New Download Link for Pokemon Essentials + RC Resources: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_n2Tp1TIljLL1E-uBTzV6TTfDQzIxc58-8ZcvLI2LKM/edit#gid=233851590&range=A4 The Relic Castle website was taken down due to a DMCA claim on 3/21/24, and the community has been working on a backup for download links to Pokemon Essentials as well as the many great resources and plugins! Please use the link I've provided above in the meantime until further notice! Also please consider joining the following fangame discord servers for fangame community updates: Relic Castle Discord: discord.gg/reliccastle Thundaga Discord: discord.gg/BHm8vfTeTQ
First off, your series is amazing thank you so much, second I have a question: is it possible to remove a Pokémon that is already in essentials. Example: removing Bulbasaur and its other evolution.
10 years… for 10 years I’ve tried to make the Pokémon game of my dreams through rom hacking and sadly have run into constant obstacles that never fully allowed me to make the game I truly wanted. But after discovering your tutorials, it’s finally become possible. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Holy shit, I was hesitant to invest time into a fangame bc your tutorial seemed to be the easiest to follow and it was not finished, and you come back to upload. Cheers, mate
I'm in love with pokemon essentials, and your tutorials! Right now I'm experimenting a lot of things, doing a lot of tests, but I have in mind a pokemon game that was never created. Like, I haven't seen anything like I have in mind anywhere, right now its only in my head, but thanks to your tutorials, its slowly becoming reality!
I gotta say... I'm so thankful I found your series... I always wanted to make a pokemon game, with an idea that I once had plaguing my mind for years and constantly evolving, but whenever I'd try to make it into a hack rom I'd get overwhelmed with the complexity, and I couldn't find any way to make some of the things I wanted to do, such as a "morality system" or making it so an overworld pokemon would question you and have a different form depending on how you answer, but this series has made it so simple that I am actually advancing on it (granted, still haven't made more than a couple of basic maps, tested some events to see if they work and create a few sprites, but that's much more than I ever did, and I'm so invested). Can't wait to learn how to work with multiple forms, so I can start making that part into the game instead of just choosing which legendary bird you fight 😅
Does anyone know what big differences this series and his previous one is (besides essentials version)? I just want to know if there is any negatives to following his other series instead.
From what I’ve seen of these tutorials, I’ll take it that there are no Pokemon introduced in Gen 6 onwards in Pokemon Essentials. But that just means this will be very handy to adding whatever ones I want in! Cool video!
The PBS data is actually available for the pokemon up to the 8th gen i think, but the graphics are missing. There are resources available on relic castle for the graphics and updated pbs files
I remember when I tried making my own Pokemon in Pokemon Essentials years ago, it went horribly cause I used MS Paint so every sprite had a white background.
Beautiful video! I've seen the whole old series and I'm very happy that you've come back to update it, when you make the video about defining our own moves, could you do a part where you explain how to define our custom Function Codes? Thanks, I need it for a game I'm working on but I can't find any good tutorials
Where can I find the Pokemon images and attack animations? I've looked everywhere but I can't find anything that has a back view of the Pokemon or a legitimate attack animation.
I have a quick question about the Category naming. On my project, there is another species that is also used in battle and I was wondering if it was possible to change the pokemon word. Like, if bulbasaur was one instead of "Seed Pokemon" something like "Seed (species name)" or is the Pokemon word unchangeable. Also, if you can change it but it changes all I was wondering if you could make it blank so you could put if it's a pokemon or the other thingy (Which i still dont have a name for). I don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly, but please answer if you can.
Really looking forward to the form tutorial cause I can't figure out how to add form pokemon to party or gym leaders lol I can add it to the encounters but no where else I'm ASSUMING I need to either do something special or add the forms INTO the pokemon PBS itself?
Can you make a tutorial about how to create a sign with a name of location, which appear on the screen in the corner, when you enter a new location or road?
How does one make a certain Pokemon obtained stronger? like, i mean, all the Pikachus have the normal 300-320 base stats, but if you choose it as a starter, it will have 420 base total, it is possible?
