[Chaos Rush]

Some of you from PokéCommunity may already have heard of this hack, but I have decided to bring it here, as I want people that aren't Pokémon fans to try this. Or at least, people that aren't as familiar with Pokémon to try this. I want someone to play this hack, and view it as some random new RPG for the Game Boy Advance. I have been working on this incarnation of it since August 2012.

This is a hack of Pokémon FireRed Version.

Box art front: http://i1151.photobu...zpsc97b2c3c.png
Box art back: http://i1151.photobu...zps12cc8b64.png

This hack is a remake of the very first Pokémon games, Pokémon Red & Green. This is how I would remake them, and it's totally different from FireRed & LeafGreen. This will be a Kanto adventure you've never experienced, and it will be totally modernized, and fun. This is my reboot of Pokémon, think of it as a new Generation I. This isn't a Gen III hack, this isn't a Gen IV/V wannabe hack, this is Chaos Rush's Generation I game.

STORY: This world is inhabited far and wide by creatures called Pokémon. For some people, Pokémon are pets. Others use them for battling. There are numerous mysteries surrounding them, and they are a popular subject of research. Either way, humans live in harmony with Pokémon, and they have done so for ages.

Meanwhile, three teenagers, two from Pallet Town and one from Viridian City, decide to travel through the Kanto region to collect eight badges of Kanto, and to take on the Pokémon League Challenge. The names of the teens are Red, Green, and Blue, and they each have received a Pokémon from Professor Oak. They have no idea what awaits them, such as an increasingly threatening crime organization known as Team Rocket. The three of them will meet many people on their journey, some helpful, such as Blue's older sister Daisy. They will also meet Kamon, a younger boy who claims to despise Team Rocket, and is always right on their tail. What are Kamon's motives? Or more importantly, what are Team Rocket's motives?

FEATURES:
*210 Pokémon available
*All 210 Pokémon will have sprites from my DS-style 64x64 Sprite Project
*113 new moves added. Over half of them are Gen IV moves, a few Gen V moves, and a few custom moves. No old moves were replaced, thus there is now a total of 467 moves.
*A few old moves have new animations
*Physical/Special split
*Important characters have their own battle theme
*Lots of redone music
*custom instruments, such as the church organ and the "orchestra hit" sample
*All 210 Pokemon have their moveset redone (new movesets are based closely off of B2/W2 movesets)
*Entire game re-scripted & re-mapped from scratch
*Map layouts and architectural design of the Kanto region will be based off of how it appears in HG/SS. However, unlike HG/SS, Route 23 will actually exist.
*And much more…

R/S/E-ified features:
*R/S/E style graphics (yes I'm serious)
*Removal of the stupid flashback feature to make it more like R/S/E
*Removal of first-person view artwork to make it more like R/S/E (and every single Pokémon game that's not FR/LG or HG/SS)
*You actually face the trainer when another trainer walks up to you
*Removal of colored-text based on gender
*Proper item fanfares, instead of being limited to the level-up sound

NEW GYM ORDER:
1. Brock
2. Misty
3. Lt. Surge
4. Erika
5. ??? (not Giovanni)
6. Koga
7. Sabrina
8. Blaine

MAIN CHARACTER BIOS:

Spoiler

Name: Red
Age: 16
Info: A teen from Pallet Town who has decided he wants to take on the Pokémon League Challenge. Along with Green and Blue, he receives a Pokémon from Professor Oak, and sets off on his Kanto journey.

Name: Green
Age: 16
Info: A teen from Viridian City who has decided she wants to take on the Pokémon League Challenge. Along with Red and Blue, she receives a Pokémon from Professor Oak, and sets off on her Kanto journey.

Name: Blue
Age: 16
Info: A teen from Pallet Town who has decided he wants to take on the Pokémon League Challenge. Along with Red and Green, he receives a Pokémon from Professor Oak, and sets off on his Kanto journey.

Name: Daisy
Age: 20
Info: A young adult who supports Red, Green, and Blue throughout their journey. She is Blue's older sister. She leaves home with her younger brother Blue, but while Blue is collecting Kanto Gym Badges, Daisy has other important business.

