FireRed hack: Pokémon Vega (and Altair/Sirius) - English Version

[bh02032002]

ok im playing the only translation available so I understand the real pokemon names. but altair and Sirius starts off pretty boring and than after the 6th gym things get pretty intense (I have not beat the game) but im excited for these games to get translated. (in case your wondering I just beat the 7th gym in altair)

 

[kisekisifr]

Ideally, they should resemble the Vega logo's style. I'd ask the guy who did the Vega logo, but he disappeared.

Oh hey, that guy is me.

Speaking of which, I was working on something like that for the original Japanese patches...

Spoiler:

I kept the Japanese "Pocket Monsters" logo here because there wasn't a specific tilemap I could find for it and because of a palette limitation caused by both images sharing the same palette. This would brick the screen if I tried to change it.
Except that was for the Japanese patches. I see there's a port for English Emerald in the works now.

That also means I figured out how to tilemap edit and tried tidying up Vega's title screen.

 

[Nfuf15]

So I was messing around with this hack, and was getting annoyed at the grindy nature and sort of limited selection of early game Pokes for the first 1-2 gyms (trainers and wild Pokemon are like level 3-8 with default movesets, gym leader has full moveset, 5 potions, and a team that's 20 levels higher than the wilds.)

Anyways, I found the internal ID's of each Pokemon! These go with the general codebreaker codes on FireRed and work with VBA, in case you want to shorten the grinding and make a more diverse team! (From gamefaqs.)

Mastercode:

000014D1 000A
10044EC8 0007

Wild Pokemon Modifier Mastercode:

000014D1 000A
1003dae6 0007

Level Modifier:

33007CF0 00XX (With XX being the level you want in hexadecimal, 09 --> 0A ... --> 0F --> 10)

Species Modifier:

83007CEE XXXX (Refer to list):

And the actual species involved:

I made this list around gym 2, so I didn't know the name of some of the later Pokemon, and instead tried to put down their type.

