FireRed hack: Pokémon GS Chronicles | Build 2.7.6 - 06/19/2024 | Full Game Coming Late 2025

[finesse13]

what's going on the with nidorino/nidorina evolutions? the moon stone isn't working. i've tried to "use" it, and level-up while holding it. neither work. am i missing something?

 

[Wirawr]

About the Project

Hello everyone, I'm Overlord Kaktus/Gold/Ruki Studios. Probably you remember me for other projects like Pokémon Ragnarök (Or maybe not hahaha). I'm a Spanish-speaker romhacker and a former GBC romhacker (from 2010 to May 2014). This time I'll show to you guys an old project that I decided to restart, and I really hopw this project would be finished.

This project was started around late 2010. At that moment the project was only an "idea" that was stopped in 2015, but now it was redone from scratch.

The project is highly inspirated in the Chaos Rush's hack "Pokemon Dark Violet". in other words, this hack is also a "reboot" (Or try to be) of Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal, making many of the events from scratch and showing a new storyline keeping the escence of the original story, with a heavy inspiration of the original HGSS remakes and some concepts seen only in Polished Crystal.

Keep in your mind, this isn't a remake like Liquid Crystal, CrystalDust or ShinyGold. This intends to be a reboot from Pokemon Gold and Silver, using some ideas from Pokémon Crystal and HGSS, making a unique and unseen story of Johto.

Storyline

I have no idea how to describe the main plot and storyline since many events are essentialy the same form HGSS/GSC, so we can at least assue the plot may remain the same (Tbh is not the same, but at least you may get a surprise by playing the game.

What is New?

Proudly powered by the Complete Fire Red Upgrade​

• A renewed storyline, keeping the escence of the original games.
• New events never seen before in any GSC remake.
• Maps based off HGSS ones.
• Introducing the Mega Evolution mechanics in the main storyline + Z Moves during the Kanto Post game (Maybe Dynamax/Gigamax, idk).
• RZE tile system.
• Day and Night system and day/time-based events.
• Wild Pokémon switching depending on the time.
• Original soundtrack ripped from HGSS (Initially used GogojjTech's low quality music, but I decided to rip them by myself with a way better quality).
• Phisycal/Special split moves.
• New Regional Pokedex including 494 Pokémon fron first 4 gens + Sylveon.
• Introducing the PokéRides, Items that replace the outdated HM mechanics.
• All new Gen 4-8 Moves included, a few custom moves are included.
• Type chart updated.
• New puzzles for some areas.
• Plenty of updated graphics (like Battle backgrounds, bag, Trainer card, almost everything.)
• Most trainers use different rosters from original HGSS/GSC to match new Pokedex
• New locations in Johto and Kanto.
• Updated battle mechanics to match gen 8
• New locations for some Pokémon.
• IN-battle trainer messages.
• An almost working PokéGear.
• Exp. Share and exp. Gain identical to Gen 8 (Item is disabled by default, easy to enable)
• Mechanics, items and more almost updated to match Gen 8.
• Daily Wondertrade with in-game trainers.
• Move tutors on every PC.
• And even more...

Scans and Gallery

Credits

Tiles:
- Redzb1, Dsaster, 874521, CnickC, Newtiteuf, Alucus, Dewitty, epicday, WesleyFG, 1158, Kyledove, Anonyboy, Scarex, Chaos Rush, Pokemon-Diamond, BoomxBig, Warpras, Lost Three, Zaux.

Sprites:
- Tsuka, Hollowroxas, 874521, SirPeaches, flamejow, skarow, Tomycase, The 64x64 DS sprite resource, Luna, PK Rockin'!, Jo7a, robeyi, FYTYno1

Engine:
- Skeli, Ghoulslash, Soupercell, GoGoJJtech, Shiny Quagsire, Jambo51, JPAN, FBI, Knizz, Jiangzhengwenjz, Againsts, Andrea, Compumax, Kimonas, Zeturic, ipatix, Uncommon, Samu, Shippo, Turambar, Spherical Ice, eMMe97, PC's community romhack.

Other Resources:
- jNathan, Professor Village, Sierraffinity, Zaux, Karatekid552, Chaos Rush, Nisarg, Luna, Delta231, AO Project, Robeyi, Kamina, VentZX, Foxz, El DIabetuus.

* If I forgot to mention somebody, please let me know by PM or VM.

