Pokemon RunicPlatinum

Gohan's Tips
4 days ago
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Author: EstrethAthema.

PROGRESS: Project Version 1.0 (27/03/2026) - Current release includes the complete updated Sinnoh campaign and post-game content.

A romhack of Platinum that aims to provide a vanilla+ update to the beloved Gen 4 titles, while adding some cheeky quality of life and some bonus content to sink your teeth into.

🛑Features:

➡️Expanded Wild Encounters: Wild encounters have been expanded, allowing some later game Pokemon to be available earlier; it also reintroduces the D/P Exclusives that Platinum removed.

➡️Static Encounter Changes: You no longer need to wait until Friday for Drifloon; you still need to wait until the day rolls over. Also, Spiritomb now only requires an Odd Keystone to be encountered, as the 32 Underground requirement has been removed.

➡️Instant Honey Trees: Honey Trees are now instantly ready. After slathering honey, just interact with the Honey Tree again and a Pokemon will appear.

➡️Reusable Repels: Repels are reusable a la Black and White 2! Once a repel ends you will be prompted to use a new one. You can choose which Repel to use if you have multiple different kinds.

➡️Expanded Sinnoh Dex: The Sinnoh dex has been expanded up to 250. The new entries include various Pokemon who have Hisuian formes, are related to Pokemon that debuted in Legends: Arceus, or were included in the Hisui dex.

➡️Trade Evolutions Removed: Pokemon that evolve via trading will now evolve via Levelling up, while Pokemon that require being traded with an item will instead evolve when they are exposed to their evolution item (like an evolution stone).

➡️New Item NPCs: Brand new NPCs around Sinnoh will give the player valuable items like coloured shards, Evolution Stones, Heart Scales, berries, and fossils in exchange for a new item called Hisuinite.

➡️New Items: New items have been added including Hisuinite, Candy Formula, and the Ice Stone (which now evolves Eevee into Glaceon, while the Leaf Stone evolves Eevee into Leafeon).

➡️Updated Trainer Rosters: All trainer rosters have been updated. Gym Leaders and bosses have access to more Pokemon, held items, and new strategies to increase the challenge without being a "Kaizo" level hack.

➡️Stats and Learnsets: Stats and learnsets have been updated across all Pokemon with some getting access to egg moves as well as some new toys to play with.

➡️New Moves: 21 new moves have been added, including Wild Charge, Mystical Fire, High Horsepower, Liquidation, Acid Spray, Petal Blizzard, and Psyshield Bash.

➡️Infinite TMs: TMs are now infinite use! 14 TMs have been changed, 12 of which contain the new moves that were added.

➡️Move Tutor Overhaul: 5 moves have been replaced and Move Tutor compatibility has been altered. The post-game Move Tutor has been moved to Celestic Town and is accessible after a small quest.

➡️HM Quality of Life: HMs are now able to be forgotten without the Move Deleter. Some HM obstacles have been removed, The Fog has been lifted, and Defog has been changed to have a Mean Look-like effect.

➡️Store and Prize Updates: Veilstone Department Store and Game Corner Prizes have been altered, making TMs more expensive (due to being infinite) and adding battle items like Focus Sash and White Herb as prizes.

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