FireRed hack: Pokémon Gaia Version

[floodryan123]

Anyone know if there is a version of this hack that disables EVs? Don't think it's fair to have them if the AI doesn't.

 

[kalarie]

@Shammok

marcc5m is right about creators not owing anything to the players of their game. All hacks on Pokecommunity are fan projects made in a creators' spare time. If real life comes in the way for whatever reason or they lose interest for whatever reason, they should care about their well-being. That is more important than finishing a game they make in their spare time for free. It's nice if a creator shares progress once in a while (which Spherical Ice actually does: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10394409#post10394409). But I want to make clear that, due to the voluntary nature of creating a ROM hack, a creator does not have any responsibily in finishing his/her game whatsoever.

Also, respectful and the words you mention don't really come along. The guy just said he is a fan who is waiting for a new release and means people should be more patient? Nothing wrong about that if you ask me? Certainly no reason to swear or put him/her into place.

 

[Marky Vigoroth]

I am grateful that you are still working on V4.
I am also surprised that you managed to make distinctive-looking designs despite their inspirations.

 

[Trotter]

...Can I request a Rowlett starter :D

 

[GamerGrant]

Any chance v4 of Gaia will get the option of a Gen 6+ Exp Share?

 

[Mason Shu]

...Can I request a Rowlett starter :D

From what I know, there's only up to gen6

 

[SkyborneScout]

Do enemy trainers have held items and EV'd up Pokemon? And is there any documentation on the moves their Pokemon know?

 

[Takeshi97]

I'll be always cheating by playing the romhacks

 

[Takeshi97]

Can't wait for the Pokemon Gaia v4 and Spherical Ice will be using the CFRU and CFRU romhacks are cheatable!!

 

[Takeshi97]

That's so awesome!!

 

[Takeshi97]

Hey, @Spherical Ice, if the Gaia romhack of yours will be using the CFRU, then i also can use the cheat codes, which will be perfectly fine working on the CFRU romhacks!! It'll be so awesomely and surprisingly amazing!! I'll be hoping for a way to cheat in the decomp Pokemon Emerald!! Btw, it's impossible, even though, if they're used and created by python!!

 

[LaL_Arkham]

So, I have no clue if anyone else has ran into this issue with Gaia, but I quite literally cannot get a nature aside from modest anymore. I have caught nearly 14 modest Scyther and 4 modest Garchomps. And the nature cheats don't work. What do I do-?

 

[ChloeJessica]

just finished playing the hack, wanted to give my thoughts.

overall, a very enjoyable experience. it felt like a mainline Pokémon game through and through. the writing was on point, and i loved the NPC dialogue. i liked that there was a huge variety of Pokémon to catch; it made me want to go out of my way to see what was available in each new area. i caught more Pokémon in my journey through Gaia than i have in any main series game. the distribution of items as well as the level curve were both done very well and made the game an enjoyable experience. i was able to keep a team of six right with the curve all the way through the game without having to grind.

one of my favorite parts of the game came pretty early on: i liked the characterization of Eunice; she seemed like a genuinely good person who happened to be your enemy. i hope you're planning to do more with the Knights in the postgame; i would like to see what becomes of them.

my team that i used throughout the game was: Torterra, Crobat, Chandelure, Slowking, Weavile, and Goodra.

 

[Mason Shu]

Hey, @Spherical Ice, if the Gaia romhack of yours will be using the CFRU, then i also can use the cheat codes, which will be perfectly fine working on the CFRU romhacks!! It'll be so awesomely and surprisingly amazing!! I'll be hoping for a way to cheat in the decomp Pokemon Emerald!! Btw, it's impossible, even though, if they're used and created by python!!

