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Welcome to Rocket Rising: A game where you get to play as a member of Team Rocket.
But first... You are in the beginning of your Pokemon Journey, and admittedly, having some trouble. You barely won 2 badges, and just won the Nugget Bridge challenge, when everything you've worked so hard for is stripped from you.
You are left with only one, single Pokemon.
Team Rocket provides Pokemon, and you need Pokemon so... you join up, just for a little while, to get back on your feet.
But all this stealing and cheating gives you an edge. You start winning more often, and against stronger opponents.
You start to think... maybe there's a different path to becoming a Master of Pokemon.
Current Features
~Active Time Battle: The number of attacks you get are based on speed. This gives faster, but weaker, pokemon a fighting chance against the slower, heavy hitters.
~3 Pokemon per Battle: You can have many Pokemon with you, but only 3 in a battle.
~Skill Usage System: Pokemon can have as many abilities as they can learn, they aren't limited to 4, and they can learn moves either by leveling up or by using their old ones. Thundershock will turn into Thunderbolt when used a certain amount of times, and can "upgrade" mid-battle!
~Recruitment: In certain situations you can recruit people to join Team Rocket. This might involve beating them in a battle, helping them out, or simply talking to them.
~Cheat Items: Throughout the game you can get items that have strong effects on enemies, like instantly poisoning them, draining all their energy, or making your own Pokemon almost invulnerable to damage. These are meant to give you an unfair advantage during tough battles.
~Mutagen: You can get rare items called 'Mutagens'. These mutate your Pokemon and give them a partial secondary type, giving them new moves, new strengths, and a new, sometimes frightening, appearance.
~Things Change: The more dangerous and successful you become, the more the world around you will notice and adjust accordingly.
People will talk to you differently, different areas will become open or closed to you, and you can see areas change over time because of your actions.
~Gray Morality:Are you loyal to yourself? Your organization? Or something in-between? The game presents you with many different choices, go find your own unique path!
So a long, long time ago, when I was playing Pokemon Red for the first time, I beat Nugget Bridge. And I got offered a job at Team Rocket! And I was stoked.
And then became very disappointed when you could not actually give up your 'Pokemon Master' dream to go join a criminal organization.
Eventually, since the desire to play a game like that never went away, I decided to make one of my own. A game where you can break the rules a little. Something that felt a little different from other Pokemon games.
I'm using parts of Crystal Noel's "Pokemon For Ace" for the program RPGMaker Vx Ace.
Right now there's about 20?? hours of gameplay.
IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING TO SAFFRON BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE LOCKPICK: http://www.mediafire.com/download/u80d6oxofc1gn9b/RocketRisingtemp.exe
I've made it so that if you go Right out of Celadon, there'll be a lockpick hidden in the furthest right flower.
Hopefully that should fix your lockpick troubles.
As of .2.5
- Changing some of the sprites so that everyone isn't quite so whitebread.
- A teleporter spot exists in most towns now
- All necessary lab parts can be found in towns where there is a teleporter spot.
- A lab part can be found in Silph, and in Lavender.
- Two new sidequests. One in Celadon, found after Silph, and one in Saffron city.
- Potion should heal 40 now, and Super Potion heals 60.
- Name Rater can be accessed in Lavender.
- There are people able to be recruited now, depending on where you are in the story.
- The Spirit Coin will restore 1% of mana now, instead of 5%.
- Cheat Items, that allow you to influence battle, have begun to be added
- Flashlight (Replaces Flash) is programmed in
- Bikes have been programmed in
- The party system now shows the sprites of the Pokemon
- Ghost types are now weak to Dark type moves, instead of resistant.
- Using potions from menu will have potion sound now.
As of Version .2
- The NULL effect should no longer exist. Instead PKMN will do 1 damage at least. EDIT: Null stills exists somehow. Working on it.
- The recruiter at the beginning will no longer take your Stolen Pokemon
- The prize exchange part of the Game Corner can now be entered after you've stolen 3 Pokemon.
- Gastly's speed is adjusted so it's no longer faster than Rattata.
- Gastly and Rattata's HP should be doubled now.
- Gastly can now learn Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, and Psychic by using certain skills the appropriate number of times.
- Lick has an animation now
- Antidote exists now
- Lockpick exists and unlocks doors
- The Kid!Recruit should now be wearing a Rocket Uniform.
- Type advantages/disadvantages exist now. Flying is super effective against bugs, etc.
- Adjusting the damage formulas for all the moves so that they have different strengths.
(basically, poison sting will no longer do the same damage as thunderbolt)
Resources from Pokemon Essentials
Resources and Scripts from Crystal for Ace
Crystalnoel42's(???) field script for Party Leader
Fomar0153's Line of Sight, and Learn Skills by Usage script
Yanfly's Battle and Save Engine, Party script, and JP Manager
Yami's ATB script
Casper Achievement scripts
V.M. Proximity Script
Mr. Bubble Tactics Ogre Crafting script
Bulbapedia for info, map images, etc. This would be much harder without them.
