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Released Stygian Snakewood, a Pokémon Snakewood Remake.

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
0.5.2
- Made with Essentials 20.1 -
Disclaimer: This project has no affiliation with Pokémon Snakewood made by Cutlerine and it's but a tribute to the original work, it intends in no way or form to replace it but to build upon and expand.

Hoenn has been invaded by a zombie plague! Revive the experience of the iconic 2010 ROM Hack by Cutlerine once again as you are the younger sibling of Brendan, who woke up without memory on a devastated region, trying to find the whereabouts of their brother and the origin of the zombie outbreak with the help of Professor Birch while meeting an almost unrecognizable Hoenn, facing zombies, new characters and uncharacteristic humor!

Features

Update for the zombie Pokémon: Many zombie Pokémon are available for the player from the previous only two, furthermore many have also been added from many media such as XtraSnakewood, Snakewood DX, RetroNC's video and our own zombies! Furthermore you can only catch one using a previously unused item, the Necro Ball. Zombie Pokémon are powerful but be careful with your choices as Necro Balls are hard to come by.
High Difficulty: For those who want a challenge, the game has a considerably higher difficulty that was carefully worked to be as fair and competitive as possible, both with trainer battles and a few AI tweaks (Vanilla mode also available! Hopefully more fair than the original game, I think).
A new type, Plague: Derived from the original Disease-type of Pokémon Snakewood (renamed due to UI issues), its main feature is that they do more damage, but are unable to switch (might change in the future)! Plague is also followed by a new weather, Soot.
Pokémon rebalancing: While there are still power differences between Pokémon and some are mostly a second thought after the early game, we've made sure that even if it's specific niche, every single one of our >360 Pokémon have something unique to them, while not bloating the game nor deviating much from the original version.
Lack of grinding: EVs and IVs have been removed, furthermore DemICE's EXP gain system enables for a fast and smooth level curve without requiring level caps (considerable increase/decrease in EXP based on the level difference between the opponent. The game has been adjusted accordingly to all those features. You're encouraged to have a lot of Pokémon early!
Increased exploration: While not required, the player is often rewarded for not going on a straight line, maybe check that rock or behind the tree, a surprise may wait for you!
Ability changes: Giving love to some irrelevant abilities, Stall now skips every other turn, Sand Veil increases Defense during Sandstorm while Damp sets Water Sport on entry!
Graphic overhaul: Most original Fakémon and characters have been redesigned in order to have a more modern look while trying to retain the silly core Snakewood essence, not everything was redesigned though, some familiar faces are unchanged and have (hopefully) just received a higher quality sprite.
Limited resources: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) One complain of the original Snakewood was how it didn't feel enough like a dystopian scenario. Your decisions matter, use your consumables wisely.
New stuff: As mentioned before, Stygian Snakewood gives it a more modern look to the original game and such adds countless new features such as QoL, physical/special split, Fairy-type, new Zombies, new evolutions for some regular and fake Pokémon and Pokémon that weren't previously available in the original game. And as a bonus, certain unused Pokémon like Demoneon, Toxeon, Crazymadio and Zombified have sprites, regional forms have been added that kinda fit the game i know regional forms are overdone at this point but it wasn't me that came up with them and they look good so take it and a few secrets!

Screenshots may not reflect upon the final release, the title screen is a placeholder
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Q: Is there/will there be a Discord Server?
A: Nope. Well, I've heard and experienced horror stories from Fangame Discord servers that my friends own and it's the kind of thing I wouldn't really want to deal with. So unless someone is willing to manage it themselves we will not have a server.

Q: Will I be able to catch "a/b/c"
A: Our plans is to make every single Pokémon obtainable, including zombies and others that were unavailable in the original game such as Boilbasaur and Mutagon. However some things need to be kept in mind, due to balance reasons Pokémon such as A Monster and Stitched will be very late while zombies can only be caught using the previously unavailable item Necro Ball, which is limited in its availability.

