Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade VS porymap

I came across Skeli789's Complete FireRed Upgrade hack and really just wanted to play the base hack without any additional modifications. The instructions seemed straightforward enough, but I really didn't want to have to install additional software for a one-time use, and I wasn’t really sure how to set up the offsets or if I even needed to. I really just wanted to be able to run a simple script, create the rom, and play! So I set out to make compiling just the base hack itself simple for me and everyone else!

Do you think HMA would work with a rom that's been patched with the Complete Fire Red Upgrade that was used to make Pokemon Unbound?

Definitely definitely look at doing your project as a decomp using pokefirered or The Complete Fire Red Upgrade.

The Battle engine is custom. Should use Gen VIII movesets though.

But the "Dray Hacks" From the ROM hack author Drayano (the author behind Storm Silver, Sacred Gold and others) seem to work with Pokélink absolutely fine. Unlike ROM hacks like Pokémon Unbound and Radical Red for example. Reason: Adding support for new games/ROM hacks and/or new main-series titles requires a lot of time and effort. (We're talking many months, full time - for example) I can go deeper into this if you want, but hopefully this explains enough for now :stuck_out_tongue: This is due to the fact that Drayano rom hacks changes aspects (such as story-line, IVs and EVs) things within the game - but doesn't change how the game stores data in memory when playing through the game! As opposed to how ROM hacks such as Radical Red change where the data for the game, is stored in memory during game-play. (If you want a deep-dive, these two Rom Hacks use a modification for Fire red called CFRU https://github.com/Skeli789/Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade which changes a lot in game)

I'm guessing you're talking about this romhack based on a decomp project? https://github.com/Skeli789/Complete-Fire-Red-Upgrade

CFRU's AI and quality of life

There is also the CFRU (Unboud and Radical Red are made with it). It is C code that is injected into the fire red rom and edited with normal binary tools.

If you don't want to code, Porymap is an incredible tool for making custom maps and changing Pokemon encounters.

Seems doable, yeah, especially if you have at least basic C knowledge. If you get the build tools set up, there's already some follower code available, so you wouldn't even have to re-engineer that yourself. And PoryMap can probably handle a lot of the basic edits you want to make.

You can look at the pokeemerald decomp. Instead of using binary tools like Adcance Map and HMA you are editing the source code with a simple text editor and porymap. The pokeemerald has everything up to gen8 (mons, moves, abilities). An example hack that was made with the decomp is Inclement Emerald.

Porymap is the best gen 3 map editor tool, but like the other replies imply it's for decomp hacking only.

decomp has an equivalent to advance map called porymap. it's really not all that different to use. i checked your post history and you mention having trouble with adding new tiles in advance map, i can say from personal experience that adding new tiles in porymap is very easy.

the other option i can think of is the pokemon emerald decomp. you would have to learn a bit to get a decomp working, then use pokeemerald-expansion's pokemon_expansion branch as a base. once you have that decomp set up you could just use porymap to change wild pokemon locations and make those pokemon available in the wild.

porymap!