Pokemon Red and Blue Ports

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 27 Feb, 2006 9:35 pm

why wouldn't red and blue be in one app with two (one for red, one for blue) sets of save files? Then you could take your pokemon set from the other save and just treat it like an opponent. Do you realy want some one to have to pay twice the flash memory price to finish the game fully? Also, are there any plans of hidden extra areas and special game modes and such if you have free memory left in your last app page?

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Mon 27 Feb, 2006 10:30 pm

Wouldn't it destroy the "fun factor" of playing it with other people? Then again it would be uncomfortable to do trades with calcs linking bottom to bottom (with the exception of the Ti-84 series..)

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Tue 28 Feb, 2006 3:14 am

or vs. battles for that matter.

thegamefreak0134 · Post by **thegamefreak0134** » Wed 01 Mar, 2006 5:25 am

On the demo, I've seen several tilemap demos for the BASIC series that look nice. You forget that I wrote one of them, although it was never released. The speed of the actuall moving isn't that bad (quite playable) if it's done zelda-style, like I did. What kills it really is the drawing rate of each area, although I had very decent speeds using asm sprite programs like zsprite. (I realize omnicalc is faster, but I can't afford to use pics, or at least I couldnt.

On the linking issue, what you forget is that very little actually has to be sent over a link cable:

Trades - Send info for all pokemon at start of trade. Basically, whenever a trade is done the info is swapped, and a cute animation is played. Simple enough. The only real time info sent here is the pokkemon to be traded, after the info is said and done with.

Battles - All pokemon info will be sent at the beginning (that "connection standby" thing.) Then, one calc will act as a host and controll the battle while the other will basically recieve info and perform animations. (This way different versions will remain compatable if I go off and change something in the engine.)

I've thought this through and if I keep the actuall transfer info to a minimum it should work fine. It will be a little interesting to see what happens to the calcs of different speeds however...

-gamefreak

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Thu 02 Mar, 2006 2:12 am

It shouldn't affect anything unless you allow the program to run at 15MHz when possible. Other than that, if you don't enable the "switch", then everything runs at 6MHz. If you wanna see a demo, I still got the Gemini game with the 15MHz unlocking. Of course, it only works noticibly on 15Mhz calcs. It's realllllly dizzam fast!

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 02 Mar, 2006 2:35 am

So have you done any coding?

thegamefreak0134 · Post by **thegamefreak0134** » Thu 02 Mar, 2006 5:58 am

Well.... coding is the slow part for me. I'm not letting myself do anything too major (like any graphics at all) untill I have greyscale up and running, and that shouldn't take too much more tinkering with the people here. My main coding endevors have been data purposed. I'm writing a bunch of routines to read back the data I've been feeding the app, given certain registers for input and either a register or a mem location for output. This way, when I get to coding, I'll worry about the logic and not the data involved.

tifreak8x · Post by **tifreak8x** » Fri 03 Mar, 2006 8:29 pm

Well, good luck... I would hate to try and build this game in asm, but once completed, I am sure it will be well worth it.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Mon 06 Mar, 2006 2:40 am

data manipulation is probably my weakest area. it's a good thing you're practicing how to do that.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sat 11 Mar, 2006 5:37 am

I thought this would help.

tifreak8x · Post by **tifreak8x** » Mon 13 Mar, 2006 7:02 pm

I haven't seen him on for a while, I wonder if he is still working on this...

thegamefreak0134 · Post by **thegamefreak0134** » Mon 20 Mar, 2006 5:33 pm

Yes, I'm still working on it. It's kinda been on hold for a while because I am working on porting Super Smash Bros. to the GBA with a friend. However, by no means do I intend to drop the project.

One day this week, I am going to be brave and attempt to get the greyscale engine I have to load in an APP. If I can get it to work, the rest of the coding should follow simply enough. Well, the logic anyway.

I figure, of course, that I can start working on a battle engine without greyscale, as it's basically just text. (and lines which I don't know how to do yet.) I might get to work on either one. Now however, I must study for Government. Grr...

-thegamefreak0134

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Mon 20 Mar, 2006 8:54 pm

Good to see you aren't planning to drop this project! I hope you are successful in getting it to work properly in the app. Good luck with Government!

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Mon 20 Mar, 2006 8:55 pm

Smash Bros to GBA !!!!! /me faints

tifreak8x · Post by **tifreak8x** » Tue 21 Mar, 2006 1:20 pm

I am glad that this is still going! ^_^