New Download Link for Pokemon Essentials + RC Resources: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_n2Tp1TIljLL1E-uBTzV6TTfDQzIxc58-8ZcvLI2LKM/edit#gid=233851590&range=A4 The Relic Castle website was taken down due to a DMCA claim on 3/21/24, and the community has been working on a backup for download links to Pokemon Essentials as well as the many great resources and plugins! Please use the link I've provided above in the meantime until further notice! Also please consider joining the following fangame discord servers for fangame community updates: Relic Castle Discord: discord.gg/reliccastle Thundaga Discord: discord.gg/BHm8vfTeTQ
A few years ago, I kept thinking "man, I should try one of those Pokemon fan games". At the time, I never did it, but then a couple months ago (at the age of 30) I worked my way through a few and loved them. Immediately started looking at how to make my own ones and discovered this whole community of people doing the same. Your new tutorials came up and they have been easily the most helpful resource! Thank you for everything you do bromego, I hope you can keep it coming for all of us :)
Dude I'm 17 and wanted to do the same thing since I love fangames and wondered if I maybe started too late, really inspiring to see someone else doing it too! Best of luck!
Thank you so much, these Tutorials really help us out. Making my own Pokémon-FanGame with my own Story and Fakémon has always been a dream of me and you make it possible.
I dipped my toes in the water years ago with essentials, and now seeing the newer versions pbs files I'm just sitting there amazed at how much better the organization has gotten.
Seriously. This has MADE my whole experience. Been wanting to do this since forever and ur making it happen. Have some v real Pokémon games coming soon. Not for the faint of heart.
These tutorials are fantastic, Thundaga! I'm working through them so I can create a fan game. I noticed that you hadn't included the VS bar or portrait for the Pro Youngster in your download files. So I decided to copy one of the existing vs bars and use the trainer sprite as my portrait and it worked surprisingly well! So even if you can't make a portrait sprite, you can still add flavor to the game with transitions!
These tutorials have been fantastic, and I appreciate how in-depth you are going with your explanation of v20. Question for anyone: Is it possible to randomize a trainer's team using a pre-selected pool of Pokémon?
Love these videos! They've been so much help making a custom pokemon game! This video helped me greatly with a special trainer I wanted to make. I was wondering if you ever answered questions for more... advanced... trainers?
This seems like one of the hardest parts of making a pokemon game. Forget adding all the pokemon and moves and such, once you've done that, you can just copy-paste that work as long as you stay in the same engine. Adding trainers needs to be done every generation, they need to be balanced properly, each represents an almost unlimited number of possibilities for the developer. Imagining putting together multiple pokemon, for multiple trainers, for every route, for every game makes my head spin.
Love the series dude. Very helpful. The pro-youngster Joey sprite link 404s when I try it. Is there an updated link where you have some of your sprites? I don’t have ps haha
Loving the series so far! Only got a small problem that I've encountered when creating trainers involving gen 5 sprites. The pkmn essentials sprites are divided in tiles that are 32x48, but the gen 5 sprites use a different format. Is there a way to change the format so it can take gen 5 sprites? Or is the only way to redo every sprite to the 32x48 format?
Is there a way to add trainer animations like in Black and white Edit: never mind found one of your older vids that shows how to do this thanks for all the work you put into these really helps out
although they are not currently updated to v20.1 like he is doing with these tutorials, he has a playlist of pokemon essentials and RPGXP that he has done a long time ago. Maybe you can find what you are looking for there
I love your work you help me alot in making my own game, also is there a problem with the website where i can download those music packs. But they dont work, anybody here who knows how i can download on this website?
I am not sure what specific things need to be set up for gym trainers, the elite four, or the champion. Also rematch against the gym leaders or other legendary trainers in the post game ... will these things get an extra tutorial?
oops where can I change the location where the character will die? before going to the first pokecenter, when the character dies, he goes to the house where his mother is, I wanted to change that.
What if i whant to make the player chose an amount of pokemon for the battle Lets say brock has 2 pokemom, how could i makw the player chose up to 2 of his/her pokemon for battle
Excellent video ! I don't think I would have been able to improve this much without the help of your videos ! I really want to go deeper onto the creation of a fangame, and thanks to you I can finally do it ! On the other hand, I ave some troubles using the IntroBGM for some reason. No matter what I do, the music isn't playing... The others work perfectly, but this one specificaly isn't working :( Does anybody know how to fix this ?
