Being around for all of these discoveries was one thing, but seeing Weekend edition become a reality was something I never thought would actually happen! Glad everyone else can see how much went into it - PS: absolblogs with a man bun seems unstoppable
Would've never happened without the constant banter from you and the Rumble boys!!! And we'll see about that, maybe I'll try it someday and see how it looks lol
oh my gosh the story behind the octillery model was so much more interesting than I could have imagined. Your persistence with this game is absolutely incredible btw, insane to me that there was so much to know and see still. The fact that the pokemon basically existed but were removed makes me wonder why they never removed the other 2 models tbh, how much further did they make it? surely if they were removing loads of models the pika and octillery model couldn't just have been test content, but actually made it further into development than gen 2 and 3? Anyway would love to see and hear more content about deciphering the code for the game, this reminds me of the decomp projects for various N64 games that have been happening, the code has existed for over a decade to be studied yet needs to basically be deciphered to truly uncover its mysteries!
I almost wonder if they accidentally missed removing the pikachu and octillery since they were named slightly differently!! I'm guessing they were both new additions with the Platinum Ranch update, so maybe they sneaked in with Origin Giratina/the rotom formes
15 seconds into this video, on the 4th reset of the night (estimated 1.5x odds total), I found my first ever shiny uncatchable pooch while hunting Treecko in Ruby. Feeling very mixed right now, I have always wanted to eventually find one, but on the other hand I have been looking for that treecko for a while now. Phase two here we go!
Pokemon rumble was my first pokemon game! I can't express how much nostalgia I have while playing wii titles like this one. Thanks for another awesome video, see you next rumble weekend ;)
This is by far the coolest passion project I love this series and debatably the original is the best Party Game Thx so much for working on this and I’d love to see more in the future
I know I'm a year late but I have a theory about the Spinda fact. I'm wondering if, when developing Rumble, the developers decided to copy and paste some code from My Pokemon Ranch over to Rumble, as the correct patterns would need to be used in MPR as to make sure they lined up when transferred from DPP. It might be a slight reach, but it would also explain all the seperate forms of the Pokemon being accessable including the Arceus forms
Interesting theories and behind the scenes story. In my opinion, they didn't expect how impactful Pokémon Rumble would be and decided to place it at the WiiWare instead giving it a physical release. And they had to cut off gens 2 & 3 implements because like you said, the strict memory space need it to place the game on the store despite the models had already been implemented, hence why some of the code was left out on the final product. Also, there wasn't a main story that we could follow (unless you want to remember that it all started with just a rattata), but its still an enjoyable beat up game with tons of repeatability thanks to our beloved shinies. I don't know how the WiiWare worked since I didn't use it when I had the console but, if it was possible, they could've release a dlc or a physical release with all the pokes from gen 1 to 4 after seeing how approved the game was by the fans. But hey, what's done is done and now we can enjoy those missing features thanks to you and your helping friends either we play it on console or on emulator, and slowly improving it to make one of the most fun games we can play :) Great video Matt and good luck on Rumble Weekend 20, can't wait to begin!
i love this video i love this video I LOVE THIS VIDEO! So cool man, your dedication dissecting this game and bringing the Weekend Edition mod to life is still surreal to me. All of these little random funny hidden pieces of data are so interesting! Thank you MatthewAbsolBlogsPokemon!
please do make videos on the translated pmd wii games! ive been wanting to know the story in them but any official sources i have dont have any info on the games, really. and i dont own a wii so i wouldnt be able to look into it myself
That’s cool! I’ve always wanted to learn about programming and learn to do it. I’m currently finishing my biochemistry degree, I graduate next quarter.
I expected this video to be a fun ride full of knowledge and wisdom yet here I am thinking about those poor orphan Bonsly... Awesome video Matt, amazing editing as always. Somewhere, someplace, there is a Rumble developer proud of you for showing all the unsued and what could have been content.
It’s sad that the file size might have been what killed the gen 2 and 3 mons in the base game. Makes me wish the original Rumble would have gotten an enhanced physical release instead of a few less good sequels.
Looking at the tcrf page for it, it looks like there are a couple text strings that hint at a DVD of the game - maybe that was originally planned but never happened! Wiiware games also occasionally had DLC, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were planned to be add-ons at one point
I genuinely feel so honoured to have been kept up to date as this all came together. From that first crazy screenshot of the fog being removed to now, this has been an amazing journey to be a part of 😍
I just found about this this Sunday morning. I was wondering how it was made and it all makes sense. I guess I owe you my current happiness. Current version as of March 2023 is 1.5 Been having a blast with it today. Thanks for that.
this video was incredibly cool. those are some sick discoveries, and it really makes you wonder why they would have taken gen 2 and 3 out right near the end of development!
