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Can you try your program on this version of the image? The transparency might work correctly with this version. (see below) I can give you a save file of my finished game if you want. In fact I have 2 with the story completely finished and one with only the last gym leader left. Or I can give you a savefile from pretty much anywhere in the game - Reborn generates backups all the time. But I'd really recommend you playing the game yourself without spoilers. It has more than a few surprises.

For the Gen 6 sprites maybe you should allow some similar colors as well but only with slight (non-noticeable) difference. That transparency issue seems odd. I'd guess that you're doing some operation that doesn't preserve transparency but that would have affected far more images. Maybe there is a bug in some function you're calling. So maybe the transparency of the original buggy images is somehow badly saved and Java doesn't recognize the pixels as being transparent when loading the image to memory?

Welcome to the forum! ;-) For the future questions like this belong to the On the Hunt directory. As for EV training there is a guide here: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18129 I understand you're somewhere at the beginning, probably before the first or second gym? EV training right away sounds a bit too early to me. For the first few leaders you just need to catch five other mons to have a full team and level them up a bit. Don't try to push through the game with less than 6 mons like most of the other games allow you - Reborn is not meant to work like that. In fact most people train more than 6 pokemon so that they could switch the team a bit for every gym battle.

I was playing E15 today and found a little bug with the Murkwater Surface field:

This is actually doable and not an entirely bad idea, so who knows, maybe we can do it. It might be looked into, even thought it'd admittedly be fairly low on our priority list. I've seen that in various other games. It shouldn't be too hard to copy it, right?

Wow! That's a really detailed explanation! :-) Launching it from command line is probably not a problem for anyone skilled enough to create a pokemon game so I wouldn't worry about that too much. Java might be a bit of a problem but most people probably have JRE installed anyway. The only real issue is to make it accept a path to the source images and a path to save results as arguments. My own experience with Java is a bit poor but it shouldn't be too hard I think? Very good work so far! I'm looking forward to see future improvements.

Yeah I understand that. :-) It shouldn't be too hard to make it as a simple batch script to run from command line - right? Just out of curiosity what programming language did you use to write it? I'm quite interested in the tricks you used to achieve that and what further tricks you came up with for the future.

This looks awesome! Didn't know this was even possible with Essentials - I always assumed the graphics are so bad because of some technical limitation. Didn't find anything wrong with this pack yet but I've only played for couple of minutes to see the difference. I think I'll never play reborn without this again - I'll tell you if I find anything wrong. Maybe you should talk to Ame to incorporate it into E16? Would you be willing to make your program (or better yet the source code) public so that future versions of Reborn and other games could benefit from it as well? Anyway thank you very much for this! I'm really really greatful that my favorite games finally looks as good as it deserves!

From what I've tried with your Talonflame: - Hariyama - nearly OHKO with Acrobatics - Mienshao - OHKO with Acrobatics - Lucario - nearly OHKO with Fire Blitz - Blaziken - nearly OHKO with Acrobatics Dídn't try the rest but the result is pretty clear - with a few more levels and EV-trained attack stat she should be able to sweep Samson just fine.

Each starter is or will be available as event pokemon somewhere in the game so its not that easy. Plus they might have some new moves and abilities.

First run - Froslass. Way more useful than I expected. Usually took out at least two enemy pokes thanks to Destiny Bond. Second run - Cinccino. I had a hard time against Noel because of it so I tried it myself. Scary thing. Third run - Vaporeon. The key to defeat Solochomp, completely destroyed several Gym Leaders (Radomus, Charlotte, Blake). Yeah I know these are not exactly weak pokes but it was my first time using them. On the other hand some pokes have proven to be unexpectedly useless: Ampharos. So slow that it always got knocked out before doing anything. Emolga. Good in the beginning but powerless later on. Greninja. Even with Protean it isn't nearly as awesome as it is hyped.

How did the move relearner manage to lose her key in the at the time locked Underground Railnet behind a wall we had to smash to get through?

I'm curious about the Tanzan lake where we should finally find Tara. Or whatever is left of her. Then all the new side quests in the city and the next Gym battle - which is likely to be Adrien. He kind of scares me because my current team is weak against fairies. Good work Ame! So nice to hear that things are still moving forward. Can't somebody help you with the teleport events? It seems like a ton of monotonous work which could be done even by a RPG maker beginner like myself.

So you can't evolve your pokemon like normal, everything that faints is dead and on top of that you can't even use held items? Man you're crazy. I'm not saying it's impossible but you might as well die of old age before finishing this. What about battle style? Are you going to use switch or set? Normally switch makes the game way too easy but in this case battle style set might make it impossible. Good luck!

That almost sounds like EP16 is already done and you're just teasing us now! How close to the truth am I? In that case it's pretty accurate - the Black Coffee is actualy your Mega stone!

Actually the best thing I know against Serra is Magneton with Mirror Shot (super-effective and greatly boosted by the field). In my case the Magneton easily took out everything except for Froslass. (And then the Froslass slaughtered my entire team. Well at least the first time around.)

I caught a shiny one. I wasn't even trying to get a shiny it just happened that the normal ones refused to get caught and then on my third attemt it was shiny and I got lucky with a third pokeball or so. However I like the original gold shiny sprite more than reborn's black... And I'm not even planning to train and use it. If I could trade it to you I would.

I'd like to get a Cottonee early in the game. I've found some topics about a Cottonee event in North Obsidia (http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/?showtopic=4373 and http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/?showtopic=6404) but it is not mentioned in the location guide. Was this event replaced by other pokemon or removed or should it still be there? I know it can be found on Route 4 but that's very late.

Talk to the clown on the right from that one - near the blocked entrance to ferris wheel. If I remember correctly Samson doesn't increase your level cap so you need to beat Charlotte as well before going over level 70. I usually beat Samson with pokes around 60-65. Well trained fast psychic type can even go 1v6 against Samson.

I might switch to linux soon. Which operating systems have the lag you're talking about? I'm mainly concerned about Debian and Ubuntu.

Sounds interesting. So who am I?

Actually Electric Terrain just adds some Electric type damage to Surf, it shouldn't completely turn it to Electric. I'm not sure what this will do against Lightning Rod / Volt Absorb but my guess would be that it only negates the minor Electric part of the damage and the boosted Water damage still applies.

Electric Terrain boosts Surf quite seriously so good luck with that. Grassy Terrain is good though.

Uups thanks.

I'm guessing Amaria will start on Water Suface but some of her pokemon will probably know Dive s she will probably often change the field to Underwater and back while you'll try to change it to Icy Field ir Murkwater Surface. Field-wise it should be pretty interesting battle - most fields don't have so many options to alter them.