Emerald hack: Pokemon: Team Magma Edition - Beta 1.1 - 4/15/22

[Dr.joe]

Content Warning: This game contains strong language and violence, along with references to substance abuse and other sensitive topics.

Story Summary
In a region divided by three factions vying for dominance, each promoting a set of ideals they believe to be absolute, you are an idealistic young trainer aspiring to join Team Magma. In doing so, you hope to promote the advancement of mankind. It turns out that hope for a better world is a funny thing as nearly everyone has it in some way, but people take their hope in many different directions. Whether their hope is on land, in the water, in the sky, or somewhere else people will push for their dreams. In doing so, they often trample on the hopes and dreams of others all in the name of achieving their goal of a 'utopia'. This is the world you are thrust into. Upon joining Team Magma, you become a part of the Hoenn underworld where you soon realize that instead of right and wrong, there are only the weak and the strong. In Pokemon Team Magma Edition you will have the opportunity to work your way up through the ranks of Team Magma, using whatever means necessary (cheating, stealing, etc.) to make Maxie's vision of a perfect world for humans a reality. Explore Hoenn's three-way conflict and the toll it takes on the populace. Uncover the truth behind the formation of Team Aqua and Team Magma along with the mysterious team before their time and the truth behind the Devon Corp and Hoenn's government.

Features
-A stealing system that allows you to take pokemon from trainers you defeat (In Team Magma Edition stealing will be limited based on which side the area supports. An example is that due to Fallarbor supporting Team Magma you will be unable to steal from trainers in Fallarbor.) - Will be in Beta 1
-Custom Soundtrack
-Many features from Dizzyegg's Battle Engine
-Numerous quality of life improvements
-Many side quests
-Every bookcase is readable (find funny stories or read about the lore)
-Some hidden features that you will need to play to find!

BETA 1.1 CHANGES/FEATURES

Spoiler:

- Most grammar and spelling errors have been fixed
- Any sentence with ... will not have a space because its a character wasted and Comet doesn't like wasting space when Otto writes such long speeches
- Pokemon will not be spelled with the ` over the e. It takes time to do that and Comet has enough to type as is
- All reports involving the e in Pokemon and the ... will be ignored/deleted as will be any other grammatical errors that are similarly trivial or space/time saving
- The bookcases will all have something to read, however not all of them are in the game at the moment
- Dialogue for NPCs and trainers may be incomplete (anything plot relevant is in)
- Map issues have been fixed
- All reported issues with the Briney sidequest should be fixed (report if you are still finding errors)
- The issue with Stern's Shipyard should also be fixed
- Talking to Mr. Stone should not crash the game anymore
- Fixed the Desert music playing on Route 111 when not in the desert

Screenshots

Spoiler:

Download
Beta 1.1 - Released 4/15/22

Previous Versions
Beta 0.5.1 - Released 1/22/21 - Saves do not carry over
Beta 0.5.0 - Released 1/10/21


Known Bugs

Spoiler:

- Custom Music does not loop
- Custom Music audio glitches still occur
- Re-Battle Glitch (sometimes when you lose to a trainer that you can steal from it will have you choose a mon to steal and then immediately restart the battle with your pokemon with no health; there is no clear cause and Comet is working on a solution for the next beta)
- The surf tube doesn't have a reflection; Comet can't do anything about that at the moment, but may try to fix it in the future

Team
Dr.Joe - Programmer
Comet - Programmer, Scripter, Spriter, Mapper, Editor, Tester
Lord Otto - Writer, Storyboard
TNT - Writer, Editor, Tester
Jacko - Musician
Sureleyyy - Musician
KitKat Bar - Spriter
Obihugzenobi - Spriter
Cardigan - Concept Artist

Special Thanks
Dizzy Egg for his amazing battle engine
Avara for all of her great tutorials
Those at Pret that made the PokeEmerald Decomp
Our Balancing Team for helping to fine-tune the game difficulty

Custom Sound Track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8MtXqD2Hg&list=PLRKRRa1SBjOMXuqUTJ8jUGeKtE_Butkf9

Discord
https://discord.gg/Pd4GMAY24j

 

[Pyxal]

<snip>

Hey! Moved your thread here since two rules of RHS aren't fulfilled:

• At least twelve screenshots, which must not simply be battle screens, Pokédex entries, stat screens, or showcase areas which have not been significantly edited. Screenshots which have been manipulated to inaccurately portray the ROM hack, or are otherwise fraudulent, will not count towards this minimum.
• A download of a patch for a playable release of the ROM hack, which shows significant progress. The guideline is progress equivalent to what roughly seven Gyms of content would entail in a standard Pokémon game. The distribution of ROM files (.GBA, .NDS, .CIA, etc.) is illegal, and completely forbidden on the PokéCommunity. All downloads must be in patch form.

Otherwise it looks good!

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Ayeee! I remember joining the Discord server when the idea was first conceived ! Man, oh man, the screenshots looks dope as heck. Legit bookmarked this, lets gooo!