Agent Ape!!!! Those PMD games have been on my to do list to play for way too long now. Your project singlehandedly motivated me to work on Rumble again, so thank you so much for all your efforts!
Insane effort, and insane findings. I love seeing modders squeeze every bit of content out of the games we all love. Keep up the great work. Hope to see you take this mod even further
Appreciate it!! Can definitely say the same about what you and hardware modders do with the systems we know and love. I plan to keep refining this mod and digging deeper into what this game has to offer
This is so neat! Seeing Regigigas hopping around made my eyes go so wide I forget if it’s been asked, but do you ever plan to release the encounter tables?
If I ever get around to making an automated script that will go through the encounter tables and put them in a readable format, I will! It would be an incredibly long process with the way that I currently interpret them
Oh gosh this was MASSIVELY FASCINATING!! I'd looooove to see and learn more!! It's so incredibly cool how you've been able to create the weekend edition!
Would it be possible to implement Flying Pikachu and Focus Band Octillery as alternate forms in Weekend Edition? Or is it impossible due to them not having existing alternative forms in the first place?
I bet it could be done, but it would likely require a little extra elbow grease - it would be one of the last things I'd try to do with it since there's so much stuff (adding cries, making Pokemon spawn with moves) that I have to figure out first
How did I not come across this video until just now? It's quite amazing that my own (terribly-coded) tool helped with Weekend Edition, glad it helped! Been meaning to give this mod a shot for a while, I really should try it sometime, me and my siblings loved Rumble when we were kids. Also fun fact: AT7View was *not* used for the WiiWare fan translation that got released. That effort started quite a while before I even knew about it (they kept it secret until release), and they relied on scripts of their creation. When I started work on my tool, all that was publicly available was sparse documentation on the AT7 container format. Using just that, and having no prior experience with data compression at the time, I wrote a whole (well, minus the borked recompression lol) program in the hopes that myself or someone else could get a translation effort going, and I wrote in under 3 weeks. It wasn't until a few months afterward that I managed to come across details of the undercover fan translation, learning that my long-term plans were outdone. Soon enough, I did manage to get into contact with people involved with the project, SpecialAgentApe included. For the next couple months after, I was sent periodic updates about the project. Eventually, I was informed they were basically all set for release except for one part--the length of nicknames and team names, which were still at 5 characters. Using the RE-ing progress I made on PMD WiiWare with Ghidra during the time before I knew about the translation project, I was able to gradually find bytes in the games' executables that pieced together full support for longer name entries; I managed to make the games allow 10 characters in nicknames by release, and 8 for team names in an update afterward. With that, I was officially a team member of the PMD WiiWare fan translation, less than a week before it launched. So yeah, great video, loved seeing/hearing about your process RE-ing Rumble, and am quite flattered by learning something I made helped your progress, as did the PMD WiiWare translation as a whole.
That's so cool!!! I didn't realize that your AT7View project was at first totally indepedent of SpecialAgentApe's translation team project. Seriously, the efforts that you and that team made for that game singlehandedly motivated me to really learn about this whole process and go at it again after initially giving up a year prior. So thank you once again for your efforts!! You definitely are one of the big reasons why this project ended up working out.
We know what happened to furret atleast, he was busy training to walk for 2 years straight Its the same with the main series, he couldnt make it to gen 7 and gen 8 due to training (This isnt the reason why furrets not there just I thought it was funny lol)
It hurts that I never played Rumble and Ranch. Had not Wii at the time, now have a Wii, but the online is dead. Rumble especially looks like an amazing game tho and I enjoy all the video's on it :) You did amazing work with this one, congratulations! You made lots of people happy :D
Hello absol I just want to say thaI really enkoy your content since 2016 and I want to say that I love how your channel is growing so my point is that I want to challenge you. The challenge is you to reach 120k subs before 2022 to show how 2021 is better than 2020 and make your channel bigger If you see this and accepted good if not i dont mind but anyways good luck Absol
Dang, I feel so sorry for the guy that carried over the formula for the Spinda forms to Rumble, only for it to go unused 😅
When that Regigigas started bouncing like a Spoink, my god what a moment.
Being around for all of these discoveries was one thing, but seeing Weekend edition become a reality was something I never thought would actually happen! Glad everyone else can see how much went into it - PS: absolblogs with a man bun seems unstoppable
Would've never happened without the constant banter from you and the Rumble boys!!!
