#srrbpb devlogs

Anyway I wanted to mention that currently I plan on recreating R/B MissingNo. as faithfully as I can for S/B. This ridiculously large sprite that gets culled from the screen, a manual implementation of the bag corruption, its main method of encounter (surfing the Cinnabar coast), etc. Though I'd like to try to avoid it actually corrupting things in an uncontrollable way, since that could cause unforeseeable problems with our modified code.

MissingNo. is one of my favourite quirks of Gen 1, but unfortunately, for compatibility with other ROMhacks, all 39 MissingNo. will be overwritten with their Gen 2 equivalents. (Also, MissingNo. would undoubtedly end up different anyway, due to quirks of how MissingNo. is effectively the result of predictable ACE, and that loses its predictability when you modify the ROM - see @porygondolier's video on that. But overwriting MissingNo. and removing it in its entirety just wouldn't feel right. This is Gen 1, you gotta have MissingNo.. Plus, having interacted with the internet, I know there are people who are really attached to MissingNo., and including one of the folks I follow here on Tumblr, and I don't want to let y'all down :)

on July 2nd I was 42% done

that's three percent in less than three weeks

I'm currently on pace to complete this in maybe, 15 months

One of the things I'm doing is bringing back some beta Gen 2 Pokémon through the Nippon region, which I think I've touched on before. However I don't think I previously noted that I've been coming up with names for a few of these beta Pokémon

For example, you likely know of Madaamu, the scrapped Gen 2 evolution of Farfetch'd that was eventually salvaged into Quagsire's palette and stats. I call it Madanatine, from mad, madame, and anatine.

There's also the scrapped split Evo for Weepinbell, Tsubomitto. It's based on baseball pitchers as a pun on "pitcher plant", so I've named it Basebell

One of the highlights of this hack I think is going to be the fact that we're messing around with Celadon Mansion. Firstly, we'll be adding B137F, which will house our in-universe romhacking workspace. It'll be dilapidated, the background music will consist solely of the droning of fluorescent lights, the only lighting will be from computer screens, and it'll be great lol

Also, in the Game Freak HQ, if you rummage through their trash bins, once a week (yes there will be days of the week in this obviously) you'll be able to obtain a OLD SCRAPS item from one of them. This item is pretty handy, since you'll be able to use it to evolve certain Pokémon into scrapped beta Pokémon. It'll also be used to evolve certain beta Pokémon as well. Basically, the idea is that these Pokémon are made of leftover bits and pieces of data, and they're missing the necessary data needed to evolve, so you have to help them along with the Old Scraps. Most of the beta Pokémon that will be included in SB will be from Johto, or more specifically, the Nippon Prefecture. With the help of a Porygon, you can enter a Game Freak HQ computer and be transported to an old backup of Spaceworld '97's prototype of Johto. The people of Nippon will be mildly aware of their situation, mostly because the unused "C" town from an early R/G prototype will be awkwardly grafted on, replacing Nippon's tiny Kanto, but they'll be mostly unfazed by their region's broken, corrupted existence. Throughout it you'll be able to find normal Johto Pokémon but also beta Pokémon. The rest of the beta Pokémon will probably just be available in the wild.

Here's a list of all of the beta Pokémon currently slated for inclusion:

Vulpiii (Mikon) - It was scrapped thrice, how could I not include it? If you evolve it into Ninetales and bring it to Alola, its eggs will hatch into Alolan Vulpiii

Madanatine (Madaamu

Kotora and Raitora - The Gen 2 version

the Cruize line

Burgela, Spaceworld Tangela, and Jungela

Moibelle and Belledam

Tsubomitto - To be named

Twinz and Spaceworld Girafarig

Norowara and Kyonpan

Remoround and Octopanzer - already sprited!

Rai, En, and Sui - The emaciated undead husks of the Pokémon that died at the Burned Tower.

Beta Cacturne - Will be an evolution for Cacturne

Gorochu - Won't be able to breed due to being a Gen 1 beta

If the player tries to ride their bike indoors enough times

OAK: Now isn't the time for that!

???: NAY

OAK: Wha-

???: NAY SAYETH I, ARCEUS

THE LORD OF ALL PEOPLE AND POKéMON...

OH, DON'T GROVEL. ONE THING I CAN'T STAND, 'TIS PEOPLE GROVELING

OAK: Sorry

ARCEUS: AND DON'T APOLOGISE. EVERY TIME I TRY TO TALK TO SOMEONE 'TIS "SORRY THIS" AND "FORGIVE ME THAT" AND "I'M NOT WORTHY"

WHAT ART THOU DOING NOW

OAK: I'm averting my eyes, O Lord

ARCEUS: WELL, DON'T. 'TIS LIKE THOSE MISERABLE PSALMS, THEY ART SO DEPRESSING. NOW, KNOCK IT OFF

OAK: Yes, Lord. What would you have me do instead?

ARCEUS: ...

LET

THE

CHOSEN

ONE

COOK

OAK: what

ARCEUS: I SAID WHAT I SAID

ALSO

OAK: what

ARCEUS: NEIGH SAYETH I

OAK: what

Arceus proceeds to neigh like a horse and gallop through the wall of Oak's laboratory

[PLAYER got the FIRE PLATE]

Hey y'all! In this devlog I'm going to talk about the world map.

According to the original canon of Pokémon detailed in An Illustrated Book of POCKET MONSTERS in 1996, Pokémon takes place in the real world. This is why Kanto is called Kanto. The Kanto region is literally Kanto Prefecture in Japan. This canon is the canon I will be using for S/B. Thus, Kanto is Kanto, Johto is Kansai, Hoenn is Kyushu turned 90 degrees anticlockwise (more on that in a moment), Sinnoh is Hokkaido, Unova is the New York metro area, Kalos is northern France, Alola is Hawaii, Galar is Great Britain (minus Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex for some reason), Paldea is Iberia with no acknowledgement of Portugal, et cetera et cetera.

So about the connections between regions. Kanto/Johto is easy and we've already begun work on adding Johto to the game because of this. Since this is 1996, we've decided that they haven't finished the connection between Route 26 and the new site of the Pokémon League yet, so there's a haphazardly dug tunnel called Argent Tunnel which connects to both Victory Roads, Route 28, and Route 26. Route 26 then connects to Route 27 and the Tojoh Falls (respelt to match the Japanese name), and then to Johto.

Kitakami will be north of Kanto, probably accessible via surfing, air travel, or a new route near Bill's cottage. Sinnoh will be accessible in much the same way from Kitakami. Unova will be accessible only via air travel due to it being isolated, with Blueberry Academy becoming accessible in the postpostpostgame. Kalos, Galar, and Paldea will be accessible from each other but only via flight from elsewhere. Alola will be in the same situation as Unova.

Hoenn is an interesting one because it's actually rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise from its real world counterpart. The idea Pory and I had is that, at some point maybe a couple thousand years ago or so, Groudon and Regigigas had a fight that resulted in Hoenn being knocked askew, resulting in its current orientation. We're planning on including remnants of ancient bridges in western Johto and northern Hoenn that would've connected them before Hoenn was rotated. There might be other hints to this too.