Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Fortune

[EmeraldWarlocke3000]

Hi how can you evolve dipplin to hydrapple here in this rom hack i really want him in my team. 

 

[sirenspells]

4 hours ago, EmeraldWarlocke3000 said:

Hi how can you evolve dipplin to hydrapple here in this rom hack i really want him in my team. 

 

Dipplin evolves into Hydrapple with the Golden Apple. You can get them from Golden Chambers

[SpadeXIII]

Piplup seems to be broken in this game. Whenever I chose him during the personality quiz, the game has me start as Monferno. Will this be fixed anytime soon? 

[SnailorMoon]

I've been having this glitch where my partner randomly stops following. It's fixed if I give it a consumable item but it is annoying and idk what triggers it. 

[SnailorMoon]

On 11/30/2025 at 11:47 PM, ItsFelix said:

Hello! i had a few questions, would it be ok to play this if it's my first time going through explorers of sky? are there any major story changes or anything that i would be better off avoiding? and also is there a way to play as regular sneasel/weavile? that's the main reason i wanted to try this rom hack

It's still the same story. There's just more pokemon added to the game. 

[hastamere]

Why is tapu koko considered larger than the other island guardians? I would like him to be in my team of hoopa unbound form and heatran, but it's not possible

 

[sirenspells]

4 hours ago, hastamere said:

Why is tapu koko considered larger than the other island guardians? I would like him to be in my team of hoopa unbound form and heatran, but it's not possible

 

The creator said earlier in this thread that it’s because of its sprite size. You can’t have too many big sprites on screen in these games due to engine limitations, so Tapu Koko specifically needs to be that size

[WindchildWhimsy]

On 12/6/2025 at 8:34 AM, SnailorMoon said:

I've been having this glitch where my partner randomly stops following. It's fixed if I give it a consumable item but it is annoying and idk what triggers it. 

...wait.  what held item does it have equipped?  

[SnailorMoon]

1 hour ago, WindchildWhimsy said:

...wait.  what held item does it have equipped?  

Heal ribbon. I guess they must be hungry. I'll try removing that. 

[Qt135792]

4 hours ago, SnailorMoon said:

Heal ribbon. I guess they must be hungry. I'll try removing that. 

Yeah, since Partners don't normally have their own hunger bars, Heal Ribbons will freeze them with the Hungry Pal status to sort of replicate the effect

[RJD]

Hey! I’m seriously freaking out with how good this game is. Huge congrats to you, it’s honestly incredible. But I wanna recruit new legendary ones like Arceus, Zekrom, etc., and I have no idea where to find them. Please help me out — if you can send me a list of them (legendary Pokemon and locations) or something like that, you’d make my day

 

Regards

 

RJD

Edited December 12 by RJD
Clearer

[SnailorMoon]

On 12/8/2025 at 9:52 AM, Qt135792 said:

Yeah, since Partners don't normally have their own hunger bars, Heal Ribbons will freeze them with the Hungry Pal status to sort of replicate the effect

Yeah looks like that fixed my problem! 

[sirenspells]

9 hours ago, RJD said:

Hey! I’m seriously freaking out with how good this game is. Huge congrats to you, it’s honestly incredible. But I wanna recruit new legendary ones like Arceus, Zekrom, etc., and I have no idea where to find them. Please help me out — if you can send me a list of them (legendary Pokemon and locations) or something like that, you’d make my day

 

Regards

 

RJD

The creator made a list earlier in the thread, I'll copy and paste it (some edits are provided by me in places where some are missing/had been changed, I hunted all these guys myself)

Spoiler

Tapu Fini in Beach Cave

Cobalion in Drenched Bluff

Zygarde in Mt Bristle

Marshadow in Waterfall Cave

Xerneas in Apple Woods

Tapu Koko in Craggy Coast

Ogerpon in Mt Horn

Fezandipiti in Foggy Forest

Volcanion in Steam Cave

Galarian Zapdos in Far Amp Plains

Hoopa in Northern Desert

Genesect in Quicksand Cave

Diancie in Crystal Cave

Magearna in Crystal Crossing

Spectrier in Blizzard Island

Zeraora in Mt Travail

Chi-Yu in Deep Dark Crater

Meloetta in Marine Resort

Regieleki and Regidrago in Concealed Ruins (the former on 28, the latter on 29)

