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I'll showcase here my first PMD Hack: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Alpha! This hack is named after the Alpha Pokemon Arceus, and you got it: the crux of this hack is the implementation of Arceus in the game as the final battle. Already present in the game, but unused and lacking both sprites and portraits, I first wanted to add Arceus to the game. But that's not the main goal of this hack. I've spent a lot of time in my childhood playing Explorers of Sky, grinding mons up to stats cap by hand, figuring out the game mechanics etc... But I felt like the game could be optimized and made harder, with more QoL features and Pokemon reworks like you could see in Drayano hacks. 2.0 Patch Notes (STILL UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT): FYI: Explorers of Alpha has a Twitter where I post updates from time to time ! Follow @EoA_off on Twitter if you wish to see more updates on Alpha ! SkyTemple's Discord is the PMD Discord I'm active on, so don't hesitate to hang out here for informations about my work too ! I know it's been a while I haven't shown anything here about the new Explorers of Alpha version. Supposedly 1.3 before, the amount of implemented stuff convinced me in changing the naming for 2.0 (a kind of Explorers of Alpha: Platinum Version if you want). No ETA, I'm having issues with my life but still slowly working on my new update ! However, because I know there are people thinking this project is dead, I will post patch notes about Explorers of Alpha 2.0 down below. Without further ado, let's get started. I'm not mentioning bug fixes for now, it's not needed and the patch notes are already full of things to read lol I may have forgotten some stuff because the next update is full of things I've implemented in Alpha... But I hope you are hyped for the next update. Just remember there's no ETA, but it should be out by June (I think) 1.2 Patch Notes: 1.1 Patch Notes: 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Patch Notes: Here are the features this game has so far Global dungeon related features: - you can now change leader after graduation in a large majority of dungeons - an increased spawn rate: in base games, an enemy spawns every 36 turns and a Kecleon spawns every 3 turns. Now an enemy spawns every 5 turns and a Kecleon spawns every turn. - as a result you will have to face more enemies and use more moves: moves PP and move Accuracy have been increased for a large majority of them, some other deserved nerfs like Imprison or Teleport being great all around moves. - along with Accuracy and PP fixes come what I'd call "AI Fixes" of Blizzard, Powder Snow and Ice Shard, not being handled correctly by the AI - moves are updated so they behave like in Rescue Team DX or Super Mystery Dungeon in terms of range (Light Screen benefits to the whole team, Air Slash is a line of sight move) - Gen 6+ Steel-Type - recruitment rate is higher in dungeons - post-credits Kecleon shops now feature all evolutionary items, including Sun Ribbon and Sun Stone - Shiny System: now some gender-exclusive pokemon have a shiny form, working in a similar way as Strong Foes in RTDX during early main dungeons. Way stronger than normal, they have a low spawn rate and a very low recruitment rate, which as a result gives you 1/4000 chance to recruit a shiny without any recruitment boost applied Pokemon related features: - Pokemon having an hidden ability already present in Gen 4 now have this ability in some way. This include Drought Ninetales for instance, but doesn't include Unburden Sceptile for Balancing reasons - gender dependant abilities - Pokemon having a mega now have their mega typing (Normal/Fighting Lopunny or Grass/Dragon Sceptile). Other pokemons deserving a better typing are changed aswell, following some of Drayano hacks changes (Electric/Dark Luxray for instance) - a large majority of Pokemons now have a moveset according to their Gen 8 movesets. It includes (but isn't limited to) Close Combat Lopunny, Brave Bird Ho-oh or Earth Power Venusaur. Other Pokemon having their types changed now learn stab moves more frequently (like Dragon Pulse Charizard as Level-up) or even learn new moves (like Bug Buzz Flygon) - new TMs: Icy Wind, Fire Punch, ThunderPunch, Ice Punch, AncientPower, Aqua Tail, Earth Power, Gunk Shot, Heat Wave, Iron Head (1.2.1), Outrage, Seed Bomb (1.2.1), Signal Beam (1.2.1), Superpower (1.2.1), Zen Headbutt (1.2.1), Super Fang, Helping Hand, Hyper Voice, Low Kick, Megahorn, Close Combat, Aura Sphere, and Power Whip. Note that only a few are available in 1.2.0, but all will be available in 1.2.1 with a new NPC - egg moves are now part of level up moves - pokemon have a better stats curve/better base stats, so they are easier to grind for endgame dungeons (still need to implement stats curve for a large majority of final evolutions tho). That means as the game goes, pokemon are better all-around. - experience buffs to some final evolved mons, to stick with the global level curve of the hack - legendary Pokemon now have a shiny form with other abilities and better stats QoL features: - you start the game with a 48-Sized bag and 1000 slots in Storage - your starting bag has a plethora of useful items - GtI experience share, giving Standby Pokemon 50% the exp gain you get in dungeon (credits go to Irdkwia) - Move Shortcuts, Disable Tips and Same Type Partner patches are included in this hack - Beach Cave now allows the player to farm useful supplies quickly and easily, in order to prepare yourself for Scenario dungeons - IQ gains are increased: Wonder Gummi gives +50 IQ, same type Gummies give +25, favored type Gummies give +16, neutral type Gummies give +9, unfavored type gummies give +4, Nectar gives +25 - Dojo Dungeons have a high replay ability, permiting an easier gummi farm for Type-Exclusive Mazes, and an easier vitamins farm for Final Maze - though Mazes are restricted to one visit per day before you beat the game. The purpose of this change is mainly because of Gummies being present in here, virtually allowing a quick and infinite Stat boosts farm - Juice Bar animation has been cut - an Experience farming dungeon is unlocked after beating the full game (not Dialga mind you). You can grind your team here, as well as farming gummies and Reviver Seeds in the second floor - you have an higher chance to have a Big Win in Spinda Café - Sentry Duty rewards are more generous - Kangaskhan Rocks are replaced by Porygon2 in dungeons, having more options for the player - IQ Groups have been reworked: Lava Evader and Course Checker are replaced by Multitalent and Gap Prober for every IQ group. IQ Groups already having these skills now have other skills, PP Saver or Erratic Player for example - a new IQ Group: Group S. This group has an unique combination of IQ Skills and is exclusive to shiny legendaries and some other specific