FireRed hack: [HotW 95]Pokémon Revolution I: Expansion

NiKaNoRoU · Nov 30, 2009

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Introduction

This is where I lurk...
Hello everybody, some of you might know me, others might not. Either way, I'm hereby presenting to you my latest hack, which also marks the start of a hack Tetralogy, called Pokémon Revolution. The first hack is Expansion. I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I expect. Now, some things about me.
I'm a fan of pokémon (obviously), my best part of rom hacking is spriting. My free time hobbies are drawing a freelance manga and playing drums, as well as dozing off. I'm 18 and pretty busy, uh, so that's about it.

Hack name: Pokémon Revolution I: Expansion
Hack of: Fire Red BPRE
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Storyline

This is where you get excited...

The Past
He who holds the Monster Ball will bring despair to this world.

According to oral tradition, so long as chaos and evil has plagued our world, it has been balanced by order and good; when the hearts of men are seized by darkness, virtuous warriors appear, shining with an inner light. Such tales have been told throughout the ages, the brave heroes invariably victorious. However, reality isn't always so kind.... The evil ones kept thinking that since they have been defeated so many times, their chances of winning would increase every time, and so they kept struggling...with futile plans every time. Until a discovery changed everything.
Someone accidentally discovered an old chamber, deep inside a cave, during a trip on the Shaft Island. Inside the chamber, he found riches beyond imagination, a source of a weird liquid, and a pokéball on a throne. Having free claim on all that, he instantly gained power. However, this weird liquid, which he called Valsamo, not only was edible, but also had positive healing effects on both people and pokémon. The penetrator then decided to share the fountain of valsamo with the rest of the natives, as a generous action of happiness.
People started to gather around, all curious and such, quickly realizing the natural profit from this island's resources, among Valsamo. So many people from other regions got established there. Soon, the island grew up as a great city of all kinds of technological development and outstanding numbers of population. Cosmopolis, the island megacity was found.

The Present
Your divine quest begins.

You are a civilian of Cosmopolis, residing on the central part of the city. You and your best friend (the opposite gender) have always yearned to become Pokémon trainers. Seen battles from TV, and admiring the whole world of Pokémon, you can't wait to get your own and start a great adventure, be it in the centre of the city!
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Who am I kidding?
You live in Cosmopolis, the human centre of the whole world, you almost never see a wild Pokémon running around, and all trainers are suspicious of the big city life to wander around this metropolis, showing off their beauties...
...but no. Mayor Al has declared that Cosmopolis will certainly take part in Pokémon activities! There will be preparations for the most ultimate trainer challenge, called the Global League. More information will be probably shown on TV. The mayor has applied the job for a new Pokémon Professor, Gabriel Guth, to transform several passionate youths into future trainers, in order to participate for the reputation of Cosmopolis. And they chose you and your friend among them! Talk about lucky!

The future
It's up to you.

If you want to know about characters, have a look at the [alink id="List"]Spoilers[/alink id]section.
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Features

This is where excitement leads to delirium...

New tiles

New Overworlds

New sprites

New textbox

Choose between two variations for your character

Complicated maps

A Pokedex that talks!

Outstanding New Scripts

Use of L and R buttons

New Move tutors

411 available Pokémon

Remade movesets

Hardcore Trainer battles

Many one-off Pokémon

Customized Items

2 Repeatable Leagues

Partial Decapitalization

If you want to learn details, have a look at the [alink id="List"]Spoilers[/alink id] section.

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Media Center

This is where your delirium leads you to drool...

Screenshots:

Bootscreen and tittlescreen:

[PokeCommunity.com] [HotW 95]Pokémon Revolution I: Expansion

Ingame images - New palettes and the new textbox!

Battles - The new Dragon Dance sprite effect!

Part of my repose sprite pack, with many pokemon reposed. Needs a lot of work...

Yar (rival) Overworlds and sprites

Videos:

Spoiler:

Userbars/Support Banners:

Made by DrFuji

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Copy and paste this on your sig. If you want to make a better one, go ahead. If you can beat Spherical Ice's.
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Releases

This is where your drool makes you thirsty for some action...