Progress

*Progress updated up to 06/02/2024 road to Beta 3

• Maps: 30%
• Tiles: 35%
• Scripts: 0%
• Sprites and Overworlds: 85%
• Other graphics: 100%

Known Bugs

• The game may crash at times when used in certain emulators, which are known to not be 100% accurate with emulation. These emulators are No$GBA, VBA, MyBoy, JohnGBA, GPemu, Eclipse, and sadly the virtual console of Nintendo 3DS. It is uncertain if I will ever be able to fix that. Recommended emulators are mGBA, VBA-M, RetroArch, Delta emulator, PizzaBoy GBA and GPSP. The gameplay has improved a lot when using emulators like VisualBoy Advance/M, No$GBA, 3DS VC and some handheld consoles. The high quality music mixer was the culprit of most game crashes. The game should be playable in these, but a 100% stability may not be guaranteed.
• When using a Poké Ride, the picture of the Pokémon and the cry will be empty/question mark. This is due to it's pending to find a fix for an issue caused by overwritting a Pokémon of your party to show a different Pokemon's picture. Visual bug and will not affect any Pokémon from your party.
• Some overworld tiles and blocks may not be correct. Minor issues to be resolved.

F.A.Q.

1. Whatever happened to your old hackroms? (Ragnarök)
I have no more ideas and inspiration to continue that hackrom. It's not cancelled at all, but I have no plans to continue with it right now.

2. Is this hack a remake of GSC like ShinyGold, Liquid Crystal or GoldenSun?
Heck no! This hack is a reboot, the same objetive but different storyline and scripts. The story is a mashup of the concepts of Pokemon Gold, Crystal, Heart Gold and personal concepts.

3. Will this hackrom have more than one rival (Silver)?
Yes, I can only confirm another rival now, your gender counterpart is another rival.

4. Why did you choose this style for the female player?
It's based on this old artwork (I have no idea at this time who the artist is. The artwork was taken from a fake leak from HGSS around 2009)

https://imgur.com/3VC01Ep

5. Do you have plans to put Kanto and more regions?
Kanto is confirmed. A Johto story without Kanto is incomplete, lol, and nope, I have no plans to put more regions, only Johto and Kanto

Tools Used

• Complete Fire Red Upgrade and Dynamic Pokémon Expansion
• Advance Map 1.95 and 1.92
• Gen3Tools
• OWM
• Hex Maniac
• APE
• FSF
• GBA Graphics Editor
• HxD
• XSE
• Tilemap Creator
• NSE
• Hackmew's THUMB assembler

Downloads Center

Beta 2.7.6 - June 19, 2024 - .bps patch

In this beta you can earn 8 badges and challenge the Pokémon league. You can also rematch the Johto Gym Leaders and get title defense battles once you beat the Pokémon League.


Bug Fixes and Changelog

Awards From Somewhere else, lmao

Special Thanks

• Skeli: How could I forget the creator of the amazing CFRU? In addition to the amazing job made for the engine, I truly appreciate also the feedback Skeli provided to me about the testing build (So sad it was an early testing build leaked with several bugs)
• BarleyOats: Amazing partner who helped me with my server, balancing Pokémon stats and changing the distribution of wild Pokémon encounters.
• Anonyboy: A really good guy who collaborated years ago with some tile animations.
• Compumax: He made the outstanding intro cutscene that you see when boot up the game.
• ThamTvMaster: The main beta tester and the person who reported most of the bugs not fixed yet at that time.
• James MC, Xan, Stonyterrace and BlackStarRegime: Main beta testers of Beta 2.5
• Soupercell: For sharing part of the code used for the amazing Radical Red.
• Lomeo, TheDooWaddle, Jubz, antPL: Beta testing for beta 2.7
• All members of my Discord server for testing beta 2.5

Yeah I remember that old pokémon ragnarok, it's good but unfortunate the game unfinished and abandoned. I'm trying this game right now. Good luck on this project i think

 

[Aeraversa]

I just ran into a bug: after giving the National Park brass keys, he gives me a mask and then the game hard freezes

 

[darki-]

Do you play with VC? Switch to an emulator.
Do you play already with an emulator? Switch to MGBA.

 

[Aeraversa]

Do you play with VC? Switch to an emulator.
Do you play already with an emulator? Switch to MGBA.

I am already playing on mGBA... what else could be the issue?

 

[darki-]

Do you use latest build?
For me switching to MGBA helped. Try another emulator. I don't see any other solution, besides a build update.

 

[Aeraversa]

Do you use latest build?
For me switching to MGBA helped. Try another emulator. I don't see any other solution, besides a build update.

Ok, I updated the mGBA build to 10.5 and it now works. Thanks mate!

 

[MattwithaSword]

Are there any plans at all to add the evolutions of other pokemon past gen 4? Usaring to Ursaluna, Primape to Annihilape, ect?

 

[DesmondK]

Ran into a weird bug that I only noticed today (last I played was two days ago), for some reason in my item bag there is a bugged question mark item that when I scroll down towards it, it'll crash the game. If I load another rom, it'll work fine but trying to reset the rom with MGBA causes the application to freeze. I don't know when I got this item, but if it helps, I haven't gone into Mt. Mortar just yet, taking the Strength key item and going back to old areas. Just cleared out Ruins of Alph by doing the two puzzles connected to Union Cave and stopped in Union Cave's BF2 where you'd normally find Lapras in the base games. I tried thinking back to any weird items I got and I have no clue what caused this, or even how to fix this. Been loving the game so far, regardless.

