Platinum hack: Platinum Unlocked V1.3 ! Updated 06/04/25

[Yosammy]

nice, would appreciate a patch without the shiny changes though. is that hard to do?

For V1.2 I'm planning on three patches :
- Unlocked Vanilla+ wich will essentially be Platinum with all QOL changes
- Unlocked New Battles wich has everything from Vanilla+ with new teams for almost every trainers + boss battles
- Unlocked Fun Edition wich has everything from New Battles, my shiny edits + change to shiny odds, base stats and type changes

Spoiler: Full list

Unlocked Vanilla+

- Full gen 4 compatibillity and onwards
- Encounter GBA insertions and swarms from the get go
- Rematch gym leaders in their gyms in the post game (resets every time you enter the Hall of Fame)
- Revamped Battleground
- National Pokedex from the start + edited habitats
- New evolution methods so you can get everything without the need to trade
- Instant honey trees
- Faster HP bars
- Unlimited TMs useage
- HMs usable without teaching them
- Eggs hatch faster
- Prof Oak will give you event items in the post game
- Mostisma encounter any time of day, Drifloon appears every day
- Added battles with Dawn/Lucas at Battleground
- Added battle with Cyrus in the post game in sendback cave (resets avery time you enter the Hall of Fame)
- Encounter Regice, Regirock and Registell by having Relicanth and Wailord in yout party
- You can get a new starter every time you enter the Hall of Fame

Unlocked New Battles

- Everything listed above
- Trainers all around Shinnoh have add some team replacements (no new additions for normal trainers)
- Boss battles will be a little harder with added Pokemon, changed movesets and even held items in the postgame

Unlocked Fun edition

- Everything in the New Battles patch exept not compatible with battling other gen 4 games, still compatible to send you Pokemon to newer gens
- Almost every shiny palettes were altered
- Your Pokemon now has a 1/257 chance to appear shiny (note that the game will show them shiny while not be truly a shiny)
- Changes to base stats and types to still make sense with the learnsets

Exemple with gym rematches :



First screenshot happens in all patches, second is Vanilla + wich is Roark's Battleground team and the third is his new lead in New Battles and Fun Edition
A document containing all boss battles changes will be included in the download link

With these three patches I hope everyone will find a version they enjoy

Looking forward to the formal release of V1.2 ! I'm curious to try it out, but the nat dex issue has me waiting for now. Plus the planned features look worth waiting for. :)

Thank you for your patience, I'm still working on improving everything so that the next release is the best possible

The Pokedex issue was fixed by following nit3wolf advice and giving the National Pokedex at the start :


You get your Pokedex as usual exept now you also get the National Pokedex. Sinnoh Pokedex is still accessible

And since you get the Nat Dex from the start I changed the event wich is supposed to give it to you
You now get the event items by winning the league and then go talk to Rowan :



EDIT 10/11/24

I have successfully implemented a way to get more starters (resets every league victory)



This starter is legit, geting a different one from your first one will change your rivals teams as they will now adapt to your new starter choice
You can now battle with all six of you rivals teams in one save file

EDIT N°2 10/11/24

And added a reset to every static encounters + roaming Pokemon so you can now hunt them without doing a new playthrough!
They reset each time you defeat Cyrus in Turnback Cave



Before fighting Cyrus all roamers were caught, after his defeat the roamers are back ! (Teal shiny Charizard is exclusive to the Fun Edition)


First screen confirms I have already caught my Cresselia, second screen is my first Cresselia and last screen is my second. I can confirm that by reseting them they will change natures, IVs and shyniness

What if they reset while some are still roaming ?
Let's say you haven't caught your Cresselia yet and fight Cyrus, then the other roamers will spawn again and your current active Cresselia will be reseted.

 

[bigbossseethe04]

Interesting, so that means you can catch multiple legendaries of the same species with the reset mechanic?

 

[Yosammy]

Interesting, so that means you can catch multiple legendaries of the same species with the reset mechanic?

Exactly, tested today with every static Pokemon encounter :



I'm working on improving the Battleground a little more :



Decided to move the main rival inside. Will add tower exclusive trainers inside but I need to decide on their teams as I think only Palmer as a full official team

Then I will remove all vitamin caps and make some of the trainers give 50 of one kind of vitamin, since you can rematch them right after a battle ends
Maybe have one give rare candies ?

