Frisk In Pokemon Progress - 8 18 2025

[Terry Jones]

Still not remotely finished but I've made significant progress. In fact I did a significant overhaul of the Mon roster to be more interesting. Bear in mind this requires a version of Pokemon Emerald bumped up to 32MB. I've long since stopped asking for coding help, that's clearly a dead end. But I would appreciate help with testing.

 

[Terry Jones]

Here's the latest build. Whatever......

Seriously if anyone knows of any rom hackers that I can just commission for some basic help I'd appreciate it. Because in the two years I've been at this one undeniable truth has been made painfully clear, no one is willing to help me without monetary compensation. Anytime someone tells me stuff like "romhackers will only help on projects they are passionate about" or "just be patient, eventually someone will come around to help you" or other such Charlie Morningstar caliber platitudes like that it's all too obvious what they are actually saying, "F*** off newbie, come back when you have money".

I don't even need that much extensive help, just someone who knows how to add at least 150 new slots for Pokemon into Emerald along with the option for Mega Evolutions. Maybe even some more moves and a few basic quality of life features as seen in Unbound and Radical Red.

 

[Terry Jones]

Honestly I'm sick of FireRed, I can't stand FireRed. It's just the same old Kanto with barely any new sauce, feels like I might as well be playing Let's Go Pikachu.

At least with Emerald I got a whole story to play around with and add onto, I even figured out how to use the two villain team thing to my advantage without actually changing any of the cutscenes, reduced it to one villain team and now it looks like there are other heroes making an attempt to stop them. It's been a blast working on Emerald under its restrictions, helped give better focus to the kind of story I want to tell using it. A story about a kid adopted by the most important person in the world, trying to find their way in Hoenn and coming across a slew of dorks and mooks.

And it's frustrating that there is all this attention on FireRed, this HUBOL DPE CFRU patch for HMA only works on FireRed. All because it's Kanto and bacause it's "easier to work with" or "simpler to work with". Pfft, easier my ass they had to develop a patch that removes the G1 only restriction of the main game. So even though using LatiasSoulDew's "Personal Fire Red" rom base gives me all the pokemon slots and evolution methods I want, it's still bloody FireRed meaning I'm not gonna have as much fun trying to tell a decent story. It's going to be very bare bones and it's still bloody Kanto. If I have to go through yet another playthrough of Kanto one more bloody time I'm going to scream!

Still gonna work and finish my Emerald hack best I can, make sure the main story actually works as I want it to. But after that? Well, I'm gonna at least try to figure out how to make FireRed even half as interesting as what I'm doing with Emerald.......I already have a few ideas......