Yellow hack: Legacy 98

[Cremason]

Pokémon Yellow Rom Hack
Hack Name: Legacy 98 v1.3
Hack of: Pokémon Yellow
(DOWNLOAD AT BOTTOM OF PAGE)




OUTDATED: If you want an updated spaceworld 97 backsprite hack for updates consistent with the latest pokemon legacy then comment below with interest. I have updated some trainer backsprites shown in my now rebranded pokemon yellow 97+ hack here: Pokemon Yellow 97+
---that said if there's enough praise for an updated hack like this i will happily do it. thank you!


Details:

This took me quite a while to figure out and I'm sure it would have been easy for people that understand coding, but I had to learn how just by constant failures assembling the game. I will happily provide credits where credits are due so if I have not properly credited someone, please inform me and I will do my best to make sure their work is appreciated.

Hello and thank you for taking a look at this hack.
This hack is Pokemon Yellow 98's (Green,Red,Blue,Oak) sprites along w/ Spaceworld 97 backsprites injected into Pokemon Yellow Legacy a hack by Smithplays.

(Because of the backsprites being updated I also created a new green front, back & overworld sprite.
this led to me also updating red's, blue's and oaks.)

- Blue's frontsprite has been updated.
- Red's frontsprite has been slightly modified, and Red's backsprite is redone.
- New modified Oak frontsprite is also featured as a post HoF battle with a team inspired by the manga.
- Green's front, back, and overworld sprite are new.

(that said if you have any feedback on the sprites I'll hear you out and try to create something to suit different tastes.)

Videos:
(coming soon)

Screenshots:

NEW Legacy 98 Title:

Spaceworld 97 -
Backsprites:------------------------ NEW Green Frontsprite & Overworld:
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NEW Red, Green Backsprites & Blue Front Sprite:-------Professor Oak (Mateo) Back & NEW Front:
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Alternative Red Backsprite:

Spoiler: Alternate Red BackSprite

(seperate download below)

CHECK OUT MY ORIGINAL 98 HACK W/ DIFFERENT FEATURES:

Spoiler: POKEMON YELLOW 98

Link -------------------> PokemonYellow98

Credits:
Old Man Back Sprite (by SteppoBlazer) -

Oak Back Sprite (by Mateo)

- All spaceworld 97 Back Sprites were ripped from the redstarbluestar hack by Rangi42
- Some of the sprites were borrowed originally but were remade into something of my own. if needed to give credit of where it came from originally,
it would be Ghost-missingno. on DeviantArt.

Pokemon Yellow Legacy Description + Credits:

Spoiler: POKEMON YELLOW LEGACY ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION + CREDITS

Pokémon Yellow Legacy

The Yellow Legacy project is the prequel to Crystal Legacy by content creator Patrick Smith (TheSmithPlays), and the second project in his planned Legacy series. It is based on the Pokémon Yellow Disassembly. The Legacy project is focused on changing the base game in a way that adds quality of life additions and better balancing with the benefit of twenty years of hindsight. The primary goal of each mod is to keep the original feeling of the game while still making meaningful improvements for the player. This means that certain idiosyncrasies of the first generation of Pokémon games will remain, as they are considered an essential aspect to the core experience.

Pokémon Yellow exists in a unique role in the Pokémon franchise – it was the first truly significant revision of existing Pokémon games, and it still exists as the only core Pokémon game to be influenced by the anime. Furthermore, Pokémon Yellow introduced greater use of color, more challenging boss fights, availability for all three starters, and Pikachu as your companion. As a project to improve this game, Yellow Legacy seeks to find balance between furthering the unique niche of anime-influence while still representing the first generation of Pokémon as a whole.

Yellow Legacy aims to give each Pokémon a special niche. Balance changes were made with the intent to keep the first generation of Pokémon feeling similar to their original incarnations, while also guaranteeing that using your favorite Pokémon will not significantly handicap your journey through Kanto. As the intent is to maintain the feeling of the Generation 1 games, Yellow Legacy will not change core aspects of the battle system such as the sleep status, critical hit chance being based off of speed, or the overpowered functionality of trapping moves such as Wrap or Fire Spin.