 

[Dr. Seuss]

Ran into a weird bug that I only noticed today (last I played was two days ago), for some reason in my item bag there is a bugged question mark item that when I scroll down towards it, it'll crash the game. If I load another rom, it'll work fine but trying to reset the rom with MGBA causes the application to freeze. I don't know when I got this item, but if it helps, I haven't gone into Mt. Mortar just yet, taking the Strength key item and going back to old areas. Just cleared out Ruins of Alph by doing the two puzzles connected to Union Cave and stopped in Union Cave's BF2 where you'd normally find Lapras in the base games. I tried thinking back to any weird items I got and I have no clue what caused this, or even how to fix this. Been loving the game so far, regardless.

Like you, I don't know exactly how this bug happens, since I have tried to reproduce it multiple times with no success on finding a root cause. The workaround to get rid of it is to sort your bag out by pressing select and pick any sorting option. That will remove it from your bag.

 

[Dr. Seuss]

Are there any plans at all to add the evolutions of other pokemon past gen 4? Usaring to Ursaluna, Primape to Annihilape, ect?

Those are already in game.

 

[MattwithaSword]

Those are already in game.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

 

[MattwithaSword]

Like you, I don't know exactly how this bug happens, since I have tried to reproduce it multiple times with no success on finding a root cause. The workaround to get rid of it is to sort your bag out by pressing select and pick any sorting option. That will remove it from your bag.

So I am also seeing this same bug. 512 ???????? items in my bag. After pressing select, though, I'm not seeing any sort option, and instead it only allows me to sort my bag manually. In any case, doing so does not remove the item, so I am a bit stumped. Being that I am only an hour or so into playing the game again (Long time fan of this hack, have beat it twice already and can't wait for the Kanto addition) I suppose I can just restart/repatch the game and hope for the best?

 

[Dr. Seuss]

So I am also seeing this same bug. 512 ???????? items in my bag. After pressing select, though, I'm not seeing any sort option, and instead it only allows me to sort my bag manually. In any case, doing so does not remove the item, so I am a bit stumped. Being that I am only an hour or so into playing the game again (Long time fan of this hack, have beat it twice already and can't wait for the Kanto addition) I suppose I can just restart/repatch the game and hope for the best?

Could you please PM me your save file? I'd like to study it and see what I can to to fix it.

 

[Dr. Seuss]

Ladies and Gentleman. I've come to make an announcement. Development of the game is going as expected, so I am here to say...

FULL GAME COMING IN LATE 2025!!!!!
(Yes, we're getting GS Chronicles final version before GTA VI and SilkSong lmao)

I updated the main thread with a few important information, and later will also update some screenshots that can be considered now outdated. For more details about my latest update you can visit the thread I made in the Rom Hacks subreddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1k0eibt/an_update_about_the_status_of_my_hack_pok

I expect to finish it around November-December, but if you want GS Chronicles to be completed earlier, you can join the development team. I only need someone with knowledge about editing maps with Advance Map. I am also looking for beta testers willing to test the progress made at least once a month, and people with writing skills to help me polish the story of the hack. If you want to join, just send me a PM.

That's everything I wanted to say. See you in late 2025.

 

[RagingPenguin]

So, I'm sure this has been answered once before, but Google isn't helping me at all, nor are the docs (which may or may not be up to date, so idk?)

I'm trying to run 'Mons that I haven't ran before, and so far, as I'm approaching Whitney, my team consists of Mankey, Alolan Ninetails, Skorupi, Flaafy, Quilava (the only one I have used before, but I've yet to find a good Fire replacement that I've not already used before), and Slowpoke.

I'm wanting to replace Skorupu with a Paldean Wooper and eventually a Clodsire...but I have no idea where to find one yet. The Pokedex is no help, as it just says "area unknown". Am I too early in the game to naturally encounter Paldean forms?

 

[qazmachuck]

Ladies and Gentleman. I've come to make an announcement. Development of the game is going as expected, so I am here to say...

FULL GAME COMING IN LATE 2025!!!!!
(Yes, we're getting GS Chronicles final version before GTA VI and SilkSong lmao)

I updated the main thread with a few important information, and later will also update some screenshots that can be considered now outdated. For more details about my latest update you can visit the thread I made in the Rom Hacks subreddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1k0eibt/an_update_about_the_status_of_my_hack_pok

I expect to finish it around November-December, but if you want GS Chronicles to be completed earlier, you can join the development team. I only need someone with knowledge about editing maps with Advance Map. I am also looking for beta testers willing to test the progress made at least once a month, and people with writing skills to help me polish the story of the hack. If you want to join, just send me a PM.

That's everything I wanted to say. See you in late 2025.

I wrote this on Reddit as well but writing here too in case it got lost around other comments. I'm professionally working as a translator between English and my native tongue for almost a decade. I can help with proofreading. Feel free to DM me with texts that needs checking.