hack Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Alpha (3.0.3, last update 3/10/2025)

[Alphadaemon]

On 5/3/2025 at 5:28 PM, AnnaH said:

Calling Finneon’s movepool "abyssal" seems like a stretch. It gets Rain Dance, Water Pulse, and can learn Surf (now an AoE move that targets only enemies). Lumineon even adds Fairy typing and Sparkly Wind, which makes for a solid core: weather setup, two AoE STABs, and arguably the strongest STAB line-of-sight option. It’s far from weak or limited.

In contrast, Buizel doesn’t even learn Rain Dance. Without support, it can’t activate Swift Swim on its own. If the concern is early-game snowballing, adjusting Buizel’s availability might’ve been a more balanced approach than outright removing its ability on higher difficulties.

What surprises me most is the labeling of weather synergy as “degenerate.” That seems misplaced. Weather mechanics aren’t about cheesing; they’re about understanding and building around the systems the game provides. Designing synergistic teams is a key part of strategic gameplay, not a shortcut.

The mod itself demonstrates just how powerful weather mechanics can be. For example, Deep Dusk Forest pits players against a Drought Ninetales, creating permanent sun and a field full of Chlorophyll users who act twice per turn. That’s brutal because of the weather. It’s odd to see this tactic called “degenerate” while you intentionally create a sun-based level in a world that’s supposely dark and paralyzed. Why is the AI given that power while discouraging the player from using the same strategy?

And just to geek out for a second: Sparkly Wind has a chance to raise all stats, including Speed. Combine that with Swift Swim and you get some crazy synergy. Imagine being in a Monster House and it's raining. If one of the two Sparkly Winds triggers the stat boost, the turn resets, allowing for two more attacks. If you activate the boost again, you get two more attacks. This can potentially quadruple your Speed, leading to up to 8 Sparkly Winds in a single turn.
 

Checks forum post "speed mechanics have been nerfed, ending your turn once you attacked". Checks answer "you can get 8 attacks per turn". From that you can deduct this is a bug and as such not intended.
Weather strategies are inherently too strong IN MAIN STORY (that's where it's nerfed). I'm not looking for people to get ways to trivialize the game without any drawback, I'm also not limiting people in using some strategies that make the game very easy (like Weather strategies), that's why there is one starter with Chlorophyll and one starter with Swift Swim. I'm locking all the others having it for diversity and only keeping the worse users of the ability as available. And since Finneon is the worse of them all under normal conditions, that's the reasoning behind.
And keep in mind story mode is like a third of the game, post-Darkrai all restrictions are lifted so I don't understand why you keep coming up with "weather strategies should be available"

[Alphadaemon]

22 hours ago, FinaluSlash said:

You've mentionned in the og post that shiny pokemon are stronger than their normal version. Does that include every shiny in the game or only those you've listed ? I've found a shiny pupitar that isn't in the list

This is just a different sprite than Vanilla, not Shiny.
 

11 hours ago, Syovere said:

Hopefully this isn't considered crass or improper here.

I saw that you were planning to add more pokemon and I had to ask: is there any chance of Rookidee being one of the starter choices, when it's added? This is in no way a "hurry up" thing, just a "whenever it happens" thing, I like crows and Murkrow's an NPC so I'd rather not use that one.

Either way, thrilled that EoS is still getting more hacking happening, heard about this through the OpenStarbound discord. 

Everything can become a starter. And since I plan to expand on custom starter lists, Rookidee will likely be a starter.

[CobaltGray]

Is there a list of dungeon lengths for the new + changed dungeons?

Additionally, I noticed a lot of story pokemon have earth power (celebi, cresselia, shaymin, etc.); is there a way for pokemon to get these movesets on recruit?

Is there a way to suppress a Pokemon's ability, like a held item? (Ninetales-A has snow warning which is very annoying)

 

Thank you very much for working so hard on this amazing hack!

