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Howdy! I'm new to ROM Hacking and this forum in general, I'm in the process of making two Gen V Hacks. I have tools for encounters, trainers, text, even sprite stuff. But I want to know if there's tools for Gen V where can I add Static Pokemon (and adding custom trainers since I'm not sure if I can do that in my trainer editor) Thanks so much for the help.

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 hex 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

I was trying to replay my Pokemon Black to try maximize my trainer card levels... I know all the requirements: 1. Defeating Ghetsis & Team Plasma, or maybe even get on hall of fame (done) 2. Extralink thingy (I used PKHex) 3. Collecting all musical props (done with PKHeX too) 4. Super single trains and super double trains both 49 wins, defeat Ingo and Emmet Respectively (done as below, but I didnt use any PKHex to win it) 5. Complete National Dex (I'm on my way collecting swarms pokemon for the next days) Yet my trainer card only shown Silver Card, which is 3/5 from max card upgrades. But as you guys can see, I have done 4 out of 5 tasks and supposedly get a gold trainer card. My Pokemon Black PKHeX and Trainer Card are shown below: On contrary, my Pokemon White (yes I replaying both games) get a gold trainer card with very similar tasks done (4 out of 5, just recently defeat Emmet on Super Double Trains). It did upgrade to Gold Trainer Card. This one is confusing me, what's wrong? Or any things that I just slipped and didnt do? Hope anyone can help (fyi the 56 wins streaks on my super single train is from my Pokemon Black, I just redid it 1 streak more to ensure the game didnt bugged my trainer card, but its useless.) My Pokemon White PKHeX and Trainer Card below:

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.

Ok. Long time no see. I had both a Pokemon Black and Pokemon White game saves on LEGITIMATE cartdriges that were 100% done (exept Legendaries), but I lost those save files when some sort of glitch occured. So my request is a Pokemon Black save file that has been saved at the Elite 4 (before Reshiram, so no HoF), the main character can be of any gender, name etc... since it can be changed via PkHex. However, Tornadus musn't be roaming yet, Zorua and Zoroark not triggered and no Legendaries caught. I found the perfect one for White on some file-sharing place, but there was none for Black... Just in case, is it possible to convert a White save to a Black save? I am asking this due to the Black City/White Forest glitches that occurs when you swap version save files... And the save file MUST be from an English version. Thanks!

Hey, Does somebody know how to change the shiny odds in Pokémon black and white?

Hello, I am currently working on a rom hack for pokemon black. One of the things I need to do is change the starter pokemon. I have searched this site and the internet for tools or hex editing tutorials to do this, to no avail. I do not care if it still says "snivy," "tepig," and "oshawott" in the selection screen. What I want to happen is if you pick the grass choice, you get chikorita, fire gives you cyndaquil, and water gives you totodile. Additionally, I want to make it so the dreamyard monkeys get replaced by the gen 1 starter of their respective types. Could anyone give me a rundown on how to do this?

Hi Everyone I have recently got into ROM Hacking and had a lot of fun playing with Wild Pokemon Levels, Trainer Pokemon Levels and tweaking difficulties etc. in Platinum. However the two main things I want to try and learn how to do are: 1). Change the levels of Legendary Pokemon - I cannot for the life of me find out how to change these, I have only managed to do Wild Pokemon so far. Basically I want to change a few levels in Platinum and slightly change their movepools: (eg. Regigigas to Lvl 70, The Regis to Lvl 40 atleast, Arceus to Lvl 100, Giratina to Lvl 50, Heatran to Lvl 70) This is to go with the increased level challenges I am giving myself (along with changing the Pkmn Evolutions to not require trading which I have already done successfully) 2). I have just finished playing through Black & White, and I was wondering if it is possible to make the version alternate Dragon (Zekrom in Black, Reshiram in White) appear in Dragon Spiral Tower in the Post-Game? I would set it to be captured at Lvl 70 so there is the option of catching both of the Yin & Yang Dragons. (I would do this in B2W2 as well at a later date when I finally play through that) This I imagine will be quite advanced, as I havent got that far into Map Editting etc. Would anyone be able to give me any tips in approaching these two ideas if possible please? Number 1 I have a funny feeling im missing something incredibly obvious, but number 2 should be a longer term project I will do over the coming weekends - Just looking for some guidance to see if it is possible and the best tools / tutorials to look at to achieve this Many thanks in advance! Monty