Autumnal's tutorial on Passive Skills
William TheUnproPro's tutorial on saving event locations
rm2k3_rulez tutorial on setting up a Pokemon style Casino
modern algebra for the Hover Alert script
Dainekoichi for Store and Release Damage script
shaz for State Remove/Add script
Music:
Casino ("Let's Join", Dragon Warrior)
Department Store (.hack//GU)
Growlithe Boss Battle ("Triggernometry", Red Dead Redemption)
Silph Boss Battles: ("The Thirteenth Struggle", Kingdom Hearts 2, Remix by Sonicwave1000)
Cave Music ( "Another Order" Resident Evil 4)
Museum Puzzle music ("Forbode" from The World Ends With You)
Saffron Pokemon Center ("Nadia Krall's Theme", Contact)
Cerulean Cave ("Dark Temple", Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs)
Vermilion City remix from xXchainchomp01
Inspiration:
Pokemon Toxic Purple
Pokemon Rocket Science
Pokemon Colosseum
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Super Pokemon Eevee Edition
Known Problems
Spoiler:
-In the "Change Formation" menu it shows the Trainer icon you started with, not the Pokemon icon. Not sure how to fix this.
- Using the "Bite" ability on a Gastly might glitch out the game. Haven't been able to recreate this yet. (Might be fixed as of .2.5?) - Maxx, in front of Fuji's House, will glitch the game if you don't talk to him before going in.
- When using Bubble, the affected PKMN will have the antidote icon instead of a 'lowered speed' icon. - There's no way to track how many times you've used a skill/how close you are to getting a new skill. I would like to fix this at some point.
- There may be some slowdown in the ATB bar in Silph Co. Not sure what's causing it right now.
EDIT: May only be encountered after reaching the 5th floor?? (I've unable to find this. )
- After fighting Gary in Silph Co. the battle music won't switch back to the normal battle bgm. (I forgot this one! Sorry! Still in 2.5!) - Giving the Rocket guy a drink on the 2nd floor of the base, and then going downstairs, will trap you there.
- The police on the 7, 8, 9th floors of Silph can see through walls, and each other sometimes.
-If you are continuing a save file in ver .2.5, you may encounter a glitch when starting a Pokemon battle. There is a sign on the 1st floor of the Rocket base that will fix this for you.
- Ghost types are resistant to dark type/bite instead of weak to it. Fixed in .3.
- Route 3 (East of Pewter) may slow down your game.
-Any stat based moves (Agility, Defense Curl, etc.) may have mismatching symbols instead of +stat/-stat
-Using any item from the menu will cause the potion sound.
- Leaving through the South Saffron Gate on the way to Vermilion will freeze you. Should be fixed by next patch.
- The Beedrill in the Viridian Forest may 'run' from the battle. The battle will just stop a few turns in, without the Player winning.
(possibly only .2.6, unsure yet) impossible to learn Hyper Fang, Confuse Ray or Psychic. If scripted, Rattata can learn Confuse Ray, so maybe the count is wrong somehow??)
- People may get stuck when needing to deliver the package to Saffron City. This requires a Lockpick that they mysteriously will not have. Please check post 230 http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8905546&postcount=230.
- Going to Rt. 4 may trigger the Redra conversation (if you didn't already see it) accidentally, and give you more mutagens.
- Funding Guy in Saffron isn't working correctly, making the Cinnabar PokeCenter quest impossible to complete.
Wow just wow this is great i dont usually like going back to kanto cause ive played so many games but the changes are great. I wanna be a rocket i wanna take over cities i wanna recruit people. Ok so just one question on top of achievements is it possible for you to rise through the ranks to commander...general......maybe even the top? Maybe a possible tournament of rockets? This game has so much potential and i wish you the best of luck :)
Nugget Bridge
Fairly straightforward, the Nugget Bridge acts as a small tutorial. You have to fight the five trainers, and each will give you a bit of information about the battle system. The 5th trainer has a Mankey that packs a bit more of a punch, but overall your party shouldn't have any trouble getting through these fights.
When you reach the Rocket Recruiter, he'll offer you a job with Team Rocket and, good guy that you are, your character will refuse. You agree to a battle... and get one-hit KO'ed. Your party of Pokemon gets stolen from you. And this is where you, reluctantly, agree to join Team Rocket. Your First Mission (checkpoint 1)
Congratulations, you joined Team Rocket! And got a Rattata. Which, admittedly, sucks. But hey, at least it's fast. For every turn the opponent takes, you'll usually get two. After the recruitment, you're told to go steal three Pokemon.
1: Behind the apartment building, to the far, far left.
2: Inside of the apartment building, on the second floor. There's a Nidoran, and if you interact with it you can steal it.
3: Go to the house next to the Diner, in the south part of Celadon. A Grunt will sell you a Stolen Pokemon for 1000. Either get the money by doing the Diner Extortion sidequest, or by selling the Nugget from Nugget Bridge.
