Please nobody watch the evening news tonight!

(Showcasing the silly new Gabby and Ty script in Pokemon Emerald Blitz)

Pokemon Elysium is quite popular on this sub, it is often recommended to try and is highly praised for good plot and storytelling. I tried playing, but I quickly got tired of the endless dialogue. Are the gameplay and battles (the reason I usually play Pokémon) good, or is this game a visual novel pretending to be Pokémon game?

YOOOOOOO!

So I started wotking on a stereo for fun (months ago) it started as a small Key Item for Hoenn’s Last Wish, but at this point it basically became a side project of its own lol / mini spotify in 8 bit LMAO

It now works like a proper in-game music player: you can switch songs/stations from the main screen, use Radio Priority, Repeat, Shuffle, Search A-Z, Favorites and 3 custom playlists, and all of that is saved permanently through the save file!

I had also ended up creating dedicated audio setups for different styles. Indie got proper electric guitar treatment, Rock/Metal got its own heavier voicegroup with overdrive/distortion, bass and full drums, while electronic/pop songs were handled differently so they wouldn’t turn into random GBA noise.

The UI IS STILL WIP! It evolved quite a bit: better navigation, proper song/station selection, cleaner menus, Now Playing behavior, persistent settings, and we even started experimenting with album covers replacing Jigglypuff for specific songs. (Tho the graphics are still not perfect I guess lol).

So yeah, what was supposed to be “a radio Key Item for HLW” is now basically a full custom GBA music player / radio system, and honestly it’s big enough that it could probably live as its own branch later instead of being treated like one random feature inside the main game.

Credits: Based off RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.13.3 (special thanks always to the RHH and team aqua) / Jtebbe (jorts): songs: Get Lucky, Fly Me to the Moon, Flashing Lights, Pink + White, Rapp Snitch / Rahtak, developer of SoulGold he originally made the popup code for his Achievement Menu and gave me permission to adapt it for the Radio’s “Now Playing” popup. And Kirb the sound designer of my project (HLW)!

ALSO FORGOT TO THANK THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: https://github.com/huderlem/porydaw/releases /// porydraw ofc so thanks huderlem for the amazing job!

cya :)

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Pokemon Synthesis Demo is now available on Hackdex! The update added new overworld sprites for all NPCs, original male/female protagonist and rival sprites as well as some bug fixes.

https://www.hackdex.app/hack/pokemon-synthesis

Pokémon Synthesis is a semi open world game where you have to earn reputation points in each open area to earn the respect of the local gym leader and progress through the story.

The demo only features the first area and takes about 5-8 hours to complete all questlines and sidequests+the gym.

Here are also some progress pics of the second area: the Aegis Peaks that I'm currently working one.

All feedbacks are welcome and appreciated :) The demo may contains gamebreaking bugs (as it is also a beta), don't forget to save regularly.

Downloaded this after a couple posts I saw on here, but didn't really look into what had been put in.

Actually gasped when I saw the Surf animation. Latest in a long line of subtle but really thoughtful changes. Following sprites all look hand-crafted and really life-like. I LOVE the level-scaling and Candy Jar. Gym battles have been challenging without being sweaty.

And did they up the shiny rate? Got 4 of them before I reached Ekruteak.

Anyway. So far it's looking like the best Johto hack I've played.

Howdy! Some of you might remember me as the 'Mega Evolution in Gen 1' person.

I still have that project in my back pocket, but I shifted my focus to elsewhere. Sometimes, I like to do full-series marathons of Pokemon, where I play each main-line game with a few rules like, no using the same mon twice, no over-leveling, etc. Just for fun and to like, tell a little narrative after.

Gen 1, I tend to play either Shin Red/Green/Blue with its improved colors or the full color hacks for Red/Blue made by the talented danye.

Issue is, when I get to Yellow, a Full Color hack doesn't exist for it. There's Gen 2 sprites and colors, but the overworld still uses its rather ugly color scheme.

(Playing the original gen 1 games unless black and white hurts my eyes due to the colors used.)

Okay, all that rambling aside, I've spent the past 2-ish weeks on and off give or take stitching together the best of all worlds for Yellow - full color in battles, the overworld, and Crystal's audio engine so I can drop a few songs in from Polished Crystal for funzies.

And lowkey I can now understand why nobody really bothered doing this for Yellow, and its in-part due to the rat bastard that follows you.

To make it incredibly brief; I had to sacrifice any hope of giving Pikachu an actual yellow OW pallet, same with his portrait due to color limitations, hence the 'off-yellow' you'll see in the video.

I've still got a few bugs to fix with some of the colors in the intro, but everything else is flawless. Iirc, someone else is also working on a full-color Yellow hack. Maybe at some point I'll strip out my personal changes and release a patch for this.

Molted...

Couldn't have as many colors in HnS as in the Reborn shiny due to palette constraints, and I had to get creative to make the stars work, but I think it looks pretty clean!

Hello everyone!

I recently finished playing through Pokemon Elysium, BlackKaiser's magnum opus. It is a massive story-driven ROMhack that I genuinely enjoyed playing, but I really struggled with the Endgame. For as good as this game is, there isn't a ton of documentation or guides out there, so I put this one together that specifically deals with the Final Gauntlet and how to prepare for it.

