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Emerald hack: Pokemon Atlas Emerald (Beta 1.0sc) - Update Nov24 - New Overworld Sprites | Normal and Hard Mode

Thank you for your quick fixes!

I was indeed able to find both Pineco and Aipom on Route 32 between Violet City and Azalea Town, as well as Porygon and Mr. Mime inside Cerulean Cave.

The way inside Icefall Cave was clear, and talking to the NPCs in Battle Frontier allowed me to take the ferry to the event islands.

I'm happy to say that as far as I've noticed there's nothing stopping the completion of the National Pokédex now!
 
Heya Caulin,

I have downloaded your excellent RomHack Atlas Emerald as it was exactly what I was looking for. My favourite 3 regions rolled together with additional story and areas! Really loving it.

However, I think I may be able to help you with a few issues. Notably the spelling and grammar errors that are in the game. Possibly helping to smooth/streamline your decisions on the new story elements too which have really been enjoyabl. I am a game writer, qualified from British Columbia University. Please do send me a message if you are interested in my help for free.

My game writing portfolio is linked here

Best wishes,

CR4YF1SH.
 
Melirin said:
Thank you for your quick fixes!

I was indeed able to find both Pineco and Aipom on Route 32 between Violet City and Azalea Town, as well as Porygon and Mr. Mime inside Cerulean Cave.

The way inside Icefall Cave was clear, and talking to the NPCs in Battle Frontier allowed me to take the ferry to the event islands.

I'm happy to say that as far as I've noticed there's nothing stopping the completion of the National Pokédex now!
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Thank you very much for the confirmation.

Making these changes I noticed how rusty I was getting in scripts again. But thankfully turned out okay.

Glad you enjoyed the experience, I wish I had more knowledge to add more fancy features.

Have a great day!

CAulin
 
Hi! I found this off of the rom hacks subreddit and it looks like a really promising project :> I love the amount of effort you're pouring into it. Can't wait to play it when I get the time!
 
CR4YF1SH said:
Heya Caulin,

I have downloaded your excellent RomHack Atlas Emerald as it was exactly what I was looking for. My favourite 3 regions rolled together with additional story and areas! Really loving it.

However, I think I may be able to help you with a few issues. Notably the spelling and grammar errors that are in the game. Possibly helping to smooth/streamline your decisions on the new story elements too which have really been enjoyabl. I am a game writer, qualified from British Columbia University. Please do send me a message if you are interested in my help for free.

My game writing portfolio is linked here

Best wishes,

CR4YF1SH.
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Hi Cr4y!

Thank you for the offer, if you really want to help I accept it. But, please do in your own time!

I having some struggles managing my time with college, work, entertainment... sleeping. I really like to play videogames and this year is being crazy with amount of great releases.

I had some days off in May and I dedicated to the hack and got a little burnout, because I created a lot of maps and I did a poor job to control the information (please understand lol).

That backfired a lot, because the scope of this project is too big for noob like me.

But about the history, my intention was copy the history text/script from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and add in Emerald with some minor changes to have more participation from some characters.

Unfortunately the ORAS don't have full scripts in Gamefaqs and the process I was doing is watching videos or looking a wiki to copy quotes and speeches.

I had to admit, I think I forgot to change the text for some trainers I modified... but thankfully I did a control for it.

As a RPG fan, I wanted to add more interactions with characters, specially gym leaders and rivals.

As an example of some hacks I think did this really well are: Dark Violet, Unbound and Adventure Red. My favorite from them is Adventure Red, the creator translated the Manga really well to his hack.

Thanks!

CAulin
 
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CAulin said:
ATTENTION: Still in Work in Progress

Thanks to Nintendo, Game Freak and The Pokemon Company. All rights to them.
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Dear all,

Today I uploaded the 2nd attempt of my Hack, Atlas Emerald.

The 1st attempt of the hack I used Emerald Final as a base, but I had some problems with music corruption.

I tried to redo the map insertion again from the beginning, but still had problems. Dearman4 still helped me, when he release the new version of Final maybe I try again using Emerald Final as a base again.

That's why I decided to do a new attempt this time using a clean Rom.
Thankfully I was successful and was able to add all the maps without music corruption.

Please find below more information about the new version of the hack.
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Pokémon Atlas Emerald (Beta v1.0sb)

View attachment 159770

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* About the Mod *
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Atlas Emerald mod is an expanded modification from Emerald.

