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Pink Parka Girl Newcomer                 Since: 02-14-06 From: Johnson, Vermont Last post: 6585 days Last view: 6585 days |
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I've got a hack I've been working on for a very long time now (probably a little over a year), complete up to Fallarbor Town. No patches or betas are available yet (as there are still some bothersome but not gameplay interfering glitches I'm trying to fix), but I've got loads of screenshots and would love some feedback 
Storyline: The Short: A game based very very loosely on plots and characters from my fanfics; features the pokemon world's version of PETA, some mad scientests, anthropomorphic pokemon, and some new pokemon species made just for the game
The Long: You play as either Buster or Suzie, and you've just moved to Somers Point, New Jersey (which looks an awful lot like Littleroot  ). The plot is mostly the same as the original Ruby. The scatterbrained Professor Sycamore, after being attacked by a non native Poochyena, gives you the baby pokemon you used to rescue him (Magby and Smochum if you want the game to be easier, Pichu if you want a challenge) and also a Pokedex, so you can track all the species in New Jersey and make sure the native populations are not threatened by the wild escapees of an abandoned safari park, Jungle Habitat (based on a real New Jersey event, though the real Jungle Habitat is situated in North Jersey, the game is set in South Jersey). Right from the beginning, you hear things about Northfield's new Gym Leader, a "crazy lady" named Mary with a major passion - working with the pokemon world's PETA, PETA-PT, on winning basic rights for the anthropomorphic slavepeoples. Heading to Northfield, you soon discover she has an especially ambitious morph, who's got the crazy idea of trying to be a Trainer. You help said morph, Kate the pikachu, catch a Ralts, and with just that simple event, yoru character suddenly starts finding themselves all mixed up in the mess between PETA-PT and the scientests who profit making and selling the morphic slavepeoples. While the scientests take the role of the Magmas, that doesn't mean PETA-PT is all good, as I try to show in the game. Both sides have their unsavory characters, and their good people Your character just does what is asked of them, and never does pick a side. You'll see all the details of this mad plot, and the little jokes and interactions between the characters, when it's finally finished, or if there's enough of a demand for a beta patch
Features: Because the game is set in New Jersey, most of the land is urbanized. Almost all routes are paved - if you want to look for wild pokemon, you have to slip through "gaps in the guardrails" and search for them. There are about 20 pokemon species created for the game - from the near legendary Pocoora (a flying squirrel) to the humble Chiorn (a bird with a little corn sprout on its head). Some of these are new evolutions - Plusle and Minun can evolve into the cute Sciurrel (same name for both, but different stats and color schemes) and a Ponyta with max Beauty can have an alternate evolution - into the winged Fluttiby. Some item prices have been changed, most notably in the case of Rare Candy - they are worth far more, because they are buyable, and it woudln't be fair if you could just buy tons of them and level up like mad There are no items to be picked up off the ground, except for hidden ones (due more to a bothersome glitch than a personal choice, but it does add to the difficulty ) All species are catchable, except for those who were replaced to make room for the 20 new species (namely ones I don't picture really being suitable for the Jersey climate or area of the world and aren't available in the Jungle Habitat area). This is mostly a plot/texual and sprite hack - so don't expect the towns or house insides to look all that radically different. There are a few changes here and there, but for the most part, they look the same. Key character battle and overworld sprites are different, with the exception of your player sprite - I'm just not good enough at sprite hacking to make the sprites of them running and on the bikes looking at all good (I tried, but failed miserably.) The vast majority of pokemon battle sprites have been replaced with revamps from previous generations, Fire Red/Leaf Green/Emerald sprites, or, in the case of Flareon, fully drawn by me. Human and new pokemon species battle sprites are modified versions of existing pokemon and human battle sprites, some painfully obviously so, and others less. I'm not a great sprite artist, but I tried, and that's all I can say
Glitches: There are a few glitches, though they don't really hamper gameplay. The into text is screwed up, with the result that parts of it are the original text and some of it is different (I've tried more times than I can count to remedy this), but only the very beginning of the game is effected like this. Two NPCs dont' respond if you talk to them. Item balls don't work, and I can't deleate them, with the result that I've just put them in inaccessable areas and made the items buyable. Occasionally (and thank god this happens very very occasionally), a pokemon will have a bizarre moveset and nothing I can do will fix it, with the result that in its place, that trainer must have a Smeargle. The Fiery Path doesn't work at all, with the result that I simply made no way for you go inside and you simply go around, rather than through. Here are some screenshots. I've got a lot. Enjoy!
This one shows the generic television text. I hope at least one person gets the joke
Pichu sprite based on a Silver revamp. I think it's cute
Generic highway shot. 
Pooroo, one of the created pokemon species. It evolves from Pweek and evolves into Pocoora. 
Meeting Mary. 
Helping Kate the anthropomorphic pikachu. 
Screenshot showing off the "dune grass"
Scientest grunts. Recolored FR/LG sprite, basically
Flareon sprite. 
Marina's overworld sprite. 
Captain Morgan shows off how drunk he is. 
Sampson in the Coastal Pit. 
Thomas's overworld sprite. 
Scientest coat color variations. 
Tyler's sprite. 
Parker's sprite. 
Silly NPC dialogue 
Newscasters Erin and Chad. Look close at their truck and you'll see the Action News 6 logo so well known to those in the South Jersey area. 
