Released Pokemon Omegatastrophe

Pokemon Omegatastrophe
We all know the story of Pokemon: trainer arrives in the region, beats the gyms, stops the baddies, saves the day. That's how it went in Hoenn too.
At least the Hoenn we know...
Download V1.3

The Story
The plane was grounded the morning you and your mum were meant to fly to Hoenn, and had to be rescheduled. Unfortunately, that meant you weren't there to face the Magma grunts who attacked the Devon Corporation, couldn't prevent Maxie's Mt Chimney experiment from success, and Team Magma's plans went off without any real challenge.
Unfortunately for both humanity and Team Magma, when Groudon awoke, they were unable to control it, and the Continent Pokemon went on a week-long rampage, devastating Hoenn and the world.
Now, 5 years later, things are starting to recover, and commercial travel has restarted. Norman has been missing since Groudon's rampage, and you finally fly to Hoenn in a search to find your father. With the Pokemon given to you by Professor Birch, you'll explore the transformed Hoenn to find him, and meet lots of colourful characters along the way.
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This is not an edgy game, but by the nature of its story it will be darker than the typical Pokemon games. Expect mild language (no f-bombs or anything) and references to death.

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Features

• Higher difficulty compared to the official games
• Curated Pokedex of about 400 Pokemon
• Regional Variants - some Pokemon have experienced strange and rapid transformations to survive in their new environment
• Explore a drought ravaged Hoenn, discover which towns have made the best of it and which towns perished
• See new and familiar faces from Hoenn and the broader Pokemon world
• An array of sidequests allowing you to find rare Pokemon, items, and learn more about the new world
• New moves and abilities intended to patch some holes in the existing suite of moves and abilities

The current release is completed up to Dewford. Have fun beating the first 2 gyms.

Made with:

• RPGMakerXP
• Pokemon Essentials V19

The development team

• TheDarkRattata
• ToaLhikan

We all know the screenshots are what will make you play

Spoiler: Screenshots

If you notice I've used something you made and haven't credited you, please let me know - I don't want to miss anyone

Spoiler: credits

Creators

• TheDarkRattata
• ToaLhikan

"Pokémon Essentials" was created by:
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby
Marin
Boushy
MiDas Mike
Brother1440
Near Fantastica
FL
PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami
Popper
Golisopod User
Rataime
help-14
Savordez
IceGod64
SoundSpawn
Jacob O. Wobbrock
the__end
KitsuneKouta
Venom12
Lisa Anthony
Wachunga
Luka S.J.
and everyone else who helped out

"mkxp-z" by:
Roza
Based on MKXP by Ancurio et al.

"RPG Maker XP" by:
Enterbrain

Pokémon is owned by:
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak

Following Pokemon Ex

• Golisopod User
• Help-14
• zingzags
• Rayd12smitty
• mej71
• PurpleZaffre
• Akizakura16
• Thundaga
• Armin (Fairies Resource Pack)
• Maruno

Pokemon Gen 8 Project

• Battler Sprites:
  • Gen 1-5 Pokemon Sprites - veekun
  • Gen 6 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
  • Gen 7 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project
  • Gen 8 Pokemon Sprites - All Contributors To Smogon Sword/Shield Sprite Project
• Overworld Sprites
  • Gen 6 Pokemon Overworlds - princess-pheonix, LunarDusk, Wolfang62, TintjeMadelintje101, piphybuilder88
  • Gen 7 Pokemon Overworlds - Larry Turbo, princess-pheonix
  • Gen 8 Pokemon Overworlds - SageDeoxys, Wolfang62
  • Gen 1-5 Pokemon Overworlds - MissingLukey, help-14, Kymoyonian, cSc-A7X, 2and2makes5, Pokegirl4ever, Fernandojl, Silver-Skies, TyranitarDark, Getsuei-H, Kid1513, Milomilotic11, Kyt666, kdiamo11, Chocosrawlooid, Syledude, Gallanty, Gizamimi-Pichu, 2and2makes5, Zyon17,LarryTurbo, spritesstealer
• Icon Sprites
  • Gen 1-6 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Alaguesia
  • Gen 7 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Marin, MapleBranchWing, Contributors to the DS Styled Gen 7+ Repository
  • Gen 8 Icon Sprites - Larry Turbo, Leparagon
• Cry Credits:
  • Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries - Rhyden
  • Gen 7 Pokemon Cries - Marin, Rhyden
  • Gen 8 Pokemon Cries - Zeak6464
• PBS Credits:
  • Golisopod User, Zerokid, TheToxic, HM100, KyureJL, ErwanBeurier
• Script Credits:
  • EBS Bitmap Wrapper - Luka S.J.
  • Gen 8 Scripts - Golisopod User, Maruno, Vendily, TheToxic, HM100, Aioross, WolfPP, MFilice, lolface, KyureJL, DarrylBD99, Turn20Negate, TheKandinavian, ErwanBeurier
• Compilation of Resources:
  • Golisopod User, UberDunsparce
• Porting to v19:
  • Golisopod User, Maruno

