Posted: 11/8/2013 6:02 AM
Post subject: Pokemon: Ultra Violet
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HugPhoenix
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I want to make a 100% TAS of pokemon ultra violet. It is a hack that has all 386 pokemon of gen 1-3. some require heavy grinding (such as dragonite, etc) and other pokemon have been modified to evolve differently (umbreon is simply a moonstone, trade evolutions have changed to just levelup). Would this be something worth making? Thanks
Posted: 11/8/2013 11:19 AM
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thatguy
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Do you have a rough estimate of the completion time? I wouldn't be surprised if it were longer than any run on the site. Even if you caught the Pokemon at the same rate as the Blue 100% run (one every 80 seconds), you'd overtake Final Fantasy 8, and Blue has item duplication and experience underflow to circumvent level grinding. Speaking of Pokemon Blue 100%, I think the reason it is interesting is that it has a goal that is not meant to be possible, and uses glitches to make it possible, kind of like the Super Mario Bros walkathon that completes every level of the game without using the B button. The reason this hack was made was explicitly to make 100%-ing the game possible without connecting to other devices, so seeing that done has limited potential for surprising the viewer. You'd have to reach moons as well, as hacks are ineligible for the vault. Judges are quite ruthless with runs of hacks. So you'd have to find a way to make all that level grinding entertaining. The only thing that might save you is that, because it's a hack, it won't have been beta tested very well, so there might be some bugs lurking in there. These might help shorten the movie, which would be less effort for you and would make it more watchable. So all-in all, is it likely to get accepted? Probably not. Does that mean it's not worthwhile? That's up to you.
Posted: 11/8/2013 12:49 PM
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You should team up with mkdasher and route/TAS fire red elite four round 2 if you want to do a big pokems run :)
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Posted: 11/8/2013 7:10 PM
Post subject: Re: Pokemon: Ultra Violet
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FractalFusion
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rasengan0 wrote:
I want to make a 100% TAS of pokemon ultra violet. It is a hack that has all 386 pokemon of gen 1-3. some require heavy grinding (such as dragonite, etc) and other pokemon have been modified to evolve differently (umbreon is simply a moonstone, trade evolutions have changed to just levelup). Would this be something worth making?
I would not do a Pokemon hack for the sake of catching all 386 Pokemon in one game. I watched some of Pokemon Ultra Violet just now and I noticed that it is pretty much FRLG with a few things changed just so you can catch all 386 Pokemon. That, to me, is not a hack worth doing.
Posted: 11/9/2013 5:40 AM
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HugPhoenix
Joined: 11/4/2011
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It would be a very long run (over 130 in-game hours casual, and counting). I guess i could just make it for the fun, and try to have it up (Maybe gruefood/hacks section?) if i get around to making it haha. thanks for the feedback guys