ckret2
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NOTICE! First Alpha is POSTED!
Info at bottom!
Pokémon ToxicPurple
Intro stuff
Enter ckret2, another beginner to ROM hacking with a big idea and little
experience. Much progress is being made, though! I can even script now, oh
boy. I'll admit right here that the inspiration for this hack was Rocket's
Revenge, although I'm certainly not trying to copy it; I discovered the hack
after it was long canceled, and all I really know about it is the basic info
included in its first post, and the YouTube video of the first few minutes of
gameplay. Mine isn't anything like Rocket's Revenge. Although it is Team
Rocket centric. And I should probably move into the story now.
Storyline
Congratulations, you've just graduated from Team Rocket's boot camp and are
ready to get your own Pokémon and start wreaking havoc! You and your
partner are being sent to the hidden Rocket base in Saffron City, where you
will get your first assignment to go to Lavender Town. Don't bother trying to go
to any other city: all the other security guards are on the look-out for Rockets
and won't let you through. We've bribed off the East Gate guard, though...
You'll be involved in all of Team Rocket's most impressive schemes. Poaching
Cubone in Pokémon Tower is only the beginning. You'll be helping Team Rocket
as it slowly moves towards its ultimate goal: Taking over Silph Co. and, after
that, Kanto. There will be some kinks in the plan, of course. There's this twerp
named Red who seems to show up on the scene just after you leave, undoing
all of Team Rocket's hard work. There's a rookie Officer named Jenny who just
won't leave you alone. There's the constant threat that Mewtwo might come
back from his self-imposed exile to wreak havoc. And then, then there's the
fact that Team Rocket is about to break up for three years.
Three years into the future, you'll be involved in the effort to bring Team
Rocket back from an undeserved defeat: cutting off Slowpoke tails, taking the
Radio Tower director hostage, rigging up complicated radio signals, searching
for your missing boss, the works. But Red's example has spawned more
ambitious young twerps, and the glorious comeback won't last long. Team
Rocket will fall a second time.
Its third incarnation will be all up to you...
Main Characters
The two on the left are the male and female Players; the one on the right is
the Rival. They've actually been slightly edited, but I don't feel like posting the
edits right now. Only the female has a full set of walking frames; the male and
rival are all done except for the left/right walking frames. The Player
(whichever gender you decide to be) has a default name of Corey (which is
conveniently unisex), and the rival is named Leone, because I've been reading
too much Godfather and Team Rocket reminds me of the Mafia. Corey is
a kid from Mahogany Town whose family has a history in organized crime,
although you don't meet the parents for over half the game; he/she got
recruited quite easily while traveling Kanto and hearing the pitch from the
Nugget Bridge Grunt. Leone grew up in Cerulean City, so he's actually known
that Grunt for several years and signed up for Team Rocket as soon as they
would let him. Corey and Leone went through training together and thus are
now partners upon graduation.
Screenshots and Videos
Apparently, on some computers/browsers (or, for all I know, all of them), the
new spoilers act funky. If there's one on a page, any subsequent spoilers on
the same page don't work. So, for the time being, I'm putting all screenshots
and videos into one spoiler, so that nobody will have a problem with the
spoiler.
Features
most important detail about all of the above is that I actually have good ideas
for how I'm going to do them. I could also barrage you with a
bunch of tiny details for particular characters and particular encounters and so
on, but that wouldn't be interesting for long.
The Team (so far)
Assuming I didn't forget anyone. :P
Support
In case you want to announce your every-lasting love for this hack in your
signature. Or something like that. We've got two so far.
Vrai's support bar:
flyin_hawaiian's support bar:
Fail-Z's support bar:
my support bar:
Awards
Isn't it nifty? It's even got a Rattata. An epic Rattata, I'm sure.
And some other stuff
Since I can't find any other place to mention this: it's a FireRed hack, currently.
Because I like having Kanto made for me.
This game USED to have a temporary title of Violet. For all of eight minutes.
It's now called ToxicPurple, but that name is also liable and likely to change in
the near future. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
I've reformatted this page, mainly by randomly hitting "return," because
apparently on some of PC's layouts each paragraph turns into just one long line
if I don't do that. If it looks funky on anybody else's screen, let me know, and
I'll look for another work-around. Too bad PC doesn't just let me make a
table...
Feedback appreciated!
Lemme know what you think. Any opinions, suggestions, advice on any and all
aspects of the hack would be appreciated. Thank you!
—————
ToxicPurple Alpha 1 available!!
Features:
Mew egg?
"Bugs":
With "bugs" in quotes because none of them are actually "bugs," just stuff I
haven't gotten around to changing yet.
Expect these to be fixed in the next alpha:
And after all the bugs, I've probably scared you off, hah. Anyway, enjoy, and
let me know what you think--particularly on trainer levels, I dunno if they're
too hard or too easy. (I do know that at least one of the Bikers on Route 8 is
going to be a real nuisance to beat; I upped his AI a little and gave his
Pokémon some odd movesets.) Post any questions or comments or critique or
whatever here.
Enjoy!
