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Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy) - Page 1

Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2014-12-24 17:52:37
I got a weird Battle Frontier sprite with a long name glitch Pokémon in Emerald (Decamark 0x146E, which is 20 Atk, 110 HP for Glitzer Popping) that looks a little like Imakuni, but I don't know if it's glitched.

You have to talk to the news reporter in Slateport's Pokémon Fan Club to make her say 0x146E's excessively long name (G3EHS version 2 says its 14102 characters long). This corrupts things including your party Pokémon, some of your items (but not key items), your Pokédex, your name, Secret Base items maybe?

It also changes your character to a normally non-playable character (maybe it's an invalid gender value). As your TM/HMs may be wiped and the game may not let you use a PC, you can't Fly to the Battle Frontier, you have to take a ferry there.

When you get there, select your name on the menu and choose the Battle Frontier map.

Left: 'Imakuni' character icon. Right: Normal male icon.
[img]http://i.minus.com/iLIsaH4gYhihi.png[/img]

Re: Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Crystalame
Date: 2014-12-24 18:15:34
I clipped it out of that map to get a better view of it and, after zooming in on it and staring at it because I just couldn't even tell WHAT the heck, my conclusion is that it looks like negative-color May. But I've never seen the May sprite for that particular Frontier map (I didn't even know that map existed) so I wouldn't actually know for certain. I think I'll go look it up now.

EDIT: I can't find it. I can't even find the Brendan Frontier Map sprite. :( Maybe I'm just searching in the wrong places. Either way, it looks like a "coherent" sprite to me. By that I mean it doesn't look like just a trash sprite, even if it does seem to be corrupted palette-wise.

Re: Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2014-12-24 18:28:51

I clipped it out of that map to get a better view of it and, after zooming in on it and staring at it because I just couldn't even tell WHAT the heck, my conclusion is that it looks like negative-color May. But I've never seen the May sprite for that particular Frontier map (I didn't even know that map existed) so I wouldn't actually know for certain. I think I'll go look it up now.


Thanks. You're right, it's just a corrupted version of the May sprite.

The valid May sprite looks like this.

[img]http://i.minus.com/itfbIJ4Th7ROI.png[/img]

If you invert the colours of the corrupted sprite it looks more like May:

[img]http://i.minus.com/in7o0MgnHs5G.png[/img]

Re: Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Crystalame
Date: 2014-12-24 18:32:03
:S Weird. But the one you found looks a lot different somehow. Could it possibly be a prototype version of it, or are my eyes just playing tricks on me?

Re: Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2014-12-24 19:29:25

:S Weird. But the one you found looks a lot different somehow. Could it possibly be a prototype version of it, or are my eyes just playing tricks on me?


Partly, that may be an illusion of some sort. Both the normal and glitched May sprite have a white outline, but when I inverted the colours it inverted the outline too. Maybe the black outline is be making the picture look bigger than it is? Not sure.

It may look like that May has a mouth and her face is longer in the inverted corrupted version, but if you replace the colours left and right of the black outline, it looks more like the original.

Her face only has one colour in the corrupted version (no cheeks or dark bits near the eyes), which would make the sprite look different, but that may more likely be part of the glitch, though I think it's worth extracting the sprites for this screen from the ROM.

The picture I provided: [img]http://i.minus.com/in7o0MgnHs5G.png[/img]
Outline made white. [img]http://i.minus.com/iQJ9uLYCI0Hr8.png[/img]
Outline made white, bottom edge colours adjusted and cheeks added: [img]http://i.minus.com/iFptHqkElk70a.png[/img]

Re: Strange Emerald sprite (not the Mendel Palace guy)

Posted by: Crystalame
Date: 2014-12-25 16:19:13
That would make sense. I guess I can't/shouldn't take the inverted color image for super-serious since the palette is just corrupted.

[size=6pt](Also, the colors on the images you provided kind of make it look like a Game Boy sprite. :P)[/size]