Conversation Between Fotomac and BettyNewbie
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October 31st, 2016 6:46 PMBettyNewbieYou're welcome! :)
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October 31st, 2016 5:43 PMFotomacAgain, thanks! I'll format them per the standard OW walking sprite format which is understood by Cygwin and put them in the sprites folder.
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October 31st, 2016 4:46 PMBettyNewbieOkay, I see the games now. Thanks. :)
Here's the Looker OW:

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October 31st, 2016 3:22 PMFotomacThe files are titled "pokered.gbc", "pokegreen.gbc", and "pokeblue.gbc". The "files and stuff" you refer to mostly comprise an editable version of the source code, which I generally make available with each alpha in an effort to encourage collaborative coding and assistance in fixing bugs and such.
ETA: I do all compiling of the game files with Cygwin as I edit the source code. To make sure I have a distinct release with each alpha, I compress them weekly and upload the resulting RAR file to Google Drive. These RAR files are uploaded every Sunday evening (or "Masterpiece Night" as I like to call it, after a well-known PBS institution involving the weekly national broadcast of British drama), with the exceptions being Week 1 (I was hampered by illness at the time I was originally to begin uploading each alpha) and Week 4 (there was a significant game-breaking bug I was unable to wrap my head around until the day after). Week 2 was a private release, which I call Alpha Zero. The first public release, Alpha 1.0, was uploaded during Week 3. I am currently playing through Alpha 2.0, which was released last night. Barring any bugs like the one I discovered that scuttled the planned Week 4 release, Week 6's release, due next Sunday (the 6th), will be titled either Alpha 2.0.1 or Alpha 2.1 depending on how much work I get done in the interim. -
October 31st, 2016 2:24 PMBettyNewbieOkay, I found the correct link and was able to DL it... But, where's the patch? All I see is a folder full of files and stuff, no game.
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October 31st, 2016 10:47 AMFotomacHm. That's odd. I'll try to see what's wrong. Oh, I spotted a glitch in the early part of the game where Professor Oak isn't facing the way he should when he's giving you and your rival your first Pokémon. I just made a quick edit to "engine/overworld/movement.asm" to fix it, but now the rival is looking away from Professor Oak at the same point in the game for some reason.
ETA to that: There should be a download button in the upper-right-hand corner of the screen when you access the link. I believe it looks like an arrow pointing downward to a horizontal line.
I made a Looker OW sprite if you want to use it. Mateo's using it in his Red++.Oh, thanks. -
October 31st, 2016 9:19 AMBettyNewbieI tried to download it, but the link doesn't work. :(
I made a Looker OW sprite if you want to use it. Mateo's using it in his Red++. -
October 30th, 2016 10:09 PMFotomacI just uploaded Alpha 2.0 of it to Google Drive and left the link on the thread in Sideshow Showcase. Alpha 2.0 adds plenty of new features, changes some items and TMs, and fixes a major bug that breaks the Gyms and prevents all progress from Pewter City.
In the next alpha, I'm thinking of adding a reference or two to the Global Police guy on the S.S. Anne being none other than Looker himself, and also working some more on the TMs as I change them around (currently they're hit and miss as they haven't been adapted to fit the changes made to the TM list yet), among other things. -
October 30th, 2016 9:45 PMBettyNewbieLooker was sort of expected (liked that they pretty much confirmed that he was the Global Police Agent on the SS Anne), but I'm pretty surprised that they centered an episode around Gabby & Ty. Rare that you see such minor, sort-of forgotten NPCs get any kind of attention like that.
After how much Generations disappointed me, I look forward to your story. :) I think characters like Kris, May, and Dawn also deserve better than what the anime gave them, writing them all as bimbos who were more into contests, boys, and playing dress up than battling. (May and Dawn also had to spend entire sagas playing girlfriend to a perpetual 10 year old loser with a yellow rat.)
How's your Tri-Color Nostalgia hack going? -
October 30th, 2016 9:18 PMFotomacIn any case, it's a damn shame Generations ended up the way it did, considering it's got at least a few interesting plotlines I'm thinking of adapting for my fanseries. Of particular interest to me are Looker's role in the hunt for Team Rocket and Gabby and Ty's five minutes in the limelight in roles expanded from their appearances in the core series games. Too bad we won't be seeing them anymore until the next time, if any, they decide to adapt Hoenn....
(BTW in my story Looker will more or less be described as having the looks of David Tennant and the voice of Sherlock Holmes.) -
October 15th, 2016 7:18 AMFotomacThanks.
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October 14th, 2016 10:50 PMBettyNewbieThat's fine with me. Go ahead. :)
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October 14th, 2016 3:19 PMFotomacAnyway, what would you think of an edit of one of your sprites appearing in my hack, Pokémon Tri-Color Nostalgia Series? (I'm thinking of including it beginning in the next nightly build if that's OK with you.)
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October 4th, 2016 2:44 PMBettyNewbieInteresting ideas. {:3}
I know it's your series and you can do whatever you want, but I don't care for the names "Leaf" and "Ethan" being used. "Leaf" isn't a color name like "Red" and "Blue," and "Ethan" wasn't the Johto boy's name until the remakes. I prefer the Kanto girl being "Green" and the Johto boy being either "Gold" or "Hiro" (as in Pokémon Christmas). It's your story, though, so you can do whatever. :) -
October 4th, 2016 11:25 AMFotomacAs for the male PCs, I'm including them in my fanseries mainly as rivals of sorts to the main characters, which are their female counterparts. The only part of my fanseries where the male PC doesn't fill that role will be Kris's story, in which Ethan will, along with "Ms. Mario", serve as a traveling companion of sorts to Kris on her journey. See, though my fanseries will feature the female player characters as the main protagonist of each story therein, I intend to include all player characters as characters in at least some sort of role. Red's role in Leaf's story is basically comparable to the role of the player character you don't choose beginning in Gen III. Also, Kris's story will be based loosely on the OS, with Kris as Ash's counterpart, Ethan as Misty's counterpart, and Lyra as Brock/Tracey's counterpart, and the OS will be mentioned as being based loosely on Leaf's adventures three years before, with characters mentioning the series in-universe at various points. In fact, I already have the first paragraph of Kris's story right there in my head:
Kris had wanted to be a Pokémon trainer ever since she first saw her latest television hero, Ash Ketchum, on his Pokémon journey the year before. His certainly seemed a fairly exciting adventure at the time, and Kris had made it a part of her Tuesday evening ritual from day one. On the evening before she was sent on a fateful errand by Professor Elm, the Pokémon Professor who lived next door, the program came back following a four-month hiatus caused by a national health scare. Kris was not among those affected, though she reported feeling some slight dizziness for a few days afterwards. When she heard the problem was worse than she had thought, to the point where the program had been pulled off the air, she was worried that she would never get to see how Ash's journey ended. For those four long, tense months, she anxiously awaited news regarding the fate of the program. Finally, when it was announced that the program would return on Thursday evenings, she was overjoyed. It was the day after she watched the program's triumphant return to the air that Professor Elm asked to see her.Course, I'm still only on the start of the second season of Leaf's story (which covers the period from the S.S. Anne party to Team Rocket's defeat at Silph Co.), but I wanted to write down the beginning of Kris's story before I forgot. Oh, at the point in Kris's story depicted in the above paragraph, Kris doesn't yet know that her favorite program was based loosely on actual events that had happened in Kanto three years before (key word: "loosely").
Also, the general timeframe of my fanseries, as far as I know, spans from around 1995 to the turn of the millennium. None of this timey-wimey business that Game Freak likes to fool around with in the core series by making them look like they're set definitively in the present day.

