Recent content by Rangi

Note that Polished Crystal has been moved from the Sideshow Showcase to the main ROM Hacks forum.

In September 2016, I released Polished Crystal 2.2.0. At that time I expected "3.0" would be just a few months later, as FIQ and I finished up the code for abilities and filled in some TODO content. But, life kept on happening. That October, Pokémon Prism was announced, with its own independent...

Polished Map 4.7.1 and 2.7.1++ are released! The main addition is a feature I realized would be useful while porting tilesets from pokered to pokecrystal. You can press Alt+1 through Alt+8 to quickly assign a color to the current tile, instead of clicking the dropdown and then clicking the right...

Tilemap Studio 4.0.1 was just released! The main addition is that it can import and export .asm tilemaps: files with 'db' sequences of tile IDs. It also adds support for 1bpp and 2bpp .ncgr graphics files and .col palette files; confirms before closing a modified tilemap to open one from Image...

Hey takyon, nice tutorial! It's very helpful since there are two different Town Maps in two different formats (and the extra region_map_affine, which is unused). I'm glad you found Tilemap Studio useful for it. However, it can be done more easily, especially with some new features in version...

A major update today: Tilemap Studio 4.0.0! The linked release changelog lists many new improvements, but I'll go over some notable ones here. • Tilemaps can be imported and exported in formats that aren't just raw binary. GBDK users who like "unsigned char" data arrays can import and export...

Polished Map 4.7.0 and 2.7.0++ are released! They've had various bug fixes and improvements to the UI; see the release notes for details. Some that stand out: • The palette editor has sliders for the three colors, and a hex input for converting between 5-bit GBC colors and 8-bit #RRGGBB colors...

Polished Map 4.6.0 (and Polished Map++ 2.6.0) are released! New features include support for the Flash darkness palette; pasting multiple tile graphics at once in the tileset editor; trimming unused blank tiles when saving a tileset; remembering if the window is full-screen or maximized; and...

The first release of 2021: Tilemap Studio 3.3.0 is out! The biggest feature is that Image to Tiles can output its palette as an indexed PLTE chunk in the tileset PNG, instead of a separate file: just pick PLTE for the palette format. Other changes include remembering if the window is maximized...

It's a green tree frog, whose counterpart Poliwrath got to have a dual-type. Plus with Jumpluff (among others) removed to make room for Porygon-Z, Togekiss, Mismagius, Honchkrow, etc, the game could use another good Grass type. (Although FIQ and darsh are working on expanding the forme system to...

The "newbox" PC Storage System is ready to play! Many thanks to FIQ and darsh for making it possible. The PC has an icon-based interface like Gen 3+, you can navigate through all the boxes without saving, and the boxes have grown from 14 to 16. So you can flip through your entire collection...

A small new feature: ABC or QWERTY keyboards. It has modern EV yields, but without the 510 limit. IVs are still 0-15, but all six stats have their own IV. Gender, shininess, nature, and form (such as Unown letters) are all independent of IVs.

INSTALL.md says to use 0.3.8. Four releases of rgbds since then have made backwards-incompatible changes. Put the 0.3.8 exes/dlls in a folder named "rgbds" iside the redstarbluestar directory; then 'make' will use them to build.

I haven't tried; it might be. :)

Polished Map 4.5.4 and 2.5.4++ is just a bugfix release so that creating a new map doesn't crash. It also adds a one-time warning when you first save a tileset with more than 128 blocks, since a pokecrystal bug needs fixing to allow that.