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Hey! Coming here from a Plague Von Karma stream where she mentioned the project. After playing through Gold Reforged twice, it's nice to see more people do justice to the Beta Gen 2 designs. I just entered Azalea town and am loving the hack so far. Here's some glitches I've noticed:
- The moving sprites stopped after my third encounter of the game.
- The "Key Items" tab is glitched and crashes the game when I scroll to it in my pack. This only occurred once I used the honeypot on a tree, after registering it to the select key. Similarly, the select key crashes the game.
- Metronome will cause my opponents to skip their turn. This seems to be the case when I move first (at least its true when using Togepi).
- The Tonboss ambush encounter has a glitched over-world sprite (it looks like a block of camouflage, which is kind of fitting). It also only knows leer (not sure if that's intentional or not).
Overall I'm really enjoying this project! Does anyone have a complete dex and learnset list? I'm eager to teambuild.
Edit: I should add that I'm playing on a mac and using openEMU.
Hey all, dev here. Just registered here to give some updates on the project.
It's been (almost) a year, we've been busy with life and stuff—but we've managed to put in lots of changes since Demo 1 was released! There have not been major story advances yet, but we are refining what's already here:
Spoiler: Changelog from Discord
0.02.pre5
Prodigy Isaac at R32
The house in Cherrygrove City where two people are talking with each other now tells you something useful about Walking Pokémon
Adjustments to Magikarp, Wearlycan, Worfurs, Snubbull, Raitora, Kotora, Granbull, Gorotora
Adjustments to Pidgey, Weedle, Caterpie, Sunkern egg moves
Minor reflowing of R46 dialog
Some new battle animations: Quick Attack, Agility, Mach Punch, Pursuit, Extreme Speed
Adjustments to Sprout Tower 5F, 9F, Violet City
6 additional 4-color text borders are made available in the Options menu
Fixed collision oversights in R46
Necrorex has actual stats now
Adjustments to Pryce, Jasmine, Chuck teams
Fix some oversights on Sunflora and Paras data
0.02.pre4
made Dread Woods more faithful to Shadow's map
made Route 32 identical to Shadow's map
Elm's family is now upstairs, like beta. Silver's house takes his house instead (he's no longer homeless!)
Beta Furret uses final colors as intended (an oversight long overdue for fixing!)
0.02.pre3
changed the trainers of Morty's Gym to make more sense
changed Morty's dialogue, thx to Quent
added a blockage in front of Dark Cave to prepare for later game/demo-2
some wild mon tweaks
0.02.pre2
Fixed officer encounter music
More overworld sprites ported from Polished Crystal
0.02.pre1 / nieAnniv
Many wild mon changes (Sunkern on R29, Removed Day Coinpur, Cleffa in Dark Cave, Clefling more common, and Hoothoot now in Silent Hills are a few changes).
Level changes to better match the new curve, with Zen Garden being one change (wild levels made slightly higher).
Falkner, Whitney, and Bugsy have been slightly tweaked. Morty has been significantly rebalanced, finally receiving Misdreavus. His Fennecurse was also nerfed. His trainers also had levels lowered to make them more reasonable.
Many more mons are able to follow you: Orefry line, Dodaerie line, Venonat line, Diglett line, Psyduck line, Mankey line, Paraspor.
Lass Niechelle has a new team, and was moved to Zen Garden. PokeGear text TBD.
Learnsets by TM 30 Shadow Ball have begun being ported over, which should help make the game both slightly harder and more balanced.
A trade in Cherrygrove City has been added. Give Moibelle, get a Chinchou.
Molambino can now be found via Water Sporting in Azalea Town.
Gen 6-7 stat buffs, plus minor increase to Hoppip's Special Attack.
The move Evil Eye has been added (needs custom animation). It functions as Hex but with a different name.
Phandarin and Stromen have been added (Follow sprites TBD).
Tons of moves have had massive visual improvements, courtesy of Soup. Tempt and Will-O-Wisp have new animations as well.
Polished up Katu's animation, and fixed bugs related to several others (corrupt animations which returned, slowing down Sentret, etc). Messed up palettes were also fixed.
Scary Face now sharply lowers Defense, like SW97, instead of Speed.
