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thanks you so much it works!

hmm...idk, but if I did, it would be something that already has its evo as a Shiny in the game. Buneary maybe, Vulpix no and thank ya! x3

Connect online to Nintendo's servers and download the latest game patch. Dump the patch contents, same as you did for the base ROM. Then merge the two folders so that there is only one romfs and exefs.

Sorry i dont to be a burden but how i patch it?

Read the message. pkNX does not work on unpatched game files.

Hey im new in this forum and in this ramdomizer so, when i try open the files it crash

I was wondering will more shiny starters be added later? Like say kento vulpix or buneary? Also wanna say im loving this rom hack~

Thank you very much!

that is to say, you can update now asdghjhgfdsdfgfh

ahhh I see what's going on. I don't think Klutz would be affecting the Mega Stone because because the Mega Stone technically has no effect, the form changing stuff is on the Pokemon's end, and sure enough there was an incorrect value in the form change table specifically for Shiny female Mega Lopunny. but to be safe, I have elected to change the Buneary line's secondary ability to their hidden one, Limber. (apart from the SE4 Lopunny, who cannot mega evolve anyways)

It's all up to which difficulty you chose when beginning the game ngl. If you set it to Expert then you are expected to use most of the game's systems to win, even Difficult is designed to have you interact with the systems. Level curve is different depending on your chosen difficulty.

It appears that the Klutz ability prevents Lopunny's mega evolution, at least it does with the shiny one I have in my team, but I don't see why would the regular one work. No idea if you're taking any suggestions, but instead of making an exception for mega stones, I think Klutz should just be removed from all pokemon that have other options in the main series, it barely changes anything for wild pokemon and is purely detrimental for the player, especially if Buneary is chosen as one of the main characters.

Hi is this getting a new update or is it there a discord server for the Explorers of Alpha ROM?

Still works in 2026!!! Thanks so much!!! I was so happy to obtain Celebi!!! I’m not sure if anyone still uses these ds action replays but they definitely help out a lot

I dont know if someone else asked this before, but im having this issue when patching the hack into Maniac Emu on my iphone. Its always saying its "not implemented: secondary decompressor". I tried many different roms also those with no extra names. Does it have to be a specific Rom from somewhere? Edit. I use the Marc Robledo Patcher. Maybe its an issue with that? Edit2: Ok, the problem seemed to be exactly this patcher. I did a roundabout patching through delta patcher on windows, uplouded it into a cloud and downlouded again on ios. For someone else reading this. On Maniac Emu you need to change the core on which its running the patched nds file. Only then did it work for me. Otherwise it crashed.

Thanks for the responses! Right, Camaraderie is -that- limited, fair enough. I only got it via googling porygon2 passwords because I was frustrated by the shiny recruit failure, a consequence of the recruit chances not being obvious (which is fine). As for the shiny recruits, yeah it was either gonna be similar to the non-shiny, similar to legendaries (-10%), or similar to kecleon (must be literally capped in recruit rate). It's the latter and I've wasted a couple of days then but, so be it. I regret not starting with Recruit Em All, which is why I was hoping I could enable it midway through a save. This is only really because it's impossible to know recruit chances of pokemon, which is how I ended up with the shiny grind even though it was 0% odds, but I'm glad you answered that (and that that recruit item exists). Thank you. As for the Manectric... range moves don't help unless they're room-wide, right? You start off at an L shape to all enemies and they close the distance into 1 tile range from there, you can't actually hit them from the initial position with linear moves. Room-wide ones though, I guess if you're lucky enough to run into them in the kecleon shop? Or you expect me to not do the main story until I roll roomwide TMs in the shop? It's fine, just I guess I underestimated the difficulty and it's about figuring out your expectations for how I play. Especially because my starters are H sneasel and A vulpix, which I think leaves my only option blizzard? Perhaps you expect me to bring in two more fully trained pokemon (I've just been proceeding with my starters and a stack of reviver seeds), again it's just a matter of me figuring out your expectations, and how much it's a 'difficulty hack' or not. I don't understand how they could not one shot though, given that they get at minimum 3 howls a turn with there being so many of them. They're capped out in attack almost immediately. I'm much beyond that now but, this was by far the biggest hurdle I've come across. Really enjoying it by the way, I think it's just a matter of me setting my expectations to match what you think a player should be doing. Thanks for the info.

Camaraderie available for you at this point is an unintended bug. It's only available for Mew. No Recruit 'em All switch available, otherwise what would be the point to self-impose a challenge? It's designed for speedrunning recruits and nothing else. An item granting 100% recruitment exists much later in the game. Shiny Buneary has a 1/256 chance of being recruited if you are level 100 with a Type-recruiting item. That's part of the Shiny feature and it's more of an endgame endeavor to recruit Shinies. Amp Plains Manectric having Howl has been perfectly balanced for everyone for years and never one-shotted anyone for years too so I wonder how you ended up thinking it was unfair... by this point you have range moves, access to strong TM indefinitely and a larger array of options. It's not designed to be bruteforced.

Hey, just a few questions. Who can actually learn Camaraderie? I've got the TM and 100+ recruits but it seems not one pokemon can learn it? Is it possible to turn on Recruit Em All without restarting the entire game? Edit: I've looked at the challenge options through the L menu but Recruit Em All is missing, most (maybe all) others I can activate, but not this one. Also, the way Recruit Em All is worded is a tad confusing- if I recruit say Wurmple then evolve it to Cascoon, is Wurmple recruitable again as I don't currently have one? I believe that's how it works but confirmation would be great, thanks. I'm currently 140 kills on Shiny Buneary with Friend Bow on and I've never recruited it once- I suspect the odds are 0% or negative right now. And this is frustrating me no end. Overall I've realized that recruit rates as a whole are going to be impossible to find for this game, so I'd like to take advantage of Camaraderie or Recruit Em All to fix this, but I don't want to start again. On a side note, balance so far has been mostly great and I'm loving the romhack- but I think it's really, really unfair giving the Manectrics in the Amp Plains boss fight access to Howl. The entire team will permanently oneshot mine due to howl spam, it just felt deeply unfair. Otherwise, zero real problems with it, amazing hack.

Adding to this, if my name is only 3 letters (it's TMB) what should I put for the 4th in the RR sections?

Hi do you know if this works on DraStic? (Android DS emu) Also is this for the US version or the EU?

both of these have been fixed already! redownload and repatch and thank ya!

Thank you so much for making this hack! It was a great way to play PMD for the first time and the QOL is amazing. I think I found a bug on the latest update, Special Episode 4 (Here Comes Team Charm) freezes (at least for me) on the Aggron fight. Also, it says that it should be possible to go straight to Temporal Tower after defeating Dialgia, but I can’t figure out how to do that— It’s not appearing on the map and if there’s an NPC that takes you there I can’t find it. (If it helps, I’ve recruited Dialgia and completed everything but the Zacian quest line.) Thanks so much!

okay, the Giratina thingy has been fixed!

you can get multiple! 1. yyyyyyyeah no clue on that one 2. will look into it! noted!