Blue hack: Pokemon Wood

[Sawakita]

Pokemon Wood

Hack of: Pokemon Blue


Introduction:
Hi, I'm Sawakita and this is my first hack.


Storyline:
The story is set in a region called Durma; it's heavily forested and towns are separated each others by woods and caves, that are inhabited by creatures called Pokemon.
This region is bureaucratically organized in Prefectures that accentuate those divisions.
You live in an almost forgotten village, located on the borders of Durma; your family is poor and often is unable to pay unbearable and unfair taxes. So one day, governor's envoy come to arrest your parents, all happening in front of you helpless presence.
That day a spirit of revenge begins burning inside you, and you leave your hometown to conquer the social redress that you deserve.


Features:
* A new storyline
* A new region (new cities, new routes, new caves);
* Durma has its own Pokedex, with Pokemon taken from generation 1, 2, 3 and 4;
* New battle sprites, taken from all the four generations, for pokemon and trainers;
* Also backsprites are no longer "grainy";
* New trainer types (devamped from newer versions);
* New events;
* New scripts, completely re-written from scratch;
* Real Time Clock, including week days (some events will depends on the time);
* ASM work;



Screenshots:

Spoiler:

Videos:

Spoiler:

Programs used:
* HexWorkshop, a hex editor;
* Hexeccute, another hex editor;
* WoodMap (a program for mapping and repetitive tasks, programmed by me with the help of Darthatron);
* TLP, graphics;
* BGB, a debugger to check if ASM routines work fine;
* RGBDS, an assembler;

Public Releases:
None yet.

Special thanks:
IIMarckus, for his "disassembly base", and for answering all my questions when I wasn't self-sufficient, and allowing me being what I am now;
Mateo, for the 'Skeetendo forum' and its logo design;
SkeetendoBoard, for being "brainly stimulating";
Tauwasser, again for helping me figuring out things;
Ubitux, for moral support;

And I think that's all.

[Lugiaz Soul]

You should add a "Software Used" section so people can know what you used to start this fun game.

[giradialkia]

Originally Posted by Lugiaz Soul

You should add a "Software Used" section so people can know what you used to start this fun game.

I'll be the one to tell you what would be wrong with that.
GB hacking is so much more complex than GBA, that there is so little software/tools for editing them that people generally just use Hex Editors and ASM. Simple as that.
Now, it's nice to see a GB hack that has apparent potential- obviously you'll have to do a lot, what with Brown overshadowing all GB hacks (pretty much), but I think you know what you're doing, so I expect good things

[Sawakita]

Originally Posted by Lugiaz Soul

You should add a "Software Used" section so people can know what you used to start this fun game.

Thanks for reminding me, I also forgot to add acknowledgement.

[Bela]

A game that's heavy on the social commentary? Sounds like my kind of game

[Quilava's Master]

This hack looks sweet. The sprites are awesome though I'm not too much of a fan of the hero backsprite (the color look soff to me) good luck on this and I hope to see some more screenshots

[ShadowDragon3812]

Nice to see GB hack around. Looks good, keep up the good work Interesting story too, cant wait to play.

[matt steel]

Havnt played a GB hack in a while il look forward to it xD
Also how long do you plan on making it (Storyline wise) as i like long games

[Sawakita]

Originally Posted by Quilava's Master

This hack looks sweet. The sprites are awesome though I'm not too much of a fan of the hero backsprite (the color look soff to me) good luck on this and I hope to see some more screenshots

Actually I decided that I don't like HGSS hero, so I changed it to Silver "rival" (that may cause plot's updates as well..)

Originally Posted by matt steel

Havnt played a GB hack in a while il look forward to it xD
Also how long do you plan on making it (Storyline wise) as i like long games

The story is going to be not too wry and not too linear, since I don't want to be bored, neither I want to be annoyed with a "billion-times-branched" plot, while I'm playing it; although, there are going to be sub-features, commonly called "sub-mission", that will add something to the game enjoyment.
I'm not anticipating anything, except this example: the events, where people used to trade pokemon with you during the game, will be rewritten for suiting different needs (pretty cryptic, isn't it?).

As for the hack progress, I have to say that I'm a little stuck with a script I am building, so progress is pretty low, but on the go.

[ShadowDragon3812]

YAY SILVER AS HERO! Looks awesome, story seems interesting how you describe it. Can't wait to play.

[Destiny Demon]

A Blue hack... You don't see these very often... Let's review it then. :D

Your first hack is a Blue hack? That's the first I heard of it. xDD Joking, but good luck on that. :P So this region is heavily forested... Maybe the reason it's called Pokemon Wood...? ;) And so at the end of the story, you want to avenge your parents... Sounds like you're an evil person then. XD

I like your set of features. Especially when you included sprites from newer generations. And the ASM the hack will have. :) And your screenshots look pretty decent, don't seem to see anything wrong with them.

Good luck on this GB hack. It seems to look really good, and I hope you keep up with it~ n___n

[アルセウス]

I love GB/GBC hack! especially the one that have pokemon from other generation, anyway what's the mascot pokemon?

