Alphadaemon

49 minutes ago, DocPokemon said:

 

Arceus is size 5. Check the menu.

On 12/14/2025 at 9:25 PM, Nitrogue1 said:

So I'm pretty sure I have a bug. I got the quest for exploring Thundercap Mt but it instead points to World Abyss. I can't accept it either because the game says I've previously accepted it. I can't travel to Thundercap Mt. either. I can access World Abyss though.

Edit: I tried deleting the quest and refreshing the Spinda cafe until I got another treasure quest and it's the same quest which I still can't accept.

 

I cannot do anything about it and also by doing manual edits you rigged your save...

29 minutes ago, Nitrogue1 said:

At what point do ginsengs become free and how do I do Kecleon thievery lost loot grinding?

Post-Destiny Tower afaik. As for stealing Kecleon, it's the same as any other way of stealing.

3 hours ago, GoldTy said:

is there a way to recruit Dark Dialga, Dark Palkia, and the other darkrai form?

Destiny Tower

2 hours ago, Nitrogue1 said:

So is there any way to get a list of which dungeons certain Pokémon spawn? Also is there a list for where to get shiny legendaries because I saw a previous post in the the thread mentioning a shiny Regieleki and I want to know how they got that.

Shiny Legendaries can be found in Destiny Tower. Unfortunately no spawn list doc or anything like that. Will probably add one for 4.0 though.

4 hours ago, Gatorgoat0339 said:

@Alphadaemon Just reaching out again for possibly some help with my game crashing when trying to start the Shaymin chapter. I've got my save file if that helps so the issue, not sure what I can do to fix it on my end

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37 minutes ago, Ryan7251 said:

I don't expect a reply really, but what are some of the best starters now with all the changes made with the hack?

I am a fan of DPS and pokemon that get better the more you work on them vs them just being strong to start.

We were thinking about it with the beta testing team and on my end I think what fits the description best is going to be Aipom + Chikorita. Both fit the second criteria, Aipom very much fits the first criteria while Chikorita helps it overcome its weaknesses as a very frail leader against tough enemies

10 hours ago, gobbit said:

I am trying to stat max my pokemon but sometimes I see that all my stat are resetted to 180 exactly, I am after the manaphy story event,
Are there some kind of limit with gummies, should I do something special or is just a limitation?

Stat limit before beating Darkrai on Expert

4 hours ago, DonQ said:

i did find some with 2 stars power.

 

I said that because imo 2 star power moves are too limited imo, would be nice if Technician effect extends to at least 3 stars power moves, just my 2 cents.

That's the point. And it already affects among the best moves in the game (2-tiles away moves, multi-hits). No point to buff it even further.

1 hour ago, Laiyned said:

@Alphadaemon Hi! Thanks keeping up with the thread. I downloaded the hack for the first time today, and patched it with Delta Patcher for Desmume. I played until after Waterfall Cave, and then in one of the "downtime" days between plot points in which the story doesn't progress and you just do missions, I keep getting a complete uninteractable black screen once I return to base after an expedition. I haven't isolated the variable that's causing this yet, but it happens no matter which area I go, whether I do / don't do missions, and whether I complete the expedition or fail. It seems like it's not possible to escape using conventional means. 

I'm not sure if this is a client side issue or a bug, but I would appreciate if you could help me be able to play the game, as I have been really enjoying it! I attached some save states for your convenience if you would like to investigate (hopefully they work, as it's my first time saving save states in general). Thanks for your time. 

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On 11/30/2025 at 10:51 AM, DonQ said:

I see the description of Technician is boosting the power of 2 stars or lower power moves. Is this the correct effect or typo in the description? Because moves with 2 stars in power is nonexistent afaik in the non-hack ROM, and this hack seems like it doesn't change in term of move power either.

There's a couple of them, I don't get why you are saying that

11 hours ago, Cheesequake said:

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 

There's no custom music in Alpha.

11 hours ago, SteakCheese said:

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)

Porygon2 upgrades, stun seeds, rocks with Manual mode, room moves, reflect/light screen, stucking them in a corridor, line of sight moves... just to name a few

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

8 hours ago, threeruneblade said:

I generally enjoy the ability changes but when a third of pokemon in the dungeons with hail/sandstorm get increased evasion it makes using anything without concentrator/other evasion boosters just simply unfun. Is there a counter to this that i'm missing? I don't want to be limited in teambuilding just to prevent missing 4-5-6 times in a row on a carnivine

Basic attack never misses, items never miss, perfect accuracy moves exist, you can choose to not interact, you are not limited in teambuilding when a mon dealing low damage can avoid hits. Shiny reports I'm not taking.

