[Hack of the Year] POKéMON LIGHT PLATINUM

[Ash493]

Well in the original Ruby there was a NPC that checked the happiness in Verdantuf Town... I believe Wes used some original maps so the NPC should be present...
I don't have ROM with me right now so I cannot check it with A-Map...

[alienhunterx]

Originally Posted by Mathula

Thanks Snake.I just wanted to evolve Pichu.And i hope that there is a way

for that.

Pichu will evolve into Pikachu in about level 25-30. Mine did...

[Mathula]

Thank you guys.I really struggled with that.

[Snakebyte]

Alright, I just added a healing NPC to Yellow Town, where the Shinx on the bench used to be.

The downside is, Wesley was very inconsistent about reusing scripts, so that means some other Shinx may randomly heal you instead of making Shinx noises. I went through and grabbed most of them, but I don't remember where every Shinx everywhere in the game is... So if anyone runs into a magic healing fairy Shinx in 1.2, let me know and I'll fix it. xD

I've just got to sit down and go through the tedium of fixing the Pokedex entries now. Everything else is done.

EDIT: Half-done the Pokedex entries. I'll only be fixing the Unova ones because they're just completely wrong, Wesley's grammar-problem-Sinnoh-ones will stay because editing these the way I have to do it to avoid all the bugs forever is a massive *****.

[Ash493]

You should have left those Shinx there xD
It would be awesome to find such an easter eggs xD

By the way why didn't you add another character instead of using Shinx's script?

[Snakebyte]

I've gone through this entire thing without adding a single script or doing a single repoint and due to how many crazy glitches there are I'm trying very hard to keep it that way. It's probably just me being unnecessarily cautious, but given what happened to your and SP's translation attempt, and that the same thing happened to mine several times until I started doing it this way... maybe it isn't. And Shinx was the only nonessential script large enough for me to add healing to without making it bigger than it was before, as the cry stuff was in there.

There's... a pretty good chance there's still a magic Shinx fairy somewhere. I checked all the major cities and some of the routes, but there's probably more Shinx inside some buildings, and 60-70% of the Shinx I found used the script I cannibalized while the others had new ones, so...

God the coding is a mess ._.;

That said, I've got something to do today, but I can probably have the final version up tonight or tomorrow.

[rpg man]

Um...When I talked to rayquza it turned to be a shiny enter...!

Is this a glitch?

Originally Posted by alienhunterx

Pichu will evolve into Pikachu in about level 25-30. Mine did...

Mine is lv 100 it didn't.

[CycloneGU]

Regarding Pichu evolving into Pikachu, per its article...

It evolves into Pikachu when leveled up with high friendship, which evolves into Raichu when exposed to a Thunderstone.

If you have not been friendly to it, such as it constantly fainting in battle or you giving it medicinal herbs and such that it doesn't like, then you will not be able to evolve it.

My advice: catch another and try again. You'll never evolve it now since it can't level up any further.

Cyclone

[Snakebyte]

This should be my final update to 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/6swelg
Edit: Mediafire mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?5sti7px30yi7al3

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 (1.1 & Final):
- 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.
- Unova Pokemon now have appropriate Pokedex entries, usually a slightly edited one combined from both Black and White due to space constraints.
- A serious glitch involving Emboar and possibly other Unova or Sinnoh starters has been fixed.
- The wild encounters in Mt. Draken and Mt. Winter now work properly, but I will be leaving Gible and Bagon in Mt. Shuem because I like Gible.
- An NPC on a bench in Yellow Town will now heal your Pokemon.

Bugs:
- Don't enter the Normal Rank Contest.
- You may need to enter and exit the Pokémon Center after Red's Gyarados uses Rain Dance in Esmerald City.
- Some items may respawn.
- Cries have not been changed, and Sinnoh Pokedex entries have not been corrected from Wesley's badly translated versions.
- Some Shinx on the overworld may heal your Pokemon if you talk to them. (Let me know if this happens, and where, and I'll fix it)
- Buggy events in Lauren. (Ash493 may be taking this project on.)

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, and flat-out giving me the fix for the wild encounters.
- Ash493, for letting me know how healing scripts work, even though I am lazy and only did the bare minimum there.
- giradialkia, for making awesome music.
- 0shawott, for the Emboar thing.
- Sarcastic Prince, for the Kenta thing.
- Darthatron, HackMew, Lu-Ho, and anyone else who made tools I used.
- Me!

This should be my last update. I just realized that I forgot to take a look at the boat, too. However, Ash493 has expressed a desire to bugfix more of the game, especially Lauren, and he has my permission to do so. While there may be future updates, it'll probably be him releasing them, not me.

Like last time, I've done very minimal testing, so if anything I did broke anything, let me know and I'll do what I can.

