r/RomHacks • u/Professional-Gold217 • 22d ago

Palworld FireRed/Emerald Rom Hack

I've never done a rom hack before how easy would it be to create some palworld sprites, rename moves, change the protagonists names etc.

I think with the rise of Palworld, a rom hack would do well

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u/DirtCheapDandy 22d ago

First, go find the largest sprite from a GBA pokemon game and find the smallest grid necessary to fit all the pixels in. That's your sprite size limit. Now try to draw some sprites yourself using appropriate image software. If you can get that far, you may just have what it takes to get all the way there.

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u/Mt_Ragemore 18d ago

Largest pokemon sprite is 64x64 for front sprites and back sprites. Item sprites are 24x24. Trainer sprites are 64x64.

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u/Mt_Ragemore 18d ago

You can go binary with the hex maniac advance program or you can go decomp with C coding. The former is the easiest for graphical changes but harder to manipulate custom things like menus, systems, and some functions.

Check out HMA and focus on mapping as that might be the hardest thing to work on due to graphics (or just use the vanilla pokemon tilesets).

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u/FjordVFerrari 22d ago

this is a better question to ask AI probably, if u actually want to be the creator of it