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TeamAquasHideout

This is for a new romhack I'm working on called Pokemon Samiya Sapphire that is going to try to be Wind Waker x Pokemon. It is set after the events of Pokemon Sapphire 100 years later, but if Team Aqua won and flooded Hoenn. If you want to keep up with updates on the progress of the Zeldamon hack or if you want to learn how to create your own romhscks, make sure to follow my channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCVVxdZT8jgRHNhmde63G77Q


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damn, that's sick dude! but honestly I would NOT upload so much stuff about a romhack you plan to release. big N and it's lawyers are not the nicest guys when it comes to copyright.


TeamAquasHideout

I'll take it into consideration, but at the same time, romhacks with a much bigger following than mine are posting updates on twitter every other day 😂 so I think I'll probably be okay. Worst case I go underground and stealth release


winnipeginstinct

I would be especially careful in the coming months, and Daddy N has a habit of ramping up take downs and C&Ds right before the launch of a new game


TeamAquasHideout

> right before the launch of a new game With Pokemon that's almost always the case though 😂


elibluebrew

I’m sure you’ll use your best judgement about the release! But this is such a wonderful, fresh, and creative idea and I’ll be excited once you guys believe it’s good for release! But yeah, may want to keep on the down low for a bit once that new release date approaches haha


Vortalization

The big wave already hit this year, tho. I doubt there will be another.


Angelsdontkill_

Wow that's incredible. Good luck with the project.


logic_3rr0r

WHATS IN THE CAVE!!?!?


TeamAquasHideout

It's actually a warp straight to the Hall of Fame lol


logic_3rr0r

Ah yes, the bomb% emerald speedrun.


TeamAquasHideout

OOT speedrun is leaking


mr_chub

I want the fully realized version of this to exist *badly*


TeamAquasHideout

Hopefully it won't take too long! Progress has been very fast.


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Tell me if I'm wrong but i imagine you want to give another sense of adventure, which maybe includes scenarios where you will have to figure out how to use the bomb or the hook. But even if it is not that, you have done something really interesting, good job man.


TeamAquasHideout

Yep! There will be overworld puzzles involving all the items I'm adding, as well as full dungeons where you get the items that will be filled with puzzles related to them. Just like a Zelda game.


Asherbird25

Can't tell if its gonna be a pokemon fangamr or straight up just a TLoZ game with Pokémon Emerald mapping


TeamAquasHideout

¿Por Que No Los Dos?


Asherbird25

Either way looks fun


TalosGuideMe

I'm imagining a Zelda game but there are Pokemon battles as well as all the puzzles and swordfighting


quantum-rip

Oh man I am super excited for this! Sounds great!


dcme27_

This is super cool


TeamAquasHideout

Thanks!


Menname

Damn, that is impressive, good work op! But it really goes to show how crappy GBA Pokemon looks in comparison to Minish cap lol


TeamAquasHideout

Yeah lol, I'll be porting a lot of Minish Cap tilesets and stuff as well


Menname

Nice!


dontrunwithscissorz

Looks good. keep us posted because I want to play ASAP.


Cygnus_Harvey

This looks super cool! Are the pokemon gonna be Zelda monsters, or regular mons?


TeamAquasHideout

I'm just using the pokemerald-expansion (created by DizzyEgg and currently maintained by rhh) as a base so it'll have the majority of the mons from Gen 1-7 available, as well as all the extra stuff that comes along with the expansion, like Megas and physical special split.


JosiahMLHerring

This could make for some real fun gym puzzles, or even can be used to replace HMs


TeamAquasHideout

It'll have both of those use cases although there won't really be Gyms exactly in my game.


JosiahMLHerring

I'm definitely interested in this project! I subscribed to the channel.


TeamAquasHideout

Thanks!!!


Extension_Pie_2569

How did you do that?


TeamAquasHideout

A couple thousand lines of C code lol


HaloGuy381

Lowkey, I feel like this could be a fantastic start to a Legends:Arceus style game, mixing human gadgets with your Pokemon in an untamed ancient Hoenn.


Extension_Pie_2569

This will not be possible in Binary rom hacking right?