After that I think the update will be almost ready :)

 

[nit3wolf]

Glad to hear you are making progress! Still holding to play the 1.2 version (I've been busy lately).

One thing I forgot to mention, a reuse repel prompt a la Gen V would be awesome for the QoL side of things, other rooms have it and I think with my next to zero Pokemon modding knowledge that wouldn't be too much of a hassle to implement hahahahahahah

Also can't wait to try the new enemy teams, for me the harder, the better!

 

[Yosammy]

Made progress on adding trainers to Battleground :



The 5 trainers exclusive to the facilities were added ! For Argenta and Thorton since they use only rented Pokemon I decided to do something fun

Spoiler: Spoiler for their teams

Argenta will use Steven's team from Emerald and Thorton will be using Red's team from Heatgold/Soulsilver. Their movesets were revised and they now have items

Glad to hear you are making progress! Still holding to play the 1.2 version (I've been busy lately).

One thing I forgot to mention, a reuse repel prompt a la Gen V would be awesome for the QoL side of things, other rooms have it and I think with my next to zero Pokemon modding knowledge that wouldn't be too much of a hassle to implement hahahahahahah

Also can't wait to try the new enemy teams, for me the harder, the better!

It's funny you mention repel reuse :



Implemented the method given by SpagoAsparago !

Unfortunetly for stronger enemy teams I'm afraid you will be disapointed. I decided to replace Pokemon already in a team instead of adding new ones so that Platinum level curve will still apply. Only gym leaders, Elite 4 and the rival has gotten new additions storywise.
In New Battles and Fun Edition the true challenge begins at postgame by battling gym leaders again, league rematches, trainers in the Battleground and Cyrus. They all will prove to be formidable opponents. I hope you will still find a version of Unlocked Platinum that will get you interested

Right now I still need to implement the no caps for vitamins, have trainers in Battleground give you items upon defeat and I think 1.2 will be ready for proper release

 

[nit3wolf]

It's funny you mention repel reuse :

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Implemented the method given by SpagoAsparago !

Unfortunetly for stronger enemy teams I'm afraid you will be disapointed. I decided to replace Pokemon already in a team instead of adding new ones so that Platinum level curve will still apply. Only gym leaders, Elite 4 and the rival has gotten new additions storywise.
In New Battles and Fun Edition the true challenge begins at postgame by battling gym leaders again, league rematches, trainers in the Battleground and Cyrus. They all will prove to be formidable opponents. I hope you will still find a version of Unlocked Platinum that will get you interested

Right now I still need to implement the no caps for vitamins, have trainers in Battleground give you items upon defeat and I think 1.2 will be ready for proper release

YAY for a la Gen V repel system \o/

I think New Battles will give me a better time, specially with less experience around due to regular trainers having less Pokemon. We will see once 1.2 comes out :D

 

[Yosammy]

Quick update on things :

My second child was born recently so I have less time to work on things but made some progress for V1.2. Here are some cool things :



First some menu changes. Titlescreen logo by Sliter, battle backgrounds by carchagui and colors of battle bars inspired by this post by Minaraptavia
Note that only the fieds battle backgrounds were changes for now, it takes a lot of time (for me) to perform these edits

I also swapped the colors on the party select screen with the ones normaly allocated for the partners in facilities (thank Bagboy for his reasearch)
The last screenshots show the secret box wallpapers I imported from Diamand/Pearl, they replace the Etcetera ones

If you don't know about secret wallpapers follow this link and go to Platinum view the ones you can unlock in your game. They also have a link to a generator for the secret words to unlock them



Next I implemented the individual color variation patch made by the Gag96. This means that Pokemon will have slightly different colors depending on its personality values (also work on shinys)
Clic here for a video exemple as it might be hard to notice changes from my screenshots

I talked about making several patches a few posts ago, with my limited time I might go back on my words and only make one patch with my already made edits, I will see what I can do

If some are interested to test I could drop a wip patch with progress as of now, let me know

 

[SPazzzi95]

That Japanese title screen would be awesome for a standalone patch. Is it universal BTW? For stuff like Vanilla and Refined Pt?

 

[Yosammy]

At the current time it only works for Platinum Unlocked, but the graphics can be inserted in any roms with little effort



Took me a lot of free time but hey I'm happy with the results. Now to find a way to remove the platforms during battles. Release of 1.2 is getting closer

EDIT :

 

[nit3wolf]

Hey, congrats on your second child! Hope it came to us healthy and that your family is doing okay! I was a bit worried when you said you was closing to a release and we got nothing from you for a month lol, glad to see a newborn child and new awesome features are the reason xD.

