I grew up with Pokemon Gold as a kid, it was the first Pokemon game I had owned and I still play the story through from the beginning every year or so.
But I wanted to play a new Pokemon game in the Game Boy Colour generation of games, I could never really get into the newer games.
So I played Pokemon Brown and Prism and it inspired me to create a Pokemon Gold hack of my own!
Basically Pokemon Bronze is made in a similar way to Brown, I don't have a lot of rom hacking experience (almost none before I had even started) I had messed about making crappy hacks for myself but now I am doing my best to basically morph everything from Gold's story and areas so it feels like a new game in Generation II.
The Starters I've chosen are a mix of Red/Yellow and Gold. I went with Charmander, Totodile and Pichu as my personal "best of".
The Story Is basically your generic Pokemon affair, It is set right after the events in Gold and you leave home and get a Pokemon from a professor and defeat gym leaders and the elite four with a group of antagonists to battle along the way, and a rival.
That's the way I wanted to make it, a regular Pokemon game.
The Region for lack of a better name that I can think of is called Kohto, which sits south west of Kanto (which is connected via underground path) It has 8 towns and some new things/features are more varied environments such as patchy grass that Pokemon are less likely to appear in, and trees/paths have fade offs into grass and stuff.
It looks good from the screenshots, and I also like the main character's sprite.
One question though, you say that Kohto is connected to Kanto via and underground path, so is Kanto going to appear in your hack? And if so, will it be modified at all or the standard Kanto from G/S/C?
Originally Posted by Trainer Wants to Battle!
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It looks good from the screenshots, and I also like the main character's sprite.
One question though, you say that Kohto is connected to Kanto via and underground path, so is Kanto going to appear in your hack? And if so, will it be modified at all or the standard Kanto from G/S/C?
Just Curious.
Yes, part of Kanto does appear! And has a segment in the story. It has only been modified very slightly though.
Oh, and here are some trainer sprites I made for the game.
A hero wearing a hoodie? I always wanted my character wearing one lol...
Anyways this looks really good and Gold is one of my favourites, good luck on finishing it, I look forward to it's release. :)
Without trading? I don't think I'd be able to implement that myself, no.
This hack isn't so much about catching all the Pokemon, I'm mostly making it so people can have a new adventure in Generation II.
This looks fantastic, it's really impressive that you're so far through it already, it gives me hope that it won't get stuck in development hell, haha.
I got a lot of area text replaced today, I have about three more routes and towns left to completely change text in.
Then I'm up to changing trainer's Pokemon and levels.
For something to look at, here is one of the towns:
Nah, I'm not going to put in something that's necessary to complete the story which you can't even find, but there is a secret battle. That's all I'll say though.
Nah, I'm not going to put in something that's necessary to complete the story which you can't even find, but there is a secret battle. That's all I'll say though.
I guess it's not that all secret anymore. :P Goodluck anyway.