PMD rom-hacking weekly

Update on the rom hacking scene of pokemon mystery dungeon (all games)

PMD ROM Hacking Weekly - August 22, 2021

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Explorers ROM Hacking News

Announcement for the upcoming Explorers of Alpha v1.3 !

by Maestroke on the SkyTemple Discord server

Update ! I said ! Update !

Here's an announcement for Explorers of Alpha !

The 1.3 release should be out fall August 2021, just so you know.

You can now experience challenges !

Here are all the challenges:

  • Glass Cannon: you deal tremendous damage but you are at 1 HP
  • Recruit 'em All: recruitment rate is boosted, you also are given the Holy Lyre, granting a 100% Recruit Boost when held
  • No Recruit: recruitment is disabled. You can turn this mode on/off
  • Pacifist Challenge: you can't attack or use orbs but are able to endure any normal hit. You are given a specific bag with items everytime you enter a dungeon to win this challenge
  • One-Item Challenge: you always have one-item bag.
  • Solorun: self-explainatory... except you chose at the start of each dungeon if the one alone is leader or partner.
  • Time Attack: you are poisoned when you enter a floor. As a result you have limited turns to finish a dungeon.
  • Speedrun: a mode optimized for Speedrun ! You can chose between Classic and God Mode.
    • Classic will give you everything needed.
    • God Mode is basically a mode where you are always under Mobile Scarf and double speed effect. You also see enemies, traps and items without any sort of help.

You can also select Game Options:

  • you can enable or disable recruitment (anytime, recruitment is still disabled in story dungeons)
  • you can enable Exp. Share or not (default amount is 50%)
  • you can disable Alpha's anti-cheat so it doesn't remove items from your bag if you cheated to obtain them

Bosses have now new field effects and Gimmicks !

Boss floors are now under the effect of some special rules, for most of them. For example, Amp Plains' tribe now ignores LightningRod and Volt Absorb, Giratina in World's Abyss afflicts the opponents with Curse status condition, Rayquaza ignores Flying-type weaknesses, and more !

Some of them even have an Aura Boost, increasing their stats.

I'm still actively working on Alpha, I hope you're hyped for 1.3 release !

A menu showing the first page to select challenges

Chapter 5 for PMD Abridged released !

By Decimeter in the SkyTemple Discord

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New Community Assets

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By Emboerger on the SkyTemple Discord server (#sprite-resources channel)

compilation of extra backgrounds from multiple sources

Credit to:

  • Fearless-Quit for bragging
  • HoeykinDo for Cute Evil
  • Fireally for Yoomtah!, Disbelief and Evil
  • chime for dance
  • Wingcapman (https://www.deviantart.com/wingcapman) for the higher resolution versions of most of the others

By SemperInvicta on the SkyTemple Discord server (#sprite-resources channel)

For those who want to make their own continent. Removed all the land mass n stuff!

SkyTemple Changes

Documentation on how to change the app theme on Windows

by Parakoopa

How to install custom SkyTemple GTK themes under Windows:

  1. Download a theme from here: https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135
  2. Extract the directory to C:\Program Files\SkyTemple\share\themes (make sure the directory contains a gtk-3.0 directory)
  3. Start SkyTemple and choose the theme in the settings

Fix

  • Commited by End45: "Quick fix for the guest pokémon list" (it crashed when adding a new entry)

Editor's Notes

This week, I would like to know if you have any suggestion about puting portraits and sprites name in the title. I previously didn't did that for breviety reason, but I wont to ensure that spriters and portrait maker have a good visibility. I limited the name for those with the most consequent changes, but I would like to hear what you think of it...

Did I miss anything? Feel free to open a github issue, contact me on Discord at marius851000#2522, send me an email at mariusdavid@laposte.net, or send me a message from an ActivityPub-compatible service (Mastodon) at marius851000@framapiaf.org.

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