[miksy91]

I like the way you decided to put Silver as the hero but there is a minor problem though; in the title screen, Silver is a guy but then again, when you battle with him, he looks like a little kid :D

Anyways, all in all, this hack is just superb !
Great job done with it

[rosebunny]

I saw this in your signature on Skeetendo. I thought it was just a little mockup. Glad you're making it. I like the idea of another gb hack as you don't see many nowadays

[Sawakita]

Small update, corrected player's OW:

Originally Posted by Destiny Demon

A Blue hack... You don't see these very often... Let's review it then. :D

Your first hack is a Blue hack? That's the first I heard of it. xDD Joking, but good luck on that. So this region is heavily forested... Maybe the reason it's called Pokemon Wood...? And so at the end of the story, you want to avenge your parents... Sounds like you're an evil person then. XD

Well, he's Silver, after all.

I like your set of features. Especially when you included sprites from newer generations. And the ASM the hack will have. And your screenshots look pretty decent, don't seem to see anything wrong with them.

Good luck on this GB hack. It seems to look really good, and I hope you keep up with it~ n___n

Thanks. Next update's screens will probably bring edited tilesets (from GSC).

Originally Posted by アルセウス

I love GB/GBC hack! especially the one that have pokemon from other generation, anyway what's the mascot pokemon?

Leafeon's going to be the mascot. Although I'm not planning to put it as starter (as 1st-gen tradition would suggest)

Originally Posted by miksy91

I like the way you decided to put Silver as the hero but there is a minor problem though; in the title screen, Silver is a guy but then again, when you battle with him, he looks like a little kid :D

Do you mean that backsprite looks younger than frontsprite? They look fine to me.

Anyways, all in all, this hack is just superb !
Great job done with it

Thank you.

Originally Posted by rosebunny

I saw this in your signature on Skeetendo. I thought it was just a little mockup. Glad you're making it. I like the idea of another gb hack as you don't see many nowadays

What do you mean with mockup? Thanks anyway.

[Flandre Scarlet]

Wow, lovely work, I must say.

I love the story. It's short, but it's good enough for me. I also like the screenshots. Very nice work. I'll keep an eye out for updates on this~

[xoax]

Well,it's very good to see another GB hack here. I dunno why,but i always loved them. This one looks like it was put a lot of effort in it,with good results. =D
The Pokemon are really nicely inserted,they look great on GB standards.
Good luck!
PS: Is Durma based on Burma? O_o That's the first thing that came into my mind when seeing the region name...

[Zeffy]

Ahh, this hack made me remember the first thing that made me want to ROM hack; messing with the old blue ROM. xD
Anyways, good luck with this! This is surely a great hack with potential. It might even compete with Brown. xD

[Sawakita]

Some news:
I'm re-assembling all the changes I've done in this hack on a .asm file, apart from the ROM, which include my ASM routines living in their "textual way", the modified graphics splitted in their own "raw" files, as well as "raw" maps. This allows me to have much more control on the entire project. That's why the hack is going to have a little "slowdown" to accomplish this re-organization: but once this is done the project will have its speed boosted up.


In the meantime I've done this boxart (not too good so far, but I still like it, it has a sort of "retro" style):

Originally Posted by xoax

Well,it's very good to see another GB hack here. I dunno why,but i always loved them. This one looks like it was put a lot of effort in it,with good results. =D
The Pokemon are really nicely inserted,they look great on GB standards.
Good luck!
PS: Is Durma based on Burma? O_o That's the first thing that came into my mind when seeing the region name...

Thank you, in fact I'm really working hard on this hack.
Actually Durma is a distortion of an italian word ("durame") that means "heartwood", i.e. the most consolidated part of a tree's trunk.

[LightOfTruth]

Nice to see a GB hack on here. I hope you enjoy working on it. I be following with the support bar on my sig and wishing you good luck

[Sawakita]

UPDATE:
It's a video of another script. I think I'm slowly improving, this script is a little bit more articulated than the other one.

[miksy91]

I'm not lying when I say this but that's one of the most awesome scripts ever done with a first generation pokemon game !

Too bad no one else understands how much effort it took to make it :\
Scripting in 1st and 2nd gen isn't really even close.

[Sawakita]

Originally Posted by miksy91

I'm not lying when I say this but that's one of the most awesome scripts ever done with a first generation pokemon game !

Thanks mate, it's really appreciated.

Too bad no one else understands how much effort it took to make it :\

Meh, we have to deal with it. Luckily we can vaunt that we have fun just by Hacking.
You know, I think it can be pretty boring spending the time pressing buttons on A-Map..

Scripting in 1st and 2nd gen isn't really even close.

Well, 1st gen requires ASM, ok. But even though there isn't an actual scripting engine like following generations', there are a lot of specific functions. Until now I found functions for: give pokemon, give item, check item, play fanfare, apply movement, play music (maybe?), stop music, face player, hide/show objects, display Dex, and basic triggers.

So, yeah, it takes time, but I have a lot of fun so, that's what matters.

[miksy91]

Originally Posted by Sawakita

Well, 1st gen requires ASM, ok. But even though there isn't an actual scripting engine like following generations', there are a lot of specific functions. Until now I found functions for: give pokemon, give item, check item, play fanfare, apply movement, play music (maybe?), stop music, face player, hide/show objects, display Dex, and basic triggers.

So, yeah, it takes time, but I have a lot of fun so, that's what matters.

Yeah, the enjoyment of it keeps me hacking too :D
In the last few months, I've been learning something new nearly every day !

Awesome
I can see it already: "Sawakita's Scripting Compendium, 2010 - 2011"
(in G/S one: "2004-2005, Tauwasser")

[tehGDS]

wow very very impressive D= expecially it's a level script for first gen (believe me, I feel the pain trying to actually hack 2nd gen) that was the best thing I saw, and I played brown and wisteria, geat job and keep the great work up