So I made a few posts in this thread some time ago, and I relatively recently began another playthrough of this hack because my girlfriend and I wanted something to do together (but she wound up quitting saying it was too hard; I even hacked in a cyndaquil and a kenchira for her to use early game lol). So here I am on my second-and-a-halfthfthfth playthrough (kinda long story), holding off on going into the necropolis because reasons I can't bother to remember. I have caught Luca*, Téa, Turmur, Shaderu, and Roclobster legitimately (debating if I should bring shaderu into the necropolis cuz that would make it way too easy, since it's lv 85 and has ludicrous attack even without EV training) and probably going to hack in a waterfall HM because I can't bring myself to have a seaking on my team. Current team is Turmur, Treemadio, Dragoone, Raikou, Toxicroak, and Bute (I don't even know why I'm putting myself through training that..... thing. I have a Dusclops that wants that slot more, or a Zangol if the mood strikes again). I wound up back on this thread while investigating how to use those Miner items and to try and locate Mewby and Mutagon and subsequently wound up reading half this thread.
Whee.
So I have a few random things to blarg real quick:
-To expand upon the first post I made here, a Paras with Aqua Heal will not keep that ability upon evolving because Parasect doesn't have an ability in its second ability slot upon YAPE investigation. This seems like a relatively easy thing to fix, but I'll touch on that in a bit.
-Did I just miss it, or is there SERIOUSLY nobody who caught the reference the Deadly Seven were? I mean... I didn't see anybody state it outright, but their existence, in addition to anything hajike- or chikuwa- related (probably others that I'm just not thinking of), were all a reference to one thing. Am I the only one that got it?
-What is the software people typically use to make rom hacks? This game and the lack of Cutlerine nowadays has made me want to make my own hax like this one, and I figure buttsing around in the Snakewood codez would be a good way to learn it a bit, much like how he learned the ropes making it. Also, YAPE doesn't seem to have the kind of depth to edit stuff like what is needed for this game. Things I would want to do to it are make the areas that look like they are supposed to be something be accessible, fix Parasect's ability, make Mewby obtainable, etc.
I think there was more I wanted to say but I can't recall it anymore.
*I got Luca