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  1. Mateo
    November 11th, 2016 6:32 PM
    Mateo
    I've been trying to think of positives to help myself feel better. For example, I do feel somewhat vindicated as someone who supported Bernie over Hillary during the primaries. Her loss may have proved that he was the stronger candidate, after all. (Notice that two of the big swing states that allowed Orange Hitler to win--Wisconsin and Michigan--were both states that Bernie beat Hillary in.)

    I also think this may put the Democrats in a better position for 2018 and 2020. Just two years under the Hairpiece should be enough to energize and shock both voters and the party into supporting stronger, more progressive candidates, and this also allows the Democrats to run a fresh face in 2020 instead of an incumbent.

    It's going to be a rough 4 years, no question, but let's hope that it's only that.
    Yeah, I think the Bernie/Hillary divide really hurt us this time. I'm like you, I was one of those "Fine, I guess I'm with her then" people, since I was behind Bernie originally too. I was assuming we'd still be fine, since I'd been seeing a lot of people who used to insult Libertarians and had been life-long Republicans suddenly switching to support Gary Johnson once Trump got the nomination, so I was pretty sure the Republicans would end up fighting amongst themselves and splitting their vote between Trump and Johnson, meaning Clinton would win by a landslide and we might potentially see the first election where a third party managed to get a state or two on the map, but nowhere close to enough to win. I was watching the election coverage and kept seeing state after state going Red, and I just couldn't believe that it was possible.

    I've also been trying to find distractions to keep myself positive. But it's really really difficult.


    Well, a lot has changed since the disassemblies became available. People have been able to do far more with Gen 1/2 hacks than ever before. Christmas seems quaint and limited for being an old fashioned Gold hack compared to Red++. (And, even you've decided to scrap hacking Gold in favor of rebuilding Christmas on pokecrystal, which I'm definitely looking forward to.)
    Not to mention Christmas has some random (mostly graphical) bugs caused by incorrectly porting code from Crystal. Porting the tileset routine seems to have somehow caused issues with the ShowPokePic command in some areas, so I have it not showing you a pic of the Pokemon in the lab. There are issues when using Cut and stuff where incorrect tiles get loaded, the girl has the wrong sprite on the Fly map in some areas somehow, I want to say you still look like the guy in the Hall of Fame even if you're the girl, etc. Plus it's just a mess internally due to how many times it's been updated and essentially rebooted on the same rom. Tons of leftover vanilla data that isn't used anymore, leftover "new" data from older versions that isn't used anymore, stuff that is used but isn't organized, etc. It definitely needs the improvement.


    Yeah, I figured that the bootleggers may have gotten to your hacks already. What really sucks is that they often glitch up these games in the process of transferring from ROM to cartridge. The bootleg version of ShinyGold, for example, is extremely glitchy and borked compared to the original ROM.
    I haven't played any bootleg versions to know, but I believe it. Plus, I'm sure they have really outdated versions of the rom on them, so there are probably lots of bugs that I fixed years ago sneaking through. And if they're already putting Christmas on them, I'm Red++ will be next.


    Apparently, it was called "Vietnamese Crystal" because someone found it in Vietnam, but like most bootlegs, it was probably made in China. It probably dates back to late 2000/early 2001, before Crystal was officially released in English, but it didn't start to become widely known until around 2011 when DeliciousCinnamon did their now famous Let's Play.

    This game has a Gen 1 counterpart in Engrish Green where the Pokémon are called "Pets" instead of "Elfs." Good times.
    I've never seen that LP or heard of DeliciousCinnamon somehow, but I guess that's why people think it's new. Either way, I played it back in like '05 or '06 so it was old news to me by the time everyone else got into it :p #Hipster #NotReally

    I haven't played Engrish Green though, so that might be worth looking into for some laughs haha.


