Crystal hack: Kanto Explorers: Through Time [BETA Testers Wanted]

[Snyd]

Kanto Explorers: Through Time

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Introduction

If you've been watching the hacking community for a while you'll know I officially started this ROM 5 years ago. I decided to go back and finish the alpha but my repo was a bunch of spaghetti code that even I couldn't decipher, having had stuff in my personal life get in the way I couldn't complete it those years ago. This version was rebuilt from the ground up and is much cleaner overall.
I hope this new experience and fun way to play Pokemon reaches you well! Any bugs/glitches please let the team know here.

Story

It has been 50 years since Giovanni successfully created his abominable clone using Mew DNA...Known by his followers as "Mew-X". After his unsuccessful attempts at controlling his first creation, "Mewtwo", he sought to use Mew-X to destroy it. The battle that ensued was so fierce, it caused explosions and ripples through the time vortex itself, completely transforming the landscape and preventing Red from ever being born.

You, the middle child of a Professor who recently believes he has cracked the secret to time travel, must set out to go back in time and stop Giovanni from creating Mew-X in the first place..in order for time to run properly again and our hero Red can be born to save the day!

Oh...and you have a VERY annoying little sister who thinks only of herself...can she be saved from narcissism also?

Features

Implemented

1. Time Travel
   
   
   
   By using the portable Time Shard device, you are able to travel back in time to how Kanto was 10 years before R/B/Y's events and back to the future again, as long as you're outside! (If you've played Zelda: Oracle of Ages the functionality is the same)
   
   
2. Fairy Type
   Added the Fairy type, one particular Gym in the future will be Fairy based.
   
   
3. New Pokemon and Evolutions of the first 151 (based on prototypes)
   Some Pokemon evolve differently in the past and the future. There's also some completely new mons based on beta mons!
   
   
4. Running Shoes
   Hold B for profit.
   
   
5. 16 Gym Badges and Elite Four to battle in the past
   Including a new window of the trainer card so you can see what badges you have left to collect (and non-linear in order after the first 2 badges!)
   
   
6. New unique remixes of familiar songs and new custom music
   Any new music is composed by me!
   
   
7. Level scaling
   All battles will be level scaled to your strongest Pokemon!
   
   
8. Generation 6 Experience Share
   You can also turn it off as it is a toggleable Key Item.
   
   
9. Karma/Reputation System That Keeps Track Of Progress In Fixing (or Destroying) The Past
   A value between 0 and 100 which can be viewed in your Trainer Card. Depending on how high or low your Karmic Value is will cause events to play out differently, or could lead to vast changes in the future when traveling back.
   
   
   
10. "One Last Chance" System
    In wild Pokemon battles, if you run out of usuable Pokemon you get one more chance at trying to run away, with a 50% chance of getting away. If you can't escape, you blackout like normal!
    
    If you get away, your first party Pokemon recieves 1HP so you can quickly get away.
    
    
    
11. HM08 BULLDOZE
    A new HM which can break big grey 2 x 2 blocks in the overworld. Much more destructive than using cut, am I right!?
    
    

Future Features

1. Customizable Character
   Choose a sprite of your liking! (All pronouns will be gender neutral for the sake of ease in terms of coding and inclusivity).
   
   
2. Customizable House
   "Bill's Garden" will now serve as your own unique base which you can customize in terms of map and invite gym leaders you've defeated to visit for a rematch!

Images

Please Note: Some of these images may contain early designs!

KE: Through Time Team

1. Me (Snyd)
2. My partner (Neb)
3. Bloodless
4. Bronzeswagger
5. EeVeeEe
6. Pia Carrot
7. Tommo
8. YeOldeLoremonger
9. Valiant

Downloads

Coming soon.
A clean Pokemon Crystal version 1.0 ROM required and I've changed to .ips.

Discord

https://discord.gg/v7DxtTqqbJ
If this link doesnt work, please let it be known!

