Pokémon Platinum Reforged

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Author: smoldice.

PROGRESS: Alpha v0.4.0 (28/10/2026) — Fully playable Sinnoh adventure running on Black 2 / White 2's battle engine with Generation V features and modern quality-of-life additions.

A ROM hack of Pokémon Platinum that ports Pokémon Black 2 and White 2’s battle engine and Gen V visual and audio presentation into Platinum. It delivers a faithful Sinnoh adventure and storyline while integrating Gen V's dynamic features, animated aesthetics, and customizable modern quality-of-life options.

🛑Features:

➡️Gen V Battle Engine: Wild encounters, trainer battles, double/tag battles, legendaries, the catching tutorial, Safari Zone, Pal Park, and Battle Frontier run on the BW2 engine while preserving Platinum’s underlying mechanics, moves, abilities, items, catch rates, and rules.

➡️Dynamic BW2 Battle Backgrounds: Battle stages dynamically change based on location and terrain, featuring open-field routes, lawns, dirt paths, tall grass, caves, mountains, and snowfields.

➡️Gym-Specific & Boss Battle Arenas: Every Sinnoh Gym features its own dedicated background and battlefield platform, the Elite Four and Cynthia feature room-colored backgrounds with Platinum-styled platforms, and the Distortion World features a custom arena where Giratina hovers without a platform.

➡️Animated Trainer Sprites: Sinnoh Gym Leaders and Cynthia utilize their animated sprites from the BW2 Pokémon World Tournament. Many regular trainer classes feature animated BW2 sprites recolored to match Platinum, while others use newly animated Platinum sprites.

➡️Platinum-Style Touch Battle Menus: Recreated and retextured touch-screen battle menus designed to faithfully mimic Platinum's classic interface on the BW2 engine.

➡️Gen V Presentation & Audio: Includes BW2 battle transitions, evolution sequences, egg-hatching cutscenes, low-HP "pinch" dynamic music, and BW2’s Pokédex registration screen upon capturing a new species.

➡️Following Pokémon System: Ported directly from HeartGold/SoulSilver, allowing your lead Pokémon to walk behind you with mood emotes, dialogue, gift findings, water reflections, bike-rack ball storage, and enhanced fishing bite rates when friendly.

➡️Visible Overworld Wild Pokémon: A setting that allows wild Pokémon to physically appear and wander out of grass and caves, with toggle options for VISIBLE, classic RANDOM, or BOTH.

➡️BW2 Phenomena: Rustling grass, dust clouds, shadows, and rippling water yield rare Pokémon and valuable items. Honey-tree Pokémon can appear in nearby rustling grass without the full-day wait, alongside fixed encounter spots for Leafeon, Glaceon, Rotom, Spiritomb, any-day Drifloon, and Diamond/Pearl version exclusives.

➡️BW2 Pokédex & Habitat List: Accessible after the first Gym badge, the Habitat List tracks all Pokémon across Sinnoh areas, awarding stamps and special items from four reward NPCs across the region upon habitat completion.

➡️Modern Experience System: An option to switch between CLASSIC Platinum Exp and MODERN Exp.

➡️Level Caps Option: A togglable level cap system that stops Exp gain at the level of the next Gym Leader's strongest Pokémon, scaling up to Cynthia for the Pokémon League.

➡️Fast Forward: An in-game option enabling 2x game speed outside of battles, activated either by holding R or permanently toggled on.

➡️Auto-Run Option: Allows the player to run automatically without holding B once the Running Shoes are obtained.

➡️Instant Text Speed: A text speed setting available beyond FAST that renders all in-game dialogue instantaneously.

➡️Gen V Message Box & Speech Bubbles: An optional dialogue frame that brings BW2-styled message borders and character speech bubbles to overworld conversations.

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