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Emerald hack: Pokémon Team Rocket Edition: Dragonsden Version - Kanto/Sevii/Johto | Next release: DLC (season 4)

-Dragonsden- said:
LAST NEWS FOR JOHTO RELEASE - 2nd March 2025

Hi everyone, Dragonsden here.

Long time without some news about the English version. First of all, I want to apologize with all the people who have been waiting for the Johto release, only thing I can say about that is the project was not dropped, only was growing in other ways. Now, in this post I want to talk about three things:

1 - Reasons for the delay
2 - What's coming now?
3 - Johto release when?

1 - REASONS FOR THE DELAY

Last 11 months, after Kanto/Sevii release, I have been working in the project hard as hell, even harder than before. Why no update then?

As I said in the Kanto/Sevii release post (and still is in the title) my plan was to release both Johto and the DLC seasons soon, probably in summer. Indeed, both translations were almost done in April. However, some events happened, and changed my priority orders. Here are the main reasons:

- The game was well received here, and had a lot of feedback. For most people, the main negative point of the game was the translation. As you surely can notice, English is not my main language, I expect to improve that every year, but I'm limited in this way. Due to this feedback, a lot of people wanted to improve the translation, and we started to check all the dialogues.

Yes, the Kanto and Sevii dialogues, and the incoming Johto season. I have put a lot of effort in this project, so, I think is fair trying to give a better translation, that brings its quality closer to other aspects of the game. Translation may be not still the best, but surely better than before.

- Meanwhile my staff was working on this, I decide to focus in the other main goal: Hoenn season in Spanish. That goal meant an insane amount of time, and at the end, was even harder than I expected, because of lot of new unexpected mechanics and a last mission that blow my mind.

31st December was the main release, but I was fixing bugs and doing some more improvements until a few days ago, when 2.1 version (final version for this season in Spanish) was released.

2 - WHAT'S COMING NOW?

Once done the main goal in Spanish, there are some good news here:

- Now I can focus 100% in the Johto release in English.

- All the improvements and bug fixing done for the Spanish Hoenn version, will be in the English Johto release as well.
In all these months, that includes an insane amount of things, I'll try to remember and say the more important ones:

Like seven new cutscenes during the Kanto/Sevii/Johto seasons
New Sidequests
Scripts and events improved
A much more tested game
246 teachable MTs (for the whole game)
Documents with all the game info, including all new competitive items, balanced moves and stats, new pokemon info, all pokemon obtention, boss trainers info and much more

However, there is a bad new:

- Due to all that changes, the old .sav could not work for the new version. Hovewer, an 'ephemeris mode', as an option similar as 'new game', will be able to allow you to start directly in Sevii or Johto, with lot of different teams to choose, as well as all main event Pkmn and items in the PC/Bag.

3 - JOHTO RELEASE WHEN?

Now that I can focus only on this, with most part of the translation/correction done... the missing work for Johto English release is:

- Put the remaining corrections in the game
- Do little adaptations in the scripts (Part of the improvement in scripts and events is these, I added/splited some strings, for more dynamism in the scenes. Then, I have to addapt manually this improvements I did in the Spanish version to this one)
- Test and play all the game, including Johto

Written like this, it might seem a lot of work, but compared with the already done, it's 'lightweight'.

My plan is to release Johto in April. Meanwhile, I don't want to disappear as I did after the first release (necesary to focus 100% on the other goals).
Now my main goal is Johto release, so I want to post related content and general progress, that's the reason I'll have a Twitter only for the English version:


Also, I'll come back to the youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DragonsdenPower-hk5ug/featured

Uploading soon the new cutscenes. After that, will come the Johto walkthrough as a final testing.
Once uploaded the last episode, Johto release should come next day, with the trailer release, updating this post, link...

That's all for the moment.

Thanks for the patience and for the feedback, we'll keep improving!
Click to expand...
Thanks dude, have been waiting for this! Also i actually like the ephemeris mode cause, as much as i like this rom hack, playing once again from the start is painful, cant wait for the release, thank you so much again for giving us this amazing game
 
-Dragonsden- said:
LAST NEWS FOR JOHTO RELEASE - 2nd March 2025

Hi everyone, Dragonsden here.

