High Quality Fanworks

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By bynineb. Unown for each type instead of letters
 
A slightly different kind of fanwork

So, I like Tool Assisted Speedruns People get weird about them, but I find inhumanely optimal play very interesting and the notes on a given run can be enlightening. Generally I like more action game TASes than RPGs, since there's often more "going on" to enjoy, and Pokemon speedruns are usually pretty straight forward unless you're diving into glitches to begin with but I want to highlight these two Pokemon TASes that went with a different track


These are Co-Op Diploma TASes. In addition to beating the game, their goal is to fill in the Pokedex in both titles (excluding Mythics) while being run at the same time, without using glitches. And this dramatically affects routing, team composition and even the ability to rig outcomes. No longer do you just try rigging crits, you need to be mindful of rigging encounters, captures, and especially pick ups and there's times where you have to sacrifice one thing to ultimate save time on another. It's also just very fulfilling to see how things like trade times and resets are used to full effect so both games carry approximately the same amount of work.

The Gen 2 TAS is even more impressive since it must juggle Yellow, too.

These are long runs but the commentary that explains the decisions, routing and frame rules are informative and keep things flowing (though I did watch at double speed over a few days, heh).


Incidentally while the Gen 2 TAS completion obviously fills in the full dex, but the RS run does the Hoenn dex. They explain it a bit in the commentary but a Co-Op TAS for Gen 3's National Dex isn't really feasible; there's technical limitations on emulators connecting to the gamecube games. And -while not mentioned by them-I imagine they'd basically have to run this TAS again anyway and that's probably not as interesting to create alongside jugglign all the other games, to make no mention that without the GameCube games you would have to complete the Hoenn dex three times in Emerald to get the Johto starters. Also while Ho-oh & Lugia aren't required for the Emerald & FRLG National Dexes they are required for the RS National Dex. So it's just a mess!

I imagine that a hypothetical Gen 4 Co-Op Nat Dex TAS would similarly run into issues. Even if dual slot mode works you either keep to the spirit of the challenge and re-complete the Gen 3 Hoenn dex too or you just bite the bullet and use it as a mule for the Regi (and final starter because if you need to use Pal Park anyway why would you not take the option that means you dont have to restart HGSS).

The same authors are working on a FRLG Co-Op TAS as well and I cant wait to see it complete.
 
I was hoping to post this in the merch thread but as it wasn’t official, I’m erring on the side of caution and posting here: These are made by Austin Babbitt aka Asspizza. Over the last year his company made screen prints of each of the 151 og Pokemon. After finishing, they let you purchase a certain number. Then, you’d get randomly selected Pokemon, some of which could be shiny. I copped three, and I’m so excited to show them off when the weather gets nicer.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Beedrill and getting something as iconic as Eevee and Bulbasaur is crazyyy


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A YouTuber I follow named KingK has done a bunch of video essays about each generation of the mainline games.

(Just gonna link the first one so it doesn't spam the thread with video embeds.)

These videos are a combination of personal retrospective, game review and analysis of other aspects like theming. They're wonderful (and good background noise) and I highly recommend watching them all.

Except his Sword and Shield video. It's dogwater and possibly his worst video ever.
 
Can I say a fan game is high quality if it’s glitchy, has extreme lag if you don’t download a few extra gigabites, and only just over half the Pokemon have sprites? I feel like I can in this case, but let’s just say April Fools if I can’t. :P Besides, the art alone makes it worth sharing.


You know those Pokemon fusion generators that combined two Pokemon? Well, Pokemon Infinite Fusion is a fan game based on that. From a technical standpoint, I'm pretty sure it's pure insanity. I don't know much about programming other than there's no way the game should be as stable as it is. There's a few glitches with fusing, but they fix themselves when stats get updated. From an artistic stand point, I know this is pure insanity. Instead of just automatically generated sprites, people are making tons of custom sprites for it. Not counting Fusions, there’s 501 Pokemon in the game. (That's including alternate forms. All the Pokemon from Gens 1 and 2 are in and the other half of the Pokemon in the game are from Gens 3-7.) Counting Fusions, that’s over a quarter million Pokemon and over half of the Fusions have custom sprites! (By the way, needing to download the custom sprites is why you need to download a few extra gigabites to avoid extreme lag from loading sprites from the servers on the fly. Worth it!) The Infinite Fusion Dex is seriously worth checking out.

