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 2.1.8 [Darkpawra's Patch] See changelog
Released
Heyyyy, long time no see! I hope you all have been doing well since... March. Oops. Well surprise! There's a new official version of the hack for y'all to try! It comes with a ton of bug fixes that I left in 2.0 when I went on hiatus. While I was taking my well deserved break, Darkpawra came to me offering to fix the bugs left in my 2.0 release. I accepted his offer, and he got to work posting fix after fix on the discord. This version is his last update to the hack, so it was about time I posted it to the download page! Here's what he fixed:
- Fixed some moves not being affected by MoveGrowth
- Fixed the learnsets of the Eeveelutions and Alolan Raichu so that they don't crash the game upon being obtained via evolution
- Made Special Episode 5 accessible without freezes or crashes
- Fixed an issue where certain starters would cause cutscenes with many Pokémon to softlock or crash the game
- Fixed learnsets to give ghost starters Ominous Wind, and electric starters Discharge
- Made it so that Dialga cannot appear in missions (He will no longer ask you to rescue his friend Pidgey)
- Adjusted companion Pokémon movesets
- Fixed an issue that caused Chimecho Assembly to crash the game
- Fixed an issue where several Pokémon's Body Size is larger than intended, causing them to disappear or crash the game upon entering a dungeon
- Fixed an issue where Manaphy would only say "..." when being spoken to in dungeons
- Fixed a few dialogue typos in the main story
- Fixed an issue where an Invalid Leafeon would appear in Missions
- Fixed various issues regarding the Hisuian Sneasel and Zorua families
- Fixed the Movement Style of Altaria, Moireon, and Archeops to Hovering
- Allowed the regional variant Pokémon and custom Eevee to have access to the corresponding Species Items
- Adjusted Rock Slide's range to match Wide Slash
Known Issues
- Some other Pokémon still crash upon obtaining through recruitment or evolution and viewing them in Chimecho assembly, presumably due to many Pokémon learning more than 4 moves at level 1
- Some starters are still missing necessary sprites and/or portraits to function as intended in the story cutscenes
- When Powder Snow gets disabled, it reads the move as "Aurora Beam"
- The Zorua Families are incredibly overpowered compared to any of the other starters
- Powder Snow is too strong of a move to be accessible early game
- Pitfall Traps sometimes cause unintended bugs such as removing members and replacing them with a random Pokémon
With all that out of the way, allow me to share what's been going on since you last saw me. I've officially come out of hiatus, and am hard at work with the next major update, titled Explorers of Sky: Remixed 3.0 - "Mirage Madness". It will include new dungeons, 300 added Pokémon, and more story and QoL adjustments! I hope you all stay tuned for the future of this hack, and be sure to join the Discord if you haven't already! You'll be able to keep up with the latest news relating to my hack, as well as talk to other PMD fans and build a fun and welcoming community for all!
With version 2.1.8 [Darkpawra's Patch]:- Download