It's a simple hack to achieve something I always wanted in a gen3 Pokemon rom hack.

The major change in this hack is the addition of Kanto, Johto and Sevii Island Regions as explorable areas (The new maps use the Tileset already in Emerald).

The Wild encounters in Hoenn changed to acommodate better the split to other Regions inclusion.

I did a revamp in graphics to look similar to ORAS artstyle, changed overworld sprites, trainer front and backsprites, Badges and etc. I used some sprites from HGSS, did ones myself and others I found online by talented people as well (kudos to hyo_oppa, love your work). This is a personal project that I'm sharing to hopefully make people happy!!!

The Pokenav Trainers in Match Calls are modified to be notable characters, gym leaders, protagonists, elite four members, champions and villains.

Kanto and Johto regions are acessible after getting the Pokénav. Sevii Island needs HM Surf to reach Cianwood City. More details below to how reach these locations:

1) Kanto - Boat in Oldale Town to Pallet Town
2) Johto - Boat in Petalburg City to New Bark Town
3) Sevii - Boat in Cianwood Port, the Port in each Island can reach the next one

Obs:

- Normal Mode Patch, enjoy the game with more freedom and no level cap

- Hard Mode Patch: Level Cap restrictions, for people wanting more challenge

- Kanto and Johto are kind of Semi-Open World.

- You need Surf to access Sevii Islands

- Fly is only usable to fast travel to Hoenn Towns/Cities.

- There's a fast travel between Saffron City (Kanto) and Goldenrod City (Johto) - Magnetic Train

- There's a fast travel between Vermilion City (Kanto) and Olivine City (Johto)

- Magnetic Train, S. S. Anne, S. S. Aqua, Seagallop and the minor Region Boats are explorable. S. S. Tidal was expanded. (WIP)

- All caves are dark

- Kanto and Johto are accessible after the obtaining the Pokénav (Changed mainly due a possible bug in Pokénav registrations). To full explore the Regions the HMs are needed.

- Necessary to talk with Rydel first in Mauville City to buy Mach Bike and Acro Bike in the other stores. (Changed mainly due a possible sequence break with rival on route 110)

- You don't lose money for losing

- Caution: level of wild Pokémon are balanced based with the original games


NOTICE: This mod is still unfinished, but is completable (Emerald normal game is complete).

The trainers in Hoenn Overworld will be distributed/split to other Regions (still WIP), if you see a NPC out of bounds that's because I'm still verifying the best way to add in the game (and to balance gameplay).

This build is for beta testing. Mostly to verify if all the changes I did broke something. The new regions is to expand the exploration in the game

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* New Features *
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- Kanto Region

- Johto Region

- Sevii Islands

- New graphics (overworld sprites, backsprites, colored Badges, and etc)

- Level Cap (First level cap Lv. 15. +5 Levels per badge, after 8th badge no restrictions to level 100)

- Game full decapitalized

- Gen V Pokémon Sprites

- Expanded and reworked some Hoenn Maps

- Minor story changes to add NPCs

- Pokenav Match Call Trainers are notable characters and NPCs

- Non-story Trainers in general can be avoided, almost no mandatory battles (Battle them whenever you want, but be cautious they still wander wanting to fight).

- Kanto and Johto Gym Leaders disponible up to 8th badge.

- Pokémon League for Kanto and Johto available after completing Hoenn League.

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* WIP *
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WIP - Short Term

- Improve gameplay balance

- Continue expanding story and notable NPCs

- Add items in more maps

- Improve Wild Pokémon distribution

WIP - Long Term

- Finish adding NPCs in empty areas (mainly in houses and Sevii region)

- Review certain areas to add more content on it (e.g: Ruins of Alph)

- Continue to expand Hoenn areas (areas that are too short or a little bland).

- Add more content/events/quests in the Regions (mainly in the parts of the game that is too linear)

- Finish Trainer Tower (Seven Island)

- Verify if is possible to add more Pokémons (gen 4, older mons new gen evolutions and regional/other forms, maybe mega evolutions as well) - This probably is way above my capacity right now

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Attention in the spoiler below there's the details of the old version of Atlas Emerald.

