FireRed hack: Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced (Reloaded) (Version 6.8C Released)

[Zeta Sukuna]

Double post? Perhaps. But I do have an update on 6.1's development.

I've been far too lazy, admittedly. But I did get something done that I needed to for the longest time.

Spoiler:

I finally figured out how to do it. And truth be told, it was almost insultingly easy (seriously, I feel like an idiot). So long as nothing major ended up getting broken, then Renko will be playable, and the Rival's character sprite has returned to the intro.

 

[Roll'n]

I've been trying to find out how this bug works for a long time, and I still don't know what the cause of it is. I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, it usually does come back by the time you reach Azalea Town.

All good, it fixed just as you said. Sorry for the late reply. I'm loving your work.

 

[Yuyukirby]

Hey, so I've been trying to get the newer version, but when i patched the game to an Emerald File, I just get a white screen. Am I using the wrong rom?

 

[Sparhawk55]

Hey, so I've been trying to get the newer version, but when i patched the game to an Emerald File, I just get a white screen. Am I using the wrong rom?

Isn't this a FireRed hack, not an Emerald one?

 

[Yuyukirby]

-facepalm- thank you. Didn't realize I was playing the wrong game.

 

[Yuyukirby]

Ok. New issue. I'm trying to patch the game onto the rom, but it's not working.

 

[Sparhawk55]

Ok. New issue. I'm trying to patch the game onto the rom, but it's not working.

What issue are you having? Are you using Squirrels? I find that one works best for patching.

 

[Yuyukirby]

I was using the one that comes with the patch.

 

[Pyxal]

I was using the one that comes with the patch.

There IS no ROM with the patch. If there was, this thread would've been closed.

 

[Chronosplit]

I was using the one that comes with the patch.

I think he was talking about ROM versions there. Make sure it's 1.0, and not 1.1 or Rev 1. It's still an extremely common mistake.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

Yeah, you need to use (U)(Squirrels) for this hack. Last I checked, it should be able to patch just fine. Other roms might work, but that one's the one I used for this.

And since I'm here, I have developed some more of the training facility and have planned out some minor events. So it's coming along more than I expected, so that's nice.

 

[Yuyukirby]

Cool thanks!

 

[FlandreScarlet64]

is this supposed to happen?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

is this supposed to happen?

It should be fixed as of 6.1, but right now 6.01 does have that in it.

 

[FlandreScarlet64]

oh ok

 

[Tsunatome]

Hi , what do you mean by - Edited Trainers and Gym Leaders in feature ?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

A lot of trainers were edited from the original Touhou Puppet Play Enhanced. Some of them are unrecognizable.

 

[Tsunatome]

Ohh thanks and do you know where we can have shard ? We can buying somewhere ?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

You can only buy shards in Johto. In Kanto they are a bit rarer, and are mostly just dotted around the region. Depending on how I feel, 6.1 might have one more of each in either later Kanto or in the first three Sevii Islands.

Also, an update. Unless something majorly messed up, when you black out in Johto, you should now go to the last center you healed at. If you lose to Morty, but healed in Ecruteak, you should return to the Ecruteak center.

The training center is also partially finished. The mapping, one fight, and most of the NPCs are done, I've just been super lazy about finishing it off.

I haven't even started on the dungeon yet, but that should be soon.

A few other things have been written down that I'll be implementing after the other stuff I just mentioned.

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

I've done a surprising amount over the past few days, and I've come to realize something.

This game really can't hold much more, so my thoughts on 7.0 might not exactly be able to come true. So, if you were looking forward to an expanded Sevii Islands, then I'm afraid that you're out of luck. (Like me. I wanted to do them.)

But even outside of that, truth be told, I'm honestly surprised that I've gotten as much support as I have throughout this. Support that actually helped development. This hack would be worse if not for the (admittedly more recent) feedback, and I'm honestly super happy that it happened.

Perhaps it won't ever be 'popular', but the fact that as many people noticed it as they did is still surprisingly encouraging, and has in part fueled development.

This whole post won't be a bunch of sappy nonsense, I do have a few things to tell you about 6.1 now. I just wanted to get all of that out first, and say that more than likely this'll be the last major content update to the hack. I might tweak some things, I might rebalance some things, but don't expect something like a new dungeon, or new routes. Much as I'd like to add them, there just isn't much ability to continue on.

For the actual news, though. Spoilered to not bloat the page even more.

Spoiler:

The last dungeon to be made is mostly finished. I might end up tweaking a thing or two by the time it gets released, but most of the big mapping and all of the eventing is done.

Got this finally added in. Perhaps not important, but it is nice to have. Obviously credits to Darthatron for making this to begin with, and LyKo for making it braindead to put in.

As is this, allowing you to see what the nature affects. (Red is +, Blue is -). Credits to Spherical Ice and LyKo once more on this one.

In other news, I decided to just... add in the maps for the Olivine boat (And specifically the Olivine boat) and the two train stations because honestly it's more of a neat thing to have. Don't expect any fancy animations, though. Still not good enough to import tiles, nor do I have the tiles to import anyway. But having the maps is still nice, in my opinion.

Added in Mt. Moon Square, too! To some extent. You won't be able to get there immediately, but when you can, there might be something nice waiting there. Maybe.

There's a few other places that I've already added, but most of their scripts aren't done yet.

I've also done a pass in terms of text in Johto, I'll likely be going through another one after I'm done with the last few events.

The training facility hasn't been touched since last update, but it should be next up on my list. Just deciding on how I want to finish it off, more than anything, but that should be done soon.

Oh, and I also actually made a change to Reisen. Just normal Reisen, though. And that's all you're getting from me in terms of mon rebalance. I changed her from learning Mana Burst to learning Signal Beam at Level 46.

And I do want to reiterate, fainting in Johto does not kick you back to Viridian anymore (unless there's some weird case I missed, anyway). This was the single most horrible thing of the hack before, in my opinion, and it's finally fixed.

There's some other stuff, but honestly I don't want to give away everything. Might not be as big of a patch update in terms of content, but it should hopefully be the most playable version of this.

Unfortunately, though, flight in Johto will likely remain unable to be done. I am not good enough to get new area names into the hack, and I am horrible with working with world maps.

Thank you for reading this post, and I hope 6.1 doesn't disappoint when it comes out. Hopefully I'll have it by the end of the year, but if not, then it should be early 2021.