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Potential Future Additions

Vortyne edited this page Sep 17, 2025 · 601 revisions

Stuff to do before starting next version

Create more Cheats

BUG: Wrong name printed when starting TORCHED battle with burn on opponent

BUG: Moves not logged in movedex due to animations turned off?

BUG: transformed opponent ditto has no pp

BUG: DIG TM Rocket faces wrong direction after fight occasionally

BUG: In seafoam one rock in the upper rock wall isn't shown in some situation

BUG: Fast pokemon center nurse can wait for fade out

Inconsistency: LT Surge trainers still talk about the locked door when you've unlocked it

Route 2: door above gate needs 2 coords of entrances

Bookcases in game corner need to be something

Mr Psychic gives psychic again - but you must defeat the fighting dojo first

Psybeam TM no longer necessary -> change to razor wind?

Sabrina TM -> Meditate

Old Man in Celadon TM -> ???

Next Version - Already implemented

Learnsets in pokedex (UI portion)

Next Version - To be implemented

Learnsets in pokedex? - Enabled / disabled in world options. Locations for all 82 unlocks. Only unlockable after getting movedex. Cheat to unlock all.

Fix "Talk after battle" trainers like gym leaders. End of battle instead of "reset facing directions" function, call another function that loads "face the player" in. In their "talk to player script", at the end call "reset facing directions" function.

Option: Metric or Imperial

Sound when bill enters teleporter

Music during in-game trades?

Pokemon Graphs! In lavender town house.

Acid has 50% chance to lower attack or defense always does one or the other.

Increase leech seed damage to 1/8? 1/16 on resistant pokemon, 1/8 on neutral, and 3/16 on weak?

Show Stat EXP in status menu by pressing select

"Water" sounds when near fast current in seafoam.

Optionally play "won battle" music when caught pokemon?

Select to switch pokemon in party menu

Custom movesets for prof oak?

Item list shows "15/30" pc item list shows "15/60" Box list shows "10/20" etc.

"Catch up mechanic" ? - in vermilion, celadon, and saffron, there are "catch up clubs" where you can battle with lower level pokemon to catch up really quickly in level.

Tweak more spaceworld back sprites:

  • Golduck (needs complete retooling?)
  • Aerodactyl (larger bottom jaw)
  • Scyther (scythe visible)
  • separate back sprite for winter dragonair?

Fix PKHex breaking champ arena

BUG: Event flag sprite options values don't stay set properly when starting a new game from previous values

Fix minor things about dragonair event

  • actual animation for winter dragonair power up
  • fix underwater warp out visuals for dragonair event

Poke balls have different animations / can switch which pokeball your mons are in?

  • 6 pokeball types, 10 custom ones (unlockable?)
  • Can choose ball color, ball effect, ball sound effect
  • Color/effect/sound are unlocked as you progress in the game.

"How do you respond" choices in Champ Arena

Signatures moves optional

Max repel disables encounters entirely regardless of pokemon levels

BUG: hp bar color not being applied immediately sometimes

BUG: status readings (PSN, PAR, etc.) not being shown immediately sometimes (irradiated)

Improve other moves

  • Differentiate minimize / double team?
  • differentiate smokescreen / sand attack?
  • bone club needs to be slightly more useful possibly
  • reinstate razor wind with different effect?
  • Improve THRASH on primeape?
  • screech?
  • better lovely kiss sound effect?

Fancy shit happens when you engage an overworld pokemon

  • mew

make play time hours able to go above 255?

Replace semicolon in font with more useful character? Heart character?

Optional title screen visual change to say PureRGB (default: off)

Pokecenter nurses recognize the champ

Unlockable town map function: what pokemon are in each area - new aide in gate west of fuchsia city, 50 pokemon. Open town map, press A on a location - will show what pokemon are there and what percentages.

Filthy Slam damage increases to 130 if target is poisoned

Bicycle music hole glitch?

Current map in continue dialog

Make bench guys actual sprites?

