Just found this game, seems like it'll be really fun.
One question, just out of curiosity: do you think you might add any more Digimon to this hack, or is the dex about as locked in as it'll get? I saw that you already added 100 more Digimon between versions 1 and 2, so I perfectly understand if you're not gonna add more. (Honestly, I just wanna know if there's any hope of GranKuwagamon making it in, he's definitely my favorite Digimon.)
Hi Serefin,
Thanks for your inquiry! In my wildest dreams, I'd say the perfect Digimon Rom Hack would have about 350 Digimon tops. Anything more than that might be a bit too many mons for one game.
As for adding in more:
It basically comes down to the availability of quality sprites online. Over the years there's been a few other Digimon rom hacks, but when they have a Champion, Ultimate, or Mega Digimon they literally just compress the image in MS Paint. My mission in making Nova Red was to have a Digimon game in which the sprites for all your favourite Digimon looked awesome (and even then, I can think of about 3 or 4 sprites in this game that I failed pretty hard at lol). If a Digimon cannot easily fit into a 64x64 box with 16 colours, then there's no realistic way to add it into the game without a lot of hard work.
GranKuwagamon is a good example. Awesome design, cool Digimon, but Jeeeeesus that sprite is huge. There's just no way I could fit it into the necessary parameters. To give you an idea, here's the only available MegaKabuterimon sprite online:
Way too huge, right? It takes the better half of an evening to turn
that into this:
Now that summer's over I just don't have the free time to hunch over my laptop spending literally hundreds of hours on sprite work. So most Megas, Ultimates, and even Champions are pretty much off the table. :S
That being said if there's any Digimon with front and side sprites ready to go, I'd be happy to add them in at a user's request. :)