Completed Pokemon Radiant Topaz (v1.0.0)

Overview
Welcome to Aurore! In this new Pokemon region, you'll explore something never seen before: a vanilla-style game! Play through a classic Pokemon adventure where you'll catch Pokemon, collect eight gym badges, defeated the evil Team Nox, and become the Pokemon League Champion! Radiant Topaz is a Completed Pokémon Essentials v20.1 fangame, designed to include modern features from the community in a short and simple game. With just over 15 hours of content, speed-up functionality, and plenty of novel features to customize your team, it's a fun adventure that you can replay whenever you get the itch to play Pokemon.

Plot
You play as a young trainer starting their journey to the Pokemon League, with a mysterious past and a surprising amount of experience. After choosing and catching your first pair of starters, you quickly meet Team Nox, an evil organization spreading Shadow Pokemon across the Aurore region. Inspired by Pokemon XD, you'll get to experience peak 2005-era edginess. You'll snag and purify Shadow Pokemon while trying to figure out their connection to the Mega Evolution phenomena. Team up with Prof. Oak, this region's Prof. Ginkgo, and the greatest trainer of all time Miror B. to stop them, while completing your gym challenge and making your way to the Pokemon League.

Features
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• A world of Double Battles Based on Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD, nearly every battle in Radiant Topaz is a double battle. Play through a world that forces you to build a more dynamic team.
• Shadow Pokemon Battle and snag Shadow Pokemon from other trainers, Pokemon with their hearts' sealed to give them type advantage against everything else at the cost of their ability to level up. Experience a greater challenge as you battle against Team Nox, who've figured out how to Mega Evolve their Shadow Pokemon to create a challenging gauntlet.
• Level Lowerer Ok I'm going to be honest with you, this is 90% of the reason why I made my own Pokemon game. Radiant Topaz allows you to lower your Pokemon's level whenever you like. No cost, no item needed, just lower that level. If you're tired of Pokemon becoming a "Press A" simulator in the late-game, this is for you! There are also level caps, which can help keep things challenging, but this lets you adjust the difficulty curve whenever you need to.
• BST Changer Towards the end of the game, you can find some side content that unlocks a way to change your Pokemon's Base Stat Total! If you've ever wanted a Sunkern with the stats of a pseudo-legendary, this is the game for you.
• Permanent Megas Actual spoilers!
  Spoiler

  Once your Mega Evolution-capable Pokemon reaches level 80, it will permanently evolve into its mega form. As its own species, it will have a unique name and no longer require a mega stone, allowing you to have a full team of overpowered Pokemon.
• Community Fakemon I've tried to include as many Fakemon from the community as I could. If it has full sprites available, and if I found it in my random searching, I've tried to include it here.
• Custom Pokemon There are also completely original Fakemon I made myself! They're... functional! Their sprites are pretty rough, but I hope they help you build interesting new teams. I tried to focus on using previously-unseen type combos, and making less common combos, abilities, and evolution methods more available. I started working on this in 2022, so some of these were already made redundant by Scarlet/Violet...
• Overworld Pokemon You'll see Pokemon wandering the overworld as you explore Aurore! They'll spawn in grass, caves, on the water, everywhere you'd expect them in a modern Pokemon game. This will help you spot those tricky roaming legendaries, and your lead Pokemon will keep you company!
• Encounter Density The other main reason I made my own Pokemon game, I like to play with a different team every time. I have done my best to make every route in this game as unique as possible. Expect at least a dozen encounters on each, and you'll almost never see those Pokemon again later on. Between wild encounters and snagging Shadow Pokemon, every normal Pokemon in the game is available (as of the Teal Mask). The only ones missing are most of the legendaries, though I tried to cram in as many of those as I could. You'll also get chances to use rare Pokemon before the late-game, including Ultra Beasts, Hisuian Forms, and even some legendaries.
• Boring mechanics removed I'm not saying they're bad, but I personally don't enjoy some of these mechanics. You won't need any HMs besides Surf (Fly is available!), you don't have to use any fishing rods, and items in the overworld aren't invisible.
• Accessible Evolutions Every Pokemon can evolve in this game! You don't need to trade Pokemon, evolutionary stones are plentiful, and you can get Paradox Pokemon through a new pair of stones.

Screenshots

Download
Download Radiant Topaz here

Status
Pokemon Radiant Topaz is Complete! I'm not going to be adding any additional features, though I'll do my best to fix any game-breaking bugs that are discovered.

Credits
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Spoiler

Pokémon Essentials, version 20.1
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
Roza
Based on "mkxp" by Ancurio et al.

RPG Maker XP
Enterbrain

Pokémon
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!

