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Ruby hack: [Hack of the Year 2011] Pokémon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians

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I have uploaded a new patch. It mainly fixes the bug of the camera during the Dragon Castle event.
SendSpace | MediaFire

I'll probably upload a new one that'll fix the other bugs mentioned.
Though, may I ask someone to list them here? That'd totally save me some time.
I used to have a list, but my PC's hard drive died and I couldn't retrieve all of my data there. :\

That'd be all for today.
G'nyt~
 
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From what I remember...

-There is a Celebi inside of Team Earth's base behind where Gaia is standing
-Silver chest stuck in the tree at the Safari Zone
-You can talk to the Team Earth Grunt at Breeze Island before you do the final confrontation with the Dark Organization event. Talking to him causes a menu of your pokemon party to pop up, all with "able" listed by their names. Making a selection freezes the game, but the music still seems to play fine.
-Floatzel's base defense stat is 20 when it should be 55.
-Larvitar is holding a ????????, when its supposed to be holding, I assume if you haven't changed what pokemon hold, a hard stone.

Just so I know, is it ok to use my version 15 save with this newer patch? Any special steps I need to take to get it to work? I remember you saying something about saving inside buildings to be safe.

EDIT: Some other bugs I found from other people in the thread.

-Evee holds a ????????? item. This is from one caught in the Safari Zone.
-Fishing in the lake where Zapdos is causes a missingo to appear.

Also found this additional post but I am not sure what exactly he means

i found a major glitch. when you go through the seen where you are in the other timeline and you have a really high level pokemon it will glitch and freeze. it pops open your pokemon and if you do anything it will freeze. its right after you stop talking to the shaman. when your supost to talk to the shyman when you wake up. i was going to defeat the vessel too. -__-
 
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Just so I know, is it ok to use my version 15 save with this newer patch? Any special steps I need to take to get it to work? I remember you saying something about saving inside buildings to be safe.

Yes, of course it's ok.
Just make sure that the name of the patched ROM is the same as your saved file, minus the extension name.


i found a major glitch. when you go through the seen where you are in the other timeline and you have a really high level pokemon it will glitch and freeze. it pops open your pokemon and if you do anything it will freeze. its right after you stop talking to the shaman. when your supost to talk to the shyman when you wake up. i was going to defeat the vessel too. -__-

...I have no idea what I just read...
 
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Glitch reports? I have arrived!

In addition to the ones previously mentioned...
Spoiler:


 
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Welp...finished playing XD

I liked the Celebi in here at Gento, it allowing to change the time on your clock XD So random.

Speaking of which....

PokemonRubyDestiny-LoG152_zpsa6dbebb9.png


....I see what you did there Jagold. ;D
 
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Man, I really wish Tyranitar learned Dragon Dance through leveling up instead of breeding...

Anyway, one more possible graphical oddity I found...the top two pixels of Charizard's back sprite's eye are missing.

Also is Attack Order and Defend Order in this hack? Vespiqueen is not quite as useful without those two moves.
 

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Man, I really wish Tyranitar learned Dragon Dance through leveling up instead of breeding...

I'll maybe add that move to Tyranitar in the next patch.
I'd like suggestions on what lvl would it learn though.


Anyway, one more possible graphical oddity I found...the top two pixels of Charizard's back sprite's eye are missing.

I'll check his sprite when I get home.
Though if I remember correctly, I didn't touched his sprite. I only repointed it.


Also is Attack Order and Defend Order in this hack? Vespiqueen is not quite as useful without those two moves.

If those moves don't exist in the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald era, then no, they don't exist.

PokemonRubyDestiny-LoG152_zpsa6dbebb9.png


....I see what you did there Jagold. ;D

I'll quote my response on one of the members from FIMFiction...
destinedjagold(from FIMFiction.net) said:
That was completely a coincidence! xD
I was not a brony, nor have I heard about MLP during that time.
Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!
...
by the time somepony pointed that one out, at first I thought he was referring to that Twilight movie, where vampires "Sparkle"... xD


Glitch reports? I have arrived!

