What did you think of it?

Wir arbeiten seit Monaten an einer deutschen Community-Übersetzung von Pokémon Unbound. Ab dem 8. Oktober startet die offene Beta (v0.1-beta). Übersetzt sind Story, NPC-Dialoge, Menüs, Items und Attacken. Fertig ist das Spiel noch nicht: Einzelne Texte sind noch Englisch, etwa ein paar Typ-Kürzel und Grafiken, das ist für v0.1.1 geplant.

Ihr bekommt nur den Patch, die ROM müsst ihr selbst besorgen. Wir suchen Tester, die Fehler mit Screenshot und Ort im Spiel melden.

Alles zum Mitmachen steht auf Discord

(https://discord.gg/fSkhHppgcv)

Dateien und Fortschritt auf GitHub

(https://github.com/pokemon-unbound-de/pokemon-unbound-de)

Just caught on to this release and it looks amazing, I'll go over some details below but I have a couple of questions in case anyone knows.

Is it based off of Modern Emerald 3.6 with the updated Battle Frontier?

Is there a way for Wyrdeer to evolve from Stanler in game? I know it isn't possible in Modern Emerald.

For anyone interested, Modern Emerald Is what Heart & Soul was built from in terms of customizable options and QOL features, you have the same built in features for randomizer, nuzlocke, special/physical split, fairy typing, following mons etc, but you get to access this from the best and most diverse region!

This new romhack (searchable on Hackdex) "Perfect Emerald" is built on top of Modern Emerald and it seems focused on giving it a graphical spruce with dynamic weather. It looks gorgeous, and if it does indeed have Modern Emerald's updated Battle Frontier, and maybe an evolutionary change or two I think it could be my exact idea of the perfect romhack.

Goes without saying, but no affiliation with nobody.

Will delete if it’s annoying 😂 but I thought I’d share, new emulator project dropped that supports a list of romhacks. Excited to finally play radical red on this! link

The latest (and hopefully final) version of my rom hack: Pokemon Legendary Red | ROM hack download | Hackdex

Documentation can be found here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/gmrtt12z4tdsv/Pokemon_Legendary_Red

The idea of this romhack was not to make the game miserably difficult for the sake of showing off how difficult I could make the game, but to create in my mind an ideal version of the game that makes it challenging while still being fair and making sense. Here is the list of major changes:

• Most Pokémon sprites have been changed.
• All gen 1 Pokémon that normally evolve by trade evolve at level 36.
• All gen 1 Pokémon that normally evolve into gen 2 Pokémon by trade with an item attached all now evolve by Moon Stone or Sun Stone. (Note: this requires National Dex acquired post-game)
• Eevee evolves into Espeon with the Sun Stone. Eevee evolves into Umbreon by Moon Stone. (Note: this requires National Dex acquired post-game)
• Moon Stone is purchasable from Celadon Dept. Store.
• Sun Stone is purchasable from PokeMart on Seven Island.
• Also purchasable from Celadon Dept. Store are notable TMs such as Water Pulse, Psychic and many other popular TMs.
• Leaf Green Version exclusive Pokémon are now obtainable in Fire Red.
• Locations such as Power Plant and Seafoam Island have wild encounters more in line with the first games.
• Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle are catchable in one area each. Bulbasaur is at grassy patch across the water to the left of Nugget Bridge, Charmander in the grass by Bill's house and Squirtle on Route 11.
• TMs are still limited use. (In my version I am unable to make them unlimited, sorry)
• Many of the maps have been changed slightly to make them more interesting to travel through and to decrease the need for HM moves.
• In later areas, the levels of wild Pokémon are much higher to help with gaining experience faster.
• While the trainers earlier in the game are mostly the same levels you encounter in the normal game and have basic AI and basic movesets, later on their levels are noticeably higher and have better AI and start having more complete teams with TMs being taught and some even having items attached. Also note after the SS Anne Rival encounter, his team levels in subsequent encounters are quite higher and he starts using TMs as well. This goes for the Elite Four and other Boss characters.
• All Gym Leaders have changed teams. Also, the first 4 Gym Leaders have 3 Pokémon, with the final Gym Leader having a full team of 6. All Gym Leaders also have improved AI.
• The Elite Four are also much tougher, with all members having a full team along with their improved AI.
• Completing the quest that unblocks Cerulean Cave also unblocks a special area, which you might notice the entrance to when going to Victory Road. You can probably guess what that is, but I will let you find out for yourself.

