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Karl May 20th, 2020 1:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bh02032002 (Post 10160167)
Excited for the new beta. Take your time on this masterpiece. It’s one of the hacks I’m most looking forward to.

Thanks a lot!

StaticShock May 25th, 2020 10:34 PM

Any ETA for the next update?

Karl May 27th, 2020 7:33 AM

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Originally Posted by StaticShock (Post 10162531)
Any ETA for the next update?

Nothing has been announced yet.

GuardQueen May 30th, 2020 11:25 PM

I just started playing and I’m already in love. The music score is exquisite. The art and designs are amazing and brilliantly colored. I see no errors in voice lanes as of now and I don’t expect too. This game has a novel concept set and I look forward to playing through it all.

Karl June 14th, 2020 3:15 PM

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Originally Posted by GuardQueen (Post 10164627)
I just started playing and I’m already in love. The music score is exquisite. The art and designs are amazing and brilliantly colored. I see no errors in voice lanes as of now and I don’t expect too. This game has a novel concept set and I look forward to playing through it all.

Thank you for writing such a nice comment :smile:

batazanj July 9th, 2020 11:24 PM

I just finished the beta and all I can say is that I loved it. Excelent music, cool graphics, great dialogues. It felt like playing something made by gamefreak. Waiting for the next beta....just hope being able to continue with my save lol.

Loompas13 July 28th, 2020 10:11 AM

Ty nice rom

Loompas13 July 28th, 2020 10:13 AM

Wow

Lucariokalos September 27th, 2020 1:27 AM

Your rom hack is cool,I hope this will complete one day.

Marx321 October 1st, 2020 2:33 PM

Im looking forward to the next update of this game. Hopefully next year i think.
Im getting excited to re-play this ^_^

quang1919 November 5th, 2020 2:19 AM

graphics look great! i'm waiting for the official version

Pokemaniacnaveen November 24th, 2020 9:40 AM

Is this hack dead?

TrainerX493 November 24th, 2020 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Pokemaniacnaveen (Post 10234471)
Is this hack dead?

The discord server gets a fair bit more activity than what's being posted here. From what I've seen beta 2 is not that far off.

Karl December 6th, 2020 4:29 PM

Beta 2 will be announced soon!

Ray Maverick December 7th, 2020 7:31 AM

halfway across Tamarok Mountains...

https://i.imgur.com/Btmec4I.png

GflashEx2000 December 14th, 2020 2:58 AM

i had trouble extracting the zip file, the file texts looked like they were in japanese or something

t e r r a n c e December 16th, 2020 9:12 AM

Looking forward on Beta2, Best of luck.
The whole game is great, This is one of the best romhack I've played.

Inner Rhymes December 20th, 2020 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 10240327)
Beta 2 will be announced soon!

This is amazing news! Any idea on how long the second beta will be?

PokÈlf December 21st, 2020 6:00 AM

is this an abandoned hack? haven't heard anything after this post... hope u finish it good luck

RenElite December 21st, 2020 7:31 AM

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Originally Posted by PokÈlf (Post 10248842)
is this an abandoned hack? haven't heard anything after this post... hope u finish it good luck

bruh can you please read a few sentences above your comment lmao

Karl December 21st, 2020 2:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Inner Rhymes (Post 10248482)
This is amazing news! Any idea on how long the second beta will be?

I'd say 14-15 hours of play time, with 3 badges in total.

The game is currently being tested by some volunteers before its official release!

bh02032002 December 28th, 2020 2:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 10240327)
Beta 2 will be announced soon!

Dang I’m so excited! Will saves be compatible from beta 1?

Ray Maverick December 31st, 2020 6:29 PM

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!
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Originally Posted by bh02032002 (Post 10252077)
Dang I’m so excited! Will saves be compatible from beta 1?

No, you'll have to start over I'm afraid. Sorry D':

bh02032002 January 3rd, 2021 6:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Maverick (Post 10253659)
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!


No, you'll have to start over I'm afraid. Sorry D':

Its all good man, it’s fun starting over imho.

Ray Maverick March 20th, 2021 11:31 PM

Announcing the release of beta 2 in early April!
https://i.redd.it/v61531kdxrn61.png

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None March 23rd, 2021 2:58 AM

man these maps are beautiful!

Paper Mario March 24th, 2021 4:45 PM

This looks great, looking forward to the end result

Karl April 2nd, 2021 8:34 AM

Welp... Today is the day!