Generation 8 Pack for Essentials v20.1
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+ Berry Tree Overworlds - Anarlaurendil
Gen 6 Pokemon Overworlds - princess-pheonix, LunarDusk, Wolfang62, TintjeMadelintje101, piphybuilder88
Gen 7 Pokemon Overworlds - Larry Turbo, princess-pheonix
Gen 8 Pokemon Overworlds - SageDeoxys, Wolfang62, LarryTurbo, tammyclaydon
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, LarryTurbo

Icon Sprites
Gen 1-6 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Alaguesia, harveydentmd
Gen 7 Pokemon Icon Sprites - Marin, MapleBranchWing, Contributors to the DS Styled Gen 7+ Repository
Gen 8 Icon Sprites - Larry Turbo, Leparagon
Shiny Icon Sprites - StarrWolf, Pokemon Shattered Light Team

Cry Credits
Gen 1-6 Pokemon Cries - Rhyden
Gen 7 Pokemon Cries - Marin, Rhyden
Gen 8 Pokemon Cries - Zeak6464

Script Credits
Golisopod User, Luka S.J.

Compilation of Resources
Golisopod User, UberDunsparce

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Expansion (for Gen 8 Project in v19.1)
PorousMist, StCooler, curryofthepast

Following Pokemon EX
Golisopod User, Help-14, zingzags, Rayd12smitty, Venom12, mej71, PurpleZaffre, Akizakura16, Thundaga, Armin (Fairies Resource Pack), Maruno

Character Customization Resources (Gen 4)
Coffee Cup/ Poltergeist

New DexNav
Phantombass: the majority of the fixes to this script,suzerain: backbone for New DexNav,NuriYuri and the developers of SimpleEncounterUI

Hisui Pokemon Back Sprites 64x64
POKEMON QUETZAL TEAM, PKMNTrainerRick

EVs and IVs in Summary v20
Deoxysprime, SoulfulLex for Compatibility for v20

Safi'jiiva, Xeno'jiiva from Monster Hunter: World
© Capcom

Chain Chomp from 3DS - Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
© Nintendo
Sprites provided by Ploaj

Mega Evolution names taken from Reddit

View: https://old.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/3eo4xb/what_would_you_call_the_mega_evolutions_if_they/

u/Ncrawler65, u/Dusknoir_Don, u/JebusJChrist, u/treacledormouse, u/joescool, u/strider_moon, u/Anonymous--Rex, u/Crim_drakenya, u/Silverriolu295

Gen 4 HGSS Tileset
Akizakura16

Tileset
LotusKing

MissingNo. Backsprites
Ghost-MissingNo

MissingNo Overworld Sprites
Manik-Needlemouse

Speed Up 2.0
Marin, phantombass

Hisuian Braviary (front sprite)
Srto.Totodile

Mega Evolution Overworld Sprites
Kidkatt, Larryturbo, Princess-Phoenix

Dhelmise pre-evolution (Sealure)
Asto/Astefia

Roaming Icon on Map
FL

Roaming Icon on Map Sample images
Grand Emperor of Zelron, WolfPP

Nickname from the party
TechSkylander1518

Relearning moves from party menu
IndianAnimator, eriedaberrie#1569, Kotaro

Customizable Level Caps
Phantombass

All New HD Sprite Icons for Scarlet/Violet
u/Abyzab

Generation 9 Resource Pack
Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA
Caruban
Lucidious89
Eskiss (Legend Plate script based on)

PBS for Gen 9
Caruban
Lucidious89
PorousMist (Updated the abilities, items, and moves description)
Futuresushi (Shortened abilities and moves description)

Pokemon Gen 9 Battler Sprites
KingOfThe X Roads, Mak, Caruban, jinxed, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Azria, Mashirosakura,
JordanosArt, Abnayami, OldSoulja, Katten, Divaruta 666, Clara, Skyflyer, AshnixsLaw

Pokemon Gen 9 icons
ezerart, JordanosArt

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers
Azria, DarkusShadow, EduarPokeN, Carmanekko, StarWolff, Caruban

Pokemon PLA and Gen 9 Footprints
Caruban

Pokemon Gen 9 Cries
Edited from Lightblade Absol's Gen 9 Cries compilation video
Edited from HeroLinik's Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Walking Wake and Iron Leaves Cries video
Edited from HeroLinik's Pokemon Scarlet and Violet All Teal Mask Cries 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, Sandwich, Herba Mysticas)
Caruban (Punching Glove, Auspicious Armor, Malicious Armor, Ability Shield, Clear Amulet, Covert Cloak, Scarlet&Violet Book, Mochis, Teacups, Ogerpon Masks)
jinxed (Syrupy Apple and Fairy Feather)