species - Mission ranking now follows the real difficulty of the game. Mission rewards are now more relevant for harder missions. - Kecleon Supply shop now offers better items at the end of the game - Surrounded Sea have 2 Blue Gummies in first visit (yes, it's a QoL feature lol) - you can now recruit Shiny Celebi and Purple Kecleon Gameplay related features: In order to offer a better experience to the player, this game proposes hard-but-fair challenges: - Complete Team Control Patch from Cipnit, you can now control the whole team, permiting new strategies and combinations. You can toggle on and off full team control by pressing Start at the beginning of a turn - allies can now trigger traps - dungeon have new gimmicks (weather oriented dungeons, debuffing enemies, PP consuming dungeons, etc...) - in these dungeons, some floors have Reviver Seeds guaranteed to spawn (Quicksand Pit B10F for instance) - dungeon partners are more reliable (Cresselia is no longer a burden lol) - some dungeons now have a completely revamped spawn table according to a specific "property" of the species in it (typing, IQ Group, abilities, starter exclusive dungeon, sudo exclusive dungeon, etc...) - dungeons now have increased IQ enemies (expect 330 IQ enemies after Chasm Cave) - Burn damage now occurs every 10 turns - Intimidator IQ Skill now activates 24% of the time instead of 32% of the time - you can no longer stall bosses: you have a low number of turns required to beat a boss (50 Turns for Spiritomb, 30 for Dialga) - bosses are made harder and also have new gimmicks - Aegis Cave puzzle has been removed - new quests and endgame challenges - speed related effects last earlier, it does include Slow Start - level curve adapted to the fact you gain more exp. Expect yourself to be level 100 by the end of the story! - an anti-cheat was added: you can no longer use Type-Exclusive gems in story dungeons. If you try to bring them to a dungeon, they'll be removed from your inventory before post-Dialga, and removed from your bag during story missions - along with that, you can no longer enter Wonder Mail S from the main menu. If you try to generate basic missions for first floors in order to have free Exploration Points, it'll not work anymore. You can't generate missions targeting the first floor of a dungeon too. - some dungeons have more floors, it includes Seven Treasures dungeons, Surrounded/Miracle Sea, and Spacial Rift Depths - Zero Isle has been made harder (North doesn't allow rescues and items when entering it, South scales up to level 45, Center expects you to beat it in one blow with IQ Skills disabled) - Destiny Tower is now SPMD one, allows recruiting and has unique species in it Screenshots: Title screens were changed so they use HGSS' Mystri Stage cutscene images UI has been revamped: it's now constant dark mode This hack features Item Icons like in SPMD (patch made by me) Here's a screen showing other QoL features More diverse recruitment tables, along with recruitment enabled in a large majority of dungeons, and even new species recruitable! New dungeons, and even more boss battles/gimmicks Speaking of bosses, here are screenshots of harder boss fights In order to make the game harder, some bosses were changed New events showcase, including new boss fights Bosses are now indefinitely repeatable, and now give better rewards New exclusive items for new Pokemon, along with Arceus exclusive items New TMs, with flavor text. Here are 4 examples Shiny System and more! As of 1.2.0, here are the main "issues" you can expect: - Arceus still has the dummy sprite - Rotom-Forms have Rotom sprite, though portraits, stats, movesets and typings are implemented - You can't enter Spacial Rift from Crossroads with more than 24 items - Some TMs may have incorrect compatibilities/some compatibilities missing, don't hesitate to DM me on Discord so I can correct these moveset errors on further releases - 1.0 and 1.1 Saves may have some pokemon reverted to Shiny in 1.2 - I haven't uploaded any documentation yet Here's the to do list: - adding Arceus and Rotom forms sprites (since I'm not a spriter, it doesn't depend of me) - for 1.3: finish new TMs compatibility, add the reward intended for Special Episode 5 completion, improve the Dojo anti-abuse check, custom move effects, custom moves such as Shell Smash, and move fixes like Gen 5+ Tail Glow - documentation Special thanks: The most important part of this post for me! Because this project wouldn't have made this far without them! - Parakoopa: he's SkyTemple developer and always here to help when it's necessary for me. The community around SkyTemple is so kind and so cheerful that I couldn't thank him enough for that. Here's the link of SkyTemple Discord. - PsyCommando: one of the very first to research and investigate PMD Sky in this post. His tool gfxcrunch helped me with sprite editing in the early days. - UsernameFodder: the author of this Google Doc where you can find a useful list of IDs by index for quite everything, from Item IDs to Dungeon IDs. A great help when scripting! - Audino: he programmed SpriteBot featuring a more than never easy way to import sprites in a PMD Sky Rom - gromcrunch for Tilesets - Fable_Amare for Arceus portrait and Rotom Forms portrait. Make sure to check their work! - Lumi for Grovyle's asset Lasts but no least: - Cipnit/Jirt: The one who made this Complete Team Control Hack - techticks: worked on an ASM Editor which works similar to softs like algobox. It still lacks a lot of structures, but for now the UI itself is huge to build at least 80% of Gen V+ move effects along with eos-move-effects project examples - Irdkwia: he helped the community a real lot recently with his research. Fixed Room, Mission Ranking, Treasure Town Shops and a plethora of sprite assets are editable thanks to him. GtI experience system and future custom move effects ASM hack are by him. - End45: this man is cracked. Without him, half of this hack features wouldn't be possible. I'll list all the help he provided to me: IQ Gain table editing, Type Table editing, IQ Groups editing, Doom Desire move effect, exclusive items editing, control patches, and even more! Always knowledgeable, and always reseaching a ton of stuff, helping others to succeed in their own research, I think we can't thank him enough for all the stuff he's doing for the community The xdelta patch is found here (last update: 2/22/2021): PMD Explorers of Alpha 12.xdelta. You need to patch an US Explorers of Sky Rom in order to make it work. This hack is expected to be played on an emulator so I'm clueless about playing it on real hardware (it seems to work on real hardware from what I've heard). Don't hesitate to join SkyTemple Discord if you want to ask me for help or report any bug (Discord Tag: Solace?#7229 or Mond#3823), however even with my Discord tag, I highly recommand you to join SkyTemple Discord since I'm mostly active here