Meloetta in Marine Resort

Victini in Shimmer Desert

Reshiram in Mt Avalanche

Galarian Moltres in Giant Volcano (19)

Virizion in Mystery Jungle

Tornarus in Sky Peak Summit Pass

Thundurus in Sky Stairway Chargestone Temple

Keldeo in Serenity River

Tapu Lele in Landslide Cave

Tapu Bulu in Lush Prairie

Zekrom in Tiny Meadow

Terrakion in Labyrinth Cave

Landorus in Oran Forest

Yveltal in Oblivion Forest

Enamorus in Fairy Fortress

Necrozma in Ultra Wilds

Eternatus in Upper Spacial Rift

Shiny Ho-Oh in Mirage Oasis

Arceus wasn't included in the list but it's recruited at the end of Destiny Tower

With the exception of Arceus, they're all found with the Mystery Part/Secret Slab, and iirc they're all found on the final floor of their dungeon

 

[NazFaz]

I know you probably get this kind of questions a lot but, any chance you gonna update the rom hack to include more starters? I kinda want to play as the paldean starters 

Edited December 13 by NazFaz

[Dynamo_Lynn]

Does anyone know where Litwick is recruitable? I could swear I saw one in a dungeon but I can't recall where exactly after looking through a handful. I know Chandelure is available in Ultra Wilds, but I would like a Litwick. 

[Finalfan27]

Hello, I saw an item in the corner of mirage oasis's final floor. I can't seem to cross the water to get it even though I'm a water type. Can you tell me if this is a bug and what item it is? It's the light blue dot in the northeast part of the floor by that one tiny path tile. 

[FumbLynn]

On 12/23/2024 at 12:06 AM, WindchildWhimsy said:

aww thanks! 

uhhhhhh here lemme whip one up

  Reveal hidden contents

Tapu Fini in Beach Cave

Cobalion in Drenched Bluff

Zygarde in Mt Bristle

Marshadow in Waterfall Cave

Xerneas in Apple Woods

Tapu Koko in Craggy Coast

Ogerpon in Mt Horn

Fezandipiti in Foggy Forest

Volcanion in Steam Cave

Galarian Zapdos in Far Amp Plains

Hoopa in Northern Desert

Genesect in Quicksand Cave

Diancie in Crystal Cave

Magearna in Crystal Crossing

Spectrier in Blizzard Island

Zeraora in Mt Travail

Chi-Yu in Deep Dark Crater

Meloetta in Marine Resort

Regieleki and Regidrago in Concealed Ruins (the former on 28, the latter on 29)

Meloetta in Marine Resort

Victini in Shimmer Desert

Reshiram in Mt Avalanche

Galarian Moltres in Giant Volcano (19)

Virizion in Mystery Jungle

Thundurus in Sky Stairway

Keldeo in Serenity River

Tapu Lele in Landslide Cave

Tapu Bulu in Lush Prairie

Zekrom in Tiny Meadow

Terrakion in Labyrinth Cave

Landorus in Oran Forest

Yveltal in Oblivion Forest

Enamorus in Fairy Fortress

Necrozma in Ultra Wilds

Eternatus in Upper Spacial Rift

Shiny Ho-Oh in Mirage Oasis

I am aware of the Glimmora thing, already have it fixed on my end lol

I'm trying to locate all of the new legendaries in the game! I found this little list you made of the Secret Slab/Mystery Part legendary encounters, but I had a couple questions...
1. What floor do all of these spawn on?
2. Could you whip up a list of all of the gen5+ legendary locations that are not on this list?
Thanks! Great romhack btw. I'm Having immense fun with it

Edited Wednesday at 06:52 PM by FumbLynn

[biscuitygoodness]

11 hours ago, Finalfan27 said:

Hello, I saw an item in the corner of mirage oasis's final floor. I can't seem to cross the water to get it even though I'm a water type. Can you tell me if this is a bug and what item it is? It's the light blue dot in the northeast part of the floor by that one tiny path tile. 

