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

[Alphadaemon]

14 hours ago, Avurii said:

What is the evolution requirement for player-cubone to evolve into Alolan Marowak instead of normal Marowak? I tried ascend stone + fire/dusk/moon stone and that did not work

Fire Stone + Lunar Ribbon originally

 

2 hours ago, GoldTy said:

quick question, not sure if this is a bug or not, but i accepted a quest from a Monferno to recover a stolen item. now the issue lies in that the job says the thief is on floor 17 of mystifying forest, which only has 14 floors. am i missing something? is there a secret that i need to unlock or is this unintentional?

Difficulty locked floor, this mission will be invalid in the next update

[Shade The Shapeshifter]

Question, I just found this page and this seems fun.

Where can I download this Rom Hack? Is it a full game or is it a patch and I need a copy of PMD EoS to apply it too?

[Setchaos]

On 11/12/2025 at 12:30 PM, Alphadaemon said:

You will have to be more precise about it. What did you do? Which emulator are you using? Under which conditions? Are you positive you are playing the latest version?

I'm using Desmume, the dungeon kept freezing so I started frequently saving after completing a floor so I wouldn't lose items. After I saved on the new floor the game froze again and then it returned me to the guild and counted it as a loss and wiped all of my money and items. I used the patch at the end of your post. 3.0.3 I think it was. Also, how do I get to the mega evolution stuff? I thought I had the game completed and found out there's so much more to do and I'm kind of excited about it now  

Edit: So, it appears it was the randomizer settings causing the freezes and crashes. I turned it off to see if it fixed the issue and it did. I can't turn it back on now though, it says this menu isn't available to me no matter what mode I try to use. It's kinda not a big deal though as I've already recruited pretty much every shiny legendary/mythical before not being able to use it, and since I turned it off it hasn't crashed once. 

Edit 2: it is the randomizer. I turned it back on and it started freezing again immediately on the first dungeon I went into, zero issues with it off. Also, I got a challenge letter from Mewtwo for the 40th floor of Sky Stairway and I've gone through the 40 floor dungeon 4 times now in the past day with various items like the dream catcher, secret slab, and holy lyre and every time I get to the end floor it just ends the dungeon. Without completing that I can't continue in the story and I'm not sure what to do. I've beaten rayquaza twice and gotten his exclusive item and the world treasure from him, and now nothing at all happens when I hit floor 40.

Edited November 21 by Setchaos
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[GoldTy]

what would be a good strategy to unlock mount tensei for Marshadow? having to wait for pokemon to spawn on one floor is really boring and i get super close to getting kicked out. is there a good dungeon for it?

[Alphadaemon]

10 hours ago, GoldTy said:

what would be a good strategy to unlock mount tensei for Marshadow? having to wait for pokemon to spawn on one floor is really boring and i get super close to getting kicked out. is there a good dungeon for it?

Illuminate, Expert difficulty

[Cheesequake]

good rom hack. ques tions for training grounds

1. how to get the apples, orbs and rock smash are disabled, and ghost types can't go past the walls

2. how to beat the blissey, they keep healing each other and using helping hand, the moment protect fails i just die to +10 egg bomb, i can only beat 2 at a time, i dont think using violent seed is intended strat

[GoldTy]

14 hours ago, Alphadaemon said:

Illuminate, Expert difficulty

thank you so much! another quick question, do the new evos/hisuian forms have their own items? i’m doing a speedrun mode rn with H-Sneasel and it’s not getting the buffs from the sneasel items. i think i read in the post that they are there but how would you get them?

[jmt0781]

If I enable dungeon level scaling, will the quest rewards reflect the difficulty or remain the same as if there was no scaling?

[jmt0781]

And what extra features does the "Difficult" difficulty level option offer that are not present in "Vanilla" if any?

[Alphadaemon]

17 hours ago, Cheesequake said:

good rom hack. ques tions for training grounds

1. how to get the apples, orbs and rock smash are disabled, and ghost types can't go past the walls

2. how to beat the blissey, they keep healing each other and using helping hand, the moment protect fails i just die to +10 egg bomb, i can only beat 2 at a time, i dont think using violent seed is intended strat

The apples are here just to mess with the player. Violent Seed is one of the many intended strat along with a couple of room clearing moves.

