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

[Baced]

One last thing, how do you recruit shaymin? I went through nectar meadows and brought vespiqueen. I don't know how to recruit shaymin or if heracross is even connected.

[Rican]

On 8/17/2025 at 2:42 PM, Alphadaemon said:

No missions entering them otherwise you will have the dungeon complete screen.

Party issue most likely? I saw that bug but don't recall the solution to it.

Opening the rom in SkyTemple and checking the IQ tab will let you see it.

Nvm i actually solve it, it was one of my starters galarian rapidash shiny, my second starter its lumineon so i just removed everybody a did lumineon the leader it fixed it

Edited August 19 by Rican

[Xenor]

Hi, this is an excellent hack and I really like it, but I essentially got my save bricked by a bug. When the "Grovyle the Thief" chapters starts, once the party and Dusknoir enter the guild, the game just freaks out and gets stuck on a black screen with the talking sfx looping endlessly, with no way to progress through the cutscene or anything. I'm playing on Drastic, with no ither issues up until now. Restarting the game doesn't seem to change anything.

[Jonathanx]

 On 8/15/2025 at 7:01 PM, Jonathanx said:
Hi! I'm really enjoying EoA so far, it's awesome! I have  a quick question please: do you have an IQ Skill List and would you be able to share it?

Opening the rom in SkyTemple and checking the IQ tab will let you see it.

 

-Sorry but I'm having trouble with locating this particular webpage. Could you please tell me the link to this webpage? Or could you please be so kind as to copy+paste the text in a comment or in an edit? When I try to open the rom on the SkyTemple website it brings me back to the first page of this website (to your first post on the first page of this thread). 

 

Edited August 19 by Jonathanx

[JS_]

39 minutes ago, Jonathanx said:

 On 8/15/2025 at 7:01 PM, Jonathanx said:
Hi! I'm really enjoying EoA so far, it's awesome! I have  a quick question please: do you have an IQ Skill List and would you be able to share it?

Opening the rom in SkyTemple and checking the IQ tab will let you see it.

 

-Sorry but I'm having trouble with locating this particular webpage. Could you please tell me the link to this webpage? Or could you please be so kind as to copy+paste the text in a comment or in an edit? When I try to open the rom on the SkyTemple website it brings me back to the first page of this website (to your first post on the first page of this thread). 

 

Sky temple is a modding tool for pmd games

 Sending a screenshot of the iq groups won't really work since is a big a table and not that easy to read

This rom in particular has some sort of modding protection so you could load other roms and changes made in sky temple would affect the game but here they don't (just incase you try it and get confused why it dosnt work) but you can still use it to look stuff up like level up learnsets and stuff 

[JS_]

https://skytemple.org/

If i can send links this should be it

[Jonathanx]

5 hours ago, JS_ said:

https://skytemple.org/

If i can send links this should be it

When I go to download the file my pc says that there might be a virus with it, what would you recommend? Would it be possible for someone to make a google doc with the IQ Skills in it?

[marmotmen]

Disclaimer: In case you're reading this without checking context, this will likely break the game in some way (as stated by the hack dev), so be extra careful to backup saves that are important to you, and consider the risk/reward. I didn't personally notice anything different, but I also considered my run finished at this point and didn't do much other than run another dungeon or two before calling the save finished.

Hello! Just wanted to post here to let people know who either messed up or have a bugged Marowak quest for the Ascend Stones to evolve starters. 
If you are comfortable using the SkySave Editor for the PMD games that is on these forums, it is pretty easy to add them to your bag! Ascend stone MK1 is the "?-Stone" item and Ascend stone MK2 is the "Silver Bow" item! Just add them to your inventory/storage in the save editor and save the edited save, and import the save in the emulator of your choosing! In melonDS, there's an "Import Save" option from the "File" context menu.

