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Hereby I would like to inform you that Pokémon White Deluxe, version 1.0.0, has been released officially.

Download link: Pokémon White Deluxe 

The game can be fully played until the Elite Four and shortly thereafter. However, note that several more changes were planned, which did not make it to this version. Since many other things take time in my life, I was unable to finish it completely. My wish was to do so and then do a full release. However, just now I have decided to release this version.

Please enjoy!

oh okay. will the alolan forms have different types, stats and movesets like the original alolan forms?

If everything works out, they will have different types, stats and movesets. But there's still no guarantee that I can/will add them.

can you try to add the fairy typ? and would you replace pokemon for the alolan forms? can you add attacks when you wait for the SM movesets?

As I've mentioned before, Fairy types will not be added to the game as it's too difficult for me to implement.

The Alolan formes, if added, will not be replacements but extra forms.

Several new attacks have already been added to the game, so I'm wondering what kind of attacks you're thinking of.

Just another update, the official release date has once again been postponed until November 2016. The reason is that I'd like to include changed game mechanics, movesets (and potentially) new moves from Sun & Moon and other game mechanics, as I rather not send out another update around that time. I'm also trying to add the Alolan forms. This hopefully also gives me time to release both White & Black Deluxe at the same time. The main story is complete, however. For those of you that are awaiting the hack, thanks a lot for the patience!

Love those graphics, how's the project going?

Still going great. Turns out there's just more and more work to it each and every week. That being said, I can assure it will be released anytime soon.

Perhaps, to speed up the releasing process, I'll first release Pokémon White Deluxe and release Black Deluxe later. Black Deluxe will contain the usual changes, as well as different wild Pokémon locations, different (order) of available Starter Pokémon, and several gimmicky changes.

Hi are you gonna edited the screen title?

how about editing start meun into something different and new look? if you can do

The title screen text has been edited. Currently I have no plans to edit the start menu.

I'm sure that some people found a way to implement fairy typs. I saw it on pokecommunity or here. oh okay this will be interesting. I hope the elite four are single battles? how did you enhanced the story? with more NPCs?

I have not yet found someone who has successfully implemented the Fairy type in Pokémon B(2)/W(2). Elite Four and Champion are single battles, and so are 7 of 8 Gym Leader battles. For one, the story does include more NPCs.

oh okay so no new costum maps? does exist the fairy typ in it and how difficult is this hack? similar to the original games or to drayano hacks?

No new custom maps. Fairy type is not implemented. If I (or someone else) ever find(s) a way to implement the Fairy type, I will add it to this hack. Difficulty level of this hack is comparable with Drayano's hacks - particularly, the Gym Leaders will be a real challenge.

Beta testing application is now closed. Thank you very much everybody for your contributions. Everyone that has replied will receive a PM shortly.

okay what are the features of this hack? a costum map? only edited trainer?

Although the game's world (Unova) and maps are the same, the game has an enhanced story line, as well as many new features - some of them can be derived from the screenshots in the first post.

Pokémon Black & White Deluxe are almost ready for a full release!

Currently, I am looking for beta testers. As a beta tester, you:

• thoroughly play the game and closely look for textual or graphical errors;
  
• update me on your progress and general opinion on the game's changes, where I'm particularly interested in your Pokémon team every time you battle a Gym Leader;
  
• are not allowed to post online any screenshots or video material of the beta version you'll play.
  

If you would like to play the game before anyone else, please apply!

I have a question regarding the Gen 6 Pokémon icons. Say I'm adding new forms to Pokémon Black & White. These new forms need new party icons. Can I just add them to the end of the file, or is something else required?

As an extension to this post's data on triggers:

Trigger (0x16 long)

0x00-0x01 - Script reference

0x02-0x03 - Constant Value

0x04-0x05 - Constant Reference - If Ref=Val, trigger.

0x06-0x07 - ????

0x08-0x09 - ????

0x0A-0x0B - X Coordinate (16bit)

0x0C-0x0D - Y Coordinate (16bit)

0x0E-0x0F - Horizontal length

0x10-0x11 - Vertical length

0x12-0x13 - Z Coordinate (16bit)

0x14-0x15 - ????

where the Z Coordinate is displayed as 2 bits, where 10 00 implies Z = 1, 70 00 implies Z = 7 and so forth. What is the official name for this again? Also, if I'd need the value for Z = FF FB, how would I code this?

Edit: it should be B0 FF.

Looks great. I really hope you'll finish it. Good luck!

Only found out about this just now. Is there any support on adjusting Trainer's natures for BW (not the sequels)?