Name: Kamon
Age: 13
Info: A mysterious boy that Red, Green, and Blue encounter several times. He claims to hate Team Rocket, and says he will destroy them once and for all, along with anyone who gets in his way. He is always seen with Team Rocket, presumably because he is following them. Or is he? He is very mysterious, claiming to hate Team Rocket, and to hate the weak. He clearly has a motive for destroying Team Rocket, as his hate towards them had to develop somewhere. What are his motives?

Name: Giovanni
Age: ???
Info: It's no secret that he has a high standing in Team Rocket. He is indeed the leader of Team Rocket. He claims that Team Rocket is a “Pokémon Research Organization”, hence why Team Rocket is always committing crimes for money, since research is supposedly expensive. Anyone with a brain can suspect that he has other reasons for collecting money. However, there is actually some truth to his claims. He is indeed researching something, and he does have scientists working for him, and the research is indeed expensive. But what is he researching?

Name: Mr. Fuji
Age: ???
Info: The Champion of Kanto who has announced his plans for retirement, due to his old age. Red, Green, and Blue encounter him during their journey, and he has valuable information regarding Team Rocket's plans.

Q&A:

Spoiler

Q: Why is Giovanni no longer a Gym Leader? Is he still in the game?
A: You will be able to re-battle Gym Leaders. If Giovanni was a Gym Leader, he would not be able to be re-battled due to the plot. However, he is still in the game, in fact, he is basically the main antagonist.

Q: Who is the new Gym Leader?
A: I want it to be a surprise. But here's a hint: It is a character that has appeared in all games that Kanto has appeared in. This character is somewhat of a minor character in R/G/B/Y, G/S/C, FR/LG, and HG/SS, but in DarkViolet, this character will play a more prominent role, appearing several times during the story, and as a Gym Leader in Pokémon DarkViolet.

Q: Who is Kamon?
A: Kamon is Giovanni's son. Yes, he is basically the rival from G/S/C/HG/SS. He will be appearing several times in Pokémon DarkViolet, and you will get to battle him several times as well.

Q: Why is he named "Kamon" and not "Silver"?
A: Each region has a trio of trainers. The HG/SS rival is Giovanni's son. Each region has a trio of main character trainers. Kamon's counterparts are Ethan and Lyra. If Kamon was named Silver, then that means Ethan and Lyra would have to be named Gold and Crystal, but I'm sticking with Ethan and Lyra. Since Ethan and Lyra have "real" names, "Silver" must receive a real, non-color name, and thus it's Kamon. Kamon happens to be the second name option in Pokémon Silver (the first option is Silver).

Q: There are 210 Pokémon in DarkViolet's Kanto Dex. Aren't there only 151 Pokémon in Generation I? What Pokémon have you added?
A: Pokémon from the first four Generations are available. Most of the added Pokémon are related to Generation I Pokémon. This means you can evolve your Golbat into Crobat. ALL Pokémon that are related to Generation I Pokémon by evolution are available, such as Crobat, Blissey, Politoed, Magmortar, Electivire, Magmortar, all Eevee evolutions, etc. There are a couple evolutionary families not related to Generation I Pokémon in any way.

Q: Will there be any Pokémon available besides the 210 in the Kanto Dex?
A: Nope, sorry. The only Pokémon available are the 210 Pokémon in the Kanto Dex. After all, the Generation I games only had 151 Pokémon. Think of this hack as a new Generation I.

Q: Why did you remove the text-color feature?
A: In the Japanese FR/LG, every NPC spoke in plain black text regardless of gender. The blue/red text thing was only in the international releases of FR/LG, and it was never used in any game again, ever. I think it's pointless, and if I were to make a Pokémon game from scratch, I would not include that feature, therefore, I have taken it out of my FireRed ROM.