Info at bottom!
Pokémon ToxicPurple
Intro stuff
Enter ckret2, another beginner to ROM hacking with a big idea and little
experience. Much progress is being made, though! I can even script now, oh
boy. I'll admit right here that the inspiration for this hack was Rocket's
Revenge, although I'm certainly not trying to copy it; I discovered the hack
after it was long canceled, and all I really know about it is the basic info
included in its first post, and the YouTube video of the first few minutes of
gameplay. Mine isn't anything like Rocket's Revenge. Although it is Team
Rocket centric. And I should probably move into the story now.
Storyline
Congratulations, you've just graduated from Team Rocket's boot camp and are
ready to get your own Pokémon and start wreaking havoc! You and your
partner are being sent to the hidden Rocket base in Saffron City, where you
will get your first assignment to go to Lavender Town. Don't bother trying to go
to any other city: all the other security guards are on the look-out for Rockets
and won't let you through. We've bribed off the East Gate guard, though...
You'll be involved in all of Team Rocket's most impressive schemes. Poaching
Cubone in Pokémon Tower is only the beginning. You'll be helping Team Rocket
as it slowly moves towards its ultimate goal: Taking over Silph Co. and, after
that, Kanto. There will be some kinks in the plan, of course. There's this twerp
named Red who seems to show up on the scene just after you leave, undoing
all of Team Rocket's hard work. There's a rookie Officer named Jenny who just
won't leave you alone. There's the constant threat that Mewtwo might come
back from his self-imposed exile to wreak havoc. And then, then there's the
fact that Team Rocket is about to break up for three years.
Three years into the future, you'll be involved in the effort to bring Team
Rocket back from an undeserved defeat: cutting off Slowpoke tails, taking the
Radio Tower director hostage, rigging up complicated radio signals, searching
for your missing boss, the works. But Red's example has spawned more
ambitious young twerps, and the glorious comeback won't last long. Team
Rocket will fall a second time.
Its third incarnation will be all up to you...
Main Characters
The two on the left are the male and female Players; the one on the right is
the Rival. They've actually been slightly edited, but I don't feel like posting the
edits right now. Only the female has a full set of walking frames; the male and
rival are all done except for the left/right walking frames. The Player
(whichever gender you decide to be) has a default name of Corey (which is
conveniently unisex), and the rival is named Leone, because I've been reading
too much Godfather and Team Rocket reminds me of the Mafia. Corey is
a kid from Mahogany Town whose family has a history in organized crime,
although you don't meet the parents for over half the game; he/she got
recruited quite easily while traveling Kanto and hearing the pitch from the
Nugget Bridge Grunt. Leone grew up in Cerulean City, so he's actually known
that Grunt for several years and signed up for Team Rocket as soon as they
would let him. Corey and Leone went through training together and thus are
now partners upon graduation.
Screenshots and Videos
Apparently, on some computers/browsers (or, for all I know, all of them), the
new spoilers act funky. If there's one on a page, any subsequent spoilers on
the same page don't work. So, for the time being, I'm putting all screenshots
and videos into one spoiler, so that nobody will have a problem with the
spoiler.
Spoiler:
Features
- Custom sprites (including overworld), new story, new plot, Johto access,
new characters in addition to old ones and a few animé ones (no, you aren't
playing as Jessie and James...). All Kanto and Johto Pokémon available, no
plans at this point to include Hoenn or Sinnoh Pokémon. - New starters, naturally. Not a hundred
percent sure what they'll be yet. Not Ekans, Koffing, and Meowth, though.
Seriously, you're a Grunt. You might be getting the wonderful choices of
Rattata, Rattata, and Rattata. I repeat: you're a Grunt. It'll inspire you to go
get better Pokémon. - Like I said, this was inspired by Rocket's Revenge, and so (with permission
from EarthsVisitor) PokéCenters won't heal your
Pokémon, and most of the time when you enter a house the
homeowners will battle you. - Stealing Pokémon and smaller team sizes. These two tie into each
other. Sometimes, after a battle, the poor loser you beat will be forced to give
you his or her Pokémon. Unfortunately, if you don't have an open space in your
party, you can't accept the Pokémon, and you'll never have another opportunity
to accept it. So, you can have a full team of six, but if you want to do
your job as a Rocket, you'd better keep your team size small. - No gym challenge. You'll have to do other
things if you want to get promotions, but so far the only gym leader you'll be
battling is Sabrina. Like she's going to let Team Rocket take over her city and
lock her up in her own gym without a fight. Other Super Epic Fun Battles
include beating up an innocent mother Marowak (who somehow, despite all
rules of evolution, is level 10... Hey, she's the first Epic Battle of the game, I
did what I could), a pack of wild Starters in the East-West Underground Tunnel
who hate your guts for some yet-to-be-disclosed reason, and a bunch of lousy
Viridian kids who attempt to take over the Gym while Giovanni is away. - A whole bunch of rivals. Mostly mini-
rivals, I suppose. (Kinda like Wally.) First there's your own partner (your
official rival) who loves challenging you to show off his newest steal, but then
there's also Red in Kanto, and Kris in Johto, as well as Jenny. Plus (not a true
"rival" but still...) Mewtwo's newest hobby is collecting trainer underlings--
willing or not--and bothering Rockets with them. - No HM slaves! Every single HM needed in
ToxicPurple will be made available through Key Items. No Cut, no Surf, no
Strength, no Rock Smash, no Waterfall. Definitely, definitely no Flash. And now
I've actually figured out HOW to script all these things, so we're completely
good to go on an HM-free game. However, for people who really liked Surf,
that HM will still be available if you just want to teach it to your Pokémon.