I will wait for the final version, will hate to start a new playthrough and have to restart it when the release is done.

 

[Yosammy]

Hey, congrats on your second child! Hope it came to us healthy and that your family is doing okay! I was a bit worried when you said you was closing to a release and we got nothing from you for a month lol, glad to see a newborn child and new awesome features are the reason xD.

I will wait for the final version, will hate to start a new playthrough and have to restart it when the release is done.

Thank you! Yes I can see why, but I started adding one thing, modified another and then got caught up in life :(
Thanks a lot for still following this project, it means a lot to me

But I decided to drop V1.2 BETA TODAY!

The game is fully beatable and every event should proceed as normal. Will update the OP a little more later but for now it should be good!

 

[FeraligatrMaster]

The version number in the thread title is wrong. It says v1.12, but it should say v1.2. Anyways, do you have any further plans for Platinum Unlocked, besides fixing any bugs?

 

[Yosammy]

The version number in the thread title is wrong. It says v1.12, but it should say v1.2. Anyways, do you have any further plans for Platinum Unlocked, besides fixing any bugs?

Thank you for pointing it ahah corrected it!

Truthfully I don't know. It's at a point where I'm satisfied with it. It's a version of Platinum that don't add too much new elements, it's a good way to replay Platinum with a fresh coat of paint, make different teams for story than what you are used to

Once I get more time, making different patches for things like speed up, no shiny changes, no battle changes, types changes... Is something I want to do but before that I want some bugs ironed out so that I don't need to update like 6 patches once a bug is corrected

Let me know if you have ideas to make it better while keeping it compatible with other gen 4 games and onwards!

 

[FeraligatrMaster]

Thank you for pointing it ahah corrected it!

Truthfully I don't know. It's at a point where I'm satisfied with it. It's a version of Platinum that don't add too much new elements, it's a good way to replay Platinum with a fresh coat of paint, make different teams for story than what you are used to

Once I get more time, making different patches for things like speed up, no shiny changes, no battle changes, types changes... Is something I want to do but before that I want some bugs ironed out so that I don't need to update like 6 patches once a bug is corrected

Let me know if you have ideas to make it better while keeping it compatible with other gen 4 games and onwards!

Understandable. As for ideas, how about a portable PC? I've seen some Platinum ROM hacks with that feature. Platinum Redux and Azure Platinum, to be precise.

 

[NorseTLoki]

Underground was not worked on?

 

[JamesNorritom]

Perfect hack man. If this hack had a grindless option like perfect IVs that would be absolutely amazing.
thanks for sharing ur work!

 

[nit3wolf]

Awesome, my weekend just got better :D

I will test it out, but what version this is it? Vanilla+. New battles or your Fun one?

 

[Inner Rhymes]

This looks phenomenal! I love the newly inserted graphics as well! I am most defo going to download this and give it a spin! Thank you for all your hard-work, and congratulations on your second child!

 

[Yosammy]

Understandable. As for ideas, how about a portable PC? I've seen some Platinum ROM hacks with that feature. Platinum Redux and Azure Platinum, to be precise.

I could take a look at it at a later date why not

Underground was not worked on?

I didn't touch anything as I don't think it's necessary, let me know if you know of some improvements?

Perfect hack man. If this hack had a grindless option like perfect IVs that would be absolutely amazing.
thanks for sharing ur work!

Thank you !

This looks phenomenal! I love the newly inserted graphics as well! I am most defo going to download this and give it a spin! Thank you for all your hard-work, and congratulations on your second child!

Thanks a lot! Please share your thoughts once you've tried it I'd be glad to hear it!
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A quick update, someone on the DS hacking discord mentioned that some of the 3rd Gen sprites in Gen 4 looked like they clashed a lot with other Gen 4 one. I took a look at it and couldn't help but agree. While not the most exiting news I decided to tackle it and change some palettes of Gen 3 sprites with their Gen 5 ones. I also decided to change swap palettes from Platinum with the HG/SS ones, here are some exemples with before and after :

 

[NorseTLoki]

I didn't touch anything as I don't think it's necessary, let me know if you know of some improvements?

I figured I would just ask if you had since the underground is one of my favorite spots in Gen 4