Hey Thundaga, big fan but I was just wondering if you might have done a contest before? I have one set up thanks to a number of other creators but I wanted to know if it's possible to add a contest battle script. Doesn't have to be completely like the anime but I was thinking like a gym double battle but you also get scored for performance between your team.
So I have a question. I changed the members of a trainers team, however, when I did a test play the team members didn’t change. Would you or anyone happen to have an idea on why?
Your tutorial is amazing so far! a few questions tho, how useful is the old tutorial for learning Pokemon Essentials? Also, I'm planning on making different teams based off of the # of badges, Common Event: Conditional Event, Variable (# of badges) would work or is there a better method?
I'm tinkering around with this software and making some trainers now. Do you know what I can do to improve the AI so it can at least not send out their Pokemon in sequential order and send out whichever one is the most effective against the Pokemon you have out? With or without getting them to save their ace for the end?
So I’m having problems with making a trainer. I would make a trainer, do the script. But when I test the battle it would ask me to make a trainer with some Pokémon. However when I make graphic character it’s not saving as a png file so I would have something to choose from. No the graphic is not transparent. The trainer I picked was PokémonTrainer_Brendan but I accidentally changed his type to my actual name. I got the battle to work but it will not save correctly or it will kick me out
I wanted to give my OC bug catcher a Grubbin, but that's not in essentials. I found a resource for sun and moon sprites. The back sprites needs work to shape up to the rest, so far I traced over the sprite. It was so smudgy when it was stetched to Anorith size. Feels more personal which feels great, but The tab for my photoshop version is stuck minimized, It's weird being making the game seems to make either photoshop who the internet browser to stick close. I use the start search bar that break me back into it, but I don't think I can do the same with photoshop. I have mine 2018 photoshop essentials through my windows bar. I need to modify back sprites to the Grubbin and the Oricorios. I thought from the red flowers made sense the Baile Style would be. Until I get the Grubbin to register I won't watched anymore of this video. My idea is for the bugcatcher to not like Grubbins, but I found one of the descriptions that made me want one, so my player character feels that. Possibly just the boy is like that, since I've started with Red since starting. Anyway this player can show him in a one on one battle that I'll figure out to do. I thought I was to have the player give his Grubbin after, but he'll get his own.
This may be a silly question, but I downloaded a pokemon game and I was hoping to play around in it (things like adding my own NPCs with their own pokemon teams), but I found out that the creator purposefully encrypted all files in their data folder, and I was wondering if I could do anything about that. I realize that thia may not even be a question for you so sorry if this bothers you!
I'm just wondering if you will be covering making customizable trainers again, like in ep 26 in old? If so, can you do it with an npc or shop-like event and a starting choosable base trainer? If you can. Yours have been the best tutorials.
@@Artyphobia I'm pretty sure that's the difference between RPG maker projects and romhacks, which use the original games as base to create a new one instead of a completely different engine (a.k.a RPG Maker XP in this case). I don't know if nintendo DS romhacks exist for pokemon games, but I remember having played a few Gameboy color romhacks that would probably work just fine if used on a real gameboy. Note that limitations in the creative process might be much tighter for romhacks since you have to work with the original game's limitations... and said process could be technically more complex.
Hi, first, thank you so much for these tutorials! Second I don’t know if you respond here but I have a quick question regarding the gender settings in pokémon essentials. Is it possible to allow for settings other than male of female, such as nonbinary and the like?
what the heck does this error mean! plz help i have been working on fixing this for 2 and a half hours [Pokémon Essentials version 20.1] Script error in event 23 (coords 69,19), map 48 (route 1) Exception: SyntaxError Message: (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected constant, expecting ')' ...erBattle.start(:TEAM MasterMind survent, "Oliver") ... ^~~~~~~~~~ (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting end-of-input ...M MasterMind survent, "Oliver") ... ^ ***Full script: TrainerBattle.start(:TEAM MasterMind survent, "Oliver")
New Download Link for Pokemon Essentials + RC Resources: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_n2Tp1TIljLL1E-uBTzV6TTfDQzIxc58-8ZcvLI2LKM/edit#gid=233851590&range=A4
The Relic Castle website was taken down due to a DMCA claim on 3/21/24, and the community has been working on a backup for download links to Pokemon Essentials as well as the many great resources and plugins! Please use the link I've provided above in the meantime until further notice!
