FireRed hack: Digimon Nova Red ver. 3.1 [COMPLETED] [UPDATED 8.12.2022]

[GreyMat]

Hey, when I try to access Cerulean Cave, when I click "Mewtwo" the game freezes up, any idea why?

 

[TyphlosionKing2006]

But why does this hack's title screen uses Angewomon??? Couldn't Greymon or MetalGreymon be used instead cause it's more fitting to the 'Nova Red' name and one of Greymon's moves has the word 'Nova' in it?

 

[Guzeinbuick]

But why does this hack's title screen uses Angewomon??? Couldn't Greymon or MetalGreymon be used instead cause it's more fitting to the 'Nova Red' name and one of Greymon's moves has the word 'Nova' in it?

The name of the hack is indeed a reference to "Nova Blast." So why no Greymon then? Well you see... Angewomon's a babe. So there's that.

 

[Drindrak]

Have to say, this was a fun game!
I played a nice casual playthrough at first, before deciding i wanted to try and nuzlocke the hack. And I gotta admit, it was difficult at times! And time consuming. None of the cheats worked for the emulator i was using (the latest update for JohnGBA), so I had to grind grind grind frequently lol.
Finished the run after three failed attempts (two wipes to the Lavender Tower rival fight and one to Giovanni). Ended with a time of nearly 30 hours. Here was my hall of fame:

Only Megidramon and MarineChimeramon were alive in the end lmao. Megidramon had like 3 health left from surviving a crit. My digis were all ~level 70, aside from the two survivors, who were both ~65 ish.
My nearly full box of 'dead' digis :')

I failed to catch quite a few encounters lol, so i had like 3 living digis in Box 1.

Anyway, thanks for making this great hack! I had a lot of fun.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

Have to say, this was a fun game!
I played a nice casual playthrough at first, before deciding i wanted to try and nuzlocke the hack. And I gotta admit, it was difficult at times! And time consuming. None of the cheats worked for the emulator i was using (the latest update for JohnGBA), so I had to grind grind grind frequently lol.
Finished the run after three failed attempts (two wipes to the Lavender Tower rival fight and one to Giovanni). Ended with a time of nearly 30 hours. Here was my hall of fame:

Only Megidramon and MarineChimeramon were alive in the end lmao. Megidramon had like 3 health left from surviving a crit. My digis were all ~level 70, aside from the two survivors, who were both ~65 ish.
My nearly full box of 'dead' digis :')

I failed to catch quite a few encounters lol, so i had like 3 living digis in Box 1.

Anyway, thanks for making this great hack! I had a lot of fun.

Glad you enjoyed it! I think Nuzlockers are crazy people at the best of times, so nuzlocking a game I made to be difficult on purpose is beyond ambitious. Must have been quite a grind! Thanks for playing. :)

 

[AnastaceIce]

I did download it from here, so I can't say what could have caused the effect. Maybe I used a wrong base rom? But it was the same from the previous patch before 3.0, so I didn't think it would have changed. Sleep Powder and Hypnosis are both doing it, too, and a few other moves. I tried a fresh patch job and everything.

EDIT: Here's the best image I could get for the Elecmon stuff. Asleep, low health, Ultra ball, no shakes, ever. Also trying to show how Sleep Powder is a bit wonky.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

I did download it from here, so I can't say what could have caused the effect. Maybe I used a wrong base rom? But it was the same from the previous patch before 3.0, so I didn't think it would have changed. Sleep Powder and Hypnosis are both doing it, too, and a few other moves. I tried a fresh patch job and everything.

EDIT: Here's the best image I could get for the Elecmon stuff. Asleep, low health, Ultra ball, no shakes, ever. Also trying to show how Sleep Powder is a bit wonky. View attachment 106334View attachment 106335View attachment 106336

Sorry to hear that! Your guess is as good as mine. 🤷

 

[Eclipselake]

Was the vs seeker removed? I trid checking the change log but found nothing about it.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

Was the vs seeker removed? I trid checking the change log but found nothing about it.

Oh riggggght. I totally forgot about that.
I removed it because I was getting tired of editing every Trainer battle 4 times. I had the intention of putting it back in at a later date but never got around to it lol

 

[Zero-G]

Question. Do some of the GL pokemon just have moves they never actually learn?

I'm looking at (just one example) Blaine's Skullgreymon having Power Whip. Since TMs are unchanged and the move relearner in every shop only accesses the level up movepool... how does that thing get Power Whip?
(I use one on my team myself and PW would be a great coverage move. So I'm being curious here.)