Hey newbie here and this may be a dumb question but do you have to have pokemon graphics set as you are inputting all the information and stats for each new pokemon/fakemon or can you add the graphics in later? Im pretty slow when it comes to artwork (especially pixelart) and want to get all the new stuff in quickly before i begin working on the actual artwork for what they'd look like.
This video made my day! Looking forward to seeing more! Also, I've encountered a bug for Shadow Pokemon, where a Fire type can be inflicted by Burns, Electric types can be Paralyzed, and ghost types can be hit by Normal Attacks. I think the root cause is that the SHADOW type overrides the Pokemon initial type. Anyone know how to add a special type slot so that this doesn't happen? Or maybe allow 3 types, and a fix so that the SHADOW type is appended to the end of the list?
This tutorial series is great! Is there anywhere to get the 4x4 sprite icon that you placed into the characters folder? Looking to put a lapras in the overworld
Thanks this series is awsome, peaked my interest to try it myself. Tho I wonder is it possible to keep the front sprite and back sprite the same without much setting up? Would they default to the frontal sprite if the back sprite is missing or would I need to make the back sprite = frontal sprite?
Hello man, im french so if i do some fault on my post sorry😅. I just want to say thx, really thx for all of your work on this series, you inspire me to create mmy own game and for that thx u very much. God bless you for the continue and everything else. And like we say in france : Merci le sang tu regale✌🙏🫀
love so much your tutorials I often come back time to time each time I make some progress to the thoughts of my game that is pretty much a tridute to Pokemon Your tutorials are the most enjoyable by far and I am happy to still see you work on it time to time~ Was wondering something is there is a possibility to make BW-like animations with a plug-in or something ? heard gif works badly on XP but i really wanted to make BW-like animation so I copium by thinking there is a way to make that and I just don't know it
I love the video, and I am looking forward to seeing one about new Abilities that can possibly affect a Pokemon's HP, similar to COD The ability Rejack that brings back the player from death. Can you make an ability to give a Pokemon 5 HP and revive after fainting or can possibly restore HP by walking?
these tutorials are fantastic! would you be able to go over how to make trainers that call you up for rematches? apologies if this is already covered somewhere
thank you for your tutorials!! just a question, if i wanted to make a game with tilesets from hgss/bw (basically where everything is taller) do i have to make changes?? if yes, could you do a tutorial!! tysm man 🙏🙏🙏
Hey love your videos, you've helped me immensely in making my own game. I am having challenges with one thing though, creating a map and the ability to fly to different locations, was hoping someone can help me out. I've completed the rest of my game but just missing that pivotal feature so I can finally complete it
hello thundaga thanks for share all your knoladge with us. you teach very well and clean, shall I ask how can I make my pokemon online like pokeone or pokemmo? openworld? thanks for help me
New Download Link for Pokemon Essentials + RC Resources: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_n2Tp1TIljLL1E-uBTzV6TTfDQzIxc58-8ZcvLI2LKM/edit#gid=233851590&range=A4
The Relic Castle website was taken down due to a DMCA claim on 3/21/24, and the community has been working on a backup for download links to Pokemon Essentials as well as the many great resources and plugins! Please use the link I've provided above in the meantime until further notice!
Also please consider joining the following fangame discord servers for fangame community updates:
Relic Castle Discord: discord.gg/reliccastle
Thundaga Discord: discord.gg/BHm8vfTeTQ
First off, your series is amazing thank you so much, second I have a question: is it possible to remove a Pokémon that is already in essentials. Example: removing Bulbasaur and its other evolution.
gotta love how I was literally just looking at your tutorials and refreshed the page to see this
dude i was literally like “huh, i didn’t think episode 11 of the old series was adding pokemon” and then BAM i realized you uploaded.
thanks sm!
10 years… for 10 years I’ve tried to make the Pokémon game of my dreams through rom hacking and sadly have run into constant obstacles that never fully allowed me to make the game I truly wanted. But after discovering your tutorials, it’s finally become possible. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Were you successfully in making your rom hack?
Ikr? I never messed with romhacks, but I was ready to until I found this tutorial series! Happy creating!
Excellent timing, I just finished episode 10 this morning
It's always an excellent day when Thundaga uploads!