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Progress

This is your salvation of thirst for the hack's status...

Updates' Index

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Frequently Asked Questions

This is where you Faint from Any Quote...
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Storyline FAQ

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Features' FAQ

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Ingame FAQ

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Rest will be uploaded soon.
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Spoilers

This is where you are revived through revealing miracles...
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Credits

This is where miracles bring individuals in order to salute superior beings...

Scripting Buddy <3 - The Master
Pokemart/center tiles - Scarf
Hacked Engine - JPAN
Volunteering to Insert Tiles and other Stuff - Deviation
Scripting help - SharpPoint(direct), Diegoisawesome(XSE tutorial)
Texting help - Chesu('elusive' syntax), The Master(vB code)
Userbars - The Master and DrFuji
Inspiration - Ash493
Mental Support and learning me to tile palette edit/make some of the palettes - Deathwish
All the 'programs used' makers
Nintendo and GameFreak
All you dear readers!

Programs Used:

A-Map v1.92
A-Trainer
APE
NTME
XSE
FSF
Hex Workshop
unLZ-GBA
ItemEdit
OW Editor RE
A-tack
YAPE
Advance Trainer

PAINT

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Disclaimer

This hack is for fun use only, and does not follow any profitable actions. I have no association with nintendo or trademarks. This is merely a game for generic fun, and will NOT be sold on E-bay or any third party site.

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Please Read:

Please refrain from asking for beta testing. I'm going to beta test myself.
Don't spam or make a post with almost 25 characters saying 'hey man cool hack there' just to boost your post count. It's just a number.
Check the first post regularly before you criticise. It's updated more often than what it seems to be.
Please give your vote on concepts that are on voting progress, in order to enlighten the final desicion.
Give specific feedback on certain features that you like.
Don't flame me if my hack didn't appeal to you. Instead, give me suggestions on how to improve it.
Last but not least, remember, it's all about fun, not competition!

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Ray Maverick · Dec 1, 2009

Awesome mate. This has potential. Thelw ena kameo k? XD
The features sound pretty good too. The screenshots are,well, good, the tittle screen is amazing aaaand i like the story! :D

Prosexe mono min ta skatwsis file... :p

Satoshi Ookami · Dec 1, 2009

I'm leaving my mouth open :O
This is amazing bud :O
But I'm kinda disappointed that you're gonna use default FR tiles :/
Otherwise it's awesome G'luck ;)

NiKaNoRoU · Dec 1, 2009

SPOILERS' PAGE

The first post was getting too long.

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Characters revolving around the storyline

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Starter - Only Hoppip

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Move changes

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Pokedex changes

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Features' details

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Let's split the list into...lists.
Note: One star next to the feature means it's about to be implemented. Two stars mean it won't be implemented yet. No stars means 'already implemented', obviously.

~Graphics:

New tiles*

Wonderful new tileset parts that fit with the Fire Red ones, as well as a great new pokemart/center by Scarf.

New Overworlds*

All OWs are completely remade (except for famous characters, such as Red/Blue/Oak, etc.)
When you find an item, it now has a correspondive overworld. For instance, balls looks like a pokéball, potions look like medicine, berries look like a fruit.

New sprites*

Authentic new sprites for trainers as well as new backsprites and intro sprites
386 Pokémon new poses!
custom item sprites
New, enchanting sprites for Pokémon moves!
Customized battle backgrounds

New textbox

Choose your clothes*

Another unique feature! Choose between a red and a blue outfit for the main hero!(female hero gets either green or blue) This, of course, puts in the male/female version of the hack.

Set off with brand new equipment models

Get new models for Fly and Surf moves, and do the hawaii style when you surf!
Equip a flametail motorbike instead of a regular bike
Get rollerskates instead of running shoes
Throw a fishing net instead of a rod to fish wild Pokémon
Let a fireflare loose instead of VS Seeker

~Fieldplay:

Explore Many places*

Visit parts of all four existing regions (KANTO/JOHTO/HOENN/SINNOH) as well as a whole new city-island with many hidden places!

Intriguing Maps

The ingame maps are not only good-looking, but they have a mysterious aura about them. Nothing is what it seems. Search some more!