I don't know why, but every time I try to load this save file in pokemon black, all i get is a black screen. I have 40+ hours in this game and would really like to not have to restart at this point. Can anyone figure out how to make the save work and tell me what the issue is? Pokemon - Black Version (USA, Europe) (NDSi Enhanced).sav

Background About a month ago I ordered a DSi off of eBay (it was only $40). When I got it I noticed there was something strange on it: "PWC2010"? I never heard about there being DSiWare for Pokemon? I consulted with other people on the internet and it turns out nobody else has heard it either. I tried to message the seller, but he said that he has no idea either (most likely he bought them in bulk as he was selling a lot of other models at the time). The mystery was just starting, a group of individuals from the DS(i) homebrew scene started to get to the bottom of this (me being invited despite my lack of knowledge due to being the one who found it), here's what we were able to figure out: The Investigation Begins... The hardware The system itself is appears to be a normal black DSi, nothing about it is different from that of a stock model The casing has some minor scratches and such, and is missing the original stylus. On the front side where the camera is, there are two faded silhouettes of what look to be rectangular stickers The system was formatted when I got it and it didn't come with an SD card (this will become a problem later on) The Software The apps included are: Flipnote Studios, DSi + Internet, PWC2010 Rule Check Tool, PWC2010 Log Viewer, and PokemonBW2 Rule Check Tool. All of which were preinstalled to the NAND as there is no way to access "Data Mangement" to move them to a SD card. At first, the only app that would boot was Log Viewer as both of the Rule Check Tools would just crash and return back to the menu. It was later revealed the apps were looking for 3 files at the root of an SD card before being able to boot. Through observations we were able to get some insights on what each of the 3 mystery apps do: PWC2010 Rule Check Tool From what the name implies, this tool must have been used for the Pokemon World Championship (PWC) in 2010 The app looks for 3 file on the SD card: regulation.bin, regulation.cfg, and rule.prd. By making 3 dummy files full of garbage data and naming them as the files listed before, we were able to get it to boot, after which we were greeted with a lovely message: The weird thing is, Black and White were used for the 2011 PWC, not 2010. This could imply that the app was a carry over from a previous tool used the year before. Luckily, I just so happen to have a copy of Black. Putting in the correct cartridge displays the message "No problems found" and ask if you want to save the results. Through testing we were able to figure out how to get past this screen as it turns out "No problems found" also acts as a default message, if something does fail one of the checks it will display what the error was. It's possible to make it check both the party Pokemon and Pokemon in the Battle Box by editing regulation.cfg file. PWC2010 Log Viewer Log viewer shows the results saved from Rule Check, it shows the player's username and gives a technical description of each Pokemon in the party (stats, friendship, exp, moveset, etc.). By pressing "X" it will do the same thing but for the Battle Box instead. PokemonBW2 Rule Check Tool Exactly the same as PWC2010, expect looks for the Black2/White2 cartridge instead More Technical Details Looking into the game's files, we were able to extract the messages displayed by Rule Check: Rule Check Messages regulation.cfg is, as the name suggests, a config file. Through dumb luck I was able to figure out this much: Offset 0x00: checks party Offset 0x01: checks battlebox Offset 0x05: turns on cart access Offset 0x0C: save to livematch.dat These values have to be "turned on" meaning the value is set to '1' If offset 0x05 isn't turned on then it will say that the cart isn't inserted. If offset 0x00 or 0x01 aren't turned on but 0x05 is, then it will say that it passed all checks (probably the default message) The files saved from Rule Check and are viewed in Log Viewer are named "logTYYMMDD.dat" and "logBYYMMDD.dat" (YYMMDD is the date, so something like Oct. 31 2019 would be 191031). LogT is for the results from the party (T=Team?) and logB is from the Battle Box. Through great efforts, users Epicpkmn11 and edo9300 were both able to reverse-engineer these files before we were able to figure out how to save it: Google Sheets regulation.bin appears to handle simple checks like invalid number of Pokemon in party, level caps, and duplicate items/Pokemon rule.prd may be used for more advance checks like invalid movesets and banned Pokemon/items Conclusion As of right now, interest has been dying as people began shifting to their own personal projects. For the past 3 weeks nobody has found anything new and I'm left to try and figure it out on my own. The problem is I know very little about NDS development and how the Pokemon games work in a technical level, which is why I'm turning here for help. We still know very little about regulation.bin and rule.prd, which are believe to be two key factors in order to get Rule Check to work properly, and without the original SD card we are left in the dark. It's possible that rule.prd is somehow linked to the hex values found in Pokemon (movesets, lvls, type, etc.), but can't really determine where and what to look for We don't know how much is relied on the files or if certain checks are programmed Any insights, suggestions, resources, or tips are greatly accepted!

