Red hack: Pokémon Prototype

[Danny-E 33]

Originally Posted by Quilava's Master

This looks absolutely brilliant. So much effort went into this and it shows. It looks like a 2nd gen. game.

Thanks alot! You're right, it's taken a lot of time and effort.

Originally Posted by Quilava's Master

I can't comment much snice the screenshots don't show too much detail about the progress of the overall hack.

I can agree with that. That should change soon enough.

[tigs15]

i would like to see this finished i woul definitley play. Keep up the good work.

[Danny-E 33]

Thank you! It'll certainly be finished with time

Anyway, here's a small update.
Finally learned how SGB packets work to color the screen.
I correctly colored the screen for the Box list in the PC:


And the Pokedex:


Now, the Pokeballs are always red and white instead of a bunch of random colors!
You can check out these screenshots and several more in the first post!

[RyeGuyXD]

This hack looks epic! The sprites its just.. Amazing!

[Danny-E 33]

Originally Posted by RyeGuyXD

This hack looks epic! The sprites its just.. Amazing!

Thanks! I always love the support!

Progress on this has stopped for the past few weeks with finals coming up and all. But things will be rolling again by next week! Thank you, everyone, for your patience!

[Tackle]

I really like Gen II Sprites, I think original Red's Sprites are bad. =)
I'll try this, it looks fun. =D

[Al3X]

This is awesome and everyone needs to look at it! I wish someone could make a banner for this so I can put it in my signature.

[Danny-E 33]

Originally Posted by Al3X

This is awesome and everyone needs to look at it! I wish someone could make a banner for this so I can put it in my signature.

Haha, look at the first post buddy!
And I would be honored if you added it to you sig! (:

I should say, I did replace the old banner with a new one I made in Gimp 2.8 a few days ago. The old one was quite lame. This one is much better, but it still has room for improvement.



Here's the code for it:

[URL=http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=280847][IMG]http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1686/prototypebannerf.png[/IMG][/URL]

[Pinkish Purple]

People have no idea how brilliant this hack is. This is easily the best Red hack I have ever seen! Your Wall-to-Wall advertising paid off, I am following this hack! I looove your recolors :D

[Danny-E 33]

Thank you! That means alot to hear you say that! I try my best
And yeah, there were those who frowned upon it, but I think the wall-to-wall advertising was for the better. Being a gen I hack, it just didn't get enough attention on its own.
Thanks again!

[U_Flame]

Not bad, this seems interesting. I'm curious though, does this still take place in Kanto? If so, why would any maps be changed?

[Danny-E 33]

There are a few reasons why I've decided to do it this way.
I don't want to change the name of the region or any of the towns because I still want it to take place in the real Pokemon universe. This is because I don't want my game to seem so foreign to people to the point that you can't really feel at home with the game anymore.
But I don't want to keep the layout of the map identical because I don't want it to be the same old same old game that we've all played a thousand times. I think redesigning the maps with my own creativity and fresh ideas is one of the best ways to make playing a game exciting and interesting - but I still want it to be Kanto.
Also, redoing the maps isn't necessarily enough. I'm also rewriting the connection data - which means what maps connect to what maps and how - so that the player still feels like they're embarking on a brand new journey.

Also, I completely redid the screenshot section. You should check out what's new in the first post!

[miksy91]

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

But I don't want to keep the layout of the map identical because I don't want it to be the same old same old game that we've all played a thousand times. I think redesigning the maps with my own creativity and fresh ideas is one of the best ways to make playing a game exciting and interesting - but I still want it to be Kanto.

Personally, I think the name of the region should be changed as the map doesn't look like Kanto at all (although you can probably guess what most maps there are based on, due to not heavily "re-scripting" everything).

Other than that, have you thought about adding in new events and creating scripts for them? It shouldn't be that difficult to add in simple "give pokemon" events, new trainer battles and such. After all, Sawakita made those small demonstrations on how to do things some could call scripting. In GS, there is plenty of unused ram space for new stuff to be added in without replacing anything already implemented, ought to be in RB as well.

