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

[FantasyJared]

This is awesome, Sukuna! Whenever I get back to this game, I'll remember to thank you and your team for all the hard work. It's not like many devs to still be updating an old project for this long, and we all appreciate it greatly.

 

[UnknownMan39]

How do you get the scientist in Ruin Valley to get out of the way?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Hi there. I bet you've been wondering: "Hey, he said late 2020, early 2021, right? So where's my touhoumon update?"

Well, about that. I'm an MMO junkie and three whole MMOs had major patch updates. One of which even had an expansion. That's where a lot of my time's been taken up by.

But fear not, I come to you with... at least some kind of update. Thanks to help from AGSMG from discord and Neotornado, who is effectively the co-hacker for this anyway, I've managed to (mostly) integrate mons into the game. They don't have pokedex entries, but everything else from their cries to movepools and all of that are in.

And here they are:

Spoiler:

That's right. CHRISTMAS forms. You know, from Scarlet Emerald kinda. I'm... really not making a case for myself here, am I?

Either way, I put them in here, and they shall remain. I put them in so that I could have more ice types in the game. That's it. That's literally the reason. Ice type is a barren and sad type, I need more to work with. Pryce being an Ice gym leader with half of his team not even being ice was always sad.

How many of them are there? Well, here they are:

XmKisume: Fire/Ice

XmMystia: Flying/Ice

XmRumia: Dark/Ice

XmParsee: Heart/Ice

XmWriggle: Native/Ice

How can you get one of these cute little mascots? Well, it's very simple. Find a FestiveShard and evolve them with it. They'll be scattered about like normal shards through Kanto and possibly Sevii, and a possibility of simply being able to buy them in Johto as well. That being said, they're not bad mons in of themselves, so when it comes out, give them a try. They have some interesting movepools and type combos coming your way.

A very minor thing that has also been changed is the Levitate text. Instead of referring to Ground type, it refers to Earth type now.

Is that it? Is that all?

Well, about that. There's one new touhou in general being added, since I still had two more slots I could use.

That's right. We have Kokoro coming to the hack as well. She's probably the best one to put in simply due to the fact that any from Touhou 14 would prime people to expect the others, which we don't have the slots for.

If you're familiar with the supersanctuary wiki for touhoumon 1.8, then her stats and movepool should be mostly the same to that. Egg moves might not be fully accurate, though, as a warning.

Outside of these new additions, I've gotten an event or two done. I still have a few to go, so that should be fun. A few more errors were fixed in terms of dialogue and other such stuff, but that's a bit boring to actually list off, so I think we'll be good for now.

Do I have a new date estimation for you all? Not really. I'd say vaguely first half of 2021. And honestly, me taking it slow has resulted in me adding more overall, so you gotta give that to me, at least. The new puppets wouldn't be in here at all if I didn't meander about.

 

[Bossu]

Hi!
Just wanted to say firstly I'm a fan of the things you've added into the hack with some of the extra 2hus and adjustments here and there.
I've run into a slight hiccup during my playthrough (And possibly caused by patching to a newer version of the hack?)

Spoiler:

I can't trigger the fight with Oak at all. I've beaten all the leader rematches to my knowledge anyway and I'm seemingly stuck being unable to progress. The Ilex shrine isn't working either even with the two key items in my inventory.

Is there some sort of fix for this (either giving the save file or adding the flags in myself) or am I fully stuck now?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Hi!
Just wanted to say firstly I'm a fan of the things you've added into the hack with some of the extra 2hus and adjustments here and there.
I've run into a slight hiccup during my playthrough (And possibly caused by patching to a newer version of the hack?)

Spoiler:

I can't trigger the fight with Oak at all. I've beaten all the leader rematches to my knowledge anyway and I'm seemingly stuck being unable to progress. The Ilex shrine isn't working either even with the two key items in my inventory.

Is there some sort of fix for this (either giving the save file or adding the flags in myself) or am I fully stuck now?

Did you beat Giovanni in the Cinnabar Volcano? And I'll take a look at the Ilex Forest event as well, don't need that being broken by next version.

Also, while I'm done with the game content-wise for this update, it's actually getting tested a bit by my SO, so it'll take a little bit for it to come out.

 

[Bossu]

Yep! Beat up Giovanni too. All 16 done. But when I go back to Pallet, I'm still only asked about my artbook progress.

EDIT: I should also add that I started on v4.5 before using the latest version before accessing Johto for the first time if that helps. (Only figuring this out now rummaging through my downloads)

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Hmm. I can access Isami with my current build, at least. I shouldn't have touched her event for 6.5.

And I just tested Oak, and he should be able to be fought with only 15/16 gym leaders and Giovanni apparently doesn't have anything to do with it (Which, honestly, I might not actually change), and I know I didn't touch that specific Oak event in a while either.