Anyone can help me? this happens when I try to use the relocator in pokemon black, the other cartridge is heart of gold

Hello, PP Just dropping a question to see if Gen 5 games will get more support such as functioning c-gear skins, PokeDex Skins, and dream world pokemon editing. Please do consider this as it will only benefit Gen 5 games. I'm playing through Black again so I thought I'd ask this question Thanks!

I keep forgetting to post this and I don't even have the time to test this out, but when hacking a ROM, if you set fully evolved Pokemon to evolve to themselves at level 100, would they then be considered "NFE" thereby making eviolites give them Def/SpDef boosts? I haven't done any ROM hacking/editing in a while, but I know you can change the way Pokemon evolve and choose what they evolve into. If someone can test this out, it should theoretically work on both Black/White(2) and XYORAS. Otherwise, I guess you could set them to evolve to a dummy 'mon (Mewtwo evolves to Caterpie at level 50). Let me know if this works for anyone

[video=youtube;7CCKERTzGJI] This is the format of the banlist: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 98 7E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D8 03 Notes: The banlist is 0-based and should be read in binary. Bit=0 means its corresponding Pokémon is allowed. Bit=1 means its corresponding Pokémon is banned. Formula to find whether a Pokémon is banned or not is P=(8×B)+b with: P (Pokémon) being a number between 0 and 649 included; B being the Byte number, counting from 0; b being the bit number from a given Byte, from 0 to 7 included read from right to left. The banlist is located at narc a/1/0/5 in BW, and narc a/1/0/6 in B2W2. Even though the banlist is the same between the facilities enforcing it, the banlist itself is technically not unique as you'll see below: Battle Subway and Battle Institute (All versions): Single Battle and Wi-Fi: file 20 Double Battle: file 21 Multi Battle: file 22 PWT (Black 2 and White 2 only): Single Battle: file 33 Double Battle: file 34 Triple Battle: file 35 Rotation Battle: file 36