It won't be necessary, though, since you'll have a raft already.
most important detail about all of the above is that I actually have good ideas
for how I'm going to do them. I could also barrage you with a
bunch of tiny details for particular characters and particular encounters and so
on, but that wouldn't be interesting for long.
The Team (so far)
Assuming I didn't forget anyone. :P
- ckret2: leader, scripter, most-of-the-time mapper, OW/Trainer spriter... er... storyliner? Sure, let's call it that.
- Disturbed: mapper
- The warden: mapper
- Zanny77: item spriter
- Surf: level scripter (eventually)
- TombolaMan: part-time storyliner
- Ricchan (not on PC): part-time storyliner and muse extraordinaire
- Vrai: the guy who made the first awesome support bar.
- flyin_hawaiian: the guy who made the second awesome support bar.
- Fail-Z: the guy who made the third awesome support bar. Speaking of which...
Support
In case you want to announce your every-lasting love for this hack in your
signature. Or something like that. We've got two so far.
Vrai's support bar:
flyin_hawaiian's support bar:
Fail-Z's support bar:
my support bar:
Awards
Isn't it nifty? It's even got a Rattata. An epic Rattata, I'm sure.
And some other stuff
Since I can't find any other place to mention this: it's a FireRed hack, currently.
Because I like having Kanto made for me.
This game USED to have a temporary title of Violet. For all of eight minutes.
It's now called ToxicPurple, but that name is also liable and likely to change in
the near future. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
I've reformatted this page, mainly by randomly hitting "return," because
apparently on some of PC's layouts each paragraph turns into just one long line
if I don't do that. If it looks funky on anybody else's screen, let me know, and
I'll look for another work-around. Too bad PC doesn't just let me make a
table...
Feedback appreciated!
Lemme know what you think. Any opinions, suggestions, advice on any and all
aspects of the hack would be appreciated. Thank you!
—————
ToxicPurple Alpha 1 available!!
Features:
- Receive an epic Rattata!!
- Steal your first Pokémon
- Play entirely through your first mission: dealing with a Marowak...
- Receive the Big Machete and mutilate those pesky trees!
- Battle a bunch of re-leveled trainers
- Attempt to figure out whether or not the dialogue has been changed on said
trainers. (Usually it has, if only slightly.) - Talk to a bunch of NPCs, just to say you did.
- Wonder why that Channeler has a Bellsprout.
- Wonder how a Meowth can play cards.
- Wonder why you need a Silph Scope to see Zubat and Cubone.
- AND MORE!!
Mew egg?
"Bugs":
With "bugs" in quotes because none of them are actually "bugs," just stuff I
haven't gotten around to changing yet.
Expect these to be fixed in the next alpha:
- If you go into the Lavender Town Pokémon Center and then faint
without visiting the Saffron Base, you'll go back to the Lavender Center.
But Nurse Joy still gives Nurse Woe's speech. This won't take long to fix, I just
haven't yet. - It is possible to "beat" the Marowak by running away from it. Yeah.
Kinda lame. I'm trusting you guys not to pull a stunt like that while I find a way
to fix this. I've got one guaranteed-but-silly way to fix this (make it a ghost),
and one iffy-but-cooler way to fix this (an experimental piece of code that I
can't find an explanation for, but looks promising. We'll see). - The start screen hasn't been changed, and all the sprites from the
welcome-to-the-game-speech haven't been changed. They will be
eventually. - You can go into the Fighting Dojo and the Saffron Gym and fight
trainers. I wouldn't recommend it, though. And the motivational speaker in
Sabrina's Gym will try to talk you out of it. I know what I'm going to do to
keep you from fighting the gym and dojo, but haven't written those scripts yet. - There's a... a fence at the bottom of Lavender Town. I couldn't think
of a better way to block it off. I'll come up with something before the next
alpha. - There's an officer north of Lavender Town with a "thirsty guard"
script. It's a temporary substitute for what will be a REAL script later. - No homeowners battle you yet... Alas! I just haven't scripted their
battles yet, don't worry. They'll battle you soon enough.
And after all the bugs, I've probably scared you off, hah. Anyway, enjoy, and
let me know what you think--particularly on trainer levels, I dunno if they're
too hard or too easy. (I do know that at least one of the Bikers on Route 8 is
going to be a real nuisance to beat; I upped his AI a little and gave his
Pokémon some odd movesets.) Post any questions or comments or critique or
whatever here.
Enjoy!
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