Yellow hack: Pokémon Yellow - Gen. II Graphics Patch V1.1

[Danny-E 33]

Pok?mon Yellow - Gen. II Graphics Patch V1.1

Hack Name: Pok?mon Yellow - Gen. II Graphics Patch

Hack of: Pok?mon Yellow

Pok?mon Yellow - Gen. II Graphics Repository

You guys have waited a long time for this, but here it is!

I finally remade my Gen II Graphics Hack for Pok?mon Yellow!

* Update: The EXP bar is now blue while playing in GBC mode! *

Summary of Features:

• Pok?mon and trainer sprites taken from GSC
• A few trainer sprites devamped from FRLG that did not exist in GSC
• Updated all Pok?mon palettes, and added individual trainer class palettes, to match GSC
• Pok?mon back sprites are now 48x48 and not zoomed in and pixelated
• Many graphics updated to match GSC, such as battle HUD, font, and text box border
• The Pok?ball tile is always red (instead of goofy colors) in battles, in the Pok?dex, and in the PC
• The "Pok?mon owned" Pok?ball tile in wild battles, from GSC
• Fully functional in-battle experience bar, from GSC

Videos:




Note that these are videos of my Red hack, but it works the same in this Yellow hack

Screenshots:
Colorized Oak intro:

New Trainer Sprites/Palettes:

New Pok?mon Sprites/Palettes:

Oak:

Old Man:

Blue EXP Bar (GBC mode only):

"Pok?mon Owned" Pok?ball Tile:

Colorized Box List and Pok?dex:

Poketto's Sprites:

Red Backsprite Revamp - Gambler Recolor - Channeler Recolor - Giovanni Recolor

Fire Red/Leaf Green Devamps:

Old Man Backsprite (Mateo) - Enigneer (Luigi-San) - Cueball - Tamer - Lorelei - Agatha

Mateo's Oak Revamp:

Download:
Pok?mon Yellow Graphics V1.1 IPS

See Also:
Pok?mon Red - Gen. II Graphics Patch
Pokemon Red Full Color Hack

 

[Murkrow]

nice
distinct lack of Yellow hacks around, hopefully someone builds upon this...Yellow++ maybe? :-)

 

[Del]

FINALLY YOU MADE IT!!! DAAANNNNNYYYY! I have always asked you to do so my dear friend!!!
<- Clcik and SEE!
Look It has been 3 years, I am going to play It right away YEAH BRUH! My friends willl be like whaaaaaaatt!! Dude you rock! your patch I will make It famous around my city!

 

[Danny-E 33]

Haha!! Yes, I know it took me a while! ^__^'

But really, I would greatly appreciate any time you spend spreading this hack around!!

Again, just like with the Red/Blue version of this hack, it was made possible with our (recently finished) Pokémon Yellow disassembly! [click]

The Pokémon Yellow disassembly was mostly completed through the hard work of luckytyphlosion and PikalaxALT, as well as the rest of us original contributors to the Pokémon Red disassembly.

 

[Del]

I already did sent the patched ROMs to my friends they were really surprised and happy especially after showing them the videos you provided!
My thanks to you Danny and luckytyphlosion, PikalaxALT and all the team who helped in the project of disassembly, I saw the list GitHub and I am really amazed with the collaboration of all contributors! THANK YOU!

 

[akmal]

hi sorry for asking, but it just a request, could you make all the pokemon catchable in this game? if mateo could make a yellow++ with its feature could make this game even better ^^

 

[Danny-E 33]

Sorry, I won't be making this hack in a way that changes gameplay. But I encourage those who want to make a hack out of this to do so!

 

[JulianoFdeS]

Will you make a GFX&Music Patch for Pokémon Yellow?
Thank you for that awesome patch!

 

[ShadowOne333]

Holy hot damn!
I was waiting for this for a long time. :)

Finally, Pokemon Yellow with Gen II graphics!
Thank you so much for your work and for the work of those involved in the disassembly too, some nice stuff will come out of this, I'm sure!