Hello! I'd like to showcase my first ever ROM hack - A slight difficulty and quality of life hack for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky. My main goal with this hack is to introduce quality of life changes, new dungeon variety, new Pokémon spawn lists all while making the original game harder! (But not Kaizo hard) I am also trying to steer away from unnecessary dialogue additions and anything that could take away from a player's experience or ruin immersion. While not directly influenced by Drayano or his hacks, this ROM hack shares similarities in the way Drayano approaches hacks, keeping the original game vanilla and building onto it's gameplay systems all while slightly increasing difficulty. Exact specifications of what has and will be changed will be included with every version I release with previous changes always archived in each and every changelog as there already is way to much for me to include as is without keeping this post short and simple. The hack is fully completed in terms of revamping every dungeon and improving the base game, but additional features are to be added in the future. Trailers: Special features include: - Arceus is now in the game! Recruit the Alpha Pokemon at the top of Destiny Tower! - Exp. Points are now distributed to the entire team -- including off-roster team members! (Like in Gates to Infinity and Super!) - You can now select whatever starter you want if you don't like your Personality Quiz result! (Like in Super!) - Complete Team Control, You can manually control your partner and team members turns in dungeon! - New postgame events! -- Revisit the Future after recruiting Dialga, Explore a new Ruin dungeon after defeating Regigigas, visit new unique Far Away dungeons after recruiting Palkia or explore the Magnagate after collecting all Seven Treasures! - New moves! Unused moves like Spin Slash and Excavate are back in the game! - Fairy Type moves with custom move animations: - Sweet Kiss, Charm, Moonlight, Dazzling Gleam, Disarming Voice, Fairy Wind, Play Rough, Draining Kiss, Moonblast, Crafty Shield, Baby-Doll Eyes and more! - Moves from future generations too: - Petal Blizzard, Bulldoze, High Horsepower and more! - Fairy Type, with Fairy Type gummis in game too! - Sylveon! - Custom Frames! - Revisitable Future -- with recruitable shiny Celebi! - The weather trio now have their exclusive moves, Precipice Blades, Dragon Ascent and Origin Pulse! - The Luxio Tribe is back from Time/Darkness, fully replacing the Manectric gang. (Complete with a Luxray Clear Mark icon.) - New dungeons! Explore the all new Metal Crag, Magic Alcove, Avian Terrene, Drake Fjord, Poison Bog and Battle Hill! - All starter evolutions now have overworld sleeping sprites for the postgame (Including gender differences!). - All new spawnlists, revamped difficulty, and a whole new way to play the game! - Some dungeons now have certain gimmicks, EX: Drenched Bluff has a dangerous 6th floor, Waterfall Cave is always rainy and max darkness, there's no food in the Northern Desert, etc. - Alolan Vulpix has replaced normal Vulpix as a starter/partner - A quick tunnel from Sharpedo Bluff to Crossroads - Espurr is now a partner Pokemon! - Chikorita isn't useless now! - Completely reworked Marowak Dojo system! - All Starters and Partners have reworked level up movepools, and will always have access to a powerful STAB move at level 50. Some starters/partners have had ability reworks like Eevee having Anticipation instead of Run Away, Skitty having Scrappy instead of Normalize, and Riolu having Own Tempo instead of Inner Focus! - Quality of Life improvements. Tired of all those tips trying to help you out? Say no more, they're all disabled thanks to DisableTips. Want to hold the L button and use one of your four moves without opening the move menu? Move Shortcuts has got you covered! Ever wanted to have a partner that matches your type? SameType Partner allows you to do just that! Tired of watching and suffering through Spinda's Café animation every time you want to make a drink? I removed it! Tired of Far-Off Pals taking too long to play out? It's quicker now! Kangaskhan Rocks in the Marowak Dojo Hub and Spinda Cafe! - Revamped Item values - Vitamins, Joy Seeds and Ginsengs now rarely appear in the Kecleon Shop - Revamped Rank-Up rewards! - All Evolution Items now have an equal chance to spawn in the Kecleon Wares Shop - Xatu now unboxes faster! -Optional dungeons are automatically unlocked after graduating! - Seven Treasure dungeons are unlocked after Dark Crater! - Aegis Cave is no longer full of unnecessary unowns! - Mt. Blaze and Mt. Thunder are back in the game! Along with Zapdos and Moltres boss fights! - Region Variants! (Note that these new varients DO NOT replace the original games Pokémon, normal Vulpix/Ninetales are still in the game, just no longer a starter/partner.) - Zero Isles now have rare evolution items at the end of the dungeon to reward players for exploring them! - Destiny Tower now allows recruiting, has had it's grudge traps removed, and has had wonder tiles added into upper floors. - All dungeons have been revamped! Special Thanks: *** Thank you to End45 for creating the Move Shortcuts, DisableTips, and SameType Partner patches. *** Thank you to Irdkwia for creating the ChangeMoveStatDisplay, ChangeEvoSystem, ExpandPokeList, Exp. Share, Fairy Type, and Choose Starter patches. Thank you for also working on Move Shortcuts. *** Thank you to Cipnit for creating the Complete Team Control patch. *** Thank you to NeroIntruder for creating Espurr, Meowstic (Male and Female), and Alolan Ninetails portraits/sprites. *** Thank you to DunkinDo for creating Arceus sprites, Galar Corsola sprites, Cursola sprites and my commissioned Regidrago/Regieleki sprites. *** Thank you to CamusZekeSirius for creating Regidrago and Regieleki sprites. *** Thank you to Davilos for creating Arceus portraits. *** Thank you to Emmuffin for creating Sylveon and galarian Corsola portraits. *** Thank you to EZERART for creating Cursola's portrait. *** Thank you to MonochromeKirby for creating Victini's sprites and portraits. *** Thank you to whoever created Sylveon's sprites, I'm unable to find whoever originally submitted it. *** Thank you tofor creating art and a menu background featuring Silveon, Espurr and Alolan Ninetales! Massive thank you to my Discord community for feeding me ideas, suggestions, advice and inspiration to keep working this hard! Thank you to the reader for reading all of this and mayhaps even playing my take on the game! Here's a hyperlink to my Discord where you can report any issues, suggestions, or problems with the game and talk directly to me. We also have a channel with instructions on how to patch and what you will need (We do NOT distribute ROMS): v v v v v v v >>>>>> My Discord <<<<<< ^^^^^^^^ PLEASE DO NOT USE SAVE STATES, IF YOU USE SAVE STATES THOSE SAVES WILL NOT BE COMPATIBLE WITH ANY FUTURE RELEASES/PATCHES. SAVE WITH THE IN-GAME SYSTEM IF YOUR EMULATOR SUPPORTS IT. Downloads: Version 1.17.1 (12/11/2021) Explorers of Skies Patch (V1.17.1).xdelta Changelogs contain ALL changes made, and documents the newest changes as well. Version 1.17 Changelog ChangelogV1.17.txt There are multiple versions of Explorers of Sky, this Hack uses a specific one, you can read more below. Instructions on how to patch Patching Skies for Dummies.txt (You can also get help through my Discord with the link above) Known Issues: Dungeons that reset the player to Level 1 don't restore when being defeated -- This can be fixed by using Chimecho's Assembly. Screenshots/Pictures: New Dungeons:

