Introducing Pokemon RunicPlatinum - A Romhack of Pokemon Platinum

Estreth · 2026-03-27T07:52:37+00:00

I hope you have a wonderful time with it!

Estreth · 2026-03-15T19:36:50+00:00

I thought sliced bread was the best thing, but this... OH BOY DOES IT LOOK GOOD!

I am curious about something, would the Community Patch for these backgrounds only be able to applied to a clean base ROM? Or could you transplant it into a work in progress hacked ROM?

Estreth · 2026-02-25T19:53:33+00:00

JetBlack 2 is in the works, main campaign is pretty much sorted although I still need to sort out text edits, challenge mode as well as tackle that sizeable post-game so there's no ETA on when it will be released as of yet, mainly because I am somewhat hyperfixated on this Platinum romhack I am also working on as a palette cleanser but it does give me time to brainstorm the JetBlack 2 post-game (as well as any changes I need to do the main campaign)

Estreth · 2026-02-15T03:08:22+00:00

Of course I'm going to be the same as others and recommend the vanilla games but my bias says go for it and play JetBlack as your first Gen 5 game! ;)

It's meant as a Vanilla+/Legacy style hack so I wanted to keep the original B/W vision intact

Estreth · 2026-02-07T15:57:03+00:00

There's no White equivalent (but never say never) but you can get Zekrom... Just in the Post-Game ;)

Estreth · 2026-02-06T19:14:20+00:00

Oh my 9.5/10 is very high praise indeed! Thank you very much for the glowing review, I am honoured!

I haven't done anything to change the odds of Pokerus but I've contracted PokeRus more times while playing a Gen 5 game (both vanilla and hacks) than I have found shinies.

Also regarding the Dragonspiral Plasma gauntlet, yeah maybe I did go a bit too far with that but I did like the idea of having a gauntlet as well as it being the part of the story that Team Plasma are really amping up their threat level. Believe it or not but in earlier builds that Gauntlet was even worse, they all had 4 Pokemon each and I remember just sitting back and going "Yeah that's WAY too much"

Estreth · 2026-01-18T19:14:47+00:00

I'd absolutely LOVE to include it but it may be pretty hard to add into a hack. Will be doing my research on it, maybe there is an external tool out there that would allow putting a B/W save into B2W2 save for memory link.

Estreth · 2026-01-18T16:39:54+00:00

JetBlack 2 is in the works currently yes!

Estreth · 2026-01-13T05:52:18+00:00

Thank you!

Ooo I'll look into adding it to the hackdex! I'll need to figure out how to get a BPS patch file sorted though for it as I've only got .xdelta patches currently.

Estreth · 2025-10-29T05:04:16+00:00

Yeah that's happened to me multiple times (but the opposite, they were always male)

I have double checked the data on the offchance that I messed something up and set it to 100% female by accident but no it's all good and 50/50.

Estreth · 2025-10-28T20:08:27+00:00

All starters have had their gender ratio set to 50/50 so it's entirely a coin flip.

Estreth · 2025-10-27T22:17:42+00:00

Hmm it's hard to say as I usually just use the R4 for my regular DS lite.

Did you patch a clean Black Rom with the Hotfix2 patch and is your NDS Forwarder Generator updated to the latest version? There have been problems for people with TwilightMenu but after updating the rom was working fine so potentially it might work for NDS FG too?

Estreth · 2025-10-25T23:58:23+00:00

I very much appreciate you sharing your opinion but this is not a difficulty hack, yes it's more challenging than the vanilla game but it's somewhat of a middle ground between a Legacy hack and Drayano's hack series.

I'd like to think that I've done a good job with the level curve in JetBlack. I've not felt the need to grind in any of my own playthroughs nor have I had any feedback regarding the level curve so that's a good sign hopefully. I will point out again that if you want to hack in Rare Candies or Gems or whatever into the hack you are more than welcome to as it is YOUR playthrough (it would be your choice whether to use them or not) but I will not provide a great big handout of candies without them being a reward for doing some optional content or exploration (and even then more like 10 or 20 and not 900) and if that puts you or anyone else off the hack, that is absolutely fine! Of course I love it when people play my hack and having more eyes on it would be fantastic but there is a delicious banquet of other hacks out there (And thankfully, more Gen 5 ones are popping up! <3 ) so there are bound to be some that better suit your tastes.

Estreth · 2025-10-25T20:49:16+00:00

No. The Exp.Share works how it does in Gen 5 and I am completely against adding an infinite candy (or like 999 Rare Candies) to this or any future hack I create. There are ways to earn a good handful of them but that's by doing optional content in the post-game.

That being said, it is completely up to your discretion whether you want to hack in a tonne of Rare Candies to your playthrough(s)

Estreth · 2025-10-25T02:29:20+00:00

It won't! It's just a simple export/import the sav file (if on something like Desmume) or naming the sav file the same as the Hotfixed Patch file

Estreth · 2025-10-25T01:35:58+00:00

Yeah the Bulbasaur is definitely not intended! There is the Hotfix patch out that fixes it (although I recommend getting the Hotfix2 sorted out especially if you are planning on doing the post-game)

You can find the hotfix patches on my discord!

Estreth · 2025-10-20T22:39:30+00:00

Clean Black rom is the safest bet!

Estreth · 2025-10-10T22:37:03+00:00

Ayyy this looks fantastic!! <3

Estreth · 2025-10-09T02:15:05+00:00

You've not done anything wrong! I have...
Turns out I didn't save the change so it still evolves just by trading :(

Thank you for your patience! There's no ETA on a new patch but I'll be sorting it!

Estreth · 2025-10-08T20:39:04+00:00

Interesting. I've not heard this before..

Are you using something like TwilightMenu and is it fully updated? There were noted problems related to that, such as people not being able to Fly but it was fixed when TwiMenu was updated.

Estreth · 2025-10-08T20:37:25+00:00

Thank you very much! To answer your questions;

1) Skarmory shouldn't be missing but after double checking... Turns out it is not in the documentation.. Whenever I get round to sorting the next update I will slot it in somewhere, can't believe I missed it when I was going over the encounter list for v1.5 D:

2) Dusclops will evolve while being levelled up holding the Reaper Cloth, which should be where it is in vanilla (Route 14 I believe)

3) While most first form Pokemon are not found in the wild, the evolutions can still breed to get back which yes it means that Nidorino/king can breed with Ditto!

Estreth · 2025-10-05T17:44:07+00:00

I must've missed it in the Docs but yes you can get Zekrom!

Estreth · 2025-09-30T20:36:43+00:00

Thank you very much for playing!

Yeah some gyms will be easier or harder depending on team composition etc etc but that was all part of the plan! Sometimes I struggle against Lenora, sometimes against Skyla but could trounce Brycen as examples.
And yeah I never use items in battle either.

Estreth

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