While Yellow Legacy is not designed as a "Kaizo" project, Pokémon trainer fights (especially bosses) throughout the game have been made more difficult. Difficulty is used as a tool to make the game as engaging as possible to the most amount of players. It will not be difficult for the sake of being difficult, but rather, to provide you with a challenge that gives reaching the title of Champion a feeling of genuine earned satisfaction. Major trainers will have Pokémon and attacks designed to counter players attempting to easily sweep through the fight with a single super-effective Pokémon. However, players will also have more opportunities to create unique teams of stellar Pokémon to tackle each major fight. Pokémon availability has also been altered throughout the world to provide appropriately-powerful Pokémon based on your progression through the game. Finally, all 151 Pokémon will be obtainable in a single playthrough, and a small amount of post-game content has been added as well.

Download and Play

• You should use RGBDS version 0.6.1.

• To set up the repository, see INSTALL.md.

A complete list of features can be found here:

• Full doc:
  
  • Make a Copy (Recommended)
  • Download as PDF

These videos also provide an overview of the hack and the ideology behind it:

• Release 1.0:
• Prerelease: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyv5bsGgaxonXuHoUUsv3mM7xzTwENccO

Our Other Projects

• Pokemon Crystal Legacy: https://github.com/cRz-Shadows/Pokemon_Crystal_Legacy
• Pokemon Cursed Yellow: https://github.com/cRz-Shadows/Pokemon_Cursed_Yellow
• Pokemon Battle Simulator: https://github.com/cRz-Shadows/Pokemon_Trainer_Tournament_Simulator

Discussion and Community

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@smithplayspokemon
• Discord: https://discord.gg/Wupx8tHRVS
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonLegacy
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSmithPlays
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesmithplays/

Pret Stuff

• All Pret Projects: pret.github.io.
• FAQ
• Wiki (includes tutorials)
• Discord: pret
• IRC: libera#pret

Credits For Yellow Legacy:

Creators:

• TheSmithPlays - Developer
• cRz Shadows - Devoloper
• Weebra - Video Editor

Playtesters:

• Aerogod
• Disq
• Karlos
• ZuperZACH
• Regi
• Isona
• Obelisk
• JanitorOPplznerf
• Sable
• Alakadoof
• ReaderDragon
• Rwne
• Talos
• Tiberius
• SoulXCross
• Mogul

Sprite Artists:

• Backsprites - Anyone is welcome to use any of our backsprites so long as you credit the artistslisted here
  
  • ZuperZACH
  • Isona
  • Karlos
  • Reader Dragon
  • Alakadoof
• Pokemon overworld sprites - Anyone is welcome to use any of our overworld sprites so long as you credit the artistslisted here
  
  • Isona
  • Alakadoof
  • Karlos
• Pokemon party sprites
  
  • Chamber
  • Soloo993
  • Blue Emerald
  • Lake
  • Neslug
  • Pikachu25
• Green sprite
  
  • Madame Frog/Hatun
  • Ghost-MissingNo
• Porygon Front Sprite - Zeta_Null
• Nurse Joy Battle Sprite - ZuperZACH
• Officer Jenny Battle Sprite - Karlos
• Misty overworld sprite - Isona
• (Removed) Leaf sprite - Longlostsoul

Where you can find all Pret Tutorials:

• https://github.com/pret/pokeyellow/wiki/Tutorials
• https://github.com/pret/pokered/wiki/Tutorials

Code Credits:

• Rangi42:
  
  • Talk to Surf water, Cut trees, and Strength boulders
  • Item Descriptions (Tutorial written by YakiNeen)
• PlagueVonKarma:
  
  • KEP's AI is based on Vortyne's PureRGB AI, with elements from Jojobear13's Shinred AI
    
