Crystal hack: Pokémon Raw Crystal - Beta 1.2 now available!

[Eldaryon]

Pok?mon Raw Crystal - Beta 1.2 now available!

The world is far bigger than what those trainers think. They just choose to ignore what they deem unfit and not lucrative to explore. -Shirenai

Small update: I will not continue this project. I will also link the source code for it if anyone wants to continue it. It has a bunch of custom stuff like animations or tilemaps that can easily be leveraged for other fangames too. You can get the source here.​

Introduction

Pok�mon Raw Crystal is a hack of the game that shares the same name (at least partially) that aims to add back some functionalities discovered in the Pok�mon Spaceworld demo back into the ROM without disrupting the original game. The expected features range from returning Pok�mons to maps, and include a unique storyline involving the "forgotten" parts of Johto and the plan of a mysterious company to manipulate time and space to their ends.

Features

Physical/Special Split!
Fairy Type
The return of many of the Spaceworld Demo Pok�mon! (Some of them can be seen in the screenshots.)((nearly )All animated by yours truly!)
A redesigned Johto.
Songs from future generations.
Running Shoes!
A Stone Shop(available as soon as the fourth badge of Johto).
The ability to catch each and every legendary. (Not for now, but 4 of the 5 episodes feature one.)

Additional Episodes

Spoiler:

Episode Omega9 (Featuring Unique characters related to Omega9(duh))
Episode Beta (Featuring the Forgotten Gym Leaders)
Episode Mistral (Featuring Mistral, one of the 3 forgotten legendaries.)
Episode R3 (Giovanni's back to settle the score, but this time he actually follows his Firered loss dialog)
Episode Elemental (A well a everybody's heard about the bird?)

Pok�mon Included

Spoiler:

Mewn (Alinea Forest)
Crescenmeow (Evolve Mewn with a Moon Stone)
Combustarie (Forsaken Front)
Minice (still in the Ice Cave)
Wolfreeze
Fangute (Only one available in Route 2F)
Shachor
Cublaze (Replaces the Togepi Egg)
Flambear
Grizzferno
Mistral (not in Beta1)
(I'll add the sprites later, I just can't find a service that does not stretch the sprites.)

New Maps

Spoiler:

Route 2F
WestCoast City
Forsaken Front
Birdwell Town
Those are available for now.
Mt. Fyugi
Route 30H
Nyutype City
Route 31H
Snowlake City
Route 32H
Ellipsis Forest
Sacer Town

Screenshots

Credits

Pret for the Pok�crystal Disassembly.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm for the songs source.
Rangi for the tutorials on the Wiki.
Jean and gigigiig on Discord for saving my life.
Retro King for helping with the Beta Testing.

Progress

Spoiler:

These numbers are but approximations.

• Pok�mon - 90%
• Maps - 30%
• Events - 15%
• Miscellaneous - 5%

Events

Spoiler:

Talk to me when you get your Pok�mon! (I'm at the north of Silent Hills), you can get an early Eevee in Olground that way.
You can catch a shiny Mewn by going to Alinea Forest by night
There's a shiny Fangute in Route 2F, but you will need Surf.

Download

You can get the Beta1.2 patch here.
Beta 1.1 simply fixes some very minor bugs left and right, and Beta 1.2 fixes a game breaking bug that happened in Goldenrod's Underground and changed some parties that incorrectly used Cublaze and his evolutions.
You need to use Pok�mon Crystal 1.1 for the patch.
I would also not recommend at all the use of a legit Crystal save. Flags are a lil messed up sadly.

TeamDreamless.com is here with Changelogs and updates!

 

[gail]

This looks nice! please include all the pokemon from the demo.

 

[FeraligatrMaster]

Nice to see Pokemon from the beta here, but also great that you're keeping the Totodile line!

I tried to contact you on Discord, but couldn't find your account. Could you make a Discord server for this hack instead?

 

[Eldaryon]

This looks nice! please include all the pokemon from the demo.

That's sadly not really possible in second gen games, as I cannot add Pok?mon (only replace or edit). But I will try my best to add and give a unique identity to every Pok?mon I can from the Demo.

Nice to see Pokemon from the beta here, but also great that you're keeping the Totodile line!

I tried to contact you on Discord, but couldn't find your account. Could you make a Discord server for this hack instead?

I'm really trying to keep Pok?mon that are meaningful to people. I will only touch collection only Mons (The likes of Dunsparse).
I added the Discord to the main post btw.

 

[Sceptile90]

Will this have the tiny Kanto map that we see in the beta? Or can you somehow keep the full Kanto map in there, because honestly, Beta Kanto is just very small.