13 hours ago, GoldTy said:

thank you so much! another quick question, do the new evos/hisuian forms have their own items? i’m doing a speedrun mode rn with H-Sneasel and it’s not getting the buffs from the sneasel items. i think i read in the post that they are there but how would you get them?

They have their own items, H-Sneasel has the Climber Bow and Dire Claw. They are available through Croagunk Swap Shop or in the chests found at the end of Zero Isle Center with a Sneasler in the party

8 hours ago, jmt0781 said:

And what extra features does the "Difficult" difficulty level option offer that are not present in "Vanilla" if any?

Mostly difficulty rebalancing and certain mini bosses in story

[Cheesequake]

ty. also what learns camaraderie ? im guessing clef line does but still

[Xanderos]

On 10/31/2025 at 9:19 PM, Xanderos said:

I got a weird glitch. Sometimes when I go to the screen that has Xatu, Kecleon and Kangaskhan after a dungeon run, the game will stutter for a bit after a bit of time with graphical glitches and then after that's done the arrow in the menus disappear. The menus still work but it's hard to tell what your selecting. Saving and restarting the game fixes it but it's random when it does (the glitch not the fix). It started after going into the cafe one time and having the game freeze. The game no longer freezes in the cafe but whenI go to Xatu it'll do what I described above. I can go past and do whatever I need to do for storage needs but as soon as I go on the bottom path it will happen. I've restarted the game a couple times and have gotten farther without this happening. The only difference is that the team is Gible and Alolan Vulpix and it's happening at the time when you have to go to Amp Plains. It could be that it's weird at this specific point in the story as I haven't grinded dungeons in previous runs at this specific part in the story.

I just realized that there is also one more thing that's different. I have an unfinished special episode save as well. I also did a test with save states where I save stated, got the glitch, loaded, saved and went to title, loaded and it didn't trigger so it's something that resets every day in game. I'll finish the special episode and see if it still happens after that.

I progressed the story past Amp Plains, haven't done the desert yet, and the glitch hasn't happened again. Also I don't know if anyone else is having problems with the shiny pokemon but when I bring Buneary or Nidoran(male) into a dungeon they have their default abilities yet when viewing them through Chimecho it shows the correct abilities. Shiny Nidoran(female) has the correct abilities in dungeons so I'm not sure why it's different. 

[Qt135792]

I'm at Primal Dialga and I would like some clarifications for things that are confusing me

• Violent Seeds did not work I was doing just as much damage to Dialga with or without their buffs
• For some reason when my Partner uses Protect sometimes it will fail with the "It failed to effect" text

I would like to know whether these are intentional or not

[Alphadaemon]

On 11/23/2025 at 7:26 PM, Cheesequake said:

ty. also what learns camaraderie ? im guessing clef line does but still

Mew.

On 11/24/2025 at 4:08 AM, Xanderos said:

I progressed the story past Amp Plains, haven't done the desert yet, and the glitch hasn't happened again. Also I don't know if anyone else is having problems with the shiny pokemon but when I bring Buneary or Nidoran(male) into a dungeon they have their default abilities yet when viewing them through Chimecho it shows the correct abilities. Shiny Nidoran(female) has the correct abilities in dungeons so I'm not sure why it's different. 

Known bug, fixed in my next version.

8 hours ago, Qt135792 said:

I'm at Primal Dialga and I would like some clarifications for things that are confusing me

• Violent Seeds did not work I was doing just as much damage to Dialga with or without their buffs
• For some reason when my Partner uses Protect sometimes it will fail with the "It failed to effect" text

I would like to know whether these are intentional or not

It has Unaware. Protect has a chance to fail whenever you use it baseline.

[SteakCheese]

This hack interested me because of the many changes; however, it hasn't been smooth to get through. I started on Difficult before switching to Vanilla after being killed immediately by 1 Groundon Precipice Blades. I'm stuck on Northern Desert now due to a room with 9 Flygon and pitfall traps, where I can't use orbs, pure seeds, or Trap Buster. I don't find it "challenging" more than frustrating. I would like to see what this hack has to offer, but I don't understand things like this.

