Spork Episode 8: Smoothie + Delicia's Delicious Dreamland

[Ice Cream Sand Witch]

Reuploading early again to fix a game-breaking bug I discovered this evening

 

Reuploaded DDDL and Spork

 

DDDL:

-the music for Party District/City is now GlitchxCity's Levincia remix

-changed the "It's too early to go to Victory Road!" message to "There's no reason to go to Victory Road!" if you approach it since the former implies you will go there at some point while Delicia never does

 

Spork Updates:

-added sidequestguide notepad file

-started expanding the choice menus when you have more than 4 choices (the Sea Star Society vendors and the move tutor in the Sea Star Society's Pokemon Center are the ones I've done so far)

-changed Hoenn quiz question about where Glacia can sometimes be found to a question about the two kinds of bikes in Hoenn

-the music for Party City is now GlitchxCity's Levincia remix

 

Spork Fixes:

-changing Vivillon to the Icy Snow pattern no longer causes the game to crash when you enter a Pokemon Center

-the obtainablepokemon notepad file now mentions the Salandit you get from the optional Kelani battle

-Farigiraf's obtainability method is no longer blank in the obtainablepokemon notepad file

-In the first Dark Dungeon dream sequence, the Sableye has been changed to Gengar to match it being changed on Gina's team

-the snack vendor at the Sea Star Society was missing Lumiose Galettes and Shalour Sables; you can now get them there

 

A sidequest guide notepad file has been planned for years, and I'm surprised it's taken me this long to make one. It covers sidequests that aren't already covered in other notepad files. Hopefully I got all of them!

 

The reason I changed that question on the Hoenn quiz is that I felt like it was too obscure. One or two NPCs in ORAS mention that Glacia goes to the food court sometimes, but you never actually see her there yourself. In fact, IIRC she's the only League member you can't see outside of battle in ORAS's postgame.

 

To explain more about the choice menus, today I was looking at Reborn's type quiz event and learned how to make it so that more than four choices can appear on screen at once. I haven't gotten everything yet because I had to reupload early due to discovering the Vivillon crash, but here's a visual comparison: 

 

 

 

The first screenshot is how most menus in Spork are currently with RPG Maker's default four limit, and the second is how they look with all options showing at once. Changing that move tutor in the second screenshot is how I discovered the Vivillon crash. I don't know why, but when you change a Pokemon's form through an overworld event, changing the form also changes a variable in the game that matches that form's number. Icy Snow Vivillon is listed as its 6th form in Spork, and variable 6 relates to your Pokemon being placed on healing machines in Pokemon Centers. So when I entered the Pokemon Center to test this move tutor's new menu, it crashed the game because Variable 006 was "Vivillon" for me instead of a number, from when I tested changing Vivillon's form a few months ago. I did have a command to set variable 6 back to 0, but it was placed under the wrong form before. All the variables related to Vivillon will now go back to 0 after changing forms!

[Ice Cream Sand Witch]

Reuploaded DDDL and Spork

 

DDDL:

-changed Crolea's Inkay to Blipbug (nickname Saucer)

 

Spork:

-changed two Pokemon on Crolea's team: Inkay/Malamar and Onix/(Mega) Steelix are now Minior (nickname Meteor) and Dottler/(Mega) Orbeetle (nickname Saucer)

-changed Ivan's Slowking to Palafin (nickname Paladin)

-changed the Poke Ball starter item gift with Nincada to a Dusk Stone, since that's how it evolves into Shedinja as of last year after it was reported that the canon evo method wasn't working 

-Steelixite is now located at Olidroll Underground

-Bolaii Bar is now a soda parlor where you can buy Soda Pop

-after finishing the Cleanup Collaboration ranger quest, the NPC behind the counter at the Soda Parlor will be in front of the building and give you a Soda Pop as thanks

-following last reupload, I've finished expanding the choice menus for when you have more than four answer options

 

Specifically, the following menus will now show all answer options at once: move tutors, Sea Star Society vendors at the Shopping and Food sections, choosing your home region at the Tourist Info Center, helping Portal Agent Terrence decide what to order at the Battle Factory restaurant, prize vendors at the Battle Frontier, and the character simulations at Planet Spork. I was going to do the Battle Factory rental lists too, but there are so many Pokemon that they don't all fit in one text command, even with extendtext. 