Can anybody upload the file here, or the uploader have a new download link, I really want to play it. Thanks in advance :cool:

Thanks a lot for your interest in this hack!

I'm glad to say that after all these years, I'm still working on this hack of Pokémon Black & White. It will have many new features that will all be revealed somewhere in the near future. Unfortunately, no beta versions will be released to the public, nor will I reupload the old version of this hack. I'll be updating this thread in the upcoming weeks, and I'll also post more screens of the Pokémon Black & White Deluxe hack. The hack is expected to be released in summer 2016.

OK, I'll just begin with my story.

Pokémon Black and White. NARC a/0/6/6 contains the move animations. All 559 original moves have their own animation script, such that the first 560 files of a/0/6/6 contain the move animations for each move (with file 000 being a dummy file). Additionally, files 561 up to 600 are also in-battle animations, for example the "using a held item" animation, the "Shiny" sparkle, or the trapping move animations (animations shown when you are trapped by Bind, for example). EDIT 1: Found out that files 561 until 600 are actually dummy files and NOT the in-battle animation files. Instead, moves 560 until 658 are linked to these in-battle animations by default. Any move after 658 will have no move animation and make the game crash. This means that there possibly is some kind of overlay table that links moves 1-559 to the corresponding move animation in a/0/6/6, and that moves 560 until 658 are called when a specific in-battle animation is required.

Move animations can be interchanged quite easily. For example, if we copy file 343 Covet and replace it with file 126 Fire Blast, we will see that Fire Blast now uses the Covet animation:

Now, this was quite easy! So let's continue.

Say I'm adding the Generation VI moves like KazoWAR has done before in B2W2's Project 721. Adding new moves to "move data" a/0/2/1, and adding the new texts to a/0/0/2 is all quite easy.

However, a problem shows up when adding new move animations. I came up with a "clever" idea to add dummy moves in a/0/2/1 move_data for move 560 until 600, and to add Gen VI moves starting at 601 (such that 601 would be Flying Press, and so on). Why? Because then I could add new move animations to a/0/6/6 starting at file 601, such that the other in-battle animations 560 until 600 were untouched.

As an example, Play Nice should now be move 630 in this game. I again added a dummy animation of Covet to a/0/6/6/630.

Unfortunately, when I now use Play Nice in-battle, it somehow uses the animation of "being trapped by Bind" (see below) - and although I'm not sure which animation that would be exactly, it is one of the animations of file 560 until 600. Because when I try to use Phantom Force, which should be move 607, it uses the animation of "using a held item" in-battle.

Long story. All I'm asking for is some ideas. Could somebody think of why this is happening? Also, given that both a/0/6/6 (move animations) and a/0/2/1 (move data) now contain "dummies" for files 560 until 600, shouldn't everything just be working correctly?

My best guess would be that the move data files a/0/2/1 could have some kind of pointer to their respective move animations. Given that I copied data from ORAS directly, Play Nice (now move 630) would then most probably still point to move animation 589 (which is Play Nice's original index number). But I could not find a pointer anywhere. Also, if a completely different pointer table would exist somewhere in an overlay, then why do the added moves Play Nice (#630) and Phantom Force (#607) point so 'nicely' to exactly these in-game animations from 560 until 600?

EDIT 2 @ May 25 With the help of Kaphotics, the answer has been found!

Example pseudocode:

If (effectID > 559)

----playEffect(effectID)

else

----playMove(effectID)

In fact, every move after 559 gets a battle effect from NARC a/0/6/7 in BW (move effects; which is a/0/6/6 in B2W2, and move animations is a/0/6/5 in B2W2). So if you want to add new moves, add the animations to this NARC starting at move ID 659.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks a lot for reading!

To make this project really work, I can add the in-game party icons, Pokémon footprints, Pokédex information and even the animated sprites. However, there is one specific technical difficulty, which is adding the Pokémon cries. Does anybody know a way to do this? Now, all the 6th Generation Pokémon have Bulbasaur's cry.

How do you get the 6th gen Pokémon to show up?

You can hack them in as wild encounters by hex editing the wild Pokémon encounter file, narc a/1/2/7.

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know which flags I can safely use for new events and scripts?

Thanks!

OK, so after a lot of investigation, I found out how to handle this!