Meet Dextroy, the talking Pokedex*

A Pokedex that talks? yes, indeed! That's Cosmopolis's technology for you. Dextroy will give you a lot of advice throughout the game on a lot of stuff, it will even remind you to save in important places!

Outstanding Scripts**

Never-seen before in a hack, 'meanwhile' scripts are involved. For example, you leave a building, and a text appears on a blackscreen saying: "meanwhile", then you get to another place to hear a conversation without you being around! This greatly affects the development of the storyline.
No more boring dialogues. 99% of the hack's talking scripts will have meaning to them, as well as they sometimes lead to a conclusion regarding many surprises.
Re-occuring events. Sometimes, you need to return, in order to move on...

Hidden Stuff everywhere

"this is a wall, right? I don't need to examine it or anything, I'll just move on".

Use of L and R buttons**

Yes! Finally, a useful find for both of those keystrokes, that originally open that 'help window', which's content we all know about.
L is supposed to open the World Map and R to automatically equip/deequip your motorbike.

Move tutors*

Oh yes, there will be lots of them, scattered around.

~Gameplay:

Complete the Pokedex

Catch 411 Pokémon (356 from the first 3 gens, 54 D/P/P Pokémon as well as one Fakémon). There is a list of the Pokémon that have been ~~replaced~~ switched with Sinnoh ones [alink id="List"]here[/alink id].
For the hardcore readers, some new descriptions are added to the Pokedex.

Watch your Pokémon develop in a new way

Browse new movesets
View balanced stats
Experience different growth rates
Changed, balanced attack moves
Altered evolutions. There is a list for changes in this system [alink id="List"]here[/alink id].

Hardcore Trainer battles

Although not hard enough to have you grind, the trainer battles start with a basic AI level, so watch out.
Throughout the game, you will meet a lot of rival who will want to battle you.

Catch Pokémon the hard way*

Wild battles in the grass have a wide variety of wild pokémon to battle, and there are rare ones that need thorough search everywhere
Many one-off pokémon, in order to make you understand the value of each pokémon caught.
Catch a big portion of the legendaries through online events! Learn about them [alink id="List"]here[/alink id].

Fill your bag with customizations

Many new and(or) replaced items, some are key items, some are new berries, some are consumables.

Get to the league the other way round

Get trainer tasks that include investigation instead of battling Gym leaders for your badges.

Partial Decapitalization** (excluding items)

Will be updated soon. In order to give proof taken from the [alink id="Feat"]Features[/alink id] section.

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Banjora Marxvile · Dec 1, 2009

Oh good, mainly FR tiles. Yay, less for me to do!

Anyway, this looks good. Story is detailed (check your grammar a bit though). I look forward to inserting.

Daiko7 · Dec 1, 2009

The only problem for me is... I can't get a Furret/Sentret D=

Other than that it is awesome =D

D. Lawride · Dec 1, 2009

That's one mighty good job on the storyline, there! :D

And if you can get all those awesome features (gameplay, graphics etc.) you're earning a spot among the best hacks!

And you should do the Decapitalization. Seeing EVERYTHING LIKE THIS WHEN YOU SEE A NAME IS somewhat tedious.

On a side-note, I somehow assumed this was a good (emphasis on good) remake of the Battle Revolution game when I saw the name. xD

KingCyndaquil · Dec 1, 2009

wow dude im so following this hack. what r the starters?

VectorEdge · Dec 1, 2009

Wow, looking good! I'll keep a watch on this.

Vanitas~ · Dec 1, 2009

Kudos. I agree with whoever-it-was who said that, if you can pull this off, it'll be one of THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
I'm curious, though, as to how you are going to pull of the Online Events.
...
Just skimmed the screenies. I noticed there was a button on a building. Does this mean we have to actually HUNT for things now? I always liked item hunting, and this is taking that one step further.

Onto the opinion of Decapitalization, I vote do it. I HATE capitalized names. That was the one thing that was always a fault to the PKMN games for me. Don't really know why.

