Pokémon Spinoff: Pokemon TCG Generations 1.3

[Cataclyptic]

Well, I would like to announce what would be the First Big Update of the Hack: 1.1 "The Fire and Psychic Expansion"!
Adding 11 New Cards, 2 New Sprites for the Trainer Cards and Major Hack Changes.

Changelog

Spoiler:

1.1: Fire and Psychic Expansion

Important Changes:
Now Every pack givess 1 extra Ultra Rare (STAR) card And The Gym Leaders give 1 Extra Pack

Errors:
Fixed Hydreigon Pack Location (MYSTERY-> COLOSSEUM)
FIXED Krokorok, Krookodile Pack Location (EVOLUTION->COLOSSEUM)
FIXED ZERAORA Pack Location (COLOSSEUM->MYSTERY)
Fixed Malamar Flail Attack Effect

Decriptions:
Changed Pelipper Agility Description
Changed Drapion LV12->LV52

PKMN Changes:
Duskclops Nightmare Attack now Deals 10 more (10->20)
Sweilous and Hydreigon Resist Psychic-> Resist Fire
Lugia Retreat Cost incresed by 1 and Aeroblast Effect changed to Whirlwind Effect
Tympole Flail Attack now Cost 1 Fighting energy instead of 1 Water

New Cards:
COLOSSEUM SET:
Woobat, Swoobat

MYSTERY SET:
Bagon, Shelgon, Salamence

LABORATORY SET:
Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge
Beldum, Metang, Metagross

New Sprites:
Energy Search and Mysterious Fossil

The Different Versions with 4 and 8 Colors 👆

Ooh. I have some questions:

1) What is the difference between Ultra Rare and Rare for this hack?
2) What does the 8 color mysterious fossil / energy search sprites do? Did you put it in the game somehow?
3) Hacking question: how did you make Tech Aaron give 50 energies in each booster pack?

 

[Paperfire88]

Ooh. I have some questions:

1) What is the difference between Ultra Rare and Rare for this hack?
2) What does the 8 color mysterious fossil / energy search sprites do? Did you put it in the game somehow?
3) Hacking question: how did you make Tech Aaron give 50 energies in each booster pack?

1): I refer to Rarities like this: Common (Circle), Rare (Diamond) and Ultra Rare (Star). I will assume that the Term is Super Rare, the Ultra Rare thing is from Yugioh xd

2): I would like it but no, those Sprites are simply the "Original" Sprites since when it comes to making Sprites I make them first in 8 Colors and then I change them to 4.
I simply show these so they can see the "Good" version of the sprite.

3): Honestly I don't remember anymore, but it was one of the First Things I did. I think someone mentioned it on your forum.

EDIT: I remember! It's in SRC/Constants/Booster Constants.asm Literally the First Line xd.
For Some Reason It Only Affects Energy Boosters and nothing else, I'm assuming it's due to the Lack of Rarities?

 

[Cataclyptic]

Ah I see. Yeah in Pokemon it's Circle = Common, Diamond = Uncommon, Star = Rare, so I thought you made a new rarity. I guess you still could by displacing the promotional rarity somehow but... I have yet to figure out how to make cards of rarities 'sometimes' appear in boosters, such as in the Yugioh TCG and their ultra rares not being in every booster (I think, been a long time since I opened one X/ ).

Also, can confirm you did discover something potentially fun. If you change the number of cards in boosters as you did in the line above, and then go to data>booster packs and likewise change all the rarity number to match the value you just put in, it will straight up give you more cards per booster. Tested just now by changing it to 11 and adding a rare slot to each pack- worked. However: You have to alter ALL the booster packs in data to that number, not doing so crashes the game in very fun ways when you receive a booster pack.

Does the above have value? Maybe...? Making the NPC's give more boosters also does the same thing in a less convoluted way...

EDIT: I tried to download V1.1 of this hack, but it looks like it's the same thing? It says I should expect 2 ultra rares per booster, but I only got 1, so I'm assuming I'm still on 1.01.

 

[Ziko577]

The rarity thing is correct actually. The highest rarity of cards goes up to Secret Rare nowadays actually. TPC probably stole that from Yu-Gi-Oh! as the Ultra & Secret rarities are a recent thing from a couple of years back. In the early days of the TCG, the highest was a normal holofoil Rare and Black Star Promos.