Also please consider joining the following fangame discord servers for fangame community updates:
Relic Castle Discord: discord.gg/reliccastle
Thundaga Discord: discord.gg/BHm8vfTeTQ
A few years ago, I kept thinking "man, I should try one of those Pokemon fan games". At the time, I never did it, but then a couple months ago (at the age of 30) I worked my way through a few and loved them. Immediately started looking at how to make my own ones and discovered this whole community of people doing the same. Your new tutorials came up and they have been easily the most helpful resource! Thank you for everything you do bromego, I hope you can keep it coming for all of us :)
Dude I'm 17 and wanted to do the same thing since I love fangames and wondered if I maybe started too late, really inspiring to see someone else doing it too! Best of luck!
@@braydenbennett8016 its never too late, dont forget Code of bw2 got leaked, we will get more Feature and better graphics in feature
The little comment about Brock being a cheater just made me cry literal tears of laughter! XD Your guide is extremely helpful!
Thank you so much,
these Tutorials really help us out.
Making my own Pokémon-FanGame
with my own Story and Fakémon
has always been a dream of me
and you make it possible.
Oh no, not the Pro Youngster!!!
Pokemon Among Us
And his 6 rattatas on route 2!!!
This is tricky stuff, not one but two PBS files to keep track of! Super helpful to see someone making a trainer in realtime.
I love your work and it has been of SO much help so far. Please keep going, and thanks for your dedication!
You made this right after I started working on my own Game, Thanks brochacho.
I worked the last 3 weeks on my own pokemon game with close to 0 sleep just cause your awesome tutorials ❤️ thank you for ur work
Thank you so much for the pre-looped music! It will save so much time!
You do this with such skill and pacience. Honestly can’t thank you enough
I dipped my toes in the water years ago with essentials, and now seeing the newer versions pbs files I'm just sitting there amazed at how much better the organization has gotten.
Yes!!! Now I am motivated to get back to my Game 🎉
these are super helpful thank you so much for making these!!!!!
Seriously. This has MADE my whole experience. Been wanting to do this since forever and ur making it happen. Have some v real Pokémon games coming soon. Not for the faint of heart.
While I am decently familiar with essentials thanks to your previous tutorials,
These tutorials do really help with fixing the errors I encounter.
My ADHD is so glad I stumbled onto this!
These tutorials are fantastic, Thundaga! I'm working through them so I can create a fan game. I noticed that you hadn't included the VS bar or portrait for the Pro Youngster in your download files. So I decided to copy one of the existing vs bars and use the trainer sprite as my portrait and it worked surprisingly well! So even if you can't make a portrait sprite, you can still add flavor to the game with transitions!
these videos have been really helpful to me! i hope to see more soon
These tutorials have been fantastic, and I appreciate how in-depth you are going with your explanation of v20.
Question for anyone: Is it possible to randomize a trainer's team using a pre-selected pool of Pokémon?
While I do not think it is possible to do that you can infact make mutliple teams for 1 person and use switches to choose fights
This is an amazing resource. 😊😊😊
1:32 so could I use Google docks or Microsoft word?
badaboom. Thank you for your guides! Your a legend!
Good explanation! Similarities are in the old one but if you have v20 Definitely use this tutorial!
I love these videos man, please keep doing Them 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love these videos! They've been so much help making a custom pokemon game! This video helped me greatly with a special trainer I wanted to make. I was wondering if you ever answered questions for more... advanced... trainers?
This seems like one of the hardest parts of making a pokemon game. Forget adding all the pokemon and moves and such, once you've done that, you can just copy-paste that work as long as you stay in the same engine.
Adding trainers needs to be done every generation, they need to be balanced properly, each represents an almost unlimited number of possibilities for the developer. Imagining putting together multiple pokemon, for multiple trainers, for every route, for every game makes my head spin.
thanks for these, i’m not looking to make my own fangame, but i make assets for some and it’d be nice to know how to insert them in-game!
I'm getting runtime error
I love that you've kept the joke going about yourself for this long.
PLS do more I need this so much
Hello, love your videos and they helped me a ton already. Can you please show how to make custom attacks and abilities next
Love the series dude. Very helpful. The pro-youngster Joey sprite link 404s when I try it. Is there an updated link where you have some of your sprites? I don’t have ps haha
same problem
This is the best. Thank you !
love those tutorials, you have idea if we can make it to play vs friends? hanks for your hard work
OMG it works. I made a battle through choices. I wanted my NPC to battle me if I said no. Everything worked out fine.
Loving the series so far! Only got a small problem that I've encountered when creating trainers involving gen 5 sprites. The pkmn essentials sprites are divided in tiles that are 32x48, but the gen 5 sprites use a different format. Is there a way to change the format so it can take gen 5 sprites? Or is the only way to redo every sprite to the 32x48 format?
