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Posted on 06-04-07 02:41 PM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) Link | Quote | ID: 42182


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Posted on 06-04-07 02:41 PM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 17 of 07-27-07 03:08 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 42182


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Update: Download the Beta
Notes: Some graphics/palette glitches
Title screen is not completed.

Ever get tired of the endless amount of crappy Pokemon hacks with seven tiles per map changed and a few text changes, then the author claims they are a 'master hacker'? Well this should be a breath of fresh air, hopefully.

Pokemon Prism (Origionally called Pokemon Bronze) is a hack of Pokemon Gold, and the sequel to Pokemon Brown, which can be downloaded here: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/134/. It is a complete overhaul of the original game. However, Prism will be a vast improvement over Brown. I'll be releasing a beta on June 6th, which will only be up to the first Gym, but will have plenty to show!

Features:
- Brand new region of Naljo (bigger than Johto)
- Return of the region of Rijon (Areas were taken away in Kanto in Gold, Rijon in Prism will have all areas).
- Over 400 new maps (Gold had 368). Each and every map has been changed completely.
- Seven new types. (Wood, Gas, etc.)
- New TM/HM set
- PLENTY of script changes.
- All the Wild Pokemon sets trainer's Pokemon sets have been changed completely
- New Pokedex order (Naljo), with National Dex
- Almost all of the text changed
- Lots of other things that are different from the original product (Yes, in a Pokemon hack, shocking isn't it?)
- Additional tilesets
- And much more!

Heres a couple of Screenshots: (Graphics are a work in progress)



I hope you all enjoy it, this hack's been in production since 2004, and hopefully I can actually make the final version before the year 2072. I suppose a beta's better than nothing.

VALIDATED DAMNIT! >

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Posted on 06-05-07 01:37 AM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 3 of 06-05-07 01:40 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 42388


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Posted by Kyoufu Kawa
Posted by Koolboyman
Ever get tired of the endless amount of crappy Pokemon hacks with seven tiles per map changed and a few text changes, then the author claims they are a 'master hacker' because they spent 30 minutes editing a rom with Elite Map?
Oy. While I really like what you're showing here, I don't really like that statement.

Rock on.


I knew you'd say something about that. It's the sad truth that I must face at Pokecommunity everyday, however sometimes its with Advance Map. Nothin' personal against you.

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Posted on 06-06-07 08:16 PM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 4 of 06-06-07 08:47 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 43013


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Okay, it's out!

Download the Beta
Patch this to a Pokemon Gold English Rom

A few notes:
The title screen is not complete.
There are a few minor palette glitches when using menus.
Graphics are a work in progress.

I'll appreciate any suggestions and/or comments!

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Posted on 06-06-07 08:38 PM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) Link | Quote | ID: 43023


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Posted by Darkdata
First thing, Megaupload blows.

More to come after I have played the beta.



Thanks for that.

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Posted on 06-06-07 10:18 PM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 3 of 06-06-07 10:38 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 43049


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Posted by Darkdata
First thing, Megaupload blows.

More to come after I have played the beta.
Still mroe to come after.
Things Weird:

Rattatas in caves? That is kinda odd.... - I thought of trying Pokemon in different enviroments, besides this is Naljo. It doesn't make sense for a Rattata to be in a tower either :p.

Ditto for the level 1 pokemon. - It was about balancing because you start
with a level 3 pokemon.

The palette in the cave just before you exit... er.... red outlines on people? - I thought it looked nifty, but theres always different opinions.

Grass stone in a Ice Town? (Water stone maybe..?) / Store selling nugget? - These both were added for a more realistic mart. Stores sometimes sell things that people don't need.

Things not enjoyable:
B no longer closes the menu? Feature? - Gah, okay that was totally my fault. However the start button still works.
Running out of PP at the start of the cave. - You have a point there.
That Geodude battle. :/ - Leer is a very good move in that situation.

Liked:
Spoiler:

Most of it, including the unique start, though the into text could apply a bit of why you are there...
Happiness rater is awesome.
Trainer hall is awesome++;
Clothes Shop gets a awesome from me also.




Thanks for the comments.

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Posted on 06-07-07 05:40 AM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 3 of 06-07-07 05:43 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 43212


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Posted by TheGreatGuy
You have yet to tell us why B doesn't close the menu, I'd like to know as well.


It's just a mistake on my part. To tell the truth, I don't know why B button doesn't close it. Use start and focus on the other things in the game please. I'd like some more comments and suggestions please from someone who actually played it.

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Posted on 06-07-07 08:04 AM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) Link | Quote | ID: 43240


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Posted by NightKev
Well I've played it now.

Encounter rate does seem higher than normal.
Red outlines because cave is dark and you can't see anything yet (need flash for that), I think the original game did that too but it's been so long I don't remember.
I would say more but I bumped the reset key and don't want to restart after going through that damn cave .


You should just go through it again, just keep running and you'll be out in a few minutes.

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Posted on 06-10-07 03:42 AM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) Link | Quote | ID: 44098


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Posted by theclaw
That sounds like my smw hack. Started way back in 2001... At least it has a decent reception from players.


