FireRed hack: Pokemon TurquoiseBlue and NavyBlue (Beta 1.0 Released!)

[Omonox]

Updates: (July 30, 2014)
Over 10,000 People have seen this thread! Let's hope 10,000 will play the games on August 1st!



PLEASE TURN BATTLE SCENE OFF, OR SPRITES WILL BECOME DEFORMED!!!!!

Intro

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Pokemon TurquoiseBlue and NavyBlue are two different versions that have you explore a brand new region and 175 fakemon. There will be cool new Fakemon to catch as well as some old ones. You'll find new moves and new type combinations to make battling more interesting. Many 4th/5th gen moves can taught in the two games. Many new cool locations will be in the games. Explore icy caves, forests, caves, mountains, cycling roads and more. 175 brand new Pokemon, some inspired from old ones, and others completely new. Each version will have exclusive Pokemon and some exclusive areas and trainers. The goal of these two games is to bring new Pokemon to those who are bored of playing with the same ones to bring new strategies!

Tiles and Sprites

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I've decided to make my own tiles BUT they do not look good compared to other hackers work. My goal is to make the art style blend in with the fakemon by making it look paintish and plain looking. Everything is square too. Anyway, if for some reason you wish to use these tiles, go right ahead.

Changes from Alpha 0.9 to Beta 1.0

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-3 Gyms instead of 1
-Pokedex Event Fixed
-No Walls can be walked through
-New Fakemon
-New Towns & Routes
-New Caves & Forests
Alpha 0.9 came out July 9, 2014
Beta 1.0 comes out August 1, 2014

Gameplay Differences

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A few changes to the type chart to make things more balanced.
Poison is now super effective against Dark.
Steel is now super effective against Dragon.
Bug now does neutral damage to Fighting.
Ghost now does neutral damage to Steel.
Dark now does neutral damage to Steel.

Version Differences

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The plot will be different for each version. The legendary pokemon will be different, some towns and trainers too. Here is a list of some pokemon exclusives so far

Story

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Two different version where you can discover the Larmog Region. A beautiful region split into two areas divided by the Larmogian Sea. There's a lot to do and many legends in the region. 3,000 years ago, the 35th and final King of Larmog wanted to improve the kingdom by awakening a legendary Pokemon. When he did they became friends but that king realized the pokemon had much more potential. He decided to use his Pokemon for his own selfishness. Then another legendary Pokemon came who decided to fight against him and the two legendaries fought. The whole castle was destroyed and all of the region was too. When the region was rebuilt, people decided Pokemon are very strong. After the first fight, many people decided to battle with Pokemon. Before that, Pokemon were just used as servants, but now they fought in battle. However few people know that the king was saved by the legendary pokemon right before the castle fell, and he has been alive ever since looking for that pokemon to befriend once again. Fast forward 3,000 years and you are 12 years old. You live with your dad, the professor, your mom, and your twin brother. you both get a starter and head off to explore Larmog. But along the way you'll encounter that king who wants to now revive the legendary and go back in time so his castle will never fall, which will end all Pokemon Battles. Will you stop him? You'll have to befriend the other legendary and travel Larmog to find out.

Screenshots that are newer

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The beta is now going to end at Route 4 just past Starlight City (home of the third gym). That means lots of new Pokemon never before seen with 2 extra routes, a bridge, another city and another gym. Here are some of the screenshots.

July 24, 2014

(Older Screenshots)

Screenshots

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The titlescreen of NavyBlue!

Your dad, the Professor gives his introduction

Outside of your house

Time to get a starter Pokemon!

your first battle!

the bridge of route 3

Typical cave pokemon in the Larmog Region

You can find pokemon in puddles too.

Outside of a gym

A mysterious garden where you can walk on the hedges.

A forest near the edd of the beta

I wish I had surf to get that item....

A fight against a trainer.

Walkthrough
Credit to SuperChespinX for making the awesome walkthrough.
Part 1 (Spring Town, Route 1, Shasur Town, Route 2, Tolan City, Garden of Dreams)[/U]
Part 2 (Route 3, Fwalcan City)

Things that will be in Beta 1

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At least 60 Fakemon completely finished.
6 Route areas
6 Cities
3 Gyms to Fight
1 Rival Battle
2-3 Boss Battles
Many Grunts and Trainers to Fight
1 Cave
1 Forest
Custom Player OW
Custom Rival OW

Characters

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Player
You are a nice and kind boy or girl. You always liked helping your father when you grew up and you can't wait to complete the pokedex.

Rival
Your rival has always been competitive with you since he is your twin. He always is trying to be better and is usually ahead of you or making fun of you. Your father gets annoyed by him a lot because he never helps and he gets into trouble a lot.

PROF OAK'S SPRITE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED YET.

The Larmog Region!
Not really a character, but it's where all the characters are. Larmog is located very far away from other regions and is very unique. There's some areas with oceans, areas with mountains and even a desert. You'll even go trhough forests and huge cities all in the Larmog Region.

The purple box shows what part of the game will be in the current beta. THIS IS NOT A IN GAME MAP

Bugs
So Far there are quite a few bugs. If you find anymore, please report it to me.
-TurquoiseBlue has messed up titlescreen
-Movement perimissions on Sea-Sky Bridge
-Tile Errors
-Ace's first sprite isn't the correct sprite.'
-MAJOR SPRITE ERROR. PLEASE TURN BATTLE SCENE OFF TO AVOID GLITCHES.


Progress
Maps-20%
Sprites-0%
Fakemon-30%

Downloads
Originally May 23rd, then June 13th, then June 20th, then June 23rd, and now late July. But the first Alpha is out for NavyBlue version so enjoy the excuse for an alpha,
Alphas
Alpha 0.9 (NavyBlue) July 9-July 31

Betas
Beta 1.0 (NavyBlue) Aug 1-
Beta 1.0 (TurqBlue) Aug 1-

Fan Art
So far there isn't any art, but that can change. Be creative and submit your fan art via pm.

Credits

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Omonox made almost all of the ideas for the fakemon.....a long time ago. Just now I actually decided to make them legit. I also made a lot of the maps, characters and the story.

IncognitoJellyfish101 has helped a lot too by making a bunch of sprites, characters, maps and the menu icon sprites. This project would not be possible without him as he is editing this hack almost daily.

Smeargle Although Smeargle did not actually edit the hack, he helped me a lot with how to make better sprites and also made tutorials to help me.

Nakasu Beta Tester

tyler1616 Beta Tester

Aslief Beta Tester

Gold1310 Beta Tester

psp4life Beta Tester

SuperChespinX Super Chespin helped make a walkthrough for the horrible alpha and has been supporting the hack for a long time.

Programs Used

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Advance Map-It gets the job done for maps
YAPE-A must have for editing fakemon stats.
NSE-Great sprite editor and I would definatly say it is the best sprite editor.
Advance Trainer-Great for editing trainers. Definatly important.
Adance Text-I script most of my text but this definatly helped for longer sections of text.
UNLZ-I used this to edit the badges, titlescreen sprite, and some items.
APE-Probably the best tool for editing palettes. Worked great for titlescreen editing.
Attack Editor Pro-Great for editing moves and easy to find moves.
Item Editor-Perfect for editing descriptions of text for items and their names.
Advance Position Editor-An AMAZING tool. Helped me edit positions of sprites I screwed up on.

Timeline
December 1, 2012-First Fakemon Sketch
December 15, 2013-First Day of Hacking
April 1, 2014-Thread Created
April 20, 2014-Over 25 Replies
May 20, 2014-Over 50 Replies
July 9, 2014-First Release of the Game
July 30, 2014-Over 10,000 People have seen the hack!
August 1, 2014-First Beta Released!
August 2, 2014-Over 75 Replies

Support
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[Omonox]

I'll be updating these screenshots a lot. I have a lot more sprites and maps to make so keep in mind, nothing is final yet.

 

[raghavendraxxx]

bro i hate to say it but fakemons looks ugly its looking like tile boxes.try to make it look like close to real life animals or pokemons i dont know how hard that is.but aside from fakemons everything is great story is cool.

 

[Near~]

First of all... The Fakemon need work like no offense but you should try practicing your skills on that I suggest you look up some tutorials... I also see your mapping skills need work, and the story sounds typical but I would like to see what you will implement on it :P Im glad to see your making this hack on your own well other than that nothing much to say but the best of luck:)

 

[Smeargle]

7 years ago I was in a situation similar. I posted an image I made that people didn't quite like, but I didn't know how I could fix it. I'll never forget the person who revamped my image and showed me my first pixel art tutorial.

Now my style isn't pokemon-like but hopefully It might give you an idea on shading and shaping.
Here is a revamp I made in a few minutes, I left in my progress so you could see how it works.

Here is an excellent tutorial as well https://www.deviantart.com/?q=pixel+art+tutorial, It wasn't my first tutorial but it should give you a good understanding. I hope I might have helped, and I wish your hack the best of luck.

 

[Omonox]

7 years ago I was in a situation similar. I posted an image I made that people didn't quite like, but I didn't know how I could fix it. I'll never forget the person who revamped my image and showed me my first pixel art tutorial.

Now my style isn't pokemon-like but hopefully It might give you an idea on shading and shaping.
Here is a revamp I made in a few minutes, I left in my progress so you could see how it works.

Here is an excellent tutorial as well https://www.deviantart.com/?q=pixel+art+tutorial, It wasn't my first tutorial but it should give you a good understanding. I hope I might have helped, and I wish your hack the best of luck.

I know these fakemon aren't the best so far. I have a lot of work to do on them. All of them are based on animals so far, but I guess I'm just not that great at spriting right now. I'll make sure these look better for the final version.

 

[AmazingCharizard]

Maybe it's only me but the maps look too dark and the Fakemon look...not ready yet.
Still this hack looks to be interesting.

