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I'm a bit confused with something. First i just need to know, how do you fill out the trainerbattle command on XSE? i get the type of battle and the pointers, but what would i be putting in "battle # to start" and "reserved"?
And now my main concern
on the script for this trainer battle, its the rival battle in the beginning
the script i made links to three different battles because the rival can potentially have three different pokemon. But i can do that, right? cause if my script cant lead to the other trainer battles, then ill have to break down the script i made into smaller chunks, which this one has alreayd taken long enough....
Also, how do i make the rival sprite not be there BEFORE the event happens? cause i already know how to make them disappear after.

Sorry for the double post, but i had another question.
How do I make videos of my gameplay? cause I have a problem with my script and and i wanted to post it on the script help thread.

Hey,

Does anyone know of any hacks which contain Pokemon fusions (both sprite fusions and edited movesets at least?) and any hacks which contain good quality, convincing fakemon?

I have done a search but found very little. Thank you.

SpadeEdge16 said:

Sorry for the double post, but i had another question.
How do I make videos of my gameplay? cause I have a problem with my script and and i wanted to post it on the script help thread.

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VBA has built in video capture software. If you install the ffdshow video codec, the video and audio won't desync either.

It's under Tools -> Record -> Start AVI Recording

HG/SS
I have a rather rare question, about park balls, to be specific.
If I capture a wild pokémon, as in one without a ball 'bound' to it, with a Park Ball, will it be ball-less or is there some sort of flag in play that will place it in a normal pokéball like in the case of hatching?

To hack the multi choice commands in RUBY and change what they say, do I use A-text or do I have to hex edit?

The_Show said:

To hack the multi choice commands in RUBY and change what they say, do I use A-text or do I have to hex edit?

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You could use a hex editor, but I'd suggest using a script editor and editing the script that way.

Whenever I modify the game's code for inserting ASM routines, the palettes (for all graphics) get messed up, some maps get destroyed, the game crashes when going into battle, and A-trainer says "subscript out of range." All of this happens after even modifying just 10 bytes. (XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX) I tried the same stuff on a clean ROM, and I still got the same results.

When I make a map in advance map and insert it, it always goes to Pallet Town. Then I cannot access either the events tab or the wild pokemon tab. Is there any way to change /fix these?

Inserting maps with AMap 1.9.5 is glitchy. Use 1.9.2 when you want to insert maps.

Well that made a significant difference. Thank you

Fakémon - Any Pokémon created for a hack that does not exist in the game which is being hacked.

Most hacks that I've seen around here involve Fakémon - sometimes all 386 catchable characters in the game are Fakémon, in fact. Do we have a list anywhere of hacks created that do NOT employ Fakémon? I am familiar with this thread. but many of these even have Fakémon in them. What I'd love to see is a new region, maybe a new story, etc. that uses the existing Pokémon and doesn't destroy what's already there. In other words, everything else is fair game (even evolutionary chains for those that evolve by trading normally), but just use the existing Pokémon. I make odd exceptions; for instance, I'm trying out Shining Opal where the starter is swapped with an experimental one from the lab (with special rules, such as it must remain in your party at all times), but all catchable Pokémon are otherwise the existing ones and this is the only Fakémon; something like that makes a good storyline.

So, if anyone can point to games that use only existing Pokémon, I am interested. :)

FTR, yes, adding Zorua or Rufflet (or so on) to Ruby/Emerald qualifies as Fakémon.

Cyclone

CycloneGU said:

Fakémon - Any Pokémon created for a hack that does not exist in the game which is being hacked.

