Category: hack updates

  • Star Beasts: Comet Version Released

    Hack of Pokémon Blue (GB)

    News of the latest major release of the Star Beasts hack is brought to us courtesy of our contributor YeOldeLoremonger (RHP), who designed the town layouts and gave feedback on the overworld and world map in the release.

    It is believed that Asteroid version will no longer be supported moving forward. Meteor version previously already had its support dropped.

    Project lead Soul Valor (RHDN) gives the following update via PokeCommunity forums. You can find the Github repo here.

    Worked on over the course of more than half a decade, Star Beasts is a Gen 1 total conversion and homage to the first generation of Pokémon games.

    Started as a passion project to make a playable version of Vast Fame’s Shi Kong Xing Shou for English speaking audiences, Star Beasts became its own project with entirely new fakemon designs and a new region.

    Star Beasts 3.0.: Comet Version features an entirely new Dex of Fakemon and a mostly new region (Relas) with a focus on exploration.

    Some of the new features are as follows:

    • A completely overhauled soundtrack! Almost none of the music from the original games remains!
    • An overhauled Pokedex, complete with backsprites, that fixes balance issues and replaces uglier designs and makes older evolutionary families more consistent.
    • Even more overhauled movesets, with even more new moves!
    • The Fairy, Steel and Dark types!
    • A new region, Relas!
    • New types of trainers with different rosters and improved AI!
    • More dialogue and areas than the original games!
    • Rebalancing of the game to make it more accessible to newcomers, including plenty of NPCs that give you hints on where to find rare Star Beasts! And, as if that weren’t enough, there’s documentation on every Beast! (Although the game is best experienced blind, use your discretion!)
    • Various quality of life improvements, such as an experience bar!

    So, what do you think? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.

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  • Making “FFV: Whirlwind” Eligible for Archipelago Integration

    In this devlog, clymax documents the changes to the Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind mod to make it Archipelago-eligible under current policies. You can follow clymax’s projects via FFVC or YouTube.

    Fan-Translation Removal

    Before: character dialogue

    After:

    Before: store dialogue

    After:

    Before: in-store dialogue

    After:

    Before: battle dialogue

    After:

    Before: ending poem

    After:

    Elements Left Intact

    Map Names

    Shop Names

    Item Names

    Menu Elements

    Character Names

    Character Attributes

    Abilities

    Actions

    Enemy Names

    Enemy Actions

    Battle Messages

    Ability Descriptions

    Item Descriptions

    Stats from Mr. Clio

    Remaining Work

    A set of character and NPC interactions at minimum still need to be checked and debugged to make sure they still function properly following the script removals.

    Examples include recruiting characters such as Lenna and Faris, engaging summons such as Shiva, Ifrit, Carbuncle, and Leviathan, and engaging bosses, the thirteen demons of the Rift, and the three superbosses (Omega, Shinryu, and Gogo).

    However, with the changes noted in this post, the fan-translated script of the game should no longer be embedded in any patch of the Archipelago-oriented build of the mod.

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  • Comprehensive ATB Enhancement for FFVII

    The Comprehensive Active Time Battle (ATB) Enhancement mod for Final Fantasy VII (PSX) now has a release candidate available courtesy of RoSoDude.

    Players who wish to playtest the release candidate are invited to stop by our Discord.

    An announcement will be made when the mod is formally released.

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  • FFVI Reimagined

    The Final Fantasy VI Reimagined mod has been updated to v1.5 from v1.0 courtesy of DrakeyC.

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