FireRed hack: [HotM September] Pokémon Eruption

cooley · Jun 8, 2009

*NOTE* Hello, as I promised, I would release a thread for my hack.
For those of you who have not seen Pokemon Eruption before, or ever heard of it, please read the rest of this thread.

Cheap Introduction:
I am cooley! I started off just like you new guys, confused, and full of questions. So I started with hacking Gold. Apparently I would love to return to hacking Gold someday, but after I complete this project.
If you like hacks, you'll sure like this one. I don't really brag about my hack, but I can conlude from all the feedback, that it is a good one. My hack is not just a hack, it's a collection of ideas, a big CEO survey of other hacks, and some drama from real life. Yes, I get some of my ideas from real life situations...So??

Since I've released a BETA I've been getting really good feedback from other members of PC (Aside from Bugs :P). I was surprised myself, because most of the events I made, I felt I could've done better. You guys have made me feel really good about hacking, and because of that I'd love to finish this hack, and make it just as you like it, really good with a cherry on top. ;)
[The intro could've been better, but meh]

Information on this hack

Rom base: Pokemon FireRed (U)
Started: Early 2009
State: BETA v2.1 has been released to public.

What this hack is about

Imagine yourself in Silver's shoes. Yes, Silver from the Pokemon Gold/Silver and Pokemon Chronicles. You're a fourteen-year old boy born, and raised in Johto. You used to be a bad kid, but ever since you're fight with Jimmy(also from the Gold/Silver) at age thirteen, you've changed.

Now, in that decision to change, you'd like to start over. You're mom still thinks that it's 'exciting' to get you're first Pokemon, but why wouldn't she? She loves the new you! Well, you think it would be like the Pokemon show's on TV, where everything runs smooth. But in an effort to get your first Pokemon, you discover another Evil Organization, Team Knox!

They want to control every single Pokémon in the world, to make cash, dollars, yen, euro, etc. Either way you put it, it all comes down to money. They want to make the world fear them, and by doing that they become all-powerful. You see them stealing CYNDAQUIL at Walby Cave terrace, then and there you secretly made up your mind. You want to stop them at all costs! Your goal (without being told, in-game) is to stop them from gaining control of the Legendary Pokemon on an exciting adventure with tons of scripts, jaw-dropping events, and eye teasing tiles in Pokémon Eruption!

But that's not all folks, if more of the story were to be discussed it simply wouldn't be called a story. It would be a summary. :P
The story is just a general idea of what happens and why some things happen. However, MOST of the story gets expained hand-in-hand with the events that take place. How's that for epic?

There's a reason why I have these Awards.

Why you should be interested in this game

Newest feature:
http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=5085630&postcount=255

Play as Silver!
Experience a Hack, where the plot is ridiculously mind-blowing
Experience New scripts and events!, all in a
Brand new region; SéNJO
Battle with New rivals, and friends!
Travel through SéNJO with stunning tiles!
Mini-Quests to keep you busy.
Maps designed to look and feel real!
Field Moves to unlock new areas ^_^
POWER HOUSES in place of Gyms, Plays significant role in Plot!
-Tons of more features, but all reserved, for you to play!

Updated when new updates are available!

Also, not all screens are displayed here. Please peruse the thread for more exciting screens!
Most Recent:

Older, but somewhat considered Recent:

More Videos on the way!

Time to get your Pokemon!

Cyndaquil Event

New Tiles and Music!

The Legend of the four Ambers!

Why isn't this working?

NOT A BUG:
Cyndaquil evolves when you receive the national dex.
This is to ensure a balanced party, rather than one lvl 40 Typhlosion and lvl 5 pidgeys.
The game was designed to play as a Male (Silver), so pick male and choose Silver as a name :P

Bugs:
~~Running shoes does not work in some areas.~~
~~Some moderate script errors~~
Some minor script errors
~~Text mispellings/grammar errors~~
Start Menu background error on the bottom text

Oddities:
Cyndaquil OW too big
Walby Town tileset error on entering Route 1
No Silver Running shoes frames

I would like to thank...