It's been a loooong time, but finally, I've discovered how the BDHC files work. Please, if you are gonna copy this post in other site, give credits! First of all, I have to thank JayT, who discovered how is the file structured in different parts. Now, I'm gonna explain what does each part. Part P Sets the coordinates of certain points, used later to build rectangles or "plates" of different heights in the Part S. The structure of each element is the following one: 00 00 XX XX 00 00 YY YY XX XX are the coordinates in the X-axis, and YY YY the Y-axis ones. Keep in mind that the origin of coordinates is located at the midpoint of the map, not in a corner. This means that the lower right corner always use positive numbers, but the upper left corner instead must use negative numbers. Remember that FF FF = -1, FE FF = -2, FD FF = -3... The four tiles in the midpoint of the map are (FFFF, FFFF), (0000, FFFF), (FFFF, 0000) and (0000, 0000) respectively. Thus, the point of the upper left corner is: 00 00 F0 FF 00 00 F0 FF And the lower right corner: 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 Part Q It may be related to the stairs, but I need to investigate further. I've already solved this part, but I've still got to translate it to English Part R It sets the different heights where the hero can be in different rectangles or "plates". The structure of the elements of this part is: MM MM ZZ ZZ ZZ ZZ refers to the complete-tiles height, ie; for example if the character is at a neutral level, then ZZ ZZ = 00 00. If we climb some stairs and now we are in a height +1, then ZZ ZZ = FF FF (at higher height, instead of growing, it decreases) . If we were at a height +5, it would be FB FF. And if for example we were at -2; 02 00. MM MM measures, instead of full tiles, 65536-ths of tile. For not to talk complicated things; MM MM = 00 80 if the character is in a lake (it would be half a tile down, ie -0.5 tall) and MM MM = 00 00 if the character is anywhere else. For example, if we have: 00 80 FF FF it would mean: FF FF = Height +1 00 80 = Height -0.5 Total height = +0.5 Part S Link points of Part P to create the "plates" or rectangles, and assigns a height of an element of Part R. AA 00 BB 00 QQ 00 RR 00 AA is the number (in hex) of the Part P element where the point of the rectangle in the upper left corner is. Remember that the first element is 00, the second is 01, the third is 02... BB is the number (in hex) of the Part P element where the point of the rectangle in the lower right corner is. RR is the number (in hex) of the Part R element which establishes the height of the plate. If in Part P, for example, we have this: 00 00 F0 FF 00 00 F0 FF 00 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 And in the Part R we have: 00 00 FE 00 00 00 01 00 In the S part we have to write: 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 so we create a plate covering from (-16, -16) to (16, 16) (ie, the whole map) and setting a height in the Z axis +2. If instead out: 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 It would be the same as the previous one, but with a height of -1. Part T It divides the map in horizontal strips. Everything must be divided so if we move vertically (up or down) and thus we get in/out of a lake, stairs or similar, we must also be entering a new strip. It's hard to explain; the game can not detect when you enter an area with different height when you move vertically in the same strip (horizontally no problem) so you have to create a new separate strip. As I know it's hard to understand, here's a little picture: There is an element for each strip there. The structure of each element of Part T is: 00 00 YY YY NN NN UU UU Where YY YY is the Y-axis line where the lower limit of the strip is. NN is the number of elements of the Part U that are taken, and starting counting from element number UU UU. Do not worry, I'll explain later. For example, a map where there were two strips, one in the upper half and one in the lower half, would be: 00 00 00 00 NN NN UU UU 00 00 10 00 NN NN UU UU Part U It is a list or enumeration of adjacent plates/rectangles to the strip with which it is linked in Part T. That is, if I'm in the strip 00, Part T load a number of elements of the Part U where there are numbered all the plates where the player is or can access, from this strip. The structure of the elements of Part U is: SS 00 where SS is the number (in hex) of the Part S plate. Part U have many elements of these, and they are usually "segmented" in "zones". In Part T is loaded the number of items to be taken (NN NN) and the number it starts counting (UU UU). For example, in Part U we have: 00 00 01 00 02 00 04 00 00 00 03 00 04 00 And in the T part we are: 00 00 YY YY 04 00 00 00 00 00 YY YY 03 00 04 00 Then, from the first strip, we are or we can access the plates 00, 01, 02 and 04, while from the second strip we are or we can access the plates 00, 03 and 04. Remember they are all adjacent plates, ie, plates belonging to the strip and the ones which are in the limits but do not belong to it (ie, those plates whose height the game has to load while the player is in the strip).

Pokémon Gray, a remake of Pokémon Black, White, Black 2 and White 2. Introduction: Hi all, I'm thinking of doing a history hackrom collecting Pokémon Unova Pokémon Black and White and Black and White 2 called Pokémon Gray/Grey. The story would be Hilbert and Hilda starring in his journey through Unova mixing history of this region of the anime and manga as main story and the remaining after the Pokémon League. For example: start the standard story of Pokémon Black and White battling the gym leaders that appear in the anime with the manga events after the league will follow the story that appears in Pokémon Black and White starring Nate and Rosa. Main characters: Hilda and Hilbert are young coaches who live in Nuvema Town located in Unova. Professor Juniper sends home a gift with the three starter Pokémon so they enlist to start your Pokémon adventure. During your trip, you will find all kinds of Pokémon and trainers Unova region. Also will face Team Plasma to thwart their plans. Hugh will be your opponent in the entire game. Professor: Juniper is the proffessor Pokémon Unova region. She is responsible for delivering the starter Pokémon in that region, she is the first teacher of the main series Pokémon game and specializes in the study of the origin of the Pokémon. History: The adventure is located in the new region, Unova and begins in Nuvema Town, where you will receive the starter Pokémon: Snivy, Oshawott or Tepig. Professor Juniper and Colress will find recurring characters throughout the adventure on several occasions, as well as your good friend (Nate if you are Hilda or Rosa if you are Hilbert). The villains of Team Plasma have the task of freeing the Pokémon coaches, they believe that the Pokémon are free beings and their relationship with the legendary Reshiram and Zekrom. Will also Natural (N), which will have a say in this story. Your mission is to become champion of the Unova region, after that two years have passed since you left to start your adventure Unova's image has changed: the works have been completed and on Route 4 buildings have been built. In addition, the Driftveil City's lighthouse is gone resulting craters and founded new cities, as Aspertia City southwest of Unova. Project: This hack is conducted through Pokémon Black & White 2 and need the tools collected links at the moment for these games to pull it off, I have little experience so if one wants to do this project have permission. A greeting and thank you all.