Go back to your Supervisor on the 4th floor of the Rocket base, and you'll get yourself a brand new, very important delivery mission. Deliver the Package (checkpoint 2)
Note: It is highly recommended for you to grab some Burn Heals from the Department Store before continuing.
Head right out of Celadon, and take the Underground Path to Lavender Town. Once you exit the Underground Path onto Route 8, you'll find it covered in trainers, most of which you can't beat. Try to only battle the old men and the little girls.
In Lavender Town a guy in front of Mr. Fuji's house will take the package from you, barge into the old man's house and kidnap him. If you check the bush right above the tree in Mr Fuji's house, you'll find a burn heal. This will be useful, because in a moment you'll have to fight two fairly strong Growlithe.
The Growlithe both have the ability to be healed by potions, they're about as fast as Rattata, and if they inflict Burn then that'll take a lot of your health very quickly. Hit them hard and fast, try to interrupt their attacks with Bite if you've learned it, and use Burn Heals and Super potions if you need to.
If all goes well, congratulations! You just beat your first cop. The Tower that is not full of Angry Ghosts yet(checkpoint 3 when kidnapping Fuji, 4 on completion of puzzle)
The Pokemon Tower is quiet, nothing bad has happened there yet. Most of the walk up is just you reflecting on the things you've done so far. When you reach the 6th floor you'll find a puzzle. Each of the golden graves has a haiku on it, and a flower, branch, or leaf. You must match the plants to the grave's haiku in order to reach the 7th floor.
Spoiler:
Upper far left - Violet
Upper middle left - Leaf
Upper middle right - Magnolia
Upper far right - Chrysanthemum
Lower far left - Bramble
Lower middle left - Hellebore (winter flower)
Lower middle right - Moon Flower
Lower far right - Iris
Finish the puzzle, get to the 7th floor, and you will get yourself your second Pokemon: Gastly. The trip down the tower will be full of much angrier ghosts now though. Battle through them, and at the 2nd floor you'll meet an old... friend. They will politely inquire as to why you are wearing a Rocket uniform, and you can feel free to lie to them or tell them the truth. Either way, get back to Celadon, and prepare yourself for a trip abroad and some word puzzles.
If you want to take a slight detour, go south to Route 12 and go in the gatehouse there. You might see a small interaction between people you'll meet later... The Cipher Heaven of Cinnabar (checkpoint 5 when completed mansion cipher)
(I would recommend picking up the Spirit Coin from the Prize Corner in the Casino before going to Cinnabar. You get it by having stolen 5 Pokemon, steal your 5th by going Left out of Celadon and battling the Trainer there.)
After talking with your supervisor you'll be sent to go help with some testing on the 2nd floor of the base. There, the scientist will give you a Cell Phone to help you keep in contact (and get hints) and you'll get to Cinnabar and get a short introduction on how ciphers work.
"The key is key" is solved by inputting
Spoiler:
"key" or "Key".
Inside the mansion, you have to flip the statue switches to get the lab parts and get into the basement. First, head straight up and take note of the bed. You can heal here if your Pokemon get low. There are a few good items here in the Mansion, including the first accessories you can get if you didn't do the Staryu sidequest!
There's the Accessory: Silver Charm on the 2nd floor, as well as an Ether, And in the basement there's the Accessory: Focus Sticker.
How to solve the Statue Switch puzzle
Spoiler:
1: Hit the statue just to the left of the bed, and then climb the stairs to the 2nd floor.
2: On the second floor go north until you see another staircase inside of a room, it goes to the third floor.
3: On the third floor, hit the statue directly in front of you, go through the pathway it opens, and follow the path until you take the stairs down. You'll get the 1st of 4 lab parts here.
4: Go back up to the 3rd floor and into the room that was previously blocked. There are more lab parts there, so grab those, hit the statue right behind them.
5: Now go back down to the 2nd floor where the 1st lab parts were, and hit the statue right there.
6: Go all the way down to the 1st floor, use the bed to heal if you need it, and go far right, and then down, into the now open basement.
7: The basement has no wild encounters, so go left into the room with the book, hit the statue, and then go up and to the final door.
The last of the lab parts is behind a door though, blocked by the phrase "oftees hnntwa soedeh oksfmi oewnet is?". If you paid close attention to the cipher tutorial earlier, and the books around the mansion, you should be able to write it out to unscramble the sentence correctly.
If not, it translates to:
Spoiler:
"One of the two weaknesses of the mind is?"
The answer to this depends on some knowledge of the Pokemon world, or, an internet search.
Spoiler:
Either 'Ghost' or 'Bug' will get you through the door though.
And with that, the 4th, and last lab part is yours. Head outside, interact with the shiny spot on the ground, and head on home. Detective Redra (checkpoint 6)
While waiting for the teleporter to be finished, you are told to go find clues on where one of the Lieutenants has gone. You also get yourself a Lockpick!! This lets you open doors that are locked. There are 7 clues you can find, but you only need 5 to be done with it.
