FireRed hack: Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced (Reloaded) (Version 6.8C Released)

[Zeta Sukuna]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/c1vm..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A4.rar/file

Not much to say about this one. Simply more bug fixes, mostly to do with a couple of collisions and text bubbles. Thanks to Serene from the Touhoumon World Link Deluxe discord for finding all of these.

 

[Ganyuu]

Hi. This is good

 

[KAnon2020]

Well, I broke my toes so with the free time while recovering, I played with puppets. 🙂
It was fun not running into issues and I played with new puppets for a change of pace.

New team: (Aya repeated from a rushed run so I consider this her 1st grouping for me)

• Rumia (phys) (any, ie: Donation Box, Bondage Suit)
• Yuugi (phys) (leftovers)
• Aya (phys) (speed boost) (Focus Ribbon) (kept child form's Wing Attack for 30% Flinch)
• A Komachi (phys) (Maid Uniform)
• Alice (spec) (Quick Claw)
• A Minoriko (spec) (Quick Claw)

Evaluation:

Spoiler:

• Rumia was all around great. Her move selection is relatively limited but their typings give her an advantage quite often.
• Yuugi surprised me by how good she was as she tanked special attacks I expected to kill her off. Her move selection felt poor.
• Aya's was great because of her typing and when her moves mattered. Her move selection felt poor.
• A Komachi leaves me conflicted. She's either really busted or dies instantly, and she was slow against those she dies instantly to..
• Alice was my starter this run and her defensive base stats made a difference.
• A Minoriko is arguably my MVP. Her move selection is great and they made up for Yuugi and Aya's poor move selections. Early on, her BST of 480 gave me the impression I would replace her but she really made a difference, and her typing leaves her with only 2 weaknesses (Flying x2, Ice x2).
  A Minoriko's Move selection: (Moves I used in green)
  
  Spoiler:

  • Heat Wave (Fire)
  • Extrasensory (Faith)
  • Earth Power (Earth)
  • Energy Light (Native)
  • Razor Wind (Flying)
  • Calm Mind

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

I'm glad it went so well for you. Also a lot of mons are super good in 1.8 that you wouldn't expect, truth be told. That's one of the reasons I worked on this hack to begin with. Though admittedly, and I regret needing to edit it in, I hope your foot gets better.

Also, for the actual reason I'm posting. KAnon2020 above sent me an updated Touhoudex for 6.8A4 with some changes and reworks. It's linked in the first post in place of the previous version. Once again, thank you so much for this.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

A surprise update!

While I am still mostly at work on my newer Rom Hack, someone by the name of "NightGlow" on the Touhou Puppet Play World Link Deluxe discord decided to play through my hack to spot small errors, and so I cleaned up a fair amount of them.

However, I will admit that if this were all... well, I'd still be releasing this, but there's also a little bit more to the story. Let's start off with the announcement that a few trainers did get resprited to more fit the whole touhoumon thing. I won't be posting pictures here, but they are definitely in the game. All credit for these new sprites go to SeaDragonGamer1928, also on the same discord currently.

A good chunk of those sprite changes are minor, but some are fairly major, and I appreciate how they look, at least.

Now, for the second thing added to this update. I've definitely gotten some comments about how the type chart is a bit... rough to learn, so I was pointed to something that could possibly help with it.

This ASM developed by blackuser allows type effectiveness to be displayed during the fight. Simply look at the type of the move you're about to use. The colors used for it are the following:

-Green: Super effective + STAB
-Light green: Super effective
-Pure black: Neutral + STAB
-Normal black: Neutral / Status
-Orange: Not very effective + STAB
-Yellow: Not very effective
-Red: No effect

This just counts for raw type effectiveness. It does not take into account what might modify this sort of thing such as the Levitate ability.

And that's really it. With the exception of bugfixes, text fixes, sprite replacements, and the addition of the type effectiveness thing, not much has changed to my memory. If it has, then I likely did it a while ago and forgot to note it down. I apologize if that's the case.

Download the hack here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xxhr..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A5.rar/file

 

[NotDWaddler]

For this game in particular? That type effectiveness checker is a literal godsend, bless the both of you.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wmwu..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A6.rar/file

I realize that I JUST released something, but I was dissatisfied with the Red fight, so I ended up redoing that a bit. Saves should be compatible.

 

[SevenChurches]

This sounds minor but could you make an opening on Route 5 so that you can backtrack to Mt. Moon before getting Cut or Fly? Kind of lame to have to wait until you get at least Cut to backtrack to Mt. Moon. Such a vanilla FRLG problem.

Also, is there a way to download the music from this hack?

