Posted by Koolboyman

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First I'd like to thank you for asking for help before showing us your hack. Basically when I clear out a map, I move all the sprites/warps/events to the top left corner of the map, and then replace every tile on the map with a grass tiles.

Heres a few more helpful tips. The thing is, you can do whatever you want in a hack. It's your world! You don't have to limit yourself to what the game already prodives, you can come up with your own ideas and figure out ways to fully execute them.

If you want to do something in a hack, just do it. You know why? It's YOUR hack, and you can do anything you want with it.

Keep in mind try to not show off things that were in the original version. Nobody wants to play a boring hack with only minor differences from the original version. We want something new, so try to come up with new ideas you think people would enjoy.

So make your own region, try to apply a new story with that, with new features and lots of things you wouldn't find in the original game. If you want to take a look at something I consider really different from the original game, check out Pokemon Prism (Which is on the hack related releases forum).

Good luck!

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Posted by HyperHacker

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Keep in mind if you don't change the scripts, you'll have to work around them, which limits what you can design. You really should start by thinking of a storyline, sketching out some rough designs of what the world map might look like, then go about designing your maps and writing/editing scripts to suit them.

As for clearing the maps, if the editor doesn't have a built-in method, just draw over all the tiles and move all the events into a corner or delete them.

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Posted by Simango

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It's the principal. When working on any project Pokemon or otherwise always save an extra copy of what you're doing. I have two copies backed up of my project for that reason to avoid loosing my work.

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