OLD Version (0.9ym)

Spoiler:


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* Updates *
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Before updating save in any Hoenn Pokecenter first. Then do a save backup just in case


v1.0s-sb New Overworld Sprites. Change in Eevee evolutions to not depend on RTC (use Sun Stone and Moon Stone to adquire Espeon and Umbreon). Normal Mode and Hard Mode (with Level Cap restrictions). Minor fixes. Added missing exclusive versions missing Pokémon.


*Changelog*
Spoiler:


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Download
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Attachment in the first post or the mirror download below.

Attention: Saves between v1.0+ version are compatible.
The old hack (v0.9) version savefile is not compatible with the new version (v1.0+) of the hack. Recommended to start a new game.

In the compressed file, there's the UPS patch for the new version.

The old version is on the IPS file, attached as an way to still be available.

IPS and UPS and Readme file attached in the zip file in this post or the mirror file in the link below.


New Version (v1.0s-sb)


Older Versions
Spoiler:


Patch an Emerald (Trashman) clean Rom.

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Credits/Special Thanks
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I like to thank you dearman4 for the help and inspiration.

And of course the people of Pokemon Community.

dearman4
Verloren5 - Decapitalization and HP Bar Patch
Li Yun - Emerald Modexe
hyo_oppa - Front Trainer Sprites
Haven - Hex Maniac Advance
Shiny
megatyler30#6446
Zeo#4959
Akiak#4655
jwoy#5378
philenarion#0933
Axcellerator#5035
Semper#3268 for his extensive bugtesting and proofreading
scrapisarat#1968 for the new item sprites

*~*Important Links*~*

Emerald Final Thread

Spoiler:
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Peace to You:; Can we get Golem and Gengar in Atlas Emerald without trading?;
 
Xyyx16 said:
Peace to You:; Can we get Golem and Gengar in Atlas Emerald without trading?;
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Hi, Xyyx16,

Yes, please find below evolution changes:

Evolution List Changes:

- Kanto Pokémon

Alakazam = Kadabra + Moon Stone
Machamp = Machoke + Sun Stone
Golem = Graveler + Sun Stone
Gengar = Haunter + Moon Stone

- Johto Pokémon

Politoed = Poliwhril + Moon Stone
Slowking = Slowpoke + Sun Stone
Steelix = Onix + Sun Stone
Kingdra = Seadra + Moon Stone
Scizor = Scyther + Sun Stone
Porygon2 = Porygon + Sun Stone
Espeon = Eevee + Sun Stone
Umbreon = Eevee + Moon Stone

- Hoenn Pokémon

Huntail = Clamperl + Sun Stone
Gorebyss = Clamperl + Moon Stone


Hope it helps!

CAulin
 
Hello again!

I'm trying out the Battle Frontier this time and I'm getting a bug in the Battle Pyramid.
Everytime I try to start the challenge, after I hand over my Bag to the npc and enter the Pyramid, the screen fades to black but it just stays black without loading the pyramid level.

I played through a single run of the other battle facilities and they all seem to work fine.

I also managed to successfully complete the Pokédex since my last post.
 
Melirin said:
Hello again!

I'm trying out the Battle Frontier this time and I'm getting a bug in the Battle Pyramid.
Everytime I try to start the challenge, after I hand over my Bag to the npc and enter the Pyramid, the screen fades to black but it just stays black without loading the pyramid level.

I played through a single run of the other battle facilities and they all seem to work fine.

I also managed to successfully complete the Pokédex since my last post.
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Hi Melirin,

I'll take a look to see what's happening, but after an initial search it's the map offset that was broken because of map insertion with Advance Map tool.

Thank you for the report!
 
Melirin said:
Hello again!

I'm trying out the Battle Frontier this time and I'm getting a bug in the Battle Pyramid.
Everytime I try to start the challenge, after I hand over my Bag to the npc and enter the Pyramid, the screen fades to black but it just stays black without loading the pyramid level.

I played through a single run of the other battle facilities and they all seem to work fine.

I also managed to successfully complete the Pokédex since my last post.
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Hi, Melirin,

I fixed the problem in the new update.
I tested the Battle Pyramid and is working.


Please when possible can you test and confirm if is okay to you?

Thank you!!!

CAulin
 
Personally, I think the legs make this romhack visually unique.


In all actuality, this is a top Pokemon experience.
Looking forward to playing the Hard Mode. Keep it up!
 
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