Pokémon Shiny Gold!

[Tuskin]

Originally Posted by Virtual Chatot

Wouldn't it be more fun if you played through the game like a normal person?

That is what i'm doing right now, but I've already been through it once already.

But I just had an awesome experiance, I walk into union cave and guess what the first pokemon I run into was? Well I'll let you guess, it was certain water Pokemon from Hoenn.

[~*Pikafan*~]

Mudkip, wasn't it. Yeah, he put those in there, level 1. It was in Beta 4, but very rare.

[Tuskin]

Originally Posted by ~*Pikafan*~

Mudkip, wasn't it. Yeah, he put those in there, level 1. It was in Beta 4, but very rare.

Yeah right now i'm training it using the swaping trick.

[Lady Berlitz]

Glad you released the 5th Beta, Zel. You're hack is getting more and more popular by the... second! The only thing I noticed is the new script you put in to give you the "Phone Card", you are not facing your mom. Unless you did that purposely?

I also noticed in the script of Prof. Elm he says "Mr.Pokémon" instead of "Mr. Pokémon".

[Moeteimasu Umi]

I finally get to play Shiny Gold!

Well so far in Beta 5 I can't complain.

This is an amazing hack.

[Tuskin]

I found a bug in Beta 5, the Ilex Shrine over laps your characters sprite.

[kennyj92]

well I probably won't get help with this but Im playing beta 5 on my iPod touch and when I press that the start button the screen goes back to the menu button each time I press it. I didnt have a problem with this when I played beta 4 on my iPod touch but if anybody has a suggestion it will be appreciated.

[Virtual Chatot]

Not that its really related to Shiny Gold, but you probably changed the settings on your iPod.

[waregreymon]

In beta 5 Game always freezes after healing pokemon in pokemon center on route 32. Does this happen to everyone else. Same thing happens when playing on psp.

[Apple Inc.]

Originally Posted by waregreymon

In beta 5 Game always freezes after healing pokemon in pokemon center on route 32. Does this happen to everyone else. Same thing happens when playing on psp.

This is a known glitch in the game. Next time read the 1st post.

I'm not sure what the deal is with that guy in the Radio Tower with the colored ball game. I played it like 20 times and I always got the white ball.

[Mr. X]

route 32 killing pc. zel had to make a pokemon center script from scratch.

you need to heal at another pokecenter first so the game won't crash from healing at the route 32 pc.

edit - to tuskin about the glitch he found

im sure its just a problem with the palletes. zel said he is gong to leave mapping errors in illex forest as they are since he is reluctant to change anything their after all the trouble he had with them.

[DarthSenorQueso]

The new music is a little fuzzy.

[Midnight Bear]

I deleted my patched Beta 4 Rom and replaced it with a fresh one, and patched that with Beta 5. Because the files had the same name, the Beta 5 could use Beta 4's save. I noticed nothing wrong with it.

Then I just deleted all my .sav files and restarted. It turns out you can use the Phone without the Phone Card! Yay... so that is one thing bad about repatching it. I also was able to keep the Vs. Seeker...

And BTW, Zel, you did not dissapoint with Beta 5.

[DarthSenorQueso]

No he didn't but at level ten my name is gol and my totodile won't obey maybe change the name..

[SilentWing]

I love the G/S cave music, the D/P Carlos battle music, SPROUT TOWER's theme, TRICK HOUSE tune, the new [revamped] G/S City tunes in GOLDENROD and CHERRYGROVE, etc. A little volume adjusting (which you mentioned) and we're all set!

The TOWN MAP seems to be perfect so far. I love the new grass tiles (and their animation).

Some tiny things I noticed (without screenies, sorry):
- Minor grammatical errors. For instance, a person in CHERRYGROVE CITY says "on your bag" instead of "in your bag," there are some missing punctuation marks, etc. If there's a way to send the game's script to me, I can easily fix all these little issues.
- When challenged to a trainer battle, hero's overworld does not orient to face the challenger.
- Upon battling Rival before ILEX FOREST, Rival's icon in the ensuing character bar appears as a question mark (mentioned before, I believe, but no fix possible?).
- Trainer pre-battle "challenge" music is always the sinister theme regardless of the trainer being fought, all the way up to Route 35, where I am now in the game. One exception is when facing a female ROCKET GRUNT in SLOWPOKE WELL, the script of whom was redone after most of the other trainers were completed, and OFFICERs around GOLDENROD. This even applies to TRICK HOUSE trainers.
- GOLDENROD CITY RADIO TOWER plays the Rocket/Evil music even on first time entering (when it is peaceful).
- I believe the SPEAROW given by the guard on ROUTE 35 is nicknamed "KENYA."
- I have also encountered the name truncation bug after saving normally (through the menu) on Route 30, where I first noticed my Pokemon gaining "boosted" EXP points during battle. This is my first time encountering such a bug. No other "bad ROM" bugs whatsoever have ever applied to me with respect to SG or any other FR hack I've played on this forum.

