Pokémon Altered Platinum - Sinnohan Forms, Increased Difficulty, and more!

[Baltoy31]

I quit shortly after beating maylene in veilstone

things I liked:

• interesting new typings and movesets overall, especially for regional forms
• sinnohan togepi and mareep sprites though both kinda felt more fitting for unova and alola, respectively
• excellent added lore which improves on the vanilla text by a lot. the improved writing was the highlight of the romhack for me.
• really like no EVs
• evolutions like happiness, stones, item-based are all much more reasonable compared to vanilla
• nice QoL features including: (virtually) unlimited TMs
• bike at start
• anti-stall (e.g. 2pp iron defence)
• anti-sweep (e.g. 1pp dragon dance)

things I disliked:

• no substantial anti-grind outside of the chansey trainer
• IVs/natures still matter
• a few other users have already mentioned this, but most battles still feel like OHKO or get OHKO'd unless the other trainer stalls; was punished often and heavily for defensive switch-ins on my blind playthrough
• lack of included speedup patch available to other platinum hacks like renegade and redux (don't know if it even works for this; I didn't think of trying this sooner)
• anti-stall and anti-sweep hurts the player too; felt like these moves and battles in general were balanced around a portable pokecenter item like pokevial for pp recovery and even healing from fainted
• basically have to rely on documentation if not over-leveling significantly and want to avoid fainting/wipes
• subjective, but most regional form sprites (apart from togepi and mareep) looked pretty bad; especially flames and clouds which don't match vanilla sprites
• would've liked some more QoL like lower encounter rates + higher wild battle exp or trainer battle exp
• meme references (e.g. a deep rock galactic reference somewhere)

Edited March 22 by Baltoy31
made pros and cons more subjective

[Ryan_Unova]

I've been looking for sinnohan trapinch and i tried looking through the forums and asked around all over reddit. I just cant seem to find it anywhere. would you mind me asking for a link to the documents with pokemon locations at the very least? im very sorry i just really wanna use that amazing looking flygon.

[felinefriend]

does this work on Twilight Menu (3DS)? if so, do i have to run in a specific mode?

[ImGr1se]

Hey ! I've been playing since a few days and I reeeeeeeally enjoyed it but I got a little issue right now, it is for Corsola's abilities. In the PokemonChanges.txt, it's written that Corsola's new abilities are Solid Rock and Natural Cure, I got some of them with Natural Cure so I can confirm that but I also got two Corsola with Hustle (yea don't mind the nicknames, just a little private french joke lmao)
This is definitely not a problem with the new abilities because I got a Lopunny with Scrappy and a Combee with Hustle, maybe Corsola do not have his new abilities ? It's not at all a problem for me though, but I still wanted to report this ! 

 

[Lithium]

On 6/12/2024 at 5:26 PM, ImGr1se said:

Hey ! I've been playing since a few days and I reeeeeeeally enjoyed it but I got a little issue right now, it is for Corsola's abilities. In the PokemonChanges.txt, it's written that Corsola's new abilities are Solid Rock and Natural Cure, I got some of them with Natural Cure so I can confirm that but I also got two Corsola with Hustle (yea don't mind the nicknames, just a little private french joke lmao)
This is definitely not a problem with the new abilities because I got a Lopunny with Scrappy and a Combee with Hustle, maybe Corsola do not have his new abilities ? It's not at all a problem for me though, but I still wanted to report this ! 

 

Sorry for the long wait, everyone. To keep a long story short, I haven't really had much passion for Pokemon as of late, and little motivation to even go in and fix bugs. So until that changes, updates from here on will be rare, if they happen at all.
Just to clarify though, I COULD just come back and start making major updates again if I feel the motivation for it. With the way I am, that could happen out of nowhere.
Until then though, yeah, don't expect much.

r1.0.5
Long time no see!
Implemented any fixes I did but forgot to write about since last update
Fixed Corsola incorrectly having its original first ability, Hustle, instead of Solid Rock
Fixed Cranidos/Rampardos learning Screech instead of Dragon Dance at 30/31, as was intended

Edited July 30 by Lithium

[Hasuke]

Where is The documention? I want The pokedez and The gyms leaders

[FFCloud9]

On 1/23/2022 at 12:39 AM, AyooJoshuaa98 said:

In which route can i find ponyta and growlithe ?