Hello~ I am YourFavorite and I am completely new to rom hacking and to this community. Even though Gen 5 has been out for several years, I feel that news of Gen 6 is coming a bit too soon. Black 2 and White 2 were just recently released, and (more importantly) I feel that Gamefreak hasn't really given us a chance to explore triple and rotation battle mechanics. In 3rd and 4th gens, Genius Sonority was hired to make spin-offs, which explored double battles in 3rd gen, and more in-depth mechanics (like trick room) in 4th gen. These introduced me to double battles, were a lot of fun, and gave me a pretty big appreciation for both double battles and pokemon battling in general. For 5th gen, triple and rotation battles haven't recieved the same treatment. Sure, in B2/W2 there are a few trainers that will surprise you with triple or rotation battles, but you can never see them coming, and they feel very out-of-place. I feel that both have some potential, but there haven't been a lot of opportunities to explore them outside of multiplayer, (where a first-time player is likely to get wrecked). So, to get to the point: I am planning on making a Black or Black2 hack that features primarily triple and rotation battles. I want it to be its own game in its own right (eg. different region, different gym leaders, different evil team), but all of the core gameplay mechanics will probably stay the same. I may use this for progress or recruitment later (If you're interested in helping, that's awesome, but since we are still in concept/planning stages I don't even know what help we will need), HOWEVER right now I mainly want to discuss the idea and the logistics. GAMEPLAY/story-wise, here are my ideas: -Evil team plays dirty, will wait to ambush you two or three at a time. -An order of monks that values team synergy and the ebb and flow of battle, who will train you in rotation battles. -Start the player off on single battles (first gym), then introduce doubles (second gym), then have the remaining gyms split between triple or rotation battles. This is so the player can get used to the game, then slowly get used to other playstyles. -Triple-battling gyms will likely use a lot of spread moves, but I want to incorporate some other common strategies from the metagame as well (eg. fake-out, follow me/rage powder, maybe even anger point and/or justified) -Perhaps have one elite-four member for each battle style (singles, doubles, triples, and rotation). However, this brings up the question of which style does the Champion use? Perhaps the player gets to pick? -Perhaps centering the story on the three legendary birds, because there is very little lore about them and therefore plenty of room to make stuff up. My gameplay/story concerns: -I want triple battles and rotation battles to make sense in context. -I'm worried about putting triple battles in too many places, since giving commands to three pokemon makes them take longer. But I'm also worried about not including them enough, and making them feel like a misplaced gimmick. -I'm also worried about the synergy between triple battles and rotation battles. They are pretty different styles of battle, with different viable strategies for each. While this may encourage team flexibility, it may also discourage having more support-focused pokemon and/or restrict what strategies the players can use. My technical concerns: -I plan on changing the types that the gym leaders use, but have heard that it's difficult to edit the gyms. Worst-case-scenario, I would be fine with leaving the gyms as they are, but changing the trainers and leader. -The FAQ seems dubious about editing maps in roms, but I have seen a tutorial on editing the maps in B/W. How practical is editing maps in gen 5? -I am not quite sure whether or not to use Black or Black2. Pros and cons: Black: +Gyms and elite 4 seem easier to edit? +Probably better documented than Black2? -Fewer maps than Black 2 -Complicated ending, with a champion battle, a legendary battle, and another battle, plus a castle rising out of the ground. Seems pretty hard to edit (but also could be edited to become a pretty epic ending). Black2: +More maps than Black? +Features a desert-like section (Lentimas Town area); I would really like to use some of those assets and make a larger desert-like section of the region. +Ice sliding mechanics; could make some fun puzzles with those +I'm a fan of pokestar studios, and like the idea of making my own "battle puzzles" +Has both white forest and black city? (If I feel a need to use those for something) -Gyms and elite four seem more difficult to edit -Hasn't been around as long as Black, probably less documented -Do I really want to take the time to mess around with pokestar studios, when it would delay finishing the hack? So, I would very much appreciate if anyone would like to discuss my ideas and concerns, and help me hammer things out. I'd especially like help choosing whether I should start with Black or Black2. I'm still doing research on the whole process, and have a lot to read, but would appreciate any feedback that would help guide my research. Thanks for reading! <3