Be sure to back up saves before tampering with anything! Hope this helps someone, I wasn't ready to call it quits on my save until I was able to evolve my starters and it bugged for me, so I dug a decent bit. Apologies in advance if the Dev isn't cool with this info being given or something, not sure! Also, it was just the MK1 for me, but I saw people mention not getting the stones after clearing Zero Isle Center as well, so!

Edited August 21 by marmotmen
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[Alphadaemon]

2 hours ago, marmotmen said:

Hello! Just wanted to post here to let people know who either messed up or have a bugged Marowak quest for the Ascend Stones to evolve starters. 
If you are comfortable using the SkySave Editor for the PMD games that is on these forums, it is pretty easy to add them to your bag! Ascend stone MK1 is the "?-Stone" item and Ascend stone MK2 is the "Silver Bow" item! Just add them to your inventory/storage in the save editor and save the edited save, and import the save in the emulator of your choosing! In melonDS, there's an "Import Save" option from the "File" context menu.

Be sure to back up saves before tampering with anything! Hope this helps someone, I wasn't ready to call it quits on my save until I was able to evolve my starters and it bugged for me, so I dug a decent bit. Apologies in advance if the Dev isn't cool with this info being given or something, not sure! Also, it was just the MK1 for me, but I saw people mention not getting the stones after clearing Zero Isle Center as well, so!

Disclaimer: this will very likely break the game on most saves as there are also flags related to the quest. I'm cool with giving info, I would have preferred if you contacted me before posting this, but this isn't a solution. This is a workaround that fixes one quest to break two, which isn't helping.

 

On 8/18/2025 at 10:58 AM, Xenor said:

Hi, this is an excellent hack and I really like it, but I essentially got my save bricked by a bug. When the "Grovyle the Thief" chapters starts, once the party and Dusknoir enter the guild, the game just freaks out and gets stuck on a black screen with the talking sfx looping endlessly, with no way to progress through the cutscene or anything. I'm playing on Drastic, with no ither issues up until now. Restarting the game doesn't seem to change anything.

Thanks for the report, it's a weird bug indeed.

[youseiren]

Glad to know I'm not the only person having issues with Ascend Stones lol. I did get the Mark 1 stones but I didn't know what they were for at the time until now and they are actually Usable Items in a dungeon and they'll disappear forever if you use one. I don't think I can get any more now either lol, Marowak doesn't show up at the Beach either now, even though I finished the Nightmare Arc, it's kind of a bummer playing 100% of the story and not being able to evolve, but I should have looked it up first

[marmotmen]

On 8/19/2025 at 8:37 PM, Alphadaemon said:

Disclaimer: this will very likely break the game on most saves as there are also flags related to the quest. I'm cool with giving info, I would have preferred if you contacted me before posting this, but this isn't a solution. This is a workaround that fixes one quest to break two, which isn't helping.

Woops! As I said, anyone who tries be sure to backup your saves, but for me, i don't think i'll be coming back to this anytime soon and evolving the starters is a closure/kind of tying a bow on the ending for me, so bricking the save really doesn't matter to me at all. And, apologies! I am not sure how to contact you really, this is my first time using this forum and i didn't see anything like an email or discord link on the post. Was not aware you can message people on here, but with the disclaimers, i will edit the post. I think the information is still valuable for some in the same boat as I am.

BTW, Thank you for all of the time and effort you've put into this as well, EOS is one of my all time favorite games but i always struggled trying to replay it due to how easy the vanilla game is. Difficult with level scaling was perfect for me, until post-dialga maybe, the dungeons where a lot of the pokemon get to attack twice really did a number on me. Still, made it through just fine and really enjoyed my time with it! Linked nasty plot + full room damage move FTW.

[Hosthan]

I've been playing for the last few weeks and have had fun.

I'm currently at Hidden Land, and I've noticed even tho I level up, I've stopped gaining stats after 170 HP and 120 for the rest of stats. Is this a bug or anything of that sort or is it intentional? It's making getting pass Mew really hard...

[JS_]

8 minutes ago, Hosthan said:

I've been playing for the last few weeks and have had fun.