Long time without some news about the English version. First of all, I want to apologize with all the people who have been waiting for the Johto release, only thing I can say about that is the project was not dropped, only was growing in other ways. Now, in this post I want to talk about three things:

1 - Reasons for the delay
2 - What's coming now?
3 - Johto release when?

1 - REASONS FOR THE DELAY

Last 11 months, after Kanto/Sevii release, I have been working in the project hard as hell, even harder than before. Why no update then?

As I said in the Kanto/Sevii release post (and still is in the title) my plan was to release both Johto and the DLC seasons soon, probably in summer. Indeed, both translations were almost done in April. However, some events happened, and changed my priority orders. Here are the main reasons:

- The game was well received here, and had a lot of feedback. For most people, the main negative point of the game was the translation. As you surely can notice, English is not my main language, I expect to improve that every year, but I'm limited in this way. Due to this feedback, a lot of people wanted to improve the translation, and we started to check all the dialogues.

Yes, the Kanto and Sevii dialogues, and the incoming Johto season. I have put a lot of effort in this project, so, I think is fair trying to give a better translation, that brings its quality closer to other aspects of the game. Translation may be not still the best, but surely better than before.

- Meanwhile my staff was working on this, I decide to focus in the other main goal: Hoenn season in Spanish. That goal meant an insane amount of time, and at the end, was even harder than I expected, because of lot of new unexpected mechanics and a last mission that blow my mind.

31st December was the main release, but I was fixing bugs and doing some more improvements until a few days ago, when 2.1 version (final version for this season in Spanish) was released.

2 - WHAT'S COMING NOW?

Once done the main goal in Spanish, there are some good news here:

- Now I can focus 100% in the Johto release in English.

- All the improvements and bug fixing done for the Spanish Hoenn version, will be in the English Johto release as well.
In all these months, that includes an insane amount of things, I'll try to remember and say the more important ones:

Like seven new cutscenes during the Kanto/Sevii/Johto seasons
New Sidequests
Scripts and events improved
A much more tested game
246 teachable MTs (for the whole game)
Documents with all the game info, including all new competitive items, balanced moves and stats, new pokemon info, all pokemon obtention, boss trainers info and much more

However, there is a bad new:

- Due to all that changes, the old .sav could not work for the new version. Hovewer, an 'ephemeris mode', as an option similar as 'new game', will be able to allow you to start directly in Sevii or Johto, with lot of different teams to choose, as well as all main event Pkmn and items in the PC/Bag.

3 - JOHTO RELEASE WHEN?

Now that I can focus only on this, with most part of the translation/correction done... the missing work for Johto English release is:

- Put the remaining corrections in the game
- Do little adaptations in the scripts (Part of the improvement in scripts and events is these, I added/splited some strings, for more dynamism in the scenes. Then, I have to addapt manually this improvements I did in the Spanish version to this one)
- Test and play all the game, including Johto

Written like this, it might seem a lot of work, but compared with the already done, it's 'lightweight'.

My plan is to release Johto in April. Meanwhile, I don't want to disappear as I did after the first release (necesary to focus 100% on the other goals).
Now my main goal is Johto release, so I want to post related content and general progress, that's the reason I'll have a Twitter only for the English version:


Also, I'll come back to the youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DragonsdenPower-hk5ug/featured

Uploading soon the new cutscenes. After that, will come the Johto walkthrough as a final testing.
Once uploaded the last episode, Johto release should come next day, with the trailer release, updating this post, link...

That's all for the moment.

Thanks for the patience and for the feedback, we'll keep improving!
Click to expand...
Thank you so much for letting us know. you were not obligated to give us updates, but you did, and I reckon fans of the project like myself. appreciate that level of transparency. Take all the time you need!
 
-Dragonsden- said:
LAST NEWS FOR JOHTO RELEASE - 2nd March 2025

Hi everyone, Dragonsden here.

Long time without some news about the English version. First of all, I want to apologize with all the people who have been waiting for the Johto release, only thing I can say about that is the project was not dropped, only was growing in other ways. Now, in this post I want to talk about three things:

1 - Reasons for the delay
2 - What's coming now?
3 - Johto release when?

