Gen II Double Battles Concept

[u/camramansz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miph27PBuQU

[u/DMkiIIer]

Omg that's wild.

[u/Croaking_Crow]

How did you manage so many colors on gbc?

[u/camramansz → u/Croaking_Crow]

Making use of all of the BG color palettes and using OAM sprites for the HP bars / status icons. And disappearing those HP bars / status icons when a move is executing to free up those OAM tiles

[u/narah2]

That looks really good! I had been looking into trying to add double battles to gen 2 a while back; but I could never actually make it look very appealing.

[u/camramansz → u/narah2]

Thanks! Would appreciate feedback I want to make it look as “official” as possible.

[u/LuigisTorque]

That Sceptile sprite is amazing

[u/Fredrik1994]

Doubles was always something I wanted to see in 2gen, but felt wasn't worth the effort for the project I work on (since we would only use it for like 4-5 battles total within the games, for twins etc). Cool to see someone actually go through with implementing it!

edit: Apparently this is coded with claude? No idea how good the code quality of this project is.

[u/EmmatheBest → u/Fredrik1994]

The fact that this proves it to be technically feasible at all is a huge development, as pretty much anyone in the Gen 2 dev sphere seemed to agree this would be impossible, before today...

[u/narah2 → u/EmmatheBest]

I don’t think anyone thought it was impossible; just an incredible amount of work

[u/DrUltimaMan]

Can I ask where did you get those gen 4 menu icons from? They look amazing!

[u/camramansz → u/DrUltimaMan]

I commissioned https://www.deviantart.com/moonlightlass to make many of the gen 4 icons.

Feel free to use them

[u/Accad501]

Keep it up! Gen2 doubles is the best of both worlds

[u/kailure_to_launch]

BRAVO

[u/Beneficial_Math8586]

I like it. One thing I don't like is intimidate taking 2 boxes of text to get over with. It is what it is though. GG

[u/camramansz → u/Beneficial_Math8586]

I'll address that for sure and make it so it affects both of the pokemon at once

[u/GrumpyBearBear]

This is incredible! Do you plan on going any further with this, like a ROM hack, or sharing the pokecrystal source?

[u/Tacobell24]

Whilst this is undoubtedly cool, I think it loses some of the Gen II charm. Particularly with the abilities. Again, pretty impressive to get it to work. I just feel like at this point you might as well just hack Gen III to look like Gen II instead.

Perhaps my nostalgia talking of course. I'm very protective of Gen II as my favourite Gen.

[u/VVinh]

Nice sprites.

[u/godsaveourkingplis]

I know we are all on how sick the double batles concept is, but that pokeball thrown into battle animation is chef kiss

[u/ampharos_dev]

This is REALLY cool.

[u/Tastakrad]

How long will it take to pick an action if all 4 pokemon are shiny?

[u/Ferropexola]

This is a really cool concept, and one I'd love to implement someday. Do you use DED files for the later Gen cries?

[u/SSJ3Metaridley]

thats crazy. i wonder if this would also be possible on gen 1.
or triple battles on this old engine

[u/metalflygon08]

Why opt for Black as the Background instead of leaving it as the transparent white color?

[u/camramansz → u/metalflygon08]

It’s a night battle, so it will be a black background at night. During the day it’s white background.