Pokémon Darkfire Beta 2 is officially available for public download! You can download the update by clicking here.

Many thanks to everyone who helped with the project (full credits on Page 1).

Special thanks to Shahar and TrainerX493 for testing through the game with a fine tooth pick!

To follow Beta 3 progress, feel free to join our Pokémon Darkfire Discord Server.

Have fun playing!

Knight1107 April 2nd, 2021 4:33 PM

Hi Karl I am falling in love with this game so far and it is really beautiful. I was wondering for Beta 3 if you can change the game title screen to Pokemon Darkfire instead of Pokemon Emerald because that is only the issue. I am looking forward to your progress and also keep it up buddy.

jimjin305 April 3rd, 2021 12:33 AM

Is it available for android or not please tell me

kalarie April 3rd, 2021 6:40 AM

@jimjin305

Basically any ROM hack is available on Android.

Outwitter April 3rd, 2021 7:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 10328291)
Welp... Today is the day!
Have fun playing!

Congratulations on the release of Beta 2 guys!
Haven't played Dark Fire before, so don't know much about it's Story progression and other departments, however, I must admit that graphics-wise you guys are giving serious competition to the GameFreak and TPC itself! The screenshots that were posted in your previous post look gorgeous and are absolute eye-candy. Two thumbs up especially for the graphics and also for the other aspects of Darkfire as well!
Wishing you guys best of luck for the development of Beta 3, stay safe and keep hacking...

Aaron077 April 3rd, 2021 9:37 AM

Question, does this game has phisical-special split?

Ray Maverick April 3rd, 2021 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Outwitter (Post 10328929)
Congratulations on the release of Beta 2 guys!
Haven't played Dark Fire before, so don't know much about it's Story progression and other departments, however, I must admit that graphics-wise you guys are giving serious competition to the GameFreak and TPC itself! The screenshots that were posted in your previous post look gorgeous and are absolute eye-candy. Two thumbs up especially for the graphics and also for the other aspects of Darkfire as well!
Wishing you guys best of luck for the development of Beta 3, stay safe and keep hacking...

Thanks, hope you'll play it

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Originally Posted by Aaron077 (Post 10328962)
Question, does this game has phisical-special split?

Yes, and gen 7 movepools as well

Inner Rhymes April 4th, 2021 2:21 AM

Oh wow! Congratulations on the release of Beta 2. It's on mh current 'to-play' list since I'm hauled up with exams at the moment. Y'all have really mailed it with the graphics, so eye catching. Can't wait to see mor progress post beta 2! Cheers!

Outwitter April 4th, 2021 9:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Maverick (Post 10329067)
Thanks, hope you'll play it

I surely will, was waiting for the second beta for quite a while. Hope you won't mind if I still wait for a couple of bug fixes nonetheless, or is it the final update before the third beta?

Ray Maverick April 5th, 2021 1:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Outwitter (Post 10330439)

I surely will, was waiting for the second beta for quite a while. Hope you won't mind if I still wait for a couple of bug fixes nonetheless, or is it the final update before the third beta?

There will be a couple of more updates

Outwitter April 5th, 2021 6:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Ray Maverick (Post 10330491)
There will be a couple of more updates

Okay. Thanks for the information. I could still wait some more.. : )

Kyuubi-sama April 6th, 2021 6:25 PM

maybe it's just me but it feels like half the time I have no idea where I'm going in this game, Right now I'm stuck after finding the Magby bag in the ice cave. I'm in a temple with a Regiggas statue but I get the feeling I'm not supposed to be here

Ray Maverick April 7th, 2021 5:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Kyuubi-sama (Post 10331703)
maybe it's just me but it feels like half the time I have no idea where I'm going in this game, Right now I'm stuck after finding the Magby bag in the ice cave. I'm in a temple with a Regiggas statue but I get the feeling I'm not supposed to be here

The inner rooms of the Ice Palace are inaccessible in beta 2. That may be a dead end, but you haven't ran out of places to go. Try having a look around the caves, there's always more places to explore

lordopower1 April 13th, 2021 4:52 AM

I'm playing this hack today, and I have to say that this is looking great and the world has a lot to explore but the screen where it announces what pokemon you sent out is wrong, for example: instead of saying "_______" sent out "_____" it says the name of npc you last battled where your name is suppose to be

bh02032002 April 13th, 2021 10:25 PM

I know I’m late for the party but congrats on beta 2 releasing! This hack I’ve been following for 2 years now and I wish you the best of luck on the rest of the grind! Take care and good luck with the rest of the hack! You’re nearing the finish line, keep at it!