    Yeah, Garchomp definitely seems like a Pokémon that was given the Dragon type just for the heck of it. I wish GF would stop slapping the type onto every Pseudo-Legend. There's a reason why the only other Pseudos I like besides Dragonite are Tyranitar and Metagross. Unlike Garchomp and friends, they feel unique and original.
    It's almost like "Dragon" is a misnomer, and they meant to call it "Badass" type or something. They love to put it on Pokemon that make no sense, in an effort to make them badass.
  2. Mateo
    November 10th, 2016 9:57 PM
    Mateo
    I'll fully admit that I had a complete breakdown last night. I haven't been in a good mood all day (I even had a total meltdown on my own message board), although I've been starting to feel better.

    It's going to be a very rough next 4 years (possibly even 8). We need to stick together to get through this.
    I'm trying to keep it together. My coworkers are really testing my patience, though. I just have to remind myself those "people" aren't worth getting myself fired or worse. Can't let myself sink to their level.


    That means that your hacks have been a success. I'm even finding Christmas 2014 difficult to play now. Even that hack is missing loads of things that aren't in Red++.
    To be honest, I'm the same way at times, lol. I was playing around in Christmas recently to take screenshots of a couple of things and to remember what I'd done for something, and I kept being annoyed by things like "Why don't I have running shoes?" or "Why can't I see if a move is Physical or Special?" and stuff like that.


    LOL.

    Just wait, one day you're going to wake up and find that some Chinese dude dumped Christmas and Red++ onto carts and is making $$$ off of them in flea markets and Chinatown backalleys.

    Seriously, here's an entire collection of old PC hacks that got turned into flea market bootlegs.
    Apparently, people are already selling Christmas. I've had people PM me about it. Some letting me know because they knew they were bootleg, some asking me how I put it on the cartridge, and some asking if they should buy more to help support me. So naturally I told all of them that I had nothing to do with it, but unfortunately there is nothing I can really do about it. Can't really make any legal claims since my hack is just as much copyright infringement as them selling it is :/ I'm just gonna start adding disclaimer screens like Gen 3 hackers do sometimes, saying that if you bought this game, you were ripped off, because it was only officially released for free.


    Some people can be weird. I'd love to have some of what he was smoking, myself.

    Engrish bootleg games are the best. Vietnamese Crystal still has me howling. ("Eggie! Drug bag ****!" )

    (Coincidentally, some copies of Diamond and Jade actually came bundled with Vietnamese Crystal according to this site: "Sometimes, either Diamond or Jade is bundled with a pirated Pokémon Crystal, which, like Diamond and Jade, is unofficially and poorly translated from the Japanese version (most likely before Crystal was released outside of Japan), and has glitches not present in the original version." )
    It's so weird to me that people call that "Vietnamese Crystal" now and act like it's something new. I know you aren't calling it new, but I've had people talking about it like it just freaking surfaced in the last year or something. I was like "so why are you talking about this like it's new, did you just find out about it or something?" "Umm, it is new dude" "If by 'new' you mean 'I downloaded it when I was in highschool so this is all old news to me' then sure, it's new. But back then I found it as 'Pokemon Crystal 100% English NO ELFS' despite being full of 'elfs' haha." "wow I had no idea it went back that far" "I mean yeah..." smh


    Dragonite is a beautiful, powerful Pokémon and doesn't deserve one iota of the hate it gets. I overwhelmingly prefer it to the likes of Charizard, Salamence, and Garchomp.

    (I also love that a semi "alpha male" character like Lance has this "girly" dragon as his ace with no issues whatsoever. And, Dragonite totally suits him better than any other Dragon type, especially better than crap like Garchomp.
    Garchomp doesn't even look like a dragon. He looks like a hammerhead shark learned to walk on land. Dragonite is waaaay better than that nonsense :)
  3. Mateo
    November 9th, 2016 10:37 PM
    Mateo
    Brown was great for its time, but it definitely shows its age in many respects. It'll be nice to see it get the modern ++ polish.
    Hopefully things will go smoothly when the time comes, and since it looks like I'll have help available if/when I want it, it seems like it should. Part of me is all "omg I wanna start on it now" but then the other part of me is all "But like, you need to finish Red++ before you can do that, so yeah..." but when the time comes, I'm sure it will be a fun adventure to work on, and it should be a definite improvement from a player standpoint. I know this Youtuber I've been watching do a Nuzlocke of Brown keeps commenting in just about every episode lately how he was spoiled by Red++ or he's used to Red++ or missing this feature or that feature that was in Red++ while he's playing Brown and I'm thinking "well I don't blame you, but I still can't wrap my head around people liking my hack better than the hack that got me into hacking, because that is impossible lol."


