Emerald hack: Pokémon Sigma Σmerald [v1.914]

nemesish · Mar 23, 2016

Reshiram white as snow said:
Do you know how to encrypt on Pokemon Rom? Make other people cannot open it when use the Map, Gen 3 tool, NSE and etc. I open some hacked game, it shows not supported Rom, so because it has been encrypted.

What can be encrypted is Essentials-made Fangames, not Romhacks.
Currently, tools can not open hacks with added moves/abilities because they only work with unmodded games.

Reshiram white as snow · Mar 24, 2016

nemesish said:
What can be encrypted is Essentials-made Fangames, not Romhacks.
Currently, tools can not open hacks with added moves/abilities because they only work with unmodded games.

Some of hacked game has been encrypted, it doesn't do any expand in moves, numbers and etc. But Map, Gen 3 tool cannot open that Rom, it shows unsupported ROM. Such as v3.0 can be opened, v3.0 bug fixed version cannot be opened, so it 100% probability has been encrypted. What is this kind of encrypt? Do you know Pokemon EbonyPhantom 5.0EX The Boundless Chaos? If you change the Pokemon image and repoint it, it will shows different colors of Magikarp when you check the summary of Pokemon.

Drewko · Mar 24, 2016

There's no such thing like ROM encrypting.
What kind of tools you use, firstly. If you gonna spread bullshit without explaining it i think that it will fall into definition of spam.

The Legacy of The Legends Creator :D · Apr 2, 2016

;o; i like that asigned the abilities to the pokes they go with, cant wait to play this :D

KrustyKong · Apr 5, 2016

This hack is really great so far, but I've come upon an oddity when using it with prime-dialga's Day Night Seasons inserter. Depending on the palette edits chosen for the time, Beautifly either becomes glitchy or causes the game to crash. Specifically, choosing a palette that mimics the ones used in Eccentric Emerald causes a crash any time the sprite is loaded while the default DNS palette only causes a glitchy sprite. Any suggestions for how to fix this?

DraconianWing · Apr 28, 2016

Quick progress update:

All Gen 1 and Gen 3 Pokes are complete with their new overhauled learnsets, along with some other added stuff. This leaves the next update with Gen 2 and changes to any customized trainer movesets (like the Gym Leaders and Elite 4).

Icco · May 2, 2016

Follow me has not his gen 6 priority.
I would like to see the sprite animations again, hopefully it can be possible on the next updates. The game becomes better and better :).

DraconianWing · May 2, 2016

Icco said:
Follow me has not his gen 6 priority.
I would like to see the sprite animations again, hopefully it can be possible on the next updates. The game becomes better and better :).

Yup! My newest build has Gen V styled sprites and animations for every Pokemon (big thanks to MrDS for the amazing sprite resource!) Here's a little sneak peek:

Alpha 8 (or v1 as I might name it, since "Alpha" may confuse people and lead them to see SE as a "play to x point then wait for next release" type of hack) will be a big update because of the huge changes some learnsets have gone through from Gen 3 to Gen 6. Now only Pokemon from Hoothoot to Celebi need updates to their level-up moves, so we're getting pretty close :D

Absoluzion · May 3, 2016

Love that screenie..., can't wait :D

Will you add more trainer from other generations? Like Red, Cynthia or Zinnia from Delta Episode?
For Zinnia its okay without her mega anklet :D

Tlachtli · May 3, 2016

DraconianWing said:
Alpha 8 (or v1 as I might name it, since "Alpha" may confuse people and lead them to see SE as a "play to x point then wait for next release" type of hack)

I think that's smart, my plan was for Alpha to be the builds before adding new abilities and Beta to start once the new abilities were added. Looks like it's complete enough by now that you can skip the Beta phase {XD}

DraconianWing · May 7, 2016

Alright ladies and gents! It's taken long enough, but OP has been updated with SE v1! ^^ It was very tough working on this update because of how much stuff had to be changed and how restricting my schedule has been with spare time.

Like always, a changelog is added at OP with this release so you guys can see what has changed within the game. Enjoy!

Drewko · May 7, 2016

It's been 3000 years...