This post shows a breakdown of the map_overworlds narc a/1/2/5. We see that map_overworlds consists of a header, furniture, NPCs, warp and trigger. Additionally, Kaphotics justly notes that there is more to it:

  Extra Stuff (Trigger Related?)
 0x06 long
 0x00-0x01 - Selects One of something
 0x02-0x05 - Does something to it

I have found out that this part in fact refers to a global script, which is loaded whenever the map is entered, and should be interpreted as follows:

  Global Script Trigger
 0x06 long
 0x00-0x01 - 02 00
 0x02-0x03 - Script number that should be activated globally
 0x04-0x05 - 00 00

NOTE: The 0x04-0x05 - 00 00 part is usually left out.

Thus, the global script trigger always starts with 02 00, followed by the script number that should be activated when entering the specific map, followed by 00 00. Maps without global scripts therefore also lack this part of the map_overworlds data.

With this known, I can finally add Pokémon and events that only occur on a certain day or time!

Hi everyone,

While rounding up my rom hack, I am trying to implement some new events / wild Pokémon that are battleable on a current day (or time). Of course, this is already in the game (think of Musharna, which is only battleable in Dreamyard on Fridays).

Now, I have found two important parts in the script for Dreamyard's Musharna:

• The first part contains the usual script handler for Musharna, with the battle handler, which also sets flags after the battle
  
• The second part, which is a totally different script, first of all sets the flag of Musharna (by setting the flag, Musharna will NOT appear) and thereafter, checks if the conditions are true (i.e., if it is indeed Friday). If the condition is true, the flag of Musharna is cleared, such that it will appear:

28 00 20 80 00 00			Create internal variable 20 80 and set value to 00 00
CF 00 20 80				Store current day in variable 20 80
09 00 20 80				Take variable 20 80
08 00 05 00				If equal to 5 (5 = Friday)
11 00 01 00				Condition equal
10 00 60 09				Check flag 60 09
08 00 01 00				If equal to 1
11 00 01 00				Condition equal
10 00 BC 0A				Check flag BC 0A
08 00 00 00				If equal to 0 (unset)
11 00 01 00				Condition equal
11 00 07 00				?
11 00 07 00				?
1F 00 FF 0A 00 00 00			Jump A steps to (*)
24 00 EC 02				Clear flag EC 02 (makes Musharna appear)
1E 00 04 00 00 00			Jump 4 steps to (&)
23 00 EC 02				(*) Set flag EC 02 (makes Musharna disappear)
28 00 20 80 00 00			(&) Set internal variable 20 80 to value 00 00
02 00					End script

This part (as showed in the code above) is very interesting and it appears in the Dreamyard's map_event_data file as the first script. It also lacks "2E 00 Start script" and "02 00 End script", so it rather seems to be a global check. There is one main problem: I do not know how this script is called. My idea is that it somehow is set as a global script that is ran whenever the player enters the Dreamyard basement - but I'm not sure!

The script is quite straightforward, but for this to work on other maps, I need to know how it is activated.

Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot!

NB: Also, the flag BC 0A that is checked for during the script is set after Musharna has been defeated, such that Musharna is not reappearing on Fridays if it has already been battled. I also do not know when and how this flag BC 0A is unset. If anyone knows more about this part specifically, please let me know! As a workaround, for new events I'm thinking about creating a custom flag that is unset everytime the Champion is beaten.

Nevermind... This was a stupid mistake from my part since I had forgotten to also edit the Experience Types of Wormadam's two other forms... ^^''

So editing Experience Types does not seem to affect storyline gameplay.

Hi everyone,

After editing a Pokémon's Experience Type (i.e. Growth Rate, such as "Fast", "Medium Slow", "Erratic", etc.), something goes wrong.

For example, an in-game Trainer should have a level 44 Wormadam. However, after changing Wormadam's Experience Type from "Medium Fast" to "Fast", the Trainer's Wormadam is suddenly battled at level 40!

I could not think of a reason why this is happening. Shouldn't the Pokémon's level be set? However, I did not try a "new game" yet, but I'm not sure if (or rather: why) that would be the cure.

Thanks a lot if you have anything to share on this subject!

Great! Thank you so much for the clear explanation!!

The personal narc file for editing Pokémon data has a special value for the 13th bit in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, which is 1 for Diglett and Dugtrio, and 0 for all other Pokémon.

Now, this value implies that the Pokémon will not "fall out of the sky" when sent out of the Poké Ball, but it will instead just be stuck to the ground (see this post).

I want to know where to find this value for Pokémon Black & White, because I want to add this functionality for Pokémon like Hippowdon (which should also be stuck to the ground, but isn't).

Maybe I'm wrong, but I couldn't find it in BW's personal narc.

Thanks for your help!

Just wanted to let you know: great! Your updates excite me every, single, time.