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(Beautifully made logo by Lindsay Panes, thank you so much for your very pleasing work made for my game!)
Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons is a ROM Hack of Pokemon Conquest, a hack with a few quality-of-life features sprinkled in with moves from newer generations, a few new maps, bigger distribution of Pokemon around the game, a harder difficulty, and rebalanced base stat totals for every Pokemon, akin to Scalemons.
- What is Pokemon Conquest?
Pokemon Conquest is a crossover of Koei Tecmo's Nobunaga's Ambition series and Pokemon made for the Nintendo DS. Pokemon Conquest is an SRPG (Strategy Role-Playing Game, ie Fire Emblem, FF Tactics) with 200 Pokemon from across gens 1 through 5. In terms of Pokemon games, the original game performed pretty poorly in sales, yet remains my favorite game in the Pokemon series. As of recent, I've seen a growth of appreciation for the game, especially with very popular ROM Hacks like Reconquered and Imperial, both serving their own purpose in the line of the (very few) Conquest ROM hacks out there. I would like to share my project here that has been updated over the course of nearly a year now. It has been downloadable on social media platforms like Discord, Reddit, and Twitter, but it was about due time it was posted here with the release of the largest update to date.
- Story Synopsis
In a place distant from the modern Pokemon world you may know, the Ransei Region thrives with the Pokemon living in the world. The Region is split into 17 territories with a respective kingdom for each territory. It is revered that if one were to claim every kingdom, a wish would be granted for the brave warrior. And so, the region falls into turmoil to claim every kingdom in an attempt to realize their dearest wish.
Now, where does your story start? Will you be able to see your story to the end? Who will be your allies?
Who will stand in your way?
- FEATURES
- Updated Stats
Depending on where Pokemon are in an evolutionary line, their BST (Base Stat Total) has been shifted to match a number with any other Pokemon in that stage. For example, if you were to add up Eevee's stats and compare it to Wooper in the base version of Pokemon Conquest, Eevee would be a lot stronger, because it is stronger in mainline Pokemon games (in this game, they based BST on the stats of Pokemon when they are at level 100, so however strong a Pokemon is in mainline games are usually reflected in normal Conquest!), but in this game, Eevee and Wooper's BST add up to the same total, since they are both unevolved Pokemon with only one evolution. Here is a reference point for data purposes-
Unevolved 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 585 BST
Unevolved 2 Stage Evolution Pokemon (like Eevee and Wooper!) - 635 BST
2nd Stage 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 735 BST
Standalone Pokemon (like Carnivine) + Scyther, Scizor - 785 BST
Fully Evolved 2 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 835 BST
Fully Evolved 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 885 BST
Legendary Pokemon - 1035 BST
These numbers may seem like a lot, but are actually pretty close to the averages that existed in the base game.
Images for the sake of comparison- Pokemon shown at 10% Link with normal energy on Base Conquest, then Twin Dragons.
The difference at 10% Link (which is essentially Level 10) is small, but this strength difference will scale over time, which will make it matter more in the long run.
- Quality of Life features
- Evolution Stones and Items can be bought in normal Shops instead of from the Wandering Merchant
- Every warrior can link with every Pokemon, albeit some have very low link caps
- Some gimmick items on maps have been rearranged or removed for the sake of enjoyment (ie Chrysalia fencing)
- Some items have been made cheaper
- Harmony items boost experience at a higher rate
- Every warrior also has an evolutionary line that reaches 99% and an extra strong option
- etc.
- Challenge features
Warriors use evolved Pokemon earlier in the story
Warriors use more helpful items to make players strategize against them
Most warrior skills now have a self debuff of some sort or are worse (comparison below between normal Conquest and Twin Dragons, main character does not have this warrior skill, they were just used for demonstrational purposes
Enemies have higher link with their Pokemon
Postgame stories have NFE Pokemon on enemy warriors instead of Little Cup Pokemon
- New Moves
In Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons, some moves have been replaced, Dig and Sky Drop have been removed, and many new ones have been made, amounting to 20 new moves and 20 replaced moves.
This includes new moves I have come up with and moves that were not featured in the game.
- Rising Voltage
- Tailwind
- Waterfall
- Bitter Malice (changed to Dark Type)
- Reckless Bolt
- Metal Sound
- and many more!
- Maps
Every map now has a fresh new background color to make every area more unique, instead of having a generic sky color. Here are a few examples!
I have begun to learn how to use Blender and worked with the limitations of Pokemon Conquest, and I have made a few new maps, which are a new addition to version 1.5.0! Please take a look at these image previews!