    • https://github.com/PlagueVonKarma/k...e3da20e1b14f094c/engine/battle/trainer_ai.asm
    • https://github.com/PlagueVonKarma/kep-hack/commit/0af5bd126bd1d1b69bfd9b7fe3da20e1b14f094c
    • https://github.com/PlagueVonKarma/kep-hack/commit/e6763371e4fcb26da70709fe0566ab4a8d1d2083
    • https://github.com/PlagueVonKarma/kep-hack/commit/c8f27d8bce0a0708d347f510694be4fba8158c65
  • Already Caught Icon
  • Move Relearner & Move Deleter
  • Safari zone rock buff
  • DV / Stat Exp display in stat menu
  • Overworld Strength
  • Faster Spinners
  • Shorter Exp All Message
• Jojobear13:
  
  • Box full reminder
  • Player animation is faster when running
  • Pokemon can now learn more than 1 move per level
  • TM names display on pick up
• YakiNeen:
  
  • Item Descriptions (Code by Rangi42)
  • Remove Redundant TrainerNamePointers
  • Remove Redundant Card Key Function
  • Remove Some Japanese Text Grammar Functions
  • Remove Unused Tile in gfx overworld fishing_rod.png
  • Remove Dakutens and Handakutens feature
  • Remove Japanese Opening Quote and put BOLD P in gfx font font_battle_extra.png
  • Remove Blank Leader Names
  • Out of Bounds don't Crash the Game
  • Fix No Mon Scenarios Softlock
  • Collision check when Jumping a Ledge
• Vortyne:
  
  • Multiple-level-up learnset skipping bug fix
  • Move overworld tile anim code out of home bank
• Pgattic:
  
  • Running Shoes (This required some extra work for yellow if you want to implement)
  • Remove Artificial Save Delay
• Xillicis:
  
  • Remove 25% chance for enemy stat down moves to miss
  • Implement move priority system
• TwitchPlaysPokemon - Trainer pokemon nickname
• Dannye - Add All Unique Party Menu Sprite Icons
• SoupPotato/Dannye - Functioning EXP bar in battle
• Voloved - Add Item Sorting In Bag
• Veganlies2me - Adding Gender Selection (original tutorial done by Mateo)
• etdv-thevoid - (Removed) Fourth palette for party icons
• SatoMew (presumably more people worked on these but satomew is the only page author) - Bugs and Glitches

Other Credits:

• People that generally helped out with advice or otherwise
  
  • Idain
  • Nayru62
  • JaaShooUhh
  • Fortello - The Potential Yellow Legacy - Google Docs

Massive thank you to these hacks in particular:

• Kanto Expansion Pak
• Shinred
• RedStar BlueStar
• PureRGB

Warning! This hack has been through VERY limited testing. let me know if anything comes up graphically that is corrupted in any way.

Changelog:
v1.2
-Fixed critical bug of crash at mt moon/ nugget bridge
v1.3
-Touched up Oak's front sprite
v1.4
-small updates to the look of Blue & Oak to keep consistent w/ Yellow 98

Download:
Legacy98v1.4
Legacy98v1.4a - (Alternate Red Backsprite)

My Other Hacks:
PokemonYellow97
PokemonYellow98


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[Inner Rhymes]

I am a little confused. So is this hack of Smith's Pokémon Legacy where you've added the Spaceworld sprites? Also, can you please provide a patch in the download link? Thank you.

 

[Cremason]

I am a little confused. So is this hack of Smith's Pokémon Legacy where you've added the Spaceworld sprites? Also, can you please provide a patch in the download link? Thank you.

Correct. A few other graphic updates but only what is in the description. the patch should be in the .zip file in the link already under Download at the bottom of the page.

 

[VictorTheHamma]

Hey I think I found a bug. I got to mt. Moon and everytime i get next to a rocket grunt the game freezes. music plays as though you got spotted but then the player is frozen. no text box, but pikachu still moves. I don't even need to be spotted by the grunt, I just need to approach his vicinity and the glitch happens. This happen twice in mt moon. One grunt encounter was initially avoidable but the 2nd grunt wasn't and now i'm stuck.

 

[Cremason]

I'll test through mount moon tonight I apologize for the trouble! Are you playing on an emulator? Maybe you could send me your .sav file so i can test on my end. I also wonder if it's the source rom.

