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Okay, now that I got your attention; it's very good that we've banded together to just like make game lmao. The problem is that, for some retarded reason, someone convinced the thread to make this a ROM hack rather than an Essentials game. Lemme break down why that's retarded.
1. YOU'RE HANDICAPPING YOURSELF IN TERMS OF FEATURES
The list of things you can do with decompiled Emerald is nowhere NEAR as long as what Essentials allows. Not just in terms of pretty pictures and music, but you know what you can do in Essentials far easier than you can in a ROM hack? Add shit. Not just graphics, music, and whatnot, but mons, moves, abilities, damn near anything. It's as easy as fucking around with the PBS files.
"But Essentials sperg," you might say, "I can't play an Essentials game on physical hardware!" To which I say eat a dick you goofy nigger, nobody other than my own personal strawman is gonna be playing this on a flashcart even if we use a ROM hack instead of Essentials. There is literally no reason to neuter the game from the word "go."
As an aside, it's easy as pie to import a movie playing script into Essentials, and, well, be able to play video files. Yes, this means you could put the plane scene in the game. Should you? Absolutely not, but to an extent, the sky's the limit for adding features.
WebM related, all I did was overwrite the original opening with a different one.
2. ROM HACKS DON'T HAVE FIELD EFFECTS
Now, let's talk about the big thing Essentials can do that ROM hacks can't. Remember the Terrains from Gen 7? Those were kind of neat, but nothing really to write home about.
What if I told you that you can make Pokemon an actual challenge without bloated numbers? No need to give the AI max stats and expect the player to grind EVs for 1488 hours, no, there can be actual strategic depth to it. How? The motherfucking Field system, created by Pokemon Reborn.
"Buh-buh-but that game has trannies!" Yeah, it does, but you know what else it has? The best goddamn thing to ever happen to Pokemon as a whole. Ame might be a jew-nosed 41%er, but he made the best call possible by introducing Fields to fangames. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater by completely dismissing Reborn, it became a 9.5/10 game once I learned that you can press Alt to turn on turbo, and hold X to skip text. Seriously, it's worth playing.
3. HALF THE WORK IS ALREADY DONE
No, seriously. If you want to make a Reborn game, the coding is all done. Sure, you need to code in new Fields, but you've already got plenty of work done. Hell, if you want new moves, mons, abilities, and what have you, they're piss easy to find.
4. PLAYERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO FUCK WITH THE GAME
Now, this is getting deep into autism territory implying i'm not already in the deepest depths of spergery but hear me out: fucking with a ROM hack requires grabbing whatever ROM hacking program is out there, as well as Action Replay codes for shit like walking through walls and instant EV training. You know what you have to do in Essentials to do that? Just open it up in RPG Maker 2003, which is easy to pirate. Hell, for Pokemon-specific shit, like trainers, Pokemon, and whatnot, you don't even have to open up RPG Maker, just edit the PBS files. You want to import Assrape, your original mon do not steal? Just get some sprites for him, name them appropriately, put them in the appropriate graphics folder, and add his data to the pokemon.txt PBS. I don't think you even need a cry, but feel free to bitcrunch yourself saying "niggers tongue my anus" or whatever.
And if you hate the music in a game, you can easily replace it. If you want to replace Toxapex's sprite with a screencap of a post discussing how much Pex users deserve to be gassed, you can easily replace that too. And if you're a casual shitter who can't handle a good challenge without a debugged Level 100 Charizard and nothing but OHKO moves? Well, you may be a bitch, but the debug menu can get you just that without any hassle. Add Pokemon, pick Charizard, then edit his stats/moves in the Pokemon/PC menu.
Why do I bring all of this up as a positive? Because the player gets so much more freedom this way. If Randy Retard wants to bulldoze the game with hackmons, well he can go right ahead. Just don't listen to him whining about the game being easy.
Yes, this is all freetard-tier sperging, but by god it's something I consider important. If I can peek under the hood of a game, I'll like it more.
That's all my sorry autistic ass can think of at the moment. In the meantime, here's some games made with (various versions of) Pokemon Reborn's engine, but without the poz:
POKEMON OCANDIA
https://mega.nz/file/5u4HzC5Q#ZamP73MvSi-MF067jpwvm2HJFs0p2wP_KcawlJSr32c (use the patch at https://mega.nz/file/tkNk0RKI#E_ro4axE4cML23rSeLfBV8nm-FCIEkuJwtc6oGTlE9A to shitfix some graphical stuff, just copypaste the contents into the Graphics folder of the first link)
A two-gym game that's the first real episode of the Ocandia series. You start after the first badge, because level 5 slap fights are boring and gay.
POKEMON OCANDIA THE ULTRA EPISODE
https://mega.nz/file/Aigw1CYT#FUmdUBDsMQ7Bj15N-HiTgzL9uHE9ynw5QtJ5EpUdwVo
The sequel to Pokemon Ocandia. Same protagonist as the last game. There's a shitload of new mons to try out.
POKEMON OCANDIA CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
https://mega.nz/file/crQkzRQB#loQ4Lp66JUStr_zb3BcsN5vLqasQdceUCMI5z0CbyVc
A short boss rush game with some worldbuilding and lore autism. Features the best fucking Champion fight of the entire Pokemon franchise.
POKEMON OCANDIA JOPS GOES GROCERY SHOPPING SPECIAL: JOPS GOES HENTAI SHOPPING
https://mega.nz/file/ltUUlDoI#LqkrHbJZG61iEDtWdtEXkzBXZzvkhRTOVEJthVomI38
This is an odd one, it's a mod of the original Jops Goes Grocery Shopping. I figured I'd link it instead of OG JGGS, since it has more content. Regardless, this is the most current game in the Ocandia series, where you play as a member of the antagonist group of the games, The Suggesters. You go run errands for the rest of your teammates.
POKEMON ALTERA FROZEN ECHOES
https://mega.nz/file/ogM0mBLb#E40_zV_WnfVeK5bf68vrwO4VqWuejAAFDgxkQlMSSNk
From the dev of JGHS comes an original game in a different region from Ocandia. This is not the best place to start, it assumes you've played Rebornlikes before, and treats you as such. I can confirm, I suggested this as someone's first Rebornlike and it didn't go too well. Taking place completely separately from the Ocandia games' events, though there are some references, you play as a member of Altera's Elite Four equivalent as you go stop a Legendary Pokemon from pissing off the resident god of the region.
WAIT, BUT WHERE'S REBORN?
You should wait for the edit of it. The gay parts of the plot are gonna be tweaked and/or removed, EV/IV training will be instant like the Ocandia games, and it'll make the tranny devs of OG Reborn have aneurysms. Probably.
You CAN find it yourself, but keep in mind that in the future, the definitive edition will more or less make it obsolete. If you play it, let me know and I'll upload an edited map file that includes instant EV/IV shitfixing and other QoL changes.
I most likely misworded many things, or have been flat-out wrong about them. I'll figure it out later, this is my best attempt at a coherent wall of text. Best by my standards, not triple digit IQ standards.
If you can take away only one thing from this: Play Pokemon Ocandia. It's a good game.