Okay, i have little nitpic from the start: I think that giving a custom moveset without STAB for starter in a first battle with rival could be more... fair? Choosing a Treecko right now is kinda pointless because with his low bulk he just can't win against Torchic without some overgrinding. Even in ORAS rival's starter don't have STAB in this first battle.

Anvils Alive · May 7, 2016

Finally, v1 hits!

It's pretty good so far, except Poochyena's back sprite is quite a bit above the text box. Next build, could you please fix all the battle sprites to the best of your ability?

DraconianWing · May 7, 2016

Drewko said:
Okay, i have little nitpic from the start: I think that giving a custom moveset without STAB for starter in a first battle with rival could be more... fair? Choosing a Treecko right now is kinda pointless because with his low bulk he just can't win against Torchic without some overgrinding. Even in ORAS rival's starter don't have STAB in this first battle.

Got it. This is easily done using a trainer editor, so a hotfix might be released later today. I left it as is because I thought I remembered them having STAB during my ORAS playthrough :P

Anvils Alive said:
Finally, v1 hits!

It's pretty good so far, except Poochyena's back sprite is quite a bit above the text box. Next build, could you please fix all the battle sprites to the best of your ability?

The sprites were batch imported with A-Series; I was focused more on overhauling the learnsets, so there might be glitches like that here and there.

Thanks for the bug reports guys! If you find any more errors with the positioning of some sprites, be sure to report them either here or via PM. I'll be putting out quick fixes over the next few days to polish up this release.

EDIT: Going through the sprite positions right now. Expect a fix within the hour.
EDIT 2: Done. v1.1 is up with the rival and sprite fixes!

KrustyKong · May 7, 2016

Aw man, I just finished the main game with 4.4 two days ago haha. Well at least I can use more viable sets for the Battle Frontier thanks to the new moves.

KantoEpic · May 7, 2016

v1.1 looks very promising! Good work with the hack.

Drewko · May 8, 2016

Jesus Christ, i don't know if this was intended, but because of low level of Qwillfish, it's an
unexpectedly MURDEROUS pokemon. On level 7 the one that i found has Hydro Pump, Spikes, Destiny Bond and Water Gun. I think that Hydro Pump and Destiny Bond were intended to be available via move relearner, but because of Qwillfish level they are in his start movepool. I don't know how to handle this, tho...

DraconianWing · May 8, 2016

Drewko said:
Jesus Christ, i don't know if this was intended, but because of low level of Qwillfish, it's an
unexpectedly MURDEROUS pokemon. On level 7 the one that i found has Hydro Pump, Spikes, Destiny Bond and Water Gun. I think that Hydro Pump and Destiny Bond were intended to be available via move relearner, but because of Qwillfish level they are in his start movepool. I don't know how to handle this, tho...

The only workaround I know to this is to make the Pokemon inacessible during early game. I think the simplest solution in this case is to change wild encounters in certain maps and make it impossible to catch Qwilfish until the player gets Surf. If you end up encountering more overpowered Pokemon like this, please let me know :)

azurile13 · May 8, 2016

DraconianWing said:
The only workaround I know to this is to make the Pokemon inacessible during early game. I think the simplest solution in this case is to change wild encounters in certain maps and make it impossible to catch Qwilfish until the player gets Surf. If you end up encountering more overpowered Pokemon like this, please let me know :)

Is there some specific gen that you're following? Because from what I see... http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Qwilfish_(Pokémon)#By_leveling_up
Qwilfish shouldn't have Hydro Pump / Destiny Bond to begin with. It seems that the real problem is that you got rid of Tackle and Poison Sting. I actually agree that you should move it, but for the reason that it seems too strong for the level 5-10 zone, not because of its moveset.

DraconianWing · May 8, 2016

azurile13 said:
Is there some specific gen that you're following? Because from what I see... http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Qwilfish_(Pokémon)#By_leveling_up
Qwilfish shouldn't have Hydro Pump / Destiny Bond to begin with. It seems that the real problem is that you got rid of Tackle and Poison Sting. I actually agree that you should move it, but for the reason that it seems too strong for the level 5-10 zone, not because of its moveset.

I'm following the Gen 6 learnsets. What tool did you use to check Qwilfish's level-ups? According to G3T it still learns Tackle and Poison Sting at level 1 :/

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Emerald hack: Pokémon Sigma Σmerald [v1.914]

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