I tried remaking Pokemon Emerald with Godot 4

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Hello everyone,

I’m Ark, sofware engineer. Last year, when I was in college, I was bored and was killing time with Godot. I was working on creating a Shin Megami Tensei like game using Godot 3, mostly for fun. Maybe I should upload that project on GitHub too.

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Then after some time I wanted to try something else. And as I was watching a Pokemon streamer playing a fangame, I thought “hmm, why not remaking a Pokemon game using Godot”.

And so I download the latest version at that time : 4.1.1 and started remaking Pokemon Emerald from scratch. I extracted the textures from the game and started working. As a perfectionist, I tried making pixel perfect copy of the game. Just for the ledge jumping animation, I went analyzing frame by frame the jump in the original game :joy:

Unfortunately, with exams and now my job, I can’t continue coding. But maybe someone reading this, or ending on the GitHub repository I just created, will want to continue what I started.

My idea with this project was to create an alternative to romhacking and RPG Maker XP, a complete Pokemon game made with Godot. Usable to make fangames in the future.

I’m available to talk about the project. It was one year ago, but I can still help to understand how to work with it.

Here is the repo : GitHub - Arman-HKB/PokemonEmeraldGodot: Pokemon Emerald made with Godot 4

Best regards fellow game developers,
Arkilym.

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Heya! Recently I’ve been having this in my mind, , could we talk about it? I’m a big noob in the engine but was willing to learn and give this a go. Unlike rpg maker, I couldn’t find anything close to pokemon essentials for this engine so…

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If possible, add me on discord “msousa”

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Hello Msousa, yes unfortunatly there’s nothing like that. There’s probably tutorials on YouTube but can’t say if they are complete or not.

What my project lack is a battle system. Once done, I’ll have a good starting point. I’m very busy right now, but I’ll for sure work on it again.

Reproducing Pokémon battle system will be challenging, but I like this kind of challenges :grin:

I’ll try to connect with you on Discord :wink: