Yellow hack: Pokemon Yellow 97 (Back Sprites Only)

[Cremason]

Pokémon Yellow Rom Hack

Hack Name: Pokémon Yellow 97 (Back Sprites Only) v1.2

Hack of: Pokémon Yellow

Details:

This took me quite a while to figure out and I'm sure it would have been easy for people that understand coding, but I had to learn how just by constant failures assembling the game. I will happily provide credits where credits are due so if I have not properly credited someone, please inform me and I will do my best to make sure the work is appreciated.

The wait is finally over!

I'm thrilled to introduce a Space World 97 (Back Sprites) Hack for Pokémon Yellow!

Key Feature:
- Original Space World 97 back sprites

Videos:
(coming soon)

Screenshots:

New Pokémon Back Sprites from space world 97 with original Yellow Palette design:




Included revamped Red, Oak, & Old Man Back Sprites:



Red Sprite Back Sprite (by Poketto)

Old Man Back Sprite (by SteppoBlazer) -

Oak Back Sprite (by Mateo)

All spaceworld 97 Back Sprites were ripped from the redstarbluestar hack by Rangi42


Warning! This hack has been through VERY limited testing. let me know if anything comes up graphically that is corrupted in any way.

Changelog:
PYv1.1
-Title Screen changed to reflect 97 instead of version.
PY97v1.2
-Fixed Backsprites for Hall of Fame vid

Download:
PY97v1.2

My Other Hacks:
PokemonYellow97+

Related Hacks:
Legacy98

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[VictorTheHamma]

Amazing work. This was a much needed patch as spaceworld 97 backsprites are awesome. I'm super busy for the next couple weeks but i'll definitely test this asap. I'll let you know about my experience with it.

 

[Cremason]

Thanks for the support! I wholeheartedly agree with you. Spaceworld 97 sprites are Amazing. I'll share three projects I'm working at that are inspired by it:

Pokemon Yellow 97 (enhanced)
-Armored Mewtwo - Giovanni
-Mew in mansion basement
-girl or boy/ new red backsprite.
-many small additions that enhance overall feel. Similar to what legacy did but maybe in a more purist/lore minded way.

Pokemon Yellow 97 Legacy
- make legacy playable with the backsprites that resemble closer to a gen 2 feel without losing the classic frontsprites

Pokemon Blue 97
- a mix of green frontsprites , restored beta frontsprites for mewtwo etc. that never made it to final blue.
- spaceworld 97 backsprites

 

[Cremason]

Amazing work. This was a much needed patch as spaceworld 97 backsprites are awesome. I'm super busy for the next couple weeks but i'll definitely test this asap. I'll let you know about my experience with it.

Also please do test it out and let me know 👍 specifically if you can get to the hall of fame portion because i have not been able to test the backsprites during that sequence.

 

[VictorTheHamma]

Also please do test it out and let me know 👍 specifically if you can get to the hall of fame portion because i have not been able to test the backsprites during that sequence.

Probably won't have the time for a couple of weeks to do a playthrough from start to finish. If it was yellow legacy 97, due the quality of life changes i'd probably be able to try a complete playthrough.
If you have a save file for yellow 97 I could probably also pick up from where you left off. But yeah, really want to play, but life's a bit hectic atm.

 

[Cremason]

Probably won't have the time for a couple of weeks to do a playthrough from start to finish. If it was yellow legacy 97, due the quality of life changes i'd probably be able to try a complete playthrough.
If you have a save file for yellow 97 I could probably also pick up from where you left off. But yeah, really want to play, but life's a bit hectic atm.

Oh no problem! I'll try legacy soon. 👍

 

[treefroggy]

Hey dude! Thanks for doing this!
I am also not a coder. Space World 97 Back Sprites get me very excited, though. I just googled Spaceworld Backsprites in Yellow and found your old thread for this project.
I love gen 1, but I have played them so many times, I enjoy a slight change when playing R/B, JPB, etc. I'll be replacing my current yellow playthrough ROM with this patched version now and let you know how it goes.

... Since you are also not a coder, this is encouraging for me. I was wondering if, with this new source assembly of the original games, how difficult it would be for me to do slight customizations like this one you've done. Namely, for this Full Red, Green, and Blue Translation of the Original Pocket Monsters. I want to play this translation of Japanese Blue, with SW97 Backsprites!

This is just personal preference, but I also really, really prefer the original Trainer backsprite to these fanmade ones.