 

[Paperfire88]

Ah I see. Yeah in Pokemon it's Circle = Common, Diamond = Uncommon, Star = Rare, so I thought you made a new rarity. I guess you still could by displacing the promotional rarity somehow but... I have yet to figure out how to make cards of rarities 'sometimes' appear in boosters, such as in the Yugioh TCG and their ultra rares not being in every booster (I think, been a long time since I opened one X/ ).

Also, can confirm you did discover something potentially fun. If you change the number of cards in boosters as you did in the line above, and then go to data>booster packs and likewise change all the rarity number to match the value you just put in, it will straight up give you more cards per booster. Tested just now by changing it to 11 and adding a rare slot to each pack- worked. However: You have to alter ALL the booster packs in data to that number, not doing so crashes the game in very fun ways when you receive a booster pack.

Does the above have value? Maybe...? Making the NPC's give more boosters also does the same thing in a less convoluted way...

EDIT: I tried to download V1.1 of this hack, but it looks like it's the same thing? It says I should expect 2 ultra rares per booster, but I only got 1, so I'm assuming I'm still on 1.01.

Honestly, I think that one day we would have to make a tutorial or compilation of things that can be done in the game, simply so that it would be easier for others xd.

I have tried downloading and applying the patch on my phone and it works as it should, although there was a time when the patcher installed an older version than the one I wanted to install and I had to clear the cache for it to work as it should, I don't know what you use but I guess it's something similar?

 

[Cataclyptic]

Honestly, I think that one day we would have to make a tutorial or compilation of things that can be done in the game, simply so that it would be easier for others xd.

I have tried downloading and applying the patch on my phone and it works as it should, although there was a time when the patcher installed an older version than the one I wanted to install and I had to clear the cache for it to work as it should, I don't know what you use but I guess it's something similar?

Nevermind I'm an idiot and got it.

Also yeah, in V1.3 of my game, I'm going to include a list of how to do most things in the pret file.

 

[Cataclyptic]

So, I've played the game (v1.1), so I'll share my thoughts. But first, the list I used to beat the game, which I am convinced is the most overpowered deck in the current game:

Spoiler:

Appropriately for the update titled "fire and psychic", the best deck is a fire and psychic deck.

Deck name: Hellfire (because I'm edgy today)

GRASS (2): 2 Celebi.
FIRE (8): 2 Houndour, 1 Turtonator, 1 Entei, 2 Fuecoco, 2 Skeledirge.
PSYCHIC (4): 2 Deino, 2 Hydreigon.
COLORLESS (2): 2 Drampa.
TRAINER (25): 3 Professor Oak, 4 Bill, 4 Pokemon Trader, 4 Pokemon Breeder, 2 Energy Search, 3 Switch, 3 Computer Search, 2 Item Finder.
ENERGY (19): 13 Fire energy, 6 Psychic energy.

You can adjust the ratios as you please, the concept will be the same. Still not sure if 4 pokemon breeders are better than 2 Crocalors + 2 Zweilous.

So how does the Hellfire deck work? Well, the plan of attack is very simple: Get Skeledirge out and attach 3 energy to it so it can use Burning Voice, which always does 120 damage. Nothing in the game has more than 120HP due to technical limitations, so you will always OHKO everything.

Now I can already hear my critics: "Cataclyptic, stop being so dyslexic. Burning Voice does 10 less damage for every damage counter on Skeledirge!"

^^ Except you're wrong, because Hydreigon exists. Hydreigon is the second pokemon you need to bring out, because it has Dark Impulse, which reads as follows: "Remove damage counters from Skeledirge for free. Also, in the event Skeledirge somehow becomes compromised, put those damage counters on this pokemon or one of the Drampa's and then do a billion damage anyway with the Rage attack".

As you can see, it's a very useful ability. Hydreigon modulates damage counters to anywhere you want, so Skeledirge is always at max HP and thus always does 120 damage. Also Skeledirge can heal for 1 fire in case you need to modulate further.

Drampa is basically mini Hydreigon minus the ability, and a hilarious broken starter. It can paralyze for 1 colorless and it's rage attack nearly hits as hard as Hydreigon's, making it perfect to wall up before playing Skeledirge.

Due to the hilarious broken search and draw spells of early pokemon, this concept is very easy to execute. The rest of the deck is basically countermeasures against common walls to keep the damage train going.

