Wild double / triple battles

[Jambo51]

Originally Posted by sonic1

That is correct.
Jambo, mind telling us how you loaded the pokemon in the 2nd slot?
I mean, you surelly know that the first slot is in 202402c and the second in 202402c + 0x64.
The way i load into there is manually, using data from another pokemon of another battle, saving his data into a file and then loading it to the offset when battle is about to start.

Did you used a routine or manually loaded the data?

~Sonic1

I made the routine repeat the generation if the battle type was wild double. It currently generates a wild Pikachu (always) because of how I had to design it for now. But it shouldn't be outwith reach to have the game generate 2 random wild Pokémon.

[sonic1]

About the 2 random generated pokemon, according to what JPAN told me, it isn't hard to make the mod in the game in order to get it.

The routine that does the wildbattles is in 0x08082AEC, but only creates 1 pokemon. To change that, we must do a copy of the routine at 0x080829FC, which is the one who creates the pokemon at enemy slot 1. If we could create a hack that asked the game to create a pokemon in the next slot, we could even have 6 wild pokemons at once. I think it would'n be hard to do it.

~Sonic1

[Jambo51]

Originally Posted by sonic1

About the 2 random generated pokemon, according to what JPAN told me, it isn't hard to make the mod in the game in order to get it.

The routine that does the wildbattles is in 0x08082AEC, but only creates 1 pokemon. To change that, we must do a copy of the routine at 0x080829FC, which is the one who creates the pokemon at enemy slot 1. If we could create a hack that asked the game to create a pokemon in the next slot, we could even have 6 wild pokemons at once. I think it would'n be hard to do it.

~Sonic1

I already did that. I got the game to generate 2 wild pokémon, and yes, it could easily generate 6. The game would hang badly though, and there is no code in the game for triple battles, never mind sextuple battles.

The bigger issues are the music playing the "you won" music at the wrong point, and the ability/lack of ability to catch the Pokémon on screen.

Once we deal with these issues, and deal with the lack of ability to run from the battle. We'll be in a good position to start implementing this hack into actual hacks.

[slawter666]

As we're on the topic of battles. How difficult would it be to implement more advanced battlegrounds? i.e. 256 colour backgrounds, animated backgrounds, a different background depending on the time of day (and maybe seasons too), one for specific areas (such as one for each elite four + the champion) etcetera.

[TheDarkShark]

@slawter666: driver implemented a battle BG hack in BPRD (Firered German) which loads different bgs depending on a variable. Shouldn't be hard to port, but I'm not sure if he actually released the info. I'm not an ASM expert, but an animated background could go with the extended BG-loading routine easily, I guess. Same goes for different BGs for daytimes/seasons. A 256 bg should be possible somehow, but it is possible, that there are some background colors used in the standard battle screen. If this is true, it would be very hard to make 256 colors load properly (actually impossible without loading the other bg-palletes into the OBJ-palette...).

[slawter666]

Originally Posted by TheDarkShark

@slawter666: driver implemented a battle BG hack in BPRD (Firered German) which loads different bgs depending on a variable. Shouldn't be hard to port, but I'm not sure if he actually released the info. I'm not an ASM expert, but an animated background could go with the extended BG-loading routine easily, I guess. Same goes for different BGs for daytimes/seasons. A 256 bg should be possible somehow, but it is possible, that there are some background colors used in the standard battle screen. If this is true, it would be very hard to make 256 colors load properly (actually impossible without loading the other bg-palletes into the OBJ-palette...).

Thanks for the reply.

Could a (roughly) 256 colour background could be done using a similar method to Black Charizard's 256/240 colour Titlescreen? However he removed how he did it (although it might still be in some quotes, I haven't checked).

[Meta Paradox]

Okay, if the double wild battle needs changing every so often EXTERNALLY with a hex editor, wouldn't writebytetooffset work? At least for wildbattle scripts?

[Jambo51]

Originally Posted by Meta Paradox

Okay, if the double wild battle needs changing every so often EXTERNALLY with a hex editor, wouldn't writebytetooffset work? At least for wildbattle scripts?

No. The byte in question is always written with the standard routine. And it's always written as 0x0. This needs some investigation. It is possible for me to make a routine which reads from lastresult for ghe wildbattle type, though.

I've got the game generating 2 random wild pokemon from the map's pokemon. Although i'm struggling to find where the buggy things are, atm.

[POKEMONMASTER260]

Is it possible to implement this in a Ruby ROM hack, instead of just a memory hack?

[miksy91]

This is pretty much impossible if you ask me.

Reason:
It would be a difficult thing to make it so that 2 pokemon could appear at the same time but the real problem would be the coding for the battle not to end if you caught one pokemon (of course if the hacker wanted it to be so that the battle would end leaving the other pokemon uncatchable it would be possible, maybe).

[sonic1]

At 01065c put a branch to this routine:~

.thumb
.align 2

main:
LDR     R5, =0x20370CA  ' var 8009 adress. Chose this one because its not used often
LDRB    R5, [R5]
CMP     R5, #0xF 'If var 8009 is 0xF then go to new code. Else continue original code.
BEQ     new_code
STR     R1, [R2]
LDR     R1, =0x2023E82
MOV     R0, #0xF
STRB    R0, [R1]
LDR     R4, =0x8010665
BX      R4

new_code:        'What this code does is basically setting the double battle bit.
PUSH   {R7}
MOV     R7, #1  ' see the line up
ORR     R1, R7
POP    {R7}
STR     R1, [R2]'----------Rest of the routine
LDR     R1, =0x2023E82
MOV     R0, #0xF
STRB    R0, [R1]
LDR     R4, =0x8010665
BX      R4

Presto! With var 8009 with value 0xF set, you can now have double battles. Any double battles: Wild, trainer, wireless, safari, blah blah blah.

