ROM Hack Pokemon Rayless Ruby & Shadow Sapphire [Beta 0.1.0 Coming Soon!]

[MegaKyurem]

This thread is for my Pokemon OrAs Hacks, Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire. These have been on Project Pokemon for a while, so I decided to put them here also. IGNORE THE THREAD NAME I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE IT

Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire are rom hacks that I am currently developing. There are many changes to this game, including plot, wild encounters, trainer battles, and much more! NOTE: The current game only goes up to the 3rd badge, and the game will continue normally after that. I will link several tutorials to this post including how to install it on both gateway and hans, as well as updating the file without losing your save.

One of the main changes of this hack is the addition of shadow pokemon. Mysterious shadows from within the region are corrupting pokemon into shadow forms, making them more hostile, and giving them slight but noticeable stat boosts. Due to this corruption, pokemon with shadow forms do not have shiny forms, and each shadow pokemon also loses its secondary typing to gain the dark, or sometimes ghost typing. Now, you may think that this is OP to have in a game. I agree, which is why the shadow pokemon will always have 1%-5% encounter chance (with the exception of treecko, torchic, and mudkip), meaning that they are very rare to find.

There are a lot of evolutions that have also been changed. All of the trade evolutions have been made easier to obtain (so you don't need to trade), and a few other evolution methods have changed. I would list them, but right now they are one of the WIP parts that I'm still working on.

The overall game difficulty has been increased, giving trainers higher AI's and IV increases, and giving most trainers competitive items. To give you an idea of the changed level curve, the Elite 4 will be around lvls 70-80 instead of lvls 50-60, and the 3rd gym is around lvl 35-40 instead of 20-25 (the reason I used the 3rd badge for an example is that it's one of the main level curves in the game).

NOTE: It is recommended that once the full version (1.0.0) comes out, anyone that had previously played it play it again. There will most likely be changes to battles, some plot, as well as wild encounters. By 1.0.0 I plan to have all 721 Pokemon available without trading. Also, when you play this game, nuzlocke at your own risk. Nuzlocking is not recommended because then you wouldn't be able to see all of the shadow Pokemon that are available (Most of the Shadow Pokemon have 1-5% Encounter rates). This rom hack is made for all 3ds users, as long as you have homebrew access. There might eventually be a "pro" or "full" version for CFW only, but for now there will only be one version.
Edit to this paragraph: Considering that now most people that play cfw's are either on citra, or have a 3ds with a cfw, the "pro/full" version will most likely just be incorporated into the regular game.

Sorry That you've been waiting for so long! I've never gotten around to really trying to come back to working on this! I'm going to try to much more frequently (at least every day) so I can increase the frequency of these betas!

Known Glitches​

Some of the story text might be messed up; haven't been able to do a playthrough with the full story text yet.
The DexNav will crash the game on some routes! If you want to try to use the DexNav, save before turning it on and save before entering a new route or a new part of a route!

Downloads (Note that because it is still beta, there are only two gyms done)​

Spoiler

Beta 3 https://1drv.ms/u/s!An4TtciscBGJh-BkUnZRjfX_2vR5MA
Beta 2.5 https://1drv.ms/u/s!An4TtciscBGJhtIIcYBEpw8g-af47w
Beta 2: https://1drv.ms/u/s!An4TtciscBGJhPkCQ8lavGqkbd-RYg
Beta 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8bglQfD5LCU1NweEdQNl9MMDg

Changelog​

Spoiler

Keep in mind some of these bullets are vague to keep the game from being spoiled
Beta 3

• Added custom music over the trainer theme and the gym leader theme. More music will eventually replace other themes
• Trainers, wild encounters, and rematches are complete up to the 3rd gym badge
• Added a new form to an evolution line
• There may be a future beta 3.5 that comes out with minor tweaks such as shop edits and trainer edits.

