ROM Hack Pokemon Clear Crystal

[MNOPYZ Strife]

Sweet, I'd love to see them Although I don't celebrate it (don't ask why) have a merry and fun Christmas and that's to the rest of you guys too

Can't wait to see them, I'm really sorry if this is annoying since you might rather be doing family stuff or hanging out with your friends or something

I'm still trying to edit the title screen, you won't believe how confusing it is X_X

 

[Black-Ice]

I placed all my Clear Crystal works into a single album seperate from my random one
http://gbatemp.net/gallery/album/679-clear-crystal-things/
The screens are the last 3

Also no need to apologise strife, I take EVERY opertunity to be out with friends and family, trust me

 

[EMP Knightmare]

Again Ice your screens look fantastic, but just like you said it has more of a Heart Gold feel than a Crystal Clear feel to it.

Hanging out with my friends has turned into drinking beer at my place while playing random video games when friends drop by my house. Oh how things change when you get older.

Also Ice congrats on post #100

 

[MNOPYZ Strife]

Ugh...what's with old people and beer? Why can't it just be coke or something? (yet again, when I say old I mean compared to me).

Ice, I choose Proto screen 1, it's the most "Clear Crystal" one out of all of them You got it from that Ice cave beside blackthorn, right? ...I forgot it's name...

Anyways, it's very good, but I was able to spot out some minor things...

First, It was smart to take the pic from that Icy cave, but I'd prefer that you delete or cover up that swinub hiding behind those icicles, unless he's a new member of the aura trio

And second, It was pretty cool that you put Riley and the 2 heroes on it, but what would make it better is if you either dragged the 2 hero pics a tiny bit lower, or you gave them back their shoes....and feet....it looks like those parts were chopped off

Other than that, I think it's a really good screen. And sorry for the heavy criticism, but I'm just trying my best to straight talk

....Wow. 10 guests checking this page at the same time...I think that's the highest amount of guests to check this thread out at the same time

EDIT: I know it might squeeze the rest of the sprites out, but could you add the rival to proto screen 1 like you did in the other screens?
If it causes too much squeezing, forget about it, it might make the screen look bad if it's over squeezed =/

EDIT 2: Checked proto screen 3 again, and I realized that it's pretty cool too, but it's kinda still leaning to the Hear Gold side...

 

[EMP Knightmare]

Ugh...what's with old people and beer? Why can't it just be coke or something? (yet again, when I say old I mean compared to me)

I drink about 8 liters of Coke a day so beer is just a way of winding down after a rough day.

I was just thinking about a concept idea for the intro:

Being all about crystal and all why not make an intro using the Pokemon that sort of represent crystals. Example would be Articuno flying leaving a crystal powder trail behind it then a Suicune dashes in and the main focus becomes him and he starts running faster then stops........spots the Crystal Lucario. Stare down begin....................they both make a move then fade to white screen and cue title image......but that was just a quick concept idea I just thought of no more than 10 seconds before this post. Eh take it for what it is just an idea, figured I'd share.

 

[zeromac]

How did this thread get 17 pages? ._. This is the first time I've seen a pokemon hack idea from a newbie even garner much attention

 

[EMP Knightmare]

How did this thread get 17 pages? ._. This is the first time I've seen a pokemon hack idea from a newbie even garner much attention

There's always a first time for everything. Not only that but Strife has learned quite a lot since page 1, he dealt with the flaming etc etc etc. but he is still going strong.

 

[Black-Ice]

Strife and Ice Productions are a strong team, thats why we got soo much attention
We get things done.
Also, I'll take into mind the feedback and work on it

 

[EMP Knightmare]

On a side note Ice and myself have reached our second page in a PM

 

[andibad]

How did this thread get 17 pages? ._. This is the first time I've seen a pokemon hack idea from a newbie even garner much attention

they have good spirit to kept and ignore some attetion, so is still alive wkwk

 

[MNOPYZ Strife]

Zeromac, I think my teammates have made it clear enough to how it's survived for 17 pages and still going.

...Yes, I did say teammates, EMP and Andibad, although you guys aren't signed up or anything, you guys have truly helped a whole lot. You guys surely deserve at least the title "teammate"

Speaking of teammates, Ice, I think we should make a cameo for Andibad too, Prof.EMP instead of Oak, and Prof.Andi (or any other name you'd like) instead of Elm

Ice, don't forget, all we need is overworld sprites since Profs don't battle ...in other words, you should make OW sprites for Andibad and EMP in your free time, and as soon as you're done with what you're currently working on


Anyways, I slowly started to learn how to use Tinke better, and I'm glad there's a "Change file" feature, all I have to do is get Ice's work, convert it to .bin format, and it's replaced


By the way, I looked closely into a/0/4/6, and this is what I was able to find for Lugia and Ho-oh:

-Palettes; it tells what colours are on the image.

