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Ajarmar / universal-pokemon-randomizer-zx

Public repository of source code for the Universal Pokemon Randomizer ZX
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Add support for SpeedChoice ROM Hacks #583

Closed entropiccode closed 1 year ago

entropiccode commented 1 year ago

Not a bug and not really a contribution request, I'm merely curious to know if there are plans to add support for the SpeedChoice ROM hacks in the future, SpeedChoice Red and SpeedChoice Crystal in particular.

There is a fork of the original UPR that supports SpeedChoice, however it offers the same limited randomization options as the original UPR and has not been updated in 2 years. SpeedChoice Emerald and Emerald EX also offer compiled versions of this fork with their releases. The randomizer available with SpeedChoice Emerald is version SPDC-20210315 and also supports Red and Crystal (personally tested) and likely also Ruby and FireRed, whereas the Emerald EX randomizer is version v2.0.0-alpha and only supports Emerald EX.

Links for reference: SpeedChoice fork of UPR: https://github.com/Dabomstew/UPR-Speedchoice SpeedChoice Red: https://github.com/Dabomstew/pokered-speedchoice SpeedChoice Crystal: https://github.com/Dabomstew/pokecrystal-speedchoice SpeedChoice Ruby: https://github.com/ProjectRevoTPP/pokeruby-speedchoice SpeedChoice Emerald: https://github.com/ProjectRevoTPP/pokeemerald-speedchoice SpeedChoice Emerald EX: https://github.com/ProjectRevoTPP/pokeemerald-ex-speedchoice SpeedChoice FireRed: https://github.com/PikalaxALT/firered-speedchoice

tom-overton commented 1 year ago

Sorry, but we have no plans for adding SpeedChoice support to the randomizer, for two main reasons:

  1. We have our hands full with the official games already
  2. SpeedChoice ROMs are liable to change at any moment, which might require updates to the randomizer to function. And given our glacial pace of releasing updates, this is probably not a good thing.