In light of the recent streamed music capabilities that I've worked to port to hg-engine, I've made a showcase of one of my favorite areas. This combines a ton of custom made tiles, vast depth + special rendering techniques (export groups, polygon optimizations), camera work, and most of all, the new NWAV music format which lets you play any music you want.

This music uses Yzana Plain from XC3, which fits with the vibes of Exitium Ridge. If you want to use NWAV music, you can use this setup guide that I wrote: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IdQZpPWB6zYhsuO6rWfCQpmylZc2cRzcPtinmEeUHwY/edit?usp=drivesdk

At the time of this writing, I believe the implementation has also been ported to the pokeplatinum decomp by memory5ty7, but I have not used the platinum decomp myself, so I do not know how the setup works.

Anyway, enjoy!

-sauceyaTTa

Heya~~!

This week I've been mostly working on a new fakemon (made by me this time😄) and closing some open stuff on the ROMhack, such as the TM list, which is 100% needed to have an accurate teachable learnset for my new fakemons.

Last week update:

• Devlog #8.5
• Devlog #8

IMPLEMENTATIONS

• Added to the game the list of 147 TMs, and successfully replaced the ones of base emerald.
  • I will need to redo descriptions and add new ones to the decomp though
• Created and implemented a new ability for Palestram / Pankramos
  • Training Rythm: Increases the next Physical attack by x1.3 after a status move is used

POKEMON

• Completed movepool for:
  • Combrisk / Claciquen
  • Aurelotus
  • Palestram / Pankramos

MAPPING

• Made the first iteration of Route002
  • Missing some trainer battles and event sequence that introduces team Lethe and rival Dahlia.
• Changed some wild encounters so that Kalos starters may be catchable through dexnav's hidden encounter feature

MISC

• Did some templates for showcasing fakemons for future devlogs, mainly a personal thing

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And that's all for this week! I'll be checking you comments and will answer any question, have a great weekend!

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Hatterene X Runemaster (Class) from Etrian Odyssey IV.

Additionally, we've removed flavor text from move descriptions to make their effects clearer.

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After a lot of effort, I have been able to port TheGameratorT's NWAV file format / audio streaming to HeartGold via hg-engine. This allows for ANY audio file to be played instead of using sequenced audio in the HGSS soundfont (which, in my opinion, doesn't sound very good and heavily limits custom audio edits).

Currently, the sound system can transition between the regular sseq -> nwav and nwav -> sseq audio really well. It can loop songs, it can play in-battle, in the overworld, or by script command on an NPC/tile trigger. I've tested on both desmume and MelonDS, so I am very hopeful it works on hardware.

How it works:

Typically, audio is stored as a sequenced file (think sheet music or midi), and is loaded into RAM when it needs to be played. Overworld songs are limited to about 14kb in order not to overflow the sound heap. In contrast, NWAV files are essentially full .wav files which are about 10,000-20,000kb. They are streamed in bits to the CPU to play the song (similar to like Spotify or other streaming services, via a buffer), instead of loading the whole thing into memory which obviously would not work.

My hg-engine code reads whether or not a queued up song is sseq or nwav, and if it is sseq it will return to the original vanilla sound functions. If it is nwav (checks through a hex bit in the file header), it will route through the streaming logic. There's a lot more technical details than this, but that's the general idea.

This video is just a demonstration of it actually working in-game using an orchestrated song "You Will Know Our Names - Finale" from Xenoblade Chronicles 3. I have set up Elm's lab to link to that nwav song, so it will play upon loading the area. As I've said before, you can do this for battles, but you will need to edit the music table in hg-engine.

Anyway, this opens up a LOT of opportunity for making good NDS hacks, and I will definitely be using this for Pokemon Iridium.

-sauceyaTTa

I am trying to make it so surf doesn't require the move to be learned, following this guide: https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/changing-how-surf-works-using-a-modified-special-0x12b.338513/

I am able to find and change the code at the bit at the bottom, where it does the check attack command, but not at the earlier bit at the top. I tried changing what was mentioned in the post, but it didn't work, and the address looked like it was for something else anyways. I double checked on a clean rom and it showed the same thing. I am using HMA and the cfru included in said program, but as I said earlier, I double check on a clean rom.

Little upgrade to the legendary encounters for Renegade platinum.