One question, are you planning on also doing a Full Colour Hack for Pokemon Yellow too?
I would love to have Pokemon Yellow in the same level as the Pokemon Red hacks with Full colour + GFX + Gen II sprites. :)

Thanks for this amazing hack!

 

[Roger Davis]

One question, are you planning on also doing a Full Colour Hack for Pokemon Yellow too?
I would love to have Pokemon Yellow in the same level as the Pokemon Red hacks with Full colour + GFX + Gen II sprites. :)

Thanks for this amazing hack!

Just to clear up some confusion, he wasn't the one who made the full color hack for Pokemon Red. He has implemented the Battle sprites and bar, as well as the music, but he's not the one who took Pokemon Red and made it a gbc file with tiles from Pokemon gold on the overworld. I don't know the user who did do that, but I believe it was also on Skeetendo and not here. I could be mistaken however.

Hey Danny, I'm just curious, have you ever considered making a version of this patch which does the trainers and backsprites, but the front sprites of the Pokemon are the same as yellow version? Or even the RBG ones. I love the way things are currently, I was just wondering if that had ever occurred to you and if it would be difficult or not to do that. In RBGY the main thing that annoyed me was the back sprites, since they were 2x the size and it just clashed horribly, whereas the majority of Yellow's front sprites are okay, with some people anyhow. I'm really glad you've done this with Yellow too now. I'm kind of wondering what it'd be like if someone took the Gen 3 games and put the Gen 2 UI for bars and such in it instead, since I never really was a fan of Gen 3 battle layout. Anyways, great job and thank you for this!

 

[Danny-E 33]

Will you make a GFX&Music Patch for Pokémon Yellow?
Thank you for that awesome patch!

I will consider it. I'll probably get around to it eventually, but who knows when.
And you're welcome!!

Holy hot damn!
I was waiting for this for a long time. :)

Finally, Pokemon Yellow with Gen II graphics!
Thank you so much for your work and for the work of those involved in the disassembly too, some nice stuff will come out of this, I'm sure!

One question, are you planning on also doing a Full Colour Hack for Pokemon Yellow too?
I would love to have Pokemon Yellow in the same level as the Pokemon Red hacks with Full colour + GFX + Gen II sprites. :)

Thanks for this amazing hack!

This is a little less likely, but it might happen someday too.
And you're welcome! I'm glad you're excited about it!!

Just to clear up some confusion, he wasn't the one who made the full color hack for Pokemon Red. He has implemented the Battle sprites and bar, as well as the music, but he's not the one who took Pokemon Red and made it a gbc file with tiles from Pokemon gold on the overworld. I don't know the user who did do that, but I believe it was also on Skeetendo and not here. I could be mistaken however.

That's not completely accurate. Here's how it happened. The full color hack for Pokemon Red was started back in 2012 by FroggestSpirit. He finished the over world colorization only, and it had some bugs/things unfinished. Then he moved on.

In 2013, Drenn continued where FroggestSpirit left off. Drenn fixed some of the bugs in the over world and colorized more of the game, like the title screen, and the battle screen. Then he took the time to add the features from my Gen II graphics hack, like the gen II sprites and battle hud. Then he moved on.

From 2014 to now, I have been maintaining the hack. I've done even more bug fixing in the over world, in battles, and other places (like trade animations) where Froggest and Drenn hadn't finished. I've also been continuing to add features like the exp bar and other updates from the Gen II graphics hack.

So while I admit FroggestSpirit and Drenn did the harder parts of the job than me, we are all co-creators of the hack. And there has never been a time where more than one of us was working on the hack at the same time.

(also, to clarify a little more misinformation, the full color hack actually uses all of the original Red music, that has not been modified. The same is true for the over world tilesets. While the tilesets have been colorized similarly to GSC, the actual tile graphics are the original Red tile graphics)

Hey Danny, I'm just curious, have you ever considered making a version of this patch which does the trainers and backsprites, but the front sprites of the Pokemon are the same as yellow version? Or even the RBG ones. I love the way things are currently, I was just wondering if that had ever occurred to you and if it would be difficult or not to do that. In RBGY the main thing that annoyed me was the back sprites, since they were 2x the size and it just clashed horribly, whereas the majority of Yellow's front sprites are okay, with some people anyhow. I'm really glad you've done this with Yellow too now. I'm kind of wondering what it'd be like if someone took the Gen 3 games and put the Gen 2 UI for bars and such in it instead, since I never really was a fan of Gen 3 battle layout. Anyways, great job and thank you for this!

