[Released] Pokemon Sacred Johto [V0.3]

[ArchyTheArc]

I'm in the Ruins of Alph area and almost ready to carry on the story, but according to the Pokedex, supposedly you can get a Pichu in the northern half of the area, but I have been searching the area both night and early morning and I have not come across a single one (nor in the caves, although I haven't been in the cave since it turned morning, not sure if that actually changes the Pokemon in there). I'd like to catch one now if possible, rather than waiting until the story is finished, or else my Pokemon will be too powerful to weaken it (I'm worried that I already am). I also have looked up the Pokedex for the Pokemon that are encountered here, and many of them say the area is unknown, so I am wondering if the Pokedex is misleading me here. I also was rather surprised not to encounter any Vulpix here since in Gold and Silver, the Ruins of Alph area is where it was encountered. This is why I usually like to see the Pokemon encounter list for a fan-game, so I have an idea of how long it will be in the game until I can get my ideal team put together.

Some of the old Metdata/encounter tables from the original essentials remains, only map in my data with pichu is an old map that amy have been there sorry for the confusion. and i can always add vulpix buuuut the game has version exclusives. (vulpix being one of them like in HGSS) really sorry about that, and vulpix, if added would be gold and growlithe silver. sorry about this, i can always switch your game version for you to get it/give you a vulpix in exchange for a growlithe, however if you picked silver you cant get it even if added. (however maybe after the post game)

 

[ArchyTheArc]

Okay, I wish you could add better designs of text boxes.

Well text boxes aren't a main area rn for me, if i get more spriters then yes i can work on those, only good ones to me in them are the HG and SS ones tbf so ill slowly update them.

 

[Luguno]

Hi i have problem every time when i want start the game there come this error
Script'Sprite_Resizer' line 20: TypeError occurred.
What should i do now

 

[ArchyTheArc]

Hi i have problem every time when i want start the game there come this error
Script'Sprite_Resizer' line 20: TypeError occurred.
What should i do now

Did you set your game to XL size? only reason it should be happening as its broken.

 

[Luguno]

Did you set your game to XL size? only reason it should be happening as its broken.

well poop
and how can i make the xl size off
i cant reach the options

 

[ArchyTheArc]

well poop
and how can i make the xl size off
i cant reach the options

Errr... i not sure how to do that, there isn't a way to externally edit the settings (i dont think) without deleting a save.

 

[TailsMK4]

I am aware of version changes in the game, but I thought I recall reading that there would be regular Vulpix in Gold and the new variation of Vulpix in Silver. After looking at your posts in Twitter, however, it appears the whole Omega Vulpix discussion took place after the reveal of version exclusive Pokemon. So my confusion here was the Pokedex area entries being incorrect. I'll proceed with the story in that case and hope to catch Vulpix/Pikachu in other areas (I am playing on Gold version).

 

[ArchyTheArc]

I am aware of version changes in the game, but I thought I recall reading that there would be regular Vulpix in Gold and the new variation of Vulpix in Silver. After looking at your posts in Twitter, however, it appears the whole Omega Vulpix discussion took place after the reveal of version exclusive Pokemon. So my confusion here was the Pokedex area entries being incorrect. I'll proceed with the story in that case and hope to catch Vulpix/Pikachu in other areas (I am playing on Gold version).

Only regular vulpix is an exclusive, reason for omega vulpix is not just due to its difference to regular vulpix and not being similiar to delta growlithe in anyway. if the omegas/deltas of both were close then Yes they'd be but i didn't feel like they should've.

So yes you'll get Vulpix, pikachu isn't in the game yet, only due to no real electricy areas, however ill find ways for them to appear and will most likely appear in union cave and route 33 later on

 

[Sun Moon]

I'm going to say something that might make you mad. The baby starters are garbo. Togekiss and Raichu are, at best, okay. Azumarill is one the worst Pokemon ever. Your starters are supposed to be the toughest Pokemon you can get for some time. I don't think that Azurill, Togepi, and Pichu are going to be able to see you through the beginning of a hard game. Which brings me to my next point. But first, I suggest replacing or adding the baby starters with Tyrogue, Smoochum, and Elekid.

My second point is a request to make the game hard. HG and SS were unplayable because of the nonexistent level curve, particularly at Mahogany Town. So I suggest that not only do you make the random trainers and Gym Leaders much tougher than HG and SS, but block off Mahogany Town, and really everything east of Ecruteak until after getting the fourth, fifth, and sixth badges so that the levels of the trainers can be nice and high.

