PMD ROM Hacking Weekly - November 8th, 2021
I decided I will now include mirror link to the patches here. This is in the goal of simplifying the download (having a direct download instead of having to go thought google drive/mega or non-DDL services), as well as ensuring it stay online even if the original download link disappear. If you don't want me to mirror your mod/think it isn't a good idea to do this, send me a message (contacts method at the end of the article).
In addition (this is both kinda independant and related), I've made my patches archive avalaible at hacknews.pmdcollab.org/archive. I also included some other type of contents (thought it's incomplete).
And I finally enabled the redirection of all non-secure traffic to the secure version (a.k.a HTTP -> HTTPS, even if HTTPS was already present before). If you have issue with old Android, use a recent firefox build or add let's encrypt to your SSL certificates list. Use let's encrypt and auto-renewal.
Table of Contents
⮝ Explorers ROM Hacking News
⮝ Explorers of Death is on hiatus
by FireFox6 on the Explorers of Death Discord server
Hello everyone. I'm sorry for the lack of updates on the romhack and am even more so that this is the type of news you're getting after so long. Unfortunately I have far too many real life commitments to be able to continue this project, and so either this romhack will be on hiatus for a very long time (best case scenario is a few months, but most likely years) or I will have to stop development entirely. I'm so sorry that I have to let you all down like this as we've built up an amazing community here, but I have no control over my situation. I know this isn't a good outcome but I hope you all can understand.
Again, I am deeply sorry for this but I hope that what already exists of the romhack is satisfactory and that this community can remain as great as it is after this.
Thank you for reading, and for being a part of this community. I hope this isn't a deal breaker for too many of you.
⮝ Explorers of the spirit Act 4 is approaching...
by MaxSchersey in the EOtS Discord server
Act 4 (Chapters 14, 15, and 16) of Explorers of the Spirit is approaching its release, so that means it's once again time for premonitions. Submit a specific, correct guess at something that will happen in EotS, and you might be mentioned in the credits! If you already filled out a prior premonitions form, feel free to make a new set of guesses and it won't overwrite your previous answers. If you want to discuss your answers, please take it to #playthroughs-v053-spoilers-inside
additionally, also by MaxSchersey
The Creative Team is currently looking to commission a video editor, that is familiar with Explorers of the Spirit, for a 45 second trailer. The deadline for this video will be September 24, so we would like to have an editor decided by September 17 at latest.
If you're interested, please send me a DM and we can go from there!
Additionnally, there where two new version that where released about a month ago that I didn't wrote about. Here they are :
v0.6 - Updated version of the existing 13 chapters of EotS. Patch notes (SPOILER WARNING): https://discord.com/channels/789325989926273024/803402714129498133/896069281169670205
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789328154514554881/896069166233190440/EOTS_RELEASE_0.6.zip
you should most likely use v0.61. See below.
v0.6 patch notes with spoiler
Features & Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where starter selection could result in a crash on original hardware (credit: Irdkwia)
- Fixed the title card! (again)
- Various minor dialogue fixes
Gameplay Adjustments
In general, Act 3 came out a little more difficult than intended. With these changes, we hope to ease the difficulty bump from Act 2 to Act 3, without removing the unique characteristics of the Act 3 dungeons that people seem to enjoy.
- Kecleon Shop (Treasure Town):
- Lowered the purchase price of Reviver Seeds from 2000 to 1600
The original intention of raising the price of reviver seeds was to discourage overreliance on retries while going through the game. While that price increase did result in this behavior, we think that the 2,000 Poke price point in v0.53 was a little too restrictive for the particular effect that we were looking for.
- Horn Valley:
- Increased the spawn rate of Gravelerocks
- Decreased the spawn rate of Poke
Many players seem to have encountered trouble in close quarters encounters in Horn Valley, and as a result we placed higher emphasis on the primary universal tool that players should comfortably have access to during this dungeon.
- Murky Forest:
- Increased the spawn rate of Rainy Orbs
- Increased the spawn rate of Sandy Orbs
- Increased the spawn rate of Drought Orbs
- Glaceon:
- Lowered base HP
- Castform:
- Removed Hail from movepool
- Jynx:
- Secondary ability changed from Forewarn to Null
Your complaints about Murky Forest have been heard, loud and clear. A lot of the frustrating evasion-focused elements of the dungeon have been notably toned down - Jynx has lost access to evasion shenanigans completely, Glaceon now goes down much quicker, and changing the weather via orbs now has a much lower opportunity cost due to the higher spawn rate of these orbs, and the removal of Castform's ability to change the weather back to hail.
v0.61 - Changed the starting levels back to level 5, from level 98 which was used while debugging (oops!) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789328154514554881/896552471151931402/EOTS_RELEASE_0.61.zip
lastly
Box art by OJ . https://twitter.com/ahappypichu Compressed version of the original image so Discord accepts it. Higher res: https://discord.com/channels/789325989926273024/817879087648866394/896158088321712128
Direct link to the highter-res version (it's 70 MiB large)
⮝ New Community Assets
⮝ Pokemon
Animated sprites in this section are animated PNG files. If animated sprites appear to be static images, make sure that your browser supports PNG animation. (Most modern browsers should display them just fine, though.)