Other Credits

pret - PokeCrystal Dissasembly
Rangi - Tutorials
Luna & BloodlessNS & The whole Pret team - Answering my annoying questions and being a real help!
Pia Carrot - Helping me learn the ways of Discord + Spritework
BloodlessNS - Spritework
Sourapple - Spritework
Louminosus - Gyaon frontsprite
YeOldeLoremonger - Spritework
Rool - Kotoro, Raitoro sprites

 

[FeraligatrMaster]

Great to see that you've finally managed to release this ROM hack, even though it's only just an alpha. How far can you go? How many Gyms can you currently challenge?

 

[Snyd]

Great to see that you've finally managed to release this ROM hack, even though it's only just an alpha. How far can you go? How many Gyms can you currently challenge?

There is one gym in the past and one gym in the future. It's all pretty self contained as once you beat the second gym thats available in this alpha, upon next release a new HM is given which will allow you to go many different routes and directions. The level scaling system allows me to make large portions of the game fairly open world.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Congratulations! It's crazy to think of how long this has been in the works, and despite the hurdles you faced, you've managed to pull through. :')

 

[Snyd]

Congratulations! It's crazy to think of how long this has been in the works, and despite the hurdles you faced, you've managed to pull through. :')

I hope you enjoy the alpha/tech demo :) The next release which will be beta 1.0 will be much longer. I wanted to show *something*

 

[Snyd]

There's been some issues patching with xdelta so i've opted for the classic .ips format. Sorry everyone.

 

[ralax]

Looks amazing and has a unique concept. Can't wait to play more.

 

[OmegaBlazerX]

I just hope this hack gets finished it looks great.

 

[bleedpark]

I am so excited to play this! Looks fantastic. GBC hacks have been super good lately. I can absolutely see this being in my top 5 GBC hacks. Keeps up the fantastic work!

 

[tadashi89]

Can you make it super easy to reset the real-time clock in a future update? No crazy passwords, just a simple button input on the main menu?

 

[Snyd]

Can you make it super easy to reset the real-time clock in a future update? No crazy passwords, just a simple button input on the main menu?

Are there issues with the RTC?

 

[tadashi89]

Are there issues with the RTC?

Looking for a quick fix, in case of daylight savings time.

 

[Snyd]

Looking for a quick fix, in case of daylight savings time.

oh yeah ofcourse, because you dont have the whole Mom speech DST is not accounted for. I do want to eventually remove RTC functionality altogether as I personally dont like it, and with time travel as the main mechanic its a bit weird that it's always the same time of day when traveling.


In other news: Alpha 2.0 is almost ready. Just map work and event scripting to do.

 

[Snyd]

Uploaded Alpha 1.5, there was a game breaking bug which stopped progression completely. It's incomplete towards the end but gives you a taste of what I had planned for Alpha 2.0.

 

[Luna]

oh yeah ofcourse, because you dont have the whole Mom speech DST is not accounted for. I do want to eventually remove RTC functionality altogether as I personally dont like it, and with time travel as the main mechanic its a bit weird that it's always the same time of day when traveling.


In other news: Alpha 2.0 is almost ready. Just map work and event scripting to do.

Maybe when time traveling, you could choose which time you wanted to arrive, using the same input prompt that the built-in clock reset function uses?

 

[Inner Rhymes]

I really dig the consistent releases that you are working towards. What's the estimated length of Alpha 2.0?

 

[Snyd]

I really dig the consistent releases that you are working towards. What's the estimated length of Alpha 2.0?

All of Saffron City and Lavender Town and Cerulean City + connecting routes, dungeons and ofc their past counterparts. So 6 cities to explore technically.

 

[Marky Vigoroth]

Thank you! I feel grea that you continued this hack!
I certainly know the feeling of needing to rese the hack because of terrible code.

 

[Safr]

All of Saffron City and Lavender Town and Cerulean City + connecting routes, dungeons and ofc their past counterparts. So 6 cities to explore technically.

this game use HM slave system or HM item system?

 

[Snyd]

- Finished all of Lavender Town
- Changed the Time Travel animation and added a new animation for timelocked areas
- Minor quality of life updates
- Level scaled Pokemon will no longer stay in their first evolutionary forms if they are above a certain level, they will show their evolved form instead
- Updated the Kanto Past tileset to include some of the early alpha tiles from the gigaleak.
- Saffron is still very unfinished but v2.0 is on it's way gang I'm almost there. I wouldn't bother with v1.5 it's very buggy.