Beta 2.5

• Fixed a lot of the levelup movesets, somehow the ones for Mudkip's line and Treecko's line got deleted, and I didn't notice because I chose Torchic on my test save.
• Added encounters for Granite cave (no story added yet though)
• Fixed the title for Rayless Ruby, apparently it was using the original bad title (didn't notice because I was playing shadow sapphire)
• Fixed levelups for megas (shouldn't have been a problem though since the game only goes up to the second badge)
• [Experimental] Ice types now resists ground, grass, and dragon and hits neutral on water.
• [Experimental] Poison types are now super-effective against water and flying (pollution)

Beta 2

• Added gameplay up to and including the 2nd gym (Not including the Steven cutscene). This includes wild encounters, trainer battles, and changes to the plot.
  
• Added two new shadow pokemon evo lines
  
• Added a new form to a pokemon
• Redesigned the logos (apparently not the Rayless Ruby one, see beta 2.5)
• Fixed Shadow Pokemon levelup not working

Beta 1

• Added gameplay up to the 1st gym badge
• Added several Shadow Pokémon
• Gave Brendan and May new models from characters in previous games
  
• Changed the dialogue of the characters
• Changed Wild Encounters
• Changed the original title to a new one (the title we have is WIP though)

Progress​

Spoiler

*Keep in mind that this list is for the next update, not the final game*
Beta 4 - Nothing done yet. Beta 3 was just released.

Special Thanks​

To Youtube users Mixeli and Shadowth117 for the player models (Both publicly available in videos)
To TyranitarTube, because his Alpha Sapphire Extreme Randomizer series inspired me to make a game based on shadow pokemon.
To Asia81, for making a tutorial on how to dump and decrypt roms.
To Kaphotics, for making pk3ds, which I used to edit encounters, trainer battles, pokemon stats/level-up/TM & Tutor moves, and the shops; and also for garctool, which I used to decompress the files within the 'a' folder in RomFS
To Reisyukaku, for making ohana3ds, which I used to edit the title screen and sprites.
To all of the people on my Discord server for helping to give me ideas
To all of the Rom Hackers and Homebrew/CFW Developers that made these hacks possible


I have a discord server for it now yay! ( https://discord.gg/7c6kCny ) I ask for a feedback on features there, and accept ideas there as well!

Does anyone that would be willing to help me know how to edit models? I want to replace a few with new characters, but have no clue what I'm doing with that. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Shining Greninja]

If I were you I would wait until Sun and Moon is out to import alolan forms, the models will be bch as they are reused from XY

 

[MegaKyurem]

If I were you I would wait until Sun and Moon is out to import alolan forms, the models will be bch as they are reused from XY

Only thing I'm worried about is that the animations might be encoded differently, making importing impossible

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

Only thing I'm worried about is that the animations might be encoded differently, making importing impossible

I would not worry. Nintendo is too lazy to do all that.

 

[MegaKyurem]

I would not worry. Nintendo is too lazy to do all that.

True, they did this from xy to oras, though you can just export the model from oras/xy from Ohana3ds and import it into the other games(oras/xy)

 

[MegaKyurem]

Update: Can't figure out how to change the title of the thread so It'll have to stay like that for now... I'll figure out how to fix it eventually

Edit: Is it even possible to change the title? If anyone knows how could you please reply to this comment? thanks.

 

[SahierKHLover]

yo @MegaKyurem nice job bruh I was planning to create a pokemon sun moon hack with shadow lugia and a WHOLE bunch of stuff but sadly i am unexperienced and player model can't be edited I have no idea what to write for storyline so yeah I gave up on the project for now planning to do a oras rom hack in the future got any tips and mind helping me build some type of new storyline and help editing models and character textures I have many surprises in-stored for this rom hack

 

[Shining Greninja]

yo @MegaKyurem nice job bruh I was planning to create a pokemon sun moon hack with shadow lugia and a WHOLE bunch of stuff but sadly i am unexperienced and player model can't be edited I have no idea what to write for storyline so yeah I gave up on the project for now planning to do a oras rom hack in the future got any tips and mind helping me build some type of new storyline and help editing models and character textures I have many surprises in-stored for this rom hack

News Flash: ORAS is dead, don't bother making rom hacks for it. Also, just rip textures with ohana3ds

 

[SahierKHLover]

News Flash: ORAS is dead, don't bother making rom hacks for it. Also, just rip textures with ohana3ds

um *cough cough* it's not dead people still play it like Rutile Ruby or Rising Ruby hmm and I tried using ohana3ds ripping textures I just need ideas to which pokemon I should edit (took me a week to make a perfect lugia and now I use it in every randomizer I play ) and I want to edit player models textures and many other stuff to make the game way more interesting

 

[MegaKyurem]

News Flash: ORAS is dead, don't bother making rom hacks for it.