Hello everyone! I just uploaded some Pokemon DS rom hacking tutorial vids and wanted to post them here in case they help anyone out. They are definitely not high level stuff, mostly a showcase of how to use tools like Tinke, Kiwi, PokeDS/Pis, DS Text Editor, and PPRE for trainer editing. So more of a "rom hacking for dummies" kind of guide. Topics Discussed: Intro: Things to Know Before You Begin Pt 1: Overworld Sprites (including the elusive HM summon sprite) Pt 2: Trainer Front/Back sprites and VS faces before a gym battle Pt 2.5: Easier Editing w/ RECN Files (Aka: NCER) Pt 3: Pokemon Sprites Pt 3.5: Advance Pokemon Edits Pt 3.75: Gen IV Sprite Editor Pt 4: Text Editing w/ DSPRE Pt 5: Opening, Intro, Ending locations Pt 6: Trainer Editing w/ DSPRE Pt 7: Pokemon Icons Pt 7.5: Pokemon Icon Pallets Pt 8: How to use Photoshop and Graphic Gale Pt 9: Diamond/Pearl Battle Sprites Pt 10: Trainer Cards (Both Gen 4 and 5) Pt 11: HG SS Pokemon Follow Overworld Sprites Pt 12: 3D BMD0 Overworld Cutscene Trainer Sprites Pt 13: Pokemon Cries to Pretty Much Anything Pt 14: Quick Color Changes with Console Tool Pt 15: Wild Pokemon Editing w/ Advance DSPRE Tips Map Editing series: Pt 1: Make Your First Map with PDSMS Pt 1.5: Making maps with PDSMS 2.2 Pt 2: How to Import Custom Maps Pt 2.5: Reshaping a World (Matrix Editing) Pt 3: Adding Buildings to Maps with PDSMS Pt 4: How to Make Warps Scripting series: Pt 1: Walking you through my first script! Pt 1.5: Updating My Example Script for Any DSPRE Version If you have any questions, leaving a youtube comment would be a much faster way to reach me.

