Insane Difficulty: Pokemon RedBlue: Certainly Not Worse Edition - Insane Difficulty

Yep, I'm back to work on this. Fixed Rest not healing bad posion. Here's a list of stuff I'm planning to fix next (mostly so I don't forget)

• Fix partial trapping moves (again). Current plan is to have the attack not continue if the target switches out. EDIT: Checkerino. The trapper loses its turn if the trappee switches out. You can use this to try and force/bait the opponent into switching. The AI isn't aware of this, yet, though.
  
• Nerf 1-hit-KOs + X Accuracy. X Accuracy makes all moves skip their accuracy check, leading 1-hits to work 100% if the pokemon is faster.
  
• hardcode the elemental punches to be physical attacks, rather than special. Will give Hitmonchan a much needed buff and diversify move options a bit more.

Once that's done I'll sit down and see if I want to rebalance the pokemon themselves.

Hiya.

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Probably intended to be >> 2 for normal CH ratio, << 2 for Focus Energy ratio.
So it should be quartered.

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How did you fix it ? As it was intended in RBY, or as it is implemented in Stadium ?

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You mean Withdraw, as it cannot learn Barrier.

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That is incorrect. Rage's Accuracy will only progressively decrease after missing once if the opponent's Pokémon raised its Evasion or lowered your Accuracy. It will drop at 168/256, then 112/256, then 84/256... until it reaches 1/256, many turns later.
Same for Petal Dance and Thrash, except you won't notice it as easily because the moves only last a few turns.
https://www.youtube....h?v=NC5gbJeExbs

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Sleep is 1 to 7 in RBY, then it decreases before Sleep check, then it wakes up if 0.
Stadium is 1 to 3. Sleep sucks in Stadium, aside from Spore which is only learned by Parasect, which sucks
Perhaps make it 1 to 4, or 1 to 5 ?

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I'm looking forward to this !

Well basically, for Focus Energy / Critical Hits I changed a "jump if not zero" to a "jump if zero". So you are correct Critical Hit Ratio is 1/4 of vanilla. Using Focus Energy will give the same crit rate as default vanilla crit rate. Considering the changes made to the formula in Gen2 and up I kind of feel this is the most correct. It might not end up feeling right so we'll see.

Tentacruel learns Barrier+Reflect. Cloyster learns Widthdraw+Reflect. Either way, you can have defenses/attacks/special higher than 1024 and the game won't do the wrong thing. (I should consider porting this to gen2 if I ever get a chance because I hear Thick Club Marrowak has trouble sometimes)

Interesting tip about continuing moves. Should help me to fix it.

Sleep was a big deal in the 'old meta' But since Hyper Beam was fixed and crit chances lowered, I guess I'd be okay with more of it. Chances now will be:

• 1/5
  
• 1/5
  
• 2/5
  
• 1/5

Physical elemental punches let Hitmonchan 1-hit a Gyarados instead of 4-hit a Gyarados. It's nice. So much so that I am debating if Hitmonchan needs the base Special increase I was once considering (The Chans still have low BST for how late in the game you get them, IMO) I'm also considering implementing things the RB engine is capable of in the later generations, like Rock Slide's 30% chance to flinch.

Increasing Hitmonchan / Hitmonlee SPC would let them have a chance at surviving any decent Special attack at least

Wrap finally works the way I want. And the AI now always uses items/switches pokemon before a turn starts, rather than according to its pokemon's speed bracket. You could attack pokemon before they switched out and it was weird. Mist now also protects against incidental stat-drops from moves like Bubble. New version up when I feel like writing up a changelog proper.

Y'all think doubling posion tick damage makes up for the fact that it does not affect stats? (Burn halves attack and Paralyze quarters speed). Even if I did this though, it would in no way make up for toxic sucking. I MAY steal a sleep bit and use it to mean 'bad posion' so toxic can track on switches, but then sleep turns could only be 1-3.

What about making Mist protect against major status as well as stat-drops? it kind of makes sense because Haze removes major status, and the moves seem related. As it is now, Haze isn't even worth considering for the 4 pokemon that learn it.