Okay, now that I read your first comment again, did you patch the later version onto the earlier version or did you transfer your save from version to version? Cause it makes it sound like you patched over 4.5 with 6.01.

Also, has anyone else had problems with 6.01 on this front?

 

[Bossu]

I transferred save version to version. I made sure to patch a clean rom every time I upgraded too.

EDIT: Nothing else seemed to have issues with my transferring except for those two issues(Unless silver beans isn't supposed to be a mach bike..?)

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Silver Beans shouldn't be a Mach Bike.

 

[Bossu]

Silver Beans shouldn't be a Mach Bike.

When I "use" the Silver Beans, it equips a bike.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Fair enough. Then that should be right. That functionality is not disabled, and has apparently never been.

Yeah, I really don't know what to tell you. I'm legitimately sorry.

 

[Bossu]

Ahh. So is there nothing I can do to salvage it? (No flag I can set correctly in a save editor to make him challengeable?)

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Not to fight him specifically, unfortunately. I don't know if it works with variables, and that's what this is ruled by rather than a flag.

 

[Bossu]

OH MY GOD.
SO, it turned out I was missing Misty's rematch (Which I was 100% sure I had done already.)
Just did it there and the fight's occurring as intended
I feel so stupid scrolling through map files and scripts to solve this ahahaha

 

[Cinfest]

Hello, it's the dex person. Just a much delayed update to say I've kind of stalled out on the location data stuff. Basically I need to beat the E4 so I can see the maps properly and make sure I'm getting all the locations right, and that's kind of a drag because I'm not actually good at pokemon... Obviously I can grind to get around that, but I'm disinclined to do that when I know I'm going to start a new file when the update comes out so I can play as Renko.

So, what does this all mean? I think any data for Sevii 5, 6, 7 and Johto just isn't going to happen until the update drops, unless there's a lot of demand for it. If you want it, ask, and I'll see what I can get without in-game location verification, although I won't like it much, and I'll redo it properly in the future. Also I will recheck everything I can after the update.

Thank you to everyone who has used the dex previously. I hope it will continue to be of use in the future.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

I apologize for taking the original post down in the way that I did, but believe me, I did have a reason for it, and now that I've taken care of it, it should be good to go again. However, as I said in the deletion message earlier, I was going to re-post it. Well, here's that repost.

For real, this time. 6.5.1 is out once more

6.5 had a rather major bug in it. If someone were to come across a FestiveShard while playing on a mGBA, then their game would have crashed.

This update has taken quite a while, I know that to be true. And while it still isn't perfect, I'd like to say that this is one of the better versions of it, at least.

To see what has changed, click on this:
https://pastebin.com/WirERPn1

Most of the update's information is in here, but likely not all. I've done a lot in this update, so a few things might have slipped through the cracks. All proper credits have been put into the first post.

When I was originally designing this update, this was going to be a rather small update all in all, but then I added more. From the new areas to the christmas touhous. All in all, I think this might be about as big as the 6.0 update.

I'd like to thank all of you for supporting this rom hack. Please, I hope you enjoy this. I really do. I put a lot of myself into it.

Download here:
https://mega.nz/file/zt4mUSrJ#o-szEejUZsn7tJSj80hHeQ0hwrA56yNUDcwhSXz8SY8

Where am I going from here? Well, bug fixes, and I might add a thing or two here and there if I feel the itch, but honestly I'm doubtful this'll be getting too many more updates beyond bug fixes, or possibly a rebalance in the future if I feel the need for it. It's just way too full as it is now, truth be told.

Other than that, I think content wise I might be satisfied for the moment. If I do something else, it'll likely be something new. What that thing is, though? I don't know. It could be a new touhoumon rom hack, it could be a RPG Maker project, but I do want to do something after this, that much is true.

I'm sorry for going on and on like this, but I have things I wanna get out that I just plain didn't when I initially typed this out. All in all, have fun with this update. Have fun with this hack, cause I know I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope to one day make something else in the future as well.

 

[ArmanDillos]

Thanks For The Rom Hack And Also The Effort Of Updating It Up To This Point. Goodluck On Your Next Update/Fix & Project. <3

 

[Cinfest]

Stats and move lists have been added to the doc for all the new puppets. Location data is going to be rechecked Soon^TM and... eventually... completed.

Thank you Zeta for your continued work on this hack, and thank you everybody else for supporting both the hack and my mad personal project.

Update: Sevii Islands are (nearly) done, but the room links for one location are a bit confused in Advance Map, so I'll have to see that in person to work it out. Johto is still pending, of course.

 

[Bossu]

I managed to complete the game just before 6.5 came out sadly but I wanted to say thanks again for the work you put into maintaining and updating this hack.

 

[_alice]

Great work man.
Thanks for putting effort and maintaining this hack.