FireRed hack: Pokémon Shining Opal [Beta 2 Redux Released!]

[diegoisawesome]

Pokemon Shining Opal
Welcome to the world of Rinto!

Intro
Read before flaming.

Info

• Hack of: Fire Red
• Language: English

Downloads

• Located here: www.o15.com

Features

• The new Rinto region.
• Mikachu.
• New rivals.
• Fresh new gym challenges.
• Interactive storyline.
• ASM'd to death.
• Visit other regions from your favorite generations!

Bugs
We are proud to report the current lack of any bugs.
Support
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Story
You are a young person living in Goldenrod City. To be a Pokémon Trainer has always been your dream, and now it's FINALLY going to come true on your tenth birthday. A new professor, Professor G. Oak, set up his lab in a far-away place called Lake Zigger. Your mom is finally letting you get your first Pokémon, a choice between three Fire-type Pokémon, so you get on a boat and head to Lake Zigger. Once you get there, however, there are a few problems... You're late, a lost passenger and a package at the Pokémon Mart delay your arrival at the lab even further, and you have no idea how to get there in the first place!

As you finally make it into the lab, you go down the stairs. Suddenly, some kid comes in to get HIS Pokémon an entire day early! Somebody else had arrived before you and taken the Charmander, and then this new kid steals away Cyndaquil! Torchic is the only Pokémon left now, so you go and take it. Suddenly, the kid challenges you to a battle, after which you proceed to leave town. Suddenly, there's a FLASH and your Torchic's been replaced by some unknown Pokémon, but, seeming as the Professor ran out of the lab right past you, you have to continue.

As you leave Lake Zigger, you encounter somebody from an organization you'd never heard of. Presumably, he was sent to Lake Zigger to steal that strange Pokémon you had, but he runs away after he gets beaten. You didn't know that the evil team will do anything to get that Pokémon, including some very un-evil-team-ish things. Not only this, there are many more things that will sidetrack you from your Rinto Pokémon League quest than just a bunch of crazy people.

The ability to have many Secret Bases, insane twists in the plot that even I didn't expect, cameo appearances by random people, saving the real world from a catastrophe (as well as the Pokémon world, obviously), some odd times when you just aren't yourself, and realizing the importance of the number 42 are a few of the crazy things that happen to you on your journey throughout the region of Rinto.

The Works
We worked hard on this!

Credits

• Clonex25 - GSC music Remixes
• HackMew - XSE and some ASM
• UltramasterBDX for the DP Style Textbox
• Mastermind_X - Jukebox ASM routine
• interdpth, ZodiacDaGreat, prime_dialga - RTC and D&N system
• Full Metal - CSS layout

The Team

• narutoactor - Spriter and Backup Mapper
• konekodemon - Beta tester
• Jambo51 - Some ASM and a beta tester
• linkandzelda - Being awesome, also a beta tester and idea-giver

Progress

• Lake Zigger
• Route 1
• Vantrek Pass
• Vantrek City
• Route 2
• Saren City
• Route 3
• Vorril Forest
• Route 4
• Klindor City
• Route 5

Current Project
Calinor Town

Copyrights Screen

Title Screen

The intro

New opposite-gender rival

Arriving at Lake Zigger

Gangsta Gramms!

Prof. Gary's Lab

The early bird gets the worm. Or, in this case, the Pokémon.

A battle with me!

Same person - excuse me, hooligan - as in the intro.

Battling the hooligan herself.

The GSC-styled Pokémon Center, minus the upstairs.

Noob? Who are you calling noob, noob?

Exploring Vantrek Pass.

I exit Vantrek Pass and this nice old man offers to take me to the Pokémon center.

Behind the Big Eats.

More coming soon!

[Chibi Robo]

If I were you the first thing I would do probaly would be work on that title screen
I would take the off the letters you ripped off like the (version)
and how you wrote shining opal it isnt very good looks like you were in a hurry...
anyways you need a lot og work on the title screen....

[mrpwnageisme]

like ive said b4 wanna join?

[diegoisawesome]

Originally Posted by mrpwnageisme

like ive said b4 wanna join?

Huh? What do you mean? Do you want to join my team? If so, what do you want to do?

Originally Posted by HappyFaceInc

If I were you the first thing I would do probaly would be work on that title screen
I would take the off the letters you ripped off like the (version)
and how you wrote shining opal it isnt very good looks like you were in a hurry...
anyways you need a lot og work on the title screen....

Un-LZ.GBA doesn't work correctly, so that was the best that I could do. Sometimes after I repoint it and all, it doesn't give me the Ptr changed box and I go forward and back and it's back to where it was before.

