Contest: Hack-off II: Team Four

[DJTiki]

This was the basic concept of the story that I came up with:

Spoiler:

This is a vague concept of the story!

In the beginning, you are an elite trainer of high caliber. So much so that you entered a tournament to hone your skills and truly see if you are the best trainer in all the land. The game begins right before your climatic finale- you have a team of six, powerful Pokémon. You are greeted by your close friends and is given a reminder on the controls and awkward tutorial mumbo jumbo. After talking it up, they wish you luck and leave for the audience.

Because of your fame, you are followed by adoring fans. One of these fans visits you and gifts you a package of sorts. She tells you that it's full of Pokémon, but you can't open until after the tournament. You put the gift in the bag (because video games) and head out to the battle.

At that moment, you are announced to the stage and battle. After a harsh and "close" final confrontation, you win (or lose, the script will continue either way)!

Just as the announcer declares the victor, dangerous earthquakes (or some other danger) begins to shake the foundation of the arena and everyone escape immediately. You are left alone with your friends to fend off the intruders. You do well for a little bit, but the enemy gets the upper hand and knocks you and your friends out, proceedingly dumping you, your friends, and your belongings in a river.

You wake up on a shore. Your friends are already awake. After some thought and realization that your Pokémon team is gone, your Pokédex stopped working after being in the water, and your items got washed away, you and your friends decide to open the gift that fan gave to you. What do you know, it's filled with Pokémon just as she said it was! You pick your "starter" and two other Pokémon, thus beginning your journey.

Exploring for a bit and you find a group of tribesman (this is the nature side). These tribals cater to the nature, are very spiritual, good with Pokémon taming, very family-orientated, but are VASTLY behind the times and often times, they get sick, starve, and die. These tribals make it very clear.

They talk to you and your friends, which they explain that they were washed up here and that their home region is under attack. The unnamed tribals promise to return you to your home, but you must gain the cooperation of the other four villages, so that they can all cooperate and take you home (four "gym" battles). They propose to get you back by boat.

You take their generous offer and start the quest to do what else: get the trust of the other four villages.

Eventually, after gaining the trust of the first one, you run into some development- technological development. He introduces you to the technological and more advanced part of the region. These guys caters to automation, highly advanced tech and gadgets, has new methods of Pokémon training and engineering, but are very VERY disjointed social wise.

This man talks to you and your friends, which they explain that they were washed up here and that their home region is under attack. This techno geek makes an ultimatum with you. He's working on an experiment on a powerful Pokémon and needs you to find some help. All you have to do is retrieve the top four engineers and scientists in the region, and convince them to come over to help (four "gym" battles). They propose to get you back via a teleporter which stays locked away at ALL times.

Of course, you travel the region and feud between technology and nature grows more and more. During the course of the game, you have to make choices which caters to one side or the other. Will you choose nature or machine?

This occurs after you get your eighth "badge" or trusting person.

Ultimately, you gain the support from everyone BUT you have one more task to do before they let you go home... you must aid the technological people in forcing the nature to change/ destroying the technological infrastructure. This is the big decision, as it changes what happens in the end game.

Choose nature and after a battle with the Technological Leader (unnamed), the technological infrastructure is destroyed. Everyone loses their gadgets, but they also grow closer as a family. You also get a chance to catch Celebi.

Choose machine and after a battle with the Nature Leader, all nature is forced to change and become a part of their society. Everyone's cultured life style is dramatically altered and they grow apart, but the death rate and starvation decreased by a lot in the region. You also get a chance to catch Genesect.

The winning side thanks you and returns you to your region.

You end up coming back to the ruined tournament grounds and apprehend the guys responsible for taking you and your friends down. You travel the grounds and beat the ones responsible in battle after battle. After a mock "Elite Four", you run into the "Champion" or boss, who was actually the trainer you fought at the beginning of the game.

They use your first team against you in a climatic final battle. You win. The team is disbanded. That trainer is arrested. All is well and good. You and your friends remember your times back at the region and then the game ends.

 

[demingiscool]

What do you Think of this?

Spoiler:

In the beginning, you are an elite trainer of high caliber. So much so that you entered a tournament to hone your skills and truly see if you are the best trainer in all the land. The game begins right before your climatic finale- you have a team of six, powerful Pokémon. You are greeted by your close friend and you get a reminder on the controls and awkward tutorial shit. After talking it up, he wishes you luck and leaves for the audience.

Because of your fame, you are followed by adoring fans. One of these fans visits you and gifts you a package of sorts. She tells you that it's a secret what's inside, but you can't open until after the tournament. You put the gift in the bag (because video games) and head out to the battle.

