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?