Hey! This is a small project a friend of mine and I started in order to bring PMD:EoS to our native language! As you might know, the situation for portuguese fans of Nintendo's work is very bad, specially worse on Brazil. Besides not getting ANY translation support from Nintendo's games, here in Brazil they straight up didn't even existed until recently: everything was imported - thus out of reach to most families. Besides maybe the wii and SNES, I don't think anything else from them is popular around here (of course, I mean on physical form. Emulators are famous, obviously). Anyhow, by February 6th 2021, we've translated the first chapter, the personality quiz fully, and working on menus and chapters 2 and 3. We plan on putting on a demo out soon! June 21th 2022 => 7th chapter done. If you are willing to help, please do contact me. The newest patch => patch_2022-07-21.xdelta If you want to know how it's going or if you find any issues such as misspelling, don't feel scared to talk to us on discord! We are on skytemple's server, and my tag is dede6giu#4634.

Hello there, everyone. Recently I've thought of making Pokémon Scarlet much better with such things like level scaling for Gym Leaders and Team Star members, all major foes like Nemona and the Gym Leaders use items in their teams, Nemona and Geeta's champion teams are much better, and so much more. This will essentially be Pokémon Scarlet: Hard Mode, and I just thought of a title for this brand new project: Pokémon Scarlet Souls. As for this brand new rom hack of one of the brand new games, this will be like Drayano's rom hacks of many Pokémon games, notable being FireRed Omega, Renegade Platinum, and the Blaze Black/Volt White duology. Kinda. The difficulty of his rom hacks come from high IVs, competitive movesets and held items. Meanwhile for my rom hack, it's just a bit smart AI, held items and, if they have at that level, competitive moves. The things I would also add are: * 200 TMs, each can be used infinitely. Notable changes is TM153 being Blaze Kick, TM154 being Scald, and TM155 being Power Whip. In addition after rematching, Gym Leaders give away stronger TMs, like Brassius gives Trailblaze for first defeat and Power Whip for rematch. * Renovation of the wild Pokémon list in each area, similar to Rising Ruby and Sinking Sapphire, a work-in-progress Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire rom hack (also by Drayano). * Some Pokémon get new Abilities. For example, the Wattrel line has Volt Absorb replaced with Motor Drive. The Qwilfish-Hisui line's Swift Swim is replaced by Merciless, and Typhlosion-Hisui has Cursed Body as its new Hidden Ability. * Updated evolution methods. For example, Finizen just needs Level 38 to evolve into a Palafin. Stantler and Qwilfish-Hisui need to know the needed move (Psyshield Bash and Barb Barrage, respectively) to evolve. * Moveset overhauls. For example, Magikarp now needs Level 5 to learn Tackle and Level 15 to learn Flail. The availability of Jet Punch, Volt Tackle and Zing Zap is also increased. * Move overhauls. For example, Jet Punch is now a confusion-based clone of the elemental punches. Spin Out has 130 BP and 90% accuracy like it deserves. * New moves. Examples include: Roadrunner, a Ground-type Flame Charge clone; Soul Shot, a physical Ghost-type move that can cause paralysis; and High-Speed Dive, a physical Flying-type move that can cause flinch but has a 5% chance to miss. Most moves can be learnt in most of the new TMs, the other rest can be learnt by level-up. * New items, such as the Hisuian Fragment, an item which - when held by a Pokémon with a Hisuian form or evolution like Dartrix and Ursaring - will automatically evolve into the new Hisuian form or evolution. However, I really need help for developers and other members of the Pokémon Scarlet Souls project. If you please discuss here on Project Pokémon.