Status got you down? Get Celebi, a searchable pokemon with an infinite full heal.
Spiritomb? Find Houndour, attack with Smog until it dies from poison. Or Skeledirge's first attack.
Wrong active pokemon? Get Switch.
Need to modulate energy? Get Turtonator or Entei depending on if you need more fires or need to rearrange what's on the board.

This deck is nuts and essentially has no weaknesses. The only real weak point I can think of it Tyrantrum and its no evolution ability. But it's a stage 2 that can't be used by Pokemon Breeder, so this deck is faster- just get your mons out before Tyrantrum and go ham anyway. Or like, Drampa still works as an unevolved counter.

I have yet to lose once with this deck.

So, I really enjoyed the game! There is a ton of variety in here and a lot of interesteing pokemon to play with. The cross generational feel has been done really well, with fan favorites everywhere. Getting all the cards is really easy too, due to the lack of promos and booster packs giving 1 more rare per pack.

There are, sadly, a lot of bugs. There are many instances where effects don't work, or attacks are displayed incorrectly, or the card text overflows past the screen. A pericularly annoying one I found involved Audino healing an Escavalied for 1 damage, causing it to stack overflow and give the pokemon 120 HP instead with all damage blacked out. Also the cursor doesn't work for some reason.

To help with this, I'll give some hacking advice because this really is a good game. I also recommend getting FNR as a program, it easily finds and replaces words in many documents, saved me when I had to rewrite every pokemon. Just be sure to use the correct case, and beware of replacing things found in files you don't want!

Spoiler:

[[The Ai isn't displaying the correct attack name and effect when attacking.]]
— Check constants> card constants and note the order of the list. Then go to data > cards and make sure the list order is the same for there too. EG if you replaced the scyther slot with Skeledirge, make sure that SYCTHER is displayed as the name under rarity and set. Repeat until the lost is fixed.

[[Some abilities are 'hardcoded']]
— Things like Energy Burn and Transparency are found elsewhere in the game, you have to alter the [POKEMON] these functions point to in order to change them manually. EG, Transparency is found and handled in Substatus, just do a control F search to find it. I'm pretty sure energy burn and thick skinned are handled in effect functions.

[[The Ai doesn't use energy boost]]
— This one is a lot more complicated to fix. in order for me to do it, I had to delete a specific secrion of the energy boost code. Then, I had to make sure it was pointed in special attacks to the pokemon it was on, and even then it only works for lightning energy. To make it do more than one, you need to copy thr code in several places so the AI can understand it.

I can explain it further if you want, but it might be best to look at my own pret file to see what's different about it.

[[Isaac can play Manectric as a basic]]
— In Engine-> Duel -> AI, -> Decks, you've pribably defined Manectric as a pokemon that can be played from the hand, just switch it to a basic to fix.

… and just in general, keep in mind that if you add trainer effects to pokemon attacks, all conditions have to be met for that pokemon to use that attack. As a perfect example, Skeledirge cannot use its Vitality Song attack unless there is damage to be removed from a pokemon. Things of that nature.

 

[Paperfire88]

[[The Ai doesn't use energy boost]]
— This one is a lot more complicated to fix. in order for me to do it, I had to delete a specific secrion of the energy boost code. Then, I had to make sure it was pointed in special attacks to the pokemon it was on, and even then it only works for lightning energy. To make it do more than one, you need to copy thr code in several places so the AI can understand it.

I can explain it further if you want, but it might be best to look at my own pret file to see what's different about it.

Well yes, I would like to know more about that xd.
I've already fixed most of the problems and I've been making several changes to many cards (and mainly nerfing Skeledirge and Drampa), practically the only thing I have left to edit would be Energy Boost.

 

[lmalvo6]

I really really love the game man! Thank you for releasing such a fun makeover of a classic. I have no constructive criticism for you as this is the first tcg romhack I've played and also the first time I beat the elite 4. My only hope is that you continue the development of the game. Keep up the work man! I'm a big fan.

 

[Paperfire88]

Hello, I would like to ask you something: Which of these do you think is better?

Those on the Left have more Details but less Variety of Colors and those on the Right have Less Details but have "more" Colors

I ask this because in the Next Update I am going to Update some of the Game Sprites (Since there are some that I have done several months ago, the Original Toxicroak Sprite for example, was done in March of this year), and I would like to know which one do you like more.

