Diamond/Pearl/Platinum hacking

I was discussing some things we have found out about diamond and pearl's inner workings with another member when it hit me, we should have a thread dedicated to stuff we find we can already change in diamond and pearl (since the emulator works pretty well now).

I know that Blazichu has learned how to change the text "2006 Pokemon" at the beginning of the game, and I myself have found out a way to change the character's transformation to a overworld sprite. It seems we both used TLP (Tile-Layer Pro).

Anyway Like I was saying I think it would be a good idea if we post things we find, like graphics, text (yeah right, been down that road!), and other such things.

Here are some images of my transformation change...

Tile Layer Pro change (put in GBA format)


IN-game screenshot

If you find anything that you think may be useful for hacking the future generation games...here is the place to put it!


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Already Started awhile back :P



So Enjoy!

Well, yes, The ___ in my post was ment to be for you, but I forgot your username. I changed it though. Also I think I may have found a string of text in the game to try and make a table file, but when you replace it, the rom image crashes...interesting.

Yep, I tried to change trainer's pokes and it works! I changed Lass on Route 202.

Nice one GreenZ! This is a great one! Care to share how you did it???

If people start finding out the bytecodes used to edit the commands in a script please PM or Mail them to meso we can construct a Diamond/Pearl Command Databas for Pokescript
(It's easy enough to do)

I'm gonna try this and edit the heros when you pick them to look different

Also I have recently found the Pokemon Icons, so they can be changed and also I have found the intro where it says Gamefreak and their symbol in TLP.

What's the offset for the hero's overoworlds

When you find things please post pictures and explainations (if possible) so that other people can learn how to do these things. Oh and thank you for your contributions.

GreenZ, thats pretty amazing. It'll be interesting to see when mapping is possible. I am aware of a DP overworld extractor, but it doesn't write yet and it's in japanese.

can we import with the overworl extractor plus can i tak ePM's for how people did this

Green Charizard said:

GreenZ, thats pretty amazing. It'll be interesting to see when mapping is possible. I am aware of a DP overworld extractor, but it doesn't write yet and it's in japanese.

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Why would you hack D/P? Since it's a great game anyway, thus we have no mapping tools for the roms yet.

Charizard_Ruler said:

Why would you hack D/P? Since it's a great game anyway, thus we have no mapping tools for the roms yet.

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I wouldnt be that hard to find the maps, all your doing it looking for repeating values, with a development version of a DS emulator I could probebly do it.

well first of all we need to work out the table file whic i guess we shoudl just wait those few extra days for the US version of D/P to come out

Shiny_Latios said:

well first of all we need to work out the table file whic i guess we shoudl just wait those few extra days for the US version of D/P to come out

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Again not that hard, A 5 minute job, just do a relative search.

Again not that hard, A 5 minute job, just do a relative search.

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Not exactly... I've made many table files for GBA games, but the DS is a whole new ball-game! I thought that I found a perfect match, but when I changed it, the game crashed. So if you do get a good table file, congrats! That's tough, definetly not a 5 minute job, atleast...not for me

My penpal (who is japanese) can already hack Pokemon: D/P to the full! I'll try and get the japanese websites he got his tools from and babelfish them!

ashandmisty said:

My penpal (who is japanese) can already hack Pokemon: D/P to the full! I'll try and get the japanese websites he got his tools from and babelfish them!

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Dude, That's awesome news, I can't wait to Change maps in D/P! =D

I guess D/P is now open for hacking.

I'm waiting to change sprites and maps too!
And the English Version Of D/P is coming out April 22 (for you lucky Americans) so yeah!!!