Hack Series: Pokémon Ruby Destiny Series

[chaomega50]

Hello DJG. I'm a really big fan of your series RR and LOG.


Recently I've found that wrong sprites are used for Sprinephy and also Shaymin in RR.

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I guess you just forgot it. Anyway I want you to fix these simple problems :D


One more thing to ask, what is this creepy spider? Were you planning to use this in the main story?


I mean this was surprising. What is this? (Careful, it's creepy...)

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[PokeFikor]

What version of pokemon ruby do you use

 

[Burningocean2012]

How's the remake project going?

 

[Darkmaster006]

Which ROM should I use to patch this? I've tried with 4 roms already (USA V1.0 Mugs, USA/Europe, V1.1)

 

[LucarioBread]

I finally made a PC account last year so I was never able to express my appreciation for your work before that.
I'll just put this love letter to the RD series in a spoiler so it doesn't clog the thread too much:

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Dear Ruby Destiny,
We met for the first time during my spring break about 11 years ago. A youtube video caught my eye. It was a ROM hack where the player faced off against Dark Lugia in a glitched forest. Little did the younger me know, he's just discovered his favorite and most influential rom hack series, no, any kind of series in general.
I remember Reign of legends being pretty tough (That damn Infernape in the 4th gym). But I fell in love with the map design. Especially the second island you travel to. The story was much deeper and complex than what I've encountered in Pokemon up to this point. Baby Lugia was a cool idea, I got to use Sinnoh Pokemon (and goddamn, I feel so much nostalgia for the messy resized sprites). I remember it took me a long time to finish the game, but it felt amazing once I did. At the end, catching Angeallen was a crown on top. Although, I did find it a bit anticlimactic that it used a Dodrio cry.
Young me wants more and discovers that there are 2 more games, one of them had a new trailer posted earlier this year (which I'll get to later).
Rescue Rangers, here I come! At the time, Explorers of Time was still quite fresh to me and I loved it. I pretty much gobbled Rescue Rangers up. I was amazed by the sheer creativity of the concept. How you took a main series game and twisted it into a spin-off. I did get lost in the story a bit, but after replaying it a couple of years later, actually understanding the plot made it so much more enjoyable. Thinking about it in retrospect, you did the Isekai thing before it was popular :o

RD: Life of Guardians.
Where do I even begin. Without exaggeration, one of my favorite games of all time, Pokemon or not. From the plot, the characters, the graphics, especially music, map design... it was simply amazing. I started following the development since it wasn't finished when I first played it, mostly through your YouTube channel. And now let's get back to the trailer. The "Hohoemu namida" trailer. It was probably my first exposure to japanese music, although at the time I had no idea it was japanese. I thought, since you were Filipino, it was a Filipino song. And speaking of music, it has expanded my horizons at the time. I loved the soundtrack and I went around searching what the original song is. That's how I discovered stuff like Chrono Cross/Trigger and Kingdom Hearts, both series very dear to me today. When the game finally finished development, it was very bitter sweet for me. I wanted to see more of Chaomega, I wanted for Devihel and Breatherna to be happy, Kevin... you managed to touch my heart with the cast you've created...
I've played through RoL 3 times, RR 2 and LoG 4 times, the 4th replay taking place a month or 2 ago. And I can say that the game aged really well and I'm in love with just as much as I was 10 years ago.

Remember how I mentioned I was introduced to Kingdom Hearts through Simple&Clean? Well, that series along with Okamiden softened me up to Japanese culture, eventually anime and... here I am, sitting at 136 entires on MAL...

I was listening to youtube generated mix a couple of weeks ago. Through the magic of YouTube algorithm, Survive by Kotoko found its way. It almost made me tear up. I also found out where it's from. Luckily, the younger me was too dumb to research that.