- Neo Illusio (banner claim for 5 turns win con)
Neo Avia (banner claim win con)
Greenleaf Recolor (same fundamentally)
- Credits and Links
There is a list of people I would like to dearly thank for making this possible. I would like to thank Deijin and co. (WhatAUsernameIHave, Baconfry, Snap, etc) for their discoveries of Pokemon Conquest, and with their knowledge, helped foster the tool RanseiLink that helped create this ROM Hack. Link to RanseiLink tool, as it is needed to patch a Pokemon Conquest ROM (which I will NOT provide) with the .rlmod patch file that is in the Google Drive, which will be listed below- https://github.com/Deijin27/RanseiLink
I would like to thank my testing team for the original version of the hack, released July 28th, 2022. Kirb, Rexbot2, ShiningBlue, and TJ The DJ played through the game to varying points and helped make it less of a mess. Thank you, Kirb, for refusing to play until I personally changed the starter to Scraggy for you, Rexbot2, for playing through the whole thing and introducing it to other people, ShiningBlue, for streaming the game to a large audience, and TJ The DJ, for inspiration for the hack itself.
All documentation and information is listed in the Google Drive, along with the changelog (which will be updated soon with v1.5.0 changes). If you need to ask questions or report any bugs, I will be quickest to respond on Discord as @bagonganda.
To find the Google Drive, you can follow this link here (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1exBjTkpTfuAqwnweADKR47Z3pRUS3fhQ), or visit the linktree here (https://linktr.ee/bagonganda) to get access to the Google Drive and the Twin Dragons Discord Server, alongside the Ransei Region server, which is the host of everything Pokemon Conquest (and Conquest ROM Hacks)!
Twin Dragons Server Link here - https://discord.gg/AMHUR8KqDs
There is now a survey for people who have played Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons! If you have, please take a look! https://forms.gle/BaRzRaPY6ddZRcEW9
v1.6.0 Changelog
----------------------
Large difficulty increase in all Postgame stories
Fix "Oichi's Army" issue in Recruit 40 Warriors stories
Fix "Ranmaru's Army" issue in Two Heroes
Lower power of Starstriker Lower power of Leaf Blade, now 3 Row Ahead
Raise Capacity of all Warriors by 1 besides Ranmaru Rank 1
Fix Greed Warrior Skill Update Rank Up requirement to 70, and 85 for MC
Changed encounter tables for a few Pokemon (Pawniard, Axew, Sandile)
Guardian Charm now does give exp, but only about 20%
Dealt with issue in main story where Kai would teleport to the boulders to hit them
Buffed Steel Spear's chances of side effects
WARNING. Neo Illusio is finicky in main story and may cause problems. If an issue occurs on the first time going into battle on one of these maps, like an enemy Pokemon being unhittable, running away from the battle/losing and trying again should fix it, unless you use that to cheese it and win anyways, your choice, but case in point, be aware these aren't perfect.
I hope that you enjoy this new and (hopefully) improved Conquest experience. Have a great day! Feel free to ask anything!
(Beautifully made logo by Lindsay Panes, thank you so much for your very pleasing work made for my game!)
Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons is a ROM Hack of Pokemon Conquest, a hack with a few quality-of-life features sprinkled in with moves from newer generations, a few new maps, bigger distribution of Pokemon around the game, a harder difficulty, and rebalanced base stat totals for every Pokemon, akin to Scalemons.
- What is Pokemon Conquest?
Pokemon Conquest is a crossover of Koei Tecmo's Nobunaga's Ambition series and Pokemon made for the Nintendo DS. Pokemon Conquest is an SRPG (Strategy Role-Playing Game, ie Fire Emblem, FF Tactics) with 200 Pokemon from across gens 1 through 5. In terms of Pokemon games, the original game performed pretty poorly in sales, yet remains my favorite game in the Pokemon series. As of recent, I've seen a growth of appreciation for the game, especially with very popular ROM Hacks like Reconquered and Imperial, both serving their own purpose in the line of the (very few) Conquest ROM hacks out there. I would like to share my project here that has been updated over the course of nearly a year now. It has been downloadable on social media platforms like Discord, Reddit, and Twitter, but it was about due time it was posted here with the release of the largest update to date.
- Story Synopsis
In a place distant from the modern Pokemon world you may know, the Ransei Region thrives with the Pokemon living in the world. The Region is split into 17 territories with a respective kingdom for each territory. It is revered that if one were to claim every kingdom, a wish would be granted for the brave warrior. And so, the region falls into turmoil to claim every kingdom in an attempt to realize their dearest wish.
Now, where does your story start? Will you be able to see your story to the end? Who will be your allies?
Who will stand in your way?
- FEATURES
- Updated Stats
Depending on where Pokemon are in an evolutionary line, their BST (Base Stat Total) has been shifted to match a number with any other Pokemon in that stage. For example, if you were to add up Eevee's stats and compare it to Wooper in the base version of Pokemon Conquest, Eevee would be a lot stronger, because it is stronger in mainline Pokemon games (in this game, they based BST on the stats of Pokemon when they are at level 100, so however strong a Pokemon is in mainline games are usually reflected in normal Conquest!), but in this game, Eevee and Wooper's BST add up to the same total, since they are both unevolved Pokemon with only one evolution. Here is a reference point for data purposes-
Unevolved 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 585 BST
Unevolved 2 Stage Evolution Pokemon (like Eevee and Wooper!) - 635 BST
2nd Stage 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 735 BST
Standalone Pokemon (like Carnivine) + Scyther, Scizor - 785 BST
Fully Evolved 2 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 835 BST
Fully Evolved 3 Stage Evolution Pokemon - 885 BST
Legendary Pokemon - 1035 BST
These numbers may seem like a lot, but are actually pretty close to the averages that existed in the base game.
