Been digging for a few days and I finally found an extremely easy Java application that applies a fully functional real-time Day/Night cycle to any Gen 3 game, and it looks great. It's also got Dawn, Dusk, Sunset, Sunrise, all that shit. The lack of a Day/Night system in the Vanilla games has ALWAYS bothered me.
Any anon need a hook up with the link?
Pic related is a screen I just took.
>>26704870
You can also add the Time Cycle to Battles, if you want.
>>26704870
>>26704910
holy shit anon i need this
link to the program? also any tutorial or some shit for applying it?
>>26704870
Is this an actual edit to the ROM, like something you could put on a flashcart or any emulator and play, or is it some special emulator?
That nighttime looks good, the only hack I've played with day/night was Life of Guardians and it looked like shit but the palettes seem a lot better here.
>>26704870
>The lack of a Day/Night system in the Vanilla games has ALWAYS bothered me.
You aren't the only one. People often forget(probably because most of the people here weren't on the internet 13-14 years ago), but removing day/night was considered a pretty big deal and a lot of people were pissed off. It's easily the most negative reaction before a Pokémon game release that I've seen.
That, and not being able to transfer Pokémon too, I guess.
Giving them a day/night cycle is probably one of the best things you can do to improve gen 3 outside of phys/spec split.
>>26704870
This looks fantastic.
Post it OP, I'd love to play FRLG with day/night.
Last time I saw a patch like this, it was active during evolutions, and the morning/evening palettes were a rather unappealing orange.
Is this any better than that?
>>26704870
>>26704910
Jesus christ that hurts my eyes.
>>26704992
>>26704924
http://www.memoryresources.de/DNS/DNS.zip
Pic related are the settings I used.
Instructions
>Open ROM
>click Insert RTC
>click Insert DAN
And that's it. Change the settings on the right to your own preference.
The seasons feature is broken as fuck, so don't touch that section. But it's not required by any means.
I should mention that when you try to load your save game ever after saving with this, it will say the file is corrupt. This message means nothing. It loads the game perfectly after this message and your day/time settings are preserved. So don't worry about that.
>>26704971
No special emulator required. Literally just edits the ROM file with a few clicks.
>>26705009
The pallettes are great IMO, and its only active on the outside overworld unless you specify otherwise. I have it set to just overworld and in battles, all menus and shit like evolution doesn't get affected.
>>26705016
i know youre just a shitter but how
it looks like any other fucking day night cycle from gen 2 or 4 tbqhfam
>>26705021
thanks op. i've been changing the time on my laptop to see all the cycles, it looks bretty great. i was mostly just worried about sunset. bless.
>>26705016
>Soft blue pallet hurts my eyes.
How?
What's wrong with your eyes?
>>26705021
Thanks for not being a faggot OP. Works great on my end.
>>26704870
>>26705021
Thanks anon. Was confused why it wasnt working at first, but I just forgot I had the real time clock disabled on VB so it was giving the dead battery message.
Thank you OP this shit looks fucking fantastic. Gen 3 just got ten times more comfy.
>>26705077
Where did the truck come from and how did it even get there to begin with?
>>26705021
>>26705255
Can someone edit ROMS of FR LG and post em in MEGA?
My computers getting fixed and I want this
>>26705364
OP here. Give me a minute and I'll have you covered.
>>26705339Mew gives birth to trucks.
>>26705377
>yfw the wheels are just for show and the moving truck can fly
>>26705364
>>26705377
Follow up, do you want it enabled in battles or no?
>>26705391
>yfw the Moving Company Machoke carried it
>>26705021
That fucking great!
Now I just need something similiar that adds the special/physical split
>>26705400
Ah fuck, and yeah sure for the extra experience, sorry for late reply, thanks anon
Not as cool as GS in my opinion. The windows don't light up.
Does it at least change the encounters for night?
>>26705481
>The windows don't light up.
It's just a color palette hack, not a sprite hack.
>Does it at least change the encounters for night?
Gen 3 already has a time system, it just doesn't change the appearance of the overworld when it should.
>>26705478
No problem. Give me a minute.
>>26705508
>Gen 3 already has a time system, it just doesn't change the appearance of the overworld when it should.
yeah but wild pokemon rates don't change
>tfw the battery in my emerald cart died like 6 years back
not like i plan on doing much in it now anyways
>>26705478
>>26705364
Here you go anon
https://mega.nz/#!FEY1EJbC!EE0ziX-h18jqfN4LJ68PSYImiFQKmBfQlik_DUHfAmk
>>26705565
Would it be too much to ask for a rse one too?