Q: Why is this hack called DarkViolet?
A: Because Mewtwo is the mascot. And Mewtwo is dark-violet...er...kinda...well, his tail is arguably dark-violet. :P

Q: Isn't the girl's name supposed to be Leaf?
A: I don't care. She will be Green. I mean, if the dude's official name is Red, and the rival's official name is Blue, then the most logical name to call the girl would be Green. Not freaking "Leaf". Also, Green was meant to appear in the 1st Generation Pokemon games. Here's beta artwork of her from Gen I, and here's more beta artwork of her. Now...pretend you've never heard of the phrase, "Pokémon LeafGreen Version". Or just pretend you're in the year 1998. If you saw that girl, and you knew that the guy's name is Red, and the rival's name is Blue, what would you think the girl's name would be? Green, duh.

Screenshots (these are outdated, will updated soon):


Credits:
-Every person that made the various tools I used
-Jambo51, for his ASM code for the Trainer Battle facing fix, for telling me how to extend the available Direct Sound tracks, and some other stuff
-Mastermind_X, for his music variable hack
-DoesntKnowHowToPlay, for his Physical/Special split hack, also for the No Guard ability ASM code
-Gamer2020, for making PGE, which made the process of adding new moves significantly easier
-giradialkia, for being there with this project since the very beginning during my previous incarnations of this, and also for composing Giovanni's battle theme
-NintendoBoyDX, for helping me port the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald tile system over to FireRed
-metalflygon08, for suggesting the renaming of the custom move "Water Drain" to "Osmosis"
-Darthatron, for his tutorial on porting the Black 2/White 2 repel system to FireRed
-diegoisawesome, for fixing the "Presents" graphic in the intro
-MrDollSteak, major contributor to the 64x64 DS-Style Pokémon Sprite Resource, and also for implementing some Pokémon abilities from Gen IV and V, and for some revised attack animations
-karatekid552, for the evolution slot expansion, enabling Eevee to have seven different evolutions

Known Bugs/Glitches:

Spoiler

*When doing an action (such as right before Surf/Fly/Cut, etc.) in the overworld, if you're standing at a place where your reflection is visible, the sprite's reflection will glitch up. This is because I expanded the action sprite to the size that it is in RSE for style continuity, and I'm assuming the reflection still assumes its the original size. I don't know how to fix it other than change the size back to what it was in FireRed, meaning the sprite would look kinda crammed/squished should I do that.

*During a battle if the user and opponent both have Motor Drive as their ability, when the ability activates it will only reference the user's name. While technically a bug, the only Pokémon in the game that has Motor Drive is Electivire, and no one in Beta 2 has an Electivire, so idk why I'm even pointing this out because there's no way to actually experience this glitch in Beta 2 lol

*U-turn and Volt Switch produces some weird results if you only have one Pokémon

Downloads:
(1/26/14) Beta 2.1: http://www.mediafire...oletBeta2_1.gba NEWEST

Older releases:
(1/22/14) Beta 2.0
(10/28/13) Beta 1.1
(10/5/13) Beta 1.0
(5/27/13) Alpha 2.2
(5/26/13) Alpha 2.1
(5/26/13) Alpha 2.0
(1/6/13) Alpha 1.0

Length of latest release: Up to & including Silph Co. & Sabrina
Next planned release: Full game

Changelog:

Spoiler

Beta 2.1
- Eggs now hatch faster if you have a Pokémon with Magma Armor or Flame Body in your party (credit to HackMew)
- Quick Claw freeze glitch fixed (credit to MrDollSteak)
- Sucker Punch fixed (credit to MrDollSteak)
- Poison Heal fixed (credit to MrDollSteak)
- the tall grass now has R/S/E's animation rather than FireRed's
- new palette for Viridian Forest
- missing footprints added
- Vulpix and Ninetales can no longer have Drought because it's too OP and dumb. If you already caught a Vulpix/Ninetales with Drought, it will revert to Flash Fire.
- Eevee now has Adaptability (I accidentally gave it Chrlorophyll in 2.0 for some reason)
- the flag for HM03 has been fixed, so for the people who weren't able to get Surf because they went to Saffron Gym first, you can get Surf now
- NPC in Mr. Fuji's house now has the correct dialogue
- Music continuation glitch after S.S. Anne event has been fixed
- Reckless, Sheer Force, Iron Fist, Overcoat, and Bullet Proof are now properly implemented
- move descriptions corrected
- other minor things