NiKaNoRoU - Exclusive spriter for Eruption
WesleyFG - tiles
Zeikku (Jake) - Paul OWs and battle sprite
Alistair - tiles, sprites
Kyledove - tiles, sprites
HackMew - Improved Titlescreen, and some ASM routines used in hack, silver trainer sprite
Binary - Very nice maps
Løcke - Very nice maps
naoi. - BETA TESTER
Munchlax(TM) - BETA TESTER
~~Heartless Sora - BETA TESTER~~ Too busy
LU-HO - creator of Advance map
FriendsRoxYourSox(Xaveon) - Backsprites of Silver
Magnius - Music documents are a huge help!
Spherical Ice - Button images in Intro
~Arcade Star~ - Beautiful silver OWs
Raibaru and Ichrio Kazuki - HG/SS Starter indexed sprites
Pokestick - Team Knox HQ maps, also makes some maps for me
Coronis - Knox Admin Battle sprite (edited by me)
BalladOfWindFishes - Knox Admin OW
diegoisawesome - DP font for FireRed Patch

Wow where can I play this?

ALPHA v0.7: Download
ALPHA v1.1: Download
*NEW*BETA v2.1: Download
BETA 2.1.6 - Bug fix patch/ Download (Ends after the Paul incident)
->The hack is best played on "Medium" speed font. Can be adjusted in the Options Menu, >in-game.
It makes the events more realistic and life-like.

I wanna support this..How can I?

Made by -Sonic~Boom-

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Also made by -Sonic~Boom-

HTML:

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~Fin

Tyrantrum · Jun 9, 2009

WHOO-HOO! A thread. :D

Great job on this, cooley~ ;)
I look forward to beta testing it and seeing more updates!

Good luck~

EDIT: Wow, it's been a while since I made the first post in a hack thread. XD

alo123 · Jun 9, 2009

The screen shots look great playing as sliver
is a good idea cant wait for the release good luck

Vrai · Jun 9, 2009

Yeah, I remember this! xD
The scripts I know are awesome, and all of the screenshots look amazing, too.

I dunno what more to say than: ..uhh.. I forgot..

Oh, yeah! Good luck~ :P

viemortevolroc · Jun 9, 2009

hey mate this looks brilliant! if you want a runner im glad to help just hit me up ^_^
are the beginners from johto?

Tropical Sunlight · Jun 9, 2009

Ths looks great!
I hope you fix these things from the old version:
- The Entei on te title screen
- New Entei walking sprites
- Routes actually connect to eachother

Good luck cooley!

Also, I'm not sure this looks right. :\

XgamerX · Jun 9, 2009

It seems great and the cyndaquil are cool. :)
Good luck.

Satoshi Ookami · Jun 9, 2009

Hey this looks very cool I like those Cyndaquils :D
Ya must like them :D
Btw item in wall isn't very good thing to show :/

cooley · Jun 9, 2009

naoi. said:
WHOO-HOO! A thread. :D

Great job on this, cooley~ ;)
I look forward to beta testing it and seeing more updates!

Good luck~

EDIT: Wow, it's been a while since I made the first post in a hack thread. XD

Yeah, it's finally out! ^_^ And you'll be seeing a ALPHA soon. ;)

alo123 said:
The screen shots look great playing as sliver
is a good idea cant wait for the release good luck

Thanks, I just have to insert the Overworlds :P

Atlus said:
Yeah, I remember this! xD
The scripts I know are awesome, and all of the screenshots look amazing, too.

I dunno what more to say than: ..uhh.. I forgot..

Oh, yeah! Good luck~ :P

Thank you!

viemortevolroc said:
hey mate this looks brilliant! if you want a runner im glad to help just hit me up ^_^
are the beginners from johto?

You don't get to choose, but the starter:

Spoiler:

is from Johto, if you wanted to know.

~Watermelon said:
Ths looks great!
I hope you fix these things from the old version:
- The Entei on te title screen
- New Entei walking sprites
- Routes actually connect to eachother

Good luck cooley!

Also, I'm not sure this looks right. :\

I am more experienced, than I was before, so if a problem occurs, i most likely can fix it.

What do you mean it doesn't look right?

XgamerX said:
It seems great and the cyndaquil are cool. :)
Good luck.