And we'll see about that, maybe I'll try it someday and see how it looks lol
Give us the man bun update you coward😉
why is arcanine in the top of every absol blogs videos comment section
@@williamhenrybrimie4138 their frends i thinj
@@TheSupremeRk9s yea highly unlikely but there is a shot
i always love unused content and having unused content combined with your type of videos, its just too perfect
A Rumble mod including gen 2 and 3 had always been my biggest dream. Your work doesn’t go unnoticed, and it’s an inspiration for many!
2 years later I stumbled on this - and it’s so sick.
oh my gosh the story behind the octillery model was so much more interesting than I could have imagined.
Your persistence with this game is absolutely incredible btw, insane to me that there was so much to know and see still. The fact that the pokemon basically existed but were removed makes me wonder why they never removed the other 2 models tbh, how much further did they make it? surely if they were removing loads of models the pika and octillery model couldn't just have been test content, but actually made it further into development than gen 2 and 3? Anyway would love to see and hear more content about deciphering the code for the game, this reminds me of the decomp projects for various N64 games that have been happening, the code has existed for over a decade to be studied yet needs to basically be deciphered to truly uncover its mysteries!
I almost wonder if they accidentally missed removing the pikachu and octillery since they were named slightly differently!! I'm guessing they were both new additions with the Platinum Ranch update, so maybe they sneaked in with Origin Giratina/the rotom formes
15 seconds into this video, on the 4th reset of the night (estimated 1.5x odds total), I found my first ever shiny uncatchable pooch while hunting Treecko in Ruby. Feeling very mixed right now, I have always wanted to eventually find one, but on the other hand I have been looking for that treecko for a while now. Phase two here we go!
I cannot tell you how much I love "I cluelessly look into this game, but this time with determination"
Pokemon rumble was my first pokemon game! I can't express how much nostalgia I have while playing wii titles like this one. Thanks for another awesome video, see you next rumble weekend ;)
I don’t usually watch the unused content videos but this was really good Absol
This is by far the coolest passion project
I love this series and debatably the original is the best Party Game
Thx so much for working on this and I’d love to see more in the future
This is such a cool thing you’ve done! I hope one day i can get pokemon rumble and hunt on rumble weekend alongside everyone else who participates!
This is a great video. Here's hoping the next version of Weekend Edition includes cries for the Johto and Hoenn Pokémon.
very happy to say it will! got that fixed
This is actually an insane video Matt, detailing what actually went into weekend edition makes it seem so we see how much there really was to do
I know I'm a year late but I have a theory about the Spinda fact.
I'm wondering if, when developing Rumble, the developers decided to copy and paste some code from My Pokemon Ranch over to Rumble, as the correct patterns would need to be used in MPR as to make sure they lined up when transferred from DPP.
It might be a slight reach, but it would also explain all the seperate forms of the Pokemon being accessable including the Arceus forms
I was waiting for you to cover this in more detail, glad to finally see it
Can we get an f in the chat for the orphan bonsly
amazing video! super interesting!
Interesting theories and behind the scenes story. In my opinion, they didn't expect how impactful Pokémon Rumble would be and decided to place it at the WiiWare instead giving it a physical release. And they had to cut off gens 2 & 3 implements because like you said, the strict memory space need it to place the game on the store despite the models had already been implemented, hence why some of the code was left out on the final product. Also, there wasn't a main story that we could follow (unless you want to remember that it all started with just a rattata), but its still an enjoyable beat up game with tons of repeatability thanks to our beloved shinies. I don't know how the WiiWare worked since I didn't use it when I had the console but, if it was possible, they could've release a dlc or a physical release with all the pokes from gen 1 to 4 after seeing how approved the game was by the fans. But hey, what's done is done and now we can enjoy those missing features thanks to you and your helping friends either we play it on console or on emulator, and slowly improving it to make one of the most fun games we can play :) Great video Matt and good luck on Rumble Weekend 20, can't wait to begin!
Love the random pop series 7 pack in the brawl case
My beautiful man! Keep up the great work!!
I didn't even notice that it was just gen 1 and 4 till watching this.
i love this video i love this video I LOVE THIS VIDEO! So cool man, your dedication dissecting this game and bringing the Weekend Edition mod to life is still surreal to me. All of these little random funny hidden pieces of data are so interesting! Thank you MatthewAbsolBlogsPokemon!
This is amazing. What an interesting story.
Also have you considered level 100 gauntlet with the poke ball plus only with a Pokémon from let's go?
This is SO COOL!
We do not deserve AbsolBlogsPokemon
please do make videos on the translated pmd wii games! ive been wanting to know the story in them but any official sources i have dont have any info on the games, really. and i dont own a wii so i wouldnt be able to look into it myself
Oooo I’m interested
horsh on that shirt there
i always wonder why absol doesn't have more subscribers, he really deserves more.