The way fusions work in Infinite Fusion makes the order you fuse Pokemon matter. The easy to guess reason is first Pokemon gives their first type and the second Pokemon gives their second type, so Venusaur and Charizard can make either a Grass/Flying or Fire/Poison type. The less obvious thing about Fusion order is Base Stats aren’t split 50/50. Pokemon either give 2/3 or 1/3 depending on the stat and if they’re the first or second Pokemon. The first Pokemon gives 2/3 of their HP and Special stats and the second Pokemon gives 2/3 of their Speed and Physical stats. The easy way to remember the way it’s split is it happens to be the way that makes Blissey one of the most broken Pokemon in the game. (I really had to say one of. You can catch Slakoth before the third Gym and I feel safe saying it’s still not the most broken Pokemon you can catch at that point. If you want to do broken things, the game just lets you break it.)


If you want to check out the game, there is NO official website. Only download it from the PokeCommunity Page or the Infinite Fusion Discord channel. You can find a link on the Infinite Fusion Reddit.
 
I've seen my share of fan region art projects over the years, but this one by twitter user queuloriior has really grabbed my attention: OP is a Kaloshead and is doing their own take on an XY2 to celebrate Legends Z-A's release year

Fakemon
Drekeon: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1894846293975146577
Kalosian Mudsdale: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1895572591638953996
Dracaron: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1901735582264356945
Kalosian Lumineon: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1907549771448942845
Kalosian Salazzle: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1908275436821336217

Human Characters, New & Returning
Donis (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1880359429784363061
Roseanne (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1879623779292439007
Dexio & Sina: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1886510382518513740
Viola & Alexa: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1887284469301653989
Tierno & Durah (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1887962809386086695

Other Fun Things
World Map: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1883953262912757930
New Vivillon, Flabebe and Furfrou forms:
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1909327115406766549
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1910099351378055475
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1910772548565971375
 
Maybe I should have waited 3 weeks instead of posting about Infinite Fusion on April Fools Day...


So much Emerald nostalgia... :D
 
Yung Dramps said:
I've seen my share of fan region art projects over the years, but this one by twitter user queuloriior has really grabbed my attention: OP is a Kaloshead and is doing their own take on an XY2 to celebrate Legends Z-A's release year

Fakemon
Drekeon: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1894846293975146577
Kalosian Mudsdale: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1895572591638953996
Dracaron: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1901735582264356945
Kalosian Lumineon: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1907549771448942845
Kalosian Salazzle: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1908275436821336217

Human Characters, New & Returning
Donis (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1880359429784363061
Roseanne (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1879623779292439007
Dexio & Sina: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1886510382518513740
Viola & Alexa: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1887284469301653989
Tierno & Durah (OC): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1887962809386086695

Other Fun Things
World Map: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1883953262912757930
New Vivillon, Flabebe and Furfrou forms:
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1909327115406766549
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1910099351378055475
https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1910772548565971375
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Update on this: OP has finished the Gym Leaders & Pokemon League!

Gym Leaders
Grant (X2 Exclusive): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1913334122057003019
Seraphin (Bug, Y2 Exclusive): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1911888172448907593
Celestin (Flying): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1913332613915267118
Korrina: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1914398924594647319
Clemont & Bonnie: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1915133027002237311
Tibo (Ghost): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1916242076225651097
Plumeria(!!! Poison): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1916921151172788561
Valerie: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1917670125605445673
Malys (Dark, X2 Exclusive): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1919481585386025242
Wulfric (Y2 Exclusive): https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1918413083355333118

Elite Four & Champion
Wikstrom: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1920206448794948076
Drasna: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1920932835889672592
Olympia: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1921999695812952224
Siebold: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1922750082446758315
Diantha: https://xcancel.com/queuloriior/status/1923438851210539425

Full bios are on instagram (Plumeria is a faller and Malys is Wulfric's daughter!). New Mega Evolutions are next and we're already off to a great start
 
DrrT said:
The absolute amount if effort and love I see In this Mystery Dungeon sprites, as someone who used to do many sprites on my teens, is insane.

TPCi should stop been cowards and giving us a Mystery Dungeon game with Ultra Beasts and Paradoxes. They fit so damn well.
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Seeing all those headshots reminded me of Pokemon Shuffle, which was entirely literal heads, so when it came to the UBs you got wonderful things like this
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Xurkitree_(Pokémon)#/media/File:Shuffle796.png

and this

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Guzzlord_(Pokémon)#/media/File:Shuffle799.png
 
 
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