This now, technically, works.
However, the Battle Tent was seemingly made with the assumption trainers are Pokemon, which our hack has moved from. I've made it so it can load it as a trainer battle properly, but you will deathwarp. I need to implement a scripted loss system.
This is...most of the stuff necessary for the Battle Tent to work. I've faithfully restored most things so far, including doing a few grammar tweaks.
Main issue is that we get a really strange softlock when the Pokemon selection menu comes up. Not sure why, but point is, it can't progress to the next bit for debugging like this. Committing now to ask for assistance.
- Made Gym Leader levels more consistent
- Updated sprites, including a complete redo of Espeon's (based off the Gold sprite)
- Fixed an issue where Blue would have an incorrect team
- Changed Celadon Gym trainer text to accomodate for being a girl
This adds the boy/girl selection from later generations, using the pret tutorial and a spriteset from Pokemon Anniversary Red. I made some alterations, namely inserting the option later into the speech to be less clunky, and having the Nidorino become a Nidorina if you pick the feminine option.
I decided to make the third name option Seren, a common Welsh name for girls. It means "star", which is really cute! But...most people will probably say it's a Panel de Pon reference, which is cool too.
This commit adds NPCs and signs to Citrine, doing some significant worldbuilding in the process. I considered adding an event where Oak greets you like how the Magma/Aqua Admins do on the ORAS Battle Resort, but it seemed a little too on-the-nose, y'know?
There was an issue where you wouldn't be walked out of doors automatically, which was quite immersion-breaking. That was because the door tile IDs weren't defined - this is fixed too.
Some map elements have been altered to facilitate the new changes, and obviously, some map sprite slots have been filled.
Importing and changing the Battle Tent is most likely my next task.
There are ways this can be improved (SFX, menu message, insta-recalc stats), but this finishes the Hyper Training functionality.
Talk to James, give him a Bottle Cap, he boosts your DVs to max, and then he deducts a Bottle Cap.
Notable that vanilla vitamins don't recalc stats immediately as well, so maybe the recalc bit isn't necessary.
Currently, he doesn't deduct a Bottle Cap and he only fills out Attack and Defence. DVs are stored as a 16-bit address, so I need to find a way to make `a` work with it...
This update does a good few things. Giovanni now uses his unused encounter theme in all pre-fights, which is followed by the regular evil trainer theme when you're about to fight him. This feels very correct. His team has also been minorly altered.
I backported LGPE's pre-fight monologue for Giovanni in Rocket Hideout B4F. Adapted for RB's story, of course, no Cubones here. The original text is very awkward and abrupt, and it also makes the encounter theme feel much more effective in delivery. I think a lot of people can appreciate this.
I also backported Jessie and James for Rocket Hideout B4F while I was at it. I had to change their event script quite a bit for it to fit, and their walking seems...awkward. Regardless, it's functional. The rest will be done with time.
To make future dev door testing easier, I'm keeping all warps I've previously used in comments.
This fixes the rival team selection issue and changes the wild data of Route 25.
The rival pulls data using hex and I put in dec like an idiot. Also, fixed the ordering.
Paras and Skimper make little sense on Route 25 and felt honestly quite immersion-breaking. Paras is a cave mushroom crab thing, it wouldn't be seen on a seaside route like Route 25. Skimper just didn't feel right on a similar basis - just...why would it be there? It's a newt, right? Instead, I added Venonat, a Pokemon seen in Yellow, which needs to be here to benefit from the learnset tweaks that we backported.
With the way KEP is shaping up, the Rocket Hideout can easily stay with little issue. I don't expect it to be a problem at all. Therefore, in the interest of keeping Lavender Tower's progression the same, it's being restored. I do expect some Lavender Tower floors to be nommed, though.
I expect Silph to also be salvageable but I also really hate Silph.
Oh, also, the Game Corner guard has been buffed. He sucks. They call that a guard??
This makes it so everything except Rhydon works properly. At this point I'm willing to have Rhydon not work, they can just evolve into Rhyperior instead.
Warps are messed up at the moment and we need to test it for Old Sea Map purposes. It uses the Fuchsia palette right now but that's not an issue right now
The warps are currently broken for reasons I can't figure out for the life of me. Faraway Island works but is loaded in a glitched state where other warps break and are generally very unstable, while Citrine softlocks. It's progress, though.
This adds a map for Cinnabar Volcano's floors in the run-up to Moltres. I used a S.S. Anne style compression technique here, having 4 floors on a decently sized map that are just far enough apart for a player to never actually see them. This maintains their suspension of disbelief while giving us way more space to work with. I want to compress a lot of RBY maps like this if push comes to shove - there's a lot of places where this is possible.
In the interests of compression, I started using the Agatha bank again, as I removed a lot of maps from there when making bank 22. There's some space for maps.
Also I made 3 more blocks for cavern which caused it to overflow the bank it was in - fixed that by swapping with PreGym, which is probably much smaller.
Cinnabar Volcano hasn't been changed yet in the interest of Martha finishing that bit up.
Gives Garnet Cavern its custom palette. Also reverts the changes I made to Viridian Forest's palette since it's very hard to spot the difference anyway, and I needed the space. Also had to revert Faraway Island's, which I'll revisit at some point
I messed up Garnet Cavern's 2F name for some reason
Also added all the warps which are, ironically, exactly the same as the international Cerulean Cave. Added the event for Galarian Articuno but gee I hope the constant skip doesn't cause any issues
It should contain a mix of Rock, Steel, Ground, and Flying-type Pokemon. Feels like a cave, but has fliers to reference Galarian Articuno. Could change some stuff out for more Psychic-types given Galarian Articuno lives there. Needs more level distribution - namely, buffing near the end a la other caves.
Currently just uses the RG Unknown Dungeon map, which should be changed accordingly. The warps and stuff outside of basic entry aren't implemented.
Has a halved encounter rate compared to other maps, which matches the idea that caverns don't sustain much wildlife.
Mt Moon theme may not be used in the final product.