😎
Holy shit, I was hesitant to invest time into a fangame bc your tutorial seemed to be the easiest to follow and it was not finished, and you come back to upload. Cheers, mate
I'm in love with pokemon essentials, and your tutorials! Right now I'm experimenting a lot of things, doing a lot of tests, but I have in mind a pokemon game that was never created. Like, I haven't seen anything like I have in mind anywhere, right now its only in my head, but thanks to your tutorials, its slowly becoming reality!
Can't wait for part 12 in a couple years time!
Been waiting for new episodes of this series! Thank you!
the legends has returned!!!!
I gotta say... I'm so thankful I found your series... I always wanted to make a pokemon game, with an idea that I once had plaguing my mind for years and constantly evolving, but whenever I'd try to make it into a hack rom I'd get overwhelmed with the complexity, and I couldn't find any way to make some of the things I wanted to do, such as a "morality system" or making it so an overworld pokemon would question you and have a different form depending on how you answer, but this series has made it so simple that I am actually advancing on it (granted, still haven't made more than a couple of basic maps, tested some events to see if they work and create a few sprites, but that's much more than I ever did, and I'm so invested). Can't wait to learn how to work with multiple forms, so I can start making that part into the game instead of just choosing which legendary bird you fight 😅
" oh boy! Cant wait to make my ow- "
*Relic Castle Shutdown*
" Oh. "
Me if this happened: I think my brain wants me to commit, suicide
The GOAT is back ! Good to see a new video dropping
The GOAT is back
glad that this video dropped, it will come in handy later on for sure.
im learning a bunch from your tutorials thank you for the information and please keep these videos coming!
Does anyone know what big differences this series and his previous one is (besides essentials version)? I just want to know if there is any negatives to following his other series instead.
From what I’ve seen of these tutorials, I’ll take it that there are no Pokemon introduced in Gen 6 onwards in Pokemon Essentials. But that just means this will be very handy to adding whatever ones I want in! Cool video!
The PBS data is actually available for the pokemon up to the 8th gen i think, but the graphics are missing.
There are resources available on relic castle for the graphics and updated pbs files
hey thundaga, could you show how to edit the credits and/or make a new pokeball because i am stuck on how to do it on the new version
BABY NEW THUNDAGA DROPPED💪💪🙏🏼🙏🏼
I remember when I tried making my own Pokemon in Pokemon Essentials years ago, it went horribly cause I used MS Paint so every sprite had a white background.
In hindsight, what program would you have used to draw your own?
Yes we back!
i cant belive this, i've waiting for this video too much
He is back
Beautiful video!
I've seen the whole old series and I'm very happy that you've come back to update it, when you make the video about defining our own moves, could you do a part where you explain how to define our custom Function Codes? Thanks, I need it for a game I'm working on but I can't find any good tutorials
does that me we get a livestream tonight
Do you have a section on how to adjust the player transfer procedure upon defeat? How to change the text, and teleported location you end up at?
Thank you! Your tutorials help me a lot! 🤓
Where can I find the Pokemon images and attack animations? I've looked everywhere but I can't find anything that has a back view of the Pokemon or a legitimate attack animation.
Thats Amazing! Thank you from Germany
I have a quick question about the Category naming. On my project, there is another species that is also used in battle and I was wondering if it was possible to change the pokemon word. Like, if bulbasaur was one instead of "Seed Pokemon" something like "Seed (species name)" or is the Pokemon word unchangeable. Also, if you can change it but it changes all I was wondering if you could make it blank so you could put if it's a pokemon or the other thingy (Which i still dont have a name for). I don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly, but please answer if you can.
Really looking forward to the form tutorial cause I can't figure out how to add form pokemon to party or gym leaders lol
I can add it to the encounters but no where else
I'm ASSUMING I need to either do something special or add the forms INTO the pokemon PBS itself?
Can you make a tutorial about how to create a sign with a name of location, which appear on the screen in the corner, when you enter a new location or road?
YES ! Now if I want I can do a LV. 101 stellar-type overcheat Flowey
Is there a way for the battle sprites move like in Gen 5?
