PMD ROM Hacking Weekly - October 10th, 2021
Table of Contents
- Explorers ROM Hacking News
- Rescue Team Hacking News
- Rescue Team DX Hacking News
- Editor's Notes
⮝ Explorers ROM Hacking News
⮝ New hack showcase !
The new SkyTemple Hack showcase was shared on youtube Friday at 16 UTC. This features, in additiona of the new and on-progress hack since the last showcase, the announcement of the theme of the (and the beginning) of the new hack-jam, as well as the announcement of DreamNexus, an editor for 3D PMD Games.
featured rom-hacks are :
- Explorers of Reality (showcase, full trailer)
- Explorers Retold (showcase)
- Explorers of the Unknown (showcase)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Abridged (showcase, only trailer)
- PMD Chip 2: Apple Alliance (showcase, only trailer)
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Hell (showcase, full trailer)
- PMD: Burned Soil (showcase, only trailer)
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Alpha (showcase)
- PMD: Distant Connection (showcase, only trailer)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Spirit (showcase, only trailer)
- PMD: Sun Town's Secrets (showcase, only trailer)
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Death (showcase)
⮝ Beggining of the Second SkyTemple Hack Jam !
The theme and gimmick was announced, with a wonderful video presentation made by Adex.
By CapyPara in the SkyTemple Discord server
Hey!
This channel is for submissions for the hack jam.
Deadline is 30 octobre 2021 18:00.
Submissions rules:
- Only submit when you are done. Do not make any changes after submitting.
- Submissions must contain one XDelta patch for the clean US ROM (not 'Xenophobia'!) or clean EU ROM and must state for which region they are.
- Submissions must have a short description of what the hack is about.
- Submissions must either have one video showcasing the hack or three screenshots.
- Submissions must contain Discord mentions for all people that worked on the hack.
- Each person can only submit one hack.
General Jam rules:
- NEW: The game should be completable in max. roughly 1h 30min by average players. The Jury reserves the right to not play your game longer than 2 hours and will penalize it if this is the case.
- The topic of the jam is Ghosts and Spirits. We need to see this interpreted in your game somehow.
- The gimmick of this jam is Have a map background not present in the base game. You should really try to include this in your game.
- There are multiple categories your hack can receive awards for (see below).
- A team of volunteers judges the hacks for each category.
- Hacks must be first submitted for the jam / made for it.
- There is no minimum length, but it must be playable, meaning by selecting "New Game" it starts.
- The games must be in English.
Award categories:
- Best Hack
- Best Use of Topic
- Best Use of Gimmick
- Best Gameplay
- Best Narrative
- Best Single Cutscene
- Best Dungeon Design
- Best Custom Graphics
- Most Unique / Creative
- Most Technically Impressive
Prize:
Each award is worth 30GP; "Best Hack" is worth 60GP.
posted later
Heyo! We updated the jam rules and added one new rule:
- A content warning must be included for any hacks that contain sensitive subject matter. All submissions must still comply with the rules of the SkyTemple server
⮝ New WIP hack: PMD: Sun Town's Secrets
By Pazkallan
Treasure Town seems like a nice place, doesn't it? But, there is always a seedy underbelly in such a prosperous location; seeing as an influx of new pokemon unseen to the region is steadily trickling in, some might take advantage of the confusion. How could they possibly?
Well, a certain few start spreading the word of their prophet... a prophet that will save them all from an impending destruction unlike even the time crisis they had faced before. It would just require a few sacrifices... yes... just a few. Heheh...
⮝ Explorers of Alpha now have a Twitter account
By Mond
Oops haha I had to inaugurate Alpha's twitter 🙈
https://twitter.com/EoAlpha_off/status/1446515474162925572?s=20
⮝ Explorers Retold Chapter 17 published !
⮝ New Community Assets
⮝ Emuffin shared an initial version of her guide for making custom sprites !
hey yall!! i finished up my guide to making sprites if any of yall are interested. let me know if i should make any changes/clarify anything (i'll post it to sprite-resources when i feel like it's done hehe)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cuDMUz4fI1pAoS7Pp_VzlKmbx0u0C34SfJ3F6Gczt6Q/edit?usp=sharing
⮝ Pokemon
Animated sprites in this section are animated PNG files. If animated sprites appear to be static images, make sure that your browser supports PNG animation. (Most modern browsers should display them just fine, though.)