OrAs alone may be pretty much dead but its rom hacks definitely aren't. Hacks of GBC still aren't dead (take Pokemon Prism) and the official GBC Pokemon games came out from 1996 to 2001. OrAs came out a bit less than 3 years ago, which is nothing compared to 15 years at the very least.

yo @MegaKyurem nice job bruh I was planning to create a pokemon sun moon hack with shadow lugia and a WHOLE bunch of stuff but sadly i am unexperienced and player model can't be edited I have no idea what to write for storyline so yeah I gave up on the project for now planning to do a oras rom hack in the future got any tips and mind helping me build some type of new storyline and help editing models and character textures I have many surprises in-stored for this rom hack

um *cough cough* it's not dead people still play it like Rutile Ruby or Rising Ruby hmm and I tried using ohana3ds ripping textures I just need ideas to which pokemon I should edit (took me a week to make a perfect lugia and now I use it in every randomizer I play ) and I want to edit player models textures and many other stuff to make the game way more interesting

I'm not entirely that good at storyline or model editing, but texture editing is pretty easy. For most of the textures that I make I just use the selection tool to separate each different type of color on the pokemon into different layers, and then use the recolor tool on photoshop (Ctrl+U; I know it's also on paint.net but I don't remember the shortcut for it.) to change the color, brightness, and saturation until I get something that looks like a shadow pokemon, and then memorize that set of numbers to put it on the file for the mouth, eyes, etc. As for textures on models, I've only done simple recolors so far, but it's pretty much the same process except I'm not recoloring the entire thing.

 

[Yts12]

This thread is for my Pokemon OrAs Hacks, Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire. These have been on Project Pokemon for a while, so I decided to put them here also. IGNORE THE THREAD NAME I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE IT

Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire are rom hacks that I am currently developing. There are many changes to this game, including plot, wild encounters, trainer battles, and much more! NOTE: The current game only goes up to the 3rd badge, and the game will continue normally after that. I will link several tutorials to this post including how to install it on both gateway and hans, as well as updating the file without losing your save.

One of the main changes of this hack is the addition of shadow pokemon. Mysterious shadows from within the region are corrupting pokemon into shadow forms, making them more hostile, and giving them slight but noticeable stat boosts. Due to this corruption, pokemon with shadow forms do not have shiny forms, and each shadow pokemon also loses its secondary typing to gain the dark, or sometimes ghost typing. Now, you may think that this is OP to have in a game. I agree, which is why the shadow pokemon will always have 1%-5% encounter chance (with the exception of treecko, torchic, and mudkip), meaning that they are very rare to find.

View attachment 61597​

There are a lot of evolutions that have also been changed. All of the trade evolutions have been made easier to obtain (so you don't need to trade), and a few other evolution methods have changed. I would list them, but right now they are one of the WIP parts that I'm still working on.

The overall game difficulty has been increased, giving trainers higher AI's and IV increases, and giving most trainers competitive items. To give you an idea of the changed level curve, the Elite 4 will be around lvls 70-80 instead of lvls 50-60, and the 3rd gym will be at about lvl 30-35 instead of 20-25 (the reason I used the 3rd badge for an example is that it's one of the main level curves in the game).

NOTE: It is recommended that once the full version (1.0.0) comes out, anyone that had previously played it play it again. There will most likely be changes to battles, some plot, as well as wild encounters. By 1.0.0 I plan to have all 721 Pokemon available without trading. Also, when you play this game, nuzlocke at your own risk. Nuzlocking is not recommended because then you wouldn't be able to see all of the shadow Pokemon that are available (Most of the Shadow Pokemon have 1-5% Encounter rates). This rom hack is made for all 3ds users, as long as you have homebrew access. There might eventually be a "pro" or "full" version for CFW only, but for now there will only be one version

Known Glitches​

Some of the story text might be messed up; haven't been able to do a playthrough with the full story text yet.
The DexNav will crash the game on some routes! If you want to try to use the DexNav, save before turning it on and save before entering a new route or a new part of a route!