>>26705588
Nah, just give me another few minutes.
>>26705508
>It's just a color palette hack, not a sprite hack
I know what it is. We've been able to do this in hacks for years. It's just not a big enough change to make the game more "comfy" as anon claims.`
>>26705588
RSE https://mega.nz/#!FUwQXY4B!2IVRde6Kc-j9fSzncpyIG4VHFlLIuNt0lanFfD8AZ0c
>>26705625
Why are you arguing about this? It's obviously just a little palette hack for the purpose of giving anons a Day/Night cycle in Gen 3. If having the overworld dark at night makes it comfy for him, great. Why do you care what he thinks?
Thank you OP and the people who patched the links.
Extra comfy.
>>26705565
Just noticed I left an .ips patch in the Leaf Green folder. Feel free to delete it.
>>26705635
Thanks a million!
Does it work with already edited roms like randomized things etc?
>>26705683
Yeah. And you keep load the ROM back up and change the settings at any time without losing your save.
>>26705635
Wasn't arguing. I was just giving out my opinion. I wasn't berating the anon for finding it comfy. No need to get defensive.
>>26704870
If we do this in FRLG can Eevee evolve into Espeon and Umbreon?
>>26704870
>>26704910
This looks horrendous, it's literally just a blue filter over everything.
>>26704979
>but removing day/night was considered a pretty big deal
No it wasn't. Following magazines like Nintendo Power and such people didn't really think much of it more than an "oh it's gone?"
Online wasn't too different outside of diehard fanboys who couldn't accept moving forward required the loss of gimmicks.
>>26704870
>none of the lights in the house are on
>>26706481
>can't evolve certain pokemon because of a removed gimmick
It was dumb.
>>26706460
well gen 3 already is horrendous so its more a cut your losses kind of deal :^)
>>26706539
Cry harder johtoddler.
>>26706993
>Fuck I wish the "newer" games had features the older games had
>oh shit people who played those games are onto me
Nigga why are you even here?
>>26706460
It's a fucking color mod that the anon didn't even make, what'd you expect? Don't be so entitled. The reason this board has gotten even worse this past year(which I guess is somehow possible)is because of kids like you who can't help but chime in and shitpost in a thread only designed to help a few other anons out. The majority ITT were happy with what the anon delivered so obviously you're just upset for some incoherent reason or you're just that starved to shitpost. If you want a board of nothing but negativity and trying to be the most contrarian as possible, go to fucking >>>/mu/ or something.
>>26707024
Not that anon but most of what I just said also kind of applies to you.
where are you guys playing this?
>>26707905
because the lack of visual feedback of time for gen 3 games is an abysmal mistake on game freak's part and literally anything even slightly improving it is more worthwhile than the original games
>>26707943
No I mean are you doing it through an emulator? a website? a program what
>>26707959
oh shit my bad, i'm black i can't read.
it's just with a patched rom and an emulator. op explains it pretty well here >>26705021
you can download the patched ones premade though >>26705565 >>26705635
>>26706481
It was a big deal. Expand your horizons or get better memory.
>>26706481
>expecting Nintendo Power to critique Nintendo's biggest brand release of the Nintendo GBA
>>26706571
But you could. You can get Espeon/Umbreon in RSE because there is a time mechanic in place.
In fact, FRLG are the only main series games after Gen 2 where you can't get Espeon/Umbreon because there was a lack of a time mechanic.
>>26708107
>RSE remove day/night cycle
>FRLG removed time mechanic all together
Is Masuda a fucking sadist?
>>26704870
hey op you still here?
I'm not OP but I combined D/N and Split for Emerald and Fire Red.
Emerald: https://mega.nz/#!LJoTzSzT!g2AznboTAzxicpb-8gasRrhG1hWdErnM7mtrlvf8OG4
Fire Red:
https://mega.nz/#!SRZ2GJjK!D7TBVIdh4UdlaahCslQvSVZCH035nujqreWBDWbttCI
>>26704910
So you mean you could make it so Poochyena appears at night-only and Zigzagoon day-only for example?
>>26710865
Bless this god damn post. Bless this god damn anon.
>>26710865
>only Emerald and Fire Red
>not delivaring RSE and FRLG like based OP
At least you tried.