Any praise? Flames? Constructive crit? Let me know what's good and bad, and if anybody's actually interested in a beta. |
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partyghoul2000 Red Goomba   Since: 11-18-05 From: USA Last post: 6510 days Last view: 6510 days |
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| the hack looks pretty decent so far. love those screenshots, can't wait for a beta patch |
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Yoronosuku Toss Tortoise   Since: 11-17-05 From: Massachusetts is my new home.. Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Thank you so much somebody who makes a coherent proper hack post  I am impressed with your work so far, and I'm sure that many people will enjoy this hack when you finish it. Good job ^^ |
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acillatem98 Crow  Since: 11-18-05 From: Barberton, Ohio Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| This is looking pretty sweet so far. It's boring playing the same old Pokemon hacks with the same old little town graphics, seeing a city in the game makes this a lot more interesting. Great job and I hope you finish. | |||
Darkdata   980  Since: 02-25-06 From: Newfoundland Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| You are doing good so far,
Keep it up and you can do great things. I really like you pichu <3 But one small thing on Pooroo's right foot looks a little lumpy. (His left) But can't wait to see more of your work. |
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Maple Bronto Burt  Since: 11-18-05 From: Bronx, New York Last post: 6327 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| Wow. This hack looks awesome. In my opinion, you could improve the overworld sprites just a bit, but I understand your limitations completely. The in-battle sprites look great, but seeing the new Pichu sprite, I think you can do better on the Flareon revamp. Also, you misspelled Scientist. =P
Otherwise, awesome hack! ~Kucheat P.S. I swear to god, I had the exact same base idea for a hack, Pokemon in a real-world setting, except it would have been set in New York City. I just never really laid out the plot, and then I delayed it for Pokemon Crystal Remastered... This won't discourage me, though. (edited by Maple on 04-25-06 06:12 PM) (edited by Maple on 05-17-06 04:42 PM) |
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Pink Parka Girl Newcomer Since: 02-14-06 From: Johnson, Vermont Last post: 6585 days Last view: 6585 days |
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| I can't believe I did that >.< (mispelled a key word, that is). It's what I get for typing fast and not proofreading.
Anyway, thanks for all your advice I'll work on fixing up the overworld sprites so they look a bit better, and I'll redraw Pooroo's foot I'll try going back and adding more changes to the towns as well, because I don't want the game to look half-ass  ; It may only be my first hack ever, but I really do want it to look its best I'm glad you think the revamps look good, and I'll work on improving the Flareon I drew (it's not a revamp) so the shading looks better I was hoping for constructive critisim, and I'm glad I got some, so I know what to do to make it look the best it can Thank you all!
I'll work on getting more screenshots in the meantime. |
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interdpth Mole MZM rapist Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Wow. All I have to say is Wow. Well not all I have too say. It looks great for your first hack and you seem to be able to understand it. Although I doubt people will get the yiffy quote. Leave it in if I can help in some way like questions lemme know. Keep working on it looks brillant. | |||
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Keitaro Mole Since: 11-18-05 From: Massachusetts Last post: 6454 days Last view: 6454 days |
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| I can still recognize a few places here--the gyms, most specifically. However this asside, I swear this is one of the few quality hacks that've come out of this forum in nearly forever. I commend you on that |
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Pink Parka Girl Newcomer Since: 02-14-06 From: Johnson, Vermont Last post: 6585 days Last view: 6585 days |
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| Yeah, basically, I've left a lot of building insides the same for the time being, as I want to go through and change most of the text and sprites first ; I plan to go back and change more overworld things later, however, so don't worry |
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Keitaro Mole Since: 11-18-05 From: Massachusetts Last post: 6454 days Last view: 6454 days |
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| Ah, well fair enough then I really like the sprite work you've done so far. I've never actualy been too keen on the prospect of new Pokemon period (I guess I'm weird like that?), but the Pooroo you've come up with is quite impressive and very official looking (which I guess has always been my pet-peve with fanmade Pokemon ). I also really dig the Pichu. You seem pretty talented as far as graphics go, I'll be looking forward to trying this one out. |
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Bloodstar 660 blue boar boobies Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/acmlm.org/board/profile.php on line 42 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| I like this hack.
Why, you ask? Because you're creative with your titles, most of all. Your ideas are decent, too. I may just play this when it's released. |
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Meteordragon01 Newcomer Since: 05-06-06 From: San Antonio Texas Last post: 6570 days Last view: 6570 days |
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| So far, this looks pretty good. Pooroo looks like a pretty well-made pokemon. (You should see some of the completed hack, Pokemon Quartz's pokemon *shivers* Some of those pokemon creep me out becuase they really look horrible) Anyways, back on your hack, the overworld map looks good and so do the custom sprites (Flareon was well drawn).
I am also makeing a pokemon game myself, but I havent edited the map at all. |
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PikaHACKchu Since: 05-22-06 From: ----------------------- Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Wow! That looks like it will be a good hack when it's finished. I especialy like the new text!
I cant wate for you to finish! |
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WeaslesRkool Micro-Goomba Since: 06-11-06 Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6326 days |
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| lol, south jersey.
I'm from there too. what county you from? |
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Yoronosuku Toss Tortoise Since: 11-17-05 From: Massachusetts is my new home.. Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Lovely bump  I hate to close this...PinkParkaGirl, if you want this reopened just PM me, okay? WeaslesRkool, tone it down with the posting a bit, okay? |
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