Absol by JFain
Sprite Added
Absol Shiny by JFain
Sprite Added
Arceus by baronessfaron
Sprite Changed
Arceus Bug by Emmuffin
Sprite Changed
Charizard Mega_X
Sprite Added
Charizard Mega_X by Emboarger
Portrait Added
Clobbopus by Emboarger
Portrait Added
Cubchoo by Emboarger
Sprite Added
Dewpider by Emboarger
Portrait Added
Dreepy by Emboarger
Portrait Changed
Florges Shiny by Murpi
Sprite Added
Florges Blue Shiny by Murpi
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Florges Orange Shiny by Murpi
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Florges White Shiny by Murpi
Sprite Added
Florges Yellow Shiny by Murpi
Sprite Added
Gabite Female
Portrait Removed
Gabite Female Shiny
Portrait Removed
Golbat by JFain
Portrait Added
Golbat Alternate by JFain
Sprite Added
Golisopod by JFain
Sprite Added
Helioptile Shiny by Emmuffin
Sprite Added
Hitmontop Alternate by JFain
Portrait Added
Hoopa Unbound_Alternate by Emboarger
Portrait Changed
Houndoom Mega by someone with the discord id <@!276369635304275968>
Sprite Added
Lairon by baronessfaron
Portrait Added
Moltres Galar Shiny by someone with the discord id <@!228201428177387523>
Portrait Added
Mudbray by Emboarger
Portrait Changed
Quilava by JFain
Sprite Added
Quilava Shiny by JFain
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Ribombee by baronessfaron
Sprite Changed
Scatterbug by Emboarger
Portrait Changed
Sylveon by baronessfaron
Sprite Changed
Sylveon Shiny by Mond
Sprite Changed
Vivillon by Emmuffin
Sprite Added
Vivillon Shiny by Emmuffin
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Zacian
Portrait Changed
Zacian by CamusZekeSirius
Portrait Added
⮝ Skytemple randomizer
⮝ Skytemple randomizer 1.3.3 released !
by Capypara on the SkyTemple Discord server
Download: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/4235-skytemple-randomizer
Bugfixes:
- Added a new option to make the fallback one-room floor that generates when the game can't generate a valid floor NOT a monster house (normally it would be one; thanks to UsernameFodder!)
- Fixed not being able to have less than 4 moves in the move pool
- Fixed IQ skills being broken when IQ gains were randomized
- Randomized games should work on real hardware again
Note: Due to issues this version is not available for Android.
⮝ New features
- Commited by Capypara (in 1.3.3) (assembly patch by UsernameFodder): "Integrate 'DisarmOneRoomMonsterHouses' patch"
⮝ Fixes
- Commited by Capypara (in 1.3.3): "Make sure binaries are loaded AFTER the compress IQ patch was applied".
- Commited by Capypara (in 1.3.3): "Fix for choosing less than 4 damaging moves".
⮝ SkyTemple
⮝ SkyTemple biggest PMD-related Discord server
By Decimeter
We are now the biggest mystery dungeon community on discord
⮝ Fixes
- Commited by Capypara: "Fix issue when cancelling map bg export dialog".
- Commited by Capypara: "'Fix' GtkSwitch sizes".
⮝ Changes
- Commited by Capypara: "New theme for Mac and Windows"
- Commited by Capypara: Use the ZorinBlue theme instead of ZorinGrey
⮝ Rescue Team DX Hacking News
⮝ "DreamNexus
⮝ New features
- Commited by tech-ticks: "Support additional texture compression formats in portrait preview".
- Commited by tech-ticks: "DungeonBalance FloorInfo Short24 confirmed to be turn limit".
⮝ Fixes
- Commited by tech-ticks: "Fix moves and items getting loaded from wrong path, fix Pokémon collection not getting flushed".
- Commited by tech-ticks: "Prevent users from adding new dungeon maps since referencing them crashes the game".
- Commited by tech-ticks: "Include special Pokémon in floor spawn lists in the spawn chance".
⮝ Editor's Notes
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, on reddit to u/marius851000 or send me a message from an ActivityPub-compatible service (Mastodon) at marius851000@framapiaf.org.
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