Paper Mario Pocket!

Whoops. Forgot. It's not major plot stuff, so I didn't put it in. Sorry. Still coming along great!

when is it gonna be done? i cant wait much longer 

Sorry. My mom's been badgering me to find a job, and I've had to spend a lot of time doing that. I'm still working on it, but regardless of whether or not I am done, at the end of March I will package it up, and send it to all my beta testers as-is (with blocks on the areas I haven't finished, if any). So, no matter what, you can look forward to playing the beta version on April 1st at the latest. And that's no April Fools!  Corny, I know. The game is much funnier, I promise you that!

Sorry. My mom's been badgering me to find a job, and I've had to spend a lot of time doing that. I'm still working on it, but regardless of whether or not I am done, at the end of March I will package it up, and send it to all my beta testers as-is (with blocks on the areas I haven't finished, if any). So, no matter what, you can look forward to playing the beta version on April 1st at the latest. And that's no April Fools!  Corny, I know. The game is much funnier, I promise you that!

I'm glad that we can expect the beta version around April 1st

Make sure it isn't released right after Super Paper Mario. I just pre ordered it.
So, I hope to test the game soon!

Don't worry, you will be! I know you're all excited, so to help you get even more so, and to show examples of the many different places you will be visiting, here are some more screen shots! Be careful! If you consider partners a spoiler, don't look! They are in the shots! Though I already mentioned the ones in them earlier in the topic.

Edited on 3/08/07
I'm editing this to let you know that I'm coming along. I just wanted to add in the extras you can expect to see in the after-game. That's right. Once you beat Wart, there's still PLENTY to do and see!

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1. You can go to Mouser Mines to find that they have a museum open!
2. You can meet Goombella's parents, and play a sidequest with them.
3. You can go to Bow's wedding!
4. You can go to Rojopolis to see the Cobrart Festival, which the Cobrats are holding.
5. You can go to Azul Lake, where the Strawberry Festival is taking place, and Mario must judge!
6. You can go to Verde Island, where Verde Volcano has become a Hotel/Spa!
7. You can go to Starlight Temple, which has become a haven for fighters, mainly Shy Guys, and is run by General Guy: Shy Stadium!
8. You can visit Cumulus Castle, and see the Dream Machine, who will allow you to re-battle any boss that you have beaten.

Hm,, the mapping looks..interesting. I look forward to playing it.

I was creative with the tileset. Rather than design different tiles for every object, I made it so that Subconians are naturalists. They live alongside the environment. For instance: the tile originally intended to be a bridge is also: a bookshelf, a bed, a lounge chair, and stairs. So, keep an open mind. I'm not too artistic, but I am creative, so the tiles may not be too exotic, but the way I use them sure is.

Yes, I love how it's very creative. It somewhat reminds me of Mario RPG. The tileset looks fun, and I look forward to playing in it.

Glad to hear you are looking forward to it. These are the only things I have left to do, then it will be ready to Beta Test!!! 

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1.   Museum of Mouser History
2.   Rojopolis Cobrart Festival
3.   Azul Lake Strawberrypalooza
4.   Shy Stadium
5.   Boss Re-battle
6.   Flurry Mountain (Not in Shy Stadium)
7.   Cumulus City and Cloudy Castle

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It could save someone from spoiling the game on accident.

Thanks. I'll remember that. BTW, I made this game up in Flash in about 20 minutes. It's based off of a game from Homestarrunner.com/Videlectrix.com (They're the same guys, but different websites). I got the .swf file, and decoded it, then I changed all the questions in the game to be Nintendo stuff. The original game was called "Hallrunner". I remade it to be "Hallrunner: Nintendo Halls". So, if you want a sample of my humor, and my style, you can download the game from here:

Download Nintendo_Hallrunner.zip

So, yeah. It's just a teaser to get you in the mood for my game. Hope you like it!

P.S. It's okay that I borrowed the game from Homestarrunner, cause I'm not making any money off of it. Same reason that it's okay that I'm making a Mario game. It's just a fangame.

P.P.S. To play, simply download to your hard drive, and unzip the folder. Then, open the .swf file in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or whatever your browser is. IT WON'T WORK IN ANY KIND OF .SWF OR EXTERNAL FLASH PLAYER! You have to open it in a browser! Don't know why. Again, I'm not the best programmer in the world. I just know that it has to be opened in a browser. Then, follow the in-game instructions. Don't move the .xml file out of the folder, or the game won't work.

P.P.P.S. If you want to see the responses to the questions, you can open the .xml file in Wordpad! 

Bump...Anyone...anyone...Bueler?

Mkay. I just finished the letters (Which I forgot that I had to do) and the new thing in Chapter 1's place (See above if you want to know what I mean. It's a spoiler).

Here's what's left for me to do:

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1.Finish Cobrart Festival (2 More paintings At time of post)
2. Shy Stadium
3. Cumulus City/Cloudy Castle
4. Strawberrypalooza
5. Remainder of Flurry Mountain (Not Shy Stadium)
6. Replay Boss Battles (Yes, you can get EXP that way)

So, once I finish that, I'll be ready to ship it out to y'alls!
The Beta Test signup thing didn't go so well, cause my computer crashed twice, so I'll PM everyone who posted here and showed some interest with a beta test link. Else, you can PM me, and request one by E-mail or another contact type. I'm gonna make deadline! Yay!

P.S. Here's an idea of what you'll find in the replacement for Chapter 4 if you want to see...

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Cobrart Festival Painting: The Mona Peach

Complements!