Downloads​

Spoiler

Latest Version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8bglQfD5LCU1NweEdQNl9MMDg

Changelog​

Spoiler

Beta 1

• Added gameplay up to the 1st gym badge
• Added several Shadow Pokémon
• Gave Brendan and May new models from characters in previous games
  
• Changed the dialogue of the characters
• Changed Wild Encounters
• Changed the original title to a new one (the title we have is WIP though)

Progress​

Spoiler

*Keep in mind that this list is for the next update, not the final game*

Beta 2 Progress (Beta 1 is finished can be downloaded)

Shadow Pokemon stat changes - Not Started
New Logos - Done
2nd Gym - Not Started
Trainer Battles - Route 116 1/2 through
Dialogue - Not Started
Wild Encounters - Route 116 and Rusturf Tunnel Done
Added Shadow Pokemon - None so far

Special Thanks​

To Youtube users Mixeli and Shadowth117 for the player models

To TyranitarTube, because his Alpha Sapphire Extreme Randomizer series inspired me to make a game based on shadow pokemon.

To Asia81, for making a tutorial on how to dump and decrypt roms.

To Kaphotics, for making pk3ds, which I used to edit encounters, trainer battles, pokemon stats/level-up/TM & Tutor moves, and the shops; and also for garctool, which I used to decompress the files within the 'a' folder in RomFS

To Reisyukaku, for making ohana3ds, which I used to edit the title screen and sprites.

To all of the Rom Hackers and Homebrew Developers that made these hacks possible

Not going to be too pushy with this, but if you want to see my progress updates, my twitter is the best place to go(@PrimalKyurem)
Also, I've been doing livestreams on my youtube channel where I work on these hacks. If you want to see them, I don't remove them after the stream is over.

primal kyruem i made a necrozma slash darkrai fusion for you and also i had to get the model fixed by

This thread is for my Pokemon OrAs Hacks, Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire. These have been on Project Pokemon for a while, so I decided to put them here also. IGNORE THE THREAD NAME I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE IT

Rayless Ruby and Shadow Sapphire are rom hacks that I am currently developing. There are many changes to this game, including plot, wild encounters, trainer battles, and much more! NOTE: The current game only goes up to the 3rd badge, and the game will continue normally after that. I will link several tutorials to this post including how to install it on both gateway and hans, as well as updating the file without losing your save.

One of the main changes of this hack is the addition of shadow pokemon. Mysterious shadows from within the region are corrupting pokemon into shadow forms, making them more hostile, and giving them slight but noticeable stat boosts. Due to this corruption, pokemon with shadow forms do not have shiny forms, and each shadow pokemon also loses its secondary typing to gain the dark, or sometimes ghost typing. Now, you may think that this is OP to have in a game. I agree, which is why the shadow pokemon will always have 1%-5% encounter chance (with the exception of treecko, torchic, and mudkip), meaning that they are very rare to find.

View attachment 61597​

There are a lot of evolutions that have also been changed. All of the trade evolutions have been made easier to obtain (so you don't need to trade), and a few other evolution methods have changed. I would list them, but right now they are one of the WIP parts that I'm still working on.

The overall game difficulty has been increased, giving trainers higher AI's and IV increases, and giving most trainers competitive items. To give you an idea of the changed level curve, the Elite 4 will be around lvls 70-80 instead of lvls 50-60, and the 3rd gym will be at about lvl 30-35 instead of 20-25 (the reason I used the 3rd badge for an example is that it's one of the main level curves in the game).

