Hack of the Year Nomination Round - 2012

Started by DrFuji December 3rd, 2012 8:00 AM
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DrFuji

Heiki Hecchara‌‌

Age 30
Male
Aussie
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted February 12th, 2021
1,693 posts
13.7 Years
Hack of the Year 2012 Nomination Thread

Introduction:


Welcome to the Hack of the Year competition for 2012! Hack of the Year is a culmination of all of the hard work and effort that has gone into developing some of the best hacks in The PokéCommunity over the past twelve months. This is the time when votes for hacks in a variety of categories to determine which ones are most deserving of recognition.

Rules:

  1. You may not vote for your own hack
  2. You may not vote for any of the designated ineligible hacks (see below)
  3. You may only vote for one hack in each category
  4. You may only vote once
  5. Sideshow Showcase hacks are not elligible for nomination
  6. Do not vote for a hack because you like the author; make your decisions as objective as possible
  7. All posts in this thread must be nominations. There is a separate thread for general HotY discussion

Ineligible Hacks:

  • Pokémon Genesis: Author requested removal
  • Pokémon Shiny Gold: Author requested removal
  • Pokémon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians: Winner of HotY 2011
  • Pokémon Sienna: Winner of HotY 2010
  • Pokémon Azure Horizons: Winner of HotY 2009
  • Pokémon rijonAdventures: Winner of HotY 2008
  • Pokémon Prism: Winner of HotY 2007
  • Pokémon Liquid Ocean: Winner of HotY 2006
  • Pokémon Naranja: Winner of HotY 2005
  • Pokémon Ice: Winner of HotY 2004

Voting Form:


In order to place your vote, you will have to fill out the form below and post it in this thread.

Best Mapping: 
Best Scripting: 
Most Graphical Appeal: 
Best Story Line: 
Best Gameplay: 
Most Engaging Hack: 
Overall Favourite:
The explanations of each category are as follows:
Best Mapping - The hack with the best maps
Best Scripting - The hack whose scripts impressed you the most
Most Graphical Appeal - The hack with the best overall visual presentation
Best Story Line - The hack with the best plot/story line
Best Gameplay - The hack with the best features and that was the most fun to play
Most Engaging Hack - The hack that kept you the most interested throughout
Overall Favourite - Your personal favourite hack

A hack gets one point for every category in which you vote for it. To demonstrate this, here is an example of a vote:

Best Mapping: Genesis
Best Scripting: Prism
Most Graphical Appeal: Liquid Ocean
Best Storyline: Prism
Best Gameplay: Sienna
Most Engaging Hack: Life of Guardians
Overall Favourite: Prism
In this demonstration, Prism has three votes while Genesis, Liquid Ocean, Sienna and Life of Guardians hold one vote each.

The three hacks which have the most votes overall, regardless of the categories in which the votes are allocated, will progress to the second and final round where they will be judged by long-standing members of the community for the ultimate Hack of the Year title. In addition, the hack which has the most votes in a single category for this initial round will be awarded with a corresponding title (e.g. Best Mapping).

You have until January 1st to submit your votes. So now all of that is sorted, let the voting begin!

Credits to Hiroshi Sotomura, Manipulation, Thrace, Vrai and colcolstyles for contributing to this thread over the years.
Male
Greece, Athens
Seen January 18th, 2017
Posted October 17th, 2013
55 posts
12.2 Years
soooo that's kinda difficult but I'll give it a try :D
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Light Platinum
All in all that's what I believe about these awesome hacks :D Although I haven't tried every single hack in this forum I believe these are the best! Cheers for the first reply :D

PokemonMasters

Always Remember Forever&After

Male
Nuvema Town, Unova
Seen June 28th, 2013
Posted January 18th, 2013
389 posts
10.9 Years
Best Mapping: Lilac
Best Scripting: Silver Legend
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Dark Rising
Most Engaging Hack: Silver Legend
Overall Favourite: Silver Legend

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Hacker Bisharp

Bug reporter

Male
Seen August 28th, 2019
Posted February 22nd, 2014
332 posts
11.4 Years
Best Mapping: Fuligin
Best Scripting: Silver Legend
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Silver Legend
Most Engaging Hack: Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Silver Legend
Hacks I support:

And i'm a good bug reporter. Contact me if you want :D

Tcoppy

Favorite Stand

Age 25
Male
New England
Seen February 5th, 2023
Posted January 1st, 2023
548 posts
13.2 Years
Best Mapping - Pokemon Hyetology
Best Scripting - Pokemon Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal - Pokemon Victory Fire
Best Story Line - Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay- Pokemon Snakewood
Most Engaging Hack - Pokemon Snakewood
Overall Favourite - Pokemon Snakewood

SonicBlazePlatinum

/)^3^(\

Age 27
Male
Cloudsdale, Equestria
Seen October 4th, 2015
Posted October 4th, 2015
976 posts
15.6 Years
Best Mapping - Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Scripting - Pokemon Snakewood
Most Graphical Appeal - Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line - Pokemon Snakewood
Best Gameplay - Pokemon Flora Sky
Most Engaging Hack - Pokemon Flora Sky
Overall Favorite - Pokemon Flora Sky
Also known as SentryBronyPlatinum or Shadowbolt Pegasus.
Male
Seen May 30th, 2013
Posted February 3rd, 2013
145 posts
10.9 Years
Best Mapping: Victory Fire by Wind. To tell the truth, most maps I've seen in hacks tend to be either rehashes or just don't stand out. LP does have good mapping, but it is far too linear. Wind's maps are developed and less linear.