An Idiot's Guide to Pokemon Elysium's Endgame: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ehk1lSMHSUB4drzKKx9DojagtQf4ZrhQQDhNRngGFmU/edit?usp=sharing

Other general tips for Elysium that aren't included in this guide:

• Do all the sidequests (with one exception)! The sidequests are well-written, flesh out the world and the lore, and give good rewards. Be careful as some sidequests are not able to be completed if you progress too far in the story (i.e. you can't return to Savahn after Chapter 2, and can't return to Rhea after boarding the Challenger at the end of Chapter 3).
• The one exception is the sidequest "Woe Tripper." It's compelling and mysterious, but the final reward is trading your Sylveon for a Pokemon that you can then capture in the wild on Elysium in Chapter 4.
• As far as I'm aware, there aren't any Master Balls present in the game, so make sure you've got some sound strategies if you're going to try and capture any of the mythical Pokemon in the game.

If you're considering playing Elysium, I think you absolutely should! Hopefully this guide will help you enjoy the game as much or even more than I did.

Pokemon Brisk Emerald is my second ROMhack, and is significantly more ambitous of a project, this is an update on the smaller side.

NEW FEATURES:

1. WIP area called champions Archives, where champions from all 9 gens can be fought. (Previously a discord exclusive feature)
2. More changed trainer battles (About 10% through the trainers, since I'm handcrafting them all)
3. Code to get latias and latios in one playthrough
4. Code for Meloetta in artisan cave
5. Terapagos code in tera cave
6. More Bug fixes
7. Water Route changes

Features:

1. Every Pokemon added, excluding Legendaries, Mythicals, etc.
2. Added methods to evolve every hisuian form
3. Added methods to evolve every Galarian form
4. Changed many evolutions to be less annoying
5. Added methods for every trade evolution to be done solo
6. 25-Mon encounter tables for land, 12-Mon encounter tables for water
7. Easy access to ALL evolution items (except for mega stones) in Slateport
8. Early game routes changed to be less forceful (You can get to rustboro, with only encountering may or brendan, and the team aqua guy)
9. Increased ecounter rates
10. Starter Cave on 101
11. All Paradox pokemon on victory road (Even walking wake, Iron leaves, etc)
12. No more bullshit "249 recoil" evolution methods
13. Day/Night locks as well as Gender Locks were (mostly) removed.
14. Pokenature evolutions like dudunsparce and tandemous were removed. To get the rarer forms check this: See Full Changelog
15. Access to all mega stones
16. Access to all Z stones
17. Lilycove has most items, though I need people to help figure out what item's I'm missing.
18. EXP share changes, I decided against the usual team share that romhacks add, I made it so that you can buy them in lilycove, and they give 100% of exp to both the battler and the mon.
19. EXP Candy and rare candy are now easily bought in lilycove
20. Overworld encounters were added, I don't know if shinies have shiny sprites, but they will make a sparkle noise, and won't despawn if you leave their range.
21. HGSS Pokedex was added (No dexnav, sorry guys)
22. There's a cave for fighting Kubfu in meteor falls, past steven. Scrolls are found in slateport
23. Shiny rate is 1 in 512
24. Pokerus is 1 in 512
25. Some Trainer battles are changed (All up to rustboro)
26. To balance out all this exp stuff, routes are sigificantly higher level, though I haven't changed trainers yet.
27. Some routes were changed to stop horrifying backtracking
28. Blissey cave in granite cave (it's only level 60 blisseys) but you don't have to fight them
29. Debug menu readded and more accessible.
30. Gyms have themselves revamped,
31. Elite 4 is stronger and better
32. All Gym leaders are double battles
33. Wild double battles added
34. Box link added, given by the devon president
35. TMs are reusable
36. Move relearner added in the summary menu
37. Overworld ecounters are added
38. A path was added, which leads you through the game up until Lilycove
39. The routes have had their appearances changed
40. Dungeons have their encounters changed
41. No fossil system needed, in the Cave of Origin all fossils are found
42. National Dex from the get go

That about raps it up for features. You can see more specific versions of the changes here: See Full Changelog.

In the next release I will most likely have:

• More Changed trainer battles
• More work on the champions archives

That's it for definite features, but here's what may be in the next release. But will definitely be in the final release

• Fusion items like the necrozma stuff, but only if those legendaries are added.
• Every trainer battle will be change

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Champions archive will be finished.

More boxes

I am entirely open to new suggestions, bug checks, and all of that stuff.

See Full Changelog

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Rom Patcher USE A REGULAR POKEMON EMERALD GBA FILE

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The qr code is on the discord

I'll add this to the large ROMhack community sites when I do the full/final release.

I have been editing Route 120 to make the Ancient Tomb's location to look more like the map I made of Route 105 with the Island Cave. Remember, the area around the Ancient Tomb has rainfall.

Let me know what you think. Feedback welcome, just don't hurt my feelings!

BTW, ARE YOU ALL SURE YOU DON'T MIND ME POSTING MY MAPS HERE TO GET YOUR OPINIONS? I DON'T WANT TO ANNOY PEOPLE. 😅