Q: Will it be compatible with Joiplay?
A: I have absolutely no idea. It's not my area of expertise and we will most likely not offer support for it themselves.

Q: What's up with the inconsistency? Why is X sprite different from Y sprite? Why does A have a new design and B doesn't? Why is Z missing?
A: It's a work-in-progress with a few artists working in (that my dumbass is too awkward to properly introduce to each other) with different styles + my own stuff that I gotta admit ain't the best.

Q: Is this game meant to be completed with a challenge run (ex. Nuzlocke or Monotype)? Could you make it so? What about Lunatic mode?
A: Stygian Snakewood (Mostly Lunatic Mode) is not designed around the player following Nuzlocke rules and restrictions, meaning many of these types of challenges are likely impossible. I did not balance the game around extra rulesets and no changes will be made to accommodate them. Be free to either try them in the Vanilla difficulty or prove me wrong, I would love to see it!

Q: What the hell happened Wurmple? How does its evolution work now?
A: Read the sign in the south part of Route 104 then check Wurmple's name in other languages. Wurmple also now evolves based on Day (Silcoon/Beautifly) or Night (Cascoon/Dustox).

Q: What is Plague's type chart?
A: It's super-effective against things considered alive (Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Grass) and Psychic, it's weak to Bug, Poison and Psychic and it's resisted by Ghost, Steel and Ice (depending on feedback, might make it so that Fire also resists Plague)

Disclaimer: Credits might not reflect the final version and are subject to change. If any of the current features or screenshots shown contain any stuff that you believe it's yours and has no credit, please contact ASAP me on Discord #aaleven.

CREDITS

Stygian Snakewood was created by A¹¹

Lead Developer: A¹¹

Spriters: lichen, Badman, thewaffles

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GRAPHICS
-
Dozens of Trainer and Pokémon redesigns by Burgoton!
-

RetroNC for a bunch of redesigns (Such as Yuck)

GenDraconis for allowing me to use their Snakewood fakemon designs

KleinStudio and Kymotonian on Deviantart for the various gen 3 sprites in HGSS style (Such as Birch)

Mashirosakura for giving me assets from his discontinued Snakewood remake including: protagonists, Dragoone, Gigawolf, Boilbasaur and the intro.

The Pokemon Rejuvenation Shiny Project I think

Xiapher

DMBY

Sombrero_Tanooki

myRattata for some of the Snakewood DX sprites

Gen 4 OW Sprites by:
Neo-Spriteman
VanillaSunshine
PurpleZaffre & Maicerochico
AtomicReacto

Mr. Gela/theo#7722 (trainer sprites gen 4)

Hoenn Gym Leader mugshots by Dasupect

FEAR font by somepx

ORAS trainer sprites by Kyledove

FloofyPanthar on Relic Castle for

Gen 5+ Back Sprites by:
@ Dreadwing93
@ Prodigal96
@ MM980
@ 44tim44
@ Gnomowladny
@ MetalFlygon (republished by Zygoat)
@ WolfPP
@ lichenprincess
@ BiggusWeeabus
@ ChromusSama
@ briochee
@ Mak
@ Loafus022
@ Sopita_Yorita
@ lennybitao
@ Limitdistortion
@ PorousMist326
@ leParagon
@ DS-style Gen VII and Beyong Pokemon Sprite Repository
@ Smogon Art Projects