~Sonic1

[Team Fail]

Originally Posted by sonic1

At 01065c put a branch to this routine:~

.thumb
.align 2

main:
LDR     R5, =0x20370CA  ' var 8009 adress. Chose this one because its not used often
LDRB    R5, [R5]
CMP     R5, #0xF 'If var 8009 is 0xF then go to new code. Else continue original code.
BEQ     new_code
STR     R1, [R2]
LDR     R1, =0x2023E82
MOV    R0, #0xF
STRB    R0, [R1]
LDR     R4, =0x8010665
BX      R4

new_code:        'What this code does is basically add 1 to the current value in r1, setting the double battle bit
ADD    R1, #1  ' see the line up
STR     R1, [R2]'----------Rest of the routine
LDR     R1, =0x2023E82
MOV    R0, #0xF
STRB    R0, [R1]
LDR     R4, =0x8010665
BX      R4

Presto! With var 8009 with value 0xF set, you can now have double battles. Any double battles: Wild, trainer, wireless, safari, blah blah blah.

~Sonic1

Ooh goody. Now, all that needs to be done is to write a routine that allows a wireless double battle to work!

Especially if each trainer tries to catch the same Pokemon.

Edit: Someone made a really good point on that video. I'll have to see to it. It is using surf to kill both opposing Pokemon. But, I don't think anything special will happen.

[Jambo51]

Originally Posted by Team Fail

Ooh goody. Now, all that needs to be done is to write a routine that allows a wireless double battle to work!

Especially if each trainer tries to catch the same Pokemon.

Edit: Someone made a really good point on that video. I'll have to see to it. It is using surf to kill both opposing Pokemon. But, I don't think anything special will happen.

As you may have realised by now, it makes absolutely no difference if you KO them both at the same time as the game runs the checks properly.

I've managed to iron out most of the bugs with my routines now. The only problem now is that I can't find what tile the player is standing on, and as such, can't work out probabilities for how often they should occur.

I was trying to cook up a way for normal grass tiles to have a 1 in 20 chance or something, with "special" grass tiles having a much higher chance. If anyone could point me in the right direction for where to get a tile ID in the RAM/ROM, I will finish this hack off, and get it posted on here for all and sundry to use.

Also, 100th post! :D

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by Jambo51

As you may have realised by now, it makes absolutely no difference if you KO them both at the same time as the game runs the checks properly.

I've managed to iron out most of the bugs with my routines now. The only problem now is that I can't find what tile the player is standing on, and as such, can't work out probabilities for how often they should occur.

I was trying to cook up a way for normal grass tiles to have a 1 in 20 chance or something, with "special" grass tiles having a much higher chance. If anyone could point me in the right direction for where to get a tile ID in the RAM/ROM, I will finish this hack off, and get it posted on here for all and sundry to use.

Also, 100th post! :D

I believe you have to read the X/Y position of the player from the RAM, then manually load the tile ID from the ROM based on that.

[Jambo51]

Here we have a newer update of the routines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUWIWztYrA

It's not perfect. You can't run from the battle, and you can only catch one of the Pokémon, but the music plays on winning the battle correctly now.

[Pingouin_7]

Weird.
I got my hands on a FireRed rom and when I checked 02022B4C it was already set to 03 for some reason.
Then when I edited it to 01, it started some kind of double battle with only one Pokémon on the right.

When I sent two Pokémon, one of them acted normal, but the second Pokéball flew all the way up to the wild Pokémon and some kind of glitchy line of mess appeared near my Pokémon's HP bar.
The game froze after the battle.

[Liquid Twilight]

Wow. I glanced at this thread a day or two ago and I thought it would take you all a lot longer to get a almost fully functioning wild double battle going.

Now, I have no knowledge about anything you guys have done and I wouldn't know where to start implementing but in regards to running could you not run a check at the beginning of the escape routine to check if it is a double battle and if it is use a modified version of the runaway script.

E.g.

The formula for the normal Run routine is ((Speed of your pokemon) x 32 / (speed opponent) divided by 4, mod 256) plus 30 times (amount of escape attempts).

Edit: I forgot to add this would require the run command to be executed before any attacks happen and would require the battle to finish if successful ... but I imagine you all knew that already.

Also ...

In regards to a capture could you not force the routine to treat the captured pokemon as knocked out and then proceed with the battle as normal. Would this not enable the other pokemon to be captured? or does the game only allow for 1 capture per battle.

As I said, I have no knowledge of this sort of thing so please don't kill me, I'm just trying to help.

However for a wild double battle could it not be ((Speed of both player pokemon divide by 2) x32 / (speed of opponents) divide by 8, mod 256) plus 30 times (amount of escape attempts)

Thus effectively averaging out the wild pokemon to trainers pokemon ratio. If you need me to clarify the formula, just ask.

[jabberjabber8]

I have been away for some time (just over 2 months) when I left we were painfully close to managing this but by the looks of it there has not been a post in this thread for months...

Does that mean wild double battles have been perfected or does it just mean we have given up?

[Jambo51]

EDIT: Interesting. the video decided to stop working. Look down a couple of posts. Spherical Ice reposted it for me.

This is the latest on Double Wild Battles! Looking pretty good IMO, :D.

[Anbuja's_BlooDY]

Originally Posted by Jambo51

This is the latest on Double Wild Battles! Looking pretty good IMO, :D.

I don't know if this is just me or not, but i can't watch the videos ;s

It says theyre removed.

[Spherical Ice]

I believe this is what Jambo meant to post, haha.

[ShinyDragonHunter]

Would it be possible to generate a double wild battle with another trainer?
Like in DPPt, you can team up with Riley and fight two wild Pokémon with Riley on your side.

[Herpahermaderp]

So, Jambo, are you going to share your double battle ASM? lol