Edited May 6 by CobaltGray

[IsraelRequestHelpPLS]

ok so i admit that i did not came here earlier because i was a little ashamed to post this but the thing is, i may have found a bug/bottleneck in the game that won't let me progress past the quicksand desert, i am playing in a drastic simulator in bluestacks with mew as the chosen one and celebi as my partner and i can't progress further in the cutscene, i am guessing it is because of mew cuz he doesn't follow the norm of looking around when they fall the quicksand thing
 

i have alredy tried everything i could think of or find but i didn't achieved success, i also tried to found for people suffering with the same problem as me or something similar but the only thing that i found that was similar required some kind of save manipulation that i did not understand, not even one bit

i know that starting the game with legendaries/mythicals kind of suck but look i really love mew and i kind of identify myself a little with this little mischevius prankster pink ball, and i thought that celebi would be a good addition to the alredy here mysthical yk? (yes i used the choose from id function)

my name is really Israel and i just created a account here to report this and maybe ask for help, if it is even something that can be done, i would also ask if it is possible to add a skip cutscene feature in the next update or something like that, like that cutscene we could skip about project P of spinda café yk? also i really loved the game and it's features, i hope all of the best to the ones responsible for this and a good day too, and sorry if my english is bad or if i mispelled, english is not my primary language, also

Edited May 5 by IsraelRequestHelpPLS
wanted to be less rude

[Pikamoon]

I made an Account just to say that I LOVE THIS ROM HACK. 
and I wanted to ask will there be an option that you can randomize the NPC, like the guild member, Kecleon markt etc.
PLS I WOULD LOVE THAT 

[SiriusDergon]

How would you get the 100 KOs in order to unlock Mount Tensei??

[wadecounty7]

Incredible hack.  Just wanted to mention, I don't know if this was an intentional change on your part and you forgot to add to the tooltip ingame, or just a mistake, but Dragon Rush is now a line of sight attack instead of in front only.  I don't mind it, most 'mons who learn it get it relatively late, and its fun to have a physical move that's ranged, but just thought I'd mention that. 

[yggdrrasil]

Im kinda lost in the postgame how do I start chapter 29 and scizor questline? I've gotten to marine resrot but nothing else triggers. 

[SiriusDergon]

On 5/6/2025 at 10:52 AM, yggdrrasil said:

Im kinda lost in the postgame how do I start chapter 29 and scizor questline? I've gotten to marine resrot but nothing else triggers. 

Do a few missions and a few days after Scizor will call out when the day starts

[OrderOfErdrick]

Hi! Loving the hack so far, but I have a couple of questions. I'm in the post game and just got the ascend stone mark 1 to evolve my Alolan Rattata partner, but it doesn't seem to work for my Hisuian Sneasel starter. How do I evolve myself? Also how do I evolve a recruited Pikachu into an Alolan Raichu? Thanks in advance! 

Edited May 7 by OrderOfErdrick

[SiriusDergon]

2 hours ago, OrderOfErdrick said:

Hi! Loving the hack so far, but I have a couple of questions. I'm in the post game and just got the ascend stone mark 1 to evolve my Alolan Rattata partner, but it doesn't seem to work for my Hisuian Sneasel starter. How do I evolve myself? Also how do I evolve a recruited Pikachu into an Alolan Raichu? Thanks in advance! 

For Sneasel it still requires the Razor Claw like in base game iirc, idk for Raichu though

[OrderOfErdrick]

Got the razor claw and the ascend stone and it still doesn't seem to be working, unfortunately. Sun Ribbon and Sun Stone don't seem to do it either since Hisuian Sneasel evolves during the day. 

 

On the other hand I got an Alolan Raichu from a Sun Stone in case anyone else was wondering.  

Edited May 8 by OrderOfErdrick

[NeonGutzz]

On 4/29/2025 at 5:30 AM, Alphadaemon said:

Don't play on MelonDS Android, it is garbage. Switch to DraStic.