Charizard Altcolor by Murpi
Sprite Added
Dewott by baronessfaron
Portrait Added
Eevee Gigantamax Shiny by Murpi
Portrait Added
Hattrem by baronessfaron
Sprite Added
Kecleon Purple by CHUNSOFT
Sprite Changed
Kecleon Purple Shiny by Murpi
Sprite Changed
Lapras Shiny by Murpi
Portrait Changed
Lapras Gigantamax Shiny by Murpi
Portrait Added
Machoke Altcolor by Murpi
Sprite Added
Marowak Alola Shiny by Emmuffin
Sprite Added
Mewtwo Mega_Y by someone with the discord id ANONYMOUS_0000
Portrait Changed
Pancham Shiny by Emmuffin
Portrait Added
Phantump by someone with the discord id <@!218959749276893184>
Portrait Added
Sandslash by Emmuffin
Sprite Added
Smeargle Altcolor by Murpi
Sprite Added
Snivy Shiny by Emmuffin
Sprite Added
Umbreon Altcolor by Murpi
Portrait Changed
Volcarona by powercristal
Sprite Added
Yamask by Emmuffin
Portrait Added
Yamask Shiny by Emmuffin
Portrait Added
Zigzagoon Galar by DasK
Portrait Added
⮝ SkyTemple
⮝ Skytemple 1.3.2
By Capypara on the SkyTemple Discord server
New Features:
- Edit animation property tables (thanks to irdkwia; #345)
Improvements:
- You can now draw filled rectangles instead of just single tiles in the map background editor (thanks to irdkwia; #340)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed and improved saving and reloading behaviour, in particular after applying patches; also fixing a bug that rendered SkyTemple basically unusable after applying patches (#337)
Download: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/4193-skytemple-pmd2-rom-editor/
⮝ New Features
- Commited by Irdkwia (backend, frontend) (in 1.3.2): Add support for editing animation tables + Fix ExpandPokeList
- Adds Handler/Model/Writer for file "BALANCE/anim.bin" created by the patch ExtractAnimData.
- Fixes move animation related stuff with ExpandPokeList.
⮝ Changes
- Commited by Irdkwia (in 1.3.2): Rectangle draw option for background maps + dimension fix
⮝ Rescue Team Hacking News
⮝ RRT Decompilation progress
- Commited by AnonymousRandomPerson: Added move data JSON
- Commited by FieryMewtwo: Update Luminous Cave text to use more descriptive labels
- Commited by AnonymousRandomPerson: Extracted species/item/move strings
⮝ Rescue Team DX Hacking News
⮝ DreamNexus, the new hacking tools
I will add a section about DreamNexus separate from Explorers hacking, in a similar way to the current SkyTemple section
This new ROM Editor for Rescue Team DX with the eventual goal to support 3DS games has been shared during the new hack showcase ! This is a work done by techticks, based on SkyEditor by evandixon.
trailer :
The app's website who link to the Discord server.
The 0.1.0 announcement, made ahead of the release
DreamNexus 0.1.0 has been released!
This is the initial release of DreamNexus! This version allows you to edit Pokémon stats, dungeons, scripts, items, moves and more. Note that while support for PSMD is planned, this version can only edit Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX!
Known problems
- The "Build and send ROM files to Switch console" feature is currently very slow. Depending on your project, it might be faster to build to a directory and manually copy the files to your Switch. (#53)
- Some lists like the wild Pokémon spawns in dungeon floors don't update correctly when entries are added or deleted. You can work around this issue by re-opening the view in the list on the left.
- The prompt to save unsaved changes when closing the app is sometimes displayed although no changes have been made.
Download links: https://github.com/tech-ticks/SkyEditor.RomEditor.Rtdx/releases/tag/0.1.0
And the 0.1.1, released after the announcement
DreamNexus 0.1.1 has been released
This release fixes an issue on Windows which caused a command line window to pop up every 8 seconds, freezing DreamNexus (yes, seriously)
Download: https://github.com/tech-ticks/SkyEditor.RomEditor.Rtdx/releases/tag/0.1.1 This software is in an early Alpha state, so please make backups of your projects and report bugs in our Discord or on GitHub. Moreover, the Mac version is currently considered experimental. Please let us know if the app doesn't start on your machine.
Here are some screenshots :
(my custom dark theme play badly with code here...)
⮝ Editor's Notes
Did I miss anything? Feel free to open a github issue, contact me on Discord at marius851000#2522, send me an email at mariusdavid@laposte.net, on reddit to u/marius851000 or send me a message from an ActivityPub-compatible service (Mastodon) at marius851000@framapiaf.org.
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Written and formatted by marius851000#2522.