I won't have any problem with it.

I'd recommend you hack Ruby, though. Even though Sapphire and Ruby similar, there are enough differences that hacking tools configured to work for Ruby won't work as well for Sapphire, and when you do releases of the game a lot more people will have a Ruby rom they can apply the patch to than will have a Sapphire rom. They could probably find a Sapphire rom pretty easily, of course, but it's never a good idea to annoy people wanting to play your hack by making them have to download a whole new rom just for the purpose of playing your game, when every other hack out there is compatible with either FireRed, Ruby, or Emerald. I also wouldn't recommend hacking Emerald because I've heard that it's notoriously hard to work with.

Anyway, good luck with your hack! Getting to be a part of Team Aqua certainly sounds fun.

Thanks a lot for clearing that up and giving me ideas! I wanted to use sapphire or emerald to be able to catch KYOGRE in the story line, but hey! That's what scripting is for!

 

[ckret2]

Thanks a lot for clearing that up and giving me ideas! I wanted to use sapphire or emerald to be able to catch KYOGRE in the story line, but hey! That's what scripting is for!

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to make you able to catch Kyogre. You could make a script to do that in Ruby pretty easily. (I would know, I've been dissecting Legendary scripts like crazy recently. It is harder than it looks to create a script where it's impossible for you to catch a wild Pokémon and you absolutely have to beat it to progress in the game. There are at least two points so far where that's required in ToxicPurple...)

 

[Sky the Shaym]

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to make you able to catch Kyogre. You could make a script to do that in Ruby pretty easily. (I would know, I've been dissecting Legendary scripts like crazy recently. It is harder than it looks to create a script where it's impossible for you to catch a wild Pokémon and you absolutely have to beat it to progress in the game. There are at least two points so far where that's required in ToxicPurple...)

That's cool, but i've been looking everywhere and i cant seem to find a dowload link for your hack! It looks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool! I think the tricky part would be makinh the johto map and all the events! wow... But you can always talk to the guy who made shiny gold right?

 

[Ian758]

This hack is epic, I don't care what others might think of it, its just, amazing, please keep this up! Its amazingly epic

 

[ckret2]

That's cool, but i've been looking everywhere and i cant seem to find a dowload link for your hack! It looks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool! I think the tricky part would be makinh the johto map and all the events! wow... But you can always talk to the guy who made shiny gold right?

I don't intend to borrow anybody else's work in the making of my own hack. That includes maps, scripts, events, etc. Beyond the fact that it'd be lazy and would produce a hack that looks like somebody else's hack, the art styles really aren't compatible.

As for the download link, it's at the bottom of the first post. That's the patch, and the rom it patches onto is FireRed.

Since Johto has been brought up now (and since this thread could be a bit more relevant to he hack), I've got a couple of overworld sprites to show. One of them you've already seen, Jenny, but I've since figured out how to put new palettes into Overworld Editor, so she looks MUCH better now. The second one I created at the same time I was making Jenny's new palette, since it's going to use the same one: Kris, who will be a rival in Johto. She's not finished yet, but this is approximately what she'll look like. So, the two sprites:

Like I said, they're not quite done. In fact, Kris's hair has changed substantially since I saved the image shown above. (One wonders why I don't show you the new image. Well, you may keep wondering.)

I know, Kris doesn't have her red shirt. I call "artistic license." That, and palette limitations.

 

[Samike360]

^Cool sprites :)

Your free to use my New Bark Town map if you want.

 

[ckret2]

Your free to use my New Bark Town map if you want.

Thanks, but I've already made a New Bark Town map. And there's a special event in ToxicPurple that the map is specially designed to accommodate, so a general New Bark Town map wouldn't work very well.

 

[MattKOTW]

Played through the first mission, pretty fun. Will be interesting to see the storyline unfold. Are you going to give Jesse and James custom sprites, or are their appearance in the Rocket Hideout just an easter egg?

 

[ckret2]

Played through the first mission, pretty fun. Will be interesting to see the storyline unfold. Are you going to give Jesse and James custom sprites, or are their appearance in the Rocket Hideout just an easter egg?

I might give them custom sprites. The problem is that there's a limited number of OW sprites in the game, unless you go through a long process with hex editing to increase that number. As soon as I manage to get through that process without messing anything up I'll give them custom sprites, but until then, they'll just have to look like any other Grunts.

They're minor characters, but they do show up multiple times in the game.

 

[Sarcastic Prince]

Cool OW's. I hope to see more awesome stuff soon!

 

[dragonarche]

Vetty nice screenies
interesting story line too
be sure to move this to hacks showcase when the beta comes out
wishing you the verrry best of lucks
:)