    Of course, often when a hack hands you free Legendaries and Master Balls, it's because the game is anything BUT easy. The opponents all have jacked up, overpowered teams, and there's no consistent level curve, whatsoever. Bonus points if there's Fakemon with 800+ BSTs lurking around.
    Oh, I was meaning I've seen people making hacks-of-hacks and releasing them where all they do is make the game easy-mode like that. Apparently someone did that to Christmas, and I found out about it because someone was talking about a bug or a change they wanted, and I was like "What are you talking about?" and they said they were playing "the master balls and rare candies version of Christmas" and I'm like "Still don't know what you're talking about, I didn't do that. Where did you get it?" and it was on one of those shady sites where you're afraid to click anything where sketchy people upload stuff.


    Okay... WTF?

    If you really want to blow that kid's mind, show him this:



    Sinnoh demake or an Engrish translation of a crappy Pokémon knockoff?
    I don't know what he was smoking, but I think I need some after last night. Haha. After I told him that I didn't make Gen 2, he said something vague like "oh well they need to be better" or something, and I told him that Rangi was making Polished Crystal and he was all "oh I'll check it out" and that's the last I've heard from him. I'd rather let him wander back off than start trolling him for now haha. But yeah, no idea what he'd say if I sent him that xD


    I absolutely HATE those comics so much. Not only are they (obviously) homophobic, but they misrepresent Dragonite.

    No, Dragonite isn't a grunting "badass" like Charizard, Salamence, and Garchomp, but it doesn't need to be that to be cool. Ever read Dragonite's Pokédex entries?


    Stadium:
    Has intelligence on par with people. This "sea guardian" is said to be capable of flying around the globe in about 16 hours.

    Gold, Stadium 2, HeartGold:
    It is said that this Pokémon constantly flies over the immense seas and rescues drowning people.

    Ruby/Sapphire, OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire:
    Dragonite is capable of circling the globe in just sixteen hours. It is a kindhearted Pokémon that leads lost and foundering ships in a storm to the safety of land.


    A powerful, yet kindhearted and intelligent Pokémon that helps people in need. Not at all like the derpy "Puff the Magic Dragon" the fandom likes to portray it as.
    I'm not really sure what else to add to this, but I agree with you on it for sure. I don't like homophobia or the belief that things have to be overly masculine to be worth anything, whether its applied to a Pokemon like Dragonite, or to anything else. Dragonite's 'dex entry portrayal is much better than the one annoying people in the fandom have come up with.
  4. Mateo
    November 9th, 2016 10:17 PM
    Mateo
    Yeah, I've not been in a very good place mentally today or last night thanks to the way this went. I'm sorry :( I haven't forgotten about your messages though. I'll go ahead and reply while I'm on.
  5. Mateo
    November 8th, 2016 10:09 PM
    Mateo
    Hey, sorry I never replied to these. Been really stressed today. I'll try to reply tomorrow.
  6. Mateo
    November 7th, 2016 8:40 PM
    Mateo
    Brown made a lot of odd choices for Pokémon sprites. While some used the nicer sprites from Yellow and GSC, others used the extremely ugly and derpy RG sprites. And, yet, they all had GSC backsprites.

    Sounds like you might be able to devamp the Gym Leader/E4 sprites from Rijon Adventures. I think even that hack reused the vanilla Kanto protagonists, though, you you may need to make new ones with him.