Hi all, I am a IT student and I am currently trying to reverse engineer the inner working of the Gen IV Distribution ROM. I already figured out the basics but... Right now, I am facing an issue with the way data is encrypted. I already know of tools such as WC4PCD or PokeGen, PokeHex... but I am trying to understand and create my own program to decrypt and reencrypt all by myself. So I am asking if any one here as any leads or straight up know what encryption algorithm is used. I obviously did some research but no luck yet. (Chat GPT told me to XOR the file but idk what key to use). Thanks in advance, and my apologies if I made any english mistake

Hello Guys, Sorry if this has been asnwered to from a different post. I have started editing Ultra Sun and when I started rebuilding .3DS file i kept getting a fault. I have narrowed it down to when I replace typing of the pokemon or adjusting there stats. Anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks

Hello! I have finished making my first pokemon rom. Its just a rom that changes the encounters of some pokemon and make the gym leaders WAY more difficult. Its supposed to be a little like pokemon emerald kaizo but for the people who want it ALOT easier but still a challenge. Let me know if there are any bugs or anything you want me to add. Heres the download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/571j4upz521jxk1/Pokemon_Crystal_Emerald.ips/file V1.1 is here! https://www.mediafire.com/file/qia2ceslmatypmy/Pokemon_Crystal_Emerald_v1.1.ips/file Just fixed a few bugs an put in a 100% not important house in ever grande city

So as a preface - I've been playing though a modded version of Explorers of Sky with a custom pokemon. It's worked all fine up until the mentioned cutscene, where the game just stops working and remains on a black screen after the "Chapter 12" image disappears. I originally searched if anyone had encountered anything similar and a person had encountered the same issue playing as a Palkia - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/955859-pokemon-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky/answers/578081-the-game-crash-after-mesprit-battle-whats-causing-this I did have a few AR codes enabled so thought it was that, but decided to do a little more digging - debugging in SkyTemple. Using a completely untouched EoS ROM, I encountered the same crash without any AR tampering when using both Palkia and Dialga. It also occured when I imported my custom sprites to replace bulbasaur's sprites so I assume it must be something to do with sprites. All other pokemon I've tried worked just fine(Gallade, Giratina(both forms), steelix, darkrai, diglett). For the script itself: It's Scene G01P04A with script m14a0901. Debugging that exact script has it no longer step through the code after supervision_Actors(3) is called at the beginning. I'm not too familiar yet with the debugging of Skytemple or if there's any way to validate the sprites in some way to know what exactly is causing the problem. The fact that it exists in the base game is useful as it means it's easy to replicate, but if anyone has any idea why the scene crashes if a player or companion actor in that scene is dialga or palkia then I'd like to know. Not knowing how to fix my custom sprites is annoying. EDIT/UPDATE: I found that removing one of the supervision_Actor calls lets the scene run properly. Would it be due to too many sprites or something? Looking at the debug log output after the supervision_Acting starts to get called: Below is the whole process, when it works correctly. Nothing seems different with the logs outputted at the very least

Hi! I was looking online, but i couldn't find anything, so, does anyone have a pokemon red or blue save file with missingno on it? i'd do it on my own. but i'm really lazy.

Hi, I'm currently hacking Pokemon Omega Ruby, and I went through most of the game's files, but I couldn't find anything with Team Magma's logo (the one that appears in battle). I just want to know where in the game's files it is. Thanks!