-Battle Backgrounds-
Carchi/Carchagui
AveonTrainer

The DS-style Gen VII and Beyond Pokémon Sprite Repository in 64x64

The Smogon Sprite Project for a few gen 8 Sprites

Swimming Overworld Pokemon Sprites by Swdfm

Tileset credits go to:
Kymotonian
Speedialga
Spacemotion
Alucus
Pokemon-diamond
Kizemaru-kurunosuke
Epicday
Thurpok
Ultimospriter
Dewitty
Minorthreat0987
Tyranitardark
Princelegendario
Kaitodesign
Wesleyfg
Boomxbig
Takaiofthefire
Sailorvicious
Aveontrainer
Magiscarf
Phyromatical
Cuddlesthefatcat
Peekychew
Hek
Carchagui
KingTapir
07harris/Paranoid
19dante91
27alexmad27
874521
Alistair
Atomika
Bakura155
Blue Beedrill
Boomxbig
Bulbapedia and Bulbaforums
chimcharsfireworkd
Chio
CNickC/CNC
Flood
Fused
G-olden
help14
Jesse TBPro
lordindy
Kizemaru_Kurunosuke
klnothincomin
Kuroda-Taiki
Newtiteuf
Novus
PrinceLegendario
Reck
Red-Gyrados
REMY35
RHN
Saurav
Scarexshivaking
Seiyouh
SL249
spaceemotion
spypoke megafc
ThePokemonChronicles

And partially:
-ThatsSoWitty-
-Nocturn-

Autotiles:
Rayquaza-Dot
DormDude
BoOmxBiG
Epicday

Modular Title Screen by Luka S.J
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SCRIPTS (INCLUDING PLUGINS)

Advanced Items - Field Moves by Bergium, TechSkylander1518, Moyo, Marin

All Abilities Mutation by DemIce and Azery

Always inside Bushes by Kotaro,Titania318,KleinStudio and derFischae

Auto Multi Save by http404error

Better Speed Up by Marin and Phantombass

Consistent AI by DemIce

Easy Text Skip by Amethyst, Kurotsune and ENLS

Encounter List UI by ThatWelshOne_,raZ,Marin,Maruno,Nuri Yuri,PurpleZaffre,Savordez and Vendily

Enchanced UI by Lucidious89
Ball Sprites: Poq and BlueEye007

Essentials Deluxe by Lucidious89

Generation 9 Pack by Caruban

HM Catalogue by Phantombass

Improved AI by KRLW890

Independent Hidden Power Type by DemIce

Infinite Save Backups by DemICE and http404error

ItemFind by Boonzeet

LA Party Evolver by IndianAnimator, eriedaberrie#1569

Marin's Map Expoter and Marin's Scripting Utilities by well, Marin

Set Initial Pokémon Values by DemIce

Tileset Rearranger by Maruno

Tutor.net by Demice

Updated Quicksave by Marin and CrystalStar

20.1 Hotfixes by Maruno

Miscellaneous Script Edits by DemIce
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FRIENDS :)

PLAYTESTERS

mizziepoo
S_G
rump
mizziepoo
Moto
Badman
Commander
Martenaizor
ThePikacloneGod
Icyalex
DemICE

SCRIPTING HELP

DemICE
Moto
BigFRIV
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MUSIC

GlitchxCity
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Masters EX
PokeRemixStudio
ENLS's Pre-Looped Music Library
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Sly 2
VanilluxePavilion
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GAME JAM RESOURCES

Pokemon Shattered Dimensions by: Celestial Fearow, Mahian23, JPA93

==Epic Adventures Tileset + More: Outdoor + Indoor== (Littleroot Researchers Resource Pack)
Alistair
Alucus
Bakura155
Bati'
Blue Beedrill
BoOmxBiG
Chimcharsfireworkd
CNickC/CNC
CrimsonTakai
Cuddlesthefatcat
Dewitty
EpicDay
Fused
Gigatom
Heavy-Metal-Lover
Hek-el-grande
Kage-No-Sensei
Kizemaru_Kurunosuke
Kyledove
LaPampa
LotusKing
New-titeuf
Novus
Pokemon_Diamond
PrinceLegendario
Reck
Red-Gyrados
REMY35
Saurav
SL249
Spaceemotion
SirMalo
Stefpoke
sylver1984
ThatsSoWitty
TheEnglishKiwi
Thegreatblaid
ThePokemonChronicles
TwentyOne
UltimoSpriter
Warpras
WesleyFG
Yoh
Nuri Yuri
07harris/Paranoid
19dante91
27alexmad27
Flurimons
Alucus
Kyle Dove
Dewitty
CNC
KennyCatches