[netga94]

looks nice but could make a better name for Mikachu if not doesent matter
cant wait til a beta or alph or whats it call XD

[mrpwnageisme]

Originally Posted by diegolovespika

Huh? What do you mean? Do you want to join my team? If so, what do you want to do?


Un-LZ.GBA doesn't work correctly, so that was the best that I could do. Sometimes after I repoint it and all, it doesn't give me the Ptr changed box and I go forward and back and it's back to where it was before.

no you wanna join mine lol

[diegoisawesome]

No thanks. I have too much trouble with my own hack. Maybe after I finish.

New Screenshots are up
Progress Report: 2%
First Beta coming up soon!

BETA 1 IS FINALLY OUT!!!

Download it from the thread.

[☆Patched☆]

Hey hey. I could be a spriter.

Anyway, here's a review.

Title screen looks odd. You have the Pokemon logo, then these small letters.

The colors are a bit odd.

Anyway, you may want to re-do Mikachu's sprite.

[deadlyangel91792]

sweet the betas out i take it we can use mikachu???

[Christos]

Originally Posted by diegolovespika

No thanks. I have too much trouble with my own hack. Maybe after I finish.

New Screenshots are up
Progress Report: 2%
First Beta coming up soon!

BETA 1 IS FINALLY OUT!!!

Download it from the thread.

Don't double or triple post, please. Use the Edit Button. You're allowed to double post when you have updates for your hack, but only when the posts are long.

[~Undefined~]

i played the beta... It was pretty good, but having two gyms in the first two towns probably isn't the best. I noticed a few mistakes/bugs in the game
-On route 1 there is a few squares of land that you can't walk through
-the bug catcher that doesnt battle that is walking around in the grass beneath a house in route 2 misspells "sorry". Instead he says "soorry".
-On route 2 nearer to the bottom, there is a tree above a short fence that you can walk through half of the tree.

Thats all I noticed.
I loved Mikachu, even if it is a bit cheesey. I can't wait for the next beta.
~undefined~

[Sarcastic Prince]

The Gyms are too near, and that's what you need to change.

The OW Sprites aren't that good, especially with the Hero/Heroine,

which I only see they have Palette Changes.

[diegoisawesome]

Originally Posted by deadlyangel91792

sweet the betas out i take it we can use mikachu???

Yes, Mikachu is your starter.

Originally Posted by ~Undefined~

i played the beta... It was pretty good, but having two gyms in the first two towns probably isn't the best. I noticed a few mistakes/bugs in the game
-On route 1 there is a few squares of land that you can't walk through
-the bug catcher that doesnt battle that is walking around in the grass beneath a house in route 2 misspells "sorry". Instead he says "soorry".
-On route 2 nearer to the bottom, there is a tree above a short fence that you can walk through half of the tree.

Thats all I noticed.
I loved Mikachu, even if it is a bit cheesey. I can't wait for the next beta.
~undefined~

Ok. Thanks for the bug report. I'll add it.

Originally Posted by Sk8er Prince

The Gyms are too near, and that's what you need to change.

The OW Sprites aren't that good, especially with the Hero/Heroine,

which I only see they have Palette Changes.

I'm not good at OWs, and they're not simple Pallette changes. I went through EVERY VARIATION of the sprite and changed what I needed to change because back when I started this, I didn't know that all that could be edited with simple HEX.

Bugfix version Beta 1.02 will come out shortly. Look for it!

P.S. Thanks to Blazichu to movin g my thread here from the Scrapbox and adding that i had Beta 1 released.

[Sarcastic Prince]

Originally Posted by diegolovespika

I'm not good at OWs, and they're not simple Pallette changes. I went through EVERY VARIATION of the sprite and changed what I needed to change because back when I started this, I didn't know that all that could be edited with simple HEX.

Well, then you'd better get one OW Spriter to make some better ones.

[Eeveon]

It's been a few days since someone has posted here, and I played the beta.
I must say, I loved it! ^^
Every script was really cool, and, though Mikachu seemed like a legendary..it's experience gain was hard, but the stats seemed similar to those of the average level 5 starter, which was good! ^^
The sprite was a mere edit, with the ears, and a nice mixture on the sprite between pink and yellow would've been cool too, but, that's okay.

I laughed when I just saw a ton of Police men every where saying the same thing! xD
I look forward to playing the next beta, and hopefully you haven't given up.

Well, good luck~

[diegoisawesome]

Originally Posted by .Pichu-kun

It's been a few days since someone has posted here, and I played the beta.
I must say, I loved it!
Every script was really cool, and, though Mikachu seemed like a legendary..it's experience gain was hard, but the stats seemed similar to those of the average level 5 starter, which was good!
The sprite was a mere edit, with the ears, and a nice mixture on the sprite between pink and yellow would've been cool too, but, that's okay.