Making all the Pokemon use their original Yellow front sprites would be very easy. The only thing is I would have to make sure the Gen II back sprites look okay with the original Yellow palettes. But this is not really a variation of this hack that I am interested in.

 

[ShadowOne333]

This is a little less likely, but it might happen someday too.
And you're welcome! I'm glad you're excited about it!!

A shame, but hopefully someone jumps on the wagon and tries to do so.
I'll wait patiently for when that day comes. :P

Another thing I wanted to touch on...
I was wondering if you could leave the Pikachu sprite that Yellow used, but revamp it with proper colours to that of GSC.

Something like this:

For some reason I don't find any of the GSC sprites for Pikachu as appealing as his Yellow sprite.
You could follow the same kind of revamp for the rest of the sprite sheet used for the Pikachu animations in the game. With the example I posted a few lines back, the colourization for the animations could be rather easy following that one as the base.

I'm talking about these animations:

Of course, the backsprite for Pikachu should still be the GSC and not the horrible RGBY one. xD

PS: BTW, thanks for the explanation on the brief history of the Red Color hack. :)

 

[Danny-E 33]

In case you are not aware, RBY and GSC style sprites both have the same limitation of 4 colors per sprite.

Regarding the idea of a revamped Yellow Pikachu sprite in general, I would definitely consider it. But the sprite you posted is more RSE style.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Oh I am aware, I know the NES/GBC palettes were limited to 4 colours (including transparency) for their tiles, which basically limits the amount of colours usable to 3 since the fourth one is reserved for transparency/BG.
I simply threw in what I had at hand to make my point. :P

I did a quick mockup of a fully coloured Pikachu:


I would only modify the red colour a little bit to tone it down in contrast so that the shading on his ears and chin don't look so prominent. :P

 

[Danny-E 33]

I just uploaded version 1.1 which now makes the exp bar blue while playing in GBC mode!

Note that when playing this in SGB mode, the exp bar will still share the color of your health bar.

 

[Raizako]

Just patched my yellow i can confirm that update 1.1 has fixed the exp bar as it now displays in blue.
Tested on My Oldboy!

Awesome work! ✌

 

[Raizako]

Reallly hope to see full color yellow :)

 

[ShadowOne333]

hi sorry for asking, but it just a request, could you make all the pokemon catchable in this game? if mateo could make a yellow++ with its feature could make this game even better

Sorry, I won't be making this hack in a way that changes gameplay. But I encourage those who want to make a hack out of this to do so!

Just wanted to mention that this hack seems to be compatible with the Thunder Yellow patch which makes all 151 pokemon available. :)
You should apply Thunder Yellow first and then the Gen 2 patch in order for it to work properly.

I hope someone jumps on the Full Yellow Color wagon to make it possible. :)

 

[Drake Seawood]

I'm tempted to start using these graphics on my hack. Any suggestion how could I implement all this without changing all I've done?

 

[longlostsoldier]

You'll be happy to know someone is making use of this. -eyebrowwaggle- And some of the Red++ code, making it a bit like a Yellow++, though of course I wouldn't want to steal the name from Mateo. I probably won't port all of it, either; if people want Red++ they can go play that.

Although I'm not nearly as experienced as you guys, obviously. Still messing stuff up frequently. But, I got more than just Pikachu following, and she/he evolves by happiness now. Raichu can follow too. :3 But making the walking sprite change species is kind of a pain; it looks like there are two different methods for pikachu following, one indoors and one outdoors? Do you know anything about that? It's the outdoors one I'm having trouble with.

I did decide to keep a few of Yellow's gen 1 front sprites, namely Pikachu, Eevee, Charmander, and Bulbasaur, because, well, their gen 2 versions look kinda goofball to me, especially Charmander. Although Pikachu's Gen 2 sprite is okay, it's not quite as nostalgic to me.