 

[TailsMK4]

Here is where I respectfully disagree on the second point, though mostly because I only have played a little past the first gym. A Water Pokemon is NOT going to beat the first gym, mostly because of Lilligant. I almost had the thought of asking for that Gym Leader to be made a tad easier, cause even a level 20 Omega Pidgeotto was having problems beating the first Gym Leader alongside a level 22 Azumarill. And if your response to that was "why not just get more Pokemon?", why do I want to get Pokemon just to get past a gym, then never use them again? The random trainers I could agree should be a little harder, but I do not want the Gym Leaders being made harder than they are at this point.

 

[ArchyTheArc]

I'm going to say something that might make you mad. The baby starters are garbo. Togekiss and Raichu are, at best, okay. Azumarill is one the worst Pokemon ever. Your starters are supposed to be the toughest Pokemon you can get for some time. I don't think that Azurill, Togepi, and Pichu are going to be able to see you through the beginning of a hard game. Which brings me to my next point. But first, I suggest replacing or adding the baby starters with Tyrogue, Smoochum, and Elekid.

My second point is a request to make the game hard. HG and SS were unplayable because of the nonexistent level curve, particularly at Mahogany Town. So I suggest that not only do you make the random trainers and Gym Leaders much tougher than HG and SS, but block off Mahogany Town, and really everything east of Ecruteak until after getting the fourth, fifth, and sixth badges so that the levels of the trainers can be nice and high.

So about the first point, Azumarill, when used right is a power house especially end game, raichu sure isn't the best but is still useful, togekiss, yes is not excellent but has serene grace and is a monster with that. why its not tyrogue smoochum or elekid, A) tyrogue is the toughest pokemon to start with period, it has two attacking moves at level one, one being fake out then another move at 10, then 20 then 30. that would be the toughest to have at all. and smoochum and elekid appear early on in the game with magby as event pokemon. i chose these three as they fit and are good pokemon. giving an early ice mon would be too easy.

second point ill bring in the comment below;

Here is where I respectfully disagree on the second point, though mostly because I only have played a little past the first gym. A Water Pokemon is NOT going to beat the first gym, mostly because of Lilligant. I almost had the thought of asking for that Gym Leader to be made a tad easier, cause even a level 20 Omega Pidgeotto was having problems beating the first Gym Leader alongside a level 22 Azumarill. And if your response to that was "why not just get more Pokemon?", why do I want to get Pokemon just to get past a gym, then never use them again? The random trainers I could agree should be a little harder, but I do not want the Gym Leaders being made harder than they are at this point.

So they do state the gyms are harder, the gyms are much harder than most official games, with the 8th gymleader being at level 79. so its scaled up more and yes the first gym is 18-20 and lilligant is a issue as they state, the gym order, type and levels are nothing like HGSS, it would be dumb to just make a HGSS clone with the same leaders, levels and order.

Thank you for your critism or "help" while the first point is valid to say the second isn't without even playing.

 

[ArchyTheArc]

Here is where I respectfully disagree on the second point, though mostly because I only have played a little past the first gym. A Water Pokemon is NOT going to beat the first gym, mostly because of Lilligant. I almost had the thought of asking for that Gym Leader to be made a tad easier, cause even a level 20 Omega Pidgeotto was having problems beating the first Gym Leader alongside a level 22 Azumarill. And if your response to that was "why not just get more Pokemon?", why do I want to get Pokemon just to get past a gym, then never use them again? The random trainers I could agree should be a little harder, but I do not want the Gym Leaders being made harder than they are at this point.

Quoted you prior but will now to address you, sorry its rather hard, but i've now swapped synthesis for growth while it keeps leechseed, and the trainers are rather weak early on but scale with the gymleader/route levels. sorry that it was hard, i ran it prior with azumarill. the gym will be different in demo 3, or pre-demo 3 when its incomplete just to get content out for you, as i felt it was rather bland.

 

[looneyman1]

Togekiss and Raichu are, at best, okay. Azumarill is one the worst Pokemon ever.

?????????????.Nasty Plot on Raichu, roosting togekiss, are just...ok????


And Azumaill the worst pokemon???? What planet are you from?

 

[sonukiani123]

i cant walk in the lab i get blocked by invisible things help i want to play this game

 

[ArchyTheArc]

i cant walk in the lab i get blocked by invisible things help i want to play this game

Was fixed in patch, make sure you also install that as it says to! ^^

 

[TailsMK4]

Update since I resumed the game: I was stuck on the major battle at Ruins of Alph for a while (the level 20 Pokemon the trainer has is very powerful at this stage in the game, much like I thought one or two Pokemon in gym one was very powerful). After that, I had to talk to someone in front of the Union Cave in order to progress in the story. I will say in the forest you can find west of Violet City...you can kind of find your own shortcuts through the forest and not have to fight any of the trainers if you wish (including one of the professor's aides), although skipping them is EXP you may wish you got. While Azumarill had a VERY rough time in gym one, Azumarill was instead able to solo the entire gym two, even when my Pidgeotto got one shot in the double battle and also got one shot against the first Pokemon of the leader. So story-wise I need to return to the forest to do some more battling against the evil team of this story, I guess.