This was amazing.
Thank you!
Pokemon Rumble Weekend Edition: am I a joke to you?
I’m extremely late but now I’m wondering if it is possible to implement gen 5 and beyond if you mess with the game heavily
You should add gen 5-6 pokemon as the models exist for the 3ds games
I did not even know they were missing from rumble
Wish you can code gen 2 & 3 pokemon to their evolutions of gen 1 and 4, weird I can't release 10 Onixs for Steelix for example.
How did you convert Mew into a shiny? I'm not sure how to do it as I wanted it for myself
Wow, that's impressive...
Great timing for lunch
"Deeper"
Zooms in
Yeah
Yes
yes
yes
no one:
Matt: PIIIIIIIIIII
This has nothing to do with anything but the hair is looking great my dude
damn that hair do
"Ignore the Chatot" haha
Maybe try and make a Pokémon rumble randomizer
Hey man how can I download rumble weekend
Trying to get the same answer !
is weekend edition available for the public? if not that’s okay i’m just curious. would love to play someday.
yeah the patch is available to download on projectpokemon!
This was pretty interesting!
From what I remember in an older video, you did attend college. Did you major in computer science?
yep!! I'm a full time programmer still at the moment
That’s cool! I’ve always wanted to learn about programming and learn to do it. I’m currently finishing my biochemistry degree, I graduate next quarter.
The bouncy Regigigas!
PII A Sports it’s in the game
This haircut looks good on you !
i commented on a video yesterday about rumble, and here i am today on a video about rumble
Early Pog
you lost hella weight man!
Hi i
Please never cut your hair shorter than it is now
I expected this video to be a fun ride full of knowledge and wisdom yet here I am thinking about those poor orphan Bonsly...
Awesome video Matt, amazing editing as always. Somewhere, someplace, there is a Rumble developer proud of you for showing all the unsued and what could have been content.
It’s sad that the file size might have been what killed the gen 2 and 3 mons in the base game. Makes me wish the original Rumble would have gotten an enhanced physical release instead of a few less good sequels.
Looking at the tcrf page for it, it looks like there are a couple text strings that hint at a DVD of the game - maybe that was originally planned but never happened! Wiiware games also occasionally had DLC, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were planned to be add-ons at one point
POV: you found an absol video and you click so fast you don’t know what the video is yet
Absolutely beautiful video dude. You're a gift to this community. Extracting the Pii is so important
The feeling when no one was talking about the first dexit
2nd Dexit actually
The first one was Gen 3. It were eventually all added back via multiple games (including Colosseum, XD, FR/LG, and Emerald)
Poor, porygon-2 floating out there in the middle of cyberspace and real space :(
I genuinely feel so honoured to have been kept up to date as this all came together. From that first crazy screenshot of the fog being removed to now, this has been an amazing journey to be a part of 😍
this is absolutely the most fascinating pokemon video i've seen in years. i love rumble so much and this is so sick
I just found about this this Sunday morning.
I was wondering how it was made and it all makes sense.
I guess I owe you my current happiness.
Current version as of March 2023 is 1.5
Been having a blast with it today.
Thanks for that.
this video was incredibly cool. those are some sick discoveries, and it really makes you wonder why they would have taken gen 2 and 3 out right near the end of development!
Whoa I missed this, amazing to see work from our PMD translation was helpful. Big props to kkzero for that compression tool.
Agent Ape!!!! Those PMD games have been on my to do list to play for way too long now. Your project singlehandedly motivated me to work on Rumble again, so thank you so much for all your efforts!
Insane effort, and insane findings. I love seeing modders squeeze every bit of content out of the games we all love. Keep up the great work. Hope to see you take this mod even further
Appreciate it!! Can definitely say the same about what you and hardware modders do with the systems we know and love. I plan to keep refining this mod and digging deeper into what this game has to offer
This is so neat! Seeing Regigigas hopping around made my eyes go so wide
I forget if it’s been asked, but do you ever plan to release the encounter tables?
If I ever get around to making an automated script that will go through the encounter tables and put them in a readable format, I will! It would be an incredibly long process with the way that I currently interpret them
P i i
Seriously though, great video!
Gosh I LOVE hearing about all of the behind the scenes action, thank you for sharing this and Rumble Weekend Edition with us!!
The quality of these videos are so great man keep it up
Oh gosh this was MASSIVELY FASCINATING!! I'd looooove to see and learn more!! It's so incredibly cool how you've been able to create the weekend edition!
LOL I don't think I'd be able to say the word "Pii" without smiling, either
YES OMG!!! As a Pokemon Rumble Glitch Hunter, ive waited for this video for SO LONG! THANK YOU!!!