-Images; it tells where the colours are put.

But something is missing. The 3D models. The things that have Images wrapped around them. Either I can't find them, or Tinke can't read them properly. The files 21.bin and 26.bin contain Lugia and Ho-oh (respectively)....But I can't see Lugia. all I see is the bottom of the sea...


....but that doesn't matter too much.....but can I ask you for something Andibad? Could you be a little bit more detailed on how to "flatten" the Lugia 3D model so I can replace it with Ice's Title screen? I'm not that good with MKDS editor

 

[Black-Ice]

I already made overworld sprites for EMP, They in my gallery
Also, Andibad will have to specify what he wants his sprite to look like.
ALSO, you should be suprised if i find the spare time to design tomorrow, xmas and boxing day. It will mean my family are boring

 

[EMP Knightmare]

@Strife: I am truly honored to receive the title teammate, thank you.

@Ice: Yeah I'll probably be doing the same when I have to go to visit my mother, my laptop will be with me and it'll wind up being a night of programming for me.

 

[MNOPYZ Strife]

!!! It's that time already?! dear god, Time flies by so quickly...!

I'm looking forward to new year about a week later...The movie 2012 will be proven wrong!

Anyways Ice, I was sure not to force you to make them at a certain time; "you should make OW sprites for Andibad and EMP in your free time, and as soon as you're done with what you're currently working on " Have a fun holiday


I also came across yet another problem...but, please do me a favor and...

"Do not open until after Christmas!" ....by the way, this is mainly for Andibad, if anyone else knows the answer to
my problem, please go ahead and answer

Spoiler

I was able to use tinke and edit a sprite with the "Change File" feature, but when I tried to edit stuff for the title screen, it doesn't work. No worries, I know why. It's because the screen that Ice made is a .PNG file, but the title screen pics are all .bin...so could someone please tell me a way to change the format of the .png file to a .bin file? I've already searched for ages for an answer but with no luck...

EDIT: Did you guys have a fun holiday?

...Anyways, Since the holidays over, go ahead, open the spoiler

 

[Black-Ice]

Atchung baby, Thats not png
Tis a gif Ja?

 

[Deleted-236924]

I've previously tried opening Ice's Title screen .gif file with hex editor, and then copying all the data from it into the SS rom, replacing the a/0/4/6 file, and if there was any extra data popping out, lets say the file was 100 and Ice's thing was 500, I would replace the 100 with Ice's 500 and then delete a string of four hundred FF bytes at the end of the rom (I'm assuming that those FFs are free space in the rom or something) so the size of the whole thing wouldn't change.
.....Well, it didn't work although it seemed pretty straight forward to me =/

Bad idea, because pointers.

 

[MNOPYZ Strife]

Ah, finally someone posted something
Anyways...Ice, your post back there a few seconds ago didn't make much sense....it sounded like it was in German What I was barely able to understand is that you might have been saying what I was working with wasn't a .png, it was a .gif ....
But, I wasn't working on Lugia, I was working on the top screen, trying to edit it to make it the proto 1 screen u made, which is in fact, a .png file Whihc is why I still need a converter X_X
Pingouin, That thought also came to my mind, something in the game that says where the data for something is, and where it starts and stops. I guess you call those "Pointers"...?
Next time I try that, I'm gonna edit the actual file in the "a" folder instead of going to the SS rom... so I can...uh..."stuff more food into the sandwich" instead of "putting the food on-top of the bread"...
Wow. I know I suck at examples, but that one was just pushing the suckiness to the extreme X_X

 

[Deleted-236924]

The top screen as a whole isn't a PNG; However, the Pokémon logo + Version name is an image, which can be edited.

 

[MNOPYZ Strife]

That made some sense...only one problem, they're completely separate files, one is file2.bin (I think) and the other is...uh...I'm not sure but it's file#.bin... and that's why I need to convert Ice's PNG into a .bin...

.....Wait a sec...I just looked closer to what you said...the Pokemon logo and the version name...but that's not what I'm trying to edit, I'm trying to edit the screen behing the logo and version...
And besides, the Logo and version are 1 file, a .bin file, so no matter what, I need a converter X_X

 

[EMP Knightmare]

Strife your examples make you sound like Fawful from Superstar Saga lol which is not a bad thing (I'm rather fond of how Fawful talks), as for the converter let me know what files you are trying to convert and I may have some tools for you. Worse case I'd have you send them to me and I will converter them for you and send them back, but that's the worse case.