Firered/Leafgreen vs. Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

[Lyzak]

A lot of Wesley's tiles went missing. Plus, I don't want to seem unoriginal by just using all of his stuff like everyone else.

And on top of that, I'd need to make some of my own tiles anyhow, meaning I would have to imitate both his palette and his style...

 

[AustinWolff]

i think extending the world map is done through ASM, and here is a video of our moderator colcolstyles accomplishing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkCCuowTDQ&feature=related

 

[Lyzak]

i think extending the world map is done through ASM, and here is a video of our moderator colcolstyles accomplishing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkCCuowTDQ&feature=related

...oh my.

That is fantastic! Though I have no idea how it's done or how it affects the ramifications of making a map (I think I heard that world maps need certain dimensions, numbers of tiles, etc)

I hate not knowing what I'm doing!

 

[BT]

thats amazing... I would make like heartgold and put kanto and johto together xD

 

[The 100 Mega Shock]

The end result is still going to depend far more on your skills at designing games than whichever ROM you decide to use as base. Don't go around claiming that awards and prestige are earned based on a few minor features that might or might not be available for you to make use of.

 

[droomph]

The main thing is the story, guys. Come on, we all know that, right?

I mean, Halo wouldn't have so many fans if its story sucked, right?

So basically I think that the whole thing here is based on how many features you need to add.

FR/LG: A largely text-based game (Which is fine, but you have to try harder)
Emerald: A large, complicated storyline that involves NPCs interacting with the player (Which is easy, and not as much effort...still a lot of effort though)
R/S: A mix between both. WARNING, because maps are very limited.

 

[BT]

The main thing is the story, guys. Come on, we all know that, right?

I mean, Halo wouldn't have so many fans if its story sucked, right?

So basically I think that the whole thing here is based on how many features you need to add.

FR/LG: A largely text-based game (Which is fine, but you have to try harder)
Emerald: A large, complicated storyline that involves NPCs interacting with the player (Which is easy, and not as much effort...still a lot of effort though)
R/S: A mix between both. WARNING, because maps are very limited.

I know that...

It has a good story?

exactly! wait what...

wait.. FR/LG u have to try harder...

U know I dont see much emerald hacks nowadays...

How are maps limited? tiles?

 

[Chaos Rush]

Emerald is great and amazingly useful if you change a lot of its graphics and such to be more like FireRed. Because, let's face it, Emerald's graphics blow. (at least, they feel like they do to me)

Let's face it, all GBA Pokemon games graphics blow. Sure FR/LG may have better looking tiles than R/S/E, but compared to other GBA games, all GBA Pokemon games actually have really bland graphics.

Game Freak really pushed the GBA to its limits, didn't they? /sarcasm

The main thing is the story, guys. Come on, we all know that, right?

I mean, Halo wouldn't have so many fans if its story sucked, right?

So basically I think that the whole thing here is based on how many features you need to add.

FR/LG: A largely text-based game (Which is fine, but you have to try harder)
Emerald: A large, complicated storyline that involves NPCs interacting with the player (Which is easy, and not as much effort...still a lot of effort though)
R/S: A mix between both. WARNING, because maps are very limited.

Um... the story of the original game doesn't really have anything to do with the hack because we can hack it to have whatever story we want. I can easily make a hack of Pokemon Ruby AND FireRed AND Emerald AND even Gold where Reshiram eats giant helicopters inside of a blue tomato with guitars made out of yarn, while Team Nazi tries to take over the Facebook region, in an attempt to capture the very powerful legendary Pokemon, a Lv47 Chaosrush.

 

[angel2cute]

i think its watever game u like most some may seam essayer but the harder one take more time it relly donst matter go with the game u think is most fun to play

 

[droomph]

Um... the story of the original game doesn't really have anything to do with the hack because we can hack it to have whatever story we want. I can easily make a hack of Pokemon Ruby AND FireRed AND Emerald AND even Gold where Reshiram eats giant helicopters inside of a blue tomato with guitars made out of yarn, while Team Nazi tries to take over the Facebook region, in an attempt to capture the very powerful legendary Pokemon, a Lv47 Chaosrush.

Okay, you have a point, but the story is the main thing for me at least.

I mean, what's the first thing that caught your eyes when you first played a game? Something to do, a story. Now, a story is not necessary, but it's the reason why I lost all interest in all MMORPGs. It's not like team building and training is particularly fun for anyone to do for twenty-three hours straight (except for breeding but that another story).

My LeafGreen save file is at around 30 hours, and I just finished the story. (okay I suck) But nonetheless that would have never been possible if the story had never happened e.g. I never had to do the Pokémon Tower, I never had to save the Kanto Region from Team Rocket, blahbityblah

Now maybe your opinion is different; I'll acknowledge that people are different, and I'll respect your side of when you decide wether or not to have a story in your own personal hack.
In return, I expect fully that a flame war doesn't start over this, resulting in both of us getting docked for this prtyplz

i think its watever game u like most some may seam essayer but the harder one take more time it relly donst matter go with the game u think is most fun to play

Exactly.
AHAHAHA ANYWAYSNow I know you still might be angry or something so I'll just shut up

 

[xephos]

Ruby has:
*a sexier Pokedex system
*more trainer battle music
*more trainer encounter music
*an actual Battle Tower
*it plays the berry sound when you get a berry
*it plays the TM sound when you get a TM
*it plays the item sound when you get an item
*Mach Bike, the bike that doesn't suck

FireRed has:
*weird Pokedex system (in my opinion, don't attack me)
*only 3 trainer battle music
*only 3 trainer encounter music
*Trainer Tower (YOU CALL THIS A BATTLE TOWER!?!?!?)
*it plays the level-up sound when you get a berry, unlike RSE
*it plays the level-up sound when you get a TM, unlike RSE
*it plays the level-up sound when you get an item, unlike RSE
*the bike is really really really slow and sucks

That is it pretty much summed up, and I hate the pokedex in Fr/Lg

 

[MrAPT1]

If I had the patience to actually insert all of the FRLG tiles, battle backgrounds, menus and such, I'd be hacking Emerald right now. Unfortunately, such a base does not exist to my knowledge, so FireRed is what I stick to, for pure convenience, (at the cost of some things like battle animations). It's all already there for me to use.

 

[Crocky]

I like to use Emerald with FRLG Tiles.