Some difficulties lock some abilities. Maybe you switched down to Difficult from Expert

That actually makes sense. I wish the higher difficulty had swift swim the other one feels useless. Oh well, thanks for the reply

[sleepy kirby]

idk my game keeps clashing when i do a job for waterfall cave sometimes after i get them done and this is after team skull joined the Guild am i doing something wrong here because it worked before when i did one before this happen heres a video if you want have a look at it and it happens for every dungeon now the clash.PS good game btw keep  up the good work.

Edited May 8 by sleepy kirby

[PinkOnion]

Hi there, I've been playing through this wonderful ROM hack that you've made over the past couple of months.

Managed to beat Hardcore all the way through Darkrai, with Budew and Spheal, was a really rough ride but I enjoyed trying to puzzle out how to win certain scenarios with the bag size restrictions, due to the super high spawn rates in dungeons.

Regardless, I just wanted to highlight a potential crashing issue that I have encountered and triggered multiple times during gameplay, as I don't see it reported here yet. This crash occurs when hitting Skarmory, who has the Mirror Armour ability. If you trigger a secondary effect stat drop from your attack, like Mud-Slap's guaranteed accuracy drop, the game freezes. This also works with long range attacks such as Moonblast, Energy Ball and Focus Blast.

[techwolves]

breaking swipe is crashing the game in chasm cave in a monster house ummm? on a modded 3ds

Edited May 11 by techwolves
added extra info

[Alphadaemon]

On 5/8/2025 at 9:53 AM, sleepy kirby said:

idk my game keeps clashing when i do a job for waterfall cave sometimes after i get them done and this is after team skull joined the Guild am i doing something wrong here because it worked before when i did one before this happen heres a video if you want have a look at it and it happens for every dungeon now the clash.PS good game btw keep  up the good work.

 

Enable skip cutscenes

 

On 5/10/2025 at 5:38 PM, PinkOnion said:

Hi there, I've been playing through this wonderful ROM hack that you've made over the past couple of months.

Managed to beat Hardcore all the way through Darkrai, with Budew and Spheal, was a really rough ride but I enjoyed trying to puzzle out how to win certain scenarios with the bag size restrictions, due to the super high spawn rates in dungeons.

Regardless, I just wanted to highlight a potential crashing issue that I have encountered and triggered multiple times during gameplay, as I don't see it reported here yet. This crash occurs when hitting Skarmory, who has the Mirror Armour ability. If you trigger a secondary effect stat drop from your attack, like Mud-Slap's guaranteed accuracy drop, the game freezes. This also works with long range attacks such as Moonblast, Energy Ball and Focus Blast.

Mirror Armor crash fixed on my version, sorry for the inconvenience

On 5/8/2025 at 12:52 AM, OrderOfErdrick said:

Hi! Loving the hack so far, but I have a couple of questions. I'm in the post game and just got the ascend stone mark 1 to evolve my Alolan Rattata partner, but it doesn't seem to work for my Hisuian Sneasel starter. How do I evolve myself? Also how do I evolve a recruited Pikachu into an Alolan Raichu? Thanks in advance! 

Need Lunar Ribbon too iirc

[sleepy kirby]

sorry to tell you this so soon but i Enable skip cutscenes and the something happen nothing different happens. P.S i put my save file if you want to have a look at it

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of alpha.dst

[PinkOnion]

22 hours ago, Alphadaemon said:

Mirror Armor crash fixed on my version, sorry for the inconvenience

Thanks for the quick response on this.

I seem to have encountered another issue involving the Ascension Stone Mark II.

After having cleared Zero Isle Center three separate times with different teams (Shiny Celebi solo, Shiny Celebi/Hero/Partner, Hero/Partner), I have not been able to procure the Ascension Stone Mark IIs, like what the homepage says. Is there something I am missing in regards to obtaining these?

I am currently collecting the elemental items for Scizor, if that matters.

I have also noticed that Mysteriousity still seems to function in Zero Isle Center, as I was generating floors full of one species of Pokemon, though I suspect that Zero Isle Center might be exempt from the other Zero Isles in terms of the Mysteriousity function.

Also noticed that Shiny Celebi in the Future segment of the story as well as Special Episode 5 had Aura Sphere, yet the one you can have as a team member cannot learn Aura Sphere.