Huh?

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Posted on 06-10-07 07:53 PM, in Kirby's Adventure 2 ~ SMB 1 Hack Link | Quote | ID: 44270


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This wasn't bad at all, was good as far as SMB1 hacks go. I found some things I didn't like though:

1-1: I thought I was trapped before I realized taht the hill was actually a pipe.
1-3: At times it was hard to tell from the 'background clouds' and the clouds you could actually stand on
2-1: Noticed a few resemblences to the original 2-1
3-1: Same with 1-3
3-2: Way too short

You did a good job though.

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Posted on 06-17-07 10:23 PM, in Pokecommunity in a nutshell (rev. 3 of 06-17-07 11:49 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 46365


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"Hello, I'm your typical Pokecommunity hacking fan. I love hacks on Pokecommunity, however I won't even consider playing a Gold, Silver, or Crystal hack. Why? Because the graphics are terrible omg! I have more reasons, but I forgot. Anyways, since I cannot SUFFER to see the horrible graphic limitations in Gold anymore, I will rely on someone else to make a REMAKE for it and then label it as my favorite hack. Heck, I'll make a remake myself, that has to be the most ORIGINAL idea ever! It'll be the exact same game, except OMG GRAPHIX even though they don't contribute anything to the actual heart of the game: The gameplay. Pokemon Shiny Gold is my favorite hack because I wont be seeing the TERRIBLE 8 bit graphics that the gameboy can only hold. Even though that was the limitations back then, it's still terrible I don't know what the hell they were thinking. I wish these games were NEVER made, even though if that happened we woudln't have the advanced games that we use to fuck up with Elitemap.

I'm a fan of the hundreds of active hacks on Pokecommunity today, 95% don't follow Coolboyman's most important rule: Clear out the entire map before making your own. So most of the hacks I play are half assed hacks where the first town looks a LOT like Littleroot. However who cares? I'll take one of these hacks made in 30 minutes that have a grand total of seven tile changes in littleroot over the Color and metal Pokemon games that put years of hard work into them because I'm a bias dumbass.

Okay, time to post my hack. I'll post a bunch of empty promises and then later find out I can't do what I promised because I don't know how to use a Hex Editor, or change anything in the game without a program that somebody else made. This will result in cancellation of the hack, and then me starting up another one without learning from my mistakes."

That felt good.

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Posted on 06-20-07 06:02 AM, in Pokecommunity in a nutshell (rev. 10 of 06-20-07 06:24 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 47138


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Posted by tyty210
Shiny Gold looks good so far, but it needs a day/night cycle, even a crappy one, he shoulda based it on emerald at least because that has all the default panels, although he probably didn't want to recreate Kanto...

sigh, it just ain't gold without espeon and umbreon....


I didn't say Shiny Gold was a bad hack (however MANY MANY parts of the hack need improvement), it's just the most overrated hack of all time.

Want to know something crazy? Zel (Author of Shiny Gold) was INSPIRED by Pokemon Brown, and thinks I'm the best Pokemon hacker and looks up to me (lol), therefore he made his own hack. Shiny Gold then inspired people to make their own Gold Remakes. So part of this whole thing at Pokecommunity (overrated countless lists of Gold Remakes) is kind of my fault. Sorry everyone.

Zel's not a bad guy, it's the FANS of his hack that treat every single thing he does (such as changing a tile) as the best thing since sliced bread. Also, the people trying to copy him that I'm annoyed with. The other people I'm annoyed with, well read my first post.

You know what though? This is kind of mean, but I'll laugh my ass off when or if Nintendo released an official Gold/Silver remake for the DS, and everyone moves onto that because of "OMG GRAPHIXXXXXX". Fire Red hacked remakes of Gold will cease to exist, or at least nobody will give a rats ass about them. It's all about moving forward for these kiddies.

When Diamond and Pearl become hackable with a simple program, will we se remakes of Ruby/Sapphire? Probably, since the overall idea is unoriginal. But they're kids.

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Posted on 06-20-07 08:08 PM, in Next SMB3 Hacking Project Link | Quote | ID: 47248


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Wow, this is very impressive, great job! Keep it up!

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Posted on 06-23-07 03:46 AM, in Pokecommunity in a nutshell (rev. 2 of 06-23-07 03:51 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 48720


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Posted by Techokami
Funny how I'm trying to look for a good starting point in breaking open RBY's graphic compression format and stumble upon this thread, which rants how kids are wooed by sprites with a 16-color pallete over ones with a 4-color pallete and hence stalling any work on hacking older games.

In case you're wondering why I'm insterested in RBY's compression format, it's because I actually prefer the old graphics over the newer ones, that and I want to prove the author of this completely and totally wrong. Seriously, this:
Posted by Giegue
you cannot edit pokemon graphics. Get over it.
sounds like a load of crap.


The compression is really complicated, but it is possible. I wish you luck in figure it out, and proving him wrong. The statement "You can't do it" in rom hacking has been disproved so many times.