Now, the player is teleported to a new custom area themed depending the legendary you'll encounter. I will eventually add some new events/ trainers before the actual encoutner to make it less straight foward :p

Please dont ask for the release, I won't reply

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WISH DEX PAGE

Hi again! :) Yesterday I released patch 0.4, and I also wanted to take the opportunity to announce something I'm developing (it's still a WIP tho). I plan to have this interactive visual Pokédex on the game's website, where you can hover your mouse over each Pokémon's "wish form" and they will display their animation. When you click, you'll see important information about them (later I'll add the sprite author's name at the end as a kind of signature, since the game has several incredible sprite artists working on it, not just me...). For now, it only has the starters, but as soon as I have time I'll update it with the rest of the Pokémon... I think it looks really cool. If anyone is interested in doing the same or something similar for their hack rom, feel free! :) cya

Heya~~!

Doing the devlog a bit earlier than usual, since I don't think there will be many changes over the next hours (and I want to play Champions a bit, tbh 🤣)

UI

• Made Custom UI designs (and implemented them in-game) of the trainer cards.
  • As of now, there's only a front card available. Whenever I'll need a back for it, I'll come up with new art for that part

PLAYER CHARACTERS

• Added new sprites for both player characters in-game
  • Back animations based on the commissioned sprite by IronFanton
  • Walking & Running sprites
  • Fishing sprites
• As it can be seen on the image, I've reserved 3 colors on the palette to be used for the hair, and there's other 3 colors reserved for the skin tone.
  • Customization is not implemented, but doing this helps me have it prepared for the time I go into it (whenever / if I implement it)

POKEMON

• Aurelotus, the relic halo Pokémon, has been implemented in-game. Art made by the same artist that was commissioned Combrisk and Claciquen.
  • Sprites and placement ✅
  • Mega Sol not implemented in-game yet ❌
  • Stats ✅
  • Moves ❌

MAPPING

• Skalista's Gym (Endurance Badge) is finished. A simple ice puzzle to start the adventure.
• Added a Quest Giver on Skalista's PokeCenter, which give the player the EXP Share if they've defeated all trainers on Route001
• Added the fisherman's home, which gives the player the old rod quite early.

MISC

• Started tweaking the Team Lethe grunt to have some variants. I'll keep working on it until finding something interesting, but I don't really want to remove the cloak since it's part of their visual identity 🤔.
• Change Budbitt's line (grass starter) hidden ability to Bulletproof
• Fixed issues with battle transitions
• 75 people on Discord! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Join if you want to get daily updates and give some early feedback ☺️

Next Steps

• Complete Skalista City
  • Add all the remaining indoors for Skalista City
  • Add NPCs outdoors
• Start Route 002
  • Have encounter with Rival Dahlia (second rival)
  • Add Trainers and Wild mons
• Start Cave 1(tentative name: Mneme Grotto)
  • First encounter with Team Lethe

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And that's all for this week! I'll be checking you comments and will answer any question, have a great weekend!

I'd say we've almost finished half of the things needed for the first release of Pokémon Odyssey II.

Tharsis Outskirts + New battle UI made by Lodestar195

Stay tuned for more!

I'll start from the beggining since theres a lot to unravel.
This update mainly focuses on expanding locations, with a second part coming soon.

In Cycling road, you can find this new building which is the equivalent of the Battle Frontier. A gauntlet of ~50 trainers where at the end you can get rewards such as items and eggs! (I'll fix the small tile error in the first slide)
This took a awfully long time to make, so I hope you'll like the frontier when the game is playable!

Lavender town small expansion!

2 houses and a industrial building, one house has a random NPC with a pokeball that turns out to be a Haunter encounter. And another house is a replica of your house.
The Industrial building and the new area will get a bigger expansion, but for now the industrial building lets you battle against the trainer of the other gender. team in slides

Safari Zone was changed up a bit but its mainly encounter changes with new pokemon. Not a lot I can show since it just has the appearance of the normal Safari Zone right now.
You can encounter pokemon like Riolu, Luxio, Scizor, Noibat and more!

Route 1 got a small revamp

Misty and Brock's gym have been (slightly) modified!

Added boxes to the daycare.
That's it.

Route where the daycare is in and Cerulean City have replaced tiles.

Brendan and May's base on Route 12 (upcoming revamp) (Machop will teach you low kick!)

Release date for the game: TBA

I changed the design for my ROM and this small bug occurs when I enter and leave the location

v8.6 is here! New move data and Mega abilities from Pokemon Champions are implemented!

https://emeraldblitz.com/PatchNotes

Also new is our revamped trainer card, which now displays each boss you've defeated and your in-game splits.