Download Pre-patched Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies NDS Rom

Creator: Staro
Version: v1.17.1
Updated: December 12, 2021
Language: English
Progress: Completed

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies is a NDS Rom created by Staro, available in English. The current progress is Completed. Latest version: v1.17.1. It was last updated on December 12, 2021 and is now available to download.

Description

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Skies is a faithful enhancement project designed to refresh the original experience while preserving its core charm and atmosphere.

Every dungeon has been carefully reworked with unique mechanics and environmental twists, including dangerous bonus floors, permanent weather conditions, limited resources, and other changes that create greater variety and strategic depth without becoming overwhelmingly difficult.

The project also introduces numerous quality-of-life improvements, updated spawn lists, and a more refined difficulty curve to create a smoother and more engaging progression system.

Rather than completely reinventing the game, the goal is to deepen the gameplay experience while staying true to the immersive style, emotional tone, and adventurous spirit of the original journey.

Game Progress

This project is a quality-of-life and difficulty enhancement for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, designed to provide a fresh but faithful gameplay experience.

The main focus is on improving the original adventure through revamped dungeon design, updated Pokémon spawn lists, and a more challenging overall difficulty balance—while avoiding extreme “Kaizo-style” frustration. Each dungeon has been carefully reworked to introduce greater variety and more engaging exploration without sacrificing the feel of the original game.

The project also aims to preserve immersion by avoiding unnecessary dialogue changes or major story alterations, instead concentrating on expanding and refining the existing gameplay systems. Its design philosophy centers around keeping the original experience recognizable and “vanilla” in spirit while building upon its mechanics with thoughtful improvements and increased challenge.

The overhaul of all dungeons and core gameplay systems is already complete, though additional features and future improvements are still planned for later updates.

Change Log

No updates listed.

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!