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January 14th, 2021 12:31 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneAww I was kind of looking forward to raising litwick, having both litwick and phantump sprites would have been awesome. oh well. uh yeah I do want to set mine up like yours. thanks :) and do I have to create another thread for hall of fame/completed mons or do I put that in the same one?
The icon thing is going slow, and far more complex than I thought, I can't seem to find a really good guide, well I found one but its for emerald, so I'm cross referencing with the first guide I used for fire red, but I've already followed some of those steps so data is in different places. Luckily when I was getting started with romhacking I setup my folders with multiple redundancy for roms. So I have multiple copies of completely untouched ones. So now I have my clean one side by side with my current version in hex maniac, to compare with.
Like I said its slow, but I think I'll get there.
Glad you like the changes I made, to the typing, :) I knew I thought it was a good idea, but I couldn't know for others.
Yeah making more direct type relations like the light vs dark thing, is interesting to me, because like at that point its, not
oh gotta switch to this other type that resists it but is strong against it, but the winner would come down to the pokemon themselves not just their typing.
physical attacker vs special atker etc. stats and movesets.
Several of the changes are like that actually changing certain things to mess with meta, make things good that were otherwise bad.
For example I have an idea to expand the ev system to allow for more growth, (I'm working/planning on making it less tedious) because right now evs are great, but they're
not gonna be the difference between what makes a pokemon worth using, that's base stats.
But in the show you can train to overcome initial boundaries so I wanted to do something like that.
I think it would be pretty cool, best case you're unshackled from the typical pokemon choices and can use anyone. If you put in the effort to train them.
Because sometimes the evolved form looks dumb lol, and I'm just gonna say it, sometimes you just wanna use the cute version.
But babyforms just aren't viable as is.
On a slightly related note did I tell you about my cleffa in blaze black?
back to the types though, yeah I get what they were going for with the fairy type strengths and weaknesses, trying to weaken dragons (for some reason) and make normal types better, they just went too far. -
January 14th, 2021 6:07 AMRonii love the idea of Fairy and Dark type being super effective against each other. Game Freak should add matchups like that as it could really liven up the meta. and thanks for removing fighting super effectivity, Fairy had basically just become a second Psychic type at that point lol. overall awesome job! cool that you found out about the trainer flags too. i don't know enough about that area to comment, but i wish you luck on your icon editing endeavors!
for the journey thread, you can pretty much lay it out however you want so long as it's clear what you're raising and what you've raised so far. it's ideal to mention what Challenge you're using the Pokemon for and what Legendary they'll be used for as well, to better track things overtime when they start piling up (like mine lol). if you wanna make it clean like me and just have the sprite visible + hover over them for details, tell me and i can hook you up with the bbcode :) your birthday mons and any that you collect as rewards for completing challenges or Master VPPs or whatnot are already maxed and you just need to add them to your hall of fame. you're free to use them for requirements straight away. -
January 13th, 2021 11:49 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneNo prob, and yeah poison is still super effective lol. After I did that fairy lore research I actually liked that part of the type match ups.
What I did was change dragons attacks to not very effective instead of immune, and make them resist physchic and ghost, and finally made them weak to darkness, as well as being super effective to it,(as they already were) we don't see many (any) types that are complete foils for one another so I thought it would be an interesting light vs dark thing.
Oh and I removed the super effective to fighting thing. (that was just harsh)
So summary (with astericks by my changes)
Resist: dragon*, ghost*, fighting, psychic*, bug
Immune:*
Super effective def: Steel Poison Dark*
Super effective atk: Dragon, Dark
normal atk: fighting*
Had a little setback though, my icons weren't perfect as I thought I accidentally replaced an existing icon, so I'm working on that now.
but on the positive side I finally found the trainer flags and found out how to make battles repeatable without having to rely on vs seeker.
Had a few other setbacks, but I'm staying positive.
And for sure on collecting mons. :) I just made my journey thread a little while ago, but I feel like I'm missing things, am I supposed to say what challenge I'm going for now?
