Emerald hack: Pokémon: Discovery

[OPSdoesLPs]

honestly wishing this game would have like a big update anytime soon tbh my subs LOVE this game and it's like one of the most popular series on the channel. Will wait cause it'll be worth it :]

 

[Mirasec]

yes, when can we have the next update?? Really can't wait!!! ^.^

 

[Marc40k]

I can't clap louder

 

[Sakura1]

I cri how funny the trailer was, keep up the good work ctfu

 

[yash00066]

when will nxt beta come there is lots to discovery less to wait i think

 

[MaryHope]

Hello, I'm a girl from Germany (so sorry for my bad English). And I'm so impressed of this beautiful game!! The story seems to be very excited und mysterious.
I have tried the last two days to start the Game (with help from youtube "Let's play Pokemon Discovery"). But there is no way to play. So can someone help me? I think I need a good Emerald File (I found only "1986 Pokemon Emerald (U)"). And I tried it on a Mac (with "Multipatch" instead of "Nups"). But I could also borrow a Windows Laptop. I hope someone could help me or can give me a good address. Thank you very much!!!! :-)

 

[Caeldar]

Hello everyone, here with an update about Discovery. First of all, to those who don't know, I'm redoing Beta 1. Yes yes, I know ... some of you were waiting for Beta 2 but let's be honest, Discovery didn't meet its full potential. I was making Discovery along with trying to learn how to do anything involving ROM hacking and now that I know a decent amount of information, I want to restart the project to make it even better.
Even better means updated tiles to look more like Gen 4 with OWs that are Gen 4 as well. Another thing is instead of the typical route music, you'll be able to hear songs from the Radio. More on that in a second.
So the introductionary area has been altered to have more story behind it and it also helps the player understand everything that is going on. When you arrive on the island for the first time, you will not see people on the beach. In fact, it'll be awhile before you even see people. Yes, one of the elements to Discovery is just that: it's the discovery of Pokemon. However, it's also a shipwreck tale on a big island. Discovery didn't have a feel for being shipwreck. You were on an island then you ran into a town then another then a city ... it needs to be more isolated than that. In the upcoming version, we will see elements such as the need for shelter, proper clothing, food, and water. The story will be altered in such a way to where it feels like it truly is just you and your Eevee (or eeveelution) ... until you encounter the first people (hint hint won't be a good encounter). This may seem boring at first or maybe you're pondering how this will unfold and all I have to say is that it'll be a different type of Pokemon environment.

As for the Radio, it'll be a feature you can tune in and off whenever you want.
One of the many items you'll find in the wreckage will be a pocket radio. The shipwreck isn't too far from shore and on it the radio tower seems to be intact. The further you are from the ship, the weaker the signal. You can choose to have it turned on or off, but in key events the music will change to set the mood correctly. (Feedback wanted on this feature)

I was also thinking about implementing a weight system. You'll find a bag in the wreckage which will allow you to carry more things but as time goes on and you gather more things, the bag will weigh you down which is prevent you from adding anything further until you sell or get rid of items. (feedback wanted on this feature)

For those that are curious as to how the introduction scene will be altered, you may read in the spoiler however it will contain spoils of the new intro (obviously):

Spoiler:

Just an FYI ... this was written for my eyes only so if it seems weird how it was written, sorry lol