Clue Locations
Spoiler:
Two are in the locked house towards the South of Celadon
The recruiter on the 4th floor of the base
The grunt on the 1st floor of the base near the boxes
The grunt outside the Pokemon Center
The guy on the date on top of Celadon Department Building
The fisherman to the left of the Casino.
Go back to the scientist, get the finished teleporter, and deliver it to the Gentleman in Saffron City. And prepare for the invasion. Silph Co. (checkpoint 7: beginning 8: reached 10th floor 9: defeated Secretary 10: defeated Rival)
You will be teleported to the 3rd floor of Silph Co. First, go far right and go to that teleporter. You'll end up in front of kid, battle him, and take his Pokemon. Go down the 2nd floor, and step on the teleporter behind the cop, and you'll get a keycard that will let you go to the 4th floor.
On the 4th floor, there's a door and you need a code to open it. Trainers on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors will give you bits of information to solve the passcode. But if you're too impatient for that...
Spoiler:
The passcode is 4154
You should at least battle the blonde lady on the 6th floor and steal her Pokemon though. Also, on the 5th floor, head left and look behind the painting. You'll find some Lab Parts.
With your new keycard, make your way to the 7th floor! And let's play the minigame of avoiding cops. Mostly just follow closely behind them and take your chance to get out of their sight. There are 3 floors of cops, and they get more difficult as you go.
The 10th floor is quiet, with only a grunt who will let you buy some items off of him, and also help you back and forth from the 10th to the 1st floor if the upcoming boss battle proves too hard.
Hopefully you've been working on Gastly a bit, because you'll want its Psychic attack for this. The president's bodyguard/secretary will have two Machop that will drain all your mp and hp if you let them. The longer the battle goes on, the more likely it is that you'll lose, so try to end it fast.
You caught the President! Giovanni shows up! Everyone is happy!
...And then your Rival starts causing trouble. You may have had the opportunity to fight him before in Lavender Town. This won't be the same type of fight though. The Lieutenant Redra will give you a fantastic Snorlax that will wipe the floor with your Rival's team, just Attack, Double Edge and Rest as needed and you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Redra's Mission (checkpoint 11)
In the base on the 1st floor you'll find Redra waiting for you. She lets you pick whether you go during the Day or at Night. Night Mission
Spoiler:
All you have to do first is solve the puzzle of the cases. I mean, you could just smash both of them but... you'll miss out on a nice reward if you do that.
Spoiler:
There are 5 rows, from top to bottom.
For the top case, the one that gives you the Helix Fossil, the way that I solve it is like this.
Row 1, Square 1---> Row 3, Square 2 ---> Row 5, Square 1---> Row 2, Square 4 ---> Row 2, Square 5---> Row 4, Square 4
For the bottom case, the Dome Fossil, I do it like this.
Row 2, Square 4--> Row 4, Square 5---> Row 5, Square 3---> Row 5, Square 1---> Row 3, Square 2---> Row 1, Square 1
You should now have both fossils. You'll get out of the museum, and take the Mt. Moon path back to Cerulean when the ground falls away.
Fight your way out, talk to Redra whenever you need some healing, and rake in that exp. After you beat the 'boss' of the cave, you'll be free and hopefully have earned yourself a Mutagen!
Day Mission
This mission can split into a few directions, but the beginning is the same. Go into the museum, and interact with the pile of books/papers on the counter. Talk to the old man next to the cases. Then mess with the box on the wall near the police officer. This will give you maximum time to get into the cases.
Get the fossils, and then go to the window on the 1st floor to get out of the museum. Here is where it splits.
1. Either spend time walking around Viridian and Pewter until Redra calls, or head immediately back towards the base, and you'll go through Mt Moon with Redra while dodging police. This will also let you meet a character early, if you want.
2. Hide out in the Pewter Gym while things calm down. You get to fight Brock again, and you'll get the Accessory: Bolt Stone for your trouble.
3. Go to Viridian Forest, battle the Beedrill, and save a girl. And then recruit her!
4. Go home to Pallet Town, see your mother, and talk about the things that have changed.
Whichever you choose, you'll eventually get back to the Celadon/Cerulean area, and maybe got a Mutagen if you didn't break both cases. Maxx's Mission part 1 (checkpoint 12)
Head for the Saffron Pokemon Center, and then go inside and through the white door. You'll be asked to steal some Pokemon in the center. You can steal from 1) The guy in the Cafeteria with the plate of food in front of him 2) the Meowth in the ER room, 3) 4) 5) The Geodude, Pidgey and Nidoran in the exam rooms.
You only need to steal 4 to continue with the mission though. If you need healing, talk to the helpful Chansey near where you came in.
Once you're done with stealing the Pokemon, talk to Maxx by the escalators and head downstairs. And grab a calculator, there's math ahead. Maxx's Mission part 2
Each of the doors downstairs is locked with 2 digit passcode. Anything from 01 to 99 is possible. And every wrong answer gives an electric shock. Maxx will take the hits for you, but it's still game over if his health gets to zero. If you solve the electrician's problems though, he'll give you the first number for each door.