    (I don't know how others feel, but I generally want to play as a new protagonist when in a new region.)
    Interestingly enough, I was talking to Sotomura on Discord last night. Brown and whatnot came up, and he made some comment about "I should maybe start porting Brown to Pokered. But I should really get back to work on Rijon Adventures" so I was like "Yeah, well, I already talked to Koolboyman and he gave me permission to port Brown to Red++ once I'm done with it." and he was all "Oh ok. Well in that case, let me know when you're ready to work on it and I'll help out" or whatever. So that could be cool. Also seems to indicate it will be rather doable to end up with devamps of the custom character sprites from Rijon Adventures. But I guess we'll see when the time comes.

    But yeah, a lot of the sprite choices were pretty suspect once he did get around to swapping sprites. It was also jarring how like the Johto Pokemon had their proper palettes for the most part but Kanto still went "2 shades of the same color" for everything. I figure for Brown++, they'll just be Gen 2 style sprites for all of them, for consistency. Can't see anyone arguing with consistency haha.


    Even many of today's GBA hacks still have those same issues. I've seen loads of games that gave you a Legendary or Pseudo-Legendary as a starter and put crap like starters/Eevee/Riolu/Pseudo-Legendaries/etc. on the first route. (Bonus points if the starters are badly-devamped versions of Gen 4+ starters.)
    Yeah, I've seen that nonsense too. Then again, I've also seen people uploading hacked versions of other hacks that just do stuff like make it to where you can buy free Master Balls and Rare Candies and nonsense. Some people want a challenge, but a lot of people apparently want "hyper-easy don't make me have to think or do anything" mode. I have to wonder if those people think it's too much of a challenge to tie their shoes. :rolleyes2:


    What happened was that HGSS got shoved into the very tail end of Gen 4, so they got very little attention in their own gen and were quickly overshadowed by Gen 5. It seems that GF took too long trying to fix the borked Sinnoh games to be able to release HGSS in a more timely manner.

    (Considering the established age gap between Gens 1 and 2, HGSS should've been a 2007 release. This would've worked perfectly had DP come out in 2005 as they had originally been planned to. But, since DP got delayed a year and still turned out to be completely broken, messed-up games, Gen 2 remakes had to be put on the backburner in favor of releasing a bugfix for Sinnoh, aka. Platinum.)
    Yeah, if they'd been able to stick to the original schedule, things probably would've worked out a lot better. Speaking of HG/SS and Gen 2, had a rather amusing interaction with a rando today. While I was at work, someone IM'd the Romhacker Mateo facebook page and asked "Are Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal your hacks?" so I was like "...what?" and they were like "Are you the one who made the hacks called Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Silver, and Pokemon Crystal?" so after staring at my phone for a while, I was like "...Gold, Silver, and Crystal aren't hacks. They're just the names of the second generation games. No, I didn't make Gen 2." smh. Then I posted a screenshot in the #rom-hacking channel on PokeCommunity's Discord server and the running joke for like the next few hours was that I made Gen 2, and HGSS were Gamefreak making fangames because they liked my region so much. Then someone claimed that I didn't just make Gen 2, I actually invented Pokemon in general. It was kinda weird, but still, what was that guy smoking to think I made Gen 2?


    This sums up my thoughts on the Pokémon vs Digimon debate.
    lmfao that comic never gets old xD


    Yeah, Dragonite is a pretty odd evolution. How do you go from a couple of blue snakes to a fat orange dragon?



    And, that's not even getting into how all three of them are completely adorable and lovable and not at all what you would "expect" from the Dragon type (especially in light of the Dragons we've mostly seen since Gen 4, which have had angry, aggressive dinosaur-based appearances).

    Even back in the day, Dragonite took a lot of **** for its appearance, and a lot of dumb little boys whined about this fat "girly" dragon having the Dragon type and not the "badass" Charizard/Gyarados/Aerodactyl. Pokémon like Salamence, Garchomp, Haxorus, and especially Mega Charizard X were made exactly for these brats who didn't think Dragonite was "cool" enough to be a "real" Dragon, which is why I despise them.
    Yeah, even now I still see comics making fun of Dragonite for being "girly" or "gay" or whatever. Like this comic where a Charizard is talking to a Charmander and Charmeleon all like "Ok kids, remember, don't make fun of my gay cousin when he--" and then a Dragonite bursts in the door. Those people need to get a grip on something besides-- nevermind. But yeah, those people suck and the franchise needs to stop catering to them.
  7. Mateo
    November 7th, 2016 4:37 AM
    Mateo
    Ok, no worries :)
  8. Mateo
    November 5th, 2016 7:29 PM
    Mateo
    Yeah, I figured that's probably why Brown reused so many trainer sprites from vanilla RBY, despite all of the other things it changed. Hopefully, Koolboyman will agree to make new ones for Brown++.