I laughed when I just saw a ton of Police men every where saying the same thing! xD
I look forward to playing the next beta, and hopefully you haven't given up.

Well, good luck~

No, I haven't given up. I'm still currently working on it.

[~Undefined~]

Oh good, it's nice to see some more posting, I was worried a bit then. ^^

Hope it's going well.

[minchan]

Hi! I just played the beta... It's really good! I'm no expert on anything when it comes to hacking so I can't really give much feedback... But I liked it a lot, and can't wait for the next release!

I found a tile that I can't walk through that I should be able to. Maybe you wanna check it out - it's the one my character is looking at in the following screen shot.

[KiraIchigo]

The game sounds awsome but I think I'll wait to play it untill the next beta comes out. Could you PM me when it does?

[axelrulezyeah]

hey i played the beta and it was great but il tell u some things i would change
1.the first pokemon gym should be in the town after where you placed it with the gyms pokemon at least lv 9 - 10
2.the mikachu sprite which i sent you
3.put more encounters and only the first evo of pokemon in the first few grass patches.
4.besides this it was a great hack and i loved it
ps if you liked my mikachu can you let me try and remake the rival sprite for you
pps oh and can you please tell me the unlz number for the hero back sprite
thanks

[Alex31]

Awsome hack.
Mikachu's sprite could use changing, and the first patch of grass has second evo's in it

[diegoisawesome]

Originally Posted by KiraIchigo

The game sounds awsome but I think I'll wait to play it untill the next beta comes out. Could you PM me when it does?

Sure! I'll add you onto a (just started) list.

Originally Posted by minchan

Hi! I just played the beta... It's really good! I'm no expert on anything when it comes to hacking so I can't really give much feedback... But I liked it a lot, and can't wait for the next release!

I found a tile that I can't walk through that I should be able to. Maybe you wanna check it out - it's the one my character is looking at in the following screen shot.

I discovered it earlier, but I was too far in the game to fix it. Just walk around it until the next Beta.

Originally Posted by ~Undefined~

Oh good, it's nice to see some more posting, I was worried a bit then.

Hope it's going well.

Yup, it is!

Originally Posted by .Pichu-kun

It's been a few days since someone has posted here, and I played the beta.
I must say, I loved it!
Every script was really cool, and, though Mikachu seemed like a legendary..it's experience gain was hard, but the stats seemed similar to those of the average level 5 starter, which was good!
The sprite was a mere edit, with the ears, and a nice mixture on the sprite between pink and yellow would've been cool too, but, that's okay.

I laughed when I just saw a ton of Police men every where saying the same thing! xD
I look forward to playing the next beta, and hopefully you haven't given up.

Well, good luck~

Hey, thanks for the awesome review! As I've already said, "No, I haven't given up."

Originally Posted by axelrulezyeah

hey i played the beta and it was great but il tell u some things i would change
1.the first pokemon gym should be in the town after where you placed it with the gyms pokemon at least lv 9 - 10
2.the mikachu sprite which i sent you
3.put more encounters and only the first evo of pokemon in the first few grass patches.
4.besides this it was a great hack and i loved it
5.if you liked my mikachu can you let me try and remake the rival sprite for you
6.oh and can you please tell me the unlz number for the hero back sprite
thanks

1. No, I like my order better, but now the second gym is farther away.
2. I'm doing that now.
3. Done.
4. Thanks!
5. Sure! The thing is, don't remake it directly; that is to say, let me send you a request by PM with more specific details and you can get started.
6. The hero backsprite's not on Un-Lz! There's a tutorial on how to edit it here.

Well, guys, thanks for supporting my hack! It might have started out small, but, slowly, it got better until a lot of people saw it and played it (namely, you guys!) and helped me find many glitches in the game. Thanks to some people who sent me sprites and those people who have helped me with scripts and all those whose tutorials I use frequently. Also, thanks to the guy that started me on the road to hacking: zel!

Expect new screenshots coming later on in the week!

[GKS]

Lol, the mew and the pikachu combined. Good luck.

[~Undefined~]

Wow, I noticed you're past Sarren City and Route 3!!!! That's great news!!!

[diegoisawesome]

I've been redoing most of the starting towns, and Rio's Lab now has a second story, Zigger Town has been expanded to more than twice its original size, Vantrek City gets some new routes leading to the north and east, and of course:
THE NEW RINTO BUS SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!
More info on that to come.

New screenshots and videos to come, too!

Spread the word! Shining Opal's NOT DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!