This still leaves you to guess what the LAST number is of the passcode but... if you pay attention to the problems you're asked to solve, then you might not need to guess. Try writing it all down.
Answers for the Electrician
Spoiler:
Door 1: How many forms?
Answer: 7
Door 2: How much weight after 4 weeks?
Answer: 212
Door 3: How many packs of lightbulbs to buy?
Answer: 375
Door 4: What's the next number in the pattern?
Answer: 324
Door 5: How many people came to the Pokecenters?
Answer: 30
Door 6: How much honey is needed?
Answer: 25
Door 7: How many mL of medicine is that?
Answer: 42
Door 8: How many Pokemon will there be next?
Answer: 849
Door 9: We want the same amount of veggies and meat
Answer: 63 pounds
Door 10: What will our electricity bill be this month?
Answer: 672
Door 11: How many Pokemon is that?
Answer: 95
Door 12: How much is my can collection worth?
Answer: 625.
The passcode to the doors
Spoiler:
Door 1: 27
Door 2: 72
Door 3: 13
Door 4: 03
Door 5: 13
Door 6: 02
Door 7: 14
Door 8: 28
Door 9: 76
Door 10: 66
Door 11: 39
Door 12: 86
Interact with the machine in the low left corner of the map. The door blocking it
Spoiler:
Either answer 439 or 3319
. Choose the dialogue option of your choice, and if you didn't let Maxx drop too low in health, he'll take care of all the battling for you and you'll soon walk out of there with your third Pokemon!
If you DID let Maxx drop too low in health, you'll have to fight two Growlithe and an Arcanine.
While you're in the Saffron Pokecenter Basement though, try to pick up the Adrenaline behind door 9, and the Lab Parts behind door 10. The Adrenaline will let your Pokemon attack twice in a turn, making it a good Accessory for your heavy hitters. Gym Trouble (checkpoint 13)
Head back to Casino and one of the other Grunts will interrupt you and drag you along into one of their half-baked plans. They want to attack the Cerulean gym and steal its Pokemon... and you're helping.
Find your way to Cerulean, talk to the Grunt at the side of the gym, and get ready for some fighting. Once inside you'll have to fight two Trainers, steal two Pokemon, and then battle Misty. Her Starmie might give you trouble, but if you keep it out of the fight with Hynosis or Confuse Ray, then all should go well. Idris (checkpoint 14, 15 upon talking to Idris)
If you went on the Day mission with Redra, you may have already met Idris in the Cerulean Jail. Now, it's time for a rescue mission. Talk to Maxx on the 4th floor of the Rocket Base to get started, and save beforehand. This might take awhile.
You'll attack the jail at night, but once you get there, find that there's no Idris after all. Instead, the police have retreated to the nearby Cerulean Cave, and you have to battle your way down into it. If you have it, equip the Spirit Coin to Chansey, and use her to keep your party at full health. The cave is full of tough monsters and maze-like passages.
If you just want to get Idris and get out, go in the cave, down the stairs, and then work your way to the upper left corner. That path will take you down to where you need to be.
But there are a few nice items down here, like Claws to boost attack, and Black Sludge to give your Gastly some extra health regen.
Once you've spoken to Idris, you can sit back and relax as you get transported in style out of the cave, and feel good about saving a happy and thankful Lieutenant. Stealin', Stealin' (checkpoint 16 upon getting Pkmn from Game Corner)
You need 20 Stolen Pokemon to advance the plot. You can get them from various Trainers along the routes to Vermilion, Lavender, Cerulean, and should already have a couple from previous Missions.
After you have 20, you'll have to pick between Zubat, Koffing, and Meowth.
Pick your fav, then head downstairs and talk to the Lieutenant you like best.
They'll tell you to meet them at the Power Plant near Cerulean city. Head West from Cerulean, towards the river, and a Rocket Grunt will let you use a boat that will get you to the Plant. Power Plant
The Power Plant has many items in it, and also many Voltorb that look like items. Be Careful.
Spoiler:
Your Lieutenant will tell you to turn on/off the electrical boxes to get through the Plant. Hit the first one right next to you, get past the electricity, then hit the newest box you see.
Go East, the only direction you can go, grab the Sound Clip, then go South into the room. Hit the fuse box, backtrack, and go into the room you couldn't before. A Copper Charm is there.
Go back to the fuse box, hit it again, then go North.
There will be a room you can't get into. Ignore it for now, hit the fuse box next to the entrance, go through the hallway. And avoid the next item you see.
Hit the box in the room south of the Voltorb item, go West, hit that box too, then follow the hallway and grab the Paralyze heal on the ground.
If you want, you can hit the box right before the Door, and backtrack and get that item you missed. It's a Dire Hit, which increases Crit Chance.
Go in the Door at the end of the Power Plant.
There will be a lot of activity, and depending on your Lieutenant you may want to look around the room afterwards. Leave the room once you're happy, and prepare for fighting.
All the electricity is off now, but there are three fights as you try to leave.