Also is my birthday mon already 100? -
January 13th, 2021 11:13 PMRoniawesome to hear! let's go collecting our fave mons :D you'll need 2 more Fire types before you can get to Entei, but that shouldn't be a problem hehe. let me know if you got questions :)
also, apologies that i wasn't able to reply to your previous message. i think it got buried in the notifications overtime oof. but that's great to hear that you were able to code in the whole new type! can i ask what relationships changed with it so far? (please tell me poison is still super-effective lol). -
January 13th, 2021 9:48 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneHey Buddy, I just got my first virtual pokemon! :)
Litwick is shiny and it went straight to a chandelure, actually they're both shiny. lol -
January 11th, 2021 3:58 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneSo about my hack, I was able to add the fairy type, but I did a bit of editing with the type relationships because I didn't like the normal relationships for the fairy type.
And I changed some normal moves to fairy type and adjusted some learn sets. After some play testing it seems really solid. My fairy pokemon are holding up well,
and the game ai is even acting accordingly. I had the rival fight in cerulean and I got surprised by a metal claw from his charmander!
Its not perfect yet, because I later realized I replaced an existing graphic when I added my Icon, so now the game doesn't have a place for it, and I can't fit it in elsewhere.
So I need to figure out how to expand the icon graphics, I need to either make a way to repoint to my custom type icon, or make a new expanded table and repoint there.
Don't know how it'll work yet. But that's a few things done at least. -
January 10th, 2021 11:06 AMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneThanks and yeah that's all understandable, thanks for letting me know though so I know what to expect.
and its not my actual birthday month, but it is the one I registered when I made the account, I completely forgot what I put at first so I got lucky that I was lazy and just set 1/1. lol -
January 10th, 2021 3:16 AMRoniYoo just wanna say belated happy birthday! Didn't know you celebrated yours at the literal start of the year daamn. Good choice for bday VPP as well hehe. Hopefully you understand Caite not being able to give us our pokemon right away, bcs they surely got some life stuff going on.
Anywho, I'll make a long reply to your previous message soon. Haven't been at my PC yet so I can't type out essays like normally huehue -
January 8th, 2021 1:08 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_Nonethe huge subs are garbage.XD lol true!!
I had to learn the lesson to just never read comments or turn off reply notifications by default.
If I'm ever on reddit I just post and never check for replies.
I'm not that heavy into computer knowledge, so I'm using the simple windows, I mean I use chrome, but just try to make sure I'm never signed into any browser I use.
I not too particular about browsers beyond that point. But I usually use either chrome or edge, but I think edge is using chromium like you say, so I may give firefox another look.
Oh and I use Ccleaner for taking care of most trackers etc, and keeping my device running smoothly, with the latest update I see they've created their own browser, don't know the particulars of its set up or anything but that could be an option, haven't tried it yet though.
and yeah that's why I like there's a good balance here on all fronts.
and I haven't tried other drayano hacks, but you're right blaze black is just great, so I'd be willing to check his other stuff after I finish this one.
I'm upset about that cheron rotation battle after the third gym, though, my god that was a significant difficulty spike lol.
I had my team fully EV trained had most of my moves setup how I wanted, and still got completely destroyed. REPEATEDLY
But that is probably a perfect challenge/benchmark to test your team. I can't imagine anything harder than that fight.
I might see if I can make a script to make that battle repeatable.
Would be a good way to test my other teams I'm bringing up, and I just wanna suffer XD. lol
Thanks for the encouragement, and as far as my motivation... I'm really not sure, probably a little of both I prefer to set goals, and constantly work at them
but not really have set deadlines as that kind of creates innate failure conditions.