The Clefling line, Coinpur, Moibelle line, and Fennecurse finally have proper Dex spots. Additionally, the Bipulla line moved spots as recorded by TM 30 Shadow Ball.
The Hoothoot cries have been reverted, with Clefling taking beta Hoothoot's.
The secret house in Silent Hills gives TM Gust.
0.02.pre0
After credits, respawn point is now at the player's house
Add debug functions: Pokegear call receiving, give one item, garbage collect all index→ID tables
A backtick variation on the font
Hidden encounter in Silent Hills
Updates to Snouwrbun's learnset
Updated Coinpur cry
SW97 type chart
New sprites for Luxswan and Belledam
Fixed sprites for Bellignan, Dugtrio, Exeggutor, Psyduck
Lass Niechelle on her way to become an original character
Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Zubat, Golbat, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Paras, Parasect are now able to follow you
Changes to Mom's bought items
Even with all of those changes, our buggy implementation of the expanded items system has been haunting us ever since we added it. Problems related to it are some of the most reported issues we've received, so we're taking steps to resolve it by reworking how the game stores items… again. We're helped by Vulcandth, the current maintainer of the larger pokecrystal-16 project, who was inspired by our system and is working on fixing it for its eventual inclusion! Their version is what we're trying out here.
For that, we need more testers! This post contains version 0.02.pre5b, which comes from a different development branch specifically for this new items implementation. To hopefully speed up finding the various edge-cases, we're posting a patch for the debug version instead!
Spoiler: Debug Controls
Hold A+B on the gender select screen to jump straight into the game. Your name will be ANON, while your rival will be imaginatively named ???.
Hold B while pressing Start in the overworld to access the Debug Menu. Lots of stuff planned for the game can be accessed this way, but don't count on them!
We'll also try to look into the other bugs reported in this thread as we go along. Other known bugs include:
Unown are still incomplete, and accessing its image on the Pokedex or on the Color Test screen will crash the game.
Some animations may be glitched
Finally, sorry to break our promise of save-file compatibility again! (will we ever be stable??)
There are some issues, like the odd overworld battle pokémon in the route 34 that makes the game to crash, in the latest beta too. I don't know not even which pokémon should be, the cry seems a Shuckle but then the game crashes before see it during the battle.
And I need to see the genders during the battle please. I see that perhaps they weren't in the 1998 beta, but you added other advanced elements too, like speech for the gym leader during the battle and other stuff not exactly like the 1998 primitive beta and the genders are then later visible naming the pokémons or in the info menu.
The sage in the Sakura Shrine also says that given Bulbasaur hold an item like Mystic Petal, if I have room in party holds instead a Berry, if goes to BILL'S PC instead doesn't hold nothing. Oddly Tyrogue have this issue too, but opposite, if goes to Bill's PC hold an item, instead if I have room in party not. Why this?
And I played the previous beta, the one that told that if I save in Azalea pokécenter the savegame would be supported for the next release. And instead seems not.
Could you at least please then release a sav converter to save the efforts made before? I collected 70 pokémons thinking that the sav would be supported in the next release, would be a pity restart again from the beginning.
Could you share the new music separately? I've been playing the newest demo for a few hours and got tired of it. Looks like I won't experience the new music and Orange Islands through gameplay, which are the main reasons that I gave this a try.
Bugs to report:
- starter Totodile evolves to Smoochum at lvl. 8 and every lvl. after; learns 8 moves at lvl. 8 when first evolving
- 2nd party Mankey switched in during battle evolves to Smoochum, not sure which lvl.; following sprite is Wobuffett
- Max Ether, Ether don't work
- Cherrygrove house trade kid dialogue has garbled text in place of mon names
- every Pkmn in possession holds mail; mail remains after sending mail to PC but mail appears in PC; mail message and item name in mail box are lines of question marks; transferring mail from PC to bag results in Master Ball in bag
- talking to Cherrygrove Pagoda 2nd F sales clerk shows crash error
- ball catch guide character invisible, cannot talk again after first encounter; encountered, maybe automatically, after jumping into grass while heading back to Silent Town after Whitney gym
- non-functioning pink entrance marker in Dead Woods area near sign with warning about Mankey and Aggroswine
- cannot talk to sign beside Fledgling Winston on Rte. 32