Get back the Entrance, say goodbye to your Lieutenant for awhile (unless you chose Idris) and get yourself back to Celadon. New Base
Talk to Idris on the 4th floor. None of the other Lieutenants are around. If the cities have been feeling a bit... unfriendly, this is your chance to correct that! It's time to bring Saffron under full Rocket Control.
You'll find Idris waiting for you on the East end of Saffron, next to the Pokemon Fan Club.
Depending on how much side stuff you've done so far, Saffron may take some running around. You need 6 Points to "weaken the city". You've already attacked Silph Co. and the PokeCenter, so that's 2. March inside the Pokemart for another easy 1. And now help our fellow Rockets!
1. Copycat. You may have done this one earlier, but talk to the Rocket in the upper left corner of the city, and he will tell you fight the girl inside the house he's next to. Win, and you get a point.
2. Go to the house near the Pokemon Center, and talk to the Rocket next to it. He'll tell you a girl is inside, and he wants to fight her. Either way you'll need to find out her name, so go a few houses to your right and inside is a man who will tell you her name. Convenient. Back to the Girl's House, and you'll get a letter for saying her Name. Go to Vermilion city down south, hand the letter to the boy in the south-most house, go BACK to Saffron, and she'll finally exit her hidey hole. Your choice what to do with her then. Either way you'll get your point.
3. Talk to the Rocket with blue hair wandering near the right side of the city. She'll say she wants to open a Salon. Go directly left, until you can enter a house, and talk to the Blonde salon owner. She'll ask for 500 coins. If you have the Coin Case, great! If not, take a trek to Viridian Forest, rescue Izabel, talk to her at the Casino, and get yourself some Coins. Now head down to Fuchsia city (maybe just take the bike path?), and talk to the old guy in the house to the faaar right of the Pokemon Center. Give him the coins, take the Secret Recipe back to the Salon owner, and then get your point by returning to the Rocket Girl who gave you the quest!
That should be six points. So go inside the fanclub, fight yourself a gauntlet of fairly tough trainers, and give yourself a pat on the back for kicking people out of their clubhouse!
Walk in the Park
You'll get a phone call from the terrible twosome asking you to meet them at Fuchsia park. Do so, and they'll say they want to break in and steal stuff. Great plan, huh? Head right out of the city, and circle around that barrier you see until you're walking in front of the trees. The sixth tree from the left will have some bushes behind it, and clicking on the tree will let you into the Secret Gardenpath. It's a randomized path, so look in the center to get a cue for where to go.
Spoiler:
bushes mean: go west. water means: go east. flowers mean go North.
Once you choose the correct path 7 times, you'll get into the Safari Park itself.
From here it's straightforward. Go north until you reach a new area, keep going straight up and you'll see the Kangaskhan. You have to fight a Ranger, then the Kanga themselves, and get yourself 3 more StolenPokemon.
Now equip all of the regen type items you have, because this next part is a little long. The Gauntlet
Head East out of Fuchsia, following the path until you get back to Vermilion city. There are a lot of Trainers, especially if you haven't thinned them out earlier.
In Vermilion, Maxx will be fighting Kabutops, and you're the backup. They're fast, and beware the sand attacks. When you've finished there, keep going North through the UnderGround tunnel, and into Cerulean. Idris is waiting, and there are more Fossil Pokemon to defeat.
After that, go West, through Mt Moon, and then down through the Viridian Forest. Redra is waiting in Viridian,
Giovanni will float the idea of you participating in the League Championships, and promote you to Lieutenant. Congrats. Enjoy your applause. You've earned it Rookie. Idris' Cave
Idris will invite you to a spot near the entrance of Mt. Moon. They will be standing in front of a wall. It's a secret cave.
The goal here is to collect all three 'pieces' of the key. Try to stay on the path, because if you don't, there are a lot of wild Pokemon waiting to attack you. Talking to Idris will heal you... sometimes.
Once you have the key, open the big important door near the entrance, and prepare for a Boss fight. And make a decision about the kind of person you are. The Championships!
Meet Redra in Viridian city to get your Set of Badges to participate in the competition, as well as a new Pokemon. It's a little untrained, but it's your choice whether to put in that work or not.
Head West of Viridian to get to the League, and enjoy some Interview questions, then go through the doors further inside to start the battles. There are four rounds of fights, and your opponents will jump in levels each round. They are also somewhat randomized, so there's no guarantee you will restart a fight and get the same opponent.
If you're having trouble, then go try a sidequest somewhere, or change up your party. Have you gotten a Recruit's advantage? Are you using your Cheat Items? Have you mutated any Pokemon? There are many strategies, so experiment!
There's also the Dart. But you might want to save those for later... Your Rival
Once you've finished four rounds of the Tournament, your Rival will be waiting outside for one last talk. It's up to you how you want to treat him.
Then head inside for your last fight. You'll be rid of all of your enemies soon. Final Decision
Upon defeating your Rival, you have a choice. Turn on Team Rocket, and destroy everything you've worked for? Or stick with them, now that you hold all the cards?