Best Scripting:
Liquid Crystal by LaZ. Excellent usage of ASM such as Red Gyarados and Ruins of Alph. Overall best programming, one of the few hacks here that is bug-free and has unique ASM.

Most Graphical Appeal:
Light Platinum by Wesley. Best tiles, hands down. Wesley did a great job in making LP seem like a 4th gen game, especially with the limit capabilities of GBA software.

Best Story Line: Snakewood by Cutlerine. Cutlerine's hack does what no other hack has ever done, add a proper and enthralling storyline to a Pokemon game. Not to mention this is one of the few hacks that use an advanced level of English.

Best Gameplay: Quartz by Baro. Call me crazy, but despite how his fakemon are considered to be downright ridiculous, Baro created one of the most highly innovative hacks in PC. I mean, who else here has made a 100% fakemon hack?

Most Engaging Hack: Liquid Crystal by LaZ. At first I thought it would have been another meh-ish remake. But to tell the truth, this hack has a lot more to offer than a simple GSC remake. Snakewood would have come first, but re-using Hoenn is sort of a turn-off.

Overall Favourite:
Liquid Crystal by LaZ. It's not just a remake, aside from offering three vastly improved regions and buffing up Crystal's storyline, Liquid Crystal improves the gameplay experience via the Physica/Special split.

NarutoActor

The rocks cry out to me

Age 29
Female
Brooklyn/Marlboro
Seen April 2nd, 2016
Posted March 22nd, 2016
1,974 posts
14.4 Years
Best Mapping: Lilac
Best Scripting: Lilac
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: CrystalDust
Most Engaging Hack: /
Overall Favourite:649 Patch (even if my vote doesn't count, you should make an exseption for this hack)
~There are those people who understand hex, F the rest

Superjub

Pokémon Aureolin

Age 28
Male
Hoenn
Seen August 23rd, 2022
Posted November 5th, 2014
2,288 posts
15.7 Years
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Crystal Dust
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: (Undecided)
Best Gameplay: (Undecided)
Most Engaging Hack: (Undecided)
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Crystal Dust

I shall edit my post later, but best of luck to everyone. :D

tajaros

Hi I'm dawg

Age 24
Male
Philippines
Seen August 7th, 2015
Posted April 15th, 2013
855 posts
11.1 Years
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light
Best Scripting: Pokemon Dark Rising
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Dark Rising
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Dark Rising


And those are my votes... :3
Age 31
Male
New Zealand
Seen March 31st, 2016
Posted December 30th, 2012
134 posts
12.3 Years
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum.
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal.
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum.
Best Story Line: Pokemon Dark Rising.
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising.
Overall Favourite: mines a tie for Pokemon Light platinum and Liquid Crystal :3
Completed Challenges!


chen12

Game On!

Male
Seen October 12th, 2015
Posted December 16th, 2014
29 posts
10.6 Years
Best Mapping: Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Scripting: Pokemon Flora Sky
Best Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Storyline: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Fire Red Omega
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Fire Red Omega
Overall Favorite: Pokemon Flora Sky (but LP and Fire Red Omega very close)
Favorite Hacks:


Pokemon Light Platinum
Pokemon Glazed Version

socko

VERY ANGER!!!

Age 24
Male
Seen May 18th, 2020
Posted November 24th, 2019
361 posts
10.8 Years
Best Mapping: Silver Legend
Best Scripting: Flora Sky
Most Graphical Appeal: Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Super Rising Thunder
Overall Favourite: Super Rising Thunder

Logan

Age 28
Male
Salisbury, England
Seen July 19th, 2022
Posted November 12th, 2021
10,414 posts
14.5 Years
Best Mapping: Pokémon Lilac
Best Scripting: Pokémon Brown
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Lilac
Best storyline: Pokémon Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokémon Brown
Overall Favourite: Pokémon Brown
Male
Dracotooth Isle
Seen November 11th, 2018
Posted August 6th, 2014
161 posts
13.2 Years
Wow it was about time for the nominations

Best Mapping: Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Snakewood
Best Gameplay: Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Liquid Crystal

Liquid Crystal's new Beta that was released about a year ago is IMO the best beta that came so I think it must be HOTY of this year. I mean c'mon movesplit in 3rd generation...

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Gliscor is boss. Period.
Male
Seen September 29th, 2013
Posted September 29th, 2013
76 posts
11.1 Years
Best Mapping: Pokémon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokémon Ash Gray
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Pokémon Sovereign of the skies
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack:Pokémon Victory Fire
Overall Favourite:Pokemon Flora Sky

Hound of Justice

Banned

Age 29
Male
Stealing Ash's Pikachu with Meowth
Seen January 11th, 2015
Posted January 11th, 2015
1,040 posts
10.8 Years
Best Mapping: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Best Scripting: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Best Story Line: Pokemon - CrystalDust (Its a remake but i like the Story xD)
Best Gameplay: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Overall Favourite: Pokemon - CrystalDust

marcc5m

what

Age 27
Male
Scotland
Seen 4 Weeks Ago
Posted February 17th, 2023
1,116 posts
12.3 Years
Best Mapping: Pokémon Brown
Best Scripting: Pokémon Brown
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Brown
Best Story Line: Pokémon Brown
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokémon Brown
Overall Favourite: Pokémon Brown