DrFuji · Dec 1, 2009

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

When you said you were getting busy, you sure weren't lying. Outstanding job, mate. Features galore and a good setting out - You've so much thought into this, I can't really come up with anything but praise and claims of you being mega-awesome.

If there is one thing I have to criticise you for, out of all the Pokemon, why no Heracross? ~~He is super cool~~. D:

Decapitalisation: A vote for small letters is a vote for great justice!

Hope to catch more of your work as you progress! :P

Bela · Dec 2, 2009

I have got to fix my thread up with some CSS ;x

From what I've seen here, this looks GREAT! I'm a little surprised that you would cut some Pokemon out of the game entirely, even if they're random wild Pokemon.

What's interesting to see work here is the online feature. It sounds like an alternative to Mystery Gift, and if that's what it is then this sounds very nice!

This idea of having a transition to a different setting in the middle of a script is something I will be trying my hand at in my hack, too.

I also like the idea of the story. A rich past makes for a good story! I'm putting money on Mayor Al being the true villian!

chrunch · Dec 2, 2009

Wow, this is looking good! The only things I don't like are some of the pokemon
replaced and the FR tiles.

/Circa · Dec 2, 2009

As long as this hack doesn't have Heracross in it, i'm not playing ;)
But I wish you luck, some of the features really caught my attention, especially having a lot of one off Pokemon.

NiKaNoRoU · Dec 2, 2009

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Updates

Added some stuff on the FAQ for better explanation of certain things
Due to popular AND personal demand, Heracross and Lapras are now catchable ingame
Fixed an ingame glitch, nothing important since there is no release yet
Finished mapping Cosmopolis Central
A screenshot revealing the Rival's face
After a second thought, I decided the following:

The R button won't be for save. I believe that the path you follow to save is good enough, and Dextroy will ask you to save automatically in many points, so I decided to switch it to motorbike. So that you can use SELECT for another thing.

Expect screenshots soon enough.

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Responses

Deviation said:
Oh good, mainly FR tiles. Yay, less for me to do!

Anyway, this looks good. Story is detailed (check your grammar a bit though). I look forward to inserting.

I love FR tiles. Don't you? :P

Thanks to you once again, some typos are already pointed out. Fixed a few myself.

Daiko7 said:
The only problem for me is... I can't get a Furret/Sentret D=

Other than that it is awesome =D

Sorry. Certain sacrifices are important for the greater good. ~~lol I sound like an evil master~~
Thanks for the ~~generic~~ comment.

D. Lawride said:
That's one mighty good job on the storyline, there! :D

And if you can get all those awesome features (gameplay, graphics etc.) you're earning a spot among the best hacks!

And you should do the Decapitalization. Seeing EVERYTHING LIKE THIS WHEN YOU SEE A NAME IS somewhat tedious.

On a side-note, I somehow assumed this was a good (emphasis on good) remake of the Battle Revolution game when I saw the name. xD

One vote for +decap here.
Well unless I get a ~~great~~ scripter to work with me some of them will be unavailable, unfortunately. And at least the L/R feature requires ASM, I'm sure of it.

KingCyndaquil said:
wow dude im so following this hack. what r the starters?

View the 'spoilers' section. =)

And, I don't even know the game you mentioned. XD

VectorEdge said:
Wow, looking good! I'll keep a watch on this.

Vanitas~ said:
Kudos. I agree with whoever-it-was who said that, if you can pull this off, it'll be one of THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.
I'm curious, though, as to how you are going to pull of the Online Events.
...
Just skimmed the screenies. I noticed there was a button on a building. Does this mean we have to actually HUNT for things now? I always liked item hunting, and this is taking that one step further.

Onto the opinion of Decapitalization, I vote do it. I HATE capitalized names. That was the one thing that was always a fault to the PKMN games for me. Don't really know why.

Yay, another +decap vote here. I now have online events explained on the FAQ section.

And no, you're not going to check every tile for something nifty, in that specific screenshot you are looking for a switch, but you have limited space to search on.

Item hunting is correct, though. About 80% of the dropped items are invisible (but in spots that can be found out...or you can keep spamming itemfinder)

DrFuji said:
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

When you said you were getting busy, you sure weren't lying. Outstanding job, mate. Features galore and a good setting out - You've so much thought into this, I can't really come up with anything but praise and claims of you being mega-awesome.