Wake up in rack in barracks to your new shipmate. "Hey shipmate, the ship is leaving soon. I was sent to wake you up by Chief Rockwell. I just arrived yesterday and I was told you're going to be my sponsor while I get adjusted and get to know everyone. My name is Bagby. What about yours? [PLAYER NAMES HIMSELF]
Alright, player, let's head out. This is going to be one long deployment! Hopefully I don't get sea sick ... [guy leaves] you step out of bed [guy comes back]
Oh, sorry for bothering you again. I totally forgot, but there was a package outside your door. I went ahead and grabbed it for you. [receive a care package] Alright, see you on the ship! [leaves again] Player thinks, what could be inside? [opens it up and receives a letter] "Hello, son. I'm sorry I couldn't see you before you leave on your deployment. Work is always hard when you're an Atomic Physicist running twelve laboratories! Know that I will miss you and as a token of good luck, I want you to have the latest build of my side project: the Proto Ball!" [player looked in bag and found the Proto Ball!] "I know you don't believe in the legends of Pokemon, son, but I do. I want you to take that to remember me by as you sail the seven seas! ... even if you think my research into finding those mystical creatures is a waste of time! Love always, dad."
Leave the barracks and head north and greeted by ship official that says welcome aboard then you get on. You walk on as it fadedelays and then it says "Four months later" and it shows like eight people walking into a room with chief at front. Bagby says "I wonder what this is about?" and then you all sit. "Alright everyone, I've been given permission from the Captain to brief you on our mission. Up until now and until we return, this mission is classified as Top Secret. Recently in the Northern Ocean, several ships have gone missing. Fishing boats mostly, as I'm sure you've heard the tales of shipwreck survivors. However, our sister ship, the SS Nova, has gone off the radar with no communications established. We fear for the worst but we have our orders to check out the area.
Random Guy: "Chief, we can't go there! That's suicide! Now I don't believe in the legends surrounding the Northern Ocean but something abnormal is out there causing all those ships to wreck." Other guy: "It's probably just rocks or massive icebergs." Other guy: "No, it's definitely gotta' be the Pokemon, haha." Other guy: "Haha, yeah right, "Pokemon". Don't worry guys if we run into them, PLAYER has his toy ball that'll save the day." Chief: Alright that's enough, everyone. Get back to work. Dismissed." Player warps out and goes to "Two months later." Shows you getting into bed and fadedelays ... pops up scary image of pixelated ghost lady. Then you wake up frightened and can't go back to bed. Exit out to hallway and hear an explosion and then see a lot of people run by. You follow the same way to exit out to the main deck. It shows the ship has been damaged on the stbd side. You rush over and Chief Rockwell is organizing escape with the lifeboats. There aren't that many though but Bagby remembers there are some on the other side of the ship so he rushes away to check and see if they are still intact and Chief tells you to go after him and stop him before he gets killed and you do and then ship cracks and prevents you from going back. You escape lightning attacks and find Bagby and you watch him try to jump over a crack but falls through. Screen shakes then player says We're going down! then fades and shows you in the water by the beach ... you crawl out saying what happened? In front of you, you find the Proto Ball again. "Dad's Proto Ball ... out of all things to survive that shipwreck ... "

Again, if you read the intro then go ahead and give feedback in a spoiler if you want to.

ANOTHER big plot problem I had was how the player got its eeveelution. For the life of me I could not figure out a good way to hand these evolutions out until now. In the spoiler below, you'll find out how I intend to give the player his eeveelution. I'm still iffy on the Espeon way and for Leafeon and Glaceon I'm having troubles so feel free to help me out with ideas on that:

Spoiler:

Immediate start wondering how you're going to survive. You need shoes, a change of clothes, food, etc. It will be night time and you will be tired so after you make a shelter, you will go to sleep and then have the nightmare of dream world and you'd choose your eeveelution. You wake up with just Eevee and then whatever you chose will mark your next quest.

-If you chose Umbreon, you wake up at night and your fire goes out. You hear howls and you are worried. All of a sudden around you are four poochyenas and they are grabbing at you and trying to bite you. Your eevee comes out and then a big yellow light is seen and the poochyena escape. It saved you and evolved into Umbreon.

-vaporeon saves you from a flash flood that sucks you out to the ocean ... near the point of drowning, you pass out but awaken on the beach to your eevee now a vaporeon

-flareon creates a fire for you through a heavy rainstorm where its really cold and you can't start one yourself and there is a threat of hypothermia

-jolteon saves you with a lightning strike from a flock of wingull that attack you when you stumble across their nest of eggs

-espeon saves you from a rock that is about to fall on you. your eevee having the gift, it was able to predict the event unfolding and stopped it. through its experience, it evolves into espeon.

