[Hack of the Year] POKéMON LIGHT PLATINUM

[SonicBlazePlatinum]

For the X version I might put the Mt. Draken Pokemon in Mt. Shuem, but I'm not sure as of now. Wild Pokemon will be higher leveled and some will be harder to find since this game is supposed to be harder. I've only worked up to Inhore Gym though. I decided to take a break until August, I'll do it badge by badge until Lauren which will take two days. I'll give an update on what gym I'm at. By the way Jessica has a level 23 Vespiquen now and has x4 Super Potions for items. Oh and the Bug Catcher in Route 401 now has a Level 5 Caterpie and no Venipede so you don't have to worry about being Poisoned. Route 401 will be the only easy part ingame since it's the first route. Oh and when the X version is done I'll beta test it to see how hard it is.

[ramibas299]

Originally Posted by gam3r!

Heh....don't think its that easy ! (honestly)=P.....Good luck on it but if you don't bother do some legendary hunting first...

I just beat it xD Is there anything else left?
By the way, my highest level is 68 (Charizard) :D
I just kept using revives and full restores.

[Snakebyte]

Screw it, I'm bored. Here's an update to my English translation of Light Platinum!

This will only work if patched to a Ruby 1.0 ROM.

The patch is too large to upload as an attachment, so I've Sendspaced it again.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5j2elc

If you get a white screen, you are using the wrong rom, or your emulator is not correctly set. Turn VBA off, delete the Light Platinum.sa1 or .sav file, turn VBA back on, go to Options -> Emulator -> Save Type -> Flash 128k, turn VBA off again, then turn it back on and load the rom once more. If that doesn't work, you are not using a Ruby 1.0 Rom. When looking for it, googling '0907 Ruby 1.0 (U)' might help. I found one on 4shared.

I will not answer any questions about how to make this work on a phone, PSP, or anything that isn't Visual Boy Advance!

Updates:
- All Pokemon except Venipede's line now have the correct base experience and catch rates. Venipede giving tons of experience was something fun and memorable to me, so though it's not as much as before, they still give way more experience than they should.
- Kenta has been renamed to Gold, and is correctly referred to as Oak's assistant, not his nephew.
- Pokemon that were unavailable in Mt. Draken due to the wild encounters not working there will now show up in Mt. Shuem (the first area where you use Lava Surf), with Gible in the first area, and Bagon in the final one.
- Rayner (I think that's the correct name? The Serenity gym leader) will now always show up in the Power Plant. One or two text errors were fixed as well, and Growlithe can now learn HM05 Lava Surf. I did this for Tyranee's Let's Play months ago and never posted it.

Bugs:
- Don't enter the Normal Rank Contest. --Will not be fixed.
- You may need to enter and exit the Pokémon Center after Red's Gyarados uses Rain Dance in Esmerald City. --Will not be fixed.
- Some items may respawn. --Will not be fixed.
- Pokedex entries and cries have not been changed. --Pokedex may be fixed if I figure out how, cries will not.
- Yellow Town needs a healing script. --Will be fixed if I figure out how.
- Wild Pokemon do not appear in Mt. Winter or Mt. Draken --Workaround added, probably will not be fixed as I don't know what's wrong.
- Buggy events in Lauren. --Probably will not be fixed, as I'd have to tweak the scripts on just about every event in the region.

Thanks to (in no particular order)...
- Wesley FG, who made this hack and deserves far, far more credit than I do.
- Banjora Marxvile, for poking me and for making me take a look at the XP issue.
- giradialkia, for making awesome music.
- Sarcastic Prince, for the Kenta thing.
- Darthatron, HackMew, Lu-Ho, and anyone else who made tools I used.
- Me!

This does not mean I am not still open to suggestions. I got impatient and didn't leave time for feedback, I just have other things to do for the next little while and don't want to be thinking about this. Please, if there are any errors that I haven't listed, or if you know how to fix the errors that I have listed, let me know! I'll get back to you guys in a week or two, and if there's enough, I'll just update again!

Come to think of it, I could probably just do the pokedex entries with A-Text... Hmmm...

*writes down notes for 1.2*

Oh, and by the way, I haven't tested this at all. I don't think anything I did would break anything else, and I definitely don't care enough to play through the game again to see. Let me know if it did, though!

EDIT: If anyone grabbed this in the first five minutes it was up, please redownload, the link was wrong. Thanks!

[Ash493]

Originally Posted by Snakebyte

- Yellow Town needs a healing script. --Will be fixed if I figure out how.

Why don't you just add random NPC with special 0x0 (healing)?
Some old lady with random talk "Your Pokémon seem to be hurt, would you like to heal them?"