1 - REASONS FOR THE DELAY

Last 11 months, after Kanto/Sevii release, I have been working in the project hard as hell, even harder than before. Why no update then?

As I said in the Kanto/Sevii release post (and still is in the title) my plan was to release both Johto and the DLC seasons soon, probably in summer. Indeed, both translations were almost done in April. However, some events happened, and changed my priority orders. Here are the main reasons:

- The game was well received here, and had a lot of feedback. For most people, the main negative point of the game was the translation. As you surely can notice, English is not my main language, I expect to improve that every year, but I'm limited in this way. Due to this feedback, a lot of people wanted to improve the translation, and we started to check all the dialogues.

Yes, the Kanto and Sevii dialogues, and the incoming Johto season. I have put a lot of effort in this project, so, I think is fair trying to give a better translation, that brings its quality closer to other aspects of the game. Translation may be not still the best, but surely better than before.

- Meanwhile my staff was working on this, I decide to focus in the other main goal: Hoenn season in Spanish. That goal meant an insane amount of time, and at the end, was even harder than I expected, because of lot of new unexpected mechanics and a last mission that blow my mind.

31st December was the main release, but I was fixing bugs and doing some more improvements until a few days ago, when 2.1 version (final version for this season in Spanish) was released.

2 - WHAT'S COMING NOW?

Once done the main goal in Spanish, there are some good news here:

- Now I can focus 100% in the Johto release in English.

- All the improvements and bug fixing done for the Spanish Hoenn version, will be in the English Johto release as well.
In all these months, that includes an insane amount of things, I'll try to remember and say the more important ones:

Like seven new cutscenes during the Kanto/Sevii/Johto seasons
New Sidequests
Scripts and events improved
A much more tested game
246 teachable MTs (for the whole game)
Documents with all the game info, including all new competitive items, balanced moves and stats, new pokemon info, all pokemon obtention, boss trainers info and much more

However, there is a bad new:

- Due to all that changes, the old .sav could not work for the new version. Hovewer, an 'ephemeris mode', as an option similar as 'new game', will be able to allow you to start directly in Sevii or Johto, with lot of different teams to choose, as well as all main event Pkmn and items in the PC/Bag.

3 - JOHTO RELEASE WHEN?

Now that I can focus only on this, with most part of the translation/correction done... the missing work for Johto English release is:

- Put the remaining corrections in the game
- Do little adaptations in the scripts (Part of the improvement in scripts and events is these, I added/splited some strings, for more dynamism in the scenes. Then, I have to addapt manually this improvements I did in the Spanish version to this one)
- Test and play all the game, including Johto

Written like this, it might seem a lot of work, but compared with the already done, it's 'lightweight'.

My plan is to release Johto in April. Meanwhile, I don't want to disappear as I did after the first release (necesary to focus 100% on the other goals).
Now my main goal is Johto release, so I want to post related content and general progress, that's the reason I'll have a Twitter only for the English version:


Also, I'll come back to the youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DragonsdenPower-hk5ug/featured

Uploading soon the new cutscenes. After that, will come the Johto walkthrough as a final testing.
Once uploaded the last episode, Johto release should come next day, with the trailer release, updating this post, link...

That's all for the moment.

Thanks for the patience and for the feedback, we'll keep improving!
Click to expand...
take all the time you need man, your project is truly amazing :D
 
I had a blast playing through so far and yes, I know I'm super late to the party but I'm having some trouble in the sevii islands, specifically with Archie and Andra blocking both sets of ruins while I'm supposed to be on a vacation per Giovanni until the next mission comes up. Is there someone or something I missed? As far as I can tell I'm done with islands 1-5, it's just 6 & 7 that's got me stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Stoner Ruby said:
I had a blast playing through so far and yes, I know I'm super late to the party but I'm having some trouble in the sevii islands, specifically with Archie and Andra blocking both sets of ruins while I'm supposed to be on a vacation per Giovanni until the next mission comes up. Is there someone or something I missed? As far as I can tell I'm done with islands 1-5, it's just 6 & 7 that's got me stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Click to expand...
Did you check out the "game corner" on island 2 and their owners on island 3?
 