In addition to the ones previously mentioned...
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Thanks. I have fixed them now.
Well, most of them anyway.


It's either about Shaman in different timeline or about Shaymin...
Seeing people talking about Shaymin and writing Shaman made me wondering which of these meanings people mean...

Ditto. :\
 
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I believe that's all of the bugs. Possibly. Probably not. Either way, I don't think I'll be seeing any more glitches around...
Let's see...Tyranitar learning Dragon Dance...I'd say either put it as a Tyranitar Lv.1 so it has to go to the Move Re-learner, or around 65 plus or minus a few levels.

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Well as long as you are going to change some of the moves that Pokemon have, I have a few more suggestions...

(Actually, this post ended up MUCH longer than I originally anticipated, so only read when you are in the mood to read an essay post)







Croagunk/Toxicroak should be able to learn Earthquake (they can in the official games). They should also be able to learn Bulk Up to try and help out their mediocre defensive stats (Also since you replaced Bulk Up as a TM)

Kingdra should be able to learn Rain Dance, as the majority of its attacks are going to be based off of its special stat and it would also help to activate the Swift Swim ability. It should also have access to Dragon Breath and maybe a few good physical moves, as it has Dragon Dance as a move it learns (Which helps out its speed and attack...too bad it really doesn't get any physical moves)

Froslass is a more of a defensive / support pokemon than an offensive sweeper. I would suggest replacing some of the gen IV moves it learns upon level up that are not in this hack with moves such as Thunder Wave, Spikes, Taunt, Trick, etc.

Charizard has a whole slew of moves it could learn upon leveling up to suit its offensive nature. Sunny Day, Belly Drum, Dragon Dance, Rock Slide, Double-Edge, etc.

Steel Wing for Scizor please.

I would also suggest you buff Rock Smash and Flash. The former could do with a power boost (maybe to say, 50 base power would be good), and Flash should have its accuracy increased to 100% (its a freaking accuracy lowering move and it has low accuracy itself? Makes a lot of sense. </sarcasm>)

This is just from the Pokemon I used. Honestly, the lets play done by DoesntKnowHowToPlay, as well as his post in this topic, demonstrates a pretty glaring flaw of this hack, that being that quite a few pokemon are pretty useless, either because they don't get any good moves, or they get moves that are in the complete opposite spectrum of the role they are supposed to fill. I would suggest going to smogon.com to get a good feel for what moves are good on the Pokemon you put in this hack, as well as Bulbapedia for a list of which moves each Pokemon can learn and from which generation (you could add new moves to each Pokemon via what moves they learn upon leveling up to certain levels that are not available in this hack). Granted, this would reduce the usefulness of the Day Care in the game, but seeing as how so many Pokemon are not available to breed with to get the really good moves, I doubt many people would care (Honestly, a really cool change to the Day Care that would get it to see more use from players would be to make the baby pokemon always be a shiny pokemon)

Finally, and again DoesntKnowHowToPlay brought up another good point, if you want there to be good challenge in this hack (Which definitely seems to be the case), then you shouldn't be giving Golems Flamethrower and level 40 Floatzels Sonic Boom. Giving nearly every single Pokemon Double Team, especially frail Pokemon who really do not really have any time to set up, is bad game design as well, not to mention just gets plain boring to counter, as all you have to do is just use a move that never misses (Like Aerial Ace and Shock Wave, which the player receives just by playing the story) and Double Team becomes pretty useless. I should also mention that according to DoesntKnowHowToPlay, you gave a pokemon Choice Band, but gave it Double Team as one of its moves. If you are going to give a pokemon a Choice item, do not give it any non-attack moves. I'm not saying not to use Double Team, it is a very effective move on the right pokemon, but use it on Pokemon that can take hits well or resist a lot of types, like Kingdra or Scizor, and don't abuse the move. I would suggest taking a look at all of the "boss fight" trainers' Pokemon and consider whether or not their move sets are appropriate given their stats, abilities, and what level of difficulty you want for whatever part of the game that the trainer is at. Again, Smogon is a good place to put together effective movesets (Although considering how derpy the AI can be sometimes, some movesets might be less effective than others).