Images for the sake of comparison- Pokemon shown at 10% Link with normal energy on Base Conquest, then Twin Dragons.
The difference at 10% Link (which is essentially Level 10) is small, but this strength difference will scale over time, which will make it matter more in the long run.
- Quality of Life features
- Evolution Stones and Items can be bought in normal Shops instead of from the Wandering Merchant
- Every warrior can link with every Pokemon, albeit some have very low link caps
- Some gimmick items on maps have been rearranged or removed for the sake of enjoyment (ie Chrysalia fencing)
- Some items have been made cheaper
- Harmony items boost experience at a higher rate
- Every warrior also has an evolutionary line that reaches 99% and an extra strong option
- etc.
- Challenge features
Warriors use evolved Pokemon earlier in the story
Warriors use more helpful items to make players strategize against them
Most warrior skills now have a self debuff of some sort or are worse (comparison below between normal Conquest and Twin Dragons, main character does not have this warrior skill, they were just used for demonstrational purposes
Enemies have higher link with their Pokemon
Postgame stories have NFE Pokemon on enemy warriors instead of Little Cup Pokemon
- New Moves
In Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons, some moves have been replaced, Dig and Sky Drop have been removed, and many new ones have been made, amounting to 20 new moves and 20 replaced moves.
This includes new moves I have come up with and moves that were not featured in the game.
- Rising Voltage
- Tailwind
- Waterfall
- Bitter Malice (changed to Dark Type)
- Reckless Bolt
- Metal Sound
- and many more!
- Maps
Every map now has a fresh new background color to make every area more unique, instead of having a generic sky color. Here are a few examples!
I have begun to learn how to use Blender and worked with the limitations of Pokemon Conquest, and I have made a few new maps, which are a new addition to version 1.5.0! Please take a look at these image previews!
- Neo Illusio (banner claim for 5 turns win con)
Neo Avia (banner claim win con)
Greenleaf Recolor (same fundamentally)
- Credits and Links
There is a list of people I would like to dearly thank for making this possible. I would like to thank Deijin and co. (WhatAUsernameIHave, Baconfry, Snap, etc) for their discoveries of Pokemon Conquest, and with their knowledge, helped foster the tool RanseiLink that helped create this ROM Hack. Link to RanseiLink tool, as it is needed to patch a Pokemon Conquest ROM (which I will NOT provide) with the .rlmod patch file that is in the Google Drive, which will be listed below- https://github.com/Deijin27/RanseiLink
I would like to thank my testing team for the original version of the hack, released July 28th, 2022. Kirb, Rexbot2, ShiningBlue, and TJ The DJ played through the game to varying points and helped make it less of a mess. Thank you, Kirb, for refusing to play until I personally changed the starter to Scraggy for you, Rexbot2, for playing through the whole thing and introducing it to other people, ShiningBlue, for streaming the game to a large audience, and TJ The DJ, for inspiration for the hack itself.
All documentation and information is listed in the Google Drive, along with the changelog (which will be updated soon with v1.5.0 changes). If you need to ask questions or report any bugs, I will be quickest to respond on Discord as @bagonganda.
To find the Google Drive, you can follow this link here (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1exBjTkpTfuAqwnweADKR47Z3pRUS3fhQ), or visit the linktree here (https://linktr.ee/bagonganda) to get access to the Google Drive and the Twin Dragons Discord Server, alongside the Ransei Region server, which is the host of everything Pokemon Conquest (and Conquest ROM Hacks)!
Twin Dragons Server Link here - https://discord.gg/AMHUR8KqDs
There is now a survey for people who have played Pokemon Conquest: Twin Dragons! If you have, please take a look! https://forms.gle/BaRzRaPY6ddZRcEW9
v1.6.0 Changelog
----------------------
Large difficulty increase in all Postgame stories
Fix "Oichi's Army" issue in Recruit 40 Warriors stories
Fix "Ranmaru's Army" issue in Two Heroes
Lower power of Starstriker Lower power of Leaf Blade, now 3 Row Ahead
Raise Capacity of all Warriors by 1 besides Ranmaru Rank 1
Fix Greed Warrior Skill Update Rank Up requirement to 70, and 85 for MC
Changed encounter tables for a few Pokemon (Pawniard, Axew, Sandile)
Guardian Charm now does give exp, but only about 20%
Dealt with issue in main story where Kai would teleport to the boulders to hit them
Buffed Steel Spear's chances of side effects
WARNING. Neo Illusio is finicky in main story and may cause problems. If an issue occurs on the first time going into battle on one of these maps, like an enemy Pokemon being unhittable, running away from the battle/losing and trying again should fix it, unless you use that to cheese it and win anyways, your choice, but case in point, be aware these aren't perfect.
I hope that you enjoy this new and (hopefully) improved Conquest experience. Have a great day! Feel free to ask anything!
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