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Pokémon: Adventure to Empire Isle... the re-release!
Background
I started this ROM hack back in 2011. I gave up part way through and to be honest, my scripting skills were pretty poor. Fast forward ten years and I stumbled across the ROM hacking community once more. I found a copy of my ROM hack online and decided it needed a refresh. I started from scratch and have completely re-made the game from the ground up.
The current release of the game contains 10-14 hours of gameplay, includes 6 gyms as well as an optional additional gym.
Storyline
Welcome to Empire Isle!
Empire Isle is a beautiful oceanside region and is home to an abundance of rare and powerful wild Pokémon. You will find Pokémon from all generations across the region with an enormous variety for you to catch, train and battle. As you explore Empire Isle you will traverse long gruelling routes, small seaside towns and large cities. Every area is designed to be unique and contain their own points of interest.
During your journey you will get the opportunity to visit other regions from the Pokémon franchise, including Hoenn in the latest release and Sinnoh planned for a future release.
Team Rocket are back! Team Rocket are more evil than ever and in their pursuit for power and money they have turned to mutating Pokémon. Using these powerful and mutated Pokémon, Team Rocket are tougher than ever. It is down to you to stop the rise of Team Rocket throughout Empire Isle as the grow their operations. You will need to take on and defeat powerful mutant powerful, take down those behind the creating and selling of these mutant Pokémon and put an end to Team Rocket's latest plans.
Along the way you will learn about the rich history of Empire Isle and begin to uncover secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the former ruler of Empire Isle.
Several friendly and not-so-friendly characters feature throughout the story. Some will work by your side and others will work to thwart you, but don't let that stop you becoming the Champion of Empire Isle!
Latest screenshots
Key Features
Other features
Credits
Tools used
Any support would be massively appreciated!
Have fun!
Downloads and Links!
Patch a clean Firered ROM of the following name - 1636 Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels).
I have used the VisualboyADV emulator for all testing with no issues.
Link to Patch:
Click here to download the latest patch - v0.6.2!
Known bugs:
1. Using the Pokédex will crash the game.
Changes since previous release
Link to Game Guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1plwwmgdcXGevpY77ey5Iw86i2PuxNp3bKL7kyYfRDW8/edit?usp=sharing
DaleH771
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Background
I started this ROM hack back in 2011. I gave up part way through and to be honest, my scripting skills were pretty poor. Fast forward ten years and I stumbled across the ROM hacking community once more. I found a copy of my ROM hack online and decided it needed a refresh. I started from scratch and have completely re-made the game from the ground up.
The current release of the game contains 10-14 hours of gameplay, includes 6 gyms as well as an optional additional gym.
Storyline
Welcome to Empire Isle!
Empire Isle is a beautiful oceanside region and is home to an abundance of rare and powerful wild Pokémon. You will find Pokémon from all generations across the region with an enormous variety for you to catch, train and battle. As you explore Empire Isle you will traverse long gruelling routes, small seaside towns and large cities. Every area is designed to be unique and contain their own points of interest.
During your journey you will get the opportunity to visit other regions from the Pokémon franchise, including Hoenn in the latest release and Sinnoh planned for a future release.
Team Rocket are back! Team Rocket are more evil than ever and in their pursuit for power and money they have turned to mutating Pokémon. Using these powerful and mutated Pokémon, Team Rocket are tougher than ever. It is down to you to stop the rise of Team Rocket throughout Empire Isle as the grow their operations. You will need to take on and defeat powerful mutant powerful, take down those behind the creating and selling of these mutant Pokémon and put an end to Team Rocket's latest plans.
Along the way you will learn about the rich history of Empire Isle and begin to uncover secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the former ruler of Empire Isle.
Several friendly and not-so-friendly characters feature throughout the story. Some will work by your side and others will work to thwart you, but don't let that stop you becoming the Champion of Empire Isle!
Latest screenshots
Spoiler:
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Key Features
Spoiler:
• A brand new region; Empire Isle!