Hi!! You can get there with an All-Terrain Hiker, Absolute Mover (max IQ Palkia), or with a Mobile Scarf. What it is:

Spoiler

From my experience playing, it's a random item. It seems to be able to be a Reviver Seed, Amber Tear (!!!), or Wonder Gummi.

It seems to be a very intentional inclusion.

[oatmealo]

hi!!! thanks for making fortune, i love playing it! i was wondering if you had any plans to update the game too add more pokemon? lots more have sprites since the last update, including a lot of the starters evolutions! (as well as, selfishly, the deerling line, which i think would make a great starter) thanks for your hard work!!

[Finalfan27]

On 12/15/2025 at 7:44 AM, biscuitygoodness said:

Hi!! You can get there with an All-Terrain Hiker, Absolute Mover (max IQ Palkia), or with a Mobile Scarf. What it is:

  Hide contents

From my experience playing, it's a random item. It seems to be able to be a Reviver Seed, Amber Tear (!!!), or Wonder Gummi.

It seems to be a very intentional inclusion.

Thanks! The weird part for me was, I was able to travel across the water on every other floor as Oshawott except this one. Oshawott had no problem crossing water in every other dungeon I been to. So that leaves me with just 1 unsolved mystery. 

[hushy]

On 12/14/2025 at 9:30 PM, Dynamo_Lynn said:

Does anyone know where Litwick is recruitable? I could swear I saw one in a dungeon but I can't recall where exactly after looking through a handful. I know Chandelure is available in Ultra Wilds, but I would like a Litwick. 

in blizzard island  f1-8 with a 1.87/2.25% chance of spawning

[Dynamo_Lynn]

23 hours ago, hushy said:

in blizzard island  f1-8 with a 1.87/2.25% chance of spawning

Thank you very much! 

[hushy]

On 12/14/2025 at 11:53 PM, FumbLynn said:

I'm trying to locate all of the new legendaries in the game! I found this little list you made of the Secret Slab/Mystery Part legendary encounters, but I had a couple questions...
1. What floor do all of these spawn on?
2. Could you whip up a list of all of the gen5+ legendary locations that are not on this list?
Thanks! Great romhack btw. I'm Having immense fun with it

1. all added ss/mp encounters spawn on the penultimate floor of any given dungeon. the only exception to this is are dungeons within groups, such as steam cave or amp hill, which will have the encounter explicitly on the final floor of the first half of the dungeon (or also on the second half of the dungeon if there's a galarian form) (also giant volcano is the only exclusion)

 

Spoiler

2:

Meloetta = Marine Resort (Pirouette forme applicable)

Magearna (original form) = beach (fix em' up)

Tornadus =  Sky Summit Pass 

 

Reshiram (shiny) = (i'd expected shiny reshiram to be in zero hoard, but, no, sadly - and if that's the case i believe shiny reshiram isn't in any dungeon D:)

 

Zekrom (shiny) = Zero Hoard 2

 

Yveltal (shiny) = Zero Hoard 6

Type: Null = Happy Outlook (all floors)

Tapu Lele (shiny) = Zero Hoard 1

Tapu Fini = Beach Cave (f4)

Cosmog/Cosmoem = Ultra Wilds (nigh every floor)

Galarian Zapdos = Far Amp Planes (f10)

 

Solgaleo/Lunala = Ultra Wilds (just about a 0.98%~ every floor)


--

also, i'll include the misc encounters cause' why not? :3c

Lucha Pikachu = Lost Wilderness

Leafeon? = Final Maze (secret slab has a chance of spawning on just about every floor, take it to the floor just before the final)

--

i have no idea where white kyurem is at even after sifting through all the dungeons, so, uhm, there's that, but white kyurem is in the entry list :<

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by hushy

[hushy]

i'll also drop this in here for anyone that wants custom starters but doesn't want to go through the hassle every time:

1.  navigate to to scenes > scripts 

2.  click on the drop down next to the common folder and double click on unionall.

3. utilizing ctrl+f paste in this: "coro EVENT_M00A_01", which will bring you to line 2294.

