Pokemon Recordkeepers is a battle-focused romhack made for Team Aqua’s Romhacking Competition. You play as Tiana, a new Recordkeeper who has been tasked with figuring out the mysteries and surrounding various myths and folktales.
As you decipher the truth, you will face numerous challenges on your way to each story’s conclusion. Overcoming these obstacles grants you new abilities and moves to equip on your Pokemon. Build combinations of abilities and moves never seen before in order to prevail, or fail and try again.
Features
- A roguelike gameplay loop
- 3 different final bosses
- A unique asymmetrical battle system
- Unique boss and player mechanics
- Equip up to 4 abilities on 1 pokemon! (And face opponents who can also do that)
- 80+ new abilities
- 14 new moves
- New maps, complete with custom graphics.
- Completely new UIs for almost anything
- Various plotlines and stories to witness.
Changelog
V1.2.1
- Add forgotten portraits for new mons
- Fix name of Delibird screen in win stats
- Make win screens not appear before the boss is unlocked
- Correct Frostwisp reward’s name
- Fix Uncontained Blaze sometimes getting it’s string buffers overwritten
- Fix title on Winter victory screen being broken
V1.2
New features
- Stat change display in combat
- Move effectiveness indicator
- New Boss stage to fight
- New story & lore
- 4 new Pokemon to use in battle
Balance adjustments
- Changed various moves to make them more in line with others
- Essence abilities now notify that they are active
- Xerneas fight has been adjusted
- Phase changes no longer prevent certain effects from occuring
Bugfixes
- Various abilities are now working properly
- Dialogue overflow has been fixed
- Various game-crashing bugs have been fixed
- Abilities should no longer disappear randomly
V1.1
Add speedup functionality
- Speedup can be enabled in the Options menu, where the default speedup can be set.
- When enabled, during battles, the amount of speedup can be changed with L/R.
- Battles can be paused and unpaused with B.
Balance changes
- The ‘Fated’ abilities now take move cooldown in consideration.
- The longer the CD, the longer it takes for the move to activate.
- Exhaustion damage now scales with move cooldown.
- Giratina is now invincible to end-of-turn effects while vanished.
- Sleep max duration: 3 turns -> 2 turns
- Add cooldown to Surf: 0 turn -> 1 turn
- Burn and Frostbite dmg reduction: 50% -> 25%
- Reflect, Light Screen and Aurora Veil damage reduction: 50% -> 33%
Bugfixes
Rewards
- Add data for Glimmora
- Add data for Snorlax
- Fix Gourgeist referencing the wrong pokemon
- Fix Toxicroak AI data
Battle related changes
- Sandy Shocks: Charged effect now correctly ends when using Volt Switch.
- Fix End of Turn handling for Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres that was crashing fights.
- Dread no longer triggers if target already has a status effect.
- Dimension break now behaves like Phantom Force, rather than Fly.
- Fainted Pokemon will no longer be un-fainted after releasing them from Planar Imprisonment’s Banish.
Graphical
- Fixed Yes / No popup not disappearing after saving.
- Fixed the messagebox becoming invisible after viewing an archive entry.
- Update overworld maps to get rid of overlap issues.
- Fix camera not unlocking properly after opening an archive.
- Fix Satsuki’s text not printing properly in some dialogue.
- Fix “Rising Tide” being wrongly spelled.
- Replace ball throw animation with a slide animation when switching mons.
- Changed the ball Tiana throws from strange ball -> pokeball.
- Add input button info to Archive & Info menus
- Expanded textbox of the abilities in the victory screen so it fits all abilities.
- Added in missing portraits for Gastrodon & Sandaconda.
