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FireRed hack: Pokémon FireRed: Rocket Edition (Completed)

I just finished the game and, what can I say? It is the best hackrom I ever played. 100% recommended, the plot and the gameplay were fantastic man. Congratulations. I would love to play it in Spanish but couldn't find it for iOS. Anyways 👍🏻❤️ Congrats.
 
I wish there was a story line where you piss Ronnie off at the very beginning, sell the items I find, buy myself a great ball and catch a random pidgey then fly to my first mission, while that guy waits for me to battle that little girl and steal her pokemon. Unfortunately, I can't fly yet to the mission area without following that guy. 😔
 
I was playing the beta version on retroarch. Now I have the full version but idk what core to use. The one I was using prior won't work for the new content. I'm a noob to the whole ROM stuff.
 
@colonelsalt Hey, I tried the demo of this game like 10 years ago and liked it, so I was delighted to see it was finished and just beat it a few days ago.

Well done! You did a great job of weaving the story into that of the original gen 1 while pulling inspiration from the manga and fan-theories and unexplained parts of the original lore- I particularly liked your rehabilitation of Blue, haha. I also loved how the protag's appearance changes with promotions and seeing him cycling furiously in his gangster suit and slicked-back hair was peak.

The obvious appeal of the game was being able to steal strong pokemon from your vanquished foes. This and the lack of a pokedex really changes the experience. Suddenly, "catchin' em all" feels less important and the goal becomes to get more powerful (or cooler) pokemon for your team- casting aside the old ones like a tru gangsta. Grinding also becomes less important- I used a casino Dratini at the start but gave up on him during the mid-game because of his slow exp rate. Finally, I just stole Lance's Dragonite instead. My final team was:

Ninetails (Vulpix stolen on S.S. Anne)
Scizor (Scyther stolen from Arab)
Gengar (Ghastly stolen in Lavender Town)
Starmie (stolen from Misty)
Dragonite (from Lance)
Tyranitar (Pupitar from a Victory Road trainer)

By the way- I commented on your itch.io page about this, but Substitute is bugged. When my Ninetails used it, enemy attacks just went through the doll to take Ninetail's HP. This isn't a big deal since the game isn't that hard though and I just taught her another attack instead.

The morality system was interesting, though easily hackable if you just get your bounty high to get Rocket rewards and do the Mart robbery then get it back down to be a Smooth Criminal. Though I was a little disappointed that it doesn't seem to affect the ending significantly.

I actually didn't know you can beat the game before challenging the gym leaders, so the post-game was a bit underwhelming- just catching MewTwo and the legendary birds (to not use them).

Of course, it would've been fun to actually have the agency to make Team Rocket into a real threat and take over Kanto... but I understand this wasn't possible since you prioritized compatibility with the original gen 1&2 plot. As amazing as our protag is, he's ultimately powerless to change Team Rocket's fate. He's never in the right place at the right time to effect change. It almost seems like a plot hole that he's stronger than Red (and clearly has the same freakish powers by virtue of being a game protag), though this is somewhat lampshaded by Oak when he says something like "How is this possible? Wait, you're...", implying that Oak recognizes that the protag is the same kind of entity as Red. So the plot hole is that it's never explained where the protag came from. But then again, this idea will start to wear thin if you overuse it- you won't be able to make any games with controllable protagonists without addressing it.

You mentioned you're working on a new game- how's that going?
 
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colonelsalt said:
[PokeCommunity.com] Pokémon FireRed: Rocket Edition (Completed)


Long time no see, everyone! It's great as always to see people still enjoying Rocket Edition. Here's a little good/bad news sandwich update from me on the state of things:

Good news #1: I've made a positive career move which leaves me with a lot more spare time to work on making my own games.

Bad news: Development of the revamped decomp version of Rocket Edition is on indefinite hiatus - do not expect this to come out anytime soon. I've very much underestimated the total time and effort needed to bring this to a shippable state, and I'm keen to focus on new projects with the limited discretionary time I have for now. If this has been something you've been looking forward to, I'm really sorry for over-promising and letting you down here.

Good news #2: I'm in the early stages of designing a new RPG which will effectively be a spiritual successor to Rocket Edition. It will share many gameplay elements with, and explore similar themes as Rocket Edition, but will be a standalone game. A lot of prototyping will be needed before I have anything else to say about that, but if this happens to be of interest to anyone, I can see about setting up an email newsletter for tracking development in more detail.

That's all for now. I'll be hanging out a bit more on Discord in the next few weeks if you have more targeted questions.
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Make rocket edition 2 for johto :)
 
colonelsalt said:
Thank you! The Toxic Purple vibe is absolutely what I'm going for, and it is what got me into ROM hacking as well: I swear, I kept checking ckret2's profile on a semi-regular basis for about four years straight, just on the off chance that she might come back (spoiler: she didn't). I guess we could think of this hack as just a natural consequence of me eventually getting fed up with waiting for Toxic Purple updates.
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Every time I go to download it, once downloaded it says file type not supported and I can't play it
 
Indogaming said:
Every time I go to download it, once downloaded it says file type not supported and I can't play it
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Yeah, bro. The patch is in an .ips extension. It isn't meant to be a standalone game. It's a patch you need to apply to a game that has the .gba file extension. If you have the original fire red rocket hack gba file, you can then use the following site to upload both versions, the IPS and the GBA and it will merge the two into a single game for you to play: https://www.romhacking.net/patch/
 
So, Im not sure where to post this. I went to the discord page but it seems to have been taken down. I found a mistake in the text and wanted to post it. The "be" in this sentence should not be there. So far the rom is great. Its just this one little thing off so far. [PokeCommunity.com] Pokémon FireRed: Rocket Edition (Completed)
 
Hello. I played a beta, thinking it was the complete version. This beta finished just after the sylphe cop operation, when Bill call me to Cinnabar Island. Some of you know how to add the rest of the game while keeping my progression ?
 
Tanjix said:
Hello. I played a beta, thinking it was the complete version. This beta finished just after the sylphe cop operation, when Bill call me to Cinnabar Island. Some of you know how to add the rest of the game while keeping my progression ?
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I downloaded an already patched version of FireRed. Then I patched this with the IPS of the complete version but it has changed nothing. My emulator is Johnemulator for GBA.
 
Tanjix said:
I downloaded an already patched version of FireRed. Then I patched this with the IPS of the complete version but it has changed nothing. My emulator is Johnemulator for GBA.
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This is exactly why you should be patching your own files and not relying on Pre-patched sites.
 
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