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You can still make it 1 to 4 turns using only two bits. Simply remove the

jr z, .setSleepCounter

at line 7266, and put the wake up check before the sleep counter is decremented.
At line 3390:

; sleeping
	jr z,.WakeUp ; if the number of turns hit 0, wake up
	dec a
	ld [wBattleMonStatus],a ; decrement number of turns left
	and a

Frog_Eater, on 10 June 2016 - 07:48 AM, said:

No, if I remove

jr z, .setSleepCounter

Sleep could be set to 0, i.e., no sleep. The first bits in wBattleMonStatus have to be anything but 000 for the game to apply sleep status. Seems there is a spare bit in BattleMonStatus however, so there's still hope for a not sucky Toxic.

Been working on making Toxic better, and Poisoning, too. They'll both behave like later gens; Toxic will do 1/16th damage and double every turn. It is not cured on switch-out but after a battle is over. Poison will do 1/8th damage a turn.

Also turns out a broke the AI about 2 releases ago when I moved it to a new bank. It was not looking in the correct place for Move data and was instead reading garbage. Must've been some good garbage 'cause it still managed to beat me soundly.

New release once all this gets sorted out.

...But instead of sorting that out, I fixed the bug where pokemon who gain multiple levels at once don't learn their level up moves in between the final and initial level. For example, a Rattata leveling from level 2 to 10 in a single fight wouldn't learn Quick Attack because it learns Quick Attack at level 7, which is neither level 2 nor level 10. Now that's fix, so moves will not be skipped when leveling up.

So, cool stuff so far. Since that level skip bug is now fixed, I'm giving pokemon with a level lower than their opponent bonus experience to hopefully reduce grind.

Next steps are to rebalance learn lists, and then give out moves to trainer pokemon. But before that I think I'm going to improve AI a bit more.

New version! The AI is a little better at it's job now. I included save images with this release so you can try out the improved features.

Sorry for abandoning ya'. Got too greedy for an RBYPlus mod but wasn't willing to put in the effort. I think I'm going to put in the effort to do so now. Might take a look at yours again whilst I'm doing so.

If you use https://github.com/pret/pokered it's just a simple matter of editing Pokemon stats and moves.

Heh heh. Beat you to it. : p All ready working on typing & base stats. Thanks though.

There's actually a little more than that. Because of the new movesets, the TMs need to be changed. Nothing difficult programming wise, just a lot to track. Also, figuring out how to get more priority moves beyond Quick Attack is beyond me at the moment.

Hmm...I probably won't be able to keep up with your hack now that I've gotten into RBYPlus. Playtesting two Pokemon hacks is too much for me. Sorry. : /

I looked at this again just now, months after I first posted in this. How I went and said I'd stick to the original. I saw what I think is more changes than what you first had. When I'm not busy with work, I am going to give this a go. I really like how Gust and Wing Attack was changed to be like the 2nd gen on. I never noticed beforehand how Wing Attack had a power of 35 when I was under the impression it had 60. I used to have the Player's Guide for Red/Blue/Yellow when I was a kid but I don't remember a whole lot.

I apologize for not giving it a chance firsthand MechanicalPen.

Oh, and I'm happy that you made Rage not Rage-tastic anymore. Lol.

Not to sound like a noob but I'm not familiar with patching for Gameboy games. What patching software should I use to change the vanilla to this? Also, recommended emulator? Or is visualboyadvance okay?

Patching stuff is pretty standard for ROM-based 'pile o' bytes' games. I use Lunar IPS to apply these .ips patches. As for emulators, I like BGB but visualboyadvance will get the job done.

Hi mechanical this looks like a great mod, i use to play pokemon when i was younger and your making me want to have a go at it so.

I wanted to ask, this is pokemon red+blue togheter?
And for what emulator it is? gameboy?

Thank you!

I'm gonna take the long weekend and see how far I can get to completing this. There's still a lot I want to do and this block of time should put a pretty sizable dent in my list.

The big things I want to finish are;

• learn List rebalance (at least to Yellow standards).
  
• Wrap fatigue, so Wrap spam is less broken.
  
• Repair all the bugs still lingering in the AI code.

We'll see how it goes!

Definitely gotta try this after you finish implementing those things.