1 hour ago, Setchaos said:

Quick saved in a dungeon that kept freezing and the game froze. I reset and hit continue and it sent me out of the dungeon and wiped all of my money and items and counted the missions all as a loss. I lost a ton of really valuable items from it

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?

5 hours ago, 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.

On which emulator are you playing by chance?

3 hours ago, Vivy said:

I see. Thank you for the quick response! So much has been added to the rom and it's amazing, haha.

One last thing, is the bit about Uproar intended? I made an edit, but I'm not sure if you were referring to things being perfectly intended for that or for the floor confusion. Regardless, I appreciate everyone's work here!

Not intended, fixed in the upcoming 3.1

3 hours ago, Vivy said:

And just asking for anyone's assistance here, what are the requirements for getting Shaymin? In the original you had to scale the mountain again and he would join automatically, but I did that and nothing happened. I'm sure I'm missing something here too, but if anyone active here would be kind enough to tell me I'd appreciate it!

Post-Darkrai, return to the peak and take the assignment

On 10/30/2025 at 3:41 AM, Usagi Fang said:

So is Buneary not a female option?

 

 

Nvm. I did the ID input thing. Tho I also ran into a bug recently where I just get a black screen after I completed some jobs. It refuses to do anything and I get no sound.

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5 hours ago, Vivy said:

I downloaded the only version available from your original post 11 days ago, so it should be the latest unless I royally misread something. Weirdly enough, after evolving my main heroes and trying this again to see if I'd get the same crash, everything works fine. I don't know what's changed other than that and being later in the story, but it's fine now? I've tried it twice and it works? Sorry! I guess something very specific there is going on and I don't know what else to say.

Unrelated, and this is a much more minor of an issue, the exclusive items for Sneasel and Sneaseler I think are supposed to be swapped name-wise? Climber's Bow has the move Dire Claw's effects, but the item Dire Claw absorbs damage from psychic type moves instead.
Also I'm like 99% sure there's something up with the spawn rate of the Climber's Bow. As mentioned above, it refused to show up once meanwhile seemingly every other mon's item was showing up very frequently. The moment I evolved Sneasel into Sneaseler I got the item for Sneaseler within a couple in-game days, but have still yet to see the Climber's Bow. Ironically I got both heroes' evolved items within the same in-game day as testing the Gold Ticket.
It's not a big deal, but I was a little disappointed. But again, I have no idea what would even cause that.

I mean next version as in 3.1 and it's not out yet.

Sneasel and Sneasler exclusive items will get a rename.

The item spawn rate for Sneasler's item will be fixed in 3.1

5 hours ago, Vivy said:

Oh. Also as another bug report, assuming I'm not missing something, some dungeons have missions that are impossible. Mythical Field specifically I've encountered and tried to complete multiple times only to realize I can't go further into the dungeon than a mission would state. EX: Outlaw is on floor 15, but Mythical Field ends the moment you go through stairs on floor 13. Anything above 4*s(Outside of a very select few) on that dungeon is impossible and I'm a little hesitant to do other high ranked missions if they hover around the 20 floor range unless I know those maps are deep enough to reach those floors.


Edit: One other bug report. Ginseng cannot be used on the move Uproar. I'm assuming this is because it didn't do damage previously.

If you have an ultimate item that cuts dungeon floors in half like Mechanical Array or Light Tetrahedron, you will have the same behavior as with bosses cutscenes in base game. This is perfectly intended.

On 10/23/2025 at 3:55 PM, Vivy said:

So while I continue to grind for exclusive items, I went to go recycle some items and got a Gold Ticket. Using the ticket and getting a big win seems to cause a lot of issues.

Glitched textures scroll through the screen and eventually stops, music included, and I'm softlocked.

Unfortunate issue due to file bloat... I think it's fixed in the newest version but just to be sure when did this happen?

19 hours ago, Brokshi said:

Just wanted to share that when everyone in the guild starts clapping for Dusknoir when he first appears, the game keeps crashing to white with an endlessly looped clap sound. I don't know if it's related to the fact that I'm playing Sneasel and partner Hisuian-Sneasel or not. I should also mention Buneary isn't on the Reverie list if you choose girl instead of boy.