Right now I'm doing a lot of research, between just interacting with people here, and playing blaze black and regular fire red.
and if I find something interesting while playing I might open up A-Map and check out the script, see if I can do something with it . (not much success for now, besides that thing with the starters and from that I gained understanding of offsets and repointing) -
January 8th, 2021 4:55 AMRonii see. i actively avoid those sites as well, but it's been pretty chill for the last couple months or so since PC, reddit, FB, twitter, and youtube are really the only sites i ever frequently visit anymore. i got peace of mind knowing that my ad blocking and anti tracking extensions don't ever let me see any ads anywhere.
firefox i believe is one of the last few browsers that still isn't using chromium as a base. i stick with them for their push towards a privacy-based internet experience, but if they do go under soon like many are saying, i may just switch to ungoogled chromium or something. hopefully it won't be a hassle transferring all my saved pages and bookmarks from one browser to the other ugh. it makes me curious though as to what browser you're currently using? or are you even on windows?
ooh yea i'm a professional lurker on reddit. i can't even count how many subs i'm in but my time's mostly spent binging memes and browsing smaller communities. the latter i feel is where reddit truly shines. the huge subs are garbage.
there's no escaping bad eggs in the internet sadly. we even have some here, it's just that there's way more nice people than bad so it isn't noticed all that much lol. it's what makes me stay. unfortunate on that other forum though with the over-censorship. i believe it's a good balance here.
blaze black's still a good hack to take inspiration from! anything from drayano really, since he knows how to make hard hacks correctly and consistently. have you played all the stuff he's released?
good to hear too that you're working on optimizations to make your work flow go faster and smoother! along with the other things, it's these small progresses that accumulate overtime and lead to the big things. if you stay consistent with this drive for the next couple months or so, that project might reach completion a lot faster than you'd expect :D btw, are you the type to be more motivated by setting personal deadlines, or would you rather just go with the flow and do things on your own time? -
January 7th, 2021 12:15 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_Nonelol,wow maybe everyone not knowing about the quote thing is a blessing in disguise. XD.
I don't use much privacy programs, because (to my knowledge) those I knew about were pretty much like the no call list for telemarketers, completely optional and ignorable, as far as things like do not track. I usually just police myself, use ublock to get around things that try to force membership by witholding site access. (I don' use adblocker here though of course, lest I forget to turn it off).
I guess I only worry about privacy so much as what's linked to me, like I'm not too worried about my dns following me, mostly just membership sites that clearly want to track you everywhere and show you ads based on anything you even glance at. And make it hard for you to find the logout button...
So I avoid joining if I don't want to or feel I need to, and just use caution. and I used to use firefox, but they kept making changes to be more like google browser so it kind of turned me away from it.
Forums:
Oh yeah, you don't have to tell me that one, this place really is great, I started checking out forums and the like, after all the covid lockdowns started a while ago, and I started with reddit. Was good for about a month, then went real bad real fast lol. Met a few good people though so that was cool.
Then I tried a the official forum for the developer of that game,
people were nicer for the most part, but there's always those few no matter where you go.
Unfortunately the mods or rules there were a bit restrictive, to the point of censorship, so after giving up on that,
I found this place a while later.
and I haven't looked much into radical red, I know about it but I don't know how much it changed, in my mind I'm thinking something more akin to blaze black, but for fire red.
Actually you may be right about that, and thanks for the advice. :)
I'd like it to be received well, but I am mostly making it for me, the type of pokemon game I'd want to play.
I need to organize a bit better though, I'm checking things off my list(seeing if its possible and getting an idea of the how), but if I organized my ideas into an actual checklist
I could probably move a lot faster with my research.
I feel I've learned a lot though, so that's fun. I can make and add basic script now, I know the difference between binary hacking and decomp.
I know how to apply an asm routine, even if I don't know enough to make one yet.
and I'm starting to be able to read the source for code for the games. -
January 7th, 2021 2:55 AMRoniif you're talking about social media, those and forums are two entirely different things altogether imo. forums are more about discussions whereas social media is just a place to connect with people and vibe or something. for the latter it makes sense to get information from you since that's how people on there can get to know you. but ofc the guys who ran them realized they could make a killing off of selling this data to advertisers and that's how we ended to where we are today. capitalism wins again. i agree that you're much safer on a site like this than Facebook or Twitter, if privacy is something you value deeply. are you using firefox and privacy-centric extensions rn? it's what i'm doing. just as a safety net of sorts.
