Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies NDS

Download Pre-Patched Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies NDS ROM Hack

Version: v1.17.1

Updated: December 12, 2021

Information

Name: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies NDS ROM Hack
Language: ???
Creator: Staro

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies is a NDS ROM by Staro in English. It was released on December 12, 2021 and is now available to download.

Description

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies is a vanilla-style enhancement of the original game, designed to provide a fresh yet faithful experience. Every dungeon has been reworked with unique twists—like dangerous bonus floors, permanent weather effects, or resource scarcity, adding new variety and challenge without going full Kaizo. The hack also introduces quality-of-life improvements, revamped spawn lists, and a carefully tuned difficulty curve. The goal is to preserve the charm and immersion of the original while deepening gameplay, much like how Drayano approaches his Pokémon ha

Progress

Hello!

I'd like to showcase my first ever ROM hack - A slight difficulty and quality of life hack for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky.

My main goal with this hack is to introduce quality of life changes, new dungeon variety, new Pokémon spawn lists all while making the original game harder! (But not Kaizo hard) I am also trying to steer away from unnecessary dialogue additions and anything that could take away from a player's experience or ruin immersion. While not directly influenced by Drayano or his hacks, this ROM hack shares similarities in the way Drayano approaches hacks, keeping the original game vanilla and building onto it's gameplay systems all while slightly increasing difficulty.

Exact specifications of what has and will be changed will be included with every version I release with previous changes always archived in each and every changelog as there already is way to much for me to include as is without keeping this post short and simple. The hack is fully completed in terms of revamping every dungeon and improving the base game, but additional features are to be added in the future.

Change Log

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Features

Arceus is now in the game! Recruit the Alpha Pokemon at the top of Destiny Tower!
Exp. Points are now distributed to the entire team — including off-roster team members! (Like in Gates to Infinity and Super!)
You can now select whatever starter you want if you don’t like your Personality Quiz result! (Like in Super!)
Complete Team Control, You can manually control your partner and team members turns in dungeon!
New postgame events! — Revisit the Future after recruiting Dialga, Explore a new Ruin dungeon after defeating Regigigas, visit new unique Far Away dungeons after recruiting Palkia or explore the Magnagate after collecting all Seven Treasures!
New moves! Unused moves like Spin Slash and Excavate are back in the game!
Fairy Type moves with custom move animations:
Sweet Kiss, Charm, Moonlight, Dazzling Gleam, Disarming Voice, Fairy Wind, Play Rough, Draining Kiss, Moonblast, Crafty Shield, Baby-Doll Eyes and more!
Moves from future generations too:
Petal Blizzard, Bulldoze, High Horsepower and more!
Fairy Type, with Fairy Type gummis in game too!
Sylveon!
Custom Frames!
Revisitable Future — with recruitable shiny Celebi!
The weather trio now have their exclusive moves, Precipice Blades, Dragon Ascent and Origin Pulse!
The Luxio Tribe is back from Time/Darkness, fully replacing the Manectric gang. (Complete with a Luxray Clear Mark icon.)
New dungeons! Explore the all new Metal Crag, Magic Alcove, Avian Terrene, Drake Fjord, Poison Bog and Battle Hill!
All starter evolutions now have overworld sleeping sprites for the postgame (Including gender differences!).
All new spawnlists, revamped difficulty, and a whole new way to play the game!
Some dungeons now have certain gimmicks, EX: Drenched Bluff has a dangerous 6th floor, Waterfall Cave is always rainy and max darkness, there’s no food in the Northern Desert, etc.
Alolan Vulpix has replaced normal Vulpix as a starter/partner
A quick tunnel from Sharpedo Bluff to Crossroads
Espurr is now a partner Pokemon!
Chikorita isn’t useless now!
Completely reworked Marowak Dojo system!
All Starters and Partners have reworked level up movepools, and will always have access to a powerful STAB move at level 50. Some starters/partners have had ability reworks like Eevee having Anticipation instead of Run Away, Skitty having Scrappy instead of Normalize, and Riolu having Own Tempo instead of Inner Focus!
Quality of Life improvements. Tired of all those tips trying to help you out? Say no more, they’re all disabled thanks to DisableTips. Want to hold the L button and use one of your four moves without opening the move menu? Move Shortcuts has got you covered! Ever wanted to have a partner that matches your type? SameType Partner allows you to do just that! Tired of watching and suffering through Spinda’s Café animation every time you want to make a drink? I removed it! Tired of Far-Off Pals taking too long to play out? It’s quicker now! Kangaskhan Rocks in the Marowak Dojo Hub and Spinda Cafe!
Revamped Item values
Vitamins, Joy Seeds and Ginsengs now rarely appear in the Kecleon Shop
Revamped Rank-Up rewards!
All Evolution Items now have an equal chance to spawn in the Kecleon Wares Shop
Xatu now unboxes faster!
Optional dungeons are automatically unlocked after graduating!
Seven Treasure dungeons are unlocked after Dark Crater!
Aegis Cave is no longer full of unnecessary unowns!
Mt. Blaze and Mt. Thunder are back in the game! Along with Zapdos and Moltres boss fights!
Region Variants! (Note that these new varients DO NOT replace the original
games
Pokémon, normal Vulpix/Ninetales are still in the game, just no longer a starter/partner.)
Zero Isles now have rare evolution items at the end of the dungeon to reward players for exploring them!
Destiny Tower now allows recruiting, has had it’s grudge traps removed, and has had wonder tiles added into upper floors.
All dungeons have been revamped!