 

[Eldaryon]

Will this have the tiny Kanto map that we see in the beta? Or can you somehow keep the full Kanto map in there, because honestly, Beta Kanto is just very small.

The aim of the hack is to keep the main experience intact when possible while adding new features, so you'll just play around the game normally, including Kanto.

 

[777ID777]

Nice! Looks good bro. Gen II hacks always amaze me

 

[Eldaryon]

Beta 1 is finally out!
You can download it in the link given in the original post.
If you have bugs, I will try to fix them ASAP, I just have a lot of things coming in the next two weeks and I won't be able to do much (that's why this Beta is so rushed too).

Nice! Looks good bro. Gen II hacks always amaze me

Thanks dude :)

 

[Lunos]

It's kinda weird to see a .ups patch when GB/GBC ROMs aren't big at all to justify using that format instead of the .ips format.
Anyway, this looks like a pretty okay hack. I'm definitely gonna give it a shot.
Nice work dude, keep it up :)

 

[Eldaryon]

It's kinda weird to see a .ups patch when GB/GBC ROMs aren't big at all to justify using that format instead of the .ips format.
Anyway, this looks like a pretty okay hack. I'm definitely gonna give it a shot.
Nice work dude, keep it up :)

Thanks for the feedback, I feel honored that someone as big as you in the community took time to write a comment. I hope it can live up to your expectations!
I've just done my research about ips after reading what you said and I now understand the differences between patch formats, so I'll try to have something in the lines of BPS next (It seems better in some senses).

 

[Uzigunner]

Hey there! Just wanna say that I'm really excited to see how this hack develops. You're using a very interesting concept to coincide with the recent discoveries and assuming you have a full set plan for how things will go, this could definitely be one in a million. Best of luck!

 

[Gelius3]

Interesting... So this means you'll get all Spaceworld Demo Pokemon in this? Or am i wrong?

 

[looneyman1]

my browser is saying I lack an app required to download the patch, can you put it on a different site?

 

[Krauser94]

I must say been hooked on this since I discovered it last night! Ever since the betamons were leaked I was eager for a gen 2 hack that utilized them! You did a great job! I am on the last johto gym now and not an issue or complaint. Minor graphic bugouts but minor and non frequent or game crashing. The bug catching competition's a big buggy (no way around that pun lol) and it will delete your team if you don't store the 5 you're not using. Also noticed the list of available betamon didn't include Meowsy who I am currently using, also my rival had that odd Chikorita second evolution. Has it been updated since? If so I'm wondering if you included Lickitungs evolved beta?

 

[Silent S]

I am not a fan of the decision to remove all immunities from this hack and to alter the damage modifiers for SE and NVE attacks (not to mention it was handled sloppily since, for example, Normal-types are still immune to Night Shade when they take NVE damage from every other Ghost-type attack). I also dislike that some of the NPCs in the added routes use language that is inappropriate for a Pokémon game. But glitches aside, those are my only real issues with this hack so far.

 

[Eldaryon]

I must say been hooked on this since I discovered it last night! Ever since the betamons were leaked I was eager for a gen 2 hack that utilized them! You did a great job! I am on the last johto gym now and not an issue or complaint. Minor graphic bugouts but minor and non frequent or game crashing. The bug catching competition's a big buggy (no way around that pun lol) and it will delete your team if you don't store the 5 you're not using. Also noticed the list of available betamon didn't include Meowsy who I am currently using, also my rival had that odd Chikorita second evolution. Has it been updated since? If so I'm wondering if you included Lickitungs evolved beta?

Thank you so much for granting this hack some of your time! Graphic bugouts are likely a fault of me not really understanding ASM. Sorry dude. You're right about Meowsy actually, but it's in the screenshots, so I hope this did not create that much confusion. Lickitung could get his evolution, but I try to stick to the interesting/finished looking ones.

I am not a fan of the decision to remove all immunities from this hack and to alter the damage modifiers for SE and NVE attacks (not to mention it was handled sloppily since, for example, Normal-types are still immune to Night Shade when they take NVE damage from every other Ghost-type attack). I also dislike that some of the NPCs in the added routes use language that is inappropriate for a Pokémon game. But glitches aside, those are my only real issues with this hack so far.

Immunities should be part of the game, and I did not change the multipliers (I do not even know how to do that btw) that's definitely bugs. Inappropriate for a Pokémon game is quite debatable. But You could PM me what you mean exactly, because I do not see what is wrong, I only really added memes and references to future generations until now.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

Very interested in this, although it seems there haven't been any updates in a while. I don't suppose there is any news as to the progress of this hack?