Alphadaemon

5 hours ago, jmt0781 said:

Is the Outlaw Board bugged? I've reached the Waterfall expedition main quest, and it's been red/inaccessible since the beginning of the game. I'm using the latest patch of the ROM hack, and I've also never had this problem in previous saves (I've started my game over a few times to change my Starter).

 

At the start of Explorers of Sky, they hardlock you from doing certain missions sometimes, or it can just decide it doesn't generate a mission for either boards. It's base game behavior.

4 hours ago, jmt0781 said:

 

OHHH thank goodness! Is there any chance you know what level I would have to be to see a difference? 

Even as low as levels 30+ you should start to notice it

On 1/5/2026 at 6:57 PM, MoonlightKitsune said:

I'm experiencing a bug where Mt. Travail keeps crashing. I'm playing on 3ds, H-Zorua and Ralts as my partner. I'm at a loss for what to do!

Be lucky ig... this bug is inconsistent

On 1/5/2026 at 8:17 PM, Drame Guia said:

Is there any news on update 4.0? It's been a while and I can't find a discord server or have anyone talking about this (I'm still waiting for any expanded dex update (I'm just waiting for it)

It's been a while and you will still wait for a while. I have yet to release 3.1 which stabilizes 3.0, and then I can work on 4.0, which is its own thing and will take a while.

5 hours ago, jmt0781 said:

Is Totodile's Strong Jaw/Sheer Force bugged? I tested Scratch, Rage, and Bite, and I couldn't tell if it's not working or the damage difference is minimal since I'm at a low level.

At low level, the damage difference is minimal as the average damage of a boosted move falls into a non-boosted move damage roll

1 hour ago, spooky1 said:

Yeah after

Then you didn't recruit everything in here. And the quest for Shaymin works as everyone who has recruited everything in Nectar Meadow managed to recruit Shaymin at the end

1 hour ago, spooky1 said:

Yes I know, but it seems like I recruited all of them, and I keep going back and I don’t see any new ones I haven’t recruited yet.

Are you after Darkrai or not? If you try to do that before, it won't work.

2 hours ago, spooky1 said:

Does anyone have a list of pokemon to recruit in Nectar Meadow? I’ve been there many times now and apparently it’s still not enough - I get the same text from Heracross.

All of them

6 hours ago, Lanceraja said:

You'd be surprised at how extraordinary i am at being bad. Thanks for the help and quick response though!

Edit: Also you could use reviver seeds in the original sky as they were not tied to item master. Reviver seeds combine a full hunger, health and ap restore so that did make a difference. I am completely coping, but would just like to have it be said

Reviver Seeds have always been tied to Item Master by the way, it makes no difference whatsoever as the dungeon also disables IQ Skills in base Sky.

3 hours ago, Lanceraja said:

Is there really no other way to evolve the second stage of your starter? Can't beat zero isle middle, even on vanilla with fully maxed stats. Had 4 runs that all ended with grudge traps on floor 1-5. Should i just suck it up and not evolve?

I'm very surprised that you cannot clear Center with max stats past floor 1-5 in Vanilla when almost anything can do it in vanilla with half the stats... though you are in luck because the dungeon is bugged currently anyway so you couldn't evolve afterwards too. You should input this code which allows you to evolve the starter using another item, this time a Dream Shard:

023d73c0 03a000b4
023d73c4 159f0008
023d73d4 000001ad

15 hours ago, jmt0781 said:

Hi, Alpha. I've been having fun playing with different Starters when I noticed that some of the Abilities didn't really add up. For example, Chinchou is stated at the Pokemon Quiz selection screen that it has Volt Absorb, but in the game it's actually Water Absorb. I then went through each of the playable pokemon to see if there were any other Abilities that didn't match with the in-game Abilities, and I found 18 inconsistencies where the Abilities on the selection screen didn't match the in-game versions. I don't mean to alarm you, but I felt that it was important to inform you about this. Also, Finneon is also listed, but the two Abilities for it are simply switched as opposed to being mismatched.

Or you could have went through the trouble of reading post history and see for yourself that gendered abilities are bugged.

On 12/19/2025 at 4:57 PM, garchle said:

I found a weird thing. I don't know if it's a bug or if it'd intended behavior, so I thought I'd bring it up.

I set my partner be Alolan Vulpix. I started the game with the difficulty on "difficult." Their abilities are Snow Cloak and Cute Charm. I was looking for a more casual experience, so I swapped the difficult to vanilla after a while, and their cute charm ability swapped to snow warning, but it only shows up in dungeons. Going back to "difficult" difficulty fixes it.

I don't really want endless hail in my game, so unless there's a workaround or fix I missed while searching this thread I guess I"m stuck playing on difficult.

Known "inconsistency" I guess? In Alpha some abilities are difficulty based, which includes Drought/Snow Warning on Vulpixes, Vanilla exclusive abilities. In 3.1, difficulty based abilities show up accordingly in Overworld

3 hours ago, Lanceraja said:

Hello, i've been really enjoying this romhack so far! Here to report a bug. While i was cruising through the story i noticed a screenfreeze bug. I was going through the chasm cave and had a screen freeze. I reloaded and managed to replicate it, it seems that hitting a skarmory with breaking swipe causes the game to freeze.

Don't attack Skarmory with a stat lowering move, it's a known bug on Mirror Armor

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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Enable cutscene skip.

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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Skip cutscenes option in the L menu.

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.