4. copy this whole string: 

coro EVENT_M00A_01 {
    bgm_Stop();
    message_Monologue('Do you want to enable the default quiz?');
    switch ( message_SwitchMenu(0, 0) ) {
        case menu('Yes.'):
            supervision_ExecuteActingSub(LEVEL_S02P01A, 'm00a01a', 0);
            @label_432;
            $SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[2, 0];
            JumpCommon(CORO_EVENT_DIVIDE);
        case menu('No.'):
            supervision_ExecuteActingSub(LEVEL_S02P01A, 'newtest1', 0);
            supervision_ExecuteActingSub(LEVEL_S02P01A, 'newtest', 0);
            supervision_ExecuteActingSub(LEVEL_S02P01A, 'newtest3', 0);
            supervision_ExecuteActingSub(LEVEL_S02P01A, 'newtest4', 0);
            jump @label_432;
        default:
            return;
    }
}
5. highlight lines 2294-2312 and paste and then save. use the emulator to check if you get the dialog box during the beginning of the personality quiz and if you did, good job ^w^

6. goto starters and replace the dittos with whoever you so please.

7. congrats!! you can now use list > starters rather than going through newquiz3 / newquiz4 whenever you want to add different starters!! yaya ^^

[hushy]

okay im still not done my autism knows no bounds and i love eos too much and i'm bustling with too much information yyayfyyuruuu40-9 yip yip h.

if you like evolving somewhat early (like me), then here you go:

1. goto list > script and paste this into the search bar: "m01a0101", then click on "m01a0101.ssb"

2. copy this whooole string and paste it:

Spoiler

def 0 {
  dungeon_mode(169) = DMODE_OPEN_AND_REQUEST;
    $PERFORMANCE_PROGRESS_LIST[6] = 1;
    $PERFORMANCE_PROGRESS_LIST[10] = 1;
    $PERFORMANCE_PROGRESS_LIST[7] = 1;
    $PERFORMANCE_PROGRESS_LIST[20] = 1;
    sound_Stop();
    screen_FadeOut(1, 0);
    back_SetBanner2(LEVEL_V01P02A, 0, 120, 96, 1, {
        english="A Storm at Sea",
    });
    screen_FadeIn(1, 45);
    Wait(160);
    screen_FadeOut(1, 45);
    Wait(15);
    back_SetGround(LEVEL_S04P01A);
    bgm_PlayFadeIn(BGM_STORM, 160, 256);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 30);
    Wait(30);
    se_Play(6401);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(10);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(30);
    message_ResetActor();
    message_Talk({
        english=" Whoa! Wh-wh-whoa...!",
    });
    message_Talk({
        english=" Are...[K] Are you OK?!",
    });
    CallCommon(CORO_MESSAGE_CLOSE_WAIT_FUNC);
    se_Play(6401);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 3);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 3);
    Wait(30);
    message_Talk({
        english=" No![K] Don't let go!",
    });
    message_Talk({
        english=" Just a little longer...[K] Come on! Hang on!",
    });
    CallCommon(CORO_MESSAGE_CLOSE_WAIT_FUNC);
    se_Play(6401);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 3);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 3);
    Wait(30);
    message_Talk({
        english=" N-n-no![K] I can't...[K]hold on...!",
    });
    CallCommon(CORO_MESSAGE_CLOSE_WAIT_FUNC);
    se_Play(6402);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(5);
    se_Play(6402);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(30);
    se_Play(6401);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(5);
    screen_WhiteOut(1, 2);
    Wait(2);
    screen_FadeIn(1, 2);
    Wait(20);
    se_Play(6403);
    message_Talk({
        english=" Waaaaaah!",
    });
    bgm_FadeOut(120);
    screen_WhiteOutAll(1, 90);
    message_CloseEnforce();
    Wait(120);
    screen_FadeInAll(1, 30);
    screen_FadeOut(1, 0);
    end;
}

3. save and enable debug mode by pressing the icon next to the refresh button on the top right and proceed and skip whatever until you're done with mt. bristle. you should have luminous springs unlocked and if you did yyaaya!! you did it!! . also, this'll unlock the make leader function n' some other stuff so that you don't lose your leader once you evolve

4.  yur done !!!!! :}