Soooo yeah, that was a mouthful, and I know that would be a lot of hard work, but it would really improve the core of your hack, as I felt this was one of its biggest flaws. Please consider it. I could try and help you out if it would mean the difference between you doing and not doing this request.

I also come with a couple more design flaws...

-In Sinister Woods at the area past the two strength boulders, it is possible to get yourself stuck with no way to get out (accomplished by pushing the right-hand boulder down as far as it can go).

-In the Mineral Cave accessible by falling down from the Gym in Boulder City, there is a Rock Smash boulder in the way of your path. It is more than possible to go down there without a Pokemon that knows Rock Smash, nor a Pokemon capable of learning Rock Smash, making it impossible to go on without killing off all of your Pokemon to restart at a Pokemon Center. I would suggest removing this boulder as it serves no purpose that I can see.

-Just a personal pet peeve of mine, but it kind of bothers me that Kevin ends up with two fire type pokemon on his team, as it makes the overall typing of his team a little un-balanced. Then again I do love Arcanine and Charizard, so I don't really know what to suggest here. I also felt that Ryan and Light should've had a sixth Pokemon added to their team as well, since Kevin got a sixth one. Just personal preference, do what you will.

-A couple of text errors during the final parts of the game at Dragon Castle.

"Thir actions almost brought the region to collapse."

*Their actions almost brought the region to collapse.

"Did the Pokemon asked you to catch them? Did they asked you to fight their own kind...?"

*Did the Pokemon ask you to catch them? Did they ask you to fight their own kind...?

"Each Island had a strong empire, and both are on war against each other."

*Each Island had a strong empire, and both were on war against each other.

-The sprite that appears on screen for Pokemon when you choose to make them surf sometimes has a glitchy palette.

-The animation of the doors of a house opening up cut into the houses at a certain town (but I sadly can't remember which one at the moment).

-Apparently if you collect three of the four Dragon Gods, there is a chance that Rayquaza won't fight you, even though he should, and this also causes Chaomega to act as if you have never met him before (he will tell you to go see Giratina in Shadow Valley).

-The animation of the protagonist watering a spot where berries can grow with the Wailmer Pail uses the original R/S/E sprite.

Some other suggestions to add to the hack...

-A guy somewhere in the Hevah league that sells held items like Leftovers, Choice Band, Bright Powder, etc.

-Pokemon that hatch from eggs are always shiny (would give more incentive to use the DayCare, plus a lot of the shiny Pokemon, like Charizard, look cool).

-Maybe replace some of the useless furniture items with far more useful battle items from gen IV and V such as Burn Orb and Choice Specs (which could be acquired from the guy in the Hevah league that sells you held items)?

-Rewards other than Nuggets for every mini game available (not that you should not have a Nugget available as a reward in the mini-games, just not all of them).
 
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So, for the first time, I decided to give it a go on a hack that isn't for a 1st or 2nd generation pokemon game, and already my inexperience seems to be fatal!

I downloaded the american v1.0 of Pokemon Ruby with the mugs intro from dgemu, then used a patch to remove the intro!

Tested it, worked perfectly!

You don't provide a UPS patchers folder with the v15.8 patch, so I used the one in the v15.2!

And when I try to patch the game, this happens!

[
To directly patch source file, a temporary file is being made.
Upon successful patching, the target file will be replaced with this.

Applying patch file 'C:\Users\MaX\Documents\Visual Boy Advance\Roms\Game Boy Advance\Pokemon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians (Ruby hack)\PKMN RD-LoG v15.8.ups' ...
Failed! File cannot be read.