 

[Omonox]

Maybe it's only me but the maps look too dark and the Fakemon look...not ready yet.
Still this hack looks to be interesting.

Thanks. What do you mean by "too dark"? True, the Fakemon are not done yet. I promise they will look better when the Beta is ready.

 

[Delias]

I already see that you know you have to focus more on the sprites, but I also see that the OW map looks very dark and/or uncolorful, that what some people mean when they say that the OW maps looks dark, also I know this isn't finished but I want to tell you that some of the OW maps looks a little empty, I hope I helped with something at least.

 

[Omonox]

I already see that you know you have to focus more on the sprites, but I also see that the OW map looks very dark and/or uncolorful, that what some people mean when they say that the OW maps looks dark, also I know this isn't finished but I want to tell you that some of the OW maps looks a little empty, I hope I helped with something at least.

The dark areas where part of a forest you go to in the game. It may look a little empty because these are screenshots. I had to choose one small section of a map to post. Thanks for your advice.

 

[Sniper]

I must say.. your art is truly magnificent. Just kidding, your Fakemon needs A LOT of work. Also the OW of the hero.. (Holy wtf did you just do to the ♥♥♥♥ing hero?!) It needs to be fixed :( Also..

The name, can you work on the name? BLATACAT is not a good name though. I think you need to work on it :) Is that VAMURAT or VAMVRAT? Looks both 'V' to me (V.V that's me) It looks like a recolored rare candy wrapper or something. Just candy. The box art too. I'm not good at drawing and I can't say I can do a little better. But I know you can improve it everytime you do! :) No offense to everything I've said. But that's an encouragement, good luck to you! ~ ^^

 

[Omonox]

I must say.. your art is truly magnificent. Just kidding, your Fakemon needs A LOT of work. Also the OW of the hero.. (Holy wtf did you just do to the ♥♥♥♥ing hero?!) It needs to be fixed :( Also..

The name, can you work on the name? BLATACAT is not a good name though. I think you need to work on it :) Is that VAMURAT or VAMVRAT? Looks both 'V' to me (V.V that's me) It looks like a recolored rare candy wrapper or something. Just candy. The box art too. I'm not good at drawing and I can't say I can do a little better. But I know you can improve it everytime you do! :) No offense to everything I've said. But that's an encouragement, good luck to you! ~ ^^

I actually kind of like my hero design. The fakemon I will fix a lot. The boxart is more of art than a Sprite so it looks a little sloppy. Vamvrat is supposed to be a bat. That's why he has the candy like wings. I didn't think he looked too bad. Thanks for the advice though, I'll make sure the fakemon look nicer

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

I'm gonna have to side with everyone else here, nice game, nice plot, but, the sprites need work, the maps look promising, try and fix them up though. However, between us, you, at your age is MUCH more advanced than I was, when, I was 14/15, let's just say, I tried to make my own Pokemon hack, using Powerpoint and MS Paint, where I only had access to a GBA emulator and a few roms.

Try and draw your designs, on paper, scan them and ask someone to sprite them for you, draw your maps, that will help you, with me, my mapping came randomly out of the blue, but, if you have an idea for your maps, go ahead and draw them to have something to work off of, rather than trying to remember your ideas.

 

[Omonox]

I'm gonna have to side with everyone else here, nice game, nice plot, but, the sprites need work, the maps look promising, try and fix them up though. However, between us, you, at your age is MUCH more advanced than I was, when, I was 14/15, let's just say, I tried to make my own Pokemon hack, using Powerpoint and MS Paint, where I only had access to a GBA emulator and a few roms.

Try and draw your designs, on paper, scan them and ask someone to sprite them for you, draw your maps, that will help you, with me, my mapping came randomly out of the blue, but, if you have an idea for your maps, go ahead and draw them to have something to work off of, rather than trying to remember your ideas.

Thank you for the advice. The fakemon I'm working on and there's a tiny bit of work I have to do on the maps

 

[Omonox]

So far, a lot of fakemon are done, I have nearly all the maps done and I'm thinking I might add more. So should the beta end at the second gym or the third?

 

[Smeargle]

If you have everything leading to the third gym done why not :)
I'm interested in seeing what your hack has to offer.

 

[Omonox]

If you have everything leading to the third gym done why not :)
I'm interested in seeing what your hack has to offer.

Sorry, I have to put this hack on hold. My computer broke and until I find way to backup my work on a new one, this hack won't be out until at earliest may or June or later.

 

[tankNZ]

Great share, looks good. Thanks for posting!

 

[Hound of Justice]

The fakemons look so good i think its the best i ever seen

 

[Mochorro]

The fakemons look so good i think its the best i ever seen

He's 13 and he has no experience doing sprites! It's logical they aren't good! Just don't laugh at him, this is the type of message that irritates me, c'mon, he said he will improve that, just encourage him if you want to post, and for saying what you said just don't post! It's very easy to laugh at people when you are relaxed sitting at home with your mobile phone or computer or whatever you use, uh?

Mastamilo, don't listen to him, just do your best, and good luck!