[Demo] Pokemon Lightning Yellow

[triggerhappymonk]

Nice game! It's a creative twist on the original Yellow version. A few complaints though: No Sprites for Pikachu after you lost to it for the first time, when you talk to Pikachu more than once the game glitches and crashes, and no wild Pokemon music. other than that, the game is really good keep it up!

[desbrina]

triggerhappymonk
Which version of the game are you running? I've just played through till after the first rival battle and leaving pallet town and didn't encounter any of those using the latest (0.4). Can you also give me the message from the crash, i think its fixed in version 0.5 (unreleased yet) but i want to make sure

~|Sora|~
As for the tiles, it started off with fire red/leaf green tiles then was suggested to use hg/ss, and if i'm not mistaken, b/w had only just come out when i started so there wasn't tileset/sprites available.

Not sure what you mean about the blades


Edit
Just noticed that people may have had problems with the version 0.4 patch not extracting into the root folder, instead it was extracting to a completely different folder. You should be able to patch correctly now

[Orangturttle]

Okay, seeing as there have been over 150 [or something like that] replies, I have not read them. So what I am about to say has probably been said, countless times.
When I first opened this up, I thought "oh great... another attempt at recreating one of the games..." Then I read it... and this is really good.. I looked at your website and you have actually made a lot of progress good job! I think the tiles are perfect for what you're doing. And all in all, this looks like a pretty sound project! Good Job! And Good Luck!

-OT

[Nightwing87]

Your mapping skills are very sleek.
Played the demo, definitely impressed with the overall work you put into this.
Yellow was my favorite pokemon game because you could get charmander, bulbasaur, squirtle, and pikachu! I never really needed another party besides HM slaves. Game was awesome, and you're not doing it any shame.
9/10. <3

[Desukān]

This looks really nice ^-^
I'm downloading the demo now!

~Lani

[triggerhappymonk]

I downloaded the latest version avaible. I can't remember the error I got when talkibg to Pikachu, but apparently you got it listed in your list of known bugs. btw, i used tyhe update to get it working.

[desbrina]

You weren't using the latest version if it fixed after updating. Glad to see its working anyway.

Thanks for all the good comments

[MaTe9usz6]

The GTS is avaible in 0.4 version?

[desbrina]

It's available in 0.5 which isn't out yet

[SooperTrooper]

I downloaded the demo and did a quick play through to get a feel of the game. Overall, I found the game quite enjoyable, but the lack of end punctuation and small mapping mistakes caught my eye.

I'd give this game an 7/10.
Keep on it. Good luck.

[desbrina]

Not much of an update, been addicted to playing L.A. Noire, but here is what's done of route 12

Route 12

New version will come when route 12 is done

[khkramer]

How'd you get that red overworld?
It looks very nice.
Good luck with the project, would be nice to see it finished :D

[desbrina]

The walking overworld is from the actual game - sprite sheet found here

as for the others (cycling/surfing/fishing etc.) tebited15 on deviantart made them

[venom12]

I can't wait to play version 0.5. This is the best remake of yellow that i played.

[desbrina]

Finally after 15 minutes of waiting for the file to upload, verstion 0.5 is out

[KingCharizard]

Dude i like your ideas, but in every map you have this obsession with the stairs.. everymap.... tone it down and i like how you broght kanto into the next generation but like i said tone it down on the stairs... and the battle screens need to be updated to fit the next gen too.. you still got FR/LG battle scenes...

[desbrina]

Dunno what you mean about stairs, the maps are almost a copy of the hg/ss kanto ones.

i know the battle screen needs sorting, but i've not found anywhere that's got good rips of the hg/ss battle screen

[KingCharizard]

Last time i checked viridian forest didnt have stairs in it, neither did pewter city and route 3

[desbrina]

in hg/ss they did, which is what my maps are based on.

You can see them from the bulbapedia site
Route 3
Viridian forest
Pewter

[KingCharizard]

Well i'll be dammned... I'm sorry then i didnt play HG/SS the last ds pokemon game i played was diamond

[desbrina]

Quick update
Route 9 mapped, not evented yet though
Route 9

I've also redone the way pokemon encounters are handled to make the encounter chance the same as yellow


There seems to be a left over debug message in version 0.5 when entering a battle. Version 0.6 is out to fix that

[clacla$$$]

I get an error every time there's a wild pokemon, including when I'm loaned a weedle.

[desbrina]

what is the error message?


Edit:
Pewter Museum

[desbrina]

new update

route 9 finished
route 10 finished

and a couple of new screenshots

[Awkward Squirtle]

I'm mainly going to comment on the GTS system, as it's the part I like the look of most (I'm a programmer myself).
The actual GTS makes trades in two ways. One is the standard way in which someone using 'Seek Pokémon' finds a Pokémon they want, then chooses a Pokémon matching the conditions set in exchange. You have this already. The other way is when the server automatically matches two deposited Pokémon with each other, if they mutually satisfy each other's conditions. Do you have the second method implemented too?
Next, you need a better interface for the GTS, rather than only using message boxes. Do you think you could make a full-screen (well, full-window) interface? This would let you, for example, use columns for the list of Pokémon, and give a visual representation of the search results much like the DS games.
Now, I'll suggest some features that I feel are missing from the official GTS, that you might want to implement.
Firstly, improve the 'wanted Pokémon' condition selection. It irks me that you have to specify a species; this should be optional much like level and gender. To make this effective, add a few more criteria that can be asked for, such as type, ability, or a learned move. This also has the advantage of letting people add to their Pokédex using the GTS, as they can get Pokémon they haven't seen yet in exchange.
If you've ever used the official GTS, you'll know it's filled with impossible and unreasonable requests (e.g. Zekrom, level 9 and under). Adding more criteria exaggerates this, so you'll need to filter those out somehow. I suggest adding a server-side check when a request is made that checks the request is valid (for example, it would reject a request for a level 9 and under Zekrom, or a Spiritomb with Wonder Guard). This would remove the impossible requests. Unreasonable requests can be avoided by allowing users to filter results by the wanted Pokémon (e.g. blacklist and don't display offers that request legendaries or level 100s, or only show offers that request a Pokémon the searcher actually has in their PC boxes).
Finally, allow users to view the full summary of a Pokémon in the search results - I often have to trade Pokémon away again because they're hacked or have an undesirable nature/ability.

On a completely different note, I agree with those people saying the battle graphics need to be updated - they're very inconsistent at the moment. At least upgrade/downgrade all Pokémon/trainer front and backsprites to ones from the same generation (you might need to do some edits for Red's backsprite if you upgrade to 4th/5th gen).

Other than that, the game looks very promising. I love it when developers put some effort into scripting instead of just mapping; games running on plain Essentials just don't do much for me :)