 

[Cataclyptic]

Well yes, I would like to know more about that xd.
I've already fixed most of the problems and I've been making several changes to many cards (and mainly nerfing Skeledirge and Drampa), practically the only thing I have left to edit would be Energy Boost.

Alright, here you go.

As for the sprite examples, it really is a choice between more shading details and less colors VS more colors and less shading details. You have to pick one, and then use it for every card so that the art style is consistent. You know me, I prefer more colors, which is why I already chose that option in my game.

Spoiler:

Okay, here's how to force the AI to learn how to do Energy Spike. First, I will give an example of how to make 1 pokemon use the attack correctly, then I will tell you how to expand that.

First, go to Engine > Duel > AI> Core. Go to .SelectAttackParameters on line 2036 or so, and you will see a list of special attacks the AI can use. Go to the EnergySpike one and alter it to the name of whatever pokémon you want. Save.

Next, go to Engine > Duel > AI > Special attacks. You will see a list of pokémon immediately with their corresponding special attacks, go to the Energy Spike one and change the name to whatever it was to put above in step one. While you are there, go down to .energyspike down below and you will see this:

ld a, CARD_LOCATION_DECK
ld e, LIGHTNING_ENERGY
call CheckIfAnyCardIDinLocation
jp nc, .zero_score
call AIProcessButDontPlayEnergy_SkipEvolution
ld a, $83
ret

This is specifically the code for the AI to use energy spike to find lightning energy (more on this later). For now, you have to delete the jp nc lines, both of them, so that the AI is incentivized to use the attack as much as possible if it can't deal damage (there is already a priority in place for how the AI processes attacks, we don't need to mess with that, just take advantage of it). So do this instead:

ld a, CARD_LOCATION_DECK
ld e, LIGHTNING_ENERGY
call CheckIfAnyCardIDinLocation
call AIProcessButDontPlayEnergy_SkipEvolution
ld a, $83
ret

Finally, put the unaltered Effect Commands for Energy Spike onto the pokémon you specified in every part until now. Congratulations, you now have 1 pokemon that can use the Energy Spike command to find Lightning energy only and attach it to a pokémon. The code as it is now works only on ONE pokémon so don't be confused.
So next, let's deal with other pokémon using this attack and other energies. In order to make a second pokémon do this, you have to duplicate the codes in Special Attacks and Ai Core, as well as put them onto another pokémon. So as an example, in special attacks it would look something like this:

cp POKEMON1
jp z, .EnergySpike
cp POKEMON2
jp z, .EnergySpike

And for Ai > Core it would be:

cp POKEMON1
jr z, .EnergySpike
cp POKEMON2
jr z, .EnergySpike

This duplication allows for more than one pokémon to use energy spike- but only for lightning energy. To make the AI understand how to get other types, we have to do more changes.

First, in AI > Core, go to your lightning energy spike commands and rename them. For instance I did:
cp POKEMON1
jr z, .EnergySpikeLI
cp POKEMON2
jr z, .EnergySpikeLI

and do the same thing for the .EnergySpike effect found below.

^^^ This now indicates that this energy spike command works specifically for lightning energies. Do the same thing in the Special Attacks section. Next, we will go back to AI > Core and down to the actual code for EnergySpikeLI that you named. Copy this code and paste it down below, then name it, for instance, .EnergySpikeGR for grass energy. Then where it says

ld a, CARD_LOCATION_DECK
ld e, LIGHTNING_ENERGY
Change it to
ld a, CARD_LOCATION_DECK
ld e, GRASS_ENERGY

Likewise, go back up to the pokémon list and create new lines for this new code you have just made. In this, case, it would look something like.
cp POKEMON1
jr z, .EnergySpikeGR
cp POKEMON2
jr z, .EnergySpikeGR

And then, do the same thing in AI > Special attacks, copying the effect code and replacing it with grass energy instead. Congratulations, now the AI understands how to search for both Grass and Lightning energy as soon as you put the pokémon in place, and give the energy spike effect commands.

Look at my examples in my pret file if you still need examples.

 

[Paperfire88]

Alright, here you go.