No it's using decomp not cfru
So you wont be able to cheat

 

[Takeshi97]

It's possible to use the codebreaker and gameshark cheat codes of the Pokemon FireRed on the decomp pokefirered

 

[Yave Yu]

I will try this hack, extremely nice on this hack did decrytion of Pokemon and Bag data so I can modify my Pokemon to six 31 IVs and suitable nature (and may change ability if it has two). However I have two complains:
Opening bag is too slow! Might be the bag was expanded to so many slots? (This is same as Pokemon Sors).
Seems it doesn't have auto-HM? So I need to prepare a "traffic" Pokemon now, I don't like this :(

 

[The_Dragon_Veteran]

very interesting, the features are very simple and very detailed
this one goes straight to my list
great job

 

[marcc5m]

Had a notification on my rare log in here that someone had replied to a 3 year old comment from me but their reply got deleted for being disrespectful haha that's wild no idea what it was

Cool to see this is still being worked on was always one of my favs

 

[Cressonline]

Is it possible to translate just the names of the Pokemon and the attacks by myself? I started to play the game but I would rather see the names in German than in English :D Maybe I just need a tool or something like that but I have no idea.

 

[Zygarde-Crowned]

Now, this was a very good hack, and I mean, very very good hack back in 2018 when released. I completed it a grand total of three times this year, twice in February and once in late August. And it's still good, no lie. After all, the final part of the story is quite simply fascinating; I was astonished by the events after taking the last badge. I even enjoyed playing it so much in my earlier runs.

But, in my opinion, upon playing several CFRU hacks (i.e. Unbound or Radical Red), this hack unfortunately lost its charm. Maybe for those of you that start playing romhacks and those of you who used to play them and want to restart them, this is worth a shot, that's no lie. And you will love it, that's no lie as well.

I will list my issues with this hack. I repeat: this hack is not bad; it's good even, but because it's not been updated for three years (!) it has unfortunately fallen behind the times.

• Poisoned Pokémon faints at 0 HP; this should be modified as either the poison status being lifted at 1 HP (à la Generation 4) or not taking any damage at all while poisoned in the overworld (à la Generation 5 and onwards)
• 50 TMs are too low; although there are move tutors to teach 40 more different moves to Pokémon, 50 TMs are not enough; this should be increased to at least 100
• HM slaves should not be mandatory; I want to use an overworld HM move without having to teach them. This is not necessary; because of two of my playthroughs I used Technician Scizor with Cut (Bug-type move with 60 BP); this was insane
• Several moves and abilities were not updated to Generation 4 standards, let alone 6. For example, Stockpile does not boost the Defense and Special Defense of the user in this hack; yet it should; this was modified in Generation 4.
• Provided that you're not playing this game with modified ROM via randomiser (check the first post; you can download and randomise the game), of all the legendary Pokémon in the first six generations, you can catch only Deoxys and Rayquaza. I think you should be able to catch some other legendary Pokémon without resorting to cheating, save editing or playing randomised game.
• Depending on the national Dex number, some Pokémon in the Hall of Fame appears to be wrong. For example, in my first and third playthroughs my Excadrill appeared as Victreebel in Hall of Fame. In my second playthrough, my Zekrom appeared as Sudowoodo (!).
• Some abilities originated from the future generations don't appear as well. For example, the Mold Breaker ability does not exist at all; my Mega Gyarados had the ability Pressure. In a similar vein, in my randomised run, almost all legendary Pokémon have their abilities changed to Pressure (Arceus, Reshiram, and Zekrom are examples). Zorua and Zoroark does not have Illusion; rather, they have Trace. But some abilities exist; such as Mega Salamence with Aerilate and the aforementioned Scizor / Mega Scizor with Technician.

By the way, when will V4 be released? I can easily predict the answers, "rom hackers don't make the games for raising money, it's a hobby for them, cut them some slack, they have real life jobs to do", but come on, it's been three years since the V3.2 was released. At least say "no V4" and we'll be on our way.

As I said this is a good hack, and very good when it was released; but upon playing CFRU hacks, this game unfortunately lost its magic. I hope it will be updated soon.