[Question] Regional Pokemon Variant Megas?

[Maskninja555]

So, for my rom hack, I'm trying to figure out how to add mega forms for a different form of a Pokemon? First, would for regional form be in pokemonforms txt or do I have to classify it as its own Pokemon? Or do I put the form in, then classify it with the mega form?

 

[StCooler]

If I'm not mistaken, if you're mentioning pokemonforms.txt, then you're not working on a ROM hack, you're working with Pokémon Essentials.

Golisopod-User made a Gen 8 project which contains the script that you want.

The example I'm giving here is based on the case of Slowbro: form 0 can mega-evolve, and form 1 (Galarian) cannot.

So, how do you add a new Mega to another form?

Let's say you have a new form for Weavile. In your pokemonforms.txt, you have:

#-------------------------------
[WEAVILE,1]
FormName = This is a test form
Type1 = GRASS
Type2 = FAIRY

This is the "base form" for your new Mega. Then, you need to define a new form for your Mega:

#-------------------------------
[WEAVILE,2]
FormName = Mega Weavile of the Test form
Type1 = GRASS
Type2 = FAIRY
MegaStone = WEAVILETESTFORMITE
UnmegaForm = 1

Two lines require your attention here.

The first line is:

MegaStone = WEAVILETESTFORMITE

This is the name of the Mega Stone, here WEAVILETESTFORMITE - Weavile Test Formite.

The second line that requires your attention is:

UnmegaForm = 1

Here, you are specifying that the form 2 being a Mega-form, should revert to form 1 instead of form 0 (which it would if you don't specify this line).

But that's not it.

You need to do a bit of scripting too.

MultipleForms.register(:WEAVILE,{
  "getSpecificMegaForm" => proc { |pkmn|
    next 2 if (pkmn.form == 1 && pkmn.hasItem?(:WEAVILETESTFORMITE))
    next
  },
  "getSpecificUnmegaForm" => proc { |pkmn|
    next 1 if pkmn.form == 2
    next
  }
})

This script says that only form 1 of Weavile can Mega-Evolve, and it will mega-evolve into form 2.

So, I am not sure why there seems to be redundancy between pokemonforms.txt and this script, the thing is, this script is necessary.

 

[Maskninja555]

Thank you :)