Gold hack: Skeetendo Inc. Christmas Hack

[Mateo]

Pokémon Christmas
Trainin' in a Winter Wonderland

Hack of:
Pokemon Gold Version

Story:
This is part of what will become a mini-series known as the "Johto Legacy", which continues to tell the story of Johto after Gold and Silver left off. This is much more than a simple graphics hack to add snow. This game takes place the same year as GSC, just later in the year. It assumes that the events of GSC (the radio tower take over, gyrados and all) took place that summer, so the major events will be different, and more holiday themed. But it isn't just a holiday gimmick. If you love Ice types, or just want to see a new story in Johto, this is for you.


What's New:

- Major events changed to new and often Holiday themed ones
- New tilesets to give it a snowy winter feel
- Map updates to take advantage of more map block availability
- New Pokemon added (from other gens, plus a line of Fakemon)
- A new move (Flame Ball)
- Several new items
- Ice sliding on frozen lakes, not just in Ice Path.
- A few references to other Skeetendo hacks you might catch (including hints at the upcoming prequel)
- New locations (and missing Kanto areas restored)
- Some wild pokemon location changes, some are the same
- Some trainers changed, several the same
- Lots of events have been redone, removed, added, etc.
- Some trainer classes have been changed
- There have been changes to the Elite Four
- Viridian has a different leader
- Game corner prizes (Johto and Kanto)
- More

New Pokemon

Spoiler:

Glaceon
Leafeon
Weavile
Mamoswine
Snorunt
Glalie
Froslass
Mudkip
Marshtomp
Swampert

New Evolutions

Spoiler:

Eevee -> Glaceon = Ice Shard
Eevee -> Leafeon = Leaf Stone
Snorunt -> Glalie = Level up
Snorunt -> Frosslass = Sun Stone
Piloswine -> Mamoswine = Level Up
Sneasel -> Weavile = Moon Stone

Pokemon You Cannot Get (Even by trading)

Spoiler:

Hoppip (Replaced by Mudkip)
Skiploom (Replaced by Marshtomp)
Jumpluff (Replaced by Swampert)
Spinarak (Replaced by Mamoswine)
Ariados (Replaced by Weavile)
Dunsparce (Replaced by Leafeon)
Tangela (Replaced by Glaceon)
Sunkern (Replaced by Snorunt)
Sunflora (Replaced by Glalie)
Yanma (Replaced by Froslass)

Trading
You can catch Trade Evolutions in Cerulean Cave, but if you have VBA link you can trade still. While Pokemon centers are only one floor, there is a Global Trade Station on South Isle allowing you to trade.


Screenshots:

Spoiler:

Just like Platinum, the player is dressed for cold weather


New Cueball Trainer


New Female Swimmer


Olivine City


Kanto also gets an update


Pokecenters get an update as well. Melash is also using this tileset for his Pokémon Hack.


Things have changed, even before you leave home.


I wonder how?


Route 45 anyone? (You cannot surf from there, though. The water is on a different level than you.)


South Isle (NPCs edited out because I didn't want to spoil the Legend Festival)


A taste of the new update. Increased continuity with the upcoming prequel.


Continuity addition. This house belongs to the player from Spirits and Legends.


Hmm, I can't imagine what this place would be.


Another Sterling Silver reference, Zigzagoon and Linoone are here now!
And there is a surprise related to them, too.


I had forgotten to rename this route in the last version, so that's been fixed.
It's been redesigned too! Wonder what South Isle itself is doing.


Well, we can't go through that cave yet.
And what are Team Rocket doing here?


There's obviously something Rockety going on at South Isle.
Could this have something to do with why Jasmine is taking so long to return from her trip?

Credits

Spoiler:

General Hacking
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Mateo


Boy/Girl Routine
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RED
Mateo


Tileset Expansion
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Tauwasser


Trainer Sprites
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Amvz08
Luigi-San
Mateo
Pixel Eye
Berries Inc.


Pokemon Sprites
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Amvz08
Mateo
Pyro


Custom Tilesets
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Mateo


Fakemon
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Amvz08


Idea Planning
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Cartmic
Jwibagi
Mateo
Miksy91


Beta Testing
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Cartmic
Flaming Kyo
Jwibagi
Mateo
Volmise


Inspirations
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South Isle and the Legend Festival were inspired by Pokémon: The Movie 2000.
Ecruteak Shinto Shrine was inspired by Sailor Moon.
Above Cerulean Cave was inspired by Pokémon Secrets and Rumours.
Jack's Secret Base was inspired by Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Battle Tower was inspired by Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Sterling Silver, and various Battle Frontiers.
Town and Route designs inspired by Pokémon Heart Gold & Soul Silver.
The Rival's personality was inspired by Lyra from Pokémon Heart Gold & Soul Silver, and May from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
The Rival's design was inspired by Pokémon Crystal.

Support Banners:




Here are a couple of banners you can put in your signatures, or you are free to make your own. I just put these together because I realized I hadn't made one!

Upcoming Features

Spoiler:

- Several minor bugfixes.
- Ability to evolve Pokémon without trading.
- Viridian Trainer House will now have a different trainer based on the day of the week.
- The Battle Tower near Olivine City will now feature "Practice Battle Machines", an improvement on the old ones I used in "Pokémon Sterling Silver" all those years ago.
- Incense Burners on a few routes that allow you to lure Pokémon.
- The return of Viridian Forest (and it has a purpose).
- South Isle expanded further, with more storyline going on there.
- New areas added to Johto.
- Many story elements changed that were originally too similar to Gold.
- The ability to play as a Boy or a Girl
- The girl is a new character, not Crystal.
- More

Download:
Note: The Bug Fixed and Final Trainer patch should be applied to a clean rom, then given the same final name so you can resume from your saved game. I've kept the original patch up, but if you are downloading this for the first time, you will want to get the latest version.

