Vixolyn

From the maps I've seen so far, the mountain pass is my favourite (probably stemming from love of natural landscapes). The only part I want to critique about this particular map is the rectangular shape the room has. I'd suggest giving a few of the corners a more natural shape to give it that cavern-like effect, as right angles would look more man-made (unless that is the look you're going for here), but that is just my personal opinion. The last map seems a little too spacious and open, so a smaller scale could do it more justice, but then again, I am unaware of the atmosphere this area has, so maybe my opinions are biased.

But regardless of that, overall these maps look great. I would love to help out with the project, but my plate is a bit too full at the moment with my personal life. When I have a bit more time on my hands—if the help is still required—my offer will still stand, and I'll try to help out where I can. Although I must say that I'm really keen on seeing this demo!

None of these are dark backgrounds, and the text is very clearly visible. It's not hard on the eyes at all. Maybe you just need glasses.

I have perfect eyesight, I'm just saying that some monitors (especially older ones) could make it harder to see for some, even those who do have eyesight difficulties. The point is that a lighter-coloured font would be an improvement, and could help those who can't see it as clearly if that is the case.

I don't see why people keep saying this. No where, anywhere, do I see black text on a dark background. Even in the areas with the least amount of contrast, it's still easy to read.

Not all is necessarily on the actual forum section of the website, but rather the main page. For example:

Considering the main page of the site is where new members will be brought to, it isn't the best impression when they are faced with that.

And for the parts that are on the forum section of the website:

It's not necessarily that difficult to read, but it isn't exactly nice on the eyes depending on the monitor you're using. As for the screen resolution, it's the only one that fits my monitor that I have currently and the other resolutions aren't ideal. It's a pretty common resolution, too. But my "half-assed" comment wasn't directly at the checkboard part of the logo, but towards the issues as a whole.

But anyways, I was only asking to see if and when the issues would be fixed. I'm not particularly fazed by it, I'll just use another theme in the meantime.

That isn't a problem. The text is supposed to be almost invisible; it's a watermark. When you begin typing the text is black.

 

Now that you mention it, it does look normal. I suppose I'm just used to darker varieties of grey used for text like that, my bad.

How is this in any-way an issue? It's caused by a difference in screen resolution. Resize your window by 1 or 2 pixels and it'll go away.

 

 

Serously? Are people still nitpicking about this? If you don't like it, change your fucking theme, it's not rocket science  -.-;

I understand that, but I'd rather have my browser maximised than having it windowed just to fix that. Thus it is an issue.

I just feel that the theme looks half-assed because of some of these issues, and I doubt it'd make a good impression. Regardless, I feel like the only thing really needing to be fixed majorly is the black text on the dark backgrounds, and that should be quick and easy to do.

I apologise for bringing this up, but I feel that the skin is still incomplete. I know this has been stated many times but it has many inconsistencies in certain areas, namely text being inappropriately coloured in contrast to the background.

For example, on the main page and the forum index there are significant amounts of black text on a dark background, making it somewhat difficult to read. The search box in the top-right hand corner could also do with darker text.

Also, does anyone else face this issue with the logo? This image is taken on a screen with a resolution of 1366x768.

I'm just wondering when these issues will be fixed? I'm not trying to sound pushy or anything, but given these problems with the skin have been known for a few months, it'd seem reasonable to assume they'd be fixed by now considering how minor they are. Anyways, I'll probably use an alternate theme in the meantime until then.

Looks great already. Can I help with something? I can do anything graphical. (Like icons, logo, etc.) Thx.

Thanks and actually, if you can that would be great; graphics aren't exactly my forte. I'll message you and see where we go from there!

Considering I haven't exactly updated this topic in over 3 months or so, I just want to say that this project is not dead, and far from it honestly. A significant amount of progress has been made since, and I've also spent a lot of time focusing on the story and concepts. I'm finishing up a new in-game area of the entrance to the third dungeon and I really want to show it off soon, so maybe in a few weeks time I'll have some screenshots or maybe even a video, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Out of curiosity, what types of videos will you be doing? Will they be a broad variety of topics, or pertain to specific ones such as gaming?

