I've been wanting a game to play as the rival for ages, this looks very promising and I'm excited to start the beta!
Small question, for the unobtainable Pokemon in this hack, will there still be Pokedex entries, or will completionists have the satisfaction of a complete Pokedex should they get all that are available in the game? I can't remember what the reward in FR was for accomplishing that anyhow, but I was just curious. Keep up the great work!
Sorry to burst any bubbles, but there isn't gonna be any sort of reward for capturing all of the available pokemon. There isn't even going to be all 356 Pokemon in the hack because certain Pokemon (ex: groundon) have no place in the story and would feel kinda cheesy if I added him in for the sake of adding him in. Needless to say, you can hack him in through cheats/modifying scripts if you want but there's no reward for doing so. But please, feel free to catch as many as possible. Make Prof. Oak's dream come true! ;)
Sooo... once I apply the new patch, will my data be deleted? I'm stupid like that.
Lol only if you apply the patch and your save is from beta 1. If your save is from, say, beta 2.02 then applying patch 2.04 won't have any effect on your save file.
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With that I think most of the bugs have been found/squashed so I feel confident in starting up progress for Beta 3 which will go up to the Elite Four. Beta 4 (aka the final version) will have post game content including the replacement to the Sevii Isles: The Kanjoh and the Kanenn Isles!
Yes, you read right, the Sevii Isles will be replaced by the Kanjoh and Kanenn isles! As you may have guessed, these islands are mixtures of Kanto and Johto/Hoenn and may contain some familiar landmarks. Legend has it that special plates deep within the hearts of the islands modify the weather, making it habitable for exotic Johto/Hoenn Pokemon to live on the islands. But with these new islands, new secrets and new battles await. Well, are you ready? (Beta 3 will contain some of the Kanjoh and Kanenn Islands, but Beta 4 is where you'll get to explore them fully).
Will you take the blue pill or the red pill?
And yes, Betas 3 and 4 are where my hack heavily deviates from the canon of Fire Red/Leaf Green. I mean really, am I just supposed to let you lose the Pokemon Champion title?