Now with screenies (sorry I couldn't get some for the others):
- Person in GOLDENROD DEPT. STORE still mentions "PokeGear" (perhaps others?):


- When moving from one route to another (or from route to city, etc), there is no pull-down indicator informing player of his new location. The indicator does appear only when a map transition is accompanied by fade transitions or scene cuts, such as leaving a house:


- Inappropriate scene-cut image when entering certain areas (e.g. Dark Cave):


- Item screen image for POKEBEEPER (perhaps other key items) seems wrong:


Tile Errors
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First we have odd-looking iceberg tips:
and water borders interposed against trees:
And the ILEX SHRINE seems to overlap the overworld:
Although I like the idea of a phone-lamp, this one:
looks a bit too chopped off for my taste.

- AIDE in VIOLET CITY Pokemon Center walks through hero's overworld after relinquishing the egg:


- It is possible to overshoot SPROUT TOWER stairs, showing the hero moving one tile beyond the stairs in his ascend/descend:


- If the train's not in, what's that I see near the top of the station map? Train is visible:


As a whole I'm quite highly impressed (I wouldn't have taken the time to write up all of these things if I wasn't).
I'll try to keep you posted with any other bugs and/or oddities I find. Cheers!

[Virtual Chatot]

Well, Zel could replace "hasn't come in" with "is under construction"

[SilentWing]

@Virtual Chatot:
That's a good idea, really. I hope it doesn't interfere with the MAGNET TRAIN plot later on in the storyline.

I also edited my post above for errors, clarity, and so forth.

[Gerri Shin]

I think that BetapokeMaster has got the point.

Now to bring this back on topic whoooo hoooo! new beta!!!!
...... Downloading...... new stuff is sweet. love it Zel. you and Kike always amaze me, keep it up.

[Apple Inc.]

I have encountered a problem. Jess and Jamie took my Pokemon and I can't figure out how to retrieve them. This is in Fuschia City

[betapokemaster]

my cuz iz looking for glitches i found one before he did hehehe
anyway it is on i forgot the name of the town but its that sea port town no not the lighthouse one but u can bike on the water there

sry delete this if you want to but i play pokemoncrater same name but the site seems to be down... for good

and i agree with chatot zel should change it to The train is under construction

[Apple Inc.]

Nevermind. I had to hit something a few times.

[Naruto Namikaze]

i just started playing this 2 weeks ago i herd about it a long time ago i never imagined it would get this far thanx zel for giving us this great game/hack

[YellowPen]

arrrh i cant get hacks working on the mac...i have a chance to play it on a windows so i cant wait. It doesnt really matter though i just wait for the amazing updates zel does :)

[Forced]

mmm, im playing shiny gold right now on my psp.


greatest hack ever.
good work zelly.
keep it up.

[Went]

Oh, a post full of bugs. Let's see how many ones I can explain as tester of the game.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- When challenged to a trainer battle, hero's overworld does not orient to face the challenger.

In Fire Red it doesn't happen too.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- Upon battling Rival before ILEX FOREST, Rival's icon in the ensuing character bar appears as a question mark (mentioned before, I believe, but no fix possible?).

Known, doesn't know if that can be fixed.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- Trainer pre-battle "challenge" music is always the sinister theme regardless of the trainer being fought, all the way up to Route 35, where I am now in the game. One exception is when facing a female ROCKET GRUNT in SLOWPOKE WELL, the script of whom was redone after most of the other trainers were completed, and OFFICERs around GOLDENROD. This even applies to TRICK HOUSE trainers.

Known, Zel thinks it's a problem of the people id. used.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- GOLDENROD CITY RADIO TOWER plays the Rocket/Evil music even on first time entering (when it is peaceful).

Actually it has the evil theme ALWAYS >.< And I hate it!!! Guess there is no way still to script the music.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- I believe the SPEAROW given by the guard on ROUTE 35 is nicknamed "KENYA."

And it doesn't belong to you, either -you appear as its OT-. But there is still no way to improve the script.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- I have also encountered the name truncation bug after saving normally (through the menu) on Route 30, where I first noticed my Pokemon gaining "boosted" EXP points during battle. This is my first time encountering such a bug. No other "bad ROM" bugs whatsoever have ever applied to me with respect to SG or any other FR hack I've played on this forum.

Mysteries of the game. I found two bad eggs in my PC when in Fuchsia.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- Person in GOLDENROD DEPT. STORE still mentions "PokeGear" (perhaps others?):

Ups.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- Inappropriate scene-cut image when entering certain areas (e.g. Dark Cave):

Known, no known way to fix it.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

Item screen image for POKEBEEPER (perhaps other key items) seems wrong:

None of the key items images have been modified.

About the three first tile problems, well, zel doesn't care about it until the last release "
But none of them seem too serious, there are other ones much more evident.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- AIDE in VIOLET CITY Pokemon Center walks through hero's overworld after relinquishing the egg:

Actually there is a way to fix it, but it's kinda long. I will tell zel and see what does he think.

Originally Posted by SilentWing

- It is possible to overshoot SPROUT TOWER stairs, showing the hero moving one tile beyond the stairs in his ascend/descend:

Really old, since B1.

The train thing has already been discussed, and the labels in the maps are a complete mystery for me. And the gramatical errors... well, they are easy to fix.