Beta 2.0 MAJOR RELEASE

Beta 1.1
-Issues when teleporting to the wrong place has been fixed
-After using Disable, glitchy text won't appear anymore
-Movement permission error in Viridian Forest fixed
-The guy who got robbed in Cerulean now has correct dialogue after you beat the Rocket Grunt
-The cut tree by the Hiker on Route 10 no longer freezes the game
-Rocket Grunt script on Nugget Bridge no longer repeats (Note: You will have to fight him one more time if you already fought him, because I changed the variable that the script uses in order for it to work)
-TM03 has been changed back to Water Pulse
-Misty's Pokémon now use Water Pulse instead of Scald, so her Starmie isn't super OP anymore
-The TM lady in the Underground Market now sells Sandstorm
-Brain Freeze now has a new animation
-A couple typos fixed
-New Bicycle music, a remix made by me, with inspiration from Pokémon Origins
-The Charmander family now learns Dragonbreath instead of Draco Bullet/Dragon Rage
-Eevee can now evolve into Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, and Glaceon

Beta 1.0 MAJOR RELEASE

Alpha 2.2
-"follow me" guy in Pewter City fixed
-Museum clerk freeze fixed
-All flags are re-adjusted accordingly when losing to Kamon in Pewter Museum, thus fixing all glitches related to it
-extremely minor dialogue change in Pewter Museum event
-when receiving the Old Amber from Brock, the correct Key Item fanfare now plays

Alpha 2.1
-fixed major glitch in Charmeleon's level-up moves

Alpha 2.0 MAJOR RELEASE

Alpha 1 MAJOR RELEASE

My note:
When you play this game, I kindly ask for you to forget about everything you know about Pokémon, and to play this game as if it were your first Pokémon game. I don't care about your nostalgia at all, so if you play this game thinking of Red/Blue and FireRed/LeafGreen, you will be disappointed (or pleasantly surprised? idk). Play this game as if you've never played a Pokémon game before, and this is just some new RPG that you're going to try out. If you play this game hoping it will make you feel nostalgic about the original games, then you will be very, very disappointed.

Also, if you identify as a "genwunner", then you should probably never, ever play this hack, ever. You have been warned

Pokédex/Evolution Guide: http://www.pokecommu...1&postcount=868

This post has been edited by Chaos Rush: 27 January 2014 - 12:05 AM

[LordOfSquad]

This sounds and looks awesome. I'm gonna download it right now and let you know what I think.

[LordOfSquad]

So I played through. Ended up with Pidgey, Rattata, Hoothoot, and Wartortle by the end. I think I talked to every NPC and I won every battle.

I don't have too much to say other than I enjoyed it a lot. It's a refreshing remix on the original games for sure. Just a minor quibble though, would be that I found some of the more "adult" (adult for Pokemon, anyway) language kind of off-putting. Not like I'm offended or anything, it just kind of makes it feel more "fan fictiony", in those instances where it pops up. I found most of the script to be pretty fun and well-written otherwise.

I'm really looking forward to the next release!

[Covarr]

This looks awesome, though I'll probably wait to check it out until it's a little closer to completion.

[Ravenfreak]

Sweet it's cool to see a Pokemon ROM hack, judging from the screenshots and the information you've posted I'll have to check this out and give it a go. I've been wanting a hack with newer moves, but never got around to really hacking any of the 3rd gen Pokemon games. (Or any gen for that matter, I've only hacked Blue version a tiny bit... it was nothing special just a text hack, I prefer to research the glitches rather than modifying the ROM...)

[Chaos Rush]

LordOfSquad, on 28 May 2013 - 01:41 PM, said:

So I played through. Ended up with Pidgey, Rattata, Hoothoot, and Wartortle by the end. I think I talked to every NPC and I won every battle.