    From what I remember, that Orange hack was REALLY glitchy and had a lot of terrible game design. For example, you started with Lapras (a late game Pokémon, BTW), yet there were wild Lapras right on the first route. And, Lapras has a low catch rate, along with the starters and Dratini (the first route's other catches), so good luck lobbing basic Poké Balls at them.
    When I originally played it, it didn't have new sprites for Pokemon either. They use the same compression format, and we didn't know how to change that either. It wasn't until later that he added the new Pokemon and new sprites, and then it was by (if I remember) just bypassing the compression and using uncompressed sprites for the Pokemon. We've certainly come a long wa since then, haha. I'm sure he'll be fine with new sprites in Brown++ though. I'm fairly certain Rijon Adventures was using new sprites for all the leaders and such, and I'm pretty much already planning on using Gen 2 or newer sprites for the normal trainers like I am in Red++.

    As for Orange, yeah, a lot of early hacks had those same types of issues. People wanted it to look different, so they changed the starters to weird choices and tried to make routes have unique encounters, often ones that were originally rare for a reason. We didn't know how to add new Pokemon or even replace existing ones yet, but that still doesn't excuse a lack of balance. It was a weird time, for sure.


    Yeah, it's tough to go back to handhelds after playing on emulators, that's for sure.

    Even if I can understand why it's so, I still don't like how Gen 2 nostalgia gets ignored and overshadowed by Gen 1. Lots of older fans prefer GSC to RBY and would love to see Johto referenced and acknowledged alongside Kanto. Even when HGSS came out, Gen 2 didn't seem to get a whole lot of nostalgic promotion. In fact, the remakes were quickly overshadowed by BW and Gen 5.
    Yeah it was disappointing to see the hype swept under the rug in favor of Gen 5. HGSS was probably the most hyped I've been for a Pokemon game since Crystal, so when BW were announced, I really didn't care. I was too busy being excited to go back to Johto. It really is a shame that Gen 2 doesn't get more love :/


    Digimon has always been total crap, IMO. A cheap Pokémon knockoff for people who don't think Pokémon is "cool" or "badass" enough.
    Pretty much. When anyone tries to argue with that guy, he just says stuff like "I bet you've never even been exposed to Digimon, you just hate them because it's cool" and stuff like that. He didn't seem to know what to say when I told him, "I mean, I had a digimon virtual pet (aka the things that started your beloved franchise) back in the 90s, and I liked Gigapets better. I tried to watch the anime back in the 90s, I thought Pokémon was better and more interesting. It's not that I wasn't exposed to it, I gave it a shot, and it missed. Pokémon has always been superior in every way."


    I've read that Dragon may have been a late addition to Gen 1, possibly made specifically for the Dratini line (who otherwise seemed like Water types, based on their coloring, location, and movepool). Maybe, Dratini and Dragonair were originally going to be a two-stage Water type line, and Dragonite and the Dragon typing were added later on to make them stand out from the many other two-stage Water families in the game. At the very least, it helps to explain why Dragonite doesn't look much like its pre-evolutions.
    I don't think I've heard that before, but it would explain the lack of diversity. Even still, being a late addition wouldn't really explain why Dragonite looks nothing like its earlier stages. That one is still a bit of a mystery. And it isn't even like the "Butterfree and Venomoth were designed for one family and swapped to the other at the last minute" theory, since I don't really know of a family in Gen 1 that Dragonite looks more like it belongs with. Only thing that makes sense to me would be if it was going to be a standalone 'mon like Scyther and whatnot that was made part of a family, or possibly even a legendary that was made into a pseudolegendary at the last minute by taking it on as the third stage of another family.
  9. Mateo
    November 5th, 2016 1:16 PM
    Mateo
    Brown really is an incredible hack. It was the first game to really show people what could be done on a simple Gen 1 base. It deserves the ++ treatment, I'd say.