• A brand new safari zone; Empire Safari
• Tileset, palette and sprite overhauls
• Physical vs Special split
• A increased difficulty level which will test your battle skills and Party diversity
• Villains with Pokémon more unpredictable than ever
• Custom TM list
• Dialogue and gameplay which rewards exploration- talk to every NPC you can
• The appearance of and chance to battle several well known characters, such as Gary and Prof. Oak
• No more trade evolutions
• Rare Pokémon available on every route (1% encounter chance)
• A brand new safari zone; Empire Safari
• Tileset, palette and sprite overhauls
• Physical vs Special split
• A increased difficulty level which will test your battle skills and Party diversity
• Villains with Pokémon more unpredictable than ever
• Custom TM list
• Dialogue and gameplay which rewards exploration- talk to every NPC you can
• The appearance of and chance to battle several well known characters, such as Gary and Prof. Oak
• No more trade evolutions
• Rare Pokémon available on every route (1% encounter chance)
Other features
Spoiler:
• Completely re-scripted entire game since previous release
• Much more fun and interesting dialogue
• Pokémon from ALL generations
• Updated Move list
• Fairy type
• A variety of cool and powerful Mutant X Pokémon to battle and sometimes own
• Additional characters
• Additional storytelling
• Fully updated gen 1-3 movesets, stats and sprites
• Re-usable TMs
• Forgettable HMs
• Running indoors
• Increased difficulty
• Much more fun and interesting dialogue
• Pokémon from ALL generations
• Updated Move list
• Fairy type
• A variety of cool and powerful Mutant X Pokémon to battle and sometimes own
• Additional characters
• Additional storytelling
• Fully updated gen 1-3 movesets, stats and sprites
• Re-usable TMs
• Forgettable HMs
• Running indoors
• Increased difficulty
Credits
Spoiler:
• Nintendo - base game
• Leon and MrDollSteak - ROM base
• Kyledove - Tiles
• Pokecommunity.com- Incredible wealth of knowledge and availability of... well, everything!
• Me - everything else!
• Leon and MrDollSteak - ROM base
• Kyledove - Tiles
• Pokecommunity.com- Incredible wealth of knowledge and availability of... well, everything!
• Me - everything else!
Tools used
Spoiler:
Massive credit to the creators of the below tools:
• AdvanceMap 1.92
• AdvanceMap 1.95
• LunarIPS
• Gen3Tools
• PGE
• XSE
• Nameless Sprite Editor
• VisualBoyADV
• AdvanceMap 1.92
• AdvanceMap 1.95
• LunarIPS
• Gen3Tools
• PGE
• XSE
• Nameless Sprite Editor
• VisualBoyADV
Any support would be massively appreciated!
Have fun!
Downloads and Links!
Patch a clean Firered ROM of the following name - 1636 Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels).
I have used the VisualboyADV emulator for all testing with no issues.
Link to Patch:
Click here to download the latest patch - v0.6.2!
Known bugs:
1. Using the Pokédex will crash the game.
Changes since previous release
Spoiler:
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash upon a rematch with Boss Toxic in the Power Plant, and with the two Rocket Grunt's in Isle Stonehaven.
• Fixed a bug where the move Helping Hand would crash the game when used in battle when the user's ally has fainted.
• Removed the following moves as they crash the game: Roost (replaced with Recover), Gastro Acid, U-turn, Volt Switch.
• Fixed a bug where Pikipek would never evolve.
• Fixed various small text errors.
• Game guide updated.
• General rebalance - several key battles have been rebalanced to make them easier and lower the level curve.
• New Overworld sprites for various trainer types.
• New Overworld, front and back sprites for the player's characters.
• New areas not features in the previous release. Two new towns, the sixth gym and part of the Hoenn region (including optional Hoenn gym).
• Faithful representation of a small segment of Hoenn which the player can now visit (at the end of this current version).
• New story progress including a new Rocket Admin encounter.
• Fixed a bug where the move Helping Hand would crash the game when used in battle when the user's ally has fainted.
• Removed the following moves as they crash the game: Roost (replaced with Recover), Gastro Acid, U-turn, Volt Switch.
• Fixed a bug where Pikipek would never evolve.
• Fixed various small text errors.
• Game guide updated.
• General rebalance - several key battles have been rebalanced to make them easier and lower the level curve.
• New Overworld sprites for various trainer types.
• New Overworld, front and back sprites for the player's characters.
• New areas not features in the previous release. Two new towns, the sixth gym and part of the Hoenn region (including optional Hoenn gym).
• Faithful representation of a small segment of Hoenn which the player can now visit (at the end of this current version).
• New story progress including a new Rocket Admin encounter.
Link to Game Guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1plwwmgdcXGevpY77ey5Iw86i2PuxNp3bKL7kyYfRDW8/edit?usp=sharing
DaleH771
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