FireRed hack: [Hack of the Month 2008] [BETA 2 OUT!] POKéMON MARBLE - The long life - 4/1/08

[Virtual Chatot]

Well, that would limit it to a few Pokemon.

In the essence of originality, it should just be all bug types

 

[Teh Baro]

Most bug pokemon will be able to learn spider web.
And ninjice, which can learn every move.
Dunno if spider web would fit another pokemon.

 

[Tyrantrum]

You know i've been dying to play beta 2.
I hope you release it soon

 

[Teh Baro]

Well, it'll take a while. Read the previous page and you'll know why,
Anyway thanks for bumping, it's been a while since I last posted here.

Last updates:

Forest Passage. There's not much on it, just trees, covolts in the trees and a man. The man will ask you to beat all the covolts. 2 of them are actually copykattes (remember from quartz, those transforming cats). The actual covolts are low levered... but the secret is that they hold items. Thunderstones, a PP MAX... So remember to catch them. The prize for beating them all is a choice band.

Wisteria village. (sorry for the player sprite as NPC, I only made the map and added the events)
Just a small village (in fact, all the village is in that screenshot except the pokemon center). It'll have a trade event (although I haven't messed with them yet, so I don't guarantee it'll be accessible in beta2).
That square building with a parnot (parrot pokemon) in the window is a pet shop.
Apart from an important event involving parnots, you will be able to buy the starter that nobody picked in Baro's lab. But it will be a bit expensive.

 

[zel 2.0]

Well, it looks interesting. And I like that you used the mist on the forest but it seems to work fine :)

I find a bit funny the roofs of the houses, but in the good way, I like them.

Keep taking showers Baro! (an inside joke if you remember one of Baro's older posts XD)

 

[Teh Baro]

Anyways, just wondering what is the pet shop for? Any events concerning it?

Apart from an important event involving parnots, you will be able to buy the starter that nobody picked in Baro's lab. But it will be a bit expensive.

Example: You pick chapebaya, you can buy todad. You pick todad, you can buy coalchu. You pick coalchu, you can buy chapebaya.



Also: lol showers.

 

[Virtual Chatot]

Baro you the man :D

I love the new screenshots

 

[Lady Berlitz]

This hack is pretty awesome, Baro! I just played it, but I found it kind of hard since I don't even know these Pokémon! -_-

 

[Teh Baro]

Just finished the parnot (parrot pokemon) event.

Spoiler:

The PARNOT is nicknamed Kayak. It belonged to Dr. Kayuko.

When you talk to it, it asks you for a cookie. If you give it a mole cookie, it'll say a random phrase.
there's a 1% chance of getting a password for something that is needed later on. (if you have the amulet tag, it's a 100% chance, but only once [actually, once you get the password, a flag is set, so your character "remembers" it])
In the remaining 99% of chances, you can get 9 random sentences, some of them spoilers, some of them just jokes, like the one below.

And this is one of the non-spoiler phrases it may say. I was inspired so let's share, for laughs

You know, the cosmic flow of the funky aeromatter doesn't mind if the cosmos karma thinks that the balance of the life and the death is not too much for the stars to handle and chewbaka starts to shave every morning.

Also, after the event ends, the shop owner tells you that you can't buy the pokemon because it's already sold. The same for other 2 pokemon on the shop. I just wanted to use the bufferpokemon command (7D or somehting along that) to use the pokemon's name on the text string. cool.

Now, for the buy-a-starter script.
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EDIT
Also, though about the next routes and such, and the thing will be like this:
There will be long and wide desert with an Arabic-like town in the middle (replacing celadon - but without gym). Then another desert route and in the middle of the desert, rainbowpolis. As I already said, it'll be an ENORMOUS CITY and it will have all the stuff: the casino, the mart... and even a brothel (but don't worry, it'll be called club, and you'll fight the dancers... but literally, don't get it wrong, uh?), a japanese neighborhood ruled by the jakuza, and well, everything you can expect from a big city barely based in Las Vegas (actually, the only vegas thing it's that it's in the middle of the desert, and all the sex and corruption).
And the beta will end there

 

[Tyrantrum]

The parnot and covoltz events are cool.
I'm looking forward for beta 2 :D

I'll look why it won't be released yet, K.

BTW, keep upthe awesome work

 

[Teh Baro]

Finished the buy-a-starter script.
Only tried with todad as starter (buying coalchu) but worked, so the others should too because the scripts only set some vars and then the main script works with these vars. It was cool to discover that some commands (bufferpokemon, givepokemon, cry...) can work with variables, so it was easier to make a general script (for example, coalchu's script sets var 0x4002 to 4 and in the main script, cry 0x4002 0 plays coalchu's cry).

So, the prize of the last starter will be $100.000. It's very expensive but the trick is that you shouldn't be able to buy it yet. I'm still testing (gonna hack my way from the beggining to the pet shop to test todad's and chapebaya) with $100 as the prize, so you're in time to complain. EDIT: Ah when things work! So, as I said, $100.000. But well, you're gonna get an amulet coin, so it won't be too difficult to earn the moneyz.

 

[destinedjagold]

Sweet! And a hundred thousand bucks? :\ That's cool. :D
Anyways, it's nice to hear for an update. ;)

Luck~

 

[Virtual Chatot]

Meh, its not that hard to get 100K in Pokemon Games.

 

[HiroChicken]

I'm really liking your ideas, Baro! It seems that you're always learning new things.

 

[Teh Baro]

I'm really liking your ideas, Baro! It seems that you're always learning new things.

Sure, I know a lot of stuff and am ingenuous enough to manage to do others, but still gotta learn a lot.

Also, I was bored today so made a progress map - better than the old one. Actually I made it for world map and planning purposes (for example, the next route was going to extend to the left, but when I saw the map I decided it would extend to the south.

Warning: spoiler content.

Click to enlarge
(the maps under the red line are the new ones, next routes and cities will be placed on those violet lines.)

 

[JZ95]

This hack is looking great!

I've played Pokemon Quartz, and that was great, and i hope that this will be as good as Quartz.

 

[O' Swine]

yep, cant wait till next beta, baro. its gonna be AWESOME!
i can just feel it!

 

[zel 2.0]

Hi Baro!

I was thinking about one thing: I wonder if you are gonna try drawing a world map, just like you did in Quartz (and since all the info is available for FR, perhaps you could try it now), I'd love to see how it would look this time, considering you like drawing stuff yourself :)

Also, is the work on all the pokes completed? Or maybe there are still some left? I'm just curious ;)

 

[Teh Baro]

Hi Baro!

I was thinking about one thing: I wonder if you are gonna try drawing a world map, just like you did in Quartz (and since all the info is available for FR, perhaps you could try it now), I'd love to see how it would look this time, considering you like drawing stuff yourself :)

Also, is the work on all the pokes completed? Or maybe there are still some left? I'm just curious ;)

I'll try to draw it. When garna is done (that'll be beta 3), I'll start making sketches of how will the region be, based on how does the map I posted before look.

And, like 8~9 pokemon left. Not much planned, Since I'm making a desert, I think I'll make a camel/dromedary pokémon, but dunno of which type. The problem now is that I have to count the amount of pokemon of each type so the thing is more balanced. All the pokemon left are ordinary pokémon excep one, mewtwo's slot, which will be obviously a legendary.


EDIT: 300 GET!

 

[zel 2.0]

Maybe a tiger or a black panther for a legendary? (I know there's a lot of animals Nintendo leave out for making their pokes), there are a lot of ferocious animals unused by them, and that would fit perfect for legendaries.
What about some dino-like-thing? XD

But, in any case, I guess there's still some time to think about the legendaries.