JohtoBlaziken's Bootleg Fire Red - Johto Blaziken (Hoenn Maps only)
Spriters Resource - lots of sprites that weren't in vanilla Essentials
Nuri Yuri for RGSS FmodEx extension that allows looping .oggs
FL for diploma and Pokemon picture scripts
KleinStudio for footprints script and fly animation script
Desbrina and dbzfanatic for adding ghosts tutorial
Franzo for changing wild Pokemon moveset code snippet
Gamer2020 for Pokemon Game Editor (most user-friendly package of GBA Pokemon ROM hacking tools)
LU-HO Poke for Advance Map (best GBA Pokemon map editor, which I needed to extract map and event info)
HackMew for creating XSE (best GBA Pokemon scripting language)
diegoisawesome for lots of detailed offset knowledge
Everyone who's contributed to Visual Boy Advance, a lovely GBA emulator
Dreadwing93 for beautiful 80x80 Gen V Pokemon backsprites

Gen 4 & 5 Trainers gen 3 style - Young-Dante & Mashirosakura
Dirty Tileset - MagentaGiratina
SM/USUM Trainers - Droid779
Wild pokemon hidden abilities - Mashirosakura, Scyl, NettoHikari
Archie Maxie - academico95
Trainer Intros - DerxwnaKapsyla

Cries - Random Talking Bush
Spicy battle sprites - Kyle-dove
Egg - NicoMts
Swamp tiles
@Haunted Ditto
@mustafa505
Carchagui
Thedeadheroalistair
Zeo
AveonTrainer

"RPG Maker XP" by:
Enterbrain

Title Image from Pokemon Generations

Spoiler: changelog

Version 1.1

• Fixed the collision glitches for the drawers and drained lakes
• Fixed issue with exiting houses that meant players could walk on the dark area
• Fixed problems with event outside Petalburg Woods
• Can now interact with the sign in Petalburg Woods

Version 1.2

• Fixed dialogue and collision goofs in Petalburg
• Fixed area below Briney's house not being walkable
• Freeze after beating the bandits in Newdale should be fixed. Sorry about this one, I should have seen it coming
• The Pelliper still seems to appear too early above Briney's house, not sure what to do about this.

Version 1.3

• Dewford Island sign fixed
• Geodude's back sprite positioned correctly
• Can now go upstairs at Briney's house in Dewford
• Still some Pelliper weirdness, I'll try to fix it

I don't own Pokemon - its owned by:
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak
This is a non-profit fan-made game.
No copyright infringements intended.
Please support the official games!

If you like the game, or you have anything to say about it, feel free to leave your comments, we'd love to hear from you.

 

[Astefia]

 

[TheDarkRattata]

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It took me a while but I think I understand what's happened here. Because the folder that all the information is in is called "Pokemon Essentials v19 blah blah", it's looking for a save file under that name, and its clashing with an existing save on your computer. It should be solved by changing the name of the folder to "Pokemon Omegatastrope". If for some reason that doesn't work, I've updated the download and it shouldnt have that problem. Sorry about that

 

[Astefia]

Did not help. Renamed the folder, redownloaded, renamed folder in the redownload - in all of those there is the same error on startup.

And why would the error text be about quests in that case?

 

[TheDarkRattata]

The only thing I can find about this problem is here

[Error] module Player_Quest error

See the discussion at PokéCommunity!

www.pokecommunity.com

It looks like its something to do with the save folder on your computer? I'm not really sure what the problem is

 

[Astefia]

The only thing I can find about this problem is here

[Error] module Player_Quest error

See the discussion at PokéCommunity!

www.pokecommunity.com

It looks like its something to do with the save folder on your computer? I'm not really sure what the problem is

I deleted my save data folders for "Pokemon Essentials" and the game managed to start.
But I REALLY doubt I'm meant to start here.

The only thing I can find about this problem is here

[Error] module Player_Quest error

See the discussion at PokéCommunity!

www.pokecommunity.com

It looks like its something to do with the save folder on your computer? I'm not really sure what the problem is

Look like your game looks for save files in "Pokemon Essentials v19" folder in AppData, which clashes with save files of anyone who tested their game without changing the title and was using Modern Quest System. You should use the "Change Title" functionality in RPG Maker.

 

[Kotaro]

I'd recommend changing the project name to avoid stuff like this since it's gonna continue looking for a Pokemon Essentials V19.1 Savefile so if you change the projects name to Pokemon Omegatastrophe it shouldn't clash with base essential savefiles anymore but instead create it's own folder called Pokemon Omegatastrophe.