==Gen 4 Style Interior==
Akizakura16
KennyCatches

==Museum==
princess-phoenix
Diegotoon20
Kyogre statue by Kyledove, recolored by KennyCatches

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GEN 9 PACK
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Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA for v20:
-Caruban

PBS for Gen 9:
-Caruban
-PorousMist (Updated the abilities, items, and moves description)
-DJChaos (TM Items)

Pokemon Gen 9 Battler Sprites:
The-King-Of-Roads-X, Mak, leParagon, Caruban, Azria, Mashirosakura, Katten, jinxed

Battler Sprites QC:
leParagon

Pokemon Gen 9 icons:
ezerart

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers:
Azria, DarkusShadow

Pokemon Gen 9 Cries:
Edited from Lightblade Absol Gen 9 Cries compilation video

Gen 9 item icons:
-lichenprincess (Tera Orb, Bamboos, Tera Shards, Mirror Herb, Loaded Dice, Leader Crest, and Kubfu Scrolls, Booster Energy, Gimmighoul coin, TM Material, Kofu's Wallet)
-Caruban (Punching Glove, Auspicious Armor, Malicious Armor, Ability Shield, Clear Amulet, Covert Cloak, Scarlet&Violet Book)

Original Pokémon: Legends Arceus Expansion Script :
-StCooler (Original script for Gen 8 Project in v18 and Status sprites)
-PorousMist and curryofthepast (Adapting the script for v19.1 use)

PLA item icons :
-AztecCroc, 3DJackArt, Caruban, lichenprincess

Pokemon cries ripped:
-Morningdew

Pokeballs battle animation and summary icon:
-Caruban
-WolfPP (Beast ball battle animation)

PLA Pokémon icons:
-LuigiTKO

Follower
-Boonzeet
-DarkusShadow
-princess-phoenix
-Ezeart
-Wolfang62

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project :
(https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-sprite-project.3647722/)
-Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite


Gen 4 Style Version
Gen 9 sprites:
KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Red7246, Vent, Caruban, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Z-nogyroP,
Alxndre~◇, Mashirosakura, NanaelJustice, KRLW890

PLA sprites:
Travis, KingOfThe-X-Roads, Blaquaza, leParagon, Red7246, G.E.Z., Katten, Vent, Cesare_CBass, AlexandreV2.0, PKMNTrainerRick., CarmaNeko, JWNutz, Erkey830

Gen 9 Icons:
Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass

PLA Icons:
LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for
Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 - Teracristalizando
(https://whackahack.com/foro/threads/pokemon-icons-act-2-9-teracristalizando-07-08-2022.63896/)

Full Sprites Credit List:

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

------------------------------

"Pokemon Snakewood" by Cutlerine

"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

This is a non-profit fan-made game.
No copyright infringements intended.
Please support the official games!


 

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Excuse me, has it been released now Or is it still in internal testing? ?
 

A¹¹

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It's here. After a lot of procrastination and real life issues, The first Stygian Snakewood demo has been officially released!

This demo goes up to Sage Longwei in the Shakya Monastery (around level 38) and about half of the evolution lines are available to the player. (I was going to list the total hours but I suck at that so no). Reminder to read the FAQ on this thread and the DOCUMENTATION folder in the game folder (also Q is for Speed Up, it stacks up to 5 times)

Link: https://mega.nz/file/XOxg1RbJ#UzBkA1t4lROv9B5ASqpPjdaVO1pSUM6iqMbzrQGqw-s

  • A lot of sprites are inconsistent or have placeholders, one major story trainer has no battle sprite whatsoever.
  • You can landsurf in quite a lot of areas
  • The female character has a few missing sprites.
  • Cutscene characters may behave weirdly.
  • Some maps have exposed void. It's not my fault, I grabbed a sketchy map pack and it was all over the place.

