FireRed hack: Pokémon Tarragon (Alpha 1.0) (02/09/2025)

[Sentry108]

I appreciate you stopping by to take a look at this piece of trash very early Alpha version of Pokémon Tarragon. Any feedback is welcome! What is seen in this version may not
be the same in future versions. I'm still learning, so there may be some issues. This is one of a planned trilogy.

Features:

• New Region: Tarragon
• Better than vanilla tiles
• Gen 1-8 with P/S
• Running shoes right off
• Dexnav
• irregular Starters
• BW Summary Screens
• IV/EV View
• Large Routes

Story:

You're a recent graduate of Sorell University and recently came back to your hometown of Pine Glen. You get employed by your hometwon Professor to help with field work and help his associate fill the Pokedex. Your cousin has already been employed for a while with the Professor, but something seems off... Will you find out what is really going on?


Here is Pine Glen, your hometown.

Default character names (if anyone cares):
Male: Nash
Female: Aster
Rival: Viktor


How far can you go in this first installation? Up to the first gym.

Screens:






Credits:
Ikarus' - Tileset
Haven - Hex Maniac Advance
DPE/CFRU - Ghoulslash, Skeli, Haven for making it easy through HMA to add
BW Menus - LibertyTwins, Shiny Miner, Compumaxx and ansh860
Various other patches - LibertyTwins, princess-phoenix, carchagui, aveontrainer, WesleyFG, kWharever, worldslayer608, knizz
Everyone who has answered my questions on the HMA Discord.

Future Features I'd like to do:
Updated sprites/different ones for the M/F main/rival/etc.
Change Oak in the intro to the game's Prof.
Possibly updated/different Pokemon sprites for some species. Maybe region variants.
EXP-All
Title Screen


Download UPS of Pokemon Tarragon
Patch to a clean Squirrels

 

[LostInEthereal]

I always appreciate new regions, I'll check this out

 

[Wirawr]

Trying this today i Hope all the important character have its own original character sprite. It just because this new region but still use old character sprite from gen 3 break immersion for me. Other than that thank you for the game gonna try it now

 

[Sentry108]

Trying this today i Hope all the important character have its own original character sprite. It just because this new region but still use old character sprite from gen 3 break immersion for me. Other than that thank you for the game gonna try it now

Future installment will have different OW sprites, still learning everything so right now they are for the most part same as far as the main character and rival character. I also plan on changing out Prof. Oak in the intro. But wanted to put out at least an Alpha to test the waters and get some feedback :)

 

[CPT.Fahim]

Looks very basic

 

[Wirawr]

Future installment will have different OW sprites, still learning everything so right now they are for the most part same as far as the main character and rival character. I also plan on changing out Prof. Oak in the intro. But wanted to put out at least an Alpha to test the waters and get some feedback :)

So far Love demo large route, give more exploration for adventure. As for the city/town design i think you already on right direction by making it big but you forget to add more object, building and people because there some big empty spot. My recommendation is add something like park and more building to enter also you can also add object like lamp, bench, car, pokemon and people's wandering on the street

 

[bal1234]

Future installment will have different OW sprites, still learning everything so right now they are for the most part same as far as the main character and rival character. I also plan on changing out Prof. Oak in the intro. But wanted to put out at least an Alpha to test the waters and get some feedback :)

I could help make some.

 

[Sentry108]

I could help make some.

That would be amazing!

 

[Sentry108]

Looks very basic

This is my first hack, so I'm still learning.

 

[bal1234]

That would be amazing!

Where should I message you about them?

 

[Teamaker]

I've tried this game out for a couple of hours, mostly speeding through it once the tutorial is done. The level curve of Lv.20 by gym 1 is interesting, challenging a bit, and I did use a liberal amount of rare candies to speed through to see the 2nd city. I really like how there are plenty of items to pick up if you explore! (lucky egg and lava cookie being examples) Feels like the hack is generous with items but also doesn't pull punches that much, looking forward to ExpAll, as magicarp switch training was not the best idea on my side.