>>26704870
>>26704910
>>26705077
>>26705255
>>26710865
Fuck, this is amazing.
I'm playing FRLG for the first time and want it to be legit but this is SO tempting to do instead.
>>26711821
Why waste your time with the disgusting vanilla of FRLG? Applying Day/Night is something that should've been there in the first place, Phy/Spe split, too.
I'm glad you guys found something you enjoy. For me FLRG is perfect. Adding day and night would make it annoying.
>>26711842
Oh I agree, but it's the last game for me to play in the franchise to complete every region in it's most recent form.
I feel it'd be lame to do all the others as intended, just to play a hack for the last one. Maybe I'll play it after.
>>26711894
I wouldn't even call adding Day/Night a hack. More like a fix.
>>26704870
>>26705255
>no lights on in the windows
na i'm good m8 thanks
>>26711906
True. I'll probably play the one without the Physical/Special split. Come to think of it, >>26710865 should have made unlimited TMs. D/N, Split and TMs are the only real changes Gen 3 hacks need to become the definitive way to play them. But beggars cant be choosers so I can live with this.
>>26711965
Autism
>>26710865
Is there a way to play these on 3DS?
I already tried to make a .cia, but whenever I launch the games they only take me to a white screen.
>>26712106
comfy actually dickhead
We need to figure out a way to combine the day cycle and move type split mods.
>>26706481
>Following magazines like Nintendo Power
it was shit, and everyone was pissed anon, get over it
>>26713092
Uh, you're late. See >>26710865
>>26708119
I don't think Gamefreak had much of a choice back in the day. A lot of the things that plague Gen 3 were issues coming from pic related. In terms of visual Day/Night, they probably didn't implement it because the GBA had no backlit making the screen hard to see. Now combine that with the games being night. Even if the GBA SP had backlit, Gamefreak rarely wants to put people with older versions of a system in a significant disadvantage. Not to mention that the clock feature actually kills the saves of GSC games (IIRC).
The GBA is also (one of) the reason(s) why you can't trade Pokemon from Gen 1/Gen2 can't be traded up to Gen 3. Because the hardware was so different from the GB(C), they couldn't get the GB(C) to connect it with the GBA.
Hence, why I personally don't take those issues into account when I judge Gen 3. Because it was more of a GBA hardware issue than an actual game issue.
>>26710865
I tried to load it in VBA, but all I get is a white screen.
>>26715818
>In terms of visual Day/Night, they probably didn't implement it because the GBA had no backlit making the screen hard to see.
GBC had no back/frontlight either.
>>26706481
Magazines shat on RS because of the removed features, no transfer and cause it looked ugly as shit compared to Golden Sun.
>>26715818
We already talked about this shit, dumbass. The GBA CAN fucking do that shit. Literally every JRPG on the GBA has a Day/Night cycle, just look at Final Fantasy.
>>26715818
>The GBA is also (one of) the reason(s) why you can't trade Pokemon from Gen 1/Gen2 can't be traded up to Gen 3. Because the hardware was so different from the GB(C), they couldn't get the GB(C) to connect it with the GBA.
GBA could play GB/GBC games and use the GBC game link cable.
>>26715818
>The GBA is also (one of) the reason(s) why you can't trade Pokemon from Gen 1/Gen2 can't be traded up to Gen 3. Because the hardware was so different from the GB(C), they couldn't get the GB(C) to connect it with the GBA.
No the reason that you can't trade Gen 1 and Gen 2 pokemon to Gen 3 is because they completely redid a lot of the formulas in the game like IVs and EVs. They did try though judging by some in-game files.
>>26716630
Can I get a source on that, it sounds interesting
>>26717141
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Ruby_and_Sapphire_beta#Cable_Club_text
For all I know it's just text. They could of just came up with the concept and then scrapped it later.
>>26716421
But didn't it have some slider that could increase the brightness of the screen? At least, my GBC has.
>>26716465
Could you post some examples? I tried to find some examples myself, but I can't really find any.
>>26716533
I know it can play GB/GBC games, but can a GB/GBC game interact with a GBA game? I thought not because the main reason Gen 1/Gen 2 can't connect with Gen 3 is hardware limitations, along with having a different data structure.
>>26716630
>>26717256
Interesting. I thought that may not have been the issue because of the fact that the Pokemon from the R/B/G/Y VC games can be transferred over to Sun/Moon now. Though maybe that's because they finally have a workaround for that.