Replacing output file with temporary file ...
Success!
]

Tested it, doesn't work!

Tried with v15.2, same thing!

I assume it has something to do with the rom I'm using, but I'm not sure!

Maybe if you can help me solve the problem, I would be grateful!

In the meantime, I found out that this is the 3rd game in the series, so I'm gonna play the 1st one, then the 2nd, for now!
 
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First off, I would suggest using the 15.8 patch as it fixes a lot of errors in the ROM.

Second off, you are using the wrong ROM. Try downloading another and continue downloading new ones until you see the message in the UPS patching program, "File patched successfully.", when you attempt to patch the ROM.
 
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First off, I would suggest using the 15.8 patch as it fixes a lot of errors in the ROM.

Second off, you are using the wrong ROM. Try downloading another and continue downloading new ones until you see the message in the UPS patching program, "File patched successfully.", when you attempt to patch the ROM.

Yeah, I'm positive that my Ruby rom is messed up, because I just started playing Reign of Legends, and my starters are Murkrow, Rhyhorn AND SHAYMIN!!!!

Thanks for the help, I'm gonna download a newer version!
 
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Wow cool ROM! New here so just a question or too.

How many of the new sprites are yours? for example exegglent and gravetone and just wondering if they are publicly usable or not like will you upload the sprites :), and more importantly, will none "animated" sprites work in 5th gen games like black and white?
 
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Wow cool ROM! New here so just a question or too.

How many of the new sprites are yours? for example exegglent and gravetone and just wondering if they are publicly usable or not like will you upload the sprites :), and more importantly, will none "animated" sprites work in 5th gen games like black and white?
Yes I recommend you to use Exegglent but sadly it's pre evolution has a very frustrating encounter rate
 

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Wow cool ROM! New here so just a question or too.

How many of the new sprites are yours? for example exegglent and gravetone and just wondering if they are publicly usable or not like will you upload the sprites :)

I suppose it's fine for you and others to use the sprites on other projects, except for a few of course.
These are the list of custom-made PKMN sprites that doesn't really belong to me.
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and more importantly, will none "animated" sprites work in 5th gen games like black and white?

This question isn't related to LoG.
Take this up in the Simple Questions Thread.


The screenshots in the OP aren't showing for me...

I'll upload them to a new image-hosting site when I get home.

Well as long as you are going to change some of the moves that Pokemon have, I have a few more suggestions...

(Actually, this post ended up MUCH longer than I originally anticipated, so only read when you are in the mood to read an essay post)

Spoiler:

Regarding adding moves to PKMN, I believe I would need suggestions of what level would they learn it. I am not good at that field though...

Increasing the stats of both Rock Smash and Flash is a good idea.
I'll do just that then. :3

The Double Teaming, yeah, I suppose I overused that move on a lot of battles. I will try and change them though when I can get the time. :3

And oh, I ain't good at giving movesets to PKMN, even to my custom ones, so yeah. =/

I will be checking those design flaws. Thankies~

And I am aware of the text errors from the Dragon Castle event.
I am just too lazy to fix them. I'll see if I'd be bothered to fixing them. :P

Oh, Kevin's team is based on what "kevin" has given me. He's a dude that helped me with the hack at one point, and to show my thanks, I turned him into a rival in the game.

I see if I'd be bothered to add a sixth PKMN to Light/Jude and Ryan's teams.

The sprite pallete error before surfing and the opening-door animation error, yeah, I have no clue what causes those. I did try fixing them, but I failed.

I'll check that Rayquaza bug. Thanks for reporting that.

Eh... Where'd you get the Wailmer Pail?
I never planned on adding that in the game. :\

I don't really know how to make new held-items which would be useful for battle.
Also, yeah, an NPC selling those stuff would be a nice addition. :3
 
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If I recall correctly, the Wailmer Pail can be obtained in the Flower Shop, which is in Boulder City. One of the people inside give you it.
 
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