Is Balloon Pikachu in Weekend Edition?
not yet!
Would it be possible to implement Flying Pikachu and Focus Band Octillery as alternate forms in Weekend Edition? Or is it impossible due to them not having existing alternative forms in the first place?
I bet it could be done, but it would likely require a little extra elbow grease - it would be one of the last things I'd try to do with it since there's so much stuff (adding cries, making Pokemon spawn with moves) that I have to figure out first
How did I not come across this video until just now?
It's quite amazing that my own (terribly-coded) tool helped with Weekend Edition, glad it helped! Been meaning to give this mod a shot for a while, I really should try it sometime, me and my siblings loved Rumble when we were kids.
Also fun fact: AT7View was *not* used for the WiiWare fan translation that got released. That effort started quite a while before I even knew about it (they kept it secret until release), and they relied on scripts of their creation. When I started work on my tool, all that was publicly available was sparse documentation on the AT7 container format. Using just that, and having no prior experience with data compression at the time, I wrote a whole (well, minus the borked recompression lol) program in the hopes that myself or someone else could get a translation effort going, and I wrote in under 3 weeks. It wasn't until a few months afterward that I managed to come across details of the undercover fan translation, learning that my long-term plans were outdone.
Soon enough, I did manage to get into contact with people involved with the project, SpecialAgentApe included. For the next couple months after, I was sent periodic updates about the project. Eventually, I was informed they were basically all set for release except for one part--the length of nicknames and team names, which were still at 5 characters. Using the RE-ing progress I made on PMD WiiWare with Ghidra during the time before I knew about the translation project, I was able to gradually find bytes in the games' executables that pieced together full support for longer name entries; I managed to make the games allow 10 characters in nicknames by release, and 8 for team names in an update afterward. With that, I was officially a team member of the PMD WiiWare fan translation, less than a week before it launched.
So yeah, great video, loved seeing/hearing about your process RE-ing Rumble, and am quite flattered by learning something I made helped your progress, as did the PMD WiiWare translation as a whole.
That's so cool!!! I didn't realize that your AT7View project was at first totally indepedent of SpecialAgentApe's translation team project.
Seriously, the efforts that you and that team made for that game singlehandedly motivated me to really learn about this whole process and go at it again after initially giving up a year prior. So thank you once again for your efforts!! You definitely are one of the big reasons why this project ended up working out.
It feels weird how so many Pokémon rumble games actually were made and only the first 2 were the peak of the entire franchise
SO true. It all went downhill after Blast
@@AbsolBlogsPokemon yeah lol though I learned recently Scott the Woz doesn’t like Rumble Blast and now I’m curious why he doesn’t
When a UA-cam Apology video starts 14:26
Also can’t wait for the kick off stream
Does someone know how to install it in 2021?
7:17 can confirm you can get present on chansey at the EX rank training point
Thank you!
this is likely the most interesting video i have ever watched about pokemon.
We know what happened to furret atleast, he was busy training to walk for 2 years straight
Its the same with the main series, he couldnt make it to gen 7 and gen 8 due to training
(This isnt the reason why furrets not there just I thought it was funny lol)
That sure is a lot of Pii
p i i
After almost a year do I wonder... would be possible to expand this game to include 5+ gens?
It hurts that I never played Rumble and Ranch. Had not Wii at the time, now have a Wii, but the online is dead.
Rumble especially looks like an amazing game tho and I enjoy all the video's on it :)
You did amazing work with this one, congratulations!
You made lots of people happy :D
Hello absol I just want to say thaI really enkoy your content since 2016 and I want to say that I love how your channel is growing so my point is that I want to challenge you.
The challenge is you to reach 120k subs before 2022 to show how 2021 is better than 2020 and make your channel bigger If you see this and accepted good if not i dont mind but anyways good luck Absol
Great video! Makes me want to finally try Pokémon Rumble. Probably the 3DS version, because I hate having to use the Wii.
It's 2009?
Are there any tutorials on how to edit pokemon (Ex: make them shiny) myself?
I have 3 nintendo wiis but no clue how to get rumble onto any of them. Please make a video about how to get it. I want to participate so badly!
Shiny hunting in the PMD WiiWare games sounds like a 'fun' challenge
Great video! I loved watching this search for the unused missing Pii's.
All of the “Pii” will be released lol
great video to eat subway to thanks absol
eat fresh
This was so interesting! This was so awesome to watch man thank you
this seems like the best place to ask, so, in rumble, is the deoxys password still available? if so, how do i get it to work?
11212020 should work!
@@AbsolBlogsPokemon that was surprisingly fast, thanks!