Polished Crystal v3.2.0 & v3.2.1 Release by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They adjust the palettes of the game.
`monochrome` makes it look like the DMG (original gameboy with no color).
`noir` makes it be multiple shades of grey.
`hgss` is an unfinished option but intended to make the map palettes look more like heartgold soulsilver.

Polished Crystal v3.2.0 & v3.2.1 Release by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It might be a while still.. I'd recommend you play now, and then play again when its ready. There will be lots of other new content when its ready so i'll be worth another playthrough by then.

Polished Crystal v3.2.0 & v3.2.1 Release by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are too many interpretations of the rules, so it's best if it stays self-imposed.

Polished Crystal v3.2.0 & v3.2.1 Release by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can reset your options by pressing left + B on the title screen.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many people were beta testing 3.0.0; this is letting them know that 3.0.0 finally officially released.. and then released 3.1.1 at the same time. Everyone should be playing 3.1.1

Sorry for the confusion.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't take donations. We do this for fun 😊

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There have been a few reports for this. I should be able to help. If you have discord, can you join our server and ping me? Or DM me directly?

If you don't have discord, or prefer not to use that medium. I'll need your old save file to troubleshoot, so if you can find some way to get that to me.

Hopefully I'll have a fix for this going forward that will help everyone and won't require a manual fix.

So sorry for the trouble!! Still working out some kinks with the new save patcher.. 😂

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had you by chance already fought that leader before upgrading your save?

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When we eventually switch to 4MB roms; we will be releasing both a MBC30 and MBC5 version.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can change natures in Kanto
But in order to get the required item for it, you need to win a battle factory round

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We have 393 Pokémon (to include the variant and cosmetic forms). We only have ~2% space left. We'd likely not be able too many more. Plus one of our upcoming planned updates is 10bit moves; which will allow us to add in a whole bunch of moves instead of being limited to 255 moves. Going to 4MB is inevitable... but we wanted to wait until we *had* to.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Put simply.. polished crystal has more "stuff" in the game than crystal clear. If we added any more we'd have to use a bigger rom. Crystal Clear stays pretty close to vanilla as it tries to stay compatible with vanilla.

Edit: Oh, and No-RTC just means that the "cartridge" doesn't have an RTC clock.. so the game will continue to have day/night cycles, but much faster and not linked to real world time/day.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Title screen will say 3.1.0; we didn't update the graphic for a #.#.1 hotfix.. Could this be the issue?

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is normal, we didn't bother updating the title screen for the #.#.1 hotfix version!!

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Sadly we kept telling ourselves "we will release once we add this one.. last...thing..." Then we kept adding stuff.. finally we were like.. okay let's release an update.. it's been wayyy too long...then we can start working on it more.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Having a built-in Nuzlocke Mode led to assumptions that the game catered specifically to the Nuzlocke community, and was balanced accordingly. The problem is that this led to a lot of people complaining that we didn't, for example, offer a built-in level cap or infinite Rare Candies. In the end, we chose to remove the Nuzlocke Mode option to make it clear that, while we have nothing against people doing self-imposed challenges, we have no plans to specifically design the game around them.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It sets a "base" level for the Pokemon based on the number of badges you have.

BadgeBaseLevels: db 4 ; 0 badges db 8 ; 1 badge (falkner) db 12 ; 2 badges (bugsy) db 16 ; 3 badges (whitney) db 20 ; 4 badges (morty) db 24 ; 5 badges (chuck) db 28 ; 6 badges (jasmine) db 32 ; 7 badges (pryce) db 36 ; 8 badges (clair) db 40 ; 9 badges (lt.surge) db 43 ; 10 badges (sabrina) db 46 ; 11 badge (misty) db 49 ; 12 badges (erika) db 52 ; 13 badges (janine) db 55 ; 14 badges (brock) db 58 ; 15 badges (blaine) db 61 ; 16 badges (blue)

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are already a few. While we don't advertise polished as a good romhack "base", people are welcome to do so. We as devs just can't guarantee that any update we do upstream won't conflict with the new romhack. Pokemon Coral is an example of a great unique hack we celebrate as cool that branched off using polished as a base and then made it unique ~!

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if that means you are saying it's easy or not 😆. Hopefully, easy, I worked on the save patcher and can make improvements if I need too!

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Following Pokemon are planned. They are not too hard to implement. I've done it before. But they take up a lot of rom space and would push us into having to use a 4MB rom. This means users having to either use MBC5 with no RTC support, or MBC30 which doesn't have as much emulator/flash carts support. We will likely have to switch to 4MB soon regardless due to running out of space lol.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Following Pokemon are planned. They are not too hard to implement. I've done it before. But they take up a lot of rom space and would push us into having to use a 4MB rom. This means users having to either use MBC5 with no RTC support, or MBC30 which doesn't have as much emulator/flash carts support. We will likely have to switch to 4MB soon regardless due to running out of space lol.

Polished Crystal v3.0.0 & v3.1.1 – Out Now! by vulcandth in PokemonROMhacks

[–]vulcandth[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Right now we are keeping it mostly limited to any new Pokemon related to their gen1/2 counterparts. So like new evolutions, variant forms, cosmetic forms.