Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics And Music Patch V2.0

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-09 04:21:49

Hack Name: Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics Patch

Hack of: Pokémon Red

Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics Repository

The readme pretty much says it all:

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|             Pokémon Red - Gen. II GFX&Music Patch             |
|                          Version 2.0                          |
|                         By: Danny-E 33                        |
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Intro:
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This hack includes several graphical improvements over the
original game to give it the quality of a Gen. II game. It
also includes all songs from GSC. There is nothing new
about the storyline. It is for the purpose of getting to play
through the game again with a little more aesthetic appeal.
It is also highly intended to be a base ROM for anyone to
create a hack of this Gen. I game. With the major overhauls
added into this hack, anyone who wants to create their own
hack of Pokémon Red can use this base ROM and have a game that
is beautiful.

For all the custom assembly for this hack, please see:
https://github.com/dannye/pokered-gen-II/compare/pokered...music

No one needs to ask me up front to use this for their hack,
but you MUST give credit to me for the base ROM when your
hack is announced.


Features:
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-Customizable sprite banks
-All sprites from GSC
-Individualized sprite palettes (Pokémon and trainers!)
-Gen. II style 6x6 back sprites
-Several palette corrections (The Pokéball tile is always red.
Oak intro in full color!)
-Updated font, and other tiles, to match Gen. II
-Inserted the graphics for the GSC battle HUD
-The "Pokémon owned" Pokéball tile in wild battles
-Fully functional in-battle experience bar!
-All songs GSC!


Tools:
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The pokered disassembly (https://github.com/iimarckus/pokered)
Swampert22's PaletteEd GB - inserting custom palettes


Credits:
========

These men have always been there for me when I had my noobish
questions and have let me grow into the person I am today by
challenging my creativity and problem solving. This hack would
not be possible without the help of these individuals.
-Sawakita
-stag019
-IIMarckus
-Mateo
-Miksy91
-Tauwasser
-comet
-kanzure
-Sanqui

Special credits go to Sanqui for porting Crystal's sound engine
into Red.

Sprites:
-Poketto
-Luigi-San
-Mateo


Version History:
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01-08-2013: V1.0 - Initial release
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01-21-2013: V1.1 - Several updates including:
Cleaned-up ASM and a few mistakes fixed in the readme
Updated tileset 0 with GSC's Kanto tileset
Replaced OW palettes with GSC's Kanto OW palettes (Super
Gameboy mode)
Fixed Leaders' sprites in the Trainer Card
Added three songs from GSC, Trainer Battle, Wild Battle,
Leader Battle (thanks to FroggestSpirit)
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06-17-2013: V1.2 - Repointed the palette table to an empty
bank and expanded the table to include a palette for every
single Pokémon and trainer sprite
Corrected several Pokémons' sprite and palette data so that
the Pokémon look correct when viewed in a monochrome setting
Added my FRLG Cueball devamp
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01-23-2014: V1.3 - Modified the battle hud to perfectly
resemble the GSC battle hud
Added the small Pokéball tile that appears in wild battles
against Pokémon that are already owned
Fixed the bug that loads the wrong palette when Transform is
used
Added 13 total GSC songs.
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03-03-2014: V1.4 - Restored SGB Border
Added a fully functional experience bar to the battle HUD
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03-05-2014: V1.5 - Fixed an exp bar bug that occurs when the
player uses Transform
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01-30-2015: V2.0 - Fixed the player back sprite in the Hall
Of Fame Room
Ported Crystal's sound engine and all Crystal music

It should be noted that this is not related to my personal hack, Pokémon Prototype (although it includes many of the same features).
Any opinion/preference in Prototype, such as choosing a few sprites from other games, is not put into this hack. Every sprite came directly from GSC, with the exception of a few trainer sprites that did not exist in Gen. II. Those sprites are credited accordingly.
If you find any bugs, please let me know. Also, feel free to give any advice or feedback.

Videos:
Experience Bar:

"Already Owned" Pokéball Tile

Screenshots:
Title Screen with improved "POKéMON" title:

Colorized Oak intro:

New Trainer Sprites/Palettes:

New Pokémon Sprites/Palettes:

"Pokémon Owned" Pokéball Tile:

Colorized Box List and Pokédex:

Poketto's Sprites:

Red Backsprite Revamp - Gambler Recolor - Channeler Recolor - Giovanni Recolor

Fire Red/Leaf Green Devamps:

Old Man Backsprite (Mateo) - Enigneer (Luigi-San) - Cueball - Tamer - Lorelei - Agatha

Download
Pokémon Red Graphics V2.0
Pokémon Red GFX&Music V2.0

Pokémon Blue Graphics V2.0
Pokémon Blue GFX&Music V2.0

Last edited by Danny-E 33 (2016-01-06 02:11:10)

theoblivinator · 2013-01-09 04:32:05

Awesome! What a great way to share your knowledge that you gained with the community. I'm sure plenty of people will be very appreciative of your work as much as you are. I think I'll test this out sometime myself since I've always needed a good reason to play gen 1 again. Well now I have a good reason and can say I have plans for this weekend.

Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing this with the community.

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-09 05:11:57

Thank you very much! I feel like with all the great work I put into Prototype, I don't want all these features to be only available in that one hack.
I want anyone to be able to appreciate the enhancements whenever they want on a regular Red game. :)

IIMarckus · 2013-01-09 05:12:47

This is pretty cool.

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-09 05:19:41

Why thank you! That means alot, coming from you! :)
If you have the time, you should try it out and see if you have any critisism.