There is no wrong decision. But either way, you'll end up hurting someone.
Sidequests
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Diner Extortion - The female Rocket on the second floor of the base will helpfully tell you to go shakedown the diner guy. The diner is directly south of the Game Corner. Talk to the Diner Guy, and you'll have three options available to you. You can ask for a meal (which won't work), straight up tell him to give you money, or comment on what a nice place he has.
If you tell him to give you money, he'll ask why, and you have three more options. 1) Because you're a Rocket. 2) Because you need it. 3) Because reasons. If you're playing as a Boy, the first option will net you 200. If you're playing as a Girl, the second option will get you 500. The third option won't get you anything.
If you comment on the nice place he has, he'll ask if you're threatening him. Respond No. You'll then innocently mention how being in Celadon and making the Rockets mad, might not be such a good idea, and maybe he should be a good neighbor. He coughs up 2000 for your trouble.
All of the options that get you money (except the one as a Girl that gets you 500) will prompt Erika to notice and seem bothered by it all. But she doesn't say or do anything, so walk away with your ill gotten goods, and feel good about yourself. Cinnabar Experiments - If you talk to Nurse Joy on Cinnabar Island, she'll complain about the strange experiments going on in the lab next door. She wants you to put a stop to them.
1: Go to the second room in the lab, and break all of the computers. 2: Find the guy who funds the lab.
Spoiler:
He's in a house in Saffron City.
3: Talk to the scientist in the last room of the lab, and that should put an end to all that strange science. Jewelry and Staryu - Get the quest from the old man in the southern house of Celadon City. He wants you to steal some Staryu. Go to Lavender Town, then south, to Route 12, where you'll see a man fishing. Talk to him, win the battle, and you'll get his Staryu. Go back to the old man you got the quest from, and he'll tell you to pitch the idea of "Staryu Jewelry" to the Department Store there in Celadon. Talk to each of the shopkeepers in the Department store, and then return to the old man for your reward. Movie Man Celadon Letter to an Old FriendCerulean House The Girl in the HouseSaffron Slowpoke TailsVermilion Saffron SalonSaffron Wedding CrasherCeladon Bill's LighthouseNorth of Cerulean Mutagens
1. Celadon: From Redra, as long as you don't break both fossil cases during the Museum heist.
2. Pewt: Buy it from the Rt 4 PokeCenter
3. Virid: Classroom behind map.
4. Cerul: Reward after Bill's Lighthouse
5. Saff: Mr Psyhic's house
6: Lavender: Akemi's House
7: Fuchsia: Win against the Gambler
8: Vermil: Use the Fishing Rod multiple times
9: Cinnabar: R/D room pedestal
Recruitables
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Griffin - Automatically joins after Lavender Town Zach - Found in the Celadon Department store, 5th floor, you can recruit him anytime after Lavender Town as long as you have a Trinket. Bike Kid - In Cerulean, can be recruited any time. Talk to him 3-4 times and let him join Team Rocket. You'll also get a Bike for putting up with him! Izabel - Found in Viridian Forest, currently can only be reached during Redra's Day mission. Save her from the Beedrill and she'll auto-join. Markeva - Once you have stolen 10 Pokemon (and ideally gotten the flashlight) talk to the guy near the Rocket Grunt in Cerulean City. He'll tell you about a Pokemon thief in the area. Go to the cave that connects Lavender and Cerulean, and navigate through it. In the lower level you'll find Markeva, and you can choose to recruit her, or give her up to the Investigators chasing her. Rodrigo Felix Anthea
Ok so just one question on top of achievements is it possible for you to rise through the ranks to commander...general......maybe even the top? Maybe a possible tournament of rockets? This game has so much potential and i wish you the best of luck :)
It's possible for the player to become a more and more important person in Team Rocket right up until endgame where
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they challenge Giovanni.
But there isn't exactly a concrete power structure yet. Playing as middle management, where you have authority over some people, but still have higher ups to listen to, is something I'm still thinking about on how to pull off.
What do you mean by Tournament of Rockets? Like an annual competition for grand prize, sort of thing?
If you're ever in need of inspiration, you should play Pokemon ToxicPurple. It's quite a famous hack, and for good reason. One thing I never understood however, was why when someone makes a TR game, they have the protagonist always be in uniform. No one would join Team Rocket, if things like Pokemart are forbidden. While preventing attachment is an excuse, it's not really a good one, since it implies what you're doing is wrong.
Ok so id mean like u rise through ranks thts great that u u may be leader but like they have grunt, commander, executive, admin, leader stuff like that and then theres always been an idea floating around that it would be cool if the executives had tournament annually to become a admin thats my say on it its up to u of coarse but it'd be great if we could come up with like 6-7 levels since in the anime and games theres like "sirs" "commanders" and admins and executives all having different power until u have Giovanni who has no one to report to i think this game will have great potential if the story line is great. Now if we do a tournament instead of a pokemon league we could have "admins " be like the elite four and Giovanni of coarse the champion but u would just challenge him later after u showed ur the best " admin". Idk but its sounds cool right?