Ray Maverick May 7th, 2021 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by lordopower1 (Post 10336387)
I'm playing this hack today, and I have to say that this is looking great and the world has a lot to explore but the screen where it announces what pokemon you sent out is wrong, for example: instead of saying "_______" sent out "_____" it says the name of npc you last battled where your name is suppose to be

Yeah, we're aware of this bug. We're moving the project to decomp for beta 3 so we hope that will be fixed.

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Originally Posted by bh02032002 (Post 10337045)
I know I’m late for the party but congrats on beta 2 releasing! This hack I’ve been following for 2 years now and I wish you the best of luck on the rest of the grind! Take care and good luck with the rest of the hack! You’re nearing the finish line, keep at it!

Thanks! Keep an eye out for updates.

Outwitter May 10th, 2021 2:31 AM

It's welcome news for sure, however, it might be a bit painful for you guys to port an ongoing project to a new platform. Decomps have become the hacking standard these days, and I'm happy that Darkfire is moving in that direction as well. Wish you luck guys!!

Blubery June 13th, 2021 1:33 PM

Hey! This hack looks amazing! I do have a few questions though.

-Is there an Exp. Share? If so, how is it obtained? Does it function like it does in Gen 6 and onward?
-Is there a new evolution method that replaces trade evolutions?
-Is your rival, if there is one, an actual rival (Like from Gens. 1 and 2)? Or are they just a buddy pal friend (Like from Gen 3 and onwards)?

I hope these questions aren't too much! I just joined the site (by "just", I mean about 30 minutes before posting this) and I love all the hacks I've seen, and yours is definitely one of the best! Keep up the great work!

looneyman1 June 14th, 2021 9:58 AM

are there any move tutors? Its been forever since I played so I wanna know as I keep getting timid and modest pidgeys. If a move tutor (for moves like thunderpunch, iron head, ect) are available it'd be great for one of these pidgeys to get heat wave.

alominus September 13th, 2021 8:42 AM

Does anyone actually like double wild battles?

Pokemaniac Zaheer October 13th, 2021 7:16 PM

Hello, when will beta 3 come out??

Hermione Granger October 14th, 2021 6:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Pokemaniac Zaheer (Post 10416725)
Hello, when will beta 3 come out??

When it's ready!

Thenasmax October 15th, 2021 2:23 PM

How do trade pokemon evolve in this game?

Crimson Stardust October 15th, 2021 6:07 PM

Always been a fan of the author mapping skills..huhu.
This looks interesting and nice. Love the choice of tiles and palettes, I can't wait to get my hands on this to try the beta.
All the best for this!!

Lucifer November 13th, 2021 11:08 PM

This game has me intrigued but this will be the first ROM hack I've played that is a seemingly active WIP so I'm wondering since this seems to be in beta still, will previous saves be transferrable to future versions as is the case with RPG Maker games?

I'm 100% gonna play but I'm not a start-over-with-each-version type so if saves won't be transferrable I'll probably prefer to wait until it's finished. Or at least until it's dead if that ends up being the case.

Ray Maverick November 24th, 2021 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Crimson Stardust
Always been a fan of the author mapping skills..huhu.
This looks interesting and nice. Love the choice of tiles and palettes, I can't wait to get my hands on this to try the beta.
All the best for this!!

Thanks man!

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Originally Posted by Lucifer (Post 10428527)
This game has me intrigued but this will be the first ROM hack I've played that is a seemingly active WIP so I'm wondering since this seems to be in beta still, will previous saves be transferrable to future versions as is the case with RPG Maker games?

I'm 100% gonna play but I'm not a start-over-with-each-version type so if saves won't be transferrable I'll probably prefer to wait until it's finished. Or at least until it's dead if that ends up being the case.

The beta 2 saves can't be used for beta 3, since we're adding some major features in beta 3. Sorry! But beta 3 saves will likely be able to be kept for betas after that, so I suggest waiting at least for beta 3.

Lucifer November 29th, 2021 5:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Maverick (Post 10432958)
The beta 2 saves can't be used for beta 3, since we're adding some major features in beta 3. Sorry! But beta 3 saves will likely be able to be kept for betas after that, so I suggest waiting at least for beta 3.

