[Other] Player/Naming Rival- Which ROM?

[DyingWillFlareon]

Ok so without going into great detail(as I tend to do), I'd like to ask up front- If I wanted to do a game where you have a rival you can name that is the opposite gendered PC, which ROM would you recommend?

FireRed- Has a namable rival, but not a gender opposite ingame.
Emerald- Has a gender opposite rival, but not nameable.

None of the other generations are like this either, so I'd like to know if there is a way to rename the gender opposite rival in game. Maybe a script or routine or something?

Thanks in advance!~

 

[Touched]

I did some research on this when I first got here. The thread shows you how to write a custom routine for FireRed that will allow you to rename basically anything (in game, from a script. From the intro is a lot harder) https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=333784

That being said, it's portable to Emerald as well, so it doesn't matter what ROM you pick - whichever you choose you're going to need some custom ASM and scripting to achieve this.

 

[C me]

Gender Opposite would just use checkgender and a female sprite. Easier than ASM xD

 

[Touched]

Gender Opposite would just use checkgender and a female sprite. Easier than ASM xD

This is what emerald does, afaik. This still wouldn't allow the player to give the rival a custom name though - you definitely need some ASM for that.

 

[C me]

I just meant use FireRed

 

[daniilS]

Then you still can't name an opposite gender rival without ASM.

 

[C me]

Haven't played FireRed but I'm sure you can name Gary/blue like in rby, so assuming you only want one rival just replace him.

 

[daniilS]

Have you read the question? She wanted a rival of the opposite gender. Gary has a fixed sprite and thus a fixed gender.

 

[C me]

Yeah replace his sprite with a female one, wasn't that obvious from my first post?

 

[daniilS]

And what if the player chooses to be female?

 

[C me]

Then have a male sprite too and just hide the same gender sprite

 

[daniilS]

And how would you do that in the intro without ASM?

 

[C me]

And how would you do that in the intro without ASM?

Fair point, never thought of that.

 

[Joexv]

Isnt there something like this already made?(the asm) I remember reading about it and thinking it would be pretty cool to try out. I could be totally wrong though.

 

[Touched]

Isnt there something like this already made?(the asm) I remember reading about it and thinking it would be pretty cool to try out. I could be totally wrong though.

There might be a patch for no rival naming, but the graphical hacks for changing FR to be like this would be far more complicated. You'd need to make the game load a different OW in the naming screen, change the sprite (and maybe palette) for the rival and make it load a different set of default names. So I'd say that's a minimum of three hooks, more likely 4. I remember when doing my intro that intro hacking on that level was non-existent.

 

[Joexv]

There might be a patch for no rival naming, but the graphical hacks for changing FR to be like this would be far more complicated. You'd need to make the game load a different OW in the naming screen, change the sprite (and maybe palette) for the rival and make it load a different set of default names. So I'd say that's a minimum of three hooks, more likely 4. I remember when doing my intro that intro hacking on that level was non-existent.

Hmm i guess i must be going insane then....
Cause i jnow about the no rival name. But i coulda sworn there was a hack that did this very thing..:(

 

[Touched]

Hmm i guess i must be going insane then....
Cause i jnow about the no rival name. But i coulda sworn there was a hack that did this very thing..:(

I could be wrong though. :P I don't remember there being a public patch that does this, but individual hacks might have.

 

[Rezordaxx]

Could someone get a hand of that no rival name patch for me then :p kinda need it.

 

[Percy]

Could someone get a hand of that no rival name patch for me then :p kinda need it.

diegoisawesome made a tool for that. Here it is.

 

[DyingWillFlareon]

Wow, missed a lot on my own thread.... ^~^;
But I'll try out some of these ideas and say if they worked. :)