Disable 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise - MrMime?

Hydro pump 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise - Golduck? Omastar?

Blizzard 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise - Dewgong?

Thunder 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise

Toxic 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise

Fire blast 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise - Arcanine?

Skull bash 100% accuracy on specific mons that are crappy otherwise? More accurate at full health? Kabutops Aerodactyl?

Static Snag -> Siphon Snag - move that can heal status of your mon while doing damage, and will heal random party pokemon status if user has none

Heat rush more useful?

Bring back Razor Wind, Metronome, and Mega Punch TMs?

Unlockable: Allow other moves to do the same thing as surf/strength/cut/fly outside battle? EG: Slash, Vicegrip, Karate Chop for cut EG: Waterfall, Hydro Pump for surf EG: Sky Attack, Razor Wind, Roost for fly EG: Rock Slide / Skull Bash for Strength

Can carry over movedex / learnsets progress to new game

Increase lava flow intervals by a couple frames

Improve/Lengthen Safari Zone Music

Side Features (Probably will come along with other big changes in some way)

Reward for completing pokedex

Reward for completing movedex

Reward for completing champ arena

safari zone hq is useless - make something to make it less useless?

Grandma outside of gym 4 after beating erika?

Add in cut beta content: Ribbon/Bow

Later version planned possible features

NPC that can buff farfetch'd/wigglytuff/lickitung. They can get stab on every type of attack. Makes them a bit more unique. Cut content Island? (ocean to route 14 and vermilion city) -> old lady on island. messed up house. Her husband is gone. Wants you to play their music to people around the world. Uses unused trade theme. Starts with only one channel of it playing at low tempo. As you help her in multiple ways plays other channels of the track. Farfetch'd helps grow some crops. Lickitung helps keep bugs away from flowers outside by eating them. Wigglytuff sings with her the second part of the song.

Move sunbathing person to vermilion seaway - can rest on a chair for a buff to one pokemon's experience gain

  • beta hermit sprite?
  • beta "mysterious masked character" sprite?

Town map upgrade: info on each area / visualization (can take from pokemon pinball partially)

Additional game corner games other than slots (ones that are actually fun)

Option: encounter rate increase

Sound test?

"Trainer archives"? - in one of the bigger buildings in saffron - sort of "library" with an archive of the trainer types the player has fought - includes fan club of trainers - can give trainers pointers?

  • beta pigtail girl sprite (add glasses?) (archive librarian or something?)
  • girl playing gameboy sprite
  • unused beta girl sprite?
  • beta fat guy sprite
  • unused beta black hair girl sprite?
  • unused beta youngster sprite?
  • "adjusts glasses"
  • "paige"

Ability to spruce up pallet town/your house/champ room? "Beautification project" or something, unlocked in vermilion, talking to specific people lets you add stuff to pallet town? -add a mart to pallet town, TM kid and gym guide move there.

WARP - ghost type move - HM alternative to FLY?

Level 100 trainer at very end.

Audio stuff

Add new seafoam islands music? -> incorporates pinball seel theme "ocean wave drum sounds"

Finish beta diglett's cave music

Panning sound effects to left / right based on attack animations during battle

Music unique to volcano area

route 3 early music gate usage

  1. gates around saffron city
  2. gates around cycling road
  3. underground path entrances

"rare pokemon" battle music?

Notes

Places with empty houses:

Cerulean City (2)

Vermilion City (2)

Celadon City (11)

Saffron City (14 accessible, 9 inaccessible)

Routes with not much in them of interest:

Route 9

Lower part of Route 10

Route 13 sort of

Route 14

Route 15

Route 18 sort of

Known issues

When loading a save, if you load a save into a map that has togglable overworld sprites togglable with the ICONS option in the options, if you change this option, the game won't reload them dynamically until you load another map first. In other situations they will be reloaded properly.

Weird visual bug when scrolling trainers in champ arena battles