At that moment, you are announced to the stage and battle. After a harsh and "close" final confrontation, you win (or lose, the script will continue either way)!
(So the beginning is kinda the same as yours tiki)

Then the grounds begins to shake and and everyone is scared. and the arena is about to collapse. You are trying to escape but you stumble and you pass out...

You wake up in some weird looking world (distortion world style) after some thought and realization that your Pokémon team is gone, your Pokédex is gone, and all off your items are gone, you decide to open the gift the fan gave to you. What do you know, it's filled with Pokémon! You pick your "starter" and you can begin your journey.
(My personal opinion is that the "starters" will be Charmander, balbausaur and squirtle and they each hold the mega stone that belongs to them but we can change that if you want)
You go explore the area and you see ... (could be any legendary pokemon) when you get closer it will notice you and it will rage (the ground will shake again) and it's about to attack you when a (Wigglytuff?) appears and sends out waves that make the (legendary pokemon) calm. After that the legendary pokemon disappeares. The wigglytuff turns out to be the pokemon off a professor. The professor takes you to a cave where his lab is. and tells you that the "distortion world" (could be any other name) and the normal world are colliding and all legendary pokemon are raging because (the evil team) is researching mega evolution and they want to use it for bad things and they have a kind of machine that researches mega stones but that machine is sending out weird waves that eventually will destroy the "distortion world" and also the real world! The proffessor gives you the mission to challenge gymes to become stronger and stop the evil team. He gives you a pokedex and a few pokeballls. and sends you trough a portal to return to your own world.

(from here on the guy travels trough the region and fight gyms and he will encounter the evil team sometimes. maybe we could brainstorm about further events but this is what I have now. I also think it would be cool that if the story continues the player travels trough both worlds.)

This a small concept off my idea.
So what do you think?
All ideas are welcome.

 

[DJTiki]

I did it. Mega Evolutions along with MrDs's patch are in. Why did it take me all day? I don't know. But I did it. I'd like thank the academy. I'd like to thank my friends. My family. I'd to thank Jesus. I'd like to thank Touched-senpai. I wanna give props to the OG MrDollSteak and his crew. I'd like to thank Christ. I'm done for the day. Thank you and good night!

 

[trenhoj]

If you got the mega's done then thank you! I tried but I could not figure it out.

 

[DJTiki]

I inserted a multitude of ASM routines that would benefit the hack. I so far have extended flags and vars (not tested), inserted the bag backup/delete routines, and made TMs infinite. I will not be hacking for the next two days. I will be around on the forums, but I won't be hacking the ROM whatsoever. What routines should we insert in the ROM? Go to this thread for more information.

 

[ShaunBwoof]

idea for region: central island has the main coliseum, and there are other islands around that have other battle events at them, which the evil team may have taken over, story events happen.

Idea for new game feature: You get around from island to island on a motorized surfboard, which uses the mechanics of a mach bike but on water only, if that would be possible

 

[anonyboy]

Guys, a feature related question:
Graphics: Are we going 4th/5th gen style, or are we going 3rd/3.5 gen style?

Mega evolutions? Yes or no?
Pokemon until 4th/5th/6th gen or a variation from all gens?
Talk to me so i can make a base for our hack?

 

[ShaunBwoof]

Guys, a feature related question:
Graphics: Are we going 4th/5th gen style, or are we going 3rd/3.5 gen style?

Mega evolutions? Yes or no?
Pokemon until 4th/5th/6th gen or a variation from all gens?
Talk to me so i can make a base for our hack?

From what I know Mega Evolutions are going to be featured, which ones I don't know, and for other gen Pokemon, probably a variation from all gens. If we had a map to go from, picking Pokemon for the game would be easier. I'll try to add some more ideas for the region.

 

[DJTiki]

Guys, a feature related question:
Graphics: Are we going 4th/5th gen style, or are we going 3rd/3.5 gen style?

Mega evolutions? Yes or no?
Pokemon until 4th/5th/6th gen or a variation from all gens?
Talk to me so i can make a base for our hack?

Graphics: That's something we would have to consult as a team, but if it were me, I'd say 3.5 gen style.

Mega Evolutions: I already inserted them c:

Pokémon: I'd say a nice variation of all gens. But again, this is a group consensus in mind.

Also, I've been away for the weekend but I will say that I built the majority of the base. This coming week, the base should be finished and I can confidently send the patch for you to work on. :)

 

[demingiscool]

Guys, a feature related question:
Graphics: Are we going 4th/5th gen style, or are we going 3rd/3.5 gen style?

Mega evolutions? Yes or no?
Pokemon until 4th/5th/6th gen or a variation from all gens?
Talk to me so i can make a base for our hack?

