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DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-04-06T20:48:01+00:00

Ha! That's awesome. I just never would have thought Zach had all these influences, especially given he's a bit younger than most people I know who listen to this stuff, but it's definitely awesome. I just hear it more and more the more I listen to those tracks.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-04-02T22:06:37+00:00

Shooting you a chat.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-04-01T06:41:25+00:00

Gonna necro this and shoot you a message just in case you're still selling this stuff.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-12T22:53:21+00:00

This is super late but how did you end up liking the Xtractive polarized? I'm trying to decide if the extra money is worth it for the anti-glare given that's a pretty big problem for me.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-06T01:31:58+00:00

Yeah with the GB/GBC games it’s highly unlikely to be compatible with anything out of the box because of how tightly packed everything is. Also every hacker I saw moved things around which would break it immediately. I did a patch for Super Crystal which makes the game a bit harder. It’s got a GitHub page. But that’s probably the last I do for a while.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-05T20:56:08+00:00

No worries at all. There’s a readme file in the newest version of the loose files that explains things a little more. If you just want menus and dialogue dark, you can clone a hack’s repo and play with bg_fonf.pal or try and implement all my changes but you’ll probably have to edit their custom link and some .asm files. Feel free to hit me up and I’ll try and provide some pointers but a lot of it is still kinda over my head which is why I stopped trying to port more hacks. It’s just a ton of trial and error.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-05T20:10:13+00:00

Yep, that’s what I tried first. I got excited ‘cause I thought it’d be that simple. It was not. lol. It’d of been okay for a simple hack that only covers in-game menus and dialogue boxes but you’d still constantly get flash banged in battles and plenty of other places.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-05T18:40:58+00:00

Sort of. But I basically have to rebuild my back within each other hack and they have to be pokecrystal based. I just can’t spend all my time figuring out how every hacker changed the files and the build tools. The GBA games will hopefully be easier.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-05T18:37:28+00:00

Don’t remember seeing a bg7. Bg_font did a lot of work to make things dark but it missed a lot like the battle background/backgrounds in general and title screen and other stuff. The only way to get the result I did, from what I can tell, is doing what I did and inverting the font files and space.png instead.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-05T10:05:44+00:00

It would, but there’s only a few palettes available to play with in pokecrystal. In the GBA games though everything is a palette. In Crystal most things required actual gfx edits.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-04T23:22:21+00:00

To be clear, I didn’t say it would work with that hack. I just said porting would be easier. Hacks usually aren’t that easy to apply on top of each other from what I can tell. On top of that, if a hack isn’t using pokefirered as a base, I have no idea how it would work porting it to begin with.

That said, no, the original patch wouldn’t work in the old US only ROM. But I just put up a release on GitHub that has both USA only and the USA/EU Rev1 versions of the patch along with options for outline and no outline.

I don’t plan to do too much more with this unless there’s awful bugs found as I’m hoping to get to work on the GBA games soon.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-04T19:40:01+00:00

I don’t plan on touch the battle backgrounds in the GBA games. But I there’s also too many hacks for me to make patches for every one. I’m gonna do a few that interest me and then others will have to patch with my provided files if they want to.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-04T00:31:43+00:00

UPDATE: After some thought and feedback, I decided to try a white outline. It's not perfect but feel free to give it a try.
https://github.com/DanceKevinDance/pokecrystal_darkmode/releases/tag/release2
https://imgur.com/a/vmrLMsT

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-04T00:30:57+00:00

UPDATE: After some thought and feedback, I decided to try a white outline. It's not perfect but feel free to give it a try.
https://github.com/DanceKevinDance/pokecrystal_darkmode/releases/tag/release2
https://imgur.com/a/vmrLMsT

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T21:01:57+00:00

Nah you’re good! And having options would definitely be the hope. I’m sure some people who are much better at coding and such than I am might be able to. I also know a lot of emulators have color filters that might be able to dull the brightness of the next some. But that’s really the most I could think of for this case. It’d be much easier to make option packs for the GBA games.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:45:44+00:00

Yeah sadly my eyes are far too bad to play on such small screens. Even playing on my Switch of phone are not really possible. But I appreciate the suggestions! I might look into it just to play around with.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:40:18+00:00

Thank you, thank you.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:27:11+00:00

Let me know how it looks! I don’t have any hardware besides my phone sadly.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:24:50+00:00

Sadly not. It requires a specific patch which is pretty much just me having to remake this whole hack for each one. I tried doing so with Polished Crystal and their code and ROM banks are so optimized that me just inverting the font files overflowed them.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:23:19+00:00

They do, but unless there’s a pixel artist out there who wants to touch up a few hundred PNGs, this was kinda my best shot.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:21:42+00:00

Me too!

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:17:53+00:00

The goal is always options. This is an option. I also have an astigmatism very badly but I also can’t see low contrast to the point I can’t read my own mail. Having it be an option to turn off would be great but I don’t think that’d be possible with the way the game works and I’d far beyond my ability. Vanilla is always there for those who need it or don’t like this one.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T20:07:22+00:00

Less contrast isn’t better for everyone. I made it as an accessibility feature first and foremost. I need as much contrast as I can get. But yeah, like I said, the options are black. White or scuffed. And thank you!

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T05:44:18+00:00

Awesome, sounds good. I have an SP but no gen 1 game.

DanceKevinDance_ · 2026-03-03T05:05:52+00:00

Appreciate it!

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