So i am making this quick guide on how to edit the type effectiveness chart in Black and White 1 (yes this only works in the the first games and not B2W2) The reason i am making this, is that i saw see alot of guides on how to change the types chart in BW2 but not on the first games, it took finding some deep burried post to find it and it wasn't exactly clear either. So here is a list of what you will need. BRZ decompression tool CrystalTile2 A rom of Black or White 1 Ok so starting off you want a to open a ROM of black or white to in crystal tile 2 and press CTRL+N to open up the overlays, Find overlay_0093.bin And RIGHT CLICK and press extract (wherer you can find it) Now that you have extracted it Open BRZ decompression tools Link to BLZ https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/826/ Here is a link to CrystalTile 2 https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/818/ Open BLZ via Windows command line or CMD, by opening CMD and dragging the BLZ.exe onto the cmd, Then Write "-d " after the text, of the directory Location. The inserted BLZ file so it should look like ">"C:\Users\Users PC\Desktop\(your directory file)\blz.exe" in your command line. Depending on where you have your BLZ.exe stored. Now that you have written "-d" after the directory location of BLZ, also drag and drop (or manually write) the directory of your OVERLAY_0093.bin file so in the end it should look something like this "C:\Users\(your username)\Desktop\Roms and pokemon related\blz.exe" -d "C:\Users\(your username) \Desktop\Roms and pokemon related\overlay9_0093" press enter and it should say "file decompressed" or something like that and it should say "done" Open the now decompressed overlay_0093.bin file in any hed editor of your choice and you should see a bunch of numbers (duh) Now for the editing part, the type chart is on a 17x17 Grid starting at offset 3A37C with normal type attacking normal and ending at 3A49C dark attacking dark. The type effectiveness is distributed by 3 different values. 00 meaning a type takes 0 damage and its immune, 02 meaning the attacker deals half damage or "Not very effective", 04 meaning its a normal effectiveness, its neutral and 08 meaning the attack is super effective. So 00 = immune. 02 = not very effective. 04 = neutral effectiveness. 08 = super effective i have provided 1 file with the distribution of the types inline with the hex offsets, so that you can just adjust the types you want then copy and paste the grid into the starting offset and the ending offset of the type chart. also here are the type chart offsets for each type, and each type takes exactly 17 slots for its attacking line (horizontal) and 17 for its defending line (vertical) These offsets covers the first type a type attacks (first offset) to the last type it attacks on the grid (the last offset) 1 Normal types hex offset: 3A37C-3A38C 2 Figthing Types hex offset:3A38D-3A39D 3 Flying types Hex offset:3A39E-3A3AE 4 Poison types offset: 3A3AF-3A3BF 5 Ground offset: 3A3C0-3A3D0 6 Rock offset: 3A3D1-3A3E1 7 Bug offset: 3A3E2-3A3F2 8 Ghost offset: 3A3F3-3A403 9 Steel offset: 3A404-3A414 10 fire offset: 3A415-3A425 11 Water offset: 3A426-3A436 12 Grass types HEX offset: 3A437-3A447 13TYPE_ELEC = 3A448-3A458 14 TYPE_PSY = 3A459-3A469 15 TYPE_ICE = 3A46A-3A47A 16 TYPE_DRAGON = 3A47B-3A48B 17 TYPE_DARK = 3A48C-3A49C Once you are done editing your OVERLAY_0093.bin file in any hex editor of your choice. Take it back to the same CMD process as we did before. Insert the BRZ file gain into the CMD, but this time instead of writing -d write -en to encode the overlay0093.bin file, you do the exact same thing of drag and dropping BRZ then writing the -en command and then drag and drop the edited overlay0093.bin file. Now that you are finished encoding the edited file, open crystaltile 2, open the black/white rom press CTRL+N again Find overlay 0093.bin inside CRYSTALTILE2 again and then right click on it and press import, now import the edited 0093 overlay file to replace the non edited file. and tada it should be done. Quick reminder black and white overlay_0093.bin files are not useable between these two games so if you use the overlay of one game to another you will probably crash. Type chart info 2.docx

Official Help/Small Questions Thread for DPP! In effort to help reduce clutter and the many threads asking small questions, this thread has been created. Forgot where to go next on Route 212? Lost on Mt. Coronet? Wondering why Shaymin won't change forms? Any of your small questions can be answered here. Well, almost. Threads that may answer your questions: EV Training Questions/Hep Here Team Building Questions/Help Here Smogon Rule Discussion Common Rules of Battling Basically, do you have a question that can inspire discussion? If so, post a thread (if one hasn't already been made). If it's game help or general questions about the 4th gen, then post here. Hopefully this will reduce clutter in the forum.

I’m trying to make a custom sprite for the Pokémon black 2 and white 2 male protagonist for my first step into the ROMhack scene, and I have no idea what I’m doing. The first step would be to make edits of the sprite and then replace them in the file location and make sure the game reads them correctly, but I have no idea how to do that. Any guidance on where to go to learn more or any general advice is welcomed, I’m as new to this as it gets.