Most hacks that I've seen around here involve Fakémon - sometimes all 386 catchable characters in the game are Fakémon, in fact. Do we have a list anywhere of hacks created that do NOT employ Fakémon? I am familiar with this thread. but many of these even have Fakémon in them. What I'd love to see is a new region, maybe a new story, etc. that uses the existing Pokémon and doesn't destroy what's already there. In other words, everything else is fair game (even evolutionary chains for those that evolve by trading normally), but just use the existing Pokémon. I make odd exceptions; for instance, I'm trying out Shining Opal where the starter is swapped with an experimental one from the lab (with special rules, such as it must remain in your party at all times), but all catchable Pokémon are otherwise the existing ones and this is the only Fakémon; something like that makes a good storyline.

So, if anyone can point to games that use only existing Pokémon, I am interested. :)

FTR, yes, adding Zorua or Rufflet (or so on) to Ruby/Emerald qualifies as Fakémon.

Cyclone

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SkyLine by DJG may be only using 3rd gen and before, if I recall... Unless I misread it... Anyway, all of the remakes (ShinyGold, Liquid Crystal, CrystalDust) don't either, neither do the Omega, 386 or harder versions hacks (they count, Okay?)

Yeah, I'm playing CrystalDust and am familiar with both ShinyGold and Liquid Crystal. I wish there were more original games using the same set of Pokémon, though.

I will look at SkyLine.

So a question on these others that I referred to that use 4th/5th gen. Are the sprites literally pasted over top of something else, or are they actually coded as their own Pokédex with their original stat and move lists?

Cyclone

CycloneGU said:

Yeah, I'm playing CrystalDust and am familiar with both ShinyGold and Liquid Crystal. I wish there were more original games using the same set of Pokémon, though.

I will look at SkyLine.

So a question on these others that I referred to that use 4th/5th gen. Are the sprites literally pasted over top of something else, or are they actually coded as their own Pokédex with their original stat and move lists?

Cyclone

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Depends on the hack. Most, if not all, at least have the stats and movelists changed to be similar (but not identical due to lack of 4th and 5th gen moves), and some do have the Pokedex entries changed to match what the Pokemon now is. It truly depends on the hack.

Hi again.

I've been trying to set a level script for the starting map (4.1)

I've tried it the hard way (adding a new script to tag with 0x168CC8 (which is the starting script), but nothing I did worked. Then, I've tried to replace the data for the new level script, as follows:


No matter what I do, the game freezes right after the oak intro, before you appear into your room.
The script itself isn't a problem (I've assigned it to a NPC, and it works as it should). However it as a level script breaks. I've even tried to put it in another map (4,2, which has no level scripts) and it didn't work as well.
What might be wrong?

Daikoru said:

It appears I've been forgotten already? I'm still waiting for an answer.

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Perhaps this is just me being an ass, but are you sure that you are reloading the game? That is of course the first thing to check, but you didn't say anything about it so I figure, eh, why not mention it? Lets hope it is something like this because, though you will feel like an idiot for a few seconds, you should soon realize that this is a much better closing to the problem since any other would be dropping the move or involve lots of extra work. Good Luck either way.

Also, I am having the same problem as the above post with regards to my level scripts.


What is supposed to happen is that the first script checks the result of the last battle (special 0xB4) and then writes to the variable 0x5000 a value depending on the result and should only run while the variable 0x5001 is 0. The second script should run when 0x5000 is set to 7 (which means a Pokemon was caught), the special ends a safari zone type session and the rest is obvious. What happens is as soon as I step into the map, the player gets locked as if the game is having trouble completing the script (it is seemingly identical to if you try to run a script event without setting the "Var number" in advance map). Naturally, I have run the two scripts in order using other methods, but given the nature of what I want to do, I cannot let that happen (the player should only be able to catch one Pokemon and if they run out of safari balls, I run into issues (the safari zone special script will send them to the map of the safari zone of the official games and I have no way to alter that). As far as I can tell, this is an advance-map issue, but a new set of eyes might see something I have missed.

If I were to hack the ???-type as the type for some attacks, would they be able to land critical hits? So far, I'm not seeing any. :/
Also, if you happen to know the battle script for high critical hit ratio (any rom), please tell me, it'd be helpful to me in finding it in Ruby.