Hack Series: Pokémon Saiph - The VytroVerse Part 1 (Full Game released!)

[Vytron]

the game keeps crashing when i go to see the stats of my pokemon from the menu and in the pc box. how can i fix that

Some emulators don't support the rom, what emulator are you using?

 

[pikachubuneary]

Where can i find Shinx? Couldn't use the pokédex because of the bug.

 

[Vytron]

Where can i find Shinx? Couldn't use the pokédex because of the bug.

Route 2

 

[kikuhonda2611]

Where can i find Ralts???

 

[GachaZein]

Anyone here know how and when to get to route 12?

 

[Vytron]

Where can i find Ralts???

Route 8

 

[GachaZein]

I know that I already asked a question earlier, but still... Anyone know enough to tell me where I can find a shiny stone for roselia?

 

[GachaZein]

How do I evolve my Budew, because when it tries to level up after a battle, the game just resets.

 

[Evison]

Exist any doc with pokemon locations ?

 

[Drewsef]

Hi. Looking forward to playing your game. I got a fire red rom from emulatorgames.net, and the UPS patcher from the how to patch guide here on this site (pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=333151). When trying to patch the game I get this response... "Failed! Input checksum is invalid."
Am I using the correct patcher? If not could you pls point me to a trusted source to download the right one?

 

[Drewsef]

Never mind I tried another version of fire red and it seems to have done the trick.

 

[Vytron]

Exist any doc with pokemon locations ?

Not really

 

[Skyrio]

It's great game. I enjoy it though I encountered a bug on Anne's bridge.

 

[Vytron]

It's great game. I enjoy it though I encountered a bug on Anne's bridge.

Yes, it has been written down in the Bugs section.

 

[Sun Moon]

The TM compatibility is extremely off. My Shinx/Luxio cannot learn Shock Wave, Turtwig/Grotle cannot learn Giga Drain despite it being apart of their level up set, and Croagunk could not learn Focus Punch, but could learn Giga Drain?

This isn't the hack's fault, these tm compatibilities are from the original games, look them up

What? Shinx can learn Shock Wave and Turtwig can learn Giga Drain in D/P/Pt.

 

[JHBenson]

How many pokemon in this hack？

 

[Sickass]

Where is the pokemon location list

 

[Sickass]

About the Hack
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A long time ago, I was working on a hack called Pokémon Star Red. It was the first overhaul hack I ever worked on, and looking at the game its pretty obvious. Later on the game got cancelled for many reasons, and for a long time, I haven't started anything related to overhaul hacking. At the time I just started Pokémon Black Advance, another cancelled romhack, that I actually restarted recently as Pokémon Black Redux. After cancelling Black Advance, I started making concepts from the "ashes" of Star Red. I started working on an unnamed hack which was a reboot to Star Red. This hack never got released... After starting Black Redux, I found this "concept hack" hidden on my computer and took a few things from it and reworked it to be able to start something...Something new and better. After finishing the base of this new game, I decided to call it the "unnamed hack"s beta name, Pokémon Saiph. So technically this is a double reboot, a reboot of a long lost cancelled game's re imagination.


Story
Warning! Contains heavy spoilers for Pokemon Rangers Shadows of Almia

Spoiler:

The game takes place some years after the events of Pokémon Rangers Shadows of Almia. After the Shadow Crystal getting purified, scientists found a way to use its energy as a resource. Almia's citizens feared the crystal and wanted it to be as far from them as possible, so the government sold it to Hoenn because of the distance between to two regions. The Old Mauville was renovated as a Power Plant for the Crystal and its energy was inherited there. Things were going great and peacefully. One day, the Old Mauville has exploded, and started to spread huge waves of radiation. The Crystal was moved to a hidden laboratory in Colen and was protected as a Top Secret weapon. The entire West Hoenn had to be evacuated, including your home town, Littleroot Town. These people were moved to the Colen Region, a region relatively close to Hoenn. 10 years later you can have a Pokémon and start your own journey, as you explore the great world, you bump into Team Void, a mysterious criminal organization that has some sort of a connection to the long "lost" Shadow Crystal. When Darkrai's rampage was stopped people who stuck in the shadow Pokémon's void were sealed inside the Shadow Crystal. The evil organization will try to steal the crystal to find Shenow's lost father inside the crystal, and use it to rule everything with Darkrai. You'll need to stop their plan and bring peace back to Colen, and probably the entire world! Maybe doing what the rangers did back in 2008 will solve this chaos as well...