    Here's a Let's Play of that crappy old Blue hack I mentioned earlier. It's called "Pokémon Orange," and for whatever reason, you play as Jessie and your rival's James (although, as expected, their battle sprites still show Red and Blue).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwZzR1XhzM
    At the time, Gen 1 was really the only base there was, since Gen 3 wasn't out yet and Gen 2 wasn't really explored yet :p The original version of Brown is probably one of the oldest Pokémon hacks out there, certainly one of (if not the) oldest hack to actually make a proper new region. But even though it's been updated a lot over the years, it could definitely benefit from the ++ treatment. Since it was actually the reason I found out about and got into hacking in the first place, I'm honored that Koolboyman agreed to let me make Brown++ eventually.

    As for Pokemon Orange, I remember that hack. It was... strange, to say the least. And yeah, battle sprites took a lot longer for us to figure out how to edit, since they were compressed while OW sprites were not. In fact, if I remember, Gen 2 and Gen 3 had their compression figured out years before Gen 1's compression format was figured out. So it wasn't just laziness that the battle sprites weren't changed in most of the old Gen 1 hacks -- we literally hadn't figured out how to change them yet. Even still, the hack was weird and lazy in a lot of other ways though. This one won't be getting the ++ treatment. Any Orange Islands hack I make on Red++ will completely ignore that hack entirely, haha.


    You're amazing.

    I'll admit that I sometimes go back and listen to the stuff I listened to as a kid in the late 90s/early 00s. It makes me feel good and nostalgic, regardless of whether or not it's "cool" or "hip."

    Pokemon takes me back to that era, too, although in different ways. It's one reason why I have trouble connecting to anything past Kanto/Johto/Orange. Hoenn, Sinnoh, and the like just weren't my era.
    Very true, Hoenn and later aren't really nostalgic for me either -- in my mind, they're still new. By the time Gen 3 came out, I didn't even buy the physical copies. I just downloaded roms so I could play them on the computer, because I was already too spoiled by being able to play on the larger screen with a speedup button anyway and going back to the actual handheld was annoying (and its practically painful now, it certainly would be if we hadn't made the switch to backlit screens).

    But yeah, I have Nostalgia on speed dial basically at this point, between Pokemon and old music and Netflix to watch Friends and whatnot. Haha.


    LOL.

    Sun/Moon might as well be called "Pokémon Does Yokai Watch," because obvious ripoffs are obvious...

    Sad to see Pokémon reduced to chasing after some dumb kiddy crap like Yokai Watch. Remember when Pokémon was the one other franchises were ripping off?
    I know a guy who swears that Digimon has always been the superior franchise, and the Pokemon has been a ripoff from the start. I'd really like to know what he's smoking to think that. But nowadays, yeah, it's blatantly ripping off the competition in an effort to try and remain relevant, since it doesn't realize the problem is that its trying to go into weird directions instead of sticking to what made it popular in the first place.


    I've heard that Alola Exeggutor may have been inspired by old TCG art of it:

    As for the Dragon typing, I have no clue. Of course, this marks the second time in a row that GF slapped the Dragon typing onto the alternate form of a Gen 1 Pokémon (first one being Mega Charizard X) instead of doing anything with the ACTUAL Dragon from Gen 1.

    (Seriously, they doled out Megas to literally every pre-Gen 5 Pseudo EXCEPT Dragonite. If Megas have to exist, they should at least be fair.)
    Yep, I remember that art. TBH I thought it was weird even at the time, but at least it makes Alola Exeggutor make some amount of sense.

    And yeah, Dragon has always been an under-appreciated and under-represented type, especially when it came to the early gens. Gen 1 was the worst offender, what with having only 1 Dragon family and 1 Dragon move -- then programming in effectiveness data for it while rendering that pointless by making the only Dragon move do fixed damage anyway. :rolleyes2:
  10. Mateo
    October 31st, 2016 7:52 PM
    Mateo
    Whoa, you're planning a Brown++? That would be awesome!