I encountered a bug that has broken one of the game's features for me, though, and this happened upon leaving the second gym to go heal at the Pokemon Center. My following Pokemon has stopped animating and cannot be talked to, switched out by the hotkey press, or returned to their Poke Ball while I'm traveling. Switching the party lead via the Pokemon menu just changes what Pokemon has their animation frozen. This does not affect battles, but getting free items on occasion was a nice thing to have (as well as checking happiness, though I know my two Pokemon right now are very happy), and I do not have that luxury now.

 

[looneyman1]

ok bit of progress for me, I tried again playing the game without patching the game with the latest update and I was able to go into the correct intro sequence. But the game crashed as the game lacks the graphics folder and some other crucial assets for the game to even run, which makes no sense at all....I mean everyone else can play this game without issue so I would assume they have all the proper folders so I don't see why I don't have them.

 

[TailsMK4]

ok bit of progress for me, I tried again playing the game without patching the game with the latest update and I was able to go into the correct intro sequence. But the game crashed as the game lacks the graphics folder and some other crucial assets for the game to even run, which makes no sense at all....I mean everyone else can play this game without issue so I would assume they have all the proper folders so I don't see why I don't have them.

I had this problem at first as well. Try using something like 7Zip instead of the default tool you use to extract .zip files. One of the files wouldn't extract for me no matter what without using another tool.

 

[looneyman1]

I had this problem at first as well. Try using something like 7Zip instead of the default tool you use to extract .zip files. One of the files wouldn't extract for me no matter what without using another tool.

I use WinRAR, that should work for just about anything

 

[TailsMK4]

I think I've reached a point in the game that is impossible to progress from. After defeating the leader of the portion of the villain team that is in the forest after beating gym two, you will leave the forest and tell the assistants of the second gym leader what happened, and a meeting takes place among the townsfolk afterwards. After the meeting, you are back at the entrance to the gym. However, this whole sequence has a lot of problems execution-wise. This could actually be long, so I'll spoiler it...although I will keep my discussion as spoiler-free as possible for the players that haven't played as far as I did yet.

Spoiler:

First, I'll address the main issue: when you leave the gym after the town meeting, you are warped back and the meeting takes place again, and return to the gym where the meeting will happen again when you leave. This repeats in an infinite loop, and the game crashed when I tried to get into the Pokemon Center during the meeting since when dialogue is not taking place, you are able to move your character. I was attempting to enter a building so that I could break the cycle and be able to move on.

Second, the meeting between the leader of the invading portion of the villain team and the second gym leader was a little strange, though the sprite of the second gym leader was missing, so at the end it was said that something happened to the gym leader, but from my perspective, all the enemy Pokemon did was look around after attacking the other Pokemon.

Third, your screen is pitch black when returning to the gym after the town meeting, so I had to guess at where to go to leave. The menu pulls up fine, but once you leave the menu, the screen returns to being pitch black.

Finally, the whole beating up the grunts in the forest left me in a somewhat dire situation as my Pidgeotto fainted early and had to battle the grunts using only Azumarill. You have to proceed with fighting off the main grunts before you can continue, but I fought most of the grunts. I had few PP left for Azumarill by the time I got to the third forest area, so I had to skip some battles. At the double battle at the end of the area, my Azumarill was so low on HP and PP, despite being level 35-36 at this time, that a burn status eventually claimed my Azumarill and the second gym leader had to solo the last Pokemon. I was RELIEVED to have the next battle afterwards since it allowed my Pokemon to get fully healed before fighting it. A healer available for the regular grunts was desperately needed, as this felt more like an endurance area instead of an area to progress the story. That may have been my mistake to only bring two Pokemon to fight against 30-40, but I didn't see any of the Pokemon I would normally play with in this game yet. Now that I've saved in this area, I cannot get out without going all the way, so going out to catch temporary Pokemon is out of the question, and because of the first issue, that will not happen until the game is updated. I'm stuck until then.

In short, the non-game breaking issue I have is regarding the fact the next segment of the game after the second gym is not suited very well to parties consisting of 1 or 2 Pokemon, and after beating said sequence, you will not be able to move on in the game at this time.