Is there a way to add trainer animations like in Black and white
Edit: never mind found one of your older vids that shows how to do this thanks for all the work you put into these really helps out
Can you make it like the gen 5 gym where depending on the starter it makes u battle a certain gym leader
You can do that depending on Switches
Nevermind, as Thundaga stated up to 22:15 you can do this depending on a variable and with pbGet(NumberOfVariable)
when will the tutorial on making new pokemon be made? I cant quite figure out how to do it myself
although they are not currently updated to v20.1 like he is doing with these tutorials, he has a playlist of pokemon essentials and RPGXP that he has done a long time ago. Maybe you can find what you are looking for there
@@kioxid1113 i tried going back but everything was completely different so it didn't do much, thanks for trying to help tho
It took till like part 64 last time for that.. May take awhile sadly. Maybe try asking around Modding Forums?
@@omnirudy ill try that ty
AWESOME THANK YOU
I love your work you help me alot in making my own game, also is there a problem with the website where i can download those music packs. But they dont work, anybody here who knows how i can download on this website?
I am not sure what specific things need to be set up for gym trainers, the elite four, or the champion.
Also rematch against the gym leaders or other legendary trainers in the post game ... will these things get an extra tutorial?
Could u explain to us how we can set the DVs of a trainers pokémon? I only know how setting IVs works
oops where can I change the location where the character will die? before going to the first pokecenter, when the character dies, he goes to the house where his mother is, I wanted to change that.
how does this work for rival battles?
how do you get the like trainer to like work cause when i fight it doesn't show the fighter sprite
So, we can put pretty much any song?
I did the exact same thing but the trainer won't show up in the debug menu...
What if i whant to make the player chose an amount of pokemon for the battle
Lets say brock has 2 pokemom, how could i makw the player chose up to 2 of his/her pokemon for battle
How do you do the event stuff without copying another trainer?
I accidentally deleted most premade stuff
How about making a guard that detects if you have the gym badge or not
HOw to CUstomize the visuals of your sprite? Or maybe even do one from zero
Excellent video ! I don't think I would have been able to improve this much without the help of your videos !
I really want to go deeper onto the creation of a fangame, and thanks to you I can finally do it !
On the other hand, I ave some troubles using the IntroBGM for some reason. No matter what I do, the music isn't playing... The others work perfectly, but this one specificaly isn't working :(
Does anybody know how to fix this ?
Yeee i got mine to work and made my won sprite to.
how to draw in this grafic?
How do I make custom sprites for them?
So do you have any suggestions for where to get more sprites? I want to try this out but you pro youngster link 404s
Hey Thundaga, big fan but I was just wondering if you might have done a contest before? I have one set up thanks to a number of other creators but I wanted to know if it's possible to add a contest battle script. Doesn't have to be completely like the anime but I was thinking like a gym double battle but you also get scored for performance between your team.
Any advice on making a trainer drop an item/pokemon from party upon defeat? Is this possible, instead of just giving money
So I have a question. I changed the members of a trainers team, however, when I did a test play the team members didn’t change. Would you or anyone happen to have an idea on why?
Does anyone know how to make it so you dont battle them again after you beat them?
I did this but it doesn't work. I wonder what I am doing wrong
Is ENLS's website bugged? I click on a game and an error message shows up
Your tutorial is amazing so far! a few questions tho, how useful is the old tutorial for learning Pokemon Essentials? Also, I'm planning on making different teams based off of the # of badges, Common Event: Conditional Event, Variable (# of badges) would work or is there a better method?
I'm tinkering around with this software and making some trainers now. Do you know what I can do to improve the AI so it can at least not send out their Pokemon in sequential order and send out whichever one is the most effective against the Pokemon you have out? With or without getting them to save their ace for the end?
This time with no ChatGPT!
Hello there! Does anybody know if EBDX will be ported to v20.1?
So I’m having problems with making a trainer. I would make a trainer, do the script. But when I test the battle it would ask me to make a trainer with some Pokémon. However when I make graphic character it’s not saving as a png file so I would have something to choose from. No the graphic is not transparent. The trainer I picked was PokémonTrainer_Brendan but I accidentally changed his type to my actual name. I got the battle to work but it will not save correctly or it will kick me out
Do you know where I can find more Battle-Transitions graphics?
Hello, one quick question, how can you make it so that trainers say something when they send out their last pokémon?
love it cam:) what happens when you enter a battle after all your pokemon faint tho?