[rpg man]

Okay.......I talked to manaphy and turned to be...phinoe...

[Indigo346]

This hack is the best! I am stuck on the third gym though, it is really hard...

[lukasz_pro]

electabuz evolution bug is fixed now ?

[Ash493]

Originally Posted by rpg man

Okay.......I talked to manaphy and turned to be...phinoe...

Where exactly?

Originally Posted by lukasz_pro

electabuz evolution bug is fixed now ?

Which one? :D The level drop due to the different growth rates or the freezing evolution?

[alienhunterx]

I thing he is asking abut both of them.

[lukasz_pro]

Originally Posted by Ash493

Where exactly?


Which one? :D The level drop due to the different growth rates or the freezing evolution?

lvl drop and gender change from male to female (LOL :D )

[giratina94]

Hey... First of all, awesm hack.... Best ever..... Well done guys.... The thng is, i ve been looking for latias in zhery's waters but with no luck. Can u please suggest some likely places to find it... I wud be grateful....
P.S. - I ve looked north of esmerald city. Its not there...

[rpg man]

I found it underwater!!

[Snakebyte]

Originally Posted by lukasz_pro

electabuz evolution bug is fixed now ?

No. I don't have the tools to edit growth rate.

[Ash493]

Originally Posted by giratina94

Hey... First of all, awesm hack.... Best ever..... Well done guys.... The thng is, i ve been looking for latias in zhery's waters but with no luck. Can u please suggest some likely places to find it... I wud be grateful....
P.S. - I ve looked north of esmerald city. Its not there...

Since Latie is a roamer, there's absolutely no way to tell where she appears...
You need to meet her at least once Then you just need to use Pokédex to check her location.

This might be a good addition... showing L@ti's pokepics to register them into dex so it would be easier for you guys to find them.

[giratina94]

Originally Posted by Ash493

Since Latie is a roamer, there's absolutely no way to tell where she appears...
You need to meet her at least once Then you just need to use Pokédex to check her location.

This might be a good addition... showing L@ti's pokepics to register them into dex so it would be easier for you guys to find them.

Hey.... I found latias in route 408.... Just above the beach.... I had already found latios in marfeny lake.... Nw i ve all legendary's... Gonna train for world championship nw...Thnks for the reply Ash493...

[iamQmai]

I've done everything it says in the last update, but i still get the white screen.

My computer isn't the best of computers, but surely it's not that? I've patched 3 different Ruby rom's (the one i should DL) with the latest patch, and all 3 get the same result. I'm also using the correct Emulator settings.

[giratina94]

Hey Snakebyte... Actualy i realy want gible so i want the final patch, but i cnt download it from the sendspace link u provided... Whn i click "Click here to start download from Sendspace", it says things lik "Sorry free service is at full capacity"... Cn u please post the patch smwer else? Or please mail it to me ([email protected])...
Thnks....

[Ash493]

Originally Posted by giratina94

Hey.... I found latias in route 408.... Just above the beach.... I had already found latios in marfeny lake.... Nw i ve all legendary's... Gonna train for world championship nw...Thnks for the reply Ash493...

Ouch, I forgot about OWs Latie xD xD
Oh yeah, if you want bonus, you can get the roaming Latie :D
Since you have the in-game Latie, you will be able to track the roaming as well :D

Originally Posted by iamQmai

I've done everything it says in the last update, but i still get the white screen.

My computer isn't the best of computers, but surely it's not that? I've patched 3 different Ruby rom's (the one i should DL) with the latest patch, and all 3 get the same result. I'm also using the correct Emulator settings.

Try to use VBA-M. It may help.

[giratina94]

Originally Posted by Ash493

Ouch, I forgot about OWs Latie xD xD
Oh yeah, if you want bonus, you can get the roaming Latie :D
Since you have the in-game Latie, you will be able to track the roaming as well :D

Gr8...:D Thnks...:D Btw, i wud like to suggest somethng... Though the game is awesm as it is, it wud be even better, if u cud add a move maniac... If not a maniac, atleast a tutor who cn teach frenzy plant/hydro cannon/blast burn to the starters. U see u ve starters fm every generation in the game, tey gotta be able to learn ter unique and most powerful moves...

[Snakebyte]

Originally Posted by giratina94

Hey Snakebyte... Actualy i realy want gible so i want the final patch, but i cnt download it from the sendspace link u provided... Whn i click "Click here to start download from Sendspace", it says things lik "Sorry free service is at full capacity"... Cn u please post the patch smwer else? Or please mail it to me ([email protected])...
Thnks....

My sincere apologies. That never happened when I released the original version.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5sti7px30yi7al3

Here's a mediafire mirror, I'll edit it into the release post.