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

PLA Followers
Boonzeet, DarkusShadow, princess phoenix, Ezeart, WolfPP

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project
Blaquaza, KingOfThe X Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite, and SelenaArmorclaw

Vanilla Style Version
Pokémon sprites
KingOfThe X Roads, Mak, Caruban, jinxed, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Azria, Mashirosakura, JordanosArt, Scept, NanaelJustice, SoyChim, KRLW890, AnonAlpaca, PokeJminer, Red7246, Carmanekko, Eduar, Lykeron, GriloKapu10, Mesayas, Erkey830, QDylm, PorousMist, OldSoulja, AlexandreV2.0, Z nogyroP, lennybitao, Ruben1986, GRAFAIAIMX
Blaquaza, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, Hematite

Gen 9 Icons
Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass, AlexandreV2.0, Carmanekko, GRAFAIAIMX
also thanks to Axel Loquendo, CarmaNekko, Divaruta 666, Okyo, JLauz735, and ClaraDragon for Iconos 9na Gen gba completos

PLA Icons
LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 Teracristalizando

Full Sprites Credit List

View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T
KC 4XDOeFKq0Z6tfN6Sz4JIlpaK7B8A0lbmBg9fNY

Essentials Deluxe for v20.1
Lucidious89

ZUD Plugin for v20.1
Lucidious89

Visible Overworld Wild Encounters Version 20.0.0.2 for PEv20
derFischae

Eeveelution Fusions
StarWolff

Gen 4 and 5 Trainer sprites and PBS
Mr. Gela, theo#7722, Moliblazer

ALL Official Gen 4 Overworld Sprites/Gen 4 OW Sprites
Neo-Spriteman, Vanilla Sunshine, PurpleZaffre & Maicerochico, AtomicReactor

Pokemon Gen 5 Characters in Gen 4 OW style
DiegoWT

Evil Team Pokeballs
Spring

Earthretha Fakemon Pack
NanaelJustice, leParagon, LunaMaddalena

Fakemon Festival Pack
NocTurn, Jess Jackdaw, Travis, WolfPP, AnonAlpaca

HGSS Terrain Balls
Turner#1940

Gen 3 Palm Trees
ThePurplest

Modern Quest System + UI
ThatWelshOne_, mej71, derFischae, Marin

Ancient/Hisui starters
StarWolff

Voltseon's Trainer Generator
Voltseon

Auto Color Shadow Pokemon
Pokemetel

Miror B. Trainer Sprite
hyperreese

Miror B. Overworld Sprite from Miror. B's Army
RedSmeargle

Midnight Motorist
LowEffort

Individual Egg Sprites
Reborn & Rejuvenation Developer Teams, Appletun

Custom Egg sprites for all species up to gen 8
Reborn & Rejuvenation Developer Teams, Appletun's Apples, LMicolash

Shadow Lugia sprites for fangames
Shadowgate31

Adjustable Dark Circle
mej71

Screen's Updated Mining Resources
Screen Lady

Advanced Items Field Moves
Bergium, TechSkylander1518, Moyo, Marin

Parasect, Luxray reworks
Zen Mode

https://www.youtube.com/@ZenModeYT

Giant Map Pack
Johto Blaziken

Platinum Looker Overworld Sprites (Ripped)
maicerochico

Sunnydra
KajiAtsui, Astefia

ENLS’s Pre-Looped Music Library
ENLS

The Mega Stone Resource
sauce

Alola Gladion Overworld Sprite (Gen IV Style)
Lime029

Evil Team Grunts Trainer Sprites
RBRNNova

Evil Team Admin Trainer Sprite
RBRBNNova

Changelog
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Spoiler

10/27/2023 v1.0.0 Release
- First major release!

 

[Enjoyluck]

Hello there game does not start in name creation because it keeps on asking yourname and loops.

 

[ShiroSky]

Love the game so far. Love the double battles(and random triple battles as well) and the start was great especially since I could get some of my favorite pokemon right away. Is there a list on new pokemon/forms and how to evolve them? (Haven't gotten too far because I'm trying to see every encounter in each grass field and currently love using golrat)

 

[Cleveland]

First things first, I'm loving to play this game. But I have a question, you mentioned that the only ones missing are most of the legendaries, but they are all in the game right? On the post game or something like that?

 

[LilMissCodeMonkey02]

Hello there game does not start in name creation because it keeps on asking yourname and loops.

Hm, if you're not getting past the name input then it sounds like your controls might be messed up. If you press F1, you can see what's currently bound. Make sure you're pressing your Use button (default C), not Back (default X).