I'm not sure I like the redesigns, Haruka's/May's in particular... It seems, uh, more "girly" in the details compared to her original design? Female protagonist or not, I don't like the designs and redesigns of the recent ones (DPPt/HGSS/BW2/XY) that much in general because of that, with BW's Touko (not sure about the English name) being an exception... Would be nice if 1) XY's trainer customization features are still in ORAS and 2) if the main characters' original outfits could be purchased or something.

The English name for her is Hilda, I believe. It wouldn't be too far-fetched to guess that trainer customisation might return, although it's probable it'd be rather limited (including the original outfits would be a nice little touch, so fingers crossed for that). Though I can actually see some form of it being used in the contests, much like the anime did.

Update (8/6/2014)

New information regarding the two third gen remakes has surfaced, thanks to CoroCoro magazine.

Mega Evolutions

So, what's new? Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are introducing three new mega evolutions; make room for Mega Sceptile, Mega Swampert and Mega Diancie!

Alongside the three new mega evolutions, there are an additional two for the third generation mascot legendaries, Groudon and Kyogre, totaling up to 5 new confirmed mega evolutions!

Character Redesigns/Alterations

Moving on from the new mega evolutions, it appears that characters are getting redesigned!

Small Details

The Mach Bike and the Acro Bike also make a reappearance. Additionally, these scans from the magazine show in-game screenshots from the remakes. In these we can see the original text box design from Ruby and Sapphire make a return. Also in the battle screens, the area containing the Pokémon information such as the name, HP, etc. now have a black box surrounding them. In X and Y there was no box.

Delta Emerald

The last detail I'd like to mention (although this information has been around for more than a little over a week), is the filing of the trademark for Pokémon Delta Emerald in Japan. The trademark was submitted early May 2014, around the same time as the trademarks for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were filed.

Now, this could mean either one of two things; we may potentially be getting a remake of Emerald Version, or, the trademark is being put in place to prevent another company from using the same name, or in the case they want to use the name in the future. There is evidence to support both sides of these theories. The evidence to support a remake of Emerald Version, is that the third title featured drastic alterations to Ruby and Sapphire. The storyline change alone is enough for a new release, especially if it was for the original version of Emerald to get its own game. Also, it's fairly obvious there will be a Primal/Prehistoric/Primeval Rayquaza, which could have its own modified story dedicated to it.

However, the past two remade generations (FireRed & LeafGreen, HeartGold & SoulSilver) never featured their third versions, Blue/Yellow (Generation I) and Crystal (Generation II) remade. Although, the name of a third version to go along with FireRed and LeafGreen, WaterBlue Version, was trademarked. Either it was a planned remake, or just copyright reasons like we may be seeing now with Delta Emerald. Perhaps Delta Emerald will be the first to break this trend in the generation remakes? Only time will tell.

That is all the information I've found regarding the remakes. More is likely to surface in the coming days.

A small update for those interested; a sneak peek of brief footage showing Groudon and Kyogre using their abilities, Drought and Drizzle. May be from an in-game cutscene, intro or a battle. The video can be seen below:

my guess is more will be shown at E3. It's a pretty underwhelming reveal once you think about it, since it looks to be just another remake.

And it seem like it will be, with E3 coming up around the corner next month. I believe they're releasing small teaser trailers before finally unveiling the games during E3, just to generate more hype.

Seems legit.

In all seriousness though, it looks like a quick edit to the debug ROM slapped onto a cartridge. I may be wrong, but I doubt that the developers needed to use a cartridge for the port, considering it was intended to play on the GameCube and all. Besides, $168,000 is a bit steep.

Just recently, remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions were announced. They are titled Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire respectively, and are scheduled for a worldwide release on the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS handheld consoles in November, 2014.

You can watch the official trailer hosted on YouTube below.

The two boxarts released show two different unseen forms of both of the main legendaries—Groudon and Kyogre—potentially being new mega forms. Just like in Pokémon X and Y, most locations will only be playable in 2D, with the exception of special areas.

It is also a possibility the two previously unobtainable mega evolutions for Latios and Latias will be featured in the remakes.

Personally, I'm more than excited for the release, with Pokémon Sapphire Version being one of the very first Pokémon games I owned. It was just a huge step from the Generation II games, and it was just an amazing experience overall. Now with it being an enhanced remake on the 3DS, it's going a step further from what it originally was.