Edited May 12 by PinkOnion

[Bloop284]

I got two questions.

1. How do I recruit Shaymin? I already beat sky peak more than twice but Heracross is in the way

2. Is the Ascend Stone Mark 1 the only way to give my starters their first evolution? I got the mark 2 stones but they won’t work and I already failed the marowak quest.

[Alphadaemon]

19 hours ago, sleepy kirby said:

sorry to tell you this so soon but i Enable skip cutscenes and the something happen nothing different happens. P.S i put my save file if you want to have a look at it

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of alpha.dst 1.19 MB · 1 download

You probably didn't actually enable the skip, this fix worked for everyone already. Keep in mind the question is "would you like to enable daily cutscenes". The answer to disable them is No as a result.

12 hours ago, PinkOnion said:

Thanks for the quick response on this.

I seem to have encountered another issue involving the Ascension Stone Mark II.

After having cleared Zero Isle Center three separate times with different teams (Shiny Celebi solo, Shiny Celebi/Hero/Partner, Hero/Partner), I have not been able to procure the Ascension Stone Mark IIs, like what the homepage says. Is there something I am missing in regards to obtaining these?

I am currently collecting the elemental items for Scizor, if that matters.

I have also noticed that Mysteriousity still seems to function in Zero Isle Center, as I was generating floors full of one species of Pokemon, though I suspect that Zero Isle Center might be exempt from the other Zero Isles in terms of the Mysteriousity function.

Also noticed that Shiny Celebi in the Future segment of the story as well as Special Episode 5 had Aura Sphere, yet the one you can have as a team member cannot learn Aura Sphere.

All of those are known and fixed in my version.

1 hour ago, Bloop284 said:

I got two questions.

1. How do I recruit Shaymin? I already beat sky peak more than twice but Heracross is in the way

2. Is the Ascend Stone Mark 1 the only way to give my starters their first evolution? I got the mark 2 stones but they won’t work and I already failed the marowak quest.

Shaymin is post-Darkrai. Heracross telling you about the quest beforehand is a bug that's fixed in the most recent version already. The second report is a very known one and fixed in my version but for now you cannot use them.

[Bloop284]

34 minutes ago, Alphadaemon said:

You probably didn't actually enable the skip, this fix worked for everyone already. Keep in mind the question is "would you like to enable daily cutscenes". The answer to disable them is No as a result.

All of those are known and fixed in my version.

Shaymin is post-Darkrai. Heracross telling you about the quest beforehand is a bug that's fixed in the most recent version already. The second report is a very known one and fixed in my version but for now you cannot use them.

so do I just wait for the next update for the Heracross bug?
Also I already beat darkrai, and all five zero isles and got all world treasures apart from mirage island, mineral crust and probably some others.

[Alphadaemon]

2 minutes ago, Bloop284 said:

so do I just wait for the next update for the Heracross bug?
Also I already beat darkrai, and all five zero isles and got all world treasures apart from mirage island, mineral crust and probably some others.

You didn't do Heracross quest then, you should try

[sleepy kirby]

2 hours ago, Alphadaemon said:

You probably didn't actually enable the skip, this fix worked for everyone already. Keep in mind the question is "would you like to enable daily cutscenes". The answer to disable them is No as a result.

 

it worked when i did that thanks for helping me with this i didnt even know to answer no to that sorry about that.

[Rican]

On 4/8/2025 at 5:18 PM, PandaTrash said:

I already beat the post game and I'm playing on Twilight menu so no emulator for me. I don't think it's my starters.

 It's a glitch related to A marowak not reappearing to get the ascend stones because I forgot to talk to it the first time. OP said this will be fixed in an update. There may also be another way to get the stones I believe OP said to me. So, just got to be patient and wait for the next update. 

Ohhh okeyy make sense also im kinda new to the hack do you know if i gotta recruit any legendary to trigger the scyzor quest cause im ln master rank right now and i done a few missions he still not here any tip