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[Hack of the Year] Nomination Round - 2012

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DrFuji

[I]Heiki Hecchara‌‌[/I]
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Hack of the Year 2012 Nomination Thread

Introduction:

Welcome to the Hack of the Year competition for 2012! Hack of the Year is a culmination of all of the hard work and effort that has gone into developing some of the best hacks in The PokéCommunity over the past twelve months. This is the time when votes for hacks in a variety of categories to determine which ones are most deserving of recognition.

Rules:

  1. You may not vote for your own hack
  2. You may not vote for any of the designated ineligible hacks (see below)
  3. You may only vote for one hack in each category
  4. You may only vote once
  5. Sideshow Showcase hacks are not elligible for nomination
  6. Do not vote for a hack because you like the author; make your decisions as objective as possible
  7. All posts in this thread must be nominations. There is a separate thread for general HotY discussion

Ineligible Hacks:

  • Pokémon Genesis: Author requested removal
  • Pokémon Shiny Gold: Author requested removal
  • Pokémon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians: Winner of HotY 2011
  • Pokémon Sienna: Winner of HotY 2010
  • Pokémon Azure Horizons: Winner of HotY 2009
  • Pokémon rijonAdventures: Winner of HotY 2008
  • Pokémon Prism: Winner of HotY 2007
  • Pokémon Liquid Ocean: Winner of HotY 2006
  • Pokémon Naranja: Winner of HotY 2005
  • Pokémon Ice: Winner of HotY 2004

Voting Form:

In order to place your vote, you will have to fill out the form below and post it in this thread.

Code:
Best Mapping: 
Best Scripting: 
Most Graphical Appeal: 
Best Story Line: 
Best Gameplay: 
Most Engaging Hack: 
Overall Favourite:

The explanations of each category are as follows:
Best Mapping - The hack with the best maps
Best Scripting - The hack whose scripts impressed you the most
Most Graphical Appeal - The hack with the best overall visual presentation
Best Story Line - The hack with the best plot/story line
Best Gameplay - The hack with the best features and that was the most fun to play
Most Engaging Hack - The hack that kept you the most interested throughout
Overall Favourite - Your personal favourite hack

A hack gets one point for every category in which you vote for it. To demonstrate this, here is an example of a vote:

Example Vote said:
Best Mapping: Genesis
Best Scripting: Prism
Most Graphical Appeal: Liquid Ocean
Best Storyline: Prism
Best Gameplay: Sienna
Most Engaging Hack: Life of Guardians
Overall Favourite: Prism

In this demonstration, Prism has three votes while Genesis, Liquid Ocean, Sienna and Life of Guardians hold one vote each.

The three hacks which have the most votes overall, regardless of the categories in which the votes are allocated, will progress to the second and final round where they will be judged by long-standing members of the community for the ultimate Hack of the Year title. In addition, the hack which has the most votes in a single category for this initial round will be awarded with a corresponding title (e.g. Best Mapping).

You have until January 1st to submit your votes. So now all of that is sorted, let the voting begin!

Credits to Hiroshi Sotomura, Manipulation, Thrace, Vrai and colcolstyles for contributing to this thread over the years.
 
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soooo that's kinda difficult but I'll give it a try :D
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Light Platinum
All in all that's what I believe about these awesome hacks :D Although I haven't tried every single hack in this forum I believe these are the best! Cheers for the first reply :D
 
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PokemonMasters

Always Remember Forever&After
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11
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Best Mapping: Lilac
Best Scripting: Silver Legend
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Dark Rising
Most Engaging Hack: Silver Legend
Overall Favourite: Silver Legend
 

Hacker Bisharp

Bug reporter
332
Posts
12
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  • Age 26
  • Seen Aug 28, 2019
Best Mapping: Fuligin
Best Scripting: Silver Legend
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Silver Legend
Most Engaging Hack: Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Silver Legend
 

Tcoppy

Favorite Stand
548
Posts
13
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Best Mapping - Pokemon Hyetology
Best Scripting - Pokemon Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal - Pokemon Victory Fire
Best Story Line - Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay- Pokemon Snakewood
Most Engaging Hack - Pokemon Snakewood
Overall Favourite - Pokemon Snakewood
 
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Best Mapping - Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Scripting - Pokemon Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal - Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line - Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay - Pokemon Flora Sky
Most Engaging Hack - Pokemon Flora Sky
Overall Favorite - Pokemon Flora Sky
 
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  • Seen May 30, 2013
Best Mapping: Victory Fire by Wind. To tell the truth, most maps I've seen in hacks tend to be either rehashes or just don't stand out. LP does have good mapping, but it is far too linear. Wind's maps are developed and less linear.

