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

[Phuuchi]

I tried reading through the guide at the beginning but couldn’t find anything on the ultimate items and how they work?

[Alphadaemon]

On 6/29/2026 at 1:49 AM, Phuuchi said:

I tried reading through the guide at the beginning but couldn’t find anything on the ultimate items and how they work?

Ultimate Items are powerful items with strong effects, at the cost of bag slots (-7 per ultimate item). Most (if not all) of them are found through endgame dungeons.

Now that I think about it, I should add a symbolic link in Ultimate items descriptions so the mechanic is detailed ingame...

[hamcircle]

Hey, great hack, love it. Can't wait for the update that adds more pokemon (though I know that'll take time, good luck with that) then it'll truly obviate every other hack out there!

 

Noticed a small bug though, thought I'd report. Op post says "Explorer Rank upgrade dungeons are unlocked after recycling 150 times along with Zero Isle Center if you have beaten World Abyss." Zero isle center unlocks regardless of world abyss.

Also, op post says that "- Field effects are disabled in Vanilla and Difficult" when they do, in fact, apply on Difficult difficulty.

[mpturtle007]

Hey, thanks to @Alphadaemon for making and maintaining this great rom hack. I have a rather vexing bug - when you reach the end of Mystifying Forest for the graduation exam and fall through the pit, the game freezes on the frame in the attached image.  I also attached a save state file from shortly before this happens. 

Disabling daily cutscenes as many have said works for fixing freezes does not work to resolve this. I cleared out my job list as well and tried again, as well as cleared some other dungeons. It seems like this particular cutscene is the only issue I am having. Sadly, I cannot progress anymore in the game without getting through this. Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide to make debugging this easier. Please help 

pkm-explorers-of-alpha--about-to-freeze.dst

[Alphadaemon]

On 7/3/2026 at 10:22 PM, hamcircle said:

Hey, great hack, love it. Can't wait for the update that adds more pokemon (though I know that'll take time, good luck with that) then it'll truly obviate every other hack out there!

 

Noticed a small bug though, thought I'd report. Op post says "Explorer Rank upgrade dungeons are unlocked after recycling 150 times along with Zero Isle Center if you have beaten World Abyss." Zero isle center unlocks regardless of world abyss.

Also, op post says that "- Field effects are disabled in Vanilla and Difficult" when they do, in fact, apply on Difficult difficulty.

ZIC unlocks early but you cannot enter it if you haven't beaten Darkrai. World Abyss completion ensures you unlock it if you didn't for some reason.

Not sure what you are talking about when it comes to field effects working on Difficult though. They never ever worked in this difficulty and the code designed to prevent them from working on Vanilla is located right before the one preventing them to work on Difficult. What are you calling "field effects"? Just making sure because Mysteriosity is its own thing.

As for new mons, it will sure take time. I've got so many other projects that are less frustration inducing that I cannot get back to this project unless I decide to focus on it. Context around it makes it extra hard to happen but it will. I already have Gens 5 to 9 abilities coded except for 2 after all.

4 hours ago, mpturtle007 said:

Hey, thanks to @Alphadaemon for making and maintaining this great rom hack. I have a rather vexing bug - when you reach the end of Mystifying Forest for the graduation exam and fall through the pit, the game freezes on the frame in the attached image.  I also attached a save state file from shortly before this happens. 

Disabling daily cutscenes as many have said works for fixing freezes does not work to resolve this. I cleared out my job list as well and tried again, as well as cleared some other dungeons. It seems like this particular cutscene is the only issue I am having. Sadly, I cannot progress anymore in the game without getting through this. Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide to make debugging this easier. Please help 

pkm-explorers-of-alpha--about-to-freeze.dst 1.37 MB · 0 downloads

Press ABXY at the same time and the cutscene shall procede properly afterwards iirc.