I should also mention DJG youtube channel. I love how it became a place where you just simply post things you're passionate about. Looking through your update videos as I'm writing this... my admiration for your work has grown even further. Whereas many don't even finish 1 hack, you have finished 3. 3!!! And great ones at that. When you announced you're retiring, I was a bit saddened, but shortly after I remember nodding at the screen and saying: "you deserve it champ".
And then you cheekily announce the polished version years later. :D

In conclusion, thank you so much DJG for creating such a legendary series. You have had a hand in shaping me into a person I am today. It's almost surreal coming in contact with you after all these years.

Sincerely,
an elementary school kid, now a university student.

If you do end up reading it, I'm sorry that it's this long... it's just that these are the things I've been piling up all these years.

 

[arceusgiratina]

I love your old RoL BUT I have one question for you: Where do I catch Numel? I couldn't find Numel in Heat Path because all I see is Vulpix, Growlithe, Ponyta and etc.

 

[Twitxh]

any news on the remake :/

 

[OriginalStar95]

I was able to play part 3 on emu box but when I download reign of destiny but it wont show up on the rom search to play it. Is the first one just for the pc?

 

[OriginalStar95]

If anyone has any answers plz send me a message on here or my discord YseraTheDreams2646

 

[CHHKN]

Pls finish the 4th hack...i played the 1st three n i liked them..

 

[Aidanbird2004]

Which fourth hack he cancelled broken timeline to make a reign of Legends remake

 

[Inner Rhymes]

Which fourth hack he cancelled broken timeline to make a reign of Legends remake

Broken timeline.

 

[pikachuhatesmk]

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this game goes, but I know Rome wasn't built in a day.

 

[RenElite]

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this game goes, but I know Rome wasn't built in a day.

uh what game bro?? last time I checked, all Ruby Destiny games are completed.

 

[pikachuhatesmk]

uh what game bro?? last time I checked, all Ruby Destiny games are completed.

I'm talking about the remake, dingus.

 

[RenElite]

I'm talking about the remake, dingus.

Oh, don't get your hopes up then, there's no update for 2 years now. Plus why do you have to insult me, I literally didnt say anything against you lol.

 

[Edward Castle]

How can I get dive in pokemon ruby destiny Reign Legends?

 

[hacksrepairman]

There are some glitches which might be gamebreaking in the second game of this great great series, the most infamous glitch must be events resetting one. And in the 2014 version, there's a problem which cannot be unseen, which is the sprite errors for some new Pokemon like Shaymin. Thanks to jiangzhengwenjzw's help, most of the glitches like the most gamebreaking events resetting glitch in rescue rangers were fixed, and I was so honored that destinedjagold allowed me to release this patch. This patch only fixes the existing glitches which could break the game like the events resetting glitches and so on. The only actual changes I did was I added some legendary pokemon recruiting events after you beat the game so that players can get really prepared for the true final event in the game.
These are the major changes:
The events resetting glitch was taken out.
Some text errors were fixed.
Some minor glitches in some maps were fixed.
The wrong sprites for Pokemon like Shaymin and Sprinephy were fixed.
Some Pokemon which lack some sprites were given proper sprites.
The end credits no longer simply go black after it's over.
Some legendary Pokemon like the elemental guardians, Felinar, Regirock and Sprinephy can be recruited after you beat the game so that you can get really prepared for the last battle against the Shadow. And for those maps in which you can recruit these Pokemon, the shadow event was delayed, you can only trigger the last battle in these maps after you have faced these Pokemon.
After the final event, the stone in the Tower of Fate will become a place where you can battle Chaomega/The Shadow(After the Shadow was beaten)again whenever you want.
Some screenshots:

This patch was tested multiple times. So it should be stable enough to play through.
Here's the link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3esw...stiny2-RescueRangers%282021_fixed%29.ips/file

 

[Trainer 766]

If by "polish-up for Rescue Rangers" you mean "delete it in the internet" then yes, I agree. You have no idea how much I think of putting that thing down, to save others' sanities...

Er... I mean... We'll see.

hacksrepairman prophecy fulfilled

 

[blitz_2k]

So the remake of the first game is dead?