DarkTails

Did I screw something up? Sometimes when I use a pokemon, the pokeball animation won't show, but sometimes it will, I don't understand why. Anyone else have this problem?

Most people can't even finish one entire ROM mod, and that's with experience in coding/script-writing/map-editing/hex editing. Making three games is going to take you years to finish, especially if you don't know how to do any of those things, and especially if you want to modify the recent games like Diamond/Pearl. I suggest you take programming classes so you do a lot of the editing yourself and don't have to rely on others to do most of the work. If you have to be waiting for a bunch of spriters and programmers, that's going to delay you indefinitely, and that's assuming you can find anyone at all who's willing to do that huge amount of work for free, or just to have their name in the credits, lol. That said, I wish you a bunch of luck because I'd really like to see a good ROM mod! I'd like to see a mature storyline, not the boring pg-13 stories Nintendo is forced to give us so they don't "corrupt the minds of children across the planet with blood in video games", heh. You know, I wish I could download the info from the brains of all the talented people making the games, I'd spend the rest of my life making awesome ROM mods and living off donations.

Yeah, that helps! I've replaced sprites before but I've just never thought about trying to replace a little sprite (the bike) with a huge one (Steelix). I was thinking, can I maybe replace Steelix's overworld sprite with my custom one (with your character on it), then make an action-replay code where if you press L+ R (or whatever) your character's sprite disappears? That way you're riding Steelix and you don't even have to bother with the bicycle! I'd have to mess with hexes wouldn't I?... xP I think the trouble would be that you wouldn't know where your going, since you're invisible lol...

Can you tell where this is going? So, I was wondering if it would be possible to change the bicycle sprite in HGSS into a Pokemon sprite, I was thinking a Steelix. Obviously we can't fit a giant sprite, I was thinking of just riding on top of Steelix's head with the rest of its body underground. So, I guess his head could occupy 4 "squares", your character would be placed on the top-right. I can make some sketches it it isn't clear... So, I'm asking, is it even possible to make the bicycle sprite occupy 4 squares on-screen? How about replacing the Bicycle with Steelix's over-world sprite?