I don't have too much to say other than I enjoyed it a lot. It's a refreshing remix on the original games for sure. Just a minor quibble though, would be that I found some of the more "adult" (adult for Pokemon, anyway) language kind of off-putting. Not like I'm offended or anything, it just kind of makes it feel more "fan fictiony", in those instances where it pops up. I found most of the script to be pretty fun and well-written otherwise.

I'm really looking forward to the next release!

Thank you for playing it all the way through, I appreciate it!

In terms of the "adult" dialogue you speak of, could you name some examples? I mean, I might have used the word "crap" somewhere, but I also remember I made a Team Rocket Grunt say, "You're the first one who had the balls to stand up to us". I didn't intentionally try and make it "adult", I just ended up writing it that way without realizing it.

[LordOfSquad]

Chaos Rush, on 28 May 2013 - 05:28 PM, said:

LordOfSquad, on 28 May 2013 - 01:41 PM, said:

So I played through. Ended up with Pidgey, Rattata, Hoothoot, and Wartortle by the end. I think I talked to every NPC and I won every battle.

I don't have too much to say other than I enjoyed it a lot. It's a refreshing remix on the original games for sure. Just a minor quibble though, would be that I found some of the more "adult" (adult for Pokemon, anyway) language kind of off-putting. Not like I'm offended or anything, it just kind of makes it feel more "fan fictiony", in those instances where it pops up. I found most of the script to be pretty fun and well-written otherwise.

I'm really looking forward to the next release!

Thank you for playing it all the way through, I appreciate it!

In terms of the "adult" dialogue you speak of, could you name some examples? I mean, I might have used the word "crap" somewhere, but I also remember I made a Team Rocket Grunt say, "You're the first one who had the balls to stand up to us". I didn't intentionally try and make it "adult", I just ended up writing it that way without realizing it.

Yep, that's pretty much exactly what I was talking about, haha. Like I said, it wasn't really a huge deal, it just kind of snapped me out of the experience.

[Classik]

Am I the only one who's having trouble with the very first Gary encounter? I picked Charmander so he got Squirtle. His tackle takes away about 1/3 of my HP, while my scratch only does about 1/6. I can't advance through until I beat him, so I'm pretty much stuck.

This wasn't a problem with the original FireRed because you are allowed to lose that fight because it's a tutorial. In this it's a standard battle, so if you lose you are sent back home.


EDIT:
After several tries I was finally able to beat him.

I can say so far that the presentation has been outstanding. I really like the graphical enhancements. Besides the difficulty with Gary, the only problem I really have with the game so far is this:

Rugs don't work like that :P

This post has been edited by Classik: 04 June 2013 - 02:38 PM

[Ravenfreak]

I actually had a bit of trouble against Silver Kamon but I started with a Bulbasaur so Peck is super effective against it. Anyway I really like this hack so far, I also love how you've added the fact that the old guy is hungover and not just upset because he didn't get his coffee. xD (I know that is what he says in the Japanese version, I'm glad you've translated it and added it to the hack.)

[Chaos Rush]

Classik, on 04 June 2013 - 02:29 PM, said:

Am I the only one who's having trouble with the very first Gary encounter? I picked Charmander so he got Squirtle. His tackle takes away about 1/3 of my HP, while my scratch only does about 1/6. I can't advance through until I beat him, so I'm pretty much stuck.

This wasn't a problem with the original FireRed because you are allowed to lose that fight because it's a tutorial. In this it's a standard battle, so if you lose you are sent back home.


EDIT:
After several tries I was finally able to beat him.

What's causing that problem is that I've updated attacks to Gen V standard, meaning Tackle is now 50 Power, while scratch is still 35 Power. In a way though, it kind of goes back to how in the original games, Charmander was "hard mode".

But for anyone having issues with the first battles, I put 3 Oran Berries in the PC. Use them wisely.

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I can say so far that the presentation has been outstanding. I really like the graphical enhancements. Besides the difficulty with Gary, the only problem I really have with the game so far is this:

Rugs don't work like that :P

The rug is like that in HG/SS. The Kanto you see in DarkViolet will take a lot of visual cues from HG/SS.