 

[SevenChurches]

I can't progress through Johto, getting stopped here.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

OH BOY I LOVE IT WHEN AN INCREDIBLY MINOR UPDATE MESSES WITH THINGS. FEELS GOOD.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/u7vt..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A7.rar/file

Hopefully this fixes it. Did not add the thing to Route 5, though.

EDIT: I posted the thread for my other project. Hopefully it gets accepted. This doesn't mean that the project will be out if the thread posts, but it will give me an avenue to post things there properly for it instead of giving half hearted updates here.

 

[SevenChurches]

Interacting with the Suikas at the entrance of Valley of Strength freezes the game.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

At this point I'm going to wait to see if you end up getting more bugs since this one isn't particularly bad for the most part, and I'd rather not release an absolute metric ton of updates. Exceptions will be made for game breaking ones like Route 30 unexisting itself.

 

[SevenChurches]

At this point I'm going to wait to see if you end up getting more bugs since this one isn't particularly bad for the most part, and I'd rather not release an absolute metric ton of updates. Exceptions will be made for game breaking ones like Route 30 unexisting itself.

I did gain entrance to Valley of Strength, every single overworld Suika there freezes the game upon interaction. Easily avoidable, granted. I didn't really find any other serious bug. Some instances of collision with tiles that look like you can walk through, like a tile of grass, but it's like an invisible barrier.

I didn't use many Puppets in this current run, but I didn't encounter any crashes related to battles.

Anyway, I posted a video showing all the major battles I did in this run, pretty much a full playthrough.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/sja5..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A8.rar/file

Both the Valley of Strength and Red's sprite were fixed. Funny story about Red, apparently his left facing sprite was that fat man. I just absolutely never actually talked to him from the side.

Anyway, thank you for replaying the hack. I hope you had fun with it, despite some of the issues you ran into.

Edit: I also finally fixed the bug with the Goldenrod Port as of a couple minutes after this.

 

[SevenChurches]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/sja5..._Play_Enhanced_%28Reloaded%29_v6.8A8.rar/file

Both the Valley of Strength and Red's sprite were fixed. Funny story about Red, apparently his left facing sprite was that fat man. I just absolutely never actually talked to him from the side.

Anyway, thank you for replaying the hack. I hope you had fun with it, despite some of the issues you ran into.

Edit: I also finally fixed the bug with the Goldenrod Port as of a couple minutes after this.

I definitely had fun. I didn't go out and try many Puppets, the ones on the thumbnail were pretty much the only ones, plus a Kogasa. I'd like to do Monotype runs, thinking many of them are at least possible.

 

[GabePuratekuta]

Hi. I'm having a bit of trouble in a few fronts.

First off, I can't seem to apply the latest patch to the Squirrels version of FireRed. NUPS just throws a "patch doesn't match the file" error and selecting ignore doesn't force the patching to work.

Second, I've been having problems with breeding in 6.8A4, mainly that the offspring is of the wrong parent species every time.

Lastly, a problem in A3 that I haven't looked for in A4. The inablility to enter Abandoned Tower. I went through every region sans Johto Elite Four and that one guy and his Tensoku never moved and I have no idea how to get them to.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Hi there, Gabe. In regards to what you told me...

I tested patching on a Squirrels rom and I was able to get it working just fine, unfortunately. Completely unmodified on both ends. I don't know what to tell you on this one.

At least in 6.8A8, I bred a couple mons together and got it right. Hmm. Which ones did you use, out of curiosity? I'm uncertain if I can actually do anything about this, but I would at least like to try with a pair like that.

And the Abandoned Tower, I believe. is locked past the Abandoned Mansion, which is locked until after the Johto Elite Four. At least that's how it is now.

 

[GabePuratekuta]

Ah, okay. Was there an update to NUPS I'm not aware of, then? As for the breeding, I've tried with Sanae + Rinnosuke as well as Reimu + Rinnosuke and Tokiko with and without using Lax Incense and each time more Rinnosuke and Tokiko hatched.


EDIT: It was definitely the version of NUPS I was using.

 

[Bladeheart111x]

Ah, okay. Was there an update to NUPS I'm not aware of, then? As for the breeding, I've tried with Sanae + Rinnosuke as well as Reimu + Rinnosuke and Tokiko with and without using Lax Incense and each time more Rinnosuke and Tokiko hatched.


EDIT: It was definitely the version of NUPS I was using.

Try breeding Reimu or Sanae with Kedama

 

[GabePuratekuta]

Try breeding Reimu or Sanae with Kedama

Hmmm, maybe... When I tried that in previous versions, though, no eggs would be produced no matter how many steps I took.

EDIT: Yeah, that worked. Not sure why it never did before, though... Now I need to know about those evolutions in that Google doc that doesn't have a listed method of getting.