[Other Question] Pokémon Essentials D/P/PL

[Salrei’s Hope]

I've looked, but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. Is there a version of Pokémon essentials, like Pokémon essentials GS or BW, that is styled like Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum instead? Does anyone have a link and credits?

 

[Natzen]

I think the closest thing to a gen 4 essentials kit would be the essentials DS kit (2.0 i think is the most current) from Venom.
I can't link it but a quick google search will fix you up for sure, you'd probably have to find some gen 4 tilesets however.

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

So I'll need dppt tilesets, Battle ui, and character overworlds, but do you know how I could change the hgss bottom screen into a dppt bottom screen? And add a dppt pause menu?

 

[Natzen]

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Both resources can be accredited to Marin, I think they're both plug and play as well (or able to be added/tampered with very little additional code).

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

Awesome! Just one more question, Pokémon essentials ds 2.0 is super laggy and has EBS already installed. Is there a way to make it so that it uses the regular battle? Otherwise, is it possible to make default essentials dual screen with just the Pokétch on the bottom?

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

Wait a minute, in the Pokétch script, does it say that the Pokétch can be used with default essentials but dual screen also?

 

[Natzen]

I would definitely recommend just starting from a clean 17.2 and adding the features you want as opposed to stripping DS kit 2.0 down, you can make a second screen (rather) easily, I suggest checking out:

https://essentialsdocs.fandom.com/wiki/Dual_screen (some tips, not really telling of how to do it though)

pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=400871 (Particularly the Dual Screen Usage part, that's more a directive on how to achieve the dual-screen)

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

Right, I'll do that. I installed Marin and Luka's utilities, and then the pause menu and Pokétch scripts, and I get this error when starting the game:
Script 'Poketch_Apps' line 1855: NameError occurred

undefined method 'pbTrade' for class 'PokemonTradeScene'

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

 

[Natzen]

Right, I'll do that. I installed Marin and Luka's utilities, and then the pause menu and Pokétch scripts, and I get this error when starting the game:
Script 'Poketch_Apps' line 1855: NameError occurred

undefined method 'pbTrade' for class 'PokemonTradeScene'

https://www.pokecommunity.com/posts/10153403

Check out the response from Marin here, seems others have run into the issue and he's come up with a workaround for it already.

tl'dr : create new script section above the PScreen scripts and call it whatever, fill it with

class PoketchClock
end

class PoketchCalculator
end

etc etc for all the poketch apps that need to be defined, that *should* clear up your error!

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

It's working perfectly now! All I have to do is mess with the the battle screen and it'll look super DPPT, thanks!

 

[Natzen]

No worries, to pay it forward; if you find any free-to-use DPPt battle resources you should link them here for anyone else that wanders about this thread wondering the same thing!

Good luck with your game :)

 

[Salrei’s Hope]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/pokemonplatinum/sheet/20099/

https://www.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/pokemonplatinum/sheet/25636/