Skeetendo

Wow, this was so fast, just a few hours ago I found in Instagram the old sprites and now we have a first hack.

In my folders with ideas of Pokémon Hacks was the idea of doing a "Red/Blue Part II", which was a bridge between the events of Pokémon Red and the Beta of Pokémon Gold (which some information was on the Bulbapedia before the Demo). Explaining the trail of Red until he battles Gold on Mt. Silver.

I'll enjoy this for sure, thank you! :)

EDIT: For some reason, Lunar IPS says: "The file has been patched, but the data in the IPS file appears to be truncated or misaligned.."
The pokered.ips makes Pokémon Red become 15 MB and the pokeblue.ips makes Pokémon Blue become 9 MB.

Last edited by triumph (2018-06-02 08:32:28)

Lovely, thanks

This is awesome! Would you be willing to create a version that only changes the back sprites and leaves the front sprites as is? The back sprites seem to be based primarily on the blue sprites anyway. Additionally, I like the trainer backsprite you used but the Poketto one would be nice to have as an option since it's much more faithful to the original.

All right, thanks for the info. I'll try to create a version with just the backsprites and share it for people who might prefer that. For a while I've wanted of version of the 1st Gen that retains the charmingly off-model sprites but updates the super low-res backsprites.

The update is finished! These are now called Red★ and Blue★, with a lot more than just Pokémon sprites changed. Please see the top post for details.

A new update is out!

Most of it is just bugfixes, but an obvious new feature is the new color palettes. Now maps look even more like the Spaceworld demo. (I didn't even have to pick "similar-looking" colors—the pokegold-spaceworld map palettes are clearly updated versions of the pokered ones, still corresponding to the Kanto cities.)

Here's a complete changelog on GitHub.

Anyway, the screenshots and patches have been updated in the top post. Patches should still be applied to unmodified Red and Blue ROMs, but after that, save files from the previous release will work with the new ROMs. (Unless you're on the Celadon Dept. Store roof, since it's using a new tileset.)

Minor update today: the "Game Freak Presents" intro uses some Space World graphics, and more importantly, overworld sprites are aligned with the tile grid instead of being shifted up 4 pixels. This may look weird at first, but it's how the Space World demo worked. Please try out the new patches and let me know if this feature has any bugs!

Holy shit, the new patch fucked with my games T_T
The overworld seems glitch city, my characters were renamed to N*inten and I can hear a strange pokemon cry after pressing START/A at the Red*Version or Blue*Version intro.

I should have did a backup..

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Nevermind, I just patched it over clean copy roms instead the old patched ones and now it's working as intended.

Last edited by JulianoFdeS (2018-08-22 14:16:22)

Why would you want that? The game already isn't a looker as is plus it would probably look like garbage because Yellow used the anime inspired sprites and I think those would have to be either reworked or removed and replaced to maintain the Spaceworld feel and look. I think that's why I never liked it in the first place despite a handful of promising hacks. I always was a Red & Blue kinda fan and I did play a rather screwed up translation of Green for curiosity but Yellow just looks weird to me.

It's been a year since the last update, but now Red★ and Blue★ have some new features!

• Use Space World graphics for Surfing, trading, and party icons
• Align sprites with tiles on the overworld and Town Map
• Use R/B sprites for a few Pokémon to match their Space World back sprites: Spearow, Persian, Shellder, Magneton, Gastly, and Gengar
• Use SteppoBlazer's old man back sprite

Check out the top post for patch download links!

Last edited by Rangi (2019-09-15 17:35:01)

The Game Boy Color has a quirky algorithm for picking the default palette to use, which depends on the game's title. I simply titled them "PKMN RED STAR" and "PKMN BLUE STAR", so the red color is just a coincidence. You should be able to press (U/D/L/R)+(A/B) to use any palette.

Last edited by Rangi (2019-09-15 20:08:50)

Kakuna, Abra, Ditto, anything with a unique Spaceworld front sprite kept it, even if the older R/B sprite fit better. Only the already-finished G/S sprites like Gastly were reverted to R/B.