forums also tend to be hit or miss in terms of niceness of the community. i think it all stems from how good the mods are (another thing social media will never have), and lemme just say that from first hand stories of other folks on here who've been active in other places, Pokecommunity's apparently one of the better governed sites by a long shot. that makes me proud to be an active goer here, especially now that i'm part of that body that overlooks the place :) aiming to reach the same level of competence!
don't worry about sounding sappy, i'm pretty same myself at times too huehue
ooh so you're goal is to make something akin to radical red? that's a pretty good thing to start out with! at least you won't be stressed out about character creation and map making too much. i do agree that, with how advanced the rom hacking community has gotten the past years, it's almost a necessity to add some new stuff, even if it's just feature updates, to get people playing. just remember though, at the end of the day the important thing isn't how it's gonna be received by the community, but how proud you are of your work. if you're happy with it, it's done :)
and yes. it'd be a nightmare if you were someone who made one of those Forum Game threads from 2016 that's still active because of how many people post on it regularly (me included lmao). -
January 7th, 2021 1:03 AMMeister_anon~Master_o f_None:) Thanks buddy I appreciate that. And yeah I like it here, unlike other social sites where the main goal is trying to get as much of your info as possible, here I feel there's privacy should you want it. Also the people are good for the most part, I was really needing something like this you know, a nice safe place to engage with people and communicate (in a positive manner).
In times like these where we're all so separated I'm really seeing the importance of connecting with others.
lol I know I sound like a tv special right now, but its nice. lol
and I'll definitely keep that in mind for my hack, I also try to work from the easy things to the more difficult in most tasks, but I feel that's easy to forget on big projects or when learning a bunch of new stuff.
It got complex but I was really trying to keep it simple originally, my hack is actually just feature based, and not adding any new overarching story, but me being me,
I somehow still may need to add a new location just to make my feature fit/ seem appropriate. *facepalm*
As well as find a way to change battle script or icons.
oh and yeah I can see how not having notification on by default is a good thing. -
January 7th, 2021 12:07 AMRoniyup it comes from experience from using this site is all hehe. took me a bit to get used to it too, but not having notifications on for your thread by default is pretty useful especially for those who make romhack threads and get like 50 messages per day from people asking the same exact stuff lol. might even apply to you in the future :p
also good to hear the progress! just make sure that you already have a concept for the story, region, and what the world will look like so you'll have a concrete roadmap to follow. it'll be much less likely to get burned out when you have proper direction and don't over exert yourself. i'm not a romhacker, but i figured it's sorta just like one big project (being a graphic designer, i got plenty of experience with those), and i'd recommend tackling one aspect at a time. go from easiest to hardest or vice versa depending on which one suits your work flow better.
it's also really great that you're really getting into the community :D i'm glad that you've stuck around, and that we're able to support you. truth be told, you're one of a very few set of users i've greeted on this site that actually stayed active. granted i've only really been here for about 9 months (yes my account's 8 years old but i was completely inactive until March last year lmao), but i just wanna say i'm thankful :) best of luck to your project once again! -
January 6th, 2021 9:12 PMMeister_anon~Master_o f_NoneOk thanks I'll definitely do that, I've been clicking on the link to make a page with just that post and then bookmarking that, and following the thread for extra redundancy.
On the respond thing, yeah I've just figured out using a period to take up the space, maybe make that the default behavior for the respond button. idk
Reason I brought it up was, I've made a lot of posts since I joined a while ago, so I've talked with a lot of members, and I've noticed that even among people that have been here for years, many of them don't use the quotes when responding, my thought is they just don't know about it. I've informed several about it myself.
But the people that I've seen who've been here the longest, or make large posts always use the quotes to notify people.
but yeah I'm really glad you let me know about that when I joined. :)
and on a more personal side, I think I'm starting to make some good progress in the knowledge base I need for my hack.
I don't know how to do anything in half measures so of course its needlessly complicated and expansive.
I'm trying to keep from constantly adding things because I know that's the best way to fail/ lose interest, I'm just finding more things I don't know that I need to know,
but its going a long at least. I've been getting plenty of help from the community there's a lot of knowledge here so that's nice. :)