 

[t e r r a n c e]

Looking good

 

[LordOtto]

The .5 beta will drop on Sunday (the length will be one mission.

 

[Lucariokalos]

This is so cool this is like Pokemon Fire red rocket edition.

 

[bh02032002]

Content Warning: This game contains strong language and violence, along with references to substance abuse and other sensitive topics.

Story Summary
In a region divided by three factions vying for dominance, each promoting a set of ideals they believe to be absolute, you are an idealistic young trainer aspiring to join Team Magma. In doing so, you hope to promote the advancement of mankind. It turns out that hope for a better world is a funny thing as nearly everyone has it in some way, but people take their hope in many different directions. Whether their hope is on land, in the water, in the sky, or somewhere else people will push for their dreams. In doing so, they often trample on the hopes and dreams of others all in the name of achieving their goal of a 'utopia'. This is the world you are thrust into. Upon joining Team Magma, you become a part of the Hoenn underworld where you soon realize that instead of right and wrong, there are only the weak and the strong. In Pokemon Team Magma Edition you will have the opportunity to work your way up through the ranks of Team Magma, using whatever means necessary (cheating, stealing, etc.) to make Maxie's vision of a perfect world for humans a reality. Explore Hoenn's three-way conflict and the toll it takes on the populace. Uncover the truth behind the formation of Team Aqua and Team Magma along with the mysterious team before their time and the truth behind the Devon Corp and Hoenn's government.

Features
-A stealing system that allows you to take pokemon from trainers you defeat (In Team Magma Edition stealing will be limited based on which side the area supports. An example is that due to Fallarbor supporting Team Magma you will be unable to steal from trainers in Fallarbor.)
-Custom Soundtrack
-Many features from Dizzyegg's Battle Engine
-Numerous quality of life improvements
-Many side quests
-Every bookcase is readable (find funny stories or read about the lore)
-Some hidden features that you will need to play to find!

Screenshots

Spoiler:

Team
Dr.Joe - Programmer
Comet - Programmer, Scripter, Spriter, Mapper, Editor, Tester
Lord Otto - Writer, Storyboard
TNT - Writer, Editor, Tester
Jacko - Musician
Sureleyyy - Musician
KitKat Bar - Spriter
Obihugzenobi - Spriter
Cardigan - Concept Artist

Special Thanks
Dizzy Egg for his amazing battle engine
Avara for all of her great tutorials
Those at Pret that made the PokeEmerald Decomp
Our Balancing Team for helping to fine-tune the game difficulty

Custom Sound Track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8MtXqD2Hg&list=PLRKRRa1SBjOMXuqUTJ8jUGeKtE_Butkf9

Discord
https://discord.gg/Pd4GMAY24j

I also joined the discord when this started andI just want to say this looks fabulous and good, keep up the good work, and I wish you luck on the development!

 

[Uragami]

Another game while you playa s the villain, can't wait for it to be a master piece !

 

[hackstar]

Sounds like CAWPS so really excited. Needs more romhacks that doesn't follow tired gym challenges formula.

 

[LordOtto]

The beta is now out the length is 1 mission. (it is 1-3 hours long)

 

[Knight1107]

Hey I don't know how to say this but this rom hack and firered rocket edition are the best legendary rom hacks ever. I love the villian games so much and I hope this gets updated and hoping for a sequel to firered rocket edition. I love you guys so much and keep up the good work. ❤️

 

[ryyrty]

im loving this hack, i was waiting for a team magma/aqua hack like team rocket edition, now im waiting for team galatic edition😁, anyways, i have a question, after this gets finished..will you make team aqua edition?, i also think the custom soundtrack should improve a bit..

 

[LordOtto]

The custom soundtrack sounds great on youtube. The issue that we have been having is two main audio bigs those being voicegroup issues which affects the quality of the song that is why some custom music may sound a bit off. And sound effects playing ow the music. These two issues are linked to the voicegroups and unfortunately it is something we aren't sure how to fix. Voicegroups for decomp hacks have very little documentation and as a result it is kind of difficult for us. Ideally we figure it all out and post a patch fixing all of the music bugs but there is a really real possibility that the music will never be fixed or that it will take years until it is figured out.

 

[Jamil7474]

Wow 4 months waiting this game is best I hope final version come soon can't think how hard is making rom hack best of luck making game number 1

 

[Teamshadowbossace]

Can i be a beta tester

 

[LordOtto]

We don't really have beta testers yet when we get closer to beta 1 we'll most likely let people apply to be one though.

 

[Avara]

This is looking good so far, and what a great idea! It's really nice to see a hack that follows a different team than Team Rocket for a change. Best of luck :)

 

[AmazingCharizard]

There are already a couple of Team Rocket hacks but this is the first hack where you're part of Team Magma (to my knowledge). Good luck with your project!

 

[Infiniteraze]

This is good but pls reduce the difficulty spike. Also reducing the encounter rates would help. Other than that perfect rom to begin. Keep it up!

 

[Amazona]

Wow this is so different. Keep it up!