Sapphire hack: Pokemon Royal Sapphire: An Overhaul on the region, story, battles & Pokemon

[ShockinglyGongas]

Introduction:
This is Pokemon Royal Sapphire! The main goal of this game is to make the player have a different experience in hoenn than they usually have with most gen 3 roms/vanilla but keeping hoenn as base. Making it feel like another region is not what I want, just, something fresh but still hoenn at its core!

Now, how will I achieve this? Well by changing the maps, the story to fit my narrative, the battles & finally the pokemon available to the player

Goals:

Spoiler:

Reminder this is a 1 person project so it will take a bit, however progress is being done at a very good pace :) Here's my goals that I set myself while making the game:

- Still gen 3, no Physical Special split
- Change every map, even if only slightly, this needs to be a fresh experience
- Change the encounters in every area, making sure to prioritize less used pokemon early on
- Change the starters! (Scroll down for pictures)
- Difficulty Increase, However: this is not a Difficulty rom hack. Let's make that very clear, It won't be Vanilla levels of difficulty however it won't be like Emerald Kaizo or RadRed
- Make Every fight Mandatory + Add gauntlets. And no, I'll not make them impossible, nor extremely hard (Again, not the point) However I want the player to have fun fighting them and to at least think a bit before spamming A, you can perhaps go through a route with a single team but not deathless without thinking a bit (or, ya know, being a bit overleveled)
- Every optional Area in vanilla hoenn will now be mandatory, this includes the abandoned ship, cicling road, new Mauville Etc..
- Expand Team Aqua's lore, making their goals bigger and make their decisions affect the player's life
- Custom Dex with some cool mons from gens up to gen 8 :)
- NO type changes
- Changed learnsets
- Custom Showdown calculator and Custom PKHex
- Documentation to the entire game
- Patches of grass added to more areas for nuzlocking purposes
- Add/Change alot of times so its not 1:1 to Vanilla sapphire [I'm looking for help :) ]
- Change battle and overworld music on some routes with new music! [Also looking for help :) ]

- Change tileset

Current Features:

- Every Map has been changed
- Starters have been changed
- All areas have been made mandatory through new npc's, lore and expanded areas
- Trainers are all mandatory
- The new pokemon for the dex have been added
- Basically done with scripting
- Moves from future gens such as Air slash and X-Scissor have been added
- Changed tiles (Will post updated pics soon)


> Starter change

And the evos:

> Abandoned ship

> Game corner change

> Route Re-design for 102, 107 & 117

> A new area for fossils

> Only 1 rod is accessible in the game and you get it straight away

On the list, the next step is to build the Trainer teams, and then encounters

Will keep you guys updated along the way by updating this post as well as my youtube playlist with all the teasers
don't wanna reveal everything as I feel like a Docless/blind first playthrough of the game is recommended
Playlist on youtube that will keep getting updates: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHLXz6PPXtmOKVM6D7fEW1UR_h43d5WjY

Obviously theres no downloadable Patch as of yet :) <3

Credits: HexManiacAdvance and AdvancedMap, Lots of inspiration from SinisterHoodedFigure's philosofy & games, Lots of inspiration from Drayano's games, and special thank you to the people in the Hexmaniac discord for helping me with some issues I had with the scripting and map headers!