Ravenfreak, on 04 June 2013 - 03:22 PM, said:

I actually had a bit of trouble against Silver Kamon but I started with a Bulbasaur so Peck is super effective against it. Anyway I really like this hack so far, I also love how you've added the fact that the old guy is hungover and not just upset because he didn't get his coffee. xD (I know that is what he says in the Japanese version, I'm glad you've translated it and added it to the hack.)

Correct, me making the old guy hung over is not me "trying to be badass", I'm just restoring the original intent. Besides, it makes more sense than, "I haven't had my coffee yet so I'm going to lay in the middle of the road!"

[Jimmy Hedgehog]

I ended with Charmeleon and Pidgeotto. Like someone else said, bit of trouble on Blue with his Squirtle each time but it worked out alright. One issue though...as soon as Charmander learned Dragon Rage and evolved...that was it, really. Basically made the whole "Charmander equates to Hard Mode" thing pretty moot. Didn't actually USE him again until the Pewter Gym (as I was evolving Pidgey, used Char in the Gym to catch up with the newly evolved Pidgeotto), but I probably don't need to explain how much of a breeze the Gym ended up thanks to Dragon Rage, though Onix survived the first one...just about.

Either way, I loved this. Was a great twist on Gen 1 and I like where you've gone/are going with it as a whole. Liking the music choices too, great work in all!

This post has been edited by Jimmy Hedgehog: 06 June 2013 - 02:10 PM

[Aerosol]

So what happens to my save when you release the next patch?

[.Luke]

Honestly, this is the first complete Pokemon hack I've seen. =P Looks pretty amazing too, and I've been dying to try it, but waiting until I'm done with this playthrough of Pokemon Gold, (Thanks to Pokesav for letting me start out with all my favorites!) but I'm having a little trouble patching FireRed in advance. (As far as I know, it's clean without any ugly hacked in intro.) LunarIPS just gives me an image that crashes on startup, am I doing it wrong, or do I need a different IPS patcher? Doesn't matter if it doesn't have a Linux equivalent, every hacking tool for Sonic games that I've tried so far run through Wine just fine.

[Chaos Rush]

New release! Beta 1.0! http://www.mediafire...23373vpi9ppp24l

This goes right up to the entrance to Rock Tunnel. There's a lot of content, so check it out!

Also here's some more recent screenshots:


Please start a new save file. This will be the last release in which you have to do so! This is because the first time around I forgot to include the Fly flags to the towns, but they have now been added, so please start a new save file.

Some changes to previous content:
-Charmander family now learns Draco Bullet instead of Dragon Rage, which was way too OP
-Ruby/Sapphire textbox, to match the tiles a bit more

There will be a Beta 1.1 sometime soon which will allow you to obtain the missing Eeveelutions, as well as a new, R/S/E-styled remix for the Bicycle music, as well as any bug fixes that occur. The next release after Beta 1.1 will be the full game.

.Luke, on 15 July 2013 - 08:19 PM, said:

Honestly, this is the first complete Pokemon hack I've seen. =P Looks pretty amazing too, and I've been dying to try it, but waiting until I'm done with this playthrough of Pokemon Gold, (Thanks to Pokesav for letting me start out with all my favorites!) but I'm having a little trouble patching FireRed in advance. (As far as I know, it's clean without any ugly hacked in intro.) LunarIPS just gives me an image that crashes on startup, am I doing it wrong, or do I need a different IPS patcher? Doesn't matter if it doesn't have a Linux equivalent, every hacking tool for Sonic games that I've tried so far run through Wine just fine.

This isn't complete yet.

As for the patching problem, forget IPS, I noticed here on Sonic Retro that a lot of your guys's Sonic hacks just post the plain ROM. Am I aloud to post my ROM file here?

This post has been edited by Chaos Rush: 05 October 2013 - 03:29 PM

[Ravenfreak]

I don't see why not as you said it yourself we post ROMs not patches. I even released a ROM hack of Aaah! Real Monsters and didn't even think to patch it. Also I will give this version a go once you post a link to the rom.