0001 - 0009: Starters (Grass/Fire/Water)
0010 - 0012: Togepi Line
0013 - 0014: Diglett Line
0015 - 0017: Glachild Line
0018 - 001B: Pikachu Line
001C: Skarmory
001D - 0022: Nidoran M/F Line
0023 - 0024: Buizel Line
0025 - 0026: Jamberree Line
0027 - 0028: Pineco Line
0029 - 002A: Shelder Line
002B - 002D: Psycolt Line
002E - 0031: Tyrogue/Hitmon Line
0032 - 0033: Rynos Line
0034 - 0035: Absol Line
0036 - 0037: Girafarig Line
0038 - 0039: Willisp Line
003A - 003C: Magnemite Line
003D - 003E: Staryu Line
003F - 0041: Ghastly Line
0042 - 0043: Exeggcute Line
0044 - 0045: Vevelt Line
0046: Hantama
0047 - 0049: Rhyhorn Line
004A: Tropius
004B - 004D: Porygon Line
004E - 0050: Spheal Line
0051 - 0052: Rollder Line
0053 - 0054: Water/Grass Potted Plant
0055 - 0056: Snover Line
0057 - 0058: Ghost/Dark Axe Puppet
0059 - 005B: Steel/Dark Goat
005C: Milktank
005D: Shuckle
005E - 0060: Fire/Dragon Turkey Bird
0061 - 0062: Psychic/Flying Spooky Bird
0063 - 0064: Fire/Dark Evil Cat
0065 - 0066: Electric Kitsune
0067 - 0068: Water/Fighting Kappa
0069: Ghost/Psychic Toadette
006A - 006C: Otakun Line
006D - 006E: Hoothoot Line
006F: Baizeast
0070 - 0072: Elekid Line
0073 - 0075: Magby Line
0076: Kanghaskhan
0077 - 0078: Lileep Line
0079 - 007A: Rock/Electric Sabretooth Tiger
007B: Aerodactyl
007C - 007E: Larvitar Line
007F - 0081: Beldum Line
0082 - 0084: Gible Line
0085 - 0087: Dragon/Water/Flying Seahorse
0088 - 008A: Legendary Birds
008B - 008D: Legendary Beasts
008E - 0090: Ghost/Flying/Steel Custom Legendary
0091 - 0092: Palkia/Dialga
0093: Darkrai
0094 - 0095: Lugia/Ho-oh
0096-0097: Mew(two)
0098 - 009A: Bulbasaur Line
009B - 009D: Charmander Line
009E - 00A0: Squirtle Line
00A1 - 00A3: Grass/Electric Lizard
00A4 - 00A6: Fire/Ground Lion
00A7 - 00A9: Water/Ghost Fish Skeleton
00AA - 00AC: Dark/Steel/Psychic Cheshire Cat
00AD - 00AE: Water/Flying Flamingo
00AF - 00B0: Pachirisu Line
00B1 - 00B2: Grass/Ghost Pumpkin Cat
00B3 - 00B4: Psychic Traveling Bug
00B5 - 00B6: Dark Robber Rabbit
00B7: Ditto
00B8 - 00BA: Smoochum Line
00BB - 00BD: Normal Brewmaster Raccoon
00BE: Ice Ice Cream Cone
00BF - 00C0: Bug/Ice Butterfly
00C1 - 00C2: Chatot Line
00C3 - 00C5: Steel Musical Lake Trio
00C6 - 00C8: Ledyba Line
00C9: Unkown
00CA - 00CB: Tauros Line
00CC - 00CF: Solrock/Lunatone Line
00D0 - 00D1: Poison/Ghost Salamander
00D2 - 00D3: Remoraid Line
00D4 - 00D6: Tentacool Line
00D7 - 00D8: Fire/Psychic Fox
00D9 - 00DA: Fire/Ghost Cat Puppet
00DB: Ground/Rock Bird Thing
00DC - 00DE: Ghost/Electric Tree Stump
00DF - 00E1: Voltorb Line
00E2 - 00E3: Murkrow Line
00E4 - 00E6: Whismur Line
00E7 - 00E8: Krabby Line
00E9 - 00EA: Ghost/Fire Robot
00EB - 00EF: Vega's Eevee (Poison/Bug/Flying/Ground)
00F0 - 00F1: Water Sea Animal
00F2 - 00F3: Fire Sea Animal
00F4 - 00F5: Ghost/Flying Eeveelution
00F6: Ground/Steel Drill Dog
00F7 - 00F8: Sneasel Line
00F9 - 00FA: Shroomish Line
00FB: Steel Toungue Sprite

00FC - 00FE: Mewtwo Clones of Kanto Starters (Used for Gymleader battle?)
00FF: Scyther (Weird Forme)
0100: Pikachu (Alt-Forme, Female?)
0101: Asphere (Final Legendary, Blue Dragon?)
0102: Asphere (Yellow Tiger?)
0103: Doodloo (Mad Hatter?)
0104: Shadow Lugia (XD)
0105: Primal Dialga (Mystery Dungeon)
0106: Shadow Nemea (Palette Swap of 0090)

0107 - 0114: ?? (Only knows Tackle)