[cgj]

Hey nice job mateo i really enjoy it!

[K2 XTREME]

nice to see this posted, gonna have to try this out as it sounds pretty fun.

[Mateo]

Thanks guys! I knew it probably wouldn't get a ton of hits immediately with it not being Christmas time right now, but glad you guys enjoy it!

[HemlockLegend]

It sounded kind of awkward to release a christmas hack right now, but oh well, I might try it.

[Mateo]

Well it was one of those things where I originally released it at Christmas on Skeetendo, and then I got bogged down with classes so it took a while to get caught up on bug fixes, so once it was finally *done* I figured I would post it around, even if it didn't make a lot of sense in March. Although I guess I could have waited until July and said "Happy Christmas in July!" like people sometimes do.

[ablahblah987]

This looks good. Nice work. I appreciate surprises but is there any way you could explain some more about what makes this different than the original? What are the new pokemon you've added and have you changed the trainers or the wild pokemon locations?

[jstolze]

Hey, did you happen to edit the trade evolutions so they evolve by level instead? I want to know if I should even train my geodude and abra.

[Mateo]

New Pokemon

Spoiler:

Glaceon
Leafeon
Weavile
Mamoswine
Snorunt
Glalie
Froslass
Mudkip
Marshtomp
Swampert

New Evolutions

Spoiler:

Eevee -> Glaceon = Ice Shard
Eevee -> Leafeon = Leaf Stone
Snorunt -> Glalie = Level up
Snorunt -> Frosslass = Sun Stone
Piloswine -> Mamoswine = Level Up
Sneasel -> Weavile = Moon Stone

Pokemon You Cannot Get (Even by trading)

Spoiler:

Hoppip (Replaced by Mudkip)
Skiploom (Replaced by Marshtomp)
Jumpluff (Replaced by Swampert)
Spinarak (Replaced by Mamoswine)
Ariados (Replaced by Weavile)
Dunsparce (Replaced by Leafeon)
Tangela (Replaced by Glaceon)
Sunkern (Replaced by Snorunt)
Sunflora (Replaced by Glalie)
Yanma (Replaced by Froslass)

Trading
You can catch Trade Evolutions in Cerulean Cave, but if you have VBA link you can trade still. While Pokemon centers are only one floor, there is a Global Trade Station on South Isle allowing you to trade.


Changes
-New locations
-Some wild pokemon location changes, some are the same
-Some trainers changed, several the same
-Lots of events have been redone, removed, added, etc.
-Some trainer classes have been changed
-There have been changes to the Elite Four
-Viridian has a different leader
-Game corner prizes (Johto and Kanto)
-Etc.

[bigdonga]

Hey is it possible to get eevee before Celadon City?

[Mateo]

Yes. Eevee is available from Bill in Goldenrod city (he was in original gold, too) Although now you can get him before Ecruteak, whereas in Gold you had to have Bill tell you the time capsules were online first.

[bigdonga]

Oh yea of course, been a while since I played gold. Thanks mate.

And sorry to be annoying, but can you get evolution stones before Kanto?

[JimmyJ99]

Mateo the hack is great. No surprise there, all your hacks are epic and well done.

[Mateo]

Thanks, glad you enjoy it!

And yes, you can purchase the stones in the department store. It bothered me that they took them out of the kanto dept. store in Gold, so I made up for it by putting them in both.

[bigdonga]

OK, thanks mate.

Great hack btw

[Mateo]

No problem, and glad you're enjoying it!

[naczkens]

Oh, I simply love GSC hacks, and this one is really great.
Nintendo should be proud of this modification of Gold

Btw. Some movesets are weird - for example Glaceon can't learn return

[Mateo]

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I've found a few more small things after release too. I'll get a patch together soon that will fix them. The others that have been found have pretty much been text errors (someone says you met Lance when you didn't, and the "How does ELM know you got an egg from the daycare couple?" question people ask)and other minor things, like a couple of the new Pokemon were in the wrong egg groups. If you guys find anything else, let me know and I'll include it in the minor fixes patch too.

Glad you guys are enjoying this, even with it released at a random non-christmas time xD

[Joshawott]

Wow! This sounds great! How much of the hack is done?

[Mateo]

The whole thing is done, and it should be mostly bug free, other than the ones I just mentioned.

[ablahblah987]

This may be a dumb question, but what do you do after you meet Lance at the Lake of Rage? It's clearly different than the original game.

[Mateo]

Remember that gatehouse leading into the woods that had rockets blocking the exit saying they were stirring up trouble? You should check that out again after talking to Red at Lake of Rage.

[ascension7]

I loved this hack, especially near the end. I haven't played the fixed version yet, but I'll make sure to try it out! I'll be pretending it's December again whilst I play

[ablahblah987]

Originally Posted by Mateo

Remember that gatehouse leading into the woods that had rockets blocking the exit saying they were stirring up trouble? You should check that out again after talking to Red at Lake of Rage.

Alright thanks. I'm enjoying this hack.

[ChaosSonic]

I'm really thinking into downloading the file so I can play this, I read every single positive post here, and while I don't get as much excitment from GSC hacks (personal peference) I will try this out, knowing that this will be more enjoyable. :D