Love the game so far. Love the double battles(and random triple battles as well) and the start was great especially since I could get some of my favorite pokemon right away. Is there a list on new pokemon/forms and how to evolve them? (Haven't gotten too far because I'm trying to see every encounter in each grass field and currently love using golrat)

No, unfortunately. I'd love to make something like this, but I just don't have time. All new Pokemon and forms can either be encountered in the wild, or the method is hinted at by someone in the game. If there's anything anyone's struggling to find, you can always ask and I'll answer in a spoiler tag!

First things first, I'm loving to play this game. But I have a question, you mentioned that the only ones missing are most of the legendaries, but they are all in the game right? On the post game or something like that?

No, there are some legendary Pokemon that aren't obtainable in the game at all. They exist in the code, but there's no way to get them without cheating. I tried to include as many legendaries as possible, most of which are available post-game, but eventually I ran out of places I could put them.

 

[BlueCat]

is it possible to get a wiki or pbs files for stuff like changes, encounters etc(wiki if possible)?

 

[gunkgoober]

Did i miss getting the mega ring becuase i just got the shiny gyarados from ginkos house and it has a mega stone but cant mega evolve

 

[Cleveland]

Hm, if you're not getting past the name input then it sounds like your controls might be messed up. If you press F1, you can see what's currently bound. Make sure you're pressing your Use button (default C), not Back (default X).


No, unfortunately. I'd love to make something like this, but I just don't have time. All new Pokemon and forms can either be encountered in the wild, or the method is hinted at by someone in the game. If there's anything anyone's struggling to find, you can always ask and I'll answer in a spoiler tag!


No, there are some legendary Pokemon that aren't obtainable in the game at all. They exist in the code, but there's no way to get them without cheating. I tried to include as many legendaries as possible, most of which are available post-game, but eventually I ran out of places I could put them.

Understood. May I suggest something? You could add them as mystery gift, or to enter a code key and receive them, like the official games.

 

[Saslen]

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to evolve Bisharp into Kingambit. I've tried having it hold the Leader's Crest while fighting alongside a Pawniard; while fighting alongside a Bisharp; while battling against Pawniards; while battling against Pawniards alongside a Bisharp. None of it succeeded. May I ask how it's supposed to work?

Edit: Additionally, I couldn't evolve Slowpoke into Slowking. Linking Cord + King's Rock held item doesn't do anything, and trying to evolve by level up while holding it just leads to a Slowbro. Am I just missing something? Figured it out. I think the issue was that my Slowpoke was just too high a level. Bred one and it evolved just fine, since its level was far below the Slowbro evolution point.

 

[suave509]

Game loads fine but right after I pick my starter and go into the grass and get a random encounter it just freezes and doesn't move. I'm playing on joiplay I've tried different plug ins and they all do the same plz help!!

 

[rainbowbridge]

@ShiroSky what starter (first one) is best offensively? i tend to go for all-out attack.

 

[cuteypup1000]

so I'm doing a POC (professor oak challenge) and to do it correctly, i need a locations list and (more importantly) evo changes like how gimmigoul and the walking evos from gen 9 change for example; can u help? Theres nothing in the documentation

 

[Pikachu31]

How do I purify Shadow Pokemon? I really love this game.

 

[Yuki-onna]

How many Pokemon are in this game?

 

[DemonicWolf]

The dexnav doesnt update in the safari zone. Havent check anywhere else yet. Caught both slugma and trumbeak in the safari and its still greyed out.

 

[Swordkun]

Will you add the rest of the legendaries?

 

[Swordkun]

Can you just add them via a mystery gift giver? I really want all legendaries in the game.

Hm, if you're not getting past the name input then it sounds like your controls might be messed up. If you press F1, you can see what's currently bound. Make sure you're pressing your Use button (default C), not Back (default X).


No, unfortunately. I'd love to make something like this, but I just don't have time. All new Pokemon and forms can either be encountered in the wild, or the method is hinted at by someone in the game. If there's anything anyone's struggling to find, you can always ask and I'll answer in a spoiler tag!


No, there are some legendary Pokemon that aren't obtainable in the game at all. They exist in the code, but there's no way to get them without cheating. I tried to include as many legendaries as possible, most of which are available post-game, but eventually I ran out of places I could put them.

 

[SomebodyRandom]

Got frigibax in the beginning, immediately clicked relearn moves, and...

 

[jeacky]

i found tandemaus and there was an npc who told me something about them and an evolution but what did they say again or where do i find them.

 

[floodryan123]

can you give out the pbs files?