As for the sprite examples, it really is a choice between more shading details and less colors VS more colors and less shading details. You have to pick one, and then use it for every card so that the art style is consistent. You know me, I prefer more colors, which is why I already chose that option in my game.

Thanks and about the Sprites, the truth is I never pay attention to the Consistency, I simply chose the version that I liked the most or the one that had the best colors, all the Sprites are like that and in fact most of them don't even share colors xd .

In fact, that's something I thought about doing but I found it quite boring to do and I prefer each Sprite to have its own colors and its own "Feel" (And because I'm very bad at making Palettes and being fixed on only using one xd).

 

[lmalvo6]

Hello, I would like to ask you something: Which of these do you think is better?

Those on the Left have more Details but less Variety of Colors and those on the Right have Less Details but have "more" Colors

I ask this because in the Next Update I am going to Update some of the Game Sprites (Since there are some that I have done several months ago, the Original Toxicroak Sprite for example, was done in March of this year), and I would like to know which one do you like more.

I prefer the right side sprites more with more attention to details than the ones on the left with more colors. All the people playing this game are familiar with the pokemon already so I feel there is no need to color them true to their original form. The monochrome ones look better to me and the details really make it pop. I prefer the monochrome ones to the ones in original color.

 

[Paperfire88]

Alright, here you go.

I already did everything and is quite simple, now I tried to add another Pokemon to use the same Energy Spike Command and I got this Error (before adding this Extra nothing in particular happened):

Spoiler:

src/text/text_offsets.asm: no newline at end of file
rgblink -p 0xff -m poketcg.map -n poketcg.sym -l src/layout.link -o poketcg.gbc src/main.o src/home.o src/gfx.o src/text.o src/audio.o src/wram.o src/hram.o
error: src/main.asm(82) -> src/engine/duel/ai/core.asm(1811) -> src/engine/duel/ai/special_attacks.asm(31): jr target out of reach (expected -129 < 129 < 128)
error: src/main.asm(82) -> src/engine/duel/ai/core.asm(1811) -> src/engine/duel/ai/special_attacks.asm(15): jr target out of reach (expected -129 < 131 < 128)
Linking failed with 2 errors
make: *** [Makefile:96: poketcg.gbc] Error 1

Here's what I put in Special Attacks Just In Case:

Spoiler:

cp ELECTRODE_LV35
jp z, .EnergySpikeLight
cp PARAS
jp z, .EnergySpikeGrass
cp TANGELA_LV12
jp z, .EnergySpikeGrass

 

[Cataclyptic]

I already did everything and is quite simple, now I tried to add another Pokemon to use the same Energy Spike Command and I got this Error (before adding this Extra nothing in particular happened):

Spoiler:

src/text/text_offsets.asm: no newline at end of file
rgblink -p 0xff -m poketcg.map -n poketcg.sym -l src/layout.link -o poketcg.gbc src/main.o src/home.o src/gfx.o src/text.o src/audio.o src/wram.o src/hram.o
error: src/main.asm(82) -> src/engine/duel/ai/core.asm(1811) -> src/engine/duel/ai/special_attacks.asm(31): jr target out of reach (expected -129 < 129 < 128)
error: src/main.asm(82) -> src/engine/duel/ai/core.asm(1811) -> src/engine/duel/ai/special_attacks.asm(15): jr target out of reach (expected -129 < 131 < 128)
Linking failed with 2 errors
make: *** [Makefile:96: poketcg.gbc] Error 1

Ah yes, I forgot the last thing. It turns out there are a limited number of "slots" that you can use for special attacks the AI can use. So in order to make room, you have to delete some of them from other areas. In my case I deleted Mix Up, I think, because I found it was a weird attack. And some of the hyper beam slots too. Can't remember the exact details but yeah.

 

[Devlain]

Well, I would like to announce what would be the First Big Update of the Hack: 1.1 "The Fire and Psychic Expansion"!
Adding 11 New Cards, 2 New Sprites for the Trainer Cards and Major Hack Changes.