-I do not want leafeon to be about food. None of this leafeon whips up a salad bs please lol

-Glaceon what could it do i mean come on

Thanks for reading and please provide feedback to make this a better game. Thanks

Hey I like your ideas, really every eevolution has its own unique story and it fits it really well.
I wanna give you some ideas about leafeon/glaceon

So this may be totally out of place, because its a beach etc, but I think a good idea for glaceon and having to do with survival is that it builds you an Igloo as Shelter. Of course for an igloo to actually be warmer inside than outside there has to be a blizzard or something. Dont know if you can do this. But maybe a mad pokemon/articuno summoned a blizzard and it builds an igloo and you're safe for the night. In the morning the blizzard is gone and you continue normaly.

And for leafeon, as some1 mentioned that it cleans the air etc, while you journey on the beach you find a wreckage of a ship that had chemicals on it, so now they are spilled and you breathe them in, but you only notice this when its too late and you pass out. When you wake up leafeaon sits beside you and has saved you :)

Just my two thoughts!!

 

[nidowalked]

hey, I got a request... can you touch on the Stephen king book "it" with pennywise the clown or something from that book....you did a great job with the shining reference. maybe make hennery bowers and gang a part of a group on one of your lands....anyways great hack, theres no surprise you got a qurter million people who played it... its very entertaining, you got a great mind friend

 

[LunarWolf20]

Hey, I have an issue. Every time I go to open my bag, whether in or out of battle, my screen goes dark and freezes. I have just selected my eeveelution, and wondering why it's doing this?

 

[Le pug]

Hello everyone, here today to just give a minor update about the hack. I know in the past I've been off and on again about working on the hack and to be honest, I lost some motivation to do it since there are key features I want for the game that aren't implemented (like expanded OWs for Emerald and expanded parent tilesets). The vision is still there and I'm continuously thinking about ways to make it better though and to be honest, I've been busy with work and when I'm home I've been doing other things and playing video games not even visiting this forum.
The main reason I'm commenting is because soon I'll be going underway again. For those that don't know or can't tell in the beta 1 trailer, I'm a sailor in the US Navy and I'm a submariner as well. I'll be gone for 4-6 months and that's a long time to be in a tin can unda da sea. In my free time, I will have nothing to do but to focus on this and Fat Kid! It will become my daily ritual to get off watch and work on it, at least a little. It will have significant progress when I get back. I have great fans out there of the hack and that's what keeps me going. Thanks for the motivation. Stay tuned for something great. If you like beta 1, you haven't seen anything yet.

 

[Murkrow]

this hack really shows originality and a lot of promise,

and soon you will be working on it while living in a submarine? wowwww sweet, all the best!

 

[chaos_envoys]

Good luck on your work and adventure, Le Pug!! I bet that can be an inspiration for this hack and make it better! Can't wait for the news in 6 months! Maybe you even xompleted the hack by then ;)

 

[strange_kid]

It's good to hear that Discovery is going to have a progress (though it's 6 month later).
Anyway, I'm still one of those who are waiting for this hack. Discovery is still one of my favorite hacks, too.
Good luck with both your work and hacking.

 

[microrandom]

This rom is very powerful.

You are very talented

 

[Shawn Heatherly]

Checking out the idea of the mod, it all sounds really creative. Looking forward to more.

 

[Marky Vigoroth]

By the way, from where did you get that picture of Jolteon in the first post?

 

[Marc40k]

I am waiting for 3 rom hacks at the moment, and this is one of them

 

[3vor]

Yeah!Discovery is back!!!
The evolution idea sounds great,but how is gonna be the route if i choose not evolve eevee?
Anyway,good luck!

 

[layont]

Awesome game!

I really hope you update it soon... got to the point where the game said that beta one ended, and really just wanted to play more :D

 

[tdsgaming]

Le-pug I want you to know this is my all time favorite ROM hack. However I am sad that you used Pokemon emerald as a base ROM because there is no rtc removal ips patch for emerald and the flash cart i'm using doesn't have a real time clock. As you are a vary talented ROM hacker is there anyway you could include compatibly with flash-carts without a real time clock in the ROM hack itself for those of us on flash carts as most modern GBA flash-carts have zero compatibility with games that require a real time clock. There could be 2 patches. 1.With RTC 2.Without RTC
From playing the ROM hack on emulator it shouldn't effect game play as none of the events are time-based. Thanks for making such an awesome game! keep up the good work!