Best Scripting:
Liquid Crystal by LaZ. Excellent usage of ASM such as Red Gyarados and Ruins of Alph. Overall best programming, one of the few hacks here that is bug-free and has unique ASM.

Most Graphical Appeal:
Light Platinum by Wesley. Best tiles, hands down. Wesley did a great job in making LP seem like a 4th gen game, especially with the limit capabilities of GBA software.

Best Story Line: Snakewood by Cutlerine. Cutlerine's hack does what no other hack has ever done, add a proper and enthralling storyline to a Pokemon game. Not to mention this is one of the few hacks that use an advanced level of English.

Best Gameplay: Quartz by Baro. Call me crazy, but despite how his fakemon are considered to be downright ridiculous, Baro created one of the most highly innovative hacks in PC. I mean, who else here has made a 100% fakemon hack?

Most Engaging Hack: Liquid Crystal by LaZ. At first I thought it would have been another meh-ish remake. But to tell the truth, this hack has a lot more to offer than a simple GSC remake. Snakewood would have come first, but re-using Hoenn is sort of a turn-off.

Overall Favourite:
Liquid Crystal by LaZ. It's not just a remake, aside from offering three vastly improved regions and buffing up Crystal's storyline, Liquid Crystal improves the gameplay experience via the Physica/Special split.
 

NarutoActor

The rocks cry out to me
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15
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Best Mapping: Lilac
Best Scripting: Lilac
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: CrystalDust
Most Engaging Hack: /
Overall Favourite:649 Patch (even if my vote doesn't count, you should make an exseption for this hack)
 

PokemonGiratinaX

2015 Edition.
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And here is my vote:

Best Mapping: Victory Fire
Best Scripting: Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Dark Rising
Most Engaging Hack: Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Dark Rising
 

Superjub

Pokémon Aureolin
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Posts
16
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Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Crystal Dust
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: (Undecided)
Best Gameplay: (Undecided)
Most Engaging Hack: (Undecided)
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Crystal Dust

I shall edit my post later, but best of luck to everyone. :D
 

tajaros

Hi I'm dawg
855
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11
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Best Mapping: Pokemon Light
Best Scripting: Pokemon Dark Rising
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Dark Rising
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Dark Rising


And those are my votes... :3
 

DVK

Hack based-God
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13
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Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum.
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal.
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum.
Best Story Line: Pokemon Dark Rising.
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising.
Overall Favourite: mines a tie for Pokemon Light platinum and Liquid Crystal :3
 
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chen12

Game On!
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11
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  • Seen Oct 12, 2015
Best Mapping: Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Scripting: Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Fire Red Omega
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Fire Red Omega
Overall Favorite: Pokemon Flora Sky (but LP and Fire Red Omega very close)
 

socko

[i]VERY ANGER!!![/i]
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  • Age 25
  • Seen May 18, 2020
Best Mapping: Silver Legend
Best Scripting: Flora Sky
Most Graphical Appeal: Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Super Rising Thunder
Overall Favourite: Super Rising Thunder
 

Logan

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15
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Best Mapping: Pokémon Lilac
Best Scripting: Pokémon Brown
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Lilac
Best storyline: Pokémon Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokémon Brown
Overall Favourite: Pokémon Brown
 
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11
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  • Seen Jul 16, 2014
Best Mapping: Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Scripting: Pokemon Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Flora Sky
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Snakewood
 
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14
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  • Seen Oct 12, 2013
Best Mapping: Pokemon CrystalDust
Best Scripting: Pokemon CrystalDust
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon CrystalDust
Best Story Line: Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Fuligin
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon CrystalDust
Overall Favourite: Pokemon CrystalDust
 

FIQ

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11
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  • Seen Sep 15, 2022
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Same
Overall Favorite: Same

Of the hacks I've played (not too many, but a fair share), LC stand out most for me. I voted it to the categories I feel it stands out most.

No other hack really engaged me much, so I'll stick voting on LC.
 

rpryor03

In and Out
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  • Age 25
  • Seen Jan 9, 2024
Mapping: Flora Sky
Scripting: Liquid Crystal
Graphics: Snakewood
Storyline: Hyetology
Gameplay: Light Platinum
Engaging: Hyetology
Overall: Light Platinum
 
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