0115: Fighting/Steel Angry Bird
0116 - 0117: Sableye Line
0118 - 0119: Mawile Line
011A - 011B: Scyther Line
011C - 011D: Pinsir Line
011E - 0120: Ekans Line
0121 - 0123: Koffing Line
0124 - 0126: Duskull Line
0127 - 0128: Lickitung Line
0129 - 012A: Spinarak Line
012B - 012C: Joltik Line
012D - 012F: Nincada Line
0130 - 0131: Water/Fire Manta Ray
0132: Rock/Fighting Doll
0133: Ground/Ghost Groundhod /w Buster Sword
0134: Spinda
0135 - 0136: Relicanth Line
0137: Water/Ground Fish
0138: Rock/Fighting Doll Prevo
0139 - 013A: Shuppet Line
013A: Bannette
013B: Ralts
013C: Kirlia
013D: Dweeble
013E - 013F: Cacnea Line
0140: Ice Narwhal
0141: Piloswine
0142: Gardevoir
0143 - 0144: Lapras Line
0145: Lilligant
0146 - 0147: Fire/Grass Mushroom Wizard
0149: Steel/Fighting Fossil 3rd Stage
014A - 014B: Skorupi Line
014C - 014D: Carnivine Line
014E - 014F: Bug/Dark Praying Mantis
0150: Water Narwhal Prevo (140)
0151: Grass/Ground Creepy Root
0152: Grass/Electric Prevo
0153: Bannette Evolution (013A)
0154: Swinub
0155 - 0156: Dunsparce Line
0157 - 0158: Farfetch'd Line
0159: Ground/Psychic Elephant Prevo
015A - 015B: Torkoal Line
015C - 015D: Luvdisc Line
015E: Water Narwhal (140, 150)
015F: Mamoswine
0160: Stunfisk
0161: Grass/Electric Rat (0152)
0162: Cryogonal
0163: Gallade
0164: Water/Ice Mermaid
0165: Grass/Ground Creepy Root Prevo (0151)
0166: Ground/Psychic Elephant (0159 ?)
0167: Klink
0168: Deliberd Evo
0169: Ferrothorn
016A: Tynamo
016B: Geodude
016C - 16E: Happiny Line
016F: Graveler
0170: Golem
0171: Eelectrik
0172 - 0174: Sandshrew Line
0175: Farfetch'd Evo
0176 - 0177: Scraggy Line
0178: Delibird
0179: Crustle
017A: Ferroseed
017B: Klinklang
017C: Klang
017D: Petilil
017E - 017F: Defensive/Alternate Kirlia Line
0180: Water/Ice Mermaid Prevo
0181: Steel Clown Puppet
0182 - 0183: Bug/Psychic Ant Line
0184 - 0185: Ground/Steel Fossil Line
0186: Ground/Dark T-Rex
0187: Steel Fossil
0188 - 0189: Fire/Flying Squirrel Line
018A: Water/Ground Fish Prevo (0137)
018B - 018C: Mienfoo Line
018D - 018F: Sandile Line
0190: Steel/Psychic (Dragon? Poison? Ghost?) Legendary (Green Mewtwo)
0191: Dark/Psychic (Dragon? Poison? Ghost?) Legendary (Pink Camelfish)
0192 - 0193: Heatran Line
0194 - 0195: Phione Line
0196 - 0197: Ghost Skeleton Puppet Line
0198 - 0199: Lati@s
019A: Fire/Dragon Legendary (Two-tailed Rayquaza)
019B: Eelektross
019C: Bad Egg
019D: ???????
019E: ???????
019F: Game Crash (Stopped Here)

 

[MrDollSteak]

No, it'll just be a translation. Someone can make a patch for it if they want, I guess.

It sounds like you didn't see that they've already been translated. To be fair, the link's not very visible, but that's because it's... not very good. The current translation is within the Japanese game, meaning the font is ugly and there's only 5 letters per Pokemon name.

But that's for now. I'll come out and say it - An improved Altair and Sirius translation is 99% complete, with only two things blocking its release. One is the title screen logos, and the other I can't talk freely about just yet.

So if anyone can help make the logos, or at least direct me somewhere that's more likely to help, that would be great.

I remember working on the original Vega logo with Frankie, so I'd be happy to give it a go. Though the one Kiseki has posted looks pretty damn good.

 

[HeuMansh]

Hey, from where i can find the pokemon vega rom full version cheat codes

 

[sz]

Found a bug, when I use Sludge wave and the opponent uses Detect, the game softlocks

 

[Valance_Erith]

I have the Good Rod where can I find the Super Rod?

 

[DarkRaiden12]

Where can I find tm 43 Dragon Beat? If anyone has a pdf or spreadsheet with all the tm locations in the game can you please link it to me, thank you!

 

[KJ27]

Anyone know what to do after fight Reginald in D.H. Building? Please if anyone know tell me where to go plz

 

[BattleGirl]

So, saw Absol's evo and decided I wanted it. So I been running around the safari for almost 2 hours for the 1% chance when an Absol finally showed up (and call it cheating but I did save state it cause hello 1% chance and I didn't want to see the dreaded it ran away message). Now I am very very OCD about my natures but I was ready to force myself to accept this Absol cause one it takes forever to find so there is no way I am nature farming it and two I didn't want to drain my pokedollars. So I look at its nature ready to see the worst nature for an Absol as is my luck and nearly fell clean out of my chair when I saw its nature.