    I have yet to really see a hack that does the Orange Islands justice. Way too many crappy GBA hacks like Naranja floating around. I've also played this really old/bad/glitchy Blue hack that was based on the Orange Islands.
    Yep, I know I'm probably about the only person who thinks of it this way, but I still see Red++ as more of a rombase than a "real" hack anyway, so those hacks are kind of like... helping it achieve its potential. Brown++ is a way of paying tribute to the reason that I'm here in the first place. I found Brown while looking for the normal games, started playing it, and said "Wow, people can actually hack these? I want to do that!" so I googled some tools and started playing with them on my own, in hopes that one day the random ideas and maps I put in notebooks in my spare time could become a "real" Pokemon game, since my current other option (RM2K) wasn't really suited at all to making a Pokemon game due to how different the battle engine was and the fact that you couldn't change it. And the rest, as they say, is history. So bringing the first hack I ever played into the modern era seems like a fitting thing to use Red++ as a base for, and the Orange Islands are a bit of the same. I also remember the old incredibly lackluster Orange Islands hacks, and thought it would be fun to try and do them properly for once.


    Wow, had no idea you still owned it, let alone still listened to it.

    I had it as a kid, but I gave it away once I hit middle school. I grew out of teen pop around the time I grew out of Pokémon.
    I still have lots of things. Hell, I still listen to cassette tapes. And even though I don't like routinely listen to that stuff, it's still nostalgic for me, and I do still listen to late 90s pop sometimes. Idgaf what people think of me for it lol. And as we already established, I never "grew out of" Pokemon. I remember one time relatively recently, I was over at Mom and Dad's house, and Mom was all "Well, I guess you were right after all." and I was like "...about what?" and she was all "Back in the 90s when I said Pokemon was a fad and you'd grow out of it, and you said you wouldn't, there were adults who played Pokemon, and you would still be playing it when you were an adult. And well, you're an adult, and you never stopped liking it, still play it, and still hack it, so I guess you were right and I was wrong." And I didn't really know what to do with that.


    It looks really cheap and outdated. I guess after the ratings collapsed in the XY saga, they had to slash the budget and cut corners.

    They're also trying to appeal more to the Yokai Watch crowd, which of course means that Ash needs to be hit with the stupid stick and act like some dumb n00b 8 year old.
    They already added Digivolving, at least they didn't get the animators from Digimon to take over, too. Not that Yokai Watch is any better, though.


    At least doubles weren't completely dropped/scrapped after Gen 3 like Megas have seemingly been in Gen 7. And, Z-Moves don't seem to be anything more than a glorified Explosion, completely lame and useless.

    And, DON'T get me started on those "Alola Forms." Talk about a new low from GF...
    As stupid as it looks, going back and reading old Pokedex entries, it seems like Alola Exeggutor is really what he was supposed to be all along. Dex entries often say that they originated in the tropics, and grow a lot bigger in sunny tropical areas. So in that sense, they aren't just BS-ing, they're making good on what they always said. Although to be fair, Hoenn probably should've had Alola Exeggutors too by that logic, and that still doesn't explain the stupid Dragon typing.

    I can't make any excuses for most of the others, though. Dugtrio over there looking like the He-Man Triplets and whatnot.
  11. Fotomac
    October 31st, 2016 5:43 PM
    Fotomac
    Again, thanks! I'll format them per the standard OW walking sprite format which is understood by Cygwin and put them in the sprites folder.
  12. Fotomac
    October 31st, 2016 3:22 PM
    Fotomac
    The 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.
  13. Fotomac
    October 31st, 2016 10:47 AM
    Fotomac
    Hm. 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.
  14. Fotomac
    October 30th, 2016 10:09 PM
    Fotomac
    I 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.
  15. Fotomac
    October 30th, 2016 9:18 PM
    Fotomac
    In 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.)

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