Luna · 2013-01-09 07:01:53

Hey, nice work! Going to try this out on its own, just to play Red with the updated graphics and such. I'd say it seems like a good candidate as the rombase for the red-based Secrets and Rumours as well.

Arceus · 2013-01-09 08:17:27

AwesomE! REally!

Arceus · 2013-01-09 08:19:22

Looks like Im going to use this...

y0r124 · 2013-01-09 09:56:06

Wow, Very Awesome. Can I play it? It'll be fun to play Red in color, I hope the missingno still exist :LoL

Miksy91 · 2013-01-09 10:57:27

This ought to be fun to be played, even on its own!
I'll be trying it out soon...

But yeah, awesome work and nice to see you got the job done :)

aldis999 · 2013-01-09 13:28:18

Some time ago I asking about gen1 pokemon red it is hacking into color and ther someone explain when gen1 red it is only black and white. And today I read and wach you was made gen1 into color.
Incredible!!!

Sawakita · 2013-01-09 17:39:19

Nice one!

Danny-E 33 wrote:

Known Bugs:
-The PC Box List lags really bad only the very first time you change boxes on a new save file.

Have you idea what could be the cause?

Mr. Magius · 2013-01-09 22:15:31

Impressive, GREAT job! I'm downloading this right away.

chmaster · 2013-01-09 22:26:21

Gee, that's so cool. Never thought this would happen, but you made it.
Thanks for your efforts.

BTW, are all pokemons catchable in this rom, cuz I saw your pokedex with 151 owned.

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-10 03:05:12

Mateo wrote:

Hey, nice work! Going to try this out on its own, just to play Red with the updated graphics and such. I'd say it seems like a good candidate as the rombase for the red-based Secrets and Rumours as well.

Thank you very much! And I would be honored if you used this for Secrets and Rumours! :D

Arceus wrote:

AwesomE! REally!

Thanks alot!

y0r124 wrote:

Wow, Very Awesome. Can I play it? It'll be fun to play Red in color, I hope the missingno still exist :LoL

Well, sure you can play it! And yes, MissingNo. is still in the game :P

Miksy91 wrote:

This ought to be fun to be played, even on its own!
I'll be trying it out soon...
But yeah, awesome work and nice to see you got the job done :)

Thank you very much :) I hope you enjoy it!

aldis999 wrote:

Some time ago I asking about gen1 pokemon red it is hacking into color and ther someone explain when gen1 red it is only black and white. And today I read and wach you was made gen1 into color.
Incredible!!!

Um, I'm not quite sure where you got that information, but the original Red is not in black and white. It has always had SGB features, I just expanded the number of palettes programmed into the game and inserted a ton of new graphics along with alot of custom ASM.
But thanks for the compliment!

Sawakita wrote:

Nice one!
Danny-E 33 wrote:
Known Bugs:
-The PC Box List lags really bad only the very first time you change boxes on a new save file.
Have you idea what could be the cause?

No... and it's hard to explain what happens exactly. Could you try downloading it and starting a new save file get to a pc and try switching boxes? Once you switch boxes once or use another, older save file, it works just fine. I have no idea why the text boxes lag the first time only. I've tried adding the call further into the code but I can't find the right spot. Perhaps you could help me locate a better offset to add in the code that sends the packet.
And thank you! :)

Mr. Magius wrote:

Impressive, GREAT job! I'm downloading this right away.

Thank you, I'm glad I have a fan! :D

chmaster wrote:

Gee, that's so cool. Never thought this would happen, but you made it.
Thanks for your efforts.
BTW, are all pokemons catchable in this rom, cuz I saw your pokedex with 151 owned.

First, thank you for appreciating my hard work! :)
And unfortunately, no. All gameplay is identical to Red, so that kind of data is unchanged. This just overhauls the graphics.

jwibagi wrote:

Not only is this an amazing work in itself, the note provided allows for an excellent opportunity to see how it works. Great job!

Thank you! I though it would be worth my while to include all of that since this is open to being used for other hacks. Even though it took all night to organize. :P

Freako · 2013-01-10 07:26:45

I did something a few months ago that gave Kanto most of Johto's tileset and I thought that's what this was going to be but it seems it was everything else. Good job.

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-10 14:13:54

Thank you :)

Yeah, I considered porting GSC's tilesets into this hack, but I haven't completely made up my mind yet. I might still include that feature in a future update.
I'll do it if enough people think it's a good idea. What do you all think?

Freako · 2013-01-10 14:25:08

Well this is what it looks like.

I can give you the tilesets if you like.

Last edited by Freako (2013-01-10 14:27:21)

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-10 14:28:37

Hmm. That's definitely not so drastically different. I think it would just be an improvement.
Although I don't know about replaceing the dark rock with the little shrub, like in the third and fourth screenshot.

Freako wrote:

I can give you the tilesets if you like.

Yeah, part of the problem is I never bothered to learn how to take GSC's tilesets, cause I'm under the impression that they are compressed?

Last edited by Danny-E 33 (2013-01-10 14:30:54)

Freako · 2013-01-10 14:31:23

Dark rock? Little shrub? They're trees!

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-10 14:33:11

Well those tiles in the original game were not trees :P

Freako · 2013-01-10 14:34:44

Almost certain they're trees.

And by almost certain I mean 100%.

Danny-E 33 · 2013-01-10 14:37:16

This is the 2x2 tile image of a dark rock that you replaced with the little tree.
59854-pokemon-red-version-game-boy-screenshot-can-t-go-that-way-neither.png

Freako · 2013-01-10 14:55:42

It's a tree.

Solar · 2013-01-10 15:08:02

This screenshot talk.
Poké_Mart_assistant_Route_1_FRLG.png

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