P.S. Here's an idea of what you'll find in the replacement for Chapter 4 if you want to see...

did you draw that? thats really good! even if you didn't draw it yourself, I still think that whoever and however they made it, its really good!

Yeah. I made that myself. I didn't draw it from scratch, but the pictures are from Google Image Search, then I compiled them and used Photoshop effects to jazz it up.

Here's another one:

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The All-Seeing Flurry

*jumps up and down in a silly manner out of excitement*

lol. Glad you're excited.

nice drawings, i gotta say, im a man of art work

Thanks! I'm getting even closer! I just have to finish the redo of Chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 7 is getting a major overhaul, so that may take a while. Just in case, I'm going to do Chapter 8 first, and if worst comes to worst, you won't be able to do SOME things in the redo of Chapter 7 right away. But I'll finish it, and then I'll send out the 100% complete beta version. Of course, that's just if I can't finish it before the 1st. But I probably will. 

wouldn't it not be a beta version any more if its 100% complete?

No, no. I mean 100% constructed. I still need it to be bug tested and preliminarily reviewed.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....ok


ps. if you need some bgm, you can check out these links to find tons of mario music (because rpg maker music in a mario game wouldn't really  fit) http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/index-sz.html (scroll down untill u find "super mario" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gameboy/index-sz.html (scroll down untill u find "super mario" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gamecube/index-sz.html ~ (scroll down untill u find "super smash bros. melee" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/n64/index-sz.html (scroll down untill u find "super mario" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gba/index-gr.html (scroll down untill u find "mario" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gba/index-sz.html ~ (scroll down untill u find "super mario" or something like that)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/index-sz.html (scroll down untill u find "super mario" or something like that)

pss. the smileys are the ratings of the songs at the different links that I gave them.

No need to post it 7 times. It just takes up space. I'm also certain he has all his music. But, vgmusic is a good place for video game music.

Thanks. Lol, I love that site. I used a couple of Midis from there, but most of the songs taken from Mario games are the actual MP3s. 

I was just about to go on there to look for a techno remix of the Toad Town song for the sequel: Paper Mario Pocket: Future Shock!

Toad Town + 50 years = Toadopolis (Big city)

Modified on 3/28/07

Okay. After my sister and my mom told me about the musical "Wicked" (a prequel based on the Wizard of Oz), I'm excited to announce that Paper Mario Pocket 2 will instead take place in the past. I know that M&L: Partners in Time took place in the past, but this will be much further back. Back when the Mushroom Kingdom was created. It will be a prequel to Super Mario Bros. 1, and it will be called Paper Mario Pocket Forever.

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It will be partly based on the story of the Mushroom Kingdom's creation, which is revealed in the Mouser Museum in Paper Mario Pocket 1. Bowser, Kammy Koopa, and Bowser's children have traveled back in time to stop the Mario Brothers from ever coming  to the Mushroom Kingdom. It is also based upon all three of the Super Mario Bros TV shows, which I grew up on, and tell that the Mario Bros. came to the Mushroom Kingdom through a drain in Brooklyn, New York. The Koopas want to stop this from happening, by traveling to the past. Here, we will also see the creation of the Mushroom Kingdom, and how Princess Peach, Bowser, and all that we know of Mario's world came to be.

So, it looks to be pretty cool. I'm still working on the rework of Chapter 7, and the rework of Chapter 8 won't take too long. I'll be ready to send out on April 1st! 

Edit for 3/28/07 at 6:30

So, I just found out that the custom battle system that I was using (Side view) has been updated A LOT since I started on this project. Naturally, I want to use the better version, but it requires me to redo all of my battler sheets. Not a problem, but just to let you know, the battle system will be MUCH better thanks to this. Also, I hope to find a way to switch party members in battle, otherwise it will kind of suck to have to choose a party member before you fight.

Edit for 3/29/07
Mkay. I found (again) SephirothSpawn's In Battle Party Switcher, but I can't get it to work the way I need it to (Mario can be switched out, and we can't have that! Also, the SDK messes with my other scripts way too much). Plus, doing all the sprites for the new battle system AND finishing the game WELL would take too long, so I'm going to hold off on the better battle system until the sequel. Also, it kinda sucks that you can't switch party members in battle, but I make it so that even with event battles, you either know that it's coming, or you get a chance to switch party members before the fight. So I compensate for that. As for the battle graphics, they're not horrible, but after seeing the one I saw, (ccoa's) I see that it could be better. I'm using Cybersam's CBS, so it won't be awful. Still set on April 1st. Don't worry.

On another note, I read some stuff on Wikipedia about M&L, Partners in Time, which I haven't played, so if the stuff I put in there about the creation of the Mushroom Kingdom isn't the same, forgive me. I'll change it in the final release, when I have more time. Sooo, since the past was already covered in a game... I guess I'll do the future as I orginally planned. 

No need to post it 7 times

each link was to a different part of the page that had different songs on it. i did that beacause there are alot of mario songs on alot of different pages, and i wanted to save him some time.

Thanks. Lol, I love that site. I used a couple of Midis from there, but most of the songs taken from Mario games are the actual MP3s.  Grin

I was just about to go on there to look for a techno remix of the Toad Town song for the sequel: Paper Mario Pocket: Future Shock!..........

i dont really care about switching party in battles because ill just remember what monsters are in the area and keep 1 or 2 different party members with me while in that area, so its fine, as long as the beta is coming out on april 1st

Absolutely. Also, I'm a writer at heart, as I've stated before, so you can expect some really good story stuff. The Postgame Chapter 7 could have been a chapter for the main game, it's so good. And long. But there's a setup from the main game that sets up...well you'll see.