Changelog

Spoiler:

1.1: Fire and Psychic Expansion

Important Changes:
Now Every pack givess 1 extra Ultra Rare (STAR) card And The Gym Leaders give 1 Extra Pack

Errors:
Fixed Hydreigon Pack Location (MYSTERY-> COLOSSEUM)
FIXED Krokorok, Krookodile Pack Location (EVOLUTION->COLOSSEUM)
FIXED ZERAORA Pack Location (COLOSSEUM->MYSTERY)
Fixed Malamar Flail Attack Effect

Decriptions:
Changed Pelipper Agility Description
Changed Drapion LV12->LV52

PKMN Changes:
Duskclops Nightmare Attack now Deals 10 more (10->20)
Sweilous and Hydreigon Resist Psychic-> Resist Fire
Lugia Retreat Cost incresed by 1 and Aeroblast Effect changed to Whirlwind Effect
Tympole Flail Attack now Cost 1 Fighting energy instead of 1 Water

New Cards:
COLOSSEUM SET:
Woobat, Swoobat

MYSTERY SET:
Bagon, Shelgon, Salamence

LABORATORY SET:
Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge
Beldum, Metang, Metagross

New Sprites:
Energy Search and Mysterious Fossil

The Different Versions with 4 and 8 Colors 👆

Finished this release with this list:

Spoiler:

Pignite/Emboar/Drampa Beatdown
[Energies: 12]
10x Fire Energy
2x Double Colorless Energy
[Pokemon: 17]
4x Tepig
3x Pignite
3x Emboar
2x Entei
2x Zigzagoon
1x Drampa
2x Dunsparce
[Trainers: 31]
3x Professor Oak
4x Bill
2x Energy Retrieval
1x Super energy retrieval
2x Energy Search
4x Energy Removal
2x Super Energy Removal
2x Switch
2x Computer Search
2x Pluspower
1x Item Finder
2x Gust of Wind
2x Potion
2x Full Heal

Really liked this release even if I didn't tested yet the new Metagross, Skeledirge, Salamence and Swoobat.
As pointed by another user, I think that Drampa is probably one of the best if not the best Pokemon in the game and could wrap the game around him. Maybe less HP or a more expensive Rage (maybe for RCC or RR) could help.

Hello, I would like to ask you something: Which of these do you think is better?

Those on the Left have more Details but less Variety of Colors and those on the Right have Less Details but have "more" Colors

I ask this because in the Next Update I am going to Update some of the Game Sprites (Since there are some that I have done several months ago, the Original Toxicroak Sprite for example, was done in March of this year), and I would like to know which one do you like more.

The top-right is the one I like the best personally. I'd rather have more contrasting elements and lose details like shadows, I think that's what make the Pokemon even more recognizable

 

[Paperfire88]

Well, I would like to announce the Second Big Update of the Hack: 1.2 "The Rock and Thunder" Update!
Adding 4 New Cards, 5 New Sprites for some PKMN, various Bug Fixes and Many Changes to the Cards.

Changelog

Spoiler:

1.2: Rocks and Thunder

Important Changes:
Fixed AI using/displaying the wrong attack

Errors:
-

Decriptions:
Fixed Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge, Beldum, Metang and Metagros having the wrong Description.
Fixed Regidrago being level 20

PKMN Changes:
-Emboar's Flareblitz now costs 1 less Fire Energy and now only needs to discard 1 energy to activate its effect.

-Skelerdirge's Burning Voice now does 100 damage instead of 120 and Vitality Song now only does 10 damage instead of 20

-Drampa's HP is now 80 instead of 90 and Rage now costs 1 more colorless energy

-Sneasel's Second Attack is now Knock Off (Instead of Beat Up)
Weavile's Beat Up now costs 1 less Water Energy and deals 10 less Damage.

-Hondoom's Fire Blast now costs 3 Fire Energy and 1 Psychic Energy

-Murkrow now has Prankster as his PokePower (Basically Peek) and his Second Attack is now Knock Off
Honchkrow's Second Attack is now Pay Day

-Flapple's Corrosive Acid now costs 2 Grass Energy and 1 Fire Energy and now does 50 Damage instead of 30

-Tyrunt and Tyrantrum now resist Fire

-Omastar's Mix Up now does 10 more Damage

-Suicune now Resists Fire and has a Weakness to Lightning

-Charjabug and Vikavol now have a weakness to Fire and Resist Grass

-Beautifly now Resists Fighting and has a Weakness to Lightning
Dustox now Resists Grass and has a Psychic Weakness

-Yammega's Slicing wind now costs 1 Grass Energy less.