 

I'd been thinking about Crolea's team changes for a while. Earlier this year, I started questioning the connection between Steelix and space. Apparently they can burrow close to the planet's core, which I'm guessing was my thought process there because its nickname was Core, but that sounds more closely related to geology than space. Orbeetle seemed like a great candidate for a space-related mega, since it looks like a UFO! As for Minior, I thought Crolea would really like them, the Violet Core Minior goes well with Crolea's dress, and Crolea gets a Comet Shard birthday present. Malamar fit the team theme perfectly fine and it was a tough decision to switch it out, but Isabelle and Peach still have one! Plus its nickname was Alien, and there's still Celesteela on Crolea's team! Ivan's was a sudden realization that Palafin would work well with his team theme, and since having a King and an Emperor might be repetitive, I switched out Slowking since I think Empoleon's more serious nature fits Ivan better. 

 

2024 felt like a weird year in terms of reupload times. I was going to say that sometimes there were larger gaps than usual between reuploads, but looking back at timestamps from older posts, it doesn't seem like it's all that different to past years. It still feels different to me for some reason though. Maybe I feel like I fumbled a bit towards the end of the year with the Serenity Seaside house stuff, which led to a few reuploads having a lot less updates than originally planned. And the past couple weeks have basically been one reupload split into three, since I needed to reupload early twice due to major bugs. I've still enjoyed working on Spork though, and I'm excited to continue making updates! Happy Holidays!   

[Ice Cream Sand Witch]

           

 

Reuploaded Spork

 

Updates:

-added flashbacks after every Gym and Elite Four battle called Memories of Ceolis, which show interactions between Ceolis and the Gym Leader or E4 you just battled

-due to timeline changes with the Memories of Ceolis, the black screen conversation between the Guardian and Ceolis that happened as you were leaving the Underwater Hotel after defeating Team Portal there has been removed

-because Aurora's Memory of Ceolis mentions the snowball tournament, Agne's final fun fact in the Data Vault has been changed (now it says the longest nap Agne's taken was six hours)

-shiny Magearna has been added (not a custom one, the canon one, it was just missing)

-at starter selection, you can now choose between Magearna's regular and Original Color forms

-if you speak to Alumia again after getting Magearna, she can now change Magearna's form

-applied the expanded choice menus to changing Pokemon forms (both overworld + NPCs and when choosing a starter that has multiple forms); I completely overlooked them last reupload

-Lucky Lenses and Ether Foundation now have the same music that plays in other shops and Nosy News

 

Fixes:

-changing Vivillon to River Pattern no longer resets the Defeated Elite Four variable if you've beaten the Champion

-choosing Unown as your starter and picking H or I no longer gives you a Furfrou instead of the Unown letter you selected

-Calyrex is now mentioned in the formchangelocations notepad file

 

The Memories of Ceolis were really fun to make! I was going for a heartwarming vibe with them, and they help flesh out some parts of the story and characters. Mainly, Ceolis's whereabouts being unknown was briefly mentioned a couple times early on, but only started being acknowledged as a serious question a lot later. I felt like Ceolis didn't have as much attention as he should have had. Some Gym Leaders also have more screen time than others, so this benefits them as well. 

 

The timeline has also changed a bit, as mentioned in the updates. I used to imagine that Ceolis was gone for at least a few decades, but now it's not nearly that long, maybe closer to years than decades. The main two details that were kept in mind for timelines:

1. The removed black screen conversation said that Agne wasn't born yet when Ceolis was last in the region. Now, Agne was born, and is mentioned in Aurora's Memory of Ceolis. At this time, Agne was a student at the Pokemon Research Institute. (Ceolis hadn't met Agne though, so Agne doesn't have a Memory of Ceolis, just the Gym Leaders and E4)
2. Draga became a Gym Leader a few months before the present. This detail hasn't changed, but Draga's Memory of Ceolis accounts for this by having Ryoko in it too. At the time of the flashback, Draga had just passed the qualification tests to be next in line when Ryoko resigns.

Even if you've already completed the game, you can still see these scenes! They happen mostly at the entrances and exits of Gyms. If you're on a new file after they've been added, you'll come across all of them naturally as you play. If you're going back to see them on a completed file, Gym Leaders who battle you outside instead of in a formal Gym might need clarifying on where to find them. Chelsea's happens by entering Bolaii Cave from Bolaii Beach, Lee's happens by going to the north gatehouse at the Fork in the Road, Mulder's is at the north of Marvelous Marsh heading to the Battle Frontier, and Angela's is just as you enter Quasar Bay from Angela's Aviary.  As for the E4's, they're all at the end of their rooms as you're heading to the next one. 

 

(fun fact about Mulder and outside Gyms, btw: Enigma gave Mulder his own Gym in the new Serafew maps coming in the future! Marvelous Marsh will still exist, and Mulder's Gym will be in the town of Serafew. It's a stadium where Mulder and his students put on wrestling matches!)

 

I hope you all enjoy the Memories of Ceolis, and happy New Year!