NOTE: It is recommended that once the full version (1.0.0) comes out, anyone that had previously played it play it again. There will most likely be changes to battles, some plot, as well as wild encounters. By 1.0.0 I plan to have all 721 Pokemon available without trading. Also, when you play this game, nuzlocke at your own risk. Nuzlocking is not recommended because then you wouldn't be able to see all of the shadow Pokemon that are available (Most of the Shadow Pokemon have 1-5% Encounter rates). This rom hack is made for all 3ds users, as long as you have homebrew access. There might eventually be a "pro" or "full" version for CFW only, but for now there will only be one version

Known Glitches​

Some of the story text might be messed up; haven't been able to do a playthrough with the full story text yet.
The DexNav will crash the game on some routes! If you want to try to use the DexNav, save before turning it on and save before entering a new route or a new part of a route!

Downloads​

Spoiler

Latest Version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8bglQfD5LCU1NweEdQNl9MMDg

Changelog​

Spoiler

Beta 1

• Added gameplay up to the 1st gym badge
• Added several Shadow Pokémon
• Gave Brendan and May new models from characters in previous games
  
• Changed the dialogue of the characters
• Changed Wild Encounters
• Changed the original title to a new one (the title we have is WIP though)

Progress​

Spoiler

*Keep in mind that this list is for the next update, not the final game*

Beta 2 Progress (Beta 1 is finished can be downloaded)

Shadow Pokemon stat changes - Not Started
New Logos - Done
2nd Gym - Not Started
Trainer Battles - Route 116 1/2 through
Dialogue - Not Started
Wild Encounters - Route 116 and Rusturf Tunnel Done
Added Shadow Pokemon - None so far

Special Thanks​

To Youtube users Mixeli and Shadowth117 for the player models

To TyranitarTube, because his Alpha Sapphire Extreme Randomizer series inspired me to make a game based on shadow pokemon.

To Asia81, for making a tutorial on how to dump and decrypt roms.

To Kaphotics, for making pk3ds, which I used to edit encounters, trainer battles, pokemon stats/level-up/TM & Tutor moves, and the shops; and also for garctool, which I used to decompress the files within the 'a' folder in RomFS

To Reisyukaku, for making ohana3ds, which I used to edit the title screen and sprites.

To all of the Rom Hackers and Homebrew Developers that made these hacks possible

Not going to be too pushy with this, but if you want to see my progress updates, my twitter is the best place to go(@PrimalKyurem)
Also, I've been doing livestreams on my youtube channel where I work on these hacks. If you want to see them, I don't remove them after the stream is over.

Primal kyruem i made you a necrozma slash kyruem fusion for you so you can use it in oras and also sun and moon oh and i had to get the model for darkrai fixed by @lightstar2009 since i made it in blender he also made custom textures for it as well ok

 

[CrimsonMaple]

Looks cool! I've been wanting a rom hack like this for a while. I'll check it out!

 

[Yts12]

Looks cool! I've been wanting a rom hack like this for a while. I'll check it out!

well i'm currently working on a upcoming pokemon oras romhack called pokemon fusion ruby and Galatacal Sapphire @lightstar2009 is doing the models and textures now also i need a animation model maker and editor for it as well

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well i'm currently working on a upcoming pokemon oras romhack called pokemon fusion ruby and Galatacal Sapphire @lightstar2009 is doing the models and textures now also i need a animation model maker and editor for it as well

and here's my ultra darkrai as a gift back to you

 

[Angelcraft]

Yayyyyy! I want this gameee xD

 

[MegaKyurem]

Dummy Message (I deleted the original one)

 

[Yts12]

Dummy Message (I deleted the original one)

MegaKyurem your very awesome i really hope you work at nintendo one day

 

[Jtinzimpailer]

Gonna have to check this out!!! Those sprites look dope

 

[Tower]

Fantastic hack rom , but how to convert the RR-SS ROMFS into .Cia file?

 

[MrMcTiller]

Fantastic hack rom , but how to convert the RR-SS ROMFS into .Cia file?

YOu can't convert them unless you have ALL of the romfs, exefs, etc. You can use Luma CFW to use LayeredFS and layer the romfs over a Digital/Cartridge copy of the game.

 

[FIuveeX]

Ky00rum, do you know how to edit models at all? I'd like to do some *cough* things..