Posted by Metal_Man88
Also, the time spent discussing this would be better served trying to organize or steer the scene towards more fulfilling hacks than simple image upgrades.


Exactly what I'm trying to do.

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Posted on 06-23-07 07:47 AM, in Pokecommunity in a nutshell (rev. 14 of 06-23-07 08:20 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 48833


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Yeah Gold's graphic compression is simple. You can even repoint the pointers to uncompressed graphics and it'll work just fine, which is VERY helpful.

Red overall is very badly programmed and structured, probably the hardest game I've ever hacked. There were several things I wanted to do in Brown but just couldn't because of the stubborn programming system, and felt it wasn't worth it (Because, oh god, it wasn't). I was very limited with Red... Many of the ideas will be in Prism though.

Ever since Pokemon Red has been released, people have been trying to edit these graphics, but always failed - even 10 years later nobody can do it. I tried editing the pokemon graphics, but obviouslly failed, so I tranfered graphics from Japanese Green and yellow into Red, and it worked (to my suprise).

These graphics were heavly compressed because in the Japanese version, there was very little "blank data", so they had to fit everything on a 512k. The rom was expanded to 1024k in the American release because it takes more memory for our alphabet than their Japanese one to make sentances. (This is why you see a lot of Blank data (00's) after the text ends.) Gold's was increased as well, 1024k in Japan, but was expanded to 2048k in America.

Also back on the primary topic, I have a BIG plan to shape up the Pokemon hacking community, should be ready by next month, and I'm sure you'll all like it. A few other veteran Pokemon hackers are also helping me with this. Some as far back as from the days of PPN and Total Anime.

I just want Pokemon hackers to TRY on their hack; to come up with an original idea and execute it. I'm not expecting hard-coded scripts or lots of ASM changes, I just want people to try to do an original hack, with original ideas, and of course follow my important rule: Clear out the old map before overwriting it with your original map. Also, make a new region maybe! It's the "hackers" world when making a hack, so s/he calls the shots. They shouldnt limit themselves to what the game already has, try to expand and change everything you possibly can so it's actually their world. Use your fucking imagination people! Also, don't give up once one encounters a problem, try to figure it out. Nobody has figured out how to do something with a Pokemon game? TOO BAD, that means if someone wants to do that, they have to figure it out!

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Posted on 06-23-07 08:03 AM, in Pokemon Prism (Used to be Bronze) (rev. 3 of 06-23-07 08:05 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 48839


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Posted by HyperHacker
Probably a palette issue. GSC and SuperGB had the advantage of palettes, and Stadium could implement hacks. Setting the tile palettes to all black would have worked, but made it impossible to read menus and dialogue.


Yeah, no matter where you went in Gold, your sprite and others stayed the same color. I did that "dark effect" on purpose, where it just shows the outline of the sprite instead of it in full color. In dark areas the sprites are also darker than normal, the way it should be.

As for everyone else, thanks for the honest comments, I'll be fixing most of them in the next beta. (Less encounter rate in the first cave, text colors reverted, Orange more "orange" etc.)

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Posted on 06-24-07 12:00 AM, in CRAP. PISS. KILL. (A topic about my cellphone) Link | Quote | ID: 48959


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Yeah some mexican guy called me 10 times in a row once. He didn't say anything, but I could hear whoever was with him speaking in Spanish. I called HIM and told him to stop calling me, and he claimed "oh I got the wrong number". Okay, but TEN TIMES? I got a few more calls from him. If the number didn't work the first time, why would it work the 12th time?

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Posted on 06-24-07 09:16 AM, in Pokemon Fire Red hack: Trial Road (rev. 10 of 06-24-07 09:25 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 49118


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Posted by Koolboyman

"I'm a fan of the hundreds of active hacks on Pokecommunity today, 95% don't follow Coolboyman's most important rule: Clear out the entire map before making your own. So most of the hacks I play are half assed hacks where the first town looks a LOT like Littleroot."


Had to be said man, clear out the old map 100% before making your own. Otherwise, this is just ANOTHER hack... Compare littleroot to your first town




Yep, the kind of "First town" I see in about 95% of Ruby/sapphire hacks, one that looks the same as littleroot.

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Posted on 06-24-07 11:44 AM, in OpenPoké - who wants some? (rev. 2 of 06-24-07 11:44 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 49147


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Looking good! I'd definitely try this out, keep it up.

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Posted on 06-24-07 11:45 AM, in Pokecommunity in a nutshell (rev. 11 of 06-24-07 11:56 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 49148


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Posted by Kyoufu Kawa
* instinctively assumes battle stance *


Don't worry, only the good ones. (No "Shiny Mangimon"s for sure)

Oh yeah, everyone check this shit out. Rememeber how I said these people weren't original? Well heres more proof:


Screenshot of one of my hack's (Prism's) sidescrolling areas. (Beta released June 6th 2007)



Screenshots that were released yesterday from ANOTHER shitty GBA hack. Coincidence? I think not! Sadly, these are the only maps in the hack that had actual changes to them rather than 7 tiles per map. And it STILL looks like shit, he did it all wrong.

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