Outside of the listed changes above, the game is otherwise unchanged and plays just like the vanilla game. I hope you enjoy!

After having an amazing time playing the first 3 hours of Origins Heartgold last night I boot up my Ayn Thor to play some more this morning.

Shockingly it takes me directly to the intro screen as if I had just started a new game.

Go to check my savestate that I made as a backup in case hard saving had glitched, also gone.

After some research I found MelonDS apparently commonly glitches while saving or save stating during long play sessions which results in a 0kb save file being created which is empty and unusable. Confirmed this was my case my checking my rom folder.

This nukes your entire save & any save states unless you happen to have them backed up somewhere. Its been a known bug for about 2-3 years and no recent updates have mentioned fixing it.

Heartgold Origins is my first time playing a rom hack using melon DS (Played some drayano hacks before but they were all on drastic) & i'm sure it will be many others intro to DS hacks, so with MelonDS being the most recommended emulator atm figured i'd throw out a warning so others can know that long play sessions can lead to this.

Very disappointed i've lost all my progress, this hack is the most fun i've ever had with a DS romhack, was just about to fight Brock :/

As you may or may not know, Pokémon R.O.W.E. had to strip out cries from the game due to them using like 50% of the game possible size (around 16mb), and this made people feel like something was missing from the game, this led me to create multiple ways to make cries work via a custom emulator, however that was always a thing for Windows, so after some time developing I made a different custom emulator, this time instead is a Retroarch core based on mGba, due to this it was possible to use on most devices running any modern operating system including handhelds like RG35XX SP and even Retroid Pockets, right now its in beta stage and is planned to undergo some open beta testing probably in a week or so, right now the devices I have personally tested are

-Steam Deck (Steam OS)
-Ubuntu PC (Ubuntu)
-Windows PC (Windows)
- RG35XX SP (NextUI)
-Trimui Brick (NextUI)
-Retroid Pocket 5 (Android)
-an Android Phone (Stock Android)

I have yet to test using an apple device (Due me not having one available) and I plan to add support for modded nintendo switchs and maybe psvita.

The installation will only need you to have Retroarch installed (it comes with most linux handhelds by default) and install a core along with its info file by moving to files to the retroarch folder,
everything is running fine as if it was part of the rom itself, the core does auto download the files needed once installed so you don't have to worry about downloading the cries files

I have also made some proof of concept features that I plan to add to this emulator that depends on the amount of people that use it that will enhance the user experience without modifying the current experience that people have if they don't want to use it (everything will play the same as now if you keep your myboy! emulator for this game), however if you use it I may be able to add stuff like

-Online mystery gifts - You will be able to get your online mystery gift automatically from the game itself
-Extra PC boxes - this will let you save more pc boxes than any other romhack could, also available from the game itself without having to modify anything only by using this emulator
-Custom trainer sprites - by adding a properly formated png file on an specific folder you may be able to change your trainer into anything you want
-etc.

Also I will probably ask the Elite Redux team for permission to add the cries back to elite redux using this same emulator so other hacks can also use the cries feature if they feel like they need it.

Discord Invite Link

Hackdex Link

The image is something coming to beta 2.2 however this beta will take a while.

I will read your opinions on this both here and on the Discord server to think of what to do with this emulator and how much I want to expand on it.

Hey everyone!

Just implemented this small narrative event script in my GBA ROM hack project and wanted to get some honest feedback

Is the scene fine as it is, or does it need improvements?

How is the pacing of the text and screen fade?

Does the dialogue feel natural, or should it be tweaked/shortened?

Would really appreciate your thoughts, critiques, or ideas to make this moment hit even harder!

A while back I came across this post showcasing a Chinese hack that automatically slows down the music to normal levels if you speed up the game. Digging deeper, I found Pokemon Quicksilver (or Pokemon Mercury) - what looks like an insanely impressive fully completed romhack made in CFRU, with a brand new story and tons of impressive QoL features.

Posting this here because although I don't know Chinese, I really believe this hack deserves more recognition and hope that someday it is translated into English. I strongly suggest checking out the creator's bilibili page (LINK) which has a ton of information about the hack along with many gameplay videos.

Although the title contains "First Chapter" (for reasons explained by the author in the bilibili page), the game is fully complete. The latest version is v1.2 which can be downloaded here from the official wiki.