Features

• A whole new region to explore, the Colen Region
• A part of Hoenn to explore in the post game (Only in the Full Game!)
• B2W2 Soundtrack
• B&W inspired art style
• Updated game mechanics (PSS split, Fairy type, B2W2 repels, reusable TMs, Pokémon&Moves&Abilities&Items from later Gens, Exp after catching a Pokémon etc.)
• Side way Stairs with real side way stair mechanics
• A new evil team to take out, Team Void
• Updated battle backgrounds
• New Bag UI
• Day/Night system
  
  
  

Screenshots

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Full Game

From the Demo Version (Most of them are very outdated compared to the Full Game!)

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Downloads

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Pokémon Saiph Demo (Staircase glitch fixed!) Download
Pokemon Saiph Full Game

You should check these out!
My Discord Server (Vytron's Romhacking Department), where you can check the game's progress!

Pokemon Black Advance's thread

Pokemon Black Redux's thread

If you wonder what Star Red was

The game's Teaser

The game's short Gameplay Trailer

The game's Final Trailer

Mystery Gift Announcement

Launch Trailer


Bugs (Demo Version)

• Rival character is glitchy but for a reason that gets explained in the full game
• Very small graphical bugs for the ' and " symbols
• Evaluating the PokéDex messes up Pokémarts, don't evaluate it ever
• If you start a quest finish it, immediately (Don't leave it started, but unfinished)
• Lillipup's cry is nightmare fuel

Bugs (Full Version)

• Rival character is glitchy but for a reason that gets explained in the full game
• Very small graphical bugs for the ' and " symbols
• Quest from Anne Bridge freezes the game
• Riolu is glitchy (don't use it)
• Habitat's can't be checked in the pokedex (don't check them!)
• Minor graphical errors (they don't interfere the game itself)

Notes (For the Full Game)

Spoiler:

• The game's art direction is intentionally like this, the reason why I didn't give buildings outlines is because I think that a look like that gives more depth to the environment (I'm mentioning this because some very nice people thought that the reason why it looks how it looks is out of incompetence)
• Due to technical reasons certain parts of the game haven't been corrected grammar wise.
  
• Apparently many people have claimed to bump into all kinds of bugs, crashes, glitches. I have made a quick run through my build and it didn't have any of the major issues reported already (also many people haven't encountered them either).
  So I have made research about the situation and causes.
  
  1. Different roms
  Maybe different 1.0 roms cause these glitches as patching happens. I can't really do much about it, since there are many sources for Fire Red roms and I can't go over all of them one by one.
  (For example I can't play Light platinum since the rom I patched it to makes it crash at the first trainer)
  
  2.Patching
  I patched the game using NUPS. Maybe different patchers patch the file differently, and ends up corrupting the rom. To be more technical its possible those patchers don't patch the entire file, just like how LIPS has a size limitation for patch files.(Here I mostly talk about android patchers.)
  
  3.Emulators
  Emulators work differently. In some situations roms can be unplayable on certain software (the 3ds vc for example)
  The game was mostly tested on vba so its possible that certain emulators (mostly android) can't run the game properly.
  Even if I could it wouldn't be optimal to rewrite the coding for each emulator.
  
  The problem could also come from the mixes of these points.
  During testing many testers used android but didn't encounter many of the presented issues, however its also important that they obtained a base rom version and not a patch or a prepatched rom.
  
  I could try releasing a more stable build (which doesn't have grammar fixed, however its not guaranteed that it wouldn't have similar problems)
  
  For now I suggest patching the game with NUPS (on pc) and playing it on vba (since the 'different rom' issue is still present polishment isn't guaranteed)
  
• The game works the best with VBA, (VisualBoyAdvance) a PC gba emulator!

Testers (Discord names)

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• Vytron
• bogdan
• Red
• Gail_GR
• kapoor
• Satvik
• ash9650
• BigSmokeMain
• Dark Destroyer
• Darkness
• Ishrak's PokeTips
• Killua481
• Micky Singh
• OttomanWay
• PokeAJ
• Taylor_The_Blade_Master97

Credits

• Ishrak's Poketips (Game's Fancy Logo)
• LukeeGD (Soundtrack)
• Dionen, turtwig2 (Tileset)
• tebited15 (Female Protagonist OWs)
• h y o (Male Protagonist Backsprite, Battle/Trainer card sprite)
• pokefreak890 (Big chunk of the game engine)
• Kiy, usigusom, () and 黒インク (Selection screen)
• Againsts (Summary screen)
• Nisarg (Sprite for the Bags)
• JK from Whack a Hack (Bag UI)
• diegoisawesome (For his awesome XSE tutorial, I learned scripting from pretty much that)
• Everyone from VRP (My Discord server) for the Support

Where is the pokemon location list?

 

[Nidoking 77]

love the b2w2-style graphics!

 

[Pokemannu]

Where can you find the dusk stone ? I have a misdreavus to evolve.