 

[AnastaceIce]

Lorelei let me walk in and battle her, but she just stared at me, said nothing, and then it went normal after that. Also, sometimes the Mewtwo encounter in the cave freezes up. I can't recreate it outside of changing the lead Digimon in the party while standing a square down from right in front of him. I removed the image because it was ginormous, but it was just Lorelei with a blank dialogue box.
But hey, I beat the game! Very fun experience.
Edit: Also, the Dragomon line is a bit messed up type-wise. Poison, then Psychic/Poison, then back to pure Poison.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

Question. Do some of the GL pokemon just have moves they never actually learn?

I'm looking at (just one example) Blaine's Skullgreymon having Power Whip. Since TMs are unchanged and the move relearner in every shop only accesses the level up movepool... how does that thing get Power Whip?
(I use one on my team myself and PW would be a great coverage move. So I'm being curious here.)

That's right; Gym Leaders have unfair movepools. The idea is they have access to TMs off the market to regular trainers.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

Lorelei let me walk in and battle her, but she just stared at me, said nothing, and then it went normal after that. Also, sometimes the Mewtwo encounter in the cave freezes up. I can't recreate it outside of changing the lead Digimon in the party while standing a square down from right in front of him. I removed the image because it was ginormous, but it was just Lorelei with a blank dialogue box.
But hey, I beat the game! Very fun experience.
Edit: Also, the Dragomon line is a bit messed up type-wise. Poison, then Psychic/Poison, then back to pure Poison.View attachment 106525

That's really weird about the Dragomon line! It's supposed to be Poison, Poison, and then Poison-Dark. I'll make a quick patch for that now.

 

[Utopic_W]

Is Greatest Cutemon or bastemon in the game?

 

[pokegamer2000]

HI, I caught a moonmon and it says it's only psychic type but in the excel digidex it says it's pure ice type first and becomes psychic type in the final evolution, is that supposed to happen or is it a bug? pls help. Ps: it evolved and it's still pure psychic and it somehow grew 5 levels.

 

[Guzeinbuick]

HI, I caught a moonmon and it says it's only psychic type but in the excel digidex it says it's pure ice type first and becomes psychic type in the final evolution, is that supposed to happen or is it a bug? pls help. Ps: it evolved and it's still pure psychic and it somehow grew 5 levels.

Oh my bad. The excel sheet is wrong. It only becomes Ice-Psychic in the final evolution.

 

[Braska]

Awesome game, I'm truly having a blast. This is so nostalgic that I pretty much built a "gen 1" team and they are sweeping through it!

Also, I can confirm the Elecmon issue, it's pretty much impossible to catch, the Digi ball doesn't even shake, I'll try it with the master ball once I get it because I want to complete the Digidex, so not really a blocker for me for now. Other people who want Elecmon in their team might have a bad time though.

 

[Braska]

If it helps with debugging, it looks like Starmon also has the same bug, although not as alarming since we can still get Chapmon (not mentioning where to avoid spoilers, but I'm still not there I think since I don't know what it is).

 

[EpsilonGammamon]

Infinite Rare Candies cheat doesn't seem to be working on Pizza Boy. I keep getting "There are no items" when trying to withdraw from PC. Also tried it on My Boy! and it still didn't work.

 

[eindolin!]

Just recently finished my second playthrough (my first was about 2 years ago lol). Though it is been 2 years, I am still amazed by the sprites quality, it really is THAT good.

Difficulty is cool, though it is hard to level up without grinding in wild mons. I barely touched lv68 after beating all the trainers. But thank you for putting in rare candy on the elite four, lv72 instantly and I easily blasted through E4 with this team (Minervamon front sprite is so cool btw, I can't get over with it)

To be honest I am still not satisfied with the movepool learnsets and TMs distribution, same problem in my Digimon Emerald Project comments, some Digimon have a really limited moveset while the enemy (E4 and all that) have the best coverage moves in the game.

So I kinda made a modification of your game... Really sorry for not telling you anything. But i have not published anything yet and I'm just messing around with the data as of right now. I kinda wanted to try CFRU or Pokeemerald decomp for a better base but it is a lot of work to be putting 353 new species, not to mention inserting its sprites manually so, yeah i just kind of gave up lmao.

But as for my modification before, i had plans of polishing digimon's stats spread and base stats, evolution, movepool, ability and all that, sadly I think i'm not in that CFRU/decomp level yet. (I just wanted to tell you this story because I kinda feel bad for messing with your game for a long time, I hope its okay)

Best of luck, OP!