How does one make a certain Pokemon obtained stronger? like, i mean, all the Pikachus have the normal 300-320 base stats, but if you choose it as a starter, it will have 420 base total, it is possible?
Hey newbie here and this may be a dumb question but do you have to have pokemon graphics set as you are inputting all the information and stats for each new pokemon/fakemon or can you add the graphics in later? Im pretty slow when it comes to artwork (especially pixelart) and want to get all the new stuff in quickly before i begin working on the actual artwork for what they'd look like.
THE GOAT!!!!
Thank you so much! This is incredibly helpful!
This video made my day! Looking forward to seeing more!
Also, I've encountered a bug for Shadow Pokemon, where a Fire type can be inflicted by Burns, Electric types can be Paralyzed, and ghost types can be hit by Normal Attacks.
I think the root cause is that the SHADOW type overrides the Pokemon initial type.
Anyone know how to add a special type slot so that this doesn't happen? Or maybe allow 3 types, and a fix so that the SHADOW type is appended to the end of the list?
Perfect!
This tutorial series is great!
Is there anywhere to get the 4x4 sprite icon that you placed into the characters folder? Looking to put a lapras in the overworld
Thanks this series is awsome, peaked my interest to try it myself.
Tho I wonder is it possible to keep the front sprite and back sprite the same without much setting up?
Would they default to the frontal sprite if the back sprite is missing or would I need to make the back sprite = frontal sprite?
Hello man, im french so if i do some fault on my post sorry😅.
I just want to say thx, really thx for all of your work on this series, you inspire me to create mmy own game and for that thx u very much.
God bless you for the continue and everything else.
And like we say in france : Merci le sang tu regale✌🙏🫀
What Tileset did you use in this tutorial?
This is actually the universe speaking to me. I looked into game development after years for the first time and here was the tutorial. How 😅
and RPG Maker XP is currently FREE on Steam until the 19th.
Drat, I've been wanting to add a regional form for some existing Pokémon but had a lot of trouble. Guess I'll keep waiting. QwQ
love so much your tutorials
I often come back time to time each time I make some progress to the thoughts of my game that is pretty much a tridute to Pokemon
Your tutorials are the most enjoyable by far and I am happy to still see you work on it time to time~
Was wondering something
is there is a possibility to make BW-like animations with a plug-in or something ?
heard gif works badly on XP but i really wanted to make BW-like animation so I copium by thinking there is a way to make that and I just don't know it
I love the video, and I am looking forward to seeing one about new Abilities that can possibly affect a Pokemon's HP, similar to COD The ability Rejack that brings back the player from death. Can you make an ability to give a Pokemon 5 HP and revive after fainting or can possibly restore HP by walking?
Can you add this game to an empty ds cartridge and play it on a ds?
No. This is for computer.
these tutorials are fantastic! would you be able to go over how to make trainers that call you up for rematches? apologies if this is already covered somewhere
Support the channel. Suscribe and like the videos. It's worthwhile.
thank you for your tutorials!! just a question, if i wanted to make a game with tilesets from hgss/bw (basically where everything is taller) do i have to make changes?? if yes, could you do a tutorial!! tysm man 🙏🙏🙏
Hey love your videos, you've helped me immensely in making my own game. I am having challenges with one thing though, creating a map and the ability to fly to different locations, was hoping someone can help me out.
I've completed the rest of my game but just missing that pivotal feature so I can finally complete it
does anybody got a key for the RPG Maker XP.. i would love to create my own game too :(
I don't have a key and I'm way late but it's currently $2.50 on Steam until July 12
"Hey I'm cam, how's it going?"
😂
I need to get myself a Cam that art should be publicly available
Does a pokemon need to give EVs on defeat or can you make it so they give nothing
Not every Pokemon gives EVs so it should be optional. You could also just set it to one stat and zero
Idk Cam seems like a water type
hello thundaga thanks for share all your knoladge with us. you teach very well and clean, shall I ask how can I make my pokemon online like pokeone or pokemmo? openworld? thanks for help me
The goat
EPIC
PEAK FICTION RAHHHHHHHHHH
Yay I can add Ai Pokémon that no one asked for and hates