When it comes to the graphics i think 4th gen style is the best.
Mega Evolution is featured in the game. But we don't know wich mega evolutions. But I think Mega charizard, venusaur and blastoise are defenitly gonna be in the game. And a variation of all gens is fine.

 

[anonyboy]

Graphics: That's something we would have to consult as a team, but if it were me, I'd say 3.5 gen style.

Mega Evolutions: I already inserted them c:

Pokémon: I'd say a nice variation of all gens. But again, this is a group consensus in mind.

Also, I've been away for the weekend but I will say that I built the majority of the base. This coming week, the base should be finished and I can confidently send the patch for you to work on. :)

Well if i'll expand the dex, how much PKMN should we add, and i could handle new evolution methods using the data i have from my hack and i have HGSS Style Tiles waiting to be used if you guys want 'em

 

[demingiscool]

Well if i'll expand the dex, how much PKMN should we add, and i could handle new evolution methods using the data i have from my hack and i have HGSS Style Tiles waiting to be used if you guys want 'em

I like HGSS tiles so I guess we could use them. At least if everyone agrees of course.

 

[Shitik]

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been on at all, I've been busy... :) Anyway, the HUGE draft I'm writing about the hack we should make is almost finished

Skype me - patrickbw2001 (It was my friends old one, lol)

 

[Mana1]

HGSS tiles sound good, as long as there's a good range to work with and plenty of different buildings :).

As for which megas are in, we need to finalise some starters and make do with theirs (assuming we want the starter to mega evolve).

Bulbasaur/Squirtle/Charmander
Treecko/Mudkip/Torchic
Random other three that can mega-evolve

Choices? :) If you pick other make a suggestion~

 

[demingiscool]

HGSS tiles sound good, as long as there's a good range to work with and plenty of different buildings :).

As for which megas are in, we need to finalise some starters and make do with theirs (assuming we want the starter to mega evolve).



Choices? :) If you pick other make a suggestion~

a question about the mega evolution:

Will the player only be able to mega evolve or is it possible that one of his opponents will be able to mega evolve too?

 

[Mana1]

a question about the mega evolution:

Will the player only be able to mega evolve or is it possible that one of his opponents will be able to mega evolve too?

Both :), from what I understand.

 

[demingiscool]

Both :), from what I understand.

Okay than I guess it could be cool if the starter that the player picks can mega evolve and that for example the evil team boss has an ace pokemon that can mega evolve to. And maybe his rival or something.

 

[demingiscool]

HGSS tiles sound good, as long as there's a good range to work with and plenty of different buildings :).

As for which megas are in, we need to finalise some starters and make do with theirs (assuming we want the starter to mega evolve).



Choices? :) If you pick other make a suggestion~

But another question:

About how many mega's are we talking?
How many mega's are we able to add to the game?

 

[Mana1]

I'm not sure there are limits. It depends on our pokedex I suppose. No point adding a mega if that Pokemon isn't obtainable or battle able.

 

[DJTiki]

Well if i'll expand the dex, how much PKMN should we add, and i could handle new evolution methods using the data i have from my hack and i have HGSS Style Tiles waiting to be used if you guys want 'em

Hmm... well, I personally believe that we should expand the dex only so that we use some megas and provide some evolutions to some Pokémon (Generation 4 Evolutions).

Also, what do you mean by "new evolution methods"? Are you referring to the new evolution methods provided in later gens? I think that for safety purposes, we should insert these evolution methods ourselves. Can you send me the .bin files of the methods, please? :)

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been on at all, I've been busy... :) Anyway, the HUGE draft I'm writing about the hack we should make is almost finished

Skype me - patrickbw2001 (It was my friends old one, lol)

I thought you would never show up. Glad to know I'm wrong! Can't wait to read the draft. Hopefully it can still tie with our finalized story ideas ^_^. Btw, I'm going to add you. My name is slashtiki.

HGSS tiles sound good, as long as there's a good range to work with and plenty of different buildings :).

As for which megas are in, we need to finalise some starters and make do with theirs (assuming we want the starter to mega evolve).



Choices? :) If you pick other make a suggestion~

The only ones indexed and ready to go are the Kanto starters, BUT I did manage to find the Mega Hoenn starters and the spriters said they were fine with us using them as long as credits given. I will simply have to put them in a 256 x 64 frame and insert ^_^.

a question about the mega evolution:

Will the player only be able to mega evolve or is it possible that one of his opponents will be able to mega evolve too?

As far as the code goes, it allows for both the player and opponent to Mega Evolve. I haven't tested the latter though.