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1 hour ago, ShamelessGuard said:

Hello! I have been thoroughly enjoying this rom hack! Not often do you see a fully fleshed out PMD game! I am experiencing a constant Data Abort error crashes during Mt. Horn. I tried disabling some settings, but I can't turn off randomization to confirm that one, since it's only through Porygon2 at the guild instead of the one in front of the cave entrance. I can share a save file or anything if it helps, the farthest I've been able to get before a crash is Floor 12 before it errors out, other times it occurs by about floor 5-7. 

 

I am using this on a modded 3DS, starters were Gible and H-Zorua. One post somewhere mentioned to ensure the .nds and .sav were the same name, which they were both listed as Explorers of Sky, so I changed it to Explorers of Alpha. Any information helps, I can also get a log attached somehow from the 3DS if that helps.

Unfortunate case of species randomizer crash in 3.0. Fixed hopefully in 3.1. 

On 10/10/2025 at 5:21 AM, Nozotol said:

Hello, I really enjoyed this rom and im excited to eventually play the 4.0 release 

I was wondering if you would ever like for a set of achievements to be added on retro achievements for this or if it was something youd ever thought about because with how much endgame content there is its kind of a prime candidate for it 
I especially love achievement hunting so it would only make this rom even better for me I would even do it myself if I had any ideas as to how to actually go about it

also I was wondering which pokemon you would consider to be the best starters thanks in advance

Considering that for 4.1 as it will set in stone the final product, and so the set of achievements.

On 10/17/2025 at 7:54 PM, Lord Woodrow said:

I’ve encountered a bug, in Mt Travall. When I tried to load floor 8 the text faded out, then reappeared but in low brightness, then the game locked. I quick-loaded back to before I entered the dungeon and got past it (8F ended up being the custom floor, despite it having appeared on an earlier floor before).

The same thing happened on 16F, no sign of the other half of the custom floor.

 

Edit: Quick loaded again, 16F loaded fine. I’m guessing some kind of issue with loading the custom floors? I haven’t had this happen with any of the other ones.

This issue is weird and known, I hopefully have fixed this issue in the next version... glad the issue is sorted on your end 

On 10/18/2025 at 8:43 PM, lunarnight said:

Hi again! Is Uproar meant to be not upgradeable with ginseng for balance reasons? Does it break the game? It's one of the few damage dealing moves I can't scale, and I'd like to be able to scale its damage into the lategame. If that's the design, that's fine. I'm genuinely just curious. 

Hmmm that's probably an oversight, I will look into it.

On 10/18/2025 at 3:53 AM, IceDragon247 said:

My question is how to get new exclusive item in this hack, from box or special mission (by the way where i can find discord link)

No Discord for Alpha. New exclusive items can be found in Croagunk's Swap Shop just like any other item if they don't belong to a Legendary mon, otherwise as a reward for completing a dungeon with a Legendary boss fight at the end

47 minutes ago, Asia81 said:

Hello, is there a suggested CRC or MD5 to know what clean rom to use ?

Also is the v3.0.3 the latest as of today ? Thanks in advance

I didn't provide those for now. I could look into that. 3.0.3 is also the latest version as of now. Also I wanted to thank you personally. I got into modding games in 2016 thanks to your posts on Pokemon Trash forums and never stopped ever since that time.

1 hour ago, lunarnight said:

Hi... bug report! 
I've definitely turned on the exp share and ive passed through Northern Desert, but one of the level 1 Pokemon I got just after the expedition has not gained a single lick of xp. Maybe it's gotta do with upgrades, but I don't think it works. Just an fyi. nbd or anything, but it don't work. 

It works, bring the Pokémon in a dungeon for it to gain EXP.

3 hours ago, JustCallMeFin said:

So I’m playing as a Shiny Gallade with Shiny Gardevoir partner and when I fall in the hole to fight Wiggly and the guild my game freezes. I don’t know what to do in order to stop this. If anyone has any tips please let me know

 

if I can get the “why” this happens, which I’m guessing is because my two mons can’t evolve since I’m seen other people with this glitch having at least 1 mon that can’t evolve and I got past this before with 2 Ralts, I’ll just restart with two mons that can evolve 

For the record, answered on Discord, save hopping should fix the problem