Please give justice for Bugcatcher Rick in Viridian Forest
Hello! Quick question: How do I make it so my trainer event resets its position after re-entering the map? Thanks in advance :)
Download link for sprites is broken
giving up on doing variants much easier to just slap a coat of paint on things
Just informing you that the download for the sprites has stopped working, hopefully you can fix it soon.
This may be a stupid question but is it possible to create new pokemon and types in this at some point?
Yes
I dont know what im doing wrong but i can't figure out how to do this.
What are you trying to do?
I wanted to give my OC bug catcher a Grubbin, but that's not in essentials. I found a resource for sun and moon sprites. The back sprites needs work to shape up to the rest, so far I traced over the sprite. It was so smudgy when it was stetched to Anorith size. Feels more personal which feels great, but The tab for my photoshop version is stuck minimized, It's weird being making the game seems to make either photoshop who the internet browser to stick close. I use the start search bar that break me back into it, but I don't think I can do the same with photoshop. I have mine 2018 photoshop essentials through my windows bar.
I need to modify back sprites to the Grubbin and the Oricorios. I thought from the red flowers made sense the Baile Style would be. Until I get the Grubbin to register I won't watched anymore of this video.
My idea is for the bugcatcher to not like Grubbins, but I found one of the descriptions that made me want one, so my player character feels that. Possibly just the boy is like that, since I've started with Red since starting. Anyway this player can show him in a one on one battle that I'll figure out to do. I thought I was to have the player give his Grubbin after, but he'll get his own.
...essentials has been updated through gen 9 since like last year, are you okay
This may be a silly question, but I downloaded a pokemon game and I was hoping to play around in it (things like adding my own NPCs with their own pokemon teams), but I found out that the creator purposefully encrypted all files in their data folder, and I was wondering if I could do anything about that. I realize that thia may not even be a question for you so sorry if this bothers you!
honestly, your best bet would be with Pokemon essentials. If you wanna make your own creations
Anyone know a good place to find sprites? I'm no artist and I would just edit ones that are already out there but they're all too small :(
the sprites resources is very good option
It's a bummer I can't find pokemon essentials
In his videos in the description there will be a link that says "Download essentials" Or something like that. Hope this helps.
I'm just wondering if you will be covering making customizable trainers again, like in ep 26 in old? If so, can you do it with an npc or shop-like event and a starting choosable base trainer? If you can. Yours have been the best tutorials.
There isn't enough like buttons for me to press on this video!
I have a question, can you make a game in pokemon essentials and transfer it into an external empty ds cartridge and play on your ds?
no im pretty sure you cant, unless im wrong but theres no way you can put an rpgmaker game/file onto a GBA,NDS anything like that
😢
@@Artyphobia I'm pretty sure that's the difference between RPG maker projects and romhacks, which use the original games as base to create a new one instead of a completely different engine (a.k.a RPG Maker XP in this case).
I don't know if nintendo DS romhacks exist for pokemon games, but I remember having played a few Gameboy color romhacks that would probably work just fine if used on a real gameboy. Note that limitations in the creative process might be much tighter for romhacks since you have to work with the original game's limitations... and said process could be technically more complex.
my game file is old for the rpg maker xpg and it almost deleted😭😭😭 I hate making video games, I`m so bad at this(((
Will Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl eventually get included in your guys' library?
10:19
👍👍
I AM A PROGRAMMER NOW MWAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm looking to hire a skilled and talented mapper (paid position)
can you show me in a easy way to make Trainers????
I think regular Youngster should’ve been Cameron and Pro Youngster should’ve been CameronGPT
Hi, first, thank you so much for these tutorials! Second I don’t know if you respond here but I have a quick question regarding the gender settings in pokémon essentials. Is it possible to allow for settings other than male of female, such as nonbinary and the like?
🍍👍
I think the name is pronounced Thundaga
gongaga
Whut
what the heck does this error mean! plz help i have been working on fixing this for 2 and a half hours
[Pokémon Essentials version 20.1]
Script error in event 23 (coords 69,19), map 48 (route 1)
Exception: SyntaxError
Message: (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected constant, expecting ')'
...erBattle.start(:TEAM MasterMind survent, "Oliver")
... ^~~~~~~~~~
(eval):1: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting end-of-input
...M MasterMind survent, "Oliver")
... ^
***Full script:
TrainerBattle.start(:TEAM MasterMind survent, "Oliver")
How do I make my custom sprites?