I'm currently at Hidden Land, and I've noticed even tho I level up, I've stopped gaining stats after 170 HP and 120 for the rest of stats. Is this a bug or anything of that sort or is it intentional? It's making getting pass Mew really hard...

There are stat caps during the story 

Mine seem to be at 90 and am also in hidden land so might depend on difficulty or I am just dumb

[Xanderos]

6 hours ago, JS_ said:

There are stat caps during the story 

Mine seem to be at 90 and am also in hidden land so might depend on difficulty or I am just dumb

I was able to get past 100 and I was right after the Grovyle fight. I was on expert difficulty

[jonathanO]

Hello ive been having fun with alpha so far and ive been wondering if there will be any new updates or potential starter additions like swinub and duskull. Either way alpha has made EoS alot more fun and made moments hit harder after the struggle so thanks

[Alphadaemon]

1 hour ago, jonathanO said:

Hello ive been having fun with alpha so far and ive been wondering if there will be any new updates or potential starter additions like swinub and duskull. Either way alpha has made EoS alot more fun and made moments hit harder after the struggle so thanks

They are already starters with the selector. This doesn't necessitate a new starter addition.

[Mayeha]

What are the main differences between "Difficult" and "Expert" ? I don't know which difficulty to chose.

And what does it mean when it talks about additions specifically made for Explorers of Alpha available to me ?

Edited August 23 by Mayeha

[Jonathanx]

Would it be possible for you to share a google doc with the IQ Skills in it?

[Alphadaemon]

2 hours ago, Jonathanx said:

Would it be possible for you to share a google doc with the IQ Skills in it?

Open SkyTemple.

2 hours ago, Mayeha said:

What are the main differences between "Difficult" and "Expert" ? I don't know which difficulty to chose.

And what does it mean when it talks about additions specifically made for Explorers of Alpha available to me ?

Difficult is Expert but much more forgiving. Expert has stat caps in story while Difficult doesn't, some rewards and items are also harder to get in Difficult, level scaling doesn't throw you off if you overlevel in Difficult too

[brizzledee]

HI all, I've come across a bug and I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same issue.

I'm playing version 3.0.3 on a new 3ds via twilight menu installed on an R4 card. I'm trying to play Bidoof's Wish but, during the intro, when Chimeco calls everyone in for dinner, the game completely crashes.

I've attached a photo of the error screen, in case it's useful.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

[Alphadaemon]

2 hours ago, brizzledee said:

HI all, I've come across a bug and I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same issue.

I'm playing version 3.0.3 on a new 3ds via twilight menu installed on an R4 card. I'm trying to play Bidoof's Wish but, during the intro, when Chimeco calls everyone in for dinner, the game completely crashes.

I've attached a photo of the error screen, in case it's useful.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

Cutscene known bug, unfortunately no workarounds for now

[Baced]

How do I get the white silk required for the joy Globe? I somehow got it before for the white gem, but nothing mentions how I may get it again.

[Keraunos]

Loving the hack so far, unfortunately I'm also facing the problem of the game just straight up freezing in Mystifying Forest during the graduation, after falling into the pit. I used the randomizing options and got Deoxys and Weavile as starters, in case that matters, I also did not have any problems in Quicksand Cave before. Attempted to load the save into Vanilla and tried it again, this time game did not crash but softlocked instead.

Would it be a potential workaround to switch to Vanilla and use cheat codes to switch starters to "intended" Pokemon for the time being? Or is there any other workaround?

And if not, is there any ETA for 3.1. seeing as you apparently fixed it on your side?

 

Thank you for the work so far in any case.

Edited August 25 by Keraunos

[Mayeha]

I completed some missions in Mt. Bristle and my game gives a black screen right after I'm getting my rewards, how comes ? How do I fix that ?

[KusanagiRui]

Is there a way to replay the future dungeons from the special episode? Ive unlocked the main story ones by doing the special episode but would love to revisit the special episode ones too