Thanx for the info, sounds like a plan.

Ray Maverick April 16th, 2022 8:38 PM

Hello

join our discord for some more frequent updates on the hack (https://discordapp.com/invite/psPyprg) - we've posted some stuff there that we haven't posted here for some reason.

I've made an image with all Pokemon available in Tenjo:


I may have forgotten one or two, so I guess its subject to change. We'll see

What's basically included:
* Gens 1, 2, 3
* Pokemon in gen 4 that evolve from Pokemon from either one of the first 3 gens
* A couple of gen 4 legendaries (Regigigas, Darkrai)

The img helps a lot people who like to plan their pokemon teams ahead of their playthrough (like I do)

enjoy, beta 3 soon (soon in a very, very relative sense. Have you watched Inception? I haven't, but it's something like that)

zenfortech July 21st, 2022 5:11 PM

wow great

Hammyslayer August 1st, 2022 12:45 AM

Shame you don't plan on adding more mons from gens 4-7, the regional map looks huge!

Ray Maverick August 11th, 2022 2:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Hammyslayer (Post 10533104)
Shame you don't plan on adding more mons from gens 4-7, the regional map looks huge!

the region map is quite large but it's just large enough for 3 gens (3 and a half, considering all the pokemon from gen 4 we'll insert). For a single region, that's already a lot more species than any one of the regions of the official games ever had.

and if I were to make a more detailed response: we did think of adding more but it's like, is more pokemon in a single region = better game? No... it's not fun when you go into a route and you're able to find 12 different species of Pokemon in the grass, 5 more while surfing and 5 more while fishing, etc. The areas all become overloaded with species, and it just doesn't feel like a Pokemon game at that point because none of the official games try to cram 7-8 gens of Pokemon into a single region.

we thought 3 gens + a few from 4 were more than enough

looneyman1 August 13th, 2022 1:06 PM

We need pokemon to have the learn-move-by-evolve mechanic seen in gen six as Eevee wont learn most if any of its evolutionary lines' basic moves before level 15 when you finally get an evolution stone. I evolved mine into a jolteon for the ninja battle in Laviare City, but based on the levels in which my pokemon got their moves it appears to be using the gen 5 learnsets, meaning unless you evolve Eevee by level 9, in most cases none of the eeveelutions get their basic elemental abilities. This can be resolved if Eevee on evolution at any point can learn its basic move, like Confusion for Espeon or Thundershock for Jolteon. As of right now I can't get Thundershock and it'd take too long to go back to Union City to get the Shock Wave TM on sale at the department store.

Ray Maverick August 27th, 2022 1:14 PM

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Originally Posted by looneyman1 (Post 10537847)
We need pokemon to have the learn-move-by-evolve mechanic seen in gen six as Eevee wont learn most if any of its evolutionary lines' basic moves before level 15 when you finally get an evolution stone. I evolved mine into a jolteon for the ninja battle in Laviare City, but based on the levels in which my pokemon got their moves it appears to be using the gen 5 learnsets, meaning unless you evolve Eevee by level 9, in most cases none of the eeveelutions get their basic elemental abilities. This can be resolved if Eevee on evolution at any point can learn its basic move, like Confusion for Espeon or Thundershock for Jolteon. As of right now I can't get Thundershock and it'd take too long to go back to Union City to get the Shock Wave TM on sale at the department store.

thanks for the feedback, we'll consider making this feature

Beartoya December 7th, 2022 3:59 PM

Looking forward to this Beta 3! Been playing alot of pokemon from hacks and this looks promising.

Inner Rhymes December 7th, 2022 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Maverick (Post 10537259)
the region map is quite large but it's just large enough for 3 gens (3 and a half, considering all the pokemon from gen 4 we'll insert). For a single region, that's already a lot more species than any one of the regions of the official games ever had.

and if I were to make a more detailed response: we did think of adding more but it's like, is more pokemon in a single region = better game? No... it's not fun when you go into a route and you're able to find 12 different species of Pokemon in the grass, 5 more while surfing and 5 more while fishing, etc. The areas all become overloaded with species, and it just doesn't feel like a Pokemon game at that point because none of the official games try to cram 7-8 gens of Pokemon into a single region.

we thought 3 gens + a few from 4 were more than enough

I resonate with this sentiment, quantity does not necessarily mean quality, not to mention it would take a lot of work to even create alternative manners to obtain these Pokemon, let alone justify why they are even in the region.


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