So what do you think of these newly revealed remakes? Are you excited or not? And what do you speculate to appear in these titles?

I just checked out your scrapped maps and I have to say, they look very impressive! They have such beautiful designs, and I especially like the Castle Town. A shame the teleporter was cut though, it was my favourite out of them all!

To think that these maps were removed in place of better designs is exciting, and I can't wait to see their new and improved looks! Very inspiring work, and I look forward to seeing more from this project. You've got quite the talent, keep it up!

Unfortunately to my knowledge the only data that is saved onto the SD card is StreetPass and SpotPass data, and the save data is on the actual game cartridge itself. The save data with your copy of Pokémon X is with the cartridge, and unless found, is practically lost completely.

Unless you can find it and it isn't hopelessly lost somewhere out of reach, your best bet would be to purchase another copy; either physical or digital. But you will however have to start your save again from the beginning.

I do hope you find your original cartridge, anyway. Best of luck! 

I don't want another epic fangame project to fool around with my feelings and then leave me...

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm sure a lot of us have been there before. But I just want to let you know and reassure that I have no plans of abandoning this project, and that I wish to see it through until the end—regardless of how long this will take. I'll try my hardest not to disappoint!

This is a pretty great start. I'm a little ambitious as well, too. I'm best at story/script, and slowly getting better at modeling so if you need anything just ask, I'd love to help!

Thanks! I'm not sure if I need anything at the moment, but I'll be sure to let you know if I do!

And adult timeline? So I'm guessing you plan on importing OoT adult Link? I'm not sure if there's a proper converter, but you might be able to just change some things in adult Link's display list, and porting it over would require a lot of re-pointing the offsets.

 

There are unwanted problems when transferring models from OoT to MM or vice-versa.

JeDDyD pretty much cleared it up before I could. This is a modification of Ocarina of Time, not Majora's Mask. So it shouldn't be too difficult to achieve this.

Removed.

I'd rather eat the slug. No hassle involving removing it from the shell.

PS4 or Xbox One?

They remade it already.  For gamecube.

I wouldn't consider that a "remake," but a mere port with adjustments made to the HUD to reflect the GameCube's controller buttons.

Aelphaeis Mangarae, only because I prefer Perfect Dark over James Bond.

Sword Art Online or Log Horizon?

Probably too late, but just thought I'd throw in a quick redesign of option 3 I made not long ago with a few "touch-ups":

Just two small edits; the top-most portion of the page has been replaced to mirror the navigation area's gradient effect. I did this because the dual-gradient look in the previous options weren't as visually appealing (now that I look at it though the top part looks like it's going inwards rather than outwards, like it's bottom counterpart ). However, I'm not very pleased with the way the text and icons sit on it—that could be improved upon, but it's nothing major. Perhaps a nice white semi-transparent bubble around the two different sections could potentially look nice?

The second edit is not as noticeable, but a slight shade of blue in the main-content area (just turned the saturation up on those areas by 100%). Also, I put oddMLan's search box in as well, which will hopefully be implemented in the final design since it looks a lot nicer than the original. 

I also forget to add the settings icon next to the search box back in, my mistake. >.<

But that was just a quick mock-up I did out of sheer boredom. I both like and dislike my touch-ups at the same time, but just thought I'd put it out there anyway even if it's too late.

Also, is the favicon of this site getting an update as well? It looks kind of squished, and looks weird in Google Chrome.

My friend just brought up the fact that there WAS the giant stalchild captain in Majora's Mask. And you had to like, ride away from it. Dunno. Maybe that was already in existence from OoT and unused. 

Captain Keeta? IIRC, you were the one chasing him not the other way around, so it's probably safe to say this isn't the case.

Airikita's theory regarding the Stalchildren attempting to use the same location as Epona's position seems quite plausible, however.

Removed.

Not entirely sure if anyone is interested, but I have every one of Zeth's old YouTube videos saved up until the Palace of Ice Silver Rupee Challenge. I'd be more than willing to upload these at some point if anyone would like it—or I could send them to Shadow Fire if he'd rather, and have them uploaded to the official GCN channel.

I tend to archive anything I see, hence why I have them. Never got a chance to see the videos uploaded after the sneak peek of the Palace of Ice, though.