-Litleo now has Roar again (Now it works Xd)

-Shinx now has Roar as his First Attack

-Camerupt Now has Eruption as its Second Attack

-Floatzel's Hydro Pump Costs 1 less Water energy and deals 10 less Damage

-Dewgong's Retreat Cost is now 1 less

-Drednaw Bite now costs 2 Water Energy and 1 Fighting Energy

-Audino now has Healer instead of Healing Winds (Basically Delicious Aroma)

New Cards:
COLOSSEUM SET:
-

MYSTERY SET:
Rockruff, Lycanroc, and Lycanroc Midnight

LABORATORY SET:
Regieleki

New Sprites:
Murkrow, honchkrow, Weavile, Audino, Toxicroak,

And Here is Also a Small Challenge: now there is another Version of the Game where only Common cards appear, the "LC" version.
It's a small experiment, the truth is I don't know if you can finish the game like this, but you know what? I say you can't, go ahead Prove me wrong >=D

 

[Devlain]

Well, I would like to announce the Second Big Update of the Hack: 1.2 "The Rock and Thunder" Update!
Adding 4 New Cards, 5 New Sprites for some PKMN, various Bug Fixes and Many Changes to the Cards.

Changelog

Spoiler:

1.2: Rocks and Thunder

Important Changes:
Fixed AI using/displaying the wrong attack

Errors:
-

Decriptions:
Fixed Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge, Beldum, Metang and Metagros having the wrong Description.
Fixed Regidrago being level 20

PKMN Changes:
-Emboar's Flareblitz now costs 1 less Fire Energy and now only needs to discard 1 energy to activate its effect.

-Skelerdirge's Burning Voice now does 100 damage instead of 120 and Vitality Song now only does 10 damage instead of 20

-Drampa's HP is now 80 instead of 90 and Rage now costs 1 more colorless energy

-Sneasel's Second Attack is now Knock Off (Instead of Beat Up)
Weavile's Beat Up now costs 1 less Water Energy and deals 10 less Damage.

-Hondoom's Fire Blast now costs 3 Fire Energy and 1 Psychic Energy

-Murkrow now has Prankster as his PokePower (Basically Peek) and his Second Attack is now Knock Off
Honchkrow's Second Attack is now Pay Day

-Flapple's Corrosive Acid now costs 2 Grass Energy and 1 Fire Energy and now does 50 Damage instead of 30

-Tyrunt and Tyrantrum now resist Fire

-Omastar's Mix Up now does 10 more Damage

-Suicune now Resists Fire and has a Weakness to Lightning

-Charjabug and Vikavol now have a weakness to Fire and Resist Grass

-Beautifly now Resists Fighting and has a Weakness to Lightning
Dustox now Resists Grass and has a Psychic Weakness

-Slicing wind now costs 1 Grass Energy less.

-Litleo now has Roar again (Now it works Xd)

-Shinx now has Roar as his First Attack

-Camerupt Now has Eruption as its Second Attack

-Floatzel's Hydro Pump Costs 1 less Water energy and deals 10 less Damage

-Dewgong's Retreat Cost is now 1 less

-Drednaw Bite now costs 2 Water Energy and 1 Fighting Energy

-Audino now has Healer instead of Healing Winds (Basically Delicious Aroma)

New Cards:
COLOSSEUM SET:
-

MYSTERY SET:
Rockruff, Lycanroc, and Lycanroc Midnight

LABORATORY SET:
Regieleki

New Sprites:
Murkrow, honchkrow, Weavile, Audino, Toxicroak,

And Here is Also a Small Challenge: now there is another Version of the Game where only Common cards appear, the "LC" version.
It's a small experiment, the truth is I don't know if you can finish the game like this, but you know what? I say you can't, go ahead Prove me wrong >=D

Ok. Doing a LC run before the 3rd standard run xD

 

[bleedpark]

Sorry I haven't done any uploads yet. Everything is done on my phone and my girlfriend is being petty af. I had moved the remote for our speaker to my side of the couch 1 too many times. So while I was pulling some overtime at work, she took and hid all of my PS4 controllers. It has been 3 weeks 😫

 

[Devlain]

LC Challenge report: Tyrunt Control (or how a little Dinosaur broke the LC Challenge)

Just to be clear, I always thought that Tyrunt was a really oppressive card but it was with this only common challenge that I understood that it is just broken in this format.
I get some uncommon and rare cards from the starter deck but I ended up building a full common list just for the challenge.