Hello everybody and welcome to one of the newest Pokemon Projekts, dealing with Pokemon versions Black 2 / White 2! About Me [table=width: 500, align: left] [tr] [td]Name:[/td] [td]Repulsory[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Age:[/td] [td]17 years[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]First Versions:[/td] [td]Diamond and Pearl[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Country:[/td] [td]Germany[/td] [/tr] [/table] Important Information: I really hope not to make too much mistakes concerning the English language, so please turn a blind eye if you see some mistakes as I am not a native English speaker. General Information Well, I have started to play Pokemon as Diamond and Pearl were released and I really enjoyed playing it. The different options that the game offers you are great, but one thing that I really missed was a tool where you can edit the game yourself, changing Pokemon from different Trainers and other stuff like that. Making my own hack was a very important thing for me and with new Pokemon games also came new tools for editing! A week ago I have thought about this one more time and decided to try making my own hack. Im not completely "new" to Pokemon and actually spend quite some time on online battle emulators, just in case you might think im a newbie. Lets go into further details what I want my hack too look like... How difficult the game should be? The game must contain real challenges, meaning you need strategy to complete it Thought process behind each changed trainer, wild Pokemon and their levels Players just trying to rush with a starter Pokemon should fail to complete the game What are you going to change? At first I will just edit the normal Pokemon trainers and add some more Gym Leader should be a real "challenge" as well as so-called "Route-Leaders", who will be added to the game Wild Pokemon will be changed afterwards, but this is a hard job and will take additional time ... more comes later What can I do to support you? To be honest I really dont know much about scripting. Well, if I got a finished script I may be able to put it into the game, but writing is at this stage not possible for me so I definitively need some help there. Also, if you have any ideas or want on comment on something, please do so as this would help me with further editing! If you can script or want to take part at this hack, you can also send me a message. The more help, the beter will the hack finally be! Needed Scripts: If the player enters an area, a trainer must be created and walking afterwards to the player. Then he will ask after a battle and right after the battle he says something and walks away (out of screen) and is deleted from the map Current Status Diary - What has been edited so far? Here you can check out what I have done so far containing changes in the game | Newest Entry from: 05.03.2014 Work is still in progress, look at my diary if you want further information! Important: I started closed Beta-Testing with some of my friends, one of them will upload videos at some point just to show you some parts of the hack. I will give you more information about that later on! Coming soon... Right now I got some exams, will continue work afterwards

Some simple tools to edit stuff that didn't have an editor (yet). Mart Editor (B2W2 Mart Inventory Editor) Image: Instructions: Use kiwi.ds to extract all of the files from the PokeMart NARC (a282 for B2/W2) [Open] -> Select folder with all of the files [save] to save all of your edits. Use PPNFR or kiwi.ds to build a new NARC out of the edited files. Pretty straightforward, operates like Kazo's BWTE. Egg Move Editor Image: Instructions: Use kiwi.ds to extract all of the files from the Egg Move NARC (a124 for B2/W2) [Open] -> Select folder with all of the files [save] to save all of your edits. Use PPNFR or kiwi.ds to build a new NARC out of the edited files. Pretty straightforward, operates like Kazo's BWTE. MartEdit.zip MartEdit_%28src%29.zip EggMoveEdit.zip EggMoveEdit_%28src%29.zip

