What’s Included in the Downloads?: for both versions, prepatched roms and lunar ips files of the respective version, a readme, a list of changes to game and move mechanics, and a beast list in txt format that includes beast locations and information about them, as well as a boxart for the respective version as a bonus.
Pokecommunity Link (asteroid version): https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/star-beasts-asteroid-version.530552/
Romhacking.net Link (asteroid version): https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8776/
Romhacking.net Link (meteor version): https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7026/
Pokecommunity Description:
Worked on over the course of half a decade, Star Beasts is a Gen 1 dex overhaul and homage to the first generation of Pokémon games.
Started as a passion project to make a playable version of Vast Fame’s Shi Kong Xing Shou for English speaking audiences, Star Beasts became its own project with entirely new fakemon designs.
Some of the new features are as follows:
A completely overhauled soundtrack! Almost none of the music from the original games remains!
An overhauled Pokedex, complete with backsprites, that fixes balance issues and replaces uglier designs and makes older evolutionary families more consistent.
Even more overhauled movesets, with even more new moves!
The Steel and Dark type!
New areas and new in-game events!
New types of trainers with different rosters and improved AI!
New dialogue, including getting rid of references to “Pokemon.” (Unless the team forgot, oops!)
Rebalancing of the game to make it more accessible to newcomers, including plenty of NPCs that give you hints on where to find rare Star Beasts! And, as if that weren’t enough, there’s documentation on every Beast! (Although the game is best experienced blind, use your discretion!)
Various quality of life improvements, such as an experience bar!
Credits
Vast Fame for majority of original sprites
Mufeet for new sprites, improved sprites, most of the monster backsprites, border, trainer sprites, etc
AnInternetsEcho for the protag design
Mauve Sea for several monster sprites and redesigns and a lot of backsprites, a handful of trainer sprites, as well as nearly all of the new tilesets (including the new text border)
DevilRedd for the Star Beasts logo, Mufeet for the current one
Game Freak for Pokemon Red
Pret for the Pokered disassembly on GitHub, without which this wouldn’t have been possible
Dannye for Pokered-Crysaudio, and EXP Bar code
jojobear13 for TMs and HMs displaying names code
Vortiene for help with coding new overworld encounters and areas, improved level-up code
Xillicis for fixing the inventory code
The wonderful people at the QuarantineDex server for playtesting
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