Morning, My little bronies. Here ya go, frames from the first NPC. This is a little filly sprite. Very short in comparison to Twilight and other ponies, this one is based on Applebloom. I originally was going to have here in the game, but changed my mind. She may still appear, as her palette is already in the game, but her sprite looks really good under multiple color schemes. Yes, her front facing sprite needs work, but it will suffice for now.
The Applebloom sprite will appear once in the game under the Applebloom colors. I know there are fans that would go bananas if a major character appeared more than once. What you also see above is Applebloom with Nightmare Moon's palette applied.Nightmare'ssprite isn't done yet, I'll let you know when I get to it.
Also I fixed the Pokemon Info page problem shown in the previous post.
Also, anypony know how to edit tilesets? If anyone could name some software or point me in the direction of a tutorial, that would be great. The only thing stopping me from building a castle in Canterlot and a floating Cloudsdale is that I have no flipping clue how to do it yet, but by "no clue" I mean I haven't spent serious time trying yet.
I'm back from my trip. And now back to ponies. My Little Pony is serious business. Since I got back nearly a week ago, I've been trying to pull something together to show you guys. Not much luck. I've been focusing on trying to figure out how to change the tile sets so I can make the towns any way I want. I guess for now I should go back to spriting, try to take care of NPCs and the like.
Something have done is go through every post here, on Equestria Daily, and on YouTube related to this and tried to implement changes based on suggestions and also fix incorrect text as pointed out by players. Also route signs. I believe all signs in the game are changed with the exception of anything related to Lavender Town, the Pokemon mansion, Silph Co. and the end game islands.
I feel like I owe you guys a bit more this post, since it's been so long since I've given you anything. So here, screen shots:
And yes, I am aware about the thing on the Pokemon stat page. When I get around to it, that's a 30 second fix.
Coming up on Ponémon: Friendship is Magic, New badges, fixes and NPCs. Stay tuned. Same pony time, same pony channel!
I'm putting up a copy as the game sits. Let me know what you think. Play and test it to your heart's content. To make your game save, you will need to set the save type to 128k Flash memory. In visual boy advance, this is done by Options -> Emulator -> Save Type -> Flash 128k.
Also....a demo vid. It's there just in case you don't know anything about emulation and to increase public awareness. It isn't too different from the regular game, other than the main 3 characters being altered and the gym leaders being very different. And text. Lots of text changes. And the title screen is different. And a little bit of other stuff too. Both the download link and video are posted ---> in "relevant links."
Known Bugs/Issues:
- "You Received XXX From Professor Oak!" should say Celestia
- Oak's Parcel should be Celestia.
- The border cutting over Twilight Sparkle when you look at sizes in Pokedex.
- Daisy is still your rival's sister and a human.
- Your mom is a human. In fact there are many humans.
- 'Hey, that girl is sometimes a blue pony and sometimes a girl!' Yes. I'm experimenting with pony NPC's to wander around.
Things I would really like feedback/ideas on (I'm working on so many different things for this, I have to keep some things on the backburner and hope I think of something, but really, who wants that pressure?):
- Something other than "Manehattan" and "Sugercube Corner" for Lavender and Cerulean, respectively.
- Considering removing Rival's sister completely, making your mom give you the map. I'll move the script for the grooming to someplace in Saffron. I'll make the spa in the show and put it there.
- Removing the old man catching a weedle and the whole Oak's parcel delivery. Celestia gives you the FRIéNDEX and pokéballs up front. The the starter rival battle.
- Make the towns (areas of Ponyville) look more like what their names say they should look like.
- Move stuff a little on the map. Make Cinnibar closer to Fuschia
- Make something that goes through what is typically Vermillion City, but isn't a town just blank. What I'm thinking is hard to describe**.
- My few small attempts at humor. Is there a place for it? Should I do a little more? I will definitely try to mimic each pony's way of speaking.
Please post all thoughts, comments, suggestions, ideas. I will get more text into v1.4. A rough draft for a lot of it exists (including the rhyming speech by Zecora). I will be gone until the 12th of August...so no new content until then. but I may be able to post back on comments.
Here's a sprite, in case you are curious*:
*Original artwork done by John Jose
**Where Vermillion is now is just road and land, not city. I would move Vermillion off the map, rename it Cloudsdale. You would get into Cloudsdale via a hot air balloon like in the show. And if you are wondering how you would walk in Cloudsdale being a dragon/unicorn...I can write that off as you having magic running shoes! You are magic, Twilight's parents are magic...I believe the argument works, as long as I directly mention it and let that be game canon.