 

[ToaLhikan]

I deleted my save data folders for "Pokemon Essentials" and the game managed to start.
But I REALLY doubt I'm meant to start here.
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Hey, I'm really sorry about all this, I believe it should work if you just redownload it. Thankyou for commenting about your problem though, and I hope the game works now.

 

[TheDarkRattata]

Look like your game looks for save files in "Pokemon Essentials v19" folder in AppData, which clashes with save files of anyone who tested their game without changing the title and was using Modern Quest System. You should use the "Change Title" functionality in RPG Maker.

Ah yeah I see the problem, I've fixed that in the latest one. So sorry about all the runaround, hopefully this has solved the problem

 

[Astefia]

Found a collision glitch.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Another collision glitch.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Maybe the houses need bigger exit events?
Here's what happens if you enter a house and immediately press down.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Got an event about "Something terrifying lurking about" and now I can't move from this spot.
To be precise - got an event, then went 1 tile down, got the same dialogue box and now is stuck.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Got an event about "Something terrifying lurking about" and now I can't move from this spot.
To be precise - got an event, then went 1 tile down, got the same dialogue box and now is stuck.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Reloading the save helped.

Am I supposed to be not able to interact with this sign in Petalburg Woods?

Spoiler: Screenshot

Decided to return from Petalburg Woods to use the pokecenter and got stuck in the spot.
I think the same event is trying to play, but cannot, because the NPC is in a different spot?

Spoiler: Screenshot

Yep. I can't leave Petalburg Woods.

 

[ToaLhikan]

Am I supposed to be not able to interact with this sign in Petalburg Woods?

Spoiler: Screenshot

View attachment 9796

you probably should be able to lmao

Yep. I can't leave Petalburg Woods.

Huh ok. We'll try to fix that. Also thankyou very much for all the feedback, it's incredibly helpful.

 

[TheDarkRattata]

Yep. I can't leave Petalburg Woods.

Okay the new version we just uploaded should have fixed the problems you've found so far. Thanks for being such a great help.

 

[Astefia]

Okay the new version we just uploaded should have fixed the problems you've found so far. Thanks for being such a great help.

Maybe it only fixes the problem for when you start from scratch - trigger the switch when you gointo the Petalburg Woods? Because I just redownloaded and loaded my save and got stuck again.

Oh well, I'll just grind from the beginning again.

Dialogue weirdness.

Spoiler: Screenshot

More collision glitches.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Uh. Now I cannot go here and chat with that NPC.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Looks a bit rough.

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Should this Pelipper just appear after going to Briney's house and doing nothing?

Spoiler: Screenshot

Also after that Brendan before the Gym just disappeared. I saved over it and don't want to replay the beginning again. x(

 

[TheDarkRattata]

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that. Can you walk me through a little more when Brendan disappeared? Did you find Wally in the Woods, or did it just happen after you went in Briney's house?

 

[Astefia]

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that. Can you walk me through a little more when Brendan disappeared? Did you find Wally in the Woods, or did it just happen after you went in Briney's house?

After going to Briney's and to woods, but without finding Wally.

 

[Blue31]

im using joiplay and everytime i beat the bandits the game freezes any ideas

 

[TheDarkRattata]

im using joiplay and everytime i beat the bandits the game freezes any ideas

Is it in the cave or is it after you escape and talk with Wally?

After going to Briney's and to woods, but without finding Wally.

Okay I think I know what the problem is, I'll have a crack at fixing it. In the meantime I think if you just go in and find Wally, you should be able to progress normally.

 

[Astefia]

Uh. Now I cannot go here and chat with that NPC.
Spoiler: Screenshot

So what about the impassable ground down of the Briney's house? Is it supposed to be this way?

Beat the bandit boss... And got completely and utterly stuck. The game is not reacting to any buttons.

Spoiler: Screenshot

 

[TheDarkRattata]

So what about the impassable ground down of the Briney's house? Is it supposed to be this way?

Beat the bandit boss... And got completely and utterly stuck. The game is not reacting to any buttons.

Spoiler: Screenshot

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Yeah I've fixed the ground below Brineys, that's not supposed to be impassable, made a tiling mistake.

And I see what the problem is with that freeze, I had the grunts try to run around you Wally and Ava, and forgot that I put the rocks there. You'll have to reset that save, but the next version I upload should have that fixed.

im using joiplay and everytime i beat the bandits the game freezes any ideas

Was that the same problem you had? If it is then it should be fixed

 

[Astefia]

Nothing on this sign.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Houses in Dewford are way to far from each other.

Sprite positioning is off

Spoiler: Screenshot

Anytime I try to go up the ladder in Briney's house on Route 106 after Dewford, I just hear double the sound effect and end up back down, not even seeing my character on the rooftop.