POKEMON BLACK DIAMOND Pokemon Black Diamond is a ROM hack of Pokemon Black trying to recreate Pokemon Diamond this is sort of inspired by Hoenn White, I have been wanting to make this ROM hack for a while and it is still in progress. I will continue to update as it moves along. FEATURES -Sinnoh Starters -All Pokémon from the Sinnohdex -Play as the Sinnoh protagonists -Harder Gameplay -Removed Trade Evolutions -Cynthia as champion PROGRESS REPORT Day 1: Male Character successfully reskinned: http://prntscr.com/34gjjx Day 2: Cheren successfully reskinned. http://prntscr.com/34j3jj, Cynthia successfully reskinned, Alder successfully reskinned.

Pokemon Advance-Black is a hack of pokemon black still in the making that includes new wild pokemon,Harder Trainer and Gym battles!Thats about it really......... All starter pokemon can be found in the wild also I will make a Pokemon ADVANCE-White in the future. Tools used Zero's Wild Pokemon Editor v1.0.5 BWTE(Trainer Editor for Black and White) :bidoof: Download Link: n/a :bidoof:

I've tried working on my own expansion of the rather disappointing XY Pokedex, increasing it from 72 (there are actually 3 unreleased Pokemon in the game's code; look it up) to a more respectable 113 (technically 111 since there are two unstated Pokemon), and I'm thinking I want to make a Black/White (2?) hack that includes the now 113 extra Pokemon, as well as following a brand new storyline. (WARNING: THIS WILL FURTHER REQUIRE THE INCLUSION OF FAIRY-TYPE, AS WELL AS SEVERAL FEATURES THAT I'M NOT SURE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED INTO THE GAME PROPERLY). Changes: -Two new main characters (Thomas and Pepper, the main characters of the "unofficial" Pokemon Go! manga), as well as new companions (Ashley, who accompanies you, and Kylee, who's basically more like Bianca's role in B/W), and even a new rival. -Thomas starts off with Dratini and Gengar, while Pepper starts off with Mime Jr. and is GIVEN a Chimchar (which you can have the option of refusing in order to pick your own starter) -You will be able to choose from all 18 starters. -New evil team, in this case Team Murky -The aforementioned 113 new Pokemon added to the Pokedex, including Sylveon and Draceon, the new Dragon-type Eeveelution, several new evolutions and pre-evolutions -Handful of new items both officially from Gen6 and unofficially -Redesigned Elite Four rooms to reflect new types (Electric, Rock--which I may change, Ground, Poison) -Redesigned Cities, specifically the Gyms -New Fairy-type, as well as the new moves, abilities and retcons from XY, though no Mega Evolutions -Adding/modifying new locations (Pitch-Dark Hole, Abandoned House, which will appear on Route 20, Team Murky HQ, Zi'gyr, where you fight and capture Pokemon Cthulu--literally, Torment Forest, Kanji Island and Champion's Keep, where you face the Elite Four) -In order to get to Kanji Island, which is virtually inaccessible, you will need the Tropics Ticket, which is given to you after earning all 8 badges and ride a ferry. From there, you undergo a tournament with others, including your rival Viktor in the finals and even your gender counterpart (think something like Battle Tower, PWT, or more accurately Battle Maison in XY) -Battles play out similarly to the Pokemon League in the anime, where each competitor uses 3 Pokemon each, and are healed in between rounds. If you lose, you just start from the beginning; if you beat your rival in the finals, you're given an invitation to the Champion's Keep, where you face the Elite Four in no particular order and finally take on the Champion. -New Gym Leaders, and by extension, new badges (presumably also the same 100 TM's from XY) -All Pokemon available through the wild, in-game trade, Safari Zone, etc. (some incredibly rare, but still possible to capture) EDIT: I figured out what to do with the other legendaries. Intergen Legendaries: After beating the Elite Four, and completing the Buoku Dex (registering all Pokemon by seeing them, having data on them isn’t required), fly to Victor’s Cave (ビクターズパス Victor’s Pass)—which is the Buoku equivalent of Victory Road though the high leveled trainers and wild Pokemon it’s probably closer to Cerulean Cave/Unknown Dungeon (remember, that Pokemon League is treated differently than traditional games). At the end of Victor’s Cave (though if you descend all the way down to Level B12, you’ll be able to face Groudon at Level 60), you’ll encounter and face Terry in an off-the-record battle. After defeating her, she will reward you the Golden Ticket (ゴールデンチケット Golden Ticket). Show the Golden Ticket to the ferry and you’ll sail to the Tower of Light (天国タワー Heaven Tower), a massive 40-Level (not counting the roof and basement) endurance test similar to the Sky Pillar where it’s possible to battle and capture the legendaries, with a final fight with Arceus at Level 80 on the roof. Certain Legendaries do require certain party conditions to be met. For example, Regigigas’ room is only unlocked, obviously by bringing the Regis together, with the same applying to Lugia and Ho-Oh requiring the roaming Legendary Birds and Cats respectively. Arceus himself requires BOTH the Lake and Creation trios, though most of the early floors either require fairly simple or no conditions to battle. Most of the first through fourth generation Pokemon otherwise unobtainable are included here, as well as the Aura Trio from XY & a few generation five’s that had their levels changed or scrapped (the Forces of Nature sans Landorus, the Tao Trio, Swords of Justice sans Cobalion, Heatran) Meloetta, Keldeo, and Victini are also obtainable. -In the Team Murky HQ, you'll be able to find a secret room that leads to a glass case with a Poke Ball in it labelled Project Amber prototype. Use Rock Smash on the case, and you'll receive a special Golden Genesect in an Ultra Ball named PRJ (Project) Amber with Megahorn. (Or do you?)