[Snakebyte]

I genuinely have no idea how to do that, I've never looked into it. Could you VM/PM me an explanation? Just the scripting part... Ideally, I'd just add a script to the mother.

[gam3r!]

Originally Posted by ramibas299

I just beat it xD Is there anything else left?
By the way, my highest level is 68 (Charizard) :D
I just kept using revives and full restores.

Haha! congrats pal. now you can make a trip around zhery and lauren to battle steve,cynthia and the male hero from b/w (don't remember his name) or catch legendaries otherwise your done with it

[krisye]

Great hack, I had fun playing it, untill the league. Scared by the high levels

[Snakebyte]

A 1.2 update is coming!

It will have:

- Working wild encounters in Mt. Draken and Mt. Winter (but I'll leave the Gible and Bagon in Mt. Shuem, because dragons are nice)
- Healing script in Yellow Town.
- Correct Pokedex entries for Gen 4 and 5 pokemon (maybe, I don't even think the 27 extra Pokemon can have entries).

I should be able to make dex entries for everything but Virizion, Reshiram, the Unova dragons, and the Unova and Sinnoh starters.

EDIT: Emboar no longer evolves into Scolipede! Other evolution problems that may or may have shown up in-game with Sinnoh/Unova starters and Unova dragons have also been fixed!

[ramibas299]

Originally Posted by gam3r!

Haha! congrats pal. now you can make a trip around zhery and lauren to battle steve,cynthia and the male hero from b/w (don't remember his name) or catch legendaries otherwise your done with it

Seems legit xd
I'll try finishing the pokedex

[soulblitz]

So is anyone going to make a updated version of it, to fix the bugs??

[Snakebyte]

Originally Posted by soulblitz

So is anyone going to make a updated version of it, to fix the bugs??

...Can you read...?

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[SonicBlazePlatinum]

When I finish Flora Sky I plan on playing Snakebyte's Light Platinum updated translation to see the changes. Also the X version will be continued in August. It should take 19 days, 16 for each gym leader, two for the Zhery and Lauren Leagues and one for the World Tournament. Then in September I'll beta test it which should take a week. I don't know when it will be released, but I will take my time and try not to rush things.

[K2 XTREME]

Will anything be done for keeping the people from being able to cross the water in the boat before getting their second badge, since if you don't get that badge your going to be stuck at Mt. Shuem?

[Snakebyte]

The what now? What boat, what water?

[K2 XTREME]

rt. 407 is the route where u take the boat to cross the lake.

[alienhunterx]

Looks like you have really gave your heart and soul to the translation thanx to Sarcasm prince.. By looking at your update, I need to tweak my walkthrough quite a lot. But its OK and good to see the fixed errors. As for my walkthrough its near Zhery's Elite Four.

By the way what will be edited or changed more. I need to know because of my walkthrough.

[spartan1999]

uh hey guys where do you get the old rod in light platinum cuz i thought that feebas evolved through max happiness in this game but then when i looked this up i realized it evolved via the water stone so i missed that chance so can u tell me where the old rod is so i can catch another

[Ash493]

Originally Posted by K2 XTREME

rt. 407 is the route where u take the boat to cross the lake.

That one where you have to pay for crossing, right?
Yeah, that should be edited.

[pokevictor]

great work Wesley im already hoping for your next hack u did awesome on this it is just epic

[Ach7AC]

Originally Posted by SonicBlazePlatinum

When I finish Flora Sky I plan on playing Snakebyte's Light Platinum updated translation to see the changes. Also the X version will be continued in August. It should take 19 days, 16 for each gym leader, two for the Zhery and Lauren Leagues and one for the World Tournament. Then in September I'll beta test it which should take a week. I don't know when it will be released, but I will take my time and try not to rush things.

So LP X will be a harder version of the game? LP's sudden difficulty drop after the 3rd gym was one of the game's worst flaws. Another thing, just to make sure, will LP X also have the updated translation? LP's ordinary English translation was sort of bland and felt like it was rushed.

[Cybermew]

Does anyone have any idea why I can't get into the Safari Zone at all? I keep trying and yet it just gives me the script as if I'd answered No.

[alienhunterx]

Originally Posted by Ach7AC

So LP X will be a harder version of the game? LP's sudden difficulty drop after the 3rd gym was one of the game's worst flaws. Another thing, just to make sure, will LP X also have the updated translation? LP's ordinary English translation was sort of bland and felt like it was rushed.

Well Snakey has tried hard to fix errors and on translation. I don't think anyne has complains left...

[StarkePkMn]

Going to replay this again and see what's new.

[MegaJ007]

I played Light Platinum before, and I am just wondering if Swinub can evolve into Mamoswine. Sorry if this has already been posted, but in my last play of the game, it didn't.

[lukasz_pro]

sry but im confused a little :X , 1.2 is available ?