Hi Guys,
I was wondering about the items that boost stats of specific pokemon.
So far, I have found :
- Electirizer (Electivire)
- Metal Coat (Scizor and Steelix)
- King's rock (Slowking and Politoed)
- Dragonscale (Kingdra)


Am i missing some ?
 
Arkhein said:
Hi Guys,
I was wondering about the items that boost stats of specific pokemon.
So far, I have found :
- Electirizer (Electivire)
- Metal Coat (Scizor and Steelix)
- King's rock (Slowking and Politoed)
- Dragonscale (Kingdra)


Am i missing some ?
Click to expand...

These are all items that would normally be used to evolve these Pokemon via trading them while they are held. Since that's no longer necessary, they were changed to be buff items for those evolved Pokemon, instead. This means any missing ones would be such similar items for other Pokemon, assuming they are available and player-accessible in the current version of the game.


Spoiler:
 
FeraligatrMaster said:
Does this ROM hack have a way to change your Pokemon's IV's, nature, and ability? If not, are there any plans to add them?
Click to expand...
IVs - Yes, but in the new Johto season, at Johto Rocket Base, 2F, not available until the 5th badge.
Nature - Yes, in a new sidequest in Pewter City (not current version but in the coming update).
Ability - Yes, ability capsule can be purchased at rocket training room, before the Kanto Pkmn League (ability patch in the coming update, will be available too).

Arkhein said:
Hi Guys,
I was wondering about the items that boost stats of specific pokemon.
So far, I have found :
- Electirizer (Electivire)
- Metal Coat (Scizor and Steelix)
- King's rock (Slowking and Politoed)
- Dragonscale (Kingdra)


Am i missing some ?
Click to expand...
There are much more, I did a field in spanish compiling all. For the moment, is only in this language but we're working in translating all these fields for the next johto release.
Anyways, I give you all the information in the spoiler, even in spanish, surely you can understand most of the info:

Spoiler:


Stoner Ruby said:
I had a blast playing through so far and yes, I know I'm super late to the party but I'm having some trouble in the sevii islands, specifically with Archie and Andra blocking both sets of ruins while I'm supposed to be on a vacation per Giovanni until the next mission comes up. Is there someone or something I missed? As far as I can tell I'm done with islands 1-5, it's just 6 & 7 that's got me stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Click to expand...
Sevii main history events are:

Spoiler:

nekovicious said:
So, in the English translation (not sure if that matters here), Dragon Rage says that it has a power of 70, and the description still says that that it always does 40HP of damage. Does anyone know for sure if the power of that move was upgraded somehow?
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the move was upgrader, for next release the description will be fixed too.
Trev14 said:
This is the most fun I have had playing a Pokemon game in my life! I cannot wait for the Johto and on portions of the game to be translated. Is there an estimated release date for the next parts of the game? Thank you big time for making such an awesome game.
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April is the estimated release, I'm working with that date in mind.
 
Tsamsiyu said:
Did you check out the "game corner" on island 2 and their owners on island 3?
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Yes, I did both of those and it turns out I missed Maxie on Mt. Ember but now the journey has continued and I cannot wait to see what happens next.
 
Thanks about the answers guys !

Another question is about some infos found in the "STATS,TYPES.. of any pokemon.txt" file :
For a lot of pokemon, there's a portion of code saying (charmander's example)
Code: 
#ifdef BATTLE_ENGINE
            .abilities = {ABILITY_BLAZE, ABILITY_NONE, ABILITY_SOLAR_POWER},
        #else
            .abilities = {ABILITY_BLAZE, ABILITY_NONE},
        #endif

What does it mean exactly ?
What is "battle Engine" ?
for example does it means that, if a pokemon is encountered in the wilds, it may have one of the two ability and if it's found in other way (gift for example), it can only have the blaze ability ?
 
Arkhein said:
Hi Guys,
I was wondering about the items that boost stats of specific pokemon.
So far, I have found :
- Electirizer (Electivire)
- Metal Coat (Scizor and Steelix)
- King's rock (Slowking and Politoed)
- Dragonscale (Kingdra)


Am i missing some ?
Click to expand...
Yep:
Magmarizer - Magmortar
Protector - Rhyperior
Red Scale - Gyarados
Razor Claw - Weavile
Razor Fang - Gliscor
 
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