Thanks, the Cyndaquil are MD sprites if you wanted to know :D

Ash493 said:
Hey this looks very cool I like those Cyndaquils :D
Ya must like them :D
Btw item in wall isn't very good thing to show :/

Thanks! And that pokeball(ITEM) is part of the event. Remember that I said that I will try to design them to look real, so that item is actually very small, so I didn't want it to be invisible to you ;)

alo123 · Jun 9, 2009

So cyndaquil is the starter cool i like cyndaquil
and its final evolution typhlosion

Tropical Sunlight · Jun 10, 2009

I'm talking about the stairs.
They should be 2 or 3 tiles wide. Not changing the width right in the middle.

cooley · Jun 10, 2009

~Watermelon said:
I'm talking about the stairs.
They should be 2 or 3 tiles wide. Not changing the width right in the middle.

Oh, okay. I see now. Thanks for pointing it out ;)

WindBlows · Jun 10, 2009

Hey Cooley!
Wow, your hack is truly awesome!
I really like your style of mapping and scripting!
hohoh I really would like too see the story with a new Silver!
Good luck on this~

Wesley FG · Jun 11, 2009

The project is very interesting I like the history and of its development
but I think on the new tiles, my new improved tiles
they would be better I will show a mapeado, for you to see as they would be the combination of the tiles, with improvements in some tiles and palletas, mainly of the tree main of the project that now have a palleta much better than it combines with the soil and the mountain a worked better well.
I think would be still better the hack if you are used those.

Shirin · Jun 11, 2009

wow, your hack is very good, Pokémon Eruption! I like it, is one of the nicest FR hacks I've ever seen!! ^ ^

^ Yes, you should use that tiles of WesleyFG becuase it will look nicer. USE THEM!! xD

ruken · Jun 11, 2009

O.O

this map is very big!!!!!

you can lost in here XD

Chimchar 9 · Jun 11, 2009

Ah so you've made the thread while i was asleep, huh?
xD
Anyway it looks really good!
I'm playing it when it's realeased, because i haven't seen the other route scripts.:)
Anyway the NEW tiles look cool Wesley, i think Cooley will use them.;)

slicernicer · Jun 11, 2009

from the screenshots, it looks like there's a man in your house who's your dad. But the thing is that Giovanni is silver's dad.

cooley · Jun 11, 2009

Wesley FG said:
The project is very interesting I like the history and of its development
but I think on the new tiles, my new improved tiles
they would be better I will show a mapeado, for you to see as they would be the combination of the tiles, with improvements in some tiles and palletas, mainly of the tree main of the project that now have a palleta much better than it combines with the soil and the mountain a worked better well.
I think would be still better the hack if you are used those.

I'd be glad to use them ^_^ Are they the same palettes as before?

Munchlax™ said:
Ah so you've made the thread while i was asleep, huh?
xD
Anyway it looks really good!
I'm playing it when it's realeased, because i haven't seen the other route scripts.:)
Anyway the NEW tiles look cool Wesley, i think Cooley will use them.;)

Yep, I will. And the Alpha should be lengthy enough for everyone to play. Also thanks!
Yep I will. Also, thanks!

slicernicer said:
from the screenshots, it looks like there's a man in your house who's your dad. But the thing is that Giovanni is silver's dad.

I know that, but I'm not making a Nintendo manga remake :P
But you just gave me an idea for a long-term event, wanna guess what?

Sarcastic Prince · Jun 12, 2009

Wow, Cooley.
The Hack has completely changed from Before.

I hope there won't be anymore restarting on this.

FireRed hack: [HotM September] Pokémon Eruption

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cooley

///Keepin' it simple

Tyrantrum

alo123

Munchlax Trainer

Vrai

can you feel my heart?

viemortevolroc

Beta Tester,Mapper Beginner

Tropical Sunlight

The Faltine

XgamerX

Gettin' crazy

Satoshi Ookami

Memento Mori

cooley

///Keepin' it simple

alo123

Munchlax Trainer

Tropical Sunlight

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cooley

///Keepin' it simple

WindBlows

It's been a long time!

Wesley FG

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Shirin

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slicernicer

cooley

///Keepin' it simple

Sarcastic Prince

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