The list:

Spoiler:

Tyrunt Control
[Energies: 14]
7x Fighting Energy
7x Psychic Energy
[Pokemon: 16 or 20 *]
3x Duskull
3x Murkrow
3x Zigzagoon
3x Dunsparce
4x Tyrunt
4x Mysterious Fossil * (a trainer, but let be honest, is a Pokemon Card)
[Trainers: 30 or 26 *]
4x Bill
4x Mysterious Fossil *
4x Energy Search
4x Energy Removal
4x Switch
3x Gust of Wind
4x Potion
3x Gambler

The picks. All explained:
* Tyrunt: The star of the deck. This guy is OP. I always thought that 2 energies for an energy removal with 20 damage was almost broken but I also thought that a 60 HP Pkmn with water weakness could be easily knocked out by any Water attacker (which is true!). In the end, the energy removal with 20 damage that early in the game is just that oppressive that there is no Pokemon that could 1 hit KO him with a single energy attack. The only escape: Rain Dance from greninja but there is only 1 trainer in all the game that use it if I'm not wrong and with this build she shouldn't be capable of assembling her Stage 2 ninja frog.
* Dunsparce: I never used Glare in the standard format but now I understand how powerful is this attack and this pokemon. The transition from Bill to the same attack that Jungle's Likitung for twice as much damage is just seamless. I always used 2 Dunsparce in the base game but just used it as a support for the draw power. It could stall, draw a lot of cards and even KO something weakened. A beast in LC.
* Zigzagoon: I always thought this was an amazing support pokemon. No retreat cost and team assembly for C? Wonderful! I never resolved a single Pin Missile in the base game because I used Zigzagoon just as a support and I thought it was 2 or maybe 3 coins, but no! It's 4 coins for CCC! It's Kangaskhan's Comet Punch for one less energy! In this deck is the same support as always but it is also our "finisher" that could beat everything after the oppressive energy denial.
* Duskull: Hypnosis sleeps ALWAYS. Another case of "read the card explains the card". Between Hypnosis to stall, Dark Revival to revenge kill or do a spread of damage after a KO or an opponent's Prof. Oak Duskull could even do a killing spree chaining between Dark Revivals (and we could block the opponent bench with good targets for our Gust of Wind). What else we can ask? I dunno but the guy has no retreat cost too just to let us pivot even more between our menaces, supports or denial tools.
* Murkrow: There's a reason why Psyduck was used in Base-Fossil era as an opener. Trainer denial could brick a lot of decks and if you add damage to the formula it is even more oppressive. The stall is not as strong without Lass to support us but the value that we could get from opening with it and blocking some trainers at the start of the game could give us the game easily after building our first Tyrunt. Also, another pokemon without retreat cost to continue pivoting.

All trainers are pretty obvious except for:
* Gambler: The new Gambler does the best impression of Professor Oak a control/stall deck could dream of. Not only we shuffle our hand instead of discarding it to not lose to mill but we can always pitch it with 3 or less cards in our hand just to "refresh" the hand. It is an amazing draw also when we are in topdeck mode because it is just a "draw 3 cards".
* 4 Switchs?: Yeah. Normally I use 2 switch + 1 full heal in most decks or a 3 / 2 split in decks that are really reliable in a single pokemon with an expensive retreat cost, but THERE'S NO FULL HEAL in the format. So I just used 4 "full heals" in the form of pivot pokemon without retreat cost (9: Zigzagoon, Duskull, Murkrow) since Tyrunt has a retreat cost of 2.

After all this I could say that maybe Tyrunt need a little nerf because it is the only pokemon that could do a energy denial attack for 2 energies in all the format and I don't think many decks could escape that level of oppression. This could maybe even beat Cataclyptic's Hellfire Deck that proved to be problematic prior to 1.2 (with the help of Lass and the rest of uncommon and rares).

All things say. It was an amazing challenge, I had such a blast doing it! I don't know if I'm doing a v1.2 standard run soon but if I do so I'll try the Pokemon introduced in 1.1 & 1.2 because I didn't tested any yet.

Thanks again for the game! It is really cool and I really appreciate the experience of playing it, it let me feel like when I was a kid and played the original pokemon tcg for gbc for the first time =)