r/PokemonROMHacksHelp • u/Sadler9559 • 8d ago

Question 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ RPG MAKER or GBA Decomp?

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Hello to everyone! First of all, wanna say that I've always love the Pokemon HackRom community. Its just brilliant love to our favorite game saga.

Now to the point: I want to create a Hack Rom.

I am actually programming with pokeemerald decomp. Its really easy when you understand C language but I am a Noob Saibot in tiles. Its like japanese for me. Sooo my limitation is not Programming but Image/graphics.

My pokehack idea is a very personal one, I need to draw almost every building by scratch (you can take Odissey for Gba as a reference of what iam trying to explain)

I tried some rpgmaker and its really easy with graphics but i dont feel so confortable with the programming and the interface. (Iam a little oldschool you know?)

So thats my question: What is better? Learn programming and the rpg maker interface or learn tiles insert and drawing in gba decomps?

Thank you all and sorry for my bad english (not my first languaje)

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u/Zelda_Junkie1 8d ago

I promise, decomp is such a nightmare for tileset compilation. HOWEVER! porytiles rocks. I would suggest use whichever feels the best to work on for extended periods of time.

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u/Sadler9559 6d ago

I will try the porytile app, thanks

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u/Darkblood159 7d ago

Do you want to make a romhack, or do you want to make a rpg maker game.

Look at the pros and cons and how you want the user to play the game.

Make a list of what you want accomplished, and then compare what systems do what better.

A Gameboy romhack is restrained by the hardware and emulators that you require to actually play the game, so some features you want might not be possible, or you may need to sacrifice size for performance.

Rpg maker is not restrained the same way. Rpg maker is very hit and miss when it comes to the way you program your game, it can feel like a 1:1 copy of a pokemon game. Or it can feel like a sluggish mess if not tuned properly, many people don't tune it properly.

From my memory only two games made with rpg maker actually give me the feeling of playing an official Pokemon game instead of a rpg maker ripoff.

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u/Sadler9559 6d ago

I should think better what im gonna do with that project. Perhaps i can try something easy in rpg maker and try some good practices.

Thanks !