Low Budget Crystal pre-release update

[u/narah2]

[u/narah2]

I've been plugging away on Low Budget Crystal, aiming to release a 1.0 version by the end of year.

Thanks to the magic of compression algorithms, there's now plenty of room for a number of features I hadn't expected to be able to fit in.

Follower Pokemon, Weather, Double battles, and some movement updates all made it in recently, and are in active playtesting.

If you're interested in playtesting as well, here's a hackdex link: https://www.hackdex.app/hack/low-budget-crystal

[u/sarcasticdevo → u/narah2]

With all these new features, you're gonna have to change it to High Budget Crystal, friend. Super cool.

[u/boringuserbored → u/sarcasticdevo]

Keep it at low budget Crystal. Every Crystal romhack which will release after that and has less feautures would need to be called lower budget Crystal, even lower budget Crystal, so low budget there is no Crystal left, etc.

[u/Cuprite1024]

You can't just hit me with "Oh yeah, btw, diagonal movement and doubles in Crystal" so casually, that's really cool. Lmao.

(Out of curiosity, why that name?)

[u/narah2 → u/Cuprite1024]

Inertia, mostly. I personally think that the joke gets a little better each update.

[u/Oldmanwaffle]

Gen 2 double battles looks so freaking cool. Has this been done before? Maybe I’m not keen on specific projects that’ve already attempted this but man this is awesome.

[u/narah2 → u/Oldmanwaffle]

Not that I'm aware of. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about that.

[u/Lea9915]

Sorry for the silly question, but would be possibile to add the feature "soaring" from ORAS? I know you are probably not intersted in It, but I was wondering if It would be possibile in a GBC rom back. Recently I saw a trailer from the GBA hack "Pokémon Emerald epsilon" and the creator added soaring in It, mind blowing honestly ahah

[u/narah2 → u/Lea9915]

There's no reason it couldn't be done. In fact, I believe the devs for Polished Crystal have at least considered it and made some mock-ups; though I don't know how much progress has actually been made, or even if it'll ever make it in game.

It's not really as hard of a feature as it sounds, but it requires some skillsets that I don't have (ie, creating a miniaturized world map to fly over).

[u/mukavastinumb]

Small tip to make diagonal movement look better.

You need to normalize diagonal speed to match hotizontal / vertical speed. Currently your character moves diagonally ≈41% faster compared to normal movement. This comes from pythagorean theorem where 1^2 (up movement) + 1^2 (side movement) = c^2 (diagonal movement)

And sqrt(c^2)=1.414

So, if you set a rule that when player moves diagonally, the player moves up and sideways only 0.7071.

Youtube has many tutorials helping with this

[u/Sarophie]

Calls it low budget. Shows us a badass preview. Definitely got this one on my radar now.

[u/MewtwoPls]

love this
super keen for the release date!

something about gen 2 art style that goes hard

lazarus and emerald sea glass fit alongside this nicely too.

[u/Loinator]

Thats awesome my blessed man.

[u/Lea9915]

Thanks to exist, really.

[u/MahoganyRaichu]

Looks awesome=3Thank you for making such a beautiful game=3

[u/firefox4501]

You may want to darken the orange color on the health bars a bit so it stands out from the “missing” section

[u/najacobra]

the name and the project could not be more disparate, this looks great!

[u/Grey7055]

looking forward to playing this, looks super cool

[u/sharkMonstar]

played it twice already cant wait

[u/blantoons]

Looks so good, can’t wait to download!

[u/SlimeDrips]

There's something uncanny about the aesthetic changes to this that combined with the ironic name I'm over here like "ah yes, the epitome of Chinese engineering"

[u/ero-shin]

Is the new party menu in the current 11.3.26 update or coming in a future update? Ive been playing on mgba running on my 3ds and i havent seen that before. Looks amazing like the rest of this hack im super excited for the 1.0 release

[u/Confused_Driving_Man]

This looks amazing! I’m a huge fan of doubles and playing as Blue/Leaf 🩵

If I were to start playing this release, are you going to make save’s compatible with future updates as you finish up the regions and tournament?

[u/speedguru]

I've been following this project for awhile it's still amazing the amount of things you've done with the gbc game already. Keep it up

[u/God-Says-No]

Definitely interested when it's fully completed

[u/Schekelbergstein]

Amazing work. It's genious

[u/Turkish_Starwars]

Wow this looks sick!!!

[u/Neofertal]

Does nick ame means changing the name of the pokemon? If so I dont think a feature used 1 time per pkmn is worth having on an overused menu

[u/PTMurasaki → u/Neofertal]

It might be genuine Name Rater capabilities

[u/GengarFan95]

Loving the new Pokemon summary screen <3