If you're ever in need of inspiration, you should play Pokemon ToxicPurple. It's quite a famous hack, and for good reason. One thing I never understood however, was why when someone makes a TR game, they have the protagonist always be in uniform. No one would join Team Rocket, if things like Pokemart are forbidden. While preventing attachment is an excuse, it's not really a good one, since it implies what you're doing is wrong.
As to toxic purple its pretty good i rather have it made with essentials cause hacks can only be so good and i think an undercover like a real person like Jesse and James is appropriate also maybe u could go into a Pokemart and steal stuff and maybe "accidently" drop some money or something along the lines of that or even better is a black market where u could trade with them for stuff or pay and bargain with them all these ideas are just going through my head about this great potential :)
Ah, Toxic Purple was fantastic. I played until the end of the Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town, and that's where it finished, if I remember right.
I wanted so badly for it to be longer.
One thing I never understood however, was why when someone makes a TR game, they have the protagonist always be in uniform. No one would join Team Rocket, if things like Pokemart are forbidden. While preventing attachment is an excuse, it's not really a good one, since it implies what you're doing is wrong.
a black market where u could trade with them for stuff or pay and bargain with them all these ideas are just going through my head about this great potential :)
I think either a market at a rocket headquarters or a black market would be great do you think maybe there will be secret routes in your game leading through forests or tunnels to a secret rocket headquarters? Or just in a abandoned tower maybe?
do you think maybe there will be secret routes in your game leading through forests or tunnels to a secret rocket headquarters? Or just in a abandoned tower maybe?
Hmm, maybe. So far I guessed that the players would want to make Rocket bases in towns.
But having one tucked away in Viridian Forest, or in the island caves near Cinnabar, would be pretty neat.
A little like the secret bases from Ruby and Sapphire.
Ya kinda like that if you ever watched the anime it was always in an old warehouse or secret passages under a cottage in the forest that would be pretty cool if people would truck things to a base in viridian forest also are you planning on having the sevii islands at all with the rocket base?
Probably not. Kanto has a lot of different areas, and a lot of different maps, even without the Sevii Islands.
I'm planning on mapping Saffron next and it's just... so... big.
It's debatable, so of course, to each their own. Always wanted to make a Team Rocket version for the Game Development community, but there's always something off with a map, when trying to revamp it. Attempting to fix it was extremely exhausting, so I really am glad to see you're looking to give it a try. ToxicPurple was like the best TR game, it really was a shame it never got finished. Facing off against Red, where I'm assuming there's a chance the player can lose, would have been awesome.
I also wish toxic purple was completed but this game has potential for its legacy i will help in any way i can and if u need help im sure plenty people are available the ideas are going through my head good luck with this ill keep close tabs and cant wait for the for the next update i think ill play through the beginning and see if theres any problems and see just how great this is also i like the battling system its unique and more realistic kinda makes me think of super Eevee edition :)
Please let me know if you find any! Or anything in the gameplay that makes things less fun.
I've done my best to eliminate glitches and stuff, but figuring out which things are fun, or when things start getting boring, is really difficult from this angle.
I'll look soon as I can ik wat u mean about fun in the original kanto for me it started to get boring gotta go with some drama and a crazy storyline that will keep the player into it I'll let u know about anything about the current demo and if ud like me to beta test future updates i could do that as well
Ps: I really like the name of the game its factually correct and its catchy ;)
I'll look soon as I can ik wat u mean about fun in the original kanto for me it started to get boring gotta go with some drama and a crazy storyline that will keep the player into it
Yeah, that's why I always liked Gold and Silver best. Everything was a bit unpredictable, from the semi-evil Rival to discovering all the different features that they included.
I liked that you never really knew where the game was going to send you, or what new thing it was going to throw at you next.
Ya thats wat i really liked its just like ur in 3 cities away go back to goldenrod lol kanto it was to to next town go to next town go to previous town go in tower got boring... LETS MAKE KANTO EVEN BETTER! ;)
Progress:
-Going to include a small 'Detective event' in the next update where you use clues to track an important person down. About halfway done with that.
After that will be the big part: Silph Co.
-If I can figure out how to make it so that you only evolve after gaining a level, then evolution will be available.
But, the base for the mutagen system is done!
If you find a 'mutagen' item then you can mutate one of your Pokemon. This will increase its stats, and change its type slightly to balance out weaknesses it has.
Example:
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For Rattata, it will gain a Psychic subtype, letting it learn Psychic moves and making it no longer vulnerable to Fighting type moves.
And it stays mutated even if it evolves, so you can mutate it at any time.
I do need a better way to identify it as 'mutated' though. Mu![PokeName] doesn't roll of the tongue really, but it's not a normal Pokemon anymore either.
Yay the lockpick ill think on the mutation name and also im currently downloading the game will start it today but will play more tommarrow hopefully ill get u some feedback by tommarrow!
looks like a great game, only problem is i havent being able to do anything after getting the first pokemon....which im guessing has something to do with the tileset....