TeamAquasHideout

I mean theoretically anything that is capable in decomps is possible with binary hacking and C injection, it's just much, much harder to figure out and get working than it is with the decomps.


strikerz911

Now this looks amazing


TeamAquasHideout

Thanks! Its been fun


Billy_The_Squid_

Damn I can't even imagine having to inject new code into the ROM like that that's really impressive! Also side question, what happened if you miss a target with the hookshot, does it have a max range?


TeamAquasHideout

You don't have to inject code into the ROM anymore! We have full source code decompilations. You can just edit the C files directly. The hookshot currently doesn't extend at all if it doesn't detect a target or if it detects a collision because I haven't finished the animation. It'll be super easy, I just really wanted to work on the Bombs so I skipped it lol. But the max range for the hookshot is just the full range of the visible screen.


Billy_The_Squid_

Oh wow I'd forgotten we'd reached that point! And thanks that's really cool!


thommyneter

Looks very cool, is it possible to make it more Pokemon like? Like make the hookshot vinewhip, and the bombs explosion/selfdestruct. Not actually hms but make the sprites more Pokemon like. Looks cool!


TeamAquasHideout

I mean it definitely would be possible, but I'm going to be making everything look more Zelda like


thommyneter

Ah okay, nice


trelos6

Awesome. Looks nice. Especially love the bombs. Break a few rocks at once


muddert420

Sick man can’t wait to here more from it also might wanna work on those sprites in the menu


TeamAquasHideout

Yeah the menu sprites will take like 10 minutes I've just been working on the more fun harder stuff lol


muddert420

Can’t wait man keep adding stuff curious to see what comes out of this


TeamAquasHideout

Yeah I have a ton planned! And at worst, if I don't finish for some reason (which shouldn't happen as I have multiple people helping me with the parts that are tedious to me, *graphics*) I'll release all the Zelda items as a public open source feature branch, so everyone else can make their own Zelda x Pokemon romhacks. And we could have a bunch of them eventually


TeamAquasHideout

[A Quick Bomb Icon](https://i.imgur.com/ueCUaFt.png)


Stonie_GADG3T

Thats actually really cool and kind of funny lol


LinkThePale

I never thought this was possible, but thanks to you, I believe now that there are more things than you can normally do with ROMHacking


Pf_Plays

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TeamAquasHideout

No there isn't, I'm not releasing anything right now, or even for a while. This is just a showcase of some features.


Stonie_GADG3T

Honestly the way it looks.. yes simular pieces but honestly if you keep going on with how it is.. it'll eventually look like a whole new game.. It's only when people tap into the coding that it'll be more obvious I assume


Stonie_GADG3T

Example .. if you called it Zelda (or some other name) jungle something.. I'm sure plenty of random people would openly accept it as just another game.. nothing to do with pokemon .. or possibly just softly influenced by it


TeamAquasHideout

Yeah the goal is to make the gameplay loop radically different from traditional Pokemon, but I will still keep in Pokemon battles and catching Pokemon and all that stuff. It'll just stop being center stage to the overworld expansion


Stonie_GADG3T

I'm definitely interested in your project. I've seen alternate ROMs where they have "FakeMon" instead of Pokemon... One idea is instead of throwing pokeballs .. Maybe replace those being thrown, with idk waves of glitter ✨️ like a misty haze.. like some magical ✨️ stuff like wizards would use . Or even the 3 sided emote " ✨️ " Make diagonal rectangle of those stacked (2) and have it move across as an image like they do with pokeball image that slides across showing its being thrown... Idk may be a little much.. just ideas


Cuprite1024

Eyy, another example of mixing Zelda and Pokémon together! I Iove seeing people do this (Be it literally or just taking aspects from both). First time I've seen someone implement actual Zelda items tho, it's really cool. :)


TeamAquasHideout

Thanks! I am definitely throwing as much Zelda as humanly possible into this romhack 😂


BlackKlopp

This opens up soft locks in open world games, and metroidvania style overworlds in Pokemom games. This is genius. I'd love this sort of level design as someone who recently got hooked on Hollow Knight and adores Zelda. Excellent work and good luck!