About This File
This is a ROM Hack of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky that adds an entirely new starter roster, new mechanics, as well as tweaking the expressions and dialogue of the entire main story!
Hey, my name is Gala and I wanted to share a hack I created! This hack has been in the works since October of 2023, and is a very big feat of mine. The game’s plot itself is largely unchanged, but bits of everything else have been altered in minor or major ways. I’ll go into some of the more important changes below, but there is an in-depth spreadsheet here.
If you don’t feel like reading a wall of text, that’s okay! Download it for yourself and enjoy! Join the Discord to keep up to date on the latest news regarding PMD: Explorers Remixed! You can also check out my YouTube!
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This hack alters aspects of the game’s story. Some characters look different and have new names. The entire game's script has edited dialogue to remedy poor translations and poorly conveyed emotions. The portraits of characters are more expressive where possible. However, that is the extent of my meddling. This isn’t EoS rebuilt from the ground up, it’s more-so a modified experience that allows me to learn the ropes of making an EoS ROM Hack!
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We are planning to rework the post-game in a later update, but for now, the majority of our changes land in the main storyline before you graduate the guild. All of the pre-graduation dungeons have had their spawn tables revised with our new Pokémon.
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You are able to evolve your starter and partner as soon as you discover the Luminous Spring!
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Thanks to an amazing skypatch, ‘StarterMenuTool’ (credits to Chesyon, Adex, HeckaBad, Irdkwia), we have been able to expand the starter list drastically. Our community has voted on 85 Pokémon to be included as starters! There are even some unique picks such as Golett, Wimpod, and even Cosmog! We have also included every single traditional starter from the mainline games! We’ve worked hard to modernize all our starter learnsets.
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This hack includes the Fairy type, along with 39 added moves and 22 added abilities!
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We have added most SkyTemple community patches, which includes things such as Manual Team Control, the Move Growth system from modern PMD titles, Non-interruptive Weather, and many more! It all comes together to make the experience fresh and exciting!
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We’ve also included the necessary applications to apply this patch to an untampered, US ROM of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Assets were provided by many people through places such as the PMD Sprite Repository, so check it out to give the artists some love! Due credit is on the spreadsheet.
(Hack Created by Gala1D, with Darkpawra & TinchoX)
Edited by Gala1D
2.3 Release!
What's New in Version 2.0.0 See changelog
Released
Version 2.0.0 Changelog
General Changes
- Added a Version number to the main menu
- Changed the name of Xatu to Panic
- Fixed an issue where Special Episode 5 wouldn't load on MelonDS
- Overhauled the Starter and Partner lists
- Vanilla-fied removed starters
- Fixed the learnsets of new/edited Pokemon
- Chapter 1 & 2 have expressive portraits in their cutscenes!
- Updated all the new moves to have proper animations
- Changed the given IQ group of most added/edited Pokemon
- Buffed the EXP yields of the Happiny family
- Contrary was added in place of the unused ability slot ($$$)
- Pure Power now works like Moxie
- Color Change now works like Protean
- Changed the Sprites & Portraits of many previously edited/added Pokemon
- All story actors have expressive portraits where possible
- All dialogue pertaining to a certain Leafeon has been changed
- Also, the story has modified dialogue to fix any lazy translations and underexpressed dialogue
- Fixed an issue where some new moves had incorrect descriptions
Pokémon Changes
- Newly added Starters
- Sandile, Krokorok, Krookodile
- Galarian Farfetch'd, Sirfetch'd
- Cramorant
- Hisuian Sneasel, Sneasler
- Salandit, Salazzle
- Snom, Frosmoth
- Hisuian Growlithe, Arcanine
- Archen, Archeops
- Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, Tinkaton
- Added a New Pokemon!
- Wimpod, Golisopod
- First Impression included!
- Overhauled some Pokemon learnsets
- Riolu, Lucario
- Phantump, Trevenant
- Togepi, Togetic, Togekiss
- Eevee & Eeveelutions
- Added second abilities to most starters
- Gen 5/6/7/8/9 mainline starters
- All playable starters except Porygon and U/H Zorua
- All Eeveelutions
- Added new evolutions!
- Drizzile (Sobble evo)
- Lokix (Nymble evo)
- Annihilape (Primeape evo)
- Kleavor (Scyther evo)
- Farigiraf (Girafarig evo)
- Ursaluna (Ursaring evo)
- Crocalor, Skeledirge (Fuecoco line)
- Eevee can evolve into it's original evolutions again! And...
- Each eeveelution now evolves *into* my custom eeveelutions.
- This means it's up to you on whether you want to use Vaporeon or Triteon, for example!
- This also means Eevee is no longer of the Ice type.
Dungeon Changes
- Made the Treeshroud Encounter recruitable
- Completely reworked the main story dungeons due to starter changes
- Rare spawns now scale to the main story progress!
- They will be tougher than most other spawns, so tred carefully when returning to old dungeons!!
- Starters that evolve twice spawn each stage at the start of chapters 4, 7, and after unlocking Marine Resort respectively.
- Starters that evolve once are the same, except the final stage has two separate spawns. One is weaker and spawns at the start of chapter 7, then a stronger version spawns after graduation
- This feature is absolutely experimental, so feedback would be much appreciated!
- A more in-depth look at the changes made will (eventually) be provided in the #hack-info channel on my Discord.
With version 2.0.0:- Download