Also some things that I want to add to the game in the future (that are NOT in the game yet)
  • Third, androgynous protagonist (might age them up to 18)
  • Every single thing with a redesign (except most trainer classes, they will just be updated)
  • More devs
  • Fix every single map that is a bit bad.
  • Maybe some custom or remixed soundtracks.


And as I mentioned in the main thread: Credits might not reflect the final version and are subject to change. If any of the current features or screenshots shown contain any stuff that you believe it's yours and has no credit, please contact ASAP me on Discord #aaleven.

Although there is a thing I wanted to say: Stygian Snakewood might not be for everyone.
It's kinda gotten a complicated history, first it started as kinda like a "Kaizo" or "Hardcore" enhanced version the original Snakewood, as a minor edit of the binary ROM hack, then I tried to expand further on it but a Ruby edit from 2010 isn't exactly the most stable or easy to use so I had migrated to a decomp hack, after a while I was making little progress because I honestly had no idea how to use decomp so I migrated to Essentials, I had changed its version like 5 times and remade it once or twice. It was never intended to be a remake of the original Snakewood, only a little thing I would've shared with my friends, but as I got more and more annoyed by the limitations of it and the more I tried to change stuff it kinda became a remake, specially after I got a redesign for almost every single Fakémon and character. The problem was, it was still only supposed to be a mod of Snakewood originally, a lot of the gameplay was built around that, hell, the Vanilla mode was only added very late into development. It went way too fast from something to that was supposed to only be a few balance and battle changes to a full blown revamp of the game and it wasn't a smooth transition.

TLDR: Due to its origins as a "kaizo-like", Stygian Snakewood has some unique gameplay experiences that may or may not be someone's cup of tea.

Also some projects worth keeping in mind in the future in case you're interested in more Snakewood content and you turn out to not be a fan of Stygian Snakewood:

Snakewood DX that was used for TwitchPlaysPokémon;

Snakewood: Rebirth or something that was on Twitter;

Pokémon Snakewood Remade or something I think it was on Reddit
 

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# NEW PATCH 0.5.2 (Stygian Snakewood is now 1 week old I guess yay)

- A certain Pokémon learned moves that it shouldn't have had that early, it doesn't anymore.

- The Boardroom puzzle disables itself after you complete it the first time.

- The Encounters room now has proper battle background base.

- it's now clearer that the Spheal wants an Antidote.

- Decarill now has a new Front Sprite, Back Sprite (not that it matters for now) and Icon.

- The Gible line now has the proper backsprites if female.

- Zombicater and Deaderant are more balanced, with weaker Normal-type moves and stronger Plague-type moves.

- The Solar Caverns don't have Harsh Sunlight anymore as the eye-strain complaints were starting to pile up. To compensate for it, the Dragon battle was buffed.

- Fixed a bug that happened if you blacked out to Meteor.

- A Plugin has been added that allows you to manually evolve your Pokémon in the Party menu, as long as the conditions are met.

- Cancelling the buy of HM03 doesn't permanently lock you out of it anymore.

- Spinda now has 69 in every stat, nice.

- Added Muscle Band somewhere.

- Cyndaquil is more visible now.

- Flavour Text for when you interact with berry spots.

- Psylet/Pcylet now learns TMs.

- Oldale Town might not look as awful now.

- Minor Dialogue Changes.

- The game shouldn't generate so many backups now.

- Minor bugfixes in S.S Cangrejo.

Patch: https://mega.nz/file/SO4xVaRY#6Ljq5RbiZfTnOT5cKSv3Kh94HXqRJ_jREO8m4sN0lY4

Full Version: https://mega.nz/file/KWA2ASiJ#ygkVFuvAOfPd3GXSvovSknbVl1YkTw9rhTIV018uSyw
 
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