[Shade The Shapeshifter]

Where can I download the latest patch/game? Can someone link it to me?

[Setchaos]

On 11/18/2025 at 4:26 PM, Setchaos said:

How do I unlock the Inferno Cave, Tower of Demise, Starglow Cavern, and mythical field? The mythical field is listed above, but it doesn't say the unlock requirements like the rest of them do and i can't find the unlock requirements for the other 3 I mentioned. 

 

[Alphadaemon]

3 hours ago, SteakCheese said:

This hack interested me because of the many changes; however, it hasn't been smooth to get through. I started on Difficult before switching to Vanilla after being killed immediately by 1 Groundon Precipice Blades. I'm stuck on Northern Desert now due to a room with 9 Flygon and pitfall traps, where I can't use orbs, pure seeds, or Trap Buster. I don't find it "challenging" more than frustrating. I would like to see what this hack has to offer, but I don't understand things like this.

The Groudon thing is a bug I know of. As for the Northern Desert room, the previous room is there for a reason and the dungeon gives you resources to overcome it. The issue however is twofold: Difficult is bugged due to an oversight, and people are very prone to bruteforce without even thinking about alternative options that aren't the clear cut answer and I don't make this obvious.

3 hours ago, Shade The Shapeshifter said:

Where can I download the latest patch/game? Can someone link it to me?

It's in the original post.

36 minutes ago, Setchaos said:

 

Tower of Demise unlocks with Mythical Field, Starglow Cavern is a challenge letter available after Secret Rank and clearing Special Episode 1, Inferno Cave is the last rank dungeon but also unlocked with 150 recycles iirc

[Setchaos]

10 minutes ago, Alphadaemon said:

The Groudon thing is a bug I know of. As for the Northern Desert room, the previous room is there for a reason and the dungeon gives you resources to overcome it. The issue however is twofold: Difficult is bugged due to an oversight, and people are very prone to bruteforce without even thinking about alternative options that aren't the clear cut answer and I don't make this obvious.

It's in the original post.

Tower of Demise unlocks with Mythical Field, Starglow Cavern is a challenge letter available after Secret Rank and clearing Special Episode 1, Inferno Cave is the last rank dungeon but also unlocked with 150 recycles iirc

Okay, so I'm not likely to get the Inferno cave ever unlocked then. 400k for earth rank is just too much grinding missions

[Alphadaemon]

6 hours ago, Setchaos said:

Okay, so I'm not likely to get the Inferno cave ever unlocked then. 400k for earth rank is just too much grinding missions

The part where I talk about the Recycle Unlock exists too. And it happens if you finished Scizor's scenario post-Darkrai.

[Cheesequake]

what is the song that plays in training grounds and some of the other earlier dungeons ? is there a YouTube link ?

[Shade The Shapeshifter]

Having trouble applying the Alpha_303 patch to EoS, y'all got sites that'll work?

Rom Patcher doesn't seen to work with this patch?

[Setchaos]

15 hours ago, Alphadaemon said:

The part where I talk about the Recycle Unlock exists too. And it happens if you finished Scizor's scenario post-Darkrai.

Okay, so i can just do the recycle and not need the Earth rank? I thought you had to fulfill both as requirements. Sorry, I know I have a lot of questions

Edited November 27 by Setchaos

[SteakCheese]

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The Groudon thing is a bug I know of. As for the Northern Desert room, the previous room is there for a reason and the dungeon gives you resources to overcome it. The issue however is twofold: Difficult is bugged due to an oversight, and people are very prone to bruteforce without even thinking about alternative options that aren't the clear cut answer and I don't make this obvious.

The room I figured out. It's similar to Super Mario Bros. levels, where you pick the correct path. But I'm not sure what resources you're referring to? I've tried stat boosting moves, and Iron Thorns and Stun Seeds, which only worked for so long. (Also, my player character is a ghost type, and the Flygon have Feint Attack, which is just an unfortunate coincidence)

[Cheesequake]

On 11/26/2025 at 11:49 AM, Cheesequake said:

what is the song that plays in training grounds and some of the other earlier dungeons ? is there a YouTube link ?

Nvm there are a lot of original songs not in original explorers . They are all very good . Sky stairway has one of them . Standalone uploads would be nice