Also one other thing cool to have would be Running Shoes disabling bike there. You could probably use a similar routine to that of what KBM introduced for Gold and Silver. Debug where you can add it and insert new stuff there.

[Danny-E 33]

Originally Posted by miksy91

Personally, I think the name of the region should be changed as the map doesn't look like Kanto at all (although you can probably guess what most maps there are based on, due to not heavily "re-scripting" everything).

Yeah, I've thought about this alot. I don't want to rename the region and towns because I don't want the players to be unable to connect with the world. I want them to walk into a new town and say "Ahhh, Celadon (:" Otherwise it will be a game with a bunch of ambiguous names to which the player doesn't have any attachments.

That was my biggest problem with Brown. It is an excellent game. But I don't feel like I have any attachments to the individual towns. It is only my opinion though, and perhaps I'm the odd ball that thinks this way, but it's how I feel.

Originally Posted by miksy91

Other than that, have you thought about adding in new events and creating scripts for them? It shouldn't be that difficult to add in simple "give pokemon" events, new trainer battles and such. After all, Sawakita made those small demonstrations on how to do things some could call scripting. In GS, there is plenty of unused ram space for new stuff to be added in without replacing anything already implemented, ought to be in RB as well.

Also one other thing cool to have would be Running Shoes disabling bike there. You could probably use a similar routine to that of what KBM introduced for Gold and Silver. Debug where you can add it and insert new stuff there.

Yeah, I definitley plan to write brand new scripts to make it that much more exciting rather than only manipulating existing scripts.

[Al3X]

At first I thought the names should of been changed too, but I like danny's point in keeping the names because I have attachment to those names.

[Danny-E 33]

Originally Posted by Al3X

At first I thought the names should of been changed too, but I like danny's point in keeping the names because I have attachment to those names.

Good, I'm glad you agree.

[Al3X]

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Good, I'm glad you agree.

I hope it will be like when I played Pokemon Gold for the first time and went over to Kanto and noticed all the changes compared to Red,Blue, and Yellow and how awesome it looked and such.

[Ohlookzero]

Can't wait for this to be finished. Love first Gen hacks.

[Danny-E 33]

Good! Life's busy, but I get to steadily work on this, usually on the weekends.
I'm probably not gonna have any big updates for a while until I get a good amount of mapping and scripting done, which is what I'm working on now. For now, you can check out my Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics Patch which is what this hack is based around, so it's kind of like the first playable demo for this hack!

[Southueki]

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Good! Life's busy, but I get to steadily work on this, usually on the weekends.
I'm probably not gonna have any big updates for a while until I get a good amount of mapping and scripting done, which is what I'm working on now. For now, you can check out my Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics Patch which is what this hack is based around, so it's kind of like the first playable demo for this hack!

I want to play this game really bad.

I've always been fond of the Mew and Mewtwo's story

[Danny-E 33]

Thanks!
What really pulled me in to Pokemon was the first movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back, so I wanted to make a hack that heavily revolves around Mewtwo.

[Southueki]

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Thanks!
What really pulled me in to Pokemon was the first movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back, so I wanted to make a hack that heavily revolves around Mewtwo.

I'm glad you did, cause I really hoped someone would!

I think the story has alot of "juice", the whole Mew discovery, Mewtwo creation, etc

Gamefreak should have invested more on it :D

[Al3X]

How have things been going lately? It's looking as awesome as ever.

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Thanks!
What really pulled me in to Pokemon was the first movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back, so I wanted to make a hack that heavily revolves around Mewtwo.

I loved that movie as a kid and I still love it.

[Danny-E 33]

Progress is slow. Second semester of senior year doesn't allow much time for hacking. But it's coming!
Thanks for being patient! :D

[Al3X]

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Progress is slow. Second semester of senior year doesn't allow much time for hacking. But it's coming!

Blah an education, who needs it?

Originally Posted by Danny-E 33

Thanks for being patient! :D

I don't mind waiting. There's tons of stuff to do on the internet.