For some reason, the option to edit battle points for Gen 5 saves is not available. It's not found in the Trainer Info nor in the Misc Edits buttons. However, it is present for Gen 4 saves though... Hope it's added to the next update too.

Hello to all. I have just figured out that the midi mappings that Pokemon Black and White in bwmidi.zip (which are direct rips of the game files), and PKMN_E.zip (again, direct rips of the midi files) use are almost completely compatible with the sound mappings for the default Roland MT32 and CM32L patches when mapped to 16 channels. A way to emulate this on GS modules is to force all channels to the last bank, and set the drumset to the last one in the default bank. This gives MT32 Sound, which maps better than GM, and is universal across all areas of the game's music. For a DS-sized MT32 bank, you can either google "2GMGSMT.sf2", "4GMGSMT.sf2", "5GMGSMT.sf2,", "8GMGSMT.sf2", or "16.5mb gm gs mt32 bank v2.51.sf2", and add "LuckyMax" to the query. The bank was made in '01. It is not very accurate to the real MT32 though. I will provide a 1 gig sampleset via google drive, but in case a homebrew music project is in need of even more sounds, I will provide a mod of Zandro Revielle's DB50XG sampleset which has the inaccurate MT32 samples, and the SC-88 samples from a similarly accurate SC88 soundfont in this post. The link to the 1GB uncompressed 24bit MT32/CM32L/BW/RSEFRLG/HGSS/DPPT soundset is here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3iwOegRlzCXVkZ6WmFHNzNhcTg Attached to this link is the soundfont containing the DB50XG Mod, the SC-88 Samples, and the MT32/CM32L samples: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3iwOegRlzCXWmRQbktoWDBmQTA The file above is 32.5MiB Below, I have an even less accurate, but more faithful version of the MT32 samples, but with GM and GS drumsets, and GM instruments where possible. It is 8mb. MT32.sf2

I'm starting a Pokemon Black Egglocke and need Pokegen Eggs to start off with. Please help me. Legality isn't a problem as long as the Pokemon is able to hatch out of an egg or able to have those moves.Please nickname the Eggs, I'm not creative with names unfortunately... No Legendaries or Phione please, since I don't want the play-through to be too easy. Send files over Email please, since it's easier. Send as many as you want, holding any item. Thank you! Ps: Set the happiness to 0 please, since the egg will not hatch quickly, and I'm not patient enough to wait.. Thank you! Send to this Email: mightyenatrickster262@gmail.com