I've played a few Soul Link's so far and every time I start my play session for the day it's always kind of an annoying process. Loading up 2 separate emulators, 2 roms, having to rekeybind the controllers every time. I was wondering if someone would be able to make a program that could make it easier. If your unfimiliar with a Soul Link Nuzlocke, heres the rules. 1- Any Pokémon that faints is considered "dead," and must be released or stored in a specified PC box for "dead" Pokémon. 2- You can only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area, and none else. If the first Pokémon encountered faints or flees, there are no second chances. 3- You must also nickname all of your Pokémon, for the sake of forming "stronger emotional bonds." 4- In a new area, the first encounters for both players will be, "linked," together until death. 5- If one Pokémon in a linked pair is placed in the PC, it's Soul Link partner must be placed in the PC as well. 6- If one Pokémon in a linked pair dies, it's Soul Link partner is considered dead as well. 7- If one player fails to capture their first encounter in an area, the second player must forfeit their encounter in their corresponding area. 8- Across both players parties, primary typings may not be repeated. Basically what I'm looking for is a program that emulates 2 roms side by side and be able to control them individually. I've thought of a few features to make it better. Features -Emulators from all consoles built in - Ex. VBA, Desmume, and Citra -Saves both roms under 1 "project" and loads them on the same side every time -Type Chart ready -Online Remote Play - Be able to join your friends session online to see and control one of the games. -Games connected locally so you can trade and battle -Database where you can input your linked pokemon pairs and where you caught them -Built in Pokedex Database (Not necessary but would be helpful) -Program reads both your teams and displays them between the game (I'm aware that's not an easy ask but if it's possible, why not) I feel like except for a couple of them this is a completely possible thing to create. I know it probably wont happen but I just thought I'd get the idea out there. I love doing Soul Links and I'm so happy people found a way to make Pokemon Co-op. Thanks for your time.

Hi all, This is my first post and I really need help. I started a Platinum playthrough on my computer which I enjoyed more than my original. As such, I want to transfer the data from DesMuMe to my original NDS cartridge using 3ds homebrew (Checkpoint). Although I'm fairly new to this type of stuff, I read a few guides and got the homebrew launching successfully,; however, something went wrong when I restored the new .sav on Checkpoint... Whenever I boot the game cart, all I can see is a black screen which lasts for about a minute before reloading the 3ds menu. I tried restoring the original .sav, but I still get the same crash. So here's my question: 1) Can my Pokemon Platinum cart be restored original functionality? How? 2) How do I transfer my DesMuMe save to the DS gamecart? All saves work on DesMuMe when I import them. I used the Export backup save function to convert the .dsv to .sav (RAW and NO$GBA), but I'm not sure if these files need formatting before restoring them to the original cart. Anyway, I'm more concerned that my Platinum is permanently broken... Please help me out.

Hey guys Im new here Ive just started a new adventure on a Omega Ruby Randomized Nuzlocke I edited myself. I just randomized trainers pokemon, wild pokemon and gift pokemon. The thing is I allowed Mega Evos to show up in the wild and for my surprise I catched a Mega Altaria lvl 5. After a few hours of playing Mega Altaria went back to its original form of Altaria and I dont know the reason nor the way to fix it. The whole point was that the Mega Forms you catch were always gona be Megas.. Let me know if someone happens to encounter the same issue or someone knows how to fix it. I would really appreciate. Thanks in advance.

i have come back to rom hacking after years away i decided to try nds and it is hard i am looking for someone to help and show me how to change a few things please help things i need help with: professor oak giving national dex instead of normal adding legendary events/and eon tickets etc... to the rom changing the starter pokemon text cyndaquil totodile chikorita to the kanto starters names

Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong section, wasn't sure where to put this since I'm new here. Does anyone have the Vblank patch for Japanese Emerald, and if it exists, a FireRed version? On max settings FR is only running at about 1600% (turbo, 1000% speed, highest process priority, skip 2 frames, frames advancing in a battle) I have the regular English version, which I'm grateful for and has helped immensely, just hoping if its available in the versions I mentioned above. Thank you.

What is the preferred way to extract the ROM for Super Mystery Dungeon? I've previously ripped it through Godmode but I always get an error about missing paths when it comes to building the ROM. So I'm wondering if I need to extract it a certain way like I did for a recent model ripping tutorial I was following for Ultra Sun. Does it need to be decrypted just extracted? Left as a .3DS or a .cia? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I know this may sound stupid, but I know nothing about editing a ROM. I want to edit Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky to make the player character (Eevee) shiny, along with the evolutions, but I just don't know how. I found a tool on here by this guy named Psy_Commando, but I have no idea how to use it, or if it can edit the sprites to make them shiny. Can somebody please give me a step-by-step guide on how to do this, along with alternative tools if necessary? Thanks!

Hey guys So I've seen a couple threads asking how to replace the musics in Pokemon XY(I even posted one myself but remained silent) I am now starting this thread to show you how to replace the musics in XY ! (I checked there wasn't any tutorials on that) Big thank you to PlatinumMaster and his friend record reader who were the first to do it and to show me how it's done (the tutorial was written with permission) I wrote it on GBAtemp and Pokecommunity, and I thought that there were maybe people only monitoring Projectpokemon and are looking to know how, so here is the link to the tutorial https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-how-to-put-custom-songs-in-xy-finally.519941/ Enjoy and if it worked/didn't worked comment down

As an example, if I wanted a Nidoking in SoulSilver in my party by hacking, how could I do that??

I need a Pokemon x and y game they work and a main file to it please help