Tested alpha 1.2. The news tiles look nice. But there are some serious bugs.
1. I beat team rocket in New Bark Town and went to the Pokemon Centre to register and registered. But when I leave New Bark Town from the left it stills acts like I have not registered and pushes me to the right. This needs to be fixed
(I used the ghost cheatsto proceed further).
2. I fainted against team rocket in mysterous forest. Game Over. I revived in Cerulean City where there were no NPCs, then I crossed Saffron then returned to route 29.2. Then again went to mysterious forest. It behaved like the hoothoot episode script had already been finished. This also needs to be fixed (the game needs to make to warp to a johto pokemon centre in case of party fainting and the event flag should be reset so that the whole event triggers again). You should also test by fainting in each battle that to see what goes wrong in each case.
3. The mapping of top left corner of New Bark Town should be fixed.
4. Before going to the Donphan area, the game must make the player to complete the Pinsir forest quest. I can go the Donphan area without going to the Pinsir forest.
5. The OWs of heracross and pinsir need to be changed.
Suggestions, not technically bugs:
1. More trees and dark plants can be added to heracross and pinsir forest to make to give them a forest like feel.
2. I do not seem to find wild pokemon appearing in the grass of the routes after the New Bark town.
3. A Computer and a healing area can be added in the house near to the Donphan, so that Ash can get his 4 pokemons back before proceeding further to mysterious forest. Because you only use heracross against Dophan.