It was freaking Adamant. I don't know if the picture uploaded cause I never posted a pic up but I could not believe my eyes. What makes this more amazing is the fact it took me nearly an hour to catch this thing cause it kept brusting out and trying to run away (like I said I saved stated when I FINALLY encountered it).

Anyone else gotten luck like this?

 

[Zack knight]

Dizasol is a mixed attacker

 

[BattleGirl]

Dizasol is a mixed attacker

Well mine is going pure phyiscal. Its attack is sky high lol.

 

[KalaHaruno]

Where is move deleter?

 

[_Arise_]

So how are the Altair and Sirius translations are progressing? just wondering...

 

[Dr. Akimbo]

I just released a new update, see the first post. This one contains some minor translation and wording fixes, including more accurate translations for two moves and one city, and changing "Team D.H." to "Team DH". But more importantly, a large number of Pokemon and some important NPCs have different names, see below:

If it were up to me, I definitely wouldn't do this, especially years after the release. I'd rather not go into why this changed, so let's just say my hand was forced. That's not to say that the names are bad - I believe all of them to be superior or at least equivalent, and I'm sure you will too when you get used to them. In fact, a large amount are names that I had come up with myself after the original release, but felt that it was too late to change anything.

But that's not all. I've also finished a new version of the translation patch for the series' previous entries, Altair and Sirius. The translation already existed and was quietly linked in the first post, but it wasn't very good, mostly due to being built off the Japanese ROM. Just compare these screenshots:

Before:

After:

Although Altair and Sirius aren't nearly Vega's quality, they're still fairly decent. And of course, the plot of Vega is a direct sequel to Altair and Sirius.

In terms of the sequels, Procyon and Deneb: I've been doing some preliminary work, but the project won't start in earnest until the full version of the Japanese versions are released. And that's up to the original developers, of course. I have no idea when that will be.

 

[PkmnTrainerKonner]

I seem to be getting a white screen with a staticy sound after applying the patch for Altair.

 

[Tyrantnyx]

So happy Sirius and Altair got improved translations. Sirius was the first rom hack I played and it's always been special to me. The patches work perfectly so far, but as for the new Vega patch, it crashes after the opening sequence. I tried it on VBA-M, mGBA, and no$gba.

 

[Lunos]

I seem to be getting a white screen with a staticy sound after applying the patch for Altair.

I just applied both patches over Clean Pokémon Emerald ROMs using ROM Patcher JS and they're working just fine.

ON: I'm pretty excited, I don't know what to write a comment about.
The fact that we finally have proper translated ports of Altair and Sirius, the update for Pokémon Vega that kinda makes me want to replay it, or the fact that you just confirmed that we'll eventually have a translated port of Procyon and Deneb, Akimbo.
Man, you and everyone who helped you along the way are all such talented persons and you all gave such a big amount of content for people to enjoy.

I honestly can't think of a better way to express my feelings to y'all than just "Thank you".

EDIT:

So happy Sirius and Altair got improved translations. Sirius was the first rom hack I played and it's always been special to me. The patches work perfectly so far, but as for the new Vega patch, it crashes after the opening sequence. I tried it on VBA-M, mGBA, and no$gba.

I suggest you to try out ROM Patcher JS too. I just applied Vega's latest patch over a Clean Fire Red v1.0 ROM and it's working perfectly fine on my end.

 

[Tyrantnyx]

I just applied both patches over Clean Pokémon Emerald ROMs using ROM Patcher JS and they're working just fine.

ON: I'm pretty excited, I don't know what to write a comment about.
The fact that we finally have proper translated ports of Altair and Sirius, the update for Pokémon Vega that kinda makes me want to replay it, or the fact that you just confirmed that we'll eventually have a translated port of Procyon and Deneb, Akimbo.
Man, you and everyone who helped you along the way are all such talented persons and you all gave such a big amount of content for people to enjoy.

I honestly can't think of a better way to express my feelings to y'all than just "Thank you".

EDIT:

I suggest you to try out ROM Patcher JS too. I just applied Vega's latest patch over a Clean Fire Red v1.0 ROM and it's working perfectly fine on my end.

That didn't seem to work. I did try this out on MyBoy and finally got it working on my tablet. Which emulator for pc would you recommend?

 

[bh02032002]

wow good to see that altair and sirius finally got translations. Have a good day and thanks for your hard work translating