I don't want to be negative, and had a blast trying it out and will probably come back to playing it with more proper pacing, but here's some small bug reporting that may or may not have been already mentioned before. Wishing you all the best with this romhack development, happy to bump into invisible walls anytime

Spoiler: images in the spoiler to lessen the spam

Red marking means there's an invisible wall there, blue means that there's a missing wall, I hope I don't report any false positives here o7



visual glitches



Kanto map isn't exacltly correct? also the entrence does not work in the upstairs room (also, the animation for entering MC sisters room is one of stairs not normal entry possible mistake?)


these two have collision but have weird overlapping on the player character

am running into the attachment limit,
so will make a pt.2, best wishes - T

 

[Teamaker]

Pt.2 of minor bug reporting

Spoiler: img in spoiler to lessen the spam <3

various collision/graphics issues, the stairs just eat the character


some random invisible walls in the houses

and that's all, good luck with this hack!

 

[bal1234]

That would be amazing!

Let's discuss it more elsewhere.

 

[Ntu]

I appreciate you stopping by to take a look at this piece of trash very early Alpha version of Pokémon Tarragon. Any feedback is welcome! What is seen in this version may not
be the same in future versions. I'm still learning, so there may be some issues. This is one of a planned trilogy.

Features:

• New Region: Tarragon
• Better than vanilla tiles
• Gen 1-8 with P/S
• Running shoes right off
• Dexnav
• irregular Starters
• BW Summary Screens
• IV/EV View
• Large Routes

Story:

You're a recent graduate of Sorell University and recently came back to your hometown of Pine Glen. You get employed by your hometwon Professor to help with field work and help his associate fill the Pokedex. Your cousin has already been employed for a while with the Professor, but something seems off... Will you find out what is really going on?


Here is Pine Glen, your hometown.

Default character names (if anyone cares):
Male: Nash
Female: Aster
Rival: Viktor
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How far can you go in this first installation? Up to the first gym.

Screens:

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Credits:
Ikarus' - Tileset
Haven - Hex Maniac Advance
DPE/CFRU - Ghoulslash, Skeli, Haven for making it easy through HMA to add
BW Menus - LibertyTwins, Shiny Miner, Compumaxx and ansh860
Various other patches - LibertyTwins, princess-phoenix, carchagui, aveontrainer, WesleyFG, kWharever, worldslayer608, knizz
Everyone who has answered my questions on the HMA Discord.

Future Features I'd like to do:
Updated sprites/different ones for the M/F main/rival/etc.
Change Oak in the intro to the game's Prof.
Possibly updated/different Pokemon sprites for some species. Maybe region variants.
EXP-All
Title Screen


Download UPS of Pokemon Tarragon
Patch to a clean Squirrels

I don't know what to do after the first gym can some one help ?

 

[BostonCParty]

Yooo, I love the concept, love it. But holy crap is it difficult, for some reason I cannot clear the trainer in the lost forests Aron. It's defence is INCREDIBLE even my level 23 gliger can't even dent it.

 

[BostonCParty]

Yooo, I love the concept, love it. But holy crap is it difficult, for some reason I cannot clear the trainer in the lost forests Aron. It's defence is INCREDIBLE even my level 23 gliger can't even dent it.

& The catch rate is ABSURD anyone above level 10 is impossible to catch with a Pokeball. I've had 5 different Mons at 1hp and wasted 20 balls trying to catch them. It's wild

 

[Sentry108]

I don't know what to do after the first gym can some one help ?

Right now it only goes up to the first gym. There isn't anything after atm.

 

[Sentry108]

& The catch rate is ABSURD anyone above level 10 is impossible to catch with a Pokeball. I've had 5 different Mons at 1hp and wasted 20 balls trying to catch them. It's wild

I didn't change the catch rate, so that is really weird. I've not had issues catching anything, but I will look into that as I go.