If there is one thing I have to criticise you for, out of all the Pokemon, why no Heracross? ~~He is super cool~~. D:

Decapitalisation: A vote for small letters is a vote for great justice!

Hope to catch more of your work as you progress! :P

Lol, why would I lie to you?

You make me blush :3 I'm just trying my best.
Agreed, I'm a fan of BUGs, and heracross is a must. DEALT WITH.

+decap here, too, eh? seems like I get where this is going...

Mono said:
I rather like this hack... It looks really promising, the way you're describing things.

I especially like your plans with the L + R buttons... I guess I'll actually have a reason to press them. :laugh:

I just found one thing funny... The whole 'Outstanding Scripts'... I don't really think the 'meanwhiles' are really a feature worth mentioning, not that they won't be interesting...

Oh yes, they are worth mentioning. Because a big part of the storyline unfolds without the main hero being present. Just you (the user) viewing events far away from your hero's current position.

Holy Star said:
I have got to fix my thread up with some CSS ;x

From what I've seen here, this looks GREAT! I'm a little surprised that you would cut some Pokemon out of the game entirely, even if they're random wild Pokemon.

What's interesting to see work here is the online feature. It sounds like an alternative to Mystery Gift, and if that's what it is then this sounds very nice!

This idea of having a transition to a different setting in the middle of a script is something I will be trying my hand at in my hack, too.

I also like the idea of the story. A rich past makes for a good story!

Online features are now explained.

Thanks for all the kind comments, good luck on that CSS!

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chrunch said:
Wow, this is looking good! The only things I don't like are some of the pokemon
replaced and the FR tiles.

Why is everyone against FR tiles? is it because you have overplayed with them? they match the game perfectly. Many custom tilesets are limited and get repeating after a period of time, while the game's default tiles have a variety of over 50 different tilesets...

Cirnos Servant said:
As long as this hack doesn't have Heracross in it, i'm not playing ;)
But I wish you luck, some of the features really caught my attention, especially having a lot of one off Pokemon.

Yay for you then, Heracross will now be in the game.
Yes, I thought it was about time to show that many pokemon deserve to be as unique as legendaries (without scratching the breeding part, though).

digimess · Dec 2, 2009

Don't ya think this could use a little more work?

Sarcastic Prince · Dec 2, 2009

digimess said:
Don't ya think this could use a little more work?

You should POINT out
what parts are needed to improve.

Well, Nika, this is awesome!
I can't believe you're working on a Hack!
Keep up the good work!

Satoshi Ookami · Dec 2, 2009

digimess said:
Don't ya think this could use a little more work?

Wtf? I'm sure he'll do more before beta release ;)
I strongly disagree with you, this is like it should be ;)

Spherical Ice · Dec 2, 2009

Hey, NiKa!

As you know, I'm really excited with this. The features are epic, especially the utilization of the L and R keys. I also like the name of the talking 'dex, Dextroy. Reminds me of Dexter, Ash's Pokédex in the animé. Good luck!

Oh, and, by the way, here's a support bar:

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NiKaNoRoU · Dec 2, 2009

digimess said:
Don't ya think this could use a little more work?

What exactly do you mean? can you be a little more specific?

Sarcastic Prince said:
Well, Nika, this is awesome!
I can't believe you're working on a Hack!
Keep up the good work!

Thanks, I don't understand why it's a surprise for me to work on a hack, but oh, well.
Thanks again.

Ash493 said:
Wtf? I'm sure he'll do more before beta release ;)
I strongly disagree with you, this is like it should be ;)

Hell yeah, I have so many things to implement before the beta.

Spherical Ice said:
Hey, NiKa!

As you know, I'm really excited with this. The features are epic, especially the utilization of the L and R keys. I also like the name of the talking 'dex, Dextroy. Reminds me of Dexter, Ash's Pokédex in the animé. Good luck!

Oh, and, by the way, here's a support bar:

Spoiler:

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Thanks for the support, and the userbar! It's really awesome, outstands mine!

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Introduction

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Credits

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