 

[VictorTheHamma]

Hi. No need to apologize!
I'm playing on an Analogue pocket. I don't think its the source rom as I used the same rom to patch for legacy 1.09 and Legacy 98. There isn't any freezing in legacy 1.09.

 

[Cremason]

I'm currently testing things out as it seems it might be my assembler for legacy that's causing the issue. Stay tuned for a new updated version.

 

[Cremason]

Should be fixed! please test out and inform me of anything that may come up :)

 

[VictorTheHamma]

Nice! Will try to find some time tomorrow to squeeze in a session of playtesting. Its been really enjoyable even with the bugs.
Thanks again for your efforts!

 

[VictorTheHamma]

I am a little confused. So is this hack of Smith's Pokémon Legacy where you've added the Spaceworld sprites? Also, can you please provide a patch in the download link? Thank you.

Yup. This patch contains legacy plus the graphical modifications all in one. Therefore you'll need a clean Pokemon yellow rom to apply the patch and after doing so, you'll essentially get Yellow legacy with spaceworld backsprites instead of the pixelated ones made by the legacy dev team.

 

[VictorTheHamma]

Should be fixed! please test out and inform me of anything that may come up :)

Hey. Played a bit today. got to fuchsia using the route from lavender town and have not encountered any issues. Have 4 badges currently, did Rocket game corner, Lavender tower, but had to stop at fuchsia. Did not encounter any freezing and the npcs now behave as they should when the player gets spotted, with the "!" appearing and they approach to battle. Don't know when I'll get time to play again but its been so fun I'll probably squeeze in another session during the weekend even though I should be working lol. Thanks again and I'll report my findings when I play again. All good so far with the v1.3 patch.

 

[Cremason]

Hey. Played a bit today. got to fuchsia using the route from lavender town and have not encountered any issues. Have 4 badges currently, did Rocket game corner, Lavender tower, but had to stop at fuchsia. Did not encounter any freezing and the npcs now behave as they should when the player gets spotted, with the "!" appearing and they approach to battle. Don't know when I'll get time to play again but its been so fun I'll probably squeeze in another session during the weekend even though I should be working lol. Thanks again and I'll report my findings when I play again. All good so far with the v1.3 patch.

Happy to hear! Yeah it was all because i ran the assembler as a7.0 version and not 6.0 which is dumb but legacy calls for 6.0 specifically 👍

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Not going to lie, that sounds pretty dope. I always found the Spaceworld Sprites to be better looking than the final G/S/C ones.

 

[Cremason]

Not going to lie, that sounds pretty dope. I always found the Spaceworld Sprites to be better looking than the final G/S/C ones.

I agree but it's just he back sprites that are changed because I couldn't stand gen 1s overly closeup sprites but thats just me as I was used to G/S/C. the 97 sprites bring a closer to gen 1 feel without moving to gen 2 graphics. also checkout my other "98" hack as it's closer to vanilla with not as many changes I feel.

 

[Ziko577]

The non alternate Red backsprite link isn't working.

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Yellow legacy just got an update, will you be updating your patch accordingly?

 

[Cremason]

The non alternate Red backsprite link isn't working.

I will have to look into that thank you. I will update you once fixed. Sorry for the delay I have not been on pokecommunity in awhile.

 

[Cremason]

Yellow legacy just got an update, will you be updating your patch accordingly?

Thanks for the heads up. I'm sorry to be late I'll have to take another look. I don't think it would be too hard but I might have to look at their patch notes and only copy over those. If enough people really want an update I'll make it happen sooner. I kind of got exhausted compiling code over and over the first time but I will put it on the to do list.

 

[Cremason]

The non alternate Red backsprite link isn't working.

I just checked and it seems to still be working? Are you trying it on PC or mobile? Again sorry for the delay

 

[Ziko577]

I just checked and it seems to still be working? Are you trying it on PC or mobile? Again sorry for the delay

I did it on both and it's still giving me a site can't be reached error.